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Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19
Why Government
Is So Costly

The we'll intentioned but somewhat
short-sighted supervisors of Los Angeles
county this week presented one OF the
best demonstrations on record why the
cost of government is so high is this
blessed country of ours.
They issued an order to county de-
partment heads that they must ascer-
tain the need of the applicant for work
when they hire anyone-and give the JOB
to the individual with the greatest re-
sponsibility toward dependents. In no
case are the department heads to. en-
ploy a person whose family is already
represented on county payrolls.
The theory is an admirable one, and
its application would do a lot of good
If those with the largest families were
also the most capable. 1t might even
be workable if the instructions were to
hire from the ranks of the most capable
and efficient those who have the great
est number of dependents. But the Los
ANGELES supervisors did not see fit to
do this They want to employ those with
the largest families.
Nobody can run business profltaDly
bv hiring his employees from among the
destitute. merely because they are des-
titute. He must consider ability and eff
cheney if his business is to make profit.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19

research, so he bought couple OF
five-foot shelves, sundry biograph-
les and reference works and shipped
as a super-cargo on a merchant
ship for distant ports. The super
cargo is a sort of purser on a
freighter. He has scarcely any
work, save when loading and un-
loading.
Joe Friscos famous "heater"-the
cigar he constantly puffed from the
moment he awakened until he went
to sleep again-has been abandoned,
temporarily at least. After almost
a lifetime of furious smoking,
Frisco was ordered to slow up, and,
not able to handle the habit mod
erately, gave it up altogether. His
cigar and puffs of smoke were long
a part of his dance routine, but he
now uses an imitation cigar and
leaves the smoke to imagination.
New York's somewhat mysterious
first-nighter, the midlle-aged Mrs.
Katzenberg, is loyal this season to
the rather moribund legitimate
theatre. There are not as many
opening nights as there used to be,
but she does not miss those that
carry on. A bright blonde, swath-
ed in ermine, she has occupied first
row seats on the aisle at every
premiere for years. She has no
theatrical alliances, is the wife of a
business man and is merely an ad-
mirer of the theatre and it's illu-
sions. She never exchanges word
with the others in the first night
crowd. most of whom know each
other intimately. All producers in
clude her on the must lists for those
who are mailed seats and promptly
return checks. There are not many
for most of the first night crowd
comes in free.
The mems bar at the Waldorf has
become the uptown meeting place
for the tired business man before
he goes home for dinner Just as
was the old Waldorf bar on 34th
street. But there isn't the CANA
raderie of the days when the big
CITIES drank old fashioneds or rye
straight, sWapped Pullman car De-
Camerons, perhaps huddled in song
and maybe phoned home they were
delayed at the office. The New
Waldorf crowd INDUCES a thin
sherry, Dubonnet or something else
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19
The Wrong Way
To 90 About 1t

Imperial county has seen two exam
pies of labor union activity within the
last two weeks; two examples which
demonstrated better than anything else
could the right and the wrong way to
go about achieving what~labOr deserves
or wants.
The righ t way was demonstrated
when common laborers struck on the
Peterson Job near Winterhaven last week
and won their strike within three days
without violence, without threats and
without i'll feelings. The wrong way was
demonstrated at Power Drop No. A this
week when union pickets attempted to
force non-union men to leave Job
merely because the union men wanted
that job organized.
In the Peterson strike, the union labor
ers had just grievance. But, over and
above that, their interest was conferred
in the jobs which they, themselves, had.
At the power plant site, there was no
just grievance-and the men who pick
eted the Job had not been working there,
and had no interest in the Job except to
see that it was unionized. The men who
were actually laboring on the job were
satisfied with wages and conditions;
they did not wish to strike. All they
asked was to be allowed to go on work
ing at their jobs.
1t is beyond our limited powers of
comprehension to understand how one
group of men can justify their desire
TO remove another group from job
merely because the second group is not
possessed of union cards. There is moth
ing just, nothing right, about it.
If man has complaint about the
conditions under which he works, he is
justified in voicing that complaint as
strongly as he can. If he has no COM
plant, then it seems logical that nobody
else should complain.
When the other person carries the
matter farther, however, and tries to
remove the uncomplaining laborer from
his job simply because he does not com
plain, the action smacks more of racket
eering than of legitimate union organ
iZation.
The people of Imperial county will
never interfere in any legitimate con-
troversy between labor and employers,
but the people cannot permit such strong
arm methods as those attempted at
Power Drop No. by outside labor or
ganiZers.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19
By O. o. Mcintyre
l-oet~ ~~@

