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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-28


election about months beh:rd, the
newly-eleeted members begin to
function next week, thus bringing
the framework of the govern
ment into more responsive touch
with popular opinion.
Uncomfortable as it seemed last
year the rev Congress will be
more for the New Deal than ever,
the Democrats having added to
their top-heavy majorities. The
President, 'leader of his party and
probably holding the future fate
of maay members in his hands,
will likely experience little real
difficulty in securing mis- program.
Naturally, there will be debate
and discussion, With some recall
citrancy here and there. but, in
the main the election is too close
at hand and the members of his
party will not care to be put on
the record against him.
We do not look for anything
radical at the approaching ses-
sion. More likely the trend will
be the other way, with the gov
eminent being realigned along
more normal lines. TINS does not
mean, however, that the President
will be shorn OF power for the
chances are that he will continue
to exercise predominanting control
of legislation and enlarged execu'
tive authority for years. Mr.
Roosevelt has not changed; the
general trend of his policies al
though he vii not appear, at
times, to be headed in the same
general direction as before. This
will be due to changed conditions,
requiring new approaches in new
directions, rather than any altera-
ton of the general course of the
Administration during the past
few years.
What is an evidence of this is
to be seen in the various moves
now being made to prevent a
credit boom. When the President
took office his objective was to
build up the credit facilities of the
country. Today, apparently it is
to restrict the credit facilities,
There is no contradiction. Back
of both manoeuvres, that of in
flation and the present braking of
credit, is the effort to secure sta
bic currency, to set the monetary
level at just figure and keep it
there. At times this may require
initiation, at other times something
like a lid and that is what we see
taking place.
Last week, for example, the
treasury Department stepped in
to stem the flow Of gold into bank
credits. announcing a decision to
buy miners metal and imports of
god with borrowed money. This
] viii sterilize the gold and not al
low it to become . basis for new
bank credits through the Federal
Reserve System. The technical OPP
Grafton of the plan will not be un-
dertakep, but it is in line with the
recently explained increase in re-
serve requirements and designed
to prevent the piling up of excess
sive credit reserves in the banks.
The danger of an uncomfortable
boom is being tackled immediate
" but should conditions arise to
require larger credit facilities the
operation win be repeated II re-
verse. While they are entirely diff
ferelt both transactions are de-
signed for the same purpose, to
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-28

On Friday of this week the ma
tions of the world begin what
looks like the most formidable
naval building race that the world
has witnessed since the German
Government challenged Great
Brita:n's supremacy on the seas
with an ambitious pre-war dread
naught program. The London Ma
val Treaty expires on the 31st day
of December, thus removing the
ban on battleships which has pre-
vented such construction on the
part of leading powers since 1922.
According to james Fighting
Ships, authoritative naval year
book, Japan is planning four 3d.
000-ton battleships, Great Britain
and the United States two each,
Italy is building two, and Germany
and France are each building one
and planning another. Heavier
aamamepts, thicker armor and
greater speed are expected when
the big ships take the ocean in
1910.
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-28

Some few opinions on what is
apt to occur at the new session of
Congress indicate that the Presi-
dent will not ask new taxes other
than the renewal of most of the
nuisance" taxes and manufac-
turers' excuses which expire next
June unless renewed by legisla-
ton, that he will seek extension
of the RFC for at least another
year, that he will ask continuance
of the huge $4,000, 100000 stab
ilization fund and the power to
devalue the dollar within the linn
its set out by Congress and that
he is willing to consider changes
in the new undistributed corpora
ton profits tax to aid growing
and debt-ridden business but with
out impairing the general pur-
poses of the new levy. These are
matters that are certain to require
positive action but there are 9TH
ers, such as relief, governmental
reorganization, housing, farm aid,
farm tenancy, business regulation
and amendments to the Social Sc
curity Act which will be proposed
by its friends and supporters
rather than its opponents
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-12-28

