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Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
THE DEAN MAY RETIRE.
BUT HE'LL NEVER LEAVE

In year or two the bows and girls
al Central Junior college won't know
The difference. They will chatter thru
The corridors and to them all will be
as 1t always has been. The difference
Will be noticeable only to scattered
handful of alumni who drift back for a
look at the school. They will see the diff
ference, because a little man with a
spade beard and laughing eyes no longer
presides over the chemistry laboratory.
1hey will notice that Dean Frank Shep-
herd has retired.
Even the alumni will suffer only a
momentary pang We'll III be darned"
they'll say. place doesn't seem the same
without the dean
Then they will forget They will not
forget the dean, but they will forget he
is no longer in his laboratory. They will
remember only the gay and careless DAYS
when they were youngsters and school
was fun, although they didn't know it.
and Dean Shepherd was kindly old
fellow whose rebuffs were only half
meant and who could always be counted
on for a sharp bit of repartee to make
them laugh
Buildings are torn down, fortunes dis
sipated, companies changed until their
makers personalities are lost in the
files. But the mark left upon the per-
sonality and heart of a child goes on
and on as ripple moves across a lake.
What lasting monument is greater to
leave behind?
How much of an impression Dean
Shepherd leaves upon his hundreds of
students cannot be measured Certain
it is he gave each one a tiny part of him
self. Certain it is that long after he has
solved the last and greatest expert
ment' myriad particles of his personal
ity will remain, carried by other minds
and other hearts.
Like Mr.. Chips, Dean Shepherd can
say:
"Children? I've had thousands of
them -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Willis Thornton's Editorial on:
Children Adopt Ship and an Idea

of things to do besides to write
letters home to grade school child
ren. And there are only SO many
ships, anyway.
But within the limits, what bet
ter idea could there be to vitalize
geography, stimulate imagination,
implant some basic idea of the
meaning of trade, and in general
widen the horizons of children at
an age when the world is just be-
ginning to come into their view.
Exchange of letters with stu
dents in foreign countries, new
plans like this one linking them to
the realities of ships and trade,
all bid fair to develop broader,
more understanding citizens of the
future than those of the past.
And heaven knows the world
needs theml
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
THIS CAN'T HAPPEN
HERE YET

Americans who have given an atten-
tive ear to political gatherings about
the "shackles" on the press of this coun-
try can find sharply pointed moral in
the expulsion of H. R. Ekins, United
Press star reporter, from Rome, pre-
sumably by direct order of Premier BENZ
to Mussolini. Not only was Ekins ex-
PEELED from Rome, but the United Press
ian government.
Why?
As nearly as anybody can find out, it
is because the United Press bureau in
London reported rumors, citing them def
initely as rumors and nothing else, that
Mussolini had suffered heart attack.
The Rome bureau of the United Press,
following the rumor story, reported
truthfully that Mussolin seemed to be
in good health. Yet Mussolini, unable
to punish the U. P bureau in London,
closed up the one in Rome. Thus one of
the worlds two largest news services was
cut off from news in the capital of Fas-
cist Italy.
Things like that happen when the
government controls the press as it does
in Italy
Things like that cannot happen in
America today. They can happen, how
ever, and they will happen, if politicians,
blathering about mysterious, unidentified
interests" controlling the press, are able
to gain control and exercise censorship
themselves under the pretext of preserv-
ing the people from economic royal
lists"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
GUIDING
YOUTH Alright
christian Science Monitor)

