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Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-14
WHATS THE MATTER
WITH THE LAW2

There Is something radically wrong
with the laws Of the United States when
community can be treated to the dis
graceful spectacle that was enacted We'd
nesday in the little Town Of Westwood,
Calf. There IS somthing wrong with
the lawmakers who read of such things
and do nothing about il.
Consider this:
The CIO wanted to organize workers
in the towns only industry, which is the
nations largest lumber mill So the Go
called strike. It sent pickets to close
down the lumber mill. Most of them were
not employees of the mill. They were there
simply to close down the firm, 10 demon
strate CLOS power, and To encourage
lumber mill workers To join the GlO. It
was. in the last analysis, an attempt to
gain more dues paying members for the
union
Laborers from the mill and citizens
of the community watched. They saw
their source Of livlihood shut down. They
saw their income halted. They waited Tor
peace. 1t did not come. They waited for
the mill operators to open their mill. The
operators could not. The laborers and the
citizens finally had all they could stand.
They marched hundreds strong against
the outsiders VINO ndu deprived lIelu VI d
living With clubs and fists and guns they
purged their town of the trouble makers.
They turned the streets into a shambles-
but they got rid of the CIO.
The people who did that were citizens
in the community, laborers in the mills.
We cannot say they did not have right
to protect their homes-and in protecting
their jobs they were doing just that. We
can only blame them for their lawless
methods-and candor forces us to admit
even there that. without those methods,
those people still would be jobless. Their
community still would be at q standstill.
We cannot condone the actions of the
people of Westwood, but neither do we
blame them. Rather, We can only place
the blame where it lies-on laws that fail
to protect the people of community
against other groups, coming in from
outside, cutting off the lfeblood of
community.
More and more this nation sees the
great need for laws sensibly regulating
the conduct Of labor's affairs.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-14

Of Imperial Irrigation District. FL
Centro. California;: shall be sealed
and filed with the Board of Direc-
tors Of Imperial Irrigation District.
Fl Centre. California. on or before
July %, 1898, at 10 o'clock AM.
and will be opened and publicly
read aloud at or about 10 o'clock
A. NJ Of that day in The office Of
the Board.
The aforementioned check or
bond shall be given as a guarantee
that the bidder will enter into the
contract il awarded TO HIM. and
will be declared forfeited if the
successful bidder refuses to enter
into said contract alter being re-
queSted so to do by the Board OF
Directors Of the Imperial Irrigation
District.
The Board Of Directors Of the
District reserves the RIGHT to reject
any or all bids or To waive any i'll
foFmality in a bid
No bidder may withdraw his bid
for a period Of sixty l601 days after
the date set for the opening thereof
Dated, July s. 1898.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Imperial Irrigation District.
BY w. ". GOODSON,
Secretary.
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-14
RIVERSIDE MAKES
ONE BIG MISTAKE

Our neighboring city of Riverside made
one big mistake and thereby lost PWA
grant and loan of S950,000 for new
sewer system. Riverside was too frank
about hiring a lobbyist.
Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes in
formed Riyerside's mayor that PWA
would not tolerate any such procedure
as that under which the city guaranteed
its lobbyist a certain percentage of the
amount of PWA funds if the city's appli-
cation was successful.
What Riverside should have done was
tell the lobbyist he would be made tech
nical advisor over the project if it went
through and for the work of technical
advisor would receive certain percent
age of the amount expended on the pro-
ject.
That is what other cities have done.
Somehow or other, it gets around the
the idea that lobbyist has been hired to
put something over on PWA. The idea, of
course, remains the same, but the fellows
dressed in an engineers boots and britch-
es instead of lobbyists striped trousers
and swallow tail
We don't blame Mr. Ickes for dislik-
ing the idea of percentage of the gross
take-but We do believe his dislike should
be more general
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-14
PAST AND PRESENT
(NeU HareR JOurnd-C & COUrier)

