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The Washington times., 1938-08-22
.Mf. Rainier Pin Loop
Holds Meeting Friday

There will be an election Of
officers for the Mt Rainier Bowl
ing League on Friday, at 8 O'Clock.
Any team desiring a franchise is
requested to have a representative
at this meeting. Meeting to be
held at the Mt. Rainier Bowling
Alleys.
The Washington times., 1938-08-22

Eddie Ricken-
b a C ker is
quite a big
shot in that
company. To
us young fel-
lows, Ricken-
hacker is q
former avia-
tor who com.
piled a bril-
liant record
in FIR n C e,
but only q
Oan ara tion
ago, e d die
was one OF
the hest QlIfn
The Washington times., 1938-08-22
Takes County Title

Prince Georges baseball team
won from Riverdale in a play-off
game for the Prince Georges
county championship by II to 3.
The Washington times., 1938-08-22
Wins by Forfeit

Capitol Heights is claiming
forfeits in two games in view Of
Lacey A. C.'s failure to appear for
O double. header yesterday.
The Washington times., 1938-08-22
). A. K. Eliminates
District Club in PIaV

Sigma Alpha Kappa defeated
B'Nai Birth 7 to S and S. A. R.
eliminated District Club S to / in
the Fraternal League playoff
games yesterday,
The Washington times., 1938-08-22
Another
Round
BY BOB ADDIE

Flying to New York recently
in an Eastern Airlines ship, the
thought occurred to me that
The Washington times., 1938-08-22

because Ed who Armstrong stiff of
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13
SENATOR PAT HARRISON
DISCUSSES TAXATION
Long Beach press-Telegraml

Senator Pal HarTlSonS faQlo SDeeeh on tax
ation Is reaSsuTlng uxteranee. As chairman
of the finance committee o. the United States
senate he rejects the theory that the purpose o.
taxes IS 10 punish groups uRon whom govern
ment looks with dlstayor or 70 effect changes IN
the social ana economic system. Rather. he es-
pollses the wholesome and encouraging doctrine
that the legitimate purpose Of tax Is 10 produce
the revenue needed by government with a mini
mum Of disturbance 70 taxpayers and % the
business system with which the money To pay
taxes originates
Drastic changes have been made by the sen
ate committee IN the capital gains tax and cor
poration surplus tax which are believed To have
been contributing causes Of the current business
recession.
Whatever may be tie causes. or whether
or not Justified there IS today fear ana lack
Of confidence upon tie part Of business which
has manifested Itself III increased unemploX-
nent reduced earnInzS and a strike in invest
ments said Senator Harrison Some remedy
must be applied
BY reyisins the capital gains and corporation
surplus leyies. the finance committee chairman
believes that he and his committee associates
are applying remedy.
An analytical article By Elisha NJ Friedman
published originally in the New York Times and
reproduced in the FL Paso Times provides statis-
teal evidence thar the capital gains tax in its
present extreme form has failed of both of its
declared purposes-the yielding or revenue for
the government and the prevention Of violent
fluctuations in the stock market.
With the present law IN effect. stock prices
fell more precipitoasy IN the latter part of 1897
and the first quarter of 1888 than in The same
length of time after the market broke in 1929
Moreover. the yield 10 the treasury of the pres
ent tax has been only small fraction OF that
produced under the old flat rate Of 121a per cent
The figures in the treasury table show that
the high tax on capital gains in force since 1884
produced insignificant revenue and that the
fiat rate of l2i2 per cent en the old law pro-
dueed abundant revenue Obviously the rise in
the rate of tax ON capital gains discouraged
stockholders from taking profits and yielded little
revenue to the treasury writes the New York
Times analyst.
Buying and investment viii be ENCOURAGED
by revision of the Two taxes. and with increased
buying and investment the business recession
will be halted and new advance beaun
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13
WHAT'S THE USE
OF VOTING?

