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Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
News Behind the News
That Relief Problem Again Hope
Springs Eternal Permanent
Program Big Question

WASHINGTON.-PTeSident Roosevelt, Harry
Hopkins and the Budget Bureau are about to
grapple with the relief problem again, prior
TO recommending to Congress an appropriation
OF somewhere between one and two billion dol
lars for the next fiscal year
There is no assurance yet that the president
can work out a permanent program for unem-
ployment relief. Nevertheless, as Roosevelt once
laughingly said, in reply to the question when
he would balance the budget: Hope springs
eternal"
Meanwhile. the most encouraging news con-
cerning reduction of WPA rolls and the expense
OF maintaining them is this:
For the first time in four years, the number
of persons on WPA or federal relief rolls has
remained practically the same throughout Janu-
ary and February. In 1888. 1884 and 1885 the
curve rose sharply during those two months
There were 2.162,000 WPA lists in the latter
part of February, as compared with 2l88.000 in
December. In February, 1886 the number was
3,039 900.
The present official plan is to cut the rolls
down to 100000 heads of families and single
persons by the end of the fiscal year, June 80.
That's what Congress provided for when 1t gave
WPA deficiency appropriation OF $650,O0O0OO
for this year. State administrators have been
given their quotas for the months from now un-
til July. The total scheduled cuts for the coun-
try cali for a drop of $4,000 in March, 10000
in April, 100000 in May and 100000 more in
June.
Yet Hopkins insists no one in actual need
be cut of WPA. Ihe state administrators are
receiving that order too. There are to be no
arbitrary cuts and quotas will be subject TO re-
view.
The curtailment program was predicated up
On an absorption by private industry of roughly
1000 WPA workers; on continued recovery; on
a good agricultural year; upon contribution OF
more money to projects by localities affected;
and on the possibility the rolls could be kept
from expanding during January February and
March. Except in the last instance. it is still
too early to tell how many of these possibilities
will come true. In the meantime there have
been disastrous floods which may keep the
WPA figures up. It IS concededly impossible
to cut WPA rolls at time when local relief
lists are growing.
A report just in from area of II southern
states lists March quota of 100000 WPA work.
ers 405 900 actually on the rolls and 10000
certified cases awaiting assignment or reassign-
ment" The last figure, representing unemploy-
ed employable persons eligible for WPA, prob
ably is too high. But secret WPA estimates
place the number of the country's employables
trying to get on WPA rolls at between 100000
and SOC, 600.
That is one reason why continued industrial
Improvement doesn't proportfonate cuts
in WPA rolls. When a man leaves the rolls to
get a private job, there are nearly always
others, certified eligible, seeking TO take his
place So.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
Bruce Cation Says:,>
Killing Talented Men Is That Efficiency?

weakens it or distracts It from
its purpose.
So a dictatorial machine must
be completely ruthless. The men
in charge of it are not dictators
because they are bloodthirsty and
INSCRIPTIONS; they are blood
thirsty and unscrupulous because
they are dictators. If they lacked
those traits, they would very soon
cease to be dictators.
And this leads us to q point
worth bearing in mind.
The Fascist and the Commu-
mist share the notion that democ-
racy is too inefficient and cumber-
some TO cope with the diverse
problems of this modern world.
They differ as to the remedy, but
they do agree that only dictator
can "get things done" neatly and
with dispatch. Whatever its faults
it is at least efficient.
Butts it? Is 1t efficiency, to
live by a system which compels
you to kill all the prominent men
who do not agree with you? Does
democracy, which is able to use
the talents of the public men
who happen to be in the minority,
commit itself to any such out
landish and costly inefficiency as
that?
Is not a dictatorship, with its
spies, its blood purges, and its
subterranean treasons, actually the
most inefficient form of govern
ment that could possibly be de-
viSed?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17

