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The Washington times., 1938-10-28

tense land, by lnstltutlng gun
training in the coca common measure, and
which most of the CCC boys would welcome?
However, Mr. President, another part of that speech
left US in something of fog We refer to these passages
There can be no peace if the reign
placed by recurrent sanctifcation of
AdULCe to sheer force
be peace if national
AUtOCrOtS policy adopts deliberate instrument
the threat of
peace if national policy adopts de-
Hberate instrument the dispersion all the world Of
millions Of helpless and prosecuted wanderers with no place
to lay their heads.
There can be no peace if humble and
to think their thoughts to their
feelings to worship God.
AS far as we can make out those remarks constitute
advice to the Hitler and Mussoin relationships to mend
their ways Does this advice, incidentally apply also to
Stan's equally ruthless dictatorship?
We should like to point out two facts G Despite your
repeated phrase There be peace there is peace
at present between country and all the dictator coun
tries 2) The rule of the soldier has been the rule in
history; democracy the exception.
Most Americans freely admit that we have the best
form government yet invented Nevertheless think
it would be far the wisest thing for this country and its
chosen leaders in these troubled times to avoid advising
other nations to initiate
That kind of talk may make political capital at home
But it only make the dictators react badly cannot
help the peoples the dictators kicking around. It
may get into serious trouble Woodrow Wilson's
ponca advice to the rest of the world eventually did
in 1917.
We think Senator Borah is right when he declines
invitation from Rabbi Wise to speak at forthcoming
meeting of protest against Brtains policy in Pales
tine. Unless prepared
LeCS MInG our to do something about it, says
n~,. Da:~,ooo Borah - perhaps take
~ Britain's Palestine mandate if
asked to do so-we'd better withhold advice to
Britain on what to do about Palestine.
We think Ambassador Kennedy right too, in say
ing few days ago that this is world and the dicta
tors in it just are, the common sense thing
is to get along with them best can, not rub up
relenting hatreds between them and Unless that s
prepared to try to push the dctators out of the
world.
We don't think many Americans want to undertake
that Job How about mindng our business, then,
and devotng energies and ndgnations to improving
our own country-whch still stand improving?
(From the New FORK
The Washington times., 1938-10-28
Your I. O..
BY SHIRLEY SPENCER


The first eight questions are
TRUE AND FALSE statements.
Score ten for each correct
checking, and 20 for the puzzle.
1. Every English word begin
ming with the letter @ is fol-
lowed by the letter "u". T F
2. A piggin is a place where
pigs are kept. T F.
3. All Supreme Court Justices
must be American born. T F
4. A fifth wheel is part of a
carriage. T F
S. A taxonomist is one who
stuffs and mounts dead ami
mails. T F.
6. Tuskegee Institute is in the
State of Georgia. T F
Z. A venial offense is one that
is justifiable. T F
8. The federal income tax
was once declared unconstitu-
tional by the Supreme Court.
TF
9. PUZZLE: Cut this cross
into FIVE pieces so as to form
a square. This is one Of the an
cient forms Of the Greek cross
puzzles, thousands of years old.
The Washington times., 1938-10-28

women do not
make as good musi-
clans a. men. I do
not even approve
of them appe e a r
ing as guest artists
or as soloists with
a symphony or
chestra, especially
with our own Ma
The Washington times., 1938-10-28
Carry a Big Stick, Mr.. President,
and Speak Softly

WE AGREED thoroughly Mr.. President, with what
w you said about national defense in your speech
"The Struggle for Peace" broadcast Wednesday eve
ming You stated:
The Washington times., 1938-10-28
Wise Words

The rushing flow of speech
and their own eloquence is
fatal to many.-Juvenal.
Moderation is the silken string
running through the pearl
chain Of all virtues.-Fuller.
I hold it ever,
Virtue and cunning were en-
dowments greater
Than nobleneSS and riches:
careless heirs
May the two latter darken and
eXpend;
But immortality attends the
former,
Making a man god.
Shakespeare.
The Washington times., 1938-10-28

For more than twelve years the
United States has been steadily seek
ing disarmament.
Yet we have consistently pointed
out that neither we, nor any nation,
will accept disarmament while neigh
Dor nations arm to the teeth. If there
is not general disarmament we our
selves must continue to arm 1t is
step We do not like to take and do
not wish to take. But, until there is
general abandonment of weapons
capable of aggression, ordinary rules
OF national prudence and common
sense require that we be prepared.
This is we'll said. By the way
how about cheaply, rapidly and
heavilv increasing our means of de
The Washington times., 1938-10-28
The Inquiring
Photographer
The Washington Times In
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

