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Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22
PERSONAL SATISFACTION
IN UNSELFISH SERVICE

Fine work is done every year by many
of the men and women of Imperial Val
ley in behalf of children and young peo-
pie through such agencies as the Hipass
Health camp, the Boy Scouts, the Camp
fire Girls, the Hard of Hearing Society
and many others. Through many agen-
cies extensive charity work is accom-
plished for adults as well as children.
A brief mention places among these the
Parent Teachers Association Clothes
Closet, Salvation Army, Red Cross, Elks,
American Legion and others.
And behind every organization is a
group of high minded men or women who
take their pay in the happiness they
find by bringing happiness to others.
Many of the best workers in these groups
are volunteers, donating their time un-
selfishly so that others may get more
out of life.
Great praise is due these people-but
it is not our intention here to praise them.
Their work speaks for itself. 1t is, rath-
er, our intention to urge others who have
not known the JOY of such unselfish SER
vice to try it-and find out what they
have missed. 1t is one Of the rules of
human nature that man or woman is
happiest when making someone else hap
py.
The season in Imperial Valley is get
ting under way. With it all these organi-
cations are beginning their fall pro-
grams. 1t is time, now, to consider what
part each of us shall play in building
up the moral and social fibre of our
community. If in doing so we find that
we ourselves have profited so much the
better
Every man and woman should resolve
now to volunteer for at least one worth
while community activity; it may be any
one of many supported in the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22
PRINTING MONEY
FOR PENSIONS

(The Wall Street JournaD
Because Californians will vote in No
vember on the proposal to pay every
unemployed citizen over 80 a pension of
$50 a week in Stamp-taXed currency it
by no means follows that even a single
state is to plunge into fantastic finance
If the California referendum is favor
able streamlined Utopia will doubtless
have long period of mechanical organ
iZation-nOt to mention a series of hair
raising adventures in the courts-to pass
through before it becomes a going con-
cern.
But, stealthily the idea seems to be
entering many minds that it might not
be altogether bad if some state or other
were to make visible test of the fugitive
currency pension idea. A working demon
stration of its basic fallacy, so the argu-
ment goes, would put an end to such
movements everywhere. SO California,
or any other state, would offer the coun-
try means of curative relief-is kathar-
sis the word? = for its unwholesome
yearnings.
This newspaper cannot accept the
theory that we must have a trial of it.
First, we do not wish to be suspected of
cherishing a secret hope that the thing
might work. Second conclusive test
might have to run year or two before
the inevitable collapse; there might be
a period of months in which the plan
appeared to work, during which time
the danger of its duplication in other
states would be great. We can get rid of
the delusion that plenty of funny mon
ey" makes the ideal existence without
trying it in practice.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22
Well, III
TeIlYou.:
says
: Bob Burns

read the other day where one
of our lawmakers wanted to put
through a bill to make doctors use
plain English, names instead of
latin so that people'd know what
was the matter with 'em and what
they was takin' for ii.
had one uncle who kept losin'
Jobs on account of ill health and
finally his wife sent him to the
doctor. My uncle says, Now Doc.
don't give me none Of them techni-
cal latin names for my ailment-
tell me in plain English what's the
matter with me-"
The doctor examined him and
saws, "All right, I'll tell yOu-you're
Jest plain lazy" My uncle says,
"Ai right but you can give me a
technical name for ii so 1 can tell
my wife?'
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22
THE WISDOM OF lCKES
BECOMES APPARENT

It was several months ago that some
thing of an international tempest in a
diplomatic teapot was stirred up by
Secretay of Interior Harold Ickes when
that gentleman refused to allow shipment
of American helmm gas to NaZi Ger
many for use in the Graf and other yep
pelins. Mr.. 1ckes, Germany protested,
was strangling the growth of transpor-
tafion.
This week warlike Germany has COM
pleted a conquest of Europa conquest
won by peaceful means but actually
brought about by threats of war. Had
Germany been forced to carry out her
threats, we should have seen the Graf
turned into a machine of war, and other
German zeppelins used for the same
purpose. Remember the yep raids on Lon
don during the World War?
Ickes ruled wisely when he ruled that
no helium should be sent to Germany.
Now that nation still depending cons-
derably on zeppelins, must use inflam-
mable hydrogen gas to initiate its big
bags-and hydrogen is vulnerable to at
tack by anti-aircraft guns or airplanes.
The absence of helium in German zeppel-
ins may not prevent war-but it most
certainly will lessen the wartime efficien-
cy of at least one machine of offense.
America hellum resources are eX-
tremely valuable to this country, not on
ly for the non-inflammable gas itself but
for the bargaining power it represents.
To a nation at peace with the world
and likely to remain at peace-helium
should not be denied as long as there is
a sufficient domestic supply. But it
should never be placed in the hands of a
country continually on the brink of war,
continually using its military power to
force unwelcome terms down the throats
of other countries.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22
HOLDING OUR OWN
AS AMERICANS
(Tulare Advance-Register)

