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Evening star., 1937-05-23
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

~ RED S1N11ON, One-tlme ALL
- America foot ball tackle while
at the University of Alabama
L and now utility outfielder Of
the Nationals, will be presented with
trophy by the Sporting News for
being named the most valuable player
in the Southern Association last year.
The announcement was made yes
terday by the Sporting News, a ma
tional base ball publication. and it re-
ceived the hearty endorsement Of
President Clark Griffith of the Ma
tionals. A date for the presentation
ceremony will be set by Grifdth in
the near future. 1t probably will be
Decoration day, when the Nationals
will play the Athletics in a double
header at Griffith Stadium.
Griffith will invite Speaker Of the
House William Bankhead of Ala
bama to make the presentation.
Evening star., 1937-05-23
LOUIS SHE[LACKS
F|VE-SPAR MATES
Sluggish at Times as He
Does First Boxing in
Girding for Champ.
By the Associated Press

by tne ASbOClaLeQ HreSS.
~ ENOSHA, Wis, May 22.-Joe
Il Louis exploded his famous left
hook in the faces Of i've SPAR
mates at Lake Front Stadium
today as he did his first boxing In
preparation for his worlds heavy
weight bout June ~ at Chicago with
Champion James J. Braddock.
The Brown Bomber, only about 5
pounds above the 19o at which ne
hopes to weigh In the night OF the
titular contest, performed before about
$50 fans and 4 party Of 40 Newspaper
men and photographers.
Has Strenuous Schedule.
HE APPEARED a little sluggish 1T
times and his timing was OF
slightly, but those who watched him
were convinced the 23-year-old Negro
still carries dynamite in either hand.
The Bomber Is slated to engage N
10 public exhibitions, which his CO.
managers. John Roxborough and Ju-
Liam Black, claim Is the most strenu-
Gus boxing schedule ever outlined for
their young charge.
Evening star., 1937-05-23
Rowe to Rejoin Tigers Today.

Rowe to Rejoin Tigers Today.
DETRo1T's Tigers, now only a
game and a half ahead of the
Nationals. will invade Griffith Stadium
this afternoon for their first appear
ance of the year. The Tigers will be
here for a two-game series.
The Detroits haven't changed much,
except that their hero is now Gerald
Walker the base-runner with a sense
of humor instead of Schoolboy Rowe.
1t might be added that Walker Is one
Of the leagues leading hitters and has
a 26-game batting streak. Probably
the only reason his streak isn't longer
Is that Detroit has played only 26
games.
As to Rowe, who was left in De-
troit to get rid of his ailments when
the Tigers took to the road, he is due
to rejoin his club here today. Latest
word from Detroit headquarters has
it that "the doctors and the Schoolboy
himself report he Is in fine condition" ]"
A battle of curve -ballers is promised
today. Bucky Harris has been saving
Pete Appleton for the Tigers and it is
likely that Tommy Bridges will do the
pitching for Detroit. Todays game
will mark Appleton's first start in some
time. So far. as a starting pitcher,
Evening star., 1937-05-23
Smgton to Get Trophy Here
For Play in Southern League;
Tigers, Mats to Tangle Today

he hasn't won q game As a relief
worker Pietro has won twice.
Evening star., 1937-05-23
FISCHER ENJOYS
SWEET REVENGE
HurIer Indians Fired Gives
Them Only Two Safeties
in Six Innings.
BY FRANCIS E. STAN.

w yITH revenge riding on every
"a pitch, Carl Fischer held
" " day" of his own yester-
day at Griffith Stadium.
Officially, it was supposed to be Bob
Feller day and 5000 bowling kids
were on hand to honor the young
strikeout specialist of the Indians
But if Feller got the cheers at the
start it was Fischer who got them
at the end.
Carl, dismissed for incompetence
by the Clevelands a couple weeks ago
and rescued from the minors by the
Nationals, pitched to 4to-l victory
in game that was called after five
and one-half innings due to a thun-
derstorm. 1t was particularly
sweet victory for Carl and a costly
defeat for the Tribe, inasmuch as
the Indians were knocked out of first
place in the American League stand
ing.
Only two hits were made of Fisch-
er, and both were banged out by Mr..
Earl Averill, who plays centerfield
for the Tribe. Averill did his work
with gusto. One of his blows was
a triple and the other a double
The Griffs, in the meantime, were
making Mr.. Clark Griffith look good.
They faced Lloyd Brown, whom
Washington once traded away, and
they banged the southpaw for seven
hits to win going away.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26
News Behind the News
Bitterness of Older Men Factor in
Court Battle :. Average Up
Enemies Ages :.

