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Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-13
HUGH WILCOX,
NEW SCOUT
HEAD, ARRIVES

Hugh Wilcox, new Scout execu-
tive for the Imperial Yuma coun-
ell. arrived in the valley Monday to
assume his new duties.
Wilcox and a group of valley
Scout leaders met this past week
end at Camp San Felipe for a lead
ers' pow WOW, attended by C. D.
Carlson of Los Angeles, regional
executive, and Carl N. Helmick
former local executive now River
side council head.
The program was devoted to dis
cussion groups and to camp fire
Saturday night at which Carlson
spoke. The men had actual prac.
tice in camping, preparing all theil
own meals.
Scout Troops 4 of Calexico anc
"a of Holtville were at camp also
conducting camporettes in prepara.
ton for the council camporee tt
be held in BraWley April 24-25.
Leaders who attended the pow
WOW We're: Wallace N. Kent, j. T
Little, Paul Rogers. Bert Mccoy
Fern L. Young, Dale Cooper, Georg,
Raine, Bill Raine, Albert Fulton
Keith Hartsock, Gordon Smith, Jaol
Humphrey, F. T. Tucker, Howard
Kimball Bob Amstead, Alan Mains
Royal Machin, George Cutshaw
Harry Case, Richard Jackson, E
Vinzant, A. o. Paulin.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-13
Ell Centre Man
Wins Marathon
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charge against Hoskins in Ell Gen.
tro, officers said, as a result of
his confession that he burglarized
an Ell Centre hotel room of several
articles of clothing. In addition.
Hoskins was said to have admitted
thefts from parked automobiles in
Yuma and Ell Centro, and a theft
of clothing from a five and ten
cent store in Yuma.
The prisoner fell into the hands
of Ell Centro police after the theft
Of sweater from a truck at the
service station where Lambert is
employed. John Pebley, the truck
driver, had told Lambert of the
theft. Some time later, Lambert
noticed Hoskins with a large bun
die under his arm. Lambert STOP
ped Hoskins and inspected the bun
die. He found a sweater in it.
Taking the sweater, Lambert
started toward Pebley's truck to
obtain Identification. Hoskins ran.
Lambert took up the pursuit.
Through alleys and streets and be-
tween dwellings the chase lasted
for IL blocks before Lambert caught
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-13
Underpass Held
Menace to Bard
School Children

Speaking before members of the
Imperial County Safety Council at
the Court house Monday night,
Captain A. F. Oswalt of the Cali
fornia highway patrol, said that
the underpaSS beneath the railway
track and the river, leading into
Bard, was a "deplorable menace"
to school children who were COM
PEELED to pass through it twice
daily. In view of the captains rec
ommendation that children were
entitled to every available safety
precautionary measure possible,
members of the council unani-
mously adopted a resolution to be
presented to the county supervi-
Sors, requesting that the underpasS
be widened.
Complimenting the Safety Coun-
Gil on the effective work the or
ganization was doing, Captain OS-
walt cited the fact that there had
been no fatal traffic accidents
in Imperial county during the past
sixty days, which he attributed to
the councils efforts in making the
general public "safety-minded." He
implored members of the organiza-
ton to continue and not allow il
to lag.
Leroy Foster, representing the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, Calexico,
moved that a resolution be adopt
ed by the council, commencing
California Highway Patrolman
Walter Walsh for his effective ef-
forts in conducting safety classes
in Imperial county high schools.
The resolution was unanimously
adopted.
Edgar H. McMath, representa-
tive from the California Liohs
Club, suggested that a traffic
school for motor vehicle law viola
tors, as outlined by the executive
committee of the State Safety
Advisory committee, be established
in Imperial county. McMath point
ed out the value of having vio-
lators schooled in traffic laws.
President W. II. Rhodes of the
Safety Council, suggested that s
minute safety talks at meetings OF
civic organizations throughout the
county would prove effective in
furthering the councils campaign
for safe driving.
Philip w. Knight, FL Centro city
engineer, and member of the coun-
ellis engineering committee, sug-
gested that the State Highway
commission make q survey of al
state highways in the county In
reference to double marking these
arteries of travel at strategic
points.
In addition TO President w. H
Rhodes, who presided, other mem
bers of the Safety Council who
attended Monday nights meeting
included: j. o. Murphy, Imperial;
Lee C. Ritter, Calexico; L. w. Cope
California Highway Patrol, Ell Cen.
tro; r. 0. Wylie, John M. Kepley
P. L. Wallace, r. l.. Shaw, Leroy
Foster, Calexico; Geo. F. Bucklin
F. v. Ackley.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-13
SOIL LOSS SET AT
FORTY MILLION

