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Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Famous Sayings

WASHINGTON.-The real ques-
ton at stake in the fight over re-
vision of the neutrality law is both
simpler and more profound than
the general trend of argument SO
far has revealed it to be.
Basically, it is just this:
1t this country going to decide
now, once and for all, that the most
important thing is to see Hitler
beaten-or is it going to decide that
the most important thing is to stay
at peace even if that may mean
having to swallow a Hitler victory
over England and France?
Underneath all of the window
dressing, that is what is at stake.
The struggle over repeal of the
arms embargo has become a SYM
Dol. Boiled down, what it symbol
ICES is-do we take sides, or don't
we?
The one driving force behind
the effort to remove the arms en-
barge is a conviction that this
country cannot afford to stand by
and see Hitler win.
That conviction rests on the be-
lief that the world just won't be
big enough. in the long run, to hold
both democracy and the totalitar-
ian idea. Because of that belief,
this administration is not now neu-
trail.
1t wants to help England and
France, and that is why it wants
the arms embargo lifted. And since
the actual, concrete effect of lift
ing the embargo is less important
than its symbolic effect, the ad-
ministration--in the Pittman re-
visions to the Bloom bills willing
to consent to practically any stiff
fening of the present law if only
the embargo clause can be lifted
1t ought to be added that the re-
visionists are entirely sincere In
Saying CildI liiey uo iio1 pe'e'e
that lifting the embargo will lead
to war. There is no need to doubt
that the administration means what
it says when it announces that ii
proposes to keep the country at
peace.
But it is equally true that the
reason for trying to get the en-
barge lifted is a desire to exert
Americas influence against Hitler
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
THE MIDDLE CLASS

AS registration closes and the cam
paign opens in all its heat preparatory to
the Nov 7 election in California, there
are three classes of people in the state.
There are those who have decided
they will vote for the Ham-and-Egg pen
sion plan, and will not be changed in
their decision.
There are those VINO will vote against
it, and will not be changed.
Then there is the middle class-those
who are either undecided or can be
changed by logic and argument. To this
class both sides look for victory Nov. Z.
To them the state looks for wise deci-
sion.
To this middle class there is one bit
of advice that is sound. Study the plan,
read arguments for and against, weigh
prejudice against fact, and vote accord
ingly. Doing so, your vote will be wise.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

The administration wants to see
Hitler beaten. That is the basic
fact that underlies all of the talk
about true neutrality" and the
like.
On the other hand there are the
isolationists.
Like the administration, they
are centering all of their attention
on the arms embargo itself. The
fact that the Pittman revisions
give them practically everything
but the embargo leaves them cold.
For the conviction which holds
them together is the conviction that
the one important thing for Ameri-
ca is to stay at peace-that the ca
lamity of going to war is SO much
greater than the calamity OF a Hit
ler victory that the latter ought to
be risked rather than the former.
And the bitterness of the fight
now being waged can't be under
stood unless you understand the
thing which many men in Wash
ington are saying privately-but
which few say in public. These pri-
vate apinions boil down to this:
That because the arms embargo
does symbolic so much beyond
its actual content, we are liable to
commit ourselves to something we
can't back out of if we repeal it.
If, that is, we have an administra-
ton that ole-heartedly wants
Hitler beaten, and if we repeal the
arms embargo in order to make
Hitlers defeat more likely, then the
die is cast and We are in for it
whenever something beyond mere
repeal of the arms embargo is nee
essary 10 keep Germany from VIM
ming.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF TAXES

