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Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-05
VAllEYITES LEAVE ON
TWO WEEK VACATION

Mr. and Mrs. Frank R Jones and
son Frank Robert of Holtyille left
Saturday for a two weeks vacation
tat will take them TO San Fran
cisco. During their holidays they
will visit their two daughters Mrs.
Herman Mitchell and Mrs. Lester
H. Young.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-09-05

as a member Of the Ioczs- i funeral
procession three blocks Io1z drove
70 Everzreen cemetery % SEE the
beloved auction philosopher IaId
n his last resting placs-
They'll Bring 1oE \ Profit
waITf-4d serfionl
Evening star., 1938-02-19

possibility that the restrictions and un-
certainties attached to fulfilling Govern
ment contracts may have been factor
in causing the shipbuilding firms to
submit safe" bids.
In any event, with the prices in, Mr..
Kennedy recommends that the excess
sive ones not be accepted. Among the
alternatives, he suggests building abroad.
Government rehabilitation Of private
facilities or building In navy yards.
OF the three, foreign building obvi-
ously would be cheapest for immediate
needs, but the breakdown Of ou1 own
shipbuiiding facilities almost sure to re-
suit eventually from such policy would
be severe blow to our national econ
omy
BY contrast, Government aid to pri-
vate yards involved in the building pro-
gram should leave 4 residue Of added
wealth in the form Of improved facili-
ties after the immediate program is con-
summated.
Evening star., 1938-02-19
Juvenile Vandals.

The owners and occupants of dwell
ing in the northern section of Washing
ton are entitled to the sympathy Of the
entire community. They have had an
experience which should prompt the
kindly fellow feeling of all their neigh
bors, near and far.
Leaving their home for q few DAYS to
attend at the bedside of q relative who
is Ill, they returned to find the premises
violated and wrecked beyond printable
description. Five youngsters, including
boy twelve years Of age, had broken
into the house, smashed its furniture.
shattered pictures and china, slashed
draperies and curtains, mutilated walls
and floors, committed altogether ap-
proximately four thousand dollars worth
OF havoc. Police officers traced the cul-
prits only to discover them rather nom
chalant as they made their confession" :"
Their mischief. they insisted. was AL In
fun"
But such an explanation is not quite
good enough. No juvenile vandal, how.
ever young, should be permitted to talk
himself out Of punishment on the theory
OF ignorance. The children who
despoiled the residence knew what they
Evening star., 1938-02-19
Building Ships.

1t is, indeed, bleak picture and an
unencouraging set of alternatives which
Joseph p. Kennedy left for his chief,
Mr.. Roosevelt, with regard to complet-
ing the task of revitalizing the Ameri-
can merchant marine.
AS principal obstacles, Mr.. Kennedy
named the problems Of stabilizing
maritime labor relations and of replac-
ing ships under newly revealed high
costs of construction.
Although far from solution, the labor
problem may be adjusted more quickly
than that of building ships in view of the
disturbing conditions reported by Mr..
Kennedy in the way of construction bids
three times the cost of building abroad
and considerably higher than wartime
prices here. Making no explanation of
why the figures in question should be so
high, Mr.. Kennedy does specify that
costs Of neither labor nor materials
justify the bids in question.
IT Is interesting 10 note that no ad-
ministration ofIicial who has discussed
this situation has yet speculated on the
Evening star., 1938-02-19

