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Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-08
Women's Council
Studies India

India was the subject for study
when the members of the Women's
Council of the State Street Chris
tian church met at the Philip
knights residence, 383 Euclid ave-
nue..
Mrs. w. H. Tyler, Jr, and Mrs.
H. Frost contributed interesting pa
pers on the subject. Mrs. Ethelyn
Mills Gillespie delighted the group
with several songs after which Mrs.
knights and Mrs C. E. Pitzer serv-
ed refreshments TO the 16 women
present.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-08
I.V. Boys Bandin
Concert Thursday

First public concert to be given
by the Imperial Valley Boys band
will take place Thursday night at
8 O'Clock in the Holtville gram
mar school according to N. Novak,
director.
The band is composed of 65 boys
and has a repertoire of some 1920
pieces.
The organization is planning
weekly concerts, the dates and
places to be announced later.
Final rehearsal for Thursdays
concert was called for Wednesday
in the Ell Centro Veterans hall.
The concert Thursday is open to
the public and there will be no
admission charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-08
Advanced Bridge
Section Ne cts

Advanced Bridge section of the
Junior Ten Thousand club had an
interesting game of contract Tues
day night when the group met in
Holtville with Mrs. Noval Walker
and Miss Lucille Wells as hostess
ses.
Mrs. Eugene Moore won high
score and Mrs. Lila Reed Scott sec
ond.
Members present, in addition to
the two hostesses were: Mesdames
Louis Galloway, Eugene Moore, r
Y. Watson, Jr., William Pata, Louis
B. McManus; Miss Laura Gilstrap
Miss Velma Scroggins, Miss Mil
dred Record. Guests present were
Mrs. Karl Kaiser and Mrs. Scott.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-08
Smallest Telephone
Company Quits

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 8. CUP
The worlds smallest telephone
company passed out Of existence
today when the California railroad
commission granted permission to
D. H. Briggs of Shasta county TO
give up his three-cuStomer Briggs
Telephone Co.
The line will be taken over and
operated by the California Zinc
company, one of the customers.
The line runs from Baird to De La
Mar, Shasta county.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-08
News Items About
Valley Residents

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Edgar and
their daughter, Mrs. Hazel Edgar
Kegley, all former Ell Centrans, are
visiting relatives in the valley this
week. They planned to spend We'd
nesday night with their daughter,
Mrs. Paul M. Blenkiron and Mr.
Blenkiron, in Caiexico, returning
Thursday to Laguna Mr.. and Mrs
Edgar are pioneer Imperial Valley
residents.
Bob Fox, son of DR.. and Mrs
Warren F. Fox, and Ben Hall of
Los Angeles are spending the mid
semester vacation with Dr. and Mrs.
Fox. Both boys are students at
use. and members of Sigma Nu
fraternity.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-08
Artists Give Program For
Pen Women tuesday

F. Fox. Earle c.. Davis, all of FL
Centre; Mesdames H. L. Dickson,
H. j. Ingram, w A. McFadden,
Clifford Allen. Ed Welch, William
Lowther. Ralph Congreve, Hugh
Maxwell H. A. Hastain. Ross Streva,
all of Brawley; Mrs. William Fowler
Of Calipatria, and Mrs. Charles w.
Colt of Altadena.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-08
Announcements
Of Ne etin9s

Jasper home department. VIII
have a demonstration on the max
ing and baking of pastry at the
meeting to be held Friday at 1:30
y. m. FEB. 10, at the home of Mrs.
Arthur Johnson.
Dams Entire section Of the Ten
Thousand club will meet THURSDAY
night at 7:30 o'clock in the cluo
house for business meeting ana
program.
Imperial Valley WOmen's Demo-
cratic club will have a business seS-
sion Thursday night at 8 o'clock IN
the court house.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-08
Skating Party
Popular

Some 30 members of the Ell Gen.
tro branch of the Catholic Youth
organization enjoyed a gay skating
party Tuesday night at Heber, an
affair that proved so popular that
similar events will be scheduled for
the near future.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-08
CENTER MEETING DELAYED

The meeting OF the Rose Mes
quite farm center, scheduled for
Thursday night, has been postpon-
ed for one month according to Lee
Landerman, assistant farm advisor
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-08

In a Paris court, this woman, who
identified herself as Madame Eucie,
presented her claim to being the
granddaughter of the late Queen
Victoria of England.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-08

