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Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06
Famous Sayings -

knowing his name or exactly where
he lives, which somehow makes our
contact more interesting. He be-
lieves, l gather, that I have some
connection with the station. ! sup
pose there are at least so around
town whose acquaintance is on the
same basis.
New York restaurateurs have had
trouble since prohibition repeal
wedding out the bad egg walters
left over from the speak-easy era.
Quite naturally, most of them ac-
quired a philosophy of get it today
for tomorrow we may be closed.
They learned many sly gestures in
gypping that have had to be up
rooted in a day of more leisurely
dining and careful check adding.
The waiter on his toes today in
such places as the Stork Club can
be thoroughly honest and make
around $50 a week. The calling is
attracting a surprising number of
college men, who will stay with it
until economic adjustments are
more pronounced.
Thingumbobs: Will Lengel is now
in charge of all of Theodore Dreis-
er's literary affairs O.. Steve Han
nagan, who put Miami Beach on
the map is now ballyhooing Porto
Rico Major Bowes has a sister
who is talented pianist and poet
:. Gene Fowler is dramatizing the
Associated Press for the movies.
City life vignette: His hat blew
out of the bus window spang into
the middle of the busy avenue. But
when he got out to retrieve it his
arms were so full of bundles he
just kicked it to the curb, where
a passer-by placed it on his head
and sent him merrily on his way.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

!
workers. One promises a dying
relative to take care of a dim
witted pervert who delights in car
rying about and talking to a dead
mouse that he has squeezed to
death.
In the end the degenerate gar
roteS a tartish maid of the bunk
house and his mentor, to save him
from a posse, puts a bullet through
his head. But it is not so much
the CHASTITY theme that repels but
the quite unnecessary exploiting OF
unprintable epithets.
New York is funny that way.
Wicked and overly sophisticated as
it is reputed to be. it will shrink
more than the crossroads from
flagrant licentiousness in theatrical
fare Such plays as "Of Mice and
Men" appeal almost solely to the
out-of-town trade.
Many regard George Abbott as
the most aStute producer of the
day. He has a flop now and then,
but generally his successes are spec
tacular. A capable actor himself,
he is superb in directing. Few in
the theatre are so little known and
self -effacing. Indeed. self-efface-
ment is distinguishing the Rialto
lately. There is none with the
Ziegfeld and Belasco flair for erupt-
ing headlines. Two producers are
without press agents or desire to
string their names in lights. Still
left, of course, is Billy Rose, who
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06
Build Defense for Peace,
Not Arms for War

There are two ways of looking at this
years national defense budget as sub
mitted Wednesday by President ROose-
velt-the largest defense budget in the
peacetime history of the nation. If we
are going to spend 81 ,0l0, 1885, 1877 to keep
the United States out of war, it is worth
the cost. If, on the other hand, we're
spending that money in preparation for
war, that's another story.
The Post and Press have never been
opposed to adequate national defense.
We have pointed out time and again
that nation without sufficient strength
TO repulse attack is inviting attack. If we
are to be secure in our homes, we need
enough military strength to frighten off
possible invaders before they become
actual aggressors.
The national program now being car
ried out WILL we believe, give us the ma
tional defense resources We need. That
being the case, it is this country's duty
now to be sure that its strength is used
only for defense of its own territories,
not to pull somebody else's irons out of
the fire.
1t might seem at casual glance that
a strong army, navy and air force would
be big factor in keeping the United
States out of war, without the need for
increased vigilance. 1t is, if you are
considering only the possibility of inva-
sion. There is another consideration,
however, that calls for level heads in
Washington these days.
The United States, strong in military
strength, would be a powerful ally for
any nation contemplating war The map
of the world today shows US that there
are several nations either contemplate
ing war, threatening war or threatened
with war, as well as some engaged in
war. For any of these, the United States
would be powerful friend or a danger
Gus enemy. You can bet your bottom
dollar that there will be all kinds of
strings pulled in the next few months,
all trying to get this country entangled
in the international mud-hole. 1t is our
job to see that we don't swallow any
of the hooks on the ends of those strings.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06
The Doctrine of Status Quo
Will Not Work

