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Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-09

nowhere and addressed to the same
tai force"
Johnson said that if Mr.. RoOse
welt summoned him tomorrow to
do a task which he could reconcile
with his conscience, I'D be i'll
there next day as busy as % pr"
dog in covert full of quail tracks,
trying to do what he asked"
''He was and is unpredictable =,
he doesn't mind a fight. He invites
fights. Bnt he shrinks from having
them go on across his own desk E.
he prefers his shindys over the air
at distance"
"Iie has n touch of genius" John
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-09

PHILADELPHIA, FEB. 9. up
Gen. Hugh S. johnson said today
in an article in the Ladies' Home
Journal, that President Roosevelt
will run for office again "if, when
the time comes, he thinks that he
can surely get away with it,"
"If he feels that he can't, moth
ing would persuade him." the for
mer NRA administrator wrote.
JOhnsOn's article, entitled pro
file of president, tern|d the
president "a fiash-inthe-pan per-
former" and "cOngeniaI prima
Donna, but added:
"He may be unpredictable, para
bOlic-cOming out of the infinite
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-09
FARM GROUP
ATTACKS RAIL
RATE BOOST

WASHINGTON. Feb. 8. CUP'-
The California Farm Bureau Fed
GRAFTON today filed brief with the
interstate commerce commission
assailing the proposed Is per cent
rail rate increase, and asserting
that permanent solution of the
railroad problem requires virtual
reorganization of the carrier sys-
tenn
More than a score of other briefs
in opposition to the proposed 10
per cent freight rate advance also
were filed.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-09
CHILD DIES AT
LABOR CAMP

BRAWLEY, Feb. 9.-Richard An
drew Phelps, 2-month-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs Guy Phelps of the
federal labor camp here, died Tues
day night as a result of malnutri-
ton and an intestinal ailment, Dep
uty Coroner Herbert Hughes said
Wednesday.
The baby died in the office of
Brawley physician where he had
been taken for treatment, Hughes
said. The Phelps family arrived at
the camp recently, Camp Manager
Charles Barry said.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-09
MeXicali Man jailed
For EmbeZZlement

CALFXICO, Feb g. Raul Mateus
MeXicali cafe man, was arrested
here today on a charge of embez-
Element, officials said The charge
involved sale of an automobile in
Mexicali while it was being pur-
chased on the installment plan in
the United States. The automo-
bile dealer alleged the man TO
whom Mateus sold the car refused
to return it to the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-09
JAPAN TO ANSWER US. QUERY

Paging Jonah
Chief John M Carmody of the
Rural Identification Administra-
tiCn really deserves sympathy The
clinc hing argument Phil Swing us
ed to pei suade him to come to I'M
perial VALLEY for the REA dedlca-
ton, he explained Tuesday, was that
he needed a rest after months of
arduous work at Washington.
Get out there and get some of
that sunshine into your SYSTEM
Carmody quoted Swing as advising
him.
Ard tn re wasn't even a silver OF
sun hine got through the clouds
Tuesday.
Tlcn, to cap that off, President
Evan HcWeS of the irrigation dis
tricl suggest ID TO Carmody Tuesday
morning that it was about time to
leave Fl Centre for the Magnolia
school, scene OF the celebration.
Wen get no there for that bar
Lecue, and sCmn OF those delicious
beans" HeWes assured Carmody.
And when they reached the school
grounds. the beans were all gone.
Needless to say, nobody had the
temerity to suggest that Imperial
Valley was enjoying "unusual'
weather-and it doesn't do any good
to assure a hungry man that the
beans are all gone because they
were so good.
Penalty of leadership
After Dorsey WhitelaW has work.
ed all these weeks, night and day,
arranging the Vines-Perry tennis
exhibition of Tuesday, he didn't get
to see the famous racketeerS play.
He was too busy directing the pro-
gram.
Usual Order, Please!-
RR has not yet recovered from
the shock of learning that Sandra
Santhen's usual breakfast is pint
of a we'll known soft drink. One
look at her would convince any
body, however, that it must be a
pretty good diet, at that.
It's The Truth
Ed Schiller, who's not a news
paper ollOullt hU iNdoo, III
seems to have a sound basic knoWl-
edge of the business. He proved
as much when he remarked Tues
day night:
isn't it funny how some people
get mad when they don't get
enough publicity-and some people
get mad when they do?'
o.
Reason For JOY
Speaking of people who get mad
at newspapers, we're mighty glad
we weren't working on the Lake
Mills, Iowa, Graphic one day re-
Gently. A grocery store there, as
grocery stores do, advertised sew
eral items in one ad. One item
told how a premium would be given
away with each package OF salt
sold The premium was lone soar
ing serpent "a rubber balloon four
feet long :. Squirms into the sky
and then comes back"
In the composing room the type
setter got the last line mixed with
another item, advertising sausages.
The final product read:
I'VE want you to get acquainted
with the fine quality sausage we
sell Buy it once and you'll always
buy it. Squirms into the sky and
then comes back"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-09
French Navy Minister
To Ask Batt!eShips

