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Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09

Three years ago our benign and
fatherly government furnished the
nation with more abundant laugh
by announcing a scheme to criSa-
cross the western plains with great
shelter of young and hopeful trees.
On plains where trees never grew,
trees were to grow by the thousands
and the hundreds of thousands, in
long windrows reaching from Can
ada to Mexico. DroughtS would be
checked. dust storms would be kill
ed in infancy, and the grateful
shade of these trees would make
the west blossom like the rose.
This announcement touched off
wide blast of ridicule. Plant trees
where nature obviously had meant
no trees to exist? Conjure rain out
Of the skies with a row of spindly
saplings? The trees wouldn't live,
and they wouldn't do any good if
they did live. Here was a boom
doggle land do you remember that
wordO on scale to make all other
boondoggles look sick.
The government went ahead with
the job, in spite of the laughter,
until Congress finally refused to
appropriate any more money for it;
and just the other day the United
Press wires carried a little story
telling how this luckless shelter
belt looks now.
The funny part of it is that this
much derided project looks pretty
good
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09
Bruce Cation Says:>-
Tree Belts BoondoggIe That May Prove Boon

Today there are 1877 miles oil
shelter strips. Government workers
planted an average of TAO trees TO
the acre: despite sever droughs
since the planting, an average oil
$50 trees to the acre have survived.
These trees now range around 20
feet or more in height, and u. S.
Forest Service experts declare flatly
that the shelter belt, as far as it
goes, is success.
Experience gained thus far i'll
shelter belt and windbreak plant
ing" says Forest Service bulletin,
demonstrates the value of this type
of work in the great plains region
where an urgent necessity exists for
an extensive tree-planting pro-
gram"
Carlos G.. Bates. silviculturist for
the Lake States Forest experiment
Station. points out that an effective
windbreak such as a belt of trees
will cut wind velocity from 10 to
SO per cent for a distance 80 times
as great as the windbreak's height.
A belt of trees 65 feet high there
fore, would cut Wind velocity for
upwards a third of mile-and,
to that extent, would stop dust
storms at the source.
Congress might very profitably
give more thought to this shelter
belt. Apparently it is not so funny
as we once supposed. 1t is perfect
obvious that something needs to be
done to conserve the soil of the
plains states; the shelter belt seems
to be as good something" as any
one has yet suggested.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09
Editorials and Comment
FRIDAY, APRIL g. 1887
a on Sol SAYS
* CRANK WATANABE
HURRAH / HOPE
BY ed HOLDEN


Hark up! Fountain for youth are
here! Entitled "heavy water" Professor
in Columbia university have invented it.
And now ready to using. He say it will
slowing down your anatomy and you
shall living half as fast if you drinking
some In other verbs, you will exist
twice as long without any exhaust. Not
fooling say the Professor.
*
My Goodness, all sort of thing are
getting invented by the medicine pro-
fession pretty soon they shall be able
to curing a cold.
y
Will those water working upon auto
driver Professor? Will it making drivers
go swiftly with half fast? Thereby per-
mitting ownselfs and innocent by-prod-
ucts to living twice long? Will it operat
ing at cocktail parties and slowing all
gulpers to glide home with a medium
wobble? If they using that heavy water
to chase with? Please inform to me Pro-
fessor, because | are invited at one
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09

