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Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16
NATURE CAN HELP MAN
CHECKMATE EROSION
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More than one valley plowman who
has worried through Bermuda grass sod
might fondly wish that the persistent
plant could be transplanted to some
distant desert. Matted with crab grass,
devil grass and Johnson grass the i'm
portation from the tropics is a tough
customer-just the type that is needed
for tough job.
Bermuda grass and its soil-clinging
cousins have their uses. Under proper
conditions they are excellent forage pro-
ducts, but their higher value lies in their
sod forming functions. Where such
grasses grow in abundance there can be
little erosion, consequently they are bad
ly needed in hilly areas denuded of all
vegetables by fire. The hilly country
adjacent to the city of Los Angeles
just now is startling example of that
need because of its flood potentialities.
1t is too bad the valley plowman's wish
can not bear fruit in Bermuda-clad hills,
far removed from his cultivated fields.
But since it can not the residents of
Southern CALIFORNIA; fire ridden hills
can do the next best thing possible by
broadcastng the seed of sodmaking
grasses thickly over their ash covered
al 11S. bclltl SIlil lllSy iniSHI SpIcdu
the stems of the mature plants, for ev-
cry join under proper conditions of soil
and moisture will bring forth a plant.
Perhaps there are other plants better
adapted to the temperature, moisture
and soil condition of that area. If so
they should be introduced at once Fro
sion is a serious problem where fires
have destroyed native plants that hold
the soil together. 1t is a problem that
must be attacked and solved soon if
flood losses are to be prevented.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16
THE WORLD NEEDS
A FEW MORE GENTLEMEN
and gentlewomen, too.


1t can't be proved. but we've a hunch
that a big part of the worlds problems,
major and minor, would be solved if
there were more gentlemen and gentle
women.
We use the words in their true sense
not in the sense that has come to be
accepted through thoughtlesS use of salu-
tations on letters, and glass or tin signs
on waitingroom DOORS
A gentleman, for instance, wouldn't
have walked into a San Francisco hos
pital the other day and shot to death
a man who was recovering from bullet
wounds inflicted by a woman in fam
lily fight that came about, we're safe in
saying, because none of those concerned
were either gentlemen or gentlewomen.
Neither would two gentlemen have
become embroiled in such a mess as that
attending the trial at Los Angeles of
Martin Snyder, called Moe the Gimp, on
charges of taking couple of shots at
Myrl Alderman, then the boy friend
and now the husband of Ruth Etting,
whose language as quoted by her former
husband seems to obviate the necessity
of discussing her possible status as a
gentlewoman.
The days news, any day, is about half
made up of the doings of men and wom-
en- who aren't gentlemen and gentle
women. The worst part of the news it
is, too.
In almost every instance in which
marital discord reaches the headlines,
it does so because of the lack by one
partner or the other, or by both, of the
gentleness.
What is this quality that makes a gen.
tleman or gentlewoman?
1t is not the way in which you eat
your soup, nor the flare with which you
wear clothes, nor the words you use in
addressing the waiter, nor yet the abili-
ty to understand grand opera or appre-
ciate surrealist art.
1t is, in the finest ense, the ability to
live quietly, graciously, without bring
ing mental or physical harm to others
if you can possibly help it.
A gentleman may lie, but he never
lies for his own sake. A gentleman may
fight, but he never fights out of selfish
ness. gentleman may love, but he
never makes his love obnoxious.
A gentleman, in other words, thinks
first of the other fellow, and then Of
himself. The world needs more people
like that.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16

Now that the state of Ohio has
taken the life of Anna Marie Hahn,
the account of the lady who fed
poison to a number of unsuspectin@
old men presumably is squared. Yet
while there has seldom been a con-
demned criminal for whose crimes
there seemed to be less excuse,
it is hard for anyone who read
the stories of this woman's last days
to keep from feeling that society
used a rather messy and inefficient
method of settling things.
On the surface, what happened
in the Columbus death house was
quite in order and fully justified.
Ohio has a law providing the death
penalty for first degree murder.
Mrs. Hahn was duly convicted, and
the highest courts ruled that she
had hao a fair trial; the governor
quite sensibly remarked that he
could not have commuted this sen-
tence on any ground but one OF
sentiment. The woman committed
murder, apparently, for no better
reason than to get money to gam
BILE on horse races. Society GER
tainly suffered no appreciable loss
when she was executed.
And yet how can one read
the grisly stories about the last act
of the miserable drama without
feeling that there must be a better
way for society to square accounts?
We are hardly better off today
for having had the spectacle OF
Mrs Hahn grovelling in her cell,
collapsing on the way to the electric
chair, screaming frantically for help
while the guards strapped on the
electrodes. Nor does it help one
to a better sleep at night to reflect
on the woman's 13-year-old son,
who spent that last day in the cell
with her listening to her pleas for
mercy and getting burned into his
young mind a picture of horror
that will go with him as long as
he lives.
Unavoidable, all of this? OF
course it was unavoidable. Given
the laws that we have, the under
standing that we have of crime and
punishment, the instructive re-
action we have against anyone who
takes human life coldly and with
out passion, all of this had to hap
pen. Yet to admit that is not at
all the same as to admit that this
was the best way of settling things.
Society has to defend itself
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16
AGAIN UNCLE SAM
PUTS HIS NECK OUT

