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Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14
News Behind the News
The President As An Optinist . /.
Soft Pedal On The Hard Tongue . g.
f. ID. X. Thinks II Unnecessary

WASHINGTON. - When President Roosevelt
refers to the election as in the bag, that's
what he believes.
The presidents nquenchable optimism is 50
pronounced among his characteristics that this
self-assurance is hardly to be recommended as
a tip to gamblers. Il does, however, provide
the key 10 one of the chief phases of New Deal
campaign strategy as laid down by F. D. r. him
self.
He has insisted that Democrats must not
embark on a slambang, bitter harsh -tongued
attack Some Of his advisers have argued heat
edly with him about this, stressing the need or
their own personal desr to take the hide off"
Governor Landon and other opposition leaders.
But Roosevelt, confident that he can afford
TO avoid that sort Of thing, insists that he is
most of all desirious of having as little bad
feeling in the country after the election as IS
possible
The president-and this goes for many other
New Dealers-is said to fear that the nation
cism The more bitterness and class haired now
stirred up, he is reported to feel, the harder il
viii be TO combat that threat.
Political researchers have found that the ex-
preston "the American way" which is being
plugged heavily i'm this campaign, first
used by Henry Clay wnen he unsuccess-
fully as the Whig candidate against James
X Polk i'm 1874.
Your correspondent GETS inside tips even
from the camp-or perhaps one should say the
tent--of the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, who is
campaigning ostensibly for Lemke, but prinar-
lily Tor the future power and glory OF the Rev.
Gerald L. K Smith.
Gerald's pals whisper that he IS going to
tell alln at a mass meeting al the Hippodrome
ia New York the night OF Oct 20 They say
that he has the late Huey Longs secret files and
that he viii drag therefrom some hot dope con-
Cerning Jim Farley, the real story" Of Jimmy
Roosevelts insurance business operations, and
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14
THE SALTON SEA
As RECREATION CENTER

Now that the annual summer week
end caravans to Pacific coast beaches
and to mountain resorts is thinning to
a small trickle Of busness-bound auto
mobiles, and coats, neckties and the
other habilinents of winter are making
occasional appearances, 1t is high time
for Imperial Valley to think once again
of developing its own recreatiOnal areas.
Among these, none stands out so sharp
ly as the Salton Sea-and few have been
SO under-developed.
Ell Centro and other south-end COM
munities should offer every ounce of
cooperation to the communities of north
ern Imperial Valley in developing this
great natural resource for pleasure,
whether the cooperation involves roads,
beaches, buildings or boating. The Sal
ton Sea IS not an asset confined to one
small community. 1t Is an asset for
the great community of all Imperial
Valley
The first steps have been taken al
ready. The Salton Sea Is known now
wherever outboard racing enthusiasts
gather; but, to crib from the politicians,
this is distinctly class legislation. The
next step will be establishment OF VIM
ter beaches, and of boating facilities
for the common man and woman. Doubt
less there will be dining and dancing re-
sorts spring up on the shores of the
Salton Sea, once it has been popularized
as a resort area. 1t may be, even, that
the region may become an outstanding
rival of Palm Springs as resort for
the wealthy. Certain it is that there
are more inducements for pleasure on
the sea than at Palm Springs.
Development may begin in small
way, to be sure, but it certainly should
begin without delay.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14
The Republican Viewpoint
EDITED BY
The Republican County Central
Committee

In the West where the drought has been
only one Of many serious problems that crease
the brows of farmers and stockmen, business
is disturbed by the flow Of foreign food prod
ucts into the United States. The door has
been opened without "knock-knock" Carloads
of cheese. butter, wheat, corn, and hogs roll
in from overseas or from Canada. At the same
time shipments Of American farm products to
foreign markets have dWindled. The loss is
double, representing a decline in trade at home
and in export business This has decidedly
caused a loss to the purchasing power Of the
American farmer loss to the trade from whom
the farmer buys, and a loss to the laboring man.
The New Deal Farm Legislation and Recipro-
cal Trade Agreements have taken the American
farmr out of the foreign market and put the
foreign farmer in the American market In the
following tabulation, the word Bought ind-
Gates purchases from foreign markets, and the
word Sold" indicates farm products sold to
foreign countries. These government figures
show what has happened to the American farm
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

