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Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14
COMMUNISM IN THEORY
AND IN PRACTICE

Anti-Agrarians in Mexicali have won
practically everything they asked for
IN their settle down demonstration
against government Agrarian policies.
proving once again that the theory of
communism is easier to sell to any pub
llc than the practice of Communism.
When the test came, Mexican labor
unions and other groups which have
been currently regarded as somewhat
Communistic proved that their liking
Tor normal amount of individual liber-
ty far exceeds their desires to level the
nation down to the meanest group.
Theories of a definite Communist
leaning were ardently welcomed in Mexi-
co when they were propounded by Pres
ident Lazaro Cardenas. Cardenas SEEM
ed on the way to becoming the most
popular president ever chosen in MeXi-
co. Then the theories were attempted in
practice. Anyone who reads newspapers
knows what happened.
The small farmers, the laborers who
own their homes or furniture and who
depend on industry for their Jobs real
lied suddenly that the practice of Com
munism, in contrast to the theory, works
a far greater hardship on the average
middle-class citizen than on the so-called
capitalist 1t is the common man who
suffers, they found out. Russia found
out the same thing but too late)
Faced with the loss of life's meagre
savings, the common men of MeXical
Valley discovered that they could not
tolerate Communistic theories develop
ed into Communistic practice in their
midst. Luckily for themselves, and per-
haps for the future of all Mexico, their
battle against the practice was success
full
To us on this side of the line, the Mex
lean farmers should have proved one
thing: that there is no great fear for
the future of nation as long as its
common people are sound.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14
ESTIf{ld[!3E1Es5tESiFF4ly{III1lEX1 EIfd!EE5ESFF4{II1EX1
CERTIFICATE OF INDIVIDUAL
TRANSACTING BUSINESS UN-
DER FICTITIOUS NAME

I, the undersigned, do hereby GER
tify that I am transacting business
at BOT Brighton street, City of Ell
Centro, State of California, under
a designation not showing the name
of the person interested in such
business, to-Wit: COUNTY OIL
COMPANY.
Dated May 9Th, 1897.
L. X. JEFFERSON
Place Of Residence, 542 Len Rey st.
Ell Centro, California
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
(Ss.
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL }
ON THIS 9th day of May, AID,
1887, before me, Clarence B. Smith,
a Notary Public in and for said
County and State, personally ap-
peared L. r. jefferson, known to
me, Cor proved to me on OATH, to
be the person whose name is sub
scribed TO the within Instrument,
and acknowledges to me that he
executed the same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
my official seal the day and year in
this certificate first above written.
CLARENCE b. SMITH
Notary Public in and for said
County and State
M. 7, IA, 81, %.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14

The papers printed a nice big pic
ture, the other day, of a mildly
good looking American heireSS who
had posed, grinning broadly, with a
newly acquired huSband-her third
Two previous marriages had gone
to pot, but the lady was undiscour-
aged. This time it's for keeps" she
remarked as the cameras clicked.
Hope springs eternal in the human
breast, and two failures do not
necessarily prove that third ven-
ture cannot succeed.
*
A good deal has been written late
ly about the divorce evil" and
people who change husbands cor
wives the way ordinary folk change
their autos have come in for stern
condemnation by press and pulpit.
Yet when you reflect on the light
hearted confidence of this girliSh
sprig of Americas nobility you can
see that what is wrong with these
divorce-addicts is not original sin
so much as plain, old-fashioned
flightinesS.
Maybe we see too many movies
and read too many romances. AT any
rate, We seem to have nouriShed a
legend that if you once get in front
Of the marriage altar and have the
knot duly tied, life of serene, un-
broken happiness follows automatic
ally. If it doesn't-if you find that
you and the idol of your youthful
dreams have divergent tastes, If
you quarrel now and then, if you
occasionally wish one another in
Timbuctoo-then something is evil
IDENTIFY wrong. Not with you-heav-
ems, no!-but with the other per-
son.
Now the one thing that ought to
be perfectly obvious is that every
one who approaches marriage in
that frame of mind is due to get
bumped-hard. The wedding doesn't
inaugurate an effortless, lived-hap-
pily-eVer- after idyll; ii begins d
venture which calls for all the un-
selfishness, tact, forbearance and
plain, old-fashioned courage that
the two parties. can muster. The
thing the romantics never quite
grasp is that you have to work al
marriage to make it succeed.
So, when the storm clouds gather
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14
Editorials and Comment
FRIDAY MAY IA, 1897
New York Day by Day

