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Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
YOU CANNOT
KEEP POUNDING

In 1929 you could find as many rea-
sons for the depression as their were
business men.
In 1888 you can find only one big rea-
son for the recession.
Uncertainty!
General r. E. Wood, president of Sears
Roebuck & Company, puts it about as
aptly as any observer whose opinion or
the matter has been quoted.
Hitting a man on the head constantly
is a poor way to inspire confidence in
him." said Gen Wood during a visit to
Los Angeles. That is what is happen
ing to business at the hands of govern
ment, and there is little wonder business
is not going ahead.
Gen. Wood at the same time points out
what so many other economists and bust
ness experts have pointed out There is
no logical reason for a recession in this
country. Credit is in good shape, demand
is sufficient. and reserves. tools, equip
ment and intelligent labor are at hand.
Only confidence is lacking.
One of the best examples we have seen
of the forces that drive confidence out
the door came the other day in the Presl-
dents speech Not entirely the speech,
either. but the things which went before,
as well.
Administration attacks on business had
been pretty general for long time when
orders came down from Capitol Hill that
none of the administration speakers was
to engage in fiery barrages against bust
ness. Always hoping, business took this
as meaning that there might be a break
ing spell. There was. II lasted for about
a month. Then the President himself
broke the spell. Business was held up
before the nation again as an ogre that
devours laborers, happiness and freedom,
and out Of which no good ever comes.
The natural result is uncertainty.
Business does not know from one day
to the next what legislation will come
out of the administration displeasure.
There is no way of telling what new,
costly restrictive measures will be placed
on business.
The natural result is fear that keeps
business men from undertaking any new
endeavors, or making any new capital
outlays, or ordering large stocks from
other business men.
Business is ready to heed the green
light-when the green light is switched
on.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
ONE METHOD OF
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

Mrs. Bessie Ochs, chief Of an organi-
zation named The Neutral Thousands,
mentioned fact in her speech at Braw-
ley Monday noon, which, we believe, IS
not known to many laboring men.
1t is that worker need not be mem
Der of a labor union to take advantage
of the collective bargaining provision OF
the Wagner Labor Relations Act.
This collective bargaining provision
has been the weapon used by too many
radical labor organizers, who give the
laborers to understand that they cannot
bargain collectively with their employer
unless they are members of union.
That is not true.
Employees in any establishment, under
the Wagner act, are entitled to discuss
with their employer their desires, wheth
er those desires refer TO higher wages,
better working conditions or unfair treat
ment by foremen. They can form their
own union even though it have more than
four or five members, and can designate
it as their collective bargaining agency.
If all laborers understand this simple
fact. we believe there would be far less
labor trouble stirred up by radical labor
organizations.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
IS CONSTITUTION OF SUCH STUFF
AS DREAMS ARE MADE OF?

Awake" to those who choose to
sleep?
When it is too late there will be
no help for those who do not help
themselves in this hour of peril
to the republic.
Thoughts are free" we say, but
soon that may be all. The attempt
to subpoena the national committee
to uphold constitutional govern
ment last week for issuing petit
tions to congress is a dangerous
signal to all of what is coming.
Is there no Gabriel to blow
trumpet?
The Executive Reorganization
Bill is menace to everybody's free
dom. 1t breaks constitutional safe
guards and opens the way to one
man rule. The people must speak
to congress at once, for danger
is near. l and my friends have
written and are protesting to our
senators and congressman against
passage of this bill in any form.
We hope you and your readers will
90 likewise at once. Hours count.
lSigned) LENA EVANS,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
Famous Sayings
Bruce Cation Says
= An Object Lesson for Big City Police

For a year and a half two de-
tectives have searched for the
maniac torso killer" who butcher
ed nine victims in Cleveland be-
tween September 1885, and July
1887. Peter Merylo and Martin Zal-
eWski have not found the mad
killer-but they have made Cleve-
land a much safer city to live in
and along with that they have
given an object lesson to other
large American cities.
You remember the story of the
torso killer. 1t is a story to equal
the most hideous of all crime
stories. Apparently working alone
and always attacking unknown,
friendless wayfarers, this madman
has struck nine times. That is, the
police have found nine bodies.
There may be more. Always the
bodies were decapitated. Always
they were found in lonely, tumble
down sections of the city. There
were no clews. Merylo and Zalew-
ski were working blind when they
started on the case,
The two detectives have arrested
300 suspicious characters around
the Kingsbury Run jungletown
that is believed to be the hangout
of the mad killer. Careful checks
showed that none Of the 300 was
the murderer. But Merrylo and
zalewski have gotten other con-
victionS against a third of the 30C
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
THE TIDE STILL
TURNS WEST