YOU haven't read ALL the NEWS
until you've read the ADSi
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-08

SELL farm produce through
Post Press Want Ads,
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-23
Bruckart's Washington Digest
National Union Endangered by
Trade Barriers Between States
Booeggng of Milk and Cream Calls Attention to Con-
dition That's Become fragrant; Proper Government
Functions Used to Accomplish Inscriptions Ends
By WILLIAM BRUCKART
WNU Service National Press Bldg. Washington D. c.

keted with a variance of laws on
most subjects that it seems almost
hopeless job to untangle them.
For example, there are ITO differ
ent state laws dealing with the la
belling and grading # farm prod
ucts. A good ear of corn in one
state won't be recognized as a good
ear OF corn in another. My friend,
the ordinary irish potato may be &C.
cepted as No. l in one state, and
find himself as No. 3 in another. A
bottle OF beer in Missouri, tax paid
and respectable there, becomes vir-
tually bottle of slop in an adjoin-
ing state. Wines from grapes grown
IN California cannot possibly be as
good as wines grown from grapes in
Oregon, because the Oregon law says
so and lays a burdensome tax to
prevent Oregon citizens from having
their stomachs corroded or some
thing. Cement entering Florida, for
a time, was not as good as cement
produced in Florida and Florida was
prepared to tax it-until the case got
to the Supreme court of the United
States
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-23
Barriers to Trade BetUeen
States Has Become Fragrant

The thing called to national at
the existence through the nation of
barriers or obstacles to trade be-
tween the states. 1t has become fla
grant. Selfish interests have been
operating, first, in one state; then.
in another. Laws have been passed
utilizing proper government func-
tions to accomplish INSCRIPTIONS
ends. These have bred retaliatory
measures. Other states have passed
laws to get even" with those acting
ahead. State officials, state trade
and civic organizations have threat
ened, and have been threatened
right back, until now we have
throughout the United States thou
sands of people sticking out their
tongues in the most childish fashion
at other thousands of people. Each
group saying in sign language or
otherwise: you're another"
1t is serious business. and there is
no doubt in my mind but what the
condition BODIES i'll for national unity.
1t takes no expanded imagination to
think of the time when we might
have 48 little nations, snarling and
frothing at the mouth as crudely,
and quite as unintelligently, as they
do throughout Europe.
Now, it is one thing, and a very
proper thing. to use regulations for
the preservation of health, for the
protection of property, for the sup
port of government, or government
tai policy. 1t is quite another, and
dastardly. thing to make use of those
regulations to prevent the flow of
commerce and the products of farm
and factory. 1t is such things as
that from which monopoly is made.
If the now rather ill-famed monopo-
ly investigation is worth its salt
(Which it has not demonstrated thus
far, it could demonstrate its value
by examining into trade barriers be-
tween states
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-23
Weekly News Analysis
SIOrak Crisis Mars HOare Plan
For U. S.-Inspired Peace Farley
BY Joseph w. La Bine-

racy for 20 years. Last autumn,
when Germany grabbed Sudetenland
and humbled the Prague govern
ment, autonomy moves started in
Slovakia Central province) and Ru-
thenia (far eastern province). Hun
gary and Poland wanted to grab off
Slovakia or Ruthenia, or both, there
by gaining a common frontier. Hit
Ter objected because Czechoslovakia
was now his path to the east from
which may some day start a pam
Ukraine movement.
Recognizing in Germany a COM
mon danger, Poland, Czechoslovakia
and Hungary have grown more in
dependent Of late, while Hitler has
speeded autonomy agitation in both
Slovakia and Ruthenia, now re-
named Carpatho-Ukraine. Finally
becoming desperate and spunky,
Prague purged pro-Nazi officials in
rpatho-Ukraine, following this
few days later by ousting Slovakia's
priest-premier, DR.. Joseph Tiso. The
allegation: That DR.. Tiso was con-
sorting with Berlin, which turned out
to be an obvious fact when the pre-
mier began sending secret messages
to Adolf Hitler.
Though the new Czech crisis was
apparently settled few days later
by appointment of moderate Carl
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-23

