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Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05
Sinking Of Athena TO Influence U. s.
To Join In War, Say London Papers

LONDON, Tuesday, Sept. 5. CUP
Editorials in British morning
newspapers were unanimous today
in terming the sinking without
warning of the liner Athena as an
act of "frightfulness.'
"The torpedoing will rank as
crime against the law of the sea
to which Germany gave her pledg-
ed endorsement in 1885," the Daily
Telegraph said, land even more
certainly as one of those irredeem-
able blunders that sway the hearts
of nations in moments of crisis"
The Daily Mail said frankly
what the Telegraph only hinted:
This incident is bound to
strengthen American sentiment in
our favor, but need not be expect
ed to change American policy.
The Times, in an editorial cap
toned policy and perfidy," said:
THE speed with which Hitler has
broken his word and committed
falsehood to paper during the last
few days has surpassed even his
own previous record. Having de-
clared to his Reichstag at the end
of last week that he would not
make war on women and children,
his navy sank the liner Athena
without warning within "a hours
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

CONCORD, N. H. = Senator H
Styles Bridges of New Hampshire
is, at this writing, the most active
candidate for the Republican presi-
Dental nomination. He is also just a
little bit bewildered-and he admits
it frankly.
What has him puzzled is this lib
eral-conservative business. He says
he always looked on himself as a
liberal in politics; made a record
here as a foe of the utilities, and
got into the U. S. Senate by beating
the arch-conservative, George H.
Moses.
But now, after three years in
Washington. he finds himself dub
bed an ultra conservative.
Bridges liberalism is of the old
fashioned variety. He believes in
strict public control of the utilities,
but not in public ownership. He
goes for the SEC and he approves
of most of the New Deals social Sc
curlty program. He is proud of the
fact that New Hampshire was the
first state to register under the So
cial security act and the second
state to set up an unemployment
insurance law.
He isn't one of these lets-get out
of-this-relief- business people, either.
He says that you can't just say,
well turn it all back to the States" +"
and believes that the federal gov
ernment must carry the load as
long as the need exists although
he'd like to see more control by
the local subdivisions.
For the rest, he says:
Unless you go along for every
thing in the New Deal, you're a
conservative these days If you want
to 60 part way-admire some of
the measures, but just want them
modified a little-why you're not
a liberal at all, but a rank reac-
tionary. Anyway, this seems to be
the way they figure it down in
Washington
Meanwhile, he is hard at work
setting up his political fences both
in New England and in the rest of
the country. He isn't looking for
pledged delegation; believes, from
work now done and contacts made,
that he'll go to the convention with
New Hampshire's votes and with
a good scattering from the rest of
New England, plus some outside
strength.
Il think the important thing for
this convention" he says, "is that
1t be not tied up in advance for
some one candidate. Republican
conventions have been cut and dried
that way since 1920. Next year, I
hope no one man will have an over
Whelming preponderance of strength
before the convention opens. Then
the delegates can consider all the
candidates, weigh all the issues and
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05
Willis Thornton's Editorial on:

Did Emerson. and Whitman, anc
Poe, Mark Twain and Emily Dick.
inson write in vain?
Did Brigham Young, toiling tC
found at once an inland empire
and a new religion, leave never q
mark upon the world of spirit? Are
they bemused who are about to
make of Mother Seton a saint OF
the very Roman Catholic Church
to which so many readers of the
Tribuna no doubt belong?
Have free and open minds thru
out the world been unaffected by
Henry and William James. by Hen
ry Adams, by Alfred North White
head and John Dewey? 1t is said
that many, even in Europe, have not
been entirely unmoved before the
work of Whistler, of Homer, of Sar-
gent, of St. Gaudens.
Trajan built we'll, but against the
sweetish marble wedding cake Of
today's Victor Emanuel Memorial
one may without shame set Rocke-
feller Center.
Had the world been ready, and
able to comprehend the dream Of
Woodrow Wilson for a sane, civiliz-
ed world order, it might not today
be plunglng down to dust and the
shadow.
These, among others, are perhaps
not without meaning for the de-
veloping of the human spirit.
And most significant of all, in
the Americas we are still determin-
ed to keep open the door that leads
to its further advancement. to keep
the lamps alight and shield them
from the blasts of Europe where,
one by one, they flicker out, leav-
ing darkness upon the face of
the earth.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05

