davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
PRIVATE HAPPINESS
AND BUSINESS SUCCESS

Jean Rendlen, writing in last weeks
Five Star Weekly, brings to the light
of public knowledge something that
psychologists and psychiatrists ave
known for many years: that our happi-
ness at home is one of the greatest sim
gle influences on our success in what
ever line of business or industry we may
follow. 1t is something that every man
should know, for the good of himself
and those around him.
The Five Star Weekly writer is in
debted to an airlines physician for the
information that commercial airlines
watch the private happiness of their
pilots closely. They have discovered
that an unhappy man is no fit custodian
of the lives of airline passengers His
nerves, whether he knows it or not. are
too near the thin edge.
The same is true in any kind of work
that demands mental attention. A man
or woman distracted by unhappiness or
worry in private affairs is not mentally
free to devote full constructive energy
TO the business at hand. Mental strain,
whether it be from worry or overwork,
forces handicap on the human mind.
1t slows down productiveness. 1t is
conducive to error, dullness and seeming
stupidity.
The lesson might be taken to heart
by employers and employees. 1t is uni
versal.
The employer who makes too-great
demands on the nervous energies of his
employees is losing efficiency in direct
ratio to the extremity of his demands.
The employe who worries needlessly
about loss of his job-or the employer
who causes such needless worry-is los
Iarndncfix1fU and fhprnhU hrlnUlnp
nearer the thing he fears.
The individual who goes on in a rut
of unhappiness, whatever be the cause,
without taking drastic steps to correct
the situation is reducing his worth to
himself and to the community. Correc-
tion sometimes is hard, sometimes it
causes momentary pain greater than the
unhappiness itself, but in the end it is
the only sane course.
Our worries may be our own = but
everyone feels their effects.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
Other Editors Say
TRAILERS AT REST
New York sun

The growing popularity of trailers has posed
new problems for the authorities on the roao
these movable dwelling places are comparatively
easy to govern their owners must comply with
motor vehicle regulations. But when the own
ers decide to settle down alongside the hlgnWay
or in automobile camps or on private properly
new questions arise.
In some cases the trailer-dWellers JACK up
their homes and prepare for long stay Inen
the health authorities, firemen and police pc
come concerned The disposal OF waste, Cile
t;ra ba1ard and the maintenance Of order are
Involved Later the tax collector begins to take
tbouoht of the situation How shall the visitor
be made to pay his share of community ex-
penses? A new set of ordinances ana la"o nas niay
- oo,,ired If the number of trailers increases
as il has in the past. A Connecticut court
has held that a trailer at rest for certain pc
riod is taxable on the same basis as mouse.
auav In Michigan the necessity of state regu-
lation is under discussion. Other states VIII
soon be Obliged to take up the subject
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
If CONGRESS CHANGES
THE SUPREME COURT

Since President Roosevelt asked con-
gress to give him power to appoint six
new justices to the United States Su-
preme Court, the reaction has been bril-
liantly clear-cut. Congress has been
swamped with protests. As one senator
put it:
land they're coming from the COM
mon people.
The congress allows the administration
power to change the supreme court, 1t
will have ignored the inherent right OF
democracy. E.
Perhaps the court should be changed.
Perhaps the constitution should be
changed. if it is not liberal enough, or
If it outmoded by changing conditions;
If these things are true, then by all
means change the supreme court, or
change the constitution-or change botn.
But in the name of democracy, let the
people change them!
The issue affects the welfare OF all Oh
us too vitally to be decided overnlght.
Senators and congressman are our eject
ed representatives, it is true, but IN
thing like this they should not act WIN
out a mandate direct from the people,
If there is to be change, it should
be voted upon.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
JUST ONE MORE
"IyN4VOIDABLE ACCIDENT

Perhaps coroner's Jurles shouid De SCI
ected with an eye to their vocabulary, or
perhaps the word unavoidable should
be eliminated from the language they
use.
man was killed in Imperial county
last week when one automoplle craSiieo
into another One driver, entering the
intersection. failed to heed boulevard
SION sign and drove directly into the
other car. ;J,,.
A coroner's jury called the accident
unavoidable.
If that accident was unavoidable, then
tbere is no such thing as death, and con-
seouently no reason for coroners Juries.
If many more juries return verdlctS IKE
that one, then there is no reason Tor
them, anyway. re
NO AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT Is
UNAVOIDABLE.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
EDITOR, POST-PRESS:

EDITOR, POST-PRESS:
Your editorial of Feb. I, captioned "Eschew
Rubber Stamping of the Supreme Court, is
most commendatory as fair and fearless eH-
preston of true Americanism..
In my opinion you have clearly defined IN
eloquent fashion the evident attitude OF power
intoxicated administration that has grown ar
rogantly satisfied with entire executive and
dominating legislative powers, and now asplres
to the usurpation of the prerogauves OF the
third and last of the guardians OF American
liberties and institutions the United States
Supreme Court.
who the Gods would destroy, they first make
mad" is time honored axiom, especially apph-
cable in this instance. Business generally mas
not supported. nor will it ever generally support
an administration of uncharted destnaton.
NRA AAA and other New Deal experiments
were ruled OUT by the nine "oid men, sitting
on the Supreme Court bench, and evidently as
a result the New Deal leaders were chagrined-
made mad as it were.
That madness might be showing itself by
the New Deals attitude towards labor-against
capitalism. Perhaps that madness Will be III
supine congress continues to bow to Its Mas
ter,s Voice. further demonstrated II that legls-
lative body permits the Supreme Court to be
packed" as your editorial SO aptly states,
and in which case the New Deal will have
grandstand seat to witness Its own seH-oeStfuc-
ton ..... ::
Maybe our horse and buggy constitution Is
outmoded; probably it could be modernized for
our better welfare, by Supreme Court or otner
changes But then, should not the opportunity
to make the change be offered the people to
yIecide the issue by referendum? Is not that
the better method, the American way OF doing
things?
The fathers of the American colonies wisely
created the three branches OF government thaC
have survived through war and peace Tor more
than a century and half. Those trainers OF
our Constitution refused to be overlooked by
dictator and the sequence to their stand Is the
greatest grandest country ever conceived unoef
Gods sun. 81.
Mussoni Hitler and Stain may be just
what the doctor ordered in their own countries
but there is no place for their prototypes In
the land that gave birth to George washington
and Abraham Lincoln.
Yours Truly.
j. ED SNYDER.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10

from the beauty Of that city. But
nothing ever was done about it.
just recently the Ohio river went
on rampage, and wrought severe
damage throughout Louisville. And
now, as part of a long-range re-
habilitation program that civic lead
erS are planning, the bleak Point"
is scheduled to become a beautiful
park. AT the same time. slums that
cover nearby Iowlands may be con-
demned and erased
In years to come, residents of the
Kentucky city can see these i'm
provemenss and remember that they
owe them 10 a great disaster And
they will not be the first Americans
who have benefited III this way,
for history is replete with instances
in which clouds of disaster have had
silver Innings for cities OF United
States.
The Chicago of today, for III
stance, was born like Phoenix from
flames that ragged unchecked across
the old wooden-bui city.
1t was To huge tidal wave and
a great hurricane that residents of
Galveston, Tex, owe the splendor of
their city. In that catastrophe 5000
people died and almost every build
carried on.
Three years after the tremendous
1904 fire swept her entire business
district, Baltimore, Md had COM
pleted rebuilding. and found that
disaster had left her with better
city government and greater diver
sification of industry.
Temblor born fire ragged for
three days in San Francisco, during
the early years of the century, and
demolished one third of the city.
Now, with modern steel buildings,
it is one Of the finest cities on the
continent.
In the Miami river flood of 1913,
Dayton, O., suffered $l00,000,000
damage: and 400 people died. But
for its determination that the ira.
gedy must never again recur, Day.
ton nigh. now be dsmally survey
ing flood debris in its streets.
But it energetically built S32,-
100000 system of dams, and
Strengthened and Widened stream
beds. Now its residents can be
complacent during flood seasons.
X
All of this constitutes a splendid
testimonial to the American spirit.
For a people that has the courage
to rise again from disaster, and
benefit from it, the future should
have no fears.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
TWENTY YEARS AGO
February 10, 1917

1t has been announced by the
state highway commission that the
Mercerean bridge and construction
company has been awarded the con-
tract to construct the state highway
bridge across the New River at a
point near Seeley.
BraWlcy has secured more than
half of the sum required to carry
on its chamber of commerce work.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
Still Coughing?