light. Their talk seems cool AMI
CLASSY Men bow politely but there's
little treating. Instead of interest
in the last race at Pimlico, they
invariably discuss the political af-
fairs. 1t is a new generation grown
up lacking the abandon of the old
and taut as fiddle strings, as though
wondering just what.
A gentleman from Flemingsburg,
KY, writes of riding northward in a
New York sightseeing bus and of
the megaphonist at certain corner
shouting: "On the left is the apart
ment house home of the columnist
o. O. Mcintyre" And I have been
sitting at the front winlow trying
to look nonchalant practically ever
since.
SO many radio stars have to over
come the handicap of harsh sound
ing voices. H. v. Kaltenborn and
Fred Allen, for example. The most
irritating to my mind, and appar-
emily deliberately, are the yowlings
of Martha Raye It is no voice for
a home that likes peace and quiet
ude, yet radio Sum-ups indicate a
popularity. The most pleasant and
soothing male voice on stage or
radio is that of Herbert Marshall.
And my choice among the ladies
is the well-modulated tone of the
announcer Rosalind for that music
al program On the air called THE
Hour of Charm"
My finch from harsh voices is
doubtless a reaction from a year
or so of servitude under a man
aging editor Simon Legree, who
roared and pounded the desk for
no reason other than to show he
was boss. Every time he barked I
recoiled like lizard at sudden
| touch. Sinking. covering. So much
self respect did lose under his
despotism that with the last half
gill of courage I quit and came to
New York. So perhaps I owe him
a lot. Had. I remained I would
probably be the shriveled and tit
| tupy figure in the far corner desk
darting in and out rabbit-like, for
fear if the editor saw me he would
be reminded I was on the payroll
| and strike my name off. There's
one in every editorial room.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19

SU M M ONS
No. l77O3
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT Plaintiff
vs.
THOMAS HALL, ct al,
Defendants
Harry w. Horton and Geo. r..
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA SEND GREETINGS
TO:
Thomas Hall, also known as Thos.
Hall, Mable Stevenson Hall, also
known as Mable Stevens Hall, wife
of Thomas Hall, Adelaide Smith
Asa D. Stephens and Anna
Stephens, his wife, John Doe, Jane
Doe, Richard Roe, John Doe Com
pany, a Corporation, and Richard
Roe Company, co-partnership,
Defendants.
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED
to Appear ana answer tne COM
plant in an action entitled as
above, brought against you in the
Superior Court of the County of
Imperial, State of California, with
in ten. days after the service on
you of this Summons-if served
within this county; or within thirty
days If 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 COM
plant, as arising upon contract
or it will apply to the Courc for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this 18th day of June, 1887
(SEAD
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk
BY CITHA LAMSON,
Deputy Clerk
Nl2 10 26, D3 10 II "a 81, J7 IA.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19
You re Telling Ne -
By WILLIAM RIFT

A PENNSYLVANIA MEDICO
announces that shrill musical vi
bray ions may provide immunity
from disease. It's now the Big
Apple. it seems, which keeps the
doctor away.
News that Brazil has thrown
away her liberty, gone fascist
and placed herself in the hands
of dictator reminds. Zadok
Dumbkopf that that's the coun-
try where the nuts come, from.
The Duke of Windsor, we read,
has gone back to his daily golf
game to forget his troubles. There
by adding, as any golfer can tell
you, one more worry to his list.
A youthful sailor, composer OF
tunes for a musical comedy, wants
to get out of his navy enlistment.
It seems this COB has made up his
mind which kind of high C's he
prefers.
A southern fox hunter chased
his quarry in an auto instead of
on horseback. The animal es-
capped chiefly, we suppose, be-
cause he was a smart fox and not
a pedestrian.
Maybe Hitler and Mussolini are
-Napoleons, after all You've
-gots TO give them credit for one
thingAthey talk bigger victories
than the real Napoleon ever won.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19
Famous Sayings -

