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Milford chronicle., 1936-04-17
DOUBLE STANDARDS

Why should there be pitiless pub
llcity as to the amount Of salaries
paid to officials By private corpora
tions, while profound secrecy sur
rounds the amounts paid out Of the
public treasury to those busily en-
gagged In not producing?
OF all the outrageous New Deal
policies. that combined publicity
secrecy policy should be awarded
the leather medal. Secrecy as to
public monies paid to Administra-
tion fayorites: publicity as to mat
ters strictly priyatel And still the
American people stand for I'll In the
face Of such situation, who has the
temerity 70 assert that the people do
ruleg-Y Yakima, Wash, Republic.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-17

December, 1885. wage disburse-
ments in the nations factories were
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-17

ss7,ssO.OOO more than IN December.
1884.
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-17

The Electric
PRICES BEoIN AT horsepower
0for SKI OF
l20inoh wheeIbsss) 500 for Hudson HshtOl3
l24 l20 wheelbasel
~ = - psLO.b Detroit Standard
SAVE viii the new HUDSON C. r So Time Payment Plan
low monthly payments
Milford chronicle., 1936-04-17

A poor speaker never drives home
anything but the audience.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
Everyday Philosophy
REV. Devon ELLSWORTH
Vicar, st. Pauls Episcopal Church
CoIumnist for This Week

you know am good atalst Expressions like
would be NOR o willing to do little
thinking sometmes think Darwin could nave found Just
from parrots as from Monkeys
who believes that everything that
according set schedule ana That nothing
Like Popeye, the sailor
fatalis also what yamh Is my late or my
fortun that's that
thorough gong fatalists All that
"fatalStS that
life and when the
regardless But II Fate definitely
too?t Fate sends
ing a a certain hour ought not
the measles toothche
according schedule?
Getting question: it would thai
a OF theology. God
omniscnta nowingeven to future events
the conclusion That God
When things shall
not
of
in the habit
the highwayyou would know
make the
happen because God orknows them
God simply n a the future.
a destiny that shall all
be determnisic about that
What
the
shall
which control
of life We
of building kingdom
and within and without ready at hand
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
News Behind the News
Industry Bigger Than agriculture =.
Corporate Farming Increases :.
Total Big Payments Small =.

WASHINGTON.-"Bign in agriculture
is still far from possibility of comparison with
'bigness" in industry. The trend, however, IS in
that direction
Revelation of huge benefit checks paid by
AAA called attention to the growth of corporate
farming and large farm land holdings. It was
also shown that both the number and total Of
such payments were quite small in comparison
with the number and total of all payments
The story makes good political propaganda
but Secretary Henry A Wallace has asked critics
how they would limit production without CO.
operation of the large farms.
Information to the concentration of farm
holdings is limited In a northeastern area OF
% states. reaching as far west and south as Min
neSota, Iowa, Missouri Kentucky, and Virginia,
it was found that from 1880 TO 1885 the number
of farms operated by full owners had increased
y per cent. while those operated by tenants
increased 20 per cent.
Percentage of total farms occupied by ten
ants increased less than per cent There
were fewer anager-operated farms and the
total number of these is less than l per cent
but the average acreage of this type of farm
increased 12.5 per cent while the average acreage
of all farms declining &c per cent Yet
manager-operated holdings as a whole declined
per cent.
Department of agriculture economists con-
sequenty like to point out that there has been
no real change since 1929 in a situation which
then found that l9 per cent of retail trade was
in automobiles and related sales and % per cent
in food. but that 80 per cent OF the automobile
directors. while the production of food was
spread among 100000 farmers.
Perhaps the last piece of legislation to be
introduced by Senator Edward P. Costigan of
Colorado. who has just announced that he will
not run for reelection because of failing health
is sugar bill bearing his name which is remark
able for its provisions for laborerS in the cane
and beet fields.
Few if any measures passed by Congress
have ever been comprehensive in covering
agricultural or other labor.
The bill is designed to remove legal doubt
as to AAAs sugar quotas by writing quotas into
the bill instead of leaving them to executive
discretion and to supplement Soil Conservation
payments of about 1912 cents hundred poudS
by an additional maximum of 37i9 cents
Payments would be conditional on maximum
working hours and minimum wages to be set by
the secretary of agriculture. employment of
children under IA, an eight-hour day for chill
dren between IA and 16 and the growing of
enough cane or bects to meet allotmentS but
not exceed them. in order to have a continuous
supply of sugar at prices fair to producers and
consumers
Settlement with laborers must be made
before payments are received and labor disputes
would have to be submitted to the secretary.
These provisios apply for Puerto Rico, Hawaii,
and continental United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
Oh .SC.f
p says
FRANK WATANABE
j b4s> Ed HOLDEN

