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Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10
Barbs

F1uctuating securities mean that
now a mans word must be better
than his bonds.
More than S10,000,000 has been
spent on the New York worlds
fair for improvements that cannot
be seen. The WPA technique all
over again.
Soviet leaders on trial for "trea-
son" must suspect that it's all over
but the shooting
Harvard buiiss 100-tOn ma
chine to crust the atom. Even
peaceful scientists agree that size
counts in engines of destruction.
Many feel that what this coun-
try'S politicians need most are
some effective gags-literally speak
ing.
Wife sued husband for separate
maintenance on their 50th we'd
ding anniversary. She looked ON it
as a golden occasion.
Spring drive aims to see the
usual surplus of eggs. Apparently
Secretary Wallace can't convince
the hens that laying off the nest
is sometimes as important as lay
ing on it.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10
News Behind
the News
The NeU Red Trial
An American Prisoner
By RODNEY BUTCHER

WASHINGTON.-The latest mass
trial of the 'old bolsheviks" in
Russia may remind you that the
Soviet government is still holding
an American woman named Mrs.
Ruth Marie Rubens in prison un-
der bizarre circumstances and that
our government seems in no hurry
to choose an American ambassador
to succeed Joe Davies, who is be-
ing moved to Belgium.
Those last two facts are not en-
tirely unrelated. Mrs. Rubens and
her husband, who had travelled on
false passports under the name of
Robinson, disappeared in Moscow
last December. After much fuss
and inquiry the Russian govern
ment admitted their arrests. Under
the Roosevelt-Litvinov agreement
upon which American recognition
of the U.SS.R. was contingent,
American diplomatic officers were
privileged to visit such prisoners
without delay.
Only after the heaviest diplo-
matte pressure, applied by the State
Department under White House
orders, was the American charge
d'affaires at Moscow, 10y Hender-
son, permitted to see Mrs. RubenS
and identify her as an American
citizen-and then under restric-
tions which irritated higher-up Of
ficials. Only a few questions were
allowed and those had to be asked
and answered through an interme-
diary. Mrs. RubenS was represent
ed as saying she wanted no assis-
tance from the embassy.
The State Department has no
assurances that the woman will
ever come out alive. Officials sus-
pect she is being used as witness
against her husband. who is a spy
suspect, and that her answers TO
questions were made under threats
as to his or her own safety.
The Russians say the Americans
can't look into the matter any
further until their investigation Is
completed. Apparently there's no
time limit on a Russian investlga-
tion-or any knowledge here as to
its technique.
But certain hints have been
given that there may be no Amer
ican ambassador TO Moscow until
this government knows all about
Mrs. Rubens and her future.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10
Well> / II
Tell IYou..
says
Bob Burns

The influences that Hollywood
has over the rest OF the world
amt just through its pictures
alone. The boys who write the ad-
vertisements for these pictures de-
serve some of the credit.
The other day l ordered some
large oranges and when the boy
brought 'em, they was little-bitty.
scrawny looking things and 1 says
"Are these the largest you have?"
The boy says "Oh. no-they're
just the large oranges. We also
have the mammoth, giant. jumbo,
gigantic, colossal and super-eoIos-
sal SIZES"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10
Other Editors Saw

Newspapers which assign themselves the task
of defending every step taken by the Roosevelt
administration sooner or later become begged
down in Inconsistency. The is true of news
papers which decide before the president delivers
an address that he is going to be wrong and
prepare in advance to sound the alarms.
Discriminating readers do not take such news
papers seriously. They do not deserve to be taken
seriously-Kansas City Journal-PoSt.
o.
The conflict between the private and the
public utilities in the Tennessee valley area is OF
significance, not only to the security holders in
the threatened private systems, but TO the owners
of utility securities everywhere and to the tax
payer who contributes the generous subsidy that
has enabled the IVA TO sell power at much less
than its real cost. If the administration can
cut the throat of private enterprise in the Ten
nessee valley what is to keep it from giving the
death blow to utilities in other parts OF the
country?-Hartford Courant.
An item which may not be extremely publ
cized but which is of peculiar Importance is that
during the year 1899, interest on the public
debt viii have reached almost one billion dollars
per annum; to be exact, S976 600 900. 1t will be
remembered that the nation trembed when the
first "billion-doll congress" was in session
under the administration of woodrow Wilson.
Apparently billion dollars with Uncle Sam
in these modern tmeS-far removed from the
horse and buggy days-is a mere trifle. We no
longer tremble; we don't even shiver, but we
may later on.-Terra Bella, Calf News.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10

