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Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07
Auction Philosophy
BY ID. l.. ZlNN

By ID. L. ZINN
Folks, it looks like going to be in an awful
fix for candidate for president next term Hoover
he don't want to Landon says he don't choose
to run; best advice says Roosevelt won't Heard
four fellows talking up to the Elks club They said
they wouldn't have the job-ts too killing. Without
joking folks, it begins to look like going to have
brand new setup in both major parties for next
presidential election.
They have started to ask about fishing where
is the best places ETC. Best place to fish is in the deep
holes in new river or the Alamo, below the heading
in the big canals The good bas to worms fresh
shrimp and silver The only place have found far to
fish with silver for catfish is Cox Bros. You can
catch 'em there fish days
Folks, if were as baseball minded foot
ball minded the park wouldn't hold 'em Ell Centro al
ways has the biggest crowd at the football game whereS
ever it is when the Ell Cenro boys play, and football
team is clicking SO Hotve, get your toes and may
the best team win III be seein you at the ball game
Sunday
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07
WPA Goes in
For Propaganda

There are some angles of the Works
Progress Administration to which there
is no legitimate obiection-and there are
a lot of angles to which there is cause
for very decided objection To the
worthwhile, legitimate projects con-
structed with WPA labor, and to the
idealistic theory behind WPA, none of
us can object. To WPA adminitration,
which has often squandered needless
thousands of dollars, fostered labor un-
rest and built up a population which
learned to depend on the federal gov
ernment for everything, without at
tempting to help itself, we can and
should object.
Now there is another cause for Objec-
ton. Through the. mail to hundreds of
newspapers in the United States this
week went eXpensively printed PAM
phlets. issued in Washington and dis
tributed through countless local branch
es of WPA. The folders, with their care
fully chosen pictures and glowing words,
are nothing in the world but advertising
broadsides.
millions of Americans" the PAM
phlet shouts, "who never felt the pinch
of unemployment are now using roads
and streets, parks and airports, stadiums
and swimming pools, water and sewer
systems, hospitals and libraries and
schools which would not exist today but
for this program =.
There is not even a sugar coating on
this pill of propaganda. Shamelessly it
is what it appears to bean effort of
the federal government to perpetuate
through advertising and propaganda an
institution to which many have objected
and will continue to object.
The administration has a right to de-
fend itself; nobody will dispute that.
There is a question: however, if it has
a right to spend thousands of dollars
Of taxpayers money to keep alive the
rapidly waning popularity of a question
able agency which has spent as much in
administrative expenses and vote getting
machinery as it has spent in achieving
its supposed goals.
If anybody should, the federal admin
istration should attempt to lay the facts
before the public, without touch of
propaganda or a trace of advertising
sales-talk, and let the public Judge for
itself. This it evidently is not prepared
to do.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07
Editorials and Comment
SUNDAY NOVEMBER Z 1887
News Behind the News
- To the Riqht or to the Left

WASHINGTON. - This is another of those
screwy periods in New Deal history when pundts
solemnly ask each other and their readers whe-
ther Roosevelt is going Ito go to the right or to
the left"
When this question is raised, all veteran OBJ
servers who are capable of learning by experience
automatically lean back and predict with yawn
that subsequent wigglings of the administra-
ton will veer toward the port rather than the
starboard side
Nevertheless. the degree of pressure from
the so-called right probably is heavier to the
square inch than at any previous time. It
reached unprecedented strength Just before the
Presidents Federal Reserve dedication speech
But Roosevelt ignored desperate conservative
pleas to give business various reaSSuranceS.
Lately the Federal Reserve Boards reduc-
ton of stock market margin requirements from
SIS to 40 per cent has been widely interpreted
as an administration concession to Wall Street.
1t was. But the only reason for 1t was the fact
that Roosevelt and Chairman Ecces were espe-
cially anxious to impose new so per cent mar
gin requirement on short sales and made the
reduction just to make it appear that they were
doing more than kicking Wall Street in the face.
Net effect was a sock at RooSeyeltS real or fan
cied foes in Wall Street.
Roosevelt intimates who have seen him late
ly agree on two points:
First his well-knoWn gaiety. buoyancy, op-
timism, and confidence are as conspicuous as
ever.
Second, the President believes that at least
one cause of the stock market decline, if not of
engineered plan by certain groups intent on
diScrediting the administration
1t must be remembered that New Deal theory,
however vague it may be particulars,
is in general aimed at keeping the captastic
system functioning on all six, if that be possible
The President, you may be sure, believes that
practically all business troubles are brought upon
itself by business.
The New Deal idea is that business men
should be content with small unit profits and
make their money out OF volume. Meanwhile,
Doctor Roosevelt figures that his job is to keep
business from wounding itself and committing
mayhem on the general welfare-and that if
one of his remedies doesn't work, another will.
Coupled with this attitude is the fact that
the nate Roosevelt attitude of most business
men has stirred up an increasing irritation in
DIR. He's good hater" himself. 1t may
or may not be tough on the country but the
man who felt four years ago that he could
depend on 80 per cent of business to cooperate
with his program now feels that he can depend
on about 10 per cent and that the rest of busi-
ness is so selfish as to require federal mastery.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07
Boyee Aten Post
And the Public