WHY
Last week were Easter. On
Easter morning l start think
ing. L. $. have great pride to
saw il are a Christian Nation.
But how Christian? Catholic
are teaching one way Meth
Odists say something else
Episcopal arc different from
both 4 Square Gospel
Lutherans Christian Bap-
tist Brotherhood 1t arc
all for Goodness sake alright .
hut please considering a humble
japanese boy trying to enter
The Door Of Christianity
which way will he going in?
How can he choosing when
they all say ii different way?
l are talking at Cne very pleas
ant Oriental young man other
day he start discussing the
religion topic he say Il do not
thinking l shall adopting The
Christian belief till they decide
what it is" Believe it or don't
but many million Japanese
are thinking similar.
With great respectfully.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
THE KEPT PRESS"
(InyO independently

Upton Sinclair. who cut wide swath poll
ticaly in California recently is also remem-
bered for his various diatribes against the
called kept press In his book The Brass
Check" he lambasted the American press. But
his sincerity of purpose and statement can now
be doubted in view Of clause he had inserted
into a contract drawn up some time ago when
the EPIC news turned over to the End Poverty
League. According to the Los Angeles Evening
News, the clause read:
There shall not be printed or published
in said paper the EPIC News or otherwise
circulated at any time by the End Poverty
League or by any of its employees, any
matter. article cartoon. sentence or word con-
cernng the EPIC publishing company, or any
of the three natural persons to wit: Mary Craig
Sinclair. Upton Sinclair, Almon Heath, in nature
or character uncomplimentary, derogatory. de-
precatory recriminatory, or in citicsm dispa-
agement or diapprobation of said publishing
company or any all Of said persons"
And, who was it shouted about the kept
press and the death Of the freedom Of speech?"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
Other Editors Say
HUMAN SACRIFICES
tSt. Louis Star Timesl

The warning by Dr.. J. P. Leake of the
United States Public Health Service against
so-called vaccination against nfantile paralysis
is a strating commentary the readiness with
which some members of the medical profession
rcsh the use of both yaccines and SerumS before
there is any real knowledge of what the after
effects may be. 1t is grueSome record Dr.
Ieake cites--twelve specific case histories of
children who contracted this disease from the
supposed preventive. Some children actually
dying from it, and all suffering from it under
such circumstances as to leave no doubt Of its
origin.
What defense can any physician have in
a case like that? The twelve cases, including
what DR.. Leake says was a high rate of fatali-
ties are proof that those who recommended
vaccination and those who administered it had
insufficient data on which to base their claims
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
April 20, 1921

There has been no particular
change in the prices of alfalfa hay
during the past week, but for the
first time in many weeks there
were indications OF a return of
confidence, in fact a pronounced
Frightening up in sentiment gen
orally, which looks like the begin
ming of the revival of a normal de-
mand and better markets and busi-
ness.
Mark Rose and the Laguna
Water company will appeal from
the judgment of Judge S. M.
Marsh, enjoining the Imperial r.
rigation district from paying their
claim of $76,200 This plea will be
perfected at once by Rose attorney.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
RECORD IN REGISTRATIONS

California broke all records in
1885 when it registered 2,280,485 We
hicles of all classes. The previous
high state mark was established in
1881, when 2,145474 vehicles of all
types were recorded.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
April 20, 1916

