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Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
SPEAKING OF THESE
'ENEMlES OF CHANGE

A new phrase has been injected into
economic politics in the last few months
"a phrase Intended to be anything but
complimentary to those to whom it is
applied Enemies of change" are sup
posed to be those reactionaries who
would not trade horse for motor car
if they broke precedent to do it. Yet
recently we have been treated to the
sight of our supposed liberals unalter-
ably opposing change and getting away
with it under the guise Of doing some
thing new.
If Imperial county farmers wanted to,
they couldn't plant more than 300 acres
of wheat-because they didn't plant
more than that in 1885, SO or 81. And
farmer in Imperial county who didn't
plant cotton in the last few years could
MT plant it now. If they defied the law
and did plant it, they would have to pay
tax that would confiscate their crop.
Talk about enemies of change!
These AAA restrictions, based upon
figures in the past, may work out IN
some sections of the country. In 1mpe-
rial Valley, where crop rotation is the
rule, they do not In fact, they seem to
provide just another argument against
cumbersome bureaucratic control that
hampers private initiative and attempts
to replace the laws of nature.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
AMERICA REMEMBERS
WHEN WAR CAME BEFORE

When the tramp of hob nailed boots
and the rattle of sabreS once again re-
sounds throughout Europe, America re-
members. That memory, more than any
thing else, will keep this nation out of
any martial conflagration that roars
through Europe. Until now it has been
a bitter, mocking memory; now it be-
comes a stern safeguard against future
mistakes.
In April, 1917, the congress of the
United States declared war on Germany.
On that tragic April Uncle Sam sent
thousands of his young men into battle.
Our frontiers were not threatened.
Our national honor was not at stake.
Our cities had not been bombed. None
of our people had shed blood on the bull
lets of invaders. No, there was nothing
like that.
We were going to make the world
safe for democracy.
You need only look at Europe today to
see how utterly we failed
We did not make the world safe for
democracy. But we did, along with other
nations achieve something. We achieved
the greatest madness the world has ever
known. We helped spill blood over half
the world. We sent men to their deaths
who might have been great scientists,
statesmen or teachers. We proved how
thin is the veneer of civilization.
We brought on new horrors of econo-
mic abuse, and we paved the way for die
tators-both Communist and Fascist We
made of the world a fertile field for
greed and mass hysteria. We scared for
few months to unheard of prosperity,
and then we tumbled into unheard of
depression.
And out of it all grew a new world
wide social order that would not have
been tolerated had it not been for the
World War and its horrors.
Out of it grew present-day Europe,
now threatening to generate a holocaust
that will dim the terror of that other
one.
Yes, America will remember.
And America will stay out of war.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
KEEPING OUT OF WAR
BY REMAINING ALOOF
(Wall Street JournaD

\ " al SlINOl JOOA AitAi
Whatever the eventual outcome of the
Czechoslovakian crisis, there is much
that the United States can learn from
what has already happened. 1t is easy
enough to accept reports of an appar-
ent complete diplomatic victory over
Britain by Chancellor Hitler, and to level
accusations of bad faith at the British
nation 1t is quite another thing to real
ize what war policy means in terms OF
human lives, lives of the citizens of that
nation and of France, quite apart from
the fate of other nations. The mere
thought of the United States participat-
ing in the holocaust is repugnant to us;
what would it be if we were seriously
challenged to put up or shut up IN
regard to a foreign nation to which we
had made commitments?
The answer is that we would be in
much the same position in which Britain
finds herself today. The loss of prestige
throughout the world which has unde-
niably been suffered by Britain and
France as a result of the latest develop
ment in European affairs comes as a
direct result of commitments made to
Czechoslovakia in other days and under
other conditions. Actually, the will of
the people never aggresSively backed
those commitments and it was when the
two leading democratic nations of Eu-
rope came face to face with this fact
that their commitments were revealed
as hollow.
At the present time large section of
the press of the world is engaged in
calling on President Roosevelt to assert
his leadership. Ironically, newspapers
in France of both Left and Right wish
him to assert that Leadership" in behalf
of their own points of view Nor is the
Canadian press indifferent to the posi-
bilities of American intervention. One
Canadian newspaper goes so far as to
assert that the President could fore
stall conflict without committing his
people to anything
That is precisely what he could not do
The failure of such policy is just what
is being demonstrated at this moment in
Europe. Should we accept the ideas of
the French press, which largely reflects
a considerable body of opinion in that
country, we would be in no better case
than any other country which attempts
to settle the affairs of the world and
makes commitments guaranteeing" this
or that, with no will to back them up if
they are threatened seriously by a real
show of armed force.
Our policy Of aloofness in the present
crisis, of indicating that we hope that
war can be avoided and will do nothing
to make it more difficult to avoid, but
will not actively meddle in the situation,
has been a wise one. President Roosevelt
and Secretary Hull will doubtless con-
tinue in the path they have so sanely
chosen during the past weeks of tension.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
You re Telling Me --.-