talking without much to say. I be-
gan to plan my speeches carefully,
and TO look up additional informa-
ton. I spent hours at it. I polished
and frightened and frightened. I
accepted Chautauqua engagement
at Owensboro, KY. III never forget
the agony experienced when I
realized that l had TO step out be-
fore that audience. My mouth was
parched but I had so thoroughly
prepared myself that I found the
necessary words. At the end, I was
extended Congratulations. l was as
tonished. Well, I'd do still better!
Il now began TO speak profession
ally. l was engaged as a Professor
of Speech by college I was i'm
mensely set up. was asked to con-
duct a class in public speaking at
the Indianapolis YMCA. l relied
on the secret had discovered
thorough preparation. I began to
make more speeches. 1 was earning
my living doing something that
once had terrified me.
One day I was asked to appear
before a radio microphone. l was
terrified again. Then 1 said to my
self, III do the best I can Well,
the upshot OF that is that l have
made more than 400 radio appear
ances. There's much I don't know,
but I'm learning.
Meanwhile, kept on making
platform appearances. 1 went on
trip to the Coast making speeches,
and now have made more than 1000
platform speeches. Meantime. be-
cause of these public speeches, my
inferiority complex diminished. This
gave me self-confidence and then
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05
The Human Spirit

In Venice stands the Doges' Pal
ace, quiet museum filled with relics
of a day when free Venetian citi-
zens voted for the head of a repub-
lie. 400 years before us.
Not long ago. Joseph Goebbels,
German propaganda minister, visit
ed the place, and intent on pleasing
his Italian hosts. remarked, This
boasts a history more famous than
that of the whole U. S. His Italian
hosts were SO overwhelmed by the
tribute of the great man that a
paper called the Tribuna Sneeringly
said that if the whole continent of
North America were wiped out the
history of the human spirit would
scarcely suffer
The human spirit is getting a
pretty bad kicking around these
days, as none should know better
than Goebbels and his Italian ad-
mirers, whose most outstanding
contributions would seem to be the
rupDer truncheon and castor oil pot
tie. But that is not under discussion
here.
Has all North America, as they
say, contributed nothing to the hui
man spirit? 1t is a fair question,
and one we might well ask ourselves
had they not gratuitously done so.
Surely the conquest of a virgin
continent by free men who made it
and all its institutions their own,
is not nullity, nor are the Dec
laration of independence, the Ordi-
nance of 1887, the Constitution they
ordained string of ciphers. Surely
the fresh, free wind that blew
across the world with Emancipation,
the saga of the Winning of the
West, swept some miasmaS from
the spirit of men.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05
Photographs

It has been estimated that the
various European powers are spend
ing over S50,OOO,OOO annually to
support their spy systems.
The United States national park
service and biological survey bu-
reaus have saved the trumpeter
swan, largest American native
waterfowl, from extinction.
A recently developed INT depth
bomb is only % inches long. 1t
explodes with such terrific force,
however, that any submarine inside
a 75-foot radius is put entirely
out of commission.
Cleveland officials who are try
ing to curb motorboat noise on
Lake Erie, might next try to stop
the waves from pounding the shore
SO loudly,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05
Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