WASHINGTON,-W.R)-The Uni
ted States is Squandering its soil
resources at the rate of more than
S40,000,000 a year. according to H.
H. Bennett, chief of the soil con-
servation service of the Department
of Agriculture.
Bennett, who haSe been crusad-
ing 10 years for soil conserva-
ton, estimated 100,000,000 acres
of agricultural land already has
been ruined or seriously improver-
ished by erosion during the past
100 years. Erosion has gained head
way ON another 100000 acres, he
said.
Millions of quilted farms, washed
bare of top soil are grim evidence
that the people Of this youthful
nation have been squandering their
rich heritage of productive soil
more rapidly than any other nation
civilized or ..barbaric, of which we
have any record" Bennett said.
More Fertilizer Required
The nations soil plant is becom-
ing less and less productive be-
cause of wind and water erosion,
Bennett said. Fertilizer must be
used in ever increasing quantities,
he said. This has added to the cost
Of crops.
Unless We make rapid advance
against the inroads Of soil erosion
the cumulative cost to the nation
during the next so years is likely
to exceed 10000, 100000 and may
easily extend to beyond $4,000 0O0,-
0O0" Bennett said.
He recalled a recent tour of the
southern Piedmont, where he cross
ed a country embracing 278.OO0
acres, two-thirds of which was
ruined for further cultivation by
erosion.
"Gullies-tens of thousands Of
them-have hideously slashed the
bosom of the rich earth, laying
waste the land and, with it, the
fine old plantation homes that
formerly graced the countryside:
and, most tragic Of all, impover-
ishing, socially and economically.
those who have known no way to
live except by the beneficience of
the land" Bennett said.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-13
Miss Edith Redit
Gets Appointment

Miss Edith Redit, county instruc-
ton supervisor, has received an
appointment to teach at the Uni
yersity OF California summer school,
Berkeley.
A demonstration school is TO be
conducted under the direction OF
Mrs. Gladys Potter, assistant chief
of thu division of elementary edu-
cation and rural schools Miss Redit
will teach the seventh and eighth
grades. Miss Helen Hefferman,
chief of the division, will teach a
course and the principles empha-
sized in that course will be carried
out in the demonstration school.
Miss Helen Thomas, instruction
supervisor, will teach in the San
Francisco state college summer
school.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-13
SPECTACULAR
STRUCTURE TO
CROSS RIVER
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featuring ana placing 202 cubic
yards of precaSt concrete crib
members; driving 181,940 pounds
of steel sheet piling;
Driving $3.50 linear feet of tim
Der piles; manufacturing and driv-
ing 573 concrete piles 80 to as feet
in length: constructing 154 linear
feet of 6-inch diameter sewer
pipe drains; constructing 800 lin
ear feet of 6-inch diameter cast
iron pipe drains; erecting 203 m.
ft. b.m. of timber in structures:
placing 44O square yards of bitumi-
nous wearing surface in bridge
floors; installing l92,440 pounds Of
metalwork;
Erecting 80 linear feet of metal
flume; installing 400 linear feet OF
electrical metal conduit; installing
100 pounds of electrical conductors,
and furnishing and erecting two
186-inch diameter welded plate
steel pipes and appurtenances.
each pipe approximately 374 feet
long
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-13
Work of Ages Whisked Away


