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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02
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SPAIN

IS Adolf Hitler is a bigger fool
has so far demonstrated him
wAsHIbe, there will be no international
tives todavSpain for few months at least
speed consrse, there is the possibility that
vile rowe successes in carefully calculated
we're una of defiance might have torn down
Nan, ,drs of logical reasoning for the Nazi
ThcCator, leaving him with the idea he is
by mnipotent. Thus far, however, he has
Judged to fraction the distance he can
go without calling down reprisals from
other nations.
There is one powerful force for peace
today in the European scene-a force
that is growing more powerful daily. 1t
is Great Britain.
Benito Mussolini in Italy, pulled the
British Lions whiskers during the ETH
opian fracas, but he was careful even
then how hard he pulled. Since then,
and partly because British supremacy
was challenged, Great Britain has en-
barked on an armament program which
makes her, again, the worlds most po-
tent military and naval force-especial-
ly when you consider the far-flung boun-
diaries of the loosely-knit British Empire
Now Britain, newly powerful in the
might of new ships and new guns and
new soldiers, is a force to be reckoned
with. If Germany or Italy, could be sure
DIlIdlH WOulu duOpl COIliplele HdluS
off policy, it is probable there would be
a Nazi or Fascist invasion of Spain.
Fearing that Britain might take a hand
and with her the conservative nations
of Sweden, Finland and some Others and
the radical one of Communist Russia,
the two powerful dictators are not too
eager to call a showdown.
Europe regardless of surface indica-
tions, is not yet ready for war. The bal
ance of armed power is too uneven. The
individual strength of Germany and
Italy, or the combined strength of both,
is not equal to the combined strength of
the nations which would be sure to OPP
pose them in an open act of hostility.
Only one thing could bring about
European war right now. The danger
lies in the fact that a dictator, regardless
of how politically sound his early years
might be, tends to become imbued with an
diversified idea of his own power in COM
parison to that of others. Each little
success strengthens his idea until it be-
comes an obsession. When that is the
case, there is danger to the dictator and
to his nation. That is the gravest danger
confronting Europe.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Finding Yardstiek to Measure Progress

In order to measure progress, you
have TO have some sort of yard
stick. When you try to measure the
advance Tor otherWise) in the work
erS general state of Well-being, the
handiest thing to take is his scale of
wages
So a number of measurements
have been performed lately, con-
trasting average wages as of today
with the wages of 1929 1923 or some
other mystic year. After perform
ing them the engineers announce
that the worker is better COR Worse)
off by a margin of so many cents
per hour.
You can get a better picture,
though, by using a different kind of
yardstick and applying it over a
longer period of time. Such a pie
ture is provided in a recent issue of
the Department of Commerce re-
ports, reproduced from statistics
compiled by the Machinery and Al
lied Products Institute of Chicago
This picture contrasts the factory
workers status today with that of
1914 1t does it by expressing his
purchasing power, not in cash buj
in the number of hours he is re-
CURED to work to earn enough mo-
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02
CONFESSIONS OF A
PRESS AGENT
BY John Peere Miles

HOLLYWOOD, June 2, OPP
When a neWSpape. man becomes a
press agent in Hollywood, he leaves
the world of common sense behind.
From then on he lives in a per-
fumed fog, a bewildered innocent
who stores his dreams in pill boxes
against the next headache that
comes along.
Like a fuse that's been drenched
under years of futility he yearns to
blow up and smash illusions, but he
ends his days rather harmleSSly,
with a coat of fur on his tongue
and a belly-ache that has defied
anatomy by travelling to his head.
But taking smacks at Hollywood
is as Wasteful of time as shadow
boxing with gin specterS. The film
city can take it, and how! 1t has
chin as absorbing as gelatin and IL
thrives on SneerS, jeerS and cheers.
This job of attacking is best done
by visiting Englishmen. old vaude-
vile hams, one-Shot writer's and,
of course, all disappointed actors.
But a press agent who analyses
Hollywood knows the futility OF
smashing through its dense wall
of ego. He knows that Hollywood is
nothing more than an orange tree
surrounded by unemployed actors
waiting for windfalls. 1t is the only
city in the world where you can
feel superior and get a thunderous
echo in response.
Here the parade Of life passes in
tinsel every two minutes OF the
day-a fantastic, at times ludicrous
display of emotional fundamentals
draped in intense seriousness. 1t is
here alone that virtue is a profess
Sional vice and the dear little star
lets welcome you with closed fists,
when they welcome you at all.
No eX-neWSpaperman has a right
to cherish illusions where fermented
emotions cost a dollar for ten and
where the heart, in its Strictest die
tionary sense, is only the cardiac Or
gan used as a pumping station. BuC
apart from this recognizable fault
of HollyWood't, there are certain
things which are very queer.
In the old newspaper days we
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02
Strolls Thru Hollywood

