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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-07
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31
NINETY PER CENT
ARE UNEMpLOYABLE

jim Beardsly, former forestry service
employe now engaged i'm the contracting
business in Imperial Valley, said he
learned i'm five years of Civilian ConSer-
Vation Corps work that 80 per cent of
the young men who come to the CCC are
not fitted for any kind of employment
but manual labor Of the most common
kind His observation is severe reflec-
tion on modern-day schools, parents and
training.
Young men going into the CCC are of
an age Just out of school, for the most
part. And most Of them have completed
a high school course. Yet their training
fits them to do nothing but WELD a pick
and shovel, or for some other manner
of common labor.
Education has made rapid strides in
recent years away from the purely aca-
demic routine which takes it for granted
that all pupils will become scholars. In
many schools courses are offered in all
sorts of vocational training. with COM
petent instructors provided in each field.
Vocational training, however, is still re-
garded as secondary
The fact that il Is offered. and that
so few take advantage of it, may be
regarded as an indictment of the parents
who are content TO see their children
learn many of the things that will >he.
useless to them in later years, and ignore
many of the things they will wish later
that they had learned. In a certain
measure, too, the criticism might be
directed at the young people themselves,
for they should have gained sufficient
intelligence by the time they enter high
school to know that they must learn
some useful occupation.
Perhaps the greatest fault of all, how
ever, lies in the general outlook of today.
No longer are the young people taught
that energy and ambition are the great
est factors of success, regardless of
schooling or background. No longer are
they given the knowledge that personal
effort and untiring drive toward single
goal will give them success, even though
others fall by the wayside.
Most sadly needed by the young people
of today is the firm belief that success
can be gained by anyone who tries hard
enough. The world is full of examples
proving that this is the case.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING
STILL PAYS
CLodi NCWs-ScntineO

(Lodi NevS-SentineD
Just 231 years ago this month, Ameri-
ca witnessed the publication of its first
permanent newspaper, the Boston "News
Letter"
The birth of that fledgling on April
26, 1901. is memorable in the history
of American journalism. But the now
ancient News Letter. Is also memor-
able for something else. 1t contained
the first advertisements America had
seen, and these advertisements held re-
volutionary implication.
They contained the seeds of an IN
creaSingly higher living standard. They
appealed to popular demand. They fore
told the rise of mass production to salts
fly the demands of Americas future
l29.00O.000 consumers, and the rise Of
large-Scale nduStry-Steel, with $4,000
workers and SS77,000.000 annual pay
roll: automobiles with their 100000
workers and S4O0,000000 payroll; tex
tiles. with its more than one and one
half million workers, and payroll of
more than billion dollars annually.
Because they like the "NewS Letters
first advertisers, believe in telling the
world what they have to offer, retail
stores have played a particularly big
l'di III ell lOlliIS lllO III NllNIlN VI Oul
state and nation. How vast, and how
essential, their role IS, you can gauge by
this The centrally managed retail Sys-
tems who do less than 10 per cent of
the retail business, alone purchased over
$4,000, 600 600 worth of goods from farm
producers and manufacturers last year,
and to 100000 employees these stores paid
1891 100000.
But before this was possible, it was
first necessary to tell the world what
they had to offer. If merchants hide
their light under a bushel, as the say
ing goes, the consumer can't be expect
ed to see the light, or the bargains. Far
sighted merchants knew that when they
placed ads in the Boston 'News Letter.
234 years ago.
And their principle remains constant
1t pays to advertiser
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31
ONE THOUSAND DEAD
ON MEMORIAL DAY
Monday was Memorial Day.

MOHudy was MeHlOTldi LAY.
Monday one thousand persons were
killed and 1000 injured-many manned
for life-by bombs dropped from Japa-
nese airplanes on the Chinese city of
Canton.
Nationalist artillery killed and wound
ed scores as big guns turned loose blasts
of death against Madrid, many shells
exploding in the supposedly neutral zone.
Federal troops hunted rebels in the
hills of Mexico, after capturing three
rebel cities in scattered fighting
Germany looked across the border at
Czechoslovakia, deferred from war only
by the knowledge that France and Great
Britain would be aligned against her.
Italy and Germany watched their SOL
diers performing in SPANS civil war
a testing ground for greater war that
may come.
Such was Memorial Day, 1888
The world is still long way from civil
ization.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31
WelI> | Il
Tell Y ou..
Says
Bob Burns

