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Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-19

A cook who sued farm hand for a
divorce the other day charged he often
sank his teeth into her arm in fits of rage.
1t seems she didn't want to go on feeding
the hand that bit her.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-19
Grab Bag
One Minute fest

OHp NIIIIuN" ItoV
|. Does the Hawaiian delegate 10
the u. S. congress have a Vote'
2. What is the Stonehenge?
3. The mouth of what great riV-
er is in Venezuela.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-19
Words of Wisdom

If hours did not hang heaVy,
what would become of scandal?--
Bancroft.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-19
Hints ON Etiauette

Fastidious people know how to
distinguish between slang that is
colorful and slang that is objeo-
tionable.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-19

If Mussolini gets any fatter It's
going to cost Italy pile of dough
reinforcing all those balconies.
That argument over the reSpec-
tive merits of the two major base
ball leagues now raging in a five
cent magazine is giving the public
its first real-for- sure nickel world
series"
The worst thing about a sum-
mer cold is that it's impossible
to blame it on the weather man.
One of the great, unsolvable mys-
teries of nature is the fact that no
matter where you place your pic
mic lunch it's always on top of an
ant hill.
Europe needn't think it's SO all
fired important. To Howard Hughes
it was just a blur.
The moon is brighter on the first
quarter than on the third, say
astronomers. Up to now we thought
the moons brightness depended ON
who was helping you look at 1t.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-19

A SO year old woman in STRAIT
ford, Ontario, says the youth CT
today is just as good as the youth
of so years ago. He's a lot younger
now. too.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-19
You re Telling Ne -

If Mussolim gets any fatter it's
going to cost Italy a pile of dough
reinforcing all those balconies.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-19

What the world needs is an arti-
ficial hare to run in front of the
dogs OF war in the armament race
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-19

Solution No. l 0957: A British
general says beer drinking makes
people less warlike. Explaining the
anti -militaristic spirit in Germany
today.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-19
thoughts for the Day

So saul took sword, and fell upon it Chronicles
lO:4
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-19

At meal time the soldiers must
feel like forgotten men when their
thoughts turn to the governments
sIum elimination program.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
MAKE CHRISTMAS LIGHTING
100 PER CENT THIS YEAR

For the second consecutive year FL
Centre this week plunged enthuSiastical-
ly into d campaign to turn the commu-
nifty into a brilliantly lighted. gaily dec
GRATED city marking off its Christmas
season with boundary Of incandeScence.
Before the next week Is ended. it is
safe to pedict that fully one-haf the
homes in Fl Centre Will be sparkling
with outdoor lighting displays and be-
fore Christmas we look forward to see
ing almost every home in the community
showing some manner Of Illuminated dec
Grafton.
In the downtown area. too. it Is GER
tain that new brilliance will be added to
the already attractive line Of Main street
after dark.
This Christmas lighting, marked each
year by a contest to determine the most
attractive displays. is more than a con-
test. 1t Is a demonstration Of the com
munity's Christmas spirit. 1t is the Joy
of Christmas put into visual form.
Nobody who remembers riding through
the residential areas last year, eXclaim-
ing over the many gorgeous lighting ef
fects achieved by careful Use of a few
colored lights. can doubt that these dis
plays do much to bring real feeling
of Christmas to the city. It Is a feeling
hard to achieve in a desert community,
yet one marvelously achieved last year.
This year, with experience to guide Us,
it should be easier to make Ell Centre
truly a city of Christmas lights from
border to border, place of JOY to adults
and children alike
Christmas lighting is one community
endeavor that serves every individual
in the city as we'll as it does the COM
munity So, for brighter, lighter Christ
mas, lets light up our yards this year.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
HAROLD {. POMEROY
QUITS RELIEF JOB

