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Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19
News Behind the News
- Unhappy Ambassador

WASHINGTON Ambassador William Z
DOdd feels free 10 talk out loud alter TeVilhe
from his Berlin post in January this country
Will be hearing some hot stuff about laSclsm
and Nazi ambitions.
Dodd has been increasingly diSmayed not to
say Mortified. And the Germans have known
what was on his mind It is hard to tell whether
the Hitler government or the ambassador Will
be the happier at his departure.
The fact that Dodd wasn't replaced many
months ago is due almost solely to the TACT
that his ardent preference for democracy as
against fascism Is shared by Roosevelt and
Secretary Hull
insiders doubt whether Dodd's concern over
the rampage Of the warlike, fascist nations
Germany Italy and Japan-has grown more
rapidly than that of many high officials here,
although domestic problems have been more
pressing
Dodd and certain other American enyoys
aboard have urged an American British French
Russian front against what Secretary lckes calls
the "nightShrt nations" and there would have
been one by this time If Britain had been more
willing to offer solid cooperation.
The alternative. as seen by diplomats and
other high officials is:
A Europe dominated by Germany;
Mediterranean. North Africa, and
Near East dominated by Italy;
An Asia mostly controlled by Japan;
A South America where our sphere OF ntlu-
ence already is threatened by all three
The last prospect is especially annoying, es-
pecially with reports OF fascist plots centering
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government. with without the aid OF German
and Italian planes and mechanics.
The story of the selection of Maritime Com
mission Chairman Joseph p. Kennedy as ambas-
Sador to England leaked out of the White House
before Roosevelt told Kennedy he wanted him
to take the job
There was no question about Kennedys
acceptance. he wanted it. Never before had this
prize post in the diplomatic service been offered
to an Irsh-American, if only because OF delicate
British-Irish relations.
Socially, the ambasSadorship is the highest
thing to which the President appoint any
one. So Joes friends haven't gone so far as
to say that Roosevelt has trouble prevailing
on him to take it. They've spread word that 1t
means F. D. r. wants Kennedy to succeed him
in the White House. But that's absurd
Kennedy's appointment probably will be rat
ed as one of the New Deals best. London Is
important and Kennedy is able, loyal, patriotic
and hard-boed enough not to be cozened,
He knows plenty about two subjects especially
important in British american relations:
/. Increasingly difficult relations between
the New York and London stock markets, caused
by attempts of American traders to 20 into for
eign exchanges in order to evade regulation here.
?. The merchant marine-important because
American expansion policy is deeply bound up
with British viewpoint on the pending reciprocal
trade treaty between the two countries
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19
Other Editors Say
INTRODUCING THE UNKNOWN
Christian Science Monitor

1t isn't every day in the week that research
lists on the trail of missing elements can have
their search rewarded. But with the discovery
in France of element number 81 madavum, by
Horis Hulube the hunt for unknown elements
narrows down to ekaiodine, the only one still
outside captivity.
thium, beryllium and oxygen in the same scale
with gold, lead and thorium the famous Russian
chemist Mendeleef found years ago that all
fitted into families and neighborhood sets based
OH their chemical properties and atomic weights.
Numbering the elements from | to 90. what
might be called their social register was
established There we're gaps. to be sure, but
MendeIeeff asserted these would some day be
filled by elements then unknown.
Chemists puzzled over the idea They con-
sldered such predictions with some skeptcism.
Then along came praseodynum, terbum, europ
ium, ytterbum, ct ALA, to fit neatly in the
directory Number 85 remains the sole atom
Socalite still to stage its "coming-out party
All ninety-two including ekaiodine which has
not yet been seen, have come up from the ranks,
as 1t were. They the children OF the tour
elements Plato recognized centuries ago: earth
fire, water, and air. But lest tbeuninitiated take
10 hunting for the last of the missing elements.
be it known that number 85, while hiding some
where between radon and polonium, and belong
ing to the chlorine group, will no doubt be as
difficult to find was number 43 Masurium
was blasted out of manganese salts by Professor
Noddack in Germany. but years went by before
identification marks we're found to distinguish
it positively.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19
Carrying Realism
A Bit Too Far