and decorated their cream and
pinked little place accordingly. No
one was ever turned away at the
Colony but those who did not
belong" found themselves parked
behind bouquet of palm or a
convenient post. If they didn't like
it, they could leave or never return
which was tfe idea. Nothing makes
a certain brand of New Yorkers so
itchy to get in as to be unWanted.
Sidney Franklin, Brooklyn bull
fighter, is reputed to have made a
cool million in his several years as
a matador. He is to have one more
season flourishing the cape and
retire to his enormous Mexican
ranch to breed ring bulls. Franklin,
who Hemingway named one of the
three most courageous bull fighters.
began life as magazine illustrator
and was regarded by many as bit
of sissy. All of which shows you
to Spain with Hemingway. o, yes,
never can tell. He is now ON trip
he likes to knit.
X \
Trigger stuff: Near the public
library double deck bus drew up
with a grind of brakes after knock
ing down harried old gentleman.
The victim finally sat up bewildered
and exclaimed: Where am ~" And
according to Bide Dudley, a curb
haWker stepped out and cried:
Here you are, sir. Map of New
York-10 cents"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK. April 9-Thoughts
while strolling; Lee Shubert is a
white haired boy now and no
foolin Remembered portraits: Ben
Ali Haggin's of Mrs. Harrison
Williams and Weyman Adams's of
Dresser Sleighbell name: Linton
Won Bereldingen. Command to
w. c. Fields: Get back on the
screen, fela.
Simie: AS embarrassed as
maSseur with lumbago. Nobody can
look at and not see you like one of
those uppity theatre box office men.
John Horgan features a dove gray
shirt and deep purple tie. Who
remembers when fashionables went
all the way to st. Moritz to ski?
Isham Jones looks more like
second baseman on the Keokuk
team than a crack orchestra leader
Broadway's idea of a good cry:
Listening to wailing song by Belle
Baker. Tough job: Warden Lawes
who opposes capital punishment
has had to watch l60 electrocutions
Going over a bump in a buggy
name: Jay Jerome Williams. Moon
calf stuff: We know youngman
who has never seen her picture nor
knows what she looks like but is in
love with Edna st. Vincent Millay.
Sudden thought: Why not Club of
Those Who Loved Della Fox from
Afar?
Sour rhyme: For tunes worth
moochin' hear Eddy Duchin. Two
Eddie Dowlings and both of the
stage. And the two Pemberton boys
from Kansas-Brock and Murdock.
Phil Baker is plumping up. Rushing
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09
TWENTY YEARS AGO
April 8, 1917

Acting at the suggestion of Rev
c. Rankin Barnes of the Episcopal
church, women of FL Centre are
meeting to discuss making Red
Cross supplies to do their part in
the war.
w. W. Masten. owner and pro-
prietor of the Princess hotel, has
made arrangements to lodge all ap-
plicants to the navy recuiting sta
tion free of charge from the time
they apply at the station here to
the time they transfer to San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09
TEN YEARS AGO
ADriI 9. 1927

An alleged attempt to hold up an
East side pool hall was frustrated
early last night when the city
police arrived on the scene.
Rain began falling here shortly
after 2 o'clock this afternoon, and
leaden. skies, INDICATED it might con-
tinue throughout the day.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
AnriI @ 1919

A. w. Swanson. c. E. Sprouse
and Willianm Egerer we're elected
city trustees at the city election
yesterday Mrs Lavina Northcott
was chosen city clerk by the voters.
Swanson was high man among
the trustees with 166 votes. The new
board of trustees will be Allen Har-
vey, F. W. Weeks. Tom Potts, T. A.
Rust and A. r. Mac Donald.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09

One-Minute Test Answers
l. 350,00O.
2. jamestown, Va, founded in
1907.
3. A government in which Off
GERS are elected by the people, and
the functions of state are conduct
ed according to a constitution.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09
MONEYHi
to make an a nj
unexpected &l'
Journey W
{ \ 81
GOT TO GO?

Need of Travel funds often pre-
ScntS an awkward problem. when
an occasion arises making a sud-
den, unexpected trip necessary.
If you face such an emergency.
or, if it appears that a long
planned trip must be deferred
for lack of funds, come see us,
and let us help with friendly
Cash Loan.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09
GRAB BAG
One-Minute Test

One Minute Test
l. What is the approximate pop
ulation of India?
2. What was the first permanent
British settlement in North Amer
lea.
g. What is a republic?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09
Words of Wisdom

The administration of govern
ment. like guardianship, should
be directed to the good of those
who confer, not of those who re-
ceive, the trust.-Cicero.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09
Hints on Etiouettc

The acknowledgements of for
NAL invitation follows the wording
of the invitation closely. stating
time, place and nature of the event.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-09
TOday'S HOrOScOne

Many persons whose birthday is
today are excellent teachers. They
acquire knowledge easily and are
able to impart it to others.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-07-15
Senator Robinson