sometimes have tried to discredit. rather
than question their assumptions
group of children starting out in
life might be compared to a group of
marathon runners of all sorts of ca
pacities and endurances. They run
along evenly at first. About midway
along the course, few of the stronger
ones speed up and get a half mile or
so in the lead. Then they settle down
to steady pace again and keep it up
until they cross the finish line. Their
companions also speed up at the same
place. but not so much. Then they set
tie down to about the same pace as the
leaders and come across the finish line
behind them, but running at approxi-
mately the same speed.
Says Dr. Freeman in summing up his
f1ndlngs: 1T appears that children of
mediocre ability continue to advance
intellectually during the period of later
adolescence as rapidly, if not more rap-
idly, than the bright children and that
they continue to advance to at least as
late an age. This indicates that recent
theories of development run the danger
OF doing serious injustice to children of
mediocre ability by making too unfavor-
able prognosis of their attainment. Edu.
cational opportunity should be kept open
to them into the college period, if their
interests and plans call for continuance
of education into this period and if a
suitable type of education can be pro-
vided. In advising students the course
of their intellectual growth must be
taken into account as we'll as their pres
ent ability and the prediction of their
intellectual growth must recognize the
possibilities of growth at the lower
levels as we'll as the variability of growth
among Individuals
Evening star., 1938-02-19
Prevention of Surplus
Savings Recommended
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
Senator Vandenberg suggests that
President Roosevelt and his advisers may
as well stop trying to please the man
ayers OF business, big or little, by half
hearted measures for the cure of depres-
sion, and proceed on large enough scale
to get effective results.
The depression Is due to the failure
OF business to get income distributed so
that it will be spent as fast as it is re-
ceived A large share of the Nations
income as the result of the concentra-
ton OF business into a few large units,
goes to people who habitually live on a
part OF their incomes. and look for profit
able investment for the rest. In boom
times they find investments that look
profitable, and then the Nations income
gets returned to business. But there is
now and has been for years. more money
saved than business can use in sound
investments. For long periods of time.
therefore, business has been paying out
IN wages, salaries, rent, interest and
profits, more than 1t has been getting
back in sales. This difference must be
made up if business is to return to nor
malcy.
How can the difference be made up?
BY taxes on incomes, not of business. but
OF the persons who receive income from
business, large enough to cut down the
savings OF the people to the amount that
business actually needs for its normal
growth.
In 1880, for instance, business was still
paying out at the rate of eighty billions
a year, but was getting it back at the
rate OF sixty billions. What became OF
the rest? 1t was left in banks, the banks
failed and not only did it disappear, but
business could no longer pay out at the
eighty-billion rate but stepped down to
sixty billion, and kept on going down
Inc hgures are not exact, but they show
the idea.
Now, if the Government at that time
instead OF a few paltry millions in the
way OF pump -priming, had conscripted
the unused savings while they were still
IN existence. and had put them to work
buying materials and hiring men at good
wages to do useful public work, business
would nave gotten its money back at the
elgnty-blllion rate, and both EMPLOYMENT
and profits would have stayed up.
IT business is to improve, somebody has
10 ouy the goods and services that it has
10 sell. Only by high enough income
taxes to prevent unneeded savings can
prosperity be made permanent Savings
are the worst security against depres.
slons. STEADY incomes are the best. The
administration needs the courage of its
convictions. A. CRA11, ~
Mars, Pa.
Evening star., 1938-02-19
Crime and Appropriations.

'The United States witnessed a de-
cided increase In crime in 1897 over
1885. Last year there were 235 more
major crimes per day than in the pre-
ceding year. There was an estimated
total for 1887 Of 1,4l5,8l6 serious crimes,
such as murder, manslaughter, rape,
robbery. aggravated assault, burglary.
larceny and automobile theft, as against
only 1,333526 such crimes in 1896. This
represents an increase of 8229O crimes,
or 81 per cent"
This is quoted from the annual statis-
tical report on crime issued by the Fed
eral Bureau Of Investigation. With this
picture of the situation in mind, it is
somewhat bewildering to read in The
Star an article captioned: Bill Forces
Cut in G-Men's Work-Two Offices Must
Be Closed II Measure Is Passed as Re-
ported" The article tells of Budget
Bureau slash of $4,000 in the crime
war fund requested by j. Edgar Hoover,
director Of the F. B. l., and of the neces-
sity for dropping seventeen special
agents and closing field offices in Ari-
zona and Connecticut unless the money
Is appropriated.
Thus, crime goes up, but appropria-
tions for fighting crime stay down. The
criminal army increases, but the forces
Of the G-men are to be reduced. 1t does
not make sense. The thing is
especially puzzling in view of the testi-
mony of Mr.. Hoover before the Appropri-
ations Committee that his bureau paid
the taxpayers dividends of 81 for every
dollar expended last year. The record
shows that the F. B. I. returned more
than Sal 100000 in savings, recoveries
and fines on an investment" of
IS 100000
Congress should ponder these fig
ures carefully before putting its approval
on bill that might have the effect Of
diminishing the intensity of the Govern
ment's warfare on organized lawlessness.
Evening star., 1938-02-19
''Due PrOcess'' Clause
Revives Old Battle
To the Editor Of The Star:

10 the EDITOR OF The star:
The recent Interpretation placed upon
the due process" clause of the l4th
amendment by Associate Justice Hugo
Black revives battle which has existed
intermittingly for generations. Blacks
contention Is that the word persons" in
that clause means natural persons, not
artificial persons, bodies such as corpora
tions
This clause states first in the 5th
amendment and later in the 14th that,
mo person shall be deprived of life, lib
erty or property without due process OF
law" Many jurists have differed on the
Interpretation OF this clause and the
refutation as regards 1t may be traced to
the earliest years OF the Republic. In
the famous case of Fletcher VS.. Peck
decided In 1910, John Marshall defeated
an attempt Of Georgia to repeal an act
granting public land to a company OF
spectators, on the ground that the re-
peal impaired the obligation of contracts
1t was further brought out in this case
that members of the Legislature in
Georgia had been bribed into making the
original grant.
When the Jacksonian democracy came
into power more specific Interpretation
was placed upon this clause and also in
1877 the Supreme Court narrowed Mar
Shalls Interpretation of the obligation of
contracts. Speaking for the court, Justice
washington held, in substance, that the
obligation OF a contract is the body of
law existing at the moment, controlling
it. defining it and providing for enforce
ment. Marshall dissented vigorously,
but in vain.
Inc 18th amendment gave the same
authority to Federal judges in dealing
with the States that the 5th amendment
gave to the Congress. 1t is matter of
history that the States were vitriolic in
their denunciation of this "due process
clause, but it was the price which the
Southern States had to pay in order to
pe restored to their proper place within
the Union.
Many have wondered whether the
trainers of this now famous due process
had in mind the natural human beings
or the artlnclal persons such as corpora
tions when they drafted its letter. John
A. Bingham, a successful railroad lawyer,
was member OF the congressional COM
mlttee which drafted it. He stated in
public testimony before the Congress
eAAoC iAC Wdo tIlc dulIlOT Oh ClaC clause
and that he inserted it to provide broad
and general protection for all persons,
against State Legislators. He made no
point OF artificial persons known as cor
porations.
The Intervening hand of the corpora =
tons extends over the entire width and
breadth of our land It's power is en-
hanced MANIFOLD by its interlocking di-
rectorates and high-salaried lawyers and
its place in American business is dicta-
torial if authority in any way can be
measured by influence. 1t is estimated
that nearly eighty per cent of American
business is controlled by corporations; q
few hundred artificial persons enjoying
the same legal advantages as 100, 900 900
people. This is a paramount problem
and one which must be solved immedi-
ately the stimulation, of purchasing
power and the decrease in unemploy-
ment rolls is to be accomplished.
BENJAMIN r. STICKNEY, Jr.
Evening star., 1938-02-19
On Stamping Out Crime
In the Nations Capita1
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
How can crime be stamped out in
Washington if overlapping and other
means of gaining evidence to convict
criminals are barred?
One expects every means of defeating
justice to be practiced in Chicago. New
York and Prince Georges County, Md,
where the disgraceful bonding racket
was sidetracked by our leading politi-
clan. One does expect justice in the
Capital of our Nation.
1t won't be long before it will require
ten reputable citizens as eyewitnesses,
two ministers of the Gospel, four United
States Senators and photograph of
the crime to convict criminal, who will
demand the privilege of picking his jury
from inmates of the Jail
No wonder the public is loosing faith
in the courts of justice.
JOHN RIGGLES.
Evening star., 1938-02-19
Bombing Planes Cheaper
And Better Than Warsh;ns

To the Editor of The Star:
1t will be of interest to your readers
10 know that no modern battleship can
Withstand the terrific shock of a one
ton aerial torpedo, striking anywhere
within fifty feet of battleship, because
water is incompressable.
Torpedoes can be fitted with delayed-
action fuses, so they will explode fiftv
1eet below the surface of the water.
The shock Of such an explosion would
ruin the delicate steam system of any
ship, so that it would have to be towed
back to port for repairs, If 1t did not
sink at once.
Il any one doubts this, ask him if he
would rather be on a battleship or On
a bomber making an attack. ANY sane
person knows the answer in advance.
Bombing planes have improved more
rapidly recently than battleships.
For the cost of one battleship we can
have 200 modern bombers. Let's take
out insurance in bombers in lieu of the
three proposed battleships.
COL. j. E. MYERS, Retired.
Evening star., 1938-02-19

