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The Washington times., 1938-01-20
GIRL AND HER FIANCEE

Dear Miss Fairfax: Z
I'm engaged to young man.
who Is inferior to me intellectu-.
ally. He has had only q grade
school education, and hates to-
study Gr even to read. 1 like
studying and reading, and have
had a year at college. Although
my feeling for him is strong
enough to make me overlook
his failings, don't you think it.
would prove unbearable, eventu-s
ally? Or do you think love con-
quers ALL and that as long as
I love him I will disregard his
shortcomings? 1 am so uncer-,
tain. Help me, please. 4
FRESHMAN. E
1t isn't good for a girl to feel
too superior to her husband. AS
reading and studying are your
joys, anC. they both seem to,
bore him, it does not seem to
me that there is great con-
geniality of tastes in this match.
Have you honestly tried to get
him interested in studying, or
have yoE perhaps been just a.
bit "snocty"? Probably you know
that the wife of one of our
Presidents taught him to read
and write, and now we are be-
ginning to think he was a pretty
good President, after all.
Patience and tolerance are
necessary in dealing with a case
like this. i
The Washington times., 1938-01-20

the work for you and no one will be much in
terested in your failure to improve yourself, so
just 60 to work and Stand Up For Yourself.
Do this faithfully and you will not only have
a graceful figure, but fine posture and correct
posture will help to keep the figure at the cor
rect weight too.
tDiH be glad to send you my illustrated set of
NornGlizing Exercises. sDItich are free of charge
Address Donna Grace; Beauty Editor of this
paper and enclose stamped. selt-GddreSsed en-
Uelope.
The Washington times., 1938-01-20
By Donna Grace

NVsSSSS
THERE is a COM
Il forting, all-is-forgiven
feeling about new reso-
lutions for those of us
who need to make some
change. When it is the
resolve to adopt a re-
stricted diet and do our
regular exercises, we i'm
mediately try to make
the best Cor worSt) of
the last remaining days
in the year by indulg-
ing in all of the taboo
foods and drinks before
we are finally cloistered
with our good sensible
reforms.
1t is a poor coach,
however, who will not
permit some relaxation
and, as far as we are
concerned, you may in
dulge yourself in all the
banquets and laziness
you like, as no doubt
you have done, but now
let's not just put away
The Washington times., 1938-01-20
Incredulous

He said when he first saw me,
Life seemed at once divine,
Each night he dreamed of angels,
And every face was mine;
Sometimes a voice in sleeping
Would all his hopes forbid;
And then he'd waken weeping
Do you really think he did?
CHARLES SWAIN.
The Washington times., 1938-01-20
BedA1tY C01A1AeG

on these muscles and
bones that like to slump
and give us the slouched
posture. It may seem
informal and youthful
at first to hunch up the
knees or spread them
apart in the awkward
sitting position, but the
careless flops have q
sinister way Of becor1-
ing a part of us, and
before we realize it we
have trained the body
to these ungainly lines
that forecasts the bent,
relaxed knees, the dow
ager hump, and the too
full curves below the
waistline.
1t is easy to avoid
this mistake and even
to correct it if we have
been neglecting so i'm
portant a thing as good
posture, but do not
think anyone can do it
for you. There is moth
ing you can take to do
The Washington times., 1938-01-20

back, and took him on his own
terms, the arrangement was
never satisfactory. The COM
promise made the man unbear-
ably conceited, too sure of his
destinations, and the girls who
made concessions felt that, in
throwing ideals overheard. they
were less happy.
The Washington times., 1938-01-20
AdUice TO LOUebrn
By Beatrice Fairfax

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
- I'm college girl of 10 and have fallen In love with a
senior at the same university who 81 know he returns
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07
ONE STEP TOWARD
MORE EMPLOYMENT

