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Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-20
THE ROAD
TO PLENTY

Beef prices have scared 10 to 70 per
cent in the last month. Clothes and
household goods are going up. Purchas-
ing power of the dollar, on economist
Irving Fishers index, last week dropped
II points to LII, compared with l15.5
a monh ago and 1855 year ago
In the home where every penny counts
toward making ends meet and where
things have been more cheerful of late
because there is little more coming IN,
one can almost hear the housewife say
ing, "Now if only prices will stop rising,
everything will be all right.
And all unconsciously, this housewife
is voicing an economic profundlty at
the core of warning issued the other
day by the nations most erudlte eco
nomists-the heads of far-famed Brook
ings Institution.
Recovery will collapse, they said, un-
less it is based on ''the preservation OF
the generally favorable ratio of prices
and wage rates placing emphasis up
on price reductions as means OF carry
ing the benefits of chronological prog
ress to all groups within the nation
In other words, produce more and dis
tribute more, with the increased effl-
cheney that lowers costs of producing
and distributing, thereby expanding the
buying ability of the consumer, thus in
turn raising his standard of living.
Isn't this the road to permanent plen-
ty? In production, We saw the method
work when Henry Ford started mass
efficiency output of multitudes of autos
In distribution, we've seen it work as
door-to-door peddllng mas given way to
modern, ultra-efficient, large scale re-
failing that expands the producers mar
ket and gives more to the consumer for
less.
In this land of plenty where we have
all the facilities to produce and distri-
butte flowing abundance for everyone
mankind has not yet mastered the me-
thod He will, someday.
Meantime our leading economists put
their finger on the real problem. 1t is
not overproduction. 1t is underconsump-
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-20
THE LAST
WATERFRONT STRIKE

Once the ports of California are open
again to commerce, you may be sure
of one thing. They will stay open. Never
again will the State be tied up in knots
by long, drawn out maritime dead
lock-
The reason is that the people are de-
ermined it shall not happen again.
Throughout California they have felt
the disastrous effects-closed plants,
blockaded crops, and general disrup-
ton from stoppage of imports and en-
ports normally worth S120,000,000
month And the peoples movement
is under way, both in Congress and the
Legislature, in the form of bills to set
up machinery insuring permanent peace.
What will finally emerge is still
question. But the machinery considered
fairest to all parties is a permanent
body like the National Mediation Board
which operates so successfully for the
railroads.
This board has functioned for ten
years without a serious rail tieup. When
a dispute arises, it assists in mediation;
if that fails it offers arbitration; if that
is refused it appoints an emergency
board, and not for 80 days thereafter
can walkout occur These three steps
inevitably bring settlement, without CO.
ercion anywhere.
Too long has Government transpor-
tation policy dealt solely with railroads.
Some of it is good as in this case; mucn
of it is bad, as in the case OF rate-freez-
ing edicts that squash initiative. There
is urgent need for equalizing. The bad
regulation should be taken off railways;
the good should be applied also to air
ways, highways, waterways.
But whether ship strike settling ma
chinery comes as part of national trans
portation policy or in some other way,
it will come. This is the last of the big
maritime deadlocks. The people won't
stand for another.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-20
News Behind the News
Small Change For Americans -. Ihe
Mints Run OUertime Com PrO-
ducfion Hits NeU High