were doing. Also, they were familiar
with the fact that it was wrong. To be-
lieve otherwise would be to blame the
parents. Newspapers decline to print
their names, but they deserve no further
mercy. A skilled psychologist might be
consulted in the interest of fitting the
penalty to the crime, yet it ought not to
be forgotten that vandalism is a willful
business. 1t is to be hoped that such
punishment will be administered as to
serve as an effective warning to all
youngsters to refrain from imitation.
Evening star., 1938-02-19
THIS AND THAT
"Yours for less praise Of the starting
and sparrow" ends . letter recently re-
BY CHARLES &. TRACEWELL,

yours for less praise Of the starting
and sparrow" ends . letter recently re-
ceived.
Why less?
More praise is what is needed. More
praise, and less blame, is needed every
where, and in all things. It is q need Of
the age.
The person who is led to study the
English sparrow, for instance, by words
in praise of it, always finds much in the
the creature to commend.
Those who think of the starting as q
nuisance only, sometimes are sunazed,
on studying 1t critically, to find 1t one
of the most magnificent flyers in the
world.
A great artist could make quite as
beautiful a painting Of Starlings in
flight as Of bluebirds.
If some Of our photographers would
stop taking pictures of legs and devote
themselves and their cameras for a time
to photographing the humble sparrow,
they would end by creating real art
works.
There is not a street corner, or hotel
ledge, on which q really charming pic
ture does not exist, II the photographer
will see it.
What photography needs is less minia
ture camera and more big imagination.
Imagination is the one needful quail
1ty, but you scarce see it mentioned in
any of the Photographic books or maga-
zines.
Lenses. cameras, developers, gadgets
innumerable-
These are detailed, but the use of the
imagination seldom.
Yet Of all the tangible and Intangible
qualities and ingredients needed by the
amateur photographer, imagination is,
perhaps, first. There is scarcely q place
anywhere that good picture may not
be found. but there is not one photogra-
pher, amateur or professional in q
thousand who is capable of seeing it
beforehand. Any one can see it after
ward, but 1t takes imagination, and
nothing else, to see it before the picture
Is taken.
II more people would stop growing
about starlings and sparrows, and let
their little cameras do the talking, the
world would be enriched with some
AiehIy AIlc pictures, ana Lnere would be
whole new race of converts, in respect
TO these two creatures, at least.
1t is impossible to study the pure Gre
atures Of nature without working up a
certain admiration for them.
That We hear so much bad about the
starlings. for instance, and so little good
IS due solely to the habit Of people of
thinking in patterns.
They use pattern thinking, rather
than their own thinking.
Some one begins to pow-wow against
the starlings.
Everybody takes it up.
The first thing any one knows few
persons ever really think about the
Startling
The word Startling" to most persons.
then comes to mean, not the bird itself.
but what has been said about the bird
He who dares raise his voice in its de-
tense is funny that way" The truth
Is that he may be right, and the pat
termed thinking all wrong.
There are hundreds of such patterns,
They exist in such profusion that even
Evening star., 1938-02-19