People who should know said in Wash
ington this week that Sir Anthony Eden,
former British foreign secretary, car
ried back to London with him intimations
that the national administration believes
victory for Francisco Franco in Spain
would be contrary to interests of this
country.
Again, it appears, the spokesmen for
kindly old Uncle Sam have laid that
worthys head across tentative chop
ping block.
What if Franco does win in Spain?
1t will be rather hard for our admin
stration to explain that they were just
joking, and that they want to be friends
after all.
1t seems to US this is another matter
in which silence would have been by far
the best policy-unless we want to send
troops TO Spain to fight Franco. And
somehow we don't believe the American
people, easygoing as they are, would per-
NIT a thing like that.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16
Legal Advertisement
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING
OF STOCKHOLDERS OF
EDGAR BROS, COMPANY

Notice is hereby given that pur-
suant to the provisions of the by
laws, the regular anual meeting of
the stockholders of the above
named company will be held at
the office OF the company in FL
Centro, State of California, on
Tuesday, the 18th day of January,
1899, at the hour of o'clock p. m.
of said day.
At said meeting five directors will
be elected to serve for the ensuing
year and until their successors are
duly elected.
The annual business statements
of the office will be be received and
acted upon and such other business
as may properly come before the
stockholders meeting will be tram
sacted.
Dated at Ell Centre, this 9th day
of December, 1888.
EDGAR BROS. COMPANY.
BY w. o. Hinderks, Secy.
Dec. 9-16-23- 80 Jan. 6
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16

tors looked around to find some-
one who could change the color
of its bookkeeping. They selected
Bob Christenberry. who was born
in a town so small that it had on
ly one hotel - Milan, Tennessee.
Bob had worked for this hotel,
and for half a dozen hotels, and
had acquired a reputation.
Here are some examples OF what
he did for the Hotel Astor. He
didn't start in with the financial
end. Nor did he start in re-
painting and re-papering. He did
not make single change in the
kitchen. No, he started with the
human beings who operated the
hotel - the walters, chamber
maids and chefs. He said. "The
staff makes a hotel, not the
walls
His first move was to provide
better lockers and showers for the
employees. They'll work better
if they're happy and properly ta-
ken care Of" he said.
His second consideration was
the chambermaids. They were
bringing their lunches and eating
them in the rooms. They were
surviving" He told them to
leave their sandwiches at home
that he would give them hot lun-
cheons at no cost to them. Did
they like Mr.. Christenberry? Did
they begin to do their best? Well,
what do you think?
Next he gave the elevator boys
a free meal daily. Immediately
they became more polite and eff
cient
From there he went 10 the wage
scale. He learned that some of
the help were working more than
eight hours a day without extra
pay, so he began paying them for
overtime.
Also ne began tipping employees
when one did a personal service
for him. If a waiter in the dining
room brought him a package of
cigarettes, he knew he would get
a tip from Mr.. Christenberry just
as he would from any guest.
His staff became his boosters.
Say one word against Mr. Christ
enberry at Hotel Astor and they
will fly to his defense like moth
er to her child.
In no time at all the hotel was
offering such splendid service
that the guests began commenting
on it; the empty rooms began fill
ing up. Now that he had erected
a smoothly working machine, he
began on the rooms: paper, paint
and carpenter. This is where the
average man, who didn't under
stand human nature, would have
begun.
In spite of the seemingly addi-
tional expense, the cost of operat-
ing went down. The guests in.
creased and the profits went up.
No wonder his salary was jump
ed.
If there's anything wrong with
your business, why don't you
think of the human equation first
and remedy that? Then begin on
the lime -and-plaster end. If this
Tennessee boy made a success of
it, why can't you?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16
Legal Advertisement
S u NJ NJ o N S

