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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-26
More "POise''

Naughty One-Sure, I've three
fraternity pins. I've got three boy
friends.
Other Gal-H'm. That puts you
coupla chumps ahead of me.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-26
NEXT!
Base Remark

Joel been reading the society
page. It says here Julia left WASH
ington after short stop.
Joed-Jeepersl Isn't she ever gon-
ma get over that yen for ball play
ers?-Washington Post.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-26

Dizzy Dialogues
81 gotta hunch."
ooh. / thought youse was just
round shouldered."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-26
PERSONAL

Reduce Sensiblyl Lose up to lbs. week.
ly. Safe and inexpensive. Chart and infor-
nation Free. Write Or. Wendt, Canton, q. ID.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-26
COIN BOOKS

STANDARD 1888 COIN BOOK showing
prices paid including Indian and Lincoln
cents. Get posted. Send Ice. PENN
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-26
SIL<OS

A DOLLAR SAVED In feed cost is dollar
SILVER SHIELD sILOS. Write for yalu-
able silo booklet CANNED DOLLARS.
Lamneok Products, Ino.. B17 Dublin Ave-
nue.. Columbus. Ohio.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-08-26
CHICKS

MARYLAND's FINEST BLOOD-TESTED
CHICKS 80 and Up
Eight popular breeds and crosses. Started
twice weekly MILFORD HATCHERY.
MILFORD Road mr.. Liberty Rd., Pikesville.
r. o. Roekda1e Nd. Pikesville SCR.
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AGENTS

salesman--Men's Neokwear. Established,
Novelty Scarfs. 128 w. S1st. New York.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-26
A NEW CITY HALL
FOR FL CENTRIC

Once again the Works Progress Ad-
ministration appears to be going into the
business of building public, buildings
and financing public projects. The pro-
gram is not yet fully defined-but when
it is and if it allows such projects, it
might be we'll for the Ell Centro city
council to consider again that perennial
subject, new city hall.
There is no question about the need of
Ell Centre for such a civic structure. The
county seat, boasting of being the most
progressive community in Imperial Val
ley, Ell Centre is one of the few towns
in the valley that has no city hall. Tour
lists notice the lack, even though towns
people have become used to doing with
out.
In addition it might be pointed out
that tenancy of the present rented quar-
ters will not be possible many more years
unless extensive rebuilding is undertake
en-. The termites have been at work too
long.
AS to WPA funds let US take purely
businesslike view of the matter.
There have been objections in the past
that we have to pay the bill through
taxes to the federal government for all
such structures. That is perfectly true.
But it is just as true If we do not build
a city hall here that we shall have To
pay for a city hall in TuskOgee, Okla,
or some other place. Since we've got to
pay anyway, we might as we'll be selfish
and get something out of our money.
If the federal government doesn't spend
the money here it will spend it some
other place. A certain amount is to be
spent, and the history of federal spend
ing teaches US to believe that the amount
actually spent will not fall short of the
sum earmarked for spending.
There is one possible drawback the
city council must consider 1t is in the
amount WPA-or the Public Works Ad-
ministration whichever handles the pro-
gram-will demand from the local spon-
sor The city should go into the matter
thoroughly before taking a dive into the
constructive program.
Even considering that. it remains true
that eventually Ell Centro will have to
have a city hall-and if it can be obtain
ed cheaper now than later, then now
would be a good time to build it.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-26
EL CENTRO
30 20 10
YEARS AGO

April 26. 1903 Mrs. H. l. Peck
left today for San Bernardino
where she was called by the illness
OF her aunt
April 26. l908-All of a sudden
Heber has appeared as a rising star
for the first magnitude The town
has been a name, a switch and a
post office for several years, but it
is now taking its place among other
towns in the valley. A new hotel
is being erected as well as an agri-
cultural college.
April 26, 1913-Papers are now
being closed for the sale of the
famous Fritz Kloke place on the
northwest edge Of CaleXico A. M.
Schenk and j. j. Vosburgh are the
purchasers. They paid $4,000 for
the property.
April 26, 1928-Elton 3. Chris
tan Elks charity dance committee
man, today predicted this years
ball would be the outstanding in
the history Of the event The ad-
vance sale on tickets is far ahead
of the record set in previous years.
April 26. l928-Fred NebeI-Thau.
FL Centro representative at the
broadway Of America convention
in Memphis is due home tonight,
according to reports.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-26
TAXING FEDERAL
BONDS AND SALARIES