1t wasn't much of a shock TO anybody
that Austria and Germany voted Sun
day 80 per cent in favor of Dictator
Adolf Hitler's conquest Of Austria.
1t was the only thing they could do.
If there was any reason why they should
not so vote, they hadn't heard of it.
An election is a cinch in Germany, or
any other nation governed by a dictator.
The ruler tells his newspapers what to
say-and, more important. what not to
say The people read nothing but praises
of their dictator. The radios sing praises
of the almighty. If radio station
from another country tries to disillusion
the people, it is Immediately "blacked
out" by more powerful station in the
country.
How can the people know what is GO
ing on? They have no representatives
in the seat of government. They have no
way of knowing what is done there. They
only know what the dictator wants them
to know.
And he wants them to know that he
is a great fellow He wants them to
read that he is the saviour Of the country.
And that is what they read.
When the people are told what to
thing, and why they should think so,
and when nobody is there who can tell
them differently, an election is a farce.
So it was with the German-Austrian
plebiscite
There was no use even to count the
votes
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13
Famous Sayings

A special grand jury discharged
i'll New York City recently was be
lieped to have established some
kind of endurance record. It had
been at work for nearly a year.
It's purpose was an investigation
Of racketeering and its political
ramilications. Among the indict-
ments Is returned We're those
against j. Richard 6Dixie) Davis
and Il Of his alleged associates in
the policy racket. County Clerk
Albert Marinelli resigned after
charges based ON testimony elicit
ed by this jury were forwarded to
Governor Lehman. IN the process
Of doing this and similar work the
of the jury had held 56
and questioned approx
mately 180 witnesses.
Governor Lehman. Supreme
Court Justice Philip j. MeCook,
and District Attorney Thomas
E Dewey expressed their deep
gratitude to the jurors for their
service at the time of the iury's
discharge
Very likely there were scores of
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Nc. 1866

Estate of
ELSIE RACHEL COOLEY.
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned as EXecutriX of the
last will and testament and estate
of Elsie Rachel Cooley, deceased,
to the creditors of and all persons
having claims against the said de-
ceased. that within six months after
the first publication of this notice
they either file them with the neces-
sary vouchers in the office of the
Clerk of the Superior Court of the
State oil California, in and for the
County of Imperial, or exhibit them
with the necessary vouchers TO the
said ExecutriX of said estate, at
the office of Childers & Roberts,
207 Bank of America Bldg, Ell Cen
tro California, the same being the
place for the transaction OF the
business Of the said estate in the
County Of Imperial State of Cali
fOrnia.
Dated at Ell Centro California.
this 18th day of April, 1888
THELMA V. MAERIZ.
EXecutriX of the Estate OF Elsie
Rachel Cooley, Deceased
A. l3 20 PIN 4.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13
THE CHOICE BETWEEN
UNION AND CITIZENS

Comment IN a newspaper Office Is
sometimes enlightening
ITS the same old stuff, said prin-
ter.
He had just finished reading United
Press dispatch from Sacramento, where
CIO miners were encamped on the capl-
tol lawn demanding that the governor
take over reigns Of government in Grass
Valley, from which the GIO leaders had
been elected BY citizens 'yigilante COM
mittee
Grass Valley is a lawless place It is
overridden by racketeers and grasping
politicians. 1t is a foul place where they
never heard Of law or the constitution.
That's what the Go leaders told Gov
ernor Merriam.
Once upon a time. we seem to remem-
Der, somebody told the federal govern
ment the same thing about Imperial Val
ley Of course, it wasn't Go group
that said it. Il was a group of Commu-
mist sympathizers. But practically the
same words We're used. Hired thugs,
and brutal policemen. and all that.
The CIO, it seems, has taken a leaf
out of the Communist book Of propagan-
da.
We rather imagine that an unbiased
visitor would find the people of Grass
Valley pretty much of an average. They
probably work and eat and sleep Just
like the rest Of us. and worry about their
families and their businesses, and gos-
sip about their friends and argue about
politics Also, they probably have the
average Americans inborn respect for
the constitution.
If they do not want outside agitators
stirring up trouble among their resi-
dents, that is no crime. Imperial Valley,
in fact, can very well sympathize with
them We like TO handle our own trou-
bles here, too And if We want trouble,
there are plenty of people at home to
start it. We don't have to send outside
for them.
California is fortunate that it has a
governor who told the CIO leaders,
"There are two sides to every story.
The people down there seem to think
the law enforcement is handled pretty
we'll"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13
AIMLESS DARING
TAKES WRONG DIRECTION
Slammed %

