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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-29
LET US NOW EXPERIMENT IN
GOODWILL

Time has come for all the people OF the
American nation to "beat their swords into
plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks"
and Ito learn war no more" among themselves
We have had glut of conspiracies and dis
sensions, of breathings of fire and brimstone
and hostilities, of madness and frenzy, OF acid
criticism and acrimony, of name-calling and re-
vikings and threats and attempted intimidations
America has long been exceedingly un-
happy.
The spirit of hell has been in too many
hearts. Satan has too often seen of the travail
of his soul and been satisfied in what he has
seen displayed in the spirits of our people.
How beneficent would be for us all an era
now of goodwill!
An era when contentment and complacency
would rule in the heart of the people.
An era when we would be able to look upon
our National leadership without fear or ques-
ton or impugning of motive
An era when politicians would cease to
feather their own nests by befouling those of
others.
An era when we should witness a suppress
sion of our singing rebukes and anathemaS and
give one another credit for good purpose, even
though judgment may be questioned.
An era when the President would more pla-
cidIy proceed to his large and crushing duties
without resort to appeals, intended or unconsci-
GUS, class-prejudce and social distinctions.
An when the people of America would
first have occasion and then have the conscience
to repose their confidence in the National
Daniels who have come to judgment, and there
by drawn popular passions and political quar-
rels and classchasms and social hates in a COM
mon fellowship of peace and progress and COM
fortableness.
Let us try the experiment of goodwill for a
while in our world and see how we like it!
The depression out of which many of these
bitter angers have arisen and from which, too,
much of the mental disbalance and popu-
lar phobias which are raging in America, is get
ting we'll behind U.s.
Now that we are recovering place and posi-
ton and profit and employment and money, it
is time to recover also that placidity of mind
and that equipoise of spirit which are associated
with healthy and intelligent people.
1t is time to have more faith in our fellow
man.
1t is time politically for leaders to strive to
prove to their people that they are worthy of
public confidence.
And it is time for the people thus persuaded
to prove to their leaders that they will not al
low the little tom-toms of temporal and momen-
tary political spasms to cheat them out of the
respect and admiration which is the due of those
set in mighty authority.
1t is time for America to quit making fool
OF itself in so many distinctive and spectacular
fashions, to act as if it were grown up and were
not still in the knickers of CHILDHOOD to exer-
else that charity which "suffereth long and is
kind and in this manner invite among and over
themselves administration of goodwill, of
tolerance, of Cancellation, of contentment, of ma
terlal prosperity, of social liberalism which
would conspire to issue in regime of calm and
tranquil and profitable peace
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-29

DEAR EDITOR Tobacco should
be harvested when fullest of oil in
order for it to cure easily and be
rich and superior in quality. Oil does
not evaporate in the process of cur
ing like the sap does and remains
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-29

Over in Germany man gets three months in
Jail for criticising Mr.. Hitler adversely. Taking
former President Hoover and Mr.. Roosevelt to-
gether, if we had laws similar to those of Ger
many there would be nobody left to put every
BODY in iail
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-29

A caravan of 20 people froze to
death on the equator in 1908.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
Make Imperial Valley
Attractive to Visitors

It's bit early for New Years resolu-
tions. but there is no harm in suggest
ing one for immediate consideration. 1t
applies largely to hotels, motor courts
and other stopping places throughout
Imperial Valley, and it proposes some
thing which has been done very success
fully in other places.
1t is. in brief, this: that Imperial Val
ley's better hotels and other similar es
Establishments teach their clerks the
unique and attractive things about I'M
perial Valley and tell the clerks to pass
on the information to visitors.
Then the clerk, when the visitor gets
ready to check out, would not say mere
ly. did you enjoy your visit, slr?" He
would say, instead, Have you seen the
mud pots at Salton Sea-" or did you
visit the Painted Gorge?" or it might
be the All American canal, or the petri-
fled forest, or the county's mountain OF
petrified sea shells, or the Cargo Mu-
chacho mining district. There are num-
dred interesting things to see and fas-
cinating places to go in Imperial county.
Why not advertise them?
The places where visitors stay could do
a lot to advance the interests of their
county by interesting visitors in the
county. Maybe one out of hundred
would come back, look around, and in
vest in business or farm property. That
one would repay all the effort spent on
the other ninety-nlne.
Imperial county is good place to
live. 1t has lot of things for the enter
tainment and enlightenment of its resi-
dents. Yet we have been singularly bash
full about telling our visitors Of the things
which might interest them.
Let's try it for while, and see what
the result is.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
News Behind the News
- One Million Jobless