Several auto and wagon drivers
appeared in City Recorder White
laws office this motning to an
swer to charges of breaking state
traffic laws.
There has been some trouble in
the grasshoppr fight growing from
the fact the law requires the hand
ling of certain poisons exclusively
by pharmacists, and to assist in
the works of exterminating of
pest j. E. Davis has volunteered to
handle the poison without charge
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20

Reading this warning, the average citizen
will wonder how many other vaccines and Sc
runs, held out as preventives have fatal case
histories that never get into print, due to this
same disposition to adopt cure-allS too hastily.
The medical profession needs to clamp down on
more than vaccination for infantile paralysis.
BY another ten years all vaccinations and Sc
runs may appear as preposterous in honest
medical practice the blood-letting and pur2
ing of two hundred years ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
TEN YEARS AGO
April 20, 1926

Chief of Police OsWalt and Mayor
Bucklin, police commissioner, have
worked out an improved police
system which is certain to meet
with she approval of citizens, as it
provides better police protection
for the entire city, with only a
slight increase in cost.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20

In what subjects are newspaper
readers most interested?
No one will ever know the real an
swer, but the results of a survey just
announced by the Editor and Publisher
magazine indicate that newspaper edi-
tors devote the most space to national
affairs, followed in the order of editor
ial volume by local matters, internation-
al subjects and state problems.
This is to say that the survey of
3,206 editorials published in twelve
newspapers during two months period
revealed that AZ per cent were on ma
tional subjects, % per cent local, l3 per
cent international and 10 per cent state.
1t is assumed that the editors thought
this reflected public interest. We are
personally of the belief that the order
of Importance chiefly reflects the edi-
tors personal interests rather than the
public's.
1t was of further interest to note that
10 per cent dealt with the presidential
campaign, 5 per cent with taxation; 5
per cent with relief; per cent with
crime, and only per cent with the sub
ject of education which, with the eXcep-
tion of the Ethiopian war, ranked at
the bottom Which is an interesting in
dex of the attention given such import
ant matters.
Divided according to another stan
dard, political subjects ranked at the
heads. social matters second, and
economic matters third. This division,
more than the others, shows that editors
are more especially concerned not with
what the readers talk about SO much as
what editors believe the readers should
talk about.
By taking each newspaper separately
it becomes especially plain that either
editorial interest varies widely through
out the land or else public interest is
similarly widely diversified For exam
pie, some papers devote as much as ga
per cent of their editorials to local sub
jects Others give local matters only II
per cent concern. One famous daily de-
voted 70 per cent to national affairs
while an equally famous newspaper gave
but 22 per cent attention to national at
fairs. And to make matters all the more
complicated, a Maryland paper devoted
q per cent of its space to international
problems and a Cleveland paper only
3 per cent.
All of which leads to the observation
that if subscribers realized how evil
dences of interest assist editors in sup
plying a better editorial page, it would
be to the mutual advantage of reader
and newspaper alike.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
TOday'S HOrOscODe

Persons born on this day have a
tendency to a public life rather
than to a private one.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
Answers TO Foregoing Question

l. William Shakespeare 1854
1916, who lived at Stratford on
Avon.
2. The qualities of the mind as
shown by shape of head, bumps,
etc.
3. Things to be done, items of
business to be considered at a
meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20