Another treason trial" seems to
be in the making at Moscow.
Alexis L. Rykoy and Nikolai
Bukharin, until recently two OF
the most prominent men in the
Russian scheme of things, have
been expelled from the Commu-
mist party; if things go according
to schedule, they will presently be
facing the grim Soviet courts just
as other equally distinguished Rus
slams have done before them.
During the French revolution,
someone remarked that "the rev.
olution is devouring its own chill
dren." Never was the truth of
this aphorism brought out more
terribly than during the past year
in Russia. Sixteen prominent rev.
olutionists were tried, convicted of
treason, and executed, last July;
last January, II more were tried
and convicted, 13 of them being
shot. Now, apparently, the process
is to be repeated once more.
Ones first reaction to this sort
of thing is to shudder with horror
and conclude that Russia is at the
mercy of constituencies band of
assaSsins. And yet-ruthlesS as the
Stain clique undoubtedly is-we
would miss the point Of the whole
thing if we dismissed it in that
fashion.
What is significant about it all
is that these outbursts OF cold,
calculated violence are part Of the
price that must be paid for a
dictatorship. 1t was So in Ger
many, where Roehm and his fol-
lowers were killed in the famous
blood purge" 1t has been so in
Italy. That it is so in Russia, the
treason trials bear eloquent wit
ness.
For q dictatorship has no room
for an opposition. The state must
be completely responsive to sim
gle will; as logical corollary,
no one may question that will, or
do anything which in any way
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
NOW LITTLE We KNOW
OUR NEIGHBORS

human being is essentially selfish
being; some to greater degree. some
TO lesser degree. Those of our fellows
we like the most are the least selfish,
and those liked least, the most selfish.
The man or woman who is entirely self
centered knows little and understands
less about his fellow men, fact which
is likely to make him bore to those
very same fellows.
1t is to our own interests to take
keen interest in the doings, the thoughts
and the accomplishments of those with
whom We associate from day to day.
Such an interest makes us bigger. men
tally and spiritually; and so it makes
us more successful in our dealings with
those whom we contact. In the end. un-
selfishness serves the individual far
more, brings him far greater gain, than.
selfishness and littleness.
All of us know too little of those
about as. How many of us in Imperial
Valley, for instance, knew anything of
Brigadier General Charles Leonard Phil
lips, who died in Ell Centro this week, at
the age of 80? His life was crammed
Will dClIoi. ne Hdu seen services at II OFI
Monroe in the Spanish-American war;
he commanded the coast defenses of Cor
regidor in the Philippines from 1914 to
1917; he was an outstanding figure of
his time in the army.
1t would have been interesting to know
this man, to talk to him, to hear his
views. 1t would have been far more in
teresting than many of our own petty
little thoughts. Surely, in his many ac-
tive years, he had developed philos-
ophy that might have helped us over
many rough spots.
Men and women-the men and women
about us-are the most interesting
things in the world. If we pass up
knowledge and understanding of them,
We are ignoring our own development,
to our own loss.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
Ry HENRY SUTHERLAND

HOLLYWOOD. March II. UP)-
Conservatively classifying her as a
youthful combination of Helen
Hayes, Mary pickford, Elizabeth
Bergner and Clara Bow" Cecil b.
Dedille, baldish old eagle of Para
mount, announces Hungarian import
FranciSka Gaal will topline his
"Buccaneer" on the feminine side.
This beating about the bush is
reminiscent OF not so long ago, Days
when DeMille epicS used to be billed
as great dramas of love, hate, fear,
remorse, courage. vengeance, des-
pair and triumph"
Actually the DeMille combination
special is q large-eyed, dark-haired,
husky-voiced lass who got all Of
two columns in. the locals when
she passed through customs last
December.
Since then she has been busy
learning to speak English without
the liverwurst infection, and top
ping off her experience in European
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
p on Sol saws
&c FRANK WATANABE
P~f eY ED HOLDEN
BY ED HOLDEN
I STAND GASSED

Official mathematic say "a million
dollar was spend for Presidentially cam
paign 1885, Each vote costing So cents
each. Just eemagine!
Next time | going be very patriotic.
| shall not voting and take 20 cents
cash. Thereby saving Uncle Sam n
cents.
President salary are $4,000 for one
year. Costing "a million for acquire
same. This meaning Mr.. Roosevelt must
be President for 800 years if he wish to
getting even. This equals impossible to
receiving investment back. Because we
got unwrote law putting prohibits up
on more than two terminals.
Let US obliterate purchasing elections
on both side. Then charging citizens 10
cents for each vote. Whoever winning
gets the pot We going pay for anyhow
Expensives got be subdooed!
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
Editorials and Comment
WEDNESDAY, MARCH H. 1887
Strolls Thru Hollywood

