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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-20
Ell CentrO P R;s;sss;sss; DIRECTORY
It is to your advantage to know these Business and Profess
sonaI people They we'll known reliable firms that
are deserving Of your patronage.
Serves C|ientsin
Three Valleys

Increased use of glasses for
eye comfort does not neces-
arily mean the modern gen.
Grafton has greater percen-
tage of defective eyes.
GLASSES nowadays show an
intelligent adaptation to mod
crn eye needs" DIR. Sem Ba-
con, prominent Ell Centre OPP
tOmetrist declared Monday in
commenting upon his profess
sion.
DIR. Bacon has been in bust
ness in Ell Centre since 1922
and has seen his clientele grow
to include COachella and Yuma
valley patients as well as I'm
perial Valley. DIR. Bacon adj
ministers complete examina-
tons and If glasses are re-
quired orders only the highest
quality lenses and best frames.
DIR. Bacon Is an active men,
Der of the Optometric extension
program, and has been ap-
pointed Clinical Associate. He
Is a member of the American
Research Council of OptOmc-
try.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-20
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
M. A. No. 053083
District Land Office
-. A-~nlcS California

fAAs6SsSSt
June Z. 1910.
Notice is hereby given that The
Tycrete Chemical Corporation. by
Louis A. Tyce, president, Of Chula
Vista, California, has made appli-
cation for patent to the White
Crystal No. / placer mining claim.
embracing EkSEHNEA Sec. 16.
and White Crystal No. placer
mining claim, embracing SWANWN
NWA Sec. Is; SEANEhNEA Sec.
Is, all in T. II S., r. 8 E. SBM.
containing 40 acres, in the FL Gen.
tro Mining District, Imperial Coun-
ty, California. There are no ad-
joining or conflicting claims. The
location notices are recorded in
Book 359, page 148 and Book 1858,
page 1876, and amended notices are
recorded in Book 46O, page 488,
Book AGO, page 489, and Book 481.
page 563, official records of Impe-
rial County, California.
PAUL B. WILMER,
Register.
(J11-AC0 incl
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-20

WASHINGTON. June 20.-Sen-
ator Vandenberg's help-the-A Allies
speech was Significant because it
proved what the capital had been
suSpecting for week-that The
bottom has fallen out of the once
powerful isolationiSt bloc in con-
greSS
Unless washington has miSread all
the signs public sentiment is SOL
idly behind the stop Hitler move.
Short of an actual declaration of
war. the president can get from
congress Just about what he wants
in the way of aid to England and
France except perhaps, if it
comes under that heading. speedy
adjournment.
HOOVER LAST HOPE
OF PEACE GROUPS
Which has an interesting effect
or the coming presidential cam
paign.
It means that the hopes of the
organized peace groupS-the real
ones. not the fellow traveller, stooge
outfitS-are now pretty largely CEN
tered on the person of one man
former President Herbert Hoover.
Frederick Libby, head of the Ma
tional Council for the Prevention
of War remarks that everything
hinges on the attitude of the Repub-
lican party. If they don't take an
unequivocal stand against our in
Movement. the president will have
an easy part in taking us step by
step toward war
And of the leading Republicans,
the only one the peace groups are
really counting on to fight for such
a stand at Philadelphia is Mr.. Hoo
YER
PACIFISTS SHUN
COMMUNIST faint
Now, incidentally, is good time
to get set straight on who the real,
time tested peace groups really are.
Joined in the current program for
non involvement are the following ::
The National Council for the Pre-
vention of War. which has been
in existence for Is years the .WO-
mcr's International League for
Peace and Freedom. which was
founded by Jane Adams in the
last war: the Fellowship Of Recon-
citation. organized in 1915; World
Pcaceways. a busineSSman's group
which works via magazine adver-
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-20
THOUGHTS For The Day

But thou, o Lord, art a shield for nc: my glory
and the litter up of mine hcad-Psalms 3:3.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-20

Elderly persons in China believe
that. by eating the curious crea-
lures known as sea cucumberS they
can recapture their lost youth.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-20
Did You Know?