WASHINGTON. - AT least 100000 jobleSs
persons will apply in January for Unemployment
insurance benefits under the Social Security ACT
That figure is only guess, but OFFICIALS agree
that it's as good as any other guess
State employment offices where unemployed
men and women must register for benefits IN
the % states which begin to pay benefits after
the first of the year, expect to be swanped
Few if any checks will be paid IN January
They will begin to pour out - February, but
probably viii not reach full tide until March or
April
Each state has a waiting period of two to
four weeks during which registrants report 10
see if jobs can be found for them. before oenentS
can be paid.
About ll,5OOOOO employees are covered in the
% states by unemployment compensation laws
and another s500O00 will be under the system
by the time the last state starts paying benefits
in July. 1889.
BY the end of January the total amount cred
tied to the % states in the TreaSuryS unemploy-
ment trust fund will be close to S500,000000. For
two years employers have been paying payroll
taxes to finance the system graduated from
per cent and per cent to stationary per
cent beginning in 1888. Some states require
employe contributions
State laws vary in important particulars
Chief groups generally excluded from oeheIitS
are agricultural labor, domestic servants, puoIic
servants and casual labor Usually employers OF
fewer than eight persons-and their employees
are exempted and excluded, although New YORK
places the number at four and pennsylvania at
one and there other exceptions. from Il
10 26 weeks of employment within the 81 weeks
prior to registration required for eligibility
for benefits Benefits are TO be paid Tor periods
of from - to 20 weeks, in amounts which usually
will be about half full weeks pay per week
but are limited to SIS week.
Each prospective applicant, says the Social
Security Board, should be sure he has a social
security account number. If he happens to nave
worked on a job which is covered by the state
unemployment compensation law but not by
the federal old-age insurance plan, he should
nevertheless have an account number and can
apply for one at the nearest Social Security or
post office.
Applications can be filed at the nearest pub
lie employment office and after Jan. ana
subsequently should be filed Immediately upon
loss of a job. State regulations require appli-
cants to report at certain times during waiting
periods to see if other jobs are available for
them.
Whether or not the unemployment trust fund
and the state deposits therein will be able to
stand the strain of the rush for benefits-and
whether the federal government Will some
time be asked to make up the difference SO that
all benefits can be paid, happend in England
depends on the length OF the depression and
the rate of increasing unemployment.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
The Best of All
Peace Formulas

peace on Earth, Good viii Toward
men!'
As ageless as it is old is the beautiful
declaration of the purpose toward which
Christs life was moulded. AS applicable
today as it was thousands of years ago,
the phrase has as much of utility as 1t
has beauty. In it may be found the be-
which men strive.
peace on Earth. Good Will Toward
MAN."
What a different world this would be
if we lived by those words every day,
as we do on this day What difference
there would be in the structure of world
governments as we'll as the tenor Of
human livesi
There is common sense in that phrase,
1t is a common sense we are too apt to
overlook in considering the beauty of
the words themselves, and their Sacred
origin. 1t is, too, a common sense such
as could solve all of the troubles of
this harassed world, if only every one
of us would abide by it.
If there were in fact, Good Will To-
ward Men every day and every year,
there would be Peace on Earth. There
would be no war, no bloodshed and no
heartbreak. There would be no national
troubles, hatreds and jealousies. Man.
kind would be at peace with itself, be-
cause man would hold only good will
for his fellows.
Is it so hard to come by, this Good
Will Toward Men?
1t should not be; yet the worlds great
est Teacher devoted his life to fostering
it, man has sought it through the ages,
and we have not yet achieved it. Why?
We think it is because most of us wait
for the other fellow to show his good
will toward us, before We are willing
to extend our good will to him. We are
still too selfish to learn the greatest
truth ever preached-that our own good
comes from the good of others.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24

