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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-09-22

SENATE JOINT RESOI .UTluN NO
pro,idinq for the submission to the &C.
tors of the state of constitutional am nd-
ment amending section / of article VII. of
the Constitution of the State of Washing
tor. relating to taxation.
"a It Resolved, By the Senate and House
OF REPRESENTATIVES of the State of WASH g.
ton III legislative session assembled
nat. 1T the general election to he hc,r IN
th.l state on the Tuesday next succett nc
tho first Monday in November, 1888. there
shall be submitted to the qualified electo Of
this state for their approval and ratiticst IN.
Or rejection, an amendment to Section Of
Article VII of the Constitution of the s, tie
of Washington, so that the same shall. :, len
amended. read as follows:
Section /. The power of taxation siall
never be suspended, surrendered or IN
tracted away. All taxes shall be uni rm
upon the same class of property with the
territorial limits of the authority levyin the
tax and shall be levied and collected for ib-
lie purposes only. The word 'propert rs
used herein shall mean and include ry-
thing, whether tangible or intangible, aalb-
ject to ownership. All real estate shall con-
stitute one class: Provided, That the ie rs
lature may tax mines and mineral rcsc ces
and lands devoted to reforestation by Ter
yield tax or an ad valorem tax at such ate
as it may fix, or by both. Such property as
the legislature may by general laws Pr > ide
shall be exempt from taxation. Proper OF
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-09-22
Proposed Amendment to the
State Constitution
TOBE VOTED ON NOVEMBER 8. 1898
10 Whom 1t MAJ Concern:
STATE OF WASHINGTON,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.


obedience the STATE Constitution and the Resolution
State Legislature referred there hereby
d the consideration State Washington
,stuon follows:
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1938-09-22

the United States and of the state, counter.
school districts and other municipal corpora
tians, and credits secured by property
tually taxed in this state. not exceeding in
value the value OF such property, shall be
exempt from taxation. The legislature shall
haze ROVER. by appropriate legislation. IN
excfnpG personal property to the amount 9!
ttr-e hundred dollars (s3000C) Tor cach
/. :. OF family liable to assessment nd
II lion under the provisions Of the laws of
this state of which the individual is the &C
tu;li bona fide owner. Nothing. contained in
this section shall be construed to prevent the
enactment of a graduated net income IA.
law.
And Be II Farther Reso'rcd, That The sec
retcry of st;.te shall cause the foregoing ccI
stitutional amendment 10 be published -
least three months next preceding the c.ee-
ton in weekly newspaper in every couni'
where n newspaper is published throughout
the state.
Passed the Senate March 2, 1887.
VICTOR A. MEYERS.
President of the Senate.
Passed the House March 9, 1887.
EDWARD J. REILLY.
Speaker of the House.
Filed in the Office of the Secretary of State.
March IL, 1887.
STATE OF WASHINGTON,
'FICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
State of the State of Washington,
foregoing contains a full, true and
luton No. S, passed by the Leglsla-
its twenty-fifth session, as appears
on file in my office.
al Of the State of Washington this
BELLE REEVES,
Secretary of StatA
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-08
maine TO KEEP.
AREA ASKED BY.
CANADIAN M. P.

DEERFIELD. Mass, June 8
Canadian plan to annex a silver
of Names northwest corner re-
ceived a setback today from
Names governor, Lewis o. Bar
rows.
Governor Barrows, here to see
his son graduate from Deerfield
Academy, Scoffed at the petition
introduced into the Canadian
House of Commons under which
the Canadian government would
seek approval of the United
States Government to take small
slice of Maine which juts into the
Province of Quebec at the small
villa of Estcourt.
The petition claimed the section
was cut off from the rest Of Maine
by a forest, and that the citizens
there would be better Off under
Canadian jurisdiction because
they market all their products in
Canada and now have to pay
heavy customs duties.
Il don't think they will get
very far with it" said Governo"
BarroWs. Apparently some
body is trying to make headlines
in Canada"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-08
MISS LANCFORD
JON HALL BRIDE

