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The Washington times., 1937-01-01
Good Prospects


TNHE New Year dawns with bright and happy pros
4 poets for Washington
HAVING MADE REMARKABLE STRIDES DUR
ING 1886 THIS COMMUNITY CAN FACE 1887
WITH CONFIDENCE AND WITH ASSURANCE
THAT THE COMING YEAR WILL BE FULLY AS
KIND AS THAT WHICH DIED AT MIDNIGHT.
Reviews of the last year show that great progress has
been made in all lines of endeavor locally.
Business has shown marked improvement; home
struction is booming retail trade the citys primary
industry aside from Government is at high point;
banks are sound and bank cearngs are high.
These are fine ndices of the condition of the city.
They are excellent foundations upon which to build
even better condition during the year which starts
today.
Employment made considerable progress during the
year and it to be hoped that during this year all those
In the community who without jobs will find normal
and remunerative private employment.
There are many reasons why they should
The population of the city grew during 1886 and it
will probably continue to grow during this year, thus
giving more opportunities for jobs in the various service
industries of the community
The foundation stone of Washington is of course the
Government and the stability of employment of the Gov
ernment employe.
THIS STABILITY STANDS IN NO DANGER DUR
ING 1887 AND THERE ARE MANY INDICATIONS
THAT THE NUMBER OF GOVERNMENT EN-
PIOYES WILL BE INCREASED.
There is too, the strong possibility that through
increase in Government salaries large portion Of
population will find better economic conditions.
Washington hopes and expects that many things
about which it has complained in the past will improve
during this year.
Notably it wants chance for its citizens to partci-
pate in the affairs of their country through representa-
ton in the Congress.
That this is not idle hope is evidenced by the wide
spread Endorsement which has been given the proposal
to amend the Constitution to provide for representation
in Congress and in the Electoral College.
A fair fiscal arrangement with the Federal Govern
ment under which that Government would meet its just
obligations of the National Capital is also sought and
will likely be obtained.
As this fiscal arrangement works out there will
solution to the problem of overcrowded schools; con-
gested hospitals and institutions; under manned Police
and Fire Departments.
ON THE WHOLE PROSPECTS LOOK GOOD FOR
WASHINGTON AND FOR ITS RESIDENTS DURING
THE YEAR OPENING TODAY.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES HOPES THAT ALL
WILL BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE HAPPILY IN
THE REALIZATION OF THOSE PROSPECTS,
The Washington times., 1937-01-01
OLD FAVORITES
Dirqe For the Year Percy Bysshe SheLLe

DITge FOT LNe eur -FeTCy bySSHe ONEIIeB
Orphan hours, the year is dead,
Come and sigh, come and weep!
Merry hours smile instead,
For the year is but asleep.
See it smiles it is sleeping
Mocking your untimely weeping
January gray is here
Like sexton by her grave
February bears the bier;
March with grief doth howl and rave,
And April weeps-but, 0, We hours
Follow with Nays fairest flowers.
IReaders nved to send to the editor their Sug-
gesons of old favortes among the poems for reprntng
in this Space.)
The Washington times., 1937-01-01
HOW IT STARTED

This business of having presi-
Dental candidates go out and
meet the public during the cam
The Washington times., 1937-01-01
Listen, World!
By Elsie Robinson
DON'T LOOK BACK!

January first - mother New
Year Day-here again so what?
The Washington times., 1937-01-01

Reviews of the last year show that great progress has
been made in all lines of endeavor locally.
Business has shown marked improvement; home
structon is booming; retail trade (the citys primary
industry aside from Government is at a high polnt
banks are sound and bank clearngs are high.
The Washington times., 1937-01-01
Wise Words

Nor love thy life. nor hate: but
what thou liv'st live we'll; how
long or short permit to heav'n.-
Milton.
The Washington times., 1937-01-01

When rogueS fall out, honest
men get into their own.-Sir
Mathew Hale.
The Washington times., 1937-01-01

He who would eat the kernel,
must crack the Shell.-PlautuS.
The Washington times., 1937-01-01

Gaming is the child of avarice
and the parent of despair
Proverb.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
News Behind the News
Waoe and Hour Difficulties Eight
States Lead the Way NeW YORK
The Model

