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Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02

least the neaNy
income therefrom-on the snowy
type of high blondes. The VIDE
evei gimme girls who decorate the
floor shows of the cabarets. To
MANY such the asbestos heir has
been a generous Santa Claus.
He often has half dozen OF them
as house guests even when TO all
outward appearances he seemed
happily we'd. He just likes TO nave
them around, hear their fluffy gos-
sip column chatter and in return
feed them truffles and caviar with
washes of vintage wine.
Apparently he can go just SO long
without making the headlines ana
then by some particularly fancy
dido will land kerplunk on Page
of the tabloids. He is in his early
4O's. but looks much older-frivol-
ing around the white lights some
times does that.
Among standard vaudeville acts.
the neyer-changing routine OF the
tramp bicyclist Joe Jackson has
always interested me. His routine
is a model of timing. Not, many
outside his agent and fellow per-
formers, know Jackson without
makeup. When not wandering the
world he lives in almost hermit
fashion at Greenwood Lakes, NY.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
S u nj NJ O N S

SU M NJ o MS
No. 17843
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT, Plaintiff
RICHARD SHEA and KATHERINE
SHEA, his wife, SECURITY TITLE
INSURANCE AND GUARANTEE
COMPANY. a Corporation, Trustee,
A. E. PATRICK, ct al,
Defendants.
Harry w. Horton and Geo. r.
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA SEND GREETINGS
TO:
Richard Shea and Katherine Shea,
his wife, Security Title Insurance
and Guarantee Company, Cor
poration, Trustee, A. z. Patrick,
John Doe, Jane Doe, Richard Roe,
John Doe Company, 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. within ten days
after the service on you of this
Summons = if served within this
county; or within thirty days If
Continued on Page 9; Col. u
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Other Editors Say
FINANCING MOTOR CAR SALES
wall Street JournaI

1t would be interesting to know what pre-
cisely is the violation OF the antitrust laws
which the Department of Justice finds to exist
in the relation between the motor companies
and the finance companies which they own ana
operate.
Is it simply the allegation that each OF the
manufacturing companies requires its dealers to
do their financing exclusively with a designated
finance company? This, apparently, is the
gravamen of the charge made by the depart
ment Is there any other allegation of violation
of the law?
If not, why should consent decree require
anything more than a cessation of the allegedly
illegal practice?
The purpose of consent decrees' is merely
to short circuit the processes of law. They are
analogous to plea of guilty" which obviates
the necessity of trial There is no warrant in
law for using a consent decree to accomplish
more than would be accomplished by due pro-
cess Is there alleged any violation OF the anti
trust law in a manufacturing company owning
a finance company? 1t is hard to imagine how
a direct offer of credit by manufacturing COM
pany could constitute such violation, and if
that is SO how could the indirect offer by means
of a subsidiary company affect it?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02

to know many such tricks, but in
reality it is the only one in my
repertoire.
Thingumbobs: Sylvia Sidney once
crack stenographer, in animated
cafe conversation often jots down
shorthand ON menus Seymour
Hicks, London actor, likes steam
ing black bean soup for breakfast
Grantland Rice thinks up
many of those dandy sports poems
while indulging a morning shave
The Rob Wagners are off on a
tour of the globe.
The conversation was waxing
goofier as it went along. Someone
toHl of a fellow he had just seen
who had double pneumonia few
months ago and seemed to have
grown smaller Another inquired:
will pneumonia shrink you?" And
Harry Silvey who up to that time
had said nothing, Clipped in with:
ut won't stretch you anyway"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02
Bruce Cation Says:
- Misbehaving Drunks Must Face the Music