PARIS, Feb. 9. CUP) - William
Bertrand, navy minister, told the
naval commission of the chamber
of deputies today that he would
ask the government to demand ad-
ditional credits to lay down two
more 35 900 ton battleships.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-09
King, Queen May
Visit Duke i'm Paris

LONDON, Feb. 8. CUP)-Britons
speculated today on whether King
George vi and queen Elizabeth
would see the Duke and Duchess OF
Windsor when they go to Paris on
state visit in June.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-09
Communists Holding Key Positions in
US. Setup, Declares Labor Chief,
Testifying Against Bridges

WASHINGTON, Feb. g. (UP)-Joseph P. Ryan, pres-
dent of the International Longshoemens association to-
day declared that Communists hold "key' positions in
the American merchant marine and warned that if you
don't stop them they will be in everything.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-09

Butter: Los Angeles, 31e; but
terfat. Imperial Valley. fob. ranch
grade A. soc; manufacturing milk
35c: route gathered cream 31c.
L. A. Hay: U. 5. No. l $500
1900: No. 2, leafy s14-14.5O; No.
2 S13. Mpls. Flax May 500.
". Lettuce fob, ct. As, 9Oc-Si
Evening star., 1938-01-09

A Cretan youth wore moth
ing but a decorative loin-eloth
or kilt and sandals. Both men
and women wore tight girdles
which gave their bodies .
wasp.liks appearance.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

A Cretan mfiden wore the
odd costume which, in sew.
eral details, was strikingly
like our styles Of lso0-the
year Of the FIRST discoveries
In Crete.
Evening star., 1938-01-09

SCISSORS, PASTE AND WRAPPING PAPER
ALL YOU NEED TO MAKE THIS CUT0UT


When
doesn't help the bull either for he finally in the neck anyway
island below Greece these bulls ced youths
sprnbod to
comp
Evening star., 1938-05-08

observance Is the growing concern for
the protection Of motherhood as hui
man value. Medical science is striving
to make maternity less dangerous, pro-
gressive legislation has provided mothers
pensions. industry and business have
combined to improve household equip
ment and facilities so that domestic toll
may be more congenial, less arduous.
Indeed, the advancement of civilization
might be measured by expanding COM
prehension on the part which mothers
play in the world. The advantage to
everybody is too obvious to need argu-
ment.
A fundamental sentiment, however, is
involved in the celebration Of Mothers
Day-an emotion which cannot be, and
probably should not be rationalized. It
is spiritual manifestation, an utterance
Of the soul, which escapes language and
never can be phrased in written words.
The greatest creative geniuses have
failed again and again to do perfect Jus
tice to the theme. 1t is instructive, pro-
foundly automatic in character, yet it
defles interpretation-unless by chance
by the hurt infant who pitifully insists:
II want my mother!" The whole race
echoes that cry.
Evening star., 1938-05-08

ill-considered economy" that is certain
to prove costly from the standpoint Of
social welfare as well as of money,
Congress has decreed abandonment of
the National Training School-with no
provision whatsoever for disposition of
its inmates-and removal of the Receiv-
ing Home to a building since barred to
children by health and safety officials.
Truly, the Copeland subcommittee of
the Senate District Committee stated
it conservatively when it said Congress
has created "a chaotic state of affairs"
with respect to child-caring institutions
in Washington. The characterization
applies equally well to the local relief
situation.
Apparently the National Capital can
be assured of more consideration only
when the present haphazard method Of
legislating for the District is replaced by
a democratic system in which the gov
erned are given a voice in their own
government.
Evening star., 1938-05-08
THE LEADERSHIP OF WOMEN
BY THE RIGHT REV JAMES FREEMAN d. d. L. D, D. c. L.,
BISHOP OF WASHINGTON.