Nobody who complains about New Deal
unfairness to business can complain
about the New Deal proposal to tax
income from new L. S. bond issues and
to levy an income tax upon federal sal
aries. Many people have never under
stood why these bonds should be exempt
from taxation, nor why the federal gov
ernment should not tax the salaries Of
federal employees.
President Roosevelt has placed his
political enemies in a nice predicament
with his latest recommendation They
cannot very we'll complain against tear
ing down preferred treatment of fed
eral securities and still complain that
the federal government is partial against
private enterprise. This they cannot do
largely because the proposed taxing of
u. S. bond issues will make some private
bond issues Just as attractive as federal
issues, if not more so.
As to federal income taxes on federal
salaries it has been hard for many per-
sons to understand why such salaries
should be exempt when the federal en-
ployes live just as cheaply as anyone
else-or require just as much to live,
however you want to put it. At any rate,
it is hard to find justification for eXemp-
tion in their cases Just because they hold
federal Jobs
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-26
When She Comes Home

When she comes home again! A
thousand ways
I fashion, to myself, the tender
ness
OF my glad welcome: I shall trem-
ble-yes:
And touch her, as when first il.
the old days
I touched her girlish hand. nor
dared upraise
Mine eyes, such was my faint
hearts sweet distress:
Then silence: and the perfume Of
her dress:
The room will sway a little. and a
haze
Cloy eyesight-soul-sight, even-Gor
a space;
And tears-yes; and the ache here
in the throat.
To know that I so i'll deserve the
place
Her arms make for me; and tie
sobbing note
I stay with kisses, ere the tearfu
face
Again is hidden in the old en-
brace
james Whitcomb Riley
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-26
HOW FEAR
AFFECTS BUSINESS

alameda TimeS-Star)
A recent impartial survey of groups OF
business persons i'm all lines Of activity
by a nationwide advertising agency dis
closed some intensely interesting figures
and indicates rather specifically now
the general public reacts to business
slump in adjusting itself to meet the
situation. The report has a cheerful
note in that it shows sound nauonal
heart. even though more than one-halt OF
those interviewed expressed fear OF
the future. While the report does not
definitely so state the fear Is the result
of absence Of political consistency OF the
federal government.
"Eighty-four per cent of the people
say that the recession hasn't affected
their Jobs. says the report. 10 per cent
feel their jobs are just as secure as be-
fore the recession started.
People are cutting down drastically
on luXurieS-On purchases OF hOuSehold
equipment and in many instances ON the
necessities Of life Travel and jewelry
are the luxury items hardest hit, while
furniture purchases have been most dras-
tically reduced Meat clothes and gaso-
line are the necessities of life most af-
fected
More than half of the people who say
they are cutting down on purchases free
" admit that it is not because their in
crease is affected but because they are
afraid Of the future.
People believe prices today are higher
than they really are. TT per cent guess
ed the national cost of living index sub
stantially higher than it actually is.
8O3 per cent think that conditions
will get better-only 1877 per cent that
they will get worse. Only four per cent
are very blue"
The spring of 1888 is the time most
favored for business recovery. Only 10
per cent think that the recession will
last beyond this year
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-26
THE WHITNEY CASE
christian Science Monitor)

More important than the sentencing
of Richard Whitney, one-time president
of the New York Stock Exchange, to
prison for misuse of securities intrusted
TO his banking house, is the fact that the
sentence is everywhere accepted as in
evitable. Mr.. Whitney's own conduct,
since the discovery Of irregularities, has
been one of acceptance of consequences
which he appears to consider warranted.
COincidentally comes announcement of
nominations for the board of governors
of the Exchange. And in this announce
ment is clue to the attitude of social
responsibility which has been reflected
in Wall Streets as we'll as Main Streets
reaction to the Whitney case. Nominat-
ing for chairman a man who has been
identified with the liberal new school
for social research, and for the board
of governors a group of tWenty-nine
nominees which entirely Omits represen-
tatiOn of the so-called "old guard the
nominating committee gave point to its
own declaration that the Exchange is
united in its recognition Of public respOn-
sibilities"
The Whitney case may encourage fur
ther self-regulatiOn in the public inter-
est within the Exchange. Certainly it
has broken somewhat like a rebuke over
those who have persistently opposed reg
ulation from without For both have
seemed necessary. What is encouraging
about the Whitney case is the attitude on
the part Of the public and Wall Street
that seems to take for granted the So
cial responsibility or financial leaders
and to demand that that responsibility
be lived up to-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-26
Famous Sayings
Bruce Cation Saws
About Barks and Bites