WASHINGTON-The difficulty of admins
tering a wage and hour law, in the likely event
that the pending Back-Connery Dill Is paSoea
will be considerable.
It is not expected to be insuperable. however,
and one would find it easier to magnify the
trouble ahead if eight states had not had ex-
perience administering minimum wage laws OF
their own.
The federal wage and hour bill is modelled
closely along the lines of the New York and
other state laws. In fact it was drafted Tor
the most part by the man who wrote the New
York law-Ben Cohen one Of the admnstra-
tion's most important and most retiring brain
trusters The big difference is that the New
York law applied to women and minors where
as the federal law would apply to both sexes
Only fraction of the population would be
directly affected by the bill, since it's estimated
that about 100000 persons in the industries
to be covered are earning less than 40 cents
an hour, and that about 100000 are working
in excess of 40 hours a week. Ihe Dill leaVeS
local service industries and small businesses TO
the states and no minimum wage Is liked Wnere
annual income exceeds $1,000. --=-
The Senate and House labor committees were
told about administration phases by Gilmore M
Herrick a member of New York's first minimum
wage body and who may be appointed to the
proposed Federal Labor Standards Board. Mrs
Herrick was a former production manager in the
textile industry and >rcrved with MIA. Sne Is
now New York regional director of the National
Labor Relations Board
The federal board would borrow techniques
from the states, Mrs. Herrick said. Its first
function would be to investigate.
Wages set, she continued, would be those
which majority in any given industry would
and could support voluntarily. Labor laws are
only designed to control sub-standard minority
and elimination of sub-standard practices enables
better employers more easily to maintain or
improve their voluntary standards.
Public hearings are held at which all inter-
ested parties express their views
Only as a last resort" said Mrs. Herrick
"does one apply these full penalties of $500 fine
and-or Imprisonment or both For years we
have had a system of departmental hearings
,hen persistent violator is called in, and his
whole record gone over with him. He is reason
ed with warned and then advised to go and
sin no more. 1t is only if he again appears as
an incorrigible that the full penalties are in
voked.
The kind of employer prosecuted, she said
was represented by Laundryman Joe Tipaldo, who
figured in the historic New York minimum wage
case before the Supreme Court Tipaldo "falsi-
fled his books, forced the girls to kick back
their pay and finally forged signatures to pay
checks so they would look regular to the irspec-
tor
Mrs. Herrick secuted the idea that labor
standards board would exercise autocratic powers
The whole effect of federal board as pro-
vided in the wage-hour bill, she said was to
make for cautious, thorough enforcement and
coordination of policy.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16

II is not strange that Nebraska,
reviewing the recently recessed
initial session of its experimental.
ore house. nonpartiSan legislature,
is unable to decide whether the idea
was worth the trouble.
On the balance sheet after Ne
braskas new streamlined legislature
adjourned, were many other things
in its favor and many other things
which showed no Improvement over
the old two-house legislature.
For instance, the 43 members of
the unicameral body introduced
only $40 bills in this years session,
as compared with 1042 bills intro
duced by the 1873 members OF the
bicameral legislature in 1885. How
ever, 220 laws were enacted this
year, the greatest number since 1921.
The 1897 legislature cost $4,000
less than that of 1885, but its MEM
bers adopted a s54,000,000 budget for
the next two years, exceeding by
S18, 100000 the budget set up in 1885.
Taking SO days to complete its
work, the unicameral neared the
record for lengthy sessions, and dis
appointed its disciples who had pre-
dicted that a one-houSe assembly
would work with greater speed.
On the credit side, the unicameral
passed new rules of procedure to
assure Legislation openly arrived
at: set up a planning commission
to obtain detailed facts on budget
needs of state institutions; paved
the way for the previously rejected
Federal Child Labor amendment
by initiating a change which would
permit voters to pass on amend
ments to the U. S. Constitution, and
moved to shorten the state ballot.
An important point of the debate
which followed the first unicameral
session was that greater criticism
developed over the non-party nomi-
nation and election of members
than over what those members did
when they got down to law making.
Democratic ana Republican lead
ers alike protested this loss of party
responsibility. Although the rolls
showed a Democratic majority, it
was claimed that Gov. r. l.. Coch-
ran, a Democrat, had difficulty OBJ
tanning support for his legislative
plans,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
Bruce Cation Says:>>
New Tvne Legislature In for ADDroval