the battle are recorded In the 4th
chapter of Judges, but in the 5th chap
ter we have one of the most remark
able poems In the Old Testament, known
as the Song Of Deborah" 1t was from
this poem that quotations were fire.
quenJly made during the World War by
the late Theodore Roosevelt.
The story of Deborah, with the ac-
companying poem, is brief, but exceed
ingly interesting. It is the story of
woman's triumphant faith. Reason plays
its part in human affairs, but as
French writer has said, "The heart hath
reasons which the reason knows not Of"
Shakespeare speaks of judgment being
tempered with mercy, and in the great
plea OF Portia we have again supreme
expression of womans judgment con-
corning mercy and equity. Some of the
greatest and most benef1cent movements
that our generation has witnessed have
found their genesis ir the deep affec-
tionS, clear vision and supreme faith of
women.
The church as an institution would
long since have lost much of its prestige
and power had it not been for the un-
usual gifts and loyalty of its women.
True, its great prophets have been men,
but let us with frankness acknowledge
it, its most ardent and earnest and de-
voted supporters have been women. The
Red Cross movement, one of the most
benef1cent and Godlike agencies the
world has ever witnessed, has found in
the gentle ministry of woman both it's
inspiration and its efficiency. In this
connection, let us be reminded that
Lady Nightingale stands as one of the
most commanding figures in modern
English history. The ministry of the
Angel Of the Crimea" to the thousands
of sufferers in that dreadful struggle is
one of the brightest pages in all history
Edith Cavell, it has been we'll said, will
ever be remembered, not only for her
fidelity to duty in the face of insuperable
difficulties, but for her superb heroism
and devotion, even unto death.
The modern Deborahs are to play
their large and, we believe, noble part
in this new age. May we not believe
that their unfaltering faith, their un-
challenged devotion and their unques-
toned affection for all that is truest
and best in human life is to contribute
to the richer, finer and nobler develop
ment of truer and more real Christian
civilization?
Evening star., 1938-05-08
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Efforts to prevent the extermina-
ton of the fur seals of Alaska by
a, poachers were urged fifty
0IashdA years ago. The Star of May
Seals, /, 1888, says:
"Sealskin has come to be
so generally used, all over the world, for
every purpose for which either soft fur
or light leather is needed that it has
almost ceased to be luxury and is ac-
counted among the necessarieS of trade.
The wise policy of our Government has
been. ever since the purchase of Alaska,
to prohibit the killing of more than a
certain number of seals every year and
to limit that killing to the males. This
step was taken with the intent of pre-
venting the determination of the species.
which, in the case of the buffalo, has
accomplished its object very well. But,
as the fields inhabited by the fur seals,
or capable Of being inhabited by the fur
seals, or capable of being thus inhabited
If the seals are protected, belong to vari-
Gus governments besides ours, and in
some instances are in joint or disputed
territory, our Department of State is
making an effort to procure compact
between Russia, England, Germany, the
United States and other powers, estab-
fishing closed season for fur seals all
over the world. 1t is to be hoped that an
agreement of this sort can be reached"
4 x*
In 1885 movement was started in
Great Britain TOR the establishment of
,., international copyright.
AAle1 AatiohaA 1t was six years before
Copyright. such measure was en-
acted by Parliament in
1891. Meanwhile some opposition had
developed in this country. The Star of
May S, 1888. says:
Those Americans. in Congress and
out who have argued against the inter-
national copyright bill because it was a
measure instigated by English printers
and publishers, should read this morn
ings dispatches from London, which
show that representatives of the British
and allied trades and section of the
London Chamber of Commerce have
united in an effort to prevent the pas
sage of the bill. This ought to modify
the opinions of some of our too jealous
countrymen. The English printers know
that, with international copyright, more
English works will be sent here in manu-
script form for our American compost
tors to put into type, our American mills
to furnish paper for and our American
binderies to cover. The importation of
English stereotype plates and English
printed sheets will suffer a sudden de-
cline and the money which has hereto
fore been spent abroad to pay for them
will be spent at home 1t is as much to
the interest of the American working
man as of the American author that the
bill shall become law"
Evening star., 1938-05-08