Are you in favor of more
women in the National Sym
phony Orchestra?
THE ANSWERS
Mr.. Albert O'DOnnelI, Federal
Bureau of Investigation, 1901 K
st, N. W:
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22
WILL WE HAVE
GOVERNMENT BY GROUP

In San Luis Obispo Thursday 20 leg
islatiye representatives of California Re-
taller and Wholesaler groups met to en-
dorse a full slate of candidates for state,
federal and district officers in the Aug
ust primaries. Already various other
groups, including labor organizations
have endorsed candidates favorable to
their causes.
Thus the trend continues to govern
ment by groups in the United States. Or
perhaps it would be better to say attempt
ed by groups Fortunately the people
still cling to sort of stubborn refusal to
vote any straight ticket just because
somebody recommended it.
This discussion of candidates by var
ious groups is not opposed to the Ameri
can system, regarless of learned state
ments to the contrary. 1t is the right of
any American to vote for the candidate
he believes will best represent his inter-
ests and by these group meetings the in
dividuals concerned are attempting to
learn which one is most liable to do so.
The system would be dangerous only if
the various members of a group voted
blindly for certain candidate Just be-
cause someone recommended him. The
common sense of the American public
is too high for that, we believe
Intelligent discussion of candidates is
the best thing in the world for democracy
and such intelligent discussion will by
its very nature, prevent control of the
government by any minority, no matter
how strong.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22
THE VESTS
GREATEST INDUSTRY

THE industrial existence of the west
must continue IN no small measure de
pendent on the success of the oil industry
in solving its basic problems, said a
speaker at Stanford this week. The speak
er made a good point with strong words
when he added that the industry's prob
lens cannot be solved by politically in
spired legislation designed to break up
some imaginary monopoly. but we believe
it only fair to point out that. important
as il is. the vests greatest industry Is not
oil. II IS agriculture.
Industry has turned naturally west
ward in recent years because the west 5
great agricultural resources provide
ready source of supply as well as a ready
market As agriculture IN the west con-
tinues to grow. industry will continue its
westward trend.
1t IS fortunate for Agriculture as we'll
as for other industries that the lush Vege-
tation of bygone centuries was buried
deep under heavy layers of rock and
earth. turning into oil for the wheels Of
the worlds machinery-but even without
those hidden deposits agriculture would
have made a great producing region Of
the west. And in years to come the che
murgic developments even now coming
from scientific laboratories will turn the
west into a still greater producing cen
ter.
Even now almost everything man
needs can be raised on the farm. Scien-
fists have distilled gasoline from corn
stalks. they have made building mater
ial from flax straw. and produced rub
Der from ordinary plants. Every year
sees a score of new processes by which
the normal crops can be turned to spec
ialized use. When the day comes that
these processes are used in the daily rou-
tine of manufacture, the farm will be the
center of heavy industry as well as the
center of common life.
Throughout his history mankind has
traced his life back to the farm, and in
the history of the future it will be the
same Agriculture is the greatest indus
try of them all.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22
Bruce Cation Says
- Wanted: A Genial Host with Little Leisure

De Coubertin had only the loft
lest ideals for the revival of the
ancient Greek contests which
brought together athletes from all
the Greek world. 1T is necessary
he said, that we should preserve
in sport those characteristics of
nobility and chivalry which have
distinguished it in the past, SO that
it may continue to play the same
part in the education of the peoples
of today as it played so admirably
in the days of ancient Greece"
In the first place, ever since the
first revival, the games have been
taken too seriously. Sports and
seriousness are contradictory terms.
The more serious an athletic con-
test grows, the less sporting it is.
The Olympics have always been
that way ever since in 1908 the
frenzied partisans of Dorando,
italian Marathoner, picked up his
nearly unconscious form at the sta
dium entrance where he fell near
the finish, and rushed him over
the line. Soccer matches and win
ter sports in recent years have been
marred by fights and squabbles, ana
the whole tone has been smudged
by countries which have practi-
cally made an International crisis
out of who won the hop-skip-and-
Jump.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22
Well II!
TeIiyou..
says
Bob Burns

