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Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26
RECLAMATION FUlfILLS
ITS MISSION

Commissioner John c. Page, commits
sioner of reclamation, writing in the
magazine Reclamation Area tells why
he believes Reclamation Fulfills It's
Mission No one reading his text can
very well disagree with him.
Since President Teddy Roosevelt sign
ed the reclamation act on June II, 1902,
34 irrigation projects have been con-
structed to serve more than three mil
lion acres of arid desert land. Fifty
thousand irriated farms and 257 towns
and cities have sprung up to serve the
10000 people who have found their
homes on irrigation projects They have
built communities which support 859
public schools and 900 churches Their
banks at the close of the last year had
a total of deposits of more than 225
millions of dollars.
Those figures alone, we believe, speak
worlds for the effectiveness of the bu-
reau Mr.. Page has served SO long, and
which he now directs.
While Imperial Valley is not rightly
a reclamation bureau project, it would
not be amiss to say it owes a great part
of its existence to the bureau. Construc-
tion of the All American canal, now
nearing completion, it owes entirely to
this agency. To the valley the recama-
tion bureau is a sort of beloved step
parent, revered for its accomplishments
and honored for its unquestioned in
tegrity.
Reclamation, whether directed by the
bureau or merely under a protecting
wing, has paid out. It has made America
a greater agricultural and industrial
continent 1t has furnished homes and
happiness to thousands who might
otherwise be struggling along the fringes
of prosperity on worn out farms.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26

approaching the intensity of civil
war marks the breakdown of Great
Britains policy aimed at estab-
fishing a modern Jewish nation in
Palestine.
An Arab with the ingenuity of
biblical times ties a torch to
jackal's tail. Freed, it runs wildly
through a Jews ripe, quick-burning
field of grain.
Marines from HMS Repulse =
armed with the most modern Weap-
ons-quick- time along the Medit-
erranean's sunny shore. A bomb
explodes with a roar of death
among the melon and date stalls
of market crowded with Arab
families.
That could have been yesterday,
it may be today and it undoubted-
ly will be tomorrow-in the Holy
Land. Why?
Fundamental causes of conflict
on ground that is sacred to 100000
600 Christians, Moslems and Jews
face the British colonial office with
terrible clarity. The solution, If
there is one, is hidden.
There are three main reasons
why Palestine is one of the most
dangerous, tragic and puzzling spots
in the world:
l. The British program, under
League of Nations mandate, for
establishing an independent jew
ish nation which has increased the
number of Jews in Palestine from
$4,000 in 1922 to 100000 in 1898.
Return of Jews to the land from
which they were eXiled 20 cen
turies ago reached a rate of 10000
a year and resulted in sudden, ex-
tenSive introduction of modern
agricultural and industrial methods
in a primitive land.
2. The determination of Arabs
to achieve self government in Pal
estine as in neighboring states and,
recently, a desperate fear that the
influx of Jews soon will dominate
the entire Holy Land politically
and economically because of num-
bers and modern methods.
8. The Importance of Palestine
to Great Britain in her struggle
to ward off international threats
to the Empire; particularly the
military Importance of the land
in event of war and its value in
protecting oil and other commercial
interests in the near east.
Old debts and old promises are
coming back to the British for pay
ment in the violence that sWelled
to new levels in Palestine this
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26
VALLEY LABOR FOR
VALLEY PROJECTS

Within the next few months lmpeflal
Valley will witness considerable build
ing, both Of public and private nature.
CaleXieo and Brawley have been assured
public buildings from Public Works Adj
ministration funds. In Ell Centro, pri-
Vate sources indicate sharp upward
turn in building.
With these prospects, it is time to con-
slider again the advisability of using 100
per cent local labor on local projects.
PWA building will, of course, be gov
erned by rules already set up by that
body. These include provisions for use
of local labor wherever possible. Private
builders, on the other hand, will be
convinced by moments consideration
that it is to their best interests to en-
ploy local men.
There have been instances in which
PWA projects were built by laborers
imported for the purpose, or wrongly
placed on PWA lists We do not believe
the PWA officials knowingly discrimin-
ated against local labor; it is only with
the cooperation of the community that
they can cooperate 100 per cent with
laborers and merchants here. Communi-
ty watchfulness should be maintained
over these projects.
The valley man building privately, on
the other hand, SnOuld need no urging
to employ local labor. If he is a business
man, he increases his own chances of
business success by offering work to
people in his own community. If he is
working for someone else, he increases
his chance for more work or higher
wages by boosting the income of work
ing men in the community. Money spent
in the community benefits everyone liv-
ing here. Money spent in the community
ing here Money spent outside benefits
very few
Facing what may be building boom,
the valleys watchword should be, EN-
ploy local labor.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26
DID CONGRESS- SLIP HERE?
(Palo Alto Times)

