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Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20
A Matter of
international Respect

A lot of us are bit vague about what
ought to be done about the L. S. S.
Panay bombing by japanese airplanes.
1t is all so puzZling, this business Of
international diplomacy. All this husi-
ness of notes and apologies and repri-
mands seems so useless after lives have
been lost Yet, somehow, there doesn't
seem to be nearly enough reason to send
guns and armies against Japan by way
of punishment.
We can't see any reason for sending
other lives into the hereafter because
some have already been dispatched there
by few very brainless japanese avia-
tors
This business of diplomacy is not as
puzzling as it seems, however. Japan's
apology and its promised reparatiOns
are not empty gestures. Nothing is All
empty gesture when it strikes deeply
at national pride. Especially when it
il the national pride of an Oriental, who
would rather lose life than lose face.
Once a sufficient apology has been
wrung from reluctant japanese lips.
there is greater assurance that the event
will not be repeated No nation likes
to humble itself in apology to another.
One time is usually enough, if the apOl-
ogy is made under pressure and to avoid
almost certain reprisal, as was the Japa-
nese apology.
A national apology indicates respect
for the nation apologiZed to, and respect
is as important to nations as to indivi-
duals.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20
The Way One Publisher
Looks at Il

Dan BeeOe isn't going To be appointed
TO the state fish and game commission.
He doesn't want the job. He thought
about it a long time before he decided,
and then he told his readers why he
will not be on the fish and game com
mission. He is newspaper publisher
in Oroville, so he had good chance to
tell about it. Let's listep:
"We read in the newspapers today
said Publisher Beebe, that the publisher
of the Anaheim paper has been appoint
ed chairman of the board of the state
institution at Tehachapi. Another pub
Usher has been made chairman of the
state highway commission. Another
holds the top job in the state unemplOy-
ment reserve commission. Still another
bosses the board that bosses the build
ing and loan association. A MarySville
publisher is on the state fair board. All
of us know that there's a publisher on
the prison board that appoints prison
wardens.
THE publishers are running this state.
at should be cinch for a publisher to
get any appointment he wants. Maybe
it is, and maybe it isn't.
Publisher Beebe then tells how the
fish and game commission was suggested
as his particular appointment Every
body thought he would take it, and for
a while he thought so, too. Then:
I'VE don't know how publisher-offi-
cials feel about it." says Publisher Beebe,
'but this Oroville man (himself) began
to have a strange feeling right away.
Always having been outspoken, he found
himself holding back a little. He felt
he shouldn't do anything to embarrass
the state administration
And so Publisher Beebe got to think
ing it over, and the conclusion he reach
ed was that, its a good thing to keep a
few editors independent. So many radio
stations now darent criticize the govern
ment for fear of losing the permit
$50 take it all around, We'll just draw
out of this thing =.
And there you have one of the rea-
sons why Dan Beebe's little paper up
in Oroville is among the most respected
of California newspapers, and why Dan
Beebe himself is pretty we'll thought of
by his fellow publishers in California.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20
Other Editors Saw
MAN AND MONKEYS
San Pedro NeWs-Pilot)


Dr.. Ernest a. Hooten, the famous evolution
ist OF Harvard. has just emerged from his study
with a startling theory. He looks forward to
the time when man will complete his cycle and
reUogress to the point where he again will be
hanging from the trees chattering away about
the good old days before the engineers got in
their bit of devilish work.
The engineers, Doctor Hooten believes, are
responsible for his backward trend. Just as they
were to blame for ever bringing man up to his
present level of civilization. They started in
the forest, thousands OF years ago, and began
applying the principles of engineering TO the less
intellectual apes, with the result that-weh now
look at US! They have developed the human race
But they haven't been satisfied to let well
enough alone and their continual tinkering has
reached The point where now, the doctor says
the once erectly striding biped abandons hu-
man locomotiOn and WhizZeS through the land
scape crouched over wheels ana levers worked
by still prehensile hands, and his flat, Vestigal
feet. no less useful for this purpose than those
of his simian ancestors
The doctor then really warns up to his sub
iect and takes in the whole field of progress
that heretofore we intellectual smians have
been rather proud of. He blames the radio and
the movies for aiding illiteracy and says the
comforts Of electricity have added TO the eVou-
tionary decay that is setting in
However in the dim and distant future which
he doctor processes to see. we can swing from
our trees and enjoy one blessing that he didn't
mention. For our return to the monkey stage
also will have taken from our midst some OF these
earned evolutionists who continually are taking
le 10y out Of life
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20
Famous SAYINGS -

