davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-15
GOVERNOR MERRIAM
OPPOSES FOOD TAX
Riverside Press


The reinstatement O. The sales tax on edibes
suggested by Fred Stewart Of the state board
Of equalization. VIII not meet With much acclaim
IN any quarter oi California in our opinion
When we formerly paid a tax the things we
ate there was much objection because OF the fact
that the poor We're taxed Tor the necessities Of
life. and there vas much satisfaction when
such tax was done away with
However. We must have a tax to support the
public schools OF the state and the sales tax
as it IS administered al the present time does
that job very satisfactorily. We cannot get along
without i. Il may be that IN the near future
It will be necessary to increase this tax for the
purpose OF underwriting the states relief and
old age pension requirements. but even then
this tax should not De administered On the
things We eat.
We were interested il the reaction of Cover
nor Frank F Merriam on the suggestion of Mr.
Stewart. The governor cid NOT hesitate TO make
known his position Oh taIs .ssae in his character
lstic way, follows.
I want all the people 10 know Just how feel
regarding a tax on food because the suggestion
a state official I'm definitely against that pro-
position. L won't have the support Of my ad-
mInlsuation and as Ions as I am head Of the
government such a measure would not become
law even Il passed Dy the legislature because
/ would withhold my signature
No one can IsuIdeIs taad the governors
stand on this issue. J. is certainly fJrthright
statement. one that - would expect Ciogrrn0,
Merriam 10 live up 10.
Blum is charged with aping the New
Deal. Economic matters seem to have
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-15

the last man in
the world TO min
inize what the
depression h a S
done to millions
of people, but
thousands h a V e
risen to success,
and SO can most
OF these letter
writers if they
will jerk them
selves up and go
at it with yigor
and the deter
mination to win.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-15
One-Minute Test Answers

/. Konrad Henlein leads the
Czech "Sudeten' lNazD party.
,. President Thomas jefferson.
8. Charles West. of Ohio. Gle
frequently serves as President
Roosegelts congressional contact
man.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-15
Barbs ---

Signs point to the likelihood
that in the pursuit of his ambi-
tons Hitler is not going to be
Czcchmated.
Australian miners refused to
work because their pit horses had
halitCsis. Goodness, better bad
breath than non!
YOU haven't read ALL the News
Until You've Read ALL the Ads!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-15
Hints on Etiquette

A simple bowl of flowers or fruit
flanked by bright candlestickS,
makes the most appropriate dinner
centerpiece.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-15
Bruce Cation Says
- The New Deal of Mang Wang

ment he wants to make, If he only
looks in the right place.
OF course, his opponent may
have Just as many bases for his
own contentious, but the outcome
of these things depends ON ONE
man boning up on a period the
other man doesn't know anything
about. or else boning up Just n
little more on the same period.
All this is inspired by reports of
some scholarly papers read at the
CHICAGO meeting of the American
Oriental Society. China, 1t turns
out. had itself a New Deal some
1000 years ago. What happened to
China's New Deal should make
dandy ammunition fer the present
anti-New Dealers. but really, there's
ammunition enough to 90 around
for everybody.
A gent named Mang Wang an
nounced his emperOrship and pro-
ceeded to introduce a program OF
social experimentation that IN
cluded among other things, gov
ernment regulation of basic indus
tries. government control of ma
tural resources, price control over
crops. and easy-term loans to bus
inesseS he wished TO encourage.
Work relief had already been tried
and abandoned because the WPA
boys of the time fooled around too
much. Anyway. the whole thing
fell through before Wang Joined
his ancestors.
You see?" says Republican. q
see, says Democrat. Il see China,
1888. with some 37O million rugged
individualists living at the mini
mum subsistence level"
Then Economic Royalist, who
scanned another of the Oriental
Societys papers. butts in and re-
marks that private holding COM
panies seem to have had staying
powers. because the town of Nuzi,
in Mesopotamia. had quite batch
of them 1000 year before Mang
Wang'S time.
And where, retortS somebody
who hadn't been asked for am
opinion at all, "is Nu2i today?'
Oh, it all evens up. History just
keeps right on swallowing its tail.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-15
TOday'S Horoscope

Courage is a characteristic of
many persons whose birthday oc-
ours today. They refuse to wilt be-
fore temporary misfortunes.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-15
Grab BAG
One-Minnte Test