No longer the melting-pot she was
when one million newcomers yearly pour
ed across her borders, America is still
holding her own in popularity.
The right to say Il am an American!
the right of being able to vote, are prlvi-
leges in rapidly increasing demand
among our foreign-born.
Within the last four years, reports
the immigration and Naturalization Ser
vice, the number of those applying for
American citizenship papers has grown
from a stream into fast-flowing river.
Upon state and nation, as a result, has
fallen the added responsibility of educat-
ing our new voters in the principle that
suffrage confers duties as well as bene-
fits.
Of the 100000 aliens in the country
today approximately 100000 are in the
process of becoming citizens impelled
by growing restrictions of relief aid to
citizens, the preference of employers for
Americans.
These are things California we'll knows
about The benefits conferred by resi-
dence within our states borders have led
thousands of needy to become legal resi-
dents and qualified voters. Often they
have exploited the advantages, without
sharing the responsibilities.
More heavily than ever before, this
problem now weighs upon CALIFORNIA;
shoulders. 1t can only be aggravated by
efforts to break down the present safe
guards against political control by small
pressure groups. 1t is certainly unwise
to open wide the gate to all manner of
unsound ventures-thrust upon the tax
paying public, more easily than ever, by
those unable to pay penny of the costs !!
Citizenship and suffrage not only con-
fer benefits They require that all share
fairly in the responsibilities and under
takings of government.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO
ENGAGE IN THE SALE OF
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

September 81, 1888
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby given that fifteen
days after the above date, the un-
dersigned proposes to sell alcoholic
beverages at these premises, de-
scribed as follows:
Tex Clayton's Place u mile
west of City Limits on
Highway 80.
Pursuant to such intention, the
undersigned is applying to the State
Board of Equalization for issuance
of an alcoholic beverage license Cor
licenses) for these premises as fol-
lows:
Gu SALE BEER AND WINE
Anyone desiring to protest the
issuance of such license (s) may
file verified protest with the State
Board of Equalization at Sacrament
to, California, stating grounds for
denial as provided by law.
ED FARIS &s IRA j. CLAYTON.
Sg2
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22
Famous Sayings
Bruce Cation Says
- Didn't Raise Ny Boy to be Plugeer ..

would have been specialized-one
would play symphony music and
opera; another, educational, and
another, dramatics, and so on. In
that way you'd know exactly what
you'd hear at any point on the
dial. As it is one never knows, be
cause too many stations are doing
the same thing"
There is nc denying that DR.. De
Forest had a fair vision, and 1t is
equally undeniable that what he
got missed the vision by a thousand
miles. But if it is any comfort to
him. he suffered not only the COM
mon fate of parents but also the
common fate of American inventors.
For if a father never can tell
lust what his son is going to be
like, come maturity, an inventor in
this unpredictable land of ours
never knows just what his inven-
ton is going to do when it is
turned loose in the world.
We aren't a particularly orderly
people, and we have a great way
of giving the people what they
want 1t happens that more peo-
pie in this land want swing music
grooming, hillbilly comedies, and
gangster dramas than want high
brow music; consequently, that is
the fare that is provided. 1t may
be too bad, but that is the way we
do things.
Sooner or later We shall probably
improve things bit. Public taste
does rise, slowly but surely. Wher
it has risen far enough, its rise will
be reflected in the popular arts
radio, movies, and other media o1
expression. Until it does, those
media may be the despair of the
cultured-but there won't be much
of anything the cultured can dt
about it.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22