WAsHINGToN.-The minis are running "a
hours day to keep up with the demand OF
Americans for change.
ty Act and the way its old-age benefits phase
makes the pay of salaried workers come out
in odd cents three-shift production mas contl-
nued right on after Christmas. Usually the
rnints are able to let down quite bit after the
pre- Christmas trade Is over
Production of coins in 1886 broke all records
except for 1919 and 1887 promises to turn OUT
more than ever. Mint officials would ike 10
give their men and machines rest, but be
lieve they may have to keep on that 24-hor
schedule for many more months
It's too early to estimate yet how much the
demand for coins is being jumped by the securl-
tv act The continued heavy demand IN the
last year is attributed chiefly to the business
pickup, increased employment and mgher wages
and payments to WPA, CCC, and similar work
ers who spend half dollars, quarters, dimes
nickels and cents with considerable velocity
Last year. the mint reports. it coined 1881
900 pieces of money, as compared WIN ooo'-
100000 in 1895 and 738,642.O0o in 1919.
BY far the biggest increase was In ncKeS,
production of which nearly doubled-8OOOOOO0
in 1885 and 158,000000 last year. In 1896 the
mint also made 379,00O000 cents, 1l3,OOOO0O
dimes 50OO0000 quarters, 2l,0OO.O00 half DOL
lars. and no silver dollars, the 3,54O,OOO silver
dollars it made in 1885 having sufficed to date
Sooner or later all these coins will be lost
or worn to the point whe1e banks will turn
them back to the Treasury for melting
Senator Prentiss M. Brown of Michigan re-
calls story told by the late Senator James
Couzens a few months before he died.
He told me Of the sale of his stock in the
Ford Motor Company some Is or 20 years ago."
SAYS Brown "A friend, John Lodge, who was
afterward mayor of Detroit was shown the
check for s29 100000 by the senator, with some
degree of pride.
Mr. Couzens said, John. what do you think
of that check?' Mr.. Lodge replied, Let me
carry it around for while, will you?
Mr. Couzens let him have the check. He
brought it back the next day and said, do you
know how much it cost you to let me carry
that check around for day? At the bank
interest about S2400 day-sl00 an hour
Brown said Mr. CouZens, I did not real
ize how much money it was until then"
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace picked up
his private telephone to the White House the
other day and, when strange masculine voice
answered. asked TO speak to Miss Margaret Le-
Hand as is customary when anyone wants to
talk to the president.
Miss LELAND is busy just now Wallace
was told. but maybe I'll do. What is it?'
This is Secretary Wallace said the cab-
net member, Who are you?"
Then Roosevelt stopped Disgusting his voice
and told him.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-20
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF HEARING TO
ESTABLISH BIRTH

NO. EI3l
In the Superior Court of the State
of California, In and For the
County of Imperial.
In the Matter of the Petition of
CATALINA GUERRA GRIMA, to
establish the birth of
HELEN GUERRA DHILLON.
Notice is hereby given that CAT
ALMA GUERRA GRIMA has filed
a petition in the above entitled
Court to establish the birth OF
HELEN GUERRA DHILLON. Said
petition will be heard before the
above entitled Court on Friday, the
29th day of January, 1887, at the
hour of 200 O'Clock P. M. of said
date, at which time any perscn in
terested may appear and show cause,
if any they have, why an ORDER
should not be made establishing the
birth of Helen Guerra Dhillon.
Reference is hereby made TO said
petition for further particulars.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk
of the Superior Court, Imperial
County
DOROTHY S. REYNOLDS.
Deputy Clerk.
(SeaD J18-28inc.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-20

NEW YORK, Jan. 20.-There's a
raucous horse ma, ha in New York
| social circles for the London insin-
uations that some of Manhattan's
gay set have caused an erosion in
British aristocratic circles. All the
town knows how tie monocled fops
| and buck -toothed feminine phoneys
have been digging in over here.
AS the acerbic society scribbler,
Nancy Randolph, points out, pack
of Burke's Peerage folk have been
making racket in the metropolis of
titles for several years. 1t is motor
ious they have become house guest
| pests not only on Long Island but
at the great Palm Beach estates.
And that they accept everything
and give nothing-not even tipping
the servants when they depart. They
are of course no more representa-
tive of the true Britisher than our
cocktail swigging hussies who go on
| the loose when they land in perfidi-
Gus Albion.
Also, it is quite patent that social
climbers who could never make the
grade in New York's 400 take the
social hurdles in jaunty heigh no in
London. just now, indeed, one of
Americas top heiresses, with two
titles to her credit, is on the Big
Social Time over there. She at
tanned only cafe society in the met
ropolis.
A quiet exit from the silent screen
world in which she was so long
/ bright particular star was made by
the popular Beverly Bayne. She
has never attempted to bask in the
glow of the celebrity once hers.
Instead. she is devoted to her son,
| works of charity and is of a re-
iigious turn. She keeps in touch by
mail and personal visits with scores
with whom she was associated in
ltriumphal days-scores not so for
| tunate.
| The Master of Ceremony intro
| duetion nuisance has about run its
course. The better class cafes that
once suffered the M. C. have thumbs
| doWned The truth is that real cell
ebrit.es did not like the invasion OF
| their privacy when out to relax. and
| most of those asked to take bow
were the phoney's. So great was the
annoyance that one floor show has
q prominent display line in its news
| paper ads and over its portals:
mo master Of ceremony
| %
It was the late Arthur Brisbane,
think, who years ago punctured
the conceit of newspaper writer's
who thought their output enduring.
He wrote: "Today's newspaper stuff
] starts tomorrow's fires"
l called on a friend recently.
Once affluent he has had bad
breaks. An accident confined him
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-20
CALIFORNIA;
FORGOTTEN MAN

