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Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22
News Behind the News
- RooseveIt's SeIf-Confidenee

WASHINGTON. = Mr. RooSeveltis confidence
in himself and the achievement of his current
program has not been diminished by the debacle
of the last session of Congress Hence new
special session at which he expects rapid action
on major legislation.
If there was ever time when the Presidents
spirits sank, that period is over now. The Black
Klan issue has been blurred off the front pages
by the international situation as 1t has appeared
since the Chicago speech, and Roosevelt, although
laboring in a period of manifest uncertainties,
is convinced as ever that the people are with
him and that Congress will accept his leadership.
The only item conspicuous for its absence
from the menu TO be put before Congress is one
which would be designed to curb the Supreme
Court The President. having had his fingers
badly burned on that issue. will lay off it-at
least for awhile. If the court gives the New Deal
bad breaks in pending power cases-TVA, PWA
grants and the holding company act-he will
take up the shillalah again with proposal pre-
sumably different from the last one.
The four main items presented to the new
session will be leftovers from the last session
wage-hour BILL farm legislation, government re-
organization and the seven regional planning
developments.
Taxation, anti-monopoly laws and-accord-
ing 20 present plans-any possible changes in
the neutrality act will be left for the regular
session beginning in January.
Anyone who wants to guess what actually
will happen to this program must inquire into
the reasons for the Presidents confidence that
it can be put over in face of the fact that the
same Congress didn't pass it last summer.
In the first place, Roosevelt is still glowing
with the memory of his western trip. on which
he was assured by large crowds, politicians, news
paper correspondents and others that he had lost
none of his hold on the people.
His hardest fight will be on the wage-hour
bill. version of the original measure has passed
the Senate and held up in the House Rules
committee, from which it undoubtedly will be
wrested in November.
The real backbone of the opposition to this
bill furnished by the southern Democrats.
1t is not unnatural for the administration to think
that the current cotton crisis in the south will
provide lever with which to soften opposition
to the wage-hour BILL affecting southern workers,
by keeping that well-advanced measure ahead of
action affecting southern farmers
Finally it is traditional that a President
commands a more nearly united support when
he is fighting a business recession threaten
ing international situation If business doesn't
pick up between now and Nov. Is, Roosevelt will
have both those potential aids.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22
Now Let's Push Toward
Municipal Success

El Centro's new municipal baseball
park can be either a grand success or a
dismal failure, depending upon two ele-
ments-the city council and the public.
Neither the city council nor the public
can allow it to become costly blunder-
there's too muh money in it-so it is the
duty of every one of US to see that it be-
comes and continues to be a municipal
asset
Let us, as residents of Ell Centro, con-
+ slider the thing from business stand
point. The ball park cost about $4500
and the grandstand cost about $4,000.
| Adding miscellaneous expenses, we have
total cost of approximately $4,000.
The expenditure of $4,000 is not a
mere item to be noted, passed on and for
|gotten. An investment of that sort de-
serves universal attention. 1t should re-
tire at least a major part of its cost,
and if possible, return profit in dollars
and cents We might be willing to take
some of our profit in the nature of pub
licity for Ell Centre, derived from coast
and major league baseball games and
other athletic contests here, but we most
certainly should expect tina the greater
|part of our investment will be returned
to the city treasury.
The city council has acted courageous
ly in this instance, because it willingly
put itself on the spot. On the council
will fall the job of planning long
range program from which the park can
be made to earn back some of the money
spent on it. 1t will be the duty of the
council to follow through with the pro-
gram now outlined, to see that the park
becomes a municipal profit-production
asset, and to manage the affairs of the
park so that it does not go on year after
year, merely breaking even without re-
tiring any of its debt. Good judgment
and a sound business management will
be needed there.
Meanwhile, the rest of US cannot remain
quiescent, lethargic in our attitude to-
wards the doings of our city's governing
body. Upon every one of us devolves the
duty of supporting any worthwhile pro-
gram our public agents may devise for
the municipal park. We cannot remain
|stolidly needless of any such program,
and then blame the city council for fail
ure. The failure would be both ours and
theirs.
1t is to the interest of every one of US,
whether we be city councilman or tax
payer, to see that the municipal baseball
park does in fact become the grand sue
cess we hope it will be.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22
Cleaning Up City S
Vacant Lots