are not concerned over not being
aSsimilated by the Occident They
have an enormous pride of race.
And an enormous sense OF humor.
Helen Morgan. sailing to London,
intimated to ship news reporters
that she may never return. The one
time ziegfeld star and queen ot
the night clubs is miffed a bit, ii is
said, at the decline of her drawing
power. Engagements of late have
been a bit scanty. but should she
retire tomorrow she has had more
adulation than most stars with thin
talent. Her torch lamentS atop a
piano rarely varied, yet the public
applauded them for many years. She
could fill a night club in any part
of America. One magnificent salon
was built for her and called THE
House of Morgan" at a cost OF
100000 for the decorations alone.
She cast the engagement aside SIM
ply because she did not like the set
up Miss Morgan was perhaps the
most generous entertainer OF her
time. On several occasions she has
tossed parties for her orchestra and
fellow performers than ran up
checks for the night of $l,5G0. A
creature of moods, she is at times
as sad as her songs and at other
times as gay as lark. Her devo-
ton TO her mother has been often
and deSerVedly remarked.
Nothing irritates me quite so ex-
pertly as, when dining out, those
show-off male dancers executing
special steps on a crowded floor and
expressing a look-at-me manner.
Also they are always catching me
watching them. Lately l have been
employing a little deception by cup
ping my head in my hands and pre-
tending to read the menu while
peeking at them through my fin
gers. That's tricking them!
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14
News Behind the News
Politics in the Insurance Business
That's What the Senate Wants
Exchanging Brains for Influence

WASHINGTON.-H is not on record that any
holder of an insurance policy has recon-
mended that the management of the insurance
company should be placed in the hands OF pro-
feSSional politicians.
large part of the administration of the big
gest insurance company in the world, however,
will be turned over to politicians if a certain
powerful clique in the Senate gets away with
the demands which it has stubbornly in
sisted for many weeks
It's quite likely that you have a policy with
this concern and that you're paying in money
on it every month. 1t is the federal Social
Security system which is threatened.
The Senate voted into the independent Of
fices appropriations bill rider requiring that
all the Social Security Boards lawyers and
experts receiving $4,000 a year must be
confirmed by the Senate. Obviously this provi-
sion would apply 10 the cream of the crop.
some 40 or more lawyers, economists, directors
of bureaus and assistant directors who repre-
sent the brains and experience upon which the
huge social security system depends for success
full operation.
Experience shows that when Senate confirma-
tion of appointees is required the appointments
customarily becomes a matter of political spos.
To date the Ssh which operates under civil SER
vice except for exemptions to lawyers and
technical experts, has hired about 210 Of those
lawyers and experts. The Civil Service Commits
sion has approved these exemptions after set
ting up standards for appointees SO high that
Ssh officials often have squrmed and cursed.
The House, which voted to put all the ex-
perts and lawyers under civil service has stood
out against the Senate rider while the Senate
conferees have ruled to bulge The Senate con-
ferees are Senators Glass of Virginia, Byrnes
of South Carolina, Russell of Georgia, Adams OF
Colorado and Steiwer of Oregon.
One effect of the Senate hodout is that the
delay in passing the appropriation bill has held
up May payments on grants to states for l258,-
900 aged poor, 100000 dependent children and
$4,000 blind
The loudest toot of anybody's own horn that
has been footed here for some years came re-
Gently from the United States Flag Association,
which announced in press release framed as
news story:
Washington, D.C.-In the midst of perplex-
ing Sitdown strikes and other elements befud-
ding the empoyer-employe relations of ma
ton, there comes big patriotic society like
thunderbolt out or clear sky with entirely
new approach radically different from anything
yet suggested, 10 the solution of this all-impor-
tant problem ."
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14