When Harold E. POmeroy this week
submitted his resignation TO Gov Frank
F. Merriam as chief of the California
state relief administration, the fact that
his action was expected and, for that mat
ter. almost mandatory, did not lessen the
disappointment of many persons, parti-
cularly in agricultural areas.
His record as relief administrator
causes the hope that Gov.-elect Culbert
l.. Olson will appoint to his place some
man instructed in the beginning to con-
duct relief administration along the lines
set down by Pomeroy during his term.
Pomeroy. an outspoken Republican
partisan, won the admiration Of those
who met him during visit to this county
because, in spite Of his strong desire to
see the Republican party returned to
power, he refused to use relief money
in any way to influence the election.
Campaigning strongly for the re-elec
ton of Gov Merriam, POmerOy insisted
that he. as a campaigner, should not be
regarded as head of the relief admins
tration. He was equally inslstent that,
as relief administrator, he did not wish
to influence the vote Of single relief
recipient.
As a result the administration Of re-
lief in California was not subjected to
any serious criticism, either before or
after the campaign
1t might be we'll for the administration
of relief in federal and in other state
governments if more administrators fol
lowed the conscientious example set by
Pomeroy.
Also, it will be long time before agri-
cultural areas forget Pomeroy's refusal
to grant relief to strikers in the San
joaquin regions, even though the refusal
hurt the Republican cause in California.
1t is with regret we say goodbye to Mr..
POmerOy.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
Bruce Satfon Says
New Tide in World Affairs from Trade treaty

its goods with the coed of other
peoples.
The first philosophy means resi-
mentation, restriction, d steady
mari owing Of the orbit in which
individual enterprise can operate;
the second means the exact re
verse OF those things.
Which, is why the Anglo -Amcri-
can trade agreement Is 50 import
ant.
For by ,his agreement tie two
greatest Industrial nations in the
world realfirm their belief in the
philosophy which works for free
dom and abundance. They do more
than reaElrm it; they offer a
practical. working demonstration
that that philosophy pays greater
material dividends than any other
Viewed in that light. The ouco-
lion whether the agreement is the
best that could be obtained Is Icld-
lively unImportant Il may need
a good deal of revision; .some Of its
clauses may work rather badly it
may take months or years TO get
It into final shape. But tie big
thing is that thc step has been
taken.
A new side in world affairs has
been set n motion, flowing away
from re2imentation and toward
lfeedcm. And 1t may vet develop
that the most important news Of
1883 vas the news of he signing
Of this trade agreement
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
WE BOW TO Mr.. DESMOND
(Oroville Mercury-Register)

Back in New York State there is an
office holder who should be returned to
office time and again. He has feeling
for the public that is rare indeed.
The man is Thomas c. Desmond re
elected to the state senate from the Or
ange-Sulliyan district of the state
Mr.. Desmond conducted rattling
good campaign, during which he used
large cards bearing his picture. These
were posted conspicuously wherever the
law allowed.
Having been duly elected to office Mr.
Desmond performed the act that should
endear him to voters everywhere. He
odered his secretary to back track for
a distance Of some 1000 miles, and take
down every single one Of the cards that
had been put up during the campaign.
There are 20OO Of them, the secretary
ruefully explains.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
THE STAGE is SET
FOR COOPERATION

(NaIl Street JOurnaD
1t Is probably true as 4 number Of
business men have recently remarked i'm
public, that the stage is now set for CO.
operation between leaders in government
and in commercial enterprise, to the end
that confidence may vigorously revive.
employment increase and a beWildering
variety of problems find at least partial
solution. The stage is set without yield
ing to a perVerse impulse to ask whether
all the players know their lines and cues,
it is permissible to call for some measure
of definition of those rubbery express
SionS, cooperation" and "confidence."
Admittedly. both are hard to define
in generally acceptable terms. Yet they
have real meanings. 1t may not be far
afield to say that business and govern
ment will cooperate if each concentrates
its efforts first and most steadily ON
its own primary tasks. Government has
responsibilities which business men can
not ask it to neglect, still less to sur
render to them; what we call 'private
enterprise has a role to play which gov
ernment cannot take over without funda-
mentally altering the essential American
scheme of community life and cannot
so much as threaten to assume without
creating in the business mind those dim
misgivings which paralyze action.
The cooperation the country needs can
be had provided the protagonists of bus
mess and of government proceed to seek
it without first attempting to drive
bargain. 1t is true, of course that cooper
alton signifies spirit flowing in two
directions. But the attitude of This or
else - which has so often been dis
played by both parties to the controversy
in recent years gets the country nowhere.
except perhaps farther from real and
dependable prosperity. Men in political
life may regard that attitude as more
or less appropriate to their functions,
but it is particularly inept for men of
business. We commend to the latter this
sentence from the address of Lewis H.
Brown to the recent New England Con-
ference:
The theorists, the advocates of a plan
ned economy and a regimented nation
can be supplanted only as industry dem
onstrates once more that spirit of mi
tiative, resourcefulness and courageous
faith in the future Of cur country which
has conquered all other depressons in
the nations history.
This we interpret to mean that pow
erful restorative Of the Indispensable
"confidence" will be at work as and when
the management Of industry throws its
weight into its own collar, without losing
time in attempting to measure too exactly
the contents of the feed-boX That will
remain variable in any case.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
Well. | II
TeIIYou..
Says
Bob Burns