NOTICE is hereby given that all
taxes for the fiscal year of July /,
1899, to June 80, 1910, in the City
of Ell Centre are now due and pay
able.
That all taxes upon personal
property and one-half of all taxes
upon real estate, mortgages, deeds
of trust, contracts or other obliga-
tions by which debt is secured upon
real estate will become delinquent
upon the last Monday in November
next thereafter at five o'clock PM,
and that unless such taxes are paid
prior thereto ten per cent will be
added to the amount thereof.
That the remaining half of the
taxes upon real estate, mortgages,
deeds OF trust, contracts or other
obligations by which debt is secur-
ed upon real estate; will become
delinquent upon the last Monday
in April next thereafter, at five
o'clock PM, and that unless such
taxes are paid prior thereto, five
per cent will be added to the
amount thereof.
That all taxes may be paid al
the time of the payment of the
first installment as herein provided.
That taxes may be paid at the
City Hall to the Deputy Tax Col
lector, between hours of eight
o'clock AM, and five o'clock PM,
with the exception of Saturday and
on which day the hours shall be
from eight o'clock AM, to twelve
o'clock noon.
Dated this 30th day of Septem-
Der, 1899.
j. STERLING OSWALT, 3
City Tax and License Collector
BY FAYE BURKE,
s. 30-Oct 16 incl. Deputy
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

tentions to me as youth. Possibly
they were compensating them
selves for things they had missed
in life. My thinking was done for
me; my plans were made; even the
selection of my clothes and friends
was done without my aid. never
made a decision of my own.
High school wasn't SO bad I
attended a small private school,
which was good one. However,
much of the good was lost to me,
for my parents were so closely
linked with the school that I was
still far from being on my own. At
college, I faced an entirely differ
ent situation. Nobody to look out
for me there. I realized that all
would accomplish in the future
must be done by myself But the
change was too much for me. 1
didn't know how to react to so
much freedom. Having suddenly
to do all my thinking, l was at a
loss; I felt inferior to my class
mates; and l thought I was looked
down upon by my teachers. Day
by day, l shrank further and fur
ther into my own shell, attempt
ing to shut myself away from the
world
Il knew something was wrong,
but I didn't know what. I dislik-
ed those about me, and was ac-
tually beginning to hate myself.
Life became a nightmare. I want
ed to run and hide from every
thing. The few social functions
that I attended were filled with
terror. dreaded to open my mouth
for fear 1 would say something
to further belittle myself.
THE second semester the COL
lege required a course in public
speaking. I disliked it, and each
time, before being called upon to
speak, I lived thousand deaths
What if I should forget my speech?
However, after I had made a few
speeches, I found that neither the
audience nor the teacher was laugh
ing at me. Instead, they actually
seemed to be endeavoring to help
me. I began to throw myself into
my work and take an interest in
the preparation of my speeches. In
doing so, I forgot myself. Finally
found myself really enjoying the
course.
Soon | was thinking, acting
and talking on my own. For the
first time in my .ire, 1 was really
accomplishing something, however
small. OF course, adjustment was
difficult at first-doggone difficult
but I forced myself and saw that
the results were not disastrous. /
began to enjoy my own efforts.
my life since has been made
easier and happier, and I hope
those reading this, who suffer SIM
liar torture, will also find some
thing to do, and aim to do it well.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

In our democratic country we
have always placed our faith in
education.
Politically we trust public opin-
ion, and so we have relied on edu-
cation to insure that public opinion
shall be informed and sound Econ
omically we have depended on in
dividualism, and 50 we have charg-
ed education with producing better
individuals. Socially we rely on
gradual and enlightened progress,
and so we have placed our faith
in universal education to develop
minds that shall have social vision.
No other country in the world
has ever placed such faith in edu-
cation. In no other country is every
fourth person full-time student
in school or college. In no other
country is there an army of more
than million teachers such as our
own.
In recent years, however, there
has been a great deal of earnest
self determination by American edu-
Gators. They have been asking one
another, Exactly what is the job
we should be doing with all this
vast plant?" And Are we doing
it?"
There are several reasons for such
questioning. First, since the Am
erican economic machine broke
down in 1882, it is evident that
the education of those who per-
mitted such a collapse might be
at fault. And second new kind
of education has arisen in a large
part of the world, aimed at CON
ditioning" students to accept pre-
scribed body of belief, rather than
to become truth-seekers on their own
account. Both these new phen-
omena have led educators to search
deeply into the aims and methods
of American education.
Most recent of these searchings
is series of articles on the general
challenge of democracy to educa-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Willis Thornton's Editorial on:
Educators Alive to Their Responsibility