If our ancestors of the hOrse-and-bug
gy days who headed west to make and
maintain an empire, who ploughed their
strength and courage into the plains, who
seWed the seeds of great cities across the
continent, who took catastrophe in their
stride only to build bigger and better,
who considered adversely not threat to
be afraid of but a challenge to be met
II th0se-our ancestOrs--could see us
moderns now, what would they think of
our 1888? We have all that they lacked,
we have all they hoped to create vast
nation dotted with great cities and abun-
dant farms and filled with products of
mechanical genius. We have what they
had, depressions and droughts and
sweeping fires, but we are better equip
ped to fight them and to compensate for
their destruction.
Those ancestors Of ours would call us
lucky, would expect US to be happy and
content and advancing rapidly toward a
tWentith century version of Utopia. But
they would find a people restless, not
with surging energy, but with dissatis-
faction and bitterness; discontented, not
with their own fault but with those Of
others; demanding, not to do things
themselves, but to have others do for
them. They would find a powerful indus
trial economy stalled because its main
spring, its motive is considered crime
They would find a growing group look
ing, not for freedom but security, not for
opportunity, but for largesse.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-14
LITTLE RED SCHOOIHOUSE
GOES TO COLLEGE
(RHerSide Press

The little red school house is going
To college.
Dissatisfied with the narrow vision
and meager program Of the traditional
school which the present generation in
herited from the past. the state depart
ment of public instruction will sponsor
a working model of 4 one-teacher rural
school during the summer session at the
University of California.
In Hillside school near the Berkeley
campus, thirty youngsters of elementary
age will act as guinea pigs for the edu-
cational experiment To be conducted by
Miss Helen Heffernan and Miss Gladys
Potter of the state division of elementary
education at Sacramento
Instead of the familiar eight ring
circus in which twelve 10 twenty child
rem from the first to the eighth grade
retard each others progress. all in the
model school will work together on SINH
lar projects.
For example, Miss Potter explain
ed. they will all work on foods. While
the little ones study the source and sim
pie consistency Of foods, the more ad-
vanced children will be taught the nutri-
ton qualities and somewhat complex
process of preparing edibles.
Attention, above all else. will be given
to the child's need for wholesome adjust
ments in his own social group, for vigor-
Gus physical and mental activity, and for
satisfying experiences in aesthetic enjoy
ment and creative endeayor, it is explain
ed.
Miss Potter's statement that the pur-
pose of the school is to assist teachers
and administrations in "charting defen-
sible course through a difficult transition
period" will challenge interest in the ex-
pertinent. After all, it is mainly through
experimentation that progress has been
made in any field of endeayor.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-14

Ine foregoing SCneQule oil per
diem wages is based on a working
day of 9 hours. The hourly wage
rate prescribed hereinaboVe is the
per diem rate divided by the afore-
mentioned number of hours con-
stituting a working day. Rates for
legal holidays and overtime shall
be one and one-half 10 times
the above rates.
1t shall be mandatory upon the
Contractor to whom the contract
is awarded, and upon any subcon-
tractor under him, to pay not less
than the said specified rates to all
labOrers, Workmen, and mechanics
employed by them in the execution
of the contract.
Notice is also hereby given that
all bidders may submit with their
bids a sworn statement Of their
financial responsibility, technical
ability and experience. Such sworn
statement may be required to be
furnished before award IS made to
any particular bidder.
Each bid shall be made out ON
form to be obtained at the Office OF
the Board of Directors of the Dis
trict at FL Centro, California. shall
be accompanied by a certified or a
cashiers check, or a bid bond for
not less than five 90 per cent of
the amount Of the bid made pay
able to the order Of the Treasure
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-14

BRINGING
ALL THE NEWS
TO IMPERIAL
VALLEY
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-14
Well I,III
Tell You.
says
Bob Burns

1 believe there is more dipiom-
acy and less tact shown in Holly
wood than in any other place in
the world. Diplomacy is a sort of
studied niceness that's put On TO
gain point. The best definition
for tact is one that grandpa Snaz-
Nv told me when l was a boy.
lie said Tact is what keeps an
cid man with snow white hair
from reminding a young locking
red headed woman OF The times
when they use'ta play together as
children"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-14

3. with upholstery thor
oughly vacuumed, running
gear and body painstak-
ingly cleaned. Another
superior McNeece service!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-14
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT
FL Centre. California
IMPERIAL VALLEY POWER
PROJECT
:.
Specifications No. II
ADNFRTISFAHsNT Eop nm

