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Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-15
Wall Street and Politics
Newspaper Paragraphs Tell Story of Chicago Sus-
pected Official BIanes Political Friends Judges
Sidestep Case Names NeUer Mentioned

by SWeitzer's office during his "a
years as county clerk.
In December, 1884, S'Teitzer be-
came county treasurer. From this
post he was ousted by the county
board last June 6 because he was
alleged to have withheld $4l4, 129 of
public funds from his successor as
county clerk - Michael J. Flynn.
SWeitZer admitted he owed $335,000.
"A jury acquitted Sweitzer on
Nov. II of any criminal conduct
in connection with the alleged re-
tention of public funds, but Cook
county contends he and his surety
still are under civil liability for
the sums he is accused Of with
holding. These figures have been
increased by successive audits'
The amazing story of Mr.. S,Seitz-
er was told by Edwin A. Lahey,
Chicago newspaperman, in a recent
issue of The Nation.
Mr.. Sweitzer, an old-line Demo-
cratic politician, admitted in a
newspaper interview that probably
he owed some money and that his
good nature had been imposed on
by politicians who had borrowed
large part of it.
For long while it was difficult
to get anywhere with the prose-
cution of Mr.. SWeitzer, even after
he had said in an interview that
he owed money to the county.
When he was indicted, one judge
after another side-stepped sitting
in the case. Finally, one young
judge was not afraid.
But the sob stories of Mr.. SWEET
zer's counsel soon had the jury
weeping. And it began to look as
if they believed the county and
the taxpayers were prosecutors who
had tried to defile a man who
had served them for a quarter of
a century.
Through it all the names of the
politicians to whom money was
loaned never was mentioned-per-
haps in fear that they, too, would
be prosecuted.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-15
HAUPTNANN IS TO DIE;
THE LAW MUST TAKE ITS COURSE

Bruno Richard Hauptmann is sched-
uled to die Friday night. The law has
said so. This man has been legally con-
victed of numbering the Lindbergh baby.
He has had all the benefits of legal rules
he has had full privilege of defense
by competent counsel. through establish
ed legal channels. Twelve representative
American men and women have declared
him guilty and the penalty IS death. Now
that the time arrives, public feeling
wavers from Baby Lindbergh to Bruno
Hauptmann Such emotion by the public
or the governor of New Jersey, should
not delay the execution of legal Justice
The law is matter-of-fact thing, and
guilt or innocenSe is determined by fact
and not feeling. Emotion often SWayS
jurieS, and high officials with powers to
reprieye and pardon. But emotion also
has sWayed those well-meaning people
who have helped take the teeth from our
laws. The result has been that criminals
and laW-breakerS know they can get
away with a whole lot, commit countless
crimes, and still go scott free If COM
passion is deserved by Hauptmann it is
similarly deserved by countless hundreds
O1 OIueTS WHO nave pdlU uedlH peHdlIleS
without benefit of emotional governors
or a compassionate public Hauptmann
should die. That others may be equally
involved in the Lindbergh kidnapping
does not alter the fact Hauptmann is a
convicted murderer and, if the law is to
be esteemed and honored the state must
carry out its dictates.
1t is a terrible thing to kill man. 1t
is profoundly foolish and uncivilized to
believe that one death can be balanced
by another death. Two wrongs never made
one right, and the law of an eye for an
eye and tooth for tooth has long been
discarded. Revenge is silly, ignorant and
unreasoning When the state murders a
murderer it is merely taking revenge.
Capital punishment is therefore primi-
tive, uncivilized and anti-dated. 1t is
however, one thing to abolish capital
punishment 1t is another thing to disre-
gard the law as written. The Hauptmann
case is not one of deciding whether the
law is right or wrong Legislatures are
the place for such decisions. The courts
comprise our institutions for deciding
guilt or innocence. If the law is to have
the respect of the public and the fear
of the underworld, it should be enforced
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-15
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BOOKS & HUSBANDS
Other day are devOuring one
sandwich on a luncheon counter.
On my elbow are two other fellow
eating also. Here are discussion
which fell i'm my ear from them
two gents.
1st man: "HOw things at
hOme?"
End man: oh not of so good"
1st man: "Wife again."
End man: eyes wife,"
1st man: "TOld me what"
End man: "WelI, you see John
my wife she reading of book like
sunagun. All them book are love
story. And she expecting me to
resemble the hero in each book!
She reading 8 and book a week.
Last Tuesday / were sippOse to
be a Cave Man. Last Saturday
she complain because i are not
the ditto of the handsome South
American Dancer. Last night she
are amaze TO finding that 1 are
not bit like the Youthful Wood
Chopper of the North"
1st man: Heaven sake!"
How you like a
wife like that?
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-15
re Auction Philosophy re
BY ID. L. ZINN