/. Who heads the CZechosloVak
Nazi party?
,. What great American often
was called The Sage of Monti-
cello?
3. Who is undersecretary of the
u. S. department of the interior?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-15

An archaeologist announces the dis
covery that Mesopotamia had bathrooms
5000 years ago. There those archaeolo-
gists go, plumbing the depths Of history
again
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-15
Words of Wisdom

If we encounter a man of rare
intellect, we should ask him what
books he read-Emerson.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-15
DALE
CARNEGIE
Author of How to Win
Friends and Influence
PeOple'

Never a day passes that I don't
receive a letter from someone who
thinks all hope is dead A great
dead Of the despair is founded on
our recent depression Well. I am
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-15
You re Telling Me --
BY WILLIAM RITT

IT COSTS New York City ap-
proXimately 100000 an inch to
clear snow from its streets, ac-
cordmg to a just-released report.
The poet who wrote about the fall
ing flakes looking like diamonds
didn't know the half OF it-they
are diamonds!
Artist Adolf Hitler certainly is
an example of the old admonition
of sticking to your job if you
would succeed. He started out in
life as a painter and now he's re-
coloring the map of Europe.
London ZOO keepers are worried
about what may happen if an air
attack should destroy the barriers
and let loose the wild animals.
Hmpf AS though anyone would
be alarmed by being confronted by
tiger or two when the super
bOmbers are overhead!
AS though increasing taxes, war
gcares and recession were not
enough. haraSsed mankind now
faces new threat. Style experts
say the ankle-reVealing peg-top
pants and coming back in style!
Yawn Yawnson has been trying
to find out what kind of gasoline
Columbus used ever since he read
that old Chris crossed the Atlantic
on three 9alleons.
Armaments in 1887 are estimat-
ed to have cost the world more
than $4,000, 100000 If civilization
does commit suicide, at least M
one can accuse it of being a cheap
skate about it.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-15

Blum is charged with apiHP the New
Deal. Economic matters seem to have
him up Il tree
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-15
WeII> | II
T ely ou..
says
Bob Burns

never could see where folks
got the idea thai city people are
smarter than FARMERS. Every time
l read a story of some bunko rae
ket it's about some city slicker that
beats the so-called "yOkef out Of
somethin', Maybe the reason you
don't hear so much about the 9TH
er side of the story is because the
remember some city ,peOple
"yOkel' is too slick to be found out.
useta drive out to my uncle's farm
to get milk. One day when / was
there, my uncle looked down the
road and he hOllered to my aunt
and says, "TIere comes them city
People hurry up and warm the
milk up. You know they want it
fresh from the cow"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-15
Thoughts for the Day

For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness. his
countenance doth behold the uprght-Psams II
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-15

YOU haven't read ALL the News
Untl You've Read ALL the Ads!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-15

American volunteers i'm Spain
said they found that war was no
fun. And after that long trip
across the ocean, too!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-15

Su-Iin, the giant baby panda,
is dead. Oh, well, if she'd lived
to 90 on the stage these hard
to-pleasn critics would have panda
anyway.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-15

We'll th3t man pulled out Of a
double Depression Ills first minor
1nc-or was that really the major
cnc2 The other one, nation wide.
during which Don worked right
straight through to success.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-02-04
REPUBLICANS DID NOT
VOTE HALF THEIR POWER
Dissatisfied With Compromise

keystones' Municipal election
isover. Passed offquietNv and
without the slightest bit of fric-
ton. Republican voters refus-
ed to vote stating that since
there was compromise" they
didn't Civ a biby's dam a b GU t
voting. Old line Republican
voters pust contented them
selves to stay at home, played
with the baby and rocked t h e
cradle, some of them went visit
ing hunting and acting THE
Fool. Most of them would tell
what in the world was the use
of voting hen a comproisme has
been agreed on. Then there are
some Negroes whose salvation
ha salways been at the hanhs of
the Republican party and now is
being fed by them who we're SO
ungrateful mean, cheap, coward
ly and unappreciative t h t
woludra Their look cross-eyed
at the moon and shut their eyes
atthe sunshine and howl like a
wolf h an to be j u s like he
would have some decent person
fel he wanted to be. The names
of the men on the ticket elected
were those of men of the high
est class and character and re-
present the best of citizenship.
Theirs nothing wrong about
the personel of the ticket and
eevry person should delight to
and promise support to the adj
ministration for the next two
years. keystone is entitled to
a good administration. Bust
ness matters certainly should
now follow this proposed organ
iZation and combination. No
body should expect anything
but cooperation from any and
all sources. Business will not
now be taken aay from the city.
Everybody, we are sure, will
lend his oims and support to the
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-02-04

