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The Washington times., 1938-10-21
Better Pick
A PUShOUer
THE MEXICAN WAR

of 1846-47 was good from our point of view,
though it was indeed an imperiast war.
It short war, peppered with
1t was exciting American victories and
1yuz starred with some brilliant strategy
"OO" " on the part of Gems Zachary Taylor
and Winfield Scott and it for the present States
of Texas, California, Nevada and Utah, parts of Colo
RADIO and Wyoming, and most of New Mexico and
Arizona We believe is better for the United States.
and indeed for the world whole that this territory
is now included r the United States rather than in
Mexico
There have been plenty of other good wars, too
good in the that they settled longstandng dis
putes as lance settles boil, transferred territory
to more deserving hands than those owning before
the began.
But it is another question whether nations stand
the costs of modern warfare, what with science i'm
proving soldiers health while taking hostile soldiers
farther and farther away from another in battle
and protecting them more efficiently.
There's cheering fact, anyway, about war; When
the major Napoecnic began in 1900, Europe's
population was estimated at 125 100000 It about
45OOOO,OOO in 1914; and it is about ats, 900
War seems to stimulate birth we'll bring DEATH
The huge costs of also lead us to wonder
whether
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The Inquiring
Photographer
The Washington Times in
vites you to submit timely
and interesting questions to
be used in this column.
THE QUESTION

A working girl says that she
would rather spend her money
on expensive clothes and live in
a cheap apartment. Would you?
THE ANSWERS
Miss Lillian Spear. 3109 Gar.
field st. N. W., Government EN-.
ploVe.
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The Costs of Modern War

war before Fred Paisley wrote series of articles on
the subject while the Czech
Balance Sheet on osloVakia hot
por.Torneo Rneie We list here the i'm
portant war-cost figures, as
compiled by Mr.. Paisley after lot of actual digging
in War Department files and records in
Washington.
Per-corpse costs in the World War averaged out
to $1,000 for the Germans, $4,000 for the Allies,
$55,OOO for the Americans. There were exceptional
cases of extra high per-corpse COST however.
One striking example the per-corpse cost of the
big gun with which the Germans sheed Paris from
80 miles away II cost $4,000 900 to fire the 5000
shells which this type gun tossed at Paris in the spring
and summer of 1918; and the shells killed only 1000
persons. Cost $4,000 per corpse
Our bill for downing German plane worked
out to $15OOO,OOO ($1,2OO 900 900 spent on Amer
ican aviation in the war; 776 German planes brought
down by pilots-flyng other nations planes by
the way, because at that time no good for
tighting). This grotesque than the cost
to Germany of killing each British citizen (mostly Lon
doners) that the Germans managed to kill by Zep-
pelir-$655, 000
Airplane percorpse costs in the next great war are
expected to to around $4,000. Zeppelin per-
corpse costs will probably ~eman around 1855 OOO-
assuming Zeps kill anybody at all in the next great war;
Actual money spent by the warning nations came to
astronomical figures We laid out $22, ,625 900 OOO
Great Britain, $3.50 100000; France $24,265,-
100000; Germany, 100000,
Better PIck 900. We loaned about $10,OOO,-
A PuehOUor 100000 to the Allies in addition
to expenses
The moral of it all, it, is that nation
which doesn't want to bankrupt itself in modern
had better pick pushover enemy.
When two nations with about equal resources
power and machines line up against each other the
result is likely to be long and horribly expensive
deadlock, the World War
Not that we're pacifists We think, for example,
The Washington times., 1938-10-21
Whan1!

What in the world is the mat
ter with your paper about this
medical controversy? Why don't
you come right out and show
the people how the doctors are
banded together to keep us from
getting the care we need unless
we pay through the nose?
1 know they take on a lot of
people who cannot pay any
thing, but what about us who
cannot afford to pay the fancy
prices rich people can pay? Are
you scared the medical associa-
ton would make it too hot for
you? JOHN B. COOPER, JR.
The Washington times., 1938-10-21
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE


the riterswi be omite
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trians can see and be seen by
them. PORTRUSH.
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The Best Featherweights