Folks was just thinking Suppose congress should
pass the Townsend BILL the President sign it, then two
years later have the supreme court declare the law
good What mess would be in then. Amt that sum"
PIN to think about?
On the Both of this month we have the Presidents
ball at the memorial hall in Ell Centro Seventy per cent
of the money raised stays Ell Centre for the benefit of
infante paralysis in this community Thirty per
goes to the Warm Springs foundation. Every one
should have ticket this dance for knows when
this dread disease might enter his home AS chairman
of this ball have surely been well pleased the way the
folks | have asked help have responded and shown
their willingness to help in this worthy We have
secured nine piece orchestra arranged for decoration
you dance enjoy yourself and do good for
fellow man at the same time.
We going to have big sale Friday, lot Of extra
good fresh cows fifteen at the sale yards now lot of
Implements hogs chickens beef cattle, calves and good
furniture typewriter shot gun and all kinds of dishes
and small tools.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-15
NEW YORK
DAY by DAY
By O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-An Eng
lish journalist sends back a very
what-ho essay to his paper on
New York celebrities. He says in
short he saw very few for the
simple reason these he regarded
important are seldom in public
places j. e. cafes, theatres, night
clubs.
The people one really wants to
see in New York, he points out,
have the elusiveness of Britain's
Barrie. Then he swings this from
the ankle: "Of course there are
the Shaws, the Augustus Johns
who walloW in the pleasant illu-
SIGN that celebrity is conspicuous
ness"
Not altogether correct, there is
much truth in his sum-up. In
the past few years there has grown
up in the metropolis a celebrity
pack" that runs in full yoick in
every chase. If publicity is fame
in its finer sense they have
achieved it with a bang.
First nights, supper clubs and
bar openings have become more
or less a standardized crowd. 1t
is possible to write who is present
without attending. A statistical
meanie declares that not five per
cent measure up to qualification
whatever they are-of celebrity.
Burgess Mederith and Gelett
Burgess are going to toss a party
and invite all the BurgeSses and
all the Merediths in the phone
book. There are 46 Burgesses and
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-15

IL Merediths, the old 81 varieties,
in all. The Queen of the Burgess
es. a beauty shop proprietor, has
been selected but Burgess Johnson
will not be invited unless he sticks
another IS" in his front name.
Henry Winston Harperm, dean
of the Graduate School of the
University of Texas, has sent me
one of the famous red bow ties
which have distinguished him sar-,
torially for years. He is now In
the 70's. It is the only part OF
tie he wears, known in the Pan
handle as the genuine Harper
red" The color is based on the
Cxyhemoglobin of the red blood
cells in human arterial blood. In
other words, the shade of the life
giving fluid which stimulated red
corpuScled action. One of Dean
Harper'S ties and a raw hamburg
er have inspired even sissy to
chase a tough guy up shade tree.
A visitor to Paris tells of seeing
Richard LIE Gallienne, the Amer
lean poet, huddled about char
coal fire at a table along a lost
Paris street-"w "wrapt in the misty
scarves of far-away dreams" He
has been away many years now
and has become a gaunt figure
with long, snoW-White hair. His
daughter Eva has become inter-
nationally famous. His own works
grow more famous. Yet down the
last lap of life he prefers a lonely,
self-impoSed exile.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-15
DEMOCRATS FEAR AL SMITHS
SPEECH JANUARY 25TH.