HOLLYWOOD, June 8 G.N.SO.
After denying reports that she
would be married before Deem
Der, Frances Langford. screen and
radio singing star, announced to-
day that she and Jon Hall, film
actor, were married last week in
Prescott, AriZ.
The ceremony, she said. was
performed secretly by justice of
the peace there, and was witnessed
by her brother, Jimmy Langford,
and Halls sister, Miss Louise
Locher.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-08
ANOTHER $1,000.
reward POSTED.
IN KIDNAP CASE.
Total of $4,000 Offered
In Cash Crime |

MIAMI, Fla, June 8 UN.SO
The Miami Daily News today Of
fered a reward of $1,000 to any
one furnishing information to
agents of the Federal Bureau OF
Investigation leading to the ar
rest and conviction OF the kid
napers of 5-year-old Jimmy Cash,
il. of Princeton, Fla.
The offer from the News brought
to a total of $4,000 the rewards
offered in connection with the
crime. In addition, Federal agents
have offered to finders Of the
first 100 ransom bills twice the
amount of the bills involved.
SEARCH PRESSED
Meanwhile. authorities appar-
emily were still without definite
clue as they continued their ct
forts to solve the kidnapping.
Acting under orders of Federal
agents, experts familiar with sur
rounding country set out again
today to search for some trace OF
the kidnapped boy, for whose re-
lease his father, James Bailey
Cash. ST., paid out $4,000 in vain.
So far. their searching has not
revealed any important discoveries.
MANTLE OF SECRECY
Moving into the eleventh day
since the fiVe-year.old boy was
abducted, Omen continued to
operate under a mantle of secrecy
Questioned concerning progress in
the case, not a single Federal
agent would make the slightest
comment, nor would they discuss
the report three men had been
Bot
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-08
WANTS FIVE MILES

OTTAWA, June 8 GN.S.p :.
Jean Francois Pouliot. member OF
the Canadian parliament for
Temiscouata, Province OF quebec
and known as the bad boy" OF the
House of Commons, today wanted
to annex five square miles OF the
United States.
He has asked the house to open
negotiations to annex the north.
erly portion OF Maine because ali
the farmers living in the territory
he proposes to be annexed DO
most of their business with Cana
dianS.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-12
ONE-HOUSE
IDEA DROPPED
lHdrYsriite Appeal -Democrdt)

[ iuTHStitft IpptuI
Latest reports from southern Califor
MIA, where il originated, are that the
movement to place on the November bal
lot proposal for the unieameral, or one
house legislature has been abandoned
Ralph II. Taylor, executive secretary of
the Agricultural Council of California,
reports the development with satisfaction
and attributes the failure to go on with
the scheme as due to overwhelming con-
demnation.
Mr. Taylor, although we approve un-
conditionally of his position in opposition
10 the one-house legislature, should not
be too optimistic. While plenty of hos
tility to the bill was expressed, especially
in interior California our guess Is that
the effort to put it on the November
ballot begged down because of the effect
of that sentiment on the gubernatorial
candidacy of Senator Culbert Olson,
rather than because its supporters have
given up hope of passing the bill. 1t Is
unlikely agitators for the measure would
quit without a test. unless there was some
thing behind their surrender III addition
to the fear of the defeat. The most prob
able factor of that kind is the opposition
it was drawing TO the Olson candidacy.
Senator Olson, it will be recalled, in
dorSed the unicameral legislature most
heartily when it was first proposed, and,
indeed, was looked upon as one of the
sponsors of the initiative measure. Then
he began hearing from the rural counties
which stood to lose their representation
at Sacramento if the one-house legisla-
ture actually came into being. The same
people who want Olson as governor, gem
orally speaking also want the unicameral
legislature. But they are willing to wait
for legislative reorganization if they can
have Olson as chief executive of the state.
They reason that one would be step
toward the other, so why endanger the
Olson candidacy by insisting on the legis
latiye initiative at this time?
This is a subject in which rural Cali
fornia is vitally interested and it should
not be allowed to fade out as one of the
factors in the Olson candidacy
At present we regard it as one of the dan
gerous possibilities of an Olson admins
tration. Senator Olson might set us right
by authorizing a statement as to whether
he has changed his position, or whether
he would encourage and support the
movement for a one-houSe legislature
during his term as governor, provided he
should be elected.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-12
NO HEARTBREAKS FOR
EAST MESA HOMESTEADERS