Jobs are more plentiful, payrolls are
larger, depression is fading and the hor-
izon ahead is bright. But there is still
a forgotten man in America. Who is he?
Walk up to the average citizen and
ask him this question, and nine chances
out of ten his first three guesses will
be wrong. The forgotten man is not the
one who is still on relief, the wandering
transient, or the one who is crippled or
blind. These are being remembered, in
headlines, in editorials, and in legisla-
tive chambers.
Actually, the forgotten man is the
average citizen himself.
He is the man who earns moderates
salary, owns or perhaps is still paying
for his home has small car and may
be two or three children. He is the man
who pays his taxes uncomplainingly,
works cheerfully at his job, is thankful
he is an American, and trusts that ev-
erything will come out all right event
ually.
He is the man who belongs to no fac
tion''. who is not out trying to change
<Innuxxon1d oYerniQht. or to grab al ns
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-20

II the idea back of reorganiza-
tion of the federal governments
machinery is TO save lot of money.
President Roosevelt's plan is a
lemon. If the idea is to enable
Uncle Sam to do his job with less
lost motion, the plan may be a
pretty good one.
So before we start to praise or
to criticise the plan, we ought to
get straight in our own minds the
things we expect such reorganiza-
ton to accomplish.
And before we get through. we
are apt to find out that what is
chiefly at stake is the old, old argu-
ment about the amount of work
which the federal government
ought to do.
The money to be saved by re-
organizing government bureaus and
departments will be little more
than cheese-paring unless some Of
them, and their functions, can be
abolished in toto.
If you believe that the govern
ment ought to cut down on its
activities and let go Of a lot of the
levers, you have some real savings
in sight; if you believe that the
government must play a steadily
increasing part in the life of the
country, you're going to be able to
save very little.
Now it is worth RENE mbering
that a good deal of the criticism of
the expenses of federal administra-
ton in the past has come from
people who were really interested
In clearing the way for rugged in
dividualism, rather than in econ
omy.
That worked out like this. Sup
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-20
Strolls Thru HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 20. U.p)-
Shows Of the week 49,.
Fire Over England London
Films
Again Alexander Korda. whose
Private Life of Henry VIII" put
English PICTURES in the big time
three years ago, shows Hollywood
how to handle costume drama.
Picture is probably the best of
it's kind since Charles Laughton
played Henry" and is sure to be
hailed as one of the outstanding
films of the year.
Korda and Stephen Pallos, iaunty
little general manager of London
films, executed an obvious tour de
force by bringing the show to Grau-
mans gaudy Chinese theater, right
in HollyWood's backyard, for it's first
public previeW.
Story is a young, vivid romance,
subtly subjected to history of Philip
of Spain's projected invasion OF
England in 1888, his conflict with
Queen Elizabeth, and the defeat
of the "invineible" Spanish armada.
Historical detail is suggested with
nice restraint, never going over
board for the sake of spectacle, and
the whole is treated with some Of
the finest photography the English
have yet shown us. 1t is only in the
brief and somewhat muddled sea-
fight sequence, rather ineXpertly
done with miniatures, that the ILL
usion bogs down.
Outstanding performance is that
of Flora Robson as Elizabeth" II
lacks the prominence of Laughton's
work as Henry VIII" but is every
bit as good.
Laurence Oliver and Vivian Leigh
are fresh and appealing in the
romantic leads, while Tamara Desni,
Leslie Banks. Herbert Lomas, Char
les Carson, Robert Rendell and
Bobby Newton stand out in other
roles.
Pace is slow in spots and the
ending is probably due for some
tinkering-there are at least three
spots where it might properly fade
out-but it is safe to say this one
is superior to any costumer Holly
wood has done.
We're on the Jury" (RKO-Ra-
dio).
A "B" production boosted well out
Of the "B" class by the improving
Helen Broderick-Victo Moore COM
edy team.
Brisk dialogue and clowning of
Broderick and Moore turn the trick,
for the story is vintage in spots and
none too novel at best.
Picture centers in a jury room
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-20
Other Editors Say
EMPLOYMENT KEPT IN SEPT
The New York Sum