Among the measures slipped through
Congress in the closing hours of its re-
cent session was an amendment to the
Wagner Labor Act which would impose
a fine of $4,000 and two-year peniten-
tlary sentences on persons who cross
state lines to obstruct 1.-The exercise by
employees Of any of the rights of self
organization, collective bargaining or
other concerted activities for mutual aid
or protection
Since the whole spirit and content Of
the Waner act are supposed to serve
the organized employees, without regard
for any mutuality of rights as between
employers and employees, we wonder if
Congress did not slip in enacting this
amendment. As the amendment reads,
it plainly would apply to labor agitators
and union leaders who might cross state
lines in the attempt to block the rights
of union members under one federation
banner in an attempt to win them to the
rival camp.
There is no foretellin of course, what
intent the courts may read into the
amendment by judicial Interpretation.
But the wording of the excerpt carried
by the wire news report strikes the lay
man as being too clear and simple to
provide much scope for variety of inter-
probation.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26

hotel across the street Wheie lie
could get a cheaper room.
This old man who looked like
tramp. was none other than Hor-
ace Greeley. founder of the Tribune
one of New York's great news
papers. During the Civil War, Hor-
are Greeley was one of the might
lest forces in America. The story
of the bellboy having refused MN
admittance to the Green Bay Hotel
spread about town. A party haa
been arranged for HIM; the recep-
ton committee were indignant.
They had the bellboy discharged.
Did Greeley say, Good! Serves
him right! That will teach hlm
lesson!s No. No. Any fool could
ha.e done that and most fools
fools would have done precisely
that. Horace Greeley did a beauti-
full thing. He forgave the boy and
got his job back for him.
We all admire a generous deed
like that, even you who are read
ing about it noW-and it occurred
&c years ago.
IF you want to know how to han
die people, study the technique
employed by the air lines. For
example, these lines were written
in one of the Eastern Air Lines
ships flying down from New YORK
to Miami. Winds were tossing the
ship about. My common sense told
me that it was no more dangerous
for a plane to roll bit on the air
waves, than it was for a boat to
roll a bit on the water waves. Yet
felt somewhat uncomfortable.
Then I read something that made
me feel entirely at ease. The stew
ard handed me a little folder with
a picture of the flight pilot and
short sketch of his life. I saw that
the captain of the plane was Erlom
H. Parker. 7 liked his picture. He
had a kindly, sincere, reliable eX-
preston. I felt I could put my life
in his hands. Then I read that
ne had been flying since 1917. He
is 43 now and a grandfather. Cap
tain Parker had flown over mil
lion miles. A million miles in the
airl Think OF it That is equivalent
to flying from New York to San
Francisco $50 times. So I said to
myself, IF this man Parker has
flown that far and if he had been
flying for a fifth of a century and
nothing has happened to him, what
have I to be afraid off,
Yes sir, the aviation people are
young, progressive. And in trying
to win patronage, they make
study of handling people. On my
trip they gave me a renewed faith
in the safety of that ship by get
ting me acquainted with the pilot
who was flying it.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26
Barbs --.

Comes news of another one oil
those former boy geniuses who
grows up TO be just another adult
Apparently enlightenment never
strikes the same place twice.
The president is now out to
catch rooster fish and Wahoos off
the California coast. Having con-
cluded a cross country session of
angling among the elephants and
yahoos.
A cat in Maine observed his 25th
birthday recently. He attributed his
longevity TO going to bed early
every night and shutting up.
Opposing groups of mural paint
ers are tiffing over employment
in New York, ond no murals arC
getting done The painters have
their backs to the wall.
According 70 Miami professor,
the earth will freeze solid in IT,
799 yearb That's a conservative
estimate if this Wheather keeps up.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
of the
Cp nnIr M Cal IEARAIA


