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Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-28

The chef out at one El Centre
cafe was all burned up, figura-
lively speaking, because his order
had not been properly filled. by
the grocery man. He called a num-
Der on the telephone which be-
gan with 90. When someone said
Hello" on the other end of the
line, he went into verbal action
''Ihose cabbageS you sent out
here" he shouted, were about
the worst, most tasteless, most
wilted, etc, etc, pieces of vegeta-
BILE life / ever saw"
He paused moment for breath,
and wonderment spread over his
face as he listened to the re-
'ceiver.
He had got the wrong number.
The police department was on the
other end of the line.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-28

also was questioned the same day
Officials refuse to comment upon
the audit, pending completion of
the grand jury investigation.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-28

church life in Mexico consist not
only in santification of the clergy,
but collaboration of the laity in
apostolic work
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-28
Sales Tax Auditor Held
As Murderer Of Editor
Who Wrote Death Story
90

ALTURAS Cal, March 27. (UP)-Harry French 80
state sales tax auditor held in jail without bail today
Cracken, editor of daily mimeographed publication here
The complaint naming French the of the editor Of a
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-28
MeIVER PROBE DELAYED
THIRD TIME BY JURY

Another postponement Friday delayed the second ap-
pearance of F. H. Mclver former Imperial Irrigation dis
tct treasurer before the county grand jury to explain
audit declared show So in cancelled bond COUPONS
missing from the office The former treasurer was sub
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-28
POPE Plus RENEWS PLEA
FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN
HIS EASTER ENCYCLIAl

VATICAN CITY, March 27. (UP)-Pope Plus hl, in
Easter enccca today renewed his recent plea Tor So
cia Justice and adequate living conditions for workers
He coupled the plea with eXhortation to greater
ancficaton of clergy and cooperation of christian
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-28
Indefinitc?--

Dean Frank I. Shepherd of Gen.
tral junior college refuses to COM
nit himself. The other evening at
an alumni party the Dean was ask
ed how many students would grad
uate this year at the college. There
may" he said pulling at his goatee,
"be seventeen"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-28

Easter Sunrise, the time of the Resurrection will
be observed throughout Imperial Valley Sunday with
impressive rites binding all denominations closer to
their faith Imperial Valley citizens will hear the beau
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-28
Mussolini Plans To Send
100000 Italian Troops
To Aid Spanish Insurgents
Loyalists Continue To Hold Upper Hand In
Recent Fighting; 10000 Italians
Routed By Red Armies

VALENCIA, Spain, March 27. (UP)-The Spanish
Rebels hardpressed by Loyaist drive in the Pozobanco
region 100 miles southwest of Madrid struck back in
fierce counter-attack today.
Advces reaching the Loyast capital here from Andu-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-28
9ay of Resurrection Observed by Valley on Sunda.

fu story of Chriss return from death in number of
ways, but all with devouness peculiar to the Holy day.
Among the sunrise services available to all residents
of the county will be that sponsored by the Imperial
chamber of at 5 :45 am at the county fair
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-28

grounds Under the auspices of the coordnated young
peoples societies of Ell centro another sunrise service
will be held at 80 at the Heber sand dunes, to
which signs will point the way. The Seeey Congrega-
tiona church will conduct services at 5 80
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-28
RECESS CALLED
IN CONFERENCE

LANSING, Mich, Mar. %. (Slm-
day). U.P>-The Chrysler strike con-
ference recessed at 1925 am. today
until l pm.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-28
Aut0mOtiVe Heads
Fail To Agree In
Chrysler Dispute
No Immediate Federal Action Revealed In
Series of Conferences Between
President and Congressman

WASHINGTON, March 27. (UP)-President Roose-
ve in series of conferences with administration con-
gressona and cabinet spokesman today explored federal
powers to deal with strikes.
Participants in the discussions made plain immed-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-28
WEATHER

Maximum temperature 49, minimum 43; am,
temperature Al, humidity ~; noon temperature a.
humidity %; p.m- temperature 68 humidity 70.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-28

THERE'S NO MORE ROOM
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-28
MARKETS IN BRIEF

Butter: Los Angeles 80; butterfat Imperial
Valley, fob. ranch, grade At; manufacturing
milk 42c; route gathered cream 39c.
L. A. Hay: U. s. No. extra leafy $28-29; U. 5.
No. $25-26; U. S. No. leafy S24.50-25; U. 5.
No. 2 S2350-A.
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TAXES AND STATE DEPENDENTS