(Shawnee, Okla. Morning News
More than few statesmen. business leaders
and politicians ought TO be told the story Of Al
Ldstinger of Lakeland Fla.
Lastinger is an 18-year-old youth who likes 10
sail-the farther the better He has courage
He has daring. The two are not quite the same
thing
Young Lastnger set sail from Tampas harbor
a short time ago bound for Italy He set sail
in an 18-foot boat.
Eleven days after his departure he was picked
up by another vessel II the Gull of Mexico, a
considerable distance south and west of his
point Of embarkation. Lastinger was only semi
conscious. nearly dead from the effects of expos
ure 10 the sun
He told his rescuers later that he had con-
templated shooting njmsef but that something
despite his agonies. had made him hold on. He
had lost consciousness many times. ne said
Lastinger sailed in the wrong direction. He
knew where he wanted TO 90, but he didn't keep
his bearings. He thought he was heading straight
for his original objective. and he kept right on
heading for some place. but il turned out not
to be the place he started for al all.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13
81. CENTRO
80 20 10
YEARS AGO

APRIL 13, 1903 Predictions
for a banner year in cantaloupes
were bolstered today by the fore
cast of l. D. Hale noted Chicago
agriculturist.
APRIL 13, 1903 - A carload of
Eucalyptus trees, 10000 in num-
ber, arrived in the valley this
morning. But yalleyites want still
more. The supply is far short of
the demand and only a part of
valley residents will receive trees
from the shipment.
APRIL 13. 1918 - In another
month, 40 acres of Watomelons
now maturing at the ranch of Al
Young in the middle of the desert
near Coyote Wells will begin to
ripen.
APRIL 13, 1918 - Wind blew
hats, papers and dust to the re-
mote corners of the valley yester
day as a 40 mile gale struck the
valley in mid-afternoon. Only
slight damage was reported.
APRIL 13, 1923 - Norma Benton
q pupil at Wilson school, today
won first prize in a valley-wide
defamation contest. The contest
was run off in BraWley.
APRIL 13, 1923 - FL Centre be-
came $50 richer at the expense OF
an out Of town man yesterday.
Spencer King OF Hollywood was
assessed by Judge Mayfield for VIC
lating the city speed law.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13
Well I'll
Tell Y ou..
says
Bob Burns

1t must be terrible to live in one
of them foreign countries where
you can't follow your own religious
belief and customs. Oycr here the
quickest way to lose respect is to
profess other peoples belief to gain
favor.
One cold winter night a political
candidate stopped at my uncle's
house. After supper grandpa pulled
his chair up to the fireplace, knelt
down with his elbows ON the chair,
and his back To tine fire and went
to bed.
The candidate thought grandpa
was Erayin' so he did the same
thing. After he'd gene. my cousin
spoke up and says, You know.
there's Il funny fella. lie has'ta
warm his pants jest like grandpa"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13
SAN FRANCISCO MUST
TRY RECRRoCATION
Exeter sum

The Tulare County Farm Bureau and the
Tulare county board Of supervisors have Joined
forces in notifying san Francisco that unless
the continual menace o. strikes which work such
a hardship on valley farmers are curbed. there
will be no Tuare county aid TO the Golden Gate
Exposition
cisco has extended one hand meanwhile noldin2
a knife IN the other How foolish II would be
to send money from Tulare county to San Fran
cisco while at any time strikes for which valley
farmers are in no way responsible. may occur
to mean hesYy financial loss TO agriculture
Let San Francisco clean house; let It show
good will to the perIshable fruit industries. Ger
tainly it is time for the unions to realize That
farmers are weary Of being made the innocent
victims OF continual pickering. If San Fran
cisco will assure future cooperation with inte
rior industries. then. and then only. Tulare
county should be willing to cooperate with San
Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13

ferf did this criticism have? DID
il enable the critic 10 enjoy some
marmalades NJ. even il the steward
hai dashed into the kitchen ana
brought him four buckets and two
barrels bulging with orange mar
malade. he couldn't have eaten
lit. for he was getting off the tram
Immediately.
This Is what it did accomplish:
/. Il enabled the critic TO re-
Here his feelings.
.. Il helped him show his sense
Of superiority No steward could
put anything over on him. Ne.
Sir9
3. Il embarrassed the steward.
+ It made the steward dislike
the passenger.
). Il caused some Of the other
PASSENGERS to laugh at the critic
after ha mad left the train.
Here was an apparently intelli-
cent man wasting his precious time
and energy trying to improve a
stewart whom ne probably would
never see again. Wouldn't it have
been far more profitable for him
10 have devoted his energies to tae
noble art of improving himself?
Why not cut this out and paste
il in your hat and look at it the
next time you are tempted to
criticise2 Remember, your criticism
NAV produce similar results.
Back in 1917. if a man didn't viz
taally work himself into a frenzy
over the war, and dash madly away
10 the nearest registration office,
ne was dubbed-a dreadful word IN
those days-a pacifist The man
Who dared express himself as be-
leYine that We had no place III the
World War Was looked upon as a
coward
Twenty years later, an Ameri-
can magazine took national straw
ballot More than half the people
Of the country emphatically eX-
pressed themselves as believing that
We had no place in that war. James
Hilton. English novelist, stated III
the Herald Tribune, New York City.
that he believed if a similar vote
We're taken in England. there would
b produced a like result.
Now taat other foreign countries
are indulging themselves with wars,
What is your opinion on whether
We should permit ourselves 10 b.
drawn into their troubles? Don't
hesitate to express yourself in your
aome and On the street. It is your
concernl Your opinion is as i'm
G9rtant as the next fellows And
don't forget that the majority of
the men VINO fought in the last
var say that they won't go again
Almost any sort Of person can
cut a figure but it takes brains to
cut a melon
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13