No matter how many medicines
you have tried for your cough, chest
cold or bronchial irritation, you can
get relief now with Creomulsion.
Serious trouble may be brewing and
you cannot afford to take chance
with anything less than Creomul-
sion, which goes right to the seat
of the trouble to aid nature to
Soothe and heal the infiamed MEM
branes as the germ-laden pblegm
is loosened and expelled.
Even if other remedies have
failed, don't be discouraged, your
druggist is authorized to guarantee
Creomulsion and to refund your
money if you are not satisfied with
results from the very first bottle.
Get Creo.nulsion right now. (Advl
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
February 10, 1912

The city trustees of Bra awley have
appointed F. F. Parmerlee as treas
urer, to replace Harry Staub, who
resigned.
Three Well-drilling outfits are now
engaged in drilling work in the
Cariso Creek valley. An effort will
be made to secure artesian water.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
Bruce Cation Says:~>
Disaster Sometimes a Blessing in Disguise

A great disaster can be a blessing
in disguise. Which is JUS another
way of saying that cities. like peo-
pie, sometimes need to be shaken
from their lethargy.
A case in point is Louisville, Ky.
For many years a riverfront area
called THE Point" and crammed
with squalid houses has detracted
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
OH S0S says
TX FRANK WATANABE
,\Zy BY 20 HOLDEN
BY ED HOLDEN
1T ARE CINCH

Here are scientific suggestion for
Mr.. Gen Motor: Don't kicking those
working gents out of factory Start
charging room rent.
Also commence restaurant inside
and feed them inflated prices with
doughnuts. Lock all doors so they cam
not getting out Then you will have a
monopolous.
Put in beds and make a cover charge.
Also turn the radio on them and COM
pei to listen at 3 compressed hours OF
cooked recipes.
You asking the law to scoot them out
Mr.. Gen Motors and this are very law
ful.
Thank yOu please.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
New York Day bv Day
By Q. Q. Mcintyre

toss one about every six months in
their East so apartment and all the
towns brilliants of the stage, cinema
and literature arrive in their plush
lest pomp. Mrs. Pemberton, i'm
perious looking but justly celebrat-
ed as a wit, was designed for the
tea table-the 18th century refectory
with peaches in priceless epergnes,
the haunch of chilled venison. gol-
den goblets for flagons of red and
white hippocras, and such. Even
glum Brock lets the corners of his
mouth go upward on such occasions
and almost anybody who arrives at
the tea hour and leaves before mid
night has to catch a boat for Eu-
rope or something vitally important
like that
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

NOTICE OF TINE AND PLACE
APPOINTED FOR PROVING
WILL AND HEARING ApPLI-
CATION FOR LETTERS TESLA
MENTARY.
No. 2737
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
In the Matter of the Estate of
JOHN V. WEISS,
Deceased
Notice is hereby given that a.
petition for the probate of the will
of John " Weiss, deceased, and for
the issuance to Elizabeth Weiss OF
letters testamentary, has been filed
in this court, and that Friday, the
10Th day of February, 1887, at
O'Clock PM, of said day, at the
courtroom of said court, at the
Court House in the City of Ell Gen.
tro, County Of Imperial State Of
California, has been set fol the
hearing of said petition, when and
where any person interested may
appear and contest the same, and
show cause, if any they have. why
said petition should not be granted
DATED: February 1st. 1887
w. j. McCLELLAND,
Clerk
BY CITHA LAMSON,
F.8-18 incl. Deputy Clerk.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
The Peoples Voice

The editor dsclaims responsibility for OPT
mons and statements expressed in this column
and retains the privilege of summarizing COM
munications of more than $50 words. No con-
tributions will be acceptable unless accompa-
MED by the name and address of the writer
which, if desired will be withheld from publ
cation.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10

