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Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07
Other Editors Say
NEWSPAPER WEEK
alameda TimeS-Starl

It's logical that there should be a newspaper
week since it's the fashion in recent years to
designate certain weeks to extra effort in favor
of this craft that profession business.
Newspaper week will be observed. according
to decree from an official source, beginning
October 4. Preparation has been given to a pro-
gram which comprises series Of advance adver-
tisements and another series for the week
itself.
But every week is newspaper week. In fact
every day is newspaper day. A daily newspaper is
one-day business. News and business lost today
is gone never to be regained. Therefore news
papers are in that sense opportunists Each day
is a distinct entity to be fully used, lived and
reported. Then it passes into recorded history.
Those responsible for its production unlike other
enterprises are the printed record. They
desire above everything else, to have that record
clean and fair
Newspaper week, however is set apart for an
entirely different purpose In the days set apart.
it will be the job of the newspaper to detail,
as completely as its facilities permit, the service
a newspaper gives the community in which it
is published This service covers a wide range
of activities-many more than the average read
er takes into consider alton, even if he gives
the matter any considerable thought at all For
example, state newspaper published in city
comparable to Alameda measured its service
to its communty's necessary activities on the
basis of its advertising rate. The result was
rather startling to those who have given little
or no thought to the subject
NSype the disclosure will interest readers of
the Times-Star:
Service clubs were given 1864 inches of space;
Boy Scouts 2745 cham ber of commerce BAIT:
community chest 1745; P.-T.A. 1857; Red Cross
1929; Women's Clubs 1898; YMCA 3347:
velopment 38862; pictures, devoted to city well
fare for which it paid, 645. A total of 94370
inches of space valued at S5666230. The open
commercial rate of the Time-Star equals pre-
cisey the same figure.
SO, in contemplating newspaper week, give
this feature of it the thought it merits
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07
The Other Side of the
Sino- japanese Story

We, as Americans who notoriously
champion the under dog, are inclined to
favor the cause of China against Japan,
but it might temper our championship
of the Chinese bit if we stopped to
consider the Japanese side of the story.
IN these columns we have been sympa-
thetic with the Chinese. We do not feel,
however, that we are being fair unless
we point out the somewhat neglected
arguments in Japan's favor. Two of
them are powerful.
First Japan is taking its opportunity
today to forestall a situation which, 10
or 20 years from now, might mean COM
plete annihilation of the Japanese en-
pire. Soviet Russia has been conduct
ing a campaign for several years to Com
munize China. The campaign has not
been unsuccessful. In spite of the antag
onism of Chinese national leaders against
Communism, the Red faith has made big
strides in China. The Chinese govern
ment is too weak to prevent it.
1t is easy to see that, given sufficient
time to make China a Communist ma
ton. Russia would have a powerful ally
against Japan, which is the opposite of
all that Communism stands for. There
would not be enough room in the Orient
for a Communist China and a militariz-
ed, industrialized Japan. One would have
to go-and it probably would be Japan
The second reason deals with the same
eventuality in a different way.
For many years Chinese leaders have
preached hatred of Japan in their effort
to nationalize China. They have made
this hatred the binding factor in attempt
ing to bring together all the disorganized
factions of China. 1t has been potent
force 1t has made China more of a
unified nation today than it has ever
been
1t does not take much thought to see
that, although this hatred might have
the desired effect of bringing the Chinese
people together as nation, it would
sooner or later loose the manpower of
China against Japan in war to the
death. If Japan waited until China was,
in fact, unified nation strong in natural
resources and wealth, Japan would be
the loser.
In this light, the undeclared war of
today may be nothing but means of
preventing greater bloodshed in the fu-
ture with annihilation of Japan.
We do not intend to condone the Japa-
nese invasion of China. The point we do
wish to make is, to revert to an old tru-
ISM that there are two sides to every
question.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07
Bruce Cation Says:
- Helping Unions Drive Out the Raeketeers

of the worst meSsess in the various
restaurant unions, where gangsters
were in complete control. Another
mess. almost equally bad, was I'M
covered in the painters union.
During the succeeding months
Dewey sent the restaurant unions
racketeers to prison and enabled
the rank and file in the painters
union to do their own houseclean-
ing. And just the other day he was
called into witness the signing of
contract between the Childs Res
taurant chain and Joint commit
tee from the walters, mattresses
and cafeteria workers unions.
1T was q happy moment" he said
afterWard, when | was privileged
to witness a contract between these
unions and one of the nations
largest restaurant chains, and to
know that through that document
a union l was accused of trying
to wreck was about doubled in
membership. What l had done was
ination of the racketeers, so that
to release that union from the DOM
those men in it who had been
fighting racket control might once
again take its affairs in hand"
And on the following day. Dewey
appeared before 5000 members of
the painters union and was cheer
ed to the echo as true friend
of labor.
The point of all of this is OBJ
vious. When racketeers get con-
troll of a labor union, no public
official is going to lose labor's
friendship by putting the racketeers
in prison; on the contrary, he is
going to win it. For when gang
sters do take over a union, they
do it against the will of the honest
rank and file and the officeholder
who is too dumb to realize this or
too timid to act on it merits-and
gets-labor's deep contempt.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07
Editorials and Comment
THURSDAY OCTOBER T. 1897
News Behind the News
- Predictions on Labor

