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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-01
LOOK and LIE ARN
 By A. c. Gordon

l. Which is the larger, Alaska or Texas?
 2. For what did Ponce de Leon seek in Florida? 3. What source of power is called white coal?
 4. Who was the author of "Gul- liver's Travels? 5. Which is the only land mass extending around the earth?
 ANSWERS l. Alaska is about twice as large as Texas.
 ?. The Fountain of Youth. 3. Water power. 4. Dean Swift. 5. Antarctica.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-01

Each question counts 20: each part of tWo-part question, 10. A score of 50 IS fair, 80, good.
 1. What is the longest mass flight U. s. naval planes have made?
 2. Only a half-dozen mem- bers of Congress are foreign born. True or false?
 3. Identify SaturninO Cedillo and tell what happened to him.
 4. What country purchased most munitions from the U. s. last year? What was the main item?
 5. What has become of Sir Knatchbull Hugessen, once British ambassador to China, wounded by Japanese gunners in 1887?
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-01
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GENERAL LAND OFFICE
 District Land Office
 Anchorage, Alaska.
 January g, 1889. Notice is hereby given that Elmer Garnes, has made application for a homesite, Anchorage serial 08218, U. $. Survey No. 2256, situated in sec. 31, T. 50 s. R. 68 E. GRIM. con- taining 4.97 acres, latitude 57o 3O' N. longitude l34' 34' 34~ w. and it is now in the files of the U. s. Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska.
 Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any of the above mentioned land should file their adverse claims in the U. S. Land Office, within the period of publication or thirty days thereafter, or they will be barred by the provisions of the Statutes.
 GEORGE A. LINGO.
 Register. First publication, Feb. l. 1889. Last publication, March 29, 1889.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-01
B.P.O. ELKS MEETING

ALASKANA. By Marle Drake. soc
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-01
eHGppy
 Birthday

The Empire ertends congratuld- lions and best a0ishes today, their birthday anniversarr so tue IoIloap- ing:
 FEBRUARY l
 I. Goldstein L. E. Tucker
 Daisy H. Brown Nils K. Ludvickson Mrs. David Brown
 Sally Hope Mrs. O. c. Culberhouse
 Carolie Coffey
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01
THE NEW DIRECTOR
OF STATE RELIEF

Ned Holmes is the new county direc-
tor OF the State Relief Administration
here.
Mr.. Holmes is an efficient business
man, longtime resident of the county,
and is thoroughly liked by those who
know him best. We should like to see
him succeed IN his new position
Robert Elliott, Holmes predecessor,
was victim of department politics. His
discharge is regrettable, largely because
II reflects a deplorable situation in the
relief administration. 1t is a situation
which should not go unnoticed by the
people who, in the long run, pay the bill.
1t is situation which should not be al
lowed to set precedent for further dis
charges of trained, professional men and
women on the state relief staff.
Mr.. Elliott is out, however and Mr.
Holmes has been appointed to the po-
sition. The choice of a successor could
have been far worse. The fact that most
people in Imperial Valley resent the
high handed methods used to discharge
Mr.. Elliott should not be allowed to pre-
judice anyone against Mr.. Holmes.
The new director for the SRA in this
county is stepping into tough job. He
will need all the cooperation and under
standing the community can give HIM.
Until he proves that he is not entitled to
it-and there has been no indication TO
date that any such proof will ever be
forthcoming-the full support of all
Imperial Valley residents should be his.
1t is a very human error to seek an OBJ
ject on which to eXpend the wrath we
may feel over what we consider an in
justice 1t would be a grave mistake III
this instance to charge against Holmes
the injustice We may feel has been done
to Elliott Every man is entitled to his
day in court, and Holmes day will come
when he begins active administration OF
relief in Imperial county. Until his ac-
ton prove that he is unworthy of help,
or that he is incapable of filling the job.
it should be assumed that he deserves all
the help the community can give. Those
who refused him help would be as gull
ty of injustice as were the politicians
who brought about Elliott's discharge.
The treatment accorded Elliott, and
the trend it represents, should be pro-
tested. At the same time, however, the
path of his successor should not be made
any harder than the nature OF his job
makes it.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Dissects the News