There may not seem to be much
connection between a crowd OF
angry U. S. marines wrecking a
newspaper office in Nicaragua and
q calm discussion of the problem
of imperialism in the modern
world. But a cablegram from Cen
tral America linked the two very
neatly, the other day, and provided
q little nourishing food for thought.
Away back in 1922, or there
abouts, our marines were stationed
in Nicaragua. A stout Nicaraguan
patriot, DR.. Buitrago Diaz, object
ed bitterly. In his newspaper. the
Tribuna, at Managua, he put the
marines on the pan and said con-
temptuously that they were unfit
for the companionship of the wom-
en- of Nicaragua.
Some Of the marines could read
Spanish. So one day bunch OF the
lads got together and made raid
on the Tribunals offices, wrecking
them with a hearty thoroughness
such as only infuriated marines
can achieve.
And the wind-up Of the story
came Just the other day, when a
United States Treasury check COW
ering the damages was handed to
DR.. Diaz.
We'll so what? Does that prove
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20
Bruce Carton Says:
us Had Conscience as Dollar Diplomat

ANYTHING in particular except
that Uncle Sam does pay his bills
if you give him time enough?
You can appreciate the story
best if you reflect on the things
that have been said about Amerl-
cas- land-grabbing exploits.
In the last few yeals Americans
have waxed indignant about Mus
solini's seizure of Ethiopia, Japans
attack on China, and so on-and
have been told that they had no
right to throw stones because
Uncle Sam himself expanded his
territorial holdings by force, with
Latin Americans, Indians and 9TH
er luckless people paying the
freight
But there Is a little difference
there. somehow, and this Nicara-
guam story does illustrate 1t.
Clumsily, often tardily, general
" somewhat inadequately, TINS
country has made an effort to red
ress the balance. The marines are
out of Nicaragua now, the country
is free and independent-and eV1/
minor bit of aggression ike ts
mob scene in the newspaper office
is at last paid for by the U. s.
Treasury.
Mexico did get the cash OF the
Gadsden purchase-and two dec
AIDES later. got the French lifted
off her neck by orders from Wash
ington. Spain did get a lump sum
for the Philippines, and Cuba ac-
tually did go free. The government
has spent some millions OF dollars
caring for the dispossessed Indians.
Alaska was acquired by straight
purchase. The old marines-have-
landed era Of dollar diplomacy
did finally end.
That record could be great
deal better-but it could also be
great deal worse.
1t is not exactly the sort OF re-
cord a greedy and ruthless people
would make. Greed is in it. oil
course-but is it tempered by con-
science, after all.
Foreign militarists engaged IN
stealing the lands of weaker peo-
pies will have to look little farth-
er to find justification for the,r
actions.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20
Newton Baker Ill
With Heart Ailment

CLEVELAND, Dec. 20. CUP) -
Newton D. Baker, wartime secre-
tary of war under President Wood
row Wilson and intermediary
known corporation attorney, was
treated today for recurrence of
the heart condition he suffered in
midsummer.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20
CHAMP LAMB
GOES FOR S1.1O

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20. CUP)-
The grand champion lamb of the
Great western Livestock show here
today was sold for $1'l0 a pound
to Norman zipser, who purchased
II from Brownell's ranch, Wood
land. for Modesto restaurant.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20
Photographs

The 2.5OO.O00 hired hands who
labor for wages on U. S. farms
NAV earn as little as $62 per sea-
son or as much as STAB, recent de-
partment of agriculture figures
show.
Tests made by noted astronom-
ers indicate that the surface of the
moon consists principally of pum-
ice, or some similar porous sub
stance. -
The 1878 wheat crop in AN
tralia is estimated at approximate
" l63,OO0OOO bushels compared
with 15O0OO,OO0 bushels harvested
last year.
Performers on British radio pro-
grams are not permitted to men
ton commercial products by their
trade names.
The number of U. S. cities pro-
viding park recreation programs
has more than trebled during the
last 10 years.
More automobile accidents occur
in the United States during au-
t,lmn than at any other season.
Chow dogs, now popular as pets
throughout the world. were raised
as food by the ancient Chinese.
Weed growths cost U. S. farmers
an estimated three billion dollars
each year
During the medieval period, it
was customary to applaud church
sermons.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

a bra We letter
from John T. Nc
Cutcheon. So for
a turn of Tudor
City before squar-
off to a platter of
Col. Frank Jones
Kentucky sausage
and fried apple
rings.
Then to sec
some of Fred Det-
Weiler's fine can
vases and came
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20
You re Telling Me -
BY WILLIAM RITT