The United States Senate, the
Roosevelt administration and the
United States as a whole lost a real
leader and good public servant in
the death of Senator Joseph T. Rob-
inson of Arkansas, early Wednesday.
Senator Robinson was the majority
leader in the Senate and as such
had much to say in regards to pilot
ing legislation through that body dur
ing the past few years. His loss at
the age of "a is a shock to the nation
Senator Robinson in his cham
pionship of the Roosevelt Supreme
Court reorganization plan, had been
spoken of as a possible appointee to
the vacancy in that body's member
ship created by the resignation of
Justice Van Devanter
He was hard fighter for anything
he thought was right and he was
capable.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-07-15
Amelia Earhart

1t begins to look very much as
though the waves of the deep have
closed the careers of two more of
Americas intrepid aviators, since
Amelia Earhart and her navigator,
Frederick j. Noonan, have been mis-
sing IL days after their disappearance
near the tiny Rowland island in the
South Pacific while on a round the
world flight. A short message re-
ceived from the flyers just before the
search was started for them told of
their gasoline supply running low.
Miss Earhart has done much for
aviation and if tragedy has cut short
her career, it will have stopped one
filled with brilliancy and courage.
The navy is conducting an inten-
sive search of the region, but with
small chance for rescue.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-07-15
A Sad Case

Representative Jerry J. O'Connell,
Democrat of Montana, charges of
fetal California" with treating Tom
Mooney with downright brutality
since the return of the convicted 1916
San Francisco parade bomber to
prison after his latest bid for free
dom, according to newspaper reports.
O'Connell said:
mot content with having framed
Tom Mooney and unjustly held him
prisoner for 81 years, official Cali
fornia, acting through Warden Court
Smith and the California prison board,
has now turned to inflicting cruel and
unusual punishment upon Tom
Mooney that equals medieval torture
for downright brutality.
Mooney was thrown into a re-
ceiving tank exactly like a new pris-
oner, despite the fact that he had
spent 20 years there and his conduct
had been so salutary that he had
never lost privilege.
Mooney, a sick man, has not been
man."
If these charges are true then the
state of California is acting with
little dignity and justice. After all
that has been said and done in re-
CARDS to the Mooney case and after
much purged testimony at the time
of the trial has been unearthed, ii
would seem that the most hardened
enemy of Mooney would relent lit
tie.
Of course if the authorities there
do not want to release him from his
unfair bondage until public senti-
ment out over the country rises to
an intense degree, then the day of his
freedom will be fastened by harsh
treatment.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-07-15
The Minnesota Legislature has 131

The Minnesota Legislature has 131
representatives and CT senators-a
total of 1913 members More effective
work and in less time, could be done
if the membership were cut in half
The committees would not be so large
and cumbersome; there would be less
loss of time waiting for a quorum.
The expense would be reduced to the
taxpayers.
Interim committees of half dozen
to a dozen members could meet oc-
casionally and work out the most
important and pressing legislative
problems. After being whitfield down,
it will require less time for the en-
tire body to agree, and there will
not be so much time lost on the part
of so many legislators waiting around
for committees to complete their work
as witnessed in this last special SEES
sion of the Legislature.
There is even the question of a
unicameral, one house Legislature,
to consider, such as they now have in
Nebraska, and which apparently is
working out all right there. A one
house Legislature would certainly
make for time saving and less alibis.
1t would serve to fix responsibility.
Should experience prove its worth
in Nebraska, the unicameral system
will spread.
Another matter of Importance is
that it is not the number of bills in
troduced or enacted into law that
determines the worth of legislative
session, but rather the quality and
fairness of legislation and whether
or not it is in the interest of the
general public welfare.
Yes, there are several changes to
be made for the better before serious
consideration should be given to any
suggestion for prolonging the regular
ninety-day legislative session.
HJALMAR PETERSEN.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-07-15
NOT so DARK
Editor ASkOV American.