WE. THE UNDERSIGNED, do
hereby certify that we are asso-
ciated together and transacting
business in the State of California
and in the County of Imperial, un-
der the firm name and style OF
GEORGE w. CONDON COM
PANY" Of Omaha, Nebraska.
That the full names Of all the
members of said firm are George
w. Condor, Chester w. Cunning
ham. Wilbur C. Cole, Arthur H.
Carley, and Alfred w. Gaines; and
that the places of our respective
residences are set opposite our re-
spective names hereunto subscribed.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we
have hereunto set our hands this
18th day OF September, 1886.
GEORGE w. CONDOR, Omaha,
Nebraska.
CHESTER W. CUNNINGHAM,
Omaha, Nebraska.
WILBUR c. COLE, Yuma, Ari-
IONA.
ARTHUR H. CARLEY, Omaha,
Nebraska.
ALFRED w. GAINES, Omaha
Nebraska.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14

tinctive tenderness for them, as
members of Audubon societies well
know. Birds will sight a feeder in
the parks-as the gull sights a
liner at sea before binoculars do.
and flock out to meet him or her.
am told that when the original
Miss Pope went into the public
squares or parks the birds some
how singled her out and -bobbed
along in her wake. Clemenceau
loved birds, and strange specimens,
including a crow with one snow
white wing, came to nest at his
exile. Leonard Merrick was a mag
net for strange pigeons that came
up to him without fear.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14
Imperial Valley Press
Oahu.

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urday afternoon issue now sue
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ter.
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Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14

Since Harold Ross finally flat
tened his bristly pompadour - the
one Dorothy Parker wanted to wade
through barefoot-no one has had
more trouble with unruly locks
than Quentin Reynolds, the sports
writer. He has mop of curly hair,
and no matter how carefully he
tries to plaster it down, on an
evening he is all dressed up like
anything it will pop up la Jack
in the box. Boo! He is a Brook
lyn boy who lives with Deems Tay-
lor in Connecticut in the summer
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14

Proposition No. 2 on the November
ballot would have the effect, first, OF
repeating the existing state income tax,
passed by the 1885 legislature. 1t would
make it necessary, next, for any other
income tax legislation to be approved
by the voters, directly. In other words,
the legislature would no longer have the
power to tax personal incomes.
The present state income tax is based
on a sliding scale upward from incomes
of S250O annually for married persons
and $1,000 annually for single persons.
1t was first passed by the state legisla-
ture in 1888, met with pocket veto
by Governor James Rolph, and adopted
in 1885 by the legislature.
Proponents Of the measure argue that
it will result in governmental savings
because it will make budget slashing
necessary in state government. They
are perpetual optimists, overlooking the
fact that some other form of taxation,
in all probability, will be found to take
up the burden if the income tax is re-
pealed. Some other form of taxation
would more than likely hit directly at
those who are less able to pay.
Above all, enactment of this amend
ment would create a cumbersome situa-
ton in which any changes in income
tax legislation, regardless of how awk-
ward that legislation might be, would
have to be referred to a vOte-an IN
volved procedure and one productive OF
abuse.
VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION NO. ?.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14

other revelations or sensational nature
There's no DOUBT that the Rev Mr.. Smith
will try very hard But if he produces any
new facts which cause more than tiny ripple
in the campaign, he will be surprising all his
previous efforts which invariably have been
on the wild side
Nobody knows yet who viii be the next
secretary Of war, although many are guessing
Three possibilities are General Johnson, Gov.
Paul McNutt Of Indiana and Acting Secretary
Harry Woodring of Kansas. But it is easy
to cite reasons why none of them will get the
job. Of Landon is elected Of course, the post
will go TO a Republican,
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
CnTrNTV OF IMPERIAL


On this 29th day of September,
1886, before me, Virginia Finney, d
Notary Public in and for said
County, personally appeared WILL
BUR G. COLE, known TO me to be
the person whose name is subscrib-
ed to the within instrument, and
acknowledged that he executed the
same.
WITNESS my hand and official
seal.
VIRGINIA FINNEY,
Notary Public IN and for the Coun-
ty of Imperial, State of California.
fSEAL)
MY Commission Expires May 3,
1910.
(S30-O7l4,21,28)
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STATE OF NEBRASKA }
COUNTY OF DOUGLASS SIS.