AN ELEPHANT in an English
ZOO has been trained to play a
tiny mouth organ. What scien-
tific progress! Now if we can only
find a mouse capable of playing a
a bull fiddle!
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20
The Grab Baq
One-Minute Test

One-Minute Test
l. Who is U. S. secretary of
war?
3 What European nation re-
Gently resigned from the League of
Nations?
g. What is a numismatist?
Hints on Etiquette
1t Is a wise plan to write moth
ing in a letter that you would not
be willing for anyone to read.
Words of Wisdom
If no use is made of the labors
of the past, the world must remain
always in the infancy of knowl-
edge.-Cicero.
TOday's Horoscope
Most persons whose birthday oc-
ours today are lovers Of beauty.
Many of them develop an excellent
understanding of literature and
art.
One-Minute Test Answers
l. Harry H. WOodring.
g. Italy
3. one who collects coins Or
medals
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

Experts predict that by l94l 1t
will be possible to make a trip
around the world in 13 days. But
what will we do on the odd day
of our two-week vacations?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

Add juvenile let-doWns: The day
you, barefoot, were kicking up dust
in the roadway, riding broom stick
horse and the bankers son, your
age, flashed by in a new Shetland
drawn pony cart.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

ing those mad scenes none Of which
was complete without the inescap-
able slipper filled with Mumm's
extra dry. The stunt dinners are
no longer given in public restaurants
because of the fear of tabloid back
fire. Such didoes are staged in the
cent houses.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

Indiana transportation men are
protesting the validity of Truckin3
laws. All who think the Big Apple
also ought to be pared will com
municate.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20
New York Day by Day

NEW YORK, Dec. 2O-Dlary; A
splitting of snow and nip in the
air. And came a crate of apples
from I11cins ReeheS orchards and
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

Let the boys at Washinton fight
it cut; the average man will be
satisfied to see the waitress at the
corner cafe placed under civil ser
vice rules.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

Controversy over which way a
pigs tail curls is nothing at all to
Miss Young America What she
wants to know is how to make a
pigtail curl anyway.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20
News Behind the News
- More New Deal Spending?

WESTINGHOUSE of the most impor-
tant members Of the administrations inside
group are now convinced that only an increase
in government spending will snap the nation
out of depression. They are sure the New Deal
will start spending again in the near future.
The prediction comes from men who usually
know in advance what President Roosevelt is
going to propose.
The drive for a private hOuSebuilding boom
and such cooperation and concessions as the
administration is offering to business admins
tration is offering to business are expected TO
help But there is no indication that private
enterprise is going to be able to check the eco
nomie spiral and that means, according TO in
siderS. that the job can be done only by pump
ins more government funds into the economic
system.
Attorney General Homer S. Cummings and
lobbyists for munitions interests are girdng for
a fight which will come when tine a. c. pre-
sents his proposed amendments 10 the National
Firearms Act.
Especially bitter opposition will be registered
against a proposal that any man buying gun
be required TO furnish his fingerprintS Cum
mings contends that any honest man would
be willing to give his fingerprints. but that
crook would not, and hence wouldn't get a gun
There's a small clique OF lobbyists which
always appears at any state capital or in the
national capital whenever firearms bill is pro-
posed. Department of Justice officials can rattle
off list OF about dozen names OF persons
sure TO be on hand if and when Cummings bill
comes up for hearings.
After Senator George Berry of Tennessee. Ia
Dor leader and woud-be peacemaker between
the CIO and A F. Of l. had visited the cham
bers outside the room where William Green
and John Lewis were comforting, assistants to the
conferees hastened to offer newspapermen an
official version of the Berry call
Senator Berry. il was said, had asked that
the conferees be advised that he had arrived.
The conferees were Lewis, Green. Chairman
Philip Murray Of the Steel workers Organizing
Committee and President George NJ. Harrison
Of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. Ralph
Hetzel, secretary 10 Lewis went inside to break
the news that Berry was outside
Narrators OF the official version admit that
Lewis raised his eyebrows but say that the
group remained silent and unimpressed.
The unofficial version OF the incident, how
ever insists that one member of the quartet
asked: so what?'
At any rate. Senator Berry didn't leave with
out posing for the neWsreels and making a
statement.
International Secretary G. M Bugniazet of
the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers has been
somewhat in the news lately, especially a
conferee at some of the A. F, Of L.-CIO. meet
ings
It may be helpful. for conversational pur-
poses, to report that Bugniazets name is pro-
nounced 'boon-ya-Zet."
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