Editor ASkOV American:
With the best year in sight that
the northwest has ever had, especially
Minnesota, many people in good faith
cannot understand why the heavy
relief expenditures are necessary. It
would seem that private interest could
pick up large number of men on
relief, cutting down the relief rolls.
But private industry is on a COM
petitive basis. At the top of business
activity it can help to prune down the
relief rolls, but during the slack per-
iods men will be turned loose.
Forty years ago, up to recent times.
we had a class of migratory laborers,
they followed the harvest fields all
the way from Kansas to North Dakota
and Montana. 1t was common sight
to see hundreds of these men NOV
ing west on top of freight trains fol-
lowing the harvest fields; in the win
ter time they worked in the lum-
Der camps and made room for those
who could not move about and let
them have the local work. Now
local surplus labor takes up all the
seasonal jobs, the day of the mi
gratory laborer is past. When a
farmers family in those days became
too large and the sons too old to
work on the old home place, they put
buildings up on the vacant quarter
across the road. Now there are no
more quarters, the sons of the farm
ers have no place to go except the
WPA gravel pit
Relief officials have started to
learn, they are encouraging relief
workers to accept temporary employ
ment during the boom periods, the
relief worker does not in turn jeo-
pardize his standing and cannot be
returned to WPA work after the tenn
porary jobs.
With old age pension taking the
old men out of industry, with higher
consumption encouraging larger pro-
duction, with new inventions and de-
mands the future is not so dark as
painted-the whole thing will work
itself out if correct principles are ap-
piled to the solution.
S. j. SIMONSEN.
Pease, Mimi, July 6, 1887.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-07-15

commodity grown or manufactured,
and all distances over which these
commodities may be shipped, natur-
ally become a highly complicated
procedure
There are necessarily constant
changes in rail and truck rates
brought about by the demands of the
shippers and the operators in the var
ious localities, and the production of
new commodities. All of these must
be passed upon by the department,
keeping in mind the needs of the pub
lie, the competition between the var
louS carriers and the fair return to
the transportation company.
Gives Public Information.
This department also renders assist
ance in securing the adjustment of
claims, and serves as a veritable en-
cyclopaedia of information for the
public concerning tariffs, rates,
charges, claims and, in general, all
the complicated matters concerning
or affecting the movement of goods
or merchandise for hire in both in
trastate and interstate matters by rail,
express or motor vehicle.
| The department prepares evidence,
exhibits, and testimony in hearings
held before the Interstate Commerce
Commission in which state rates are
involved.
The competition as between rail-
! rO06c o,oI
cipitates a constant battle for advan-
tages in rates. The Commission acts
as an impartial arbitrator in all of
these matters.
Weights and Measures Department.
The Constitution of the United
States provides, among other things
! that Congress shall have the power
| to fix the standard of weights and
measures"
Under the laws of our state the
Weights and Measures department
was created, and charged with the
responsibility of supervision and reg
ulation of all weights, weighing de-
vices and measures, thereby protect
ing the interests of the consumer and
the merchant alike in all transac-
tons in which weights and measures
are involved.
During the past two years the de-
partment has tested 36,551 scales.
58,706 weights and 124,464 measures.
and has tested 23,516 gasoline pumps.
Of this number 10,404 devices were
either rejected or condemned as being
| incorrect.
The Importance of this department
can readily be understood when one
stops to think that nearly every COM
modify that is bought or sold today
is either weighed or measured.
Secretary Has Many Duties.
The commission has an executive
secretary to coordinate the work of
all the departments so that they func-
ton smoothly and efficiently. He is
in sense ''liaison" officer, charged
with the responsibility of coordinat-
ing the efforts of the various depart
mentS.
The secretary receives the mail
and directs the correspondence to the
proper department. He calls meet
ings of the Commission, records the
minutes, and presents the problems
of the various departments. He checks
all orders and signs the correspond
ence. The secretary is responsible
for the funds of the Commission and
the general management of the office.
Altogether about $50 people are
employed under the Railroad and
Warehouse Commission in normal
times. The peak is about 500 and at
the present time there are slightly
over 400.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-07-15

The first practical friction matches
were made in England in 1927. They
were thin strips of wood or cardboard
coated with sulphur and tipped with
a mixture of mucilage, chlorate of
potash, and sulphide of anthony.
of them were sold in
box for twenty-five cents.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-07-15