The naval handbook, issued an
nually in Great Britain, reviews
present construction and asserts
Great Britain is leading with 9!
,warships underway or planned
the United States is next with 80
Italy is third with Sc, France fol
lows with AZ, Germany 80 and ia
pan SO, Soviet Russ:a's program
was not available, according tt
the editors, who are inclined tt
discount Bolshevistic boasting al
to a new navy, asserting thai
there has been grounds for sus
pecting some exaggeration." Mo-
since the great war has such
quantity of new tonnage been un'
derway.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03
REFINANCING AS
AS INSURANCE FOR THE FUTURE

The Imperial Irrigation District board
of directors by a vote of four to one
has asked the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation for loan of $12, 102,612,72
to finance purchase by the district of
its own outstanding bonds at 80 cents
on the dollar. In addition, loan of
S1,95O,000 is asked to complete the dis
trict's drainage and rehabilitation pro-
gram, an integral part of any method
used to place the district on sound
financial basis.
If politics were divorced from district
operation, there would be an absolute
lack of opposition to the request. Refi-
nancing is not merely a desirable move;
it is a necessary one. Every resident OF
Imperial Valley must remember one
thing: that failure of the financing pro-
gram would not harm only the board of
directors of the district-it would reach
into every pocketbook in the valley to
take its toll 1t is to the individual in
terest of every man and woman in the
valley TO support the proposed program.
There has been a lot of talk, largely
of political or selfish origin, about an
increased district assessment rate next
year. 1t is all based on consideration of
present obligations without considera-
tion of any refinancing proposal. There
what next years assessment rate will
be until the refinancing program has
been approved. Those who attempt to
do so-and several have-are placing
themselves in a position of doubtful in
tegrity, generated by the fact that their
prognostications come at time when
a district election is only a matter of
weeks away. Still, there may be no con-
nection.
It must be remembered that this re-
financing program was made necessary
years ago. 1t is not move by the pres
ent district personnel to correct de-
feet for which they are responsible. 1t
is a move to correct a situation made
when other hands were at the controls.
If the refinancing program failed, and
next years assessment rate were raised,
it would be rate which might as well
have been fixed for 1898 by the dis
trict board of many seasons ago.
In the light of present need, there is
only one thing for Imperial Valley to
do. That is to obtain approval of the
districts refinancing program at the
earliest possible moment.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03

Officials of the U. S. weather
Bureau hate to do any long-range
forecasting. but the other day they
did break down and admit that we
seem to be in for an old-fashioned
"earmuff" winter.
This, they fastened to point out,
was only a guess, but it is the best
guess available and it looks like a
very good one. -,
And or a guess like that we ought
to be thankful. For an earmuft
winter is part of those good old
days to which we are so anxious
to get back. If we could get a
good taste of one, we might be
able to pretend that this puzzling,
citified, chromium plated modern
world of ours had actually gone
back to a simpler and easier man.
ner of living.
To make it complete, of course,
we would need a law or resettle-
ment administration or something
to enable everyone in the land to
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03
WHEN CHILDREN'S LIVES
APE At GTAKE

The last few weeks have been marked
too often by official reports of rabld
dogs at large in valley cities. Only We'd
nesdav the teachers of Harding school
in Ell Centro refused to allow their pu-
pills out of the building until mad dog
in the vicinity had been hunted down
and captured by officials. The teachers
deserve praise for their presence OF
mind. Somewhere in official ranks there
is someone who deserves the opposite.
An FL Centre city ordinance, provid-
ing for the licensing Of all dogs, PROVIDES
also for their incubation against rabies.
If ever there was an ordinance Whlch
should be enforced to the letter, this IS
il. If it is not enforceable, as some con-
tend. then it should be amended Dogs
not licensed or inoculated should be I'M
bounded Immediately in some safe place
provided for the purpose. There is no
such place now, an oversight Wnlcn
should be remedied Immediately.
If the pupils at Harding school had
been on the school grounds, and II the
mad dog had run wild among them,
MANY would have suffered. The maxi
mum cost of the Pasteur treatment, even
If administered free, is more than $500,
and it is an acutely painful treatment.
This is something for parents to think
about. -,
II is up to city councils, health officers
and city and county officials to see that
the menace of rabies is checked before
tragedy enters the picture, and 1t is to
the interest of everyone to see that they
do so.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Old Fashioned Winter Has It's Compensations