This objection easily could be the
stumbling block for Nebraska's
noble experiment. Fortunately,
there Is no real evidence that
America or any other free nation
would fall under a political hier-
archy if the familiar tWo-party
system were abolished. The two
party credo is more Or less nation
al legend which has neither proved
nor disproved conclusively.
Nebraska is pioneering in un-
charted governmental procedure,
but there is nothing, thus far. to
indicate that any insurable hazards
lie ahead. Imperfections that have
already developed seem to be within
the power of the people to correct.
At least, the unicameral, nonparti-
san plan of state law making de-
serves a longer trial, and that, ap-
parently, is just what the citizens of
Nebraska intend to give it.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
Man in Iron Lung
Draws Will, All
Riches to Charity

SHANGHAI. June 10. UR)-
Frederick Snite, Jr drew up a
will leaving all of his share of the
Snite fortune to certain charities
before he started on his journey
across the Pacific ocean in an iron
lung" aboard the liner President
Coolidge, it was learned reliably
today.
Snite, who suffered an attack OF
infantile paralysis at Peiping dur
ing world tour, is the son of the
president of the Local Loan COM
pany, Chicago, national financing
firm.
1t was learned that the parents
of the 26-year-old Notre Dame
graduate, and physicians, tentative
ly are planning to perform a deli
cate operation upon the youth upon
his arrival in Chicago.
Doctors explained that the OPP
Grafton would involve linking live
nerve to Snite's paralyzed reSpira-
tory nerve, an extremely delicate
surgical process. This would be the
only possible means by which activ-
ity in the respiratory muscles
could be restored, doctors said.
Physicians said that Snite's con-
dition may lead to atrophy-con-
traction of the motor nerves and
respiratory muscles = which would
make cure virtually impossible un-
less the operation was performed.
Certain nerves still are function
ing in the youths neck, however,
despite the long period of paralysis,
and it is upon these live nerves
that physicians place their hope
for successful operation if it is
undertaken.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16

NEW YORK. June l6-Constance
Collier has for her charm, biting
wit and often outrageous upset
ting of the conventions become the
Mrs. Pat Campbell on this side of
the Atlantic Any tea party that can
entice her to the ringside is made.
It will likely wind up with whoop
Like Mrs. Campbell, too, she goes
nowhere without some fantastic
looking dog. Sometimes Peke,
other times Sealyham Or maybe
mastiff. I believe it was Noel Cow
ard who said of one of her newest
CANNES that it smelt like a drain
Miss Collier, English born. has
divided her time between New York
and London and is equally we'll
known on both sides, but it is
America. many think She prefers.
Large of stature, she is at first
meeting shy, shrinking, but if she
takes to you and turns on her charm
you are her slave from then on!
Many think her autobiography
few years ago is one of the most
revealing written by a performer.
In New York she makes the Alon-
quin her base. but at any moment is
likely to go flying off to Hollywood,
where she is in frequent demand
for her character canoes.
The new types of satiny night
club and snack bar so glorified by
the Louis Sobols and Ed Sullivans
have proved acceptable spring
boards from which society career
girls may take off in their ambit-
tions to act. Among the successful
are Eve Symington. Peggy Lynch,
Adelaide Moffeo, Julie Gillespie and
several others whose names escape
me- It might seem that most of
them were depending on a Four
Hundred background to put them
over, but have seen nearly all and
there's not one who could not hold
the spot with her own ability.
I believe some of the most lasting
impressions I have of crack enter
tainment value have come out of
the flosSy cafes. They are flushing
out more real talent than the stage
and movies, and had vaudeville dis
played the same acumen in new
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
BABY SLAIN
BY BROTHER
IN ACCIDENT