When I first mentioned that l
might go 10 Honolulu all my
friends. that'd ever been there
started calm ne up and tellin'
me what to do and what not to
dc and they got me so mixed up
ard worried l come pref near not
going.
felt whole lot like Grandma
snazzy did whcr she took her first
train ride. She went up to the
conductor and saws (which end
of this thing is tie engine on?'
The conductor sayh We'll, there s
ono on the back to help push us
over the mountains" and she says
rs there one ON the other end
too?" and ho says Yes Then
hhe says "Oh, dear. now don't
know what to do They told me
if I sat with my back to the en-
CINE. might get sick
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
You re Telling Me ~-r

Tie New York teacher who ad-
yoaates abolishment of arithmetic
has pot us worried We hope the
ladies don't take him seriously and
star ncglccting their figures.
Tic movies are striving toward
realism. SAYS Cecil B. DeMille. We
Won believe that until We see d
heroine with a wrinkle in her
uialtelOthcs after a nights sleep,
Three tnous7nd aigolos in Berlin
haye TO 90 TO work on construction
fe5e. The authorities probably
aaut the boys 10 make their marks.
A Hall Of Pharmacy is one of
lie features Of the New Yorka
World Fair. Which takes care OF
TIE visitors who are interested in
washing machines.
TODAYS QUIZ: Has Lincoln
Ellsworth in his Polar expeditions
found anything colder than the
buttons Cr a mans underwear on
q winter morning?
An ordinance against flying kites
Is enforced In the District CT Col
rmb'7 Probably a SAFETY measure,
With 50 man" people up in the air
I'll taa time.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27

the map. playing enc nlSaU III oEi
seue th, next in Buffalo or Bos-
In troV USUALLY ie9ve at MD
,,irht immediately after their per
fcrn9nCc ana DRIVE perhaps tAe
rasr of the nieht 20 reach the
town where taey are o..leu 10 pIaS
ne following evening. 80 Wheli
thev are playing che ni2ht STANDS
fney wor. all night md sleep 2I!
do Tmagira sleeping al day VIE
sunshine flooding the room. l
-s',od them how they did it. Lynn
F,nt90Dc assured me It was easy
The -imDly haze with them SeV-
eral sets OF placl. dr7peries and pm
ever the hotel windows; ana. oN
this bit Of black magic, transform
cay into night.
Miss Foutanue said that once she
md Alfred Lunt were Unable to
Get an outside stateroOm on q
trans-Atlantic sea3mer, so lne}
zIlarad III an ipsie room INTO WhlSA
no trace OF uaslight ever entered.
This room. uieht and day, was as
black as Missouri gumbo. SO they
Went to bed and slept fourteen
hours without a break; and aWoke
feeling al Il they had had q monlh
vacation
Hcmer Yves. Of the Water Tow
ar T7ev-Had-to-Eee- Paris. and
Sixteen Hands, Croy and I motored
across. France in 1922 He too was
awakened each morning as soon as
dawn cleaned into the windows. l
persuaded him to follow a practice
learned frcm Arthur Brisbane.
that OF wearing d small black mask
o4ar The eyes. IL couldn't get used
% if a. first For the first few
ri.hts. The cloth around his eyes
eaDf him awake. but At the end OF
week. he had formed the habit.
Il you siccp fiuaily after day
break. 'rg .h7 black cloth. Try It
It fer g. week and you will be pro
foundly grateful TO this paper for
bringing Vol re SUGGESTION.
There's a5solGteIT 10 reason to
develop an lnfcriorit% complex be
cause you aIo not college grad
uaaa. " e" 5Esires men Won even
- when yCl apply for Q job. l
aszla M. Dart. Manager Of The
Charles WaisIoen Chain D.ue
Stores. if he would advise a young
mn who aepired to devote his lie
to he drug s.ore business to de-
s6ta .our ycaIa Of his life to getting
cC..e- C.uCatiol.
sTaa. depends a lot on the man.
=. replied But j. most cases, I
asuId advise linn to finish high
=clooi. forget college and plunge
snto business ana devote all Of his
aare time t. studying the problems
e his business
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
Famous Sayings