The foregoing schedule of r
per diem wages is based on Y
a working day of 8 hours.
The hourly wage rate pre-
scribed hereinabove is the
per diem rate divided by
the aforementioned num-
ber of hours constituting
working day Rates for
legal holidays and overtime
shall be one and one half
Q1a) times the above rates.
1t shall be mandatory upon I'll
contractor to whom the contract
awarded, and upon any subcontra
tor under him, to pay not less this
the said specified rates to all ID
borers, workmen and mechani|
employed by them in the executid
OF the contract.
Notice is also hereby given thl
all bidders may submit with the|
bids. a sworn statement of tht|
financial responsibility, techniSI
ability and experience. Such sW
statement may be required toT
furnished before award is made
any particular bidder.
Each bid shall be made out on1
form to be obtained at the off
OF the Board of Directors of t
District, at Ell Centre, Californ
shall be accompanied by certifi
or cashiers check or a bid bond
not less than five (5) per cent
the amount of the bid made pa
able to the order of the Treasui
of Imperial Irrigation District,
Centre, California; shall be seal
and filed with the Board of Dire
tors OF Imperial Irrigation Distri
Ell Centro, California, on or bef(
March 81, 1888, at 10 o'clock Al
and will be opened and publicly re
aloud at or about 10 O'Clock A.
of that day in the office of
Board.
The aforementioned check
bond shall be given as a guaran
that the bidder will enter into
contract, If awarded to him, q!
will be declared forfeited if the 81
cessful bidder refuses to enter il
said contract after being requesl
SO to do by the Board of Direct
OF the Imperial Irrigation Distr,
The Board of Directors of
District reserves the right to rel
any or all bids or waive any
formality in a bid.
No bidder may withdraw his
for period of sixty 600 days af
the date set for the opening there
Dated: March 8, 1898.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Imperial Irrigation DistriCY
BY w. w. GOODSC
Secretary
M 10 II "a.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE AT PRIVATE SALE
M. 171868

In the Superior Court of the State
of California, in and for the
County of Los Angeles
In the Matter of the Estate and
Guardianship of:
DIR. CHRISTOPHER GLEAVES,
An incompetent person.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the undersigned, the guardian
of the estate of DR.. Christopher
Gleaves, an incompetent person, will
sell at private sale to the highest
bidder, upon the terms and con-
ditions hereinafter mentioned and
subject to confirmation by the said
Superior Court, on or after the
18th day of March, 1888, all the
right, title, and interest of the
estate of the said DR.. Christopher
Gleaves, an incompetent person at
the time of his incompetency, and
all the right, title, and interest
that the said estate has by opera
tion of law or otherwise acquired,
other than or in addition to that
of said incompetent at the time of
his incompetency of, in, and to
that certain lot, piece, or parcel of
land, together with the improve
ments thereon lying and being in
the County or Imperial, State of
California, and more particularly
described as follows, to-Wit:
That part of Section Fifteen
G5), Township Eleven I'D South,
Range Fourteen Q4) East, S.B.M.,
in County of Imperial, State of
California, described as follows:
Beginning at point in the North
line of said Section distant 2640
feet west of the Northeast corner
thereof, said point of beginning
being the Northeast corner of
the Northwest quarter of said
section; thence West on said
North line 9l135 feet; thence
South 00030" West, 1920 feet;
thence East 911.35 feet to point
in the East line of the North
west quarter of said section;
thence North 0s0'30' East, along
said line to the point of begin.
ming.
The terms and conditions of sale
are as follows: Cash in lawful
money of the United States of
America, or part cash and note or
notes for the balance, secured by
mortgage or deed of trust on said
property said balance payable on or
before three CD years from date
of sale, ten per cent Q0%) of the
purchase money to be paid at the
time of the sale; balance on con-
firmation of sale, or as may be
contracted for.
The purchaser is to assume the
payment of ana take the property
purchased by him, subject to all
State and County taxes, and all
assessments of whatsoever kind or
nature, which are now or may be-
come hereafter chargeable to or a
lien against the property purchas-
ed by him.
All bids or offers must be in
writing and may be left at the
office of the guardian, Chas. l..
Overshiner, 224 Higgins Building,
Los Angeles, California. or may be
filed in the office of the Clerk of
this court, at any time after the
first publication of this Notice of
Sale.
Dated: Feb. 81, 1888.
CHAS. l.. Ovenhimer,
Guardian of said Estate.
EVERETT w. MATTOON,
County Counsel.
CHAS. L. OVERSHINER,
Attorney for said Guardian.
NJ PIC incl.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10