Japan has promised Germany
moral support. 1t must be said Nip
pon has made something of start
in that direction by offering an eX-
ample.
We're going to offer a reward i!
some one doesn't find that basket
pretty soon.
Grover Whalen suggests that tip
ping be abolished at the New York
worlds fair. No fair!
A mule was elected local COP.
committeeman in Milton, Wash
Nothing like variety. A mule might
do a better job than an ass at that.
An editorial writer urges that We
pay taxes with a smile. You can't
do it. Uncle Sam wants the cash,
Ambassador Kennedy's son John
brought President Roosevelt a gift
the other day-a harpoon gun. Bet
ter late than never!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26

NOTICE OF TINE AND PLACE
APPOINTED FOR PROVING
WILL AND HEARING AP-
APPLICATION FOR
LETTERS TESTAMENTARY
No. 1923
In The Superior Court Of The State
Of California in and for the
County OF Imperial
In the Matter of the Estate of
DOLPH LEE ZINN, =.
Deceased. n
Notice IS hereby given that petfe''
tiCn for probate Of the will of Dolph
Lee Zinn, deceased, and for the
issuance to Kittie A. zinn of letters
testamentary, has been filed in this
court. and that Friday the 30th day
of September, 1898, at 2 O'CLOCK
PM. of said day, at the courtroom
of said court, at the Court House
in the City of Fl Centro, County
Of Imperial, state of California, has
been set for the hearing of said
petition, when and where any per-
son interested may appear and con-
test the same, and show cause, II
any they have, why said petition
should not be granted.
DATED, September 18th, 1898.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY G.. A. KENYON,
Deputy Clerk.
Childers & Roberts, Attorneys for
Petitioner. S19-29 Incl.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Well, III!
Tell YOU.
says
Bob Burns

Sometimes my heart just bleeds
for those people who are always
gettin' their feelins hurt at the
slishtest little thing. Seems like
they oughta be able to cure Them
selves of such sensitiveneSs but may
be it's just somethin' they cant help
like freclIleS or hay fever. l can
sympathize with people that "can't
take it" because my Uncle Tuck
is one of the most sensitive men I
ever saw.
My aunt told him one day Tuck.
wish you'd stop boastin' and brag-
gin. You knew Milton said for all
his tedious talk is but vain boast
in" Uncle Tuck sat there and
glOomed for a couple of minutes and
then he tcok his hat and started
out. My aunt said where are you
goin9?" and my uncle said I'm
going straight to Jake MiltOn's
pIace-he can't talk like that about
me and get away with it,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
SHOPPERS
Salinas Post)

(SaIlnas POSt)
1t used to be that the girls who were
looking forward to little higher educa-
tion generally adopted as an alma mater
the college their mothers had always
wanted to attend, or simply headed for
the institution concerning which they'd
heard the greatest number of attractive
rumorS.
But times change News comes of the
conclusion of an organized tour by motor
caravan which a large group of girls
from every part of the country made this
summer. The tour, as you've probably
guessed, was an inspection tour of all the
colleges the girls had considered attend
ing.
It's the shopping instinct, and it looks
like pretty good instinct.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Bruce Cation Says
- Mankinds Conscience is Its Sole Defense