used to get SnubS in buShel baS-
ketS from divorces who wouldn't
trust you with their telephone num-
bers, and who wouldn't give you that
last inch of white thigh that meant
the difference between page one
and the second section. But an eX-
pert news hound could. at times,
handle divorces sympathetically. 1t
became a matter of subtlety siege
and tact, or no soap.
But there is no set way in WhichV
a press agent may Win the friend
ship of motion picture players. He
can break his back for them and,
for his reward pay his own hoSpl-
talization. There are exceptions, of
course, but this rule holds true: the
more you work for the advancement
of a star, the more he or she thinks
you are going to hurt her. And the
more good notices Wangled for them
the more vicious is this resentment
of your intrusion into their success.
Broken down into direct language,
the average star appears to resent
the feeling that you, as a press
agent, are IcSpOIlSlDlt lOl SuCCtSS.
This attitude seems to spell glamor
the twist in the human mechanism
that makes Hollywood what it is.
an international exhibit Of Whirl-
ing derviSheS trying to stand still.
With his tongue doing Immelman
loops in his cneek-a shameless bit
Of sacrilege-the average press agent
enters merrily into the game. He
figures a newcomer 10 the screen
is nothing more to him than a COM
modify which he must sell the best
way that he can. If she is freckled,
then freckles must be established as
a vogue. When Marlene Dietrich
came to town she was unimpressive
and decidedly plump.
Someone discovered, only heaven
knows how, that she had good look
ing legs and Marlene became Legs
Dietrich-an inspired piece of bally-
hoo which became the foundation
of this stars career. Pola Negri was
made to chase Rudolph VALENTINO
and Charlie Chaplin all over tht
map and have you heard about
Katharine Hepburn, Greta Carlo.
Clara Bow, and most sensational OF
the Barrymores and, of course,
Simone Simon.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02
NO NORMAL LIBRARIANS
IN THE MOTION PICTURES

California library trustees are rising
up on their hind legs in a sort Of holy
wrath because novels and motion pic
lures have largely failed to depict librar-
ians as normal human beings, fairly
intelligent and fairly amiable."
We sympathiZe with the librarians,
but we can't help pointing out that they
are not exceptions G-Men, newspaper
men, librarians, none of them are normal
persons when they appear on the mo-
ton picture screen. For that matter,
we wouldn't wonder that even the gang
sters have a legitimate howl coming.
Trouble is that normal, run-of-the-
mill people aren't story material, as a
usual thing There aren't many news
papermen who are drunken sots, rushing
aimlessly hither and yon in a continual
state of perspiration and profanity, but
you can't make the motion pictures be-
lieve it.
The only thing to do, it seems, is to
90 on being normal, rational human be-
ings in the communities where we live,
leaving Hollywood to whatever glittering
or drab conceptions it may have of life
and people.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02