ASHINGTON.-PredctionS affecting labor,
based on judgment of shrewd observers as we'll
as information ana belief are:
The minimum wage-maXtnum hour bill will
slide through the next session OF Congress and
become law in much the same form as that in
which it passed the Senate.
The A. F. of L. will refrain from eNpellmg
the CIO unions at its Denver convention.
John L. Lewis will make his next political
pronounciamento, probably in the form OF a
challenge to the administration, at the conyen-
ton of his own United Mine Workers here in
January.
Rumors that the administration is preparing
a new wage-hour bill fail of continuation after
diligent search for anybody who might be work
ing on one. Roosevelt is expected to fight hard
for the Senate product, held up last session by
recalcitrant Democratic members of the House
rules committee
The AF of L. probabl will endorse wage hour
legislation despite opposition in its ranks, be-
cause refusal to do so would be capitalized by
CIO, which is sure TO give such an endorsement
at its October meeting.
A. F. of L. leaders would kick out John Lewis
and his pals, who with their unions are now only
under suspension. if they thought it would do
the latter more harm than good.
To toss the rebels would merely play into their
hands since it would mean an outright invita-
ton to the Lewis group TO go and start
actual, formal national labor federation of its
own. CIO leaders have shown every indication
of willingness to be expelled. But the A. F. of L.
doesn't seem 30 want TO take the onuS of def-
mite all-time break
And of course there are many on both sides
who desire peace Lewis himself wants reunited
labor movement-reunited that is, by process
in which his organization would gobble UP Bill
Green's.
The Roosevelt-Lewis cleavage isn't expected
to make headlines at the CIO gathering. Lewis
and certain other CIO lie aders don't see eye to
eye on Roosevelt.
But at the head of his United Mine Workers,
where Lewis will be in 100 per cent command,
r. a
political move. Some of his friends anticipate
that he will lay down a political program and
demand that the adm inistration or, failing
that, new party-adopt Il.
Such a program would be more radical and
definite than anything the New Deal has had
Lewis thinks the New Deal hasn't achieved its
promised objectives and that its prosperity" is
too shaky for labors safety.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07
New York Day by Day

NEW YORK, Oct. mo trade
or craft ever dies out wholly. The
/ human race has an instinct for
keeping alive skill or knowledge,
however weird. Manhattan. for eX-
ample, has one shop that does moth
ing but reproduce and repair medi-
aeval armor Also there are six
wig and peruke factories.
Out On Long Island is shop
| that makes swords, hand forged
and chased, and there are times
when it works night and day. In
New Jersey five or six men make a
living as fletchers, Or arrow makers.
Also the ancient art of falconry
still exists hereabouts.
The gentlemen OF the fancy fly
their tiercels at Brewster, N. Y.
every now and then, the birds pro-
perly hooded and belled, riding on
the gloved wrist The only real
monopoly I know is that of an old
man in the south OF England who
has a quarry in which he chips
flints.
He sells them to a tribe of Arabs
in the Sahara, who, after four
centuries of Improvements in war
fare. still won't use anything but
the old flint-lock muskets. They
cling to the discarded reasoning
that anything good enough for
their ancestors is good enough for
them.
Massive headed. burly John L.
Lewis is frequently a stroller in the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07
Famous Sayings -

The TOUGHEST subject any politi-
clan can be asked to handle is the
matter of out-and-out racketeers
in labor unions.
It's a subject that comes up pret-
ty often, unfortunately. In a good
many big cities thugs and muscle
men have moved in on certain old
established unions and and turned
them into rackets. Ruling by bomb
and gun, they give labor a fearfully
costly black eye: yet the average
officeholder is afraid to touch them
for fear that he will be labeled
"anti-labor'.
This sort of timidity is just what
enables the racketeerS to stay in
business. It ought to be obvious
that the rank and file of any labor
union would be tickled to death to
have the authorities get the rae
keteers off their necks; and once
in a while some nervy public Off
cial comes along and proves it.
Somewhat less than two years
ago, a special prosecutor named
Thomas E. Dewey went into New
York City to try to break up as
sorted rackets. 1t was not long be-
fore he turned his attention to the
unions; and Immediately he was
loudly assailed as union-buster
and foe of organized labor.
Unperturbed he went right a
head. with his work. He found one
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07
By 0. 0. Mcintyre