One Minute Test
l. The son of what president oi
the United States sought the nom-
ination and was elected president;
2. From what is coal derived?
3. What was the city of Oslo
Norway called before it's name was
changed?
Words of Wisdom
Armies, though always the sup
porters and tools of absolute power
for the time being. are always its
destroyers, too, by frequently chang
ing the hands in which they think
proper to lodge it.-Chesterfield.
Hints on Etiquette
The hostess who Is rather new
at the business of entertaining
should remember that entertaining
after the theatre or informal dane
es should be very informal, with
food that is neither too rich to
cause indigestion nor too heavy.
Today's Horoscope
The year is good for those born
on this date. They gain through
secret matters, but should avoid
changes. Children born today will
be good natured, amiable and very
much interested in the after life
They will be peace loving and char
liable, well fitted for the ministry
or nursing professions.
One Minute Test Answers
/. John Quincy Adams, son of
President John Adams.
2. Carbonized vegetable matter.
g. Christiana.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05
REPORTING CRIME NEWS
J. NJ. ENTREKIN.
(Christian Science Monitor)

Do news stories of crime inspire other
identical crimes? This question is pro-
pounded and apparently answered in the
affirmative in the August issue of The
Commentator
In an article entitled Crime and Your
Newspaper" several authorities on crime
problems are quoted as finding din ect
relationship between the newspaper ac-
counts of a crime and the succeeding
initiative crimes which so often follow.
Edward P. Mulrooney, one-time Commits
sioner of the New Pork police, said,
Every time murder occurs and is feat
ured in the press you find whole
string of murders of exactly the same
type" Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing
Sing once predicted that the publicity
given a certain notorious criminal of a
few years ago would produce about 300
criminals of the same sort.
1t is the primary duty of a newspaper
to keep its readers informed. In fulfilling
that duty it may be requisite that crime
news be reported. This does not mean
however, the initiation of insignificant
crimes to front-page prominence for the
purpose of selling papers, nor does it
mean the unnecessary reporting of sor
did and unsavory details. The right sort
of crime reporting can awaken public
opinion to an awareness of the evils
needing elimination.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05

across the river from the tiny PEN
insula but their fire could not sub
due the garrison.
Intermittent attacks were made
by the Nazis all day Friday. That
night the authorities evacuated the
inhabitants of the entire town of
Neufahrwasser directly across the
river from Westerplatte in anticipa-
ton of further military action which
came Saturday night.
Saturday evening l managed to
get through the military Gordon and
found Neufahrwasscr devoid of life
except for a stray cat. l made the
survey tour warily, keeping out OF
range of possible Polish snipers
and returned to Danzig.
Within a half-hour of my return
% German bombers arrived and eX-
ecuted series of power dives on
Westerplatte, dropping dozens OF
bombs. The Poles elevated the muz-
zles of their machineguns and
fought back, undaunted and when
the attack was over they were still
in possession of the dump.
Stubborn Fight
Another stubborn fight was put
up by Polish postal employees at the
central postoffice of the city, which
the Germans occupied Friday morn
ing The battle began shortly after
5 am.
A group of Danzig home guards
broke into the first floor of the
building, disarmed Polish guards
there and demanded surrender of
the building. The noise alarmed
other Polish postal employees who
hurriedly closed the heavy doors
and fell upon the invading troopers,
IL of whom repeatedly were trap
ped and killed.
Thereafter the Poles manned the
upper windows with machine guns
and thus were able to command
the narrow street in both directions.
The Danzigers, in an unfavorable
attacking position, set up a small
cannon and opened fire on the build
ing.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05

"One night while calling on nv
best girl there were several people
present Suddenly the chair I was
sitting on gave way. was dumped
on the floor almost at her feet. The
crowd laughed, but I was terribly
fused. l could not say word: no
laughing it off. Finally I got up
and skunk home.
Il made a resolve that changed
my life. resolved that I would learn
TO speak before an audience. When
] told a friend, he laughed. Speak
before an audiencel l kept my
mouth shut after that and began
TO plan talks and speeches. I talked
whenever ! could, experiencing, each
time, positively sickening feeling
IN the pit of my stomach. But
forced myself TO go through with
It.
Then ! made discovery. / wa;
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05

