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Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22
HELP KEEP THE FAIR BOARD
ON A BUSINESS BASIS

OF all the public boards and bureaus
with which people of Imperial county
have to deal none is less political nor
more efficiently businesslike than the
board of directors Of the 45th District
Agricultural Association, better known
as the Imperial county mid-winter talr.
None more thoroughly deserves the
gratitude of the entire community for
unselfish service.
That support is needed now in way
il has never been needed before.
Two vacancies exist on the fair board.
Terms of Sam Howe, Westmorland, and
T. E. Anderson, CaleXico, have expired.
Governor Culbert L. Olson will soon
make his appointments to fill the posi-
tions.
Both men are willing to accept reap
pointment Their willingness springs
from a reason politicians might not un-
derstand. for there is no salary attached
to the position, and in this county the
fair board has operated on basis that
bars entirely any chance for patronage
or personal monetary gain. With these
men. as with others of the board, sue
cess of the county fair is a matter of
pride.
1t is this pride which has made of the
county fair the most successful in Cali
fornia. 1t has brought many representa-
tives of other fairs to this county to study
methods used here 1t has brought un-
solicited compliments from livestock
Judges and others who tour every fair
in the state Only this year it brought
an unsolicited letter from a firm which
performed the county audit, comment
ing that the books of the Imperial county
fair are in better order than the books
of any other similar exposition in Cali
fornia.
Truly the pride the Imperial county
fair board takes in its work has built an
institution of which the entire county
can be proud
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22
LOOK AT THE RECORD

Anyone who doubts at all the business
like efficiency of the fair board needs
only to look at the financial record.
Ten years ago there was nothing but
a dream in the minds of Ben Hulse and
A Y. Preble One year after that there
was debt of $1,000, but the dream re-
NAMED Members of the fair board, most
of whom have served the entire time, per-
sonally endorsed notes guaranteeing the
debt. They did not have to do it. They
did it only because they wanted to see
the fair become a successful institution.
Now, ten years later, the fair has as
sets of S266,320, and it owes nothing
1t has cost those who pay taxes only
$4,000 in those ten years, and it has
given back in premiums more than S43,-
900. Thus the taxpayers, by paying little
more than was needed for prizes alone,
have become owners of S266, ,320 worth of
property.
That would be good business in any
organization, public or private.
In addition, the fair which started
with debt of $4,000 now has a cash
balance of S25, 900.
Credit for the entire performance is
due the fair board and its trusted en-
nlOVac
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22
STOLEN GOLD

(Berkeley GaZette)
Uncle Sam can make foreign trade
treaties which may profit our country,
but he can't collect foreign debts. Espe-
cially from the German government, and
with special reference to the $3500O,OOO
due from Austria.
1t is one of the many things in Central
Europe now annoying Americans. By
international law, government which
anneXes another government is regarded
as assuming the latter's lawful obliga-
tions. Austria was meeting payments on
that debt, but the Hitler government has
met none, and has refused to acknowl-
edge the obligation.
And it isn't as if Hitler had taken over
a bankrupt concern. There was far more
than S35,000,000 in the Austrian treasury
when Hitler grabbed it. But instead of
using it to clean the slate, he is said to
have hauled the gold to Berlin for a war
fund
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22
Elliott Roosevelt
Predicts Chances

FORT WORTH, Tex, Jan. 81.
CUP)-Elliott Roosevelt, back from
a White House visit, said today
that he had "inside" information
of an unprecedented movement for
business ss-government harmony.
He expected, within two months,
that the government would seek an
understanding with utilities; that
legislation ''to revise the entire
freight rate structure in the United
States would be introduced in
congress, and that that body was
almost certain" to alter the agri-
cultural adjustment act. Additional
ly, he foresaw one year in which
the petroleum industry had ito
put its house in order"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22
PeIfier Discovers
New Heavenly Body

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 81. (UP)--
Franklin Institute officials today
confirmed discovery of what zap
pears to be- new comet by Leslie
c. Peltier, the Delphos, O., drafts
man who first reported Peltier's
comet in 1886.
James Stokley and l.. M. Leavitt
of the institute staff described the
comet as a bright nucleus surround
eddy a vague patch of light. The
comet appears in the northwestern
sky shortly after dark and is not
visible without telescope, they
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22
CATION SAYS

