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The Washington times., 1937-07-08
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WHAT 4 WRECK
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The Washington times., 1937-07-08
PLAN TO ALTER
DIVORCE RULE

DETROIT. July 8 GN.S0.
American Episcopal Church lead
ers today moved to change the
church canons to permit divorced
persons to wed with the per-
mission of their bishop.
The move was made to obviate
the possibility of an outlaw"
marriage similar to that Of the
Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis
Warfield.
Headed by the Rt. Rev. Her
man Page, D. D., bishop of Michi-
gan, the commission on marriage
and divorce announced Yesterday
it will recommend the change in
the divorce canon at the triennial
general convention of the church
in Cincinnati october 6.
Official church sanction of the
marriage of the former English
King to the divorced American
was refused becauseS of the canon
against divorce. ..-...
The Washington times., 1937-07-08
Baltimore Fund
SpurnS Offer
By Jdrdine

BALTIMORE. July 8 G.N.S).
The community fund of Balti-
more-the city in which the for
mer Wallis Warfield Spencer spent
her girlhood-today refused to &C.
cept the proceeds from an address
to be given Wednesday by the
vicar who married the Duke of
Windsor and the Baltimore beauty.
The vicar, the Rev. r. Anderson
Jardine. recently arrived in the
United States to make a lecture
tour. Since the community fund
turned down his offer, the collec-
tions at his lecture will be given
the Volunteers of America Hos
pital here. which is not member
of the fund.
James M. Hepbron, director of
the community fund, said:
1.-THE Baltimore community
fund is not affiliated with any
church. The Rev. Jardine's lee
ture may cause some cOntrO-
versy. We do not wish to lose
the good will of any group or
groups which might oppose our
sponsoring the meeting"
The Washington times., 1937-07-08
Arlington Chamber
Maps Improvements

ARLINGTON, Va, July 8.-The
board of directors of the Arlington
County Chamber of Commerce at
a meeting next Monday night will
evolve a five-point program for
county improvements with the as
sistance of replies to a question
naire sent to more than $50 bust
ness men. civic leaders and mem
bers of the clergy.
The QUESTIONABLE asks for no
less than five detectives that the
chamber might support in initial
ing a program of improvement.
Carol Winchester. business man
ager Of the chamber, at a meeting
of the county Kiwanis Club yester-
day, asked for careful considera-
ton of the QUESTIONABLE before
answering.
The Washington times., 1937-07-08
Court Cuts Spending
Of Farm Romeo SO

CHICAGO, July 8 G.N.SD.-On
the petition of a 40,year-old daugh-
ter that Adam Horn, SO, is having
a youthful, but expensive, fling
with his dollars won at hard toll
on his Orland Farm. Horn today
was limited by court order to $40
a month income.
The daughter. Mrs. Ida Lillis,
said her father had shaved off his
moustache, had his nails mani
cured and was counting a girl 10
years old, on whom he spent
$4,000 of the 100000 in the last
few months.
The Washington times., 1937-07-08
Catholic u. 5. Paper
Barred From Germany

CHICAGO. July 8 G.N.S).
Chancellor Hitler today struck
back at George Cardinal Munde-
lein. who assailed the Nazi leader
in a recent speech. with the an
nouncement that the 78-year-old
American Catholic weekly, Kathol-
isches Woehenblatt, had been
barred from Germany.
The paper was printed here for
many years, but its offices re-
Gently we're shifted to Omaha,
Neb.
The Washington times., 1937-07-08
STRIKE FEARED
HERE ON u. 5.
BUILDINGS
Continued from Page u