On this 25th day of September,
1895, before me, Fred B. Schultz,
Notary Public in and for said
County. person ally appeared
GEORGE w. CONDON, CHESTER
w. CUNNINGHAM, ARTHUR H.
CARLEY, AND ALFRED W..
GAINES, known to me to be the
persons whose names are sub
scribed TO the within Instrument,
and acknowledged that they eXecut-
ed the same.
Witness my hand and official
seal.
FRED B. SCHULTZ,
Notary Public in and for the Coun-
ty Of Douglas, State of Nebraska.
fSEAL
My Commission Expires Feb. 10,
1941.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14
it had lain in Zeitlin's safe.

1t had lam IN ZeltllnS SAFE.
90
I used to see him, venerable
-blouSed chasseur with an Ole
Bill mustache, hailing taXis and
running inglorious errands for pa
irons of the Opera Comique and
Poccardi's mirrored cafe across the
way One remembers because he
was SO sweepingly magnificent in
bowling and murmuring mercis for
tips, On a bench along an upper
Broadway mail the other day I
spotted him, summing himself with
two ginghamy rose-buds; grand
children, one presumed. Passing l
smiled amp said: "Paree-Opera
Comique!" He replied with one
of those over-done Willie Howard
shrugs; "Paree-Jamais plus! Paree
est mort!"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre
ByWiiian1s

llan in speaking of recent &C
colade he received in print, con-
cludes: And now all the echolaud
boys will be coming along with a
Me tool" Echolaud is by way OF
being a honey.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14
GRAB BAG
One-Minute Test

One-Minute Test
l. To what are machine guns
synchronized in fighting planes?
2. In law, what is prima-facie
evidence?
3. On what island is Honolulu
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14
Today's Horoscope

Ou"y hoioSSoPC
Persons born on this day may
want to have their own way and
generally succeed in having it. Peo-
pie yield to them through conf
dence in their integrity and judg-
ment.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14

Two powerful intIuenceS nave. been az Work
to affect our agricultural trade. One was the
disastrous combination of drought and AAA
crop reduction; the other has been the reciprO
cal trade program carried out by Secretary
Hull with the aid Of the Presidents power TO
cut any tariff rate as much as so Per cent.
Fourteen trade pacts signed under the New
Deal with foreign countries since August, 1884,
have cut our tariff duties on fruits, dairy prod
ucts, vegetables, poultry fish, and cattle. S2cre-
tary Hull said few weeks ago that this tariff
cutting program was serving TO regain foreign
markets TO the distinct benefit of American
agriculture" He cannot have had time to see
the figures.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14

I notice the long-established Vir-
einia Pope bird hospital is now To-
Gated in my old neighborhood IN
West 72d street. For many years
it has applied splints to broken legs
and wings of canaries, love birds
and the like and treated various
ailments of cockatoos, parrots and
such. Now and then some Good
Samaritan finds a sparrow that fell
along the streets and carries it to
Miss Pope's to be hospitalized and
for which he gladly pays the fee.
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Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14

l. The propeller blades.
2. Such evidence which, if un-
contradicted, would warrant a YER
dict.
3. Oahu.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14
PROPOSITIONS ON THE
NOVEMREP Bird BALLOT

California voters, going TO the polls Nov $,
will be asked to vote "yes'' or mo" on -
propositjons numbered from two to "a. NO. 1
was ruled off the ballot by the state supreme
court. The Post-Press advises close studg by
its readers of the proposed amendments, so
they may reach their own conclusions. Mean
while. this paper will, from oay 10 DAY,
attemnt To summarize the amendments and
rive its own recommendations.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14
situated?
Hints on Etiquette
PICKPOCKETS

When serving meals in home,
the maid should walk around the
table to the right at all times.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14
Thought for the Day

For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit:
neither doth corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
st. Luke 6:43
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14
Words Of Wisdom
One-NTinute Test Answers

Hope not for impossibilities. =
Fuller.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14

