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Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-14

Two crop classifications-so
depicting and soil-conserving-
have been established for the pur-
pose of determining bases and
rates for payment under the Agri-
cultural Conservation program"
points out George L. Winright,
assistant farm advisor in Imperial
county.
"Soil-depleting crops are those
which take plant food out of the
soil or leave the land exposed to
severe erosion. The Soil-conserv-
ing crops do not necessarily add
fertility to the land but hold the
soil in place and help maintain
the plant food therein"
For purposes of carrying out pro-
visions of the Agricultural Con-
serVation program in California,
the following crop classifications
have been established:
SOil-Depleting Crops: Corn (field
sweet, broom and popcorn, cotton,
tobacco, potatoes Irish, sweet
potatoes. rice. sugar beets, hemp,
cultivated sunfloWers, mustard
commercially, hops. artichokes,
bulbs, rape, truck, and vegetable
crops and their seed, melons. and
strawberries, peanuts. if harvested
as nuts, sorghums harvested for
grain, hay or pastured including
grain Sorghums. sweet sorghums,
broom corn and Sudan grass. small
grains harvested for grain. hay, or
pastured, including wheat, oats,
barley, rye. rice, buckwheat. flax,
emmer, spelt. and grain mixtures,
milletS, saffloWer, annual legumeS
harvested for grain, hay, or pas
tured, including soybeans, field
beans, cowpeas. seed peas, can
ming peas and vetch.
SOil-COnserving Crops: Peren-
NAL grasses, including bluegrass,
timothy redtop. orchard. Bermuda,
bronze blue stem, ghama, buffalo,
wheat grasses, rye grasses, reed
canary grass. and grass mixtures;
with or without such nurse crops
as rye, oats, wheat, barley. flax,
grain mixtures. Or peas. when such
nurse crops are pastured or clipped
green.
Annual Legumes, including bur,
sour and crimson clover, annual
varieties of sweet clover, sesbania
and annual varieties of lespedeza;
with or without such nurse
crops as rye. oats. wheat, barley,
flax, grain mixtures. or peas. when
such nurse crops are pastured or
clipped green. Soybeans, field
beans, field peas. and cowpeas,
when turned under as a green
manure crop.
Biennial Legumes, including
sweet, red. alSlike, and Mammoth
cloVerS; with or without such
nurse crops as rye, oats, wheat,
barley. flax, grain mixtures or
peas when such nurse crops are
paStured or clipped green.
Perennial legumes. including al
falfa. sericea. white clover, and
ladino; with or without such nurse
crops as rye. oats. wheat, barley,
flax, grain mixtures. or peas, when
such nurse crops are pastured or
clipped green.
Green manure crops, including
annual, Biennial, and perennial
legumes, rye, barley, wheat, oats,
Vetch, and small grain mixtures,
turned under as green manure,
whether winter pastured Or not.
Forest trees planted on crop land
since January !, 1884.
Land devoted to the following
uses shall be regarded as not
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-14

and inspection tours to all points
OF interest are planned for the
visitors Chief of the inspection
tours viii be taken to the ALL
American canal force account and
TO the construction work along the
Colorado river.
The visitors are scheduled to
arrive at Brawley for luncheon
at 1890 O'Clock Friday.
The tour and programs were
planned by the Imperial Valley
MIX Institute.
Details of the program follow:
12.00-12:30 p. m. = Arrive at
Brawley.
1890 pm-Luncheon at Plant
ers hotel, BraWley, as guests of
BraWley Chamber OF Commerce.
Welcome addresses and intro
ductions.
200 p.m.-Visit new District
power plant where three large
new Diesel engines are being in
stalled. Visit cantaloupe packing
sheds
2:30 pm. Leave Brawley for
visit TO large alfalfa ranches on
east side of Imperial Valley. Visit
Zumstein Ranch near Sandia. Trip
through fertile Meloland area and
through Heber to Dahlia Heading.
Pass through McCabe Eucalyptus
dairy area. Arrive at El Centro.
Visitors will be quartered in var
ious El Centre hotels, as guests of
the hotel proprietorS
Gas pm-ASsemble for dinner
at Hotel Barbara Worth, El Cen
tro, as guests of Chamber of Com
merce. Addresses on dairying
feeds anl farming by qualified
speakers.
900 p.m.-Theatre party (for
those not too tired.
Saturday, May 18th
TOO a. m.-ASsemble in cars on
streets facing Hotel Barbara
Worth, El Centre, for start to
Calexico.
T:01 am.-Leave for Calexico.
7:30 aIn.-Arrive Calexico. Break
fast at Hotel De ANA, as guests
of CaleXico Chamber of Com
merce. Brief description of ALL
American canal project by Gov
ernment engineers,
$50 a.m.-Beave Calexico for
trip to view All-American Canal
force account sector, new border
highway, 100000 acres of new
lands which will be added to I'm
perial Valley and farmed when
new canal is completed. See mo-
tion picture company on location
in sand hills, filming desert pic
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-14
Debt Adjustments
In State Result in
S79,875 Scaledown