with a team of
handsome trotters
and a shiny rig.
The livery stable
was in a block
that had n bad
reputation. One
didn't go down
there with a lady.
But waiting for
a We h ic e on
Broadway, or in
Hollywood to-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10

A woman asked at the Cleveland
library for copy of "Sn0w White
and the Seven Divorces. Still, she
could hardly be accused of having
a Grimm outlook on life.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10
Very sincerely yours,
Maybelle Hope Mcintyre
Mrs. o. o. McIntyre.)

NEW YORK, March 10 = Wait
ing for a vehicle used to mean
standing at the corner of fremont
and Douglas, in our town, until
Mr.. Butler, the liveryman with the
long, white whisKerS, drove along
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10
The Grab BAG
One-Minute Test

Minute Test
l. Which is farther south
Brownsville, Tex, or San Diego,
Cal?
2. On what bay is Miami. Fla,
situated?
3. What is a pseudonym?
Hints OH Etiquette
1t is both awkward and in poor
taste for men to press the point
when women wish to pay their own
way.
Words of Wisdom
Imagination is the eye OF the
soul.-Joubert.
TOday's Horoscope
Many persons whose birthday oc-
ours today are known as progress
sives. They have the courage of
their convictions, even when the
vast majority opposes them.
One-Minute Test Answers
l. Brownsville, Tex.
2. Biscayne bay.
3. A pen name.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10
Thoughts for the Day -

Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of
the stranger fatherless and widow. And all the
people shall say. Amen-Deuteronomy 27:19
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10
DAY by Day
New York
By Charles B. DriscOll

Dear Mr.. DriScOll:
To me il seems proper and
praiseworthy for you, as Odds
biosrapher and close personal
friend. TO write a daily column
to succeed the one established by
him
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10

YOU haven't read ALL the News
Until You've Read ALL the Ads!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10

Dated: Feb. 81, 1888.
CHAS. l.. Ovenhimer,
Guardian of said Estate.
EVERETT w. NATION,
County Counsel.
CHAS. L. OVERSHINER,
Attorney for said Guardian.
M. PIC incl.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-10

One-Minute Test A
|. Brownsville, Tex.
2. Biscayne bay.
3. A pen name.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-01-13
ONE WAY TO BOOST

edge that the residents of it
are not just another set of
knockers. Speak of the
schools and churches and
good living conditions of your
own community at every
opportunity you have to do
so-and keep on doing it.
You'll be surprised how
often the stranger will be
interested in what you have
to say, and you'll never be
able to measure the value of
the good things he may also
have to say of it as he goes
on his way into other COM
munites.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-01-13
WORDS OF WISDOM

