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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-11-25
A FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH

Ihere Will be lew to dispute William
S. Knudsen, president of the General
Motors Corporation, when he says:
"You know we cannot grow corn by
killing the farmer"
That is a truth so obvious that it
can be grasped by almost any grade
school child. But in his address be-
fore the Associated Industries of
Massachusetts, Mr.. Knudsen was
simply illustrating another truth
which is quite as elemental, yet much
more easily obscured. The point he
sought to make was this: that we can
not grow jobs and good wages by kill
ing business management, any more
than we produce an agricultural crop
by strangling the agricultural pro-
Queer.
The metaphor may not be perfect,
but it will do. 1t is obvious, at any
rate, that we cannot destroy private
capital and business management
without destroying the wages and jobs
which flow from them. The great bulk
Of employment in this country still has
its source in private enterprise, and
whatever unfairly restricts or serious
ly hampers private enterprise must
inevitably have deleterious effect on
employment.
When a business is taxed out of eX-
istence, the jobs and the wages which
it has made possible go with it. When
government policies discourage its
growth and expansion, they quite as
certainly place barrier in the way of
new employment. 1t is sheer stupidity
to suppose that we can tax capital to
the point of confscation with no harm
to the millions of workers who are de-
pendent on capital, and the. industries
whose life blood it is for their liveli-
hood.
Mr.. Knudsen does not claim that
the taxation of capital has already
reached the point of confscation; he
merely notes that the trend is definite
ly in that direction. Today, on almost
every hand, we are witnessing at
tempts to tax away the profit motive,
j. e., to remove the last incentive for
private capital and private industry
to function. ..t
1t may be, of course, that the profit
motive is wicked one, and that jobs
and wages which capital creates are
not worth having. But SO long as the
great mass of Americans are depend
ent on private enterprise for living,
they will do well to consider carefully
the merits of the proposition which
holds that they can have greater
abundance of jobs and wages by the
constant harassment and near-con-
iscation of private enterprise.
If that proposition is sound, then it
is likewise true that we can grow more
corn by killing off the farmers who
produce it. And that, as Mr.. Knudsen
has suggested, is a. specie Of unmi-
grated nonsense. 80 !tE!& ..t.'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-11-25
From Greeland's Ice Mountains
By REV. EDGAR CoRDELL POWERS,
Executive Secretary

by REV. EDOAh COhDELL fOWERoS
Executive Secretary
Beginnings are always shrouded in
mystery. Events which have trans
pired within the period of written his
tory often elude US, because no record
was made by those who participated in
them at the time of their occurrence.
Thus we know not exactly when the
Mortimer first landed on the coast of
Iceland. Certainly it must nave been
between the fifth and tenth centuries,
for the icy shares of Greenland was a
familiar haunt for the Vikings at this
early period, and by the ninth century
they had settlements (of which Eu-
rope in general knew nothing) in Am
erica. In the tenth and eleventh cen
turtles many of their Sagas began to
be written down in Iceland. They saw
the world in terms of valiant adven-
ture. They hunted the walrus, the
polar bear and the whale. They were
primarily sailors, but also conducted
raids by land toward Southern Eu-
rope, in quest of the great and rich
city of their imagination which they
called Miklagard or Mecklegarth
(Michle's Court) but were held in
check by Charlemagne and Egbert.
Many centuries were to elapse be-
fore a real effort was to be made by
the Christian church to plant the
banner of the cross in Greenland. In
1774 John Beck went to Greenland,
and, like his companions, set himself
to learn the language-no very easy
achievement. The well-known mis-
sionary hymn, From Greenland's Icy
Mountains, has almost become obso-
lete, and is seldom sung by modern
congregations; but the missionary an
nails of Greenland will warm the cold
est heart. ''
1t will be recalled by students of
Methodism that the Moravians played
large part in molding the experience
of John Wesley. These same great peo-
pie through John Beck made Green
land a Christian country. For five
years these Moravian missionaries
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-11-25
THE MARYLAND BIBLE SOCIETY'S CORNER
'The Word of Our God Shall Stand Forever