Former Governor Al Smith IS to
speak at the American Liberty League
dinner in Washington, D. C. January
25th, and New Deal democrats are fear
full of what Al may unlimber in his ar
tillery-like oratory. Al is still a power
full factor in the democratic ranks. Just
how powerful is a question that leaders
are estimating. Al lost lot of favor for
obvious reasons, but he has always been
factor to be considered, especially in
Eastern states, and his ability to strike
popular chords and swing mass votes by
his personality may prove a deciding
factor in the up-and-coming political
picture.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-15
News S....
behind the neeVs
!: SPEECH TALKED OF :.
4 CLASS WARFARE
4 KEYNOTE SEEN 80.
:; NEUTRALITY POLICY :.
BY CHARLES STEWART

WASHINGTON, D. C.-President
Roosevelt's. Jan. 3 message to con-
gresS continues to be the text of
most official oratory and unofficial
talk on Capitol Hill.
In fact, it generally is accepted
as having been the Democratic
keynote of the 1886 campaign, al
ready on.
Would-be adverse critics of the
presidential address confidentially
admit that it was wonderfully
clever. They would like to be
able to attack it unqualifiedly, but
very few Of them can afford to do
so. They accuse the White House
tenant of having declared a state
Of class warfare at home, but they
are forced to profess entire agree
ment with him in all he said in
favor of American neutrality in
overseas strife. They have no op-
ton in this matter because it is SO
apparent that the chief executives
utterances on the subject were
overwhelmingly popular probably
not with prospective profiteers
from hostilities abroad, but with
most folk.
1t is an embarrassment for a
politician, trying to denounce an
opponents speech, to be compelled
to add But about half of it was
all right"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-15
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer

CHICAGO.-A few hours Stop
over here en- route to New York
and we get a picture of the Chi
cago scene.
We believe the most interesting
news in Chicago is told in these
three newspaper paragraphs:
Cook county is to sue Robert
M. Sweitzer and his surety today
for S733,817 an amount $l83,OOO
greater than the largest sum hith-
erto mentioned by the auditors
who have studied the records kept
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-15
Is YEARS AGO
January Is. 1921

President Joseph H. Nickerson
and Director Roy D. McPherrin
of the Imperial Irrigation District
left the city last night for FL
Paso, Texas, where they will be
Joined by General Manager F..
N. Cronholm and Senior Luis
Guerrero Romero, of the Mexican
Department of Agriculture and
Fornento to raise funds for the
Chandler interests below the line.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-15

Published weekday evenings Except Saturday. and
on Sunday mornings The PoSt-PreSs by the
Imperial Valley Publishing Company 625 State street.
81 Centro California. Telephone 800. Full leased wire
United Press Association Entered at FL Centre, Cal
iforna post office as second-class matter. Member
California Newspaper Publishers Association. NJ. c.
Morgensen, national advertising Representatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-15

The exact attitude of the public at
large is in favor of payment Of the bonus
in full Most opposition is founded on
what appears to be a misunderstanding
of the original adjusted certificate plan.
Long ago, it was proposed and agreed
that veterans deserved more payment
than they actually realized while in
service. They received a dollar a day
while the stay-at-home workers, who
were also materially a part of the sue
cessful execution of our campaign, re-
ceived ten and twenty dollars a day.
The patriotism of being in service was
not in the least discounted by the gen.
eral decision to provide larger reim-
bursement. The only hitch was that the
payment was largely just promise. 1t
said in effect, 1--WE will pay you, but we
can't do it now Wait until many years
hence. Meanwhile, we give you promis-
sorry note and if you live long enough,
we'll pay it in full" The present situa-
ton, therefore, is of payment NOW rath-
er than years hence.
There is little in the move involving
'raiding the treasury. The main question
is Should payment be made now that
we are heavily in debt, or should we wait
until later when our bank balance will
be larger and our balance sheet more
favorable?' That is about the situation
and there is little doubt but that the
liability of paying now is offset by the
benefits to accrue.
Under the present compromise Sem
ate plan, providing for payment by
bonds of small denominations, veterans
needing the cash for immediate spend
ing may turn the bonds into money and
put that money into needed circulation.
This rewards the veteran and benefits
business. Those veterans who do not
need the money, may keep the bonds,
drawing 3 per cent interest, until such
time as the money is needed. Thus, the
full face Of the bonus proposal will not
mean that the full 1000 millions must
be in cash 1t is estimated that only
about one-half will be cashed now, which
1000 million will do the same work as
much Of the relief funds or work funds,
and at the same time pay off the obliga-
tion to the veterans.
II is to be hoped that the bonus mat
ter is attended to Immediately so that
congress can go on to the many other
matters demanding immediate attention.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-15
LO in g
B a C k W a r d
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
20 YEARS AGO
January 15 1915

Contractor Kennedy is having
difficulty in finding laborers for
the outfall sewer construction
work. On the work within the FL
Centre city limits the men are
satisfied with $3.50 per day of
nine hours, but on the work at
New river and near Imperial many
laborers sent out on the job work
only until after the first meal
hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-15
CRITICS MAKE POOR CASE

