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Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
Present And Future
War S Profits

Does War yield profits?
"Yes," saws Japan. "War helps us cre-
ate order out of China's chaos, develop
her resources, and stimulate industrial
enterprise
NO." says China. "But we must wage
war to defend our sovereignty.
And what of the United States? Does
war in the Orient yield us profits? Yes
but for today only! The World War
also yielded fat profits to agriculture
and industry alike as Europe clamOred
for more foodstuffs, more manufactured
goods. more munitions. Under its artifi-
cial stimulus, the value of Americas
exports shot from S42 million in 1914
to over $1OO million in 1918! But this
country spent thousands of lives, and
lent millions of dollars in goods-that
was never paid for-as her price Tor
these profits.
Today the Dept of Commerce an
nounces a similar trend. The export of
u. S. made airplanes, motors and parts,
has reached an all time high, with $33
million worth of planes and equipment
shipped so far this year. In September,
our country exported S18 million worth
of arms, ammunition and implements
three times the total of export licenses
on war materials issued during any pre-
vious month since the licensing system
went into effect!
Yes, war has its profits and the United
States is getting its share OF them today.
But if the stringent neutrality law is in
yoked, if shipment of war materials is
prohibited = depressing jobs, payrolls
and profits-will we raise cry that
freedom of enterprise is being interfered
with, that the U. S. Navy should protect
American goods and insure safe transit?
These are difficult and embarrassing
questions we may soon have to answer.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

RoyceS, built dollhouse lot his
daughter, Patricia, said to have cost
500. 900, and had a playground that
included among other pets baby
elephant.
1 am told that few window clean
ers 60 for more than two years
without hair-raising escape from
death. Despite the danger of their
teeters on high ledges, eventually
they grow careless and find them
selves dangling to one end of a strap,
high in mid-air. If they have sue
cessfully passed through the mis-
hap they rarely meet death at their
work. Considering the hazards oi
their calling. the death rate is as
tonishingly low.
NV favorite of all New York
theaters is the venerable and state
ly Empire. In the decor of van
ished past, it has gone down hill
with an air. And today seems to
attract the most fashionable first
night audiences. Katharine Cor
nell usually plays there as do Ma
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
Beware Coughs
from common colds
That Hang On

No matter how many medicines
you have tried for your cough, chest
cold, or bronchial irritation, you can
get relief now with Creomulsion.
Serious trouble may be brewing and
you cannot afford to take chance
with any remedy less potent than
Creomulsion, which goes right to
the seat of the trouble and aids ma
ture to Soothe and heal the inflamed
mucous membranes and to loosen
and expel the germ-laden phlegm.
Even if other remedies have failed,
don't be discouraged, try Creomul-
sion. Your druggist is authorized to
refund your money If you are not
thoroughly satisfied with the bene-
fits obtained from the very first
bottle. Creomulsion is one word-not
two, and 1t has no hyphen in it.
Ask for it plainly, see that the name
on the bottle is Creomulsion, and
you'll get the genuine product and
the relief you want. (Advo
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
News Behind the News
- Sunreme Courts PRESTIGE