I discovered that an inferiority COM
plex is nothing but lack of self
confidence. SO I advise anyone grip
ped by that terrible monster to
make public speeches. It'll do more
for you than anything I know"
Splendid, Mr.. Marshall. What If
you do fail the first few times. The
world will wag on. And you will, too.
Yes, by all means, you who are
tortured by an inferiority complex,
attend some course in public speak
ing, learn to stand on your feet
and speak before groups.
This letter was entered in our
contest on curing an inferiority
complex
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05
SkepticuI Attitude Toward
War Influences Urged w..
Bv Board Of Doctors y

must doubt emotional phrases, ques-
ton propaganda which seeks TO pic-t
ture war in idealistic terms, anu
remember that the underlying facts
about national controversies are on
ly revealed many years later.
I The council presented an OUT
line of "war readiness psychology
1. War readiness is found wnen
people begin to think in terms OF
"good" and bad nations. PSycho-
logistS know that no people Is COM
pletely good or completely evil.
2. War readiness appears when
skepticism disappears and official
explanations are accepted as true
reasons. Psychologists know that
diplomats rationalize their actions
to make them appear right and
proper.
3. Idealistic appeals are used to
set up readiness for war when ideal
istic issues are not truely at stake.
4. War readiness is present when
we think of nations as individual
persons.
'' I'VE cannot let ourselves be
stampeded', the psychologists said.
'"The lesson for American people
is clear for we know that during
war we will have in America no
democratic free speech, no civil
liberties, no right to think indie
pendently. Let us avoid the kind
of neutrality which may lead us
into war, and, whatever our ulti-
mate decision may be, let it be made
with our eyes open.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05
Cechs, SIovaks
Join Poles

WARSAW, Sept. S. (UP)-A for
eign legion of Czechs and Slovaks
is fighting under the red and white
barred flag of Poland the govern
ment announced today.
A government proclamation call
ed on former citizens of Czechoslo-
vakia, the nation dismembered by
Adolf Hitler, to take up arms
against their hereditary enemy
Germany. The proclamation urged1
Czechs and Slovaks still under DOM
ination of the Swastika to do every
thing in their power to sabotage
the German war machine. =
President Ignacy Moscicki OF Po-
land and Marshal Edward Smigly-
Rydz signed the proclamation and
announced that the first units of
Czechs and Slovaks already were
under Nazi fire. h.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05

association at Stanford university.
Warning Americans to beware of
propaganda picturing war idealis-
tically, the council said America
should make her decision with her
eyes OPEN"
Advocating skepticism in regard
to influences arising out of a state
of war, the statement said, I'VE
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05

PALO ALTO, Calf, Sept 5. CUP)
The executive council for the psy-
Geological study of social issues to-
day warned the American public not
to let state of blind emotion
sweep the United States into war"
The society is meeting in con-
junction with the annual confer
ence of the American psychological
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05
Barbs-

Now that Emperor Hirohito has
to form new government, he
might experiment with the demo-
cratic type.
Farmers in Bali had no trouble
training their grabbing ducks
TO marc IN formation to the rice
fields, The fowls came naturally
by the goos-step.
They're teaching young peasant
women TO drive tractors in Russia.
Now the poor pedestrian won't
even be safe in the fields.
A national guard artillery unit
accidentally dropped a missile near
a henhouse. The farmer is suing
because his chickens lay eggs with
shocked shells.
Anyway, If war doesn't come
those air raid shelters in London
will make dandy fruit cellars.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05

make the best choice possible"
If that choice should turn out
to be Bridges, the senator naturally
would be gratified. But he has no
illusions about the likelihood of a
man from a small New England
state being chosen.
He is not interested in the chance
of getting second place on the ticket,
but does want to be able to make
his influence felt in the direction
of getting candidate of his own
variety of-well, liberalism-named.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05