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
Notice Is hereby given that the
Board of Directors of Imperial Irri-
cation District will receive bids for
installing station sWitchboards and
furnishing and erecting switching
structures in the Districts Diesel
Power Plant at BraWley and at
various city and rural substation
sites within the Imperial Valley:
each bid to be n accordance with
Plans, Detail Specifications, and
other contract documents compris-
Ing Specifications Ne. Il now on
lie Al the flee Of the Board Of
Directors OF Imperial Irrigation Dis
trlet Il Fl Centro, California. Waefe
they may be examined and copies
obtained upon deposit OF $40 Der
set. which deposit will be refunded
upon the return of such copies in
good condition within five days after
tie bids are opened.
The principal items of work in
yolyed are as follows:
Installation of eleven I'D panel
switchboard and all station
wiring in the RraWley Diesel
Plant and extensions:
Furnishing and erecting fabri-
cated-steel switching struc-
lures and installation of
equipment in the BraWley
t7500-kvaD and the FL Cen
tro t5,000-kya) substations;
Furnishing and erecting pipe
frame work switching struc-
lures and installation of
equipment in CaleXico d.500-
kya). HoltYille G800-kva),
Imperial l750-kVa), and Cali
patria d050-kyaD substations:
Installation of equipment and
completion of wood pole
structures in seven small sub
stations 1600-kVa and G300-
kVa).
Bidders attention is called to the
fact that the work to be done is q
part of a power project to be fin
anced by a Loan and Grant To the
District from the Federal Emer
gency Administration of Public
Works tP.W A. Docket No. Cali.
1088-P-D and the award Of the
contract will be contingent upon
securing funds from such source.
Bidders are hereby notified that,
pursuant to the statutes of the State
of California or local law thereto
applicable. the Board of Directors
OF Imperial Irrigation District has
ascertained the general prevailing
rate of per diem wages and rates for
legal holidays and overtime work in
the locality in which this work Is
to be performed, for each craft or
type of workman or mechanic need
ed to execute the contact which
will be awarded the successful
bidder.
The prevailing rates SO determin-
ed are as follows:
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-14

and a better lubrica-
Jon job with rock-a-car
Jack and Veedol paraffin-
base lubricants awaits you
1t McNeece'si
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-14
Famous Sayings
By WILLIAM RITT

Adolf Hitler. according 10 del
fuehrers pals, is a man of very
unique ideas. You bet he isl
especially that one making it a
criminal offense to pick out the
wrong kind of grandparents!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-14

The chief handicap in writing
gags about stock market booms is
the latter seldom last long enough
10 get the former into print.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-14

We now are rapidly approaching
he season when many outof-og-
flee politicians discover the awful
truth that the letters "eX" are
really just an abbreviation of the
word extinct.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-14
You re Telling Me .-

An European visitor writes that
What impressed him most was how
the average American sticks 10 his
own business. Gosh! That fellow,
apparently. never ran across a
Letters to the Editor column.
Some mention should be made
of that new world speed record set
by Japanese militarists. They for
cot their latest promise while in
the very act OF making it.
What this country needs, says
zadok Bumbkopf, IS a national
holiday with no historical or re-
ligious signifieance-so The folk
can 90 right out and enjoy them
selves thoroughly without feeling
the least bit sheepish.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-14

TINE AND TIDE Wait For No han
And Neither DO POst-Press
Wa.t-Ad Section.
The Washington times., 1938-02-02
Blimp Ride
BGres D. C..
Traffic

Two congressman and three
local traffic experts found Wash
ington's traffic situation a head
ache even from a bird's-eye view
today. They went up in the blimp
that flies over Washington, looked
down, and there was all the traffic
anyone would care to see.
They watched the comings and
goings Of automobiles, busses and
street cars during the morning
rush per'od, then flew about the
city glancing down at sites sug-
gested for improving the flow of
traffic. The trip took an hour
and half.
The party comprised Represent
atives William T. Schultz CD of
Indiana, and Paul w. Shafer (R.)
of Michigan of the House District
Committee, and Traffic Director
William A. Van Duzer. C. Melvin
Sharpe, executive of the Potomac
Electric Power Company, and e.
D. Merrill, president of Capital
Transit Company. who are men,
bers of the Traffic Advisory
Committee.
Particular attention was paid to
new signal lights, which started
operations today at Fourth Street
and Massachusetts, Avenue North
west,
The Washington times., 1938-02-02
Business Tax Hit