) u NJ M D " 5
No. 1898
In the Superior Court of the State
of California, i'm and for the
County of Imperial.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT, Plaintiff
VS..
JAMES H. CARR, ct al,
Defendants.
Harry W. Horton and Geo. r.
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
The People of the State of Cali
f0rnia Send Greetings to:
JAMES H. CARR, A. N. EUL-
BERG, ELENORA EULBERG,
BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL
TRUST AND SAVINGS ASSOCIA-
TION, A National Banking Asso-
citation, JOHN DOE, JANE DOE,
RICHARD ROE, JOHN DOE COM
PANY, Corporation, RICHARD
ROE COMPANY, a partnership
and JOHN DOE as Administrator
Of the Estate of Richard Roe, De-
ceased, Defendants.
1Du bTt t1tTtDJ DnCCttu W bp-
pear and answer the Complaint in
an action entitled as above, brought
against you in Superior Court OF
the County of Imperial, State of
California, within ten days after
the service on you of this Summons
if served within this county; or
within thirty days if served else
where.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, or
it will apply TO the Court for any
other relief demanded in the COM
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this 1jth day of August,
1893.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
(SEAL) County Clerk
BY CITHA LAMSON,
Deputy Clerk.
N. 10 25-D. 9 16 % 30-J. 6 13 20.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16
HITLERISM-WHAT 1T MEANS
OroviIIe Mercury-RegiSter)

(OfoVllle Mefcury-heglSter)
About the best summation we have
seen of the situation brought to light by
the cruelty of the Nazis towards the
Jews was in the San Francisco Chronicle.
The writer states that Herr Hitler does
not merely outrage the human instincts
of civilization, but gives warning that
there is ferocious and irresponsible
force loose in this small world of ours"
What he visits upon helpless Jews
because they are Jews" the writer con-
tinues, she would not hesitate to do to
Americans because they are Americans;
democrats because they believe in democ-
racy; Negroes because they are black;
Frenchmen because they are French
This it is pointed out is a warning to
the world :. For America it is warn
ing to get her fences repaired.
As we read in our own paper the state
ment of Louis Johnson, assistant secre-
tary of war, that the U. S. must double,
treble and perhaps even quadruple its
present army air force. Thus is the an
swer to Hitlerism being given through
out the country in determination to
meet him on his own ground-the only
answer he will understand, force great
er than his.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16
Famous Sayings
GRAB BAG
One-Miuute TEST.

l.. What city is the capital of
Alaska?
2. IN what city is Brown Univer-
sity?
3. What is peat?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16

Lewis Thornhill of Boston was
socked SO hard on the jaw during
a fight that he suffered fractur-
ed ankle. Thornhill wouldn't name
his assailant - probably wants to
nut him under contract.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16
DALE
CARNEGIE

Would you like to hear how a
man increased his salary 275 per
cent in three years?
His name is Robert Keaton
Christenberry, and I'll tell you how
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16
TOdaY'S HOrOScOne

Those whose birthday is today
should be energetic and enterpris-
ing in carrying out ideas for adj
vancement, even if it means travel
They may express their ideas with
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16

lie ulu Al.
The famous
Hotel Astor in
New York, one
of the b e S t
known and pop
ular hotels in the
city. was losing
money. H a + d
times had come
and the ledger
showed red. The
board of direc-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16

Marriage with a good woman is
a harbor in the tempest of life; with
bad woman, it is tempest in a
harbor.-J. p. Sem.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16

confidence. Meetings with interest
ing friends and acquaintance may
give them ideas for their own suc-l
cess. They need not be afraid to
carry forward negotiations with.
relatives and neighbors. 1t is a
good time, also, for them to sell
and to communicate with others for
their own advancement.
One Minute Test Answers
|. Juneau
2. Providence, Rhode Island.
3. A sod which is cut into cakes
and burned as fuel
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16

This country will rejoice over the
peace compact between Paris and Ber-
lin even though they know it isn't more
than a "scrap of paper" - Alameda
TimeS-Star.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16

An inventor predicts that there will
be no new death dealing instruments in
the next war. Oh, that's all right; what
was good enough for pas good enough
for US.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16
Hints on Etiouette

Vegetables such as asparagus are
not finger foods and should be cut
and eaten with a fork.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16

Comes a flash that Florida has pro-
duced two million pounds of tung oil
in the last year. If that's an item about
the Chambers of Commerce the spelling
is not very good.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16

Dec. 9-16-23-30 Jan. 6
Imperial Valley press., 1938-12-16
Words of Wisdom

What is peat?
Evening star., 1938-05-29
Commodity Price
Changes for Week
Bv A. A. PATTON.
Associated Press Statistician.

