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To Wage War In the
Event of Any Fur
Their Aggression
10 Stand Together
;u~-.a appears TO Hold the
he, 10 " ar or Peace
tnong Europeans

.uu. June l. UP Ger
...,. .uj Italy. diSpatching fleets
81. most powerful warShipS to
...a Mediterranean waters,
...s..a tOnigh. to wage war
.-. .gy&,iSt Spain in event of
y. NV emergency.
III, .nvcat. announced official
.v .. Rome. came en- the heels of
d 3. agu-Bv.ti h warning to
r...s-ur Adolf Hitler of Ger
. =. md his Fascist ally. Prem
. B.u..1 MuSSOlini, that unless
Is, ..a.n from angry acts of
. ..,. al. Europe may be plung-
. .S,1 Wdv.
Rome announced defiantiy that
IL. mo dict&torS are "Standing
.r-s,.s~ N preparation for any
p w attack on their ships by the
spanish .CyayiStS.
Armed Action
l. D.rc and Der Fuehrer were
I'D ,n Jo ready TO Join in armed
. III" # another incident arises
sic. & the bombing Of the Nazi
.r.s.. batJ,eSnip" Deutschland
a.a q ,css of 25 lives by loyaliSt
.rN.a@Cs.
G..2.auy. ayenging the DeutSch-
nd, dead. Cnt five WarShipS in
-.e .cva&St southern seaport of
i.wawa Monday and destroyed
. auc,cn, town with 300 big
.'-. ,gavIng a toll Of 200 dead
~@@ wg.G.l,cd.
The daily independent., 1937-06-02

port runways shortly after dawn
and was Winging down over the
Atlantic toward her first stopping
point.
She will spCnd the night here
with Cara Living ton, a friend,
and take off at dawn tomorrow if
he weather is good.
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Sandy Hook to Hatteras: Moderate
southwest winds, weather partly over
cast, possibly showers Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
WOULD YOU GIVE THE POLICE
POWDER PUFFS FOR CLUBS?

The LaFollette Civil Liberties Commits
sion, investigating Chicago's Memorial
Day steel strike killings, has concentrat-
ed to date on criticism of police for use
of clubs, guns and other weapons against
rioters who were attempting to prevent
the opening of a steel mill by laborers
who wanted to work.
Perhaps the police were brutal-and
maybe they had cause for brutality.
Some of the press dispatches we have
read seem to indicate that the strikers
do not stop short of brutality and
murder If we remember correctly, there
have been several instances of bombing,
dynamiting and rob assault on men
whose only error was that they wanted
to 90 back to work,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05

supply our needs. he home market
must be saved for American labor
and manufacture, and the Ameri-
can farming interest must have at
all times protection against the
competition of world wide mar
ket that compels the farmer to sell
his products at pauper prices and
lowers his level of living to that
of the peasantry of Europe.
PRINCIPLE NO. 5. Homes and
farms must not be confiScated
through erroneous theories and
methods of valuation and unjust
taxation. A correct state and mu-
nicipal system of property taxes
must be made Immediately opera
tive, whereby property will be taxed
justly on the basis of the annual
income or use value and only be
charged a tax proportionate to that
income or use value. The right to
ownership of private property and
the profits t hereof is the safe.
guard of American liberty.
PRINCIPLE NO. 6. We demand
a minimum standard of wages for
labor equivalent at all times to the
retirement annuity for the aged, as
proposed under the Townsend Plan.
PRINCIPLE NO. 7. No change
vital to the American form of gov
eminent affecting the liberties of
the people must ever be suggested
by the Congress or the President of
the United States except through
constitutional submission to the
American electorate.
On these principles we stand un-
equivocally and request the finan-
cial and moral support of all
Townsend Club members and all
United States citizens who are in
terested in security and the preser-
vation of life, liberty and justice
under our constitutional form of
government.
To these principles dedicate my
life in the firm belief in the future
destiny and greatness Of the Am
erican people.
Yours for justice and security for
all,
DIR. FRANCIS E. TOWNSEND,
Founder and President
paid Adv,)
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05