Nature takes thousands of years
to build an inch thick layer of
soil, Bennett said. If natures pro-
lection to that soil-graSs and trees
are removed wind and rain may
sweep away in a few hours the
work of centuries.
1T is somewhat alarming to
realize that over a vast area nature
is removing this irreplaceable asset
tsoil( a hundred or a thousand
times faster than she is creating it,
simply because We have ignored her
fundamental laws.
Erosion. in the geological sense,
is older than man. Even under
primeval conditions rain and wind
gnawed away the soil base, wash
ing some topsoil down to sea or
scattering a little of it here and
there by wind.
u. 5. Called Most WastefuI
But, probably no nation in his
tory has been so wasteful of soil OF
SO Obvious TO the natural laws
1 governing It's stability as the United
States. There are many reasons for
this.
only little while ago this was
a pioneer country, exuberant, inn
patient, and over-optimistic about
the inexhaustibility of its natural
resources. 1t was perhaps newt
able that our ancestors should mine
the soil with little thought of the
future consequences.
IN their eagerness to grow
crops and still more crops to feed
the hungry mouths of an expanding
industrial civilization, they cut
down trees and and burned the
underbrush. They turned the sod
and plowed the steep slopes, strip
ping the land of it's native mantle
Of vegetation, leaving it unprotected
against the erosive forces of wind
and water
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-13
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Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-13
Frank Hawks Off
On New Speed Hop

EAST HARTFORD, Conn, April
13.-FUP)-Frank Hawks, speed flier,
took off from Rentschler field today
on a projected nonstop flight to
Miami, Fla, where he planned to
have luncheon and fly back to New
ark airport "in time for cocktails. 4"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-13
FINAL DECREE GRANTED

A final decree of divorce was
granted Tuesday to Margaret E.
Knapp in her suit against Robert
w. Knapp. She charged him with
mental cruelty. A minor child was
placed in the custody of Mrs.
Knapp.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-13
Plans to Be Laid
For Bond Election
At Tuesday Meet

Preparations for the special bond
election to vote $4,000 for erection
of a new municipal library build
ing in Ell Centre, will be completed
at meeting at city hall Tuesday
night.
Representatives of all organiza-
tons in town were invited to meet
with the library board for a dis
cuSSion of the project.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-13
SUES FOR PAYMENT

The Langendorf United Baker,
les filed suit against Lewis Milton
Smith and Carl Hausman for
S55065 alleged to be due for bak-
cry goods supplied them during a
four-year period.
Evening star., 1937-10-03
"Political Reliability Is Test
BY Germans for Saloon.Operators

BERLIN. Germany.-From now on
any one who wants to run a saloon
IN Germany will have to prove to
the Nazis that he is politically re-
liable" according to an announce
ment by the government controlled
official association for all hotels. res.
taurants and other businesses engaged
IN housing and feeding people and
quenching their thirsts.
In testing the political reliability
OF applicants for licenses, the asso-
clation says, Special attention is to
be paid to the question whether the
applicant manifests or is likelv to
manifest in the conduct of his busi-
ness, especially in his relations with
his guests, sentiments unsympathetic
toward the community of the reople
or the structure and order of the
state
lhe liberation Of expressions of
sentiments hostile to the state by
guests in the establishment is to be
regarded as evidence of political un-
reliability" the association states.
Membership in another party previ-
GUS to the NaI revolution Is not
IN itself, on the other hand, to be so
regarded.
He who before 1888 was in op-
position to the National Socialist
party, and thereby to national social
ism itself and the present conception
OF the state, is fully recognized as
citizen with the right to engage in
business if he now joyfully acknowl-
edges the community of the people. /"
the announcement says.
Joyful acknowledgment of the com.
munity OF the people" is a paraphrase
Evening star., 1937-10-03
Six.Year Program for Education
Conducted in Mexico bv Cardenas

MEXICO CITY-How Mexico is de-
veloping her educational program un-
der the Cardenas six-year plan is set
forth-from the government viewpoint
in document prepared in reply to
request for enlightenment on edu-
cation here. The request came from
Philip A. Ward, of the Black Pipe day
school, Morris, S. D.
In the reply it is asserted:
The education provided by the
state. in accordance with the political
constitution Of the republic, is socialis-
tic and. apart from excluding religious
doctrines. combats fanaticism and
prejudices with the result that schools
organize their teachings and activities
In such form as to permit in the rising
generation q rational and exact con-
cept Of the world and social life.
Primary education is obligatory and
free.
The socialistic school is: Eman-
cipatory, scientific. technical, q labor
OF social utility, antifanatic and in
tegral. Its ambition is to create con-
sciences free from prejudices, mental
tiles free from the fear of divine
RACES, free Investigators Of dogmas,
men OF science. strugglers free from
the tolls Of agents who sap their
energies, homes free from enemies Of
domestic peace and lastly a people
free from all spiritual or material
imperialism"
Evening star., 1937-10-03