The main reason why the work
moves so slow on these govern
mcnt Pre- jccts is jest because the
foreman don't understand tho men.
When Grandpa Snazzy was fore
man of ditch diggin' project
down home, ne watched the men
workin' in the ditch for several
hours and finally he hollered, Gan
right, boys, come on out The
men came up on the bank and
Grandpa says, "All right, get back
i'm As soon as they got back in
the ditch he called 'em out again.
When the men asked him what
his idea was, Grandpa says, "Well,
boys, this job has'ta get done
pretty quick and I've noticed you
bring more dirt cut on your shoes
than you do when you're shovel
iu'n
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31
HORNETS OVER E.WPORFA

(ChrStan Science MOnltOr)
What strange and omnouS sounds are
these signing in the grass roots where
only the soft night winds of the prairie
are wont to be heard? Was William
Allen White ''spoofing" or did he mean
it when he said in a speech at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania that country boys
are no longer Presidential timber?
Strange words these. from the editor
of The Gazette and the Sage of Emporia.
What can have come over his "American
dream? His head often is in the clouds,
but his politics and philosophy have
seemed as indigenous to the soil of Kan
SaS as its sunflOWerS. Has a SOjOurn in
the East Weaned him from the prairie?
Wait, Mr.. White, til you hear what the
home folks have to say about your pro-
nOuncement that you're for a city type
of candidate (like Mayor LaGuardia of
New York, for eXample), and that the
country has gone from the rural to the
urban state, and the country boy has to
give place to the city boy =. even the
rural sections would not accept the 'clod-
hopper type now"
The Kansas philosopher need not be
surprised if he hears hornets buzzing
over Emporia, and other rural sections
as we'll Maybe he only said it to hear
EN- buzz. Perhaps he'd like to hear the
whole country buzzing over the right
kind Of candidates for 1910. If so, It's
we'll.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31
Bruce Carton Says
- Arkansas Case is New Light on Gangsters

They are able to live OUTSIDE Gll1
law because supposedly decent
folk help them to live that way.
Second they can't operate With
out an understanding with tfe
forces Of law and order. Pat Roche,
the famous Chicago detective, once
remarked caustically that one
armed prohibition aGcnt on bi.
cycle could have dried up Chicago
in a week if he had really tried;
and the implications of that re
mark are true Of all gangs at all
times and places. Crime flouriShes
when the police let it flourish-not
otherwise.
So these arrests in Arkansas are
worth thinking about. Rounding
up the people who enabled a pub
lie enemy to operate is less spec
tacular work than nabbing the
public enemy himself; in the long
run, however, it is the most I'M
portant part of the job of gang
busting.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
S u NJ NJ o N :
Nh IgJIf

SUM MONS
No. 1916
In the Superior Court of the State
of California, in and for the
County of Imperial.
EDWARD d. WHALEY,
Plaintiff
VS..
LILLIAN MAE WHALEY,
Defendant.
Clarence B. Smith, Attorney for
Plaintiff.
The People of The State of Cali
fOrnia Send Greetings to:
LILLIAN MAE WIsALEY, De
fendant.
You Arc 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 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
Plaintiff will apply to the Court for
any other relief demanded in the
Complaint.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this 2nd day of April 1898.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
(SEAL) County Clerk
BY G.. O. KENYON,
Deputy Clerk.
A. Il 10 26-M. 3 10 II "a 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31
News Behind
the News
Richard Whitney
The SECS Helper :. {.