NEW YORK, May 14-Thoughts
while strolling; Leon Gordon with
side-burns would make grand
stage butler. Cocker spaniel dogs
everywhere-the Barretts of VIM
pole street influence. Add galloping
walkers: Aubrey Eads The boule-
wards crack rhumbaist: Harry Ev-
ans.
Rhyme: Baseball'S best seller is
young Bob Feller. Americas young
est multi-millionaire: Joseph p.
Kennedy. Worth 25 millions. Cole
Porters worst tune: I've Got You
Under Ny Skin" Martha Deane so
gabby at the microphone is as quiet
as a mouse away from it.
Look alikes: Basil Rathbone and
Fray. the pianist. No actress age
seems to remain so stationary as
Ina Claire's. Looks no older than
in the BelaSco days. If Mary Boland
talked that way off stage, she'd
drive me nuts. Few have the cucum-
Der calm voice OF Cecil De Mile.
They say the towns best pro-
fesSional ballroom dancer is Helen
Hayes. Morris Gest ought to walk
across town in a derby some day
just to fool his friends. The self
conscious groups who lunch at NO.
9" striving to look SO nonchalant.
Gotham idea of celebrity: Be seen
everywhere.
Abel Green. who coins SO much of
Variety's slang, could be the leading
hardware merchant of Plattsmouth,
Neb Add Wry Smilers: Brock Penn
berton, Frank Case and John D., Jr.
That bonfire glow in the Jersey
hills as the sun goes down. Lime
light droppers-ou Peggy Fears
and A. c. Blumenthal
The last stand of Nah Jong in
New York is in Chinatown, where
it will, of course, never die. The
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14
Bruce Cation Says:>~
Working at Marriage Will End Divorce Evil

these romantics fly to the divorce
court. Being romantics, they learn
nothing by their experience; and in
the course of time we find them
coming back for more a second and
a third time-blithely confident,
each time, that this one is going to
be different.
Is it? The chances are all against
it. 1t isn't marriage that has fail
ed, but the individual. This eter-
nal effort to find the dreamed of
happiness by a change of partners
faces highly unfavorable odds. You
get out of marriage, in the long
run, just what you are willing to
put into it. If you have tried it
twice and failed each time, what
earthly reason have you to hope
that the third venture will be any
different?
The first step toward ending this
divorce evilP is to grow up. AS long
as people approach marriage with
starry eyed faith in the automatic
magic of the wedding rite, the di-
yorce courts will continue to be
iammed
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORIA, IN
AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL
No. 1880
SUMMONS


IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DIS
TRICT, Plaintiff. VS.. SARAH M
STEPHENS, ct al, Defendants.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO SARAH M. STEPHENS
JOHN DOE, JANE DOE, RICH
ARD ROE, JOHN DOE COMPANY
A CORPORATION, AND RICH
ARD ROE COMPANY, A CO.
PARTNERSHIP Defendants.
YCu Are Hereby Directed to Ap-
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: OF
within thirty days if 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, OF
it will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hand and the sea
of the Superior Court Of the Coun-
ty of Imperisl, State of California
this 9Th day of May, 1887.
(SEAL)
w j. McCLELLAND
. County Clerk
BY ELEANOR McGIRK
Deputy Clerk
May z, IA. 81. %; June 4, II, Ia
Of IuIU . IN ~
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14
DEMO GIVES
ADVICE TO
REPUBLICANS

WASHINGTON, May IA. DIP
Charles Nicholson, the Democratic
national committees publicity chief
today analyzed the Republican
party and listed his advice TO
the COP. on how to come back" ="
In an article appearing in the
current issue Of American Maga-
zine, Nicholson predicted another
Republican deSeat in the 1910
presidential election and advised
the party to seek another Mark
Hanna or Matt Quay TO restore
party discipline
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14
QUICK ARREST
AFTER THEFT

WINTERHAVEN, May IA. One
hour and 40 minutes after an auto
mobile was reported stolen in Ell
Centre. Deputy Sheriff John Crou-
sen arrested two men in the car
as they headed toward Arizona.
A. C. Eubanks, IT, and j. o. Wade,
10, the men found in the car, were
arraigned in WinterhaVen justice
court before Judge T. E.. White and
bail set at $1,000 each They now
are prisoners at the county jail
pending preliminary hearing.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14
JUST ASK

Why worry - alone, unaided
about your need of cash? We
are waiting, ready to help you
with a Cash loan. No red tape,
no delay, no annoyance OF any
sort. Salaried people can obtain
the cash they need from us. Re-
payments made as easy as the
borroWingl
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14