This is baseball trading season
when club owners swap players ano
all the magnates are as busy as
little bees trying to get some riva
magnate to act as Santa Claus fol
them.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

And now there rumOr that
convicts went be allowed to play
football anymore; ii teaches them
too much about open field run
ming.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

Many a guy who thought his job
was in the bag discovered that, al
ter all, he was only being sacked.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

Among metropolitan evanish-
ments is the Greek hand-pull can
dy kitchen with the window display
of a giant mustachioed fellow loop
ing enormous ropes of candy over
a huge hook. There used to be
cne up side street near the Globe,
and its best customer was Charles
Dillingham;. Also one near the
stage entrance of the Winter Gar
den. Always near large theatres,
their best patronage was among
matinee goers.
Some of my happiest hours were
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

You Haven't Read All the News
Until You've read the Ads
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

Bagatelle5: Doug Fairbanks, Jr.
has become a pipe enthusiast . .
William Powell was once Kansas
City's crack necktie salesman .
Allan Dwan was a star fullback at
Notre Dame Brock Pemberton
holds the Rialto record for atten-
dance at first nights Fred c
Kellys address is The Mortgages
Peninsula, Ohio.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

Thoughts for the Day -

He is the Rock His work is perfect; for all His ways
iugdment; God OF truth and without iniquity
lust and right is He.-Deuteronomy 32:4.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20
Barbs -

Those hooded visitors who closed
a Florida night club couldn't have
been aligned, by chance, with the
move for wild life conservation?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

The average husband, before
Christmas, worries himself sick on
the problem of what to get the
wife. After Christmas, he worries
over how he's going to pay for it.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20
By O. O. Mcintyre

spent watching the Saturday ma
tinee Of vaudeville at the old Col
umbia in Cincinnati My seat was
a 35-center in the first row OF the
balcony and I was fortified with a
ten-cent bar of Mullane's tally.
Taffy and vaudevillel Many acts
I knew by heart, as did most regu-
lars. 1t was at the Columbia Ell
bard Hubbard made his only and
heart breaking vaudeville appear
ance. After his first few lines, a
gentle razzing started in the gal
lery and grew into such a DEM
onstratlon that Hubbard in bewil-
ierment fled not only from the
theatre, but took the next train out
of town. 1t was the first and only
time I had ever seen such cruelty
in the theatre and most of us who
loved vaudeville left the playhouse
bit sheep-faced and ashamed.
Next TO the Hubbard incident, the
coolest reception in the theatre was
at old Hammerstein's following the
appearance of a couple Of high
jumping ladies billed. after pistol
ling the millionaire w. E. ID. Stokes,
as The Shooting Showgirls. They
walked off in dead silence-not a
single handicap,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

upon II ilCWO' ". IhtihtyiC
CONGRESSMAN from our district.
Bruce Barton. whose greeting was
Good afternoon, Constituent And
along the highway passed George
Arliss, the play actor mincing along
in that stooped-over walk Of his.
Dined at Lindys on a meat ball
soup. watching the crowds, i'll eS-
pecial Harry Richman, who seemed
utterly woe -begone with life'S han
ky-panky. And Of all the towns
restaurants Lindys has most vigour
and quality called human interest.
To bed, re-reading some short tales
by Kipling.
II used to be the most beautiful
girls in town could be found at
the glove counters of large depart
ment stores. Nobody knew precise
ly why. But today many outstand-
ing beauties are the elevator op-
orators in the same establishments.
Chicago's Marshall Fields was first
to exploit them in their mems de-
partment. Dorothy Lamour was
once one. What with all the good
lockers, the monocled lady in the
book department at Macy'5 and the
several stunning redheads at Wana-
makers, proWling around a de-
partment store is becoming increas-
ingly interesting day by day.
The Dining IN Old New York ex-
! hibit at the Museum of the City
of New York rates a visit. Especi-
ally to see the photograph of the
famous horseback dinner at old
Sherry's, given by the late c. K. G
Billings. The photo shows the dim
ers in the saddle and formed into
a circle around the festal board
About that time. too, all the Sunday
supplements were packed with pic
lures Of Pittsburgh millionaires and
the Broadway chorus girls depict
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20
TOday's Horoscope