want'a tell you this writin' bust
ness amt rs easy as | thought 1T
was gonna be. Every once in a
while | get letter from Il reader
that got an entirely differn't mean
ing from my article from what 1
intended. You can't jest keep writ
in day in and day out without bein'
misunderstood hy somebody.
| knew natural born poet who
us'ta get out alone and find him
self without any notebook or paper
hut when he got an inspiration, he
Jest had'ta write his poem down on
somcthin'. One day ne get a note
from his washerwoman that said
My husband is very jealous and
I'm gonna haveta give up doing
your washing il You don't quit writ
in poems on your cuffs
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22
Photographs

During the World war, British
non-rigid airships were known as
the "B-limp9 type. Eventually the
hyphen was dropped, forming the
modern term, "blimpe.
In 1911 Henry Ford raised his
minimum wage from $2.35 per day
to $500.
The Chilean berry flower, mutilla
blanca, thriVes and blooms in warm
lava.
Legend has it that the four kings
pictured on a deck of playing cards
are David, Charlemagne, Caesar
and Alexander the Great.
The penalty for killing a kings
STAG in England was. once greater
than the penalty for killing a man.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22

passed to shake hands and greet
him
Someone standing by Roosevelt >
side whispered that n certain man
approachins was a great admirer
of the Colonel. who undoubtedly
remembered him.
The Colonel whispered back, No,
I can't recall him
Hes been at the White House,
and lmched with you. His names
Watson
oh yes. I know who he is now.
How many children has he, fiye?'
No. ne has siX-another was born
a few days ago
When Watson reached Roosevelt,
both his hands were glasped and
pumped heartily up and down. MY
dear fellow, I'm SO glad to see you
again. l shall never forget the de-
lightfuI hour We spent together in
Washington. How are those five,
on no, I believe you have six chill
dren noW?'
Watson. who was popular and
politically influential in Wyoming,
was from that moment an ardent
RooseYeltian.
A few months after RooseYelt's S
tour, Taft vas making a tour. As
It happened, the former official
adviser of Roosevelt was with Mr..
Taft. He saw an old Taft admirer
approaching and whispered, Mr..
President, there's a man approach
ing whom you certainly remember
Taft looked at the man. No, 1
don't" he said, whats his name''
The reporter murmured it into
his ear.
Taft reiterated. No I don't seem
to place him.
Why he's dined with you at the
White House.
When the mans turn came, Taft
t0Ck his hand in a friendly way
and beamed upon him as he said,
4ltF III lllI ONA7A4t " IGlIlIlllD1L
you, but. bless my soul, cannot
recall you at all
The former Taft admirer, who
was prominent politician in the
state of Washington, went away
and turned his strength against
Taft.
Now TAFT was just as sincerely
friendly as Roosevelt. The differ
ence between the two men lay in
the fact that Roosevelt understood
what touched a mans heart. In
tensely fond OF his own children,
ne knew that man would be pleas
ed that his family was remembered,
and he knew it would give the man
q feeling of Importance if he men
toned them. If Taft had followed
Roosevelts example and merely re-
minded his admirer that he had
been at the White House with him,
he would have won a friend.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22

However, even as bitter as some
of the Olympic competitions have
grown in past years, they are
good show, a better show than the
bombing of helpless civilians or the
shelling of a cathedral. Japan,
having asked for the games, and
having been awarded the privilege
of being host to them, has now
stepped out of the 1910 picture.
There is plenty of time for some
other country to make the gesture,
and to hold the games. 1t would
be worth while, if only to show that
there are some people in the world
who prefer less lethal athletic events
to putting the hand-grenade or
dropping the 500-pound bomb.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22
NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE
APPOINTED FOR PROVING
WILL AND HEARING APPLI-
4 a

WILL AND HEARING APPLI-
CATION FOR LETTERS TESLA
MENTARY.
In the Superior Court of the State
of California, In and for the
County of Imperial
In the Matter of the Estate of
WILLIAM WALDO MONTAGUE,
also known as
w. w. MONTAGUE,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that
petition for probate of the will of
w. w. MONTAGUE, deceased, and
for the issuance to Francis Pelham(
Tempel of letters of administra-
tion with the will annexed, has
been filed in this court, and that
Friday the 5th day of August, 1888
at 10 o'clock AM, of said day. at
the courtroom of said court at the
Court House i'll the City OF Ell
Centre. County of Imperial, State
of California, has been set for the
hearing of said petition, when and
where any person interested may
appear and contest the same, ana
show cause, if any they have, why
said petition should not be granted.
DATED: July Goth, 1888
w. J. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY G.. o. KENYON,
J22-A2 incl. Deputy Clerk.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22