He was born III "aiiiiieioiN' -
Connecticut. The family was 81
moor that it was necessary for MN
70 earn money very young, He got
a lob selling peanuts and canoy Oh
the railroad trains. But MS safes
were few. So he passed out sam
nles as he went down the aisle then
scooted back to where the people
were yearning for his candy
II was a fine idea, except the
Leople didn't yearn.
One day he hit on revolutionary
idea He stood in the end OF the
car facing the passengers, ana
sang. Attention focused on him.
He entertained them and mace
them like him; and then he went
down the aisle selling candy. The
first week he tried this, he doubled
his sales.
Labor Day he was to work. The
night before, a man who had heard
him sing on the train offered him
a one day job singing In an out
door amusement park. Morton took
it and sent word to his boss he was
sick.
Morton was singing in his most
beguiling tones when all of a sud-
den he locked into the eyes OF his
boss. The song took on a kind OF
quaver.
His boss came up and said, you
seem to be a bit better
"I still feel hot and feverish," +"
said Morton.
The boss said he didn't want to
ieopardize his health again.
Morton knew definitely now that
he wanted to be a singer, and got
a job in a vaudeville house. But
vaudeville was dying.
His chance, he decided, was to
get a job with Paul Whiteman,
King of jazz"
He persuaded a friend to bring
Paul to hear him. Paul liked him,
but there were dozens of young men
who could do exactly as we'll as
Morton.
He made up his mind to find
some way to make Paul Whiteman
remember him. This one idea
changed his career, and he is on
top today because he got it.
He apepared at the studio, showed
up at rehearsals, haunted White
mans dressing room door. He
learned what theatres Whitemar
was going to attend, and was there
to wish him pleasant evening HI
became shadow. Whitemar
couldn't turn around without star.
ing into the face of Morton Downey
Finally Whiteman weakened
well, I'll listen to you again." hi
said.
He listened.
Morton Downey was with hin
four years.
He is now in the big money. Ant
/. all came from deciding to &c
after the man who could give hin
his chance. Why don't you try iti
1t might mean the turning point il
your life, too.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22
News Behind
the News
Restraint OF L0De =.
And Marriage Agencies {.

WASHINGTON. - The Federal
Trade Commission is acting in re-
straint of loves sweet dreams.
Matrimonial agencies and books
purporting to tell you how to lasso
the lady or gent of your dreams
have caused FTC to raise its eye
brows and move to tone down ex-
travagant promises.
A man in GraySlake, Ill, has
agreed to stop advertising that
Joining our club means the real
ization of your sweetest dreams of
love and home" and to stop guar
anteeing happiness or wealth with
in three months. No more will
impecunious elderly men thrill to
his assurance that Il have a large
number Of very desirable ladies
who have trusted me to find them
suitable husbands. Some Of them
inform me their financial stand
ings are as follows: A brunei. 80,
with an income of $4,000; business
woman, age 90, worth $4,000. :"
Furthermore, the commission al
leges. it's violation of the FrC act
when a booklet called How to
Win a Husband" says:
How much would you pay for
the love of the man you want?
Then don't sit back and let the
other girl have him. Win him for
yourself in spite of all obstacles
The simple, clear directions in this
book tell you how"
New Englanders cant nelp MOTTO
ing some of the aristocratic old
Bostonian names, traditionally as
sociated with conservatism, which
appear among leading opponents of
the American Medical Association
in its fight against "sociaiized
medicine" For instance:
DR.. Hugh Cabot, Harvard over
seer and Mayo Clinic consulting
surgeon, who jumped on the A.
MA. at the National Health Con-
ference here.
DR.. Charming Frothinghamm,
president of the Massachusetts,
Medical Society, who says the A.
NJ. A. makes "a terrible mistake
by not following the trend of pub
lie opinion in medical and hospital
insurance plans"
DR.. Charles Edward Amory VIM
slow, professor of public health at
Yale School of Medicine, witty and
sarcastic in his defense of govern
ment health programs.
Swankiest of all those white mar
BILE buildings on Constitution Ave-
nue. is the Federal Reserve Build
ing, not actually a government
building because it is owned CO.
operatively by the Federal Reserve
banks. This one even has a beau
ty parlor in the basement and its
doors are closed from 1915 to LIS
pm. each day to keep government
workers and general public out OF
its attractive cafeteria.
Bankers often come to the beauty
parlor to have their nails done and
one of the manicurists says most
of the bankers are quite modern
now, in that they use liquid polish
on their nails.
Foreign Service men in the State
Department who served in Russia
and became used to being followed
wherever they went in Moscow
read recently that Russia had an
grily protested to Poland against
police surveillance of its diplomats
at Warsaw.
HUH" was all they said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22