CONTINUED from rage ~
ing valued at hundreds of thou
sands of dollars, and involve hun
dreds of workmen, will originate
with the Painters and Decorators
Local Union No. 1868, if two big
painting iobs-one in the City
Post office and the other in the
Bureau of Engraving-are given 10
Bureau of Internal Revenue-are
given to non-union, out-oftown
contractors.
Warning by Unions
This disclosure came from Bryce
P. Holcombe, business agent of
the local, who said the Post Office
work would cost about $4,000
under ordinary conditions and PRO-
vide years employment for many
painters. The job has been
awarded, he asserted to a "scap"
contractor from Brooklyn, who is
planning to bring nonunion paint
erS here. Holcombe declared:
''If this is done, the painters
will drop their brushes on
every District of Columbia job
coming under the Procurement
Division f the Treasury De
partment, which has awarded
the Post Office and the Bureau
of Internal Revenue contracts.
Following the painters will
come members of the ROdmen's
Local Union No. 2O1, PlaSterers'
and CT nent Finishers' Local
Union No. SO and the Hosting
Engineers Union.
ALL WORK TO HALT
"If the hosting engineers
strike, all work must Of neceS-
Sity cease Immediately.
"The situation would be bet
ter if the Brooklyn contractor
could get Government Ontracts
in his own city, which he can.
not. This is because union
labor in Brooklyn has repre-
sentation in Congress, while
nObOdv in Washington has any
representation.
"The situation would also be
bette. if the work were going
to local men in need of jobs,
whether or not they 'elOnged
to a union. But they are 60
ing to import men from Brook
Ign to work at low wages"
John Locher. secretary of the
Washington Building Trades Coun-
Gil AMI head of the Central Labor
Union, said the possibility of a
walkout had been informally re.
vealed to him. In any event, he
said, Holcombe can count on the
aid and sympathy Of the Build
ing Trades Council.
Ready to Picket
The strike will be inaugurated,
and pickets thrown out. whenever
the work on the City Post Office or
the Bureau of Internal Revenue is
started, Holcombe said. The lat
ter job, he asserted. has been
awarded to an Atlanta (Ga) non
union contractor. Holcombe eX-
planned:
I'VE will not be striking
against the Government or in
dividual officials of the Govern
ment, but against the law which
permits such contracts. We
understand the regulations re.
garding the awarding of a con-
tract to the lowest bidder, which
resulted in the present Situa-
ton because Federal officials
hands are tied, but we want to
bring the inequities of the law
to the attention of the proper
persons"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-22
News Behind the News
- CapitoI Hill Headaches

EDITORS: This is the last of six articles
on Congress and what lies ahead OF IL III
the special session called by President koose-
velt
WAsHINGTON-The interrelated issues of
the budget taxation relief and the general
business situation will provide plenty OF head
aches on Capitol Hill-and perhaps elSe"heie
in the next few months.
Fiscal matters presumably won't come before
Congress until the regular session beginning III
January whereafter Roosevelt Will indicate anu
Congress must decide how much money the
government shall spend in the l93S-3s llseal
year-and where the government Is gong TO get
it, bird's-eye view follows:
BUDGET: The Treasury now anticipates
s70o 900 600 deficit for 1898, compared with
the S2,700O0O000 deficit of 1867 secretary
Morsenthan proposes economies OF SfO0OOOoOo
to be effected on appropriations for highways
public works, agriculture-and relief. Roosevelt
is not as enthusiastic budget-balancer as Nor
genthau however, and Congress always finds
it hard to economic
RELIEF: If unemployment continues TO m
crease there is likely to be demand for at least
half a million dollars in addition to the Slo0o-
100000 appropriated for 1878 work relief
Roosevelt has been hoping to get the l93o-5s
appropriation down to billion dollars =,
Senator Byrnes of South Carolina again Will
try to have cities and states compelled TO con-
tribute 25 per cent of work relief funds, which
would mean wrecking the WPA program in some
areas. since the average level OF domestic con-
trbutions is % per cent and sections cant pay
more IMAM tney 90
TAX REVISION The Treasury has been
working out a revision program and Morgenthau
has said he favors reducing consumer or MD
den" taxes and increasing the number OF IN
come tax payers. There's much talk OF lncreaS-
ing tax on income between Sl0000-or $1,000
and $4,000.
Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin will push his
plan to broaden the base Producing personal
exemptions from $500 to $1,000 for married per-
sons and from $1,000 to $500 for the unmarried
and raise surtaxes in middle brackets-a COM
bnation which he says would produce s35OOOO0OO
a year.
UNDISTRIBUTED CORPORATE SURPLUS
TAX: (Revision sure but repeal unlikely Prln-
ciple of the tax must be retained, the admins
tration insists with bulk OF profit surplus SUBJ
ject TO tax.
CAPITAL GAINS TAX: Qncome tax rates
applied to unearned profits, accruing mostly on
stocks. bonds and real estate). No change
likely unless administration gets behind move
to exempt from the tax profits made on new
housing Developments.
TAX-EXEMPT SECURITIES: Income from
federal and other tax-exempt securities is likely
to be made taxable in effect, by taxing other
income additionally in proportion to amount OF
tax-exempt income reported.
SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES: Much talk,
leading to eventual revision but no immediate
prospect for action.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-22
Other Editors Say
THE MINIATURE STAGE
christian Science MOnitorl