Some Republican analysts Of the
message do undertake to point out
that the president risked trouble
for Uncle Sam with the predatory
foreign autocracies", from whose
clashings the United States pro-
poses to remain aloof.
However, he calls no names -
merely invited those that the shoe
might fit to put it on.
Naturally none cares to confess
that the shoe fits.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-15

"Carnera to Fight Ethiopians." Joe
Louis victim apparently is trying out the
old aviator's custom of flying a plane
soon after crash.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-15

Garner reveals ordinary socks can be
used in approaching the Japanese en-
peror. This, however, is not advisable in
meeting Joe Louis.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-15

maine Man to Run on Townsend
Plank" Until the movement grows
stronger why not just feel the way out
cautiously, hold the breath, and drop?
Imperial Valley press., 1936-01-15
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Scientific Eye Examination, Lenses Duplicated
The care of your eyes is serious matter.
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Evening star., 1936-10-11

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, October IS; Gary,
Ind, October 16, and Chicago, Oc-
tober II. -
Britain has shortage Of skilled auto
mobile mechanics
Evening star., 1936-10-11
Relief
Continued From First Page.)

or certain other Federal construction.
The volume of relief spending was
characterized by the review as dis
appointing In view of increasing
business activity and Unemployment.
The chamber estimated at least 7,000.-
600 men had gone back to work since
the low point of the depression.
At the present rate of spending,
its publication said, total Federal ex-
penditures will approach eight bill
lion dollars" this fiscal year.
Total Federal expenditures for the
quarter just closed" the review conn
mented. give little encouragement to
those who have urged a budget bal
ance through some decrease In ex-
penditures."
Decided evidence of improvement"
In foreign trade during the first half
of the current calendar year was re-
ported in the survey. Gains over the
first half of 1885 were listed at 76 per
cent for Americas leading export COM
modities,
The value Of exports for the first
half of 1896 was placed at $1.154,141.- :
600, or 1877 per cent more than the
same period last year.
Evening star., 1936-10-11
j. S. YOUTH BODY
TO PROGRAM
Progress and Future Plans
to Be Outlined Tomorrow
and Tuesday.

The American Youth Commission
will meet in the United States Cham
Der Of Commerce Building tomorrow
and Tuesday to plan its 1887 program
and hear reports Of the past years
work.
Owen D. Young. vice chairman, will
preside tomorrow and Newton d.
Baker, chairman. Tuesday. The COM
mission was organized year ago by
the American Council on Education
to prepare q program on the care and
education of youth. The principal
business Of the meeting here will be
to consider a report on ways and
means OF bridging the gap between
completion Of school and successful
vocational adjustment.
A subcommittee appointed by Young
to present the issues, consisting Of DR..
Homer P. Rainey. Virgil Jordon, presi-
dent of the National Industrial Con-
ference Board, and Spencer Miller.
jr., Of the American Federation Of
Labor, will report tomorrow.
During the meeting DR.. Marion R.
Trabue, professor of education at the
University of North Carolina. will read
. report on the occupational adjust
ment of youth, and DR.. Harlan Upde-
graf, educational consultant, will
discuss study Of more than 5000
Pennsylvania youths he has just COM
pleted. A paper on the social develop
ment Of human resources will be pre-
sented by Prof. Newton E. Edwards Of
the University Of Chicago.
Evening star., 1936-10-11
HUNDREDS SLAIN AT ovIEDO.

OVIEDO, Spain. October 10 R.-
Besieged insurgents fought grimly to-
night to hold a few scattered build
ings as dynamite-tossing Asturian
miners blasted their way to the heart
of the city.
The miners, advancing steadily in a
pouring rain, drove the main body
Of Gen. Aranda's troops into their
last MISUNDERSTANDING buildings
in the center of town-in some OF
the worst fighting Of Spain's civil
war.
The defenders position seemed
hopeless as the miners. aided by So
cialist militiamen, wiped out one ma
chine-gun nest after another'in their
drive through streets strewn with
hundreds of dead
In one charge the assailants took a
wall defended by 35 men armed with
eight machine guns. blowing up the
wall and killing the insurgents with
bombs.
Amanda, who recently was promoted
from colonel for holding the city
three months in the face of superior
forces, kept his men fighting des-
perately on after day and night Of
merciless combat.
Hundreds of the insurgents took
refuge in the bull ring, which the
miners besieged late in the after
noon. Others were trapped in the
Pelayo Barracks when the invaders
fred the building.
Fire spread through the city at
nightfall. Many houses in the San
Juan quarter we're ablaze, as was the
Convent Of Adora Trices.
Evening star., 1936-10-11
VERCOMING the handicaps
of seven years of blindness to
graduate from college, Albert
T. Gonzales, 23-year-old stu