ney to buy the things he needs. Az
erage hourly earnings, from the Ma
tional Industrial Conference Board
are figured at PAT cents per hour
for 1914 and ga cents for 1886.
With this yardstick we get an
ulmistakable measurement of
considerable rise in the standard
of living
For instance; years supply of
clothing for a family of four cost
SITS in 1914 and $2l8 in 1886 But
the 1914 worker had to toll for 708
hours to earn that supply of cloth
ing; today's worker gets it for $40
hours of work.
1t is the same all the way down
the line. In 1914 the worker had to
put in 1877 hours of work to buy an
electric washing machine; today he
gets it for 20 hours of work In 1914
it took him 308l hours to earn the
price of an automobile; today he
can get il for 859 hours of work. If
he wanted a hat in 1914 he had to,
drudge for II hours to pay for it; !
today the hat is his after three and
one-half hours of work. An ordi-
nary light bulb took an hour and
AZ minutes of work to pay for in
1914; today it costs just IL minutes
of labor
In the case of some of these COM
modities, the retail price today is
higher than in 1914; in the case of
few it is lower. But in all cases
and this study cites an even score
of commodities-the price is far
lower now than it was in 1914 eX-
pressed in the number of hours
needed to earn the purchase price.
4 X 4
The point Of this is that a sim
pie comparison of wages is not
enough. The productive machinery
of America is working more eff
GENTLY and is producing goods in
greater volume today than was the
case in 1914. That means more
go5ds-a higher standard of living
for the average American. And it
indicates, too, that the road TO real
prosperity is to be found through
this steady increase in our capacity
to produce the things We need.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02
BY O. O. Mcintyre

on the business end OF a half
dozen purchases when he only in
tended to look around.
Few virtues are more appealing
than frankneSs. At dinner to
several intimates the other night
the host, whose spread was sumptu-
Gus, had a jar of buckshot-sized
Beluga caviar at his plate side
which he alone dipped into. Nor
did he offer to share it. As he made
his third canape, he explained: This
is my sole extravaganza and I never
share it, Only one in a thousand
has true taste for caviar anyway"
Somehow we all warm to a such
forthrightness, even though it is a
violent depression from ordinary
courtesy.
From Fred Niblo: Your SYM
pathetic comment on William Fa-
verSham with his chin up and
the many other Favershams going
over the last horizons with heads
high painted a picture that few of
the younger world will understand.
1t was fine" Every day at the
Lambs and Players there appear
vanquished valiants of the stage
who have been unable, as have SO
many, to indulge in the bounties
of Hollywood. Most of them are
living in far away rooming houses,
several flights up and all the way
back, but there is never a Whimper
They give the impression that so
far as they are concerned every
thing is on the up and up.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02

NEW YORK, June mo enter
tainer has more successfully with
stood the collective Broadway boo
than the young comedian, Milton
Berle. Because of his fresh, man
ner he has from his beginnings
been a thorn in the streets side.
Others like him have been van
uuished by scorn, but not Berle.
He carries on with impudent grin
rising from coffee and cakes to a
several thousands-a- week perform
er. In many ways he expresses the
same braShneSS that once charac-
terized the now seiate and well
beloved George M. Cohan when he
was yoWling his Yankee Doodle
stuff ....s
Berries career might we'll be label
ed The Rise of a Smart Alec. Yet
those who know him say it was
only a part of his act Away from
the footlights he is unusually shy,
and despite his feigned sophistries
is a typical Mamas boy She is his
constant companion.
He went into the old Palace as a
fill-in act and wound up a head
liner held over for many weeks.
He then vowed them in cabaretS,
landed a top bracket job on the
radio and later was taken to Holly
wood to be featured in films. And
at 80 is rich enough to rest on his
oars. b..
There is gaiety about those perky
open-until-2-a.m hat and gown
shops upstairs over Broadway and
around the side street corners in
the 40s. Each is stated with a
Peter Arno type of proprietress,
known as TModom", and a bright
girl assistant or SO. Most of the
customers are show and cabaret
girls who drop in between or after
shows, usually with a boy friend
TO pick up a few bargains. The
moment the girls and their beaux
enter flattery is turned on, faucet
like. The big play is to the boy
friend-and he is given "the works,
often SO eXpertly he finds himself
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02
PATROLMAN CRACKS DOWN

