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science knows how to produce" Such
phrases as appealing flavor" and a
rum that has a special and delicious
taste of its own" appear in the cir
culars announcing the product After
the supposed delights of drinking rum
are outlined, the announcement says
you'll certainly want to try it."
Purpose of Move.
The Roosevelt administration which
has always more or less clung to the
theory that the end justifies the
means in modern life, is supposed to
be in the rum business so as to help
the natives of the Virgin Islands. 1t
Is avowedly relief project to sustain
the islands chief industry for it is
stated in the announcement that pro
hibition in Denmark in 1917 cut off
the Islands income from their 200
year-old art of making their sugar
cane into fine rum"
In answer to the query as to why
private capital didn't take care of the
rum industry, the announcement says:
'Private capital was invited to set up
IL IoI SC~SSaAC AtiSIlIlNl w do lllbllCu
for three years. Private capital wasn't
interested. Out Of necessity a dis
tillery was bought, started operations
in 1884 The idle of the islands were
called off relief rolls onto pay rolls at
honest work"
The Roosevelt administration pol
Icy raises two important points. II
70 +o1 Ito1> Ia
to engage in the business, why does
the administration feel it can make
a profit out of rum-making? Also
is the importation of this rum fair to
the makers of rum inside the United
States who have invested their private
funds in supplying what they think
is the adequate rum requirement of
the American people?
Effect of Policy Widened.
Were the same principle applied to
other fields, it would mean that the
Roosevelt administration would be
justified in making shoes or food
products of all kinds in competition
with existing business in order to find
work for the unemployed. The dam
age done by competition of this kind
might well be greater than the cost
of direct relief or the finding of jobs
In other fields of employment.
What makes the business venture
into rum manufacture particularly
a matter of concern is that ever since
prohibition repeal the Federal Alco-
hol Administration has been caution
ing the private distillers that they
must not have liquor advertisements
which unduly stimulate the con-
sumption of hard liquors The impress
sion has been conveyed that the ad-
minlstrat ton, speaking through the
Federal Alcohol Administration, has
been trying to get the American peo-
pie to observe moderate habits Now,
however, with direct encouragement
for the drinking of rum, the admin
stration is in the position of sane
tioning for purposes of revenue as it
relates to small part of the United
States policy which it has been
endeavoring to discourage with re-
spect to the consumption Of alcoholic
beverages in other parts of the United
States.
If the consumption of the Virgin
Islands rum were to be confined to
areas of the world outside of the
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bility will come with an orderly cut
ting Of only as much timber as can
be replaced by current growth, he ex-
plains.
Nearly million people live ada
cent to national forests They are
dependent either wholly or partially
for their livelihood upon the fuel,
wood, recreation wild life, forage that
the forests supply. When the forests
are gone, erosion, floods, destitution
begin. Ghost towns dot the map. we
must replace saWdust piles and
shacks with geraniums and bunga-
lows" Silcox says.
Born in Columbus, Ga.
His forestry interest has grown along
with the Governments which started
80 years ago. Born in Columbus, Ga,
Silcox grew up in Charleston, S. c..
graduating from the College of
Charleston in 1903 at 10, slated to be
chemist. Suddenly he heard of the
opportunities in the new Government
Forestry Service. In split second the
pine woods won. He entered the Yale
Forest School, established by Clifford
Pinchot and graduated in 1905 He
has been junior forester, forest
ranger, supervisor, regional forester.
The years have treated Silcox kindly.
His ruddy, alert, keen face denies the
evidence of his white hair.
The complete turn of fortunes
wheel started Silcox in forestry, led
him through labor upheavals, and re-
turned him to forestry. During 1917
great fires ragged in the West. The I.
w. w. went on strike War feelings
ran high. Silcoxs contract reading
I'VE pay transportation to the fire.
We pay wages on the fire. We pay
transportation from the fire If YOU
put it out" saved the day. and the
forests.
Reputation Made.
His reputation as an ace-high labor
arbitrator was made. The Labor De-
partment sent him to Seattle to settle
dramatic labor situation in the ship
/ yards. He served as director of indus
| trial relations in this country and
Canada, representing magazine and
book printers. The wheel gave another
turn. After II years he returned sS
chief forester in 1888.
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Struggle for Prestige
Integrity of Congress Seen at Stake in Economy
and Court Bill Fights

