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Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18
A DEMONSTRATION OF THE NEED
FOR POLICE TRAINING SCHOOLS

Investigators in Manhattan Beach,
Calf. have become convinced that Rled
Russell. friend of Novelist Gouverneur
Morris, could not have died in the gar
den swing where his body was found
last Sept. 25. A simple deduction hav-
ing to do with the position of the body
and the slant of the bullet wound led
to the discovery = almost two months
after the tragedy. The case had been
closed once, listed on official books as
suicide. Now it is reOpened. Perhaps 1t
was a suicide, perhaps not. That Is not
the point.
The point is that trained investigator
should have noticed on Sept. 70 that
the body of young Russell must have
been moved after his death, because ne
could not logically have died in the
place where the body was found. we
are too far away to Judge whether II
was ignorance pressure on officials, in
competent investigation or laziness
which led to a too-hurried closing OF
the case. The same thing happens often
enough. and for various reasons. This
once. there happened to be sufficient
cause to reopen the case.
The entire matter, minor enough IN
its own right, is very good demonstra-
tion of the need in law enforcement cir
cles of adequately trained men. Such
training schools as that proposed to be
established here by the state at the re-
quest of the Imperial Vally Peace Off
GERS association, if carried through on
large scale, would do much to overcome
the danger of such incidents.
Peace officers should be as highly
trained as soldiers. or men in private
professions. There should be no slips.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18
IMPERIAL VALLEY SHOULD
PROTECT ITS PHEASANTS

Hunters in Imperial Valley who give
way to the temptation to slaughter peas
ants for sport or for food must face the
consequences before the law, county Of
ficials have ruled. The valleys farmers
should be heartily in accord with the
enforcement program launched this
week to back up the county's closed sea
son on pheasants. No other bird is of
as much benefit to agriculture. lmpe-
rial Valleys pheasants are its surest
safeguard against insect pests.
This county is not the natural habitat
of the pheasants. They must be trans
planted here, either by Matching or by
bringing in and freeing adult birds. The
state and county have gone to consider
able expense to stock pheasants in the
valley The hunter who brings down
the beautiful birds is working hard
ship against himself as well as against
agriculture, for he helped pay for bring
ing the pheasants here
There may be time, if the pheasants
are properly protected, when an open
season can be declared In that case
the hunters will find their sport greatly
increased under legal protection-and
less menaced by the probability OF
heavy fine or even a Jail sentence.
If pheasants are allowed to thrive
and increase in Imperial Valley, it will
be to the ultimate good of both the farm
er and the hunter On the other hand,
everyone loses by wanton slaughter.
We all should do our part to protect
the birds.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18
News Behind the News
The President and the Newt Congress-.
Solons Usually Most; Conservative
No Rubber Stamping

WASHINGTON.-Preoictons as to the har-
mony or discord which may be expected between
a president and new Congress are as ol'eh
wrong right.
Checking the list. it would appear that this
Congress would be neither more radical nor
more conservative than the last
However Congress in the main is more con-
servative than the president. 1t can be more
radical. when large pressure groups are bent
on rading the treasury but 1t can also DE
much more conservative when expensive high
pressure lobbyists from Wall Street come 10
Washington to block White House program
.
There's common theory now that Roose-
yelt need but snap his fingers in the next SeS-
sion to exact congressional obedience Only II
of the 90 senators will be Republicans and that
includes several progresSives. Only ~ OF 43o
House members will be Republicans. So 1t is
argued that Congress Will again be rupper
stamp" for Roosevelt
This theory fails to take several things into
account. Although many members OF congress
rode back into office on the Roosevelt coat
tails that doesn't mean that any OF them will
support Roosevelt legislation out OF gratitude
Even though it will be impossible to find
any effective opposition outside the Democratic
ranks, those ranks have managed to provide
effective opposition in the past. And presi-
dent proverbally has harder time in his Sec
ond term to control Congress
Furthermore despite all the speeches OF Re-
publican campaigners and Liberty Leaguers it
RooseveltS rubber stamp" It became espe-
cialy recalctrant after the big Democratic vic
tory in the 1884 elections, when nearly all cam
didates rode in on New Deal popularity.
Roosevelt was oyerruled by the Senate when
he sought American adherence TO the World
Court Nearly all his tax measures have been
chewed almost beyond recognition His vetoes
of veterans benefit bills have been overriden.
Congress made important changes in the
securities stock market and public utility hold
ing company measures Repeated administra-
ton efforts to obtain adequate food and drug
protective legislation have failed. The AAA
amendments were blocked entirely at one ses-
sion and passed at the next only after extern
Sve rejggering.
The long haggling and revision which pre-
ceded passage of the s4s500, 100000 work relief
bill including Roosevet's defeat on the prevail
ing wage issue, caused the presidents prestige
to suffer.
And few will ever know how many legisla-
tive proposals were snatched back from Capital
Hill or buried before they~saw. daylght-on the
assurance of congressional leaders that they
could not pass.
Some observers see the next Congress
group of shifting blocs in (which nearly every
member, as usual, will sbe primarily out Tor
himself. -
Labor legislation has usually had little trou-
BILE during the New Deal and probably will have
less than now But legislation affecting cor
porate setups and corporate profits may
counter hard Sedding
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18
THE AMERICAN LEGION
MEETS ITS QUOTA HERE