seph Davies cleaning smile"
would be swell for the announcer
Bill Hays collection. That always
dignified lady: Mrs. Vincent Astor
Kristen Flagstad sounds like one
of those meat dishes at Luchow's
Bruce Barton's marcelle would get
him in the movies if congressine
gets tough. Why not a club for the
gallery god worshippers of Grace
Won Studdiford? The forlorn look
ing George Palmer Putnam
The next public collection should
be for new hat for Judge Lands
Nobody can get away with those
perky midge hats like Mrs. JacE
Dempsey. And Joe Laurie. jr., il
the only guy left who doesn't look
like a gangSter in a cap. What 6
press agent Schiaparelli must have
Rhyme: For a graceful caper
I'll take Paul Draper. Those Heller
Hodkinson looking ladies at tht
Town Hall morning lectures. Od
dities in nomenclature: Johr
| Charles Thomas has no last name
and Courtney Ryley Cooper has NJ
first. The last Of the pompadours
George 5. Kaufman's.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24

A style oracle declares not more
than a dozen men in America know
how to wear hat with that cer-
tain dash-like Give Brook, the
actor, Jean Patou, the dressmaker.
The majority set their hats too
sraight up and down The eXagge-
ration that gives Stan Laurel his
comic effect Victor Moore'S best
asset is wearing a hat that would
be suitable for a man rs pounds
less in weigh. BY not carrying this
disparity too far he achieves a
more subtle effect than if he at
of course, built his fame on cock
eyed hating.
Several presidents have been
careless about the tilt of their hats.
President Franklin Roosevelt and
ex-President Hoover, for instance
Calvin Coolidge never seemed able
to find a hat entirely becoming.
Grants derby and Cleveland's silk
hat were the topics of music hall
ditties and jeStS. The most gifted
American hat wearer is doubtless
John Barrymore.
Alexander Woollcott seems ta
have stepped off the deep END
without a farewell bow While he
shows up for an occasional radio
broadcast on some special topic
he is mostly incommunicado in g
retreat in his college town in Ver-
mont. No one knows the why OF
his withdrawal from the literary
| and radio scene in which he has
been such a conspicuous figure
Some say he is merely tired of il
all and wants seclusion for medi-
tation with perhaps book or so tc
write in prospect. Others say hi:
drastic efforts to reduce were re-
sponsible for a physical slow-up
Woollcott's closest friend is Neysa
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
Bruce Carton Says:
A Christmas Editorial

day or two IT,
For Christmas is, among other
things, kind of spiritual repirtn
which restores the freshness ana
expectancy of childhood. 1t Is not
for nothing that its common SYM
boil is a jovial Santa Claus pear
ing a pack of gifts for chlldren.
Above all other days, Christmas
is a children's holiday; and the
adult who can pass through it with
out at least partly entering once
more of his own childhood is
hard and isolated soul indeed.
And it is quite right that Christ
mas should be the children's day.
It's infinite significance. born OF
that divine event in far-away Ju-
dea, is something we must never
overlook IN the hustle and hustle
of holiday observance: and the One
whose birth the holiday commem-
crates is, after all, the author OF
tha profound remark, unless ye
become as little children"
Which, in it's turn, is reminder
that a spiritual rebirth like the
one which Christmas brings is en-
tirely and fundamentally necessary
to us. That coating of cynicism
which worldly experience puts on
all of us, that readiness to expect
the worst, to return evil for evil,
to suspect motives and to count the
costs of all generous actions is
not that something which we must
discard somehow, before We can
shape the world in the way it
must be shaped?
We cannot enter the Kingdom OF
Heaven with this cynicism; and
Christmas is an excellent time to
remember, also, that the Kingdom
of Heaven is after all within our
selves. We must find the Kingdom
| there or nowhere Until we do fine
| it the world will continue to be the
sorry and imperfect place it now is
Christmas is a good time to STAR
| looking for It. For on top of every
thing else Christmas is reminder
that the Kingdom Is really there
if we take the trouble to get at it.
Man is perfectible. after all. hi
dreams are not vain, his ideals ar
not unattainable If We can but re
member that today, our Christina
will do for us what 1t was mean
to do.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
S u Nj NJ o N S