the only butterflies in New York
are found in Washington Square
and they rarely wander out of that
peaceful zone. In Washington
Square the busses going up and
down with mathematical precision,
are remindful of the late Stella
Benson's thought that the busses
are the up-and- down weights on
the clock Of Manhattan, keeping
the cid town eternally wound up.
Thingumbobs: Mrs. Martin john
son. soon to wed again, intends to
make her present trip her last to
the jungle wilds. George Gersh-
wins royalty income for his mother
will average $4,000 yearly. Eu-
gene O'Neill was born in a hotel
in Times Square.
The dreariest purlieu Of New York
still Brooklyn's Red Hook district,
but its not as tough as it used to
be Once there were dock workers,
who upended newsboys to shake
nickels out of their pants for
scuttle of beer 1t was in Red Hook
that someone coined the smile: So
tough he bought himself a second
hand electric chair to relax in.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07

| late afternoon avenue parade when
in town. Whenever he meets SEN
ator John F. Davis they chatter
awhile in Welsh, just to keep in
practice. Another who talks the
Welsh language is the Ambassa-
dor to Russia. Joseph Davies, whose
mother was a famed Welsh preacht
er. known as Rachel O'Fon or Ra-
chel of AnglesSa, gifted with poetic
fire and oratory.
A friend on East End Avenue has
a Japanese cook who, being Bud
dhist, talks gently to food before
he cooks it, whether a leg of lamb
or bowl of shrimps. This way he
assuages the spirits of the once
frolicsome lamb or sedate shrimps
After a dinner a notch under par
the other evening. my friend apolog-.
lied to guests by saying: Somehow
| don't think Kado was on speak
ing terms with the food tonight
incidentally, japanese are steady
patrons of the better Chinese res
taurants, for they regard the cuis-
inc as classical, just as we do the
French. Art is always art, no matter
how badly governments get along
with each other
Three of the towns biggest book
shops recently had window dis
plays of Kipling's works. He is
| greater than ever. Queen Mary is
heading a S125OOOO fund to raise
memorial to Kipling, who while
alive was never honored with
knighthood or the Poet Laureate
ship. Some aver because of re-
ference to the Widow of Windsor
Others think because of certain
biting and Elizabethian poems tt
be found only among private col
lectors.
And English novelists used tC
come here for flying lecture trips
but now elect to stay and live. Al
dous Huxley and j. B. Priestly
for example. who like Somerse
Vaughan and the late John Gals.
worthy. prefer the southwest. HuX'
ley went to stay at Frieda Lawr
ence'S ranch near Taos, New MeXi
co, but, finding it had no bath. hur
riedly left for Denver, where h
sojourns impatiently until Friedi
has a bath installed on her place
Musing: So far as I can discover
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07
The Spanish Aviator
Who Ceased to be American

Americans should not become unduly
excited about the possible death before
a Spanish firing squad of 28-year-old
native of Champaign, III. When the young
man became a wartime aviator in Span
ish Loyalist forces, he forfeited any
claim he might have by reason of citizen
ship in the United States. Aside from
its value as bit of news, his fate should
have no more interest for us than the
fate of any other aviator engaged in the
Spanish civil war
If the United States is to remain free
of foreign entanglements, it cannot go
about championing the cause of every
hair-bralned native who violates the laws
of this country and of international
friendship by enlisting on one side or
the other in foreign war.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07
You re Telling Ne --.
BY WILLIAM RIFT


EXPLORATION of "Shiva's Tenn
ple", high above the rearing rocks
of the Grand Canyon, reminds us
again that Cnly Mother Nature can
build air castles and make them
stick.
Japan shifts at peace propos-
als"-headline Golly, have they
got they hay fever, too?
You know what time of year
it is when your neighbor quits
talking about Frances chance:
to beat the Loyalists and switches
to a discussion. or the relative
merits Of Carl Hubbell and Lefty
Gomez.
The first step of a young mar
who wishes to be in the van i
to get on the water wagon.
Somebody is aways taking thr
ioy out of life for kids. An Indi
ana inventor has perfected a pl
tin which enables the cutter Il
slice the pie in mathematically eX
act equal pieces. No longer vii
there be the joy Of asking for-an'
getting-the biggest slice.
! A news item says that African
dogs who cannot bark are nov
being imported into America
Shucks, that doesn't interest us
We're waiting for the invention Q
a soundless radio-for the neigh
| borS
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07
Photographs