Observation-Disclosures the Supreme Court
prestige has suffered because OF the courts ac-
ouisition of Hugo Black who now seems 1rnly
planted in his new seat presumably Is moS1
important question.
Opponents of Mr. Roosevelt nearly all of whom
have yociferously protested Blacks appearance
the newest justice are nslstent 'nae .ne ma
baman's presence there has given the court d
terrible black eye and lowered public respect 1or
the previously sancified processes OF justice
whatsoever the truth or error of this concep-
tion it seems especially interesting to those mere
who recall that early in the year the new Deal-
ers were frankly saying although not Tor quo
tation-that they did hope to crack the supreme
Courts prestige to a point where the people
would lose faith in its infaliolty ana Where par
iamentary government, meaning Congress, would
be supreme.
So if YOU believe the opposition, 1t appears
that the New Dealers won a victory there al
though they certainly are not boasting OF 1t on
the same basis.
MANY lawyers are inclined to believe that
after the Black expose and resultant hue and
cry it may hereafter become perfectly good taste
in polite society to talk about the personal back
grounds and theoretical prejudiees OF some OF It's
other members At any rate, word comes from
the inside that there will be further administra-
ton propaganda efforts
Any attempts to disqualify Black from sitting
in individual cases are likely to be met with at
tacks on Justice Pierce Butler and Justice Owen
J. Roberts Butler was outstanding railroad
lawyer and among his clients was the Great
Northern Railway.
AS a Justice however, he did not refrain from
writing far-reaching opinions on public utlhty
valuation standards and last year he read an
opinion which saved the Great Northern SlOOO0,-
600 in taxes which had been assessed by North
Dakota.
Robert Hughes and Van Devanter, who con-
Cured with Butler had all represented railroads
in private practice.
On the other hand it is not to be inferred
that justices necessarily have a bias in favor
of former clients. They merely fail to sit out
when former clients bring cases, as Justice Bran
deis did at the time of the adverse minimum
wage decision of 1923 because he himself had
been active for minimum wage legislation.
But the court doesn't like to be told that any
Justice isn't qualified to sit in particular case,
and that's one reason for guessing that such
tactics against Black won't get far.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
Bruce Cation Says:
: Abundant Life Only for Those Who Pay

tuberculosis, for instance is seven
times as great among unskilled la
borers as among professional peo-
pie. Pneumonia's death rate is 31a
times as great among unskilled
workers as among professionals;
the death rates for syphilis and
diarrhea are twice as great; cancer
kills at so per cent greater rate.
Nor does it stop there. Illness
that is not fatal but that takes a
man away from his job is far more
common among the low-income
group. One of 20 family heads on
relief is unemployed because of
physical disability among the
higher income groups, the rate is
one in $50. The unemployed in
general have twice the disabling
illness that the employed have
WPA workers have a disabling ILL
ness rate 40 per cent above that of
other employed persons.
All of this throws into clear re-
lief the knottiest problem of the
age-now to MAKE available to all
the people the discoveries and in
ventions which science has turned
up for us.
Medical science today is better
able to keep people sound and well
than ever before. 1t can prevent dis
eases that formerly were unprevent-
able, it can cure diseases that
formerly were incurable, 1t can
perform operations previously inn
possible, it has a far clearer idea
Of the relation of diet to good
health.
Yet all of this does little good
to the man who can't afford to
take advantage of this new knoWl
edge. If doctors did not in SO many
cases give their time and skill
without thought of fees, the situa-
ton would be far worse than 1t is,
even so, Miss Roche's figures shoW
unmistakably the tragic connection
between poverty and i'll health,
In this field as in so many others,
we are on the threshold of a daz-
zling new era of human happiness.
We are kept out of it, not by lack
of knowledge, but simply because
we can't figure out how to make
the more abundant life pay its way.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
Looking Backward
In Our Files
October Fl 1907

George H. Reid, Imperial's tele-
graph agent who has been in Goa
chella for some time, returned to-
day.
Until few months ago it was
possible for one train to do all of
the work on the Imperial and Gulf
railroad. But the last few months
has wrought a great change and
now two trains with full crews and
equipment cannot successfully cope
with the increasing traffic. The last
two nights passengers coming in on
the train from Los Angeles have
been forced to camp in the depot
at the junction for about four
hours while waiting for the valley
train to do its switching.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

is just as it was
when it opened
for trade 40 years
ago.
On it's shelves
is a scant array
of timed goods.
There is the dill
pickle barrel oper
at the top and
the leaning bas-
ket of dried apri.
cots. When the
front door opens
III
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
New York Day by Day

NEW YORK, Oct. 21-Now and
then there cling, like barnacles to
a modern liner, stores, restaurants
and offices out of vanquished
past. On a reach of downtown
Prince street is little grocery that
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
Test Answers

One Minute Test Answers
l. Representative Sam Rayburn,
Democrat. of Texas.
2. In the Mediterranean, off the
east coast of Spain.
3. Camille Chautemps, men,
Der of the Radical-Socialist party
(Which, in France, is not as "radi-
cal' as Socialists, and both of
which would be considered moder-
ately to the left in the United
States
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
TWENTY YEARS AGO
OctOher 81 1917


