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The Washington times., 1938-09-02

deteriorated 10 such an extent
from a health standpoint. This
condition will continue until
such organizations as yours COM
pei the sanitary district to OBJ
tain funds to build a sewage
disposal plant and to finance
other improvements"
Admitting that all the stream:
in the county are badly polluted
DR.. A. B. Hootan, county health
officer, said:
why on Gods green earth
there hasn't been more typhoid
here can't understand"
Mayor Vincent A. OStermar
headed the list of speakers who
scored the commission for its fail
ure to take any steps to rectifJ
matters, adding:
The Washington times., 1938-09-02

The washington Suburban Sani-
tary Commission was put on the
griddle" last night for failure to
eliminate pollution in nearby
Maryland streams.
Following talks by Severa |
speakers, the Bladensburg Citizens
Association adopted resolutions de-
manding action by the commission
to obtain PWA funds with which
to clean up the AnacoStia River
and its tributaries.
"BladenSburg should be
ashamed that it has been
branded as the ceSspool of
Prince Georges county, Abner
L. Roe, chairman of the Be
thesda- Chevy Chase Chapter of
the Izaak Walton League, stated.
1T is disgraceful that a town
so famous in history should have
The Washington times., 1938-09-02

CHICAGO, Sept. 2.-Forty-two
Class 1 railroads have indicated
that they would order a is per
cent wage cut effective october /,
regardless of the railroad brother.
hoods impending strike vote.
Their spokesman, H. A. Enoch,
said it was probable that the
carriers joint conference COM
mittee would ask individual roads
to inform their employees Of the
wage slash, but other officials said
that according to the law, no fur
ther notice is necessary and that
the cut automatically will go into
effect,
The Washington times., 1938-09-02
JUDGE PAYS OFF
SELF IN VERDICT

CHICAGO. Sept. 2 1N.So ,
The case before Judge Benjamin
Epstein was to authorize a 15,OOO
mortgage on a building in receiver
ship to clear up some old debts.
Looking over the creditors Judge
Epstein found the building owed
him $500 as fee when he was
mastery in chancery.
Perhaps another judge
should =" began Judge Epstein.
I'VE are perfectly satisfied
that you will do the proper
thing" said the building opera
tors.
Judge Epstein authorized the
0ortgage.
The Washington times., 1938-09-02
Rails Set is Pct. Cut
In Pay for October 1

Enoch's stand, combined with
the unyielding attitude Of railway
labor, made it increasingly likely
that appointment of a fact-find'
ing commission will be recon-
mended to President Roosevelt be,
fore the end Of the month.
The 10 brotherhoods affected
have said flatly they would not
accept the cut, and have or
dered strike vote ballots distrib.
uted to their approximately 1,000,'
900 members. Results Of the strike
vote are expected to be known by
October 1.
The Washington times., 1938-09-02
GIRL AND BABY
VANISH IN n. Y.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2 GN.S0.
A distracted mother and police
were baffled today by disappear.
ance of 2-year-old Bobby DAILY and
q 19-year-old girl who accom-
panied the child for a walk early
yesterday and failed to return. .
The boy and his widowed
mother, Mrs. Margaret DAILY, Tor
merly of Chicago, had been living
at the woman'S shelter OF the
Travellers Aid Society for two
months.
When Vivian Platte, a girl who
had been at the shelter six days,
and the boy failed to return from
a stroll, police broadcast an alarm.
The Washington times., 1938-09-02
D. C. STUDENTS
CAMPUS HEADS

Several students from Wash
ington and vicinity will lead cam
pus organizations at the College
Of William and Mary in Virginia
for the coming year.
Shirley Dagger, Of Washington,
will preside over the Thomas r.
Dew Club, honorary women's eco
nomics society. Jean Warren, also
Of Washington, viii guide the ].
Leslie Hall Literary Society for
Women. Kate Waller Barrett AL.
friend, Of Alexandria, Va, is pres.
ident Of the Scarab Society. col.
lege art society, while Arthur B.
Hanson, Of Bethesda, Md. heads
the Boot and Spur Club.
The Washington times., 1938-09-02
Dirty Rivers Laid to Board