It will be quite d while before we
can tell whether the new British
American trade agreement is going
10 work out as we'll as the people
who drew 1t up hope it will At
the moment, however. it can at
least be said that the signing Of
the agreement is one of The most
hopeful highs that has appeared
on the world horizon in a long
time
For whether it works out we'll or
badly 1t is an attempt to restore
to the world part of q long-loSt
freedom II is step toward a
Saner and more equitable form of
world society, and the mere fact
that such a step can be taken at
all is immensely encouraging.
There are in the world today two
diametrically opposed PHILOSOPHERS
CT life. One finds its expression in
dictatorship, the other in democ-
racy. The differences between
them arc not mere differences in
governmental forms; they are fund
amental, and affect every aspect
of life and organization
Under the one philosophy. war
and the International rivalrieS
that go with war are taken as &
matter III course. F'V cry activity
OF life is conditioned by that as
sumption International trade most
OF all. The old ideal OF a free
exchange of goods between nations
is discarded; instead, each nation
strives to be "self-contamed' as if
any nation. in this day and age,
could possibly attain such a state
and the theory is that one peo-
pie can profit only Al the expense
Cf some other people.
The opposing philosophy is based
on the belief that there is enough
for everyone III this world if only
ONE proper meauh of distribution
be found. Feacc rather than war
is looked on as the normal state;
consequently. it is held that ma
ton prospers best by cultivdting
the greatest possible interchange of
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
VACANCIES Cost Money, Rent
TO BUY or sell a bargain use
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
News Behind
the News
The Rules Committee
II Means Trouble =.
Rv RODNEY BUTCHER

W
powerful Rules Committee, which
decides whether any bill Snall
come up for a vote III the House,
NAV still trouble in the administra-
ton despite its purge of Chair
man john J. OConnor in New
York.
The New Deal and anti-New
Deal lineup on this committee re-
mains The same numerically. And
Republicans, with fourScore new
House members, will press 1or
larger representation.
OConnor and Rep. William =.
Driver o. Arkansas. who heipeu
bottle up the wage-hom act anG
other bills. were defeated in the
primaries. But two loyal New
Deal members. Greenwood Of IN
diana and Harlan of Ohio, were
knocked off III the election.
In line for the chairmanship is
7e-year-ol6 Adolph J. SABBATH OF
Illinois. If YOU subtract the cleo
ton casualties he is the only lOO
Der cert rO-RooseVelt mang amonG
tn six Democrats and four Re-
pubicans left on the committee.
Republicans will demand at Least
enc of the four Democratic va
Cancies. but even if all four were
filled with pro-NeW Deal Demo-
eats - unlikely because Of the
conservatism OF the committee on
committee which assigns them
.4T Ia RI IN ~
administration majority.
The House might be willing to
expand membership of the COM
mittec so enough new men could
be appointed to assure adminiStr1-
ton control Meanwhile Rules
stands as a conservative bulWark.
With Greenwood out, the rank
ing Democratic member under Sa-
bath becomes Eugene Cox OF
Georgia. even more anti-NeW Deal
than was O'Connor-oSpecially to-
ward administration alliances with
organized labor. Next is Howard
w. Smith of Virginia. whom New
Dealers vainly sought to purge"
this year. j. Bayard Clark OF
North Carolina. who was in the
anti-Wage hour bill block. ranks
next. And then there's none other
than Martin Dies of Texas.
SABBATH, at least theoretically, is
a key man in any event. Tradi-
tionally the House is controlled by
the Speaker - now William B.
Rankhcad of Alabama-and the
Majority Leader now Sam Ray
burn of TeXaS-and the chairman
Of the Rules Committee
SABBATH was born in what re-
Gently has been Czechoslovakia, in
1866. He is a son Of poor BO-
emian parents, and was brought
70 this country at is! he worked in
a mill, studied law ard after prac-
ticins became a municipal judge
in Chicago. He has represented
the Fifth Illinois congressional dis
trict 80 years and in January viii
begin his 18th term.
He is short, Stocky. white haired
White-mustached and always fault
lessly dressed. He still speaks with
something of an accent. without
the force, influence or personal fol-
lowing OF O'Connor he nevertheless
IS popular in the House. The adj
had hoped Greenwood
would take much of tho heavier
work off his shoulders and now
will try to see that one of its more
men is assigned to the
committee to help him
He mas actively supported meas
tres tor protection of investors.
legislation and relief
3ad social welfare bills.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
Mother, Son Die
In Crossing Crash