For weeks we have been read
ing that joey Archibald was
the best featherweight in the
land. Then when he chose to
fight in New York instead of
for coffee-and-cake money here,
some sports writer's turn tail
and decide that two second
raterS, Kodak and Miller, sched-
uled to fight here for myth
cal title, are superior to Archi-
bald.
Maybe my slant on this is
wrong, but it looks as though
Goldie Ahearn has a ring
through the noses of the Wash
ington sports writer's.
YOURS FOR FAIR PLAY.
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A "ViciOus" Cartoon

1 consider your cartoon with
Wednesdays editorial the most
despicable thing I have ever
seen in many years of personal
newspaper special correspond
ence! The most contemplate
most viciouS-most deSpicable
emination from a male brain.
That SNUG grin-and the pose
of the H. H.-rotten--rotten.
ROTTEN The SNUG one is too
namely SNUG! The libel of the
The Washington times., 1938-10-21

get her opinion.
But later on I did get in touch
with her-and she told me 1
should by all means have in
The Washington times., 1938-10-21
Hospital, nurse:

"-- - -~~oeSSary for a work
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-13
ANOTHER BLOW
FOR FATHERS
(ChriStidn Science Monitor)

Some ten thousand London school
children, by the simple process of taking
an intelligence test, have dealt another
blow to father. Fathers are an un-
fortunate set. No one praises them.
Mothers, crowned with laurels, get but
tered up all over. Two celebrated English
dramatistS have recently published auto
biographies full of praises on the mater
nal side, but somewhat critical of other
branches of the family. And now even
the children have Joined in; all the more
effectively, perhaps, from not knowing
exactly what they were doing.
1t seems that Londons cleverest chill
dren are the sons and daughters of uni
versity teachers. The children of profeS-
sional people come next, followed by
those who have been brought up in the
atmosphere of big business. Right at the
bottom are the children surrounded from
birth by an atmosphere of want and pow
erty. This educational inquiry carried
out by Prof. J. L. Gray and Miss Mosh-
insky, leads to the conclusion that the
scholastic ability of children in the mass,
though not necessarily individually,
varies according to the professional and
social status of their parents as reflected
in the opportunities that this status pro-
vides.
To this rule, however, there is one
important exception. The children of
ordinary seamen rank much higher than
might have been expected. 1t is suggest
ed that this is because they see so little
of their fathers, who are naturally away
from home a great deal.
But fathers, much maligned though
they be, are noble fellows. They can rise
above their natural chagrin at the result
of these Investigations so far as it affects
them personally, and patriotically rel oice
that the final conclusion of all is that
Great Britain, like other countries, is
fully equipped with an inexhaustible
store of gifted children.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-13
A BREATHING SPELL
AFTER HIGH SCHOOL

Dr. Merton E. Hill, director of admis-
sions at the University of California. de-
clares it is not always advisable for young
people to spend their early years con-
tinuously in high school and college. A
breathing spell between the two often
gives the pupil better background for
the learning that will be placed before
him in college, the educator believes.
His findings have been justified in
numerous instances. Often success in
later life goes to the student who be-
cause he worked for year or two before
entering college, learned the most i'm
portant thing of all: that college train
ing can be valuable to him only if he him
self makes it so.
Too often young men and women, 60
ing directly from high school to college,
carry with them the idea that their les
sons are something to be avoided if pos
sible, studied as little as necessary, or
forgotten almost Immediately. They have
not learned the seriousness of study.
They have no actual experience to teach
them what benefits they can derive if
they will. They regard school as a social
institution made slightly unpleasant by
the need for a certain amount of study.
The student who spends a couple of
years earning his way, rubbing elbows
against the grindstone of a dreary job,
battling against the competition he meets
in the "outside' world, learns that his
advancement is based on his knowledge,
and resolves that his college education
shall be more than social interlude
Behind in years, yet he enters college with
head start on those who have never had
occasion to learn that they need more
than pleasant smile and an Oxford
accent when they come to grips with a
Job.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-13
JUST ANOTHER
RICH YOUNG MAN