toiled on without seeing any fruit of
their labors, and then something hap
pened." John Beck was undertaking
che translation of St. Matthew's Cos
pei into the language of the Eskimos,
and one day as he sat in his hut en-
gagged upon the passage describing
the Agony in the Garden of Gethsem-
ane half dozen Esknmos came in to
see what the white man was doing.
Seized with a real inspiration from
God, John Beck raised in his hands the
paper on which he had been writing
and read aloud the words just written.
The Eskimos listened amazed. A
young man pressed forward.
"Tell me again." he said. "Tell me
again" The young man who spoke
thus was Kajarnak, the first fruits of
the Moravian Mission in Greenland His
conversion was the beginning of a
great spiritual movement. Although
he lived but three years from that
time, he fulfilled long time in a
short time" The ice was broken; it
was the story of the Saviour's Passion
that touched the hearts of the Green
landers, and as the years went by the
Word of God was glorifed among
them.
"The ice was broken" These words
describe not only what happened in
Greenland more than one hundred and
fifty years ago. The tide of the trans
lated Word flows on and will continue
to flow on until the Divine purpose is
accomplished. "He shall have domin-
ion also from sea to sea and from
the river unto the ends of the earth"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-11-25
A Lincoln Story About The
Bible

Someone was discussing with Abra-
ham Lincoln, the Great Emancipation,
the work of colportage, that is the
house to house selling of missionary
Scriptures, either whole Bibles or
Portions. Mr.. Lincoln had a story
about this work, as indeed he had to
fit almost any occasion. Here is the
story in his own words:
"That reminds me of a little story
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-11-25

tempt to belittle it is a crime against
humanity"
Gladstone bears testimony to the
worth of the Bible in this pithy SEN
tence: "The Bible is stamped with
speciality of origin, and an immeasur-
able distance separates it from all
competitors"
Be sure your Bible is not lost in
the debris of modern life, but that it
has its place of honor in the home and
in the heart.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-11-25
IN DAYS OF OLD
TWENTY YEARS AGO

At a Liberty Loan meeting there
was raised $103,85O. Kitzmiller sub
scribers raised the sum of $21, 400,
and the balance was given at the Oak
land meeting. Each of the Oakland
banks subscribed $4,000. William
Miller, of Accident, subscribed $4,000;
G. S. Hamill, of Oakland, $4,000.
Other local subscriptions ranged down
to $50. Friendsville had $4,65O; Crel-
lin, $4,000; Grantsville, $4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21

anu bilCAA llOlIl Vic
tory of Baja California, Mexicall
witnessed an eXuberant parade
which at the same time celebrat-
ed Mexico's freedom from dictator
ship and heralded what many be-
lieve is the coming of new social
order in this nation.
The Mexican flag marched in
the same parade with the red flag
OF Communism and the vari-color-
ed banners of GROIN and CTN
labor unions. Agrarians, represen-
tativeS of the governments pro-
gram to give the land back to the
people, were represented, as were
the established business houses and
industrial firms of the territory.
Revolution Day reached its cli-
max in the afternoon with group
parties, barbecues and celebrations
which promised to last far into
the night.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21

, ment the government said that it:
removal was made only in order
to seek a more advantageous place
from which to prosecute the wal
against Japan.
1t was promised that government
and people would resist Japan to
the last man.
"The rally of the nation to resist
Japan has laid The basis for new
Chinese people," the statement saiG
At Shanghai. coincident with the
governments announcement of the
abandonment of Marking, state
ment was made public from Mao
Tse-Tung political chieftain of the
Chinese Communist army-noW the
9th route army. Issued at his head
quarters in the far northwest, the
statement urged a complete change
in Chinese strategy-from passive
resistance to active attack-and the
massing of every able bodied mar
and woman in the country to fight
He promised the loyal support OF
the Communists to the army but
said that it was the government
army which must win the victory
In announcing its abandonment
Of Marking, the government selected
as its headquarters. Chungking
which becomes the emergency
capital of China as from today
Chungking is IT'S miles up the
Yangtze river toward the west.
American Ambassador Nelson T
Johnson AMI members of his staff
were expected to leave at any hour
in the Luzon. flagship of Rear Ad-
miral E. j. Marquart, commanding
the Yangtze river patrol of the
u. S. navy.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
BOLD STRATEGY
PUTS KEY CITY
IN JAPAN HANDS
Amazing Trick Harks
Back to Greeks
Wooden Horse