The British Puppet and Model Theater Guild
has lust held its twelfth annual exhibition in
London The growth of the Guild, and OF the
movement generally in the British Isles, has
been rapid in the last dozen years and all over
the country now the little men OF the miniature
stage are having busy days.
1t has long been recognized that good drama,
like good government, flourishes best where 1t
has the understanding and cooperation OF the
people and that a drama divorced from the
populace has been denuded of its taproot. Again,
from the educational point of view, the drama
has the quality of mercy in that
. 1t is twice bless'd;
1t blesseth him that gives and him that
takes The practice of 1t is, therefore, belng
encouraged in schools colleges and clubs, and IN
social centers everywhere.
In some of the smaller schools, however, ana
in the more isolated communities, problems are
encountered, connected with expense, and space,
and the personnel and mechanical adjuncts,
required that prove difficult OF solution; and
in these cases the model theater is especially
valuable as a substitute for the theater proper.
The puppet mas in his time played many parts
He has been the mouthpiece OF political ana
social satire has voiced the anger of the oppress-
ed laughed at the pretensions OF overWeanlng
authority and given pointed utterance to the
good sense of the commonalty Now, though he
shows no signs of evolving into that Uber-Mar-
ionette that Mr. Gordon Craig demanded, he is
performing one of the most useful rolls of MS
career in encouraging many people TO take
practical interest in the arts and aims OF the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-22
In Spite of Gloom
peddIers. We Grow

We have a sympathy for those who
take a hasty squint at darkening war
clouds over Europe and Asia and then
rush speedily into print or ii the lee
ture platform with dark predictions that
civilization is going to be annihilated,
that humankind will be returned to the
dark ages, and that chaos will rule the
world The idea is absurd.
1t does not lessen our distaste for such
predictions that they have been the rule
rather than the exception for centuries.
The trouble with these gloom-ped-
dlers is that they look only on one side
of the picture. Their eyes are so filled
with war smoke and their brains so dim
med by the pronouncements of en-
pirical ambition that they cannot see
the quiet, steady every day advance of
science. invention and knowlede. Because
big guns booming on the war fronts
make more noise than acids bubbllng
in their test tubes in quiet laboratories,
they hear only the big guns.
Civilization is going ahead along so
many fronts that the average man can
not keep up with it. In thousand lab
oratories men are working to the enc
that civilization shall be improved. AT
a thousand work benches there are new
machines materialiZing, new inventions
taking shape. In a million different
ways, men are working to make this a
better, more comfortable, more conve-
nient world in which to live.
OF all this activity, the keynote IS
the development of greaer knowledge
civilization, and the worlds knowledge
is increasing every day. No, civilization
is not in danger.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-22
White Snow Falls
In the East

Snow and sleet, on the wings of icy
gales, cover eastern states this week.
Heavy overcoats, arctic overshoes, snow
plows and all the other paraphernalla
of icy winter, are in order.
In Imperial Valley we are starting a
contest to improve our gardens and
yards, to plant trees and shrubs to beau
ify our community with greenery
No other proof is needed that Impe-
rial Valleys climate is something to
boast about. 1t is something we can
shout to the world about, and there is no
better time than now to do our shouting.
Nature has given us an asset that man
cannot duplicate; it is our privilege to
attract other worthwhile residents to
our community in order that they, too,
can enjoy the climate we take almost as
a matter of course.
Sometimes in the summer we are IN
clined to curse our climate, to wish
that we were elsewhere. But every year
we are won again to the belief that three
months of hot weather is not too high
a price to pay for the ideal climate we
enjoy nine months out of the year
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-22
Record Membership
For the Bow Scouts