1t has become the aim of several polf-
tical organizations and groups in recent
years to control industry, business and
labor through control of production,
prices and wage scales. To follow, in
other words, what might be called the
Doctrine of Status Quo To get things
running comfortably for everybody, and
then keep them running in the same
grove.
If the laws of economics let the Doc
trine succeed, there is another mighty
big reason why it would not. 1t is hu-
man nature.
Suppose we had government which
was able to say to industry: you shall
produce only so much this year. There
is not enough demand to warrant great
er production" Then suppose some poor
devil who'd saved enough to set himself
up in business wanted to produce the
same thing. mo-" the same government
could logically say, we've enough of
production" The fellows only alterna-
tive would be to go back to work where
he was-or hunt some country where
man could still open a business if he
wanted to-
Mankind is not content to sit still
on one job all its life We want no politi-
cal theory which would keep the work
ing man working and the business man
i'm business. We want chance to make
our own lives, even if We ruin them.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

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
a form to be obtained at the office
of the Board of Directors of the
District at Ell Centro, California;
shall be accompanied by a certi-
fled or cashiers check or a bid
bond for not less than per cent
of the amount of the bid made
payable to the order of the Trea-
surer of Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict, Ell Centre, California; shall
be sealed and filed with the Board
of Directors of Imperial Irrigation
District, Ell Centre, California, on
or before Feb. 8, 1888, at 10 o'clock
am. and will be opened and pub
licly read aloud at or about 10
o'clock am. of that day in the
office of the Board
The above-mentioned check or
bond shall be given as guarantee
that the bidder will enter into the
contract if awarded to him and
will be declared forfeited If the
successful bidder refuses to enter
into said contract after being re-
quested SO to do by the Board of
Directors of the Imperial Irriga-
ton District
The Board of Directors of the
District reserves the right to reject
any or all bids or waive any in
formality in a bid.
No bidder may withdraw his bid
for a period of sixty (60) days af-
ter the date set for the opening
thereof.
Dated: Jan 4, 1888
Board of Directors
Imperial Irrigation District.
BY w. w. GOODSON,
Secretary.
JG-l3-2O
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

There are many reasons why
housing on scale needed by the
country fails to get started.
High hourly wages in the build
ing trades, high prices for building
materials, oppressive and unneces-
sary legal specifications, specula-
tive land prices. all these are hold
ing back the building boom which
is necessary to recovery.
No way has yet been found to
"unfreeze" any of these factors.
No model home" proposals have
yet been made which bring new
houses down into the price range
where the mass of men can buy
them.
From a layman, who does not
pretend to be building expert,
comes a suggestion that might pos
sibly point a way out. 1t is this:
If the kind of model houses"
now designed and offered the aver
age workman are beyond his power
to buy (and they are) why not
90 at the thing from completely
new angle, and design, a house
that will be just as much house as
this man can afford to buy, and
no more?
How were automobiles brought
within the range of the average
buyer? BY building an automobile
stripped of all gee-gaws, most OF
the conveniences, and even many
comforts-the old Model-T Ford ol
blessed memory. 1t wasn't much OF
a car, even according to the stand
ards of those days. But it ran, an6
thousands of people found it in
finitely preferable to the horse ano
buggy, or to no car at all.
Doesn't this suggest an approach
to housing? What's the matter
with building a "ModelT" house
stripped of gadgets and some O
the latest conveniences and com
forts? A simple house that will b'
water-tige, and clean, and sound
even if it doesn't have an electri'
refrigerator and thermostatic hea
control. A house SO designed tina
additions can be built as needed
gadgets installed as they can be af
forded, conveniences and comfort
gradually added as the occupan
becomes able to pay for them.
Would it not be possible to de
sign and build such house at
cost, even under today'S conditions
which would jibe with the averag
working mans income?
Does this mean retreat to low
er standards than those indicates
by the beautiful model homes
that are being designed today
Certainly not. Such house. plai
and un-gadgeted as it would bt
would Immediately be a vast i'm
provement over the drafty cabin
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06
Other Editors Say
FIGHTING BETTER DEPORTATION
Santa Monica Outlook