If six million aliens were removed
from the United States tomorrow, the
nations unemployment problem would
be about two-thirds solved. And they
should be removed.
The resolution adopted by the Imperial
county board of supervisors this week
memorializing congress to enact legisla-
tion for stricter control of aliens and for
deportation of those who are here but
whose presence Is undesirable. should be
followed up by the individual effort of
every resident of this county who is
proud to be an American. By "American'
we mean not only the native-born, but
those of alien birth who have become
citizens because they are proud of their
adopted country.
An alien who comes to this country to
make it his home, to live and die here,
to work and become part of the COM
munity in which he lives, may be ust as
good citizen as a native born person
But the 1880 census showed 256 147 un-
naturalized aliens in California alone
The number has increased since then
Most of these unnaturalized aliens come
to the United State only because they
can make more money here than at home.
They have no deep interest in this coun-
try. They still live by the rules of their
native land Their presence Is drawback
to any community.
Any alien who has been in this country
10 years without becoming nauralized
citizen does not deserve sympathy. He
deserves the harshest of criticism. He is
a parasite who tries to skim the cream
without helping create it.
If the recommendations in the super
visors resolution were carried out
throughout the United States, the econo-
mic condition of the nation would be i'm
measurably improved, the criminal ele-
ment woud be dealt a severe blow, and
the unity of the country would be i'm
mensely strengthened.
Deportation of those convicted of felo-
nies, those here unlawfully and those
here 10 years without being naturalized
is not radical demand. The sooner it is
needed, the quicker the United States will
be on the road to Improvement.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07
SAVING FREEDOM
BY EXAMPLE

christian Science MOnitor)
President Roosevelt was we'll advised
in observing a certain line Of restraint
which is worth noting IN his address to the
National Educational Association. He
uesd strong language, it is true, in saying
that book-burningS and the eXiling of
scholars places an added responsibility
on those countries "Where the torch of
free thought and free learning still burns
bright Yet he added simply that If
fires of freedom and civil liberties burn
low in other lands, they must be made
brighter in our oWn'-not, as popular
thought sometimes IS tempted to believe,
that America must carry the torch by
means of some eventual armed crusade
to save others from themselves and re-
light the fires abroad.
The spread of enlightenment, educa-
tion and freedom of research and opinion
has taken place far more largely by force
of example than by any supposed protec-
tion in the wake of the sword. War obVi-
ously is more likely to result in loss of
civil liberties and cultural values while
even democratic nations grid and regl-
ment themselves for one end-military
victory It is the right and duty of these
nations to defend and expand free insti-
tutions within their own borders, but that
is best done by example.
The light of freedom inevitably attracts.
Its very eXistance finds an inherent re-
sponse in the hearts of men everywhere
and gives encouragement to any spark
that shoulders. The lustre of such names
as Roger Bacon, Comenius, Galileo and
Horace Mann rises from the ability of
intellectual and moral light to survive
and outshine the resistance that would
tend to quench it. Self-rule requires self
illumination. Least of all forms of gov
ernment can true democracy be imposed
or even bestowed. 1t should be natural
growth where it is wanted and should be
cherished with devotion and confidence
where it exists.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07
SOCIAL SECURITY
FOR FARM WORKERS

Old age and unemployment insurance
-so-called social security-is denied ag-
ricultural workers under the current
Social Security Act. To the farm workers
the discrimination is unfair, and both
laborers and employers in agriculture
will welcome a plan to bring agriculture
under the Social Security Act. This re-
vision, planned for the next congress,
will be harmful rather than helpful, how
ever, unless some means is devised to
overcome the obstacle every farmer sees.
If the same methods are used in ag-
ricultural social security that now are
used in business and industrial social Sc
curity-taxes on payrolls with attendant
bookkeeping burdens-the revision of the
act will react to the harm of the agricul-
tural workers because il will close many
jobs to them. Before congress puts farm
workers under the act, it must devise
simpler method Of providing the money
for their security.
A farmer cannot afford to hire an ir-
rigator for one day if he has to hire a
bookkeeper also to figure out the percent
age of the workers check that must be
deducted, the percentage the farmer
must pay, and then make out involved
reports to the government. The farmer
will do the irrigating himself. He cannot
afford to do anything else.
Yet neither is ii fair to the worker to
say to him, when he reaches old age,
"You have no security because you work
ed on farm.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07
Famous Sayings
Bruce Cation Says
= Bombers Don't Drop Olive Branches