There's strange understanding
among birds for those with dis
Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-14

Add word coinage: Strickland Gil
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-20
AND VICE VERSA

TNHOMAS JEFFERSON shocked and alarmed
when the party of Alexander Hamilton, in office
and responsible for the state of the nation, decided
the Constitution was broad enough to permit estab-
lishment of national bank.
A few years later jefferson, in office and respon-
sble. decided the Constitution broad enough to
let him purchase the Louisiana Territory though it
made no mention of such powers Hamlton's fol-
lowers upset this and other infringe
ment of state rights" that they began talking, in
New England, of secession from the Union.
When the second bank of the United States was
being established by the party of Jefferson, Daniel
Webster of Massachusetts denouncing national
ism and shouting for state sovereignty. John G.
Calhoun of South Carolina was advocating broad
construction of the Constitution.
Twenty years later Webster was the greatest ad-
vocate of natonasm the United States had
at that time and Calhoun extreme in his support
of state rights.
The Democratic Party, in power in the years be-
fore the Civil War, found one justification after
other for adding to the territory of the United
States, though words in the Constitution permit
ted this Nor was there any sanction for internal
improvements, yet jefferson Davis himself as Secre
tary of War under Pierce, proposed construction of
southern transcontinental railroad
DEMOCRATS had been aSsailing the Supreme
- Court as usurper of constitutional powers
until 1t handed down the bred Scott decision. Then
Stephen A. Douglas began denouncing any who
attacked the court and Abraham Lincoln began say
ing that this decision must not stand.
After the Civil War it was Republicans who CEN
tralized and Democrats who viewed with alarm until
Cleveland became President He helped put the
Interstate Commerce Act on the statute books and
sent Federal troops to quell the Pullman strike while
a Republican governor shouted his protest.
Roosevelt the first took broad view of the Con-
stitution and Democrats once more on the outside,
howled about unconstitutionality, usurpation of
functions and the danger of tyranny
But very thereafter Woodrow Wilson be-
came President and fathered whole brood of laws
extending the power of the Federal government
commerce. Republican outrage silent only dur
ing the war; BY 1920 that party's platform
talking about the "Despot's plea of necessity
superior wisdom"
Then for IL years, while the Republicans were in
and the Capitalization trend continued. the Demo-
Gratis again viewed with alarm.
And now, as we go into the fourth year of Demo-
cratic ncumbency, hear the Republicans talking
as Democrats used to falkland vice versa. But
the outs saying the same thing "outs" always
have said-and the "inS" likewise.
All OF which suggests that the voter who reads
history will not get too upset by 1886 campaign
alarms or by what is likely to happen to the Con-
sttution.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-20
CATHOLICS AND CHILD LABOR

OF great significance to the proposed Federal
~ Child Labor Amendment is the new Catholic
Committee for Ratification headed by the dis
tinguished Catholic layman Frank P. Walsh, and
including many distinguished Catholics of the ma
ton.
Mr.. Walsh and his associates declare themselves
distressed that selfish industrial interests, wanting
to exploit children are convincing large numbers
of Catholics, many of influence, that the word
labor" in the amendment would be stretched to
mental toll" in education, opening the way
to Federal control of the education of the nations
children.
The committee. Mr.. Walsh declares, is certain
that no lawyer could successfully champion such a
far-fetched pretense or trick. He cites the late
Senator Walsh of Montana, Catholic, who said that
authority we'll impels to the conclusion
that such fears without foundation"
Mr. Walsh, committee chairman continues: "a
study of the history of the amendment and it's draft
ing leaves doubt in minds to the sincerity
of its proponents the for the specific
phraseology."
The campaign of deliberate twisting of fact, he
believes in good part responsible for the fact that
the IL states yet required for national ratification
are holding back
Meantime, with NT2A protection gone, factories
and sweatshops conscripting tens of thousands
of children for the places of grownups and parents,
curtaling national spending power toward recovery
by the smaller pay the children get.
Mr. Walsh and his influential associates should
be able to turn great numbers of deceived citizens
to the support of this economically indispensable
measure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-20