AS the first six months of new
year pass into history, 1t Is CUSTOM
ary TO take a general look around
to see how far the nation has gone
/ forward-or slid back-during the
period. In line with this custom,
statisticians are emerging with
their late June reports. And for
once, dry figures are serving as a
medium for highly dramatic con-
trast.
On the bright side of the picture,
the Department of Agriculture pre-
sents proof of traditional sign
of prosperity'-a decline in farm
population. This decrease, the first
since 1890, shows that during 1886,
the number of persons living on
farms dropped 10000. The assump-
ton, of course, is that factory jobs
lured them to the cities.
In another government state
ment, il is estimated that the cot
ton carry-over on July 81 will be
million bales less than the carry
over for that date last year. The
assumption here is that that many
more bales will have been sold.
Other figures from the Depart
ment of Commerce show that In the
first six months of 1897 industrial
production rose 20 per cent over the
1896 period; factory employment
was up 13 per cent; factory pay
rolls, 90 per cent; machine tool or
ders booked, 80 per cent; construc-
ton contracts ahead, II per cent;
dividend payments, 40 per cent.
90
BY themselves, these figures indi-
cate that our undernourished eco
nomic problem-child is putting on
weight. But to understand the
real portent of the gains, it is nee
essary to consider the difficulties
under which they were accomp-
liShed.
During the first four months of
the year there. were 2058 strikes.
The number of man-days lost for
the period reached nearly IL mil
lion Wages lost by striking en-
ployes and production lost to fac
tories during involuntary shut
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05

MY PERSONAL MESSAGE ON
THE TOWNSEND PLAN, SO
THAT ALL THE PEOPLE MAY
KNOW.
The following presentation of our
principles should not be construed
in any manner a fore-runner oil
third party activity, or as a reflec-
ton on any political party. But
we do declare that the principles
enunciated below must of neces-
sity be accepted by the American
people. regardless of religious or
political affiliations, if we are to
avert national disaster and main
tain a democratic form of govern
ment. AS long as / live. the fight
will go on for these principles.
PRINCIPLE NO. 1. e. The Town
send Plan is based on a universal
Transaction Tax embracing all
sales and services of whatever
character. This, as Is well-knoWn.
comprehends the greatest move
ment ever enunciated in America
for democratic principles and HUI
MANITARIANISM.
PRINCIPLE NO. 2. We must re-
store to the government where 1t
legally and constitptionally belongs,
control of national credits and the
issuance and circulation of money
Only by a sound money and ma
tional credit system controlled by
the Government, can the many mil
lions of young people and unem-
ployed hope to have restored their
opportunity of home ownership
property rights and higher stand
ard of living. Let lis stop for all
time the ownership Of national
money and credits by private in
terest.
PRINCIPLE NO. 3. We demand
immediate drastic immigration
laws, excluding competition from
unnaturslized foreigners with Am
erican labor. Our Motto-"UNIT-
ED STATES JOBS AND OPPOR-
TUNITTES FOR UNITED STATES
CITIZENS"
PRINCIPLE NO. 4. BUY Ameri-
can" Stop importing products
that America can manufacture and
produce in sufficient amounts To
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
WHEN THE PUBLIC DEBT
GROWS TOO LARGE


The federal government closed its fis-
cal year June 80 with a net deficit of
$2,707 ,347, ,110.60, which was S15O. 900 900
IN excess of revised budget estimated
made in April, when it apparent that
the original budget estimate was too low
by far The actual net deficit is almost
S5O0,0O0,000 in excess of the original
estimate.
Figures may be boring they may un-
interesting and hard to understandable
this set of figures is something that af-
fects every man, woman and child in the
United States. Bear with us, then, for
just moment while we follow through.
The gross deficit for the fiscal year
was $2,S11 ,31S,200. The only reason it
did not top the three billion mark was
because the treasury diverted only S1O3.
971,200 for retirement of government
debt instead of $404 ,525. 900 as President
Roosevelt anticipated in his January
budget message.
Daniel Bell, acting director of the
budget. explained at press conference
that the treasury had decided to "post-
pone part of the statutory debt retire
ment program until the current fiscal
year." which ends June 30, 1888.
Let us see how this affects each one
of us.
That part of the public debt which
should have been retired during the last
fiscal year, but was not, goes on with
interest That means that, for this
money it spends, the government is get
ting absolutely nothing. 1t is merely
paying out hundreds of thousands of
dollars for the use of money it has al
ready borrowed and spent In addition
to that. the government is now borrow
I L
on which interest will accrue.
What will happen when the unretired
public debt becomes so large that the in
terest payments are so formidable they
can no longer be covered in the ways
used by the government in the past?
In other words, what will happen when a
majority of the taxes we pay, presumably
for the upkeep of government, goes not
for current expenses but to pay interest
on money already borrowed and spent?
France gives the answer today The
franc has been devaluated A virtual
financial dictatorship has been set UP
there Living prices are beyond reason.
The purchasing power of the average
wage Garner is practically non-existent.
If the government continues to live far
beyond its income. it is conceivable that
eventually, it will take every cent we
earn to pay the interest on what the gov
ernment has borrowed. The panics we
have had in the past would be as nothing
compared to the panic which would come
with such situation.
The man must be an incurable optomist
who looks at the u S. treasury figures
today and believes that taxes will not be
raised again next year. He is worse than
an incurable optomist if he believes that
the government deficit can continue to
grow without bringing about results
even worse than higher taxes.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Taking the Hard Way Back to Recovery