SHANGHAI, Nov. 20.
(UP) = japanese army au-
thorities asserted today that
they had taken Soochow,
kew city of the new Chinese
defense lines As miles west OF
Shanghai, by means OF one of the
most amazing strategems ever used
in warfare.
that Is japanese soldiers, rain
hoods over their steel helmets,
hammered at the northern gates OF
Soochow yesterday morning.
Sleepy Chinese sentinels. the
spokesman said, opened the big
gates, it was asserted, the Is Jap.
anese marched stealthily along the
cobble stone streets to a towering
pagoda and ascending, hoisted the
rising sun flag of Japan as sig
nal to storm troops waiting outside
The Fuji troops, it was said, ap-
preached the i'll guarded gates, and
obtaining admittance, stormed the
city.
At the Siege of Troy, the Greeks
constructed a wooden horse, filled
it with armed men and withdrew
from the vicinity of the city's walls
as if to return home. Simon allow
ed himself to be taken prisoner
He told King Priam af Troy that
the Greeks had built the great
horse in atonement for their remov-
al of the statue of Pallas Athene
from Troy. Priam was persuaded
to have the horse drawn inside the
walls. There. by night, Simon re-
leased the men In the horse. They
quickly obtained mastery in the
city.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21

crash in which Felicity Connors of
Fresno was killed.
Judge Stafford said today's sem
tence would run consecutively with
the earlier sentence.
Kawananakoa's probation in the
ConnorS case was revoked follow
ing his arrest in connection with
the death of Miss Kinslea October
% in his Waikiki apartment. Kawa-
nanakoa admitted, when taken into
custody, that he quarreled with
Miss Kinslea at drinking party
IN the apartment but he professed
to not be aware of the cause or
manner of her death. Miss Kinslea
bled to death from cuts on her
neck
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
STRIKERS QUIT
TIRE PLANTS IN
VAST WALKOUT
National Guardsmen in
Readiness to March
Toward Akron

AKRON, O., Nov. 20 (UP)
Sit down strikers evacu-
ated both p a n t s of the
Goodyear Tire & Rubber
company today as national
guardsmen in 20 cities prepared for
possible march on Akron. Com
pany officials announced that they
would open plant gates "as usual"
tomorrow for work.
John House, president of the
Goodyear local, United Rubber
workers. said union officials had
urged the sitters-down to abandon
the plants. The U.RW., unofficial
sponsor of the sit down, is a Com
mittee for Industrial Organization
affiliate.
Sit down strikers in plant No.
began walking out shortly after the
management announced that plant
gates would be open as usual at
midnight tomorrow for fourth shift
workers. Workers of plant No. 2
followed later in the morning.
The sit downs began Thursday at
midnight in protest against lay-offs
of 1900 workers.
All production has been halted by
the sit down and nearly 10000 mer.
made idle.
No relaxation of standby" or
ders to national guardsmen was
evident after the men evacuated
today. Orders to commanders Of
two regiments had been sent by
Adjutant Gen. Emil F. Marx In
Columbus, asking that units be in
readiness if asked to march here.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
Luckett Decision
Upheld by Court

The Imperial county superior
court decision in the DR.. Thomas
o. Luckett case was upheld by the
fourth district court of appeal, ac-
cording to word received in Ell
Centro Saturday.
DR.. Luckett was sent to San
Quentin after conviction in supe-
rior court on a charge of perform
ing an abortion upon an unmarried
juvenile girl. Similar charges
against his wife were dismissed.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
Brawley C of c
Place Offered
To Charles Nice

Charles, Nice, county welfare
officer since 1892, Saturday de-
MED that he definitely had de-
cided to acceps the position of
secretary of the Brawley Cham
ber of Commerce.
The position had been offered
him by the organization, he said,
but the matter still is, in negO-
tiation and will be for several
days.
Afaer serving the 6r,unty as
deputy sheriff and undersheriff
or several years, Nice on July l,
1882. became veterans welfare Of
ficer. This office was combined
with that of welfare officer i'm
December the same year at no
increase in salary. He Officiat-
ed in both capacities since 1882.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
COUNTY BAR
TO BE HOST
TO JUDGES

Imperial County Bar association
members will be hosts next week.
end to three judges of the fourth
district court of appeals in Los An
geleS.
The judges, accompanied by their
wives, will arrive Friday night and
remain until Sunday night. A dim
ner meeting is scheduled for the
Barbara Worth hotel Friday night
and a tour of the All American
canal and Imperial dam will take
place during the weekend. Those
planning to come are Judge and
Mrs. Charles r. Barnard, Judge and
Mrs. j. j. Marks, and Judge and
Mrs. Lacy d. Jennings.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21