Most persons know of the worthy pro-
ject inaugurated and carried through
by Boyce Aten Post of the American
Legion and its auxiliaries in the form
of the Hipass Health Camp, one of the
organizations participating in the cur
rent Character Building Drive in Ell Cen
tro. Few persons know of the countless
other charities conducted by the local
Legion post almost daily. The Legion
naires say nothing about them, and no.
body else knows very much about them.
Only when some destitute widow or
crippled veteran tells of help given
them do we hear of these things.
The Legion does not call on the pub
lie to help carry its load. During 364
days of the year, we consider the Legion
as a powerful organization, strong for
Americanism and standing for all that
this country holds sacred. Seldom do we
go behind that consideration to learn
of the many other things-minor to us.
but Of huge importance to someone
that the Legion does.
Boyce Aten post, on the night of Nov.
10, will present an entertainment in the
Veterans Memorial Hall here as a fore
runner to the valley-wide Legion Armis-
tice Day celebration at BraWley next
day. Proceeds will go toward these un-
sung, almost unknown charities the
Legion gives the public a chance to par
ticipate in acts Of which any of US could
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07

We were on our way before am
I have been told that rural Spain
has long been the earliest rising Of
all peoples. I can believe it.
l like to think of the sun as the
eye of day. And somewhat like
the eyes of man. Sometimes bright
and sometimes bleary. We wonder
in the calm of this daybreak how
MANY men shuttle in a few hours
toward the cool tap and a long
lraught, mumbling Never again!"
A glance out the window reveals the
earliest riser of the neighborhood.
A jauntily dressed fellow followed
by page boys who deposit pile
Of blond luggage at the curb and
taxi chugs up. Catching a train,
no doubt.
We went to see Gertrude Law
renee for the second time last night
She is one of the few actresses 1
just like to watch. Especially when
she iniulges one of those SHIN
merry moods as unpredctable as
birds flight. Not a great
actress in the manner of Katharine
Cornell, but one perhaps with the
most distinct following in the Am
erican theatre. No longer a vogue,
but an institution. That was
surprising lot of talent Andre Char
lot shipped from England Is years
ago, then unknown, but now look!
Miss Lawrence, Noel Coward, Jack
Buchanan and Beatrice Lille. And
not cne completely absorbed by
Hollywood. We hear a pleasant
rustic in the kitchen. The dog
ambles in, INDUCES a series of
stretches and cocks his head quizi
cally, as much as to say: What in
the world are you doing around
at this hour?"
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phenomenon has U. u. Mcintyre
the Wallop OF dry earth soaking
up a doWnpour and burgeoning into
lovely bloom. The chief charm of
Paris is in those sudden flurries
that make every Frenchman an
umbrella carrier
Often I have sWum up from
sound sleep. sluggish and weary
with the gravity of affairs; heard
the patter of rain and felt like
kicking of the covers and indulging
in a capriole. There is an after
rain fragrance, even among the
man-made cliffs, that chirks the
spirits.
The rain is responsible for being
at my desk at am. with nothing
to say, but surge to write If I
had the gift to turn out that
literary Will-o' the wisp, The Great
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07
TWENTY YEARS AGO
NOVember 6. l9I7