We can no longer expect to expand TO the
WeSt' The nation last week priCkcd up its
cars at that announcement from the lips of an
Eastern Congressman.
"Seventy-five years ago" said CONGRESSMAN
Lundeen Of Minnesota. "A boy could go West
and acquire home and 4 chance to earn
living Today those opportunities are gonei"
1t is strange that in this clOse-knit country
OF ours any adult should honestly believe that
because the first great gold rush is over, the
West has nothing more to offer
California along with her sister Pacific
StateS-rich in resources in sold and silver and
copper. in industrial minerals timber, natural
gas oil. coal and low-cost power-is only Just
sighting her new industrial destiny That is
the opinion. not alone of industrial leaders OF
the eleven western states, but of technicianS
and engineering experts. and Of federal and
state governments. cooperating at the very mo-
ment to make the rest of the world conscious of
the untapped potentaliteS of the West Its
no visionary dream-for both state and federal
governments. and both privately and publicly
owned utilities are backing their Judgment with
their money. financing current surveys and a
giant industrial map to be made available to
the world at the coming International EXposi-
tion.
The hard-riding. gun-toting Old West. per-
haps, is gone. But the New West-the Industrial
VESTS herewith a back-country whose re-
sources are fabulous; West which the experts
believe will bring us billions in new capital for
the development of thriving new empire,
Sproutng factories and SmelterS huge diStribut
ing centers and bustling cities
The hopes and aspirations of young America
damming up behind the barrier of economic
circumstance" says Lundeen.
Perhaps that barrier will be broken, Just as
earlier barriers have been broken-by men with
vision and courage to seek fields for their
work and for their capital and by youth. eager
for conquest, with the strength and the enthus-
iasm to build
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29

many of whom we're potentially
as dangerous as the maniac fugi-
tive. They have been responsible
for the confinement of AZ insane
persons
Most of the men convicted were
potential muderers Many of them
were the worst kind of sex Grim
inals, the crazed men whose ami
NAL brains conceive inhuman
brutalities. And all of them were
free men, walking the streets of
great city because the police just
hadn't done the work necessary to
get them into jails or insane asy-
lumS.
Merylo and zalewski are conf
dent that they will eventually get
their man, despite the fact that
the last body was found around
nine months gao. But whether they
succeed or not, the two men have
already performed two great serv-
ices.
First, they have jailed 100 men.
most of whom were fully capable
of and willing to commit murder.
More important, they have called
attention to the fact that these
menaces to society were at large
not because they were the story
book tpye of criminals too clever
for the police, but simply because
the police had never gotten around
to the detailed searching and day
after-day hammering that was
needed to round them up.
The odds are that most large
cities have their full share of such
potential killers, men ready to
commit any crime from petty
burglary to a murderous attack on
a woman or child.
Peter Merylo and Martin zalc-
Wski have taught Cleveland and
the nation a lesson. 1t ! to be
hoped that the lesson will be well
learned.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
TO THE EDITOR

A Nation which sits Supinely by
and watches the locust devour its
heritage of freedom, without an ef-
fort worthy of its founders, merits
what it is getting today. Is it that
the people are blind to what is
taking place or are they incredu-
lous?
What would the men, who VEN
tured all and risked all, say If they
knew that the Constitution was
but of such stuff as dreams are
made of?
What a beautiful dream to have
had and what will replace it?
Our Constitution, marvel of the
world, durable by its elasticity Is
now to be torn apart by those en-
dowed with no constructive intel
lects. What better do they dare
think to give us?
I am a descendant of many Of
those whose lives were interviewer
with the birth Of the nation, and
my heart is full of bitterness. OF
what avail is II to say America
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
SUNDAY Lines. Londnnl