affairs of the city. Certainly
the knockers now will become
ceet, the rebellious from now on
ebcomej oyous boosters. Big
blow hornso f praise will be the
motto of eevry philosophical
citizen and belly aching will be
a thing of the past. Personal
ambition and selfish dogmas
will disappear.
MRS. KATHERINE KEISER
HeOlth Inspectress in the City
It's enough to say and use the
name of Mrs. Katherine Keiser
being on duty. Keystone had
the honor of her pre- EN- e
Thursday Of this week. Look
ing over and inspecting SAINT
conditions Of. our business
places, especially such as barber
shops a n d such like places of
business as might come under
is a very high class woman. She
is without malicious prejudice.
Demands of every man or wo-
man to come clean or e | s e get
out of the business. She has
no pets" and yet is as kind
and pleasant as a basket of
roses.
She looked over Mr.. Allan
Blackwells barber shop and
found everythin OK.
She told Mr.. Blackwell t h a t
he colud not make a mistake
when he kept his place sanitary.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-02-04
ACTION BANNING ALL
WINE AND BEER SIGNS
Is BIG PUZZLE IN VA

The ruling of the state liquor
board of Virginia in banning
Wine and beer signs in that state
Is puZZling to many.
The change becomes effective
on February 9. The order is
causing statewide comment. All
signs mentioning wine or beer
must be removed by February
A dealer in these beverages
is allowed to display a sign Civ
ing the number of his ABC
license, but that is all.
Some poin t out that the order
will play into the hands of the
bootleggers / that those look
ing for beer and wine and fail
in to observe a sign advertising
beer and wine is likely to hunt
up a bootlegger.
The order will also handicap
young people who drink wine
and beer and in whose interest
repeal largely came about.
What prompted the drastic
order is furnishing something
of a mystery. Hundreds of eX-
penSive beer and Wine signs
will have to be scrapped under
the order.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-02-04

No man has q right to feel
AGREED because some other fell
low doesn't like him. Then too,
there are more old foollooking
creatures who turn their noses
up toward the sun in shame at
their own actions. If you feel
that YOU are doing the safe and
sound thing when you leave
your party affiliations and go
INTO paths where angels dare
not tread and attempt to break
into peoples homes who do not
want you and get mad as hell
aeause YOU push yourselves on
sem, Just k ep on acting the
Certainly the la rants a
or a woman to divorce
% other when they find they
Get along with each in
and we believe the same
h1uld hold good it'll the
man who wants to leave
ical party to Just go a
Go it. But for heavens
eat it he going to do a
r lie he has told for the
tv or sixty years?
are some good Demo
the world and they
.as hate it terribly to
here exists hatred in
rty alignment against
spublicans.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-02-04

and measures of safety taken.
It is not too late yet to avoid
future accidents of the same
kind.
I read with much interest the
news from Keystone Eckman
school. | have a soft place in
my heart f o the children and
aetchers of that school. I've
visited number of schools here
but | have found none to sur
pas the boys and iris of the Key
ftona Eckman school IN studi-
BUSINESS, kindhnesss and general
excellence of character and dis
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-02-04
STATE ROAD MAKES FIRST
SHOT SATURDAY

For a long time the good PEG
pie of Keystone, inocent as they
have been, for 10 these m a n V
years have been looking for
something to be done toward
starting the construction of the
N o. 50 Federal Route through
the city of Keystone and h e
metropolis of Northfork.
At about II O'Clock Saturday
morning the initial shot was
fired at tn e graveyard q"
cut = later known as No Mans
land.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-02-04