"At least rs per cent of the people OF North
Carolina would not pay dollar to the state gov
ernment were it not for the sales tax Governor
Hoey is quoted as saying in recent speech before
the North Carolina Federation of Women's CLUBS.
That is statement to take home and think
about Of course, Governor Hoey meant that TINS
number would not pay directly to the support OF
the state government except for the sales tax
The time has come in business when the tax Dill
must be reckoned with. 1t is part Of operating
expense incident to all operating OF business IKE
rent clerk hire and merchandise cost and must be
nassed along to the consumer in the form of hid
den taxes.
II is alarming to see the number of people IN
North Carolina who are dependent the state
government. In the penal and charitable institu-
tions there are 1871 persons. The five insane
hospitals reported $500 inmates last month, while
the total number of state prisoners amounts to
1878 Add to these figures several thousand en-
ployees in the state highway department, several
more thousand state employees $4,000 public
school teachers who derive their support from the
state government Then there are 100000 public
school students who must be educated. When the
Social Security measure is put into effect thousands
of other aged will be drawing their support from
the state government. -
North Carolina has assumed tremendous re-
sponsibility in taking under its wing the support
and training of such number And tins number
is growing year after year as new jobs are create9
Only those people who directly support the govern
ment and provide the means for it to carry on are
conscious of the burden. Those who fare not con
scious of it's burdens by bearing share in proper
ton to their ability to pay care little or nothing
about how affairs are run how much is spent
Shelby Star. ,..,.,,y .,... -
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
A CRY FROM ToLER CREEK

A farmer with Cove land" Toler Creek in
the southern Appalachians, writes his tavorlte
newspaper as follows:
81 notice in your paper you have lot to say
about the supreme court and the nine OLD men,
but would like for you to tell an honest Demo
crat how to get back to living like we lived hve
or six years ago. | know there 4 lot said about
Hoover times, but we could go TO our smokehouse
and get our own meat, our own mix and butter
and plenty of anything to eat that farmer could
raise but today we are ganging around the 1ood
distribution places to get anything we can get.
People that used to have COWS, hogs, horses, and
plenty to eat are trying to get on PWA for 81 a
MONTH and tax burdens are simply unbealaoie 10
he man that is trying to make an honest living
So please ask congress to let the supreme court
alone and get the people back to living like they
used to live
Obviously the gentleman Toler Creek does
not care for: CD high taxes (2) people living OF
the government or (3) the general congressional
attitude or the supreme court reorganization plan
Moreover it would appear that the letter writer
feels that the three are in some way connected.
Undoubtedly they are.
Thousands Of mountain farmers, whose crop
yields are low and standards of living lower, nave
allowed mortgages or local taxing authorities 10
take over their land and have apparently done just
as we'll by going ION relief" Their livestock has
been consumed or sold and all their property taken
off the tax rolls Naturally the burden of support
ing local government falls on those who are still
struggling to make living off their land
And what has congress to do with this? Every
thing Congress makes possible the appropriations
for relief which do not in these instances reheFe
but tend to perpetuate condition of dependence
Probably conscientious administrators are deVothg
thought to the solution of this problem. But, IN
the meanwhile, all the Toler Creek farmer sees IN
his newspaper or hears over the radio about con-
eressional activity has to do with the opinions Of
his senator's representatives, and others on Presi
dent Roosevelts supreme court plan. He is not the
only citizen who would like to see congress- IN th
matter of relief, get the people back to living
like they used TO lve."-Christian Science Mon
itor.
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GIVING THE SOUTH THE NEW DEAL