The Army and Navy union, which is engaged
in an active campaign to secure the deportation
of aliens who teach advocate foreign isms' in
the United States, is making very serious charges
against Secretary Perkins, of the labor depart
ment and some of her subordinates.
They charge that representatives OF the Ia
Dor department have undertaken TO change the
bill proposed by the Army and Navy union
for deportation of undesirable aliens and to
have the penalty limited for offenses to fines
or Jail sentences. This is grave mistake and
the vast majority of the people of America will
not sympathize with such efforts on the part
of the labor department officials.
We have had occasion from time to time to
give the facts in regard to the negligence of
the labor department in the enforcement OF
the immigration laws and the laws providing
for the deportation of undesirable aliens The
present charges are in harmony with the whole
record of Madam Perkins and her department
in this respect
Apparently they are far more sympathetic
with foreigners who secure admission to the
United States, not as a refuge but as place
where they may promote some European "isms,"
than they are in protecting the public against
this class of vicious propaganda.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT
Ell Centre, California
IMPERIAL VALLEY POWER
PROJECT
Specifications No. 3
Specifications No. 3

ADVERI1SEMENI FoN blDo
Notice is hereby given that the
Board of Directors of Imperial 1r-
rieation District will receive bids
for the furnishing OF Conductors
Poles, Insulators and Air-break
Switches for 33,000-volt Transmits
sion Lines located in the Imperias
Valley, California; each bid to be
in accordance with the Plans, De-
tail Specifications and other con-
tract documents, comprising Spe-
cifications No. 3, now on file at the
office of the Board of Directors OF
Imperial Irrigation District at Ell
Centre. California, where they may
be examined and copies obtained
upon deposit of $1,000 per set,
which deposit will be refunded
upon the return of such copies in
good condition within five days
after the bids are opened.
The principal items of equip
ment are as follows:
No. 20 copper or equivalent A.C.
S.R.: Conductors, Poles and 1nSulat-
ors for 81 miles Of Transmission
Lines.
No. 2 copper or equivalent A.C.S.
r.: Conductors, Poles and Insulat-
ors for 81 miles of Transmission
Lines.
Eighteen Air break Switches.
Bidders attention is called to
the fact that the materials and-or
equipment, to be furnished are a
part of power project to be fl
nanced by a Loan and Grant to
the District from the Federal Emer-
gency Administration of Public
Works, CPWA Docket No. Calf.
lO88-P-D) and the award of the
contract will be contingent upon
securing funds from such source.
Notice Is also hereby given that
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

More than 15,000000 persons, a
total larger than the combined
populations of Norway, Sweden and
Denmark, visited areas admins
tered by the U. S. parks service
during 1887.
The comptroller general of the
United States has charge of all
matters pertaining to the receipt,
disbursement and application OF
public funds.
In the kingdom of Nepal, between
India and Tibet, a man adyertises
his prosperity by wearing two
neckties at once.
The chances of death by acci-
dent are said to be in 1900 in
the United States this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06
You re Telling Ne --
BY WILLIAM RIFT
Want Ad Department

ZADOK DUMBKOPF, this city,
has a few items, Christmas gifts
he received, which he IS willing
to swap for some of your Santa
Claus miStakes-or what have you.
Item Society Chin Screen.
This clever little gadget, when held
nonchalantly before ones mouth,
enables one to chew gum at swell
social functions without annoying
your hostess.
Item 2-Three- volume set, THE
History of the Connecticut Nutmeg
InduStry-18l6-18 Inclusive, By
Professor V. Tutwiler Vench. No
library complete without it.
Item 3-Pair of canary bird an
kletS. In national colors OF red,
white and blue. Give your little
singing pet a chance to feel pa
triotic and comfy at the same
time.
Item - Hand-tooled leather
toothpick pouch with upper OPEN
ing. Has compartment for three
standard sized toothpicks. Fits any
vest pocket. A collectors item.
Item 55-Stuffed white owl in
glass case, only slightly cracked.
Just the touch you need for your
living room. Would also look weh.
on any mantelpiece.
Item 6-Framed photograph OF
the 1907 Sauerkraut Center Nor
NAL volley ball team. Each player
identified. A heritage you will be
proud to leave your children. Act
now.
SOLDIERS in the British army,
according to news dispatch, won't
get their Christmas present until
some time next year It's new
! type heavy anti-tank rifle.
Yawn Yawnson, the towns
leading tired man, had as his New
Years resolution-to find work.
But the only job he says he'll take
is that of elephant trainer for a
flea circus.
Skiing never will become top
ranking sport until il improves to
the point that the walk back up
the mountain is just as much fun;
You Haven't Read All the NewA
Until You've read the Ads
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06
Bruce Carton Says:
- How About Housing on Model Basis?

