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Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-28
TWENTY EIGHT YEARS AGO
Oct. %. 1910

Dave H. Williams, rancher III
the Buena Vista district, spent the
past few days visiting friends IN
Ell Centro. He was favorably M
pressed by the city and surround
ing country. He plans 10 move here
in the near future.
Winter hit the valley today as
temperatures fell to 38 degrees
during the night and continued low
during the early hours Of the morn
i,,o
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-28
thoughts for the Day

Deliver me- o my God out of the hand of the wicked
out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
Psalms TIA.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-28
EIGHT YEARS AGO
Oct lS. 1920

Business in the police court
picked up this morning as Frank
Smyer arrested three traffic vio-
lators.
Ell Centre high school moved in
to first place in the valley league
football race last night with 81
6 victory over Brawley high school.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-28

A New York sports writer says
Babe Ruth will manage a minor
league team next year. Probably
not the Cubs, however, as Gabby
Hartnctt is well liked.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-28
EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO
Dot 2X. 1920

Oct. 2S, 1920
"ChieF" Cumming, popular depu-
tv sheriff. departed from Ell Cen
tro today He will be gone for
two weeks on a business and pleas
ure trip.
Judge Phil d. Swing, who Will
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-28

John D. Biggers, chief of the un-
employment census takers, reports
2,740.000 more women are working
or looking for work than in 1890.
Maybe that's why we never see any
more home made bread.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-28

Sixth grade pupils Of an Ohio
school wrote to President Roosevelt
asking him why since there is a
secretary Of war, there is no Sec
retary of peace. Wen let you an
sWer that one, Mr. President.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24

If Argentina could prove the agri-
culture department was assisting
Mr.. Theis in selling his wheat to
Brazil, Buenos Aires would consider
it equivalent to an international
incident" Mr.. Hull issued an i'm
mediate denial of official U. S. i'm
plication in the scheme.
So did Mr.. Wallace, but he could
not refrain from worrying publicly
about the U. S. agricultural prob
lem. Since future international in
cidents" will almost inevitably re-
suit if the u. S. tries to sell any
more wheat abroad, Mr.. Wallace
must now concentrate on solving the
problem domestically. The recent
elections rebuffed his 1888 farm bill
but he promises to defend it before
the next congress. He has even in
vited newly-elected congressman to
offer their suggestions. Meanwhile,
little more is heard of the two-price
plan for domestic dumping, under
which low-income families would
buy surplus commodities at special
rates.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24
Bruckart's Washington Digest
Tumult and Shouting Are Over;
So Now What Does 1t All Mean?
For Months to Come the Results Will Be Subjected to
Measurement; More Thinking and Less Emotion
Seems the Rule; Middle Class in Revolt.
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service, National Press Bldg, Washington ID. C.

WASHINGTON. - The period Of
distorted claims by the winners and
the equally distorted alibis of the
losers seems to be about over. We
have heard all of the tumult and the
shouting of an election time. The
total vote has been tabulated, and
it shows a greater number-83 new
ones-of Republicans in the house
of representatives and eight new Re-
publican senators. Some IA more
states have Republican governors
ready to take over from the Demo
Gratis they have displaced. There
were what may be called important
numerical gains for the Republican
party label.
But while the total vote has been
tabulated and served as the basis
for the claims of the winners and
the alibis of the losers, those fig
ures will be forgotten soon. The
thing that is important is the result.
We will be measuring the results for
HlOnlnS 10 come.
1t is quite unimportant, in my
mind, to appraise what the swing of
a few votes may have meant 1t
is, however, mighty important to
note that there were hard and close
fights for scores of candidates, in
this 1888 election. There were hard
and close fights in the whole of New
England; there were bitter strug-
giles in New York, Ohio, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, and else
where. They were fought out largely
on major issues because, generally
speaking, local questions did not
provide the fundamental issue in the
states that are so important politi-
cally as those mentioned.
What does it mean? What is the
portent? Other writer's and analysts
have given and are giving their
views. guess there is no prohibi-
ton against mine.
l firmly believe the votes cast in
the 1888 election were the express
sion Of an opposition to further ex-
perimentation by government in the
field of unsound theories; the ex-
preston was against further use of
the American people as guinea pigs.
and it was definitely for middle-of-
the-road national policy. 1t was.
therefore, a showing. proof, of
the necessity for our traditional two
party system of government, and
surely, to that extent, the nation
and national life benefited by the
poll taken on November 8, 1888.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24
Vote Discloses ReUolt by
So-CalIed Middle Class