Although much has been done by So
cial agencies TO get at the roots of crime
by working with young people, it is not
necessary to look beyond the recent ex-
ecution. at the Massachusetts State Pris-
on, of two boys, one nineteen, the other
twenty, to realize that much remains To
be accomplished
In Cleveland, Ohio the juvenile delin-
quency rate has been cut 62 per cent
through police department efforts to win
the confidence of slum area gang lead
ers. Leaders of juvenile gangs attended
dinner given for them by the police.
Asked why they thought their districts
had a delinquency rate three times as
high as the rest of the city, the boys re-
piled that they needed swimming pools,
baseball diamonds, tennis courts and
gymnasiums little spending money
and some adventure.
As result, jobs were obtained for
200 boys and club was formed which
secured additional night-school and rec
reational facilities and encouraged sav-
ing habits. Boy Scout troops were spon-
sored Juvenile crime decreased and five
police stations in so-called delinquency.
areas were closed and turned over to
boys organizations.
Similar programs have brought equal
~ encouraging results in other cities.
Boston has its Junior Police and sum-
mer camp where underprivileged youths
go for vacation The challenge to So
ciety presented by the high juvenile de-
linquency rate can best be answered by
the furtherance of such efforts.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
AFFECTS US ALL
tOroViIIe Mercury-Register)

story that other papers did not dis
play prominently, but that affects every
person in the United States was the an
nouncement Tuesday by Henry A Wal
lace. secretary of agriculture, that the
food stamp plan for distributing farm
surplusses among people of low incomes
would be expanded on a national basis.
The plan allows poor people to buy
food at less cost than people of means.
1t has been working in six cities and has
been so successful that Wallace thinks
it will work everywhere.
Many of his schemes have met with
violent criticism and opposition, but here
is one that seems to find popular ap-
proval. Undoubtedly there are some
who will pay for this more heavily than
others, but they must be small minor
ity, for nothing has been heard from
them.
A plan that distributes our surplus
crops to the poor at a price they can
afford to pay is something we have been
waiting for long while. 1t is the most
biting criticism of our economy that
while fruit is rotting in the orchards and
grain is moulding in the warehouses,
thousands don't have enough to eat We
hope this plan works perfectly and that
it remedies the difficulty that has been
our curse for so many years.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13

specimen OF 1arm BOY tnat nau
ever wandered across a newspaper
threshold. He wore crude home
spun, his trousers were far too
short his coat was shapeless; ON
his head was something that va
guely resembled a hat, but on his
feet no socks. His hair was Pc
cular pinkish blond In fast, he
looked more like a stage charac-.
ter than a real boy.
II hear you need boy to learn
the printing trade" said the gro-
tesque looking creature.
The publisher looked him. sgyer.
Sure he needed boy, but this
greenhorn-no no. he wouldn't do
Instead of hurting the boys feel
ings, however, he thought 1t would
be easier to let the boy discover for
himself that he was not fitted for
newspaper work. So he asked about
his education.
my parents were poor, and ! got
to go to school hardly at ALL" the
boy answered frankly. But I've
tried to make up for it by reading
and studying every moment I could
get"
The publisher decided to ask
some questions which would set
tie the matter in the youngsters
mind He was member of the
school board, and was accustomed
to quizzing students. So he begafN
firing questions at the green boy
To his surprise the boy answered
the first one correctly. He got the
second one right, too The publish
er tried him an history, geography,
current events, and even politics.
The boy had correct answers; and
on the political questions he had
clear-cut opinions.
The pitying smile faded from the
face of the publisher How did
you get all this informationP" he
asked the boy.
"By reading and thinking the
boy answered.
The publisher finally said, Amy
boy who has done so much read
ing, and learned SO much is going
to get somewhere in this world
You're hired.
Was the publishers estimate
true? Well. that boy became one
of the greatest editors America has
ever had People actually stood
in front of the New York news
paper which Horace Greeley edited,
waiting for 1t to come off the press
to read his opinion on some cur
rent topic. One of his sentences be-
came famous. 1t was Go West,
young man"
Horace Greeley was denied for
NAL education, but he made up for
it by reading and studing; by try
ing to evalute the problems of the
day. Don't worry if you haven't
college education. The important
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
TOday's Horoscope

Sudden and unexpected events
and upheavals seem impending for
todays birthday children. Keep
cool and consult your elders. Be
guided by them. 1t will be only
a short time ere fortune smiles
again. The child born on this date
will succeed through travel. He OF
she will be good natured, but of a
somewhat restless disposition lack
ing determination and ability to
stick to one thing-unless born in
the p. m.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Famous Sayings
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Disseets the News