You Haven't Read All the News
Until You've read the Ads
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

During the medieval period, il
was customary to applaud church
sermons.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

Weed growths cost U. S. farmers
an estimated three billion dollars
each year.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

The Housing Administration
wants to know whether kitchen
may properly be called a room
Cali it anything you like, fellows,
but, for gosh sakes, don't elimi-
nate i'll
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

Chow dogs, now popular as pets
throughout the world were raised
as food by the ancient Chinese.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

President Roosevelt is given only
l8 lines in the new British "WhoS
Who, while Halle Selasie gets 81
lines. F.R.D. probably doesn't care
he's kept HIS job
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

More automobile accidents occur
in the United States during au-
tllmn than at any other season.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

Well. so what? Does that prove
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

The number of U. S. cities pro-
viding park recreation programs
has more than trebled during the
last 10 years.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-20

Performers on British radio pro-
grams are not permitted to men
ton commercial products by their
trade names.
Evening star., 1937-09-24
ROOSEVELT SCHOOLS
PAPER WINS AWARD

International Quill and Scroll
Honor Goes to Reporter.
Students Learn.
An international award of Quill
and Scroll, international honorary
society of high school newspapers,
has been won by the Roosevelt Re-
porter, students returning to Roose-
velt High Schol learned this week.
A certificate received from the So
ciety earlier in the week gave the
Evening star., 1937-09-24
NICE BACKS PLAN
FORG. .0.P.PARLEY
Governor Also IndorseS
Planning Committee Idea
in Letter to Hamilton.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, September 24.-Gov
Nice yesterday urged a general confer
ence of Republican leaders to indicate
to the American people the resolute,
definite purpose of the Republican
party"
He wrote John D. Hamilton, chair
man of the National Republican Com
mittee, indorsing the suggestion of
former President Hoover that such
conference be held in the Spring. He
declared the suggestion was sane and
practical"
The Governor also agreed with Sug-
gestions that the party Immediately
create planning committee to pre-
pare draft of fundamental principles
for submission to the conference
Il earnestly hope that the National
Committee will proceed at once on this
project" the Governor said in his
letter. There is no time to be lost
y. I am of the very decided
opinion that such plan would re-
ceive the support of many of the lead
ing Republicans of Maryland and,
personally, 1 consider it of the utmost
Importance.
LAS matter of fact, the Republican
party must evolve a plan of definite
aggressiveness, free from both stagnat-
ing conservatism and extreme radical
ism, but it must be plan sound, con-
structive and calculated to direct the
attention of the American public into
channels of governmental sanity"
Evening star., 1937-09-24

paper m international honor rating. +"
A critical survey ot school papers re-
suited in the Reporter being selected
as "a paper Of superior achievements. Z"
The survey gave the Reporter $50
out OF possible 1000 points in the
scoring, which was on the basis of
quality of writing. selection and treat
ment of material mechanics, edi-
torial achievements, innovations, staff
responsibilities, advertising and other
features.
Last years staff. under whose man.
agement the copies submitted TO the
fsociety for rating were published,
was headed by Robert c. Bilsborough
and Sidney Rosendorf, co-editors in
chief
Evening star., 1937-09-24
EASTERN STAR MEETS
10000 Persons Gather for Indian
apolis Convention.

INDIANAPOLIS, September "a lP.
approximately 10000 persons from
all over the United States and many
foreign countries converged on this
city today for first sessions of the
tventy-second triennial assembly of
the Order of the Eastern Star Ses-
sions will continue through Wednes-
day. =,
Mrs Anna Smalley of Roundup.
Mont, was expected to succeed Mrs.
Frances Haun of Milan, Tenn, as most
worthy grand matron of the General
Grand Chapter, highest Office in the
order.