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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
NOBODY CONTROLS
THE NEGRO VOTE

FL Centre should welcome the awaken
ing civic spirit which this week caused
the announcement from the Eastside that
nobody controls the city'S Negro vote.
that candidates who pay money to amy
person to swing the vote to them are be-
ing victimized, and that EaStSide Ell Cen
trans are jus as interested in good COY
eminent as anyone else.
The announcement was milestone
along the road TO the time when there
will be no commonly recognized division
Of votes between East and Westside, but
when all FL CpntrauS regardless of race
or color will vote in common for what
they conceive TO hc the most honest. most
progressive government
The time Is rapidly passing when the
most generous scattering of money on
the EastSide meant the most votes there.
The time is approaching when EaStSide
citizens will vote for the man who can
do the city the most good. not for the
man who hands them most money. Per-
haps that time is here now.
The better citizens of the EaStSide re-
sent, and rightly, the efforts of white
candidates to buy" their votes. 1t is the
worst form of condeScenSion-an insult
to which no honorable person willingly
subjects himself.
IL Is easy 10 Understand ana SNmpa-
thiZe, too. with the resentment Springing
from the common misconception that the
Eastside vote is controlled in bloc form
by any machine or group Of politicians.
The thoughtful, serious element among
FL Centres EaStSde population will vote
Just as independently. and just as intel
ligenty. as its white counterpart on the
other side Of town.
If there is amy control over this grow
ing group of EaStSde votes, il is indi-
viduaI control exercised by common
sense-and that is as ii should be.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

being on file in the office of the
County Recorder of Imperial Coun-
ty excepting therefrom q strip of
land 100 feet in width situated in
the South half $50 of Tract 10
Township Is South. Range Is East
S.BM., according to the United
States Government re-Survey Of
1903 and 1906 lying equally so feet
on each side of the located center
line of the Inter- California Railway
Company's proposed railroad from
Sandia to Holtvillc, as surveyed and
staked On the ground in the year
1880.
Reference to said petition is here
by made for further particulars.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY FUR
Their GIVEN that the hearing of
said petition has been fixed by the
clerk of said court for Friday, the
18th day of April 1910 at 2 O'Clock
PM. of said day, at the courtroom
of said court at the Court House in
the City of FL Centre. County of
Imperial, State of California. ana
all persons interested are notified
then and there TO appear and show
cause, if any they have, why an
order should not be made as prayed
Dated: March 26, 1910.
w. J. McCLELLAND,
Clerk
BY MAXINE CONSOLE.
A. Ill incl. Deputy Clerk.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
WIIDFLOWER CONSERVATION
C hriStian Science MonitOr)

We must admit that the people Of the
Coachella valley are justified in their
fight against destruction of the wild
flowers by herds Of sheep which are per-
mitted to Craze at large on the wild flow
ers blooming 50 beautifully on every
hand in that desert area.
The vast fields of desert verbena, for
instance, are considered AN asset to the
desert valley. and the residents thereof
are certainly up in arms against their de-
struction by the large herds OF sheep
There seems to be little which can be
done to prevent this spoilation Of nature
beauty. A special committee of the Itiy-
erside County Chamber Of Commerce
has been at work for the past year, and
although much work has been done, aided
and abetted by ASSemblym;n Nelson Dill
worth. nothing of moment has been ac-
complished.
Al the meeting of the chamber direc-
tors at Coachella valley on Tuesday it
was decided to seek the assistance. of
neighborng counties similarly affected,
in the hope that the state legis stature
might be induced 10 pass some measure
which would definitely curb the sheep
menace.
As matters stand now a sheep has more
right to pick d wild flower" than any
resident of Riverside county. BY county
ordinance it is misdemeanor for any
person to pick wildflower or destroy
any wild plant. At the same time there,
is no ordinance nor can there be one, to
prevent destruction of wild flowers by
sheep. Such a condition is far from right.
And all this because the powerful cat
tlemen's associations have decided that
their interests in the state might be ieop-
ardized if law forbidding grazing ON
desert areas was adopted by the law
makers Of the state. This is one time
when the cattemen and sheepmen are
getting together
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
BUT The JUDGES
ARE INDIVIDUAL TOO