man to Jail for six months and
fine him 5000 on a series of drunk
driving charges.
We get all sorts on the bench,
in our somewhat untamed demo-
cracy. and we have to take the
bitter with the sweet. And while
there is little danger that any
other judges will follow the rea-
soning of this Massachusetts, jurist.
his cock-eyed decision needs to be
picked to pieces for the benefit
of the casual drinkers who feel
that being drunk relieves a man of
measure of responsibility for his
acts.
Those people aren't quite as
much a nuisance now as they were
during prohibition, when 1t was
considered smart to get awry-eyed
But there are still plenty of them.
They evolved the custom of
morning-after apologies to the
hostess. A guest might have COM
mitted any of any infinite variety
of misdemeanors, ranging from
poking his forefinger to upsetting a
corrosive highball into the innards
of her grand piano; he blithely
assumed that if he simply begged
pardon next day, explaining that
he had had one too many when
it happened, all would be we'll.
What gets overlooked in this sort
of argument, of course, is the in
escapable fact that although a
man may not be responsible for
what he does while drunk, he is
most certainly responsible for get
ting drunk in the first place. No
one holds gun at his head and
makes him drink. If, having drunk,
he can't behave, he ought to take
the responsibility
Which gets us back to the Massa-
chusetts judge.
What he says about willful,
wanton. and reckless conduct may
be quite true. Yet it should hardly
take the learning of judge to
see that a man who, about to drive
an auto, takes large quantity of
alcohol into his system, is by that
very fact guilty of willful, wanton,
and reckless conduct-whether he
subsequently runs over anybody or
not.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02

In the beginning he was the cham
pion bicyclist of Europe, having mi
grated from Australia. His .relaxa-
ton is the camera, mostly snap
shots of outdoor scenes. Jackson
has strange lunches. Such, for in
stance, as taking out his wallet in
Berlin to pay for passage on the
Inflated Hindenburg and suddenly
canceling his ticket and. for no
reason he could understand, walk
ing away.
In the Cincinnati salad days I
lodged at The Gerdes, theatrical
hotel patronized largely by vaude-
vile troupers. A clannish lot, they
expanded among themselves over
beer and sandwiches after the night
show. Their talk centered mostly
on New York and that valhalla of
variety-The Palace. A night clerk
named Gus, a Mr.. Hoggenheimer
come to life, was on easy familiar
ity with all and I noted that when
he went to. the opening Sunday
matinee performers played to him.
He was a notable figure in my
eyes because he called Mabel Hite,
Ed Wynn, Lewis and Dody, Brice
and King, the Arnaut Brothers,
Eva Tanguay and many others by
their first names. That struck me
as top in worldliness.
They are learning gradually how
to pronounce the Alfred Lunt-Lynn
Fontanne play "Amphitryon 49,"
The correct version is am-fit-tree-
un with accent ON the fit. Thus,
with a little smother of erudition
and q Theatre Guild mask, do the
Lunts do some of their rather baw-
dy capering under the guise of
high art. The trick of the Lunts'
popularity with the prim and pre-
else, plus of course a certain his
trionic talent. is in their solid
domesticity. Because they are hap
PLY married they can do and say
things ON the stage that would
hoist many lorgnettes were they
not so related. Slight smut passes
as amiable fooling.
When I want to impress folk
from back yonder with a certain
metropolitan dash of heigh-ho !
jockey them by the private man.
sions of John D. Rockefeller and
j. P. Morgan. And illustrate how
if one hesitates before such citadels
very long, private guards will por
out from nowhere and saunter up
ready to shuck the stranger of q
bomb or what-have-you. I profess
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02
News Behind the News
- No Good FEELING Era