From a purely technical stand
point, American inventive genius
has seldom done anything more
striking than its production of
giant bombing planes for the US
army and navy.
The nayy's enormous flying boat
bombers are already a familiar
story; SO, too, are the flying fort
resses" the army recently brought
out And now comes word that
both army and navy are about to
produce planes that will make
these existing giants look small.
For the army, according to a
story recently issued by Science
Service. an 80-ton bomber is being
built by the Douglas people. The
plane will have a Wing-span of
more than 200 feet. will be able
to cruise at better than 275 miles
an hour and will altogether be The
most amazing flying machine ever
designed by man.
Tile navy, too, is developing a
new craft-a 50ton flying battle
ship. according to reports. which
will be somewhat smaller than the
new army bomber but which
nevertheless will be the sort of
aerial giant that makes one gasp
in Cbppr. upn,,dnr
That such craft should be built
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07

is a glowing testimonial TO the
brilliance of Americas aviation
leaders. The conquest of the air
has become something more than
mere phrase. A race that can do
things like that has good reason to
be proud of its powers.
But before we get too proud We
might properly remember Just
what it is that gets built into a
bombing plane these days.
There is more in it than cum
ningly wrought metal and ingen-
iously devised plans. There is also
a tremendous load of human
misery-which may never actually
be released but which neVerthe-
less is there, the grimmest and
darkest single factor on the hui
man races horizon today.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07

The foregoing schedule of per
diem wages is based on a working
day Of 8 hours. The hourly wage
rate prescribed hereinabove is the
per diem rate divided by the afore-
mentioned number of hours con-
stituting a working day Rates for
legal holidays and overtime shall
be Cne and one-half do times
the above rates.
1t shall be mandatory upon the
Contractor to whom the contract
is awarded, and upon any subcon-
tractor under him, to pay not less
than the said specified rates to all
labOrers, Workmen, and mechanics
employed by them in the execution
of the contract.
Notice is also hereby given that
all bidders may submit with their
bids a sworn statement of their
financial responsibility, technical
ability and experience. Such sworn
statement may be required to be
furnished before award is made to
any particular bidder.
Each bid shall be made out on a
form to be obtained at the office of
the Board of Directors of the Dis
trict at Ell Centro, California: shall
be accompanied by certified or a
cashiers check, or a bid bond, for
not less than five (5) per cent Of
the amount of the bid, made pay
able to the order of the Treasurer
of Imperial Irrigation District, Ell
Centro, California; shall be sealed
and filed with the Board of Direc-
tors of Imperial Irrigation District
Ell Centro, California, on Or before
July %, 1888, at 10 o'clock AM,
and will be opened and publicly
read aloud at or about 10 O'Clock
A M. of that day in the office of
the Board.
The above mentioned check or
bend shall be given as a guarantee
that the bidder will enter into the
contract if awarded to him, and
will be declared forfeited if the
successful bidder refuses to enter
into said contract after being re-
quested so to do by the Board of
Directors Of the Imperial Irrigation
District.
The Board of Directors of the
District reserves the right to reject
any or all bids or to waive any in
formality in a bid
No bidder may withdraw his bid
for a period of sixty 800 days after
the date set for the opening thereof.
Dated July 5, 1898.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
Imperial Irrigation District
BY w w. GOODSON,
Secretary
j. 7 IA q
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07
DISHING OUT THE OLD OIL

(Paclfic Rural Press)
A good many public acts are never
made public.
Here's rumor of public act which
we hope is true.
When Mexico re-seized some of the oil
lands which British and Americans had
previously seized, the Mexicans offered
to pay in bonds of their country.
Great Britain. it is said, remarked that
she wanted cash and asked the United
States to demonstrate her good-neighbor
policy by collecting the cash from Mexico
and tuning it over to London.
Said Washington to London: eve will
collect it, and We'll credit it against what
you owe u.s.
Said London: oh"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07
News Behind
the News
Steel " ages
Shocking Washington