of the stress on abundance as contrasted
with New Deal scarcity This interest
is heightened by the situation in the
wheat and cotton growing areas of the
Nation.
The United States use sabout 650,000,-
900 bushels of wheat in good times and
bad and about 100000 or 100000 bales
of cotton for home consumption. The
prospect, under A. A. A., this season is
for a winter wheat crop of 750OOO,O0O
bushels and spring wheat crop of
200,O00,000 bushels. In addition, there
will be 2OO,0OO,00O bushels left over from
last year. So here is the likelihood of
1,15O,OOO, 900 bushels of wheat to fill a
demand of 650,000,00O bushels.
The La Toilette problem is the inter-
esting one of convincing wheat farmers
that there is scarcity of wheat when
prices are at depression level and
there is the prospect of half billion
bushels more than can be consumed.
It is the same story in cotton, where
the Government holds 100000 bales
that 1t can't find buyers to take, and
in corn, where the prospect of large
supplies is causing prices to decline.
Those rather practical problems can
be avoided for 4he time being, adding to
the mystery concerning their answers.
But those with an eye on the trend Of
things notice that Gov. Phil has devised
q banner around which his followers can
rally. They note the religious note
sounded in the La Toilette addresses.
They catch a definite measure of ritual
istic appeal that always has attracted
Americans.
The real mystery surrounds the ques-
ton Of whether or not the La Toilette
brothers are starting something here to
compare with other mass movements
abroad.
Evening star., 1938-05-08

The page Of history records repeatedly
the large and important place that
woman has occupied in the concerns of
states and nations. Not only has she
played q most conspicuous role In
shaping the judgments and opinions Of
those In authority, not only has she
been a dominant force in giving poise
and direction to kings and rulers, but
now and again she has occupied mere
conspicuous place in governing and
controlling directly the aims and actions
of great nations Within our own gener-
alton, Imperial Victoria of England was
a mighty factor, not only in the leader
ship of one of the worlds greatest
peoples, but in the shaping of interna-
tional policies. The Bible, perhaps more
than any other book, recognizes the
transcendent genius of woman and
records ever and again the large place
she fills in human affairs. In the Book
of Judges, in the 4th and 5th chap
tiers, we have the story of great woman
leader who occupied a place in a crisis
in the history of the children of Israel
of unusual importance. The people had
lost their sense of national conscious
ness, and along with this they had
broken faith with God, who had led
them and given them their prosperity
and greatness. One leader after an
other had signally failed and the en-
ervating influences of prosperity had
weakened the moral fiber of the people.
In this situation a great military leader,
Sisera by name, had arisen to threaten
the security Of the nation.
In this emergency we read that de-
borah judged Israel at that time, and
the children of Israel came up to her
for judgment" Realizing the gravity of
the impending situation, she called for
military leader of her people, one
Barak, and demanded that he should
Immediately resist the invading hosts.
1t is interesting to note that, fearful of
the issue, Barak declined to go without
the strong leadership and direction of
Deborah. The situation reminds us of
condition in France, when the Maid
of Orleans, Joan of Arc, came to the aid
of her king and by her presence and
heroism led his faltering armies to
victory.
When Deborah acceded to Barak's de-
mands she said, II will surely go with
thee, notwithstanding the journey that
thou takest shall not be for thine honor,
for the Lord shall sell Sisera into the
hands of a woman" The results of
Evening star., 1938-05-08
Chaos in the District.

Nothing could better illustrate the
follies of non-representative and non
responsive government than the des-
perate plight in which the District of
Columbia finds itself with respect to
funds for relief of the hungry and for
care of delinquent youth.
Consider the local relief situation.
With destitute families actually facing
starvation within sight of the Capitol
and the Washington Monument, harried
District officials pleaded with Congress
Tor $1,900000, the absolute minimum
they said, needed to appease hunger and
provide clothing and shelter for the
deserving poor. Congress appropriated
less than half the sum asked, or 5000 900.
That meant, inevitably, one thing, the
arbitrary, ruthless removal from the
relief rolls of approximately half of the
men, women and children in dire need
of aid.
But that is not ALL AS though the
outlook were not tragic enough, the
Budget Bureau comes forward with the
startling proposal that the money avail
able for relief under the 100000 appro-
priation be further reduced by at least
100000 through diversion of funds to
a P. W. A. project and to transients
needing transportation to their homes.
The bureau has refused to approve the
Commissioners urgent request for a
deficiency appropriation to finance these
extraneous undertakings
Grave as these relief problems are,
they are no more serious than the situa-
ton confronting inmates, of the National
Training School for Girls and the Re-
ceiving Home for Children. In a fit of
Evening star., 1938-05-08
Mothers Day.