The United States has been gov
erned by an expression of the will
of the majority. It is sound. 1t is
the basis of a republic. There has
been much criticism of President
Roosevelt on the basis of his DOM
ination of government. 1t has been
said that he is the government be-
cause he has had such complete
control that even congress moved
this way or that at his direction, in
the manner of puppets.
If those haracterizations be true,
then it appears to me logical to
conclude that the late election was
something of a vote for government
by law and not by an individual or
group of individuals. BY the same
reasoning, it is logical assumption
that the vote disclosed a revolt by
the great middle class of the Ameri-
can people-the group which lives
neither by the power of organization
and the strike threat, nor by the
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24
Defense

When Financier Bernard Baruch
first proposed a huge United States
rearmament program after the Eu-
ropean war scare, one of his talking
points was that private enterprise
would be revitalized. Official Wash
ington agrees, as shown by rumors
that the 1917 war industries board
may be re-established to coordinate
''rearmament spending program"
by private industry. The govern
ment expects $5,000 100000 to be
spent for rehabilitation and expan-
sion of railroads, public utilities,
chemicals, automotive and aircraft
industries. 1t also expects "mobil-
ization" of Americas raw mate
rials, solving such problems as that
of manganese, an essential element
in steel production which now comes
largely from Cuba because United
States deposits are not developed.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24
More Thinking and Less
Emotion Seems to Be Rule

Looking over the whole picture,
as the colors and the outlines now
exhibit themselves, one who favors
good government of a sound and
lasting character cannot help hav-
ing his faith renewed. OF course,
the political pendulum swings back
and forth. That is to be expected.
But, to me, there has appeared on
the horizon a new level of political
thought. Perhaps, l should not say
that it is entirely new; l should say
that it has been restored to its place
in American life. And that observa-
tion should be amplifed with the
further statement that more think
ing and less emotion appears to be
the rule throughout the land. Alb
sence of hysteria, or reduction of
the scope of hysteria, always makes
for sounder and more constructive
conclusions. That is why there is
so little use for an analysis of mi
mute returns this year. The aspect
is too broad to hinge upon such de-
tail.
Probably, it can be said that the
vote was an expression against
waste and extravaganza, against
corruption of the electorate by use
of public moneys, such as went on
among relief workers and for which
we ought always to be ashamed; it
probably can be said that it was a
vote against blank check appropria-
tions, or against government mess
ing into every phase of human en-
deavor, or against many another
item of policy in the New Deal, and
if it were so said, it would be true
to a degree, everywhere. But we
are concerned with the sum into
which these several things have
been added
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24

power which Mr.. Roosevelt so often
attributed to a few whom he has
called the economic royalists.
The New Dealers completely capitu-
lated to organized labor of the c. l.
o. type, and used the numbers of
votes there to bulwark it's assault
on business. The middle classes
which embrace the backbone and
the salt of the earth of any nation
haven't had much consideration
from the New Deal thinkers. They
have been the forgotten men" (and
Women) about which Mr.. Roosevelt
spoke when campaigning in 1882. 1t
is quite clear that the middle classes
have grown tired of government
playing into the hands of a single
class. They are tired, as they were
in 1882, when the Republicans had
played too much into the hands of
big business.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24
Suspicious Middle Class
Is Good for a Democracy