WASHTNGTON.-Any wage cut
in the steel industry following re-
cent price reductions will be a
rude shock in Washington.
Mr.. Roosevelt and the New
Dealers are convinced that the
country is off on a business up
turn which will last at least until
after elections. They believe a
steel wage cut under the circum-
stances would bring a louder howl
from government, labor and the
public than anyone in The steel
industry wants to listen to.
Furthermore, on its part. the
administration will move 10 speed
up the big orders for steel inyoly-
ed in the new PWA program.
The steel price reduction in
which the u. S. Steel Corporation
led off, was no huge slash and the
average labor cost in finished
steel products is only 90 per cent.
Although New Dealers of the
Henderson-Icke Jackson school
take credit for breaking" the
heretofore rigid steel price struc
ture which they considered a bar
to recovery, other factors appear
to have included pressure from
steel-buying manufacturers and a
willingness of Chairman Stettinius
OF U s. Steel to test the theory
that price cuts would revive buy
ing.
That the approaching federal
monopoly investigation was also a
pressure factor is indicated by the
fact that U. S. Steers announce
ment practically eliminated price
differentials between the Pitts
burgh, Chicago and Birmingham
basing points.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07
CHECKING 4 RETOLUTION
[ Red Bluff News

tRe0 blu11 News
President Cardenas seems to have play
ed a nasty trick on General Cedillo and
spoiled the generals revolution The
president caught bunch of the generals
doughty soldiers and instead of shooting
them gave each a farm and put him to
work.
Since land seems to be the thing that
dissenters fight for in Mexico this gen
erous gesture broke up the fight. It's not
only humane, bat cheap. The land didn't
cost Cardenas anything.
If the fellows he took it away from get
sore and start another revolution the
president can depend on the fellows he
gave it to to fight for their rights and
smother the uprising. This will afford
the president an excuse to give away
more land TO some more revolutionsts,
until eventually everybody in Mexico will
be land OWenrs
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07
Well II!
Tell You.
says
Bob Burns

The reason why the government
isn't run as well and economically
as well organized business is be-
cause a lot of the government jobs
are given to people who did the
politician a favor While in bust
ness, the man hasta be good
worker to hold his job and the
boss is a little mere cold biooded
about it,
One day the boss CT a lumber
camp fell in the river among the
logs and woulda drowned if a
workman hadn't jumped in and
pulled him out. When the boss
came to, he looked at the wcrk-
man and say, "You're fired"
The workman say, Gee, boss-if
/ hadn't seen you fall in, you'd
drown" The boss say "Yes-and
if you'd been attendin' to your
work, you wouldn't have seen me
fail in"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07
Photographs

Highway construction has re-
Gently cut off all the roads around
the Pennsylvania town of Gum
Stump, thus foiling thousands of
skeptics who had heard of the
town but wanted to find out if it
Was actually true.
One outstanding result of the
spy scare is. it certainly has
brought sudden prosperity to Eu-
ropean-bound ocean liners.
AT this writing it looks like a
photo finish between the ther-
mometer and the New York stock
exchange.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT
Ell Centre, California
IMPERIAL VALLEY POWER
Project
Specifications No. IL
ADVERTISEMENT FOR RIMS

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
Notice is hereby given that the
Board of Directors of Imperial Irri-
cation District will receive bids for
installing station sWitchboards and
furnishing and erecting switching
structures in the Districts Diesel
Power Plant at BraWley and at
various city and rural substation
sites within the Imperial Valley;
each bid to be IN accordance with
Plans, Detail Specifications. and
other contract documents compris-
ing Specifications No. Il now on
Tile at the Office of the Board OF
Directors of Imperial Irrigation Dis
trlcC at Ell Centro, California, Waefe
they may be examined and copies
obtained upon deposit of $40 per
set, which deposit will be refunded
upon the return of such copies il
good condition within five days after
the bids are opened
The principal items of work i'll
VolVed are as follows.
Installation of eleven 1D panel
switchboard and all station
wiring III the BraWley Diesel
Plant and extensions;
Furnishing and erecting fabri-
cated-Steel switching Struc-
lures and installation of
equipment in the BraWley
6,500-kVa) and the Ell Cen
tro (5,000-kVa) substations
Furnishing and erecting pipe
framework switching struc-
lures and installation of
equipment in Calexico q 800
kVa), Holtville G,800-kVa,
Imperial (750-kva), and Cali
Datria G,05O-kVaJ Substatio
Installation Of equipment and
completion of wood pole
structures in seven small sub
stations Il ,600-kya and 6,300-
kVa.
Bidders attention is called to the
fact that the work to be done is a
part of power project to be fin
anced by Loan and Grant to the
District from the Federal Emer-
gency Administration of Public
WI no u w n. lIOIhtJ NJ. CdIll /.
1088-P-D), and the award Of the
contract will be contingent upon
securing funds from such source.
Bidders are hereby notified that,
pursuant TO the statutes of the State
of California or local law thereto
applicable, the Board of Directors
of Imperial Irrigation District has
ascertained the general prevailing
rate of per diem wages and rates for
legal holidays and overtime work in
the locality in which this work is
To be performed, for each craft or
type OF workman or mechanic need
ed to execute the contact which
will be awarded the successful
bidder.
The prevailing rates SO determin-
ed are as follows:
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07