What is known as the federal antl-lynch-
ing bill was passed yesterday by the lower
House of Congress by vote of PTS to 1l9'
1t is predicted that the bill will encoun-
ter harder shedding in the Senate than in
the House, but the chances are that 1t can
not be defeated there by any tactics short
of fiibustering.
If enacted, the law, of course, will ap-
ply to the entire country; but it has been
established with reasonable certainty tha
it is aimed at the South by northern poll
ticians chiefly interested in cinching the
negro vote in New York, Illinois and other
States where the cOlored population is
large.
In the bitter debate over the bill in the
House yesterday Congressman Cox OF
Georgia said that for more than a hundred
years the South has kept the Democratic
party alive and NOW it turns upon the
South to deal it this wicked blow"
The bill was introduced and is spOn-
sored by Congressman Gavagan, who rep
resents New York City district with a
large negro population. During the debate
Congressman Rankin of Mississippi charg-
ed that Gavagan's purpose is to make Har-
lem safe for Tammany.
Thus the contest was waged and while
it was raging Senator Borah issued state
ment condemning the measure as unjust,
unconstitutional and, in my opinion, an un-
moral measure"
And in this fashion is the New Deal
handed to the South.
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dLen, visited their paregts, Rev.
ana MIS-. W. "a. Holt2claw Mon
day.
Miss Martha Jane Duncan Of
Horse Shoe, spent Monday night
with Miss Helen McKinna.
Mr.. and MIR. J. +. Gonce and
family visited Mr. and Mrs. Arlic
foncc OF BoyIston Sunday.
iir. end Airs. ". II. McKinna
and family visited Ny and Mrs. }.
~ Evans Of Mountain Home,
Sunday Afternoon.
Frank Crawford OF Wcaycrvillc,
visited relatives here the past
week.
Mira d Ma, Charles Galloway
Iccenrly moved to the Sotton
PLACE. s".'
I'M" and NJ: iantic Hell and
fawilv d. En,ia were recent yisi-
tolS here.
Iirs. ". p. Uolr2claw visited
relatives in Hcndclsonviilc last
week. ..
MIS- }fairs .lGn Of Mills River.
spent the Weekend with her par
cnty. Nh, and Nsa. j. \. Mann.
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era in which any kind of restriction on pro-
duction will be looked upon as sheer IN
sanity. Because mankind's wants are IN
finite also; and with such markets industry
can never have an oversupply of raw ma
terials.
You don't need to think very long to
understand that world organized on that
basis would slough off most of the prob
lens that are tormenting it today, lUnem7
ployment, poverty, want-tRey Would SIM
ply disappear. Instead OF relationships
calling on their people to get along on less
and less, we would have governments using
every effort to increase production in every
line.
It sounds like a fairy tale. But the point
is that it is fairy tale which is practically
begging us to make it come true. Inc
stage is all set. We are on the threshold
of this miraculous new age, and all we
need to do is to step into it.
How long will it be, do you suppose, be-
fore we get intelligent enough to take that
step.
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CHEMISTRY WILL PROVIDE MORE
ABUNDANT LIFE
(By BRUCE CATION

1t is easy to think of more exciting things
than a chemist making speech on inter-
national trade. But when you stop to think
how chemistry is remaking the worlds tu-
ture these days, and how the decline Of in
ternational trade has us staggering around
on the edge of the Dark Ages, you can see
that such talk might be worth listening
to.
So it is worthwhile to have look at re-
marks made recently by William j. Hale,
research consultant of Washington, D. c.,
before chemists conference at Macon,
Ga.
Chemistry, says DR.. Hale, is going to re-
duce world trade permanently, because 1t
is teaching men how to substitute home
made commodities for the things they once
had to buy abroad. When men start pull
ing nitrates out of the empty air, for IN
stance, it is obvious that the old South
American nitrate trade is never going to
be the same again; and the atmospheric
nitrogen fixation process is only a sample
of the tricks of modern chemistry.
Do we, then, face steady decline III
world prosperity due to this decline in the
interchange of goods? Not at all, says DR..
Hale; for chemistry has found so many
ways to use the things which men produce
out of the ground and the air and the
water that the race will never be able to
raise more things than industry is able TO
use. sCaC%F Jl}s3aii
For agriculture, as the chemist sees it1is
not merely the process of raising foods for
people to eat. 1t is becoming, or about to
become, the production of raw materials
for industry, as WE'LL. Industry's appetite,
unlike that of hungry man, is practically
Unsuitable; in the end, it is limited only by
the races ability to use manufactured lux,
uries and necessities.
Now, what DR.. Hale is sketching out fol
US Is nothing less than the picture of a
ysrfs ~ : a. 4
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BIG Willow