It is heartening news That the Impe-
rial-Yuma Council of Boy Scouts has
reached a new all time high point in
membership. Praise is due the Scout
leaders who, not satisfied with record
membership, are laying plans for
greater membership drive next year.
Any boy who belongs to the Boy Scouts
spends his time profitably and health
fully. He learns things which will be
good to know in years to come, and ne
develops body which will be a grand
asset to him wherever he goes. But,
more than that, he develops spirit OF
sportsmanship, neighborliness and lead
ership which cannot be replaced or du-
plicated He has a head start in life.
More power to the Boy Scouts!
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-22
Bruce Cation Says:
- More Peace Lunaey is Needed by World

Probably it was inevitable that
the man who interrupted the Arm
istic Day ceremonies in London
should be locked up as a lunatic,
Probably he really was lunatic.
But there was nothing particular
ly insane about what he had to say.
The King and all the big wigs
were there, drawn up in orderly
files about the World War Ceno-
taph. The heart moving peroid Of
silence had begun, and all over
Britain men and women were
standing in quiet remembrance of
the men who had been kille q
Then, suddenly and dramati-
cally. a bare headed man made
his way through the lines of SOL
diers and sailors, reached spot
within a yard of Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain, and cried
in a loud voice:
"Stop all this hypocrisy You're
deliberately preparing for a new
war;"
Well of course, they gave the
man the buns rush. Away he went
in the hands of the coppers. When
the peroid of silence ended, the
crowd began to yell, kill him!
But he was taken away unharm-
ed; and later, in the House OF
Parliament, Home Secretary Sill
Samuel Hoare announced that the
disturber was obviously suffering
from a deluSion" and would be
kept under observation.
So that ended that.Probably the
man really was crazy: for hardly
any of our eminently sane leaders
seem to be lifting their voices
these days in protest against the
increasing danger of war. Yet Il
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-22

; hard to avoid the feeling that
we could stand a good deal more
of this particular kind of lunacy
If you are old enough to re-
member 1918 you will recall how
devoutly and wholeheartedly the
world yearhed for an ending peace
when the World War ended. Mil
lions upon millions of them had
been killed, civilization had been
showed to the very edge of the
abyss. and enough ordinary, heart
breaking human suffering to make
the angels weep for a century had
been inflicted on the race.
One would think. that people
who had any sense at all would
have resolved that whatever hap
pened. they weren't going to go
through that again. Once and for
all, that experience should have
been enough to show that no action
men can take is as completely in
sane as the action which plunges
them into world war.
So what happened? So nearly
score of years passed, and Arm
istic Day came around again, and
people stood in silence to honor
their dead and renew the vow
that it should not happen agafsfn
and all the while the great flelN
were being built up, and the al.
squadrons were being enlarged.
and the armies were drilling, and
the new war was visibly drawing
| closer.
1t did no good, of course. He was
suffering from a delusion." But
he must have made at least a few
people wonder uneasily just who
| WAS heino insane
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-22
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE INVITING BIDS

Notice IS hereby gwen tnat seal
ed bids will be receiveds by the
Board of Supervisors of the Coun-
ty of Imperial, State of California,
at the office of w j. McClelland,
Clerk of said Board of Supervisors,
in the Court House in the City OF
Ell Centro, County and State afore-
said, up to and including the 6tn
day of December 1887, at two
o'clock PM. for the furnishing OF
all necessary labor, materials and
equipment for the erection and
construction of an annex to the
County Hospital situated on the
County Farm of said county and
belonging to said county, the same
to be done in accordance with the
plans and specifications therefor
as amended November 18. 1887, on
file in the office of said Clerk.
Each bidder is required to accom-
pany his bid with certified check
or a cashiers check payable to the
County of Imperial for an amount
equal to 10 per cent of the amount
of his bid, all checks to be return
ed to the unsuccessful bidders at
the time OF acceptance of bid by
said Board of Supervisors and to
the successful bidder upon his sign
ing a contract and executing and
| filing with said w. j. McClelland,
Clerk of said Board of Supervisors,
at his said office. a bond with good
and sufficient sureties the same to
be approved by said Board of Super
visors: the same to be conditioned
for the faithful performance OF
the terms of the contract, and also
a bond or the payment for all
labor to be performed in the execu-
ton of this contract and for all
materials furnished in accordance
herewith as provided by Chapter
303 Statutes of 1919 as amended.
All bids must be addressed to the
Board of Supervisors, FL Centre,
California, in care of w. j. Nc
Clelland, Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors: and such bid must be
enclosed in a sealed envelope and
endorsed IBID for furnishing labor,
material and equipment for erec-
ton of annex to county hospital.
Said board of Supervisors reserves
the right to reject any and all
bids.
Bidders attention is called to the
provisions of Sections ITO to 1871
both inclusive OF Labor Code OF
the state of California, which re-
quire Boards of Supervisors in ad-
vertising for bids for work and
material to ascertain and deter
mine the prevailing rate of per
diem wages for each craft or type
OF workman or mechanic needed
to execute the contract which is to
be awarded; notice is hereby given
to bidders that under the provisions
of said Sections said Board OF
Supervisors has ascertained and
determined such prevailing rate of
per diem wages to be as follows:
Per Hour
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-22