WASHINGTON Wnlu-
nev. present address Sing Sing, has
turned out to be as effective a little
helper as the SEC ever had.
Thanks to the Whitney expo
sllres. Chairman William O. Doug
las and his associates are having
a relatively easy time convincing
governors Of the New York STOCK
Exchange OF the need of certain
reforms which, had they been III
effect would have made 1t mucn
harder for Whitney to turn crook.
It appears that the governors
NAV make brokers quit acting as
custodians of money and securities
Of their clients. If brokers are pre-
vented from getting their hands on
the customers cash. they won't be
able to finance their own flnan-
cial adventures-or misadventureS'
as in Whitney's caSe-with other
peoples money.
Other reforms which Douglas IS
pushing, also apparently more like
ly of achievement because Of the
Whitney case, include more extern
sive policing OF its own members
by the Exchange, action to cir
cumscribe the inside floor trader
and tranformation of the SO-called
bond market into a free buying
and-selling quality market.
Insofar as Wall Street is con
cerned. SEC designs on floor trad
ers contain the most dynamite
among these items. Douglas ha.
likened. the position of the floor
trader, operating with full knowl-
edge of what the public is doing al
the moment, to that of poker OF
bridge player who has mirrors
rugged up behind the other players
an arrangement, he says, which
is not conducive to confidence il
the game.
Congresswoman Mary Norton o
New Jersey, Shepherdess of th'
wage-hOur bill in the House, ha'
been sporting hat SO heavily fes
tooned with lilies of the valley tina
few of any hats like it have eve
been seen before.
In discussing the Wage-hour bill
with progressive congressman Sin
frequently has taken occasion t.
praise Mayor Frank Hague O
Jersey City, the political boss be
hind her.
II want you to meet him. Mr.
Norton tells some of the boys VIII
have been critical of Hague's no
tions as to civil liberties, You Y
got him all WrOng!"
Watching Mexico with haWk-lik
5 eye, the State Department is con
} Vinced that the prestige of PreSi
dent CardenaS has not suffere
r since he took over foreign oil prop
= critics. But the department is eX
/ tremely jittery over what may hap
pen in the neighboring republi
. during the next six months. A
l economic conditions grow worse, tn
f possibility Of political disturbance
= viii increase.
Great Britain with whom Mexi
: co recently severed diplomatic re
lations because of her stiff attitud
against Mexican oil policy, is con
vinced that Mexico cannot sell tn
appropriated oil and is inclined t
play waiting game on the theor
, that Cardenas will have to com
l to terms.
. That's a relief to the State De
partment. The British have bee
more upset about the loss Of OF
| which is a vital factor in thei
{ national defense plans, than abou
: threatened loss of British invest
3 ment, according to their doplomat
here.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31
IS THIS AMERlCANISM?

The German American CNazD Bund in
convention at San Francisco adopted a
proposal to fill all governmental posi-
tions in this country with gentiles Amer
icanism, we thought, included race free
dom, yet the Nazis call that "Ameri-
canism."
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31

to the six vacationists of 1887 who
bad best resisted vacation tradi-
ton. The winners:
HASDRUBAL j. YOKEL of
Thimblc, During his last q
pleasure trips to Washington, Mr.
Yokel has cOurageously refraincd
from mailing friends postcard
photos Of the White House with
one of the windows marked with
an K and below the linked leg
end: '"X-marks my room.'
MISS YUMA LACBBRAIN Of
Hangnail. Ala - Though she has
been a guest in no less than ID re
aCrt hotels, Miss Lackbraln has
never. in describing said hostel
rics, referred to them as "scrump-
tous', divine, Just heavenly,
grand "ducky" or simply too
sWeet for words"
CHASTITY McV. QUAGMIRE
II of Snobbe Point, l.. l. "A
scion OF society who has manfully
refraincd for 2l seasons at Biar-
ritz, France, from writing home
that the "tactiul SubserViencc of
the trades folk here is a refresh
ing relief from the booriSh fami-
liarity met with in the States
MISS AMANDA SNAGG of Ex-
2emaVille, Md-In the 1926 let
ters On Yaction she has written to
friends during the last 33 years
she has never once, while on va
cation used the infamous phrase:
Am having fine time-wish you
were here!"
ALVIN APPLENOKKA of Pro-
noun, Ore.-A veteran of II vaca-
tions, each spent in Arizona, Mr..
Applenokka has not once sent a
photo of himself holding a glass of
beer, with a sandy Wasteland in
the background and beneath the
clever line, hastily penciled my
motto - See America Thirst"
MRS. ELFRIDA ANEMONE of
Handlebar, Ind.-Last but not
least is this sturdy heroine who
has refused for six consecutive
years permission TO the Handlebar
Monsoon to run a picture Of her
lolling on the beach at Cheapton,
Fla. under the caption of Local
Society Matron Enjoys Palm Beach
Season,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31