Most Chinatown wives these days
are American born-natiVeS of New
York. Chicago or San Francisco-aS
chic as a Peggy Hoyt model and
scarcely any talk with accent. A
recent survey revealed the modern
touch when il was found four out
of six had read Gone With the
Wind" When they go uptown they
wear American clothes but in their
husbands shops they dress as they
do in China There are many young
girls there who have been sent back
TO China to learn Chinese. All speak
it fluently 1t is a mark against a
Chinese not to have mastered the
native tongue. Those who have noi
are stunned.
OF OrientalS the Chinese inter-
est me most. | was fascinated by
them in the days OF Sam Lees
laundry in our town and loafed
there much of the time. One OF my
proudeSt achievements was picking
up a few phrases and ventilating
them when boys from the country
came in for their weekly wash. They
thought l was quite a one. In New
York I know several laundrymen
and number of merchants in
Chinatown Anna May Wong once
promised to take me on a person.
ally conducted tour of the Chinese
quarter, but we never got around to
it. Chinese are careful with their
tongue. | have yet to hear one
criticize a person or institution. And
back of it all they give a bland
and battling impression that they
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14
Hints on Etiquette

When conversing, never supply
word TO one who apparently is CROP
ing for the correct expression. Your
word may be the wrong one, and it
is hardly ethical to supply it,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14
FRIDAY, MAY IA, 1897
By O. O. Mcintyre

Chinatown wives have their Mah
Jong clubs Just as Occidental wives
have their bridge organizations.
They meet at each others apart
ments over the storeS once or
twice a week. but always play for
small stakes.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

|. Distinguish between daylight
saving and standard time.
3 What is the oldest major po-
litical organization in the United
States?
g. Is the air we breathe principal
ly oxygen?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14
AN IMPROVEMENT THE VALLEY
SHOULD WELCOME

A project that has been given too lit
tie attention in Imperial Valley is that
for construction of state building on
the west half of the park across Main
street from the county court house in
Ell Centro. To all of the valley, and
particularly to Ell Centre, the new build
ing will be an asset which cannot be
measured merely in terms of dollars
and cents.
court house and furnishing a central
location for all state offices in the coun-
ty, the building will alleviate parking
problems in the vicinity of the court
house, reduce expenses by furnishing
garage space for the California Highway
Patrol, and materially improve the ap-
pearance of a section which should even
tually become a large civic center.
Encouraging to residents here is the
assurance that the proposed state build
ing will be planned to conform to its
surroundings, including the park and
the court house. In view of the rapidly
developing trend here, it might be wise
for the state to include plans for GEN.
tral cooling plant also.
Imperial Valley should leave no stone
unturned to assure completion of plans
for the building in the immediate future.
A native of China greets another by
shaking his own hand. 1t is valuable
thing to keep in mind for the next elec-
tion campaign.
The local bartender SHES at putting
it on the cuff He read somewhere that
the government is going to enforce the
antitrust law.
Hearing the talk about a memorial to
Thomas jefferson, the office blond
thinks his activity during the last cleo
ton may have caused his death.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14

1t seem Mob Scene extra actors are
receiving dollar 80 cent each day. But
if you are soldier in them piXture con-
tanning gun & uniform, you receiving
z dollar so cent. In one pixture they hav-
ing soldiers, but studio company only
paying dollar 80 cent So Screen Ac-
tor Society kicking like son-a-gun.
"Oh no." say studio boss gentman,
them extras was soldiers of gun &
uniform alright but scene was Retreat
from Moscow-so they is a Mob scene!'
Then they receiving just only 3 dollar
80 cent.
Partly of them strike desires are to
paying actor z dollar so cent if he
are a soldier no matter if running back
ward or forward. In other word they not
wish to going backward in both direc-
tions.
Thank UOu please
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14
Words of Wisdom

A mind once cultivated will not
lie fallow for half an hour.-Bulwer.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14

Hearing the talk about memorial to
Thomas jefferson, the office blond
thinks his activity during the last cleo
tion may have caused his death.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14
Thoughts for the Day

Take you wise men, and understanding and known
among your tribes and I will make them rulers over
you.-Deuteronomy l:l3.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14

TOday's Horoscope
Persons born today are great ideal
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14
on Sol
|. FRANK WATANABE
NOT MADE UP NEWS
ny Gp holden

Here are one reasons why them Holly
wood moving actors wish to striking.
1t making my elbows clatter to laughing,
but all same it are serious business.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14

