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Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20
LEGISLATIVE LOBBIES
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Nevada State JOurnaD

Summing up a report on the origin of
some 677 bills that were introduced in
the assembly of the Ohio legislature last
year, Prof. Harvey Walker of the politi-
cal science department at the University
of Ohio, said the wide range of interests
represented may be taken as IAN index
TO the extent of organization among our
people
He was referring to the lobbies when
he spoke of Organization among our
people" as his figures showed that pri-
vate lobbies were responsible for thirty
seven per cent of the III bills enactd
and for thirty-five per cent of the 677
bills introduced.
This Is a high percentage for state
like Ohio and is far in excess of the New
ada record where lobbies have been re-
sponsible for q considerable part of the
statutes now ON NevadaS books
In Ohio and in many other states, prob
ably the great majority of them, paid
lobbyists are almost as numerous as the
members of the legislature and often
more influential. In California the legis-
lative halls have been overrun for years
by paid representatives of various inter-
ests, there to either further or block
the passage Of bills. In Nevada there
are a few, possibly ten, who make it their
business each legislative session to be on
hand early and late to help the members
of the legislature make up their minds.
At times their counsel is sought and their
advice is worthwhile
Speaking of the Ohio situation Prof
Webster said the interests responsible
for lobby-sponsored measures included
strong, well-entrenched business and pro-
fessional organizations such as automo-
bile dealers and statesmen, funeral direc-
tors, wineries, labor unions and similar
groups.
In the early days of Nevada the rail-
roads had the most potent lobby while
in the sessions of the past few years the
federal government has maintained the
most active lobby at Carson City, spon-
soring uniform laws, to conform to fed
efal statutes.
Lobbies are here to stay and no doubt
do more good than harm where members
of the legislature have the good sense to
listen to them and then vote according to
their own convictions.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20
ONE PLACE IN THE SUN
WE DO MOI WANT

The 1910 census will not begin i'm the
San Diego-lmperia district until April,
which will give Imperial Valley a very
unwelcome place in the sun--the summer
sun, TO be exact.
San Diego, Of course, will profit by
Imperial Valleys loss in the matter of
this summertime census About one
fourth of Imperial Valleys residents will
be counted in the San Diego census, and
left out Of the census in their own coun-
ty.
1t would be much fairer, and give Il
much more accurate picture of southern
CALIFORNIA; population figures, if the
census We're conducted during the winter
months when everyone is at home on the
job, rather than vacationing or establish
ing summer residence elsewhere.
Imperial Valley does twice the business
in the winter it does in the summer. This
fact alone demonstrates that an unusual
ly large percentage of the valleys regu-
lar population is established in tempo
rary quarters elsewhere during the sum-
mer. Yet they are, nevertheless, loyal
residents of the valley-and should be
counted as such.
Possibly nothing can be done about it,
but it seems that in all fairness TO the
valley the people who guide the federal
census should attempt to get count of
noses in Imperial Valley when people
are at home, not when they are away.
And the only time to get fair count in
Imperial Valley is in the winter.
After ALL ii is not asking much to re-
quest that the census be taken during the
nine months of winter, rather than dur
ing the three months of summer.
We can't expect all of our people 10
remain here all summer just because 1940
is census year. The next best thing is
to try to induce Uncle Sam to make his
count when our people are here.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20

make fOur pictures, Dul tiley tuIHee'
1t down.
What u romantic proposal he
must have madel What polished
syllables must have fallen from his
lips! What exquisite strophes must
have soothed her ears.
| met them on the Normandie,
crossing the Atlantic, and / asked
Alfred Lunt if he would tell me
what magic oral alchemy he had
used TO win the heart OF such a
charming lady. He hesitated glanced
at Lynn, and finally said he would.
He was engaged to play in "A
Young Mans Fancy" He had been
born on a farm 35 miles from Mil
waukee, and had come to New York
TO get ahead as an actor. This was
his first big Broadway chance, and
he was nervous about it. When he
went to rehearsals there was also
in the cast an English actress by
the name of Fontanne. Although
he didn't know it at the time, her
real name was Lily Louise Fontanne.
But she thought Lynn sounded bet
ter.
Alfred Lunt thought this Eng
lish girl the most beautiful crea-
ture he had ever laid his Wiscon-
sin eyes on. But he was too en-
barrassed TO speak TO her. Final
" the stage manager called him
over and introduced him. Lynn was
standing on a rickety, wobbly stair
case which was to be used in the
show. AS Alfred Lunt advanced,
his heart played a private little
tune of its own.
Then he tried to do something
which is no less than extra or
dinary He had been going to see
romantic European plays in which
the hero gallantly kissed the lady's
hand and so this exfarm boy tried
it. He lifted her hand, he bent over,
then missed his step and fell flat
on his face The stagehands roared
with laughter.
But it didn't kill his love. The
more he saw her, the more deep
ly in love he became. Finally, one
day as they were walking up Fifth
Avenue, they came TO seth Street
where the old-fashioned cabs wait
for customers. He asked her 70
take a ride, and then and there, in
a hanson cab clopping through
Central Park, he proposed.
asked them If they-the per-
feet stage couple-ever had quar-
rels.
"Of course we do" said Lynn.
Terrible ones-but we never let
the day go without making up"
Ouarrels don't really matter. But
the making up does. So if you have
quarreled with somebody very dear
TO you, why don't you try TO make
up today2 Not tomorrow, but TO-
day. AS the Bible says: LET not
the sun go down upon your wrath" "
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20
A MINIMUM WAGE FOR
CALIFORNIA FARM LABOR