So they chucked
him into the brig
and kept him
there until mis-
father came and
took him home.
Then he decid-
ed to become a
great musician =
or maybe a grand
opera sin ger.
I'm going to
make Caruso look
like a second
rater. he boast
ed. Watch my
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31
DALE
CARNEGIE
Author of How to Win
Friends and Influence
People

There was a boy whose ambition
once was to become a letter carrier
But at the age of fifteen he ran
away to enlist in the navy. He told
a Whopping big lie about his age.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31

1t makes me mad because everyone is
always saying: Something must be
DONE" and nobody does anything.-Wal-
ter L. Fry, Detroit business man.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31
Famous Sayings

Although no American city has
yet turned wholly SinleSS and sat
down piously to await the whole
sale distribution OF harpS and
haloes. it is nevertheless true that
we don't hear nearly rs much
about gangsters and the under
world as we used to hear.
This is partly because the G.
men and other law enforcement
agencies have done some pretty
effective work. Even more, how
ever, it is simply because the
gangSters and the underworld have
ceased to be news. Gangs, and un-
derWorlds still exist; less defiant,
less cocky, perhaps, but still in
business.
So any new light we can get on
the way commercialized crime
operates is worth getting and
worth thinking about We shan't
really win the long war with gang
Sterism until we understand fully
how and why gangSterism exists
and some valuable light on the
SUBJECT Is plONlutu Wy i'SN'''
happening in Arkansas.
There the G-men arrested five
men and two women on charges oi
harboring Alvin Karpis, who once
was rated one OF the nations mos'
energetic public enemies, back II
1885. Among those arrested were
an ex-chief of police, an ex-detec-
tive chief, an eX-detective lieuten
ant and the former manager ol
the Hot Springs municipal airport
All of which is interesting fol
two reasons.
First, because it shows clearly
that the big shot criminals do mo-
operate on their own. Thei'
gangs are not made up solely O.
low broWed thugs and coke-snif-
fling killers; they depend for theil
existence on the active co-opera
ton of respected people.
GangSters have to move fror
place to place They have to hid,
out from the law. And they don
stink furtively about like trembl
ing fugitives in a moving picture
They have their friends their con
nectionS" who take care of them
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31

Tree seeds packed in bombs
are dropped from airplanes which
fly over barren mountain areas OF
Hawaii.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31
thoughts for the Day

And Moses chose able men out OF al ISRAEL and made
them heads over the people rulers Of thousands.
rulers of hundreds rulers OF ftcs and rulers Of tens
Exodus 1929
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31

The highest price paid for ar
antique was $4,000 which a Chip
pendale highbOy once brought.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31

Fish do not suffer pain when
they are hooked because they have
few nerves around their mouths.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31

YOU havenr reaa ALL the New
until you have read the ADS,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31

YOU haven't read ALL the news
Until You've Read ALL the Ads!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31
You're Telling Ne -

THE SOCIETY for Rewarding
Unsung Heroes, Vacationists' Di-
vision, has just announced awards
to the six vacationists of 1887 who
bad best resisted vacation tradi-
ton. The winners:
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31

SilOkC.
50 Rudy Vallee learned to play
the saxophone and the clarinet not
to mention a little tWO-fmgerlng on
the piano But when it came TO
singing. his family decided that nc
could carry letters better than ne
could a tune.
I'll show VOL" ne declared, and
I'll show the cock-eyed world too.
IN going tn make a fortune IN
music"
When ne sat down at the piano,
his folks laughed His friends
laughed. too. and he kept them
laughing all the time he was going
through college. "Paderewski,' " was
the nickname they gave him.
After leaving Yale, he collected
enough musicians for an orchestra
He trained it after his own peculiar
fashion. but success did not come
without long and persistent strug-
gle. The Harvard lads threW ripe
grapefruit at him when he tried tc
charm them with his grooming.
Those birds will be throwing dol
lars my way before long he pre-
dicted cheerfully. and trailed into
another tune.
Soon Rudy was making "Boola
Boola" and the University Of Maine
stein Song" famous on the air. Ht
became the rage. Girls flung them
selves at his head. Some iainteC
when they met him. One Will
whom ne shook hands vowed sht
would never wash her hand again
He was forced to hire a bodyguard
Rudy had found his racket, bu
never did a more modest and gen
erOus racketeer draw breath. Lift
for him became one grand sWee
song. And his greatest happines
came through his ability to hell
others needing a boost.
The radio audience might neve
have heard of Charlie McCarth.
and Edgar Bergen, if Rudy ha'
not given them an opportunity.
He is regularly and steadily pro
noting others. But no fakes. Yol
must have the goods to deliver i
you want to get by with this mas
ter salesman.
Rudy apparently had but one as
set TO start with. But that one asse
was enough for him-Rudy Vale
had determination
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31