Reynolds had arisen in the House
to inform his fellows of the death
of Byrns' father, who was then
speaker of the House. Now the
son of the man McReynolds then
eulogized was, in his first speech,
eulogizing McReynolds.
Mail from folks back home is
supposed to be pouring in on the
law-makers here in regard to neu-
trality legislation-and, in lots of
cases, it is. But Senator Schwell-
enbach of Washington says he has
yet to receive a letter from his
state protesting against the changes
which the administration wants
made. He gets plenty from other
parts of the country-90 per cent of
them, he says, employing precisely
the same phrases-but, so far, none
from the folks back home.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01
ARE LABOR LAW OPPONENTS
OPPOSING REVISION
(San Francisco Chronicle)

David Lawrence in his Washington
comment says that groups wanting the
national labor law completely destroyed
are hoping there will be no revision now.
The idea is that if irritation is allowed
To accumulate there will be overWhelm-
ing demand for complete elimination.
The statement deserves attention on
the merits of its logic, by persons of lib
eral opinion who believe that a fair and
square labor law can be devised.
Only three groups have been heard on
revision, the AFL, the spokesmen for
big industry, and the CIO.
The AFL, claiming 3,623, 900 members,
says the law and the Labor Board have
loaded the dice in favor of ClO and de-
mands revision. The CIO denies having
advantage but bitterly opposes any kind
of change. Spokesman for big industry
complain the cards are stacked against
business and demand revision.
Big industry is economically powerful
but numerically few The AFL and the
CIO combined represent only one-fourth
of the workers. More than 20,OO0,OOO are
either unorganized or not tributary to
either of the big groups.
The final answer on the labor act lies
with numerically powerful business not
represented by the industrial spokes-
men urging revision, with farm voters
and with labor outside AFL or CIO or
any organization.
Some businessmen not spoken for be-
ieve a labor law will work, if revised
as the hours and wages law is being re-
vised. Some are undecided Some will be
glad if present abuses continue and ag
gravate demand for full repeal.
Some, perhaps most Of the 20,000,000
workers outside AFL or CIO believe
fair labor law will work. Some will well
come organization under the present
law into CIO or AFL; others may be
dragooned in, as some already in were
organized against their will and secret
ly resent it.
Mr.. Lawrence's suggestion presents
the peculiar possibility of the labor
laws defeat by bitter-end opponents
pulling strings to help the CIO oppose
revision that would make the law a per-
manent instrument of industrial justice.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01
Willis Thornton's Editorial on:
In Any Case, Land Of the People!

Zapata and Villa and Opregoh "i'
remembered because OF their pro-
misses regarding land. The desire "
own bit of the land one is askeo
t., defend is deeper-rooted than ora
tory. and more permanent than lde-
ologies.
That Is why it is interesting 10
sec Italy turning to the same thing
that has drawn France, RuSsia'
Mexico. Large estates in Sicily are 10
be broken up and divided among
lsndless peasants.
The very people who have, in the
United States, inclined to critize
Mexico for its handling of the pro-
blem, and to speculate that what
they need is strong man down
there, who will respect property
rights" may now see what strong
man does when he runs up against
the same problem. In short, he does
lust about the same thing that the
radical leader doeS.
1t is not yet revealed what, if any,
compensation Mussolina proposes
fol the dispossessed Sicilian land
owners, but a hint is containned
in his rather grim words that II
backward egotism or old-fashioned
mental reserves should lead to at
temped opposition, such attempts
would be smashed"
It Is true that there is some diff
erence In the Mexican and Italian
moves.
In Italy 1t is apparently the In
tention to parcel out the land among
small farmers and let them run 1t
themselves In Mexico, the lands are
assigned to community of peasants
who run 1t as a group under gov
eminent supervision. But the diff
erence is probably more apparent
than real. If the Italian government
gives land to its people and lets
them do what they like with 1T
without supervision, it will be doing
something no other government has
ever done. Even our own land grants
always carried stipulations about
what was TO be done with the land
before the title was secure.
And in any event, it makes no
difference to the former owner. II
he appropriated, it does not mat
ter to him whether the land Is
cut into large pieces or small, or
dug up and thrown into the sea.
Mussolini or CardenaS-it Is all
ore with him.
The lesson for the United States:
halt the drift to tenant farming,
and the concentration of owner
ship of land. The best way to solve
a land problem of this kind Is
never to let is arise at all.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01
MORE FODDER FOR
THE POLICE BAITERS