Major Al Williams is probably a
bout as we'll qualified to write a
bout aerial warfare as any man
alive. And in a series of recent
articles Major Williams makes it
plain that there is precious little
exaggeration in the horrible stories
we have been hearing about the
things the next war will do to
civilians.
Every airman in Europe, says
Major Williams, takes it for grant,
ed that the next war will see ire
mendous blows launched by air
against the great cities. The powers
are nursing bombs that will pena-
trate and destroy the deepest bomb
proof" They have incendiary
bombs that will start fires no fire
department can eXtinguish. Elabor-
ately and cunningly they have cal
culated Just how much destruction
they will have to loose on a city
in order to reduce it to complete
helplesSneSs.
What has happened in Spain and
China. he remarks. will look mild
in comparison with what will hap
pen when a really big war breaks
out.
It makes about the ugliest pic
ture that civilized men have had to
look at since the days of Tambur-
laine. Is there any defense against
this frightful thing?
In a military sence, there pro-
badly is not. Major Williams says
flatly that the air raid defenSees
so far projected are little less than
pitiful. Bombers can reach a given
city before defending planes can
get into the air. They can fly "a
bove the range OF anti-aircraf
guns. They can hit just about any
target they choose, and they can
destroy any target they hit. Bomb
proof shelters, plans for dispering
the civil population, gas mask dis
tributions all OF these things viii
do very, very little good.
That answer is only to be expect
ed. If the race sets out to return
to the kind of savagery that made
the old Assyrian kings eXterminat'
the populations of captured cities
it can do it in spite of everything
Our one defense lies in that fraileS
and yet mightiest of all forces
the conscience of mankind.
1t is not yet too late to rally th'
common decency of mankind ant
assert, once and for all, that thi
kind of warfare is hideously ant
inexcusably wrong - so great
crime that no conceivable plea o
T military eXpediency can justify il
On that truth, solid front o
, the worlds peoples can be formeC
, And if people can be induced t
show that they feel that way, tn
military experts may yet be he'll
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26

in check. II II were KnoWn' lot III
stance that any power which bomb
e1 q city would instantly and ir-
retrievably forfeit the last trace
Of sympathy or goodwill from the
neutral world the airmen might
feel a bit of restraint.
Perhaps this offers little hope.
But no other defence offers any
hone at all. If our plain sense OF
right and wrong asserts itself, there
may yet be a chance to avert the
threatened return to barbarism.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

NOTICE OF TIME AMI FLAtG
APPOINTED FOR PROVING
WILL AND HEARING APPLI-
CATION FOR LETTERS TESLA
MENTARY.
No. 1926
In The Supreicr Court Of the State
of California in and for the
County Of Imperial
In the Matter of the Estate of
ALBERT r. MCFARLAND, s.
Deceased. y
Notice is hereby given that
petition for probate of the will of
Albert r. McFarlane, deceased, and
for the issuance to M. D. zinn.
Public Administrator, of letters
testamentary, has been filed in this
court, and that Friday the 7th day
of October. 1888, at 2 O'Clock PM.
of said day, at the courtroom OF
said court. at the County Court
House in the City of Ell Centre.
County of Imperial, State of Cali
fornia. has been set for the hearing
of said petition, when and where
any person interested may appear
and contest the same, and show
cause. if any they have, why said
petition should not be granted.
Dated September 20, 1898.
w. j. McCLELLAND.
County Clerk.
BY CITHA LAMSON,
Deputy Clerk.
S. go. 6 incl
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Famous Sayings
Barbs ....

General Franco released flood
waters on the enemy The other day.
Delusion5 Of grandeur-he thinks
he's China.
A lad who smokes cigars cele-
brated his fifth birthday recently.
He attsibuted his longevity to the
fact that he only smokes seven a
week.
A middlewestern lecturer states
that its the wide-headed people
who make most of the decisions,
but a glance at the days news
sometimes suggests that maybe
"fat-headed' would have been the
better term.
News arrives that a colony of
Bohemians is going back to the
old-fashioned oil-burning street
lamps-the idea probably being that
it makes it harder for them to see
eacn OUler.
Prehistoric woman, according to
an archeologist, went il for neck
laces. But being a savage she
wasn't smart enough to think up
piling her hair. on the top OF her
head,
It's beginning to look as if his
torians of the future will prob
ably be referring to this era as the
breaking off -of-negotiations age.
Comes a report of North Caro-
lima man who wrote an obituary
on pet hen. Now how do you
suppose he ever kept the creature
still?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
DALE
CARNEGIE

I like to talk to pullman porters.
They travel constantly and handle
all kinds of people under all kinds
of conditions; so they often develop
q bit of horse sense philosophy that
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26

is refreshing. For
example, I re-
Gently travelled by
pull I'm e n from
N c W york to
w n it e Sulphur
S prin G s.. West
Virginia. T h c
porter said to me:
II never t a k c
sides on a II y
question. No sub
81 los liSSn,, and If
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Hints on Etiquette