Massachusetts was the first state to
undertake to limit the hours of labor.
passing law in 1912 that made ten
hours working day in factories for
children under II years of age. In
1847 the law was extended to women.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-07-15

The first oil we'll in the United
States was brought in on August %,
1859, at Titusville, Pa. 1t began
producing at a depth of 6912 feet, and
produced about 400 gallons a day.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-07-15
Opinions of Others

(Short timely letters on topics of
public interest are welcome whether
or not the writer's opinions con-
form with those of the American.
All letters must be signed with the
writer's name for our information
Signed articles always are more eff
fectlve, but if the writer does not
be withheld)
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11
Small Cakes Universally Popular
With Family-Especially During
Active Vacation Days
BY Dorothy Blair

and winter alike. In the summer,
however, when even the most con-
scientious housewife arranges her
cooking. schedule so that she can
spend as many leisurely hours in
the open as possible, cookies
which can be prepared days in
advance solve the dessert prob
lem very neatly. And the children
seem to require mid-morning and
afternoon snacks when they are
home all day from school, make
the summer supply of cookies
practically a necessity.
So many delicious and unusual
combinations of ingredients are
possible in the matter of cookie
making that one never need be at
a loss for inspiration. Real baking
news is the fact that one of the
foods which has long held an i'm
portant place on the pantry shelf
of practically every home can be
used in making unusually de-
licious and appetite tempting
cookies. This is cornf1akes, whose
crisp crunchiness does miraculous
things to ordinary cookie batter.
And since the nutritive value of
this popular breakfast food is
known to every mother, it can be
seen that its use in the baking
field would result in wholesome
confections which would be more
than kind to small tummies.
To the right you will see sew
eral kinds of cookies pictured, all
including cornf1akes in their in
gradients, and here are the recipes
for them.
Cornflake Macaroons
2egg t0hiteS
l cup sugar
u teaspoon Uanil!a ertract
cups cornfIdkes
p cup nut meats
cup shredded cocodnut
Beat egg whites until they are
stiff enough to hold their shape,
but not until they lose their shiny
appearance. Fold in sugar care
fully. Add f1avoring. Fold in corn
flakes, chopped nut meats and
cocoanut. Drop on well oiled bak-
ing sheet. Bake in moderate
oven $3.50 degrees) fifteen to
twenty minutes. Remove pans
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-11

NCE UPON A TIME every
~ household had two sets of
dishes-one for Sunday best and
one for everyday use. The Clipped
and cracked castoffs of both sets
and their predecessors served in
a practical but uninteresting man.
ner for kitchen use. The best set
generally boasted conventional
floral design, or a gold band trim
about the outer edge of the dishes.
The set in daily use was palmer
still, selected more for utility than
decoration.
Styles change in tableware just
as they do in everything in which
women have a hand. Color has
become increasingly important
throughout the household, holding
particularly riotous sway over
the dining room and kitchen. The
dinner table blooms with bright
and cheerful dishes and glass
ware. and even tablecloths have
undergone a metamorphosis, dis
PLAYING checks and plaids and
brilliant colors.
This cheerful change is partly
due to the example of leaders in
the art of interior decoration who
counsel us to be original and fol-
low the dictates of our own de-
sires. Credit must be given also
to the recently developed Western
pottery which comes in such fas-
cinating shapes and such a vari-
ETY. of lovely clear colors. Because
this pottery ware is such an asset
in table decoration it is being used
more and more in combination
with the regular dinner set, de-
parting from the traditional idea
that everything on the table must
match.
Clever women who pride them
selves on artistic, colorful appear
ance of their tables are now
choosing for an everyday set this
sturdy Western ware, selecting
dishes for each course of a differ
ent, though harmonizing, color. If
the luncheon or dinner plates are
a clear, sunny yellow, then the
cups and saucers may be golden
brown, and the salad plates or
ange. Bread and butter plates of
turquoise blue and soup bowls of
a darker blue complete the set
with a rainbow-like effect. These,
arranged upon a cloth of ecru