HENDAYE, French Spanish
Frontier, July %. CUP - Loyalist
dispatches asserted today that Nat
ionalist planes bombed and machine
gunned retreating civilians after
the Insurgents found themselves
unable to crack the governments
stone WALL defen8es of Sagunto
and Valencia.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22

he other fellow
feel important.
He says that
Just before Roose-
Velt# threw his hat
INTO the ring fer
The 1912 presi-
Dental nonina :
ton. he was max
ing a trip through
the West.A rollS-
ing reception was
given him in Wy
onling. and Il long
line OF admirers
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22
You're TELLING Ne -.-

The government of New Zealand
has asked Walt Disney to do a
movie cartoon featuring such native
creatures as the moa and the kiWl.
A good title might be Fugitive
From a Crossword Puzzle.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22

The Egyptian government an
nounces discovery of a metropolis
containing 10000 mummies. The
man at the next desk, who is sour
ed on politics, has just asked how
they voted in the last election.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22
One-Minutc Test Answers

l. Senator Alben W Barkley.
majority leader, running for re-
nomination.
.. Tennessee.
5 The progeny of parents be-
longing to different species or races.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22

New England villages, survey
shows, lead the country in per cap
ita ownership of radio receiving
sets, pianos and monographs. Gone
is another fine old landmark, the
poetic quiet New England country
side.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22
Ba rbs

A British botanist arises to claim
that he once tracked a flea from
Scotland to central Europe. Now
let's see him start in central Eu
rope and find where political sanity
went to.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22
81 WEBB MILLER

81 II EBB MILLER
Great Britains goal in the field of la.
Dor relationship is self government in
industry, 4 system under which the gov
ernment stands on the sdelines and lets
employer and employe work out their
problems.
In paretice. she does not always
achieve that goal. but in the last few
years the British have enjoyed compara-
tive industrial peace That peace was
made possible by the body of laws which
have been passed over the years and by
the average Englishman's innate respect
for the orderly process of government
Even when feeling between workers and
management becomes tense and angry,
as II did during the great general strike
Of 1926, the British settle their difficult
ties by talking rather than by resorting
to violence
There was no bloodshed during the
general strike
Broadly speaking. this is the frame
work around which the British have built
their system for regulating relations be-
tween employe and employer
1.-The state recognizes the right of
workers to strike but a law forbids
strikes which are detrimental to the gem
eral welfare or which are designed to
eoefce the government.
2.-The state recognizes the right of
a worker to Join a union.
3.-A system of voluntary collective
bargaining is encouraged by the govern
ment. and the vast majority of agree
ments between employer and employe
are settled without interference by the
state.
4.-The ministry of labor is empower
ed to set up trade boards, made up of rep
representatives of capital, labor and neu-
tral members. an industry that is unor-
ganized or has such an inadequate union
organization that collective bargaining is
impossible. These boards can fix mini
mum wages, subject to the approval of
the ministry Of labor. and any agreement
reached is enforceable by both civil and
criminal law. Forty seven trades and
branches of trades employing 1,250,O0O
persons, are now under the jurisdiction
of trade boards.
5.-There is no general law compell-
ing an employer to recognize union, but
parliament has legislated on occasion for
specific industries. The railways act of
1921, for instance, set up machinery for
settling disputes between railway work
ers and management.
6.-The government has eliminated
many causes Of friction between empoye
and employer by setting up compulsory
unemployment insurance, compulsory
health insurance and old age pensions.
The workers and the management con-
tribute to all those systems.
THE trade union act of 1927 pro-
vides fines and Imprisonment for any
person causing a strike or lockout that
inflicts hardship on the community" or
has any object other than =. further
ance of a trade dispute within the trade
or industry in which the strikers are en-
gagged That act was passed after the
general strike and was designed to prevent
curtailment of such vital services as the
distribution Of food, fuel and electricity
The effect of it is to oar sympathetic
strikes.
There is a movement on now for re-
duction in working hours. The flour mill
ing trade has granted Al hour week for
day workers the shortest work week ever
introduced III Britain. The printing trade
has reduced hours from AZ to - per week
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22
Grab Bag
0ne-Aliilute Test