A three-judge tribunal in the
United States Court of Appeals
today began hearing arguments
in thre suits filed by a group Of
local merchants attacking the
constitutionality of the business
privilege tax enacted by the last
Congress.
Chief Justice zAlfred A. Wheat
and Associate Justice )James M
Proctor of the District Court and
Chief Justice D. Lawrence Groner
of the Court of Appeals composed
the tribunal which is required
under the new Federal judiciary
act to hear all cases which in
volve constitutionality of an act
of Congress.
The petitioners are Max Sha.
piro, whole sale dealer and presi.
The Washington times., 1938-02-02
Evalyn walsh McI.ea

EValyn Walsh Mclean The women who work in it
give their time free, and every penny they take
In goes to charity. 1t is indeed worthy cause
Fine BusineSSUonan
Mrs, Williams is also a fine businesswoman
She has the mind of man and in fact, can
outdo most any man in business deal. I have
yet to hear of her having a failure in anything
she has undertaken.
remember her husband, Colonel Williams,
The Washington times., 1938-02-02
Says BoGke Carter

The wording is interesting. 1t signifies the
completion of mutual "you-scratch-myb ybackIll
scratch.yours" session. The Ludlow referendum
discussion was defeated mainly through the
pressure exerted on Congressman by the American
Legion.
The legion feared that the Ludlow proposal
would take the play away from their own pet
measure, the No. item on this years national
program of the legion-the universal service act
known as the ShephardE1ill bill.
The Fine Art of Back Scratching
The White House also did not want any dis
cussion of the Ludlow proposal, for it offered
too many opportunities to question deeply into
Executive actions on foreign policy. The legion
didn't want it discussed for fear the legion's
universal service act would become forgotten
Said the White House to the legion: "You scratch
my back now, and I'll scratch yours later"
The legion scratched" noby and the Ludlow
proposition was licked.
The White House has now returned the back
scratch by strongly suggesting to Congress it
enact legislation designed to eliminate profiteer.
ing and equalize burdens" of any possible future
war-which is the essence of the legion's uni
versal service act.
Adequate defense means that for the protec-
ton not only of our coasts but also of our
communities far removed from the coast, we must
keep any potential enemy many hundreds OF
miles away from our continental limits THE
White House national defense-naval building
message to Congress.
Is many hundreds of miles away to be inter
preted as sending our fleet to foreign waters
maybe 1000 miles away to the westward or 5000
to 1000 miles away to the eastward-to fight
potential enemies" in their own home waters?
Is that national defense?
(Bouke Carriers opinions are his o,0n and not
necessarily those of The Washington TtmeSJ
Copyright 1888. by Ledger syndicate)
The Washington times., 1938-02-02


more, the people probably will insist, if they are
wise, on two things:
First, that this insurance money will be used
to protect our own property and not that OF
some other nation.
Second that this insurance money will not
be used to start costly fire which will burn
down our national house, against which very
menace we are now asked to take out insurance.
On these two points Mr.. Roosevelt, in his
message to Congress, is exceedingly vague.
Don't Let "Down Payment" Fool You
Although the cost of this supplemental pro-
gram is estimated at $SoO,OOOOOO and even more
over period Of time, the message points out
that in so far as the 1899 fiscal year is concerned
1t will mean but the piffling extra expenditure Of
about $2000OO00 But keep your eye on the
$500 000, 900. That's where the key may be found
In his message Mr.. Roosevelt asked-in view
Of war alarms spreading through the world-that
Congress turn its immediate attention to enact
ment of Legislation designed to eliminate
profiteering in any future war and to equalize
the burdens of any future war so far as possible"
The Washington times., 1938-02-02
CHURCH OPENS
MISSION DRIVE

Lutherans in the United States
today had embarked upon a drive
to raise $3,50O,000 this year to
expand home missionary activities
of the denomination.
The drive was launched after a
meeting last night at Keller
Memorial Lutheran Church, where
the Rev. Henry Pflum, jr., of Buff
falo, N. Y, president of the board
of American missions for the
United Lutheran Church, and the
Rev. DR.. Edwin Moll, D. D.. of
Madison, Wis. we're speakers.
More than 400 persons attended
launching of the drive, which will
be in connection with the twen-
tieth anniversary of the forma-
tion of the United Lutheran
Church in the United States.
This expansion is demanded
Of u.s." said DR.. Pflum. IF we
are to carry it through, the
church at large must aid"
The Washington times., 1938-02-02