There is a lot to be said for the argu-
ment of Superior Judge AtWell WeStWick
of Santa Barbara, voiced in a convention
the other day. that the principle of
fixed punishment for IA specific crime IS
"sheer mbecility". and should be modi
fled 50 that penalties can be varied for
individual cases.
There is no logical argument against
the Judges assertion that crime and de-
linquency are simply symptoms Of per
sonal and social malad iuStment and must
be treated as such To give all often
ders the same punishment is the same as
giving all The patients in hospital the
same medicine and the same surgical
operation
Theoretically. the Judge is one hundred
per cent right all down the line.
Actually, were going to have to go a
long way before the judicial system he
inferentallV recommends can be adopted
with good results.
And we're going 10 have to start with
the iudpeS-not with the criminals.
A patient in d hospital would not want
to be treated by politically elected doc
tor With possible political grudges to-
wards some persons and probable polltl-
cal debts to others which would require
most Of his time.
Before the law gives Judges the great
power they would have to WELD in order
to carry through the program viSioned
by Judge Westwick, the Judges them
selves would have to be absolutely i'm
partial, highly trained-in fact, the best
men civilization can produce.
Most judges are highly respectable
men now-but the few who aren't would
ruin any system other than the one now
in effect. which provides fixed punish
ment for specific crime.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
EvERYBODY'S
SQUAWK
William Allen Whitp)

NNIIIIdm AIItn NnIItI
The enisodo If Rproon IN which -
british crn;Se, wont int0 The barhnr> and
released 900 Pri+ish n,isoners an ., ,,rr-
man shin k;Il;nr y numhnr. of Cn,n,,n
officers, affords all parties concerned il
perfectly legitimate SQuawk.
Snnawk No I. TN, LnrIisb had ,
ripht m nrotaSt oro;nst tbni3 ,aiI,rsN hn.
inc nacknd lilo sardi5os in tbo MIA If d.
v.arshin and i v,,s n,}l,. human. T., rn
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
Bruce Cation in Washington
Dissects the News

professional trance -addictS. The story
made Schultz and his fellow conf
mitteemen SO sore they dropped the
whole thing.
HATCH WON'T DO
A THING-SO lie SAYS
Day after his new politics
bill passed the senate, Senator Carl
Hatch was debating a letter to his
secretary. Letter was to constitu-
ent, explaining that Hatch couldn't
comply with some request. Hatch
dictated: and I am not going to
Go anything"
He paused, grinned at the secre-
tary. Might as well end the SEN
tence right there he said. The
way feel now. I'm not going to dc
ANYTHING at all, for a long time.
Don't bank on it though. Hatch
took beating from the physical
strain the tWo-Week fight put on
him; but his health was better at
the end than at the start, and he'll
be in there pitching again very
shortly
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
Among
Our Yesterdays

Apparently they must have been
having difficult time with Jack
johnson in Imperial Valley 20 years
ago. You probably recall that Jack
was at that time a former holder
of the worlds heavyweight boxing
title and known as the big smoke"
A news account of % years ago
today related:
Immigration officials along the
Mexican border were instructed to-
day to watch closely for an attempt
by Jack Johnson, now in MeXicali,
to cross the line into the United
Jack Johnson, wearing the fam
Gus million dollar smile was il
Mexicali today with his latest white
Wife French girl. He will appear
in the fistic arena Sunday at a
celebration in honor of the inStalla-
ton of an ElkS lodge here.
THE former champion claims that
his legal troubles in the United
States have been ended and he de-
clares that secret service work for
the American government in Europe
not only won him forgiveness but
a passport on which he will travel
to Tijuana Monday to meet James
Coffroth to arrange match with
some of the best coast heavyWeights.
Sheriff Applestill of Imperial
county is awaiting johnson on the
American side of the boundary and
it Wa3 understood the big smoke
will be taken in charge on an old
warrant from Chicago. Johnson is
in training and declares he is happy
at the near approach of the TIM
when he will return to the United
StateG.'
Besides Johnson. Imperial Valley
folk had another interesting news
item to attract them 20 years ago.
II was:
"A yearlin9 calf on the Mcclure
ranch. a mile south of Ell Centre,
Yesterday attacked a tractor and
later chased individuals and attack
ed every moving object which at
tracted its attention!
The deputy county livestock m
spector said it was a case OF hydro
phobia.'
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02