BANCROFT, Idaho, June 16.W,R)
Jay E Call, 2O-months-old baby,
died today from a bullet wound in
flicted by his four-year-old broth
er, Clarence.
Clarence was trying to remove a
cartridge from an old rifle barrel
by hitting it with a hatchet. The
barrel fell to the ground, the shell
exploded. and the bullet penetrated
the baby's head.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
on Sol
CRANK WATANABE
ny 20 ifoLDEN

e. e. BRIDGE
Them Golden Gate Bridge of San
Francisco seem to be success alright.
I looking at photos which visualize the
first pedestrialians of walking over.
| wondering who are the first autoist
which getting the first traffic ticket?
That's honor. Also | wondering who
shall being first fellow to losing he hat
off them bridge? A hat are mans best
friend by golly Oh no, it are dog, ex-
cuse please. And who are the first DOG
to acrossing over them bridge? Please
inform me at it.
1t like look see the panorama of the
gentman's face which say ut can't be
didr' Do he feeling cheaply? You bet
15 cent worth. In such case, the laugh
shall be first.
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
Five Years Ago
June 16. 1892

Jerome Dizzy Dean, rookie
pitching ace of the st. Louis Car
dinals, who deserted the team in
Philadelphia Wednesday, agreed to-
day to return Immediately.
Fridays criminal law and motion
calendar in superior court brought
seven defendants before Judge A.
C. Finney this morning on various
charges.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
The Grab Bag
One Minute Test

/. What city is the commercial
metropolis of western Canada?
2. Which was larger when the
Civil war was declared. Cleveland
or Detroit?
3. What does "pusillanimous"
mean?
Hints on Etiquette
Like many old and delightful
customs, the formal call is disap-
pearing from the social scene. It's
place today is largely confined to
diplomatic circles.
TOday's Horoscope
A pleasant disposition character
ICES persons whose birthday is to-
day Of noble nature, they rise high
in social and business activities.
Words of Wisdom
Life is a flower of which love is
the honey-Hugo
One Minute Test Answers
l. Winnipeg, Manitoba.
2. Detroit.
3. Weak and cowardly.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
Twenty Five Years Ago
June l6, 1912

The end of the month will see
the Inauguration of electric light
and power service at Heber by the
new Holton Power company Build
ing at Heber has been extensive
this year.
Desert agriculture and its novel
problems will be Investigated at
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
Fifteen Years Ago
Junc I6 1922

Imperial Valley is to have a fair
regardless of the adverse result of
the election Monday. 1t was de-
cided at a recent meeting that the
fair should not be abandoned be-
cause the bond failed to carry.
Arrangements for the paving of
the highway between Ell Centre
and Holtville by the communities
benefited will be discussed at a
meeting next week.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16

Etude: Now and then something
comes over most of us. When 1t
comes over me l pop into florist
shop and come out adorned with a
bright lapel flower. I had one of
my spells this morning and as 1
emerged a romantic ash can driver
with spring in his heart and a dis
carded posey tucked behind his ear,
called out with grin: you and
me. buddy"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16

90
Whenever l see the term bound
less energy"-as I did moment ago
I think of viii Rogers. His wife
Betty once told me she had never
known him to appear fatigued or
to admit he was tired. From the
moment he arose in the morning
and he liked am. as rising hour
he was in constant fidget. He
liked to read newspapers and morn
ing mail walking up and down. If
he had to sit in chair he was in
perpetual squirm, tearing up bits
of papers or ruffing back his hair
and crossing and re-croSsing his
legs. His furious chewing of gum
was another indication of the
strange reStlesSnesS, his jaws often
in constant motion from the time
he got up until he retired. He could
think best in action and that was
why he always thought his better
monologues were those that he de-
livered while tWirling the lariat.
After his first airplane flight he
told me that forever afterward rid
ing on something as slow as an ev-
press train was absolute torture.
90
The most consistent newspaper
man snubber continues to be the
actress, Katharine Hepburn. 1T be-
gan with her irritation when she
was badly pilloried in her first
stage performance terrific flop
She was young, tender and very
sensitive, and has never forgiven
any branch of the press, no matter
in what part of the country. AL
though her original tormentors were
dramatic critics and not reporters,
she cannot be mollified and rarely
fails to slam doors in their faces
whenever besieged, Many actresses
who INDUCED such tantrums later
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
Merriam Signs
Bill to Change
Bears Posture