IN way, Of the more common ex-
preston, political reliability" It
means acceptability to the Nazi ofi-
cials who have power to pass on any
given persons political rectitude.
since this power is often exercised
oy nelghbors and business competi-
tors OF the citizen, there is room for
a considerable play OF personal and
economic motives, as we'll as political
ones.
And this power Is widely used in
Germany today. Not only are old and
deserving party comrades entitled to
nrst chance at jobs in both public and
private life: also. non-Nazis must es-
tablHh their political reliability" in
order to engage in a number of occu-
pations and take advantage OF a num-
Der OF other opportunities.
The new law which will govern re-
tail trade will provide that nobody
may open store or a mail-order
business or have stand in a public
retail market or be a peddler or sell
direct to the public in any other way
unless he can prove he Is politically
relable," according to Die Deutsche
Volkswirt, organ OF DR.. Hjalmar
Schacht, president Of the Reichsbank
and acting minister Of economics.
Persons applying for places in set
tlements," the colonies Of low-cost
dwellings outside towns and cities.
nave to produce certificates from
their neighborhood party bosses (cor-
responding In rank roughly to pre-
cinct captains) that there are no
political objections to the granting of
the application.
Copyright, 1879
Evening star., 1937-10-03

After detailing Mexico's educational
procedure from primary, secondary
and technical schools up to the time
OF entering the universities, the minis
ter of education, who is responsible
for the article from which the above
Is taken, says:
"As regards Indian education. the
government of the republic has been
greatly preoccupied and, by means
OF the department of public education.
mas extended the benefits of primary
school throughout the entire republic
to such point that there does not
exist single village without an
educational plant.
More than $4,000 rural schools
have been established throughout the
length and breadth of the republic
and 1t Is the firm intention of the
revolutionary government to increase.
both IN number and quality, this
educational service, for the benefit of
the thousands of those 'campesinos'
who for so long have remained for
gotten and in some cases have been
virtually held in chains by the rich
land owners. sad to say in the sight
OF and permitted by the public power
OF past days.
A government department has been
established to attend exclusively to this
section of national education"
tCopyrisht. 1879
Evening star., 1937-10-03

consistent deposit averaging 7 per
cent copper without too much foreign
matter.
Base metals in the Philippines re-
peat the story of much of the gold
here, a secondary enrichment. True
thermal primary deposits are, to date
at least, exceptions. But the boom
will aid in the discovery of more,
should they exist.
Copper ore exports will soon reach
5000 tons month Connections are
with smelters in Japan. Copper is a
metal that during war might rise
nigh enough in price to overcome the
handicap of war-risk freights. Dur
ing the pinch of war the Philippines
might furnish copper, manganese and
chrome to the United States and Eu-
rope-if the sea lanes were kept open
to tramp freighters.
(Copyrisht. 1879
Evening star., 1937-10-03
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spirit and freedom Of expression will
always work out to the benefit Of the
entire state when the majority of
well-meaning people will restrict
themselves voluntarily, and the ire
sponSible and subversive elements are
forced by the state to abide by these
limitations. The state cannot allow
this sovereign right to be snatched
by any individual. The moment the
state surrenders this sovereign right
it gives up the possibility of pursuing
4 systematic and consequential policy
internally and externally.
THE new editorial law does not
have the design of relieving the indi-
vidual of his own accountability. The
new law has the contrary aim. of
placing a burden Of responsibility on
him. We desire no rascality, but an
open and honest self-expression. In
the new editorial laws the entire Ger
man press is placed on an absolutely
new basis. The press should be uni
ned in purpose and complex in the
execution of that purpose Each has
full liberty of development within
its sphere of action in the great tasks
which we have to achieve It does not
lie within the purposes Of the Reich
to rear literary automatons, but, on
the contrary, the government is in
terested to have straightforward men
who know how to WELD the pen"
Certain aspects Of the law we're
clarified and liberalized by a supple
mentary decree two months later.
Among the changes was one which
permitted Jews who had served at the
front during the World War or who
had lost fathers or sons at the front
to become journalists, regardness of
the racial ban.
Another change barred absolutely
all who had worked on q Socialist
newspaper within year.
Still another barred anybody who
had become obnoxious to the State
and people"-in other words, anybody
the party in power didn't like.
A certain Wilhelm Weiss was named
by the ministry Is director Of the
federation. He entered on his duties
enthusiastically. For the first time,
he declared, Germany would have Q
'.fres resas." that u pres fres 70
Evening star., 1937-10-03
BY CASTON NERVAL.