It is good news to American Legion
members in Imperial Valley and in state
headquarters that the valley posts have
more than filled their 1886 member
ship quota More than that, it is tri-
butte to American Legion commanders
and other leaders as they have been
chosen by the rank and file of valley
Legionnaires.
The pubic-that portion of it outside
the ranks of the Legion-will applaud
the success of the membership drive,
for it means that one of the community's
strongest influences for good is grow
ing to greater proportions. The Ameri-
can Legion in Imperial Valley is made
up of the type of men who made the
valley what it is. Their interests are
the best interests of the community. AS
an organized group, their combined in
luence is greater than ever it could be
without organization.
Leaders and members of every Amer
lean Legion post in Imperial Valley de-
serve the community's congratulations.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18

state will be left with a vast area
of land which is utterly unprz0
ductive and cannot even be taxed
Suppose, now, says Mr.. Stott, that
the rate of cutting were reduced to
something like 8,500,000 board feet
annually. Suppose that, at the
same time, an intelligent reforest-
ing scheme were put into operation.
New timber could be raised as fast
as the mature timber was being cut.
Consequently. the timber would
not be gone in 20 years; to all in
tents and purposes, it would last
forever.
One hundred years hence the re-
gion containing this forest would be
as busy as it is today. 1t would be
producing it's 100000 board feet of
timber every year, providing fin
ished product worth $6,500,00O, and
supporting a $4,000 annual payroll.
The state would not have a tax
delinquency on its hands. 1t would
not have little group of dying
towns with thousands of former
wage earners on relief. 1t would
have, instead, permanently thriv-
ing community, producing a valua-
BILE commodity year in, year out.
Altogether. the nation would get
much more lumber out of these
$4,000 acres than the amount
which is in sight under the present
rate of cutting.
That is what real conservatiV
means. 1t does not mean going
without things; it simply means us
ing them intelligently with an eye
to the future, giving up brief
boom for the sake Of an enduring
if less spectacular, prosperity.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18
Bruce Cation Says:>>
How We Can Eat and Have Our Cake, Too

When you talk about the conser
yation of natural resources, the Or
binary citizen is apt to conclude
that you are in favor of wrapping
up in burlap all our forests, mineral
deposits, oil pools, and what-not,
and putting them away in a cool
place with 60 not touch label
on the outside.
We tend to look on conservation
as a plan for keeping us from using
the advantages with which nature
has blessed us. 1t sounds like 60
ing without things. Hence 1T Is an
idea which is very hard to sell.
But, as a mater of fact, conser-
vation does not mean that at all.
To conserve our timber resources,
for instance, it not to stop cutting
down trees; it is merely to cut them
down sanely and intelligently, SO
that there will be some left for our
grandchildren to cut.
An excellent illustration OF the
way a smart conservation policy
would work is provided in an arti-
Gle by c. B. Stott, of the U. S. For
est Service, in recent issue OF the
Forestry News Digest.
Mr.. Stott discusses a certain
stand of virgin timber IN upper
Michigan. The stand comprises
$4,000 acres of forest; at present
rate of cutting, between 15,000,OO0
and 100000 board feet of lumber
are removed each year.
In 20 years all the timber on this
land will be gone, the towns in the
neutrality-suspicious. now because OF
the lumber boom-will be without
visible means of support, unem-
ployment will be common, and the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF GUARDIANS SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY AT
PRIVATE SALE.
No. 1925