SUM ONS
No. 1901
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
ALTA OPAL STANLEY,
Plaintiff
VS..
EDWARD STANLEY,
Defendant
Clarence S. Smith, Attorney for
Plaintiff.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
Continued on Page 8: Col. y
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO: ..
EDWARD STANLEY, Defendant 4
You Are Hereby Directed to AplC
pear and answer the Complaint 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 IL served else
where.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant. as arising upon contract, or
Plaintiff 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 26th day of October,
1897.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
(SEAD County Clerk
BY CITfiA LAMSON,
Deputy Clerk.
! O. 20, N. S IL 10 26, d. 10 II a.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
Convict Without
Underslung Jaw
Asks Job in Ad

SACRAMENTO, Dec. "a. tU.n)-
The following letter by Richard
Harrison, Folsom trusty who aid
ed the state in the trial of five
ccnvicts for the murder OF
Warden ClarenC,, A. Larkin. ap-
peared today in a local news
paper:
"Wanted-A Job:
Convict ready for release on
parole Immediately on receipt OF
suitable employment; four years
experience in a penal institution
CT somewhat questinable national
regulations; contrary to popular
belief 1 am minus the undersiung
Jaw, the beetle brOws, the vici-
cusness and anti-sOcial ambitions
Of the widely publicized convict"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24

McMein, the illustrator. A platonlc
friendship, of course, for she is
happily married to John Baragwa-
nath, the mining engineer. She has
been his confidant for years, his
only correspondent while travelling.
The most accomplished of the
Chinese dinners are given by the
Roy HoWards. Various dishes are
cooked exactly to specifications
from recipes picked up on their
many visits TO China and served
according to native custom Those
invited are expected TO use chop
sticks, wrapped in cellophane at
each plate-side, a packet which
also contains an individual tooth
pick.
Something went out of American
life when the toothpick was emily
posted to oblivion. While it may be
gauche to use in the open, pre-
fer the unashamed method to
skulking behind napkin and
gouging away while the face is
Nreathed in a beautific expression
Toothpicks from quills and sealed
in tissue are as much a part of the
meal in French restaurants as
table wine And every hotel In
America had supply in little red
glass at the exit of dining rooms
Is years ago l rather hope tooth
picks will come back. I'm aching tc
wear as a watch fob the one Uncle
Alex bought at the st. Louis Fail
"a dandy with a peephole showing
Niagara Falls in the center, g
toothpick at one end and an eai
spoon at the other.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
You re Telling Me ~
BY WILLIAM RIFT

JAPANESE TROOPS invading
! China are using camels for trans
port. What with the war having
| proven, SO far for them, some
thing of white elephant, it
looks a sthough they will soon
have a complete circus
We can't wait until the govern
ment puts through its new met
worth" income tax return, (which
demands listing OF every item of
assets. Then we'll really find out
what the boss thinks of this COL
umn.
A New York columnist believes
that the wearing of lapel flower
(boutonniere to you, you aristo-
cratD is a sign of success. Wow,
what complete failures George
Washington and Abraham Lincoln
must have beeni
Thank heaven for that news
item which predicts the current
style of women's hats will soon
pass. We've exhausted the supply
of jokes we've been able to think
up about them.
We refuse to react to radio ad-
vertising until some announcer
comes cleaen with This isn't the
greatest product of its kind, folks.
But it's good. Won't you try it?''
We will.
One of the incest things about
December is that, with the football
season ended, all those gridiron-
enthusiastic nniddle-aged alumni
begin acting like grown ups, again
The New Years resolution we
are glad so few people keep is the
one about being more sparing In
handing out Christmas gifts next
Christmas
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
Other Editors Say
STATE POPULATION GROWS
ALAMEDA Times STAR