Cleveland police Monday charged
mob of 1000 strike sympathizers who
surged forward when a picket attempted
to stop an executive of the Fisher Body
company from entering a struck fac
tory through a picket line. The execu-
tive was going about his business, enter
ing property on which he is lawfully
employed, and attending strictly to his
own business. The police were protecting
the executive in exercise of his legal
rights, and incidentally attempting to
prevent damage to private property.
Regardless of all that, there will be
loud long squawk from pink tea radi-
Gals about police brutality and arm
ed thugs" And, most unfortunate of
all, some people who should know bet
er will believe the radicals, and take up
the cudgel for them.
Somebody was breaking the law at
Cleveland. 1t wasn't the executive. 1t
wasn't the police. Why, then, should we
waste sympathy on persons who met re-
sstance by police during commission of
a crime? That is just what the radicals
would have us do.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01
ICKES ON COLUMNISTS
New Haven Journal 4 Courier)

We were talking the other day about
the New Dealers contempt for one form
of concentrated wealth-the jewel of
consistency. Elliott Roosevelt is current
ly differing with his father on public
policy: but the New Dealers who make
fetish of liberalism are full of solemn
anguish at this young mans impertinz,
ence in asserting himself against the pa
ternal will. Now Mr. Ickes has given
us another indication of this same canker
in New Deal thinking. 1t appears in the
gentleman's discussion the other evening
of the columniSts. For Mr.. Ickes wants
the American Newspaper Guild to dis
cipline the columnists.
To quote him directly. Mr.. Ickes hoped
the Guild would "See to it that the col
umnist who wields so much influence on
public opinion shall not stray too far
from the path of truth, which is the path
of progress - Now the path of truth,
of course, would be that indicated by Mr..
Ickes and his and the Guilds friends
it would be quite wide enough to include
in its central flow. say, all those New
Dealers who swore in 1887 that the Pres
ident had made his intention to pack
the Supreme Court perfectly clear in
the 1886 campaign.
But how Mr. lckes would squeal at a
publisher who forced New Deal colum-
nists to argue the contrary!
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01

Every great revolution has done
its revolving in large part around
The land question.
In France, it was the landless
condition of the peasants that drew
them to the support of the Paris
mob and secured the success of the
revolution. In Russia, Land of the
People!" was Lenin's cry, and again
it was the promise tobreak up great
land ownerships in favor of the peo-
pie that drew caontry support to the
city barricades.
In Mexico, the whole re-
volution hung on the land question
it being an agricultural country, and
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01
You re Telling Me-

Maybe the real reason those
Jap soldiers have been stripping
and searching British subjects in
China is to remind John Bull that,
if he doesn't get out of the Orient,
he'll lose his shirt.
"Ah," sighs the poet, "the quiet
OF a midsummer evel" That's right
most of the radio comedians are off
the air.
A girl should have several bath
ing suits-fashion item: That
iieht and at least one in which she
can really swim.
There's at least one compensa-
tic in not being college graduate
You have no favorite football team
or which to bet and lose money.
Rubber dishes are on the mar
ket. Now the hostess can rub out
the coffee stains with the saucer.
Maybe the reason they call it
Indian summer" is because that's
the time of year good world series
tickets fall to the scalpers.
It's about time those European
countries signed some more treaties
There's nothing like a treaty sign
ing to take the publics mind off the
fact that the munitions factories
are running full blast.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01
Barbs

There are $4,000 different types
OF insects and on a hot summer
night they all seem to be just var
ieties of mosquitoes.
Some motorists take, excellent
care of their cars, others go for
long drives in the country ON Sun
day afternoon
j. " s., Cleveland Hights O.,
writes on to say that he bets that
middle western theft absconded
with a dozen quilts will, if caught,
face a blanket charge.
Female Holsters carry their eggs
for many months on the under side
of their tails.
One of the American auto drivers
worst habits is bruising the inside
wall of his tires by humping too
hard against the curb when park
ing-causing blowouts. say research
ers.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01