In a midwestern city the mothers of
school children have rebelled against
the heartless pronouncements of gram
mar school teachers that there is no
Santa Claus. On the surface the incl
dent seems funny. Under the surface,
it is far from funny.
Almost every week you can look III
the newspapers and see III the cartoons
a funny. long legged, goatee wearing
gentleman called Uncle Sam. Those
midwestern school teachers probably
would tell their children there isn't
any Uncle Sam-but we'd like to be
around when they tell an American Le-
gionnare that
Or you can look in the comic section
and see a picture of queer little figure
called Mickey Mouse The teachers
probably would tell their children there
isn't any REAL Mickey Mouse; yet the
little fellow has caused international
complications, has been barred from one
European country and has been discuss
ed seriously on the floor of the British
Parliament because he was the means
of getting a British newspaper reporter
expelled from another country.
If those midwestern school teachers
could sit in the Post-Press office in Ell
Centre. read the letters from people
VINO WANT 10 w sure IlIele ivy an" 81 ="
have a good Christmas, and listen to
the telephone calls offering help in Civ
ing Yuletide gifts to the children whose
parents cannot afford them, they would
know that there is Santa Claus, just
as surely as there is an Uncle Sam or
a Mickey Mouse.
Ii was far more famous pen than
ours that said, "Alas, how dreary would
the world be if there were no Santa
Claus There would be no childish faith,
then. no poetry, no romance to make
tolerable this existence. We should have
no enjoyment except in sense and sight.
The eternal light with which childhood
fills the world would be extinguished,
Those teachers, not the children, are
the ones who need instruction.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19
The Trials OF
Leon Trotzky

A group of supposed intellectuals,
self-appointed as an investigating COM
mittee to determine whether Leon Trot-
zky was framed" in his exile from Rus
sa and his designation as a traitor to
the Soviet Union, has done the expected
thing. It has reported that he was, in
fact. framed" and that Russia's repu-
diation of Trotzky is, to quote the COM
mittee, IAN extraordinary corruption Of
the idealistie heritage of the Russian
Revolution
Of course anyone who studied the COM
position of the unofficial investigating
commission knew beforehand I h a { il
was nothing but a group formed in an
attempt to whitewash Trotzky. The only
member of the group not definitely asso-
ciated with either Communist or social
ed advanced thinking groups resigned
before the alleged Investigations were
well under way because he could not
question witnesses as he pleased, but
was made the butt of sarcastic remarks
by fellow commission members every
time he evinced the slightest disbelief
in the nobility of Trotzky.
This childish faith in Trotzky and
his teachings is evinced in the commits
sons charge that Communism as prac-
ticed today in Russia has betrayed Trot-
zky. 1t never entered the commissions
mind. evidently, that the thing which
betrayed Trotzky was not his enemies
in Russia, but the very system he helped
found Trotzkys own teachings hold
the dynamite which blew him out of
Russia. The thing which he builded
crumbed on top of him.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19
You re Telling Ne 49,
Ry WILLIAM RITT

ZADOK DUN B K o Pr came
stalking into the office, his eye
broWs working up and down so
they looked like two mice fight
ing over a piece of red cheese
which his nose, even on close eX-
animation, closely resembles.
This is always a sign that Dunn
nv is fairly bursting with a new
idea. So the editor gave a sigh OF
regret and wished he had pair
of ear muffs handy in his desk.
MY dear editor" Dumbkopf
beamed. Il have an idea which Is
not only brand new but it will
revolutionize this New Years re-
solution businessl
Instead of people making reso-
lutionS that are hard to keep my
! plan is for folk TO make resolutions
on Jan. l which won't change their
habits bit. This. as you can see.
would be a perfectly painless type
of resoluting.
For instance, instead of swear
ing Off putting cream into your
coffee or cutting down on cigars
my plan is to swear off reading
any more statements by the Japa-
nese government, worrying about
who will play the lead in Gone
With the Wind, listening to any
political speech and stuff like that.
The American people will go
for my idea in a big way. Think
how much happier everybody will
be in keeping resolutions like those.
Why, I'm a great public benefactor
like Louis Pasteur or somebody.
And not only that, Mr.. Editor,
but here's the payoff! I'm going to
copyright my list of resolutions and
anyone wanting to resolute on any
of them will have TO slip old Ia
dok buck per resolution. Why,
! there's millions in it!"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19