and reeking slums that now house
so many people in city and coun-
try.
If man can't afford to buy
what he wants, he usually puys
what he can afford. But in nous
ing, that chance has not yet been
offered him. Perhaps such an Oh
fer would be the key-log which,
pried loose. would release the pent-
ND demand for new houses.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

following the first
night. might in
dicate Almost to
a man, the re-
viewers. in dazz-
lin G rhetorical
nip-ups, hailed ii
as the opus of the
season.
The plot is one
Of pathological
horror. concern
ing the strange
bond between two
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06
One.Minute Test Answers

One-Minute Test Answers
/. Senator Key Pittman, Demo-
crat, of Nevada.
2. 1t is in the Panama Canal
Zone, a U. S. dependency.
3. THE Divine Comedy.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

The movies offered racket
buster Dewey a job but he re-
fused. Someone must have cited
the futility of catching the Grim
inal in the second reel of a
serial.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06
New York Day by Day - BY O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-The sea-
sons dramatic shocker, "Of Mice
and Men, is not doing the turn
away business that the critical raves,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

!. Who is chairman of the us.
senate foreign relations committee?
2. Locate the Gatun dam.
3. Name the most famous of DAN
te's works.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

Bicycle sales in 1887 were the highest in
history. Are the horse and buggy days really
coming back?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

Wonder if there was any American scrap
metal in those Japanese bombs which sank the
gunboat Panay on the Yangtze river.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06
TOday's Horoscope

TOday's Horoscope
Persons whose birthday occurs
today are inclined to disregard the
dictates of their conscience and in
tellect. They have to fight ten
dency to stray.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

The German butter ration was
cut Is per cent for Christmas.
Some younger Nazis secretly feel
Hitler was spreading it on too
thick about Santa Claus.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

Poland is building a stratosphere balloon to
ascend 20 miles. What a swell vantage point
from which to watch the next European war!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

Most notable contradiction of
the year: the sitdOwn strikers
who asserted they were taking
a firm stand for their rights.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

An observer says the Japanese
are not naturally warlike, but on
any international amateur night
they could win first prize for the
best imitation.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06
Words of Wisdom

Words of Wisdom
Nothing is really work unless you
would rather be doing something
elSe.-Sir James NJ Barrie.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

Wonder il there is any signifi-
canoe i'm the fact that the Holy
Land, birthplace Of the Prince OF
Peace, was torn by violence on
Christmas.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06
Hints on Etiquette

Hints on Etiquette
1t is customary to tip the waiter
in a restaurant 10 per cent of the
bill
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

Handling Congress is like teeth
pulling for Roosevelt, who may
vet have to drag some of the issues
out by the grass roots.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

The U. S. Chamber of Com
merce estimates that 1888 taxes
may total S13,5O0,0O0, 900. What,
doesn't the government want the
ether fOur-fifths of our national
income?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06
Barbs

Perhaps some of New York
States non-paying guests wish the
Japanese would mistake Sing Sing
for a Chinese city and break down
it walls.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

The japanese claim the Panay
bombing incident is ended. 1t is
for the Panay.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

A New Jersey man used a gun,
club and an automobile to kill
his girl friend. Nothing like max
ing assurance doubly sure.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06
C3a33 3fzi j; l:;i:iia s. fzE4a 4
limited time only

Thousands who wear dental plates
know FASTEETH to be a pleasant aid
for all day comfort and security of mt.
Anyone who wears a plate or bridge IS
invited, at our expense, to try kLEEN'
No daily brushing = no acid - no harm.
KLEENTEETH easily and quickly re.
moves sticky film - stains = tarnish and
food debris that causes plate taste
and "denture BREATH Simply soak plats
In solntinn of KLEENTEETH.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06
thoughts for the Day -

And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words
OF this law very plainly.-Deuteronomy 27:S
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