There are four classes of colors in
the plumage of birds: protective
deceptive. recognition and sexual.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-20

Skunks cat hairy caterpillars, but
roll them on the ground first to
break off the hairs.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-20

Tho time has come to find out
whether Harry Bridges or congress
runs this government.
Representative Hamilton Fish,
New York
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-20
Famous Sayings

all his dispensations God is at work for good
jay
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-20
So They Say

would rather resist and die than
live under certain types of restraint.
Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-20

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. Nation
nj Editorial Association.
California Newspaper Pup-
fishers Association.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1940-06-20

LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01
IMPERIAL COUNTY CAN
SWING The NATION

1t is not at all impossible that Imperia.
county's vote may swing the natlonal
presidential election to Wendell l.. Will
ke next Tuesday 1t is, in fact, entirely
within the bounds of possibility.
The fact demonstrates why every voter
i'm Imperial county should go to the polls
next Tuesday.
OF course, the election may be decided
one way or another before Imperial
county's vote is ever counted. But, if in
dicatons for the tightest election con-
test since 1916 hold true, this countys
vote will be factor to be reckoned with
in Washington or anywhere else.
This is how Imperial county might
decide who shall be president OF the
United States:
If the vote tabulations come in from
the east with the candidates running an
even race, the decision will be left to
CALIFORNIA; % electoral votes, as 1t was
in 1916 In that event, if the contest is
as close in California as it appears to be
right now huge Willkie majority IN
Imperial county would decide Califor-
MAS position and so decide the national
election.
In the face of such a possibility, how
can any voter say to himself, My vote
won't matter, any way, so why should
l go to the bother of voting?"
The truth is that every single vote in
this election will matter greatly. Espe-
cially will it matter in such communities
as Imperial Valley, where the decision of
an otherwise apparently undecided state
might very we'll be made.
There is little question in the hands of
political observers that Imperial Valley
will cast a strong majority of its votes
in favor of Wendell L. Willkie. But it
cannot be stressed too strongly that any
single vote in this county might be the
vote which decides the fate of the United
States for the next four years.
Realizing that fact cognizant of the
grave responsibility which goes with the
privilege of voting, every voter should
examine his conscience, decide his posi-
tion-and then express it at the polls.
Never before has it been so true that
one voter can elect a president. The
voter who shirks his duty is guilty of
the worst form of negligence in the face
of national crisis.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronehl

bids, a statement of their financial
responsibility, technical ability and
experience.
Each bid shall be made out on
a form attached to and forming
part of the specifications, which
can be obtained at the office of the
Director of Public Works of the
City of Ell Centro, Sixth and State
Streets, Ell Centre, California, and
must be accompanied by an uncon-
ditional certified or cashiers check
for not less than 1917 of the amount
of the bid made payable to the
order of the City Clerk of the City
of Ell Centre, California: shall be
sealed and filed with the City
Clerk of the said City on or before
November 6, 1910 at or about 8
o'clock pm. of that day in the
Council Chambers at the City Hall,
Ell Centre, California.
! Each bidder is directed to endorse
on the envelope containing his bid,
his name and the character of
work or material upon which the
enclosed bid is submitted.
The above mentioned check or
bond shall be given as a guarantee
that the bidder will enter into con-
tract if awarded the work, and will
be declared forfeited if the sue
cessful bidder refuses TO enter into
said contract after being requested
to do SO by the Council of the City
of Ell Centro.
The successful bidder will be re-
quired to furnish a labor and ma
terial bond in an amount equal to
50as of the contract price, and a
faithful performance bond in an
amount equal to 1907 of the con-
tract price, said bonds to be secur-
ed from surety company satisfac-
tory to the City of Ell Centre.
The said City of FL Centro re-
serves the right to reject any or all
bids andhor to waive any Irregular
ity in bid.
Unless otherwise required by law,
no bidder may withdraw his bid for
a period of thirty days after the
late set for the opening thereof.
Dated Ell Centro, California, Octo-
Der 30, 1910.
NEAL H. GAVIN,
Purchasing Agent.
9. w. IIEINECKE,
! Director OF Public Works
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01
WHAT The RECORD SHOWS