| films by drama-coaching with jose
phine Dillon Gable.
OF her the inarticulate DeMille
says breathlesSly and with only two
adjectives: She registers charm and
piquancy as i have never known
a human being TO do ON the screen
Miss Gaal is pronounced "Gaul'
as if she were divided in three
parts.
DeMille had no comment rs to
how she stacks up in a bathtub.
The Harriet Hector Ginger Rogers
feud under construction among gos-
sipers can be filed in the baloney
section. It's pure fiction.
Basis for the alleged "Donny-
brook" is Hooters ballet specially
with Fred Astaire in Shall We
Dance" his first film hoofing with
a partner other than Rogers. Theory
is the opera is being made "Hoctor
picture" which leaves Rogers an
orphan and not pleased about It,
Actually Hoctor doesn't cut even
slightly into the Rogers pasture,
and their relations are perfectly
friendly. But in any event Rogers
isn't the feuding kind
40
Going democratic by large ma
jority, Greta Garbo, pride of Swed-
en-, permitted 200 extras to watch
her hoof the Mazurka with Charles
Boyer in a Madame WaleWska"
scene. In other days Goddess Gar
bo's hopping was screened from
vulgar eyes with black drapes, and
crowd effects accomplished by cut
ting. Carlo and Boyer circulated
among $3.50 a day steppers, who
however, kept a respectful distance.
Marriage is a strenuous matter
for Ann Sothern, who figures she's
travelled 1862 miles-mostly by
air-to keep the home fires burning
during the four months she has
been married to Roger Pryor. Pryor
and his orchestra are playing in
Chicago, and Sothern shuttles be-
tween Boul' Mich and Hollywood.
She'll pass the 100000 mile mark
before the year is out, she says.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
TEN YEARS AGO
March 1G, 1927

w. II. Lyons OF Calexico was
found not guilty by a jury this
morning in Judge Mayfield's court
on a charge of violating the pay
check law.
The traffic cops and the city
pavement Founders are going to
fight it out. Revolvers will be used
as weapons.
But the bullets will be aimed at
targets and not at members of the
opposing forces. Frank Oswalt will
lead the traffic squad and his BROTH
er Chief of Police Sterling OsWalt
will head the police department.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
ANOTHER CRACKPOT IDEA
OUT OF SACRAMENTO

The Imperial county board of super
visors, rightly has gone on record oppos-
ing a proposed state law which would
make the county recorders OF every
county in the state keep full and COM
plete records of all persons registered
under the federal Social Security Act.
The only persons not so registered are
those who have not worked for an en-
poyer since the act went into effect.
The records are already kept at Wash
ington. What possible benefit could re-
suit from keeping them in every county
i'm the state, no one has satisfactorily
explained. It would be duplication of
the most costly, foolish and unnecessary
kind 1t would not be a service, for
service is defined as something which
serves. The only possible benefit 1t
would have would be to the one or two
extra persons who would be employed
in every recorders office in every coun-
ty in the state-and the taxpayers al
ready are pretty heavily burdened.
The added expense would not be con-
fined to added personnel. 1t would in
clude, also, new books, new indexes and
new systems, all of which would have
to be paid for by the taxpayers.
Someone in Sacramento either had
very little to do when this idea was
born-or someone wanted to add little
more to the already great cost Of the So
cial security program-perhaps on the
theory that little more would not be
noticed.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
TWENTY YEARS AGO
March IG, 1917

Harold Bell Wright, accompanied
by 7. M. Reynolds of CaleXico, left
for Pomona. From there Wright
will go to Arizona.
Leroy Holt was reelected presi-
dent of the Imperial Irrigation dis
trict board and +. II. McIver was
retained as secretary.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
tell of Imperial VAL
ley for This Date in
Past Years.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
March I6. 1912


Prolific in other lines, FL Centro
is now pluming itself on the fact
actors. The evidence was present.
ed in Don't Tell Your Wife, just
given at the Holt opera house.
The three act play was presented
by the Country club. The players
were: Mrs. Gilbert Helms, Mrs. w.
Pier, Miss Clara johnson, Miss Mar
jorie AgneW and Messrs. Leonard
Watched, Phil Swing. Robert An
derson, Clarence Gage and Vaughn
Thompson.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
Words of Wisdom

People vote their resentment, not
their appreciation. The average
man does not vote for a measure,
but against its counter proposal
William B. Munro.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17

One Minute Test Answers
I. Leon Blum, Socialist.
2. Mackenzie King, Liberal
3. Frank r. Stockton.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
GRAB BAG
One-Minute Test

l. Who is premier OF France?
2. Who is prime minister OF the
Dominion of Canada?
3. Who wrote 1.-The Lady or the
Tiger"2
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
TOdaY's Horoscope