III fHC oupCI"I Sout vi IhC
state of California. in and for The
County of Imperial.
PROBATE
In the Matter of the Guardianship
Estate Of DAVID SINGH Dill
LON, ESTHER SINGH DILLON,
JOE SINGH DILLON, SHAM
SINGH DILLON, HARRY SINGH
DILLON, REUBEN DOMINGUEZ
"nd CELIA DOMINGUEz,
Minors.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that Sam Singh Dillon, guardian of
David Singh Dillon, Esther Singh
Dillon. Joe Singh Dillon, Sham
Singh Dillon, Harry Singh Dillon,
Reuben Dominique and Celia Do
nInauez, Minors, has filed in the
above entitled court his petition
praying for Permission to Purchase
Real Estate.
That following is a brief descrip-
ton Of the particular property Re-
trrrrd TO in the petition to Lots
TWenty-"eyen C2D, TWenty-eight
28t, Twenty C20, and Thirty
800 of the Alamo Tract in the City
If HoltVille, County of Imperial,
state ri California, according to
Map No 900 on file in the office
Of the County Recorder Of San
Diego County, a copy of said map
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

|. What United States senator
who died in 1925 was succeeded by
his son?
2. Which United States president
was born at Point Pleasant Ohio?
3. Which of the states of the
union was named for an island in
the English channel?
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
Words of Wisdom

No free government, or the bless
ingS of liberty can be preserved to
any people but by firm adherence
to Justice. moderation, temperance,
frugality and virtue, and by a fire.
cuent recurrence to fundamental
principles -Patrick Henry
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
You re Telling Me-

It's a l00-to-l shot that when the
New York Yankees win their first
big score ball game this season,
every baseball writer in the country
will refer to ii as 4 "hitSkrieg
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02

The Japanese continue to an
nounce that their war in China
is over and that China is licked.
But the Chinese keep on fighting
perhaps because they are unable
to read Japanese.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02

Don't scold Junior if he goes
constantly about the house scoWling
and glaring. 1t may be he hopes
to grow up to be a movie actor
playing the title role in a film YER
sion of the life of Mussolini.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
Hints on Etiquette

When husband and vile are en-
PERTAINING at dinner and have no
servants, the husband should an
swer the doorbell and greet the
guests, leaving the wife to finish
preparations for dinner.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02

The civilization of Mexico is as
old as that of Egypt. Within an
hours drive Of Mexico City are
the 100U0- year-old pyramids of the
sun and moon. and the temple Of
the WIND cod.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
TOday'S Horoscope

A year of steady progress is ahead
of today's birthday children. The
prospects of promotion are good.
Government matters will also be to
their advantage. The child born
today will be of a refined, artistic
and musical nature Such a child
will be thoughtful and studious, but
somewhat restless and temperament
tai Much good fortune is prophe-
sled.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02

Dies committee discovers link be-
tween Mexican and American Com
muniStS. There's 4 rumor around
that there's a link between ham
and eggs, too.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02

Static-free radio. we read, is just
around the corner. And after the
election we will be able to enjoy
politics-free broadcasting, too.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02

The British government is urg-
ing the English to eat more cells as
q wartime economy measure. It's
a slick idea-if it works.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02

New fossil discoveries in Colorado
indicate that there was civilization
25 1000 years ago. Next study will
be to find where it got lost.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02

Cattle are replacing horses, con-
Scripted for war work, in Germany.
But how would one go about picking
a three-cO parlay?
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02