WASH1NCION-B BY no SJrelcn OF HiidsiAa-
ton could this period be called an EZRA OF good
feeling in Washington and the chances are
that greater bitterness lies in the month aheao
In few sessions of Congress have so many
names been called during the first couple OF
weeks Most of these names are being called
behind peoples backs and sometimes tney re
only muttered, but they're dirty ones and seem
more and more likely to be hurled around open
y.
The depression seems to breed evaporation
on Capitol Hill perhaps because one knows
what TO do about it. Members find themselves
able to get unusually nasty over q farm or
wage-hour bill and of course the anti-lynching
BILL which always produces hotter, meaner inter-
changes of personal Scorn than any other, has
been under debate in the Senate
When 1.-The senator from New York was
being accused of prompting the antl-lynching
bill as vote-getting expedition into the Harlem
"black belt" Senator Royal S. Copeland OF New
York arose to point out that the junior SEN
ator from New York, Robert F. Wagner and
not Copeland. was meant.
The senior senator from New York has al
ready been on vote-getting expedition, point
ed out Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana IN
what was an especially mean dig, considering
the walloping which Copeland took in both the
Republican and Democratic mayoralty primaries
in New York.
Blu. the really extraordinary thing about
Minton's crack is to be found IN the fact that
Minton is the Senates assistant Democratic
whip Actually he is the real whip, since the
title of whip is held by the venerable j. Ham
Lewis of Illinois.
One OF a whips jobs-or an assistant Whlps
is to go around trying to make everybody
happy and one of the ways not 10 make Senator
Copeland happy is to remind him of those pri-
maries OF course Senator Copeland doesn't
make Senator Minton happy, since he is
violently anti-New Deal Democrat Just the
same whip is a whip.
One hates to see the ladies OF Congress mix
ing into anything that suggests a personal
squabble since it is always to be hoped that
they will be angels of sweetness and light in
a sordid political world
There was much suppressed excitement When
Senator Dixie Graves of Alabama jumped INTO
the anti-lynching DEBATE, because OF the rough
fighting that had been going on there, but
Mrs Graves used no fighting words and her
delivery was good that many listeners COM
mented on 1t.
about Congresswoman Virginia E. Jenckes of
man of Oregon. Mrs. Honeyman seems to stand
guilty of giving Mrs. Jenckes ana one OF her
pet ideas the
Congresswoman Jenckes has just started a
woman campaign for uprooting the famous
japanese cherry trees around Washington's Tidal
Basin and burning them up as flreWooo. Mrs.
Jenckes doesn't think much of Japan.
But CongresSwoman Honeyman, VINO lives
much nearer Japan than Mrs. Jenckes, seemed
TO just about put the kibosh on her Indiana
sisters idea when asked for comment. She
said tearing up those cherry trees would be just
like slashing an old painting by one OF the
Italian masters just because Of dislike OF Mus
solini.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
SUMMONS
No. 17433

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In and for the County Of Imperial
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DIS
TRICT, Plaintiff.
CHARLES H. FIELD, EUGENE
B. NOBLE, THE FIRST NATIONAL
TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK OF
SAN DIEGO, Etc, Successor to
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SAN
DIEGO. JOHN DOE, Administrator,
Etc, ct al, Defendants
Harry w. Horton and George r.
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO: CHARLES H. FIELD,
EUGENE B. NOBLE, THE FIRST
NATIONAL TRUST AND SAVINGS
BANK OF SAN DIEGO, A Ma
TIONAI, BANKING ASSOCIA-
TTON, SUCCESSOR TO FIRST Ma
TTONAL BANK OF SAN DIEGO,
JOHN DOE, ADMINISTRATORS OF
THE ESTATE OF o. H. WILSON.
DECEASED, H. E. HECATHORN, c.
E. GREASER AND Russell K.
PITZER, TRU STEES,. HOME
BUILDERS LOAN ASSOCIATION,
A CORPORATION, RICHARD
ROE TRUSTEE, SUCCESSOR TO
F. B. FULLER, TRUSTEE, BANK
OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST
AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, A
NATIONAL BANKING ASSOCIA-
TION, SUCCESSOR TO SOUTH
ERN TRUST AND COMMERCE
BANK, JAMES E. WALTER AND
AND TTLIA s. WALTER, HIS
WIFE, SUSIE L. WILSON, JOHN
DOE TWO, JOHN DOE THREE,
JOHN DOE FOUR, JANE DOE
ONE, JANE DOE TWO, JANE DOE
THREE, JOHN DOE COMPANY, A
CORP, AND RICHARD ROE COM
PANY, 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 Supe-
rior Court OF the County Of Impe-
rial, State of California, within ten
days after the service on you OF
this Summons--if served within
this county; or within thirty days
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02
Christmas is Not
Just a Day