Sidor as Slovak premier. the terrific
implications Of German intervention
were soon realized. Berlins press
wept for the Slovaks just as it wept
for the Austrians and Sudetens last
year. Like an earlier ''fuehrer"
named Konrad Henlein champion
of the Sudetens) DR.. Tiso flew to
Germany for consultation while his
aides made fiery pro-Nazi speeches.
Finally, on the first anniversary
of Austria's downfall, Germany or
dered Czechoslovakia sliced into
three independent" states-Bohe-
mia, Slovakia and Carpatho-
Ukraine. Though each state was to
decide for itself whether this indie
dependence was desired, there re-
manned little doubt but that Nazi
pressure would bring favorable de-
cision. AS a result Der Fuehrer
cleared the way for his drive into
the Ukraine, replacing one strong
nation with three weak ones. More
over, since the Reich now lords il
over Bohemia, Slovakia and Car
patho- Ukraine, there is no hope that
Poland or Hungary will block the
Ukrainian drive by swallowing one
of these states.
Such developments made Europe
forget Sir Samuel Hoare's peace
plan. But what Europe could not
forget is that both Britain and
France agreed to guarantee Czecho-
slovakia's new boundaries after the
Munich conference, guarantee
which has now been ignored. Where
as but few weeks ago London and
Paris claimed to have regained their
strength and abandoned the ZAP
peasement" policy, it is now evil
dent that no such thing has hap
pened.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-23
National Government Policy
To Blame for Conditions

/ have been wondering, therefore,
what had actuated the selfish inter-
ests of the country to start on this
spree of battling among themselves.
There must have been some reason
behind that. At least, / have come
to believe there is. I believe that
the condition fundamentally springs
from national government policy
which for years now has been in
the direction of destroying the rights
of individual states. Little by little,
the federal government has torn
away the rights of the states-and
the states, with pain reduced by fed
eral money, have permitted it.
Suddenly, however, the states and
their citizens have discovered their
whole jurisdiction is enveloped in
creeping paralysis. We have all
noted resentment in the last few
years at the encroachment of fed
eral regulation upon Individual
rights and freedom. When these
things were realized by the rank
and file of the people, there devel-
oped a new disease as a counter
irritant, the disease of knocking the
other fellow off. 1t will take more
than socialized medicine to correct
it. The national governments poll
cies, having started it, will have to
assume the blame and will have to
find way to remedy the condition.
l hope Mr.. Halleck, and those he
has enlisted to help him, can find the
proper prescription for the cure.
g Western Newspaper Union.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-23
Proper Legal PoWer Used,
But 1t Is Used SeIfshIy
tween states

Representative Halleck of Indiana
has been engaged for weeks in dig
ging up facts about these trade bar
riers. He told me the other day that
he intends to try to break them
down, either by constitutional
amendment or by national statute
There are plenty of difficulties con-
fronting him, he admits, because all
of these things have been done by
using entirely proper legal power,
but by using it selfishly.
To illustrate, Mr. Halleck referred
to that oft-repeated assertion that
1.-The power to tax is the power to
destroy" Indeed, it is! The power
to tax for government revenue is,
and always has been, used. But
there are many instances of record
where that taxing power was en-
ployed to levy such high rates of
tax that the tax collector took every
thing produced. The business was
destroyed. And it is the same thinly
disguised use Of proper power that
is getting the nation into an awful
mess, now This choking of trade is
going on despite the constitutional
provision which Says emphatically
that no state may levy tariffs
against importations from other
states. The bright law makers, and
their henchmen, have got around
that in the manner mentioned
above.
Mr.. Halleck supplied some facts
to show how widespread the condi-
ton has become. He mentioned,
moreover, that the nation is so blan-
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-23
International