Mothers do not require to be reassured
Of the love their children bear them.
The average home provides SUFFICIENT
testimony of the power and influence Of
maternal devotion and its appreciation.
Yet it is proper that day should be
designated for the formal expression Of
gratitude. Sons and daughters have cul-
tivated the custom of making the most
of the annual occasion. It has become
an Institution meritorious in itself.
But more important than any single
Evening star., 1938-05-08
Jobs for Experts.

AS Washingtonians have shown by
petition and by referendum vote. the
real reorganization of the District gov
ernment in which they are chiefly in
terested is constitutional amendment
permitting them voice in their national
and perhaps their local government. In
the meantime they will be inclined to
watch with interest, touched with some
skepticism, the new $4,000 survey of the
District government to be undertaken
by Chicago group of experts.
1t would seem that sufficient data have
been amassed in connection with func-
tional reorganization of the District gov
eminent to provide legislators with
plenty to chew on. In recent years there
have been the study by the Brookings
Institute, the study by the former Bureau
of Efficiency, the so-called Jacobs Report
for which taxpayers were assessed
s50,000-and the report by the Prettyman
committee of citizens. What additional
information can be obtained by the
Chicago firm remains to be seen. Re
gardless of other things, the $1,000 fund
will increase employment among expert
reorganizers of municipal government.
1t is undoubtedly true that many de-
partments of the District government
are operating under procedures laid
down many years ago and that some
economies could be effected by the elimi-
nation of overlapping and duplicated
services. 1t is also true that the system
followed In preparing the citys budget
which places the power, not with the
municipal officials but with a few indi-
viduals in the Budget Bureau, leads to
q great deal of confusion and passing
the buck. 1t is also true that municipal
officials themselves, if given the author
ity, could make changes in the admins
trative procedure to eliminate illogical
and cumbersome methods now followed.
But the fundamental change which is
needed cannot be provided by $4,000
or s50,000 appropriation for the hiring
ol SlilCdSO ehptItS. Inc FUNDAMENTAL
change that is needed is proper amend
ment of the Constitution giving to the
people who pay the taxes some effective
say in how the tax money is to be raised
and how it is to be spent; a change
which will make officials transacting
business for the taxpayers responsive to
the sentiment of the taxpayers; change
which will admit to the councils of gov
ernment those who are governed.
Local taxpayers will join heartily with
Representative Kennedy's expressed hope
that the new survey will not produce
another report that will go on the shelf"
but will bring about a reorganization
"that will give the District of Columbia
q modern governmental machine" But
as long as the study concerns itself
merely with functions and administra-
tive procedures, it will remain largely
superficial.
Evening star., 1938-05-08

The spirit of determination manifested
by Japan threatens to be complicated by
a Determination of the books. In every
war the expert accountant figures to a
greater or less extent.
Evening star., 1938-05-08

A quantity of gold back in the hills of
Kentucky attracted passing attention in
the financial systems of the world until
the announcement of another gilt-edged
horse race came along and monopolized
the attention of large element of the
influential public.
Evening star., 1938-05-08

The chairman of r. F. c., Mr.. Jesse
Jones, remarks that If banking is to re-
main in private hands it must meet the
needs of the country. The question of
whether the payment of interest has ever
been out of private hands will call for
large amount of historical reading.
Evening star., 1938-05-08

The Spanish government is confident
Of ultimate victory in a civil war. The
work of enabling the people to restore
conditions permitting the enjoyment of
peace represents the next step in Sc
rious enterprise.
Evening star., 1938-05-08

A Cuban woman has given septuplets
to the world, thus beating the Dionne
record by two human beings. The
seventh member Of the new colony is
boy and will probably save trouble
eventually by asserting the masculine
right to keep the family in order.