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Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29
News Behind the News
The Merchant Marine Problem And
Lascs That Don't S0tUe 1t :. Back
Where II Started From ..

WASHINGTON-The merchant marine pfop-
lem and the new law intended to solve II are
Getting right back into the hands OF the per
sons from whom Congress tried to take aainlh-
istration of maritime problems
According to charges which will be aired IN
the next Senate, if Roosevelt doesn't act mean
while control is rapidly being invested IN
group os officials who repeatedly nave peeh
accused of subservience to subsidized ship oper-
ators at the expense Of taxpayers and th9 salety
OF passengers at sea- g..
Theoretically administering the new law Is
a Maritime Commission Of three men, Whom
President Roosevelt appointed to serve tempor-
arily until he could make up his mind as 10
personnel of a permanent flve-men commission.
The three are Admiral M NJ. Taylor, Admiral
Henry A. Wiley, and George Landick, none OF
whom is conspicuous for familiarity with mer-
chant marine matters.
General Order No. of the commission says
that Commissioner Landick has assumed dlrec-
tor of the adjustment OF ocean mail contracts
most of which have officially been declared
fraudulently executed. The order says Special
Counsel James Craig Peacock will act as ad-
wiser to Landlck
Iandick. former employe Of the postoffice
and Treasury Procurement Office, is sald 10
have had no experience which would qualify
him for the adjustment JOB.
Peacock is q former director Of the Smpplng
Board Bureau, where ne served under Secretary
of Commerce Daniel Roper. He has been
constant taget for those who have sought 10
correct merchant marine abuses
The big idea behind establishment OF sep
arate commission to take maritime affairs
away from the Commerce Department. Settling
of the mail contracts is one OF the commissions S
most important functions, and strong represen-
tations are being made to the president that IL
should be reserved for the permanent commits
sion.
Another general order consolidates the Ship
ping Board Bureaus division Of finance general
comptroller's office, and finance committee into
a new division Of finance. The acting director
designated is J. j. Miller, whom Peacock per-
sonally brought into the bureau.
Finances have previously been handled under
the general comptroller, and investigators OF
the merchant marine mess have insisted this
was the one division they found which could
be depended on to give accurate information or
genuine cooperation looking to protection of the
government.
The powerful shipping lobby has been at work
again according to insiders, who also think they
discern the hand OF Secretary Roper.
CORRESPONDENTS who recalled Republican
Chairman John D. NJ. Hamiltons sweeping claims
for Iandon rode him numerically at his first
post-election press conference in Washington.
Hamilton showed he could take it with grin.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29
THE WORLD CELEBRATES
IT'S HOLIDAYS

Few Americans, looking forward to
celebration of Christmas on December
25. realize that almost every day IN the
wear is holiday somewhere. A compu-
tation by the Guaranty Trust Company
of New York of holidays IN December
reveals that December 2, II, IL, 13, IA,
IL. 18. 20 through %, and 27 are the
only days not listed somewhere as legal
holidays-and Sundays are not consi-
dered The 18th, goth and 9th are Sun
days. Eight days in the month are not
holidays.
Friday December 25, Christmas Day,
is legal holiday in every country
throughout the world except Soviet Rus-
sia. Bulgaria, Persia (where it is ob.
served by some banks), the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia (where it is observed by
the European bank), and Yugoslavla,
(where it is observed in the territories
of Ljubljana and Zagreb).
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29
Other Editors Say
TO REFORM INITIATIVE
(RedIandS Facts