WASHINGTON.-You get diff
ferent set of leaders out of each
session of Congress.
Every year a certain number of
men stand out as the ones who
are most influential with their fell
lows. The group which they COM
pose is worth studying. because it
may contain the next president =
or possibly the next-president-af-
ter the next. Certainly it contains
the men who, for one reason or
another, have been most effective
in shaping their country's policies.
Sometimes a man gets In this
group by his elopuence. Some
times he gets there by a plodding
earnestness which makes him an
acknowledged authority on some
particular subject. Sometimes he
gets there simply because his col
leagues have come to have especial
respect for his intelligence and his
knowledge. Sometimes his rise Is
due to his political shrewdness:
sometimes it is simply due to his
presidential-yea political avail
ability"
In any case, here is a sample
list of the men who, in the session
just ending, have risen to promi-
nence in the leader class:
Congressman Eugene Cox, Geor-
gia Democrat, for his dominance
of the all-powerful House rules
committee and his effective op-
position to all aspects of the New
Deals labor program. Linked with
him in the same bracket is Con-
gresham Howard w. Smith, Viz
gina Democrat.
Congressman Joseph w. Martin,
Massachusetts Republican, the mi
nority leader, who gave his party
remarkably shrewd and effective
generalship throughout the session.
Congressman Clifton Woodrum,
Virginia Democrat, who was more
influential than any other man in
Congress on bills. affecting the
WPA. In the same connection,
Congressman John Taber, New
York Republican, can also be gi-
ven credit for some highly effec-
tive work.
Congressman Carl Vinson of
Georgia and Andrew J. May of
Kentucky, both Democrats, who
had charge of the huge navy and
army appropriation bills, respec-
lively, and who piloted them
through the House successfully
Mr. May might also take a bow
for rallying more anti-TVA senti-
ment than had previously been
evident in the House.
Senator Arthur Vandengerg
Michigan Republican, for consis-
tent and intelligent opposition to
New Deal projects, ranging all the
way from revision of the neutral
ity law to the Florida ship canal
and extension of the President s
monetary powers. Also noteworthy
on the neutrality issue were Sena-
tors Bennett Clark of Missouri,
Hiram Johnson of California, Will
liam E. Borah of Idaho, and Ger
aid Nye of North Dakota.
Senator Alva Adams, Colorado
Democrat, for steady fight for
economy.
Senator Robert Taft, Ohio Re-
publican, for a workmanlike job
under rather trying circumstances
Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma
for apersistent fight for tenant
farm loans.
Senator James E. ByrneS of
South Carolina, for widened
sphere of influence on many mat
ters. Among other things, he put
through the reorganization bill
and the bow for this can be shared
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
New York Times J

NNEW I UTk lIIHtSD
Art is not a separate chamber of life
or the exclusive property of cultivated
people. 1t goes down through the whole
structure of life. 1t is the words we
speak and the clothes we wear and the
friendships we cultivate in passing AL
though civilized people have refined it
into myriad forms of common and high
expression, they have not civilized it out
of their systems. Man is not categorical
ly work of art But millions of people
make art out of him by keeping their
imagination alert and taking up the slack
in the days living.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Words of Wisdom

Physical courage which despises
all danger, will make man brave
in one way, and moral courage,
which despises i'll opinion, will make
a man brave in another.-The for
mer would seem most necessary
for the camp, the latter for the
council, but to constitute a great
man both are necessary.-Colton.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13