One of the charges frequently made against
industry is that it has largely recovered from
the depression without passing on the benefits
OF this recovery to labor 1t Is charged that
machinery since 1929, and that this machinery
has enabled industry to raise production mark
edly in the last few years and operate with
fewer workers, and that this has caused un-
employment. The labor union bosses have MADE
this charge more than once. 1t was made with
great emphasis several years ago by the tech
nocrats 1t is still made by members OF the
Roosevelt Administration. But the annual re-
port of Secretary. of Commerce Roper, just Is
sued reveals the falsehood of the charge
On page of this report appears table
showing index figures of major economic chang
es in the sixteen years since 1920 This table
reveals that in 1886 industrial production in
the United States was not quite % per cent
below the level of 1929 production and that
factory employment in 1896 was % per cent
below the level of 1929 employment. The same
table reveals that since 1882 industrial produc-
ton increz6ed 81 per cent, while factory pay
rolls increased more than 80 per cent in the
same period, in spite Of a rise in wholesale
prices, rise which is paid first of all by
industry. In other words, this table in the
nual report of Secretary Roper reveals that
pay rolls have not Jagged far behind production
and that employment has paralleled the de-
cline in production from 1929
IT is untrue that since 1929 industry has
been able to make phenomenal increases in
production which have cauBed great lag in
re-employment The fantastic stories of labor
saving achieved by American industry since
1929 are. based on improvements in few
indistry and which have not been able to dis
charge sticn an enormous number of workers
that EMPLOYMENT figures of the Department OF
Commerce would show the result
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-20
on Sol says
FRANK WATANABE
V=1 LNr nrN
SPAIN
BY ED HOLDEN

SPAIN
The Civic War in Spain is similar to
the U. S. Civic War Remember when
the North & South?
Them days. if some Nation butt-in to
OUR family war we would acquire
a very wet hen expression.
So let Us butt-out of it.
And | thinking we must asking all
nations to do ditto. Nobody knows what
Spain are fighting for anyhow! They
do not knowing themselves Maybe at
first they do But they are digging IN
so much their cause are lost on the
shovels.
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-20

to cramped Walk-up in shabby
tenement district. Yet among the
somewhat submerged he found a
kind neighborlipesS he never knew
existed. Each evening someone
sends in a ready cooked meal. His
bed room is filled with gaudily cheap
paper flowers and every day there
is a caller to know if he cannot act
as nurse for the night. He has been
profoundly touched and found a
strange happiness.
j. P. Morgan, like his father, who
imported one and two dollar cigars
from Havana, is lover of the pipe.
He has notable collection and
there is always one in easy reach.
His quest for pipes is one OF the
few tugs that take him on personal
shopping expeditions. He likes to
stroll among his flowers putting
away
Thingumbobs: Hitler's favorite
breakfast dish is stewed prunes, well
chilled Frank Markey's spea-
tacular job of establishing Rube
Golbergs new cartoon series knock
ed his arthritis sky high Not
many know that the Sullivan of Gil
bert and Sullivan wrote Onward
Christian Soldiers" Charles
Francis Coe is one of Gene Tun-'
ney's closest friends -. Brooklyn
already has a cafe named Tor
Burleigh Grimes, the new manager
of the Dodgers Gary Cooper
gives favored friends those $15-a-
throw giraffe skin gloves.
never pass the inspiring and gi-
gantic spire known as the Empire
without recalling young coon
hunter Squire Mauck used to tell
about from back in our Ohio hills
who went to the State Fair in Col
umbus and visited the new capitol
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-20

where a motley dozen jurors debat-
ing verdict in a murder case, Brod-
erick, as usual playing a fluttery but
shrewd lady of a certain age, and
Moore a straight stooge bit.
Jury eventually bobs up with ac-
curate solution of the crime, high
spot of the action being comic
reenactment of the crime on the
original location.
Robert McWade sets pace with
burlesque of judge going slowly
mad under harrassng tactics of his
odd jury. Philip Huston, Louise
Latimer, Billy Gilbert and Leonid
Kinskey score in lesser parts.
Cutting room scraps: Eugene
Leontovich, MRS. Gregory RatofD
who starred in Broadway's Grand
Hotel took her first screen test
at Warmers Dorothy Lamour
back after a flying visit to Chicago
and her bandleader- husband Her.
bic Kaye :. Clark Gable and w. S.
Van Dyke impressed their .expen-
sive brogans in the cement at
Grauman's Chinese theater for the
benefit OF posterity :. Joan Craw-
ford is recovering from flu
Frank Morgan opened furniture
store at Palm Springs.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-20
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
tell of Imperial. Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years. 49,.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
January 20. 1912