In and For the County of Imperial
SUMMONS
No. 1922
IMPER IAL IRRIGATION DIS
TRICT, Plaintiff
BIRDIE WOLTERS, JOHN DOE,
JANE DOE, RICHARD ROE,
JOHN DOE COMPANY, a Cor
poration, RICHARD ROE CON-
PANY, a Co-Partnership and
JOHN DOE AS Administrator of
the Estate of RICHARD ROE,
Deceased, Defendant.
Harry w. Horton and George r..
Kirk, attorneys for Plaintiff.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO BIRDIE WOLTERS,
JOHN DOE, JANE DOE, RICH
ARD ROE, JOHN DOE COM
PANY, A CORPORATION, RICH
ARD ROE COMPANY, A Co-Part-
nership, and JOHN DOE as Ad-
ministrator of the Estate of RICH
ARD ROE, Deceased, Defendants.
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED
TO APPEAR and answer the Com
plant in an action entitled as above,
brought against you in the Superior
Court of the County of Imperial,
State of California, within ten days
after the service on you of this
Summons if served within this
county; or within thirty days If
served elsewhere.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, or
will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the COM
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this 17th day of May 1898.
(SEAL)
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk
BY G.. Q. KENYON,
Deputy Clerk.
(J21-28 J5-12-19-26 A2-9-16-23)
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 1880
EStaLe OF
ALFRED CASAUBON,

ALFRED CASAUBON,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, d. l.. ZINN, Public
Administrator, as administrator of
the estate of Alfred Casaubon, de-
ceased, to the creditors of and all
persons having claims against the
said deceased, that within six
months after the first publication
of this notice they either file them
with the necessary vouchers in the
office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court of the State of California, In
and for the County of Imperial, or
exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers to the said d. l.. Zinn, as
administrator of said estate, at 5lU
Main Street, Ell entro, California,
the same being the place for the
transaction of the business of the
said estate in the County of I'm
perial, State of California.
Dated at Ell Centro, California,
this 5th day of July, 1888.
d. l.. ZINN,
Administrator of the Estate of
ALFRED CASAUBON,
Deceased.
Il 10 10 "a
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26
Well I'll
TelIYou...
says
Bob Burns

We can't always figger the reas-
ons why Mother Nature does some
of the things she does. but We must
remember she hasta fashion our
actions to do the most good for
all. even if she has'ta hurt one of
us once i'm while.
had a uncle that wanted his
son TO be n minister and he was
heart broken when he turned out
to be jockey.
Grandpa Snazzy says, "Weil, as
n Jockey, he'll make lot more
repent than if he was n minister.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF TINE AND PLACE
APPOINTED FOR PROVING
WILL AND HEARING APPLT-
CATION FOR LITTER TESLA

MENTARY.
In the Superior Court of the State
of California, In and for the
County of Imperial
IN the Matter of the Estate of
WILLIAM WALDO MONTAGUE,
also known as
w. w. MONTAGUE,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that a
petition for probate of the will of
w. w. MONTAGUE, deceased, and
for the issuance to Francis Pelham
Tempel of letters of administra-
ton with the will annexed, has
been filed In this court, and that
Friday the 5th day of August, 1888,
at 10 o'clock AM, of said day, at
the courtroom of said court, at the
Court House in the City of FL
Centre, County of Imperial, State
of California, has been set for the
hearing of said petition, when and
where any person interested may
appear and contest the same, and
show cause, if any they have, why
said petition should not be granted
DATED: July 20th 1888.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY G.. o. KENYON,
J22-A2 incl. Deputy Clerk.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26
News Behind
the News
Dr.. Frankfurter
The Supreme Court