A week or so ago this column suggested
that property owners as whole would
profit if those who own vacant lots in
FL Centre would get busy and clean
them up. 1t is gratifying to note that
the city council now has started pro-
gram to bring about such a general
that those who own vacant
lots, but have not sufficient civic pride
to keep them clean, will be affected. 1t
would not be fair to ask one man to
clean up his lot, and have him do it, and
then meet with refusal from another on
a similar request.
We cannot consider that a vacant lots
condition is the business only of the man
who owns it.. We must consider that 1T
reflects on the value of the home or he
lot next to it, and so on the entire COM
muniy. One vacant lot can make an en-
tire community unsightly. That is why
this cleanup campaign is Of vital public
interest.
1t seems entirely in order to voice
plea again for voluntary cleaning OF ev-
cry vacant lot here which needs it.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22

There has been a great deal of
toplofty talk about 'our stake in
the Far East and the value of
trade with China and Japan as af-
fecting American policy there.
Instead of windy generalities
about such trade the thing to do
is to put on a pair of spectacles
and look closely The Commerce
Departments most recent trade
figures are good ones on which to
focus the spectacles.
They reveal that for the month
Of August. American exports were
as follows:
Buyer 1896 1887
China ............ $4,810,000 S6,081 900
Japan .......... 10.763 900 24,644, 1000
U. S. imports from these coun-
tries during the same periods We're:
From China $4,693,0 900 $7,961 1000
From Japan ..16.948,0o0 1927 900
Now of course this is an appreci-
able stake, and helps greatly in the
building up of American export
trade, which was $178,975,000 in
August, 1886 and jumped to $277,-
695,00 in August, 1887.
The 1886 figures are more rell-
able as a gauge for the future, be-
cause the increase in both China's
and Japan's imports from the Uni
ted States this year is clearly due
in both cases largely to their de-
mand for war materials, airplanes
for the Chinese, and scrap-iron and
other similar supplies for the ia
panese.
Such trade is temporary. We
found that out to our cost when
Europe fought in 1914-1918. After
the war it suddenly dropped away,
leaving us holding great bag Of
increased production facilities and
no sales. Therefore the "war BOOM
in sales to China and Japan is
nothing to get enthusiastic about.
4 Taking the figures for 1886, be-
for the present war began, we find
that American exports to Japan
were only exceeded by those to
Canada and the United Kingdom,
while we sent as much to Austria
liza and Suoth Africa.
Even under the war BOOM
conditions IN China and Japan,
causing them to take an abnormal
amount of American goods, only a
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF HEARING TO
ESTABLISH BIRTH
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT o,

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
In the Matter of the Petition of
PEGGI SUSIE STEVENS, formerly
Peggi Sussie Applestill, to establish
the fact of the birth of
CATHRYNE MAE APPLESTILL
Notice is hereby given that Peggi
Susie Stevens, formerly Peggi Susie
Applestill, has filed a petition in
the above entitled Court to estab-
lish the birth of Cathryne Mae
Applestill. Said petition will be
heard before the above entitled
Court on Friday, the 29th day Of
October. 1887. at the hour of 200
o'clock pm. of said date, at which
time any person interested may
appear and show cause, If any they
have, why an order should not be
made establishing the birth of
Cathryn Mae Applestill Reference
is hereby made TO said petition for
further particulars.
DATED: October Is. 1887.
w. j. McCLELLAND.
County Clerk and Ex-Officio
Clerk of the Superior Court,
Imperial County.
BY CITHA LAMSON,
O1s 29 incl. Deputy.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22
Bruce Carton Says:
- Stakes and SpeetaeIes on Far East Trade

fraction more than 10 per cent OF
Americas rising exports went in
August to both countries combin-
ed. And of course export takes only
small percentage of all American
production.
Beside this trade, with its ire
mendous risks of war, the market
of peaceful nations who can trade
with us and with each other in
amity ana good will, together with
that tremendous home market that
is the greatest of all lock very at
tractive indeed
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22