Maybe Mr.. Herbert Ward, alias
Jones, of Hilltop Road, Dronfield,
near Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Eng
land, is going down to fame as the
man who finally grew Tired OF 1t
All and started a revolt against
Things as They Are.
Mr. Ward, alias Jones, is the cen
ter of court proceedings at Chester
field which are to decide a nice
legal point. The question at issue
is whether gas masks issued by the
British government to civilians dur
ing the recent Munich crisis belong
to the government or to the civilian
Immediately concerned.
It seems that Mr. Ward was bored
by the constant presence OF his gas
reSpirator. 1t cluttered things up.
It was one more gadget. It annoyed
him.
So one day Mr.. Ward chucked
the whole thing out in the yard
damaging it beyond repair.
1t happened that this daStardly
act was observed by Mr.. It. Wells,
chief constable, who was the more
irked because he had previously
warned Mr.. Ward when police found
that the celluloid of his respirator
was cracked. So Mr.. T. Wells took
Mr.. Herbert Ward into court, which
was asked to decide with due ref
erence to the Home Office tC
whom government-isSued gas masks
belong, anyway.
1t is to be hoped that Mr. Ward
alias Jones, has a good lawyer
Surely he has a case. Suppose, fol-
instance, Mr. Ward had deciled tha
the whole thing just wasn't wortf
the trouble.
Let the bombers come" he ma!
have muttered to himself "If i
gets that bad, I'd just as soon hav'
a whiff of something and get i
over with Besides, I never dix
look well in a mask"
Nevertheless a man came ant
gave Mr.. Ward, alias Jones, a mask
Mr.. Jones turned it over, and won
dered vaguely which side wa
which, and then showed it into
bureau drawer. And every tim
he went to the drawer for a hand
kerchief or pair of socks, ther
was that blooming mask.
And then, one day, it became jus
too much for Mr.. Ward, alias Jones
He just threw the whole contraptiol
into the yard
Maybe he will go to Jail for il
But on the other hand, maybe som
day there will be a statue in tn
Hall of Fame, with neat letterin
underneath "Mr Herbert Ware
alias Jones'"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22
Pictures Shown
At Rotary Meet

HOLTVILLE, Jan. 81. UP)-At
the Holtville Rotary club meeting
the program for this week arranged
by Program Chairman Wade Cook
was the impromptu surprise fur
nished members, especially Keith
Nets, when Mrs. Nets made her
appearance with a movie camera
and showed interesting pictures
taken on her trip to China. The
highlights of the pictures showed
Nets learning how to ski at one of
the snow Fairgrounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22
SEEING LATIN-AWERICA
Riverside Press }

IRIYerSlde PfeSSD
The Lima conference showed how i'm
portant it is for each half of this hemi-
sphere to know how the other half lives.
The process is made easier by tourist
rates beginning the first of the present
year on three American steamship lines.
There are 80 per cent reductions from
regular passenger fares for students,
teachers, and professors between the
United States and South America. A
British line grants the same reductions.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22

in two days to the orthodox DanK-
ing element in the Nazi Reich.
These changes - and perhaps
more-had been forecast as the
sequel to the dismissal of Schacht
and his replacement by Walter
Funk, veteran Nazi and economics
minister.
Dreyse was president and chair
man of the bankers advisory coun-
ell. Huelse was director of the
economic and statistical depart
ment of the Reichsbank. He had
been with the Reichsbank since
1925, in an executive capacity, eX-
cept for the years 1890 to 1885,
when he was assistant general man
ager of the bank for international
settlements at BaSle, Switzerland.
In Dreyse's place as vice presi-
dent of the Reichsbank, Funk nam
ed Rudolph Brinckmann, who had
served for several months as secre-
tary of state in his economics min
istry.
As Hitler took his new blow at
conservative banking, propaganda
Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels
laShed out at the United States.
Resuming his writing after an
illness ascribed officially to intes-
tinal influenza, Goebbels charged: ::
Practically the entire press,
practically the entire radio industry
and practically the entire film in
dustry in the United States today
is in the service of international
anti-German Indictment"
He wound up his denunciation
which was published in todays
Voelkischer Beobachter, official Ma
ri party organ, with a warning
against economic penalties against
dictator nations such as those men
toned in the United States.
Every measure of economic
force has two Sides" he wrote. 1T
strikes not only him against whom
it is directed but also him who
uses it,"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22
You're Telling Me --s.