MARK TWAIN somewhere tells
an unforgettable story about the
rough, tough Mississippi river ruff
fan who was coming downstream
ON a lumber barge and telling all
his companions what a vicious
and fearless fighter he was.
He was, he said. a child of ca
lamity and an author of misfor-
tunes. No one could stand before
him; to fight with him was to court
suicide, to cross his path was to
risk violent dismemberment. And
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-26
Well | II
Tell You.
says
Bob Burns

Now that it's so easy to travel,
I don't see why in the world they
don't establish some universal sys-
tenn of measurement so a fella can
tell distances. In foreign countries,
they tell you in kilometers. Over
here on land. it's miles, but when
YOU travel ON the ocean, it's knots.
a fcIla was travelling through
the mountains down home one day
and he ran across my uncle and
says, ~ been tryin' to find out
how far it is TO Mulberry.
My uncle says Well, brother, /
suppose I'm the only man around
here that can give you the exact
distance" He says sIts right over
that hill ahead of you, about two
whOOpS, a h0ller and hounds
bay"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-26

nfarconi planned to outfit snip
With electrical equipment, follow the
roce and send word back TO new
work - the staggering distance OF
thirty miles. If he succeeoeu' nc
would prove to America ne haa d
successful invention. Then ne coulu
get its promotion financed
America received him with cooi
eoenicion. Why. he was just boy
No one in the world had ever done
what he proposed to do hence 1t
could not be done!
Admiral Dewey hero Of Manila
Pay. was at the topmoSt peak 'oI
tame and was TO arrive IN New
york harbor on his battleshlp 20
ne given an ovation.
If vou want to show that your
wireless business will work, why
don't you 90 down the bay, meet
Dewey. and send back word? Mar
conf was asked.
Marconi accepted the challenge
and rugged up MS equipment. But
there was a mistake in plans and
Admiral Dewey came in ahead OF
time ana MarcOni did not get the
chance to send back the news.
The papers howled, and the peo-
pie. TOO. This boaster had been
laid to earth. Send the macaronl-
eater back to Italy.
w. w. Bradfield. who was Mar
conis chief assistant. was cast down
bv the wave OF criticism that swept
the country. Marconi was hurt, too
but took a broader and wiser view
of it.
NO man has ever done anything
without a blast of criticism Mar
conf said that night in the old Hoff-
man House. as he read the papers
Well not hesitate. Well go ahead
do what we started out to do, and
the blast of criticism will die
A few days later, Marconi re-
ported the races by wireless The
world gasped. Newspapers screamed
his name. The President wired his
congratulations: the United States
Navy rushed at him to learn about
his invention. The hero Of the hour!
The blast of criticism had turned
into a gale of world applause.
When i'll luck besets us, to ease
the tension. we have only to re-
member that happiness is relative
Captain j. f. Lewis, skipper of an
American tank boat, was released
from a Spanish prison last winter
where he had been beaten with a
rubber hose until his whole body
was covered with bruises. He said
I am the happiest man in the
world. I am lucky to have escaped
a firing squad" So the next time
you are tempted to grumble about
what has happened to you. why
not pause, and be glad that it IS
no worse than it is It is just as
easy to do that-and it is a lot
more fun.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-26
T0day's Horoscope
Ouc-Minmtc Test Answers
You re Telling Me ~u,~

THE NASH-KELLY political
machine goes down to defeat in
an Illinois primary. Another used
car, but not the voters apparently
thought, bargain.
There are 43O rooms in the Unit
Cd States Capitol Which may or
laaY not explain the beWildering
attitude of some congressman.
Elephants We're one of the big
hits of the circus opening in New
York 1t seems the big-tusked
brutes are popular everywhere but
in politics.
France need not feel ashamed
that it has had 1913 cabinets since
it became a republic This indi-
Gates France remains one of the
few European countries where Vot-
ers ere allowed to change their
minds.
Ohio auto licenses bear a pic
ture Of an OK hauling a covered
wagon. The man at the next desk
wants to know whether this isn't
stirring up the old hOrse-and- bug
gy argument all over again.
Colleges want the tax on foot
ball tickets rescinded. Seems the
score of the big game up to now
has been-Yale, 0; Harvard, 0;
Uncle Sam, $12.34567.
Soon small town folk may feel
perfectly at home in the very
heart Of New York City, To pre-
vent jay walking. the police com
missioner plans to erect a picket
fence i'm Times Square.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-26
The Farmer Acts
nEanrCrd .I1urnall