SACRAMENTO, Cal, June 16.
U.P)-The weary bear on the
great seal of the state of Cali
fOrnia is in for an ordeal.
Hereafter, he is going to stand
up all the time-on all of the
states official seals.
Governor Frank F. Merriam
signed a legislative bill decree
ing this change. The legislature
passed the bill after it was
pointed out that the bear here
tofore has been sitting, lying
and standing on various seals.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
Looking Backward

he University of California's new
40 acre experiment station at Melo-
land.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS
BOARD BOGS DOWN

Everywhere you turn these days, it
seems there is strike. 1t used to be that
you could figure, when you heard of a
strike, that the laborers were asking
for better wages. These days, you can
eliminate the wage question, and nine
times out of ten you'll be right if you
think the strikers want union recogni-
ton Most of the time, too, you'll be
right if you figure that only one out
of four or five of the laborers actually
wants to strike.
The epidemic of strikes, increasing
rather than decreasing in recent weeks,
makes one wonder what the author of
the Wagner Labor Relations Act is
thinking these days. The act was highly
advertised as an instrument to end
strikes. vehicle to settle industrial dis
turbances before they arise, means OF
making laborers and employers all one
happy family
The only result of the act thus far.
where strikes is concerned, seems to be
a lot of work for the National Labor
Relations Board-created under the act
and no results. The board hears COM
plants. but by the time its hearings are
over. the strike usually is matter of
history.
What is needed, it seems, is new act
forcing labor, as well as industry, to bar
gain collectively.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
AFTER THE ELECTION
NO HARD FEELINGS

he Imperial irrigation District has
Just closed one of the bitterest cam
paigns in its history 1t is only fair to
say that much of the bitterness grew out
of the honest conviction on the one side
that Imperial Valleys only salvation
rested in public ownership and distribu-
ton of power; and the equally honest
belief on the other side that the so-called
cooperative plan was the only feasible
one.
Human beings are so made that their
thought processes are influenced by
their environment. Thus it is possible
for one man to be morally convinced
that his plan is the only logical one to
follow, and for another man to believe
honestly that the first chaps plan is
entirely wrong. When this is the case.
the best decision usually comes from
third party.
The third party in our special election
is the voter. Sportsmanship dictates
that his decision is the one by which
both parties to the controversy should
abide.
We do not believe that the Nevada
California Electric company nor any of
its officials have gone against what they
consider to be the best interests of the
public in this matter We do believe.
however, that the Imperial Irrigation
Districts board of directors is more
closely in touch with the public and its
desires, and that the best interests of
the people are more nearly parallel
with those of the district directors than
with the power company.
Believing that the other fellow believ-
ed himself to be right, even though he
was wrong, we can do nothing but rid
ourselves of any personal grudges which
may have arisen during the campaign.
We would be poor sportsmen, instead, if
in winning we continued to harbor per-
sonal hatreds.
There may be other fights, but they
should be new ones, fought on new
ground. There is no reason why we
should hold over from this campaign
any mistrust or dislike for those who
have been our friends and neighbors,
even though they disagreed with US in
matters of policy.
When the ballot boxes click shut, let
them lock in forever the bitter person
alities and bad feeling of the last few
weeks. There will be enough trouble
from time to time in the future, without
carrying over a balance of hatred from
closed books
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16

Memory: Grandpa wearing shoes
on the wrong feet now ana theh
to keep them straight.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
By O. O. Mcintyre

finds it would not be where II Is
today in the ash can. I think
especially of the mimic, Shiela Bar
rett. the amazing blind pianists,
Alex Templeton, the ventriloquist,
Edgar Bergen, Fray and Bragglotti
the versatile twin pianists, Eddie
Carr. the impersonatot and of
course, Ruby Keeler, George Raft,
Bing Crosby and probably 20 other
stellar names came out of the night
mosques.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16

Jailed by Federals-Immigration
border patrolmen sent four men
to the county Jail Tuesday to await
investigation as to their citizen
ship rights. The prisoners were:
Manuel Anguiano, 81, Antonio Rea,
%, Jose Alarcon, 26, and Pedro Car
rera, 38.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-06-16
New York Day by Day

longed for the reportorial salvo. 1t
may even happen to Miss Hepburn.
Life is often like that.