At what is Mr. Chamberlain aiming? Not
merely at agreement with Italy, but at peace for
the world He is as alive to the difficulties
anybody But he sees that unless they are grap-
pied with mankind will drift to catastrophe
Things must either be made much better, or be-
fore long they will become much worse. Italy
and Germany, the two European Great Powers
who are dissatisfied with their International
position, must either be back into sponta
neous accord with the others, or we may see
the horror of l9l4-l3 repeating itself.
To avert calamity. TO secure the adhesion Of
all the powers TO permanent agreement, is
the task of craftsmanship. To that pillow Mr..
Chamberlain has set his hand, and he will not
turn back while any hope remains.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
Other Editors Saw
CPorterville Recorder

California agriculture is forced to battle with
unceaSing vigor the apparently fixed idea in
WASHINGTON that this States speciality crops
make good trading in the negotiations Of recipro
fails to prevent tariff reductions many prod
ucts peculiar to this state alone.
At the moment a trade treaty with Turkey
seems to be on the griddle, with proponents OF
the document proposing to cut the tariff on
Turkish raiSins figs and filberts, in return for
concessions from Turkey relative to American
manufactured products If raisins and figs were
raised in large number of states, as is wheat
for example. such wall of protest would be
registered as to impress Congressional ground
listeners - perhaps. California legislators and
farm representatives have put up strong fight
against the proposal, but whether this states
voice is strong enough to win against the voice
of large New York importing interests, and the
apathy of other agricultural states not parti-
cularly interested in raiSins or figs, remains to
be seen.
Avocado growers of California for several
years past have been trying to get something
done about the trade agreement with Cuba, which
lifts the tariff from Cuban avocados entirely
during certain seasons of the year, seasons during
which the Cuban avocado ripens for the Atlantic
Seaboard trade This agreement is costing the
rapidly growing avocado industry Of southern
California a fortune, it is claimed.
Roy Pike. Stanislaus county exporter of
dried fruit during a conference in Sacramento
between farm leaders and various agricultural
department chiefs from Washington voiced the
general plea of agriculture when he said it was
time for the United States to quit importing
three dollars worth of farm products for every
dollars worth it exports. If this statement any
where nearly represents the balance of agri-
culture foreign trade there would seem to be
real need for honest and non-politcal read
juStment.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29

recently SpeILDale carnegie
the weekend with that boy. His
name is Charles r. Walgreen.
Charles Walgreens pavement
pounding was eventually rewarded.
He got a job in a drug store at
Bowen and Cottage Avenues for
which he received $35 a month.
Not much, but it was more than
farm hands received They received
$40.
lie worked hard and was doing
we'll and then
A regular dill pickle OF a WON
an bustled in one day and ordered
a glass of Vichy water, and she
wanted it in a hurry. Young Wal
green was washing glasses in water
which had sodium bicarbonate in it.
The woman was SO hurried that
he filled a glass without drying it,
and handed it TO her. She disdain
fully pushed it aside, called w. G
Valentine, the owner, and proceed
ed to tell what she thought about
a young snip who would serve her
a drink in a Soiled glass.
Mr.. Valentine knew the glass
wasn't dirty but, wishing to ease
the spouting verbal Volcano, h.
laid the blame on the boy.
The boy said things into his So
dium bicarbonate that made II
sizzle He decided TO resign then
and there, and he thought up 4
lot of sizzling words to do it with
too
But before he could turn em
loose. the Boss went out TO lunch
While he was gone, young Wal
green decided upon a terrible re-
venge. He said TO himself: Tn
no good now, and if l quit, the
Boss will probably be glad. I'm 60
ing to make myself the best drug
clerk in Chicago, and then I'll quit
He'll be sorry. He'll beg me TO stay
AMI III tell him to take his old
drug store and 60 jump in the
lake!"
He stuck grimly 10 his idea, work
ed hard, kept long hours and wait
ed on customers with tremendous
enthusiasm.
Then one day the Boss said,
Charley, you're a changed boy
You're a marvel I'm going to raise
your wages ten dollars month"
The boy was flabbergasted. He
had never thought of such an out
come.
YOU haven't read ALL the NEWS
until yOu READ the ADSl
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
Barbs -

With anti-Nazi hatred reaching
an all-time high, Hitler should
find comfort in reading, BE Glad
You're Alive
McNutt definitely gives up any
designs on becoming president of
the University of Indiana. He may
be more interested in the Electoral
College.
Americans owners OF Mexican
oil wells are up in the air over at
temptS to squeeze them out. APP
parently Mexican Gil is not the
kind that soothes troubled waters.
A senator claims that one fed
cral bureau employs only red
heads. Maybe the government is
being run by Reds after all.
Hitler, we learn
With no great concern,
Finds his speaking must wait
On problems of state.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
Photographs