The domestic science teachers Of
the valley are experimenting with
liberty bread. Some samples were
made today at the home of Mrs
Bales Walker by Miss Nesbit.
c. l.. Partrug, partner of Roy ID.
Seruggs in the billiard parlor busi-
ness has sold his entire interest
to Tom Mcfarland Of FL Centre
George Whitlock announces that
he will give away a $50 liberty
bond at his auction sale to be held
on his ranch northeast of here.
Numbers will be given to all max
ing purchases, and the drawing Of
the lucky number made from
these.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07
Other Editors Saw
SOVIET FAMILY
christian Science MonitOr)

Nothing has been more significant in the
recent evolution OF Soviet Russia's social order
than the growing prestige of the family the
basic unit of Soviet society. For almost nine
teen years Communist leaders have debated
whether the family should be abolished alto
gether, substantially weakened, or retained. The
dictatorship held aloof from the debate, as
Karl Marx Lenin. Now the Kremlin has
intervened and called upon all its supporters
to help in strengthening the family"
Young Communists, assembled in Moscow,
have been told that they must cherishh the so
Wet family" must show proper respect for their
parents and other older people, must understand
the importance of the love of parents for chill
dren, of children for parents, Of husbands and
wives for each other.
The new conception of the Soviet family,
now being reinforced by the full strength of the
Communist educational machine, is not unlike
that OF other modern industrial countries The
fathers authority naturally is not great when
wives and children have their own jobs and
not dependent upon him for support Par
ents cannot abuse children with impunity, any
more than in other modern countries Soviet
young people may make their own choice in mar
riage or vocation, as young people do in most
advanced countries The state undertakes to
provide education for all children.
By process of trial and error the Russian
Communists have made the discovery astonish-
ing only to themselves that families bound
together by deeper ties than material possess
sons and formal religion that relationships
between parents and children, between hus-
bands and wives, are based upon values which
even MARKHAM materialists cannot afford to
abandon.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07

American Novel, I'd like to do the
job on a screened in porch during
tropical rain at Pango Pango.
Out in a Pittsburgh suburb is a
man of prominence who told me
that he lived OH a remote country
estate solely becau-e tae isolation
permitted him to wander through
bhe grounds in shorts during the
rains. Abraham Lincoln was keen
for rains and some Of his .l11onen-
tous decisions, were made while
trudging along in q. ,doWh-pour.
ShoWmen are hep to the value of
the rain theme Willie golfers
Caught in the Rain" and Somerset
Maughams later Rain. The opt
standing hit Of a successful movie
revue showed a chorus dancing in
the rain.
Snow has almost-but not quite
the emotional tug of rain for me.
The picture 1 enjoy most in my
meagre collection is a Virginia snow
scene by Percy Crosby. It's fun
to get up early this way now and
then and beat the barrier with
column. The early riser always in
terests me. Because I am a late
sleeper as a rule, he seems from
another world I am the laggard
of an early rising family. My father
was always up at am, habit
he could not break even after he
retired. My grandfathers arose at
4 am.
Caught in a mistral while motor
ing, we were once forced to spend
the night at a farmhouse near the
French border, in San Sebastian,
Spain. My gnarled host asked what
time he should awaken us and it
was suggested we would be ready.
any time he had breakfast. Before
daylight he knocked and brought in
a tray OF steaming and fiery fu
madoe5, filled with hot and burning
native spices 1t was a dish with
the stimulating qualities of a triple
brandy on an empty stomach. He
said he had been up awhile but
decided to let us sleep a little late.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07
Looking Backward
-- In Our Files
THIRTY YEARS AGO
November 6, 1907

A number of citizens of Imperial
have raised the proposition of get
ting a chemical engine for the city.
to improve its fire fighting equip
ment. The city cannot afford to
purchase it so the suggestion is
being made that the money be
raised by a series of entertain
ments.
A county board of horticulture
has been organized, with D. B. Al
pin as president and w. E. Wilsie
as secretary.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07
Barbs -