ness recession.
Leaders of the bloc added two
objectives-legislation to lessen la
Dor strife and to relax federal reg
ulation of utilities-to their goal
of tax revision. Senators Josiah w.
Bailey D., N. c., and Frederick
Steiwer, r., Ore, sponsored these
new proposals.
Bailey, declaring that factors in
addition to the profits tax hao
caused the business slump, called
for congressional action to end the
strife among the rival unions OF
the AT of l. and the CIO and to
prevent illegal strikes.
Steiwer said that the labor situ-
alton in the west had been one or
the important factors in hinderine
business and that action Shoulo
be taken to force unions to accept
adjudication of their quarrels. He
said that a modified form OF the
proposed little IVA" bill might
be feasible but that there should
be an end to governmental tinker
ing" with the currency and a re-
taxation of regulations of utilities.
Meanwhile, following President
Roosevelt's order for an investiga-
ton of monopoly by the federal
trade commission, Sen. Joseph c.
O'Mahoney, D., Wyo., said it was
absurd that our economic system
should go into tailspin when a
few men in the financial circles
of New York CITY get the jitters."
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
LOST CALVES
GO TO POUND

The Ell Centre police department
had an entirely new problem on
its hands Saturday.
1t was dual problem, presented
by two calves which found a tenn
porary home among the dogs at
the city pound while police sought
their owner
The calves, their hind legs wired
together, were found by Traffic Of
ficer Floyd v. Ackley and Dog
Catcher James Scroggins on I'M
perial avenue between Olive and
Brighton avenues late Friday,
where they had evidently been lost
from a truck.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
Autos Fell SwOop
Starts Geyser, Cuts
Off Phone Service

1t was too much for police, thev
said, when r. S. Engebretson, AZ.
Meloland rancher. crashed his car
into fire plug at First and Main
streets. sending a geyser of water
spouting into the air, and then
disrupted telephone service in the
neighborhood by snapping off
telephone pole before the car stop
ped.
Engebretson was booked at the
police station for drunken driving.
He was released under 500 bail To
appear in police court Tuesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21

titled. The injured were taken to
the Bluefield sanitarium and st.
Luke's hospital here where 1t was
said five were dying.
The four cars left the track after
crossing a small stream near Key
stone and slid down 25 foot en-
bankment. A passenger coach roll
ed over twice and was crushed
when it came to rest near the edge
of the stream.
Most of the injured were trappd
in that car. Two of the car were
baggage coaches. The second pas
senger coach did not turn over and
was not heavily damaged.
The train, en- route to Norfolk,
Va, from Columbus, O., was made
up of six cars.
Trapped in wreckage of one
passenger car, many Of the injured
lay for more than an hour before
rescue workers removed them.
j. w. Dickerson of Bluef1eld, a
railroad employe, was pinned in the
wreckage for three hours. Physi-
clans at st. Luke's hospital ampu-
tated both his legs.
Rescue crews believed that all the
injured had been removed. A re-
lief train was still working on tht
wreck, however, and workers check
ed the debris in search of othel
injured or dead.
They found four cars tilted OF
the edge of the stream but none
had gone into the river
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
'UNWRITTEN LAW TO
BE WRIGHT DEFENSE

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20 (UP)-
Paul A. Wright's defense for the
Staying of his wife, Evelyn, %, and
his best friend, John Kimmel 35,
will be based on the ''unwritten
law" and will not be accompanied
by an insanity defense his attorn-
ey, Jerry Giesler. said today.
The sanity of Wright, president
of the Union Air terminal, at the
time he went into what he termed
a"white rage" and shot the pair
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
Death Fails to
Affect Election

The death of C. o. Stensrud,
storm center of the Evergreen
cemetery difficulties. will have no
effect upon the special election
scheduled for next month to de-
termine the fate of proposed
public cemetery district, District
Attorney Elmer Heald saio Sat-
urday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21

when discovered them in an erotic
situation, win not be questioned
Giesler said.
Paul Wright's defense will stand
or fall on the unwritten law" the
attorney said. "We will not resort
to an insanity plea. We will have
no traffic with psychiatrists."
Giesler said the full story OF
what occurred in Wright's Glen
dale home Nov. 9 will not be re-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
Reserve Officers
Hold Conference

BRAWLEY, Nov. 20-"Mess Man
agement,' was the topic discussed
at a Reserve Officers meeting at
the Planters hotel Friday night.
Ten members of the organiza-
ton assembled from all parts of
the valley for dinner and the in
struction conducted by C. o. Le-
Roy Foster of Calexice.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21

vealed until Wright testifies In SUI
perior court Dec. 6.
"He is the only living witness
and at that time the entire story
will be told-it hasn't yet. The IL.
sue is clear. Here is man who
surprised his trusted friend under
conditions, which, We intend 10
show at the trial. would have catis-
ed any normal man 10 start shoot
ing"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
JObless Urged to
Mail Census Cards