lltdBIJfu JDuFnalD
San Francisco is prOdded by far
mers ON account of labor's arbitrary
policies to hamper the free flow
Of farm products from the country
districts. This is a serious count
against the bay city ami has been
sufficient to force the city govern
ment to take cogni2ance Of the
condition complained Of. 1t is only
another angle of the fight that the
San Joaquin valley and other sec
tiOns of the state are making
against San Francisco to clean up
It's labor strikes and the autocratic
demands exacted of trade and bust
ness.
Gangster methods Of strikers have
prompted the California Association
of Farmers to angry action. Mayor
RCssi and labor leaders have met
over the matter anl the American
Federation of Labor representatives
now offer to confer with the far
mers in a cOnciliatOry mood and
try to remove the complaint. What
will come OF the conference remains
to be seen.
If San Francisco doesn't succeed
in choking off the internal war
between business, industry on one
side and labor organization on the
other it does not take an active
imagination to guess at the final
outcome. The continual labor con
flict against commerce has already
curtailed the bay citys shipping
seriously. II has also aroused a
strong antagonistic feeling against
the 1899 exposition there. If some
thing is not done by San Francisco
TO purge herself of her labor en-
emies. business OF the city undoubt-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-26
News Behind
the News
Different PHILOSOPHERS .
Monopoly Message

WASHINGTON. - y II Z a2dIu
President Roosevelt is having trou-
BILE adjusting his own political
philosophy to the political philos-
ophv of most business men.
The trouble arises as he contem-
plates the message on monopoly and
fair competition which he has
promised and as he decides the eX-
tent to which he will be willing to
fight for a Wage-hour bill at this
session of Congress.
CompleXity and confusion in the
Presidents mind reflect the opinions
Of his several groups of advisers.
It is of utmost Importance that the
new spending lending program give
some impetus to business and that
the recovery psychology it is de-
signed to promote shall not be dam
pened unnecessarily by utteranceS
which would ring sour in the busi-
ness ears.
On the other hand the admins
tration seeks some assurance that
government will be able to taper
off expenditures again without q
subsequent depression similar to the
present one, which it holds was
caused primarily by certain bad
business practices. 1t must find some
way to make private business SELL
adjusting or confess that economic
life is to become an alternating Sc
quence of depressionS and emer-
gency spending programs.
in
high places to use against this
dilemma. But it is insisted by left
wing White House advisers. who
in general have found the President
accepting their point of view, that
the chief requisite for such an ad-
iustment is an attack on concen-
tration Of wealth, price rigiditlea
and economic controls which pre-
vent free competition.
The ambitious Roosevelt goal is
To get factories operating and to
keep them operating by obtaining
a management of business which
will insist on maintaining volume
of production even at the expense
OF profits per unit
! lIt w IlIbC I1OuoG lldS SbdtkS "
figures indicating that prices have
been kept unnecessarily high dur
ing depression periods at the eX-
pense of production volume and
employment. Typical among such
figures are the National City Bank S
report that profits of 1920 industrial
corporations averaged 101 per cent
profit in 1886 and 1877 in 1897 de
spite that years several bad months
1t is argued within the admin
istration, for instance, that the au-
tomobile industry's profits of q per
cent on net worth in 1886 and 20
per cent in 1897 indicated an ability
to cut prices to increase sales AMI
insure greater production and en-
ployment. There may be bugs in
such figuring, but the President
pays it much heed.
How much of this sort of thing
will get into the monopoly mes
sage is uncertain. That message
will veer somewhere between a red
hot series of drastic rcommenIa-
tions for reform and a mild sug-
SCoJLOl4 III StIlcldl inquiry III JIlt
monopoly field.
1t is also an administration theory
that setting a floor to wages WoulC
raise and help maintain that mas
purchasing power which is a mos
important factor in recovery Foi
that reason, if for none other, it i,
probable, although still not entirely
cpTtaiD tbat POpcava1t yryil1 Jnott1r
as hard as he knows how for a
Wage-hour act at this session de
spite much apathy on Capitol Hill
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-26
The Sea