tooniSt, being IN the mllllllalre III
vision Rebecca Vests next
novel is to deal with the self-con-
scious literary set in New York and
will be more fun.
How" wires a fond father from
Portland, oregon, can my son be-
come a columnist without going TO
any expenSe?"
Give him 100 yards of words and
let him go mad!
90
On the wall back of the desk oil a
Radio City executive is this frank
nlacard: when finished please de-
part uuickly!' Cecil Rhodes, en-
pire builder. would always hire men
who knew how to get people out OF
their offices in jiffy Judge Gary
once declared lingering fareWells
cost industry millions. One OF the
burlesque producers in the Columbia
theatre building had sign reading:
When you start TO go, Scram-or
you'll never get in again. James
Montgomery Flagg handles such
nuiSanceS with dispatch. When some
visitor announces We'll, l must be
going!" and beins to daWdle, he
Jumps up and goes into another
room, Slamming the door with
bang. When strangers started TO go
ir Otto Kahns office. he buzzed MS
faxed up dead phone and would say:
Just a minute, I'm not alone. But
he soon was.
And the restaurant gang isWatch-
ing to see if No. 81" clears a hurdle
that has tumbled many established
places a cropper. NO. 81" occupies
a tacky mansion in the East SOS, a
relic with high iron fence and creep
ing ivy. One of the sibylline spots
such as Foyots and VoiSin in Paris.
The sort that never die until they
are enlarged and ravaged of their
simplicity. Then they finish in quick
gallop. The owners recently knock
ed out wall and took over house
adjoining. Trade continues brisk al
ter several weeks. But the super
stitious still Wag their heads and
count customers daily. Among the
townbirdS chirping at No. 81 are
Robert Benchley, George e a n
Nathan, Haywood Broun, Miriam
Hopkins. Sheila Barrett, Lois Long,
Dorothy Parker and similar minds
in sophisticated scour,
90
The happiest fellow I've run into
since steel blahed was a cheerful
dropper-in today. For months he
has been worried now and then
about a feathery tracing of shadows
over his eyes when he looked up.
He sought specialists and changed
glasses three times to no avail. Last
evening he fell asleep in Lombardy
hotel barber chair and awakened to
discover his eye trouble had vanish
ed. Explanation: He had shaggy
eyebrows and the barber trimmed
them while he dozed J. S. This is
not a MesSmore Kendall or Lee Oh
we'll release.
At the Hugh Murrays pent house
one night I sat up until long after
bedtime talking to Scotti, the oper-
attic tenor, whose death some weeks
ago struck sadness. l knew little
about music and he was little in
terested in writing but We hit upon
topic of mutual interest-food.
He was a gourmet and described
dishes of exquisite blending and
cuisine in many parts of the world.
But on our way home I invieglcd
him away before stack of butter
cakes and two in the dark" And
he did not do badly with them eth
er.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
NEW YORK
DAY by DAY
By O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, April 20-Diary:
Out in as sunny a glare as I ever be-
held outside San Diego. And near
Scribner'S a constable gave me a
busting off for jay-walking. Then
sat with Ewing Galloway in plummy
palaVer over two-year- old Kentucky
hams grits, turnip green's and hot
likker
Home and wrote a long letter TO
Irwin Cobb. the new motion picture
star. and packing autographed books
to freight to Ohio. And came a pic
ture from Dean Cornwell with an
inscribed sentiment that touched
them nightly. Then to Margaret
PembertonS tea to the London star,
Gilda Varesi.
Dined with my lady at Papa Mon
etas talking a moment to Marshall
Neilan. who has become an authors
agent. And ambling through China
town past Irving Berlin's old stand
and back to my lodgings where
Floyd Gibbons and Dean Ackerman
of Columbia had called. So realing
Tom Sawyer" for the steenth time.
Manhattans most astonishingly
lacquered newSpaperman, topping
even the silk stockinged fabalist
Richard Harding Davis and extra
spruce George Buchanan Fife, was
Algernon St. John Brenon, who out
bonned the bon-tons in the Rennold
Wolf days on the Morning Tele-
graph. They still recall the time
Pierre Lott arrived in America and
sent for the press. There was no
Interpreter and Lott in fantasy Of his
fabulous faugue professed to speak
only French and that in faint whiS-
per. Brenon arrived late like mus
iCal comedy prince in afternoon togS,
high hat, boutonniere and all. He
took entire charge and in French as
voluble as his English shot question
after question. AS the ScribeS troop
ed cut David Wallace heard Lott
make sarcastic remarks in perfect
English about the proceedings. And
NJ. Loti-rouged cheeks, stained
nails and all-get magnificent kid
ding in the papers next day.
90
George AIDE is in the last lap of
his Looking Back from TO- articles
which many believe will attain an
autobiographical altitude in Ameri-
can letters. Ade was the first col
umnist and the only one l know to
become a millionaire and landed
gentlemen although his fortune
came chiefly rom play royalties.
Another autobiography which makes
publishers eXpectant is that of Ed
Howe, of Kansas. He has only slight
vision now but wants to go on with
his memoirs. His problem is to
larn 10 dictate. That must come
hard in the sos.
Personal nomination for a most
exciting impersonation among the
mimics-Norma Terris's of Helen
Hayes as Queen Victoria.
90
One of the few public events
where J. p. Morgan moves about
without body guards and with no
fear of usual brash overtures toward
celebrity is at the annual flower
show at Grand Central Palace. He
is a devoted horticulturist and not
only attends each days sessions but
always wins several prizes. He is
especially adept growing iris, violets.
amarVllis and freesias Every morn
ing and evening at his Glen Cove
estate he stroils for minutes among
his posies. These are contemplation
lnterludes. and servants have learn
ed must under no circumstance be
interrupted.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
Correctly Speaking
Words of WiSdon