Foods known as finger foods"
Ito be eaten from the fingers) in
clude olives, radishes, celery, arti-
chokes, dry cakes and cookies, bon
bons, and fruits such as apples,
oranges, grapes, peaches and plums,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Love Theft Case
Goes 10 Federal
Court or, Coast

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26. UP)-
Trial of the 100000 alienation of
affections suit filed by Charles P.
Link, Pasadena dealer in oil leases,
against his mother -in-law, Mrs.
Amber Collins Massie, wealthy resi-
dent of Dallas, Tex, will be held
in federal court, it was revealed
today when the case was called for
trial in superior court.
Superior Judge Robert Kenny Or
dered transfer of the case on mo-
ton of counsel for Mrs. Massie,
made on the ground the defendant
resides. in Texas while the plain
tiff's home is in California.
Lank charged his mother-in-law
induced his wife, Adonall Massie
Link, to bandon him June 20 and
to file suit for divorce in Dallas.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
News Behind
the News
NdtiOR's Housewife :.
Watching The FO0dstuffS
BY GERRY DICK
REA Service staff Correspondent
Rodney Dutcher is en- vacation.
Today's Behind the Scenes in
Washin,tcn" is written by his
assistant. Gerry Dick.

WASHINGTON. - She might be
called the nations No. l House.
wife for no food problem Of the
family market basket is unknown
to her. Yet she thinks of peas
and carrots in terms Of charts and
graphs Bread-making means mil
lions of bushels of wheat to her.
Breakfast brings her visions Of
fields of corn and oats.
She is quiet and retiring yet she
is senior economist of the United
States Bureau of Home Economics
DIR. Hazel K. Stiebling Two sim
liar problems claim most of her
waking hours.
How much food is needed to
give every American an adequate
diet. is the first problem.
In a study of tremendous value
to millions of housewives as well
aS to the whole field Of nutrition
study and home economics. she
worked out charts and tables to
show what foods could and should
be purchased to get the greatest
possible food value out of the week
ly budget.
Today anyone who wants to know
how to stretch the food dollar
farthest need only write to the
Bureau of Home Economics for
the series of four standard diets
devised by DR.. Stiebling.
These Diets at -Four Levels OF
Nutritive Content and Cost" are:
l. The liberal diet.
2. The adequate diet at mod
crate cost.
3. The adequate diet at mini
mum cost.
4. The restricted diet for emer-
gency use.
Relief officials throughout the
country are using the Stiebling
recommendations as to the last two
diets.
When Secretary Henry A. Wal
lace, who has declared that ar
adequate diet fer every American
must be the goal of any farm pro
gram, wants to know how muct
Of each kind Of food farmers should
raise to give the nation an adequate
diet, Dr. Stiebling tells him.
Today, DR. Stiebling is engaged
in a great new experiment. a
survey of consumer purchase and
consumer income. carried on BY
the Bureau of Home Economics
and Bureau of Labor Statistics in
cooperation with the National Re-
sources Committee has yielded an
unprecedented mass Of data on
hundreds Of thousands Of families.
DR.. Stiebling is comparing the food
expenditures of these families with
her diets and at last will know
what proportion Of families are get
ting them, or are able to get them.
In spite of the collapse of the
Presidents purge" there will still
be quite a few new faces in the
congressional set this winter.
Wives of those fortunates who
are the peoples choices" probably
will play their part in the life OF
the capital in much the same man
ner as all congressmen's wives.
Washington rents are high. To
have ,he right background the con-
gressman's wife must pay $3.50 to
5000 for a four or five-room fiat
with a good address. Her own
wardrobe, adequate for needs at
home, simply won't do.
And there's always the need to
put away something for the next
campaign, if they hope to come
back. And they do, they most Ger
tainly do, for its very, very CLAM
orous.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
GRAB BAG
One-Minutc Test

l. What city is the capital OF
the Philippine Islands?
2. Are there more automobiles or
more bathrooms owned in the Unit
ed States?
3. For what is the Pulitzer Prize
in literature given?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Today'S Horoscope

If your birthday is today, you
are honest and truthful, but you can
be stubborn. Your natural force OF
character will lead you to success
If you do not allow a tendency to
find fault and be over-critical to
stand in your way.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26