John Phillips. chairman Of the
State Farm Debt Adjustment COM
mission. notified ". A. MeFa&den.
chairman of the Imperial County
Farm Debt Adjustment committee.
that adjustments in California dur
ing April resulted in a scaledown Of
S79.875.
This amount. he said, was written
off the debts of farmers with the
consent Of creditors in the process
of making new loans or arranging
extensions. County committees Of
the Resettlement administration
acted as friendly mediators in the
transactions.
In completing the transactions
back taxes totaling S4.930 were paid.
Forty farm debt adjustments were
handled during April and las cases
are pending.
This means" said Phillips. that
debt settlements we're reached on a
basis that will permit the farmers
to meet their obligations. while the
frozen funds of creditors were con-
Stantly liquidated.
The transactions were handled
by voluntary county committees
which serve without pay, and which
act in an advisory capacity in cases
where their aid is sought. Through
this service numerous foreclosures
have been prevented and creditors
once more are receiving principal
and interest.
In these debt adjustments" :"
Phillips pointed out, back taxes are
always paid, thus benefiting the
county treaSuriees.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-14
Course in Library
Training Planned

U.CLA., is, for the first time,
starting a course in library train
ing, according to Miss Muriel Mitch
ell. county librarian Prior to this
time the only university giving the
work was the University of Califor
mia, Berkeley.
The courses, which are The begin
ming ones, start with the summer
session, June 29-August Is
In order to be able TO take the
work the student must be a grad
uate. have a good upper division
record and must have had one year
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-14
Scout Chiefs Honor
DR.. Norman Dupont

DR.. Norman E. Dupont, in addi-
ton to his duties as camping chair
man, was made Court of Honor
chairman at the Scout district lead
ers meeting Tuesday night i'll the
court house.
Leo DeCelles was appointed dis
trict commissioner TO succeed H. r..
Parker who has been transferred to
Bakersfield
Members present at the meeting
were DR.. r.. C. Clemons, DR., Dupont,
DeCelles. E. w Schiller, w. H.
Rhodes, Earl Fleming, Carl NJ Hell
mick.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-14
CROPS CLASSIFIED UNDER NEW
FEDERAL SOIL-CONSERVING PLAN

used for the production of a soil
depicting crop or a soil-conSerV-
ing crop, unless otherwise pro-
yided: orchards, vineyards, trees
and small fruits or nut trees; idle
crop land unless otherwise classi-
fled because of unusual weather
conditions; roads, lanes, lots,
yards, waste and other similar
uses; woodland other than crop
land planted Since January l. 1894
Any land which is interplanted
is classified by the interplanted
crop.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-14

ture. Visit large dredges with 1885,
foot booms and IA cube yards
capacity. making cut through the
sand hills. View present intake Of
the Imperial Irrigation System on
the Colorado river. near Yuma.
See great rock cut through Pilot
Knob for All American canal.
1900 noon-Arrive Holtville.
Luncheon at plant of Imperial
Valley Milk Producers association
as their guests.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-14
'Scram!' MotoriSt
Tells Policeman,
Only Giving Name

CLEVELAND. May IA. U.P)
-"Scram." said a motoriSt to
PatrOlman Chester Krause as he
demanded names at traffic
accident. WHAT" cried Krause,
why you -"
Then he suddenly stopped
clustering as the motorist CON
tinued: YES, Scram James
Scram. l live on Clinton ave-
nue."
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-14
One-Legged Men
Take Bicycle Trip}Ss
Cooperative Basis

MONTGOMERY, Ala, May IL.
U.P)-Curtis MOblcy, 10, and
Dewey Brown, %, each of whom
has only one leg, decided to go
bicycling on a cooperative basis,
one pedaled with the right leg.
the other with the left. AT a
street intersection their bicycle
cOlIided with an auto. Neither
was injured seriously.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-14