Born with a silver spoon in his mouth
was this fellow A life of luxury was his.
There was so much money in the family
Golfers that he couldn't even count it
until he got into the higher mathematics
IN college. Work? There was no need
Tor him to work.
He was lust another rich young
man."
He is Howard Hughes, sportsman,
fllm producer, oil executive and round
the-world aviator He's one rich young
man who took the silver spoon in his
teeth and ran away with popular tradi-
tion. The pity of it is moth that there are
not more like him; it is that we don't
hear more of the others like him.
The great American public has con-
ceived, largely through newspaper head
lines, the idea that all rich young men are
playboyS, scapegraces and Don JuanS of
rather Objectionable type. The idea
took root and grew because that is the
kind we hear most about. Their worth
less exploits are, usually, more sensation
al news than the worthwhile things their
equally rich, but far more sensible
brothers do.
Hughes is among the best examples of
the men who prove that wealth does not
always destroy character. Most of his
life he has worked as hard as any poor
man. His feats in aviation have added
materially to the knowledge of engineers
and fliers dealing with technical prob
lens. The films he has produced have
brought entertainment to millions. The
business he has directed has prospered
and given employment to hundreds.
When we hear of the Barbara Huttons
and the young men who are her type, it
is only fair to consider that there are
also the Howard Hughes, and the other
young men and women who are his type.
Character, not money, is the thing that
creates good men and worthless ones.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-13
Auction Philosophy
BY DOC Zinn

Folks, about the best thing I have
seen about the presidents trip was
the telegram the vice president,
Jack Garner, sent the president.
Said he was too busy making a
living to be galloping around to
see the president on his trip to
Texas, or something to that effect,
and the way the president answered
him back, said: Jack wet line
for me and give my best regards to
boss No. L. showing even presidents
recognize constituted authority.
This is the first president I ever
felt we'll enough acquainted with
through his fireside chats with us
and his humanitarian principles to
say, Franklin, when you get away
down in the south seas away from
boss No. 1, where you can do about
as you darn please, just wet line
for me-
Folks, any man who keeps his
young family together for eight
years taking as near as possible
both a father and mothers place,
deserves a world of credit. Such
a man was Cal MouSseau and my
heartfelt sympathy goes out to
those dear ones of Gals, in their
hour of bereavement.
I'll be seein' you.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-13
SALES TAX INITI4TITE
SNAGGED IN COURT
(HdnfOrd Sentinei)

Action taken in the courts of Fresno
county to restrain the county clerk from
certifying signatures on the initiative
petition for the repeal of the sales tax
should be copied elsewhere and whenever
there is ground for the belief that such
signatures are irregular or have been OBJ
tanned illegally. The initiative measure,
in the first place, is sham and a subter-
fuge to foist upon the state an unWork-
able tax plan by killing the effective and
not too burdenSOme sales tax. AS a
sham and subterfuge it should be defeat
ed even before it gains a position on the
ballot
1t is true that the sales tax has its
drawbacks and its inequalities, but on the
other hand it is virtually necessary to
the state under the present conditions
Any tax plan has its enemies and some
taxpayers oppose every form of tax. The
sales tax, because everybody must pay it,
is the most equitable method yet devised
to meet budget requirements.
Complaint is made in the Fresno court
that signatures to the initiative petitions
were obtained by persons not qualified
to obtain them and that they were OBJ
tanned by fraudulent methods. Such
charges are serious and should be proved
or disproved. Meanwhile, until the court
finally determines the legal status of
signatures thus far obtained voters should
be warned to beware of signing petitions
about which they know little or nothing.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-13
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF OIL PROTECTION
CHARGE DUE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
That | have received from the De-
partment of Natural Resources the
record of assessments and charges
for Petroleum and Gas for the cur
rent year.
The charges therein assessed and
levied are due and payable on the
1lrst Monday in July and one half
thereof will be delinquent on the
sixth Monday after the first Monday
IN July at six o'clock, PM, August
ID, 1898, and unless paid to the
State Treasurer at the Capitol prior
thereto, fifteen per cent will be
added to the amount thereof, and
unless paid prior to the first Monday
In February next thereafter at six
o'clock PM. February 6, 1899, an
additional five per cent will be
added to the amount thereof; and
the remaining one-half of said
charges will become delinquent on
the first Monday in February next
succeeding the day upon which
they become due and payable, at
six o'clock PM. February 6, 1899,
and if not paid TO the State Treas
urer at the Capitol prior thereto,
five per cent will be added to the
amount thereof.
HARRY B. RILEY,
Controller.
BY BERT FOSTER,
Deputy.
Dated at Sacramento, California,
this 7th day of July, 1888.
i 11-15 incl
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-13
Well I'll
TeIiYou..
says
Bob Burns