Nobody knows, and prob
ably never will, just who
originated what we know in
the business world today as
credit" 1t seems to be as
old as barter and trade it
self, and there has been bar
ter and trade since the
human race first came upon
the earth.
Credit, as old as the bust
ness world itself, has in it's
more modernized usage be-
come the largest part of bus
mess. Money we have, of
course, as a medium of ex-
change, yet in actual COM
parison with credit money is
really secondary. Today
credit is money. Every bus
mess and profession, every
individual, today computes
and values credit on a basis
of actual dollars and cents.
A man is worth not what he
may possess in dollars and
cents but what he is good
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-01-13

for" from a credit stand
point. If his credit is good,
he need not have a dollar in
actual cash to make a desired
purchase, but if his credit is
gone, so is his reputation and
his future is measured by
how long his cash holds out.
Here at the turn of the
year, when the average man
is endeavoring to balance his
accounts and start with a
clean slate-an old custom
but a good one-is a fine
time to keep this thing we
call credit" in mind and a
good time to renew your de-
termination to protect it and
keep it good. After all, in
rain or shine, in bad times or
good, in sickness or health,
credit is your greatest asset
and your best protection. A
wise man keeps his credit
good because he knows that
in an emergency his credit
will keep him.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-01-13

Don't get the impression
that because our town isn't
as big as New York or Chi
cago that it isn't worth
boosting TO a stranger. It
often happens that you have
occasion to converse with a
stranger here, but it prob
ably does not always occur
to you to speak a few words
for the town. He may not
think any more of the town
when you have finished but
he will have a better opinion
Of you for boosting it. Moth
ing gives a neighborhood
greater favor in the eyes of
@ stranger than the knowl-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-01-13
WHAT CAUSES EN-

place within the past year
or so. But few can realize
that the horn-held by many
experts to be an almost un-
necessary part of the car
is responsible for so many
deaths. Flynn explains that
horns confuse both the very
young and the very old, and
they rush in front of a car
instead of away from it. His
entire list is interesting and
worthy of study, and that
part referring to the horn
especially. Every motorist
should think that over.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-01-13
WHY NOT TRY THIS

Wonder why most people
wait until spring to do a lot
of odd jobs around the house
when they could be done just
as well now while there is
more time to devote to such
things? If there is a little
inside painting or varnish-
ing job to do there is no rea-
son why it cannot be attended
to, in a lot of instances, dur
ing the winter months.
Opening the windows at top
and bottom an inch or so
for a short time in chilly
weather won't freeze any
body, and the paint job will
dry quickly. And locks and
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-01-13

Motorists who wonder what
causes the greatest number
of accidents might try listen
ing to Chief Flynn, for 80
years a traffic officer on the
Chicago police department.
He lists the causes in this
order: First, speed; second,
booze; third, horns, and
fourth, carelessness. It prob
ably will not surprise the
average motorist to learn
that most mishaps are the
result of speed, though many
had come to believe that
booze had edged into first
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-01-13

other hardware patching on
the inside Of the house can
be looked after now just as
well as in the spring, when
there are so many other
things demanding attention.
The citizen who accomplishes
something along this line now
that ordinarily would be put
over until spring will find
themselves ahead of their
neighbors when the regular
spring season arrives, and
they will also find they have
saved up a lot of energy by
doing many of these inside
jobs during the winter
months.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-01-13

producers and manufacturers, feel
ing that business was booming, pro-
duced or manufactured too much.
They did not recognize that the bet
ter business we appeared to have in
1885 and 1886 was highly superb
cial. Nor were they aware what
the Washington government would
do in the way of controlling or bur-
dening business of all kinds with
new taxation and new restrictive
legislation.
It was from those latter two
things that a fear was bred and the
factories and farms that were being
worked full tilt because prices were
going higher were left with an over
stock. I think it can be fairly said
also that few persons expected to
see such encouragement from the
administration for labor to fiout the
law and take over control Of prop
erty as has happened. Whatever
else may be said, however, the fact
remains the theories constantly be-
ing advanced by one or another of
Mr.. Roosevelt's advisers o have
frightened millions of persons who
still have a few dollars which they
would like to put to work. On the
whole, / am convinced those dollars
will not be put to work unless and
until there is assurance from Wash
ington that sanity and not monkey
doodle schemes will be exercised in
governmental dealings with the
country's business. It is dishonest
on the part of government, regard
less OF political party, to charge
that business brings about depres-
sions; any person with a grain of
sense must know that no individual
desires to throw away his own mon
ey or throw away chance to make
more.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-01-13
The Threat
Of Foreign ''Isms''
By RAYMOND PITCAIRN
National Chairman
SentineLS OF the Republic