In addition to writing the Dec
laration of Independence and serv-
ing as President of the United
States, Thomas Jefferson made
several inventions, including the
swivel chair.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31

When Paganini was asked whom
he considered the worlds greatest
yiolinist, he is said TO have an
swered "The second greatest is
certainly Lipinski!"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-05-31

Piano wires are made OF carbon
steel with tremendous tensile
strength,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-05

a final settle ment award. ing Plume to
 Italy and Por-
 to Baross and
 the "delta" to
 Yugoslavia. A
 1920 stamp of. F iu m e on. which D'An-I n u nzio ap-| pears is shown at the left. 1A Service. Inc.Il
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-05
. SERIAL STORY,
 MURDER TO MUSIC ...... sr sso s. ,. 'os.s ss. ..

me laberg
 'Because Barkley and this fool Macy were set to make you the goat for Dombey's death. If he'd killed you he'd have been doing away with the person who could save his own neck"
 But what about Weeks?"
 Weeks was the front for Rog- CTS. He's harmless enough. You see, Rogers wrote that hit song = not Weeks. I tumbled to that when Weeks tried to palm of an original composition on us. It was terrible. Rogers figured he could get more out of Dombey if he had another guy to work through. It would keep his skirts clean when he wanted to try blackmail"
 Anne sighed. "But I still don't understand that picture you gave to Feeley."
 '.I selected the table because the picture I took on the night of the murder showed that wisp of smoke And I found that the table was in a direct line with where DOmbey stood. Tonight the camera, open in the darkness, showed a streak oi flame.the revolver shot. By mark ing it of into squares I established definitely that the shot had come from Rogers place. Then he showed the revolver across the table to Myr. na. Very much the same trick hG pulled the other time."
 The taxi came to a halt. Anne looked out. "Here we are" sht said. I'm going to bed. But vol two come on up and use the living room. I have a hunch you've some things to talk over - and don't mean murder"
 (THE END)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-11-05
CHAPTER xxx

Feeley was standing away from the table as Tait seated Nelda When Tait stepped back, the detec- tive said, Whats this all about Bob?"
 .Keep your dress shirt on, Dan- nie. I think we're getting some- where. By the way, you told me to have my fun and wire that novelty company in Minneapolis. Tait reached into his pocket. Here's copy of their wired reply
 Feeley looked at the typewriter sheet, read the words: REGARD ING YOUR INQUIRY LAST 60 DAYS HAVE SHIPPED CAT CALL NOVELTIES YOUR CITY TO OSCAR MOORE, GEORGE MARSHALL, GAIL M. WILL HAMS. KEMPER FREEMAN EDWARD TREMPER, HARRIS ROGERS, c A L E B DAVIS FRANK ROTCH, EINAR FRET HEM. MODERN NOVELTY, IN- CORPORATED.
 Feeley's mouth was a grim line, ssYoure hot, Tait. But that won't hang Lud Dombey's murderer And why is that copy? Where's the original wire?"
 T dropped it by Harris Rogers chair-and I notice it isn't there now"
 Nervously Feeley lit cigar. He said nothing, but his whole man. ner indicated to Bob Tait that he was with him, and that he was grateful.
 The crowd in the Golden Bowl had become hushed as Weeks sat at the piano in a golden spotlight No one there attempted to dance to the tune of ''The Cats Meow. To the ickies, the whackies, and the jitterbugs, to the devotees of Ludden Dombey, late tom of the swing cats, that would have been sacrilege. Everybody in the big, glittering room couples slid into their seats at the tables.
 The Swingateers sat immobile. Torchy" Stephens stood facing them, his baton poised. The gaunt Weeks fingers trembled over the keys, then dropped down. He looked eerie, death-like, in the amber glow