Clean cultivated orchards in
Glenn county suffered less frost
damage than those in which cover
crops were growing.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-14

Glenn county dairymen are ask
ing to have the extension service
reestabliShed in their county.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-14
ENT PROGRAM FOR VISITING DAIRYAEN PLAN ANNEI9
COAST GROUP TO
SEE CANAL WORK

Imperial Valley will be hosts to a delegation Of coast
darymen Friday and Saturday and ambitious pro
gram of entertainment has been planned a of
helping them become better acquainted with dairyng
dltlons this section Breakfasts luncheOnS dinners
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-14

II believe I've been called
merchant of death DO look
it?' asked Laurence V Benet.
above, American born inventor
of the 600 shots a minute
Hotcnkiss machine gun and di-
rector of the French company
that makes them, when inter
viewed at New York on arrival
from abroad He said he saw no
harm IN gun-making, cited
toodstuffs as equally valuable
munitions of war
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-14

Irrigation rates in Placer county
have been cut from S24 to S22 per
inch.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-13
HOOVER HAS A GOOD IDEA

E>ORMER President Hoover suggests good amend
ment to the vanNuys BILL This measure, passed
by the Senate and nce Before the House. would for
bid employer his agent to use tear or intimida-
ton to influence employees vote in Federal
election.
Why not enlarge the BILL asks Mr. Hoover by
applying the ban to any Federal official or any
the staff of PWA or WPA who might try to
influence the ballot of subordinate or of person
on relief?
We rise to second the Hoover amendment. If the
VanNuys bill is to become law, it should be ap-
plicabe to all forms of political coercion, whatever
the source.
But whether the BILL even so amended should
become a law at all is another question With the
purpose of the bill in complete sympathy. 1t
is designed to curb reprehensible practice which
has been all too common in every election since
the practice of employers threatening to close their
shops and discharge employees if so-and-sc is elect
ed or if such and-such party comes into power.
This strategy employed widely in the election
OF 1882, but not very effectively If the threats of
leaders in the National Association of Manufacturers
are to be taken at face value, it will be used again
this year. But probably with even less effect For
the employees who heard the same threats in 1882
know that the Democratic victory, on the whole, was
followed by more jobs instead of fewer higher pay
instead of less and better working conditions instead
of worse
Yet there Is no gainsaying that one intended
effect of the bill is to protect group of voters be-
lieved to be sympathetic toward the Administration
from the coercion of another group the majority of
Whom are believed to oppose the New Deal And
II it Is wrong for private employer in an effort to
get Republican votes, to threaten an employee with
loss of his job, it is just wrong for public Off
cal, in an effort to get Democratic votes similarly
10 threaten subordinate person on relief
The difficulty with any such law is in drawing a.
line where freedom of speech ends and intimidation
begins. IT, for example, manufacturer of corsets
should make speech saying that the election of
Joe Doakes would mean destruction of the corset
business since Joe Doakes opposed to RECOMMENDATION
OF the female figure, would the manufacturer merely
be exercising his right of free speech or would he he
guilty of intimidatng his employees?
The bill as drawn would leave it to Judge To
draw the distinction And the judges Interpretation
would IN many cases depend upon whether that
judge was for or against Joe Doakes
We believe this BILL while good in purpose con
talns as it stands great dangers to a Fundamental
civil liberty. Those dangers should be studied and
eliminated if possible. Otherwise the bill sho,,,c
be killed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-13
FRIDAY, MARCH 10. 1896.
JUST COMMON SENSE

DY all rules of political logic the Kerr-Coolidge
~ bill ought to have become law long ago instead
of knocking around Congress for two and half
years.
1t contains drastic policy toward criminal Aliens
lenient policy toward aliens of good character,
and is designed to the taxpayers money.
Yet the bill meets delay after another and
thousands of criminal aliens at present beyond the
reach Of deportation laws continue to nfest Amer
ican cities and fill American jails; while at the
same time some 1900 law-abding aliens live in ter
Of a deportation which Federal officials have
pronounced unjust but beyond their power to pre-
vent
If Congress passes the bill in the next few weeks
before deportation proceedings for this last group
actually carried out it will the of ship
ping these and women across the and the
cost of supporting some 1000 dependents when the
family breadwinners are taken away.
At the same time it will make possible the depor-
tation of 10000 criminal aliens and reduce the
nations annual crime bill by considerable amount
1t will open the way for leniency toward only
those aliens who pass the strictest tests of good
character and have families in this country. The
number will necessarily be small, not more than
thousand year judging by experience of the past
three years. Those permitted to remain will be aliens
try anyhow The bill simply proposes to save the
cost of transporting them to Europe and to save
them the cost of return tickets. 1t would seem to
be the painest kind of common sense to take such
action
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-13
HORRIBLE EXAMPLE"