So devastating was the mo" vote at the last
election on the % propositions put up TO the
paople as to indicate a popular lndlgnaIlon
against this method of attempted legislation.
So many abuses and hidden purposes had oe-
come apparent in many OF them that the Vot-
ers appeared to take the advice Of Governor
Frank F. Merriam to vote opposition II they
were not thoroughly understood.
When the lawmakers meet in Sacramento in
January certain changes in the initiative ana
referendum laws are to be sought, we are tod
by Ralph H Taylor, executive secretary of the
Agricultural council of California. Our own in
ciination would be to repeal the voters privl-
1eee at the first opportunity. very laudape
measure in theory, allowing the people direct
opportunity to initiate their own laws II mas
proved a golden opportunity for greedy inter-
ests TO submit legislation for special privilege
1t will be proposed to make definite limitation
on the scope of initiative proposals and con-
stitutional amendments restricting each meas
ure TO a single subject, says Taylor. some
what similar restriction already obtains with
regard TO legislative statutes, but does not eX-
tend to measures submitted direct to the people.
This is designed to prohibit riders or sleep
ers" and to prevent twO-in-one proposals which
confuse and mislead the voter.
It will be proposed to provide titles Of ballot
acts that are truly descriptive Of the subject
matter presented And it will be proposed that
a Limitation of time be provided In which
petitions may be circulated to qualify initiative
measures to the tWo-year period preceding the
election at which measures are to be submit
ted This would prohibit the use of "old sig
natures augmented by supplemental petitions"
to qualify measure for later election that
had failed to qualify when originally presented
If these reforms are successfully promoted
possibly the people would tolerate continuance
of the initiative and referendum but as it standi
it has proved futile, menace and hindrancs
to proper and needed legislative measures.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Civilization Menaeed by Spanish Savagery

The automobile age is proving a
very bad thing for skunks.
The skunk is, by tradition, an in
dependent critter. He has a sure
and matchless weapon of defense.
When he ambles through the coun-
tryside, he makes way for no one.
1t is always the other fellow who
has to dodge.
But automobiles are different.
And so-according to divers cores
pondentS of a weekly scientific
journal-rural highways are clutter
ed with dead bodies of skunks out
of all proportion to the relative
abundance of those animals.
Rabbits. raccoons, foxes, and other
wild creatures cross the highways
frequently. but their natural wari-
ness saves them from being hit by
autos. But not the skunk.
In his eyes, the approaching auto
is no better than anyone else; so
he stalks calmly across the road
and gets crumpled into a boneless
heap before he realizes that here is
one menace before which his an
cient immunity fails.
X 4
Now it would be possible to be-
come altogether too profound in
drawing analogies from the pitiful
plight of the skunk And yet it is
hard to read that little item with
out feeling that this good-looking
and ill-smelling creature is not the
only inhabitant of America that has
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29

suffered because of inability to
make the necessary adjustments to
changing times.
There was a time, for example,
when the neWneSS and vaStness of
our country made recovery from de-
pressions automatic. If we sat tight
and waited. sooner or later things
would snap back.
The frontier would assimilate dis
placed wage learners, exploitation of
some new industry, or some previo-
ously untouched natural resource
would set off a boom, and all would
be well.
Does any American need to be
reminded that We paid a terrific
price, in the years following 1929,
for our light-hearted belief that
that was still true? 1t was several
years before we realized that it was
five-ton truck that was coming
down the highway and not a simple
minded houn' dawg. We still can
feel the bruises.
X 4
IL WdS Iile Sdllle III IHe HldCIer Ol
foreign entanglements. Our iSola-
tion gave us security for SO long a
time that we thought it always
would Came 1917, and we were up
to our necks in European war be-
fore we knew just what was hap
pening to us. We have been dis
mayed and confused over it ever
since.
These are just two samples; more
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29
THE NEW CONSTITUTION
OF SOVIET RUSSIA

"Russians Offered New Constltutlon
Soviet Citizens Get Suffrage, Free
Speech" says headline.
1t might be taken from the ancient
newspaper files of the United States,
with the names of the countries trans
posed. One of the new offerings to the
Russians is one Of the basic principles
of the American constitution. 1t is free
speech. The other, suffrage, has be-
come Just as much a par of American
life. The two have been accepted facts
for many, many years.
And, even under the Russian so-called
constitution, one wonders how lar iree
sneech" will 90. Will Soviet citizen
be allowed TO climb upon a soapbox in
4 public square and harangue against
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29

mails in the near future covering
performance on some of the single
farms included The matter of
joint performance on multiple hold
ings is considerably more compli-
Gated and final certification by the
county committee for payment will
necessarily be somewhat delayed on
this account.
However, benefit payments in
lars for performance under the 1896
program will have been distributed
in Imperial county by July l, the
end of the fiscal year.
Details Prepared
"Details of the program for 1887
are in process of preparation at
Washington and representatives of
the farmers from every state, in
Guiding California, are in atten-
dance.
1T is to be expected that the
program for the coming year will
follow the same general lines as
that for 1886 and We hope to have
at least the general outline of its
requirements some time in Decem-
ber.
with an earlier start and a
more general appreciation by the
farmers of the county as to what
this program means toward solu-
ton of our national agricultural
problems it is not too much to ex-
pect that participation in Imperial
county for 1897 will approximate
the 100 per cent contemplated by
the farm leaders of the country,
which is necessary if we are to
attain the objectives we have set
for ourselves and if we are to
maintain the gains already made"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29
FARM CONSERVATION
PROGRAM OUTLINED