Star football player in North
Carolina drops out of college after
admitting that he lied about the
amount Of financial assistance he
was getting. Emphasizing, once
more, the character building as
pect of college football.
It's to be hoped that the Duke
of Windsor gets to New York
quickly, before all the surplus tic
ker tape run off during the recent
stock market crash is thrown away.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07

der and rain in
buckets. Out the
window all the
universe seems re-
freshei, buoyant
and clustering, in
the half light of
morning. s~S's
Many sing the
praises of India
for its various
mysteries. It's ap-
peal to meais in
its monsoons, NO
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07
The Grab Baq
One Minute Test

|. Who chairman of the nation
al Republican committee?
2. Under whose administration
was the Reconstruction Finance
corporation established?
3. Who was called the Sage of
Concord?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07
TEN YEARS AGO
November 6, 1927

A number of FL Centre people
enjoyed TO the utmost, the seventh
annual presentation Of "Tahquitz",
the Desert Play, at Palm Springs
yesterday afternoon
Yuma high school Yesterday de-
feated FL Centre j. G. II to
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07

tleships and battle cruisers might
ier than anything afloat were
about to be put into commission.
Auxiliary craft in sWarms existed
to supplement them.
And because no other nation
match Americas wealth, no other
nation could hope TO catch up.
Within very few years, America
would be the unquestioned mistress
of the seas
That single truth was the domi-
mating factor at the Washington
arms conference. We initiated that
conference. the stupendous reduc
tion program which grew out of
it was initiated by us. Because
Secretary Hughes was in a position
to say, "Take it or leave it,, the
other nations took it-and were
glad to take it.
Naval reduction vas not the
only fruit of that conference,
either. The far eastern situation
was tense. A war was obviously in
the making-a war which looked
certain to involve America. That
tension was reduced and that war
was aVerted. The Washington con
ference bought for the world dec
ade of peace, as well as an end to
a ruinously costly arms race.
1t was able to do those thingl
largely because Uncle Sam was the
man who could put the most chips
ON the table.
Right now the world is fast ap-
preaching new crisis i'll its af-
fairs. Once again it is staggering
under an arms race: once again
the clouds are black on the orient
al horizon. Sooner or later, some
one must move for a conference
at which these pressures can be
lightened.
And when that day comes,
first class American fleet-buttres
sed by the great new battleships
soon TO be built-might be just
the factor which would make it a
success
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07
Hints on Etiauette

The man and woman who at
tend dance together should have
the first and last dance with each
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07

Harry the Horse Player says that
with the Loyalists and the insurg-
ents winning battles on alternate
days it looks as though the Span
ish revolution will wind up in a
photo finish.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07
You re Telling Me -
BY WILLIAM RIFT

IF YOUNG Mr.. Dewey continues
to mop up on crime and criminals
in New York City it's a cinch his
torians of the future will refer to
the late admiral as a distant re-
lative of Toms.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07
Today,S Horoscope

Persons whose birthday occurs
today are known for their kind
ness. Many of them assume high
office in benevolent organizations
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07

Women now control more than
70 per cent of American industry,
according to a news story That's
perhaps why, says the man at the
next desk, the stock market can
not make up its mind.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07
UCroscone for SUNDAY

A~-~-fiery nature charadterizes
many whose birthday occurs Sum-
clay. When under control, their
temper proves an asset.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07
New York Day by Day -Byo O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, Nov. 6. = Day IS
breaking after one of those stormy
nights I love so we'll Zig-zags of
brilliant lightning. crashes of thun-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07
One Minute Test Answers

l John d. M. Hamilton.
2. President HooVer's.
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07
Words of Wisdom

Nothing has ever remained OF
any revolution but that which was
ripe in the conscience of the
masses .-Rollin.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07

1t used to be Here comes a collector;
pull down the shadesl" In this trailer
era, it's g. . step on the gasl'
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07

Only 5 per cent of the farm
population of Georgia have their
homes lighted with electricity.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07