A letter from Lieutenant j. B.
MacDougall tells of the cheers with
which the boys of Battery D re-
ceived Ell Centro's first shipment
of preserved fruit and jam when it
arrived at their camp in Arcadia.
Among those making contribu-
tions to the closing shipment were
Mont j. Reid and Mrs w. j. Meag-
her.
Mrs. Charles F. Ferguson and
Mrs. Charles Witt had a miracul-
Gus escape from death this morn
ing when the car driven by the
former jumped the road on the
Potrero grade while enroute from
San Diego to Ell Centro. The car
was dashed 125 feet to the bot
tom of the canyon. Neither woman
was seriously injured.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
TEN YEARS AGO
October 21, 1927

Work is progressing rapidly on
the erection of the new 100000
building which will be built at
Plaster City to replace the Pacific
Portland Cement plant destroyed
this summer by flames.
With crowds that are taxing the
buildings capacity in attendance,
Bank OF Italy officials, including
officers from Los Angeles and San
Diego, are today holding "open
house" in the Banks Ell Centre
Headquarters.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
Barbs

Chinese soldiers are offered a
reward of S1450 for every Japan
ese general they can capture. The
rate for top sergeants, we under
stand, is about three times that
figure.
Massachusetts woman got di-
vorce when she testified that her
husband slapped her because she
failed to serve spinach for dinner.
She has the sympathy and good
wishes of every small boy in the
land.
ANYHOW. when the Duke of
Windsor visits America the ship
news reporters won't have to ask
him their favorite question. You
know-"What do you think of
American women?"
Minnesota has a law prohibit
in,l women from wear Santa Claus
costumes. Okay. Dad is the real
Santa Claus.
Mayor LaGuardia yelled and
sWore during a conference on the
New York city budget the other
day. This should please New York
ers, who have had SO many mayors
who discussed the city's budget in
polite and conciliatory whispers.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

World peace will remain an utopian
myth until the munitions factories are
torn down.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
Today,S Horoscope

Today's Horoscope
Some persons whose birthday oc-
ours today are too easily discour-
aged by defeat. They must COM
bat a tendency toward timidity.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

One-Minute Test
/. Who is majority floor leader
of the US. house of representa-
tiveS?
Q. Where are the Balearic is
lands situated?
8. Who is premier of France?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21
thoughts for the Day -

Thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord
thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
Deuteronomy 8:6
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

Hints on Etiquette
A person never is introduced to
a group ON formal occasion when
a great many people are present,
unless it is a reception for a digni-
tary.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

Words of Wisdom
A politician thinks of the next
election; a statesman of the next
generation
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-29
Rambling Reporter
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
cope with.
You see, somehow or other the
wiring in the eelctric motor got
crossed up and reversed the fan
after it had been running Tor a
few hours. By that time the whole
house was full of cold air, and
when the fan reversed and started
blowing air out again throubh the
excelsior mating, the water in the
mating froze solid, the cool air
couldn't get through to the outside
any longer, and the fan was SO
strong that it kept showing the
air into the fan chamber.
FINALLY the pressure of the COM
pressed air got SO high that there
was an explosion that blew our
living room all over town.
Nov we're rebuilding the liv-
ing room-and using the frozen
cooler mat to keep our ice box
cold"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-29
COPIES OF BILL ON REDEEMING
PROPERTY SENT TO DISTRICT

Copies of Senate Bill No, 1893,
relating to redemption of property
sold to irrigation districts for de
linQuent assessments and providing
a ten-payment plan have been re-
eeived at Imprial Irrigation Dis
trict headquarters in FL Centre.
This act has been approved by
Gov. Frank Merriam. 1t covers all
cases in which land has been sold
to an irrigation district prior to
September 80, 1896, for delinquent
assessments and the districst holds
the certificate of sale and n deed
has not been taken by the district.
If all assessments due and pay
then the owner may redeem his
property by paying original amount
of all unpaid assessments in 10
equal annual installmentS, plus Z
per cent interest on the total
amount from July |, 1896, to date
of first payment and thereafter in
terest at the rate on all deferred
paymntS.
First installment must be paid
on or before July /, 1899, and each
succeeding installment on or be
fore July of each respective cal
endar year thereafter Current as
sssments must be paid as they be-
come due.
Effective 80 days after adjourn
ment of the legislature, the new act
is not intended to repeal or modi-
fly any provisions of the California
Irrigation district act, except as to
sales for delinquent assessments
made prior to September 30. 1896.
law for redemption, other than to
The act does not affect existing
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-29
Lynching's Too Good for Killers
Says Father of Slain Child