take advantage of it. SouthernerSn
don't get earmuff winters-thougl1
they have manifold compensationSS
for the Lakeland city folk get
cheated out of winters enjoyment.
But we can't have everything, and
or what we do get we should be
grateful.
1t is a funny thing, how we shy
away from winters. We remember
the agony of getting out of bed
in an Arctic temperature, the sting
ing pain of frost-nipped feet, the
slush and the horrible, dead-gray,
dirt-and-snow mixture that fills
the city streets, and announce that
we could get along forever without
any more of it. But winter-espe-
cially in the country-is great
institution.
1t is infinitely beautiful to look
at, for one thing. Fields and hills
are transformed by their rolling
white blanket; leafless plots of
woodland stand out with the clear
cut tracery of lines ON a Japanese
print; all the harsh angles of things
are rounded off; the litter and the
needless ugliness with which man
surrounds his dwellings are cover
ed, and there is sparkle and a
glitter to the land which suggests
that the world was made only day
before yesterday. &
Then, for the cold and the shiv-
ers, there are compensations. Get
ting out of bed on a cold morning
may be painful-but what about
getting into bed on cold winter
night? What about relaxing in
chair before the fire in the evening,
and being ineffably snug and cozy
while a blizzard howls outside?
What about sitting down to
breakfast of buckwheat cakes and
sausage which can be eaten with
clear conscience because of the
zero weather? Are these nothing?
We need not mention the things
the youngsters can do-the coast
ing, the skating, the skiing, the
, tunneling through drifts, the sleigh
riding. We can touch but briefly
on the beauty of winter nights,
with great stars overhead and the
packed snow creaking underfoot.
These things are merely added
compensations.
An old-fashioned earmuff winter.
says the weather bureau? Well,
there are worse things.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03
News Behind the News
Who KnOUs Where the Platform is..
Nobody EDer Mentions 1T One more
Forgotten Phrase

wASHINGTON-In all the heavy specua-
ton as to what the next four years OF hooseVeiv
administration may bring forth, You rarely nea.
anyone mention the Democratic Paa'ioih' anu
its promising of last June
Fvervbody knows that no political party ever
entirely lives up to it's platform. NeVerlneese
this one caused the work OF the preSioenI anu
his friends who have been continued III po"ei
The platform may be considered az, az aeast at
ono,oh of a vague guide to JUSTIFY LOOKING ae
ehous e. ai, ~ sort out such relatively concrete
nromises as it contained and add TO MEM 9uG, -,
few similar promises as Rooseven iilaoe ~
campaign speeches. l., tho
Owe of the most sensational promises IN tne
,,,ncretic platform has generally been forgot
~. We will act to secure the consume,
fair value honest sales, and decreased spi.aa eau
between the price he pays ana the piioe 'A'
producer receives - .., on
..,sranted reform of the distributive system
which would hit at waste, deceit, ana eAcessto t
nrofits The administration Is pelng ussa w
create government agency which ..sa+;on mO
se on federal policies, disseminate Inoi
and conduct reseaioh al ~
erS. i
oroanized pressure groups are In oetter pos
tion to persuade the Democrats 10 % ihahe ,,ch
labor. for instance. This group 1us too r.sr-
more nourishment in the Maolson oquaie IN tro
nO aor sneech than in the platform except as tie
latter dealt with the constitutional ahiehoi'eii'
issue. ..:.,o~oa of the fight
.,o imnroye working conditions 10 Ieoucu
hours overlong to increase wages INA. 'p'i'
stsrvation to end the labor OF cnlioren ~.
~ snnnort collective bargaining to Wlpe. OUT
sweatshops." ,ho, hours are
"overlong" or wages on the starvaton ls'eu Moae
oanized labor will seek to give tne ansmei. "ass' @
s,nr and child labor legislation seems Ger
.;ntv within the next four years ana even
1reibood in the next Congress. :.
iNAe p,t the hour and wage problem Is an IN
ood one and constitutional complications are
almost inevitable.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03
MAIN STREET
Is COMING OF AGE