No. 71265
In the Superior Court Of the State
of California, In and For the
City and County of San Francis,
In the Matter of the Guardians
of the Person and Estate Of
PHEBE HUNTER,
an incompetent person.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the undersigned, c. M.
HUNTER, Guardian of the person
and estate of PHEBE HUNTER, an
incompetent person, will sell at
private sale to the highest bidder,
upon the terms and conditions here
matter mentioned, and subject to
confirmation by the Superior Court
of the State of California, in and
for the City and County of San
Francisco, on or after Monday, the
30th day of November, 1886, all the
right, title and estate of said in
competent person In and to. that
certain lot, piece Or parcel of land.
situated, lying and being in the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, and particularly described as
follows, to-wit
An undivided one-half interest
in and to Tract Ninety-six (96),
Township Thirteen q3) South,
Range Fourteen U4) East, San
Bernardino Base and Meridian.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF
SALE:
CASH in lawful money of the
United States; ten per cent 10S
of the purchase price to be paio
the time of sale; balance on Con-
firpation of sale.
All bids or offers must be i'll
writing and may be left at the
office of r. L. Hustled, 1896 Mis-
sion St., San Francisco, California,
Attorney for said Guardian, or may
be left with said Guardian, at the
address of his said Attorney, at .2595
Mission st., San Francisco, Cali
fornia, or may be filed in the office
of the Clerk of the Superior Court
of the State Of California in and for
the City and County of San Fran
cisco, which Is the place to which
return of said sale must be made at
any time after the first publica
tion of this notice and before the
making of said sale.
Dated: November 10th, 1896.
G. M. HUNTER,
Guardian of the person and cstA
of Phebe Hunter an incompet
person.
r. l.. Hustled,
Attorney for said Guardian, 1896
Mission St., San sFranciscoy Calf
-..- ..--- Nl7-N27 Inc.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18

NEW YORK, Nov. 49, UP)-The
newest wonder kiddie of the theater
since Chester Erskine zoomed briefly
on the horizon seems to be Orson
Welles-out of KenoSha by way of
Chicago-and just 21. His parents
are friends of George AIDE, who
named him and has kept practised
eye on the lads upshoot.
While in prep school Welles be-
came a runaway to Ireland and
fibbed his way into a theatrical role
in Dublin, and the deception turned
out SO well he began playing leads
with the famous Abbey Players.
He was then lowering around l6.
Returning to America, he intro
duced one of the first middle west
stock companies. Here Thornton
Wilder came upon him and suggest
ed him for the role of 'Mercutio'
in Katharine Cornell's road show.
In the interim he directed Harlem
Hamlet, wrote book and several
radio scripts.
He skyrocketed into the New York
scene by writing, producing and di-
recting the short-lived nonsense,
Horse Eats Hat" While doing this
he rehearsed Sidney Kingsley
play in which he played lead. The
Rialto always sceptical, expects him
to be top man in another five years.
Or a flash in the pan.
A recent New York visitor Was
the dean of game inventors, George
Parker. He's been watching and in
venting games for so years. From
him one learns all game crazes have
peak sales for two years-no more
no less. This has been true from
Tiddledewinks and crokinole at the
turn of the century to Monopoly,
the recent No l craze. Pit. Rock.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18
New York Day by Day
By O.. @. Mcintyre