FORT WORTH, Tex. UP)-A Fort
Worth patrolman has a record for
embarrassing arrests. First he ar
rested George Fairtrace, then city
manager. for failing TO obey a traf-
fic signal. Then he followed up by
writing a similar ticket for w L..
Coley, judge of the court that tries
traffic eases.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02
Twenty-Five Years Ago
June 2, 1912

June 2, 1912
Several rough and ready indi-
viduals who drifted into town were
said TO be American soldiers of for
tune who had been fighting with
OroZco in Mexico.
County Supervisor r. E. Willis of
BraWley left to join his wife and
daughters ON a trip to Europe.
Twenty Years Ago
June 2, 1917
Boy Scouts elected j. j. Simmons,
T. r. Cook, and George Watkins
troop committee Frank Young,
scout master; Roy Norman, T. II.
Hunter, and c. f. Sones, assistant
scout master; H. A. F. Thenburg,
drillmaSter
Interior department officials met
with the Imperial Irrigation dis
trict board re All American canal.
The district offered the services
of engineers to estimate the cost
of such a project.
Ten Years Ago
June 2, 1927
Helen Garcia, 20, Mexican, who
was given a suspended sentence on
a fine of $50 or Is days in jail Fri
day with the provision that she get
out of town by today, was locked
up this morning.
Senator Ralph Swing of San Ber-
nardino will hold a position on the
state water commission according
TO word given out today by Lieu
tenant Governor Buron Fits. Other
members of the commission will be
Senator j M Inman, Sacramento;
C. Fl. Nelson, Eureka; Senator Frank
Boggs, stockton.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02
DREAMS MAY BE REALIZED

CLEVELAND. up - Imaginative
visitors to the Great Lakes EXPOSE
ton this summer will be able to
drive" locomotive. A full-size cab
of locomotive will be a major eX-
hibit in the Making of Nation
section. The presentation is made
through the cooperation of five
of Americas largest railroads.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02
One Minute Test Answers

!. James j. Davis Republican,
now senior Un5 senator from Penn
sylVania.
3 Sam Rayburn Texas Democrat.
3. BECAUSE Newcastle upon-Tyne
is one of the chief coaling centers
in England. In general usage, the
expression signifies a foolish under
taking.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02
New York Day by Day

Charles Phelps Gushing, one of
the Kansas City Star alumni, is
probably dean of New York free
lances. For a quarter century he
has been proving about the metro
polls with camera and note pad
catching unusual views and picking
up stray stories of interest. A pipe
smoking bachelor, he has spent most
of his time in the city in a West
Side apartment. His own boss and
doing only the things he really
wanted to do, he expresses the true
spirit of the free lance.
Bill Corum picking up a bullet
in the hip and few Page l head
lines at a iaWnish hour a recent
morning shows what can happen
to a Boonville, Missouri, boy in
the big city, violating the curfeW
law. From his Louis XVI suite in
totSy tavern Bill can look down
upon me at my daily chores. AS a
younger man and fellow Missouri
an I have tried by precept and
example to impress upon him the
virtues of hard work and regular
hours. Now and then I have tried
to dazzle him at my beSide-the-
window seat with something helliSh
in the way of lounging robes. Once
I even let him gaze upon my Lam
vim yellow ensemble with the purple
sash-but evidently to no avail. He's
simply not the eSthetic type OF
litterateur. He has shown plainly
that he would rather go his way,
keep his own hours, even if he
has to be shot.
When modestv was modesty: can
think of no small town character
izer that has ever touched Rose
Wilder Lanes description of the
severe and reserved woman, who
held herself as straight as ram
rod, and always buttoned her gloves
in privacy. To her intimates she
shifted; "A lady never appears in
public until fully dressed
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

l. Who served as u. S. secretary
Of labor under Presidents Harding.
Coolidge and Hoover?
2. Who is majority leader of the
U. S. house Of representatives.?
3 Why should no one wish to
carry Goals to Newcastle?
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02

Pride and high ambition charac-
terize persons whose birthday occurs
today. Many Of them have marked
literary ability
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02