One of the most disconcerting
things about life is the way it will
toss an utterly unexpected chal-
lenge in q mans face every now
and then. Without the least warn
ing, it can present situation
which. in the twinkling of an eye,
will force man to reveal himself
for what he really is and not what
he thinks he is.
Consider, for instance, the thing
that happened the other day in Mt.
Clemens, Mich.
A young mother went into a
store to shop leaving her car park
ed at the curb with her 4-year-
was parked on an incline, and
somehow the brake became loose
ned; when the woman came out
of the store, she saw the car roll
ing toward river.
Two young men were standing
on the. street. She screamed to
them for help. They looked blank
ly at the moving car, said, What
can we do?'
WI IllCll iiNi
screams. They made for the river
without asking questions, went
right into it, and got the fright
ened 4-year-old out of the car un-
hurt, at some risk to themselves.
The whole business lasted per-
haps half a minute, from start
to finish. When that half-minute
began, there were four men on
the street. all of them, presum-
ably, reasonably we'll satisfied with
themselves. When the half-minute
ended, all four of them had been
through an acid test. Two of them
had flunked pretty badly, and
had-to carry with them the rest
of their lives-the uncomfortable
knowledge that they were neither
as brave nor as energetic as they
had supposed they were.
Now the point of this incident
is that like most of life's tests, it
came so unexpectedly that the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In and for the County of Imperial
SUMMONS
NO. 17614
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION Dis
TRICT, (Plaintiff)
VS..
MARY H. SCHLEY, EVA O.
SCHLEY, SECURITY TRUST AND
SAVINGS BANK, Etc, ct al, De-
fendants).
Harry w. Horton and George R.
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO: MARY H. SCHLEY.
EVA o. SCHLEY, SECURITY
TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK, a
banking corporation, ustee,
CHARLOTTA r. SCHLEY, J. L.
LUNDY, INTERSTATE COTTON
OIL COMPANY, a corporation, AL
FRED D. BEDFORD, TITLE
GUARANTEE AND TRUST COM
PANY, Trustee, a Corporation,
THE POMONA INVESTMENT
COMPANY, a Corporation, THEO-
DORE D. TURNER, LOUIS j.
REDMAN. GEORGE A. STEWART,
JOHN DOE, JANE DOE, RICH
ARD ROE, JOHN DOE COMPA-
NY, a Corporation, and RICHARD
ROE COMPANY, a co-partnership,
Defendants.
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED
TO APPEAR and answer the Com
plant in an action entitled as
above, brought against you in the
Superior Court of the County OF
Imperial, State of California, with
in ten days after the service on
you of this Summons-if served
within this county; or within thirty
days if 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 COM
plant, as arising upon contract, or
it will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this 21st day of April, 1887
w. j. McCLELLAND,
(SeaD County Clerk.
tILr 'IS tS II OF q 90 CT GIN
Deputy Clerk.
O 10 20 37 N 3 10 II "a. d / 8.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19
TWENTY YEARS AGO
IN rnr-

J. D. johnson, manager of the
Varney brothers store is receiving
congratulations over the arrival of
an eight pound girl.
Charles Barry, former assistant
in the office of the irrigation dis
trict's tax collector, has been COM
missioned first lieutenant in the
Signal.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19
Looking Backward
In Our Files
IHIR j I fEARS AGO
November 10 1907

The L. l.. Ryan company of Los
Angeles is advertising for valley
turkeys. The coast company will
pay 1919 cents a pound
The fifth case of death from
what appears to be wood alcohol,
mixed with other ingredients and
sold in Mexicali under the name
of Mescal, occurred in Imperial to-
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19
TEN YEARS AGO
NOvember ID. 1927

An interesting bit of service has
been extended to realtors through
out southern California, according
to o. G. Horne, manager of the
Ell Centro branch of the Los An
geles First National Bank
The bank has mailed to thous-
ands Of real estate men copies of
the standard form. ''Real Estate
Sales Deposit Receipts and Con-
tract.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19

Webb, M a u r y
Paul, Milton Berle
a n d Ri C h a r d
Watts, Jr. Every
where Japs with
cameras. Try ko-
daking in their
country and see
. what.
Add t a k e r S
t h r ou G h their
teeth: c a u d e
Rains and Robert
Donat. GroWn-up
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19
S u nj NJ o N S
No 17k0O