girls and asked them to go with
him.
He did it for revenge. If |
could get to him, I'd kill him"
Everett nodded towards his
home where Mrs. Melba O. Everett
lay quieted by sedatives, and friends
were comforting Perley, 10, and
Carl, 6, brothers of the slain girls.
MY wife doesn't know every
thing yet he said, but at least
the suspense is over. ] don't know
how 1 could have stood it much
longer 1 broke down twice, but
/ went into the garage where my
wife couldn't see me"
Flyod Stephens. father of 2-year-
old Jeanette Stephens, the other
dead girl, shook his head.
Lynch him? No. That wouldn't
bring jeanette back. A man like
that, there must be something
wrong with him. When he is found
let the law take its course. But if
/ had anything TO do with it. /
would want hun done away with
He's dangerous"
Stephens stood on the porch of
the house where Mrs. Marjorie
Stephens, too, lay under opiates.
Their two boys, Garth, Z, and Yves.
ley 5, played on the lawn with
stray dog. They asked their father
when jeanette was coming home.
"They don't know" Stephens said
with termbling lips. They're too
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-29
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Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-29

Bril-, sought 10 prove the Reno
divorce invalid, thus proving Mrs.
Brill was stin married to Macy
when she married his client after
an eloPement three months ago
today.
Hunsaker apparently abandoned
temporarily his plans to prove Brill
was under the influence of liquor
at the time he was married.
Judge Henry c. Kelly, Yuma's
marrying parson, and Jack Living
ston, Yuma county clerk, were in
court to testify for Mrs. Brill that
both parties to the marriage were
sober.
Hunsaker also ignored a pre-
yious contention of Brill that his
bride had been married several
times. Mrs. Brill's only marriage,
she declares, was to wealthy Macy.
Brill, the witness called, testified
when he met his wife at the Los
Angeles President Roosevelt's birth
day ball on last January %, she
told him she lived in New York
but had just come from Reno,
where she divorced Macy.
MRS. Brill was called to testify
briefly. Hunsaker questioned her
about her residence when she mar
ried Macy. Mrs. Brill said she was
Mt sure just where my residence
was" She explained her parents
were separated and she spent time
with both her father and mother
She lived in Paris, Birmingham,
Ala, and New York, prior to he
Macy romance, she said.
What difference does that all
make" Mrs. Brill cried. II came
to this court to prove Bill Brill
was sober when We were married"
She became somewhat hysterical
and Superior Judge Edward Hen
derson recessed court briefly while
she was calmed by S. S. Hahn, her
chief counsel.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-29

INGLEWOOD, Cal, June %. UP)
The father of two OF the three
little slain Inglewood girls today
said 1ynching's TOO good" for the
killer.
Merle o. Everett, father of Mad
cline, 7. and Melba Everett, 9, was
dazed and weary.
"Lynching's too good. I would
string him up and tear him 10
pieces" Everett said.
Il told the police that If they
let me come near him 1 will kin
him.
He said: I'll be back Saturday
morning at 10 o'clock When she
wasn't there Saturday morning, he
must have seen my other little
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-29
&|ntatLM!:'

Local Temperatures
data compiled by Howard Eme
mons, observer for the official
United States weather bureau sta
tiOn Mt FL CentrO.l
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-29

Southern CalifOrnia-Fair tonight
and Wednesday but morning fog
in extreme west portion; no change
in temperature; moderate north
west wind off coast.
%
Les Angeles and Vicinity-Fair
tonight and wednesday with morn
ing fog or low clouds; little change
in temperature; gentle to moderate
southeast to southwest wind.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-29
LAWMAKER ON
TRIAL, FACING
BRIBE CHARGE