The rear of the u. S. Capitol
building faces the principal portion
of Washington, ID. c. Since the
building was completed the city
has expanded toward the north and
west SO that the capitol now is in
the southeast section.
The U. S. public health service
has found that the death rate
among unskilled and poorly paid
workers is much higher than
among professional and high-sal-
aried men.
In order to read intelligently, a
Chinese must learn at least 5000
characters. An educated Chinese
knows approximately 10000 char
acters.
OF the 100000 lcpers in the
world. continental United States
contains merely 1900.
A Well-knoWn American novelist
asserts he has received more thar
1000 rejection slips.
Members of the cat family are
considered the most nearly perfect
quadrupeds.
A special newspaper for beggarS
is published in Paris, France.
The International Federation OF
Business a ID Professional Womer
has inaugur tied campaign to get
more women into high public Of
flee.
At least 1000 applications from
persons who wish to be presented
at the Brush court have been &C
ceived this var at ST. James rai.
ace.
American Indians were familiar
with rubber long before Columbus
discovered the continent.
A true old timer is fellow whit
can remember way back when tht
boil weevil menace was big new!
on the front page.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
News Behind
the News
The Profits Tax
NeiU DeaFS Last Stand
Ry RODNEY BUTCHER

WASHINGTON. - Secretary OIL
State Hull who may be our next
President. insists on moving farther
away from strict neutrality and $50
lation and toward position where
the United States can move on to
actual intervention in world affairs
if and when its executive heads
deem that to be wise.
This was the chief significance
of the speech which Hull made at
the National Press Club for broad
cast to the world.
First of all, Hull naided down
positions previously taken in his
step-by-step delineation Of a fo1-
eign policy whose actual signifi-
canoe is questioned by isolationists
ana pacifists.
He emphasized this cOuntry's in
terest in orderly international pro-
cess throughout the World-not
merely in China-and implied strong
disapproval of the German seizure OF
Austria as we'll as an intense inter
est in European affairs.
He dWelt on the desirability OF
parallel action by peaceful nations
against "laWless" nations-a point
of considerable importance when
one gets to specializing as to how
close parallel lines can approach
each other without becoming the
same line. And he re-emphaSized
an intention to protect American
rights and interests abroad. IN
tereSts' is one of the English Ian
gauges broadcast words.
Finally, and very cautiously, Hull
laid the groundwork for drive to
repeal the neutrality act. The adj
ministration will make no frontal
attack on the law. But on March
20 the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee, under Hull's friend and fel-
low Tennessean Sam McReynolds
will begin hearings on a number Of
bills for its repeal or amendment
Such foreign affairs stalwarts as
ex-Secretary of State Henry L
StimSon and DR.. James I. ShotWell
are expected to criticize neutrality
act provisions. Whether anyone
from the State Department will ap-
pear is uncertain.
Hull says that application of the
act to the JapaneSe-ChineSe Strug-
Gle would have defeated the pur-
pose of the legislators. If Japar
had declared war on China, how
ever, application of the act pre-
sumably would have been manda-
tory-a situation which the admin
istration wants to avoid.
Repeal Of the act would remove
the last check on the President
power to take the country into war
He has that power, although the
formality of declaring war is left tc
Congress.
This government will make nt
move in international affairs I'M
til it learns what the British ant
French are going to do. This ap
plies to proposals to end the EN-
barge on arms to Spain, which
prevents shipments of munitions tC
the recognized republican govern
ment while permitting export OF
aerial bombs and engines to Ger
many and Italy for use against
Spanish citizens.
Hull and President Roosevelt
privately regret that they ever
supported the Spanish neutral
ty" bill At a time when the
would like to throw at least the
countrys full moral weight against
the "lawless" nations about which
they feel so bitterly, they're EN-
barrassed by a rising cry Of pro-
test against the manner in which
this country has helped hobblC
the Spanish governments desper
ate defense against the troops ol
Mussolini and the bombs of Hitler
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29

no 10 b. The
money he h a 1
made from rails.
ing hogs and
shucking corn
soon trio k l e d
away. At last, he
had only -four
cents left.
Il m i g h t as
well start fro m
scratch" he said
a n d threw those
four pennies into
the Chicago river
.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
You re Telling Me -
BY WILLIAM RIFT
The Diplomats Dictionary