There was an evening l saw her
half stagger to table in the old
Club Montmartre over the Winter
Garden. Sire had taken on weight,
bleary defiant look, and life SEEM
ed to have tumbled in around her.
saw her down several whiskieS
neat, then get up on the dance
floor, only to be led off by a
waiter captain. An interlude. then
some of her work revealing zip and
freshness. Last evening I saw her
along the avenue. thinned down,
clean-eyed and with buoyant step.
One felt like calling Bravo"
How the other half lives: An
attendant in an exclusive tailoring
place tells me of a woman who
had spent the entire morning de-
Gliding whether one or two buttons
on riding jacket would be more
Youthful
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22
S u M M o " s

SU M MONS
No. 1855
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT Plaint1I
JAY P. BURGER, ct al,
Defendants
Harry w. Horton and Geo. r.
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO:
JAY P. BURGER, t. KIMURA,
HARVEY H. SAzUKI, FRED j.
MICHEL AND LOUIS B. STEINER,
A co PARTNERSHIP DOING
BUSINESS AS GEO. A. MICHEL
CO., FRED j. MICHEL, LOUIS B.
STEINER. JOHN DOE, JANE DOE
RICHARD ROE, JOHN DOE COM
PANP, a Corporation. AND RICH
ARD ROE COMPANY, a Co
partnership. Defendants.
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED
TO APPEAR and answer the Com
plaint in an action entitled as above,
brought against You in the Superior
Court of the County of Imperial,
State of California, within ten days
after the service on you of this
Summons-if served within this
county; or within thirty days ii
served elsewhere.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the CON-
plaint, as arising upon contract, or
it will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plaint.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this goth day of May, 1887.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
(SEAL) County Clerk.
SO 10 II "a o l 8 Is % 20 N S.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22

enQar COmD-DOXP u. -. Mcintyre
Like AL Jolson or not. his voice
is as good as ever it was. Human
busy bee: Paul Block. Wonder if
Bill Hay, of the radio, has lustrous
teeth? All the grandmas are call
e'i Mimi these days.
Rhyme: For phrase with a
sock. I'll take Albert Mock. Add
famous tiffs of 1937-Noel Coward
and his manager, John c. Wilson.
The genial radio columnist, Dinty
Doyle. Once editor of the China
Press in Shanghai, succeeding the
worlds most dapper journalist,
Tommy Millard
More rhyme: Ford Frick and his
walking stick. Last of the Weber,
field era dandies: Frederic Mckay.
Nice radio personalities: Parks
johnson and Wally Butterfield.
Lois Long in one of those jaunty
new style hip-length fur coats. And
Billy Gaxton in one OF those gazelle
skin creations.
Burgess Meredith suggests a
George Bellows prizefighter. Slight
ly shrunk. When collars are tight
er Sulkas Albert Mander will wear
them. Coiffure styles come and
go. but mean nothing to Irene Bor-
doni and her bangs. And here we
are within yoo-hooing distance of
Christmas
Tony Sarg is not Stingy with his
art. Frequently he has been over
come with an urge to decorate bath
room doors and walls at homes
where he was a guest. Always he
carries vest-pocket scissors and a
small paint brush. And he can
accomplish marvels with these scis-
sors, lamp black, lip rouge and
tiny paint brush. He is also a
gifted clown. One of his most
hilarious impromptu performances
was at Earl Carroll's pent house
several years ago at an after
theater party Nipping off a lock
of Marcelle Carroll's hair to use
as a mustache, he impersonated one
of the high-heeled boulevard Gas
tons on his morning promenade
along the Champs Elysees trying
to handle both his flirtatious con-
quests and his French poodle of
the sort Booth Harrington calls
0.clement' Carroll Immediately
offered him $1,000 a week to pre-
sent same act in the Vanities.
Another valuable and free art
contribution decorates the walls of
! Roy Howard's town house bar
the one with elevators and all.
Many visiting celebrities who lifted
tankards there have signed their
names and those of artistic bent,
such as Flagg. Goldberg, Christy,
Gibson. Harrison Fisher and many
more, have made sketches. After
| ward the signatures and drawings
are vanished over for preservation
to posterity.
Arthur Brisbane once told several
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22
Other Editors Say
THE. RAINBOW FADES AWAY
lSan Rafael Independentl