And they're not going to do
anything either until we compel
them"
Several members of the organi-
zation protested against rates
charged property owners, claim
ing they had been required to pay
from 81 cents to 40 cents a front
foot for sewer and water service in
stead of IA cents a front foot, the
amount they believed they should
have been charged.
The Washington times., 1938-09-02

How we developed into human beings
as u result Of eating practically any.
thlng-includlng each other. Food, and
not love. ls the most important thing
in our lives, says Prof. G. G. Furnas
and his wife, pointing out how man
Outstripped all the other animals be-
cause his stomach has 30 few preju-
dices. Read this instructive and enter
tanning article In The American Weekly,
the magazine distributed with next
Sundays Washington Herald-Times,
The Washington times., 1938-09-02

XV7HO IS ''THE MAN WHO CARES''1 We'll, take
w your friend Ed Stafford, for example You
like to 90 to his house, for you know you will be
we'll entertained. His cigars may not be the most
expensive, but they will be good. His silverware
may not be ornate, but it will be in excellent taste.
Whatever Ed serves in meat or drink you will
eniov with confidence and relish. You can't remem-
Der ever having had indigestion after meal at Eds.
Stafford is not rich man, as you know. But he
has found is both pleasant and profitable to seek,
within his means, the better things of living. 1t
helps him in the opinion of others. And, what's
more, it helps him in his own good opinion of him
self. Stafford is ''man who cares''.
The Washington times., 1938-09-02

Thomas Carstairs, so goes the family tradition,
was distinguished architect in Colonial days;
a man of high attainments, and gracious
host, he became the friend of Washington,
Jefferson and othernotables;in 1888, Carstairs'
talent for hospitality led him to open an e.
tablishment in Philadelphia, for purveying
spirituous liquors to men who cared.
Since Thomas Carstairs' time, generation
after generation of his family have carried on
his high traditions.
The Carstairs Whiskey at your neighbor-
hood store or favorite bar today keeps faith
with the time-honored Carstairs standards.
A superbly balanced blend of fine whisdes,
Carstairs is rich and full in favor; yet excep-
tionally Aghtin body. You may drink or serve
it always with confidence and relish.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-04
HELEN WILLS MOODY
WINS = BUT LOSES

Helen Wills Moody, Queen Helen No.
One of Americas tennis courts, won the
highest title in women's tennis when she
defeated Helen Jacobs, Queen Helen No.
Two" on the Wimbledon, England, courts
last week. She won, but she lost, too.
In an historic encounter several years
ago, Helen Moody walked off the court
without finishing the game when Helen
Jacobs was ahead. Helen Moody said her
back was injured. Doctors bore her story
out. But sports fans never quite forgave
her, once their idol because she refused
her opponent clear claim to the title.
Sportsmanship demanded that she fin
ish the game even though she lost.
Saturday Helen Jacobs took terrific
beating at the hands of the woman she
had defeated once before She limped as
they changed courts. Her game was slow.
Forcing bone and sinew to the breaking
point and beyond, she finished. She knew
she could not win, but she went on. Her
defeat went down in the records, clean
cut and precise.
Yet, as they shook hands, Helen ia
cobs smiled = and Helen Moody averted
her face. At the half Helen Moody had
lifted her handkerchief to her nose and
walked disdainfully by as they changed
courts.
The real victory, it seems to US, was
once again to Helen Jacobs.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-04
ONE MORE HIGH
PRESSURE GROUP
(The Wall Street JournaD