WHO says there ever was a
n1n r.ous time at the hands
wing than now When
l 81. .r he worlds history can
ur man refer to time when
ID re expenses were ever as
nigh hey are now? Who is
''o man. or who are the men,
...."~ IL that these are FAT
u tead Of lean times?
low much meat will,one dol
enable YOU to take home to
ru wife and little children.
at, when speaking of money
limitations and YOU do not
orate it i'm Millions and
ms, you are out Of society.
Were are the present Demo
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-02-04

Whoever heard of such
rot? If it is lawful to sell beer
wine, or liquor why in the devil
isn't it lawful to advertise the
sale of it?
Give the people privilege to
advertise anything the govern
ment says is legal. The state
orders liquor stores to have,
handle and sell liquors. Then
what is wrong about advertising
it?
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-02-04
He THAT ABIDETH IN Me
Evangelist John Moses Baker
Baltimore, Md.

lie that abidcth in Me and |
in HIM, the same bringest forth
much fruit. For without me
We can do nothing"
WE shall find some jewel sest-
ences,
In this chapter, John Fifteen.
The union OF Christ & believers,
And nothing. no sothing be
tween.
Abiding in Christ our Savior;
Oh boundlesS unfailing sub
lime,
Always thankful to God for His
Blessings,
His peace and Hs joy SO di.
vine.
Abiding in Him and brining
forth fruit.
Only branches. God himself
is the vine.
His words abiding within us {;
Each promise is yours and
mine.
Abiding N God, YES abiding
Until time shall be no more;
On Canaan happy shore.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-02-04

position. | shall never forget
them
| thought there was lots Of
politics in Mcdowell county
but you amt seen nothin yet"
until you get here n Washing
ton. Everything is politics,
politics, orning noon and night.
Ny best wishes for continu-
ed good health and for the pros
perity and unification of Key
stone. | feel that the depres-
sion will not last much longer.
Yours Truly,
j. l.. HARRISON.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-02-04
1855 Alabama Ave, S +.
Washinton, d. C..
January %. 1888

am enclosing herewith my check $500 to pay my
aotcE pon the Mcdowell Times paper is "perking
~ .ld contains much interesting local matter.
was adGened by reading the terrible disaster the
horn hOO The here in Washington contained but
account of the disaster but the Washington Star
d two pictures but when read your very nice paper-and
tha pictures description page your paper
Giving detail all the facts. could just evryhinr Let
@ all of people read and pay for loyal
..i service a fearless newspaper
While was in the school system here always oh
S> by the feeling that such accident might urged
he superintendent have cliffs schools examined
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-02-04
Log Cabin Of Long Ago

The log cabin once dominated all
other house construction in the Unit
ed States. That was when pioneers
were settling the West. 1t used to
be an advantage politically to be
able to say one was born in a log
cabin, for the cabin was the hall
mark Of democracy.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-02-04
Size OF Flathead Lake

Fiathead lake, Montana. de-
scrioed as THE largest body of fresh
water west of the Great Lakes" fills
a hollow thirty-fve miles long and
eighteen miles wide between two
ranges OF the Rocky mountains. ex-
cept where the 4,5O0-acre Wildhorse
island humps its hills out Of the
water near the west shore.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-02-04
Gorillas From Afrion

Gorlllas from darkest Africa are
about he height Of man, but weigh
more than twice as much and have
practically no necks. Ordinarily this
animal is a peaceful vegetarian.
PiCicrIng TO run away than fight.
and is considered a model husband
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-02-04
That Contented Disposition

Some peoples idea of content
ed disposition" said Uncle Eben,
is bei7' willin' to sit down COM
Portable an wait fob meal times
while somebody else does all de
work" 90, :
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-02-04
Kansas Produces Volcanic ash

Kansas never had a volcano. Yet
the state supplies more volcanic ash
than any other state or territory
The ash is used for securing scans
tooth powder, abrasives and so on
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-02-04

cratic Administrators, BRAIN
TRUSTERS." or brain Dust
ers"? Who has been leading,
advising, or misleading and
mis- advising President Roose-
welt.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-02-04
Convincing Patient Important

10 convince penitent or pa
tent that ne is durable IS tho Gret
step toward his cure.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-02-04

Reference to Jews by Shakespeare
Besides "The Merchant of Venice"
there are in all seven brief refer
ences to Jews in six other of Shakes
peare's plays.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-02-12
BOIL IMPERIAL IN
OIL AND SPANK B. A.,
OPPONENTS Theme