cutting-and the spending. How It
works, how the President gets more
power through control over spending,
Is illustrated by an incident in Okla
homa last week.
In Oklahoma the General Federation
OF Womens Clubs passed a resolution,
by an overwhelming vote, disappearing
President Roosevelt's court proposal
Thereupon the Democratic national
committeewoman for Oklahoma emit
ted a panied protest With the realistic
directness OF feminine mind, she
went straight to the point. All this talk
about the history and theory of the
Constitution and the court is imma-
terial The lady put her finger on the
heart OF the matter. She says, when
go to Washington to try to get prof.
ects for Oklahoma, they'll say, You let
the President get slapped in the face
down there in Oklahoma" An Associ-
ated Press dispatch says that Demo-
cratic National Chairman Farley called
the Oklahoma lady on the long
distance phone to congratulate her on
her wisdom
No one familiar with politics can
doubt that the Presidents authority
over expenditures, and also patronage,
Is useful in helping him get his court
proposal. Mr.. Paul Mallon tells q
story about the appointment of a
secretary to the Federal Communica-
tlons Commission, s7,500-a-year
plum Of patronage. There was much
pulling and hauling. with the appoint
ment about to go first to one man, then
to another. Finally the matter was
settled by the fact that quote Mr..
Mallon: The Iowa delegation in the
House was going to vote for his (the
President's) court proposal, and there
fore their candidate for the Job must
be taken care Of"
Wish to Be Free.
Back Of the whole disposition Of
Congress to reassert control over ex-
penditures Is a wish of Congress to be
free. To be free, among other mat
tiers, to express their consciences when
they come to vote on the Presidents s
court proposal. 1t is an important
development, not only with respect to
the United States, but to the world.
Wherever in Europe the one man
authoritarian" form of government
and society has taken root, a dis
tlngulshing mark of it has been sub
sidence of parliaments-first, gradual
and willing abdication by the parlia-
ment, then the utter wiping out Of par
lament by the new regime.
1t is commonly said that when Con-
gress votes on the Presidents court
proposal it will be deciding whether
the court is to remain an independent
arm of government. That Is true.
But Congress will be deciding the same
thing about itself. A Congress that is
willing to obey request of the Presi-
dent to take away the independence Of
the court by that same act gives up
its own Independence.
There are signs that Congress may
preserve both the courts integrity and
its own.
(Copyrisht, 1871
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he did good job and they another like
Bill No 4-ThS will hire six
new assistants the proposition which through Congress
whooping.
The political weakness uas never before
morned much inside
test In the old days cabnes
delegations Congress,
delegation.
Eight States Demo-
cratic Senators from these States
oppose it.
Even with cabinet wea the
dent and powerful Jim Farley Copeland
(Copyrisht 1879
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sage to Congress. The message
preached economy. But mainly It
was economy for Congress, rather than
for the President himself. For the re-
lief funds, which the President him.
self allocates, he asked 81 l,5OO 00O, 900
| That WAS only reduction OF 81 mil
lions from what he had suggested in
January. He did not crimp himself
very much. But as to other appro-
| priations, such as Congress might
initiate, Mr.. Roosevelt asked that body
to be very sparing.
To that, Congress, by its attitude
says, in effect, that If it must not
initiate any new expenditures, then
the President must get along with les,
than his billion and half for relief
There are energetic proposals to re-
duce the billion and a half to a bill
| hon. And there are other proposal.
to reduce the regular appropriations
for Government functions by either
10 or IS per cent
Contest for Prestige.
In this exchange between President
and Congress, more is involved than
money and economy. 1t is a contest
FOR prestige, for the power that goes
With authority to pass out money
IN the ancient phrase, the power OF
the purse Whether this power is
possessed by Congress or by the Presi-
| dent makes much difference in the
| relative statures Of the two branches
OF Government.
The difference is illustrated by two
proposals for reducing the regular
Government expenditures. BY one
proposed by Senator Byrnes of South
Carolina and others. Congress would
itself go to work and make a reduc-
ton OF 10 per cent in everything ex-
cept fixed charges and obligations
fixed by contract.
By the other proposal Congress
would "impound" IS per cent. Then
the President would be authorized, al
his discretion, to restore and spend as
much OF the is per cent as he deems
wise. In the words of the sponsor OF
this proposal, it would make the
President the sole judge in approving
expenditures" The President could
spend here and withhold there, in &C.
cordance no doubt with the judgmen,
OF necessity-but also in accord, if he
Is 50 minded, with his idea Of where
expenditures might help him with his
policies and projects.
Political Importance.
Right there is the rub. Politically
1t makes much difference whether
Congress or the President does the
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United States, such as Europe or