tine wall street journal
In telling the Workers Alliance (org-
anization of relief workers) that they
should get out and work for their lib
eral friends" Deputy Works Progress
Administrator Aubrey Williams is mere
ly unusually frank in saying that which
when emitted by others is usually en-
wrapped in a cellophane-like tegument of
discreetly mellifluous paraphrases which
deceive nobody. Consequently, there is no
occasion for excitement over the deputy
administrator plain speaking; after all,
there is a certain attraction in frankness
as such.
When. however, it is remembered that
Mr.. Williams chief, Mr.. Harry Hopkins,
has made no secret of his belief that the
Works Progress administration is des-
tined to occupy permanent place IN our
politico-economic structure the lmphca-
tions in his statement take on special
interest. They suggest the creation of a
permanent pressure group Of dimensions
beyond anything yet seen in our history.
If. as Mr. Hopkins has more than once
suggested we are going to have in our
community a permanent and large group
of unemployed workers and If these are
to organize themselves in a political bloc
to perpetuate their friends in office, we
shall see something entirely new in our
politics and something which cannot by
any stretch of imagination be harmonized
with our system of government. 1t would
be government by pressure groups with
no regard for the common welfare; that
is incompatible with any form of govern
ment that could reasonably be termed
democratic and most of all our own.
Making all allowances for the gener-
Gus emotions undoubtedly actuating Mr..
Williams and his chief, and the honesty
with which they blurt them out, the fact
remains that the views they express and
the policies they advocate have a defin-
itely sinister suggestion for the future
of our political order, and cannot fail to
exert an unfavorable influence upon the
nervous systems of a good many people.
They certainly are not helpful to rest
oration of belief in a normal economic
order emerging from the present mess.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-04
Famous Sayings

It would be a little bit easier to
feel that good times were going to
come back if the stock market
were not boiling SO furiously.
Not that a stock market ad-
vance, in itself, is anything sinis-
ter or unwelcome. But We do seem
to have a way of getting the bust
ness cart a city block in front of
the horse when the stock market
starts acting up, and this current
flare-up will give us a fine chance
to repeat one of our faVorite mis-
takes.
This whole business of prosperity
and depression is SO easy to mis-
understand. Wall Street is baro-
meter, as everybody says; but it is
not always a barometer of the real
state of business. 1t can be simply
a barometer of the state of mind
of that relatively small section OF
the population which likes to do its
gambling in securities rather than
with cards dice, or race horses.
So a sudden rise in stock prices
may mean much-or little. And the
danger is that We may swing from
a deep unthinking pessimism to
an equally unthinking optimism
when what our situation calls for
is neither optimism nor pessim-
ism. but a great deal of hard, clear
thinking.
Which is to say that the real
trouble in our situation is not the
fact that prices of divers stocks
are very low. 1t is the fact that
some millions of bread-Winners
want work and can't get it; the
fact that thousands of factories
equipped to produce things the
people rNed are not producing
them; the fact that want and dis
couragement and stagnation afflict
a land which ought to be the bus
lest. richest, and happiest land in
all the world
And the trouble with sudden
squirt in the stock market is that
it is apt to blind us to the exist
ence of these fundamental diff
culties.
For stock prices might go up
and stay up, without any genuine
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-04
A BUSINESS LOSS
WE CAN PREVENT