Finch and Ping Pong had two years
of 'furore apiece in the early COS
and SO did nah jongg, backgammon
and the ping pong revival in the
20s. The success of a game de-
pends on simplicity.
.f. ast- 90
One notices on Madison Avenue a
sign: Tailoring for Golfers Only
A polished exponent of the golf
tailoring art is Grantland Rice. He
is something of relief from the
stock gaudiness. During tourna-
ment he appears in something new
iSh daily, but in nothing to shake
the spectrum. Usually plain gray,
dark blue, autumnal tan. Fontaine
Fox also shows sartorial golf re-
straint.
Newspaper experts on golf are not
the usual brisk types of the editorial
shops. They are composite of the
fellow you expect to Sec-and usual
ly Outstanding placidly with hands
in pockets on the station platform
at Marceline, Mo, yet fitting that
dandy Burns Mantle simile: "As
alive as steam." Somehow they
thread dry crackle of alfalfa hu-
NOR through their stuff. Especially
did 1 smile at what one said about
the veteran shooter-George Voight.
George made miserable showing
agains Jock McLean-What a per-
feet golf name!-and came in one
day something like eight down. The
golf writer described him as a Wall
Street man, and in reviewing a still
later effort observed: "Voight was
off more than an eighth today
The ladies who look on, of course,
offer colorful splotch at a golf
| tournament. At Garden Citv this
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18
6 OH Sol says
1r FRANK WATANABE
SXJS n HOLDEN
SHIPS
BY Ed HOLDEN

1t seem we having ships trouble now.
DAYS. This proving that if clump of
gents can Building them ships they
can also stop them. Farmer fellows in
middle west are walking forth and back
ripping their hair out and plunging
worried thumbs in arm pots of vest :, :.
admst suspender snaps. They wish
knowing how can float their corn to
Europe. At same time them strike men
are picket walking forth and back wor-
rying about their OWN corns. If we
could only taking the corns from both
sides allbody will be happy. That
where the shoe are pinching alright.
Thank you please a.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
November Is, 1911

City Clerk w. H. Sprague left
today for Los Angeles on official
business.
In view of the threatened intro
duction of saloons into Imperial
88 farmers and patrons of the city's
stores have sent manifesto" to
the trustees of the city expressing
themselves strongly against the
move.
S. E. Robinson took first place
with his entries in the following
classes at the Imperial County fair:
best stalk of alfalfa, best five stalks
of corn. Ira Aten took first place
PRIZES with ! his egg plant, pome-
granates, olives and tomatoes.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18

fall there was one Carole Lombard
looking sumner who strolled out on
the course in the late afternoon
wearing an extremely diaphanous
creation. She contrived to get be-
tween the setting sun-and the gall
lery smitched to her. AS she moved
forward three stepS-a hundred fell
lows moved forward three steps. Un-
til, in a sudden jet of self conscious
ness, she fled. ..,..
90
Here's name copied from a res
taurant window on Staten Island
not a great way from the ferry
slip-Przybyszweski That's throw
ing a ladle of alphabetical soup
across the counter with swish. Yet
I'll venture the pronunciation is as
simple as you please. On the out
skirts of Flagstaff, Ariz., some years
ago there was roadside house
called Skee s. 1t was spelled Zcwez-
ychi.
Shaving Mirror Nominations: : Dur
ing the depression the majority OF
cutters we're tall handsome men,
dependent on appearance for sue
cess. The undersized who had to
hustle all their lives quit last and
came back first. The little fellow
thought it out, the big fellow cried
it out. AS I mature and glance in
the mirror I am increasingly CRATE
full my vocational urge did not veer
toward playing Shakespearian roles
or athletic championships-what
with requiring tights and track
suits. I must quit squirting. It's
that and not the years that brings
crows feet.
The retirement of George Horace
Iorimer from his long years OF p1-
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18
LOOKING BACKWARD
What The Press Files Tell of Imperial valley
for This Date in Past Years

ton will hold a special session on
Monday. S. E. Robinson, newly
elected president, will be in charge
for the first time.
Ell Centre has. at the present
time, the opportunity to add num-
Der of families to its permanent
populatio if work can be found for
them. og.
This announcement. made today
by the Women's Ten Thousand club
employment bureau from its office
at the Vreeland studio, 622 Main
street, carries with it the appeal for
more listings for the help wanted
department of the bureau.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18
Other Editors Saw
SOLDIERS WHO DESIRE PEACE
New York Sum