WASHINGTON.-The bitterness of older men
against the implied insults of a younger man,
is real factor in the supreme court struggle.
There are young men on both sides and old
men on both sides. but the fight is one between
old men and young men. If you average sep
aratey the ages of the outstading protagoniStS
and antagonists, you will find the disparity as
great as that between the 75-year average age
of the six justices over 10. and the age of Roose
welt, who is only 55.
Everyone who is here on the ground realizes
that when Roosevelt-with grn-aSserted that
judges over 10 often served beyond mental
and physical capacity while unable to perceive
their infirnlities, he embittered many OF the old
timers. They otherwise might have been able
to take his proposal more calmly.
The age line of demarcaton in this fight
seems to be about 60 years. Men over that
age have been advised in effect, by the presi-
dent at a press conference, that he would ap-
point sexagenarians to federal judgeships.
That doesn't set well with some who had hoped
to end their careers on the bench, or felt they
might depend a judgeship in case constitu-
entS voted them out of office. Also the supreme
court retirement would permit justices to re-
tire with full pay at 10. only if they had served
10 years.
Aside from the five conservative justices over
TO- whom Roosevelt wants off the bench, most
conspicuous figures in the opposition battalions
include Senators William E. Borah, H. Hiram
Johnson. TO- Carter Gass, 70; George w. Norris,
rs; Frederick Van Nuys of Indiana, 81; Alva
Adams of Colorado, 81; Ellison D. Smith OF
South Carolina 72; William H. King of Utah.
70; Walter F. George of Georgia, SO; and Josiah
Bailey of North Carolina, SO.
Outside the Senate one observes such oppo-
nents as aHtton Summers 81, chairman of the
house judiciary committee who might easily
have expected to wangle a judicial appoint
ment He has been distinctly luke to
the Roosevelt program. The Morgan lawyer
John w Davis, also had reasons TO hope he
would wind up supreme court justice. or
perhaps even chief justice, under any conserva-
tive administration. He is now g.
O.
Now as to the men who have thrown them
selves conspicuousy into this fight for Roose-
welt A reasonably complete list in the Senate
would include Senators Bob La Toilette of Wis
consin, AZ; Hugo Black of Alabama, so; Lew
Schwellenbach OF Washington, AZ; Ed johnson
of Colorado, 53 Sherman Minton of Indiana,
46; Jimmy Byrnes of South Carolina, 81; and
Bob Wagner Of New York, SO.
The outstanding protagonist in the mousse
is Congressman Maury Maverick of Texas. Al.
And list of those who helped Roosevelt work
out the plan are now plugging for 1t, prob
ably would include Assistant Attorney General
Robert Jackson As; Solicitor General Stanley
F. Reed. So; Charles West, White House liaison
man with Capitol Hill, AZ; Jimmy Roosevelt,
20: Donald Richberg. 55; Ben oChen 49,; and
Thomas G.. Corcoran, 81. These ages stand
out In marked contrast against those OF the
six oldest justices.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26
BRINGING
al. TIE NEWS
TO IMPERIAL
VALLEY
REORGANIZATION
WHERE 1T IS NEEDED

No one but a dyed in the wool politi-
clan of the old patronage school would
seriously oppose the idea expressed by
President Roosevelt in his plan for re-
organization of the administrative struc-
ture of government. 1t is almost impos-
sible to find any good argument against
the idea. There is on the other hand.
plenty of room for argument in the
methods to be used
The President has said that he wishes
to revamp more than 100 separate
boards, bureaus, commissions, depart
ments and committees, doing away with
waste and duplication. Non-political
science have favored such program
for years. 1t is nothing new. If Presi-
dent Roosevelt can accomplish his stat
ed ambition, he will have done the tax
payers at least one signal service.
There are altogether too many bu-
reaus and boards in official life in
state as we'll as federal government.
Many of them duplicate the work of
others, or parallel it so closely that a
merger of two boards would not lose a
whit in efficiency, but would create
big saving in expenditures. The fault
lies in the patronage system, which has
made new jobs from time to time so
that friends of political bigwigs might
have jobs Few cases are on record
where job, once created, has ever been
abandoned,
How reorganization is TO be arrived
at is another matter. 1t is something
the public should be told before, not af-
ter, it has been accomplished. If bu-
reaus are to be cut down, all we'll and
good if their number is to be increased,
with a consequent increase in govern
ment expense, then that is different
matter Before anyone, even the Presi-
dent, is given blanket power to "reor-
ganize," the public should be acquainted
with at least a tentative draft of his
plan The people should be reassured
that economy and efficiency will, in
fact, be achieved.
The only definite part of the reorgan-
ization proposal so far given to the pub
lie is the plan to organize two new exc
cutive departments. No mention has
been made of any bureaus that would
be abandoned.
If four bureaus can be Topped off to
make way for the two new agencies, it
is good. Otherwise, it is not.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26
Other Editors Say
PLAYING P0STOFFICE
(POrtervilIe RecOrder)