The New Deal has attempted to an
swer criticism of its lack of defense pre-
paredness by saying the Republicans left
the nation sadly unprepared when the
New Deal took over in 1882.
Weak as the New Deal argument is
it is like the argument of man who
says, my successor failed, so why should
| succeed-even that weak argument is
based on falsehood.
The records show that the United
States had an army of 148,0O0 men in
1888, the year after the New Deal went
into office. The number remained static
until 1887, and even then, after congress
had appropriated funds to increase army
manpower, President Roosevelt did not
budget for the expenditures. And then
Just six months ago-the army chief
of staff told the United States that we
had full equipment for only $4,000 men.
In the face of this record, the New
Deal attempt to blame Republicans for
the nations lack of preparedness seems
silly.
1t seems still more silly to hear the
New Deal talking of 'unpreparedness'
in 1882, because it was not until after
1882 that Adolf Hitler became a major
menace in Europe. Germany's arma-
ments were weak We were as well arm
ed as any other nation in the world then.
1t is too bad we cannot say the same
thing now.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01
by Willis Thornton
Let's Have No REGRETS

The presidential campaign whirls
to its white-hot climax.
Men are stirred by the contest as
they have not been stirred for years.
1t is a thrilling spectacle to see
13O,O0O,OOO free people choosing
freely the men who will lead them
for the next four years. The issues
are important; the country faces
critical times. Zeal for ones candl-
date, excitement over the contest
is justifiable, proper, desirable.
But there is one thing that could
be more dangerous to our repub-
iican institutions than any result
of the election. That is the engen-
dering Of such bitterness against
either candidate as to leave scars
that will net heal quickly after the
election is decided.
We are all Americans, and we
are all in this thing together. Who
ever proves to be the choice OF the
people will be our President-the
President of all of uS-for the next
four years.
The people who have been so
thoughtless as to egg the Republi-
can candidate are not striking at
him They are striking at the demo-
cratic process itself.
Tactics like this are not merely
cowardly and contemplate in
themselves they inevitably cause
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01
by Paul Harrison
Hollywood S Fads, Fancies and Foib|es

the enterprise probably would
have been just movie novelty
with the music of no more con-
sequence than the score OF the aV-
erage picture But Fantasia VIII
be a musical sensation, and the
visual art actually will be second
ary. The dimensional directional
sound developed by Disney ensi-
GERS and RCA compares with the
best reproduction now available IN
about the same way modern Tech
nicolor surpasses Thomas Edison's
flickering kinetoscope.
SIXTY LOUDSPEAKERS
INSTEAD OF ONE
So far as l can learn. the main
difference is that Disney and Sto-
kowski have recorded on eight
sound tracks instead of one, and
from microphones scattered all
through the instrumental sections
of the orchestra And reproduction
of the music will come from go
speakers variouSly placed in a
theatre instead of from one speaker
suspended behind the screen.
Because this equipment is so ex-
pensive and takes so long to build
especially with preparedness or
ders blocking production-"Fan-
tasia" can be shown in only IL
theaters on the entire continent at
one time. In the course of two or
three years it is possible it will
have reached only 70 cities.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01
Editorials and Comment
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER l, 1910
NORRIS REPUDIATES
HIMSELF

(Titusville, Pa, Herald)
We never heard of any person question
ing the honesty of Senator George Norris
of Nebraska, but in view of recent events
his good faith is open to doubt.
Senator Norris was one of the most
outspoken opponents of third term for
a President in 1923 and in Senate ad-
dresses made convincing arguments
against it. Since Senator Norris recent
ly came out for President Roosevelt, OPP
ponentS of third term have been look
ing up the speeches the Nebraskan made
in 1923. They are Just as good as any
that are being made now against the third
term, and better than some. Here is an
excerpt from one of Senator Norris
speeches in 1928:
"It is important, because. in my iudg-
ment if a president Of the United States
were allowed to renominate himself, as
he could, it would mean-not perhaps in
my lifetime, or it may not be in the life
time of anyone here-but it would
mean ultimately the establishment in
this country of a monarchy upon the
ruins of our present republican form of
government.
"A President wishing to be renominat-
ed if he wants to use the power that is
his, after he has been in office for some
time can compel his party :. to renomi-
nate him. :. C. He is at the head of the
machine that has the entire country with
in its grasp, and can through the power
that he possesses, using the officials who
are under him and who range down to
the lowest on the list, to round up dele
gates he can control conventions as no
other man on earth can control them.
He nominates himself by using the instru
mentality that the law gives him on ac-
count of his position. There is no compe-
tition: there is trust, there is a monOp
oily of the nomination as far as his party
is concerned"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01
PROHIBITION OF TENURE
OLD AS DEMOCRACY
pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