couple of cigar
etD. paid his bill
and was ready to
leave the train
But before he left.
he called the
teW ar q an Il
criticised him be-
cause he had not
served any orange
narlnalade 9n
brea kfasl The
menu called for Il
ard il thadn been
SCI EeG
Nov what Of
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13
News Behind
the News
II 0lking on Eggs
The oiled Waters =.
Ry RODNEY BUTCHER

WASHINGTON. - state Depart
ment officials are walking ON eggs
these days, as they try to decide
how to be Just tough enough and
yet nat too tough with Mexico.
The MeXieans know it. They are
trying TO find out the easiest terms
the State Department will accept
as compensation to owners of eX-
prorriated oil The MeXicans are
net able to offer very much. But
they will be made TO offer some
thing and some of the American
negotiators are afraid that "some-
thing" will just have to do
Even Secretary Hull makes no
genuine pretense that the Treas
ugy's sudden suspension of Mex
can silver purchases was meant as
anything but a spanking. The adj
ministration's attitude. perforce. IS
curiously mixed.
Sympathetic with much of the
Cardenas program, high officials
nevertheless flew into something
like a rage when the Mexican gov
eminent seized the American and
British oil fields.
Admitting the legality of that
action. they were furious when a
nation whose debt had been in de-
fault and which had stalled Oh
arrangements to compensate for
agrarian appropriations running in
to billions CT pesos had what they
considered the stark nerve to seize
oil properties valued at four times
the size Of the annual Mexican
budget and then talk vaguely of
compensation
Washington diplomats believe the
MeXicans felt that as long as the
Roosevelt administration was in
power they could continue their
appropriation program without fear
CT interference. II was the back
ground OF futile negotiations as to
compensation for rapidly eX-
panding agrarian program which
caused the decision to stop buying
Mexican silVer-a decision which has
come in for criticism. Ali indica-
tions are that the MeXicans were
sharply jolted by that unexpected
action.
Officials feel that some such step
was necessary if other Latin Amer
lean governments were To be dis
suade.i from seizures of American
property similar to those in Mexico.
But Hull and his boys are tread
ing with extreme care. They want
to build up the Good Neighbor'
policy in this hemisphere. They
do not want a revolution or even
economic disorders is Mexico And
they don't want the Mexican gov
eminent TO become any friendlier
with Japan.
Representative Jerry O'Connell OF
Montana has a poster about half
as large as the door itself, the
burden Of its message being that
Tom Mooney, California's most cele-
brated prisoner. ought to be freed.
The poster presents a drawing of
Moneys face and describes him as
"Labor's Champion and Victim
Of Monster Capital Glass Frame
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13
The Grab Bag
One-NIinUte Test

/. Who is chief of staff in the
U. S war department.?
2. What great allegory did John
Bunyan write?
3. Where are the Pennine Alps?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13
DALE
CARNEGIE
Author OF How TO Win
Friends and Influence
People

Il happened on a dining car on
the Canadian National Railways as
We we're crossing the border at Port
Huron. Michigan A passenger had
enloNea hls breakfast. smoked 4
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13
Hints on Etiquette

A man should raise his hat when
he is walking with a woman and
they meet a person known to eth
er of them.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13
You re Telling Me --
By WILLIAM RIFT

OUR FRIEND, Joe, up to now
has had about as big a voice in
affairs in his own home as a mi
n0rity in either Germany or Italy
or both. Every time he made a
suggestion il was either voted
down before he had finished the
sentence or it was so amended he
didn't recognize it as his own.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13