Our esteemed public servants, the poStmas-
ters have gone the way of prescription drug
gSsts New duties at United States postoffices
are being added like items for sale in chain
drugstore. Ye P. M of yore, that good old post
card reader and stamp licker, has become
jack-of all-tradeS.
New Day paternalism in government has
made the average postmaster the towns big
gest bond salesman through handling United
States Savings bonds. The postmaster Is the
favored banker of the small depostor who may
sock away $40 or 500 today and withdraw his
money tomorrow-an advantage Of postal saw
ings without any service charge.
Last summer postmasters Swetered through
dog days identifying World War veterans and
certifying their adjusted service bonds for CASH
ing Now postmasters emerging from
siege of assigning 70 employers and employees
Identification and account numbers under the
Social Security Act Orders from Washington
pin a whole new set of chores on the rural
carriers-feeding drouth area meadowlarks or
chickadees, providing humanitarian organ
ization furnishes the feed To put across many
new governmental ventures the postmaster Is
Just about elected TO be the Royal American
1T"
IT, when and eventually state medicine Is
introduced before the New Deal comes roar
ing down the home stretch in 1910 post
masters what with one thing and another VIII
be sort OF old Doc Brnkley, Santa Claus and
Paul Bunyan--a three-ringed human circus all
under one tent.
There's one federal baby Who earns villa
be gets
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26
TAXES AND THE MAN
WHO OWNS NO PROPERTY

) How do expenditures IN government
affect the person who does not own
property? Most of us know the answer,
because of gasoline taxes, sales taxes
and all the other indirect taxes. New
point was given to the knowledge re-
Gently by a national life insurance COM
pany in a survey of homes and apart
ment houses.
Taxes cost S29 a room annually II
you are an average renter in an average
city house, or S18 room if you rent
flat, the survey disclosed. In Imperial
county, the figure probably would be
higher You pay 22 cents SCARE loot
annually, on an average In annual taxes
if you live in a house, and IL cents
square foot of floor space if you 1--we
in an apartment Three and tnird
months rent go for taxes each year II
YOU live In a house, and two-thirds
months rent if you live in an apart
ment.
Naturally the percentages differ IN
various communities, but the figures
give competent evidence that no person
can escape the cost of government. NO
renter needs think that his landlord Is
not going to figure taxes in his rent.
Summed up in the national average,
the survey showed that taxes amount
to 1876 per cent of rental rates on apart
ment houses: 1872 per cent on duplexes
and double houses; and % per cent Oil
duplexes and double houses; and 70 per
single-family dwellings.
Suppose the rent on your house were
cut % per cent year.
You might thank the landlord, even
as you blame him now-but in reality
neither your thanks nor your blame
4 Is due him. Taxes are levied by the gov
sernment-and you pay taxes in rent.
Government costs are of vital interest
TO all of US.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26
THE BIG BROTHER
MOVEMENT

In campaign backed by the Coordi-
mating Council, El Centre men Will be
asked this week and next to join IN
Big Brother movement which deserves
the support of the entire community.
So far as is known, it is the first time
such movement has ever been attempt
cd ON a COMMUNICATIVE scale. BY put
ting it over. Ell Centro will be writing
history in an effort to provide help Tor
unfortunate children.
Each man who joins in the movement
will become big Brother to some
vounyster badly in need of understand
inc advice and help. Some of the boys
are delinouent juveniles, others are just
i;tt,s tykes badly in need of the SYM
nathv % of someone who has, himself, been
boy. e .ho oor,,,,,,;
~ viii not only help the boys-it will
broaden the men themselves in under
standing and wisdom and patience.
To the Big Brother movement; the
community should say Just one thing
.'Full Speed Ahead
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26
:. OH Sol says
X FRANK WATANABE
WI BY ED.HOLDEN
BY Ep.HoLpEN
SIMPLY EASY