Christmas Day is December 25th, but
Christmas is a season, not day.
In Imperial Valley, as elsewhere, we
feel it already. There is difference in
the way we greet our friends and neigh
bors, there is a new return of interest
in the doings and desires of others, there
is a new zest in life. There is something
which, for lack of anything more truly
descriptive, we call the trite phrase,
Christmas spirit"
We may attribute it to Divine source
or we may call it mass psychology, ac-
cording to our own beliefs and under
standings, but regardless of them we
must admit that it is something the
world could have in greater abundance
with very good results.
In this Christmas season we are re-
minded again by personal experience
that it is not only more blessed to give
than to receive" but also a whale of a
lot more fun.
The person who sits at home and
waits for somebody to bring Christmas
to him is losing Christmas entirely The
one who knows the joys of the season
is the one who goes out and takes Christ
mas to somebody else. Christmas is such
a success because it is the time when,
in spite of ourselves, we try to give more
than we receive-and learn that the more
we give. the more we receive.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

if served elsewhere.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said paintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract,
or 1t 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 December,
1886.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
(SeaD County Clerk.
(O7 IA 81 %; N4 IL l8 Is; Do %
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02
Letters to the Editor
EDITOR, THE POsT-PREss,

EDITOR, THE POST-PRESS,
DEAR SIR:
In the Congressional Record (Aug.
2l-3D appears the flat statement
by a Congressman-that our Nation,
all our States, and the people as
a whole, are bankrupt. That our
debts, public and private total
about" three hundred billions OF
dollars, while the total wealth of
our whole country is but "about"
two hundred and fifty billions of
dollars. Taken alone the first
figures would be of little interest
billions being but word with most
of us-but to be told our debts top
our assets by fifty billions is ar
resting. If we are but heirs of a
bankrupt eState-aS SNOWFALL we
have left of value is time and hui
man energy. To make survey
of this Big Rock-Candy Mountain
of bonds, mortgages, notes and
other evidences of debt, to find
what this billions" stuff means
we find just over a billion MIN
UTES in the Christian era, and
slightly less than three billion min
utes since Creation-(5698 years.
Turning to the future We find it
will take weekly payments OF $1,000
from somebody's pay check for
576,923,174 years to pay up-if the
debt factories are stopped dead
and no interest allowed That is
the years of labor stored in that
debt pile. If we put the ten million
unemployed on the job, and find
them food, clothing and shelter
plus ten dollars each per week to
apply on our debts, it will take
only 81 years to liquidate this debt
load. $1,000 per week TO maintain
each man-and $1,000 in labor-to
apply on the debts, will, of course,
double the value we must create
to keep our forces going and pay
the bill. Are we 81 years ahead
of our God blessed budget, or is
it la years? When Congress strug-
giles to balance the sacred budget,
demanded by the owners of our
debt pile, we ask that they include
humanity's budget. Lundberg, in
his book Americas so Families"
says sixty families own the Candy
Mountain. These owners appear to
look on our President and Congress
as but Referee in Bankruptcy
and except for some of their friends
-reyile them and damn their every
move. One Of their spokesmen-
Walter Lippmann--even threatens
Fascism. if Americans make use of
Constitutional provisions and: "use
the machinery of voting TO create
electoral majorities in order to i'm
pose the ideals of the Left" Would
the purse proud prefer the Russia
way? Or would the more distant
example of France suit them bet
ter? We would like to believe our
boasted civilization is a step in
advance of the unvarying, age old
way, of liquidation when wealth
accumulates in the hands of an ever
narrowing circle the masses
arise and destroy their masters"
Can't we break the bonds of the
eternal recurrence" and find
less messy way?
We do not know the truth OF
our Nations debts and assets, but
judging by the era we do know,
our Congressman was correct. Nor
do we know how best to put an
end to the piling up of debts-we
know it must be done to avoid the
eternal recurrence happening TO
us. We refer the matter to Con-
greSs, with full knowledge that
a determined group have pledged
themselves to put our house in
order.
T. d. MCCALL.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02