ton which make up a whole num-
Der of the current Survey Graphic
magazine, and in which prominent
educators set forth their ideas OF
the job to be done.
Schools are everybody's business
in America, and so it is fitting that
everybody give them some thought.
Certain it is, as the Survey points
out, that when people who have
had the benefit of the best educa-
tion we can devise fall victims Of
crackpot orators, one-shot economic
panaceas, and catch-penny propa-
ganda, it is time to consider whether
education has really done the job.
The best evidence of the vitality
of American education is this very
self-searching on the part of edu-
Gators. 1t is only when an edu-
cational system, like any system,
begins to believe that all has been
accomplished, all learned, all per-
fected, that decay is evident. AS
long as American educators con-
tinue to discuss with their present
ardor whats wrong with educa-
tion?" there is always hope that
education will be kept abreast OF
modern needs.
Never before was this need more
critical. There are threats today
to the very basis of what we know
as the democratic way of life
the individual and his development
as the core of society. 1t is re-
assuring to see educators consci-
ously attacking the problem anC
accepting their responsibility.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

|. What river flows through Po-
land to the Baltic sea at Danzig?
2. What waterway is sometimes
called the Big Ditch?
3. What famous man of olden
times said, when war is raging
the laws are dumb?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

gard to develop
ing an inferiority
complex from too
much attention.
Richard Moore
of 7012 Baird
Street, Pasadena,
California, says:
II can't help
feeling, as I look
back now, that
both my parents
overdid their at
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Words of Wisdom

Why forego the advantages of so
peculiar a situation? Why quit our
own to stand upon foreign ground?
Why by Interviewing our destiny
with that of any part of Europe,
entangle our peace and prosperity
in the tolls of European ambition,
rivalship, intehest, humor or cap
rice?-George Washington.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
illegal ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL
PROPERTY TO SATISFY LIEN

Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned C. S. Vogt, 9Th and
Broadway, Imperial County, Cali
fornia, will sell at public auction
to the highest bidder for cash, at
the above named place, on We'd
nesday, the 18th day of October,
1899, at 10 AM. of the said day,
the following:
Plymouth Sedan, Engine
No PA60480
to satisfy a lien for storage and
costs under sections 427 and 428
of the civil code of the State of
California.
C. S. VOGT.
Dated at El Centro, California,
this 9th day of october, 1899.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL
SUMMONS
No. 1892
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DIS
Plaintiff.
VS..
LEWIS D. LIGHTLY, ct. al, De-
PENDANTS.
Harry w. Horton and George r.
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
The People of the State of Cali
fornia send greetings to LEWIS d.
LICHTY, EDITH MAY LIGHTLY,
PIONEER ABSTRACT & TITLE
GUARANTY COMPANY, Corpor-
alton, as trustee, L. E. HARTNETT,
c. w. SANDERS, SECURITY
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
LOS ANGELES, National Bank
ing Association, CITIZENS MA
TIONAL TRUST AND SAVINGS
BANK OF LOS ANGELES, a Ma
tional Banking ASS ociation,
GEORGE NOWLIN, John Doe,
JANE DOE, RICHARD ROE, JOHN
DOE COMPANY, a Corporation,
Richard Roe Company, a Co-part-
nership, and j. Doe as Adminis-
traitor or Administrative of the Es-
tate of R. Roe, deceased,
You are hereby directed to ap-
pear and answer the Complaint in
an action entitled as 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 Sum-
mons-if served within this county:
or within thirty days if served else
where.
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
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia, this 18th day of May, 1899.
(SeaD w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY CITHA LAMSON,
- Deputy Clerk.
(Sept. 1925; Oct 2-9-16-23-3O;
Nov. 6-13-20)
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
CARNEGIE

This column today is primarily
for those parents who are inclined
toward surfeiting their children
with attention. Read what one OF
those children has to say with re-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
You re TeIIinq Ne.