That new electron microscope, by
which the smallpox virus was made
visible, has its work cut out in 1899.
Can't it be turned on some of the
bacteria in Europe?
A Cleveland taxi driver has
driven for eight years without so
much as denting a fender, probably
he had Sundays off.
The man at the next desk says
drinking and driving don't mix, and
that he's just as well satisfied that
he never learned to drive.
Some 100000 Americans are
afflicted with speech defects. You
probably can get an argument out
Oh the reporter who cover Congress
as to whether that is a national
curse or a blessing.
Secretary Of Commerce Harry
Hopkins says he will listen TO ad-
vice in his new position. And there's
just a chance that before he gets
through with the job he may get
some.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22
Auto Backs Over
Boys Bicycle

Bobby Joe Chandler, 8, COM
planned to Ell Centre police late
Friday that a motorist had backed
up over his bicycle at Fifth and
State streets. The boy said he mar
rowly escaped being struck himself.
Later, Wilford Tyler appeared at
the police station and identified
himself as the driver. He said he
was going slow and did not see
boy or bicycle. No charges had been
filed Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22
Legal Advertisement
LEGAL NOTICE

Registered school orders, bearing
the numbers and drawn on the sew
eral school district funds listed, are
called for payment and will be ap-
proved upon presentation at the Of
flee of the County Superintendent
of Schools. They are as follows:
Brawley Union High, Salary, 35-44
Imperial Valley Union High.
Salary, "a
Andrade, Salary,
Fort Yuma, Salary, 8,
Holtville, Salary, /,
Westside Union, Salary, /.
F. L. HITEMAN,
County Supt. of Schools.
j. 90 %
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22
KEEP POLITICS OUT

There exists today a danger that the
new state administration, lacking full
understanding of the situation, will re-
place the two members purely for poll
tical reasons.
Thus it is we believe every resident
of this county who believes in efficiency
i'm public life, should write or wire Gov.
Olson, asking reappointment of these
two men, Sam Rowe and T. +. Anderson
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22
An Economist S
Viewpoint
By John II. Flynn

gotten around to an old and irritat-
ing subject-the corporation direc-
tor. He thinks they ought to be
paid. Certainly something ought to
be done with them.
The best board of directorS-Ior
the corporation itself = was the
board of Ghe Standard Oil Com
pany in John DIS day and for
sometime thereafter. Perhaps 1t is
still true. Every director was the
head of some important activity OF
the company. They met every day
and actually ran the company.
John D. himself was never a di-
rector of any other company save
the U. S. Steel for a while.
Now a man may be a director
of a dozen. 90 so companies. Of
course he is not q director since
he does not direct. He cannot pos
sibly know what is going on in
the company. And in the end, in
most cases, he is not supposed to-
That's not why he is director.
He is representing some outside
interest that is exploiting the cor
poration or he is there for the in
side information he can get or he
is representing some inside inter-
est that is exploiting the corpora
ton. OF course this is not true
of all directors or all corporations.
But it is true of a majority OF
them.
Corporation managers, officials
and directors make far more money
out of the inside dope of the op-
portunAties for cutting in on eX-
ploitive adventures than they make
out of their salaries. That ought
to be stopped.
once suggested that there
should be two boards. One should
be a board which actually runs the
corporation and has complete con-
troll over its buying, selling, admin
istrative problems. 1t should be
composed entirely of the executives
of the corporation with representa-
tives of labor on it.
There should be another board
named entirely by the stockholders
and composed only of men who are
actually owners of large amounts
of stock, SO that they have ar
interest in the corporations health
That board should be an auditing
supervisory, scrutinizing, question.
asking board.
Having made this suggestion,
was surprised to receive letters
from two corporation executives
one of them well-knoWn, telling
me that such a plan had been in
stalled in their corporations fol
some years and had worked well.
1t is worth considering. Under
such circumstances management
and labor would be represented by
the operative board and the stock.
holders would be represented by the
supervising board All that woulc
be needed would be prohibition
against one man being on more
than two or three such boards.
AS for the public, any notion thai
the public can look for protection
from the boards is ridiculous. The
public must look out for itseli
through consumer organizations
and public agencies such as the
Federal Trade Commission, the S
E. c. and the like.
But none of these proposals will
do very much good until the cor
poration laws themselves have beer
overhauled TO get out OF them the
various sawed-off shotguns, black
jacks and other gadgets used tc
hold up the public and the stock
holders.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22