George G. Kidwell, who heads the state
department of industrial welfare, is like
lot of other idealists. The things he
wants to do would be grand, if their re-
suits would not be so disastrous.
Kidwell, who favors minimum wage
law covering California agricultural
workers, evidently has overlooked the
fact that the states farm wages, already
the highest in the nation, have brought
to California more radical labor agitators
than any other state in the nation can
count.
Anyene with a grain Of humanity IN
their makeup wants to see farm laborers
in California as highly paid as is pos
sible because the more they are paid, the
greater will be the prosperity of the state.
California would be inviting disaster,
however, were it to enact law forcing
its farmers to pay their employees stip-
ulated minimum wage which would be far
higher than the maximum wages in some
other states. The result would be an
immediate influx of farm laborers from
all parts of the nation. Since the state
is already oversupplied with farm labor
ers, the only end could be more labor
troubles, greater relief expenditures ana
mounting tax rate
Farmers, forced to hold their produce
at high prices in an effort to break even,
could not compete with farmers in other
states who produce for less because they
pay less. Agriculture in California would
go ON the rocks.
A minimum wage for agricultural la
borers may be a great step forward. 1t
would help purchasing power tremend-
ously. But if it is not TO ruin the farm
ers of California, it must be enacted on
a national scale. No one state can do it
and have its farmers survive
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20
Famous SAVINGS
Willis Thorntons Editorial on:
Communists Don't Embanass Easily

The United States still has its
free press. Dispatches from Europe
are us accurate as they can be
under the limits imposed by foreign
censors propaganda subterfuges.
During the course of the war, edi-
tors have consistently guarded ag-
ainst Identifying propaganda mater
lal by giving it inordinate positions
in their news columns. Editors them
selves have tacitly agreed to an un-
written code of restraint in the
handling of war stories.
Exempt from all this is the Daily
Worker, official organ of the Amer
lean Communist party. Although
this blatant organ enjoys existence
only because of American constitu-
tional rights, it operates along the
lines of dictatorship-controlled press
It's current rationalizations of the
Soviet aggression against respec-
table little Finland would be as up
roariouS as a Marx brothers CO.
meoy if one could only forget the
tragic basis for it all.
Most people don't find the Daily
Worker on their doorsteps unless it
is placed there without AUTHORIZE
ton by enterprising Communists.
Sometimes, however, it is good to
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Dissects the News

WASHINGTON. - Back of the
current talk about means Of en-
ploying idle American merchant
ships there is developing n plan TO
sell large numbers of them outright
10 Great Britain.
Reliable sources say that this was
one of the projects Ambassador
Kennedy brought back from Eng
land to discuss with the administra-
ton. No definite ash-on-the- bar
relhead proposals have yet been
made. but it is expected that some
thing concrete viii come out in the
near future.
The neutrality act put approx
mately 90 American merchant ships
on the shelf. Meanwhile according
10 the governments shipping ex-
perts, large quantities of bulk COM
modities are piling up in American
seaports for lack of shipping to take
them overseas. American ships can't
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20