With mercury getting down to
about 45 degrees each morning and
to 70 during the day, con-
ditions could not be more perfect
for comfort in the valley
Men and boys with dogs. are to
have a coyote dinner today in the
district north of Holtville. Last Sat-
urday a coyote drive was held on
the Shaw ranch and though sew
eral coyotes were scared up none
were captured.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-20
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Jaruarv 2O. 1917

Miss Wilson, deputy in the office
of County Clerk Major Cook, re-
sumed her office duties this morn
ing after a serious illness.
E. E. Main OF Holtville was in
El Centro yesterday.
j. M. Edmunds, Irrigation District
director from Calexico attended the
district meeting held in Ell Centre
this morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-20

one else.
He is the man who stands by hope
fully while various groups fight for this
or that; and whichever side wins, it is
usually he who foots most of the bill.
Meet Mr.. Average Citizen, the for
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-20
New York Day by Day
By Q. Q. Mcintyre
By Williams

building. After a reverent inspec-
ton of its enormity, he remarked to
his similarly bewildered' father:
"Dadburn it, Pap, wouldn't she
hold a wad of hay?"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-20
GRAB BAG
One Minute Test


! When was gold first discov-
cred in California?
2. Who wrote The Wonderful
One Hoss Shay?
3. Give the full name OF the Ia
Dor body known as the c. l.. Q.
Words Cf Wisdom
II you really want thing well
done, 20 ask busy man. The
other kind never has the time
Ebert Hubbard.
Hints ON Etiquette
The new etiquette does not look
with favor upon stilted speech. The
first law of good speech is to say
the natural, spontaneous thing in
natural, spontaneous way
| Today's Horoscope
If your birthday is today, you
are generally inclined to be level
headed. You may be noted for your
ability TO keep condolences.
0ue-Minute TeEt Answers
]. In l848.
| 2. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
8. Committee for Industrial Or
4 81
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-20
TEN YEARS AGO
I,px,apr, on 1907


Enforcement of the child labor
and school laws yesterday resulted
in fines for several residents in the
Calipatria district.
Earl G. Pound and Ira Aten, cam
didates for reelection as directors
OF the Imperial Irrigation District,
will be unopposed at the election
which will be held Feb. 2.
Notice is hereby given by the
Board of Supervisors of the county
of Imperial that the bounty hereto
fore paid by the county OF Imperial
for the destruction of gophers and
muskrats in Imperial county will
be discontinued and no bounty will
be paid after Tuesday, Feb. l.
Bulgaria, a predominantly agri-
cultural nation, escaped the curse
of unemployment during the recent
worldwide depression.
X II
Statisticians claim the average
American woman uses three times
her weight in cosmetics during her
life.
According to Herodotus, gold and
silver coins were first used by Ly-
dians about the sixth century B. G.
George Washington's second in
augural address contained only l34
words.
Evening star., 1937-05-14
T.V. A. SUES BERRY
IN LAND DISPUTE
Bureau Seeks to Condemn Sena-
tors Mineral Rights
on Tract.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. May 14.-The
Tennessee Valley Authority filed suit
against United States Senator George
L. Berry and others in Federal Court
yesterday to condemn their mineral
rights on 80 tracts Of land in the Norris
Reservoir area.
Owners Of the property filed claims
against the Authority several months
ago for 81 ,633 900.
Before his appointment as junior
Senator from Tennessee last week
Berry issued statement in which he
said he and associates owned valuable
marble in land purchased by the r.
V. A. and now covered by Norris Lake.
He charged the T. v. A. "conflscated
my property without compensation or
effort to settle the matter"
The T. v. A. in its petition said It
has negotiated for the purchase Of the
mineral rights, but that owners re
fused to convey at price deemed fair
and reasonable"
United States District Judge 0eorne
c. Taylor will appoint q commission
Of three to hear evidence and fix Z
value.