dent Of Las Cruces. N. Mex, now Is
preparing with equal determination for
career in law and politics as fresh
man at Georgetown University School
of Law.
In coming to Washington this Fall
to seek new fields to conquer, young
Gonzales returned to the scenes Of
odds of blindness that threatened, at
the age OF 16, to end his schooling.
To q young blind friend who helped
him, Miss Dorothea Jennings, now
an employe of the Interior Depart
ment, his success in qualifying for law
school is vindication of the faith
she had in his ability to continue his
studies at Roosevelt High School.
Blinded accidentally while training
at c. M. T. c. camp at Fort Bliss,
Tex, in 1929, young Gonzales later
was sent to Walter Reed Hospital here
in the hope of having his sight re-
stored. He had slipped on a wet div
ing board at the camps swimming pool
and struck his eyes in such a way
against the board as to cause blind
ness.
For months he remained at Walter
Reed Hospital, discouraged, fright
ened youth, but it proved eventually
the beginning Of hope. With the aid
of the Red Cross nurses and particu-
larly Miss Jennings, who constantly
Evening star., 1936-10-11

cases for the next day. and. serving
as the "eyes" Of his young friend.
helps him brief them. There are no
Braille books for college or law work,
50 he Is entirely dependent on audible
study.
Before he became blind Gonzales
had learned the touch system on the
typewriter. When there are written
quizzes. he writes out the questions on
. Braille printing machine.
Il use . silent typewriter in the
class room which doesn't interfere
With the class work, reading the ques-
tions from the Braille system and
writing the answers on the type
writer" he explained. TITS quite easy"
The young man comes and goes
from class with scarcely any assist
ance. He likes to walk behind his
companion. except In trafiic. and ac-
customs his pace to any that Keegan
sets. His acute hearing and intuition
tell him when the person In front Is
slowing up or Is stepping to curb
stone
Endowed with . sunny disposition
inherited from Spanish forebears. he
maintains an intense interest in the
unseen world about him. For exercise
he walks and swims, but it Is the
radio. more than anything else, that
affords him recreation. He likes 1t
much better than the "talkies."
Then, too," he said. there are the
Braille books and records which can
always get from the Library Of Con-
gress or from New York"
He long ago stopped thinking OF
himself as blind. and that, perhaps,
Is the chief reason for his success.
Evening star., 1936-10-11
Il Spain

(Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1936-10-11

member Of the first graduating class.
But 1t was Miss Jennings, who was
only three years my senior, who in
spired me to 60 through college and
to follow q profession that would be
opened to usefulness for the blind"
From Washington, Gonzales entered
the New Mexico State College, to be
its first blind student as he Is the first
blind student to study at the George
town Law School. He was graduated
in 1898 among the upper half Of his
class. It was hard work, he said, be-
cause he had to study aloud with
various students and he had not be-
come fully accustomed to his blind
ness.
Then followed . year in Los An
geles at the Braille Institute, where
he learned that system Of reading
thoroughly, and taught Spanish.
At the law school here. after two
weeks of class work, the professors are
amazed at his grit and the readiness
with which he mentally absorbs case
studies and briefs. Asking no special
favors, he entered the full three-year
morning course. Since he had col
lege degree as proof Of his a5ility to
study, there was no hesitancy about
admitting him.
Already he has joined the Edward
Douglas White Debating Club.
Il want to 60 in for public speak
ing" he said shyly. "for 1t will be good
training for me If I'm ever fortunate
enough to get into politics"
He is not unmindful Of the careers
of two. blind Senators. Thomas p.
Gore of Oklahoma and the late
Thomas D. Schall Of Minnesota,
whose son graduated brilliantly from
Georgetown a year ago.
Fellow Student Guide.
Gonzales lives ut l03 c street
southeast with . fellow student,
Michael Keegan, graduate of st.
Thomas College. Scranton. Pa, who
acts as his companion and studies
with him. 1t is perfect arrange
ment for they are in the same classes.
Each night Keegan reads aloud the