Item 2-Three-volume set, "The
History of the Connecticut Nutmeg
ndustry-1816-189 Inclusive, bJ
Professor V. Tutwiler Vench. Mo-
library complete without it.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

does not share in such modesty.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

Skiing never will become top
ranking sport until it improves to
the point that the walk back up
the mountain is just as much fun.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-01-06

Item 3-Pair of canary bird an
klets. In national colors of red,
white and blue. Give your little
singing pet a chance to feel pa
triotic and comfy at the same
time
The Washington times., 1938-07-12

from C1me TO Glme.
There are many times, how
ever, when the owner does not
actually know what makes his
pet sluggish, fretful, unfriendly,
or just plain miserable and be-
ing troubled over the situation.
He therefore often follows the
advice of his next-door neighbor.
The patient is thereupon immedi-
ately given some popular brand
of patent worm medicine, let
us say, when actually he should
have been treated for distemper
or, perhaps, any one of a variety
of diseases having similar symp-
toms.
Just as it is true that most
veterinarians are called upon to
cure their share of CANNES whose
owners believe them to be Suf-
fering from imaginary ailments,
they are also continuously asked
to perform miracles in reSurrect-
ing half-dead dogs who have at
least been partially killed by
well-meaning but misinformed
doctors" using questionable
remedies.
I would suggest that If your dog
The Washington times., 1938-07-12
GILLESPIE PAGES
SCHOOL NETMEN

HAVERFORD, Pa, July II
Q.N.SD Billy Gillespie, of Scar
borough Hall, N. Y, top-seeded
entrant, and John A. Kramer, OF
Los Angeles, second seeded, paced
the handful of favorites who sur.
vived the opening days play in
the national interscholastic boys
tennis tournament at the Merton
Cricket Club.
Kramer smashed his way to the
quarter-final round by sweeping
aside Thomas Nixon, one of the
San Antonio, Tex, twins, g.
60. Herman A. Schaefer, jr.
of Lower Merton, Pa, defeated
Ben. the other twin, 6-3, 6-3.
Gillespie chalked up a double
victory, beating Dante Lancellotte
of Providence, r. l., 6-3, 6-3
and John Schantz, of Allentown.
Pa, 60, 6I1.
Dick Mckee, of Miami Beach,
Fla, third on the seeded list, dis
posed of John Southworth, OF
Mount Lebanan, Pa, 8-6, 6-3,
while Bob Curtis of Austin, Tex,
the fourth seeded favorite did not
appear,
The Washington times., 1938-07-12
PRO-LADY GOLF.
PLAY PLEASANT.
'AND|NSTRUCT|VE.
BY LILLIAN RIXEY

While Witty Cox and Leo Wal
per got down to business yeSter-
day at Shawnee, the Middle At
lantic pros were having a little
fun out at Beaver Dam in a pro-
lady mixed Scotch tWosome event
which proved SO successful, with
"a pairs entered, that both pros
and ladies were clamoring for a
return engagement.
Beetle-browed Bob Burnette, of
Chevy Chase, from which club
comes many a ladies' man,
claimed that alternating shots
with women linksterS proved not
only pleasant but instructive. His
theory was that neither pro nor
woman golfer would ever have
the same type of shot to play If
he or she were doing all the
hitting.
Thus, said Mr.. Burnette, the
women found themselves frequent
ly pitching to the green where
they had been accustomed to
using a wood, and the pros some
times had to take to their woods,
where they usually picked up an
iron.
There was a three-way tie for
first place between Mrs. Betty
Meckley and Frank Cunningham,
Mrs, Theodore Peyser and G. Lar.
kin, and Elsie Stavely and C1tt
Spencer, with each team cardlng
a. 78, one under Women'S par.
In the amateur-lady event, run
concurrently, Mrs. Florence God
frey and Tom Doerer took low
honors with a 70.
The teams of Meckley-Cunning-
ham and PeySer-Larkin shot the
most consistent golf of the day
when each pair turned in a 80
for the out nine and SO for the
back nine.
The brides were few yesterday,
the eagles non-eXistent, primarily
because pros and ladies had never
paired together before. Visiting
pros, from Baltimore, Annapolis,
Winchester and Quantico, either
brought along their ladies or bor-
one for the day from Mrs.
N. J. Waldron, of Beaver Dam,
District team captain.