Another indication of a mild WIN
ter. Canadian thieves broke into
a house and stole everything but
the furnace.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

1 hope that they, too, can become
so absorbed in their tasks that
they won't have time to think of
themselves, and can then become
living persons.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

Milk, Beef, Etc, TO Go Up-head
line. 1t already has. A COW, the
other day was ferried from An
chorage to McGrath, Alaska, by
airplane.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Thoughts for the Day

He staggered not at the promise of God through
unbelief; but was strong in faith giving glory to
God.-Romans 4:20.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

The American gambling game,
"Bingo,' is very popular at Monte
Carlo But there they call it Lotto
Monesgasque." One cannot, it seems,
cry "Bingo!" in the necessary, we'll
modulated continental accent.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Hints on Etiquette

If the mother of your girl friend
gives a party to announce her en-
gagement, no gift is necessary.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
Barbs

French soldiers send pigs scurry-
ing across battlefields to set off
mines, and, of course, they are
blown to pieces This, with the pre-
sent high price of pork.
Germans disguised a submarine
as a fishing boat Next they'll be
trying to pass bombers off as hom-
ing pigeons.
Passenger on a toredoed liner
rushed back into her stateroom to
grab her checkbook before she
would embark in lifeboat Nothing
like having funds available in mid
Atlantic.
A society leaders favorite drink,
we hear, is a horses neck. The hot
dog is beginning to find things
crowded in the blue book.
A first offender, jailed for drunk
enness, had police write a note to
his wife explaining where he had
spent the night. He probably want
ed her to know he had been keep
ing out of trouble.
The fastest tanker afloat has an
18-knot speed, and is equipped with
special oil carriers for navy use
during emergencies.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

The German people naturally felt
right at home when they read the
Allies answer to the peace propos-
al: mo soap!"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09
TOday's Horoscope

Extreme caution is the watch
word during the next year for those
whose birthday is on this date.
Exercise the utmost care in all
your correspondence and also in
dealings with elders, especially in
dealings concerning property. The
child who is born today will pos
sess a very fine character, with
wonderful faith. Remarkable artis-
tic, musical or literary talent is in
dicated. Such a person will be de-
servedly popular and successful.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

Germans await move by the
French on the western front-ac-
cording to cabled dispatch. That
national anthem of theirs has been
changed, it seems, to THE Watch
full Waiting on the Rhine"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

Our choice for the outstanding
minor Lacquer of the 1889 season.
Benito MusSolini.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

Cops frisk II in raid, says a head
line. Looking for the Bremen?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-09

Minute Test Answers
/. The Vistula.
2. The Panama canal.
3. Cicero.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Beysch|ag Urges
Use Of Cyanide
To Kill Pests

Singing red ants and similar
ants which have distinct NESTS may
be destroyed with calcium cyanide
according to Frank Beyschlag, I'M
perial county farm advisor. This
poison material has to be used
cautiously to avoid accidents to
people. animals or even to nearby
trees.
In an orchard for instance, II
should not be used near trees
either Immediately before or after
an irrigation. Neither is it safe to
apply calcium cyanide in a field
Immediately before nor during the
period that livestock are in the
field.
Two or three teaspoonfuls of the
powdered or granular calcium cy-
anide placed in the entrance 10 a
colony of ants and the surface Gov
cred over will result in the forma
tion of a poisonous gas that will
kill all or most of the colony.
Destruction of colony may bt
completed by cutting water in OF
it and drowning remaining ants al
the next irrigation. When colony
is near a tree trunk however, il
is dangerous to the tree to cover
the colony with calcium cyanide,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Condemned Youth
Blocks His Own
Appeal Chances

FLORENCE. Ariz., Aug. 12 up
Robert Burgunder. awaiting execu-
ton Oct. s in the states lethsl gas
chamber. today won his fight TO
prohibit appeal of his murder con-
viction unless it has my consent"
The request to block appeal was
made in letter to Superior Judge
Arthur T. La Prade who presided
at the 10 day trial at which Bur-
gunder was found guilty of the
murder of Jack Peterson, Phoenix
automobile salesman.
This is TO request you to honor
no request for appeal" the con-
demned youth wrote from his cell
in the death row of the state pris-
on here. unless it is authorized
by myself or has my consent.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
POST-PRESS FARM SECTION
State 4-H Meet
To Attract Record