BIG WILLOW, April l6.-T.
A. Drake had the misfortune to
loose his barn Wednesday night
by fire in which six head Of live
stock persisted. A quantity Of corn
and feeds were also destroyed.
The blaze had such Roadway when
discovered that it was Impossible
to save anything.
Misses Martha and Helen Bell
visited Mrs. Fred Williie Wedncs-
day. .F,,
Vi. c. Raires attended church
at Crab Creek Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul LYDIA, Nh:
and ms. Roy LYDIA visited al the
home Of j. Y. Nintz Sunday"
William Bell made a business
trip to Pleasant Hill Tucsdcy.
/. K. Ritter has purchased 4
horse.
Foulds Drake Of Jones Gap was
in this community Thursday,
Mr. and Mrs. Russell IlazcLtinc
and children Of HcndcrsonvilIc,
visited relatives here Sunday.
Hammie Johnston visited rc!a-
tiycS at B"rca Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Corn Of Mud
Creek, called on Mrs. $. +. Can
trcll Friday.
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THE, III E VI y Z; Al
III VVASEEIN GTON
-RV RODNEY BUTCHER

IL on Ine SeConu VUlC.
Three members were especially
vehement in opposition to the
government purchaSc-lcasc-s a | I
plan and are given credit for kill.
ing it. They were:
Congressman Richard NJ. KIe-
berg Of Texas, part owner of the
King ranch, largest ranch in the
world and twice as big as the
state of Rhode Island.
Congressman Harry Il. Coffee
of Nebraska, president of the
Coffee Cattle Co., which has ex-
tensive ranch holdings, and
owner and operator Of several
farms.
Congressman III mpton p.
Fulmer of South Carolina, pro-
prietor of the big Barnes farm
i'm Orangeburg county.
Six of the seven Republican
members also voted against tn,
administration program, proposed
by Chairman Marvin Jones. OPP
ponents said they didn't want the
government in the real estate bus
mess"
The Presidents Committee on
Farm Tenancy had pointed out
that there was always danger that
farmers, after being given pur-
chase contract, might be induced
by a rise in land values to pay
off the loan to obtain deed, then
sell all or part at a profit. Land
SPECTATORS might aid them finan-
cially to do this.
"The contract should require
the purchaser to maintain, build
ings, fences and other structures
in good condition. said the conf
mittee, "to carry on a type Of
farming that will maintain the
fertility of the soil and to avoid
other forms OF unnecessary vast
age yet the purchaser is
assured a right to uSeN (but moi
abuse) the land at low annual
cost, to make reasonable improve
ments, to accumulate an equity
and dispose of it at current APP
praised value, subject to exercise
by the government of its right to
repurchaSe."
tConyrIeht. 1897. NEA Service. Inc,
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spiration: He wrote an article
with supporting editorial which
showed that hundreds of thous-
ands Of dollars yearly were flow
ing into the pockets of the gam
blers and going out of town,
when they should be spent and
otherwise would be spent in the
stores Of the city. Then there was
plenty Of action; great interest
was Immediately evidenced in
ridding the community Of organ
lied gambling rackets.
There is one thing about us
Americans: You've got to show
us where a thing will make us
money or cost US money before
YOU can get us het up about 1t. II
it were possible to make the peo-
pie of the United States realize
Just how dearly piratical politics
is costing them in dollars and
cents, they would rise on their
hind legs and slap the daylights
out of the politicians.
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Di nUDINEl VI Jl1Ek
NEA Service stan Correspondent

NEA service sun correspondent
Observation-Disclosures APP
parently has very little enthu-
siaSm for a lasting solution Of
farm tenancy evils.
That's why it has been easy for
big owners of farm land, Strate-
gically placed on the House Agri-
culture committee, to torpedo-at
least temporarily-the admins
tration's first feeble nibble at the
problem presented by a growing
army of farm tenants and share
troopers, which includes 1900
900 families in the south alone.
The committee decided on a
compromise" measure which
would provide S50,000,000 for
loans to tenants who want to buy
farms. That compromise also
leaves such tenants free to revert
10 tenancy by selling Therapeutics,
by letting their farms go to ruin
or by getting into debt. Attempts
were made to cut the fifty millions
to a smaller sum. y
The compromise" takes the
place of a plan which would have
provided for supervision. and
safeguards designed to preserve
security of tenure for tenants who
might become landowners. This
plan called for purchase and sale
Of land by the government.
.s Tenants would have been given
from 90 to 40. years to amortize,
and titles would not have passed
in less than 20 years. Meanwhile,
a federal agency would have SUI
pervised the';farmfng, seeing to ii
that the soil was protected and
farms kept up.
However paternaliStic this may
have seemed. nearly everyone who
had studied the Sharecropper
problem intensively and Sympa-
thetically was favoring it as the
only practical method of approach
to an acute condition of misery,
poverty and squalor.
THE committee at first voted by
Ia narrow margin to throw the
whole plan out. Asked TO recon-
slider. the committee stood IL to
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ing all through the envelope Tor
the hot water furnace, and not
finding ii, might have thought 1t
had been lost out in the mail"
The trouble with that secretary
was that she had done what many
writer's of letters dO--She had
used words without considering
what they meant. How frequent
ly one gets q letter starting off
something like this: "Your letter
of April 3 has come duly to hand
and contents carefully noted. In
reply we beg to say that your
proposal is unusual"
Isn't that a bunch of verbal
Junk thought? How much more
simple and effective it would be
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WHERE DUES COUNT