your quota of
physical nour-
iShment. 1t is a
rite almost akin
to a sacred cere-
mony. AS the ste
ward greets you,
you feel that
something i m =
portant is about
to happen. On
the menu is a re-
production of a
famous marine
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22
LEARN HOW EASY"

Ours is an Auto Financing plan
that actually makes a New Cars
paying -off-burdenleSs! -. You are
not asked to stretch your means
to meet the payment schedule. The
payment plan is scheduled to meet
your means-and your preferences!
Come in and we'll really help"
you buy that much desired New
Car.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22
DIVORCE GRANTED

Wilful desertion was the basis for
an interlocutory divorce decree
granted Friday to Clinton Sherman
Low in his suit against Esther john
son Low.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22
DALE
CARNEGIE

I like travelling on a French boat
because the French make fine
art out of this hectic business OF
living. Dinner on a French ship
isn't merely q process of taking on
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22
CAR LOOTED

E. L. Utley reported to Ell Centro
police early Saturday the theft of
an oVercoat from his car while it
was parked in front of the Veterans
hall.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22

painting. Even the mosI ueliio
cratic dishes take on a halo ana
aura when appearing in French,
For example, string beans be-
come Haricots Verts Frals SauCes'
chopped spinach on French
menu takes the delicate name OF
Puree d'Epinards aux Fleurons;
roast chicken with a little bacon
and potatoes on the side is ac-
corded its place among the ariS-
tocracy by being given the name
of Poulardine de Bourg au Lard
Grille Pommes Byron. l discover
ed to my disappointment that The
promising and mysterious title OF
Grateau Africanne among the
French desserts meant only a
little piece of chocolate cake.
French breakfast served on lanc
is always the same; coffee or choc-
olate rolls. butter and marmalade
This apparently never changes
from century to century. us
French tradition. But breakfast or
a French boat can be turned into
a banquet if you so desire. BY ac-
tual count. the breakfast menu or
the De Grasse had 78 items.
I've eaten in little cheap res
taurants in France and in the
grand hotels, and I never ate
French meal that wasn't appetiz'
ing. The French government ha:
even decorated some of its famous
chefs and almost every first class
hotel in Europe has French chez
presiding over the kitchen. BotE
King George of England and his
brother. the Duke of Gloucester
have French chefs heading theil
kitchens.
A friend of mine, Mabel Geer, q
college graduate and teacher ol
English in a Jacksonville, Florida
high school, told me that the one
person who had inspired her mosl
TO feel that life was worth living
was the woman who washed hel
clothes.
How does her washWoman in
spire her. Merely by singing as
she comes up the stairs. She sings
though her toes are sticking
through her shoes. She takes life
as it comes, but she meets it more
than half way with a song in her
heart and ON her lips.
That WashWoman has learned
one of the most important lessons
in life-to be thankful for what
she has instead of being unhappy
over the many things SHE doesn't
possess.
Napoleon boasted that he could
be happy anywhere. This wash
woman has actually achieved that
boast. Many a man graduates from
Harvard or Yale without learning
to sing when his toes are out OF
his shoes. He is a misfit in society
He hasn't learned TO adapt him
self to his environment. Yet to
sing, to learn how to be happy is
more important than TO study La
tin or Greek.
Sing even if your toes are out
Of your shoes.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22
Famous Sayings
Hitler Orders More Changes in Bank
Management; Conservation Put Ouf
As Result of Notification Drive

BERLIN, JAN 21. (UP)-Adolf Hitler tOlloWee .I up
his dismissal of Dr. Halmar Schacht as president VI C
Rechsbank today by removing Dr. Friedrich Dreyse lro
the banks vice presidency and Dr. Ernst fuelse IRON a
place on the banks directorate 1t the second boW
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22