He only is a Well-made man Who
has a good determinations -Emer-
son.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
IN WHAT SUBJECTS ARE
you MOST INTERESTED?

A newspaper surrey indicates that
most editorials are on subjects ia
IUhich readers are probably the least
mfereSted-IOhich isn't HeIUS to the
readers.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20

George Whites fisticuffS with
Rudy Vallee back stage recently
prove again the doughty producer
is the scrappiest of his guild. A
bantam with sharp spurs When he
is crossed, he lets fly with gusto, a
throW-back to the rough and tum-
bling days when he was known along
Broadway as swiftly, the messenger
boy!' There was that memorable
premiere of his revnue several years
ago, when as the lobby thronged
with fashionables, White and Lew
Brown stood toe to toe in one of the
most reckless slu tests ever seen cut
side Madison Square Garden.
Baatelles: H. T Webster, when
travelling, registers from TomahaWk,
Wis. -. Al Jolson is reputed to have
almost his entire fortune in safety
vault cash Ernest Hemingway
is a pie-for- breakfast eater
Arthur Hopkins was once a police
reporter in Cleveland Robert
Ripley is the richest American car
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
GRAB BAG

What playwright and poet is call
cd The Bard of Avon?
With what does phrenolo2y deal?
What is mean by the word
"agenda"?
Correctly Speaking
Pertaining and appertaining are
Interchangeable in meaning.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20
Famous Sayings

Falsehood and fraud grow up in every soil the
product of all climes,-Addison
War loves to seek its victims in the young
-SophoceS.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20

toonist, being in the millinaire di-
vision Rebecca Vests next
novel is to deal with the self-con-
scious literary set in New York and
will be more fun.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20

Personal nomination for a most
exciting impersonation among the
Terris's of Helen
Hayes as Queen Victoria
Imperial Valley press., 1936-04-20

WASHINGTON "Bigness" in agriculture
is still far from possibility of comparison with
'bgness" in industry. The trend, however, is in
that direction
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-24

She wants to act-OE, so bad and to einote as shown above, but wistful Marie Wilson gets only dumb blond" roles and light parts, such as one from 2 recent picture, in which she wrestles with q huge bass fiddle,
 as shown at left.
 screen play, decided Miss Wilson had promise and put her under personal contract. She got paid but had nothing to do. Finally she asked for a release, and got it. A Break at Last
 She and Michael Whalen were friends. Both had taken elo- cution lessons, on credie, from tht same teacher. They teamed up tt storm the gates of 2Oth Century. Fox. Whalen got 8 job, but Mis- Wilson didn't. On the way back from Fox Hills they ran out ol gas.
 Things began to break, though Paramount offered a contract, War. ner Brothers were interested.
 She went to Warmers on thu strength of 8 comedy screen test she had made. She wrote thu script for the test. It was about 2 dumb blonde applying for a job Miss Wilson wishes now that shi had done a scene from Camille.