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 2G. UP)-A
mother and her 30-ycar- old son
were dead today after a Santa Fe
streamlned train Dlowed into their
car at a grade crossing four miles
north Of here and instantly killed
them both
Mrs. Jean Maud Trant, 49. and
her son, Maxwell Lathrop, both of
National City, were crushed to death
last night When the speeding train
struck .heir car and tossed it more
than 100 feet, Firemen with acaty-
lene torches were required to ex-
tricate The bodies.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
BaYbs .--.

IT,, COUNTRYSIDE is strcEn with
H#.ezea poHjcal machines. broken
gaoniaos and defeated candidates
ealu4 down lor the third time. And
1ass ell ii PLAYING politics.
The former kaIzar at Doom must
sncumcs wonder if his empire
raen't lost because ne Wos chicken
hearted
Tic country wants the c. I. O.,
4. + l. and l. /. G. W. u. to get
together on something and p D. @.
Tic .eIrse former President
B@ar. ~ Czechcslogakia viii teach
ri 80 University Of Chicago should
hHo a,H"tlmg 10 % with IN
ciDIoM q. Iiis.orT.
Old .u....4 Ct htaturk turned
cut Tor bis funeral IN great mum
bers. q little impatient at the de-
lay. no ucugt
Trade Your Don't Wants For
30 WANTS POST-P PRESS
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
State Bank Chief
viii Be Chosen

SACRAMENTO, NOV. 26. up
Appointment Of a STAGE banking
superintendent to succeed former
Coy. Friend w, Richardson prob
ably will be announced early next
week, Gov. Elect Culbert L. Olson
revealed today at the capitol.
Olson said announcement of his
new director of social welfare and
director Of finance could be ex-
peatcd shortly after the banking
position Vas filled.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
Words of Wisdom

A mans character Is the reality
of himself His reputation IS
the opinion others nave formed OF
him -. Character IS in him. repu-
tation is from other people-that
is the substance, this is the shadow
H. w. BeechCr.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
TndaX'S HorOScOre

You who are born today are
rather peremptory and demanding
but. nevertheless, you are very sem
sitive. II things do not go your
way or you feel you are not ap-
preciated. YOU lret You hate in
reference. are a bit suspicious and
inclined to be jealous, but you are
a good and lliy worker. and your
faults cause you more unhappiness
than they do yo9 friends.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27

three o'clock If
he m o min 6
They are so keyed
Up so excited, so
eense from the
emotional strain
Of the perform
ance. that they
eaat possibly re
laN and set to
sleep for three OF
four hCIls after
ne curtain falls.
50 when they
lump all over
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
GRAB BAG
One Minute Test

I. What city OF Florida gives
away a certain newspaper every
day ON which the sun fails to shine?
2. What is the official weight OF
a baseball?
3. How do maho2any trees grow?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
DALE
II X ~
CARNEGIE
Author of Row to Win
Friends and Influence
People

Alfred Lmt and his wife. Lynn
Fon.auun. Americas pair OF CLAM
orous sectors. told ne when they
aae appearing in Broadway
SHOW. they never 90 to bed until
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
Hints on Etiuueitr

a necessary courtesy often neg
lected is the so-cailed bread and
butter" letter to the hostess who
has entertained you. L should be
written and sent within a week
after, visit.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
Cnc-NJinutc Test Answers

/. s.. Petersburg.
>. L varies 5e,Ween five and five
aud onc-quarter ounces.
3. They GROW as single trees, US
ualIH not more than two trees to
al acIe
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27

Football players at the larger
university may be required to
learn to count to four as a result
of a referees permitting a fifth
Gown.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
WHY GO-yYITHOUT??

It Is sound business 10 borrow
from us. to buy things you really
need Business borroWs. when it
needs cash for investment in c3-
sentials. Why should hot you!
You Viii find our Personal Loans
a sensible solution to your needs.
Come, today. learn more OF our
easy, friendly Leans.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27

New evidence OF the wonderful,
California climate IS found in the
appearance there Of a man de
claued dead IL years ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-27
Photographs

Furge news from abroad will be
5idetrecked for the next few weeks
while football coaches are liquidat-
~G.