At the recent hearing before the
tariff board in Calgary recently the
Independent refiners and operators
of Alberta took occasion to read into
the records their disapproval of
the majors" in Alberta. Comment
ing on the testimony. Everett Mar
shall, editor of Western Examiner,
commented in mis- dry humor:
BY the way most of the briefs
sounded that were given before the
tariff board. the general opinion
seemed to be that while the Imperial
should be tried before the supreme
court with strong recommendations
to a treatment Of boiled oil or
something, it was intimated that if
the B. A. was tried before the ju-
yenile court and then sentenced to
a spanking administered by a hus-
ky policeman-the cause of justice
might be appeased.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-02-12
FAR Frs ORGANIZE
TO OPPOSE TARIFF

BARONS-An organization to be
known as. the Alberta Petroleum
Consumers Association was formed
here on Saturday afternoon DO
affiliate with the organization form
ed In Lethbridge on Jan. II. N.
c. Allen was elected president, G. J.
Erdman vice-president, and Glen P.
Hughes OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Ed. Popham, member OF the exec
utive committee of the Lethbrddge
organization, was present and gave
resume OF the Lethbridge meet
ing. Several resolutions were adopt
ed. to be sent to L. e. Fairbairn,
solicitor for the organization, to be
presented to the Tariff Board.
A motion was passed that efforts
be made to expand and organize all
fuel oil consumers in Alberta into
one body to cooperate with Saskat-
chewan fuel oil consumers for the
purpose of fighting any tariff on
Petroleum oils or their by-products.
A committee was appointed to
phone all farm organizations in the
vicinity asking for their cooper
alton.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-02-12
MANY CHANGES
ANNOUNCED IN
TExACO OFFICES

Removal Of men from the oper-
ating division into foreign service
has caused several personnel chang
es in the Texas company, according
to H. A. Stewart. division superin-
tendent, who was a visitor in Great
Falls on Friday.
E. R. Filley, formerly division
manager in Kansas-Oklahoma divi-
sion, at Tulsa, has been promoted
to assistant manager OF the produc-
ton department at Houston.
H. NJ. Pardee, a brother of K. D.
Pardee, has been moved from assist
ant manager up 10 division manager
Of the Kansas-Oklahoma district,
with offices at Tulsa.
M. ]. Head, formerly Mr.. Stew
arts assistant in the Rocky Noun
tain district, has been promoted to
position as assistant division man
ager of the Oklahoma-Kansas divi-
sion. The successor to Mr.. Heald in
his district has not yet been nam
I'd.
H. S. Cole, Jr., has been advanc-
ID to division manager of the West
rexas-New Mexico division.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1938-02-12

definite amount of crude every month
in the year. The crude prices will be
dependent on the national situation, in
tide future, rather than on any local
problem that may arise. In the past the
price of crude In north Montana has been
based entirely upon the Canadian market,
with little or no regard to tide. general
price structure i'm the United States.
Thus Montana has had an uncertain
market. This is all removed by the
development of Turner Valley field which
has enough production to care for the
Alberta market, and Turner Valley is
likewise working to spread its crude oil
market.
Montana markets for refined products
have heretofore had to look for supplies
elsewhere, while the crude was going
into Canada. Now the local markets may
rest assured of a dependable supply OF
the superior refining stocks which Mon
taDa oil fields produce.
This is a wonderful factor in the out
hook for royalty owners. While some
OF us in this organization have had our
incomes CraTnPed by the situation since
last fall, we know that we are going to
have steadier, more dependable income
I'm the future. Improved production
methods have come to increase the income
from royalties in the future and we have
reason to believe that undeve1Oped roy
alties will bring far greater returns in
the future than have many of the de-
velOped properties I'm the past.
NAVE are today turning our attention
w to areas which have their future
before them. Now Is the time
to look ahead, I'm the purchase of roy
aIties, just as the large companies are
looking ahead in the exploration work.
The vast lease acreage that has been
taken up during the last year or so in
the Rocky Mountain region reflects what
the foremost men in the industry are
thinking. They believe that oil is going
TO become more and more valuable ms
industrial development continues. The
swiftly increasing uses Of petroleum are
Of as great Importance to the royalty
investor ARE the improved production
methods. There was q time when kerO-
sene was the element of value in crude