notion induStriously cultivated by profess
sional pacifsts, and too often accepted without
question by sincere advocates OF peace, is that
military training organizations almost invar-
iably develop an appetite for war among their
members. Rev. DR.. Charles Wesley Flint, chan
cellor Of Syracuse University. does not like to
take his opinions ready made, however, and
IA years ago he set out to ascertain for him
self Just how the Reserve Officers Training
Corps of his campus influenced the thoughts
of Syracuse students OF those he questioned
only 8 per cent reported that membership in
the organization had militarized their points of
view; 80 per cent noted no such effect and OF
the latter group rs per cent thought that the
training they had received in the ROTC. in
creased their appreciation of the benefits of
peace.
This inquiry was conducted in 1922 When
two years ago Dr. Flint consulted the same group
of alumni he found that the percentage who,
despite their military training, we're definitely
opposed to war had enormously increased.
A report of this kind ordinarily would cause
no surprise. 1t is about what distinction
between preparedness and militarism would
lead one to conclude. OF late, however organ
lied activity in behalf Of peace has become so
emotionalized that the two terms have been
made synonymous in the minds of otherwise
thoughtful citizens. 1t is this confusion which
has led to much. of the hysterical opposition to
R.O.T.C. units in colleges, where member
ship in the RIO TIC is purely voluntary. DR.
Flint's report ought to lead TO realization that
many an advocate of preparedness against the
Gay Of emergency sincerely hopes the emergency
will not arise. 49,
n
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18
TWENTY YEARS AGO

Delegates from the Women's Ten
Thousand club who represented Ell
Centre at the southern district club
women's convention in Redlands,
today returned home. Mrs. A. H.
Griswold, Mrs. j. r. Garrenn. Mrs.
w. w. Apple, and Mrs. Ernest Pos
ton made the trip.
Mrs. S. B. Scales of Pomona is
visiting at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. E. j. Townsend
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18
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loting the Saturday Evening Post
removes one of the most colorful OF
the editorial chieftains. His strap
ping physique was somewhat re-
flected in a taste for robust stories
of men with hairy chests, rounding
the Horn on wind TANNERS, prize
fight tales by Socker Coe and heroic
darings of Pitcairn Island. Although
he ran many tales with New York
locale, he loathed the metropolis.
He has not been here more than
a half dozen times in 20 years, then
only between trains. When he visit
ed Eastern sections that would Or
dinarily take him through the city
he would go a roundabout way to
escape contact.
I'm a poor hand with the kiddies
because of being around them so
little. Today. waiting in a COM
Portable chair in Macy's rosebud
in blue woolens toddled up, put
finger to lips pensively and gazed
frankly. Finally: Piggy back?" l
tried to suggest a less vigorous idea,
such as patty-cake, but she was
firm for piggy backing. So oopsy-
dasied her with her chubby arms
around my neck hit off few PAGES.
When I put her down, she left with
out a word. / have feeling 1 did
MT get the proper jog into my piggy
backing.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18

If your birthday Isl today, you
may be affectionate and have the
gift of eloquence. You are natur-
ally cheerful.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18
TEN YEARS AGO
November 18, 1926

For the purpose of outlining the
1927 program for the Imperial coun-
ty Farm Bureau, members of the
board of directors of that organiza-
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18
HOLTVILLES SAND DUNES
as MOVIE LOCATION SITE

One of the most worthwhile of recent
suggestions coming from the Ell Centre
chamber of commerce is that for in
teresting moving picture companies in
making desert scenes on the sand dunes
near Holtville, rather than on the sand
dunes near Yuma. Carried out, the plan
would benefit both the cinema compa-
nies and Imperial Valley.
For the producers, location near Holt
Vile would mean greater convenience
and less expense, with easy access to
needed facilities and without loss of the
color needed in the sand dune pic
lures For Imperial Valley, it would
mean expenditure Of money here which
otherwise would be spent in Arizona.
1t is to be hoped the proposal will be
given due consideration.
The son-in-law touted to step into II
Duce's shoes will have to learn how to
follow i'm the wake of chin
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18
GRAB BAG
One-Minute Test

e-M1nute lest
1. Name the germ that causes
lockjaW. ""
Q. What were the two great
places of amusement in ancient
Rome?
3. How many ocean tides are
there in "a hours?
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18
One-Minute Test Answers

/. Tetanus bacillus.
2. The Circus Maximus and the
Coliseum
l 3. Two. -
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18
Words of Wisdom
Today's Horoscope

Justice, sir. Is the great interest
of man on earth.-Daniel Webster
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18
Hints on Etiauettc

Books borrowed from friends
should be returned, in good condi-
ton, within reasonable time.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-18

Father Conghlin predicted Lemke
would get 5000, 900 votes. Could he have
been confused by the initial e.?