The us. department of agricul
ture has suggested that shafts of
abandoned coal mnes make excel
lent curing rooms for roquefort
cheese.
The "Mason-DiXon Line was
named after Charles Mason and
jeremiah Dixon, astronomers, who
surveyed the line in 1853.
There are no speed limits on the
highways of Italy.
England exports more beer than
any other country. Last years ex-
port total for the nation was 8508,-
900 gallons.
Fifty years ago many of the lead.
ing theaterS along tlS Atlantic
coast featured oyster-opening con
tests
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07
Bar rbs

Maryland is awaiting a Big Ap-
pie yield which, if descriptions
are correct. will be composed main
ly of diversified bunions.
Weather officials are pleased with
the new robot weather men. 1t
is assumed they save the expense
of mimeographing stock predictions.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07

A 45-mile wind threatened another
Florida hurricane, but someone discovered
il was just the backfire from another
ROliYia-ParaguaY tiff.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07
One Minute Test Answers

l. London, England.
2. Iron ore, coal and grain.
3. The press,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07
ds of Wisdom

Power acquired by guilt has sell
dom been directed to any good end
or useful purpose .--Tacitus.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07
Hints on Etiquette

Both the informal invitation and
its acknowledgement take the form
of general correspondence.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07

BRINGING
ALL THE NEWS
TO IMPERIAL
VALLEY
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07
TOday's Horoscope

Many persons whose birthday oc-
ours today are deep social thinkers,
always seeking ways to aid the
progress Of the human race.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07
The Grab BAG
One Minute Test

l. What city claims the worlds
busiest harbor?
2. What are the three chief
Great Lakes cargoes?
g. What is referred to as "The
Fourth Estate?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-07

The first step of a young man
who wishes to be in the van is
to get on the water wagon.
The Washington times., 1937-11-26
Start With Volume TODAY and Acquire the knowledge Every Success

Experience has shown that the secret Of success found in
sincere appetite for learning and the royal road to learning
through seedueaton The knowledge gained from school
and college forgotten by the average person unless his
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to a modern and aII-incIusNe encyclopedia.
Nothing take the place of really fine encyclopedia in the
home For example, it would require library Of 800 msceI-
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The Washington times., 1937-11-26
Investment
In Alaska
Pays

U.N.S) Eighty years ago there
were many who went so far as
to say that Uncle Sam was sowing
some wild oats in writing out .
1900, 900 check to Russia and re-
cetving what semed to be a patch
work Of snow-covered mountain
peaks.
But, take it from Governor John
W. Troy, Of Alaska, it turned out
to be a pretty good investment.
In his annual report marking
the eightieth anniversary Of
Stewards Folly" Troy disclosed
that $722, 2,222, 900 in minerals have
been produced in Alaska to date.
During the fiscal year commerce
between Alaska and the United
States totalled $14,923, 1859, an in
crease Of $23, 1852, ,815 over last year.
Topping the export list was
canned salmon, which totalled
$45,386,512.
The Washington times., 1937-11-26
TIM ES BOOKS.
TELL CAUSE {.
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Encyclopedia Set Offer
Still Open

Do you know what started the
war In China?
Do you know that General Chi.
ang Kai-Shek, of China, less than
q year ago, demanded immediate
war with Japan; that Nanking
pledged to recover lost territory
and that the Chinese Nationalist
party be reorganized to include
membership of the Chinese Com
munists?
This information is only part
Of the up-to-date material in the
fourth volume of the Standard
American Encyclopedia offered to-
morrow in the book-a-week plan
Of collecting the 15-volume series.
Each day in the Times Serially
numbered coupon appears. Each
Saturday, in 178 Coupon Ex-
change Stations literally scattered
throughout the District Of Co
lumbia and nearby Maryland and
Virginia, q volume Of the encyclo-
pedia is presented.
Seven serially numbered cou-
pons clipped from the Washing
ton Times and No. l from the
Big Sunday Washington Herald
Times with a Accent fee entities
any one to a volume of the series
If presented at any one Of the
listed stations.
The Washington times., 1937-11-26
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Brooks Confec'ry, RosemOnt Sta, Alex.
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Sher. & Cohen. 29O1 Columbia PIX. Arlington
Arlington Phar., 2912 Col. Pike, Arlington
MOSkey'g Drug Store, Lee Highly.
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The Washington times., 1937-11-26
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Bedtime Story
Clothes, UnW0nted,
Stay at Station

CHICAGO, Nov. 26 UN.S0.
Any time John Crilly, 80, wants
his clothes, he can get them by
calling at the Englewood police
station-but under one embarras.
sing condition.
That is, that he meet James
Broughton, SO, husky oi1er. If
there is anything that Crilly does
not want to do, it is to encounter
the former, socially or otherwise.
The clothes are in the police
station, because, as Broughton
told police, he came home unex-
pectedly early yesterday morning
and found his wife and Crilly to-
gether. Crilly beat a hasty re-
treat, wearing not even a wrist
watch.