All over America they trying to dis
cover where to put gambling. 1t are cinch
that gambling are full of alively alright.
Horses, marbles, slot machine, numbers
and dogs of all sort.
One Ohio officially fellow he say: IF
horses are going run for dope let Uncle
Sam did it, same will subdue taxus to a
downfall"
For sakes of scott think me-let us
get it!
Two racing horses will tear down a
mortgage on the average home he say.
Then how easy it shall being to posses
ing a personal house Let each home
loving husband acquire a couple horses.
In fact let us ALL get horses! A horse
are mans best friend anyhow-or a dog.
Hi! dogs are running for coins also.
Maybe three dogs can tearing down
mortgage. seen one dog tearing pants
off a burgler. And a burgler are just
as expensive.
1t are worth thoughts alright.
Thank you please
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26

is unable to go ahead with con-
struction OF six new destroyers and
three submarines, called for in the
current building program. 1t can't
build them because it can't get the
steel; and it can't get the steel be-
cause the steel men are sitting
down.
1t all goes back to the recently
passed -Healey law, which
requires holders of government con-
tracts to conform to specified wage
and hour standards.
The nine warships involved are
TO be built in government navy
yards. On December 4, last, the
navy advertised for bids for 100000
pounds of steel for the submarines:
a fortnight later, it called for bids
for 100000 pounds of steel for
the destroyers.
Now, under the Walsh -Healey law.
a steel company that would submit
bid for this business must produce
the steel under the above-mention-
ed wage and hour standards -
among which, for example, is the
40-hour week. And it looks very
much as if the steel companies of
the nation would rather 60 with
out the business than meet the
Walsh -Healey acts requirements.
For to date the navy has receiv-
ed bids for only 100000 pounds Of
steel. It thus is impossible to allot
sufficient material to any navy yard
to begin construction. and the build
ing of the six destroyers and three
submarines has been indefinitely
postponed.
Offhand, one would think that
this government business would be
worth getting. Orders for 100000
pounds of steel don't grow on every
bush. And, in further off-hand
comment, one would imagine that
the needs Of the country's defense
program might be expected to have
little weight.
Those warships aren't being built
just for fun; the Navy Department,
which ought to know what 1t is
talking about, says they are need
cd TO make the nation secure at sea.
But tho Walsh Healey bill does
not please the steel masters. So we
get the odd spectacle of orders for
5000 tons of steel going begging
Of the navy being unable to buy
the steel it needs in the greatest
steel-producing country on earth.
1t is evident that the supreme
court is not the only body that
passes on the validity of our laws.
Just as a group of auto workers
recently decided that the Michigan
laws against trespass were inopera-
tive, so now a group of steel masters
has suspended an act Of Congress.
1t might be something that Con-
gress would be interested in looking
into
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26
TEN YEARS AGO
February 26, 1927

An amendment to the second de-
ficiency bill proposing appropria~
ton of $1,000000 for the Colorado
river flood control was introduced
in the senate today by Senator
Shortridge, Republican, California.
The secretary of the interior
would be authorized to use the
money for protection of the Imperial
Valley in California, expending part
of it in Mexico if necessary.
The action was taken in view Of
the failure of the Boulder Canyon
Dam bill which would have pro-
vided flood control for the river.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Capitors Sitting Down These Days, Too

A quiet but effective little sit
down strike seems to be going on
these days, with the United States
Navy Department on the receiving
end and some of the country's rich
est aggregations of capital doing
the sitting.
Because of the sitdown, the navy
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26
Salesman Arrested
On Slander Charge

Paxton Clark, 43-year- old insur-
ance salesman, was arrested in FL
Centre Wednesday night upon a
complaint charging him with SLAM
der.
The complaint was signed by an
other salesman who alleged Paxton
misrepresented some of his activi-
ties in the collection of money. Pax
ton was ordered held in the county
Jail on $400 bail.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26
GET UP AT NIGHT?

A SIMPLE diuretic stimulant like DR.,
4 Pierccs A-nuric Tablets is often indi
Gated and usually it is sufficient to relieve
minor kidney irregularities. "Aenuric" Is of
value in relieving the burning and soreness,
and the desire for frequent urination caused
by or associated with excess acid, and tends
To case the flow of urine. Buy Of your nearby
dealer nowl Price, Csc & $l.3S.
Mail the symptom blank which is in the
4 n,fir package to Dr. Pieroe's Clinic. Buf-
.fsaA N. g. II son desifs free medical advice
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF TIME SET FOR
HEARING PETITION FOR
PROBATE OF WILL


IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE COUNTY OF IMPRIAI.
THE COUNTY OF IMPERIAL,
No. 2746
In the Matter of the Estate OF
S. HAROLD FREEMAN,
Deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that Fri
day, the 5th day of March. 1887, at
Q o'clock p. M. of said day, the
Court Room of said Court, at the
Court House in the City of Ell Cen
tro, in the County of Imperial, have
been appointed as the time of place
for proving the will of s. Harold
Freeman, deceased, and for hear
ing the application of Samuel Free
man for the issuance to him Of let
ters of administration with the will
annexed thereon.
DATED: February GOTH, 1897.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
BY G. o. Kenyon,
Deputy Clerk
Heaney. Price, Postel g. Parma,
Santa Barbara, California
Attorneys for Petitioner. f2im3ip
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26
OFFICIAL FLOWERS VARY

HONOLULU. Wp - Hawaii, not
satisfied with one official flower"
for the territory, has designated
eight such and thrown in a sea-
shell for good measure. A bill pass
ed by the legislature makes the
hibiscus the official flower of the
territory but goes further by desig
mating a flower for each island
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26
TWENTY YEARS AGO
February 26, 1917

Little Miss Meyer daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard P. Meyer,
was hostess to a group of her friends
at a delightful party yesterday aft
ernoon.
Charles II. Connect, cashier OF the
First National Bank of Seelcy, was
visitor in this city today.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26
LOOKING
What The Press Files
tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
February rs, 1912

Judge Franklin J. Cole will deliv-
er patriotic address before the
Brawley high school March when
a patriotic meeting will be held
Ex-senator Clifford Coggins has
returned from a trip of several
weeks down the west coast of
Mexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26

Here on Business Jay Little
field, formerly connected with the
Imperial county surveyors office,
spent two days in Ell Centro this
week. He was called to testify in
the power company case against
Imperial county.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26
GRAB BAG
One-Minute Test

/. Who was the first chief JUS
tice of the United States supreme
court?
2. Which state is said to have
the largest Indian population?
3. What is the capital of Sweden?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26

My recent reference to that grand
short story, "Skinner's Dress Suit
and faulty memory as to the au-
thor brings information 1t was the
late Henry Irving Dodge. Also it
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26
Hints on Etiquette

Hints on Etiquette
It is the complete absence Of
ceremony that makes the informal
dinner so enjoyable. Guests enter
the dining room in little groups,
or saunter in side by side, without
thought of precedence.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

reveals an early romance in the
films. The story was the first di-
rectorial assignment of Harry Beau
mont with Hazel Daily in the title
role of Honey" 1t was the first
meeting Of the director and star
and now after 18 years of married
life she is still Honey" to him.
Also their children-the Beaumont
twins-rate high in the community
noted for run away beauty.
Mention of Harry Beaumont is
remindful that some day he should
be filmed himself in his travesty of
the Gay 80 song and dance man
doing a while strolling through
the park" number with dance inter-
polations, funny sayings and ges-
lures. II Is as comic as anything
in the field of impersonations to-
day and its filming should be pre-
served for the archives of a period
that should never be forgotten. My
favorite of song and dance teams
was McWatters and Tyson.
A wag on Variety opines the
swing music is losing its vogue be-
cause many musicians are learning
to read music. The best of the
swings, to my notion, was that one
about Organ Grinder Pete coming
down the street II had a plain
tive down beat scattered through
it that was haunting. l understand
that. many high grade musicians re-
garded this musical moan as q
touch of genius.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26

NEW YORK, FEB. 26.-NOt even
winter snow and winds halt the
venerable croquet players in Cen
tral Park. In the rain they totter
on under umbrellas. All of them
are spruce and clipper and each
seems so eloquently to say: There's
life in the old boy YETI
There are about one hundred left
an organization that dates back
to the days when the game was in
full flower some so years ago. Cro-
quet seems to be an hereditary
pastime. 1t is carried on in fam
lilies even unto the third generation.
OF course. there are some mod
ern exponents. Such as Ethel Petit
Roche. Neysa McMein, Gene Mar
key, Charles and Kathleen Norris
and several others. But they play
on private grounds. The Central
Park devotees are almost all past
sixty and unusually hearty, courtly
but earnest.
One of the ground keepers tells
me he has never heard an argument
since he took on his job l2 years
ago. Sometimes the old fellows get
into a pet and sulk, not speaking
TO their opponents for several days
But they never voice their anger.
Always gentlemen of the old school.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-26

One Minute Test Answers
/. John Jay, 1899
2. Oklahoma.
3. Stockholm.