Bruno Lessing's method with wait
ers in tipping porters. And it should
be the credo of all travellers. Bum
service, no tip. Fair service, lar
tin. Excellent service, excellent tip.
So long as tipping is regarded as
one of the necessary evils 1t can
be met best with that sort OF team
work
In the little green hammock
strung across the window is a mys-
terry story I picked up in the La
Sale street station for the trip to
New York. 1 bough it solely on ac-
count of its garish jacket. One
at least this one-wantS blood and
thunder literature on night train
ride. This has a dripping dagger
slant-wise across the page. Fill
greed in the background a horse
drawn Victoria leaving the bril-
liantly lit marquee of night club.
The face of a beautiful woman IN
decolette gown shows through the
oval side window a Maxine Elliott
face glancing back in terror. There
seems to be gobs of blood on the
moon and I'll be knee deep in in
trigue as we rush along through
the night.
Also IN the green hammock is
a shiny red apple, shaker of salt
and bottle of charged water Odd
ly, 1 like charged water on trains
only, just as I enjoy duck on ocean
liners only. The majority of stops
l know tonight by a mere look out
the window, having made the jaunt
so often John Cuneo, the printing
tycoon in Chicago, has made SO
many trips he can without looking
up, day or night, tell exactly where
the train is and whether or not it
is on time.
They were talking in the smoker
after dinner about a certain per-
son without apparent qualifications
for high position in the political
world. One prosperous looking
Chicagoian observed: How fire.
guently such positions seem to be
filled by the Genie, meenie, moe
method" 1t remindede him of the
church choir in Which he sang as
a boy. The voices were all about
the same, but the biggest boy was
assigned to the bass, the littlest
to the tenor, while the prettiest
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19

This business recession must be
getting serious. Father Coughlin
is going back on the air.
There was an under production
of most things during the last de-
preston, but of one thing-dema-
gogy-there was great glut. a
superabundance that ought to have
brought the good life unaided. The
tubthumpers and the nation savers
come up out of nowhere when
business indices fall, like night
craWlers coming up out of the lawn
after rain.
So we might as well prepare our
selves for a new crop. Whether all
of the old favorites will reappear
or whether we shall have some
brand new ones is not clear, just
vet; but that We shall have a
bumper yield of them unless busi-
ness revives is as certain as any
thing can be.
Probably we shall survive the
experience without much damage,
A nation that could live through
the last depression can live through
anything, very likely, and what
is ahead of us can hardly be worse
than what we have been through
But applied demagogy is a dan
gerous thing, nevertheless. II is
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19

Only the fact that water of
Yosemite falls dcscends in three
sections keeps the falls from be-
ing the worlds loftiest. A sheer
drop would be 1900 feet.
a great volcanic explosion on
the island Of SumgaWa, near Java,
caused 1916 to be known as The
Year without a Summer" in the
United States
our American Cousin" was the
play being presented at Ford S
theater in Washington, DC, when
President Abraham Lincoln was
shot
Commercial airplanes now make
the 6,O0O-mile flight from Miami
Fla. TO Rio Gle Janeiro, Brazil, in
II hours
The New York stock exchange is
an organization of 1875 brokers,
representing 600 brokeage firms.
Highest quality Chinese pottery
Is made by mixing powdered ami
nal bones with clay.
The combined tension of strings
or a concert grand piano is APP
proXimately 30 tons.
More rice is eaten in the world
today than any other food product.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19
Bruce Cation Says:
- Common Sense Curb on the DemagOgues