There's a man in Philadelphia
who has built himself a miniature
swino band out of wood. 1t doesn't
play any music, and that makes it
a genuine reproduction.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26

The premier Of Japan has in
formed the Oxford Movement of
his strong belief in moral rearma-
ment. Gosh, he certainly had the
Chinese fooled there for a while
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Words nf Wisdom

Where all are selfish, the sage is
no better than the fool, and only
rather more dangerous.-Froude.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
One-Minute Test Answer

One Minute Test Answer
l. Manila.
2. More automobiles than bath
rooms are owned in the United
States.
3. For the novel that best typi-
fies some phase of American life.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26

BARBS-
That crossroad Europe's been at
ought to be a pretty we'll built-up
section by now.
The chief trust-buster for the
Department of Justice has bought
a cow and named her Aunt Mon
opoly" Why didn't ne Just call her
"Bossy"?
Somebody in Schenectady, N. T..
has designed an automatic rake,
1t sounds like a boy at his first
dance.
The newsreel Michigan astron-
omers have made of eruptions on
the sun ought to be a good scda.iye
for the nerves after a session with
the average reel on current events
these days.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
Photographs

The oldest shoes in the world are
found in India. Each shoe CON
sists Of a thick wooden sole, with
an upright, knob-croWned peg near
the front of the upper surface
which slips between the first and
second toes.
Energy created by anger can be
put to constructive use, say physl-
clans, if the angry person will do
physical labor after the spell has
passed instead Of brooding over the
experience.
If you dip heated copper into
cold water it softenS it. Heated
iron dipped into cold water, how
ever, is hardened.
There are more than 1000 women
physicians in the United State. All
but five medical schools now admit
women students.
One-third of Americas popula-
ton will have passed the 50-year
mark by 1880, experts estimate.
Choicest briar roots for smok-
ing pipes are from 200 to 400 years
old.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26

Has young ambition been stilled
by handicaps? Most of the great
work of the world has been ac-
complished only by ignoring ham
dicaps.
If you go to London. England,
you will see a lofty and impress
i've statue tribute to a woman
who spent fifty years in an invalid's
bed
That woman makes me a bit
prouder of the human race. In
early life Florence Nightingale was
a semi-invalid, but she had the will
to do. Her health was greatly i'm
paired when she came back from
the Crimean War where she had
nursed wounded soldiers. The world
was full Of applause for the mag
nificent work she had done. But
she had caught a vision that comes
sometimes to people who suffer
and she was determined instead of
accepting the plaudits of the
world, to further advance the work
she had started. She set about re-
organizing the nursing system OF
London as determinedly as she had
set upon her duties in the Wretched
army hospitals. Her goal was to
found a school where women could
be trained ir the art of nursing,
something unheard of in those days
And she did it-from an invalid s
bed. At last a class of thirteen
nurses was to be graduated. She
expected to be carried to st. Thorn
ass Hospital and placed on thc
platform where she could see thu
ceremony, but when the time came
she was too i'll and had to remain
in her own bed at home.
She did not give up, nor did sht
ever give up. Lying on that bee
she solicited subscriptions and di
rected policies She lived to b'
ninety and worked from her bec
until the end.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26

General franco released IIood
waters on the enemy the other day.
Delusion5 Of grandeur-he thinks
he's China.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26

RENT cheaply and quickly through
Post Press Want Ads,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26
thoughts for the Day

For wrath killeth the foolish and envy slayeh
the silly one-Job So
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26

a man asks me a question in argu-
ment I jes' turns around and asks
him the same question back again.
I say rs dat so? Tell me how did dat
happen?'
Il learned a long time ago." he
went on. ito never take sides on
any question with the passengers
So I jes' lissen. A good lissener
beats the world
I asked him if he pursued those
tactics at home.
"Ch, yes, suh," he said, when
the wife starts fussin', jes' hush
up. l don't want trouble
That porter told me that his folks
had given him away when he was
three years old and that the people
who adopted him took him to Walla
Walla, Washington, many years
ago. He attended school only three
years in his life, but he knows more
about handling people than some
college professors: When the wife
starts fussin'. jes' hush up"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-26

It's beginning to look as if his
torians of the future will prob
ably be referring to this era as the
breaking off -of-negotiations age.
Evening star., 1938-07-11

There were 4,700, 900 cases Of grape
fruit juice packed from the grapefruit
crop this year In the Rio Grande VAL
ley Of Texas.