accomplished few years later by American youth
working in an improvised laboratory in the wood
shed behind his home in a little Ohio town.
1t vas on Feb. %, 1886, that Charles Martin Hall
made his great discovery. The preceding June he
had graduated from Oberlin College. The son of a
Congregational minister, had taken the classical
course. studying Latin and Greek.
But he had ESQ studied chemistry and habtually
spent his spare time in the woodshed laboratory.
Mr. Hall made use of the electric current to solve
the problem. In the Hall process, aluminium
compound known as cryolite is first introduced into
the furnace When the passage of the electric cur
rent has melted this, oxide of aluminium is then
added.
Statistics Tell the story of Mr.. Halls success.
Aluminium today sells for approximately 20 cents a
pound. In 1886, tire year that Mr.. Hall made his
discovery, the world production of aluminium was
exactly Is metric tons In 1929 the production of
aluminium attained its all-time high of 281 els
metric tons. Present indications however are that
the figure for 1886 will be still larger.
Mr.. Hall died in 1914 an inventor who had won
both fame and fortune from his invention
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-20
CHARLES MARTIN HALL

THE memory of 22-year-old college boy who
Il helped make the modern world what it is, was
honored Monday night by leading industrialists and
scientists gathered in New York
The dinner. given by the Electrochemical So
ciey celebrated the ftieth anniversary of Charles
Martin Halls discovery of the electrolytc process for
manufacture of aluminium.
Aluminium is the most abundant of all the metals
present in the crust of the earth, but difficult
the removal of the metal from its ores that 100
years ago aluminium sold for $500 pound and was
used for the manufacture of jewery
Napoleon III commissioned Henri Devile, a
French chemist to tackle the aluminium problem and
by 1859 Deville had developed process which
brought the price of aluminium down to SIT pound.
But what the French chemist had failed to ac-
cornpnsh with the backing OF his emperor was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-20
THE GREAT WHATISIT

THE Liberty League rises to deny it is a lobby,
IL and advises its members to refuse to answer any
questions put to them by the Senate Lobby Com
nittee to the source and of league funds.
Which raises the query: What, then is the Liberty
League?
1t isn't the United States Supreme Court al
though it's lawyers committee has sent out advice
to the country to ignore the Wagner Labor, Guffey
Coal and other duly passed acts of Congress.
1t isn't the Republican Party. Chairman Henry
Fletcher says there isn't any connection between the
G. o. P. and the league, although he welcomes "the
help of any God-fearing citizens
1t isn't new research foundation like those en-
dowed by Rockefeller and Carnegie, although the
House of Pont fortune bulks large in contributions
to its support-$23 500 in gifts and $12975O in loans
for 1885.
1t isn't an eeemosynary institution. Nor haber-
dashery for supplying shirt fronts and tophats. Nor
a fish and game club.
Unless it sees fit to clear up the mystery or the
Black Committee sees fit to subpoena its members in
the interest of the truth the league says it loves,
we suppose the country will have to call this side
show what the late Barnum named one of his, the
Great Whatisit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-20
THE TAKE OF TWO CITIES

|INHE recent Liggett murder in Minneapolis and
the Shoemaker murder III Tampa remind
Americans that the forces of civic decency not
sleep
The story of Minneapolis has been told, and that
of Tampa is now being published in series in this
newspaper by David E Smiley, editor of The Tampa
Daily Times 1t is the story of the ogging of three
political reformers and the killing of by tor
ture for a political clique. Under indictment
for murder, kidnapping and assault are II men, in
Guiding Tampas ex-police chief and six policemen.
Ku-Klux Klanism, red batting and the sort of pa
triotism that Samuel Johnson called the last refuge
of a scoundrel" appear to be elements in the out
rage. But behind these is the thing familiar in so
many cities
There is just one answer writes editor Smiley.
Rotten politics Crooked, dirty, corrupt politics
That and nothing else"
1t matters lot to Minneapolis and Tampa that
their evil messes are cleaned up not only by convic
ton and heavy punishments for the criminals, but
by reform of their election systems and Danish
ment of the political crooks that have run their af
fairs. And it matters to America. What Lincoln
Stefens called The Shame of the Citiesp-the cor
rupt alliance OF their governments with vice, gam
bling utilities and other favor-seeking interests-has
not disappeared.