- TUDENTS OF Latin American
politics must have read with
tongues in their cheeks the
- greetings exchanged last Mon
day at Berlin by the two self-ap-
pointed ''providential men" Of Tas-
cist Europe. who proclaimed each other
indispensable" to the safety and
prosperity of their respective coun-
tries.
indispensable men" have appeared
from time to time In the scene Of
Latin American politics, suddenly dis
covering In themselves . divine man
date and proceeding to insure their
own perpetuation in power. on the
assumption that no one could replace
them.
One after another, those chosen
men" set aside constitutions or had
these reformed to suit their plans
so that they might remain in the gov
ernment to complete the task with
which they were Entrusted by Prov
idence." The will Of the people did
not count. Popular dissatisfaction
was quelled, not infrequently, with
force. The continuance of those "in-
dispensable men" was for the good
OF the country-so they themselves
announced-and nothing should be
allowed to stand in the way.
Latin America Not Origin.
The practice, of course, did not or
iginate in Latin America. 1t has
existed in the world ever since gov
ernment existed, and it has come down
through the ages with little funda-
mental variations. But in republi-
can Latin America it seems to have
found more fertile ground than any,
where else in contemporary history
The usual process in Latin
American country is this: When the
Chief Executive has made up his mind
to become an indispensable man"
he begins to prepare the road Long
before his legal term approaches the
emo he distributes jobs and COM
missions among his closest friends,
establishes control of the political
machinery Of the party in power, sees
that all his followers are elected to
Congress so as to be sure of legislative
support when the big moment comes,
and begins the elimination Of all DOS
sible rivals or presidential aspirants
by sending them out of the country
as political exiles or as diplomatic
agents.
All this is necessary, and much
more, because in most Of the Latin
American countries reelection is
barred by the constitution. The Presi-
dent who wishes to become "indis-
pensable," therefore. has in the legal
aspect the most delicate problem to
contend with.
Permanence Move Begun.
When the machinery has been set
up the movement for the continuance
OF the existing administration is then
started in some remote corner OF the
republic. Popular meetings are held
usually under auspices of the local
authorities-in which the citizens of
that town or village solemnly pro-
Evening star., 1937-10-03

II today every young person with
literary or intellectual pretensions
feels it incumbent to parade Left Wing
sympathies land corresponding
hatred for "fascism), hundred wears
ago practically every writer in Europe.
great and small. was an ardent and
professed revolutionary, and gloried in
the fact.
The ferment Of the French Revolu-
tion was still working under the
harshly reimposed traditionalisrns of
Metternich and the Holy Alliance
The condition Of the proletariat, ex-
plotted to the utmost by the soulless
beneficiaries OF the Steam-Power Rev.
olution. was appalling. The workers
had literally nothing to lose but their
chains" They were the ideal revolu-
tion fodder. BY comparison. the work.
ers today in Europe and America, even
the worst paid of them, are bloated
capitalists.
1t was no fault Of the revolutionaries
that that mass Of misery did not ex-
plode devastatiLgly.
England Infected.
In every European country a vast
congeries Of secret clubs and societies
conspired increasingly for the up
heaval. In England there were the
secret societies. persisting from the
pro-Jacobin societies Of French Revo-
lutionary times (the equivalent of our
various Friends Of Soviet Russia"
societies., whose activities eliminated
IN the great and alarming Chartist
movement.
In Germany, there were the innu-
merable secret societies-many be-
lieving themselves to be merely ma