don't believe that authors and
artists are any more tempera-
mental than anybody else. 1 be-
lieve that it's perfectly natural for
anybody to be sensitive about
something they create themselves.
was talking TO sales manager
of firm out here the other day
and he said, II don't mind my
stenographer chewin' gum, powder
ing, painting or loafine, but it
sure gets me when she yawns while
I'm debating one of my snappy
sales letters"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-13
Daughter Born
To RusseIIs in
Imperial
IMPERIAL NOTES

Mr.. and Mrs. r. Russell announc-
ed the arrival of a daughter bor,
to them Sunday. The baby weighed
six pounds. 1t was named Shirlene
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Templeton and
family spent the holidays in Long
Beach visiting the Joe Jardin fam
lily who live there. The Jardins are
former residents of Holtville and
were frequent visitors in Imperia1.
Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Harris
and family and Mrs. Scott p
Schaeffer motored to San Diego
Sunday morning to spend a few
days in Chula Vista with relatives.
Mrs. Schaeffer has been spending
a few weeks with the Harrises and
she remained ;n Chula Vista with
her sister Mrs. Joe Nelson for a
while. There was a sort of reunion
on the 4th when all the brothers
and sisters and their families motor
ed to that city to spend the day.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Madden and
daughter, Margaret, spent Monday
in San Diego.
Mrs. H. v. Gray Is spending a
few days in San Diego visiting her
cousin.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Anderson of
FL Centro were the dinner guests
of Mrs. Walter Pool and family
Wednesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rmilton Chapman
and daughter, Sharon, and Mr. and
Mrs. Gerald Port of Ell Centre spent
the holidays in the coast cities of
San Diego, Long Beach and Ocean
side. Chapman and Port were
visiting the cities ball leagues.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. BrisSenden
and family returned recently from
a feW days Visit IN JacumDa.
Willie Alice McChristy spent the
past few days in Ell Centre with
Mrs. A. p. Philbrick while her
parents spent the holidays in San
Diego.
Bill Dunn returned recently from
Inglewood where he spent a week
repairing the Dunn home there for
summer occupancy.
DIR. and Mrs Williams and fam
lily spent the holidays on the coast.
jerome Wilson left Imperial Sum
day morning for Rosemead where
he recently has accepted a job.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-13


one job, then another; moving from
town to town. and from house L
house. Bette has lived in seventy
different housesl
Her mother worked in a photo
graph gallery trying TO earn enough
money to put Bette through school
But she couldn't do it. Well, Bette
solved the problem. She became q
waitress.
Il cried a lot about it at first,
she said but in the end my hard
ship turned out to be an asset. ]
began 10 study the people waited
on. And how many times I've used
this knowledge in portraying roles
I had to play
She decided to come to New York
and get a job on the stage. Hel
mother came with her They were
SO poor that her mother had to
sleep on two chairs with a suit
case propped between them.
Bette went to see Eva LIE Gal
liene, who was the last word in
the theatre.
You will never be able to act,
said Eva lie Galliene.
Bette was SO stunned that she
went back to Massachusetts and
stayed six months with no spirit to
look for work. Then she decided
not to be licked by one person S
opinion SO she got a job with a
theatre in Rochester, New York.
George Cukor, now movie direc-
tor, wrote her a letter firing her;
said she never would be an actress
But she would not give up. She
went to Cape Cod to get a job in a
summer theatre. But the place
was filled-SO she took job as
usher. One day an actress became
i'll; they needed someone to fill her
part. That was one step upward
Finally she got to Hollywood and
Carl Laemmle, jr.. gave her a
screen teSt-and told her to pre-
tend she was kissing man she
was passionately in love with. Nc
man was there. But she had to kiss
the empty air. But she did it sc
well she got the job. The picture
was, 10000 Years in Sing Sing
She plugged doggedly ahead, al
lowing nothing to deter her. FL
nally she got more important roles
You saw her with George Arliss in
The Man Who Played God; in The
Petrified Forest, OF Human Bond
age, and Jezebel. In 1885 she won
the highest possible honor in mo-
ton pictureS--the Academy Award
for her performance in Danger
ous"; the finest acting of that
year
The little eXwaitress now gets
$4,000 a week. Let's learn from
Bette Davis. Decide what you want
to do and let nothing deter you
If you will do it, and will work
earnestly, some day the way may
open and you too may achieve
heights that seem impossible. True,
not everyone can do it. But you
may. At any rate, there is a lot
of fun in trying
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-13