John Berki of Cleveland o.,
tried to kill an injured cat but shot
himself. 1t is understood the bull
let ricocheted off pussy's ninth
life.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-22

BRINGING
ALL THE NEWS
TO IMPERIAL
VALLEY
Montana labor news., 1939-03-02
Poverty in Nicaragua

The international problem of poverty
seems to exist not only in countries where
the capitalist system of production has
reached a high state of development but also
in the more backward countries where the
industrial exploitation of labor is in its in
fancy.
This was indicated in press dispatches from
M~anagua, Nicaragua, which stated that on
the day before Christmas, Sonora Salvatore
de Bayle Somoza, wife of the President of
Nicaragua, distributed $4,000 presents to poor
children, the largest group of poverty-strick-
en- boys and girls ever assembled in that city.
The wives of Cabinet members and high
government officials joined with Sonora
Somoza in the ceremony designed ITO make
the children happy"
Whether it be in the United States or in
Nicaragua, the existence Of poor children is
largely caused by the refusal of employers
to pay wage-earning parents wages high
enough to enable them to buy the necessaries
of life for themselves and their families.
The manifestation of charity by the we'll
TODD, either in the United States, in Nicara-
qua, or in any other country, to provide poor
children with gifts designed to make them
forget for the time being their suffering has
grown to be an important part of social well
fare work.
It would be much more c~ommendable if
the same groups would join in definite efforts
to reform the prevailing system of production
and distribution of wealth so that there
would be no underpaid wage earners and
consequently few so-called "underprivileged'
children, a term evidently devised to hide
the reason why they are "underprivileged'
and the responsibility of those who own and
operate our industrial system for that
condition.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-02

stalled to allow all gas that comes
in along the main to rise to the
surface outside of your home.
1 do not think the Public Service
Commission has any law making it
mandatory for the companies to
place these house regulators on the
outside of your building. They prob
ably saw no reason for such a law,
as they no doubt figured that any
engineer would know the tragic diff
ference between thirty pounds of
gas and four ounces of gas. But it
looks as if such a rule added to the
other rules of the Public Service
Commission would be very beneficial
to the public. In addition to this
the several city councils in this dis
trict should enact an ordinance
making it mandatory for the com
panies distributing gas to install all
house regulators outside of build
ings.
The writer can by no stretch of
the imagination be classed as a gas
expert or a gas engineer. This
article is based on a number of years
of practical experience, some com.
mon sense, and considerable data
obtained from the Natural Gas Divi-
sion of the United States Bureau of
Mines. PAT c. SULLIVAN.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-02
When | Sail Away

Sometimes at eve when the tide is low,
I shall slip my moorings and sail away,
With no response to the friendly hail
Of kindred craft in the busy bay.
In the quiet hush Of the twilight pale
When the night stoops down to embrace
the day
And voices call in the waters flow,
Sometime at eve when the tide is low
I shall slip my m~oorings and sail away.
A few who have watched me sail away,
Will miss my craft from the busy bay;
Some friendly banks that have anchored
near,
Some loving soul that my heart held dear,
In silent sorrow will drop a tear.
But I shall have peacefully furled my sail
In moorings sheltered from storm and gale,
And greeted the friends who have sailed
before,
Ger the unknown seas to the unknown
shore.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-02
Forward March for international Labor

When John G. Winant was sworn in as
the new Director of the International Labor
Organization by the Governing Body at its
recent quarterly meeting in Geneva, Switzer-
land, Paul Berg, of Norway, chairman of the
Governing Body, welcomed the first Ameri-
can to hold the dictatorship and stressed the
heavy responsibilities confronting him.
"We all know" Mr.. Berg said, "that the
new director takes office at a particularly
difficult period in the history of the Inter
national Labor Organization. The necessity
for economy will involve reduction in the
staff and a certain measure of reorganiza-
ton"
With his well known t%horoughness as an
administrator Of public offices in the United
States as a background, Mr.. Winant in a
brief statement alluded to Mr.. Berg's OBJ
servation about the difficulties confronting
the International Labor Organization with
this terse but significant declaration:
Some people have asked me what we are
going to do and where we are going. The
answer of another man comes ringing down
through the decades, We will go anywhere
provided it be forward. With faith and
courage we will continue in that direction"