New York paWnbrokers now have
an official journal to exalt money
lending. 1t seeks to show the tradi-
tional Uncle is not blood Wringing
Shylock but an earnest merchant
with humane instincts. Uptown
hook shops are now chiefly cached
in skyscrapers with fancy names.
But on The Bowery, where most are,
three gilt balls hang over the door
and a bell tinkles at night to guide
steps of the unsteady. Windows
are jinkle of unredeemed pledges
with an overtone of banjos. Always
banjos!
There's a Chinese paWnbroker
near Brooklyn Bridge where sailors
90 when sailing light ashore. A
stock story concerns one COB bring
ing in a brokedown watch. Gazing
a. it and holding it to his ear, the
Chink sing-songed: Outside no
walkee, inside no talkee, no belong
any good"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
TEN YEARS AGO
February 10, 1927

No damage was realized in Ell
Centre as a result of an earthquake
which shook the city slightly this
morning or the several tremors
which followed.
J. A. Harris was. awarded judg-
ment in two lawsuits in superior
court yesterday. Bo;h cases were
won through default of the de-
fendant
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
One-Minute Test Answers

One- -MInute Test NnSWcrS
|. James Buchanan.
2. Supreme court justices can be
impeached and removed by con-
gress for improper conduct while
in office.
3. Pressure of flood waters out
side a wall often causes geysers of
water to spout through the dry
ground inside. These are called
sand boils" Many occurred at
Cairo, H.. during the 1887 flood.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
GRAB BAG
One-Minute Test

|. What president of the United
States never married?
2. Can justice of the u. S. su-
preme court be removed from Of
flee?
3. What are sand boils' in a
flooded area?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
TOday'S Horoscope

Today's Horoscope
Persons whose birthday is today
may have a tendency toward self
ishness and the desire to dominate
others. Some of them are said to
be "fair-weather friends.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10

NEW YORK, Feb. 10-In all New
York no group of oldsters cling SO
tenaciously and pathetically to IAN
outmoded calling as drivers of the
horse drawn hanson and four
wheeler. They have dWindled to a
thin s.raggle-all bent and gnarled
by the SHOWS of many blightlng
winters
Perched like SO many moulting
sparroWs on the boxes of their an
cient herdics, they have made their
last stand at the Plaza entrance. to
Central Park. Once grooved in a
wine blown garrulity. they now
droop in the silence of quiet and
detached resignation. They are there
if you want them.
Now and then one may pop out
of his reverie archly to intone: "Ker-
ridge, sir? Very exclusiVei' Their
revenue is chiefly from young ro-
manticists who, in the flush of late
afternoon cocktails or an after
theater glow, decided to have a
leisurely jog around the park.
When not dreaming, they are pol
ishing their carryalls, always ashine
with elbow grease l am told not
many are able to salvage more than
$40 a week above expenses. Winter
chills their bones, but valian.ly they
carry on. True disciples of Long
fellows inward Stiffness
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10

in those days strung along glow
ering Sixth avenue in the neighbor-
hood of Jacks roWdy all nighter.
Among the modern and occasional
patrons are the Alfred Lunts, Ward
Morehouse, Dwight Fiske and
Charles Macarthur.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
Hints on Etiquette

Hints on Etiquette
The Well-dressed man wears
country clothes in the country only
He does not parade through city
streets in tweed golf togs, white
flannel trousers, hunting Or skiing
outfits.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10

Gallants of another decade con-
sidered a ride in a low-neck hack
one of the romantic pleasantries of
a Manhattan visit. Booth Tarking-
ton and Harry Leon Wilson used to
make the rounds of the gilded and
blazing chandeliered 'estamine,s in
them-often one or the other taking
the drivers seat. The biggest line
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
WHERE NATIONAL
EEFORT is NEEDED

New dust storms IN Oklanonia aho
Kansas again spot the eyes of the ma
t;an on the need for widespread con-
se,.vation in the "dust bowl" area. The
menace of dust. of soil literally picked
nm and moved by the wind, is one thai
can he met only by program OF nation
~ scope For the prosperity of thou
sands of men and women, it is badly
needed.
Conservation in the dust bowl area
i big Job. but it is not impossible. II
will take concerted action and strong
leadership. 1t is perfect scene for I'M
oneration of the federal government.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10
Words of Wisdom

Be not the fourth friend of him
who had three before and lost them.
-Lavater.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10

No tea or after theater parties
attain that certain something that
characterizes the Brock and Mar
garet Pemberton hoop-de-doos. They
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10

Colleges launching bans on kissing are
minute too early now that We are to be on mort
asniabe terms with our impulsive Southern
American brothers.
There was a time when girls who painted
their lips red could be counted on to do the
same 10 the town.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10