United States, such as Europe or
South America, there might be diff
ferent situation involved. But, appar-
entity with administration consent, an
effort is being made to get the people
inside the United States either to
buy more rum or to cease buying the
rum of private distillers. In either
event the administration appears be-
fore the boys and girls of the Nation
as sanctioning the use of rum. For,
while the Treasury Department has
always wanted to see as much tax
money as possible collected from liquor
sales, it has never gone to the point
of urging the American people to
drink liquor in order to help balance
the budget.
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let-torn trigger hand withered by pro-
longed illness.
Whitbeck was born in Allegheny
County, N. Y, January !, 1o43. He
served three enlistments of five years
each in the United States Cavalry and
ended his career as sergeant in
Troop E, 7th Regiment, at Fort Riley
on August 81, 1891. He had lived here
since retirement
Funeral services will be held tomor-
row at 2:20, with burial in Barren
Ridge Cemetery. He is survived by
two sons and two daughters.
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te question had no chance OF getting
spot.
ASo back in the days When Garner friends
ms father started out
TEL the truth alDdys be gentleman you
spend you'll haze has bv
ADVICE and developed strong
can custom OF wing checks
long cheeks
Garner other old timers
Government
actually consider increasingly dangerous" alarming
Mr. RS Government reorganization scheme
but it is involved in close
issue.
The situation
four different bills will
all the consolidated
defeated Overwhelmingly This they
what they have
Bill No 1Wi extend the Post
General thinks
bill will tend pepeuate the Farley
Bill No will Mr. r. authority departments
ana esue Government departments
this joker The
will be directly under
CABINET President
and Harbors will be kept
keep Mr. 1ckes from getting control
Bill No. 3Ihe controller general will remain independent
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interest has more
to support 1t than
economy as such.
1t Is part of a
broad disposition
OF Congress to
reassert itself and
function normal
ly, as against the
submission to the
President at
has prevailed for
four years.
The pres e n t
mood began when
President Roose-
welt sent his re-
cent budget mes
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BY MARK SULLIVAN.

TN CONGRESS just now interest
In economy tops all other SUBJ
jects, even the court issue The
Il condition Is so unusual as to con-
stttute striking news. Some observers
have their fingers crossed, thinking
the devotion to econom" is too good
to last. But this particular wave of
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wv e m u S t
make forests con-
tribute perma-
nence and sta
bility to COM
m u n i lies and
people" says F.
A. Silcox, forest
C h | e f, Depart
ment Of Agricul-
ture.
w e m u 8 /
a b a n d on the
tout -and-g get
out" method Of
The last century" +"
he says. Perma-
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Women Shoppers to Meet.

The National League of Women
Shoppers will meet at the headouar-
ters of the American Association of
University Women at o'clock tonight,
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An American
You Should
Know
Forest Chief Silcox
Urges Reform il,
Method.
BY DELLA PYNCHON.

n 4 AN must make his peace with
nu nature. Forests, which oc-
VI cupy one-third OF our land
a surface, have been despoiled
For over a century the standing army
Of forest sentinels have bitten the dust
in proud areas Of our national heri-
tage.
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or rum have been
issued by a sales
agent who has re-
ceived from the
Government cor
poratio W h a t
a m O u n t S to a
sales a G e n c y
franchise to sell
the rum.
The announce
ments d e C ! a T e
that the purpose
Is to help the ma
tives Of Virgin
Islands to pro-
duce ms fine a
r,1po &C SiStillipC
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South Africa may stage an annual
amateur air meet.
Fencing is becoming a craze among
girls of London.
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ITeaSuIy department, just as he
now is. He may be given some other
title, possibly that Of financial hat
checker, but Mr.. Roosevelt will not
get control over him. This is def
mite. Representatives never liked
Controller General McCarl because
he quibbled lot about whether a
man slept in an upper or lower
berth or whether he should have
charged the Government for a pair
of half S0les insfead Of a faxi hut
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INDIAN WARS VETERAN
DIES IN VIRGINIA AT 94