Since last autumn's Munich con-
ference the u. S. has popped in and
out from internationaliSm to isola-
ton, occasionally sticking its politi-
cal neck into affairs where many
people thought it had no business.
Samples: Secretary of the Interior
Harold IckeS' TRADES against the
Nazis. contrasted with congress ret
icence TO approve u. S. arms sale
to European democracies. The ap-
parent sum total Of this vaccilating
foreign policy has been confusion,
yet there is good evidence that U. S.
pro-democracy pressure has exerted
enough international influence to
swing the world from war to peace.
Most definite U. S. aid has been
the sale of airplanes to France and
Britain, allowing those nations to
change their armies overnight from
weak, covering units to potent
forces which neither Hitler nor Mus
solini dared trifie with.
But a more positive U. S. aid has
been the moral support rendered
France and Britain via both direct
statement and roundabout action.
Not confirmed, but well authenticat-
ed. is the report that President
Roosevelt injected a sedative into
jittery France and Britain by ad-
vising those chancellories to resist
any new Rome-Berlin demands.
Since foreign trade is an important
weapon of the 1889 model aggressor,
the U. S. inflicted its deepest wound
in German-Italian ambitions by for
mulating an important trade and
credit pact with Brazil, largest and
most important of the much-coveted
South American nations.
Though many countries Qike Ar
gentina, Chile and Peru have &C.
cepted totalitarian trade gestures,
the U. S.-Brazilian pact politely
hints that it would not be wise for
South American nations to become
too entangled with Europe. More
over the pact gives Brazil enough
financial encouragement to make
her tomorrow's No. l South Ameri-
can nation, whose example her
neighbors will be wise to follow.
Gist of the pact: In return for Bra
lillian thawing out of frozen Amer
lean credits and resumption of pay
ments on Brazilian bonds held here,
the u. S. will place 500, 900, 900 in
credits at Brazirs disposal, also
making other efforts to stimulate
the country's industrial output and
her trade with the U. S.
How these developments have
strengthened the European back
bone is Immediately apparent.
Great Britain has defied Nationalist
SPANS blockade Of the Loyalist
cOastline. risking a major incident
by sending two destroyers to rescue
a British freighter which had been
seized by Generalissimo Francisco
Frances warships Britain has
pledged her aid to France against
Mediterranean territorial demands
by Italy. But most important, Lon
don has regained her confidence to
the point of making public recon-
mendation that Europe's five pow
ers France, Britain. Italy, Germa-
ny and Russia) vow a fve-year
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-23


peace. The proposal, as voiced by
Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare:
Suppose in the space of five years
there were neither wars nor ru-
mors of wars, and suppose the peo-
Piles of Europe were able to free
themselves of the nightmares that
haunt them and from the expendi-
lures that beggar them? Here, in
deed. is the greatest opportunity
ever offered to leaders of the
world"
Sir Samuel explained that Eu-
ropes big five would be blessed
in their efforts by the President of
the United States" but the Washing
ton that inspired his outburst was
less eager to endorse it. Recalled
was Secretary of State Cordell HulPs
statement of February Is, to the eff
feet that the time is not yet ripe for
disarmament talk.
Italians commented the plan was
so vague it is not worth consider
ing" Germany grumbled about the
lack of tangible proposals." and
within "a hours something else had
happened to blow Sir Samuers ideal
istic plan to kingdom come:
Czecho-vs.-Slovak Traditional
bad blood between Czechs and Slo-
walks has been hidden under the
mantle of Czechoslovakia's democ-
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-23
States Differ as to What
Constitutes a Truck Load

Take another and less known con-
dltlon-less known because fewer
people come in contact with it, but
it enters into the cost of the things
you buy, just the same. l refer to
state laws about load limits of
trucks. l don't have any love for
trucks; they are so doggoned big
these days that / want to take to
the timber when l see one of them
coming headon along the highway.
But they have rights. Yet, there
are no two states as far as l can
learn that have the same regulation
about the size of trucks load. The
trucks can be regulated because
they use the highways, and yet one
state says 10000 pounds is a load
and another state says $4,000 pounds
is a load. The others have laws
specifying load at varying sizes
in between, and there you are Just
what is a load, anyway?
The truth of the matter is that
local interests are to blame in most
cases. They are taking advantage
of situations to further their own
selfish ends. And where are they
leading to with this polyglot of leg
islation?
The whole thing seems bit in
congruous to me. Here, on the one
hand, Mr.. Cordell Hull, the very
able and valuable secretary of state,
has been moving heaven and earth
to get rid of trade barriers between
nations. Reciprocal trade treaties,
he calls his method. Some of them
seem to work badly, and some 9TH
ers appear to be producing results,
but no one knows yet whether the
whole system should be kept or
thrown out. That question does not
belong here. 1t is the national pol
icy of breaking down obstacles, jar
ring loose log jams, so that our
products may move into other ma
tions that is important to be consid-
cred when within our own bounda-
ries every known means is being
used to block shipments and sales
between states. l cannot figure it
out unless some folks are strict fol-
lowers of the Biblical injunction not
to let the left hand know what the
right hand doeth.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-23
The Man Vas Waiting
And Did Just That

The magistrate was not exactly
clear as to what the case was all
about, so he tried to find out by
questioning the prisoner.
what were you doing when you
were arrested?" he asked.
waiting, sir"
"What for?"
"Money, SIR"
"Who was to give you the
money!"
"The man I was waiting for"
"What did he owe it to you for?"
waiting, sir"
The magistrate made a last ef-
fort to get definite idea. what
do you do for a living?" he de-
manded.
Waiting, sir"
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-23