Many persons whose birthday is
today are inclined TO be domineer-
ing and dictatorial. They are over
ly harsh in training their chill
dren. 4
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17
Deiinitioil-a-Day

"Psychiatry" is the medical spe-
eialty dealing with mental dis
turbances.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-17

CEND IN THE COUPON and you'll find
~ that the Packard Six costs less to buy than
you ever dared hope.
And here's more good news the Packard 81.
can challenge any car for loW-eost OPERATION
This is true for two reasons -.
First, because this powerful Six is unusually
thrifty with gasoline. (Ask us to show you
the actual gas mileage that local owners are
getting).
Second, because the car is designed SO simply
that it costs very little to service. For example,
most service operations can be performed on
the Packard Six in less time, with less labor
hours, than on cars lower in price!
ASK I'll T. MAI N
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-06-17
National Education
Association At
Detroit, June 9th

The Arizona delegation to the
National Education Association con
vention at Detroit. beginning June
27, will establish headquarters al
the Statler Hotel, it was announced
today by T. G. Grieder, Winston
school superintendent and Arizona
N.E.A. Director. The Staler Hotel
will be the center of educational ac
tivities in Detroit during the con
vention.
Arizona's Indian handcraft and
scenic beauties will be advertised
at the headquarters during the en-
tire convention with displays of In
dian rugs, baskets, and jewelry, and
scenic folders, Mr. Grieder said
The Arizona Breakfast, an annual
event in the convention city, is be-
ing planned for al Arizona dele
gates and for those from other
states who have previously worke d
in Arizona school systems.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-06-17
Coolidge Examiner
Scoops" Hines Fire

Happening just before the Ex-
aminer was put to bed, scoop"
of the Hines Fire was made. This
is but another example of the ef-
forts of the paper to present the
news to the people. Altho the paper
was delayed an hour and half, the
scoop" was ahead of any paper in
the state with the news. More
mature reflection on the damage
done by the fire still does not dim
the bigness of the tragedy. Accord
ing to Mr.. Hines, the Drug Store
damage will be about 81 900. The
damage to Zahalsky Fair Store is
undetermined but will run many
hundred dollars. The damage to the
New San Carlos Hotel is also un-
determined but bring the total of
all to somewhere in the vicinity of
$4,000 for the whole fire. Inspect
ors are busy now with inventory
to determine the exact amount.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-06-17
New Building
Nearly Finished

The large cement building being
erected on south Main street by c.
B. Spooner will soon be ready for
it's occupants.
The building is made of reen-
forced concrete and is one story
40 SO feet with IA foot ceiling
divided into two rooms. The north
side will be occupied by ]. J. Jones
and r. T. Prather for their real
estate office. There is large fire
proof vault which will be fitted up
with safety boxes, which they will
rent to the public at normal price.
There is also an air cooling system
and the office will be fitted up with
up to date furniture. The south
side room will be used by L. R.
Winkler, formerly of Holbrook,
with Electric goods Mr.. Winkler
is also erecting a new home in
North Coolidge.
The new tenants expect to be
occupying their new quarters by
July 1.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-06-17
Alfalfa Suited
ToValley Crop

more hay and less cotton" is the
recipe for stable and prosperous
valley, according to Manager Urton
of the Capitol Fuel and Feed Co.
He reports an excellent first cutting
crop of alfalfa, but a decrease of
$500 acres over the Casa Grande
valley for the second cutting.
In addition to this, the second
cutting was slightly damaged by
insects, altho the latter part of the
cutting was free from plague. The
prospects are very good for the
third cutting.
The Capitol Fuel and Feed has
handled $500 tons of hay thus far
this season, and coupled with that
of other outlets, tremendous hay
crop is visible. The price is holding
up at $11 in the field for the farm
ers, caused by an extra large state
demand. Out-of state demands do
not seem to affect the price this
year, owing to the large demand
locally.
When asked the advantage of an
alfalfa crop, Mr.. Urton cited the
many things that make the crop
ideally suits to this valley: 1t is
summer crop, bringing in cash
when cotton is still uncertain; 1t
builds up the Land as does nothing
else; 1t has many outlets that as
sure a profitable crop, even tho the
price should go down, since it can
be fed, sold to dairies, feeders can
be brought in, and many other
things done with the surplus. Raise
more alfalfa and help build up Coo
lidge and the valley.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-06-17
BETHROTHAL ANNOUNCED