The tradition against the third term is
as old as the United States, but the tradl-
tion against continued tenure in office
dates back to the dawn of democratic
history. Aristotle in his politics. as
serts that at is not easy for person to
do anv great harm when his tenure of
Office is short, whereas long tenure be-
gets tyranny in oligarchies and democ-
racies' Livy dates the beginning of free
dom in Rome to the time when the terms
of consuls were limited to one year.
Machiavelli finds two causes leading to
the breakup of the Roman republic, dis
sension over agrarian laws and the pro
longation of commands" and says that
had these matters been rightly under
stood "the freedom of Rome had been far
more lasting"
1t would be difficult, perhaps impos-
sible, to find in any discussion Of demo-
cratic processes in the long literature OF
political science a single defense OF un-
limited tenure in office. For that kind
of tenure is not democratic.
The American tradition holds that
two terms of four years each are enough
for any man. But violation of that
tradition would not be simply the abro-
cation of an old American custom. 1t
would be definite break with the an
cient and long established principle up
on which the democratic form Of govern
ment is founded 1t would pave the way
for fourth and fifth and sixth terms,
and the concentration Of power in the
hands of one man which leads to despot-
ism and the destruction of democratic
ideals.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01

decent people to react against them,
and thus defeat whatever purpose
may have motivated the feeble
minds that Matched them. The same
thing is true of slanderous and STU
pid stories whispered behind hands
in otherwise respectable company
they cause a retching at the sto-
mach of all decent people, and in
evitably react against those who
circulate them.
The referee of the merest prize
fight cautions the contestants to
keep it clean!" How much more
important is it that this, greatest
of all popular contests, be kept
clean.
The candidates of the two great
parties are on trial before the peo-
pie. But the people are also or
trial before the world. Can a great
free people choose its leadership or
a basis of sense and reason, Scorn-
ing gutter tactics and appeals tC
low prejudice? We are confiden,
that they can. To demonstrate this
is perhaps the most important jot
before the voters.
Every man, woman and chile
bears part of this responsibility
the responsibility for his own hand
tongue, and mind. 1t is not light
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01

over 7 ydS and less Than 9 30
Any craft or employment not spe-
officially mentioned in the forego-
ing schedule of rates shall be paid
not less than $500 per diem of 8
hours.
For overtime when the same is
permitted by law, one and one half
the foregoing rates. For work per-
formed on Sundays and legal holi-
days as set forth in section 10 OF
the Political Code of the State OF
California. one and one-half the
above rates.
Notice is also hereby given that
all bidders must submit with their
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01

The idea that peace can come
to the world through an alliance OF
imperialist Britain, capitalist Am
erica. and Soviet Russia is fantastic
Norman Thomas, Socialist candi-
date for the presidency.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
TO CONTRACTORS
Ell Centre, California
Octohpr 40 1Q40


October 80, 1910
Notice is hereby given that the
City of Ell Centro will receive bids
furnishing all labor, transportation
and services for the dismantling,
strengthening and reconstruction OF
the existing 100000 gallon water
tank now located at the City OF El
Centro Water Plant, to be relocated
at the corner of Third Street and
Commercial Avenue and perform the
necessary welding of IL" steel pipe;
all as more particularly described
and in detail set forth in those
certain drawings and specifications
contained in Drawing No. 100 on
file with the City Council of said
City.
The Council of the City of El
Centre has ascertained the general
prevailing rate of per diem wages
applicable to work to be done to be
as follows
H.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01
Uranium Crackers
Something in Common