WASHINGTON.-City officials and
newspapers of Washington, D. C.,
have worked themselves into ter
rible other lately over a new kind
of bootlegger-a bootlegger of milk
and cream. This city, like every
other city, has tight regulations con-
corning milk and cream that en-
tiers the national capital. They are
regulations designed to protect the
health of those who reside here.
Moreover, maintenance of such reg
ulations are an entirely proper func-
ton of government, because there
can be nothing more important than
health
According to the charges filed and
upon which arrests were made, a
dairy four or five hundred miles
from Washington, inspected and Ii
censed by the state of its location,
brought in a truck load of refrig
Grated cream without first having
obtained a permit to do So The city
officials, prodded perhaps by local
dairies and nearby milk producers,
threw a couple of men into jail and
barked and squawked all around the
place because of this bootlegger.
The local press reports indicated the
city officials had made asses of
themselves over the whole matter,
but that is of no particular concern
to this discussion.
The incident is very important as
illustrative of a condition that is
rapidly endangering the national un-
ion of states, and is, therefore, a
matter for analysis here. Frequent
ly. great national issues lie around,
or are kicked around, for months
before somebody inadvertently sets
match to the powder; and it hap
pened to be local officials who struck
the match.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-23

1920 as archbishop of Caesaria.
His first nunciature was in Swift
erland but it was in France that
he gained such appreciation that
he won the Grand Cross of the
Legion of Honor. In 1885, when
created a cardinal, he received
his biretta from the hands of the
French president. Since then he
has been in Rome as head of the
congregation of the council. His
appointment to the papal state
secretaryship is considered sig
nificant of the Vatican's contin-
ued strong position concerning to-
talitarian states. since the Italian
government has registered dis
pleasure over the appointment.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-23
Will Cares for 1000

Bequeathing her money to rela-
tives to the twelfth generation, Bel
gian woman has given the courts in
Termonde, Belgium, task of divid-
ing millions of francs among more
than 1000 people. A professional
genealogist has made family tree
$50 feet long and going back to 1900.
Among the heirs are cabinet min
lister and two professors.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-23
How Women
i'm Their 4O'S
Can Attract Men

Here's good advice for a woman during her
change usually from 38 to 52), who fears
she'll lose her appeal to men, who worries
about hot flashes, loss Of pep, dizzy spells,
upset nerves and moody spells.
Get more fresh air, 8 hrs. sleep and il you
need good general system tonic take Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made
especially for 1oomen. 1t helps Nature build
up physical resistance, thus helps give more
vivacity to enjoy life and assist calming
jittery nerves and disturbing symptoms that
often accompany change of life. WELL
WORTH TRYING!
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-23
England

From mid-May to mid-June, Great
Britain's King George and Queen
Elizabeth will be guests of the North
American continent on a junket
which most good Americans regard
as a simple, friendly gesture. But
as travel time approaches, the royal
expedition is meeting with far more
distracting bogeymen than Toron-
to's Dionne quintuplets, which are
being shipped 100 miles under pro-
test to curtsy before their queen.
From June to II the royal party
will visit the U. S. Because the
entire journey was planned last win
ter in the heat of international chat
ter about democratic solidarity"
more than one INTERCHANGEABLE
writer has tried to place the prime
minister in difficult position. A
sample, by one Peter Howard in
Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express:
Now the royal visit puts Chamber
lain himself on trial. If it succeeds
Chamberlain goes up. If it fails he
goes down"
What Englishmen mean by sue
cess" or failure" of the American
visit was finally brought into fairly
close focus. but it still remained
doubtful quantity. Probable mean
ing: The visit will fall if U. S.
citizens get the impression that King
George and Queen Elizabeth are
making begging expedition to gain
American aid in pulling England's
chestnuts out of the European fires.
The Coolidge examiner., 1939-03-23
People

Forecast, by Radio Priest Rev.
Charles E. Coughlin, a 20 per cent
boost in U. S. taxation if the govern
ment continues attempting to Dor
row US out of debt"
Q Celebrated, by Scientist Albert
Einstein at Princeton, N. j., his six
tieth birthday; 10 years ago Ger
many gave Jewish DR.. Einstein a
summer estate as birthday pres
ent.