SPHERE OF FLUENCE-Are
weak enough to be bullied into
comprising all neighboring nations
submitting to the desires of the
diplomats country.
SOLEMN TREATY-A long
Winded document full of resounding
phrases and flourishes, signifying
nothing-Which is just what it was
intended to do.
CHARGE D'AFFAIRES - Office
boy in full-dress uniform, with
medals.
PLEBISCITE- A nation wide
referendum in which the voters
are given a choice of alternatives
to vote the way of the country's
boss, or stay home.
F'AIT ACCOMPLI- Even a dip
lomat probably doesn't know what
it means but, boy it certainly
looks swell in print.
REGRETTABLE, INCIDENT -
An unscehduled fight between
troops on the border-thosc OF the
diplomats country being unques-
tionably the aggreSSorS.
INTERNATIONAL OUTRAGE
Same as above, save that in this
case the other fellows troops start
ed it.
OACHEMENT-(Sc Fait
AccomplD.
FORMAL PROTEST-Means by
which a diplomat ducks an en-
barrassing issues but kids the vot-
ers into think he's leading with a
MASKING right.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
DALE
CARNEGIE
Author of How to Win
Friends and Influence
People

A Swedish boy, born on farm
in Illinois, decided TO go to Chica-
90 and get job. He went, but
finding a job wasn't so easy.
He tramped from place to place
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
WeII> | Il
Tell lYou..
says
Bob Burns

Prcc near any job would he Il
lot easier if fella'd just think
about what he's tryin' TO accom-
rIish instead of how much work
he's doing. The reason an old man
can walk five miles around a solf
course is because he keeps thinkin'
about what he's gonna do to that
ball when he gets to ii. If he had
to get out and walk five miles
down good paved highway, 1T
would probably kill him.
know an old man who ran an
elevator for 35 years. Finally one
day he went to the boss and he
says I'm quittin'-the elevator in
apector told me today that that
thing weighs 1900 pounds and
that's too heavy a load for an old
man like me to be liftin'.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
TOday's Horoscope

Most persons whose birthday oc-
ours today are true lovers Of de-
mocracy. They hate tyranny and
cooperate in movements for better
government.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
Words of Wisdom

As virtue is necessary in a re-
public, fear is required in des-
m.-MonteSquieu.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
ne-Minute Test Answers

|. Claude A. Swanson.
2. Warsaw, a city of approXi
mately 100000 inhabitants.
3. One. the moon.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29

Newest victim of the ruthless
purge being carried out by Nazis
against non-Nazi or anti-Nazi
elements in Austrian life, is the
Hapsburg, Duke Maximilian of
Hohenberg, shown in the photo
above. He is a son of the luck
less Archduke Francis Ferdinand
whose assassination at Sarajevo
in 1914 led TO the World War.
The Duke, with his brother,
Ernest, was active in Austrian
monarchist circles. He is under
arrest, together with other
prominent monarchists.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
Hints on EtiamcLLc

1t Is not good taste to wear
Junk iewelry" Unfortunately.
Ornaments should form note in
general harmony OF line and color.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
Grab Bag
Dup-MinIIf.c Test

O'F IFET'FHt' FFON
/. Who is U. S. secretary of the
navy?
2. Name the capital of Poland.
3. How many satellites has the
Garth?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29
Thoughts for the Day

And The revenger OF blood find him without the bor-
ders of The city OF his refuge and the Of
blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty OF blood.
Numbers 35 :27.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29

It is suggested in British gov
ernment circles, we read, that
handsome, dappcr Anthony Eden
be made ambassador to the United
States. We vote no, With his looks
and ability TO wear clothes Wash
ington wouldn't have him week
before he'd be kidnapped ~ Holly
wood.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29

YOU haven't read ALL the NEWS
until You READ the ADSl
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29

CHARGE D'AFFAIRES - Office
boy in full-dreSs uniform, with
medals.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29

INTERNATIONAL OUTRAGE
Same as above, save that in this
case the other fellows troops start
cd it.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-29

RAPPROACHEMENT- CSce Fait
AccomplD.