Announcement has been made of
the forthcoming marriage of Miss
Lucille Collins and David E Mutt,
which will take place July II, in
First M. E. Church at Tucson.
Miss Lucille Collins was honored
with a micellaneous shower last
Friday afternoon at the spacious
home of Mrs. Y. c. White. Sponsor
ing the shower were Mesdames:
w. Kirby, Don Paul, Charles
Cohen, S. G. Burt, ]. ]. Jones, M.
M. Ware. w. c. Ketchersid, w, ID.
Johnson and Clark Christensen.
Many beautiful and useful gifts
were loaded on tea wagon, deco
rated with silver wedding bells and
placed before the bride-elect by
Betty Lee Ward and Coralane
Sewell who were attractively dress
ed as bride and groom. Mrs. PAU
Hobby playing the wedding march
when the young couple appeared
and presented the gifts.
Each guest was given a cluster
of Flowers tied together with
streamer of white ribbon, with two
hearts fastened to the end, one for
the guests name, the other for a
wish; these were assembled into
large bouquet and presented to the
J brideelect.
Miss Collins is a graduate of the
University of Arizona and was a
popular teacher in the Grammar
school for several years. Mr.. Mutt
of Seattle, Wash, is a commercial
artist with the Erwin Massey Adv.
Agency. The young couple will re-
side in Seattle, Washington.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-06-17
Bids To Be Opened
On The Overpass
Two Miles North

Bids will be opened for an over
pass on the railroad two miles north
of Coolidge, on the Coolidge-Flor-
ence highway on June %.
There has been several accidents
at this crossing in the past few
years and its a much needed i'm
provement.
The Examiner is of the opinion
that an overpass or underpass
at the Coolidge Avenue cross
ing is more dangerous to the
travelling public and has been the
scene of more fatal accidents than
the North crossing and should re-
receive some kind of a safe guard
also.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-06-17
Mass School Meeting
At Grammar School

This evening, June II at s o'clock
a mass meeting will be held for the
purpose of considering the erection
of additional class rooms to take
care of the fast growing attendance
to the grammar school.
The improvements contemplated
by the board of Education are as
follows:
Five class rooms, domestic sci
ence rooms for cooking and sew
ing, a room for the library, room
for the school nurse, a cafeteria
basement under two class rooms
on the southeast wing of the build
ing, two additional rest rooms with
a new septic tank, and three cess
pools.
Some of the school patrons are
of the opinion that owing to the
limited space of the Grammar
school grounds it would be much
better to build a building on some
other site large enough to take care
of the seventh and eighth grades.
1t is hoped there will be large
number of our citizens interested
in the school and be present. at this
meeting to express their views on
this subject.
Now is the time to do your talk
ing and thinking not later.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-06-17
S. p. S tation
At Casa Grande
Destroyed By Fire

Sunday morning fire broke out in
the upper story of the Southern
Pacific depot at Casa Grande, burn
ing the depot, warehouse and three
box cars.
The second floor of the building
was occupied by J. S. Brown,
station agent and the d. E. Hall
family.
Destruction of the depot re-
moved Casa Grande's Oldest land
mark around which the town sprang
up shortly after the building OF
the Southern Pacific Railroad, some
fifty years ago.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-06-17
THE BUILDING
BOOM STILL
CONTINUES

Coolidge people have become &C.
custOmed to the building of new
houses and scarcely notice them
begin, but to a person just COM
ing into town, or returning after a
stay outside of town. the phenome-
nal growth is noticeable immediate
ly. New buildings started this
month include the residence of Bill
NOVEL;, in West Coolidge, with Bill
Hamilton and Lackey as contract
ors. This building is valued at
$45OO. Across the street from the
NOVEL; residence Is the new house
of Dee Johnson, valued at $45OO
Chas. Elledge is building this house.
A block north We see the erection
of the Winkler home, valued at
$4,000. Mr.. Winkler is superin.
tending the building of his own
home. Other houses in West and
North Coolidge, as we'll as in the
central portion of town bring the
total Ga figure than any town
might envy.
Jack Eisenhart is completing
neat cottage on his property in
North Coolidge. The house has
our rooms and a bath. Dobson
and Dobson are assisting him in
the construction.
The Coolidge examiner., 1937-06-17
Mrs. L. E. Wyatt
Address Group

After a sumptious dinner in the
basement of the Methodist Church.
given by the families of the Church,
Mrs. L. e. Wyatt, state president of
the Woman's Missionary Society,
and prominent Clubwoman, address
ed the group on the work of the So
ciety. She was assisted by Mrs. E.
Clyde Smith of Tempe.