In England the postoffice has
announced a rule that it is forbid
den to send fleas through the mail.
With or without the dog?
THE EMPEROR NERO of an
cient Rome, we read in a biogra-
ply, liked to play in leisure hours,
on a bagpipe. The man, indeed,
must have been a monster!
A famous child movie star is
forbidden, by her contract, accord
ing to a newspaper story, to ride
a bicycle, skate or climb trees Well,
kids do you still wish you were
Shirley Temple?
The town of zenda ontario,
Canada, has but IL inhabitants all
adults. Well, that's enough-they
can make up three tables of bridge,
can't they?
Mussolini's son has apparently
abandoned his original movie ven
ture. Maybe the youngster has
come to the conclusion he could
not compete with the newsreels OF
his dads doings in Ethiopia and
Spain. l.,...s
The new 1888 model automobiles
are more improved and more
beautiful and it's just too bad that
the same old drivers with their ugly
tempers will be driving them.
We agree that the number of
traffic accidents is appalling. But
this could be a much worse world.
Suppose somebody hadn't invented
traffic lights? ..-..-4-.....=- -. ....-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07
photographs

A half-cent increase in the price
Of bread means an added $50,000,-
600 to the food bill of the nation.
u. S. economists assert.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07

In England it is a criminal Of
fense to print the Bible without
permission of the copyright owner.
the king.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07

In England the postoffice has
announced a rule that it is forbid
den to send fleas through the mail.
With or without the dog?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07

Though common earthWorms
have no eyes, they can detect light
ssa4@F=-sae4s- To- avoid n.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-07
Thoughts for the Day -

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry for anger
resteth in the bosom of fools-Ecelesiastes CT.
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BRINGING
ALL THE NEWS
TO IMPERIAL
VALLEY
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N IS. DaV il .
Evening star., 1937-01-24
Dividend Changes
BY the Associated Press

6S Tue Associated PreSS.
NEW YORK, January 23.-Fayor-
able dividend changes in the last week
totaled rs, against 80 in the pre-
ceding week, the Standard Statistics
reports. There were no unfavorable
changes in the past two weeks.
Details Of changes follow:
Favorable.
Observation-Disclosures Fire In
surance, First National Bank (Stock-
ton, Calif), A. Hollander & Son, King
Oil Co., Cherry-Burrell Corp, Hib-
bard Spencer Bartlett & Co., North
River Insurance Co., Public Service
Corp. of New Jersey, Cincinnati Street
Railway, Fidelity g. Deposit Co.
(MarylandD, Fiduciary Corp, Hale
Bros. Stores. Maiden Trust Co. (Mass.)
Needham National Bank Mass. ,
Marine incorporation initial stock,
Marine Incorporation full partici-
pating. Winsted Hosiery Corp, Caro-
lima Insurance Co., New York Fire
Insurance Co.. United States Fire In
surance Co., Allied Kid common, Allied
Kid class A, Continental American
Life Insurance, j. S. Mitchell g. Co.,
Parker Pen, U. S. Pipe & Foundry,
Youngstown Steel Door.
Resumed-VariouS units of the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.
Extra-Great Lakes Dredge & Dock,
Lee & Cady Co., Wieboldt Stores,
Gorham Mfg, First National Bank e.
Trust Co. (Montclair, N. j., Wash
ington Loan g. Trust Co. washington,
D. c., Westchester Fire Insurance,
Commonwealth International Corp,
Farmers g. Merchants Bank Gong
Beach, Calif), Morris Plan Co. of
Rhode Island. Riggs National Bank
washington, D. c., Plymouth Fund
class A, Great Lakes Engineering,
Imperial Tobacco of Great Britain and
Ireland. Rich's Inc, New York Fire
Insurance.
Initial-Hearn Department Stores
common, Hearn Department Stores 6
per cent convertible preferred, Inter-
national Radio Corp, National Build
ers Bank (Chicago), Columbia Brew
cries class B, Household Finance Corp
new, O'Connor Moffat g. Co. new
$1.50 class AA, Southern Indiana Gas
& Electric 4.8 per cent preferred,
Household Finance Corp. 5 per cent
preferred, Insurance Co. of the State
Of Pennsylvania, new; Chiffon Co.,
Lindell Trust Co. (St. Louis), Lerner
Stores AZ per cent cumulative con-
vertible preferred, National Paper &
Type S per cent non-cumulative pre-
ferred.