Through the night, through the
night,
In the sad5est unrest
Wrapped in white, all i'm white.
With her babe on her breast,
Walks the mother so pale.
Staring out on the gale,
Through the night
Through the night. through the
night,
Where the sea lifts the wreck,
Land in sight, close in sight,
On the surf-flooded deck.
Stands the father so brave.
Driving on to his grave
Through the night,
Richard Henry Stoddard.
White House military aides must
Remain single during their ten
uIe of office.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-26

through the air
without use of
wires. People did
n believe such
an absurd thing
could be done.
Pure fol - de = rol,
they said.
Then suddenly
the door opened.
He was invited 10
America to report
the yacht race
between America S
contender and Sir
Thomas Upton
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-26
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
PROPERTY

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
that the Board of Supervisors of
the County of Imperial, State of
California, will sell at public auction
to the highest and best bidder for
cash, on Monday, May 2. 1888, at
two O'Clock PM of said day at
the West entrance to the Imperial
County Court House in FL Centro.
California, the following described
real property, situate in the City
Of FL CentrO in said County and
State:
Lots 9, 10, II. and l2 of the
Subdivision of Block 43, No.
Cne addition in said City.
County and State, according
to the Licensed Land Sur
Vey, being Instrument No. 81
filed in the Office of the
Imperial County Recorder
April 6, 1893 at 10:45 o'clock
AM, by Philip w. Knights,
Registered Civil Engineer.
which said LiceDsed Land
Survey is entitled Map of
portions of Blocks 43 and "A
dlII LOG "a Vi AQQlJlOn
No. to FL Centre as shown
by Map No. "a, Imperial
County Records.
Said lots will be sold separately
and starting bids must be at least
100000 for each of said lots 10, II.
and II, ami $4,000 for said lot 0.
The Board of Supervisors reserves
The right to reject any bid that
does not comply with the terms
of this Notice.
BY order Of the Board of Super
Visors.
DATED: April 90. 1898. \
W j. McCLELLAND,
Clerk of said Board of
Supervisors.
A. 25 % incl
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-26

SO he went on and on, impressing
his companions nightly and gain
ing a great name as a terrible
fighting man.
Until at last a quiet little man
who had been sitting in a corner
got up, walked over to the tough
guy, and proceeded to knock the
everlasting daylight out of him.
after which the men on the raft
were disinclined to accept anyones
reputation at face value.
There is something dimlY remi-
niscent of this fable in the news
dispatches from China these days.
For it begins to look very much
as if the fearsome, inyulnerable
military bully from Japan has TAX
en- on slightly more of a fight than
he can digest properly.
A few months ago the japanese
military machine looked like
something to shudder at. 1t has a
record of unbroken successes. 1t
had the finest discipline, the finest
equipment the finest strategic di-
rection, the finest traditions of
military Valor. 1t was going to
breeze through China like no
bodys business and anyone who
tangled with it was due to spend
years in the sackcloth and ashes
OF repentance.
But something strange has been
happening Of late. In southern
Shantung it becomes apparent that
this mighty machine has met with
wce r4 the lgreatess reverseS in
Japanese history. A dispatch TO the
New York Times says that barely
10000 men survive out of an army
of 10000. The troops whose proud
boast it was that they never re-
treated have had to retreat on
24-hOur- day basis to escape ami
| hilatiOn.
1,lis, of ;Gurse, doesn't mean
that Japan has lost the war. Re
| Inducements are pouring in, and
/ the reserve may soon be made good
But the significant thing is that
this mighty, inVlunerable Japanese
military machine has developed
some glaring flaws. The japanese
war god is only mortal, after all.
He can be licked. if someone puts
up a fight
All of which is worth keeping
in mind. For the world these days
seems to lie at the mercy of these
"invincible" war machines. The
dictators and the war-mongers
have been staggering up and
down for years, clustering about
he dreadful things that will hap
pen if they don't get their own
way. The rest of the world has
! listened, shiVered, and kept quiet.
But behold!-they aren't SO tough
after all. Perhaps the whole lot of
them can be taken, any time
someone finds the nerve to try it.