mas A. EDISON SdlQ, Nearly every
man who develops an idea works
it up to the point where it looks
impossible. and then becomes dis
cCuraged That's the place to
become interested! Hard work and
forever sticking to a thing until
It's done are the main things an in
ventr needs" For that matter, it's
about the main thing anyone needs.
3. Say. 81 can accomplish big
things if I try" Think positive
thoughts. have confidence in your
self, how can you expect anyone
else to have confidence in you?
Charles F. Ketting, inventor, said:
Il have found that if I have faith
il. myself and in the idea I am
tinkering with, I usually win out"
T. Develop a hunger and thirst
for self improvement. Success
comes TO the man who is not con-
tent with himself and his meth
ods; TO the man who is constantly
willing to examine and try to i'm
prove himself. Alfred P Sloan.
Jr., of General Motors, told me
that no executive cold get very
far in ouc modern competitive
world who was not willing to ac-
cept ideas from even the hum
blest workers in his organization.
H said that many of his best
ideas had come from men in over
alls. They were the ones doing the
acGtal work and could see the
opportunities for Improvement
5. Expand unusual energy in
your work. Good, but that is not
enough to raise you above the
crowd. Most men work eight hours
day, five days a week. Supreme
Court Judge Charles Evans Hughes
is II. but he works sixteen hours
g day. While he was in college
he carried especially heavy work,
but he managed to read los volumes
in addition to his regular reading
tor classroom assignments.
g. You must be fired and in
spired with a driving enthusiasm.
Charles M Schwab, the famous
steel man said: "A man will
succeed in almost anything he
undertakes If he has unflagging
enthusiasm for it,. owen D.
Young. of the General Electric
Company, once chose a man his
associates did not approve They
asked him why he picked the
man He replied, Il think we could
get a more capable man than he
is, but he has enthusiasm. That
makes up for what he lacks"
7. You must have creative i'm
agination-the ability to think
things outl To evolve an idea and
stick to it till it is a perfected
re ality.
There you have the eight fun
damentals OF success by Walter
B. Pitkin. Why not study them?
Why not do something about themp
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE
No. TS-2257

On Tuesday, the 18th day Of
August, 1899, at 11:OO AM, SECUR-
ITY-FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
LOS ANGELES, as Trustee. under
and pursuant to Deed of or Trans
fer in Trust executed by Margaret
B. Smith, a widow, who acquired
title as M. B. Smith, dated July
/, 1923, recorded March 12, 1929,
in Book 21l, Page 159, of Official
Records in the office of the Re-
corder of Imperial County, Cali
fornia, and securing, among other
obligations, note for $4,000 dated
July 1, 1928, in favor of Equitable
Mortgage Company, corporation,
and assigned to F. j. Penders, will
sell at public auction to highest.
bidder for cash PAYABLE. IN
LAWFUL MONEY OF THE UNIT
ED STATES AT TIME OF SALE,
at the Main entrance to the I'M
perial County Court House, in the
City of Ell Centre, County of I'M
perial, State of California, all
right, title, and interest conveyed
to and now held by it under said
Deed or Transfer in the property
situate In the said County and
State, described as:
Tract One Hundred Seventy
six G76 in Township Sixteen
Q6) South, Range Thirteen Q3)
East, SB.M., in the County OF
Imperial, State of California.
according to United States Gov
ernment plat of resurvey ap-
proved January S, 1909, and on
file in the United States Land
Office at Ell Centro, California.
Said sale will be made, but with
out covenant or warranty, express
or implied, regarding title, possess
sion, or encumbrances, to pay the
entire principal sum of said note,
to-wit, $4,000, with interest from
July l, 1888, at the rate of IL per
cent per annum, advances, If any,
under the terms of said Deed or
transfer; fees, charges and ex-
penses OF the Trustee and of trusts
created by said Deed or Transfer
The beneficiary under said Deed
or Transfer, by reason of a breach
or default in the obligations secur-
ed thereby, heretofore executed and
delivered to undersigned a written
Declaration Of Default and Demand
for Sale and written notice of de-
fault and of election to cause the
undersigned to sell said propertv
to satisfy said obligations, and
thereafter, on April 10, 1899. the
undersigned caused said notice of
default and of election to be record
ed In Book 52l, Page l57, of Official
Records In said recorders office.
Dated July 20, 1899
SECURITY-FIRST NATIONAL,
BANK OF LOS ANGELES
as said Trustee.
BY w. N. BUCKLIN. JR..
Vice President.
BY C. w. FAIRIES,
Assistant Trust Officer.
J.25-A,l u.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01