NO. ItOUS
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT, Plaintiff
vs.
BERNICE SHAW, MARJORIE
SHAW. ct al, Defendants.
Harry W. Horton and Geo. r.
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO:
BERNICE SHAW, MARJORIE
SHAW, HELEN SHAW, VIRGINIA
E. SHAW, IRVING H. SHAW, Mrs.
OTTILIA EBERLI and JOHN DOE
EBERLI, JOHN DOE, JANE DOE,
RICHARD ROE, JOHN DOE CON-
PANY. a Corporation, and RICH
ARD ROE COMPANY, a Co-part-
nership, Defendants
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED
TO APPEAR and answer the Com
plant, as arising upon contract, or
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 If
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 COM
plajnt in an action entitled as above,
plaintiff will apply to the Court
for any other relief demanded in
the Complaint.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this 10th day of April, 1887.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk
BY CITHA LAMSON,
(SEAL) Deputy Clerk.
o % 20, N s 10 10 26. y 3 10 IL "a.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19
New York. Day by Day

NEW YORK, Nov. ly-ThoughtS
while strolling: Something in some
thing or other-A week named for
a movie star. Mama boys: Clifton
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19
One Minute Test Answers

OIfC-IhTuVC HCot "'SWVHo
/. Sumner Welles, formerly US.
ambassador to Cuba.
2. Brazil is larger; it has a total
area of 3,285,319 square miles. Con-
tinental United States has an area
of 3,026,789 square miles.
8. The science of the natural
history of man.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19

keWpleS. WOOl-O. ~. mcintyre
worth Donohue and Lisle Bell
Worn-out Broadway phrase: "How
10 you like that?" Eve Symington,
once the only society cafe singer
But now look! Justice Black, alas,
alackl
No. girliSh-l looking grandmother:
Mrs. Jay OBrien. Babe Ruth's nick
name for everybody is Butch-even
Chief Justice Hughes. Tops in color
full newspapermen: Gene Fowler.
And I'll take the Joe Rhines Or
chestra for a waltz with Shelia
Barrett Lion-heart of the era:
Prosecutor Dewey.
New free show: The fancy lunch
time millinery at the Colony. For
Gelett BurgessS look II years
younger: Cecil B. DeMille. Two
things about the Marx Brothers
YOU either like or can't bear them.
The William Rhinelander Stewards
look like you expect socialites to
look
Stokowski knots mean muffler,
too And not many fellows can
give a silk hat that certain tamp
like Cole Porter. Or make their
white tie ends flare out just so like
Ronald Colman. The book critic
Herschel Brickell's name sounds like
triple jump in checkers,
When Wesley w Stout knew
definitely he was to take over the
editorship of the Saturday Evening
Post, following the retirement of
the late George Horace Lorimer,
he decided to brush up on his
literary background before the
actual duties began. He wanted to
do a lot of reading and historical
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

OTIC-NIHIuCC ICSC
l. Who is U. S. undersecretary
of state?
2. Which is larger, Brazil or the
United States.
3. What is anthropology?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19
Hints on Etiquette

It Is well to remember That when
greeting people in public, a quiet,
unobtrusive manner shows good
breeding.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19
Photographs

The great bell at Mingun, ten
miles from Mandalay, is said to
be the largest in the world.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19

A human hair would have to be
split four times TO fit between
the piston and cylinder wall of a
new modern automobile engine.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19
TOday's Horoscope

A sunny disposition is possessed
by most persons whose birthday
occurs today Optimism helps them
win life's battles.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-19
Words of Wisdom

Words of Wisdom
In all science error precedes the
truth, and it is better it should go
first than last. Walpole.
Evening star., 1937-11-30
.rnment relief, food shortages are less

ernment relief, food shortages are less
serious.
"Bikaner has no permanently fiow-
ing rivers. though there are two stream
courses which carry water short dis
tances during the rainy season, only
to be lost In the sands. A few shallow
salt lakes fill up with water during
the rains, but become dry when hot
weather sets In, leaving on their beds
only thick crust of salt which Is
gathered for home use or sold.
"The ground water table in Bikaner
is from $50 to 800 feet below the
surface and the meager water supply
is drawn from wells going down to
these depths. Some of the wells are
lined with camel bones to reinforce
their sides.
Canals and irrigation works, bring
ing water to thousands Of parched
acres, have provided famine tnsur-
ance' for parts of Bikaner in recent
years and made the country some
what less dependent on the scanty
rainfall, averaging less than IL inches
per year. The Bikaner Gang Canal
declared to be the longest lined canal
in the world, Is intended to irrigate
1,100 square miles Of farm land. Its
bed and sides are paved with con-
crete for "a miles to prevent seepage
OF water.
Parts of Northern Bikaner lie in
Evening star., 1937-11-30
|R|vERLESS LAND
| STAGES JUBILEE
Area in Northwest India
Honors Maharajah on
His Anniversary.