E Cenuro was not represented in the
May report of the United States Depart
ment of Commerce, bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce, because most of El
Centro's independent retail merchants
neglected to fill out a QUESTIONABLE sent
them by the bureau. Thus the merchants
of El Centre, collectively and individually
suffered a loss that is very real and def
mite, not only to themselves but to all eff
Imperial Valley
In April sufficient number of mer-
chants answered the department of COM
merce QUESTIONABLE to assure the city a
place on the monthly report the bureau
issues. That report showed El Centro
more than eight per cent higher than he
next city in California in increase of bus
mess over the same month last year. IN
other words, it showed Ell Centre 10 be
the most prosperous city in California
during April.
The result was statewide attention
for Imperial Valley. Not for Ell Centre
alone, but for all of Imperial Valley, be-
cause FL Centro is considered the capital
of the valley. Wholesale agencies, which
watch the commerce reports closely, CEN
tered their attention on the valley = and
merchants benefited The credit of the
valley as a whole. in business of all lines,
was DoOSleu. L lie results Ol lnal report
were, on the whole, very good.
Remembering this, we should not a.
gain let ourselves forget the importance
of these questionnaires that come from
the department of commerce. We should
cooperate wholeheartedly with the Ell
Centre Chamber of Commerce and its
publicity chairman, John r. Robertson,
by filling them in and mailing them at
the earliest possible time.
Ell Centre merchants, to hold the place
they have gained in the sun of good busi-
ness, will find their business Increasing
ly better if only they will, through pro-
per merchandising and advertising cam
paigns, do their part to maintain this
city as the trading capital of the valley
and report the fact to the agency best
qualified to give it publicity. That the in
dividual reports are strictly confidential
should make it easier to file them.
Business is good in Imperial Valley,
and it will be better yet if we remember
that good business attracts better busi-
ness. 4
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-04
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
s u M M o N S
No. 120X9

NV looo"
In the Superior Court of the state
of California, in and for the
County of Imperial
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT. Plaintiff
SQUIRE w. ALDRIDGE, ct al,
Defendants.
Harry w. Horton and Geo. r.
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
The People of The State of Cali
fornia Send Greetings to:
SQUIRE w. ALDRIDGE, STELLA
M. ALDRIDGE, his wife, FRED r..
LANGSDON, LILLIAN B. LANG
SDON, his wife, JOHN DOE, RICH
ARD ROE, JOHN DOE COMPANY,
a Corporation, RICHARD ROE
COMPANY, a Co-partnership, and
JOHN DOE, Administrator of the
Estate of Richard Roe, Deceased,
Defendants.
You Are Hereby Directed to APP
pear and answer the Complaint in
an action entitled as above brought
against you in the 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 elsewhere.
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 18th day of March, 1888.
w. j. McCLELLAND.
lSEAD County Clerk
By DOROTHY S. REYNOLDS,
Deputy Clerk
M. 2 9 16 90 30. 6 13 20 27-J. 4
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-04
S u nj nj o N y
No 1927

In the Superior Court of the State
of California, in and for the
County of Imperial
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT, Plaintiff
VS..
L. C. TURNER, ct al,
Defendants.
Harry w. Horton and Geo. r.
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
The People of The State of Cali
fornia Send Greetings to:
l.. C. TURNER, HARRIET j.
TURNER, EMMA t. BOSTROM,
GEORGE w. BOSTROM, JOHN
DOE, JANE DOE, RICHARD ROE,
JOHN DOE COMPANY, a Corpora
ton, JOHN DOE as Administrator
of the Estate of RICHARD ROE,
Deceased, and RICHARD ROE
COMPANY, a Co-partnership, De-
PENDANTS.
You Are Hereby Directed to Ap-
pear and answer the Complaint in
an action entitled as above brought
against you in the 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 elsewhere.
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 7th day of April, 1888.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
(SEAL) County Clerk
BY CITHA LAMSON.
Deputy Clerk.
M. 2 0 16 90 so. G 13 20 27-J. 4
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-04
Bruce Carton Says
= A Barometer of Whose Mental Weather!

remedy for these deep-sea1eo Ills
having taken place at all; yet II
we fixed our eyes ON the stock
market we might delude ourselves
into thinking that the corner had
been rounded and all was to be
we'll
We have lived with this depres-
sion of ours for good many years
now. and we shall do well to let
familiarity breed contempt. Not
until work is once more available
to all who honestly seek 1t, not
until the business man who offers
useful goods or services can expect
to get a decent return on his
money and his time, can we safe
ly return to the preoccupation with
daily security quotations.
Let the stock market go up-or
down-as it pleases. The less we
think about it, and the more we
thing about the real meaning OF
the depression, the better oil we
shall be in the end.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-04
LTNDBERGH'S WOES
alameda Tfmes-Star)