WASdlNIl ON.- n lew Gays dSo,
prankish member of the House
of Representatives chanced to look
up at the gallery, where he spied
an uncommonly pretty girl sitting
all by herself. He bethought HIM
self then of a fellow member of
the House, bachelor congressman
who has an appreciative eye for this
and that.
So he went TO the cloakroom,
got notepaper, and wrote to the
congressman a mash note purport-
ing to come from the girl in the
gallery. He gave it to a page and
Instructed him to deliver it.
The bachelor solon read the note,
rubbed his chin, and glanced casu-
ally at the gallery. Then he read
the note again, looked up once
more-and, finally sauntered out and
made his way to the gallery. A
moment later he took a vacant seat
beside the young woman and open
ed conversation with her.
The real author of the note,
meanwhile, with two or three
cronies he had let in on the gag,
was watching jubilantly from the
floor. But the thing didn't work
out quite as the gagster had eX-
pected. Instead of getting into an
embarrassing jam, the bachelor
presently arose and departed from
the Capitol-with the lovely Wis
itor on his arm.
Maybe the Senate has found
a successor to the late James Ham
ilton Lewis in the matter of sar-
torial splendor. One of the things
Senator Lewis was famous for was
his wardrobe; especially striking was
a cut-away suit of rich brown.
Comes now Senator Matthew
Nicely of West Virginia, in a double
brested suit of pale green, set off
with dark green buttons, a green
handkerchief, light green shirt,
and q dark green tie.
Favorite game played in the House
gymnasium. where athletically in
clined members of Congress go for
exercise, is paddle ball. 1t was in
vented on the premises; is much like
handball, except that a paddle is
used instead of the hand while
the ball is an ordinary tennis ball
with the cover ripped off, which
gives it more bounce.
Next most popular diversion is
bike riding. The bikes are sta
tionary; you can get on and pedal
furiously; for an hour without ever
moving from where you started.
Some members occasionally in
quire about boxing. BY mutual
agreement, 1t is barred Long ago,
the members found out that even
in a friendly sparring match you
can easily get black eye-which
doesn't look so good next day when
you're solemnly legislating and some
OF your constituents are in the
gallery.
Congressman Joe ByrnS, Jr., of
Tennessee, is one of this sessions
freshman congressman and he made
his maiden speech recently under
rather unusual conditions. Along
with other members of the House he
arose to pay tribute to the late
Sam McReynolds, chairman of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee,
who died after a long illness.
Byrns recalled that 1t was just
about three years ago that Nc
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01
Photographs

A contour map of the San Fran
cisco river. from it's confluence with
the Gila river in Arizona, to near
Alma, New Mexico, a distance of
II miles, has been released by the
United States department of Agri-
culture
The Sultan of Perak, Singapore,
possesses a stone which, tradition
says, is made of petrified dew. 1t
has been in possession of the Perak
dynasty through recorded history.
During the l1th, 18th and 18th
centuries, when the crusades were
being Waged, the Vikings had trial
by jury organized along lines that
would seem modern today.
Leeches, used for medical pur-
poses, comes from Italy and are
shipped to the United States en-
closed in Jumps of earth.
Among the Chiquito, native Bra
lillian tribe, old folks hair turns
red, and not grey or white.
Sapphire crystals are as next to
unbreakable as it is possible to get
and retain the complete transpar-
ency and brilliance of glass. They
are often used for watch crystals
More than 100000 Christian
hymns are in existence today, about
100000 of them having originated
in Germany.
Gold fish were not originally
gold in color. The Japanese pain
stakingly selected and bred species
that had the desired tint
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01

important factor
of all to be a
powerful urge t.
accomplish some
thing notable! If
you have that he
says, you are well
oal the wa to
success.
2. The second
most important
qualification i S
persistence! Tho
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01
Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

/. What city is the capitol of
the state of Ohio?
2.What famous British author
is buried in the South sea islands?
3. Who was the founder OF the
American Red Cross?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01
Carnegie

Here are eight suggestions for
success, condensed from
Walter B. Pitkin's book, The Sc
cret of Achievement"
l. Mr.. Pitkin considers the most
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01
Words of Wisdom

Not armies, not nations, have
advanced the race, but here and
there, in the course of ages, an
individual has stood up and cast
mis- shodow over the world Ell.
Chaplin.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01
Hints OH Etiquette

HIHts UIi EtIqutttt
When you are Il guest In q
woman friends home, don't flirt
with her husband 1t is bad man.
ners and very poor taste, to say
the least.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01
thoughts for the Day

Owe man anything, but to love one another;
for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Romans 1873
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-01

One-Minute Test Answers
!. Columbus.
/. Robert Louis Stevenson.
3. Clara Barton.