Unemployment census committee
men urge Ell Centrans to fill out
the cards left by postmen and mail
them back to the post office be-
fore midnight Saturday.
Anyone who is unemployed or
working only part of the time
should fill in the cards Immediate
ly and mail them.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
Police Officer to
Head Folsom Pen

FOLSOM PRISON, Cal, Nov. 20.
W.H-Clyde L. Plummer, retired Los
Angeles police officer, today sue
ceeded the late Clarence A. Larkin
as Folsom warden.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
New Feature to
Be in POst-Press

Scouting Around by Gladys
Mc3re, a new feature that will
command the attention Of every
feminine reader of the Post
Press, starts in t0day's paper.
Miss Moore has made the
rounds of the shops, and has
inside information on all articles
she enters in her column.
Go shopping with Miss Moore
every Sunday and wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21

tenSed TO lU Years at hard labor.
Circuit Judge H. E. Stafford pro-
nounced the sentence which may
mean a maximum of 20 years i'm
prisonment tor the 33-year-o
playboy as result of revocation
of probation granted in 1882 when
he was given 10 years for man.
following an automobile
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
PRINCE WHO KILLED ISLAND
BEAUTY GETS 1O-YEAR TERM

HONOLULU, T. H., Nov 90 (UP)-Prince David Ka-
Wananakoa, dark,eyed, handsome grandson of Hawais
last king pleaded guilty today to mansaughter in con-
nection with the death of Arvlla Kinslea part-Hawaan
beauty and his alleged common-law wife and was SEN
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
THIRD OF SENATE TO
VOTE FOR REVISION
OF TAX on PROFITS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. (UP)-A poll disclosed to-
day that more than third of the senate favors mme
diae revision of the undistrbuted profits tax 1t stm-
lated leaders of the adtobusness bloc to broaden their
demands for legislation intended to stem the bust
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
MEXtCALI JOINS IN
NATIONAL HOLIDAY
Business Houses, Labor Celebrate 27th
Anniversary of Revolution;
Farmers See Big Parade

MEXICALI, Nov. 2O.-Mexcali, from labor unions to
business executives Joined today in celebrating the 9th
anniversary of the Mexican revolution.
With jorty of business houses closed for the day-
national hoiday-and with the streets lined bv farmers
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
Scores Hurt as
Train DeraiIed
During Storm
Injured Forced to Lie in Debris Hours
Before Rescue; Four Cars
Go Down Embankment

BLUEFIELD w. Va. Nov. 20. (UP)-Four of
Norfolk Western passenger train derailed in
binding storm eight miles west of here today At
least one man was killed and 78 were inured-five seri-
ouslY The dead a Negro. not Immediately iden-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
Cunboat Guards
U.S.. Archives in
China War Zone
Ambassador Prepares to Flee
AS japanese Advance on Marking;
Defenders Propose Attack

SHANGHAI Nov 20. (UP)-American embassy
chves loaded the gunboat at Marking today and
the embassy personnel prepared to leave the Chinese
government announced formal | y it abandon
ment of the republics capital In making the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
Football Results

Harvard 13; Yale 6
FOrdham 6; st. Mary's 0
Pitt %; Pen State Z
Syracuse 0; Colgate
Lehigh0; Lafayette 6
Holy Cross 0; Carnegie Tech 0
Columbia 0; Dartmouth q
Army Al; st. Johns 6
Duke 20; North Carolina Z
Mich. 0; Ohio State 81
Princeton 26; Navy 6
Purdue 13; Indiana !
Notre Dame !; Northwestern 0
Texas Christian !; Rice 2
MINI. 13; Wise. 6
Marquette 13; Duquesne 6
Iowa State 13; Kansas State 7
Tulane 33; Sewanee Z
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
Wailing Wall Blues

Wailing Wall Blues
Up until few minutes ago, RR
intended to call Henry Loud, bet
ter known as "Pinky", for some
real estate data early next week
then a glance at the ticker brought
q better idea. 1t was not to call
him. If you want the reason, just
look at the Cal-Stanford score!
Imperial Valley press., 1937-11-21
WEATHER

Maximum temperature "a. minimum AZ; Am
mperature Al, humidity Sc; noon temperature ~
Imidity 80; am. temperature 6S, humidity 46