IKE it's $100OOOO00 shelterbet plan, the Ad-
IL mnistrations reforestation program is being per-
mitted to 90 by default.
Under the original plan, denuded acres have
been bought in various states and placed under the
6orest Service.
But after congressman from these states OBJ
tanned an amendment to the agriculture appropriation
bill calling for $25 100000 to continue this policy the
Democratic leadership knocked it out.
All of which is part of the electon-year economy
move
The SIS 900 900 was added in Committee of the
Whole But in the House proper, Speaker Byrns
and the majority leadership rallied enough support
to remove the amendment, AZ to 49,
congressman whose states will suffer most from
the hating Of such land purchases announced they
would seek reinsertion of the amendment in the
Senate but the task appears hopeless.
Rep. Grow Cd, Ind has appealed to President
Roosevelt Secretary Wallace and Budget Director
Bell to get the S25 900 900 somewhere and carry
In letters to the three, he pointed out that
$12OOOOOO was appropriated last session to launch
the program and said that ito curtail the work at
this time would make the Administration look
ridiculous in these communities"
He cited Indiana as sort of horrible example"
Here a program calling for purchase of 100000
eroded acres for Federal forests was announced
the state, and $4,000 acres have been purchased,
few thousand acres in each area.
But the acquired tracts have no continuity and
If the program is abandoned it will mean a patch
work of almost meaningless Federal holdings
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-13
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
By Mrs. Walter Eerouson

a VERY sophisticated young man is thinking
seriously about marriage. But he already is
at loggerheads with his future wife about the method
OF dong So She wants few months engagement,
publicly announced time enough to plan and fur
nlsh home. He considers that sort of thing poppy-
COCK and would like ceremony with no trimmings.
Marriage, he contends is merely civil Arrangement
between two citizens so the less fuss made about it
the better.
In my opinion he's wrong there. Men usually
wish to avoid elaborate weddings and good many
women can see how foolish some of them are But a.
certain amount of preparation is anything but
foolish. You do not enter into any other kind of
alliance without taking time to plan your future
with your partner.
However man may feel about the enterprise the
girl ought to have her say-so too. She's the party
OF the second part you know The event changes
her life we'll his, and the process of becoming
Mrs. Jim Jones is eventful enough to give her the
right to dictate few terms.
Nearly all girls like the fuss that follows be-
trothal announcement For once, they the most
important figures in momentous events 1t is the
sweetest most romantic period of their lives and no
who loves girl deliberately will deprive her of
its full satisfaction and thrills.
This does not mean that we should spend more
than We can afford elaborate wedding. 1t
only means bring to the rite of marriage
the dignity with which we endow any solemn cere-
mony.
What is marriage? 1t is the contract made be-
tween man and woman in which both promise to
live together in love until death. Only the deter
mination behind that promise builds homes. These
fy-by-night unions prevalent nowadays weaken
the structure of society because they discourage
permanence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-13
FASCIsM CROSSES THE ATLANTIC

TTASCISM has made its bow in the Americas, spe-
cifically in Paraguay, which boasts an unhappy
population of 850O00 The overthrow of President
Ayala by the army in "liberating revolution" has
resulted in the first effort to set up totatarian
state in the western hemisphere
It is not surprising as much it is to be de-
plored Paraguay has barely come through the long,
bloody and expensive Chaco War with Bolivia.
All the grief, economic and psychological, that
war brings fell upon this tiny population. None
escaped Economic conditions were in such state
that the government unable to cope with the
rising storm of protest, and the demands for action
brought the inevitable conclusion dictatorship.
and before that in Italy. The refusal of democracy
to face facts and eradicate evils is the food upon
which Fascsm breeds
Manifestations of Fascism be found in the
major South American countries Peru has Black
Shirts Chile is said to have $4,000 uniformed Fas-
cists Brazilian Green Shirts claim membership
of 100000 Argentina has half dozen Fascist groups
and brand of German Naziism has also raised its
head in several of sister republics.
Democratic government, above all others, has the
capacity for pacific self reform 1t demands how
ever conscientious and intelligent expression In
difference results in everincreasing crop of evils
which, recognized too late, summarily met with
the mailed fist.
Other American republics with pretensions to
democracy may see in Paraguay lesson and
warning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-13
TODAY'S SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ,