One Minute Test Answers
/. Daylight saving time is one
hour faster
2. The Democratic party.
3. No, it is approximately four
fifthS nitrogen.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14

The local bartender SHES at putting
it on the cuff. He read somewhere that
the government is going to enforce the
antitrust law.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14

A native of China greets another by
shaking his own hand. 1t is valuable
thing to keep in mind for the next cleo
tion campaign.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14

lists. Many of them are artists and
lovers of nature.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14

are not concerned over not being
assimilated by the Occident. They
have an enormous pride of race.
And an enormous sense of humor
Imperial Valley press., 1937-05-14

May z. IA. 81. %; June 4, II, AZ,
25; July 2, 10.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-09-03
Organized Labor Booms
In IrOnt0n, Ohio, Area

Ironton, Ohio (AFLNS). - Signifi-
cant progress in organizing the work
ers in this vicinity is reported by
William H. Whetro, general organizer
for the American Federation of Labor
in this area.
The recently organized Retail Clerks
International Protective Association
Local has negotiated an agreement
with 35 retail grocers carrying re-
duction in hours of Is per week and
q minimum wage. In some instances
wage rates were increased 80 per
cent.
One hundred per cent Of the en-
ployes of the Henrite Brush Com
pany, Ironton, were organized in the
United Brush Workers Union, and
an equally 100 per cent organization
Of employees of the Carlisle Tile Com
pany, Coal Grove, was effected in
local of the Brick and Clay Workers
Union.
Intensive organization work is also
recruiting many new union members
among teamsters and truck drivers,
laundry workers, walters and bar
tenders, filling station attendants,
bakers, auto mechanics and calcium
and clay workers.
Mr.. Whetro was a member of the
Ohio House of Representatives from
Lawrence county in the 91st and 92nd
General Assemblies and served as
Chairman of the House Labor Com
mittee in the last session.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-09-03
TIMES ARE
CHANG GIN c
By DR.. CHARLES STELZLE
Executive Director, Good Neighbor
League

Nothing is so sacred but what it is
capable of being amended-or more
generously interpreted or more clearly
understood
Even the Bible was amended" by
an officially appointed ecclesiastical
body which decided to have it consist
of only sixty-six books.
The Constitution of the United
States is regarded by many as sacred
document-but it has been amended
twenty-one times.
There are some people who think
that the future of America depends
upon the "inviolability" of the Consti-
tuition.
But England has no constitution
whatever, and somehow it manages to
get along with less lawlessness than
we do-in spite of our sacred docu-
ment.
There is great span between the
revelation of God to Moses when He
spoke to him out of the burning bush,
and the revelation of God through
Jesus Christ.
And the last word regarding the
manifestation of God to mankind has
not yet been spoken. He reveals Him
self today in countless ways to men Of
every degree.
If you are getting no new light on
the faces and forces of life you're in
bad way.
There's something the matter with
your thinking or there's no opening in
your mind to let new ideas come in.
And there never was time in his
tory when more new things were de-
veloping than just now.
A hundred years from today people
will look back and say: what great
thing it must have been to have lived
in those days-when something big
was happening all the time"
What chance there is today to
mould the future of the world--or,
at least, to become a part of the big
world that's being moulded by others
and not being left behind because
we have no imagination and no deals.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-09-03
Paper Maker Is Labor
Commissioner Of Maine

Augusta, Me. (AFLNS). - Organ
lied labor throughout Maine is greatly
pleased with the action of Gov. Lewis
o. Barrows in appointing j. w. Tay-
lor of Topsham as Commissioner of
Labor to succeed the late Charles O.
Beals.
Mr.. Taylor has been a member of
Pejepscot Pulp, Sulphite and Paper
Mills Workers Local No. 66 and a
vice president of the international
Brotherhood He was one of the
eight trade union members endorsed
for the office by the Maine State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor at its Bangor con-
vention last month.
In appointing Mr.. Taylor, Governor
Barrows followed precedent in the
selection of one who has been prom
inently identified with the trade union
movement when former Governor
Baxter named the late Charles o.
Beals as Commissioner of Labor Mr..
Beals, prior to his appointment, had
worked at the cigarmakers trade and
was prominently identified with the
labor movement in Maine for many
years.
Mr.. Taylor is student of econom-
les and possesses broad knowledge
OF the labor movement and especially
Of the industry in which he has been
employed for more than 80 years.