Among the best news items OF the
week is that telling of plans for new
$1,000 office building on Main street
in Ell Centre. With it the story carries
the indication that another well known
firm will establish a store in Ell Centro,
in quarters now occupied by the Pioneer
Title Insurance and Trust companys
which will move into the new building.
There could be no better demonstration
of faith in the future of the valley.
In the first place, an organization
which has done business here for years
is confident enough of the future to
plan and erect new building. In the
second place, statewide organization,
looking on with an outsiders business
interest, sees sufficient promise to buy
and remodel business property and to
establish store in the valleys capital
city. Both the outsider and the insider
are represented, and both are optimistic.
The new building will be an imposing
addition to the city's business structures.
The new store will add to the city's
business activity.
Truly, business is on the up grade
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03
TWENTY YEARS AGO
December 3, 1916

DR.. ]. B. Cady of the University
of California and P. L. Daugherty
of the county Farm Bureau office
returned to town today after the
adventure of being "lost" for IA
hours on the desert. Their expert
ence included night spent under
the stars and subsisting for some
time on one small can of tomato
soup.
An attempt to take short cut
across the desert shortly before
nightfall resulted in the two men
losing their way. They dug beds
in the sand and when morning
came finally found their way to
the highway. On the highway they
obtained aid to haul their car out
of the desert where it had become
stuck.
One of the regular monthly re-
citals given by the pupils of Oria
Kenah was heard last night.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03
BY HENRY SUTHERLAND
United Press Hollywood Cores
DOndent

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 8. U.R)-Met-
ro-G Goldwyn-Mayer has purchased
screen rights to Idiots Delight"
Robert Sherwood's 1896 Pulitzer
prize play, and cast Clark Gable as
chief "idoit'.'
Announcement of the buy at
once raises crop of speculation
as to how Metromen are going to
get picture out of the thing with
out alternating sensitive foreign
markets, and reveals sharply the
fact studios are starving for good
stories.
Despite it's smash caliber on
Broadway, the play was rated mo
dice" for pictures, not only because
it treads toes of filn-buying for
eign nations, but because 1t makes
heels of munitions manufacturers.
Lots of prominent citizens make
munitions, and drop-kicking big
shots is something the movies hard
ly ever do, because who knows when
it might be necessary to round up
financial backing?
Story deals with the next world
war and an oddly assorted group
of people belonging to several ma
tions thrown together over nest
of intrigue in resort hotel in the
Italian Alps. To make it suitable
for movie fodder, Metro writer's will
probably have to submerge identi-
ties of the nations, and make ref
erences to the evils of international
arms peddling so general as to be
innocuous.
Whether there'll be any story left
after that is done remains to be
seen. That the studio takes on the
thankless task at all is eloquent OF
the fact there just aren't enough
good stories available to keep name
stars occupied.
This doesn't mean few meritorious
stories are being written. A good
story according to moviemakers is
one with a ready-made buildup and
background of success, either as
a novel or play.
Idle stars hang thick as grapes
on the M-G-M payroll, and Idiots
Delight" offers almost as good an
opportunity to put them to profit
4ble work as did Grand Hotel
When the cast is complete the
names in 1t will probably knock
Nbur hat off.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03
Drinker Slugged as
He Spurns Woman

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3. WR-Mrs.
Ella Smith, 43, walked into a beer
parlor, saw Gilbert Moachon en-
joying a quiet beaker of beer, and
asked him to buy her drink. Wild
he refused, police said, she pulled
lead pipe from behind the bar.
told him he was no gentleman and
hit him on the head with the pipe.
Mrs. Smith was booked on suspicion
OF assault with deadly weapon.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03
TEN YEARS AGO
December 3, 1926

Ell Centre will be represented at
the Notre Dame-Southern Califor-
mia game Saturday as several local
residents are planning to make the
trip to the coast.
Ell Centro and vicinity was given
wetting by the first showers Of
the season at noon today. The
rainfall was sufficient to make the
streets muddy. Clouds in the sky
threaten to bring more rain in the
next twenty four hours.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03
GRAB BAG
One-Minute Test