take a peek, II for no other reason
than to enjoy the remarkable con-
trast. Here, for example, is an at
tempt to Justify Russia's attack;
"The Finnish bourgeois Landlord
rulers, melted and supported by
world imperialism, continued their
violation of the Soviet border-they
attacked at two points yesterday
morning NOV. 3O)-they were re-
pulsed by the Soviet Union which
took the necessary steps in defense
of its national interest"
Confidently, the Daily Worker, in
another story, says: ''The American
people can easily grasp the neces-
stiy and complete justifiability of
the Soviet Unions steps to insure
the safety of Leningrad, 90 miles
from the Finnish border :" We
can, can we?
And of the American attitude,
the radical organ speaks shame
lessly: Into this war the American
people are being drawn by Wall
Street forces which now speak
through the foreign policy of the
Roosevelt administration"
Finally, little expert analysis:
"The independence of Finland is
not an issue in this war. The Soviet
government gave Finland the only
independence it has ever enjoyed
in centuries. The Soviet government
has no intention of violating that
independence :"
1t is almost impossible to en-
barrass the Communists. BY glib. if
slightly irrational argument, they
talked off the Nazi-Soviet non-ag-
gression treaty. And now, like the
little boy caught with strawberry
jam smeared all over his hands and
face, the American Reds still calmly
deny the raid on the pantry.
Here, within out own boundaries,
we have an offshot of the controlled
Russian press that makes most of
US shudder little. Here it Exhibit
A in the case of democracy VS.. die
tatorShip. AS a jury OF 10000, 900
persons who control our own des-
tiny, We should study 1t well before
We bring in q verdict.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20
BAD NEWS FOR
CRIMINALS
(Oroville Mercury-Register)


Intensive training of law enforcement
officers is making the crime racket tough
er each year.
Criminals 70 longer find the going easy
in smaller communities They no longer
consider officers in these cities and towns
as hick cops. Many big shot of the un-
derworld is doing time today because
some small town patrolman or chief
knew his job thoroughly.
State fingerprint bureaus, criminolo-
gists and laboratories have been available
to the smaller cities and less populous
counties.
Now the federal bureau of investiga
ton is conducting police schools in which
officers are trained in arrest technique,
pistol fire, how to search prisoners and
many other details vital to apprehension
and detection of dangerous criminals. In
Sacramento 16O upper California police
officers are attending such school.
When they have completed the course
the going will be even tougher for those
who don't know yet that crime doesn't
pay.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20
E3|lzza'E7I''IlsYI|4g|RD E4z5''E3' s|Y3I|34g||IRD
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

SUN MONS
No. 1913
In The Superior Court Of The State
of California, in and for The
County of Imperial
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT, Plaintiff
ADELAIDE ELLITHORPE, ct al,
Defendants.
The People of The State of Cali
fOrnia Send Greetings to:
ADELAIDE ELLITHORPE, RUTH
ELLITHORPE WILKINSON, OS-
CAR TILLEY, JANE DEE TILLEY,
his wife. r. j. OTTO, r. j. RICE,
JOHN r. SLIMMON, MARGARET
j. SLIMMON, also known as MAR
GARET SLIMMON, JOHN DOE,
JANE DOE, RICHARD ROE, JOHN
DOE COMPANY, a Corporation,
RICHARD ROE COMPANY, a Co.
partnership, and j. DOE as Ad-
ministrator or Administrative Of
the Estate of r. Roe, Deceased,
Defendants.
You Are Hereby Directed to APP
pear and answer the Complaint In
an action entitled :s above brought
against you in the Superior Court
of the County OF Imperial, State of
California, within ten days after the
service on you OF this Summons--if
served within this county; or with
in thirty days If served elsewhere.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take Judgment for any money
or damages demanded In the COM
plant as arising upon contract, or
it will apply TO the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plaint.
Given under my hand and the
seal OF the Superior Court Of the
County of Imperial, state of Call
fornia, this 9th day of August, 1889.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
(SEAL) County Clerk
BY CTTHA LAMSON,
Deputy Clerk.
O. 10 25-N. / 8 Is % I'D. G Is 20
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20
carry them and British
not available.
TALK OF SWAPPING
TRADE ROUTES


not available.
TALK OF SWAPPING
TRADE ROUTES
The pubilicly-suggested solution is
TO make a deal with Britain where
BY British vessels would be with
drawn from certain neutral trade
routes and put into transatlantic
service. with American ships re-
placing them on the neutral routes.
The shipping people in the govern
ment doubt that this can be done,
saying that Britain will not give up
valuable trade routes with no as
surance that she will regain them
when the war ends.
Hence comes talk of wholesale
selling-which, it is argued, would
be 10 Americas interest in two
ways.
First. it is pointed out, Amer
lean exports TO the war zones could
move faster if foreign flag shipping
were made available to carry them.
Second. most OF the 90-odd idle
American ships are nearing obsoleS-
cense and will have TO be disposed
of in the near future anyway, and
requirements are coming down the
ways in the shipyards in a steady
stream
SEE PROFIT
IN OBSOLETE SHIPS
1t is figured that merchant ship
becomes obsolete when it is 20
years old. Most of the ships laid
up by that neutrality act are close
To that age limit. Under the pro-
gram OF the Maritime Commission,
new vessels are being built at the
rate OF so a year-just about one
a week.
AS these new ships come into
service the old ones will have to
be retired. Under ordinary circum-
stances, they will be rated as past
the age of usefulness and will in
most instances have TO be junked.
Right now, however, it is argued,
tain needs ships badly, and under
wartime conditions could and would
pay good prices for these vessels.
If. therefore, the bulk OF the now
idle merchant fleet could be sold to
Britain. the American owners would
turn prospective loss into an i'm
mediate profit-and, with the profit
thus made, could finance the pur-
chase OF the efficient new vessels
being built under the Maritime
Commissions program.
AS to the benefits to American
exporters: in normal years, about
80 per cent is not moving now, and
won't unless replacement shipping
shipped in American ships. That
80 per cent is not movinls now, and
won't unless replacement shipping
is made available. The argument
is that the quickest way to help
the American exporter is to sell
the needed ships to Great Britain.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20
Barbs-