The sum total of the situation, as
regards the middle classes, is that
they have become critical again.
They followed Mr.. Roosevelt un-
swervingly (speaking, now, of the
majority and they accepted his
statements that I'VE have planned
it that way" But when the depres-
sion of 1887 came on them and it
hit as hard as that of 1880, they
found doubt in their minds. He
could not have planned it that way,
they reasoned. So there followed
the natural sequence of criticism,
and the country began to think that
criticism was legitimate despite the
New Dealers barrage of propagan-
da that the criticism, itself, was
propaganda. With the middle
classes back in the suspicious mood
that is good for democracy. they
are again occupying their rightful
role in government There are
many times more of them than any
other group; they are the majority,
and they showed it again this year
by the sharp division of votes.
The New Deal, with the aid of
old line Jeffersonian Democrats,
will control the congress for the next
two years. But their control is not
of such a character as to permit
denial Of rights to any Individual
representative or senator or any
group Of them. There can be no
mailed fist or must" orders. In
stead, if Majority Leader Barkley
in the senate and Majority Leader
Rayburn in the house want to get
their programs through, there must
be moderation. Extremes will spell
defeat and revolt, and it is conceiv-
able that policies of too radical
type could send the old line Demo-
Gratis over to the aid of the Repub-
licans and into a coalition to de-
stroy the New Deal utterly and ef-
fectively. There can be no more
rubber stamp business. New Deal
tactics must change. and the sooner
the bunch of so-called intellectuals,
the high brows, learn this lesson, the
better it will be for Mr.. Roosevelt,
politically.
l am told by a number of politi-
cally important personages that the
election already has increased the
courage of some of the conservative
Democrats who were not outspoken
heretofore. 1t is predicted that
these will feel free now to tell the
President when they disagree. None
can foretell how far that situation
will develop. 1t is a part, how
ever, Of the thought that modera.
ton must be the rule.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24
Foreign

To ward off Germany's aggres-
sion on southeastern Europe, Tur-
keys late President Kemal Ataturk
led formation of a Balkan entente.
It's members: Greece, Turkey, Ru-
mania and Jugoslavia. In the CEN
ter lies independent Bulgaria, still
sulling over World war territorial
losses to Greece. Jugoslavia and
Rumania, waiting for the highest
bidder to buy her favor.
Since dynamic President Ataturk
died, since Germany's economic
drive has borne fruit this year in
Austria, Hungary and Czechoslo-
vakia, the Balkan entente is now
looking for every possible means of
solidifying itself. Observers predict
that Jugoslavia will return her war
won territory to Bulgaria before
January l. also that Greece and Ru-
mania will do likewise. In return,
Bulgaria will join the Balkan en-
tente.
Meanwhile, although the entente
will be strengthened by this shift of
frontiers, Turkeys anti-Nazi posi-
ton is not nearly so strong under
her new president, Ismet Inonu, as
under Ataturk. Although Turkey
has long been pro-British, England's
vacillating policy of recent months
has forced the Turks to seek other
alliances. While an admirer of the
United States and Great Britain,
Inonu cannot forget the obligations
his nation assumed when it recently
received huge loan from the
Reich. Thus he must cooperate with
southea eastward-bound Adolf Hitler.
Q Desperately seeking to avert ma
tional bankruptcy, France has is
sued 80 decree laws imposing every
restriction possible without violating
the traditional principles of French
government. The gold reserve has
been revaluated at the rate of ITO
francs to the pound sterling, giving
the government a paper profit of %
billion francs. All taxes have been
raised and the controversial five-day
work week has been modified with
out discarding its principle. Forced
to make sacrifices usually imposed
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24
Must Become Statesmen,
Quit Their Demogoguery

And, next, if the Republican lead
ership has good sense, it will dis
play its best brand. 1t will tell its
followers to become statesmen and
quit their demagoguery. The op-
portunity awaits them to be con-
structive and if they fail to put for
ward sound proposals, they will
have justified the country in refus-
ing to give them control as was
done in 1886.
1t is proper to say, of course,
that the Republicans will not be in
control of either the senate or the
house. That means, they can have
no management of legislative ma
chinery. That machinery, which is
all-important in carrying forward
political party policies, remains in
the hands of the New Deal But
the absence of control for the Re-
publicans can not destroy the re-
sponsibility which they have as
sumed in electing as many mem
bers of the congress as is recorded.
They dare not dodge that RESPONSE
bility.
Just ahead, therefore, lies the ne
ceSsity for Mr.. Roosevelt to realize
that there is a new public temper
which does not like extremes, and
for Chairman John Hamilton of the
Republican national committee, and
Republican Leader McNary in the
senate, and Republican Leader Mar
tin in the house, there is the oppor-
tunity to fight for reasonable legis-
lation all of the way. These three
Republican leaders must have
something to offer besides criticism
of the New Deal.
Western Newspaper Union
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24
agriculture