"A mother standing in the doorway,
stralnlng sun-weakened eyes toward the
bent figure of a man toiling in barren
field. Her cheap cotton dress falls in
listless folds to the grimy hands Of a
crying urchin, her colorless hair hangs
in limp, untidy strings over her forehead.
In her face there is no hope, but only
resignation. IN her mind there is only
the bitter thought of wasted years spent
on stubborn, fruitless land, and in the
stoop of her figure there Is only failure
and despair
Too often the homesteads of the west
have presented such picture. Too often
heartbreak has been the only reward of
the men and women who have turned
wilderness into garden, only to lose the
garden because their money and energy
were lost in the wilderness.
When the lands of Imperial county's
East Mesa are opened to homesteaders,
there will be no such picture. And for
that assurance Imperial county should
be glad. There will be no life-taking toll
that ends in poverty and failure, because
there will be no gamble against long odds,
with land spectators waiting to cash in.
1t will be months yet before those
East Mesa lands are opened up but 1t IS
not too soon TO spread the word that only
the strong and fit will be placed on the
land. A wise federal government, sens
ing the danger of heartbreak in penniless
land settlement, has guarded against it.
In our opinion, there should be no
complaint against the provisions which
require $4,000 cash backlog, or the
equivalent in farm machinery and equip
ment, before a homesteader is allowed
to file on East Mesa land. Neither should
there be any complaint, we believe,
against the requirement of two years or
more of farming experience for home
steaders, as we'll as good health. Break
ing in the East Mesa is going to be no
job for those in poor health, nor for the
uninitiated or the penniless 1t will be
job for the strong, and only an adequate
financial backlog will guarantee success
to the homesteader.
We want steady, long-term develop
ment on the East Mesa, without wild
speculation in lands, without failure for
the homesteaders, and without heart
break at the end of the years. We should
applaud the rules which help to achieve
our goal.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-12
NO GOOD REASON FOR 1T
(HaUerhitI, Mass, Gdzette)

The precise purpose Of the American
commission that President Roosevelt has
assigned to study employer-employe rela-
tions in England and Sweden is not clear.
If the commission were made of con-
gressmen and other public servants, the
obvious and reasonable conclusion would
be that the trip was a vacation at the
taxpayers expense. Public servants, how
ever, are in a minority on the commission.
Educators and industrialists make up the
majority.
The Presidents explanation of the
purpose of the trip explains nothing.
There is need, he is quoted as saying, for
an impartial report which will adequately
portray the real situation.
This does not make sense. The English
and Swedish systems for the government
of employer and employe relations are
neither new nor unknown. Hundreds of
competent observers have examined them
and written reports on them. It is in
conceivable that this commission can
make report to end all reports. Such
thing never happened while vestige of
anything to inspire investigation renamed
in existence.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-12
TAKING SAFETY
OUT OF POLITICS

In recent months California has been
at least two instances in which the charge
of politics was hurled back and forth in
connection with dismissals and other de-
tails of operation in the California High
way Patrol. To the average observer,
reading only factual accounts of what
this man or that man said, there is little
to point out whether the charges have
been justified. To the average man,
however, there does appear the necessity
of taking the highway patrol and its
traffic safety duties out of range of the
political guns.
A proposed measure will be advanced
in California this fall to create a three
man safety commission composed of the
attorney general, the state comptroller
and the state director of finance to direct
a highway patrol freed from other de-
partments and made separate depart
ment by itself All positions in the high
way patrol-including the chiefs job,
which now is a rich political plum-would
be under civil service
A preliminary examination of the
misunderstanding that the proposed
commissioners would act without pay
seems to indicate freedom from politics.
If it does, it is highly desirable.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-12