downs are inestimable.
And when the figures for p
duction and wages lost in the S
en-state steel strike and the
Vulnerable side-strikes are ado
the total economic loss for the f
six months will be no less ii
staggering.
In the face of terrific and wi
spread industrial disturbances,
is remarkable that business ind
es show any improvement at
But the fact remains that tb"~
and for this, the United Sta
every right to pat itself on tn =,
and strut its prowess before
successful nations.
But then, as far as the stri
have gone, the nation hasn't di
itself SO proud. In the light of
other improvement, they pose
SOLDERING thought:
How much farther around
Depression corner would We h
been If industry and labor CO
have resolved their differences
fore the strikes instead of al
them?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
Committee May
Seek More Ca

WASHINGTON, July 5. UP
senate civil liberties committee
day was reported to be consider
request for additional funds
continue its investigation of stri
breaking and interference with
bor's rights.
Sen. Robert M. La Toilette, Jr.,
Wis, committee chairman said
body'S financial resources would
exhausted prefix SOON"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05

NEW YORK, July 5-Dairy: Up
and notes from Claire Luce, the
dancer, living SO long now in Eu-
rope, the veteran Daniel Frohman,
and Dean Cornwell, who has been
knocking about on an Ohio River
steamboat Also a screed from
Variety's Abel Green in California,
couched in his odd patois.
Out with my lady and talked to
a radio sponsor whose offer was so
bewildering we came within nip
of signing. SO to Maillard's for a
raspberry ice and to saunter along
the avenue, passing Irene Castle,
Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa and
the always meticulously dressed
jeweler, Pierre Cartier.
Dinner at home and a heart
wrenching letter from Winifred
Knott over the. passing of her hus-
band, Jean. the cartoonist. He be-
ing a ringleader in our old poker
playing crowd at the Majestic, so
many of whom are gone. Among
them Clare Briggs, Arthur Roche,
DR.. George Dorsey, Ray Rohn and
william Johnstin. And now Jean.
For years Joe Laurie, Jr., has
been regarded as one of the stages
"best little actors" His baggy cap
ambuscading one eye and his fierce
black cheroot at Joe Cannon tilt
have been familiar around the Ri
alto. Joe was the half-pint phil
osopher who did much to stiffen
the courage of jobless Thespians.
Although Joe himself was finding
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
Editorials and Comment
MONDAY, JULY 5, 1887
"a on Sol
x CRANK WATANABE
NEW MARRIAGE Law
~ ED tioLpEH


Illinois got a new marriage law. You
must having a medicine certificate to
proving good healthy before can commit
matrimony.
One last day of old law without needing
of pure chest and other variety of ana
tony, they bursting a world record for
marriage license getting. Do them folks
thinking that they will be null if having
a healthy examination?
Us human persons is funney vegetables.
We very scared to arriving at a doctor
because afraid he perhapsly might find
ing something wrong. But we are just
the fellows which should know it.. But
we prance onward gulping bicarbonate-
of-so-so, and let her go on that.
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