Following completion of a new
auto road, tourists can now de-
scend into California's Death val
ley on 72 easy curves. The old road
contained 240 sharp turns, and
frequently was made impossible
by cloudbursts.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02

Boy" is a mis-
nomer for Man
vile is gray hair
ed. Also he is
stopped and there
is the tired look
of the spent bou-
levardier in his
eyes.
His inherited
fortune of several
millions has been
lavished - or al
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02

During tribal ceremonies, Afri-
can natives often are driven tenn
porarily insane by the rhythmic
beat of tom toms.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02

The albatross, with winf
spread of IL feet, takes off like ar
airplane-into the wind.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02

September, 1897, was the health
lest month on record for industrial
policy holders of a large New York
life insurance firm.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02
New York Day by Day B Byo Q. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-Tne last Of
the Broadway play boys, Tommy
Manville, is beginning to show the
inevitable wear and tear of time.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02
Barbs

PUBLIC officials of Foochow,
prohibited to dance, are awaiting
suggestions for procedure when a
Japanese bully peppers their feet
with lead.
Reports say the Belgian king is
wooing Britain, indicating that Eu-
rGpean politics are settlingl down
into the same old Channel.
A 13-year-old San Francisco girl
asked annullment Of her marriage
so she could return to school. Nope;
love and career just won't mix.
Something i'm these recent gin
weddings is vaguely reminiscent
Of the old life-fOr-a-pint laws.
The man whose night club was
closed by the Klan merely made
a parliamentary mistake, trying
to organize a new club on lodge
meeting night.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02

Horoscope for Sunday
If your birthday occurs tomor-
row, you have fine artistic sense.
Music or painting may prove ex-
cellent hobbies for you.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02
You re Telling Me -
BY WILLIAM RIFT

CHARON. the ferryman whose
unending duty it is to take the
shades of those who have FORE
saken life across the great, dark
river to the land from which there
is no return, was taking his ease
A shadow fell across Charon's
hand as he was about to put
match to the old corn cob pipe
He looked up annoyed. Then he
smiled. "Oh, hello, Chris" he ex-
claimed. Not wanting to go back
after all these years, be yep
mo, said Columbus. IT came
here to see if you do me a favor.
I'll eXplain-have you seen the
papers lately?" and he held up the
ghost of yesterdays issues of this
newspaper.
"Take look at those headlines" +"
Columbus said, rather testify.
'Japs Attack on Two Fronts,
Rebel Bombs Make Shambles of
Spanish City, Revolt Averted in
france, BrltlSn uneasy over CO.
lonial Disturbance and there are
more stories about the troubles of
the Italians, Germans and Rus
SLAMS.
Caron scratched his gray head
whats that go do to with me?'
he asked. This. answered Col
umbus, more than 130,000,00
Americans have just celebrated
Thanksgiving Day again offering
thanks for everything but the ont
thing they should be most thank.
full for.
81 mean this, he continued
that I. Christopher Columbus
discovered that great, peaceful
continent If I hadn't those 1870,
100000 happy people would not b.
Americans-they'd be Europeans
Asiatics or Africans, living in ter.
ror of tomorrow"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

l. Who is minority leader in the
u. S. senate?
2. What U. S. agency is investi-
eating monopolistic practices?
3. Where are the Fiji islands
situated?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02
One-Minute Test Answers

One-Minute Test Answers
l. Senator Charles l.. McNary
Republican, of Oregon.
2. The Federal Trade commits
sion.
3. In the South Pacific ocean.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02
Thoughts for the Day -

II We forsake the Lord, and strange gods.
then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume
YOU after that he hath done you good-Joshua 24:2o
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02
Words of Wisdom

In prosperity prepare for a
change; in adversely hope for one.
-Burgh.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02
Hints on Etiquette

To enjoy conversation about a
popular play. it is wise not to dis
cuss the plot, but rather the CEN
raj idea behind it.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02

man to Jail for six months and
fine him 5000 on series of drunk
driving charges.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-02
Famous Sayings

His heart was as great the world, but there wa
no room in 1t to hold the memory OF wrong
Emerson