her name is
Bette Davis.
She wanted to
be an actress.
Fate said she
could not be one.
So she chased
Fate up a tree
and this is the
way she did it.
When she was
eight years old
her parents were
divorced. 1t was
hard shedding for
l,,,. ,s.A4l Tr.4
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-13
Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

l. What U. S. legislative body
has sole power to try federal i'm
peachments?
2. In what state is Acadia ma
tional park?
3. What is the lightest sub
stance know to science?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-13
News Behind
the News
Jinmy'S Insurance
Nobody Talks E.
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

WASHINGTON.-Publtc allega
ton that Jimmy Roosevelt contin-
ued to operate in the insurance
business whiIe serving as seciS-
tary and chief aide to the Presi-
dent has aroused intense curiosity
in Washington as to whether this
story can possibly be true.
No one at the White House Is
willing to try to satisfy this curl
oSity
That's a matter between AlVa
and Jimmy" inquirerS there are
told. Reference is to Alva Johnston
whose magazine article on Jimmy S
spectacular success in theinSurance
business during recent years has
attracted national attention.
Jimmy is in hospital and has
alleged certain unSpecified mis-
representations in the article, but
whether he means to include amoug
such alleged misrepresentation the
assertions that since his formal re-
signation from the Roosevelt and
Sargent insurance firm he has
continued to pursue his insurance
operations vigorously. can not
be learned.
Here in Washington it gener-
ally has been assumed, with no evi-
dence to the contrary, that Jimmy
had stopped selling policies, al
though it is assumed also that he
still had large income from huge
policies previously sold.
Back in the Hoover admins
station it was charged that the late
James Francis E.Irke, lawyer
lobbyist who was general counsel
for the Republican National Com
mittee, had used White House office
space and White House stationery
for private business purposes. Mr..
Hoover moved Burke out of the
White House
man of the committee about to in
VeStigate "un-American activities, y
has one of the loudeSt voices in
the House - possibly the loudest.
Leather lunged, theatrical, boist-
erous, large and husky Dies repre-
sents an East Texas district once
dominated by the Ku Klux Klan.
Dies himself has opposed the Klan,
but knows how TO get votes by
denouncing the CLIO. and aliens.
Although his resolutions for the
present investigation was opposed
by House liberals who feared it
was so broad that it would be used
against organized labor and al
though Washington supposed Dies
was bent on a red batting eXped-
ition, the Texan has begun by ask
ing the Department of Justice for
its secret reports on operations OF
the Nazi German American Bund.
And Dies has promised that the
inquiry will be in no sense an at
tempt to abridge freedom of speech
by citizens.
Dies likes colored shirts and
small black bow ties. He was ad-
mitted to the bar at 10, became
known as the boy debater" and
after election to Congress in 1890
became a champion of silver legis-
lation.
His friends know him as funny
fellow and Supreme Shouter" of the
"DemagogueS' Club a cloakroom
organization facetiously pledged to
favor all appropriation bills and
oppose all tax bills" He has been
known to take a collection for the
widow of the Unknown Soldier" "
A recalcitrant member of the
House Rules Committee which three
times sought to keep the House
from voting on wage hour legis-
lation, Dies presumably would be
on the New Deal purge" list If
there seemed any chance of de-
feating him.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-07-13
Barbs -

A story arrives of a 1O0-year-old
Scotchman who came to the U. S.
as a child and has just taken out
his citizenship papers. 1t seems he'd
been hearing lately that the u. S.
was one of the few remaining free
countries