New York Yankees are for sale
Wonder if the eventual buyer will
get pennant guarantee-or his
money back?
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02

Golf, we read, is not very popular
in Germany. No Worder-every time
a Nazi golfer comes across a bunker
he's reminded of the Maginot line.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
Photographs

Those European statesmen are
plent| big-hearted in one respect.
They arc only too glad to share
their wars with other nations.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02

Zadok Dumbkopf says he has at
last evolved the ideal one-volume
library It's a checkbOOk.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
Willis Thornton's Editorial On:
Trading Pan-American Culture

for us. But we must be careful not
to try TO impose our own ideas on
countries south of the border. We
must appreciate the fact that both
our culture and our political system
may he wholly UNACCEPTABLE for
South or Central American nations.
It's all right for us to like the
music of Paul Whiteman. But SO
is it all right for South Americans
to like Julio Martinez Oyangurens
guitar music. We think highly of
Victor Herbert, but Brazilians are
just as proud of their opera COM
poser, Carlos Gomez.
Basically, we're satisfied with the
kind of government we have and
with the way we handle social
problems. The Latin American
members of the Pan American
Union are democracies, and that's
all that is important. Their forms
of democracy may look different
from ours, but they have been evolv-
ed to meet the conditions and needs
of the people When better forms
OF government become apparent,
they will be adopted. Our co-opera-
ton with Latin America doesn't
depend upon our virtually annexing
the other republics.
Just as we have always traded
ideas with Europe, so we can do it
with the countries to the south.
But it must be trading-on an equal
basis. 1t must not be done as Il
missionary venture. We must recOg-
nize the fact that even the most
primitive colony in the remoteSt
part of the world has civilization
of its own that is entirely salts
factory to is people.
There's a lot we can get from
South america. There's good deal
we can give. 1t is to this give-and-
take process we should dedicate our
selves fully in our ensuing relations
with our neighborS.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
PIDItVIE HEADS
CONGRESSIONAL SHOW

. ..ttr rntim"ly ridicule headed
Oh what would have been one OF
the most gaudy congressional shows
Of the year.
Congressman William T. Schultz
Of IndiaHa lad demanded a con-
gres 5ional investigation of soothSay-
crs. tna-leaf readers. fortune tcllers.
mediums aud What-nOt in Washing
ton He had things all fixed; the
Investigation was going to start just
when Black tone. the magician, was
filling 4 local theatrical engagement
Z friend of Schultz, Blackstone wa
going to appear before the commit
tee ard expose the tricks OF IL"
sOothSayer'S art. with personal dem
OnstratiOnS.
Juzt before il was to happen. how
eyer. some newspaper printed a
stOrN remarking Sarcastically that
co. ncSS. which was in trance
anyhoW. was going to investigate the
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02

If the federal government can
penalize state officers and lay pen
alties uron county governments. the
federal government can destroy the
counties within the states and the
states themselves. - Senator Tom
Connally Dem. Tex.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
thoughts for the Day

Greater love hath than this that a nan
lay down his lie for his friendS-St John Is l3.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02

GlYcerinc, clear colOrleSS,
5yrupy. almost odorless liquid hay
ing a slightly sweet taste, was SO
l-amcj from the Greek word.
"plykrrOS. meaning sweet.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02

WASHINGTON The moral en-
barge" which the administration has
pronounced against aggresSor ma
tons extends EVEN to the operations
OF thr L. S. Martini" Commission.
Under this embargo, the commits
sion is refusing to charter U. S. car
20 vessels to either japanese or
Russian agents Last charter eXecllt-
cd 10 Russia was on Dec. l. 1899,
shortly after the Finnish invasion
when an American steamer was
chartered to take oil from San Fran
cisco to Vladivostok. Since then.
two other applications have been
refused.
Al first il was given out that the
,GtcrnmeNt didn't like to nave It's
...rps t:ips.ng off to far ports un-
d. Sl,n cC:ftrOl when a war was
0r Iii want wholly convincing
&c. charters to places farther than
Vladiyo5tok are being executed; SO
'-oG it. quietly admitted that tie
r.-pr9l embargo is the cause of it.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02