Any proud parent who knows
what it is like to raise a promis-
ing infant and see him turn into a
drug store cowboy should be able to
synpathize with DR.. Lee De Forest.
DR.. De Forest is the father-or
one of the fathers, anyway - of
modern radio. And when he cele-
brated his 65th birthday relently
reporters who dropped in 70 find
out what he thought of his brain
child were greeted with this reply:
Isn't it sickening?"
Then DR.. De Forest went on to
explain that he has, after all, suf-
fered the common fate of parents
That is, his promising child didn't
turn out at all the way its father
had expected it to.
"I seldom listen to it any more"
he said, except for a weekly SYM
phony program and some cheerful
music While I'm dressing.
Not only are the program poor,
too much swing and grooming" DR..
De Forest went on, but the COM
mercial Interruptions are madden
ing. Il isn't at all as I imagined
it would be-
THE way l envisioned it, stations
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22
One-Minute Test Answer

l. Leather.
2. Election day in Maine was set
In this month when in the early
days bad roads made travelling later
in the fall impractical.
3. John Dennis, English drama
tist and critic q657-l734, invented
a new way to make stage thunder
for a play he wrote but which
failed. Later he found his inven-
ton was being used at another per-
Torrance and exclaimed " the
villains steal my thunder!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22
You re Telling Ne --

Countess Ilinska, fashion expert,
says men should take q hand in
shaping womens styles. What we're
afraid of is that they'd put their
foot in it.
A Broadway columniSt says acting
IN the movies is a synthetic busi-
ness. Synthetic, and often respon
Sible for a negative reaction.
A salesman sold an iceboX to an
Eskimo in Juneau, Alaska. Maybe
the man thought he was buying one
of the new efficiency apartments.
A scientist warns against talking
baby talk to babies. Writing it is
sometimes embarrassing, too, if the
baby happens to be Of age.
Pedestrians have the right of
way in Hawaii. If a pedestrian hits
an automobile, it's the machines
own fault.
A Pittsburgh man, blind for
years, suddenly has his sight re-
stored, and eXclaims that every
thing is beautiful. He amt seen
nothin' yet.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22
TOdaY's HOrOscOne

The person who was born on this
date must discipline himself to
avoid an inclination to meddle in
other peoples affairs, Also he must
make a great effort TO carry
through the new projects that sug-
gest themselves to him, as he has
an inclination to be lax in this re-
spect, and therefore misses the
that might be his.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22
GRAB BAG
One-Minute Test

/. With what famous product is
the name of the town of Cordova,
Spain, associated?
2. Why does Maine elect con-
gresSmen in September?
3. How did the term, stealing
thunder" originate?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22
Hints on Etiauette

The woman who travels alone
need not hesitate to talk to the
pleasant looking man who makes
polite and friendly overtures. The
lest rule for the traveller is to
avoid intimacies, but to be pleasant
to fellow travellers.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22
Words of Wisdom

All travel has its advantages. If
the traveller visits better countries,
he may learn to improve his own;
and if fortune carries him to worse,
he may learn to enjoy his own
johnson.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22

In New York at the moment is
European who has been pretty
glum for the last few years over
the fact that he's a man without
country. He's feeling just a touch
better these days.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22
DALE
CARNEGIE
Author of 'HOw to Win
Friends and Influence
People

I met a butcher boy the other
day who is doing pretty well finan-
cially. I don't mean the kind OF
butcher boy who brings your meat
but the lad they call butcher boy
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22

on the trains:
t h e one W h o
sells you candy
and peanuts and
magazines. l n
the old days he
used to sell glass
pistols full of red
peppermints. o h
boy! Were they
good?
His name j )
.soaAAHN nnuJflpV
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22
Photographs

Sea Gull monument, at Salt Lake
City. was erected by the Mormons
in 1848 to commemorate a flight of
seagulls which suddenly appeared
to save the settlers crops from
plague of grasshpoers
Ace reporters on Tokio's largest
newspapers carry a basket of hon.
ing pigeons to rush their copy back
to the office.
BY heating soil with electricity,
plant growth may be stimulated,
scientists say.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE
APPOINTED FOR PROVING
WILL AND HEARING AP-
APPLICATION FOR