NEW YORK, May 28.-Offering lit
tie resistance to heavy selling pressure
in principal markets, commodity prices
this week tumbled to the lowest level
since May, 1884, IN the widest break
of the year.
Alone among the major groups, live
stock successfully Withstood the swirl
ing tide of deflation.
Every other important staple cate
CORY registered new low for the cur
rent depression as selling orders nipped
away at the price level without attract
ing any appreciable support.
The Associated Press weighted index
of IS spot commodity prices slumped
to 64.54 per cent Of the 1929-l93o
average from 65.63 a week ago and
compared with el36 last year.
Farm Products Hit.
Hardest hit were farm products, ex-
cepting livestock. which have crashed
10 per cent in the past fortnight. Cot
ton was down more than half cent
pound, with the carry-over from last
years record-breaking crop hanging
ominously over this seasons harvest.
Grains-wheat, corn, rye and oats
lost up to cents a bushel. At least
partly responsible was favorable rain
fall reported by the Department of
Agriculture throughout the Middle
Western grain belt, which, added to the
record estimates of probable crops,
meant lower prices ahead to most
dealers.
The lone stalwart breasting the fall
ing tide of prices-livestock-d
stimulation from official forecasts of
higher prices in the offing, based on
today's depleted herds. Hogs, cattle
and lamb were all buoyant
Industrial Materials OFF.
Industrial raw materials slipped into
new low ground for the 18th consecu-
tive week. The metals-steel scrap,
antimony and lead-as well as turpen-
tine, linseed oil, burlap and bituminous
coal gave way before the selling bar
rage
Well-stocked inventories Of manu-
facturers were still the primary quota
ton depressant, little demand being
evident in the market place for most
staples.
Foodstuffs were generally lower, eggs,
sugar, cocoa. -four and lard being the
principal losers, while coffee nudged
ahead fractionally. Textiles also weak
ened.
The index, with its components based
on 1929-1930 as 100, compared as fol-
lows:
Evening star., 1938-05-29
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK.

CHICAGO. May % lP,.-Hoss held the
!ate ADVANCE IN a cleanup trade today
snn sbs Supplies Dd ..sdy
were consigned largely direct to killers
The cattle market was a nominal affair
with practically odS no,hlns offered for sale
i.ots aeouf, steady With fridays ssyeFsse;
pound rsw s90a Tn WITH
siits. 1875, mostly 2o-.5 up; packing
day last week-Fed steers, yearlines
heifers and good and choice cows steady,
but and medium xn
low-srade beef cows and cutie. grades
strong to. Is higher. scarcity principal sup,
e n aeee on z sood
steers: lo.s5; paia for prime l,a5o-pound o
suppls from 6.o6so iarser @ than at recently emily
1000: heifer yearlings, $40: O.. bulls broke
6,15: vsaiers sold dependably ali s week at
demand, fully steady. supply comprised
with Bulk such kinds at s.oo:75. ~ 'e'
Sheep, 5000. including 5000 direct;
,ats tn, Prlday; generally steady so9d Call
sp5fts oof5 nativ. ewes su sooP For amei Tees
ending Friday. $500 directs: compared
weak to e5 of: weeks practical top on
native spring lambs 9.35; best CALIFORNIA;
7,75; nothing. over 7.l5 late; strictly
iambs here here's few % g. Sse aceoFsna cord s9ieo 10
eVes s5 a WeeEs Sp 6uk SnSt0 soo5o most
native ewes after mid-ueek, 3.o0-25.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
CHANGES SLIGHT
ON BOND MARKET.
Low-YieId Corporates Up,
While Other Groups
Move Uneven|y.