Assurance that at least 80 4-h
club DELEGATES from Imperial county
will attend the annual state con-
vention at Davis In September
was given by Lee Landerman' ciun
director. Saturday. following re-
port from Frank Spurrier, state
leader. that the largest All group
in history had signed to attend inc
conference.
Landerman, who Saturday called
a meeting for Aug. 10, at which flhai
plans for the trip will be completed,
mapped a six-day trip which Will
take the valley delegation to DAVIS,
the state fair and to the world
fair in San Francisco
Tentative plans call for depart
ure from the valley on Sept 4,
arrival for preliminary discussions
at Davis on Sept 5, visit to the
state fair on Sept. 6. and to Treas
ure Island on Sept 7. Final meet
ings at Davis are set for Sept. .
and the group will depart for home
on the night of the 9th.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
ILanderman Shows
Need for Long
Range Program

Lee Landerman, assistant farm
advisor and county All director,
returned from his annual vacation
trip this week with another long
list of ideas to make valley club
work more successful.
Though the assistant farm adj
visor had many new ideas to offer
his program nucleus will again re-
volve around the long range pro-
gram which he inaugurated last
year.
I'VE must impress upon our
cfubworkers," Landerman said d
that raising animals for the county
fair is only a part of our work, and
that the main goal is to make
competent livestockmen and farm
ers out of our members"
Landerman declared that Imper-
ial Valley clubworkers are far
ahead Of those in other sections in
perfecting their long range pro-
gram.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
. FLOOR. pLAN :
First Home Built
Under TitIeI
Loan Complete

Completion of the first home
constructed unXer the new 10 year.
title /. FHA loan, for H. w. Jensen
on El Centre street. was announced
Saturday by Frank Pardue, con-
tractor and Builders Supply COM
pany.
The Jensen home. five room
house. contains three bedrooms, a
kitchen, nook, and living room.
Exterior walls are redwood siding,
interior walls are finished in a
unique style of plastering.
The new home will be open for
inspection only one more week.
Builders Supply also announced
completion of foundation work on
the new home for j. A. Sinclair on
Wenesley The Sinclair residence
will be two bedroom house, living
room, dinette, and kitchen. The
back porch and double car garage
will be connected by a passageway
Merle Kellogg. contractor, will in
stall the new recessed edge wall
board interior. which he has spec
iolized in in recent constructions
Exterior walls will be succeed.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Death Feared Near as Child With
Exposed Heart Sinks Into Deep Sleep

today, Dr. Guillermo del Castillo
noted that the baby's temperature
was abnormal. her pulse slowing
down and her respiration incre1s-
ing. Once more she was getting
blue around the lips and the fin
ger tips due TO reoccurrance OF
cyanosis. or lack of oxygen in the
blood stream.
Maria Corazon, who was born
Monday with her heart lying out
side the chest. had slept we'll be-
tween 2 a. m. and 6 a. m, her
chest covered by a celluloid cylin-
der which helped to maintain nor
NAL body temperature and proper
humidity. but thereafter her con-
dition grew worse.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-13
Building Permit
Totals S2b1,3b9,
TOPS Last Year

Though there were no new houses
started during the past week and
building permits totaled only S1495
for the seven day period. the 1889
total was still far ahead of the
pace set one year ago.
Total building permits Saturday
amounted to S261 1863 as compared
to record of sl94,625 on the
same date in 1888
Activity during the week inclu-
ded: sign installation for the Star
Beverage Co at 739 Imperial at a
cost of $500; alterations on the
Charles Free Market, S45; addition
of porch and bath on the Charles
Sones home 1861 Hamilton, $3.50.
A. A. Kaiser reported that work
had been started on the new home
for Massey Horton and that work
was progressing on the three
houses he was building to sell for
M. o. King. Two Of Kings houses
will be on West He'll. one on Hamil-
ton Kaiser said.
Alteration jobs and out of town
construction were the only acti-
vities reported by other Fl Centre
building firms for the week.