NOTICE OF TINE AND PLACE
APPOINTED FOR PROVING
WILL AND HEARING AP-
APPLICATION FOR
LETTERS TESTAMENTARY
No. 1928
In The Superior Court of The State
of California in and for the
County of Imperial
In the Matter of the Estate OF
DOLPH LEE ZINN,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that petit
ton for probate of the will of Dolph
Lee Zinn, deceased, and tor the
issuance to Kittie A. Zinn of letters
testamentary has been filed in this
court, and that Friday the 3Gth day
of September, 1898. at 2 O'Clock
PM. of said day, at the courtroom
of said court, at the Court House
in the City of Ell Centro, County
of Imperial, state of California, has
been set for the hearing of said
petition, when and where any per-
son interested may appear and con-
test the same, and show cause, II
any they have, why said petition
should not be granted.
DATED, September 18th, 1888.
/, w. J. McCLELLAND,
= County Clerk.
BY G.. A. KENYON,
Deputy Clerk.
Childers 81 Roberts, Attorneys for
Petitioner. S19-29 Incl.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22
Thoughts for the Day

But he that shall baspheme against the Holy Ghost
hath never forgiveness but is in danger of eternal
damnation.-Mark 3:29
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22
To Get a Job Use
POST-PRESS WANT ADS
Steward

Will be paid by the manufacturer
for any Corn GREAT CHRISTIE.
PIER POSITIVE Corn, Cure can.
not remove. Also removes Wartl
and CalloEses. 35c at Clements
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-22

Foreign Service men in the State
Department who served in Russia
and became used to being followed
wherever they went in Moscow
read recently that Russia had an
grily protested to Poland against
police surveillance of its diplomats
at Warsaw.
HUH" was all they said.
The Washington times., 1938-08-22
POLICE ACCUSE
.SOCIETYDOCTOR;
2 ARRESTS MADE
Confessions Are Said to
Have Been Made

OLYMPIA, Wash, Aug. 22.-Vic-
tim Of a mutilation plot, alleged
to have been born in the jealousy.
crazed mind of a physician, Irving
Baker, 81, former Coast Guard
officer, writhed in agony on o
hospital cot here today while po-
lice pieced together his horrifying
experience by grilling four sus-
poets.
Posing as police officers, four
men abducted Baker, now an auto
mobile dealer, at gun-point Friday
night. They drove him to a de-
serted quarry, police learned,
bound him with tape. flogged him
with heavy belt, beat him un-
mercifully about the head, and
then attempted to mutilate him.
SUSPECT CONFESSES
From one Of the four suspects
held, James Reddick, ~, q cab
driver, police obtained a confeS-
sion which linked DR.. Kent w.
Berry, so, who has many society
patients, in the torture-kidnaping.
The pair were held on kidnap and
assault charges.
Police said DR.. Baker, motivated
by a jealous belief that the former
Coast Guard was paying atten-
tions to his pretty young wife,
tortured Baker.
At the time Baker was abducted
his wife was present. She ex.
pressed a certainty there was no
basis for the doctors jealousy.
She added she could identify two
of the kidnapers.
Reddick also supplied police
with additional information which
led to widespread hunt for two
other suspects, one a former
Montesano (Wash0 police officer.
CAB DRIVER HELD
The cab driver told police that
two Of the suspects held were not
implicated in the plot. One of
them, Harold Schars, taxi fleet
operator and Reddick's employer,
was released. The other, Jack
Glavin, a cab driver, was held for
further questioning.
Unwilling cause Of the horrify-
ing episode is Mrs. Elizabeth Kevin
Berry, 81, beautiful and socially
prominent. She was married to
the doctor two years ago, just
three years after she was gradu-
ated from University Of Washing
ton. She is the physicians third
wife, Prosecutor Smith Troy said.
His first marriage ended in di-
vorce. followed by his marriage
and subsequent divorce to his sec"
retary.
The Washington times., 1938-08-22

resort wealthy and socially promi'
nent visitors continued to WOO the
goddess of chance without fear OF
a raid, it was reported.
AS a consequence establishments
operating without apparent fear
of molestation by raiders became
more and more popular with va.
cationing visitors.
Resentment among proprietors
of law abiding establishments
grew rapidly to climax with the
issuance Of the warrants today.