Drives on the part of the Clio so far are confined
to those sections of the country where money is
plentiful.
'If you would make money, you must go where
money is" wise old southerner told a young reia-
tive about to locate in New York many years ago.
The crop of "dues" in the South is not so attrac-
tive and in addition there is bad taste left after
the letdown by the UTW of its members few
years ago.-Greenwood Index-JournaL, ,S T.
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LIFE AS Is
-By WICKES WABBOLDT

TO write, "Replying TO your letter
,of April 8, your proposal is UNI
usual" a fundamental rule in
writing is to know exactly what
you want to say, and to use words
that will say it exactly.
Here is a Jingle employed by 4
school of StCnOgraphy to cmpha-
size to its pupils the nOnsenSical
rUtS that can be fallen into by
the needless Us" Of stcrcotyped
expressions:
owe beg to advise you, and wish
to state
That yours has arrived of re-
cent date.
We have before US, its con-
tents noted:
Herewith enclosed arc the
b.. F" prices we quoted.
Attached you will find, as per
your request,
The sample you called for; and
we would suggest
Regarding the matter and due
to the fact
That up to this writing your or
der we've lacked,
We hope you will not delay UNI
duly,
And beg to remain, your very
truly"
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A man said TO his new Secre-
tary who was supposed to know
all the answers, write this TEL
low and tell him we are sending
him our latest model hot water
furnace"
Shortly afterward the secre-
tary placed on her boSs's desk tn,
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like TO SIT IN FRONT OF

the school building and wait until
school is out. You sec much and
many. Some children are very
modern and 90 home without any
books. Guess they are bright, do
their work in school and find it
unnecessary for "homc work.
while the @DULLARDS go home
loaded down with books.
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letter SnC hau
written. 1t read
in part: 1--WE are
sending you un-
der separate Gov
er our ! a t c S t
model hot water.
furnace"
at was very
though t full o t
you to put in the
words u n d @ =
separate cover
obs @ ~ G d I h e
man. "Otherwiso
the fellow would
have been look
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EVEN A NEWSPAPER MAN

will believe a thing If he hears it
often enough. so Editor f. B. Har-
ris since the l4th is trying out the
theory that 1.-TWO can live as cheap
~ as one" He is due his readers
a treatise on this subject.
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OF GREAT MOMENT

Hank The hCraId angels sing,
Wallie wears old clothes this
.a1 Spring. :.
Note: A press report informs
the world that Mrs. Wallis War
field Simpson bought no Easter
outfit this year.
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On ToDAY's GARDEN CAL.

ondar: Time to plant your early
dahlias. If they come up before
frost is over. cover at night. The
suggestions of w. Scott Service
in Wednesdays Timcs-Ncws are
excellent. Try a few if you want
the Thrill of growing large, beau
Jiful flowers.
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PIPING a NOTE OF PROG.

PIPING 4 NOTE OF PROG
rcSs: O'Dcll & GOssett, not very
old in the furniture business but
with growth that calls for larg-
er quarters, is now on the main
business thoroughfarc where fur
Their expansion is possible.
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OH THAT'S DIFFERENT

Recently a newspaper publish
or went roughshod after the gam
bling enterprises in his city. He
repeatedly attacked the evil from
the standpoint of morality, but
nobody except q few preachers
took any interest in it.
Then the publisher had an in