engagements increasingly vicarious.
But that seems water over the dam.
AS many others, Laurie got a break
through the Rudy Vanee radio hour
and after being held over several
weeks finds himself another Gin
derella man with offers from radio
screen and stage in an almost con-
tinuous avalanche. One of Laurie's
boon companions is the irrepressi-
BILE Gene Fowler, and every sum-
mer they bivouac in adjoining cot
tages at Fire Island
The mellow Cafe Royal on Sec
ond avenue is the Lindy's of the
Ghetto. At is tables gather Yid-
dish journalists with the silver
headed canes and flowing bows.
The Royal was the first restaurant
in New York to have sidewalk ia
bles, P aris fashion. Theodore
Roosevelt used to drop in for some
of the highly spiced dishes when he
was police commissioner. Bruno
LeSSing found it locale for sew
eral of his Ghetto yarns. Myra
Kelly once panegyrized it in a
poem, and Oscar Wilde on his Wis
it to America was piloted there for
an aperitif
Whenever writer feels his out
put is ballooning out of bounds he
has only to look over the record of
Hendrix Willem Van T,oon IN ba
instantly deflated Van Loon is
Americas most prolific scribbler.
His latest writing feat was a his
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05

tory of the arts, a 100000 word
manuscript to be publised in a sim
gle volume. An idea of its volum-
onosity is gained by the fact that
the original tipping and revisions
as packed for storage filled ten
large boxes of copy paper. The ac-
tual writing and illustrating took
four years, begun and worked at
spasmodically Is years ago.
Bagatelles: One of Premier
Baldwin's fayorite poems is by Will
liam Rose Benet Buford, son of
George Horace Lorimer, is now an
editor with book publishing
house. Annette Kellerman, who
is 48, never winces at telling her
age. Police Commissioner VAL
entine regards New York City as
the greatest of all criminal hide
outs Dorothy Thompson is re-
ported to be in line for the biggest
radio salary offered member of
her sex Margaret Case Harri-
man is doing profile of Dale Car
nesie for a national weekly.
No one in the writing and editor
ial fields was more popular than
Arthur McKeogh who passed the
other week. And no one more mod
est. There we're some indeed who
worked with him and for him who
did not know he was Major Arthur
McKeogh, whose bravery in face
of what seemed certain death re-
suited in the recovery of the ia
nous Lost Battalion during the
World War. Frail and constantly
harassed by disabilities acquired in
service, he was always the life of
| the party and a prime figure in the
weekly good fellowship that flowers
at the Dutch Treat luncheons. ]
had personal brush with the Nc
Keogh brand of friendship Sever
al years ago during a convalescence
when 1t didn't seem possible for me
to continue my column, McKeogh
heard about it. Not we'll himself,
he went to the bat and turned in a
batch of sparkling material OF
which he was always capable, and
bridged the interval He was con-
stantly doing things like that.
Add litter jets: A dyspeptic lit
tie Milquetoast came to his subur-
ban home one evening to find his
daughter preparing to run off to
marry city chap. In frenzy,he
squeaked: "All right. But remem-
Der is you go you stay went. No
more of your mothers biscuits"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-05
Thoughts for the Day

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for
that meat which endureth unto everlasting life,
which the Son of man shall give unto you. John 627
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-27
PITY THE POOR LANDLORD

Learning from Chester Gray, federal farm aloer'
that the governments activities may soon reach the
point of buying farms, Quitting them ana rent
ing them to tenants" we hasten on to a contempa-
ton of Uncle Sam as a landlord Particularly en-
trancing is the thought of Senators Robinson, 30
rah. Bailey and Glass, as congressional deiega-
ton. down in the mud of the Sugaw Creek low
lands supervising the laying of fence worm we
glow in the consideration of the high, wide ana
handsome wav the government will have returned
70 the people when the House goes into raVlng
and ranting deadlock over whether Tenant LID
Smith should sell off his hogs or have killing 1t
is inspiring to think Of the vice presidents coming
to town, accompanied by the marine oand ana
group of visiting plenpotentiaries and congress
sional committee, forming procession out 10 len
ant Iafe Bankers place to divide the pea seed
But. shucks, this landlord business isn't all pohp
and circumstance or even what it's cracked up TO
be- If the gov'mint takes over the tenants, II may
as we'll prepare right now to get armfus OF letters
substantially as follows:
Dear Mr. Roosevelt:
take nv pen in hand to hope that you are
we'll and TO say that we are not the same Inc
old mans down with the mizry, that pig Jpn
died on us, we had to sell the COW and the dry
weather got the cotton and in consequence there
amt a drap to eat in the house. Could you let
ms have thirty-six dollars to see us through TIL
spring Our other landlords used to do II fegu-
lar In fact, we wouldn't take no place less
We knew the landlord would help us out, and II
Won can't do it. we'll just have to move on.
Yours truly,
MRS. CYRUS SHOCKS.
Charlotte News.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-27
SIXTEEN BILLIONS
Charlotte News.