George Henry Whitbeck Of
Waynesboro Served Three
Enlistments in Cavalry.
By the Associated Press
WAYNESBORO, Va, May A.
George Henry Whitbeck, 94-year-old
veteran Of Indian wars in the West,
died here yesterday, his gnarled, bull
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News Behind the News
Garner Reported Leading Economy Drive With
Blessing of Roosevelt.
BY PAUL MATJnN

BY PAUL MALLON.
this
the Presidents the Vice President
The sage OF Uvalde, Mr.. lips
taped whenever that
ne mas taken hold OF this expenditures
oong lar more proddng and pulling than
before and apparently has Mr.
II you were looking for any outward
one oy hanging around the Treasury cabinet
meetings. AFTER White House conferences
secretary Morgenthau has been riding
we car the back
chamber in which cutting business
~ ~ T~' ~ 'Ne N"AN0
AT the Capitol, also has plugging his
way Tor the 10 cent the Bynes resolution
means the Bynes method
probably will be the adopted. 80 ~ r ~ "
Garner the
this
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HE opinions OF the ers page are their oun not
necsssary The Star; Such opinions presented IN
me Stars eUort TO g1De all sides questions interest to It's
readers although such opinions cotradtctory aono
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars ~
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Cle Old uayS, be1ore 1882, When he
was Democratic boss of the House,
he would not let any one get on the
Appropriations Committee who was
not budget cutter. He asked this
question of candidates for the COM
mittee appointment so often that 1t
still survives in the minds OF the
House members: Are you in favor
of cutting appropriations and bal
ancing the budget and will you vote
to do SOP" Any one who hedged on
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u. S. Becomes
Salesman.
Of Rum
Approximately $1,O00,-
900 Allocated to Vir-
gin Islands.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

THE Roosevelt administration has
gone into the business of SELL
ing rum.
Il A separate Government cor
poration has been organized in which
a member Of the Presidents cabinet
is an officer and approximately ST.
100000 has been allocated out Of
public funds for the use of the cor
poration in question.
Announcements with the avowed
purpose of stimulating the drinking
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-21
This Is Not
The Christmas Idea

Each year the El Centre Elks lodge
performs a quiet, self-effacing but high
ly meritorious service to the community
in distributing Christmas baskets to res
idents of the community who are toe
poor to enjoy Christmas. Christmas Day
has been frightened for scores of fami-
lies, il has been made time of uneXpect-
ed happiness for hundreds of persons,
by this unpretentiOus work.
This year there has appeared a new
phase Of the Elks lodge Christmas pro-
gram. It is one that gives food for a
little serious thought.
For the last few days an almost con-
slant stream of INDECENT persons has
visited the Elks lodge, They climb the
stairs, turn to the left and make direct
ly for the secretary's office, as though
they know Just where they are going.
1t is almost as if someone has told them
with painstaking care just what door
they enter. They present themselves to
the secretary.
81 have come" most of them say, ito
see about my Christmas relief"
Not, q need food nor "can you do
something for me?", nor yet Il would
appreciate help No Just that Il have
come to see about my Christmas relief.
This is the first year the lodge has
experienced such swarm of applicants.
1t is the first time anyone has practical
ly demanded relief" from the lodge.
To some people, relief has come to
be something they deserve. 1t is within
their right to demand it, to loaf and live,
too
This swarm of relief applicants, going
to a charitable lodge, can be traced back
perhaps to the relief setup that prevail
ed for so long under the protecting wing
of the federal government, when it was
hard to find anyone willing to work,
because it was so much easier to get by
ION relief" That program bred an army
of professional photographers who still
attempt to follow the theory that the
world owes them living if they don't
want to work.
1t is unfortunate that the Elks lodge,
such a necessary and helpful part of
the community, should be subjected to
the onslaught of those who no longer
find it so easy to get relief from Uncle
Sam.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-21
When You Get
Behind the Wheel -