A post-morten of the springs college
debates revealed that most of the losers
made the mistake of leading with the
chin.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02
News Behind the News
SEC Finds Vesing Problem Who
Deserves Fair Treatment? Lands
Sets Off The Works

WASHINGTON.-It might be nice to suppose
that the presidential veto of the bill authorizing
S500O00O in federal funds for New York's world
fair was really an economy gesture, however
small.
The unannounced motive however was politi-
teal. Actually reduction of the sum men,
toned TO 00000, is only a technical saving if
that. For the bill didn't really appropriate any
money, leaving that TO Congress at some later
date. q
But the bill provided for a United States
commissioner general for the fair at a salary of
$4,000. And then 1t provided for two assistant
commissioners general at $500 who must be
not of the same political party
Legal sharks at the Department of Justice
pointed out that this might mean compulsory
appointment of two Republican assistant commits
soners.
Furthermore the Senate had amended the bill
so as to give the appointments for those three
joos to a governments worlds fair commission
to be composed of three cabinet members and
seven members of Congress.
The appointments and the millions of dollars
TO be handed by the appointees make up the
sort OF item that in these days the White House
wants to control. If Roosevelt and Jim Farley
have anything TO say about it, the substitute
legislation will contain different provisions
An active candidate for the commissioner
generalshp is Congressman Sol Bloom of New
York. He headed up the George Washin gton BIZ
centennial and the anniversary of the Constitu-
tion and would now be glad to spend five or
brate and commemorate the 150th anniversary
of the first presidential Inauguration and the
establishment of the federal government.
1t has become fashionable here lately to speak
OF recent rumor flurrieS about possible cut in
the price of gold as largely the work of crafty
spectators who profited when prices of stocks
and commodities dropped. No one doubts that the
spectators the job. but the question
of lower price or an import tax on gold
seriously discussed for while in high places.
The idea has been dropped for the time being
1t proved easier not to worry so much about the
continuing influx of foreign gold than TO risk
the effect OF lower prices for farm products
and other exported commodities which would be
sure to follow change in gold price.
Meanwhile, gold coming into the country at
tinueS to add to the national debt. Under the
present monetary policy the governments gold
supply has increased from something over ST.
O0O000000 to sl1,9 900 100000, or by more than
four and half billions Thus reduction of
10 or Is per cent in the price would neceSsitate
writing off very large loss.
certain United States senator has brother
whose weakness happens TO be strong drink.
The senator managed to get him job in one
of the minor New Deal commissions. Occasional
lapses from grace overlooked until recent
warm day when the brother came into the office
carrying fish which spectators say weighed
about so pounds and quite dead.
Very shortly thereafter the young man was
sound asleep the floor the fish nesting in
his arms.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02

When an engagement is broken,
the gentleman assumes all the
blame, but tells nothing. His friends
should not expect an explanation
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02
Wnrds of Wisdom

He who would keep himself to
himself should initiate the dumb
animals, and drink only water
BulWer.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02
Thoughts for the Day

! Will build them up, and not pull them down; and
1 will plant them and not pluck them up-Jeremiah
24:6
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02
Editorials and Comment
WEDNESDAY, JUNE q 1887
a on Sol
* FRANK WATANABE
W. 20 HOLDEN
FLAGS
ny Gp holden

In San Francisco they having flag irri-
tates. A happy bridge party were gave
containing decorated arterials with thou
sand on thousand of citizen hurrah up
ping the jolly Golden Gate bridge.
OF suddenly one national start gush-
ing vowels out loud because their flag
was took down. Then mother nation start
curdling because their flag was not put
up. Insults" they say. This causing dou-
bles trouble for S. F. Honorable Mayor,
both sides of his hair are falling apart.
| wondering if that nation are like
those very very furious women which
are always getting insuted.
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02
LOOKING
BACKWARD

What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1937-06-02

WASHINGTON.-It might be nice to suppose
that the presidential veto of the bill authorizing
SIS 100000 in federal funds for New Yorks world
fair was really an economy gesture however
p,on
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