pleasures were bought with the
blood of human victims.
In his own eyes, he was a
splendid figure But in the eyes of
every decent person he was revolt
ing
Where did all his millions get
him? He Is now in that Federal
home for the degraded and des-
pissed. Alcatraz. His money has
not shortened his term Of just
punishment: He has been driven
even. to feign insanity in the hope
of lessening his punishment lit
tie. And that didn't work either.
Now, for the most violent con-
trast. look al Babe Ruth, from a
Baltimore orphanage. A huge
hulking. uncomeiy kid who loved
to play beseball.
Ruth chose the clean, unspotted
path to wealth and fame. In one
day. as the home run king admir-
ed by all fans, he has had more
decent fun than Capone could find
in ten lifetimeS.
He won the love and admira-
ton of every kid in the land, They
sWarmed by thousands to see him
play; shrieked their loyalty and
admiration whether he clouted the
ball out of the yard or struck
uut. They sWarmed arond him on
the streets and hailed him as their
idol
Babe Ruth earned $4,000 sea-
son for several seasons. He was
taught to invest it wisely for the
future safety of himself and his
family. He has gladly spent some
of his money and much of his time
to give joy to other peoples chill
dren. BY this example he has in
spired numberless boys, who other
wise might have slipped and fall
len. to start on the road to clean
lives, decency, respect, and hap
piness.
I won't tack on moral. It's
carried in the record.
I find it an advantage, each
moning before I get OUT of bed to
give myself a little talking to.
Dale" I say. you don't want to
come home tired and exhausted
now, do you? Since you are not
going to do any physical work
that will tire you, if you are eX-
hausted when you go to bed to-
night, it will be because of your
emotions. And what causes your
thoughts you think. So don't let
YOUR mental wires get crossed
emotions, Dale? Nothing but the
even if you don't accomplish
any of the things that you set out
to accomplish today. This day will
never come again and what you
get out of it will depend almost
entirely upon your thoughts
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-12
Famous Sayings
: Words of Confidence

Daily it becomes clearer that
what we carelessly call peace in
Europe and most of the world is no
peace at all. 1t is merely an armed
breathing spell between wars, an
agitated armistice whose condi-
tions are only little better than
war itself.
France, which in the 1840s abo-
lished the death penalty for spy
ing in peace times, has reestab-
lished it. There is a hundred years
progress for you!
France, which had a peace time
army of about 100000 before the
World War, has announced that by
1910 she will have at least a mil
lion men under arms at any given
moment. There is the war against
militarism 20 years afterward.
Now there is probably no great
importance in the fact that France
has gotten in step with most other
European powers in making death
the penalty for peace time spying.
It is a small thing, in a world
where human life has become
cheaper and cheaper throughout the
present century. While hundreds of
thousands are shot. bayoneted,
bombed, starved and otherwise
slaughtered in China and Spain, it
seems strange to be concerned with
a quick and merciful death for a
handful of spies.
But as one new development
piles on another, making what we
call peace" nothing but a less
active kind of war, our senses are
gradually dulled as to what is being
lost.
To get a perspective on the
world today, go back to 1912, in
those funny old days before radio
broadcasting, swing bands, and the
wholesale bombing of women and
children.
The Hague conferences were still
in peoples minds, and a great
hope lay before the world. A con-
temporary writer described the work
done at the Hague in these terms:
Looking back upon this brief
summary of the work of two Hague
conferences, we must admit that
the past at least is secure. The
alienation and prevention of war
fares former horrors, its re-
striction within narrow limits, the
protection of noncombatantS and
neutrals from its ravages, the as
sertion of principles and the es-
tablishment of practices for its pre-
vention and for the enforcement
of justice, such were the great
achievements of these two epoch
making events in the worlds history.
There they stand in all their un-
dying luster'.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-12