In many of the messages of encour-
agement issued with the New Year,
appeared a recurrent note of serious
concern.
1t warned of the dark threat that
the ambitions Of Fascist nations abroad
have brought to the peace and the
welfare Of humanity.
By Americans, as well as by the peo-
pie Of every democratic nation on earth,
that warning should be needed. For
the ultimate victim of these foreign
PHILOSOPHERS of government = whether
Fascism or Nazism or Communism =
Is always the average man and citizen.
Current history proves it.
War RACES hideously today where
such nations prevail, while the great
democracies are at peace.
Standards Of living are lower today
among the people Of the dictator ma
tons than In the democracies.
Freedom Of religion, of the press,
and Of speech; the advancement Of
science and Of education all suffer
under relationships. In demOcracies
they flourish.
4AA5t - 0CC1tSG tklS QCkkAOSkatkC IQC<hl
to which America has been dedicated
since her birth as q nation the
freedom, the well-being, the advance
ment Of every citizen. In the dictator
nations, the individual becomes q robot,
to serve as cannon fodder In war, as
a producing unit" In peace, for the
benefit, not Of himself or Of humanity.
but OF the men IN power.
Under such conditions freedom, as
we know it in America, cannot survive.
Yet 1t was to find or win such freedom
that the great majority Of our ancestors
migrated to and developed this nation.
It was to defend 1t that they suffered
the hardship and privations Of the
pioneer. the wounds and the deaths Of
battle. o
II we fail to guard vigilantly against
the threat Of foreign isms - from what
ever source-we betray the ideals which
are so inextricably woven into our flag,
our traditions, and our very lives.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-01-13
Physical Handicars

The failure to overcome our phys
icai handicaps is only one of MANY
indications that few of us ever dis
cover ourselves.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-01-13
Pleasures

"A man that knows how to mix
pleasures with business, is never en-
tirely possessed by them.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-01-13
Seeing Ourselves

we see times burrows on anoth-
er's brow; how few themselves in
that just mirror, see!-Young.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-01-13
Robin Is State Bird

The robin is the state bird OF
Michigan, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-01-13
Known a. Citizen King

Louis Philippe, ruler of France
from 18S0-4S, was known as the Cit
tizen King.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-29
Horoscope "The stars incline
 but do not cOmper'

TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1888
 Conflicting planetary aspects are seen in the horoscope for today, ac- cording to astrology. It is date for tunate for persons in authority in commercial or governmental posi- tions.
 Sensitiveness to weather condi- tions may accent nervousness and irritability. All should beware ot quarrels. Caution in both the spoken and the written word should be ex- ercised today.
 Those who administer public funds should be careful to avoid even the appearance of evil.
 Susceptibility to the wiles of wo- men will cause scandals that affect men in prominent places, astrolo- gers prophecy. Secret quests for in- formation of national significance may be numerous.
 Aviation is subject to unfavorable planetary influences which may be revealed in accidents. Danger Of sabotage is forecast for builders of airplanes.
 Canada as well as the United States will profit through business improvement. Closer commercial re- lations between the two govern ments are prognosticated
 Decline of totalitarian dictator ships is prophesied, but at first it will be slow, astrologers believe. A minor occurrence is to loom large on the international horizon.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year of good luck that is accompanied by unexpected events. Money should be more plen- tiful than heretofore.
 Children born on this day prob ably will be high-strung, indepen- dent and talented. Subjects of this sign often combine artistic and practical bents.
 George F. Root, American com poser, was born on this day 1920 Others who have celebrated it as a birthday include Edward Charles Moore, silversmith, 1927; Lawrence c. Phipps, former United States Senator, 1862.
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