dangerous for The same rcaHan ulaI
a auack doctor with = suitcase laa
of patent medicines s danacfua=
at the bedside Of a man critically
III. 1t offers the wrong sort q
remedy. and offers It Of uiae
when people feel desperate enough
to try anything
1t ought 10 be obvious thal
time of profound depression b tiis
one time OF all times when clear.
unprejudiced and accurate think
ing is needed. Yet that is Just What
the demagag does not offer, ON the
contrary. he offers a heavily emo
tional dose which makes clear
thinking impossible He calls upon
people to emote their way out Of
their troubles. He appeals 20 theif
feeling rather than 10 their reason
He can do this. in a depression.
because there are so many things
to get emotional about.
Even In the pest of time, Heaven
knows, this imperfect world Is iull
enough of injustice and inequality.
when the wheels slow down and
honest men are brought face 10
face with hunger and want through
no fault of their own. It is 10 times
worse. Then the demagog has his
innings.
He has but to point to these cry
| ing wrongs. beat his breast passion
ately, damn all the constituted
authorities for not doing something
and offer his own panacea. Let him
rouse enough honest indignation,
and he can save his panacea from
critical examination: if anyone does
| criticize it, he can cry Hal So YOU
want things TO go on as they are,
do you?" And there is no stopping
| him.
No stopping him-eXcept through
the good sense of the people as a
whole. In the long run, that good
sense proved sufficient last time
and it probably will again. And
If this recession deepens, 1t viii
once more be put TO test.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19

ulOlltll dllQos ~. mtthtyTc
on. Something marks the railroad
and depot employees. They seem
to live always on the brink of ad-
venture I've even envied the lone
Is station master hunched over his
telegraph instrument as we flashed
by some isolated outpost. His very
next moment may be packed with
drama
Another tingle for me on train
Journey is the lighted diner at the
evening meal. All of US strain
not to appear self conscious as we
study one another cautiously be-
tween bites. Generally we can spot
the newly Weds Their off-hand
casualness is entirely too studied.
one thing that always tastes bet
ter on trains and usually spangleS
every diner menu is those little
stuffed pickle dinguses impaled on
toothpicks. called gherkins. Gus
tatory memories: The grilled pom
pano on the New Orleans specials.
The mountain trout in the high
country Of Colorado. The peaches
ia cream in Georgia and the Car
olinas during the season. And the
Wilted lettuce salad with Gruyere
OF the boat trains to Paris.
George Aue N one or his parodies
stopped many from calling Pullman
porters George My tag is Doc To
me the porter can make or ruin a
trip Most Of US are fretful Journey
ing and count much on the little
jestures-the extra pillow the
prompt serving of the table water
and the equally prompt making up
of berth. I employ the travelled
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19
immigration Man
Ordered to Coast

John B. Bartos, immigration in
spector at Ell Centre for two years
and before that border patrolman,
was transferred to San Diego. He
is scheduled to report for duty
there Jan. 3.
Lewis j. Curtis, senior patrol in
spector at Chula Vista, was pro-
NOTED to immigration inspector
and ordered to report for duty with
Edwin Gies, assistant inspector in
charge at Ell Centre. He will take
Bartos place
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19
Filipino Will Face
Trial January II
I'm Shooting Case

Raymondo Tagorda, Filipino,
will not 60 to trial for attempting
to murder Harold Dickerson, West
morland police officer, until Jan. II
because Dickerson still is unable
to appear in court.
The date of the, trial. scheduled
for Monday, was continued by
judge r. D. McPherrin at the re-
quest of Dickerson. The officer was
taken to San Diego for treatment
of a shattered elbow, suffered when
he was shot by a Filipino last
month.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19
By O. O. Mcintyre

girl alway sang soprano and the less
glamorous sister got the alto role.
There are a lot Of inefficient people
thus "moed" into jobs, he thought,
and indeed I feel rather "eenie"
myself at times.
We have never heard anyone who
could shout Board with that
quick and piercing up-take like a
conductor. 1t is one of the cheerlos
OF railroading.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19
One Minute Test Answers

i. c. M Chester, of New York
City, who is also president of a
large food corporation.
2. President Franklin ID. Roose-
welt received the largest number
OF popular votes on record, 26,484, =
229 in 1896
3. The Rush-Bagot treaty, lin
iting aramaments of the United
State and Canada on the Great
Lakes, was signed is April, 1917
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19