national murder that way.
There are ways to cope with foreign relations.
Mrs Cordell Hull, wife of the Secretary of State,
has a graceful way Of doing her patriotic bit.
Her Way of Doing 1t
Every day at this season of the year she puts on
smart dress and new spring hat and goes out
to lunch for her country at foreign embassy or
legation or at the home of Cabinet member.
Her newest spring hat is becoming off-the,face
felt of deep violet heartening change from the
heavygoing black most of us think we must wear
During the night sessions Of the Senate fill
buster, that dignified chamber was not exactly
humming with activity. Democrat Sherman Min
ton was on hand. but evidently couldn't keep his
mind on the endless flow of filibustering words
droning around him. He gazed long and ear.
nesty at one of the official snuff boxes relics of
former days, and still to be found Senate desks.
Finally, temptation overcame him. He tried q
big sniff. The explosion which overlook him before
The Washington times., 1938-02-02

dent of the Wholesale Produce
Dealers Association; Fisher Brown.
Inc, and seven other merchants
engaged in various enterprises:
and the District Grocery Stores.
At the outset of the hearing
today Attorney w. Gwynn Card.
ner, representing the wholesale
grocery chain, asked Assistant
Corporation Counsel 10 V. Nor.
gan to enter into an agreement
whereby his client might pay the
controversial tax under protest
and then enter suit for recovery.
Morgan consented to the proposal
and explained that in order to set
legal machinery in motion to "a
cilitate the procedure he would
ask the court to direct the grocery
chain to show cause why the tax
should not be paid.
The Washington times., 1938-02-02
Is SEIZED HERE
IN DRUG RAIDS

Eleven men and four women,
all colored, were captured by
police and $4,000 worth of mar
cotics were seized in raids on two
so-called social clubs in the North
west section.
Headed by Detective Srgt. Daniel
Jones, of the narcotic squad, De,
tectives JOSEF, Shimon and Harry
Britton and several Treasury De,
partment agents swooped on the
clubs, in the 700 block S st. N. W.,
and the 1900 block Seventh st.
N. w. The places had been I'm.
der police surveillance for several
weeks.
The Washington times., 1938-02-02
"WEDNESDAY, FEB. 2
Bv EvaIm Walsh Mclean

we'll He was sweet, dignified gentleman and
always so proud of his wife.
Besides her remarkable business ability, she
has been most devoted wife and mother, and
I know of no one that is more loyal friend.
Under her sweet manner, the little lady is very
decided and wouldn't like to be the one to
have a runin with her.
have often heard it told that in her younger
days she loved to play poker and could outplay
any man she sat in with.
Always Courageous
Mrs Williams has had her troubles and sor-
rows, like everyone else, but she has never let
anything down her. She is courageous soul
that fights to the finish and always wins out.
I hope ma" Williams and her Thrift Shop
will be with us for many years to come and to
me the greatest tribute she can have paid to her
is when the young people say, I'D rather sit
next to Ma than anybody else in Washington"
You cannot fool young people. They have an
instructive sense of the fineness in people, who
are merry and gay, and this is what Mrs. Will
liams has to the nth degree.
The Washington times., 1938-02-02

woman who is beloved by
everyone, Mrs. John Williams,
affectionately known as ma"
Williams.
1t is due to her unceasing
work and her unfailing under
standing of any problem that
comes up that Mrs. Williams
is so beloved by everyone in
Washington who knows her.
You go into the Thrift Shop
and you can buy marvellous
things for next to nothing.
The Washington times., 1938-02-02
VISIT sKYToP CLUB

Rastko Petrovic, secretary of The
Yugoslavian legation, was among
the recent guests at the Skytop
Club in the Pocono Mountains of
Pennsylvania. Other guests in.
cluded Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Haynes,
Of Washington, and Mrs. r. M.
Coagg, of Alexandria, Va.
The Washington times., 1938-02-02

Well, there Is one thing of
which all of us may be certain
and that is that all United
States citizens, as a unit, are
solidly in favor of an adequate
national defense and they are
willing to pay for that 1nsur-
ance.
We are all solid On the prin-
ciple of insurance. We carry
insurance on our lives, against
burglary and for oratection
against loss by fire. But be.
fore spending $8o0.O0o.ooo
The Washington times., 1938-02-02
ChauffeurS to Truck

Chauffeurs of Washington's
swankiest town cars will leave
their jobs and take up truckin'
tomorrow night.
But all cares of traffic will be
forgotten for swing" and the
big apple" at the annual ball Of