The U. S. department of agricul-
ture's efforts to export surplus
wheat have never enjoyed the state
departments sympathy, since for
eign wheat-growing nations would
be angry if their domestic prices
were depressed by u. S. dumping
of surplus grain. Although Secre-
tary of Agriculture Henry A. Wal
lace now admits the export SUBJ
sidy plan is not efficient, his de-
partment is committed to disposing
of part of the U. S. surplus in this
manner. Meanwhile Secretary of
State Cordell Hull has held his
breath, hoping these exports will not
injure international relations, espe-
cially with South American nations.
This was the situation when Frank
A. Theis. Kansas City grain broker.
appeared at Rio de Janeiro to sell
$4,000 900 bushels of u S. wheat in
Brazil. That nation was not imme-
diately hostile but strong protest
came from Argentina, which now
supplies all of Brazils wheat. AL
though Brazilians could use cheap
wheat to make cheap bread, Argen-
tina is a good customer of the u. S.
Upshot was a protest to the state
department, delivered in Washing
ton by Argentina's Ambassador Don
Felipe Espel. The problems crux:
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24
Religion

In times Of stress men are known
to seek solace in religion. But even
religions solace becomes difficult
when men are prosecuted for their
faith and race. That is the plight
now facing all German opponents
of Nazidom's socialistic ideology,
which dictates that the state must
come first, that religion must take
what is left. Thus. in less than
weeks time, German Jews were
prosecuted numerically and driven
back to medieval ghetto style of liv-
ing, while German Catholics also
found themselves on the defensive.
Though the Vatican has long been
outspoken against Germany's five
year persecution Of Jews, outright
hostility did not come until last
months Nazi storming Of Theodore
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24

She'll be proud as a peacock to
wear this set so why not delight
her with it? Made OF sport yarn,
it's mainly single crochet (Which
gives it firm body with picots
for decoration. The muff is
combined purse and muff-very
grown-up and stylish! Pattern
1924 contains instructions for max
ing the set shown; illustrations of
it and of stitches used; materials
required.
To obtain this pattern, send IS
cents in stamps or coins (coins
preferred) to the Sewing Circle,
Household Arts Dept, 259 w. 18th
ST., New York, N. Y.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24

Cardinal Innitzer's palace in Wen
ma. Now this battle has spread to
Munich, where Michael Cardinal
Won Faulhaber's palace was stoned.
At Salzburg the Catholic university
society has disbanded.
The immediate excuse for &c.
hour anti-Jewish hysteria was the
assassination in Paris of Ernest Won
Rath, a German diplomatic attache,
by a 17-year-old Polish Jew. Right
eously proclaiming that German
Jews are answerable for the anti
Nazi acts of world Jewry, Germany
has resorted to medieval terrorism
and forced her Jewish citizens into
such an economically impossible sit
uation that self-extermination ap-
pears to be the eventual result.
This seemingly ill-reasoned solu-
ton of the Jewish problem appar-
entity typifies the Nazi method Of
dealing with enemies. real or imagi-
nary. Observers are certainly not
inclined to accept the Won Rath
murder as reason for the latest
wave of persecution. Probably
better answer is that totalitarian
rulers must have a constant "cause
celebre" and that Nazidom, having
won its Czechoslovakian cause, has
found a new wave of Jewish perse-
cution the most satisfactory method
Of keeping national enthusiasm
whipped up. However, since world
opinion has rebelled against such
a gruesome policy, it may prove a
boomerang.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24
Domestic

After % years of pickering, the
U. S. and Mexico have reached a
settlement over Mexican expropria-
tion Of American-owned farm lands.
On December l two-man commit
tee will meet in Mexico City to de-
termine the amount of Mexico's Ii
ability, after which $1,000, 900 mi
tial payment will be made. Subse-
quent payments will not be less than
81 900, 900 year Mexico insists, how
ever, that the farm land settlement
establishes no precedent requiring
her to pay for $400, 900, 900 in foreign
owned oil lands seized during the
past few years. Why she should
pay for land which contains no oil,
meanwhile refusing to pay for land
that does, is a perplexing bit of
reasoning. The most likely answer
is that farm land is cheaper than
oil land, and that Mexico hopes her
larger sin will be forgiven if she
atones for the smaller sin.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24
People