Nothing is more
stimulating to me
than the clickety
clack of train
wheels in the
night. I know no
other who relish
es the aroma OF
train 5 m o k g,
There is zest, too,
in gliding under
the shed of a de-
pot in a strange
city. hestitatinE
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19
New York Day by Day

NEW YORK. Dec. l8-This COT
umn is being scribbled on a pad
during a sleeper jump from Chi
cago. one of those hobbledehoy
skip-jack things to fit in with the
lurches of the train. I'm propped
I'D against mountainous pillows
and out the window whirls a shad-
ru,v world of arabesoueS.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19
The Grab BAG
Onc-Minute Test

/. Name the chairman of the
National Association of Manutac-
lures in the United States.
2. Which u. S. president rcceiy-
cd the creates popular vote?
3. What treaty provided for the
virtual disarmament of the Great
Lakes?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19
Words of Wisdom

1t is not possible to found a last
ing power upon injustice, perjury
and -DemostheneS.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19
Horoscope for Sunday

Persons whose birthday is Sun
day may have great artistic talent.
Even those who are not talented
are gifted with fine powers of dis
elimination.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19
Today'S Horoscope

Many persons whose birthday
occurs today are timid. Their nat
ural reserve" limits their circle
OF friends.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19
Barbs -

It's only after the battles over
and the home town has put up
his statue in the library that a
man realizes fame is just bust.
Japan's ultimatum to Marking
continued, il is reliably reported,
the threat to maintain Far East
peace at any price.
School children are getting wiser.
A midwest teacher asked where
The Hague is located and one
bright urchin shouted New Jer-
sey".
Russian parachute practice is
carried on under the theory that
everyone in the nation is just two
Jumps from a big war.
An oldtimer in Philadelphia has
been caught yearning for the days
when a good five-cent cigars were
a dime a dozen.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19
Hints on EtiqucttC

When two men meet outdoors
and shake hands, it is not neceS-
sary for them TO remove their
gloves,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19
thoughts for the Day -

Por ! was cnvious al the foolish when l saw the
prosperity OF the wickcd-PSalms 1913.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19

THE spider builds her web capture prev
and therefore it must be nconspcuous possible Dew rem
it almost useless careful fly such
gttering eweled object As the spider
shakes off the dew and is ready for the first
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-19
Famous Sayings --

II adversely hath killed his thousands prosperity
hath killed his ten thousands; therefore adversely
is to be prefered.-Burton.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-07-09

Try a haircut at Square Deal
Barber shop, Mrs. Margaret
Malone, prop.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1937-07-09
SociaI Notes

TIE mems hospitality.
SIR. Judson Swanoy ana his son
Nn leave July q for Longview.
Texas, where he win be ordained
q minister BY his father Mr..
swancy is a member Of the Mt.
zion Baptist church and plans to
become a missionary preacher.
Hr and NIrs. Henry johnson
celebrated quietly their ninth we'd
ding anniversary last week.
Mrs. Ernest White and children
are spending The summer visiting
her parents. Mr.. ana Mrs. E. A.
Jones IN Wenatchee. Mr.. Write
spent week there, and win re-
turn occasionally for week ends
with his family.
Mr. and aIrs. A. NaIgla and ia
mily, Mr.. and Mrs. f. H. Bowman
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. R. E,
Butler and family, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Roland Butler and small son
camped at Lake Mcdonald over
the three-day holiday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira simms and
Mr.. and Mrs. Cartwright Ward
entertained thirty Of their friends
with a picnic Monday at Warm
Beach.
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph II. Stephens
and daughter of Spokane were the
guests of Mr., Everett Davis last
week. Friday they were the hon
ored guests at q cocktail party
given by Miss Sadie McIver at the
home Of Mrs. ". P. stafford in
Tacoma. Afterwards they attend
ed the Mccabe-Tolliver recital.
Saturday evening Mr.. and Mrs. J.
S. jackson entertained with a
Night in Monte Carlo" for their
pleasure. Sunday they were the
guests of the Mems Progressive
Club In the afternoon. and in the
evening Of MI and Mrs. ]. s. Peo-
pies. They left Mcuday for their
home.
H1r. and Mrs. Walter Derrick Of
Spokane arrived Tuesday for a