Summary of the 1886 agricultural
conservation program and indica-
tions as to the progress of that for
1897 are given by c. L. Mclaughlin,
secretary for the Imperial County
Agricultural Conservation Associa-
tion.
In commenting on the program
McLaughton stated that judging by
the inquiries that he receives daily
there are literally hundreds of peo-
pie in Imperial Valley who are
ignorant as to the aims and pur-
poses of the program despite the
fact that nearly two-thirds of the
valleys cultivated acreage comes
under the provisions Of the act.
Mclaughlin points out that this
agricultural program for 1886 which
is by way of being consummated,
is the outgrowth of fight for econ
omic parity and equality which Or
ganized agriculture has waged be-
ginning as far back as the depres-
sion of 1921.
Tariff No Solution
At that time raising of the tariff
on farm products seemed a solution
but it was soon found, as various
measures were passed, that since
half the cotton crop, one fourth the
wheat crop and one tenth the corn
crop were exported to countries un-
able to pay a price high enough to
compensate the farmer for his
work, tariff increases did little to
help agriculture.
The McNary Haugen, Smoot =
HaWley tariff act. creation of the
federal farm board. all led finally
to the AAA which in turn, mat
ter now of history, was declared
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29
New York Day By Day
By Q. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK. Nov. 28.-Purely
personal piffle: Nothing so comic
as a cuckoo clock in action. Read
ing need: More Walking Stick
Papers" essays by Robert Cortes
Holiday. No dramatic critic looks
less the part or turns out more
stabbing phrases than Brooks At
kinson. Never knew a readhead
with a fiery temper.
Theater's big moment: That lit
lie variety hall Of les Grands
Boulevards where Raquel Meller
first caroled her violet song. I can
put my Boston to sleep immediate
ly. scratching his chest. just like
a shot III the arm. No tune inspires
a marching fever like Victor Her
bert's March OF the Toys"
win Rogers is contacted more
than any other figure by spiritual
lists. King Edward likes a spoon
full Of Cheddar cheese with break
fast fruit. II I have to hear blues
singer. I'll take Gertrude Niessen.
Destitute of reading 1 can always
pick up Tom Sawyer" and have a
swell evening.
Recurrent dream: Racing to catch
a Santa Fe after getting out to walk
at a water tower stop in New Mex
leo. Few writers get more fun out
of life than Homer Croy Ideal life:
three months in New York, three in
California or Florida, three Europe
and three in a small town.
90
Treasured note for the scrapbook
from David Belasco: you've pleas
ed many as any newspaper writer
I know and wounded fewer" Mem
orable breakfast spot: A Michigan
avenue window table at the Chicago
Blackstone. I have to dial out
when that fool in the Olsen and
Johnson team starts laughing or I'm
in stitches. Every time I come
across "chauvinistic" I have TO look
it up. The first name of the only lion
hunter / ever met was Evelyn. My
guess for the 1910 Republican presi-
Dental nominee-Senator Vanden-
burg Of Michigan.
%
Choice pudding: Chocolate cov-
cred with thick cream and a choc-
olate eclair on the side. High
notch in swank: Pulling up at that
especial Waldorf railroad siding in
a private car Alice Longworth
and Mrs Franklin Roosevelt each
turning out a column = day is
journalism's most modern feminine
note. In our day, they would have
settled school strike with dose
Of birch tea" Grace LaRue is
writing an autobiography.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29
e. Oh So1f says
1r FRANK WATANABE
rvs BY Ed HOLDEN
DEMPSEY
BY ED HOLDEN