Director Gebhart, of the National Economy
League calculates that even if the federal budget
is balanced at it's present rate of expenditure the
American tax bill will reach within the next ten
years the staggering total of l6 billion dollars I'M
less there is curtailment in governmental costs.
In 1918 total taxes collected by federal, state
and local governments aggregated about $2,2l1,-
600 900, or S22.66 per capita. By 1880 the total
had reached $4,000 000, 900, $8340 per capita.
And with recovery they have risen to about $50
per capita. II the federal budget is balanced at
the present level of expenditures, the total taxes
collected will be about s14,O00,0O0,OO0 or 500
per capita And even if federal, state and local
taxes are not increased taxes levied for social Sc
curity will within the next ten years show fur
Their increase of two billions.
But we doubt seriously if federal, state and To-
cal taxes will be held at the current levels over the
next ten years. On the other hand indeed, 1t APP
pears that we have embarked upon program of
greater spending and greater taxing in all these
governmental fields.
What is going to be the eventual result if we
continue this increase of taxation at rate much
greater than the growth of population or wealth?
Can we avoid serious economic injury if the tax
burden continues to become increasingly oppres-
siye to citizens and their business enterprises? If
this trend is not speedily checked not likely
to move steadily into grave national crisis?-
Greenvle News. ,,.,'EN
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-27
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
BERATING SENATOR BAILEY

Some of those who have never any partisan Ia
vor for Senator Bailey and whose political respect
for him has greatly diminished since MS courage
Gus stand against the Presidents court REFORM Pio-
posal has been on the calendar are now trying i"'
Their to niure him in the estimation Of his cohS''u
ents by pnning upon him the blame lor Seio'ns
Senator Tydings down to the Victory Dihner /"
Raleigh where the latter succeeded II seems III
Irritating the whoop-em-up brigade
IL may be true, of course, that Senator haiiey
did recommend his colleague, Senator TydlngS wheh
ne was asked to assist in getting speaker LOT 'fe
Raleigh occasion for the dinner
But to charge that there was method IN ms mau-
ness and collision the part of these TWO Deh.o-
Gratis who are not following the President IN 'ne
latter's latest reforming exploit would appear "
this newspaper to be effort unduly TO color iui
Their political sentiment against the North 0aroi""
senator in his own state.
Senator Bailey is abundantly able to take care
of himself in this any other squaooie win hi'
political adversaries, but in an episode OF TINS over
drawn nature the Senator is certainly entltea 10
be adjudged innocent until ne has been proven"
guilty Of les ma este.
More than that and without using this incident
fulsomely to rhapsodize the Senator, The observer
does not concede it to be objectionable treason Oh
the part of Mr. Bailey if his conscience ana con-
victons will not permit him to trucke to the "hi'e
House dicta and especially to the Presidents pro-
posed reform of the court
Senator Bailey does not belong to the current
society of politicians who, for no other purpose
than that of expediency and opportunism, run up
and down and through the country making the
eagle scream shouting "My party, right or wrong
which is, in principle, no sounder than the shooo-
leth Of "My mother, drunk or sober
He does have some independence OF judgment
and of mind and of position. Not all senators have
as much!
And that he should be exercising it at this time
is not sufficient to condemn him in the estimation
If his constituents as one guilty of high treason
Charlotte Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-27

"You are off your nut. the
august house retorted. what the
heck is the use of having legal,
lied liquor and going to football
games if we can't get drunk, get
sick. get into fights, and drive
home so picked that we smash
up everybody and his automobile?
Us boys must be boys, you know,
and us girls must be girls"
eyes, we know" replied the
senate. eve, too, like our liquor
and we like it red. But we must
make some gesture Of concession
TO these here drys."
To the persons who didn't know
that the state political machine
had everything cooked up in ad-
vance and orders already issued,
the thing looked for while us if
a real stand was being made -
the senate insisting on avoiding