middle of the night, footsteps
would sound outside. There would
be sharp pounding on the door
Police
The boy leathed the place. He
wanted 20 quit. But the father said
they needed the money and that he
msut continue. One night Harold
Bell Wright opened the window,
took his telescope suitcase, and
crept into the darkness.
His father would not let him
come home. and he had tc earn his
own living. His health broke; and
the doctor told him he must do
out-dcCr work So he Became a
house painter. wandering from
place to place, painting houses,
barns. COW sheds-anything that
needed paint
He drifted down to The col0rful
Ozark Mountains of Missouri and
settled down among the hill people.
The scenes he had witnessed in his
last position were constantly on
his mind. He wanted 10 do some
thing to help eradicate such con-
ditions. So in Pierce City Missouri,
he became a preacher. He preach
ed with fire and conviction People
came for miles to hear this man
who spoke with such feeling. At
the same time he began writing
about these mountain people. He
wrote with sympathy and under
standing.
His health grew better, the
world seemed bright Then
One day as he was riding his
horse along a mountain road, a car
suddenly shot around bend,
crashed into horse and rider and
flung them down the mountainside.
The horse was killed. Mountain
people picked up the mangled man
and laid him by the side of the
read. A doctor was sent for.
He is too badly hurt to be
moved said the doctor We'll
have to put a tent over him and
leave him here. The end will come
soon
Harold Bell Wright heard this.
I'm not going 20 die" he said.
His tremendous urge to live, his
indomitable will, helped him to
recover. When he got better he
stayed under the tent by the
mountain road. But ne could not
walk He called for pencil and pa
per. Under that tent, he wrote
when a Mans a Man.
He wrote other books-books
that were sensational successes
books that broke world records,
books that were read around the
world, books such as The Shepherd
of the Hills, The Calling of Dan
Matthews. The Winning of Barbara
Worth, Thai Printer of Udells.
Twice in his life Harold Bell
Wright seemed defeated crushed,
but ne rose triumphantly. He cap
italized On his handicaps He
turned his lisbilities into assets
and became one of the most wide
~ read authors of the twentieth
century. I salute his fine hardy
spirit
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07

ten. years old his
mother die, and
his father had a
hard struggle to
support the boy.
A few years lat
c, the father got
his son a job
cooking in
house of prostitu-
tion. As the boy
worked. he could
hear the pro
family and the
obscene jokes.
SOMETIMES in the
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07

William Wylie, federal project
worker near Spokane. Wash, af-
ter being struck by lightning says
he didn't know it and couldn't even
feel the jolt. There's the fellow to
match With Joe Louis.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07
DALE
CARNEGIE
Author of How to Win
Friends and Influence
PeOple'

I have been reading Tie auto
biography of a novelist whose car
Ger is as thrilling as any story he
ever put between book covers.
When Harold Bel Wright was
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07
Thoughts for the Day

For the Father himself oveth YOU because ye have
loved me and have believed that I came cut from
God-John 1921
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07
Barbs ---.

A carp in Kentucky WIIICI IIa'I-
ermen have been tryins to catch
for several seasons was llhaiiy
hooked the other day by woman.
II seems she caught him by ap-
rearing elaborately uninterested.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07

HAUL OUT Your Odds and Ends
They'll Bring You a Profit
Thru Want-Adsl
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07

Joe Jacobs says schmeling will
be able To tight again in two
months. Did he say again?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07

months. Did he say again?
A story comes Of bottle being
thrown overheard off the Atlantic
coast and crossed all the way to Eu-
rope. Bottles don't seem to have
any regard at all for their safety
these days.
II used to be said That worr,
made the hair fall out, and now
somebody says il causos tooth de-
cay. What do you suppose ii does
when you worry about the fact
that you're bald and to0thless?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-07

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