One night l entering Jack Dempsey's
restaurant in N Y. A fellow with a
punching bag expression of face come
in and he stumble over my table
very accident. He knock my bread to
the floor and he fall upon same He look
ing up with grins and say, "Ah pugllls-
tic ham on rye" That true because, ne
were a broke down prize fighter but
never winning prize. Public eating IN
New York are pretty cheap costing al
right one bake fish are costing my
pocket only $500. The distance from
New York to Pacific Coast are about
$3.50 every lunch time but you get
three walters with every meal.
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29
Mrs. Rose Eisen of
El Centre Expires

Mrs. Rose Eisen, so, of Ala Ham
ilton street, Ell Centro. died in Ell
Centro at IL o'clock Friday night.
The body was sent to Los Angeles
for burial by B. E. Lemons, El Cen
tro funeral director. She was born
in Hungary so years ago and had
made her home in Imperial Valley
for the last 12 years. She is sur
vived by her husband, Edel Eisen,
and other relatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29
Relief Costs Cut
Twenty Per Cent
Continued from Page u

Continued from Page u
tiles such as flood control, reclama-
ton and power developments.
3. Continuing the Civilian Con-
servation corps and the National
Youth administration, the latter un-
der WPA.
The basic reason for the decision
that relief expenditures next year
could be held down rested in the
fact that relief rolls are declining
There were. $4,000 families and
single persons-more than 20,000000
neutrality-suspicious. on the gov
ernment for livelihood in Janu-
ary, 1895, when need was greatest.
The number dropped to 4,756000 a
year later.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29

Once I go. as far as having a
pill rolled for an opium pipe-just
for lark-but backed out. Two
reporters with me went the dis
tance and were they sick and thirs-
tv for two days. Being different
note: Most of jerome Kern's tunes
ring the bell with me. Four times
in my life, events affecting my en-
tire career have taken place around
5 o'clock. I could never laugh at
the artistry of Bert Williams. To
me he was poignantly sad. All the
English I know has been acquired
through friendly connections. For
the true flavor OF Broadway
Lindys Park avenue the Colony and
Lower East Side the Cafe Royal.
A 25 year quest has failed to dis
cover the real middle west soupy
hash in New York. Or an honest
to goodness homemade apple pie.
No one in the motion picture busi-
ness ever impressed me as shrewd
as the late Irving Thalberg. Or
nothing ups my blood pressure like
some one phoning: Il must see you
at once about something very
private" I always expect the
worst.
A cabinet member and a Supreme
Court Justice are Amos n Andy
fans. Octavus Roy Cohen likes to
90 to the movies to be "cuted'
by Shirley Temple. Maurice Chew
alier is the only fellow I ever knew
to wear a deep blue shirt and a
blood red tie and look smart. And
if there's anybody who can top
King Edwards jauntiness in a
sport coat I've never seen them.
FTeG Astaire and Robert Benchley
could swap voices and no one
would know the difference. The
neatest in brief after dinner speech
es to reach my ears was delivered
by Frank Crowninshield. In %
years of writing for newspapers
and magazines I have not once
been asked to write anything but
what I pleased. For years I
couldn't abide grape fruit. now I
can't get enough of it.
90
One of the slickest fellows I ever
saw in full evening dress was a
young ranchman from Fargo, N.
D. Attractive name among the car
tConists: Fontaine Fox. Like him or
no., Postmaster Farley showed he
knew how to take it without los
ing his temper. I have yet to see
the man. who did not beam when
he saw Brown Betty pudding be-
ing passed around for dessert.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29

could be cited if space were avail
able. What they point to is the
uncomfortable fact that the world
somehow has moved out from under
us in the last few decades. 1t isn't
the same sort of world in which
our traditions were shaped; it de-
mands constant readjustment.
The fate of the humble skunk
might be an excellent warning.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29
TWENTY YEARS AGO
November 20, 1916
TEN YEARS AGO
November %. 1926


Visiting California and the Impe-
rial Valley in order that they may
get the states viewpoint on the Col
orado river problems as presented
today, Governor George H. Dern Of
Utah arrived in Ell Centro this
morning.
The starting of a brush fire by
Valentine Butler who intended to
burn up weeds on his place, ex-
tended to that of Lee B. Giles, and
before it could be extinguished bees
and hives of the latter were destroy
ted. ..,
Roy Clayton of Ell Centro and
Sybil Hall secured marriage Ii
cense at the county court house
yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29

his dictator? We doubt it.
Yet there are those who hold up the
Soviet government as a model to be fol-
lowed in this country!
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29
Thought for the Day