A WORLDWIDE search is now
1 n under way to find substitute
for carnauba wax or a method of
manufacturing it alphabetically, Ar
thur D. Little, Inc, of Cambridge,
Mass, report.
From the standpoint of industrial
utility, carnauba wax is the most
important of all the wakes. The
finest polishes for wood and leather
are mixtures containing large pro-
portions of this substance.
Carnauba wax is the yellow dust
that forms on the leaves of a GER
tain type of palm tree which grows
only in Brazil Moreover, this dust
forms only when the tree grows I'M
der desert conditions. In moist eli
mates, the tree develops more beau
tiful leaves but the dust does not
form. It's function, apparently. is to
prevent the tree from drying out in
arid regions.
The natives scrape the wax from
the leaves. At present. Little re-
ports, the demand is growing faster
than the supply. The state of Cears
n Brazil is making attempts to pre-
vent seeds of the palm tree from
being exported to other countries.
Recently the president of Brazil
offered prize of $4,000 for the in
vention Of machine which would
make il possible to get a bigger yield
OF wax from the trees. One Aneri-
can manufacturer of floor polish
has sent out a scientific expedition
TO search for new areas where the
particular palm trees can be raised
Meanwhile, the price of carnauba
wax is rocketing skyward.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-13
IF YOU CAN'T ANSWER, ASK THE TIMES!

Daula, who caused the 146 prisoners
to be confined in an apartment 1a
feet by IA feet 10 inches. The cell
had only two small windows. Only
% survived the night of excruciating
agony from pressure, heat, thirst
and lack of air.
O-When did the Y. w. G. A.
start teaching automobile driving
classes and who was the teacher?
A-Motor car classes at the Y. w
C. A. started between Oct. and
Is, 1915. R. M. Wiley was the teach
er.
Q-What was the vote on the So
cial Security Act in the United
States Senate and House Of Rep.
resentatives
A-House-Yes; Democrats 288
Republican II, Progressives 6, Farm
er-Labor /; No: Democrats IS, Re.
publicans 10, Farmer-Labor 2. Sen
ate-Yes: Democrats so, Republican.
IA, Farmer-Labor /, Progressives J.
No: Democrats /. Republicans 5.
Q-What was the total amount OF
internal revenue tax on distilled
spirits, wines, and beer in the calen-
dar year 1884?
! A-$374,57l, 1883.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-13

'uns." The oldsters have their eyes
wide open and are seeing through
things.
Now comes another session of the
lawmakers, called ostensibly to pass
law that will dovetail into the
Federal Security Act. 1t is COM
monty reported that the ma jority of
the Governors joint committee sug-
gests that the age be made IS, and
the year 1888 as the period for pen
sions to begin. Wouldn't it be in
teresting to learn the large number
who pinched their nose when they
read this provision?
The Governor suggests the date
1898 for the worthy reason that by
then the budget can be balanced.
But why do this at the expense of
those worthy men and women of IS
years or more who have fought a
good fight and have kept the Amer
lean faith?
Now is the time they need this
pension. BY 1888 many of them will
have passed on. The Democratic
party should keep faith with the
old folks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-13
"WHEN HITLER SPEAKS PEACE

"CEEMINGLY the entire world today is predict
~ ing another great war" Roy W. Howard said
last week. interviewing Russias dictator at the
Kremlin in Moscow. IF it proves inevitable when
MIR. Stain, do you think it will Gomez"
1T is impossible to say" replied Mr. Stain ut
may come very Unexpectedly. Nowadays wars are
not declared. They simply start"
Should come. Mr.. Stain, where is it most
likely to break out? Where are the war clouds more
menacing in the East or in the West?"
In my opinion there are two focal points of
danger-one in the Far East in the zone of Japan
and the other in Europe in the zone of Germany.
ut is difficult to say which is the more menacing
war danger. They both exist and both are smol-
dering. Compared to either of these the Italian
Ethiopian conflict is an episode
"For the moment, perhaps, the situation In the