One Minute Test
1. OF what country is Rio dc
Janeiro the capital? a
2. Name the Indian chief rdN~
sponsible for the Custer massacre.
8. When does the new U. S. So
cial security law go into effect?
Hints on Etiquette
1t isn't necessary for the hostess
to open a gift in the presence OF
the person who brought it, but it
is a nice gesture of appreciation.
Words of Wisdom
Mercy to him that shows it, is
the rule-Cowper
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Today's Horoscope
If your birthday Is today, you
may be fond of fun, providing it
does not interfere with business
One Minute Test Answers
1. Brazil.
2. Sitting Bull.
3. Jan. /, 1887.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
December 8, 1911

D. G. Armstead, proprietor OF the
Oregon hotel, today returned from
Los Angeles where he has been on
a business trip. =,
A party of about 60 young and
middle aged people spent the day
attempting to scale the heights OF
Mt. Signal. They were lead by Mr..
and Mrs. Doatz but not for long.
Only five of the party reached the
top and the Doatzes were not among
the Scalers.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03

Currently Gable is the only play =
er lined up. He'll do the part play
ed by Alfred Lunt in the stage vers-
ion opposite Lynn Fontanne.
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Stooge- Master Ted Healy, his fav-
orite stooge, Jack Marcus, Actor
George Bancroft, and two New York
lawyers whose names nobody re-
members were forced to swim mile
and half to shore when Healy's
20-foot sloop capsized off Santa
Monica.
"We had lowered sails in a calm
and were unshipping oars when
something struck us amidShips,"
explained Healy. "It might have
been big fish, but was more likely
a log. Anyway, the next minute
we were all in the water.
Luckily We could all swim we'll.
and keeping together we made it
almost to shore before we were
picked up"
But you can't blame it on me-"
put in Stooge Marcus.
II should hope not" said Healy.
There's such d thing as carrying
that stooge gag too far"
The boat was towed in later with
large hole in its side.
90
Eric Won Stroheim's bad luck M
staging an acting comeback, endetl
as he emerged from a Hollywood
hospital after minor operation.
A few hours later he was on his
way to France to play a part on
loan from M-G-M to Parisfilm Gle.
He'll probably do another in Eng
land before returning. For three
years Won Stroheim had a contract
to write and act, and while writing
jobs were plentiful something al
ways happened when he tried to
get back into grease paint.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03
- 0A 00 says
* FRANK WATANABE
W. YEp HOLDEN
BY ED HOLDEN

In Boston they wish to making law
on against of DRUNK WALKING
same as drunk driving That seem as
reasonal. 1t make no difference WHICH
one are drunk. When one of them are
containing alcohol to the rim and they
meet something are bound to burst.
But when BOTH auto and pedestrian
are of drunk . then l think maybe al
right Because he walkee can ZIG from
the ZAG of the autoee. that looking
pretty legal to me don't you? Drunk
flying are next l eemagine.
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03

NEW YORK, Dec. 3-The most
easily found occupational niche in
the metropolis is pearl diving
or dish There is always a
lack of dishwashers, as the Help
Wanted" columns reveal. And no
one remains a dish washer any
length of time.
1t is, as rule, the last job a man
will take and the first he will desert
when something better comes along.
1t is estimated there are $4,000 new
dishwashers going to work every
morning in the greater metroplis.
And few remain more than two
weeks.
The task requires no apprentice
ship. and thousands turn to 1t when
other avenues appear closed. Many
now famous New Yorkers served
time in some obscure and dingy res
taurant to stave off starvation. The
pay is often meals, place to sleep
and IS a week.
Another advantage in pearl div
ing" for those who through no
fault of their own reach the low
rung, is the obscurity. No one ever
sees dish washer. incidentally,
two fast selling novels and a book
of poems have been written by those
bridging lean interludes in this
lowly task.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-03
GOOD WILL FOR ALL
IN STIt1 RELATIONS

1t is gratifying to hear of the action
of the Central Union high school athle-
tic commission in offering to reimburse
Calexico Union high school for goal
nosfs forn down NV enthusiastic FL Cen