Did you ever hear of school child
rem adopting" a ship
Well, its being done. More than
10 American seagoing vessels have
been adopted" by grade school
classes in geography.
Its an arrangement promoted by
the American Merchant Marine
Women's Association. The thought
is to increase interest in the mer-
chant marine and at the same
time give the study of geography
a reality it could not otherwise
have
Take the fourth grade at McCull-
ough School OF Jackson, Mich,
for example. Their teacher, Miss
Jessie Huber, made the arrange
ments through the women's associa-
ton. They adopted the mer-
chant ship Exmoor, making special
arrangements with the American
Export Lines to do So
The ships officers wrote to the
class from foreign ports where the
EXmoor called.
The foreign stamps were interes-
ting. The story OF what American
products were delivered at what
ports changed from a dull listing
to a fascinating adventure, because
it was their" ship.
Ports in Spain and Africa be-
came more than mere dots ON a
colored map, because the children
followed their" ship.
They learned a great deal about
geography in simple, concrete
terms. They learned eagerly cer-
tain matters of history connected
with those places. They tried with
equal eagerness to improve their
own letter-writing ability, SO that
letters they might write to officers
or crew of the Exmoor would be
welcomed.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13

by Congressman John j. cochran
of Missouri and Lindsay warren
of North Carolina, Democrats.
Senator Claude Pepper, pro-NeW
Deal efforts plus tireless, though
unsuccessful, fight for the Town
send plan =
Senator Carl A. Hatch. New
Mexico Democrat. for putting
through the clean politics bill which
bears his name
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
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destined to nave
a profound effect
on the history of
this n a Il o ~
What was it2
Just this.
A fifteen year
old boy went in
to a newspaper
plant, and ap-
piled for a job.
He was the most
unlikely looking
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Hints on Etiquette

Avoid frowning, screwing up your
features or making other grimaces
while talking. They detract from
what you have to say, calling at
tention to themselves rather than
the conversation.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13

Twelve years ago Calvin Coo
lidge made his Il do not choose
to run" statement. Now politicians
are wondering whether he set a
precedent or made history.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
barbs-

Judy Conova was married and di-
vorced without any public notice
The only thing that makes this
noteworthy is that she's a movie
actress
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF THE CITY C4ATCIL
SITTING AS A BOARlJF
EQUALIZATION "

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN as
required, that the City Council OF
the City of Ell Centre, will convene
on August IA, 1889, at 7:3O pm, inl
the City Hall of Ell Centre, to s0
as a Board of Equalization for the
purpose of equalizing the Tax Roll,
and will continue to sit as Board
OF EQUALIZATION from day to day
until the equalization of tax is COM
pleted.
HERBERT w. FAWCETT,
Mayor of the City OF
Ell Centre.
Attest:
X. j. TOMBSTONE.
City Clerk
tAug. 7. 8, 8. 10. IL. IL & l4)
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13

One day 81 years ago, in East
Poultney, Vermont, an event hap
pened that has had big effect on
your life. No one paid any atten-
tion to the event then. but 1t was
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
You re Telling Me-

How can interest in baseball be
easy-organize a third major lea
easy organize a third major lea
que It's only members being the
Cincinnati Reds and New York
Yankees.
A canadian has organized
mouse ranch. Wonder how many
cats he's hired to ride herd.
And then there's the fellow who
gfouses around his air-conditioned
oillce' yearning for the good old
days.
Naturally, that midWestern gol-
Ter who managed to knock himself
cut didn't count the stroke-being
unconscious at the time it happened
AS though the British authorities
throughout the empire aren't hav-
ing enough trouble already, Bonn
bay, India, is to try prohibition.
In New Jersey the folks have
cheerfully suffered the long, dry
spell 1t seems the drought not
only killed Off the lawns-but the
mosquitoes as well.
Notorious gangster dies leaving
an estate OF exactly $500. Again
Is proven the truth of the old say
ing: Crime doesn't pay''-enough
to interest even the inheritance
tax collector.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13

Gladys Swarshout banged her
nose on a stage set but went on
singing anyhow. One case where
an opera star suffered instead of
the audience.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13

mo husband should be taken to
Bali on honeymoon. says a re-
turning bride. Then those beauties
really exist, eh?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13