WASHINGTCN-Dr. Felix Frank
furter of Harvard Law School at
this stage of the game leads the
field of possible successors TO the
late Sureme Court Justice BenJa-
min N. Cardozo.
Frankfurter was not seriously
considered for the vacancies which
were filled by Senator Hugo Black
and Solicitor General Stanley Reed
The fact that there were two Jews
on the court, Brandeis and Cordozo
had to be taken into account.
With Cardoza gone, Roosevelt still
wants Frankfurter on the court
Cardoza, everywhere respected as
a scholar. fell heir TO the supreme
court seat Of Oliver Wendell Holmes,
which has become traaitionally a
scholars seat. Frankfurter'S ap-
pointment presumably would not be
unpopular. since he led the list III
the American Institute of Public
Opinions poll of lawyers for their
supreme court preference. John W.
Davis the Morgan lawyer, ran sec
ond.
Administration left-Wingers, aside
from pupils and friends of IF. =
would prefer a less pedantic man
with less reverence for legal ira
dition, whose legal philosophy would
more nearly approach that of JUS
tice Black. A strong possibility II
Frankfurter is passed up, would be
Walton Hale Hamilton, a Yale law
professor and economist who never
has been a practicing lawyer.
Roosevelt and his New Dealers
have come to consider the supreme
court less important as judicial
bench than as a national policy
making body. That's one reason why
reports that a federal cirucit court
judge is likeiy 10 succeed CardozI
need not be taken too seriously.
Persistent talk of a Westerner a
Catholic, or both, for the post need
not be entirely discounted. But
Roosevelt thinks the best western
Catholic available is Frank Murphy
and he wants Murphy to- keep on
being governor of Michigan.
Spectacular rear platform ap-
pointment of Gov. James Alfred of
Texas as a federal district judge
was not an Elliott Roosevelt ap-
pointment nor was it a John Gar
ner appointment, as other reports
said. 1t was Franklin d. Roose-
velt appointment. 1t was made as
an anti-Garner move, with the idea
that Alfred was a liberal of New
Deal stripe.
That AllredS nomination was nc
joy to his fellow Texan, Vice PresI-
dent Garner is suggested by the
fact that Alfred once declared for
Roosevelt third term and dubbed
the President the greater Roosa-
velt."
Garner's intense opposition to a
Roosevelt third term is widely
known.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
TIM

IN SOTEnlon SooASA
of the
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In and For the County of Imperssl
No. 1928
SUMMONS
TRICT Plaintiff.
VS..
A. H. ROSS, ct al,
Defendants.
Harry w. Horton and George r.
Kirk, attorneys for Plaintiff.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA SEND GREETINGS
TO A. ROSS, PANSY A. ROSS,
GEO. w. DAMRON, also known as
GEORGE w. CAMERON, FLOR
ENCE F.. DAMRON, also known as
FLORENCE F.. CAMERON, his wife,
JOHN DOE, JANE DOE, RICHARD
ROE. JOHN DOE COMPANY, a
Corporation, RICHARD ROE COM
PANY, Co-Partnership, ana
JOHN DOE, as Administrator of the
Estate of RICHARD ROE, De-
ceased, Defendants.
YOU ARR. HEREBY DIRECTED
TO APPEAR and answer the Com
plaint In an action entitled as ABOVE
brought against you in the Superior
Court of the County of Imperial,
State of California, within ten days
after the service on you of this
Summons-if served within this
county; or within thirty days If
served elsewhere.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract +
it will apply to the Court for uhy
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this oath day of May, 1888.
(SeaD
w. J. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY CITHA LAMSON,
Deputy Clerk.
(J21-28 J5-12-19-26 A2-9-16-23)
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26
Bruce Cation Says

lnl0gS call HeNel SSl wv iiNS'
anlzed and routinized for adventure
in this modern world.
For time it looked as II that
was lust what had happened in the
realm of aviation.
After the soul stirring flights oil
the Lindbergh area, aviation Went
ultra scientific. 1t got out of the
stunt" period and bucked down to
the unsensational Job of providing
safe, unspectacular service. Its he
roes were not daring youg geniuses,
anv more but carefully trained
crews of technicians, who worked
together like we'll ordered machines.
1t gave a whole lot more return IN
the way of transportation-but the
romance went out of it, seemingly
for good.
And then two very startling things
happened in close succession.
First, Howard Hughes and his
buddies went streaking around the
world in a flight which passed all
the way through the mechanical
spirit business and came out
on the other side, in the realm OF
romance. The thing was so perfect
" organized, so surprising we'll in
tegrated and planned, that it be-
came what everyone had thought
no flight of that kind could ever
be-thrilling and uplifting.
Right on the heels of that came
throWback to the old, devil-may-
care transforming area-the Allan
the flight of Douglas Corrigan,
who blithly flew the worlds worst
sea in a rickety crate that was OBJ
solete years ago. Corrigan simply
set the clock back, temporarily, and
gave the world a last glimpse OF
aviation as it used to be when a
flier was an adventurer first. and a
technician, if at all afterWard, and
when the hallmark of distinction
was a willingness to risk ones life
casually against any sort of odds
that might present themselves.
So these two flights brought back
that unpredictable and indefinable
quality called romance to modern
aviation. And the way in which
they did it is worth at least pass
ing thought
They showed in the first place
that a mecahnized world need not
be monotonous after all. If ro-
nance is a momentary transcending
OF the ordinary limits of Workaday
life-and that's about as good de-
finition as any-then the Hughes
flight simply shows that when mar
really perfects the intricate techni-
cal details of modern life, modern
life is romantic and not humdrum
And, secondly, there was re-
minder that the human spirit is ir-
repressible and dautnlesS; but viii
break loose and challenge fate in
its own way every now and then
And there is always the hope for a
world in which that is true.
They were fine things, those two
flights. They make this complicat-
ed world look like more promising
place to live in
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26