The land without rivers" Bikaner
state, parched, sandy, almost tree
less, region in the northwestern in
terror OF India, Is celebrating the
golden jubilee of its Maharajah. For
so years, since Queen Victoria's time,
he has ruled from his stone walled
capital city. advised and aided by
British emissaries.
"Bikaner, with nearly 1000 900
people and the size OF West Vir-
ginia, is to large extent desert, but
each summer, after the rains moisten
its sandy, water-starved soil, this
desert literally blossoms and makes
life possible in the region" says a
National Geographic Society bulletin.
I'm former times, when the slender
rainfall periodically failed to be suf-
f1cient to coax grass and crops from
the soil, famine was a much feared
scourge in Bikaner. During one Of
the worst famines, in 1869, the state
lost one-third of its people through
starvation or emigration and nine
tenths of its cattle, some estimates
say.
Are Less Serious.
Famine formerly was expected
about once every 10 years. Nowadays,
with the aid of irrigation and gov
Evening star., 1937-11-30
GOV. EARLE SHIFTS
HIS RELIEF PROBE
Investigation Is Moved to
Pittsburgh-Secretary of
Bureau Accused.
" the Assoctstsd prAss

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 3O.--Gov.
Earle's investigation into charges Of
politics and inef1ciency' in State
relief shifted to Western Pennsyl-
vania today. \
Deputy Attorney General Harry
Margolis arranged to be in the county
Office building throughout the day to
give any person chance to testify
on unemployment relief, old age as
sistance, mothers assistance and
pensions for the blind.
Investigators of the Governors
committee hearing charges brought
against Karl De Schweinitz, secretary
of the department Of assistance, by
Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller, national
Democratic committeewoman, were
reported checking operation of the
mothers fund.
On advice Of his Investigators, Gov
Earle may either retain De Schweinitz
or discharge him from his $4,000 a
year post. De Schweinitz one-time
Republican, has been backed by pri-
vate relief and welfare agencies.
In 1898 the work Of 66 county poor
boards will be taken over by the State
department.
The latest attack on De Schweinitz
was made yesterday while the inves-
tigation was being conducted in Al
toona. Mrs. Rose Calabrese, one Of
five Democratic-sponsored depart
| mont op,pIo, &c d;ecbo rcnd Novar,bor
10, charged the Governor was de
stroying faith and support Of liberals
by retaining De Schweinitz.
She said the relief administrator
denoted her as division head and
replaced her with ten major jobs
paying from $2,100 to $4,000, to say
nothing about the Is or 80 clerks now
doing the same work"
State Representative William A.
Shaw wrote the committee in Harris
burg yesterday to demand an investi-
CATION of De Schweinitz's past and
present connections with the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania School of Social
Work.
He asked that the committee check
reports that several members Of De
Schweinitz's staff 'are also in the
employ of the school. - 1t should
also be determined whether these
De Schweinitz Kay people collect
dual compensation for such work."
he wrote.
Today's session is the first in West
ern Pennsylvania. Tomorrows hear
ing will be held at Erie.
Evening star., 1937-11-30

the great indian Desert and large
areas Of the country are covered with
undulating sand hills from 20 to 100
feet high, furrowed by the wind. But
after the rains in July and August
grass springs to life and large num-
bers Of the people make their livings
as herders Of cattle, sheep, horses and
camels. Soldiers Of Bikaners Camel
Corps have fought for England in
somaliland, Egypt. Palestine and
China.
Rules From Walled City.
Like q medieval king OF old, Bika-
ner's maharajah. Sir Ganga Singhji
Bahadur, 21st Of his line, rules his
thirsty country from . walled city.
A stone wall feet thick, IS to 30
feet high and three and one half miles
in circumference surrounds the cap
ttal, also named Bikaner. Carpets,
blankets and sugar candy are noted
products Of the city. Blankets are