A Carnegie Corporation official
assails the "preposterous" number
Of academic degrees awarded.
They're almost as easy to get as
drivers licenses.
Incidentally, wasn't there an
other war somewhere along the
Western Front?
Maybe one way TO solve the bud
get problem would be to invite
everyone in the country to a Jack
son Day dinner.
AS 4 matter of fact, it's our
guess that Stain doesn't even be-
lieve in Christmas.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20

play where there
is no part for the
other. II has cost
them thousands
Of dollars, but they
have stuck to it.
They were paid
SIS 900 for making
the movie, The
Guardsnen."
Metro GoldWyn-
Mayer offered
them S450,000 TO
- 4laav NY0.atNASl
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20
Dale
CARNEGIE

Alferd Lunt and Lynn Fontanne
get about 80 letters a week asking
how they are able to live such an
idea! married life They are so
devoted that one will not 20 into a
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20
You re Telling Me-

The man at the next desk says
that perhaps the reason the wolf
has not left his door despite better
times is that the beast has been
there so long ne must consider him
self a member of the family.
Russian writer refers to the dds
pute" between his country and Fin
land Golly, we hope il doesn't be-
come serious.
And then there's that young
Canadian who has been shot at
1000 times. War hero? Nope
Just an ice hockey goalie
Pop thinks he's as big hero
as the brave men Of ancient his
tory. At least, he points out, they
never had 10 get up at 5 am and
relight the furnace fire.
One of the earliest OF fiction
writer's must have been that ancient
geographer who referred TO this as
the north temperate zone.
Variety may be the spice OF life,
but nobody can stand vegetable soup
and hash for dinner every day.
A magazine Is conducting con-
test 10 determine who is It's oldest
and most faithful reader. That's
sasy--he's the editor.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20
Photographs

Gasoline trucks have chains drag
ging from the rear end because the
chain transmits static electricity
from possible fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20
Thoughts for the Day

If ye forsake the Lord and strange gods then
he will turn and you hurt and consume you after
that he hath done YOU -Rood--Joshua 24-20
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20

Handel, the composer. had no
children. and spent his spare time
collecting pictures and articles on
decorative art
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20

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Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20

Florida has outlawed income and
inheritance taxes. They have a ten
dency to frighten away wealthy set
tiers.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20

Mussolini comes pretty high up
on the list OF persons whose shoes
we would not care to be in.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20

Interference with a Finnish radio
appeal for help from the rest of
the world was probably engineered
by Russia who doesn't like tattle-
tales
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20

The youngest capital city in the
world is said to be Canberra, capi-
tai OF Australia 1t was founded in
1927.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-20

Variety may be the spice OF life,
hut nobody can stand vegetable soup
and hash for dinner every day.
Evening star., 1939-10-29
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given publicity by Governor HOey.
The senator is wise enough POLITICAL
ly to know mat the governor isn't
often fooled as TO public opinion. and
is even less often to be found on the
unpopular side of any given problem.
All of which adds up quite easily.
Reynolds has done much yappng
about staying out of the war he said
wouldn't happen anyhow. He has
beloved SO loudly about our keep
ing our noses out of EurOpes busi-
ness; and has given utterance to SO
many sentiments apparently favor
able to Herr Hitler and SignOr Mus
sOlini that he is now pictured by
many North Carolinians as going a.
round wearing sWastikas on both
arms of black shirt
Being no part of political neo-
phyte, the senator is we'll aware that
It IS up to him to get right with
the sovereign voters Of the Old North
State, plenty Of whom have been
completely unimpressed with his con
tinuous assaults on the aliens with
whom North Carolina is not in
habited. He knows, too, that plenty
alienated by his desertion of the
President in several important con-
troversies. And he knows also that
still others believe that he is much
too fascist-minded to be a proper re-
preventative Of a democratic (spell
it either with a cap or lower case
"d') constituency.
Wherefore, the Informed" infor-
mers of this bureau declare with
scant reservation, when the roll is
called up yonder, Senator Robert r.
Reynolds will not only be there, bu1
will be recorded as voting AYE" for
the presidential neutrality plans.