Political apologistS for staggering governmental
expenditures. during recent years when Uncle
Sam has written IO.U.s with reckless abandon
piling up mountainous Indebtedness have fire.
quently assured the rank and file taxpayers
that they had nothing to fear. The bill would
be paid by tapping the tills of the rich!
The come-on patter of the spenders ran some
thing like this: Government must go forward
at all costs but not at the expense of "the little
man." This is country of vast wealth and
huge personal fortunes. The time has come for
the 'haves' to share with the 'have-nots' and We
shall soak the rich
But now comes the end of illusion. Recovery
expenditures alone have cost us 20 billion dol
lars-every dollar of it borrowed. And Uncle
Sam, starting to get perturbed about his over
draft at the bank is casting around for ways
and means to raise 20 billions, plus another IT
billions borrowed for general purposes.
And in case you taken in by that bit of
Sophistry about soaking the rich" and exempt
ing rank and file taxpayers, it might be well to
ponder these facts which hard-boiled mathema-
ticians turned up last week they dug into the
problem. Our tax bill last year (just for current
let's pass it on to the rich! Let's assume that
everyone with income of than S25 900
per year is rich. If we confiscated their total
earnings tthe sad-eyed mathematcians explain)
and left them as destitute as Chinese refugees,
we would collect less than billion dollars-about
one-third of what we need!
The best a layman can make of those figures
is that rich man and poor man alike are going
to pay-and pay and pay and payi Soon wen
have to take up that over-draft at the bank. But
perhaps it's time to wake up and kick-while
we're still able. We can kick to our congressman,
now that they are home.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

Notice is hereby given by VIM.
T. Lott, executor of the estate OF
Jefferson D. Lott, deceased, to the
creditors or all persons having
claims against the said deceased, to
exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers, within six months after
the first publication of this notice,
to the said executor at 212 Rehkopf
Building. Ell Centro, California, the
place selected for the transaction
of all business of said estate, or
to file them within six months after
the first publication of this notice,
in the office of the Clerk of the
Superior Court of the State of Cali
fornia. County of Imperial.
DATED this End day OF October
1887.
VIM. T. LOTT.
Executor.
Clarence. B. Smith. Attorney for
Executor.
OBS % 90
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22

Two tough word:
to handle: Mold
and mould. Fol
perfect manners
at a perfect meal
Frank Crowllin.
shield having din.
ner with Emily
Post.
Whatever be.
came of Count
Felix Won Luck.
ner? An d tht
combination cal.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22
Barbs -

Ohio archaeologist returns from
Europe where he went to learn to
chip flint arrow-heads. We knew
European civilization had gone
back, but we didn't suppose it had
gone that far.
Now that special session of
congress is certain. winter blasts
may be tempered by prevailing hot
winds from Washington.
Gunman Al Brady went to Ban
gor, Me. to buy bullets. He got
'em without charge.
According to foreign corrc-
spOndent what will Hitler do
next?" is the question in every Eu.
ropean mind. Including Hitler's?
White House cornerstone was
laid just las years ago For such
an old house, it seems there's an.
uncommon number of people who'd
like to live in it.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22

Reflecting mounting living costs, pan
handlers have changed their plea to Bud
DIV can you spare quarter?"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22
New York Day by Day BY O O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, Oct 22.-ThoughtS
while strolling: Queen of the stage
eatS-Ilka Chase Lots of gals
wearing wells who are not the type.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22