the most honest thinker has to look at
them carefully, they have so become
part Of his mental equipment.
We double-dare any one to look hon
estly at starting without liking it.
1t is impossible, really, for this is q
mighty fine bird.
Il is one Of the cleanest of all the
songsters.
Right there some one will set up q
cry, held in the bonds Of pattern think
ing.
why" he will say, "they are very
dirty, and not songsters at ALL"
The startling is extremely clean, and q
true songster. It is one of the bath
INCEST" birds Of all, liking its bath at all
seasons OF the year. If its gregarious
nature makes for soiling of roosting
places, that is just one of the drawbacks
OF gregariousness. Mankind for cen.
turies has found the same problem
where great crowds get together.
The startling has many beautiful notes
IN its song, being ylassed as songster
according to the number and construc-
ton of its throat muscles.
This Is a favorite bird in Europe,
where it does not seem to find conditions
so hospitable to it. Thus it never
abounds to the point of becoming q
nuisance
Over in England it is as welcomed as
any bird. It's cries and songs seem pecu-
hariy pleasing to continental ears. Per-
hapS greater human admiration, over
there. tends to bring out greater fund
OF song. Over here the starting re-
ceives so much hostile attention that no
doubt something Of this attitude car
ries over to the bird. Stranger things
have happened
AS for the English sparrow, that
charming street arab merits further
study.
1t is impossible, we honestly believe
for any one to watch this fellow and
his friends without working up a real
admiration
And the point is, of course, that the
more admirations one has, in this life,
the happier life one is going to lead.
So many of those thought patterns
mentioned before are based on envy,
Jealousy, ignorance!
Many OF them are based on even less
on an ostrichlike refusal to raise the
mead to see the wonder before one.
x
What more beautiful sight in every-
day life will one see than flock of fifty
starllngs rising as one bird from the
lawn?
Something startles them.
They have been spread over the grass
seeking grubs and the like which would
do the gardner and his garden no good
later on.
Up ny the starlings. all together. as if
TO secret command given them long
ago and never forgotten
Human aviators might try to do it
from now until doomsday and never
succeed
Starlings do it perfectly.
We, as race, are mighty proud of our
planes, but the birds mastered the art
OF flying centuries ago. 1t is "old stuff"
to them.
Starlings and sparrows fly as we'll as
any, If not little better. In this they
are worthy of any honest persons ad-
miration. They have many other good
traits, too, if we will stop to see them.
Evening star., 1938-02-19
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Evening star., 1938-02-19
Question Prompted by
Story on Farm Project

To the Editor Of The Star:
The writer has been a reader of your
Star paper for about 40 years. A story
in The Star of the 18th relative to the
farm project at Greenbelt prompts the
following question:
If farmer and his son can build all
this as described in four days, how long
would it take ten w. p. A. men to build
the same? MARTIN L. FRIES.
Evening star., 1938-02-19
Shooting Stars
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

More Police.
It's evident from day to day
That crime does not decrease,
And people Of discretion say
We must have more police.
A man inclined to methods rude
His dark career may stop,
If you can change his attitude
BY making him a cop.
Policemen dressed in uniform,
Detectives in disguise,
Will help to calm the social storm
Which brings the world surprise.
Police must be more numerous,
Life's ways cannot be coarse,
Nor crime exist, when all of us
At last are on the force.
Evening star., 1938-02-19

Wagnerian music is earnestly and
prof1ciently discussed by men who have
made it study. 1t assumes to throw
no light on present problems, but calls
for recognition as one of the human
rights that carry the privilege of honest
enjoyment.
Evening star., 1938-02-19
Objects of Worship.

From the Salem (Mass) News.
There is tribe of people in Brazil
who worship the horse. Pretty hard ia
organize such movement in this coun-
try, but we have large number whose
place of Sabbath worship is behind the
automobile steering wheel.
Evening star., 1938-02-19

Among Senator Borahs references is
warning against ridiculous propa-
ganda.' His remarks carry on to the
suggestion that all propaganda when it
becomes unreasonable partakes of the
ridiculous.
Evening star., 1938-02-19

In the midst of stern, practical rea-
soning there is always room for the
graceful poetic appeal to childhood even
though the heavy professional barkers
tend to throw the legitimate lines into
a commercial background.
Evening star., 1938-02-19

Germany is still playing songs Of the
Rhine and sending personal messages
over to Austria, although . decade has
made difference in assigning reasons
for war temptation.
Evening star., 1938-02-19

Crime stories are said to pay well, but
the remark Is not yet fully construed as
to Oriental diplomacy. There comes a
time when almost any kind OF market
Is surfeited.
Evening star., 1938-02-19

Fears begin to assert themselves that
some Japanese statesmen are inclined
to point with pride to the Panay Incl
dent as an example of triumph that may
be claimed when nothing happens in
resentment.
Evening star., 1938-02-19
The Comeback.

Ftom the Fort Wayne News-sentineI
The ease with which fellow can stage
. comeback depends upon how far back
he has to come.
Evening star., 1938-02-19
Arrnless Wonders.

From the Winston-Salem journal.
In q war-mad world the nation with
out arms may expect to do q lot Of leg
work.
Evening star., 1938-02-19
Same Old Chatter.

The dove of peace cannot oe heard,
Because, both day and night,
The parrot, inconsiderate bird,
Insists on talking fight.