which grow worse
with years. S o
talking to Earl
Benham the Sar-
tor. about his boy
And a moment to
pass the time of
day with Mrs.
Dodge Slone, my
favorite horse
woman.
Then acros s
the way to a
Waldorf break
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-22
Famous Sayings -

perhaps the biggest spender in his
trade Fishers present day proto-
type is another cartoonst named
Fisher. Ham his first name, ana
creator of the Palooka drawings.
He is at present the dude OF the
comic strips, his get ups being not
merely ensembles but rather super
productions Fisher is in his early
thirty's and started his career only
n few years ago. He is tapping
back a yawn telling friends he is
already thinking of retiring.
Many theatre box office men of
10 and Is years ago are still attach
ed to theatres but mostly as house
managers of neighborhood movies.
They formed dressy trigger
thinking guild in the day when
the theatre was prosperous. Espe-
cially so at the vaudeville plays
houses. where the audiences came
directly to the box office for seats.
The box office fellows had a way
of making the customer who want
Su IWO StdJS NOWil ~ eiiS
aisle take two in the rear and like
it. Legitimate theatre box office
men have little to do today. Most
choice seats are hawked at the
agencies, one reason why SO many
have turned to the movies.
Bagatellees Wallace Beery can
talk baby talk" like nobody's bus
mess Joe Laurie Jr. in flush
vaudeville days was considered the
easiest touch along Bway . .
William Gaxton is shepherd of the
Lambs for the second time
Homer Croy left New York flat to
attend a corn husking contest in
his native Missouri.
Ennui: The waitress at a quick
lunch place the other day was not
her usual sunny self. questioned
she explained with sigh: "WhaI
with one thing and another have
just smiled myself out
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-22

ploys the lull between sales in
modelling in clay. She has sculpted
some rather remarkable Likeness
ses of AL Smith, J.P. Morgan and
Premier Mussolini without ever
having taken lesson, acquiring the
art naturally. At the age of so, she
is arranging to attend free night
classes.
Grace La Rue, whose panthe-
rine walk and enormously wide
brimmed hats were so well known
to Winter Garden disciples, has
written a biography of her show
days now and then she Is in re-
tirement in California. Miss La
Rue, wife of the movie actor Hale
Hamilton is one of Americas sea-
soned trouperS her appearance
ranging from a runaway adven-
ture with tent shows, to singing
to picaninnies in a box in vaude-
vile and a featured spot in the
Follies. She has appeared in every
city and village. big enough for an
"Opry, III Une la1u.
Personal nomination for the con-
tinued most unruffled figure on the
political horizon, Vice President
Garner.
New Yorks Overwhelming big
ness makes it dandy for special
ization The auto key expert in
Radio City for instance! Scores
daily have their keys break off il
or lose them. The locksmith merely
started with desk room in an Of
flee here. Now he has a suite with
switchboard and assistants to take
care of calls. Some say he makes
$4,000 q year.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-22
New York Day by Day BY O. o. Mcintyre

New York. Nov. 22-Diary: A !
personal note from Emily Post
and 1 first feared my wife had
written her of my table didoes,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-22
Photographs

In the days of czarist rule in
Russia. there were merely 10000
high school and college students in
the entire country. Today there are
100000 in Moscow alone.
China receives credit for inven-
ton of the first paper-making
process. Early Chinese paper was
made from bamboo and old fishing
nets.
There are more than 10000 den-
lists in the United States.
Hungary, a monarchy without a
monarch, is ruled by an admiral
who has no navy.