UTt-HHIHAt lNsN
1. Who is senior U. S. senator
from Kentucky?
,. What state is nicknamed vol
unteern?
3. What is a hybrid?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22

You know it's a political cam
paign year when the speaker,
whether Democrat or Republican,
begins his speech with: I'm the i'm
mortal words of Thomas Jeffer-
son"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22

jefferson must have been an
amazing man. For many years his
words have been used to prove both
sides of an argument correct.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22
TO,iayS IIOroScODe

Self confidence is a characteristic
of many persons whose birthday
occurs today. Poised, they are sell
dom ruffled.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22
DALE
= n ~ II
CARNEGIE
Author of how TO Win
Friends and Influence
People

John Hays Hammond in his very
interesting autobiography tells
stories of Theodore Roosevelt and
William H. Taft which clearly illus
trates what it can mean to make
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22

Reading about Howard Hughes
flight has suggested at last what
the toughest job in the world IS:
calling stations between Omsk and
Yakutsk.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22
Hints on Etiquette

It is inconsiderate OF host or
hostess to ask anyone of small
means to play cards for money.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22

It's getting SO a man can't have
any fun any more. Brides and
grooms have been forbidden to kiss
in a Cleveland church, and Off
cials in CAIRO have clamped a ban
on Walling at funerals.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22

Midget trailers for midget au-
tos are now available. Ideal, no
doubt, for brief, weekend vaca-
tions.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22

Comes news of a man in Florida
who has been postmaster for so
years. There's a postmaster who's
a past master.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22
HOW BRITAIN HANDLES
HER LABOR TROUBLES

Editor.s note: Webb Miller. famous
foreign correspondent for the United
Press. here presents his findings in a
survey of English employer-employe
rotations
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22

Nest Of the Democrats whom the
president wants to purge from con-
gress are old-timers who have ac-
Quired committee chairmanships
and much influence and prestige
through seniority.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-22
News Behind
the News
Too Ndny Pledges
No Conservatives


WASHINGTON-The candidates
in Oklahoma who tried hardest te
cut promise the others were licked
Namely Conner Smith, for senator
and Alfalfa Bill Murray, for GOV
ernor.
Mr.. Roosevelt's friend, Senator
Elmer Thomas. who won Democratic
denomination after the President
patted him on the back, IS no sound
cautious conservative himself. Elmer
always is wanting to do something
more about silver, printing press
money and initiation.
In fact, there we're those who
felt that poor Woody Hockaday,
who tried to spring on the Presi-
dent with a prosperity plan based
on shining shoes and buying wheat
to make bread at a profit. belonged
somewhere on ticket which tea-
tllred Conner. Alfalfa Bill, Elmer
and an astonishing assortment OF
Mae Vests. Daniel Boones, Brigham
Youngs. Huey Longs, Oliver Crom-
wells and Patrick Henrys.
But by all odds the most spec
tacular recovery proposal from
Oklahoma is made by Oscar Amer
niger. loyable old Socialist editor
Of the American Guardian at Okla
homa City. Oscar wasn't running
fer anything. but its hard to see
why someone didn't pick up his
program.
He proposes that the Treasury
Immediately print S20000,000,000 in
81. $40 and S10O bills and broad
cast them from airplanes, guar
anteeing that:
I. Every mothers son and faith
ers daughter employed and un-
employed will drop whatever he OF
she has on hand and start hunt
ing bills.
II. As fast as the bills are found
the stores are emptied.
III. Frantic orders for more
goods open factories, creating de-
mand for labor.
Nv. No one being willing to work
for less money than he hopes TO
find remember there may be a
S100 bill in the next yard or COW
pasture), employers are compelled
t. raise wages sky high, adding
earned purchasing power to sound
purchasing power.
". All farmers out on dollar
hunt, 100 per cent crop limitation
will send farm prices Sky high.
vi. Unprecedented sales, prices
and profits swell Federal Treasury,
balance budget and retire bills re-
covered.
VII. Exercise III the open air
promotes health and longevity
Oscar admits this may be "goofy'
but insists it's no goofier than a
system which doesn't let people
buy the food and clothing they pro-
duce and keeps them from produc-
ing more.