No stage importation in years so
struck New York's intellectual fam
cy as the towns longest run in
Hamlet attained by the youthful
John Glelgud. He brought Out the
biggest crowd The Players ever had
at a pipe night-so called presum-
ably because everybody smoked
cigarets. Gielgud's modesty plus
personal charm was in stark con-
trast to the usual pontificial uppity
Of players from over the sea. He
is deft too, in making gracious little
impromptu speeches. The Nat Good
win blurty sort.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-10

A picturesque jehu Of Broadway,
who veered up the golden trail a
half dozen years ago was the black
and grinning Mississippi" whose
stand was the stage entrance of the
Winter Garden. He was a favorite
with the chorus girls who after the
play, enjoyed a back to nature turn
through the park. Mississippi
wore white linen duster and black
patent leather high hat the year
around and from him AL Jolson
picked up his favorite line: "You
amt heard nothin' yet
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-15
NAUCATUCK GIRL
 ATTENDS FARLEY
Librarians Inspect Collec- tiOn of Books at Farm.
 ingtOn Home

Pennington, Oct. 15--About 200 librarians and library workers at- tended the joint annual meeting of the Connecticut Library Association and the Connecticut CIapter of the Special Library Association at the Sarah Porter Memorial yesterday.
 State Librarian James Brewster was elected president of the Con- necticut Library Association. Hon. orary vice-presidents named were Wilmarth s. Lewis, Pennington, of the Yale University Library; Dr. Frank P. Hill of Stamford. Miss Edwina Whitney, Storrs, and Wall lace A. Smith, Stratfford. Other of- ficers of the association are: Vice. president, Carl Cannon, Yale Uni- versity Library: secretary Miss Ruth Scudder. Pennington Village Lie brary, and treasurer, Paul Alcorn, Connecticut State College Library.
 MT. Lewis. editor of 8 series of volumes of Horace Walpole,s works, tile first of which was published re. gently, was last week granted an honorary degree of master of arts by Yale University.
 An inspection of the Horace Wal pole collection of MT. Lewis was a feature Of the gathering. Leaders of group discussions, which were held in the morning, included Mrs. Ellen w Beach of Southington, Mary 0. Heald of. Naugatuck, Lois Linski, author and Illustrator; Miss Leslie Reid French and Miss Katherine II, iWead, chairman of the state plan- ming committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-15
ITS A GHOST OF SOMETHING
Woman Lands in Hospital After Brush With Icy.
 Breathed Spectre

Los Angeles, oct. l5.-(UP).-The ghost was female, tall and Raunk. with green eyes and an icy breath terrible to look at-and 1t chased her over the rail of e second-story ire escape, Mrs. Consuela Barrare related today.
 It had been pattering around the haAways outside her apartment and ringing her doorbell for weeks, but she never had seen it until yester- day when she felt something cold on her neck, turned around and there it was. ,.
 Mrs, Barrare screamed and swooned. The next thing she knew she was lying in the police hospital with general contusions, abrasions. and a broken armand e severe case of fright.
 Doctors who examined the young housewife said she was entirely rational and intelligent" If any fur ther proof was needed of the ghost, Mrs. Barrare had her wounds to tes- tify to her brush with something that either showed her or made her jump from the 25-foot high ledge.
 She was picked up, semi con- scious, from the ground below the ire escape landing that abuts her apartment window yesterday. This was her story:
 We have been haunted by the ghost a long time, my husband and l. Felix, my husband, who's 6 butch CT, has heard 1t too.
 Tt creepS up and rings the door, bell. When we jump to the door and open 1t quickly, no ones there.
 Many times we have heard foot steps padding down the hall. We've flung open the door when the steps are right in front of our apartment, but nothing's there. This happened three times Tuesday night.
 Yesterday Felix was at work and I stepped out onto the fire escape to bring in the baby's clothes which were drying there. felt 6 chilly breath on the back of my neck, as If someone had opened the ice box door. I knew right then 1t was the ghost. .Hs't
 T turned around and there she was, towering behind me. Her eyes gleamed like green fire and flashed on and on. It was tall, gaunt- faced woman, unearthly. I took just one look and that's alII remember.p
 BarFare, Who haa heard tho glloBt