Hollywood slipped up. Richard
Carlson, an actually young fellow.
has been cast in a college picture.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Grab Baq-
One-Minute Test

l. What and where is Honduras?
2. Who, according to the Bible, was
the first child born on the earth?
3. In what state did the lroquois
Indians chiefly live?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13

Obviously there are limits beyond
which this particular idea cannot
be carried. Ships officers have lots
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
One-Minute Test Answers

l. 1t is republic in Central AM
erica, bounded on the north and
northeast by the Caribbean sea,
by Nicaragua on the southeast, Sal
vaor and the Pacific ocean on the
southwest and Guatemala on the
west.
2. Cain.
3. New York
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Photographs

One person out of every As owns
a car in Germany, in the United
States, it is one out of every five.
thing is to make the best of your
time and opportunity. Learn some
thing every day, Don't merely
read. Study Do this and you will
make up for lack of college edu-
cation.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Thoughts for the Day

Heaven and earth shall pass away. but my
shall not pass away-Matthew 24.35.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-10

has a staff of $500 persons. The
staff works in three shifts daily
in handling work for the unem-
ployment compensation division.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-10
County Fair Will
Break All Records,
HuIse Predicts
Continued from rage y

Continued from rage u
direct reference to the political
controversy arising from the ap-
pointment of two Democrats by
Governor Culbert Olson, to replace
two pioneer Republican fair
board members. His nearest ap-
proach was in stating that the fair
has always barred political factors,
and the cheap tricks of retaining
honky-ton or questionable attrac-
tions. He also stressed that the fair,
in order to maintain a good repu-
tation. has always prohibited hard
liouor refreShment. and only per-
mits the sale of beer at single
concession where it may be COM
pletely controlled.
He quoted a state fair authority
for crediting the local institution
with being the second in the state
in point of quality, and the first
in point of administration.
In the past ten years, Hulse
said, the fair has grown steadily
measured by these records:
From a start of only six exhibit
ors in the young men and women
groups, to 146 this year, exhibiting
395 head of livestock.
From a start of 30 agricultural
exhibitors. to 342 such exhibitors
this year, not including many sup
Elemental exhibitions not falling
in the agriculture category.
From no horse exhibit ten years
ago, TO 423 horses this year.
The fair rapidly IS becoming a
widely recognized advertisement
for Imperial Valley. Hulse declar-
ed, and serves not only to tel
the rest of this country about I'M
perial Valley but to educate val
leyites about their own community
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-10

priations for operation of various
departments for the remainder of
the current fiscal year.
The committee decided to look
over the departmental requests as
a result of a compromise of the
senate's refusal tc appropriate
Sl83 900 in additional money for
the department of motor Tehicles.
The upper house reconsidered its
action, but allowed only SAB 600,
holding up the remainder pending
committee report on the depart
ment's actual needs
Also to be studied are requests
by the division of forestry for a
$478 900 deficiency and by the CAL
ifornia nautical school for $1970
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-10
4-States Highway
Delegates Arrive
For BrawIey Meet
Continued from Page II

sociation vice president.
Among those who drove to
Blythe We're Stewart Green, Char
les Nice, Paul Palmer, B. M. Gra-
ham of Brawley; J. H. Mccoy and
Mrs. Eunice Hindle of CaleXico,
Frank Forward of San Diego and
Judge F.. T. Cook of Westmorland.
Among distinguished visitors who
will arrive Friday afternoon will
be President Harland L. Wells OF
Whitefish. Mont.
Convention activities will start
Friday night with dinner in Mexi-
cali at the Golden Lion, a banquet
arranged by Baja California and
Mexicali city officials. Business
sessions will get under way Satur-
day morning at 10 o'clock with a
meeting of the executive commit
tee. While men delegates are con-
ferring, visiting women will take
sightseeing trip through Braw-
ley and will be guests at luncheon
and tea.
The fourth convention of the
association will be called to order
Saturday afternoon at 1:30.
A reception at the Del Rio coun-
try club will be held at pm. and
at a banquet was slated for the
Planters hotel at which informal
business remaining unfinished will
be brought up.