The census of 1888 estimated the population
of California at 1856 600. In 1890 the federal
census found it to be 5677,000. Editor Glenn
Willaman of the California Real Estate Maya
zine who caused a recent survey to be made,
estimates the population in 1910 to approach
the 100000 mark. mo one seems 10 comprehend
the steady onward march of eastern, southern
and middlewestern people to the Pacific south
west He must see it to believe it, and he needs
but to take his motor car and drive only as far
as the Mississippi valley to note the tide west
ward Californias population averaged 10000
year increase for 81 years and the ratio has in
creased in the last l6 years" to quote Mr. VILLA
man.
With motor car registration exceeding $780,
O00 nine tenths Of which are passenger type, the
population, based on an average OF three per-
sons TO the car would put the figure at 675o0 0oo
Within the year more than 10000 single fami-
ly homes have been built in the state, indicating
an unusual migration of folks TO California even
considering the average number OF residents
who built new ones for themselves The single
family type home increase does not include apart
ments and their residents.
No other state, according to such figures as
we are able to assemble, even approaches Cali
fornia in the rate of population increase.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24

You would almost think that the
ordinary adult would get used to
Christmas, after all these years:
would get little case-hardened,
so that the day would lose a little
bit of its special, magical appeal.
But somehow tnat never hap
pens. Christmas is forever new;
even the most dour and grabbed OF
people, like old Scrooge, are apt to
find themselves mystically made
over by its influence, if only for
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24

Ferber's becoming
streak of white
hair. What has
become of Joe
Cook?
Dude of the il
lustratorS: r a c
Van Buren, Har-
ry Evans and Err
nest Truck coulc
pass for twins in
a London fog
Triumph of {
goofy laugh: 10,
Penner. Mrs. 10.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24

During a flight, French pilot was
shot in the back by woman. And we
thought automobile back sea- t drivers
were too critical!
The question with American women at
England's coronation next spring will be
whether they should arrive in streamlin
ed trains.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
New York Day by Day -Byo. o. Mentyre
Dec 24-Thoughts< =

NEW YORK, Dec. 24-IhougHts
while strolling: Note to Charlie
Mccarthy; All is forgiven. You are
tops again! Why do actresses,
wherever .hey meet, rush a one
another shouting "Darling!" Edna
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24

Hollywood is considering making
all its temperamental actresses
into producers. so their talent for
creating scene will not go to
waste.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24

Now is the time for all good
little Communists to write in to
Santa and demand their Christ
mas presents.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24

Being married to your job is
nothing new but the number of
men grass widowed by the depres-
sion is no less than tragic.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
THOUGHTS for the Day -

These are the statutes and judgments and laws,
which the Lord made between him and the chill
lren of Israel in Mount Sanai by the hand of Moses
-Leviticus 2646
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24

The traffic safety spy" system
has been abandoned in Belleville,
Nj, evidently on the theory that
most drivers don't recognize the
password anyway.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
Clipper Faces Long
Hop on Test Flight

HONOLULU, T. H., Dec. "a. .(UP)
The Samoan clipper, making a
survey trip from Honolulu to Auck-
land, New Zealand took off from
tiny Kingman reef and headed for
Pango Pango, 1861 miles distant,
today.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
Photographs

The Soviet Union ana the Ru-
manian government have inaugu-
rated a new daily air service be-
tween Odessa and Bucharest.
Each time a tree is cut down on
Madeira, a Portuguese island, an
other must be planted in its place,
according to the law.
According to the estimated value
of school property and endowments
in the United States, there Is an
investment of $400 for each pupil
in the nations schools.
Glass manufacture originated
among the Phoenicians more than
5000 wears ago.
teacher schools are disap-
pearing in the United States at
the rate of seven per day, the fed
eral education bureau reports.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24

You Haven't Read All the News
Until You've Read the Adds.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-24
Barbs -

The China war has had II incl
dents, more than enough for a
plot to make a long story short.