SACRAMENTO, Cal. June %.
U.P)-Assemblyman Gene Flint, Los
Angeles, went on trial in superior
court today on charges of offering
to bribe a fellow legislator for a
favorable vote on the Welsh Tide
land Oil bill.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-29
Beer, Pretzels,
At White House
Graduation

WASHINGTON, June %. UP(-
At an early hour today the dean
in cap and gown, still was slipping
beer, the graduates were being
booed, and commencement eXer-
cises of the j. Russell Young school
of silver tongue oratory were get
ting a good start.
The school, whose campus is the
back yard of the executive mansion
and whose principal is the dean OF
White House news correspondents,
has a student body of about 30
public officials and Washington
correspondents
Dean Young, holding the annual
exercises around a table of beer
and pretZels (for which he charg-
ed $3 a head endownmenD, intro
duced the class of 1886. headed py
Postmaster General James A Far
ley, whom he called a young man
with future, despite his sunburn
from exposure to the charm school
at jefferson Island.
Then the dean (still quaffing
beer and tickled by the tassel Of
his academic cap) introduced men,
bers of the class OF 81. thus:
Harry Hopkins CWorks Progress
Administration direc tori: He
wrote his thesis on how TO live
without working-muchl"
Charles Nicholson Democratic
publiciSt): The co-author OF a
large part OF the Congressional
Record"
Marvin Mcintyre presidential
secretary: His life is one long
lunch hour"
Stephen Early presidential dit
to-: He has just about convinced
his boss that reporters don't write
headlines"
Jesse Jones Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation chairman): His
Yes has been worth about Sill
000, 100000 to the borrowing public"
Homer S. Cummings (attorney
generaD: This young man still
has a chance to win his first case
in the supreme court"
By then the walters were bring
ing in plates of turkey and ham
and Whatnot. Commencement eX-
ercises brought to the rostrum
Walter Trojan, chairman of the
board of regents, who read a letter,
off the record, from the vice-pres-
nf hn of 10 Of
He was Mr.. Roosevelt and he was
sorry he could not attend. He did.
however, enclose his check for So,
for which the dean was grateful.
The school and its ceremonies
sound silly, off-hand, and perhaps
they are, but it has a definite rea-
son for being. During the last 20
years succeeding presidents on
campaign trips have been invited
to make hundreds of speeches
which they did not have time to
deliver.
Chambers of commerce and other
organizations, which had invited
large crowds to hear the presiden-
tial words, were SO chagrined al
the presidential regrets. that they
prevailed upon newspapermen very
often to substitute.
The writer's, more often than not
bluShed and sammered and bungled
their speeches. Dean Young under
took to correct their oratorical de-
fects and from this circumstance
his school, with is diplomas, its
vestments and all the usual educa-
tional trappings, had its Genesis.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-29

operate as a separate and indepen-
dent plan. 1t is provided that in
cases in which redemption was
commenced under earlier acts and
default was had, if the district has
not taken deed, credit will be given
for payments already made. should
the owner elect to take advantage
of the new plan.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-29
'ENS FIGHT FOR ANNULMENT OF YUMA MARRIAGE

The principal prosecution witness.
Assemblyman Fred Reaves, San
Pedro, was among those who assem-
bled for the start of court hear
ing that was expected to be ended
within a few days.
Flint was indicted largely upon
the grand jury testimony of Reaves
who said his colleague offered him
money for vote on the Welsh bill
and lateS left an envelop on his
desk. ReaVes said he returned the
envelop unopened. He did not know
whether it contained currency.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-29
$3.50 SOUGHT IN
DISTRICT SUIT

Lynn Atkinson filed suit against
the Imperial Irrigation District in
superior court here Tuesday asking
judgment for $493l20 assertedly
due on bond coupons since July /.
1893.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-29
SEEKS TO PROVE
DIVORCE INVALID

VENTURA Calf June % lUThe Nancy Macy
Brill she divorced George
ed by attorneys ior William Hunsaker Brill Angeles
he opened his fight
the Hunsaker uncle and attorney for Young