teloupe= and he
wore a la ck
string tie. Fll e
bow was twisted
around un q e 7
his left ear. He
looked lik q
bum and he car
r'ied a carpet
bag. II bell
boy, J o h II L.
Tennis, ur e q
the old man u
g o to another
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26
ECONOMIC ROYALISTS, PERHAPS

alameda Times-Star)
A Berlin newspaper, commenting on
the SchmellingLouis fight says that
Louis was not too good for Max but that
artificial barriers raised by certain
American money-mongers cost Max the
victory"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26

week. But Wlttn l spent 1iifee "eehs
in the Holy Land last December,
british officials frankly admitted
their original policy had collapsed
after 20 years effort to reconcile
divergent interests and bitter ra-
cial animosities.
To understand today's troubles,
one must look back to the darkest
davs of the World war when Brit
ish promises were made TO both
Arabs and Jews in return Tor aid
To the Jews, they promised estap-
lishment of a national home In
their ancient land. To the Arabs
according to their vehement asser-
tions-the British promised inde-
pendence and self government in
return for support of the trioesmen
against Turkey and Germany-the
great struggle in the deserts led by
Lawrence of Arabia.
The two detectives have proved
impossible TO date.
...o4lo,,x. t,nft,ait 10nCn't SPak
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26

British critics of the Chamber
lain government seem to regard its
international attitude not SO much
a foreign as a foreigners policy.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26
DALE
2
CARNEGIE
Author of how to Win
Friends and Influence
peOnle'

In 1872 an old man with yellow
stringy hair, matted beard and dir
ty boots, walked into a hotel in
Green Bay. Wisconsin. The old
mans head Was shaned ike 4 can-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26

Half of the $50 active volcanoes
in the world today are situated
near the Pacific ocean.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26
Thoughts for the Day

So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give
thee thanks for ever: We viii shew forth thy praise
to all OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 1918
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26
You re Telling Ne -

That Irish American who had
everyone thinking he was headed
from New York for California, but
landed in Ireland, instead, made
his flight at the wrong time. Il
should have been st. Patricks Day
or better still April l.!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26
BLOOD AND TEARS IN THE HOLYlAND
Correspondent Tells Trouble Behind Trouble
: BY WEBB MILLER

LONDON, July 26. (UP)-A Jew is stoned " ~ u "
the streets of Haifa screaming Afao oles.
An armored bristling British machlhe gums 'peo'
the ancient road to Jerusalem. ,.
The Hov Land bathed in blood and tears terrorism
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26

The modern hermit doesn't seek
blissful solitude by hiding in a cave
in an impenetrable forest. He ~
stavs home on Sunday afterno&
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26

Sing Sing prison in New York
state is SO crowded we read, that
some of the prisoners are obliged
to sleep in the corridors. Imagine
being treated like a poor relation,
even in Jail!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26

japanese Attack Bogs Down
according to a headline We can
understand why. The Japs have
reached that part of China where
the towns not only can't be cap
tured, but they cannot even be
pronounced.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26

To Europeans, Americans and
Canadians must seem quite old
fashioned. Here we are-smack
dab next door to each other, but
good neighbors instead of hating
each other.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-26

The Fascist salute never will be
popular here, because the average
American will never be able to see
anything thrillingly dramatic in the
act Of reaching for an invisible
street car strap.