Webb Miller, United Press ace world
reporter, writes from London that Col
onel Lindbergh is homesick for his own
country but that continued threats "a
gainst the safety of his children keeps
the family away. Indignation in the Unit
ed States should be at white heat. An
ideal young American family, unfortun-
ate, perhaps, because of too great a
popularity, cannot live in its home coun-
try because of fear of possible harm to
their children from outlaws.
Colonel Lindbergh is an ideal to Amer
lean youth. His intelligent sanity and
common sense appeals to the American
adult and his mechanical genius should
be available to American manufacturing
institutions. Yet because of the domin-
ance of our underworld characters he is
practically an exile from his native land.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-04

years old a visitor came to his
home who wrote a strange lang
uage, using little marks and curly
cues. The town regarded him with
awe and admiration, except per-
hapS the minister whose sermons
he took down rapidly, and read
aloud. The minister's sermons, it
seems, were not always original.
Poor John became interested
in the strange writing. Here was
something at which he could work
diligently and his slow wit would
mt show him up. For some un-
known reason, he wasn't slow at
this; but learned it very quickly.
He found that there were other
systems of writing shorthand. He
studied all of them; from the time
of Cicero when Cicero's secretary
took down his speeches as fast as
he could talk, through the days
when the first Christians used
queer little marks and curly cues
to communicate their faith which
was then forbidden by the rulers;
down to the Pitman method.
By the time John Gregg was
fifteen years old he was familiar
with all the systems. He found
most of them were pretty COM
plicated. He decided that he could
evolve a better system himself;
one that would conform more
closely to the natural movements
used in writing longhand.
AT nineteen John Gregg pub
lished his first edition of the
Gregg shorthand system-only SO
copies. Where do you suppose two
of these first editions are treas
ured today? Well, one is in the
New York Public Library, and an
other in the British Museum. And
Mr.. Gregg himself had to pay $100
for a copy for his own library.
Today half a million people study
the Gregg system of shorthand
yearly.
Now, here are two interesting
features to Poor Johns" story.
First, it was discovered that the
reason John was dumb" in school
was because a teacher had boxed
his ears SO hard for some mis-
demeanor that his ear-drums were
ruptured-and JOHN NEVER
HEARD HALF THE TEACHER
SAID IN CLASS AFTER THAT!
He could learn shorthand readily
because that was not a matter of
hearing.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-04
Well II!
Tell iYou..
says
Bob Burns

Every year bunch of people get
together and attempt to pick out
the best book of the year. l don't
see how they do it when there's
so many different people with diff
ferent ideas to pick for and so
many books to pick from.
l stopped with an old man way
back i'm the mountains one time
and the only literature he had was
two almanacs. When / asked him
which one he liked best, he SAID
well now, don't knOw-the
green one has got the best weather
i'm it but the folks i'm the yellow
one was cured of the worst sick
ness
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-04
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
S u M M o N S
An 1Q1eE

No. 1866
In the Superior Court of the State
of California, in and for the
County of Imperial
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT, Plaintiff
EDWARD P. JAMENSON, ct al,
Defendants.
Harry w. Horton and GeI AR.
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff ~
The People of The State Of CAL
fOrnia Send Greetings to:
EDWARD p. JAMENSON, SEA
BOARD BOND AND MORTGAGE
COMPANY, a Corporation, JOHN
DOE, JANE DOE, RICHARD ROE,
JOHN DOE COMPANY, a Corpora
ton, RICHARD ROE COMPANY, a
Co-partnership, and JOHN DOE as
Administrator of the Estate OF
Richard Roe, Deceased, Defendants.
You Are Hereby Directed to APP
pear and answer the Complaint III
an action entitled as above brought
against you in the 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 elsewhere.
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 25th day of April, 1898.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
'SEAb) County Clerk
BY G.. o. KENYON,
Deputy Clerk.
M. 2 0 16 % 30-J. 6 l3 20 27-J.4.