Though speak with the tongues OF and OF
angels, and have not charity, become as sound
ing brass or tinkng cymbal.-I Corinthians 1871.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
Tell Of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
November %, 1911

Colonel Byron H. Cook purchased
a resident lot from H. c. Griswold.
Cook is secretary of water company
No. l.
A pleasant social event took place
at the Old Mission cafe when 16
members of the Odd Fellows lodge
gathered to eat oysters.
Miss Anna Gay returned to Los
Angeles after a stay of several
months.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
November %, 1916
The morning session of the I'M
perial Valley teachers institute op-
ened with a discussion of farm life.
R. E. Willis, president of the farm
bureau was the principal speaker.
Supervisor Arthur Shepherd re-
turned from an outing in the noun
taiOS
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29

Correspondents who recalled Republican
Chairman John D. NJ. Hamiltons sweeping claims
for Landon rode him numerically at his first
post-election press conference in Washington.
Hamilton showed he could take it with grin.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-29
Famous Saying

instigated the magistrates to punish all offend
ers saying that they that did not prevent crimes
when they might encouraged them OF young men,
he liked them that blushed better than those who
looked pale.-Plutarch.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-06-05
Csl. pedagog zenTel.

V Podebradech zemrel uni
versitnf professor DIR. Otakar
Kadner, reditel pedagogickeho
seminare filosoficke fakulty
Karlovy university, feditel stat
nj pedagogicke academic a
D~voulete academic ucitelske,
budovatel Skoly vysokych stu
dill pedagogickych a vGdce ma
seho skolskeho a ucitelskeho
zivota. Zemrel ma celkovou
srdecn1 a nervovou vycerpa-
most, pc zivote, v kterem chvf-
lie oddechu byla vzacnosti. V
Otakaru Kadnerovi ztratila ma
Sc veda vynikajfcfho jedince
svetoveho vyznamu: Jeho W.
cholne dflo, sestisvazkove "De-
jiny pedagogiky", bylo pfelo-
zeno do n6kolika ciz1ch jazykd
Prof. Kadner, ktery jake Cole
ty zemTel, dial nam take celou
mladou generaci modernfch
vychovatelI.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-06-05
Oslavy slovenskeho vlastence
" Praze.

V ramci 100. vyrocf naroze-
nj a 80. vyroc1 1mrtf tvGrce
slovenskeho nacionalismu a spi
sovne slovenstiny L'udevlta
styra byl Praze We dnech
1925. kvetna uspofadan
"St1rGv slavnostn1 tyden" peel
st1rova jubilejnf vyboru v Pra-
re, Slovenskeho akademickeho
spolku "Detvan", Spolku slo-
venskych katolickych akademi
XII "Povazan", Janosfkova kru-
hu slovenskych evangelickych
akademikG v Praze "a spolu1-
casti Ceskoslovenske jednoty
"Ziveny", Jednoty slovanskych
zen, a historicke spo-
lecnosti v PraZe.
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-06-05
Turistika prinasi Slovensku
inflow.

V SIM zemskeho zastupitel-
stva v Bratislave Sc konala an
keta O zvysen1 cizineckeho ru-
chu ma Slovensku. Pfedsedal
jfzemsky president J. Orszagh
a 1castnili Sc il zastupci vsech
korporacf a prislusnych dfad1.
Bylo referovano O zffzen1 pro
pagacn1 1stTedny a o investlc-
MIN programu pro zvysenl CHI
neckeho ruchu. Poukazovalo
Sc ma to, re vynos z cizineckeho
ruchu, ktery loni cinil 70 mil.
Kc, mohl by byti 1celnou pro
pagandou zvysen ma 80 mil. nc
a jeste vyse.
neutrality-suspicious. ustav
slovensky vypracoval ma zadost
ministerskeho predsedy DIR. Mi
lana Hodzi obsfrny prehled
in~vesticnfch pracf, ktere by me-
ly byt provedeny v zajmu CHI
neckeho ruchu. V resoluci
Sc zada zrfzenf cizinecke rady
pTi slovenskem zem. vyboru,
ktera by byla vrcholnou orga-
nisacf. Obstaravala by veci
souvisej1c1 S cizineckym ru-
chem.
Ma uskutecn6nf investicnich
plant je potfebf nejmene 80