What's become of the little boy
who used to send himself post
cards so he would get mail? Why,
he's the guy who has threatened
his postman if he continues to
bring him so many bills.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22
Famous Sayings -
You re Telling Me -

WOMEN WHO give up wearing
silk stockings as protest to Ja-
pans invasion of China evidently
believe in doing a little sock-ing of
their own.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

One-Minute Test
l. Who is chairman of the us.
federal communications commits
sion?
2. What is the historic US. fri
gate Constitution often called
affectionately?
3. What is geneology?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22

fellow columnists over lunch table
at the Ritz there was no need of
worrying about the irate reader who
wrote in: II shall never read you
againl" That was almost invari-
ably the result of sudden pique
and meant nothing. He said the
reader to fear is one who. growing
boared. says nothing but simply
passes up the column. Too many
of those-an1 one is no longer a
columnist.
There is a specious theory that
the woman who sinks to the depths
never rises again. But there are
exceptions. Not many years ago
she was accomplished in certain
art and commanded an enormous
salary. Something happened. There
were whispers. Some said drugs,
others an unhappy love affair, and
still others liquor and the gay life.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22

DelleNe III uOlllS lltIlt SOCh-ulS Vi
their own.
The man at the next desk says
the strangest thief he ever heard
of was the fellow who stole Ho-
ratio Alger books.
In England, We read, they are
attempting to race a cat-like ami
NAL, known as cheetahs, as we do
greyhounds and horses. Go on you
finish the gag!
While the government is con-
Quoting its unemployment census
we sort of like the boys also to
do little checking up on how
many boards are left in America.
That New Jersey hen which re-
Gently laid her 1,000th egg, to set
new American record, has done
more, we feel sure, for the human
race than any dictator you can
name.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22
thoughts for the Day

BY the word of thy lips have kept me from the
paths of the destroyer-Psalm l7:4
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22

Hints on Etiquette
OversentiveneSs and caustic wit
are the twin evils of modern con-
versation. 1t is poor taste to Of
fend too easily, or to be too easily
offended
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22
One-Minute Test Answers

l. Frank R. McNinch, until re-
Gently chairman of the federal
power commission.
2. "Old Ironsides".
3. The study of family histories.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22

TOdayS HOROSCOPE
Many persons whose birthday oc-
ours today are unusually lucky. II
they share their good fortune with
others, they soon find it doubled.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22

Words of Wisdom
Who overcomes by force hath
overcome but half his foe.-Milton
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-22

Arthur Brisbane once told several
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-11-18

one of us will profit The Seal money
has greatly decreased the death rate
of tuberculosis and has made it pos
sible to successfully combat it, but
of course the work can't take holi-
day. We need to sell the Seals the
same this year as last year or the
year before and perhaps little more
because the goal is not yet reached
in the fight with the great White
Plague.
If each man, woman and child in
the United States would buy five
Christmas Seals, the sum would be
approximately $6,5OO,0O0, but on the
other hand if we can make that num-
Der IS then the sum would be five
times as great with which to fight
the deadly disease which has taken
so many people. Just buy the Seals
this year with the thought in mind
that we are buying stock which will
give us in returns many times that
which we put into it.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-11-18

it cannot be done for any length of
time. Riches have a way of dis
appearing if taken away by the mass;
it consists mostly of productive prop
erty, and if its productivity ceases
it is not there.
AS for my real name what does
it matter whether it is Gratino or
some other cognomen, if the mes
sage 1 bring has no value my real
name would not make it any more
valuable. Of course, know a name
is valuable; but it seems to me also
that we are judging the value of adj
vice more by the name over which
it appears than by the soundness of
the arguments set forth, which may
be one reason why we continue being
stuck in the mire.
l believe we should be more crit
ical, try to form our own opinions
and not be led on so much by propa-
gandiStS.
GRATING.