One-Minute Test Answers
Robert M. La Toilette.
Ulysses S. Grant.
New Jersey.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02

MEMBER:
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. Nation
al Editorial Association.
California Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02

The truth is that planned econ
omy is socialism, and socialism can
not be carried out by deliberative
legislative bodies. = Senator Robert
A. Taft rep, Ohio.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

The best blond hair comes from
Savoy. France.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
So They Say

Above all, restore the national
economic confidence which will per-
NIT American private business -
stunned and stunted for eight sterile
years-to produce the new wealth
which will give us an annual in
come Of eighty, yes, one hundred
billions-Senator Arthur Vanden-
berg tRep., Mich)
| hope and pray that never again
should we have to send our youth
to shed their blood in far, foreign
fields, either to make the world
safe for democracy or to end all
rs.-Archbishop Michael j. Cur
ley of Baltimore, installed as leader
of new archdiocese in District of
Columbia.
Italy cannot be called a neutral
state Tor neutrality is static and
immoblle. italian policy is dynamic
and always has been SO since the
creation of her empire-that is, from
the time of sanctions and the Ethio-
plan War.-Alessandro Pavolini. Ital-
ian minister for popular culture.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
Famous SAVINGS

Love gives itself it is not bought.-Longfellow
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-04-02
NOTICE OF HEARING

NVIIOF OF 1EHN1INU
In The Superior Court Of The
state of California. in and for The
County of Imperial.
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Peter Buehner Is Dead

PORTLAND - rhIIlp Peter
Ruehnsr. -. prominent IN Oregon
lumber circles for many years.
Died Tuesday At rs Portland resi-
denes following = serious illness
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CloY Huntington Is
Quill & Scroll Head

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nslztis scciety. vefs snncunosd
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-18
yAN rsYis accolATE SHOPS

produced Catherne Great" London with her smaller keen-witted and if fault at all it perhaps her oyerabndant intelligence faculty for criticism the self criticism sharp mepede creative work: evidently why poongs of inactivity between appear 
 Few people would believe of Maiene Dietrich who glorified the that
 absolutely natural very extremely witty private life excellent story-eler.
 But all the stars whom have learned to know Holly Hepburn perhaps the lkeabe
 filled with spirited benevoence She sparkes with energy In short time she will become Americas first actress sts4 fe.ts5a x.
 My standards high. for nations whose have since saying talented that perhaps they outstanding personalities the best of them surely lot the great of yesterday
 unfortunate however that the storms of Europe have swept few gifted players Ida Roland in of unspassabe Wessey of Austria and great German wasting away on the unsubstana spiritual diet of the Nazi Reich
 Deporabe the world of the talented act Hungary and Polandhese have the opportunity present themselves to the any great European American metropolis
 For the finest actress have ever known Hungarian: varsanyi.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-18
William Nortons
 Parents of Boy

Tipping the scales at 6 pounds 13, ounces, a baby boy arrived at St Ann's Hospital shortly after midnight for MT and Mrs. William Norton
 Mrs Norton is the former Ann Easton, teacher in the Juneau Pub lie Schools. She and her baby are 10th doing nicely and the proud father is passing out smokes at the Alaska Electric Light and Power Go.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-01-18

HOLLYWOOD Cal, Jan 18.-It garden of D- rector George Cukor lovely home that first
 She dressed in blue sailor suitslacks makeup her face not liprouge this the effect of extreme palor fort hung in large natural acquainted with her wondrous deep melancholy But out in the the sparkling of her esing these at reveal the
 There trace of artifce of pose" Garbo lights in laughter When listening others all She bears old theory without real aent harsh of voice overbeang of great artist per in private life.
 Atentavey Carbo heard "Ninotchka" asked questions but evident that she the first year she portrayed with slch supendous artistry think it be wonderful Carbo the stage just I vnced that would witness the miracle of
 l consider Elizabeth Bergner a artist quainance stage-later