An interest in political and So
cial problems absorbs many per-
sons whose birthday occurs today
Their judgment is sought by thost
less Yersed in serious matters.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13
thoughts for the Day

And zadok the priest took an horn Of oil oot Of
the tabernacle and anointed solomon. And they
blew the trumpet. and al the people SAID God save
king Solomon Kings ls39.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13
Barbs ---

Jockeys and baseball players
may deduct the cost of uniforms
from income tax returns. Wei bet
a new potato that farmers can't
do The same with their oVeralls.
Diplomatic doctors report that
Hitler is bluff, he'll and party.
New York survey finds that jay
walkers lose time. But what's time
when your Ife's at stake?
Britain plans to build trenches
in its parks for protection from
air raids as soon as war occurs.
Little children. instead Of going To
the parks To play. will 20 10 the
parks and pray.
Sing Sing reports only Two va
cant cells. There's that housing
shortage cropping up again.
Maybe Hitler would lose this
mastery complex if he had wife
To make him put the milk bottles
out every night.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13
Words of WiStlSnin
Ioday'S IIOTOScODr

Occupation is the scythe Of time
Napoleon.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13
0ne-Minute Test Answers
General Malin Craig.

2. Pilgrims Progress.
3. On the border Of Switzerland
and the Italian province of Pied
mont.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13

Service on a grand jury needs TO
be given the public attention and
ENCOURAGEMENT it deserves. A Ger
tain flattery attaches ID being
chosen as a juror, but too often
the responsibilities that ensua arc
regarded more as the incidental
burdens of citizenship, to be borne
with a minimum of complaint,
than as the kind OF opportunities
that come only rarely in one mans
lifetime.
The privilege of serving as
grand juror needs to be amphasiz-
ed as a Gift of a special power for
improving the community life. The
opportunities are extraordinary, and
the more John q Citizen is made
aware of this. the tougher time
rackets are going TO have III our
cities.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13

You see. there is only one Joe
and four other adults in Joe S
menage-Mrs. Joe, Mrs Joe's
mama. Mrs. Joes Aunt Millie and
Mrs. Joe's Cousin Edna. They voted
like a Tammany Hall bloc, except
more consistently.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13
Bruce Cation Says
- Racketeers Hate Good Citizens

New York business men. racket
victims. and assorted mea-in-the-
street who would have liked 10
thank the jurors themselves With
out wishing to detract from the
deservedly bright reputation Of
such. prosecutors as Dewey III any
way. it should be pointed out that
the business OF fighting crime is
not conducted alone by Il
district attorney The major share
sometimes the whole measure Of
the glory more often than not
goes to that official, but the sue
cess his efforts enjoy is dependent
on the cooperation. the CONSISTENT
ious devotion to its task. and the
fearlessness of a body Of capable
citizens behind him.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13

So When Joe decided to bring
up the idea Of his getting a new
spring suit for Easter or, maybe.
it was a new Easter suit for spring.
Joe did some fast thinking before
he broached the subject at the
supper table.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13

YOU haven't READ ALL the News
Until You've Read ALL the Ads!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13

Then he arose and made a stir
ring speech to his assembled in
laws. displaying thread-bare cuffs
and a patched knee as Exhibits
a and B. The in-laWs listened in
stony silence. Then Joe called for
a family-Wide plebiscite on the
proposition.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-13

Mrs. Joe rose. smiling sWeetly
You win, my dear she said &C
ahead and get your new suit-if
you can However. you may be
interested to know I bought a
honey OF a bargain today in a new
spring coat-only s299 85-cash. So
my dear. there ISN'T even a dollar
bill in our bank balancela
The Washington times., 1938-09-13
Yea, TYdings!

cNENATOR MILLARD TYDINGS has won the Demo-
- cratic nomination for the United States Senate from
Maryland after long hard fight. And as Maryland
is traditi2naly Democratic State it is safe to predict
he will be elected next November
AS member of The Senate District Committee he has
been good friend of the residents of the Capital City
We hone that he will continue to we'll in the
future as in the past
And we venture to voice the hope that he will do his
part so that we may day to the polls as did
the citizens of his State when they renominated him
yesterday.
Hard words are said in the heat of campaign,
strange things are often done But when the smoke OF
battle has cleared away those things should be 1or
gotten.
And knowing the record of Senator TydngS on
Canito Hill we believe he will hold grudge but will
work representative of the Free State for the common
good of all the people of these United States
Let the dead past bury the dead!