Here are five groups of three
names each; the persons mention
ed have something in common.
Can you tell what it is?
Frank Capra, Alfred Hitch
cock and Garsin Kanin.
2-Nic olas Murray Butler. Rob-
ert M. Hutchins and Clarence Dyk-
stra.
3-Constantine Oumonsky, Lord
Lothian and CASTOR Henri-Haye
fCurly Lambeau, Steve Owen
and Jimmy Councilman.
5-Benito Mussolini, Soso Dju-
gasvili, A. Schicklgruber.
Answers:
1-Capra, Hitchcock and Kanis
are movie directors.
2-Butler, Hutchins and Dykstra
are all university presidents-at
Columbia, Chicago and Wisconsin.
respectively. Dykstra is currently
on leave of absense to direct the
selective service act.
3-Oumansky, Lothian and Henri
Haye are all ambassadors TO the
U. S.-from Russia, Britain and
France, respectively.
4-Lambeau, Owen and Conzel-
man are all professional football
coaches-of the Green Bay Packers,
New York Giants and Chicago Car
dinals, respectively.
5-Mussolini, Djugashvili an d
Schicklgruber are all European die
tators, although the latter two are
better known by their adopted
names, Stain and Hitler
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01

A contagious disease is cne COM
municated by germs carried in air
or water and which can be spread
without contact with the patient.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01

Black widow spiders are so named
because the females willingly make
widows of themselves by eating
their husbands.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01

Pixies Peak was named after
Zebulon Pike. but it was known to
white men as early as 1700, long
before his birth
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01
So They Say

Tolerance ceases to be virtue
when it is carried to the point
where everything is tolerated.
Representative Martin Dies, Tex
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01

Aiding race to survive is pot
at all the same thing as helping
a government.
james w. johnson, veteran, AM
crican VVolunteed Ambulance, IN
appeal for aid to France.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 1.-You're
sitting in theater Stage curtains
are closed; lights are still bright;
last-minute arrivals are scuttling
crabWise to their seats. An or
chestra begins to tune up.
You don't see any musicians but
you figure there must be some
because the tuning sounds come
from different parts of the stage
This is a trick, though, because
when the house lights dim and the
curtains part you realize you're
watcing motion picture of orches-
ira members taking their places
They're deliberate about it, just as
they are in any auditorium. You
view them rather dimly. mostly in
purplish silhouette.
Presently a man haltS in mid
screen and begins to speak to the
audience. He says his name il
Deems Taylor and that in behalf
of Walt Disney, Leopold Stokow.
sNi and the Philadelphia Sym
hony he welcomes you to per-
formance of Fantasia"
In his easy fashion he goes or
to say it is unlike anything yol
have attended-that it is a con
cert of fine music complementee
by pictures. The pictures. he ex.
plains, are not necessarily stories
they may be designs and forms
inspired by the music; they arr
the sort of images which Nigh
run through your mind if you jus
sat and listened to Stokowski ane
his men.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01

The first submarine tried in Eng
land was made of wood and was
tested in the Thames river in 1920.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01

Now that Einstein is a citizen,
it is hoped he'll lift the national
average mental age, lowered SO
much by publication Of those cam
Daign songs.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01

Two California physicists have
created musical tones said to be
unknown in the musical world Ap-
parently they haven't heard the
soprano next door.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01

When told she won second prize
in corn husking contest, the
mother IF a ix-weeks-old baby
couldn't believe her ears.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01
Thoughts for the Day

Take heed to yourselves If thy brother trespass
against thee rebuke him; and if he repent forgive
him.-Luke 17:3
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01
VARIED
MUSIC

Then you see the conductor He
raps with his baton and begins
Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D
Minor. The orchestra dissolves from
view The interpretive, impression
istic art of the picture begins. There
are eight musical selections spaced
by glimpses of the orchestra and
brief announcements by Taylor.
The material ranges from the
reverent Ave Maria to the ludi-
rous Dance of the Hours, the lat
ter burlesqued by a jungle ballet
of hippos, elephants, crocodiles and
ostriches. 1t goes from Beethoven's
Pastoral, garnished with Disney
esque centaurs and centaurettes
and fauns, and cupids, to Stravin-
sky's Rite of Spring, starkly pri-
mitive thing used to tell of the
creation of the world, and of life
development from single cells to
the age Of the great reptiles. An
other eerie and rather terrifying
number is Moussorgskys Night on
Bald Mountain. Fantasia as a
whole, is not a program for the
kiddies.
With ordinary equipment for
sound recording and reproduction,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-01
Did You Know?

The hippopotamus eats only vege-
table matter.