w NAOIllANA1 olN.- y ubHtll ol1tN
primary elections have been held
and as far as party nominations
are concerned, the "ins" are stay
ing in and the outs are staying
out
If this sort of thing keeps up,
President Roosevelt won't be able
to eliminate any of the office
holders whom he seeks to purge
from the Democratic party and the
anti-NeW Dealers won't purge any
of the Roosevelt sympathizers whom
the President intends to defend.
Seven senators. five Democrats
and two Republicans. have faced
the voters and all have been re-
nominated except elderly Senator
Hitchcock of South Dakota. who
had been appointed to fill a va
cancy only last year. Even more
extraordinary is the fact that
nearly 130 House members have
run for denomination. of whom
only thee have failed to get it.
Worth watching in the July prl-
maries will be the fate of Senator
Elmer Thomas in Oklahoma on
the 18th, of Congressman Jerry j..
O'Connell in Montana on the 18th
and of Congressman Maury Nav
erick, in San Antonio, Tex on the
23rd. All three are administration
men.
Thomas is opposed to Congress
man Conner Smith, a wild man
when it comes to promising the
voters, and by Gov. EW. Mar
land. Twenty nine year old O'con-
nell, whose progressivism has car
ried him into Jersy City in de-
fiance of Frank Hague, to Tom
MONEYS cell and to Loyalist
Spain, is opposed by Gene Burris,
candidate of Senator Burton K.
Wheeler and WPA official.
O'Connell has benn attacked as a
radical and for criticizing Wheeler.
He has stressed the issue Of
Wheeler versus Roosevelt in his
own campaign.
Maverick, nationally celebrated
as outstanding among House pro-
gressive leaders, is opposed by As
sistant District Attorney Paul Kill
day. Chief issues used against him
have been his alleged "radicalism, >
the fact that he has been a Rus
sian Embassy guest and his vote
for the anti-lynching bill. Groups
which never have been able to in
fluence Maverick are spending
large sums against him and Maver-
lex is a poor man. Although he has
been independent enough often to
defy the administration friends of
Roosevelt are helping him as much
as they can. A. F. of L President
William Green has given support
to Kilday, whereas Labor's Non
Partisan League and the c. I. O.
are behind Maverick.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-12
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF OIL PROTECTION
CHARGE DIE
]. S 12 10 &c

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that | have received from the De
Dartment of Natural Resources the
record of assessments and charges
for Petroleum and Gas for the cur
rent year.
The charges therein assessed and
levied are due and payable on the
first Monday in July and one-half
thereof will be delinquent on the
sixth Monday after the first Monday
in July at six o'clock, PM, August
IS. 1898. and unless paid to the
State Treasurer at the Capitol prior
thereto, fifteen per cent Will be
added to the amount thereof, and
unless paid prior to the first Monday
in February next thereafter at SIX
O'Clock PM. February 6, 1893, an
additional five per cent Will De
added to the amount thereof; and
the remaining one-half OF SAID
charges will become delinquent on
the first Monday In February next
succeeding the day upon which
they become due and payable, at
six o'clock PM. February 6, 1899,
and if not paid to the State Treas
urer at the Capitol prior thereto,
five per cent will be added TO the
amount thereof.
HARRY B. RILEY,
Controller.
BY BERT FOSTER,
Deputy.
Dated at Sacramento, California,
this 7th day of July, 1888
j. Ills incl.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-12
Well , II!
TeIiYou.
says
Bob Burns

l suppose I've dome about as
much huntin' as the next one, but
since I've started studyin' the
lower forms of life, I'm gettin' so l
can't even kill bug. Why, some of
the widest animals are pert near
human in their actions.
The other day out at the zoo. l
saw pair Cf wild tigers in a cage
and they looked SO much alike, l
hadta ask the keeper which one
was the male. The keeper says,
The one with his hair pulled out
and his face scratched up is the
male"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-12
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 1880
Estate of
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 $40
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, 1898.
d. l.. ZINN,
Administrator of the Estate of
ALFRED CASAUBON,
Deceased.
I Z 10 10 26
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-12
Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

I. What official U. S. position is
held by Nathan Straus?
.. Name the Canadian provinces
border North Dakota.
3. How many years does a us.
copyright last?