Here Is something TO think about.
The last five persons who have died
in automobile accidents in Imperial Val
lev were involved in single-car accidents.
That is, theirs was the only automobile
involved
Remember that when you're speeding
along the highway, with not another au-
tomobile in sight. Remember that there
might not be another car in hundred
miles-and still you might be dead the
next second.
1t doesn't take the binding lights of
an approaching automobile, or a truck
stalled on the highway, or a crazy driver
veering from side to side, to turn your
own automobile into death chamber for
you and the ones who are riding with
you. It takes only little bit of care
lessness on your part. Your worst enemy
is yourself when you are behind the
wheel of an automobile.
This is the holiday season, when there
are all manner of automobiles and all
kinds of drivers on the road. The traffic
menace is bad enough without each of
us adding to it by our own criminal care
lessness There is enough chance that
the other fellow will play the fool-and
become murderer-Without the rest OF
US deliberately doing the same thing.
If each Of US remembers that one
automobile is enough to Kill US, and
drives that one automobile accordingly,
then there will be less chance Of accident,
whether it involves one car or two.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
N o T / G +
No. 2419

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL
In the Matter of the Guardianship
of the Persons and Estates of
MARY GAREWAL and
RAMINDER S. GAREWAL,
Minors.
Notice is hereby given that S. S.
Garewal, Guardian of the persons
and estates of Mary Garewal and
Raminder S. GareWal, Minors has
filed in this court a petition for
order to borrow money and to Sc
cure the same by mortgage on
personal property and reference is
hereby made to said petition for
further particulars, the hearing OF
which has been fixed by said court
for Thursday, the 23rd day of De-
cember, 1887, at 10 o'clock AM,
at the court room thereof at the
court house in said County of I'M
perial, and all persons interested in
said petition are notified then and
there to appear and show cause, If
any there be, why the said petition
should not be granted.
DATED: December IL, 1887.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
(SEAL) County Clerk
By CITHA LAMSON
Deputy.
Hickcox and Provence, Attorneys
for Guardian
n IA 81
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-21

writer's than any other editor. Chlef
of whom was Fannie Hurst, who
sold him her first short story for
$28. Max Brand, so called king
Of the pulps, was also, as / recall,
discovery of Davis And of course,
he sid much 10 stimulate o. Henry
III the faltering days when he was
not so certain he had the story
telling gift, later so universally
acclaimed When I was lombard
ing the Street and Smith magazines
and not making the slightest
scratch, Herb Roth suggested I train
my guns on Davis. l did, and while
1 never scored a bulls eye, 1 never
received the customary printed re-
lection. There was always CHEEKY,
better-luck time note. And
only a free lance starving for a
back-pat knows what such cheerios
mean.
Sheila Barrett is regarded as the
most extravagant of the telephon-
lists. Away from the spotlight and
microphone. she is not at all garrul-
Gus. Indeed somewhat reserved.
But now and then after finishing
her night club chore she feels rest
less and talkativc and so gets on
the phone, calling up friends in
California, Florida, Europe and
where not. She has had weekly
phone bills Of more than $500, which
gives the idea.
Revenge: The outstanding dis
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-21
Other Editors Saw
LOWER PRICES NEEDED
christian Science Monitor

The Department of Labor has compiled fig
ures which show that living costs in the United
States are today IA per cent higher than in
June 1888 The Brookings Institution, in its
investigation Of causes of the 1929 depression,
placed much of the blame on the failure of
producers TO reduce prices as fast as the cost
of manufacture was reduced by better machines
and mana cement. Are these two findings re-
lated? Is what happened before 1929 happen
ing today? Is il partly responsible for the present
business recession?
These questions will require careful and VIDE
visioned investigation. President Roosevelt in
a letter to the Federal Trade Commission has
asked it to find out to what extent mcnopolistc
business practices are to blame for increased
living costs. This is needed. Indeed, the trend
toward monopoly is so pronounced that America
might well have a constant inquiry on price
gouging Such an inquiry would doubtless find
that not only private monopoly but government
policy was pushing up prices.
Federal labor policies and crop control mea-
sures have had some part in recent price rises.
Many impartial observers believe Washington
is working with one hand 10 speed the trend
toward monopoly while with the other-the
Hull trade agreements policy-it IS making
manful effort TO reverse it. To apportion blame
for higher prices between government and busi-
ness is not now possible.