} By the hsst ciated Press.
NEW YORK. May 28.-The bond
market moved in narrow limits today,
with low yield corporate issues show
ing some improvement and with the
rest of the list well mixed.
Bethlehem Steel 3l2s at 90la, Nc
Kesson g. Robbins 5l2s at 995s, Ma
tional Dairy 3a4s at 1904, Penn Dixie
Cement IS at "a were all fractionally
higher
The Associated Press average Of 20
railroad issues declined i to SIG and
losers in the group included New York
Central IS at 48, Southern Railway SIS
at 81, Erie General As at 2034, Balti-
more g. Ohio IS at 2012. A few rails
showed moderate gains, including
Illinois Central 3a4s at 29l2 and
Southern Pacific Refunding IS at 66.
Utilities showed little change. For
Agn governments were slightly lower
As a group.
United States Government obliga-
tions were mixed and narrow.
Volume totaled S4,63S900 in face
value. the best Saturday trading since
April 2, and compared with $2,663,0 900
the previous Saturday.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
COTTON FUTURES
CONTINUE DROP
Final Prices Down 8 to Is
Points Further on
Renewed Selling.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 28-Cotton con-
tinued its decline today on renewed
foreign selling and liquidation. October
declined from 500 to 789 and closed
at 1892, with final prices 8 to is points
net lower.
The market opened 2 to S points
lower with disappointing action at
Liverpool and Bombay partly Offset
by trade and scattered buying. Of
ferings were lighter than in recent
sessions, but demand was not active
in view Of the week end holiday.
Late in the session offerings from
abroad appeared. There were indica-
tions OF hedging against American
cotton and earlier buyers resold.
Commodity Credit Corp. reported
6,3l4 bales entered the loan this week,
making a total Of 5,368.835 thus far
this season, including 16l.373 bales
repossessed by borrowers. Amount OF
cotton on shipboard awaiting clear
ance at the close Of the week was
estimated at $4,000 bales against 58,-
600 last year and 81 900 two years ago.
The range follows: a
Evening star., 1938-05-29
1885
GOLD SHARES RISE
ON LONDON MART
Gilt Edged Bonds Also Gain, but
Other Securities Show
Little Life.
Nv wireless 10 The 0tAf.

By wireless to The star.
LONDON, May 28.-While the main
body of the London securities market
passed a quiet and somewhat disap-
pointing week, due largely to the SEN
sitiveness of professional dealers to
the possibility of adverse developments
in the Central European situation,
gilt-edged bonds and gold mining
shares displayed strength.
The latter were exceptionally active
under the lead of Western holdings,
which continued the boomlet begun
last week. Rumors of rich strike
on this company's property in the
Orange Free State caused a strong
upward movement in the shares, and
interest was fostered by the fact that
prominent mining houses are partici-
pating in the quest for possible new
reef
Market interest has extended to
cover gold mining shares generally,
particularly mines at the development
stage and all leading finance house
shares in the Kaffir section.
Other parts of the Stock Exchange
were extremely quiet and idle, but
losses were only fractional. The COM
parative residence of the market is
significant in the face of the critical
European position and the accumu-
lating evidence of a recession in trade
and industry which the president Of
tho Poord of Trade underlined in
Parliament Tuesday. His reference
to the recent deterioration in Britain's
balance of payments was taken in
some quarters as an explanation for
the weeks rapid appreciation of the
dollar.
Copyright. 1898. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. IncD
Evening star., 1938-05-29
Curb Market Transactions
(For Week Ended May 2S.)

cepting grain on track. there Is an
additional charge Of ~ cents per
bushel for storage and elevation on
all sales Of oats. Rye, No. 2. 75aso.
Barley. 65a70. Hay quiet, unchanged
Straw steady. 7.50a800 a ton.
Sea Food Market.
Catfish, rough, pound, 5a6; dressed,
15a18; carp, 5a8; eels, 10a12; white
perch, sails; yellow perch, sails;
trout, 8a15; pike. 18a2o; bluefish, 22a
Is; founders, 10a1s; croakers, S;
rock, 15a20; mackerel, 20a22; crab
meat. backfin, GOATS; special, 45a55;
regular. 40; claw, 30; shrimp, Is;
scallops, 40; shad, roe, 15a18; buck,
8a10; split, IL; shadroe, pair, 40a60;
clans, 100. large, Ito; Cherrystones,
IS; Littlenecks, TO- hard crabs, bar
rel, s.o0a8.oo; soft crabs. dozen,
75a1.50.
Evening star., 1938-05-29
CHICAGO PRODUCE.

CHICAGO May % LR.-Butter, l.
q 1a-2224: other prices unchanged. Eggs.
26,603; steady; current receipts 1sA;,12:
sstoIssecpacked sssts extras, a1; storase-packed
Potatoes. IL on track. 217: total U. 8.
shipments. ea:, New, stock SUPPLIES mod
crate demand good; best trn, auaitity Soutnern
ket Slightly weaker: sacked, per hundred-
weight Louisiana Bliss TriHmphs .one u
cay. 1901 65; U; s 1. size B. LOO; @
ns. Whit 17so AIaoaTa S g. slisf Size Ils- l.
100; Mississippi Bliss ,Triumphs. U. s:
l; 170-1 So; mostly 1855; j,,S,, y s. pd.. l. size
1.00-1.O5: California Wnite in EoSe: "
q. s. i, S.o5o2. 10; old stock supplies mod
demand f6sSt 1ssSo Rasseys Rssesayy
Burbanks. U. s.. i. 1.75-19O; mostly 1855.