Great Britain is badly in need of
statesmen to keep her far-fung en-
pire intact, and no better salesman
could be found than the duke of
Windsor Now exiled in Paris with
his wife, the former Wallis Warfield,
England's abdicated king may soon
return to England's good graces.
That conciliatory gestures are in the
air has been shown by the visit to
Paris of the duke and duchess of
Gloucester, Windsor's brother. 1t
is considered likely that Edward and
his wife will spend Christmas day in
London, probably returning later to
take up permanent residence at Fort
Belvidere.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24
News Review
Latest Ndzi Anti Jewish Driue
Ciues Restless Reicl, q Cause
BY Joseph w. La Bine-

only during war, Frenchmen have
only one alternative-fina and
economic collapse. Although the
success of Frances rehabilitation
effort rests solely on cooperation,
Premier Edouard Daladier has one
strong right arm in the support of
1000, 600 World war veterans.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24

optimistic about
MeSSeTSHlttn Germany set
Worried OUer tling down to
Trade Rights normal trade in
tercourse than
he appears to be now. He predicted
that evolution" would soon follow
revolution and urged the world to
give Germany a chance to work
through period of stress and con-
fusion. Today he is concerned about
world law and order" in trade in
tercourse, and says, I'VE ought to
be prepared to protect our interests
wherever they may be attacked"
German barter activities, particu-
larly in South America, seem to be
worrying the traders.
Widely experienced and mi
nutely informed in foreign trade,
Mr.. Messersmith has been an
evangel of Secretary HuIrs re-
ciprOcal trade policies. His zeal
in this is not lessened, but he
reveals deep concern over the
subOrdinatiOn of the rights of
business and property "to the
will of individual leaders or ma
tiOns for expansion and dOmina-
tiOn."
This writer has just obtained from
a friend, an economist returning
from Germany, his first closeup of
what DR.. Walther Funk, German
minister of economics, and his
shrewd hunch man, Hjalmar
Schacht, are doing with their new
militarized economics. My inform
ant, who wrote books about the old,
mellow, beery, bassoony Germany,
had many old friends there and was
steered right into the wheelhouse
According to him, the new German
formula is as revolutionary as COM
munism. Every atom of surplus
wealth is sluiced into the "dynam-
les" of expansion, and the Reich out
reach is based on jug-handled trade
relations which mean commercial
subjugation for any short-enders
who try to do business with it.
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WFFK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK.-G. S. Messersmith,
assistant secretary of state,
consul general in Berlin when Hitler
rose to power. used to be lot more
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24

WE REGRET the lack of space
w to reprint here some merry lit
tie poems, such as THE Bird and
the Burdock." and "The Tern and
The Coolidge examiner., 1938-11-24
The eDebunker
OfDeath Ray
Goes Poetic

honored by the British Royal society
for his work in experimental phys
les. He tossed off a book of them,
along with whimsical drawings, in
between takes of "Fluorescence and
Magnetic Rotation Spectra of So
dunn Vapor and Their Analysis.
He is one of this departments
favOrite scientific debunkers.
One of his high scores here was
banishing the death-ray bogey-
pertinent just now in view of our
sensitiveness to Martian attack.
In this connection, the British
government has good reason to
give him a medal. An inventor
was demonstrating his death ray
to British war Office representa-
tives at Dawn. He focused the
ray on a cow in a meadow 200
yards away and threw a switch.
The cow Topped, dead as
mackerel. The inventor collect
ed and departed. Then they
found the cows feet wired to
an underground circuit, connect
ed with the inventors switch.
Professor Wood, by scientific dem
onstrations. put the quietuS on all
death rays and offered to stand up
against any of them. He invented
tear gas for the Allies in the World
war. developed a chemical eye by
which 1--WE can see and the enemy
can't" and contributed greatly to
the development of instruments of
precision and spectroscopic re-
search. He was educated at Har-
ward and the University of Berlin