COYOACAN, Mex, Sept. 5. CUP;
Leon Trotzky, exiled associate of
Lenin III the founding of the So
Wet Union, said today the Soviet
German non-aggression pact is a
result of Josef Stalin's fear of get
ting his "discontented workers,
peasants and decapitated red army
involved in a war.
"The German-Soviet pact is the
capitulation of Stain before Fascist
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05
Anfi-GerInan
Riots In Africa

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa,
Sept. 5. German riot
ing broke out mere today. Crowds
demonstrating loyalty to Britain
surged through the streets and set
fire to two German motor truckA
and a German automobile.
Windows In the office of a Ger
man shipping line were smashed.
Attempts to set fire to the premises
of a German seed merchant failed.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05
GERMANS OFFER
NOT TO SHOOT

BERLIN, Sept s. CUP)-The gov
ernmenJ announced today that Ger
man soldiers on the Siegfried line
and French soldiers on the Maginot
line have painted signs on their
pill boxes, within view of one an
other, reading:
1--WE won't shoot If you don't
shoot"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05
Fear Of Revolution Caused Russian
Pact with Nazis, Saws Trotzky

imperialism with the end of pre-
serving the Soviet oligarchy,"
Trotsky said m statement.
stain above all Is afraid of
war. His policy of capitulation to-
wards japan in recent years testi-
fled to this.
stain cannot make war with
discontended workers, peasants and
decapitated red army"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05
Sgt. York Predicts
Quick End TO War

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5. (UP)-
Sergeant Alvin G.. York, who q
years ago killed Is Germans and
captured 1872 prisoners single-hand-
edly, said today he believed the
new world war would be ended
soon.
The veteran, who holds SO decora.
tions for courage, predicted Hitler
soon would join another eminent
in Holland.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05
dale CARNEGIE

This letter from F. Elmer Mar
shall, 1893 West Washington street,
Indianapolis. Indiana, describes his
method of curing an inferiority COM
plex:
Il think started with the worst
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05

case of an infer
iority c o m pie X
that ever threw
its victim in I o
the Big Jitters.
As a boy, l was
afraid of almost
everything a n d
W a S extremely
self-conscious. 1
h a t e d meeting
people for fear of
making a fool of
mySelf.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05

of the outbreak of war;
The Daily Sketch said: I'VE can
hardly doubt what effect the sink
ing of the Athena will have on
America"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05
You re Telling Ne.

A WOMAN PILOT says stunting
in an airplane is a grand way to
"oduce ones weight. 1t also gives
your hair that nice, even gray look.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05

We know just how the German people
felt when Hitler cut off the telephone
service Our trouble has been, however,
that we didn't pay our bill.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05

A Columbia professor advises writing
poetry as cure for ailments. Except
you'd probably get sick again when you
read it over.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05
Suicide Group Holds Out Against
Nazis AT Polish 'AIcazar

EDITORS be cut Thurs
Kidd i'm Danzg
telephone offices the United
disputed city
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05

Then there's the Radio City employe
who hunts under seats for chewing gum
Personal experience tells us he won't
have much trouble finding it.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05

Those European crises are so
terrific that half the time we can't
tell whether it's statesmans
sabre or teeth that are rafting.
The higher the humidity the
lower the death rate, a survey
shows. And maybe, again, it's that
life seems to be SO uncomfortably
longer.
That fellow writing book on
the traffic light system in the
United States might use the title:
THE Light That Jailed"
He's a member of the Younger
generation If you can't convince
him that it is as easy to get
nice coat Of tan moving the lawn
as by playing golf.
The man at the next desk says
he is just old-fashioned enough
that to him a swing session sounds
just like nevous breakdown set
to music.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-05

An expert on those matters says
the best food to feed a pet turtle
is filet of sole. Under present
circumstances it is much cheaper
to Just get rid of the turtle.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-08-24
Famous Ploy,
obocco Rood /, "
At University Soon

Tobacco Road" the outstanding
stage success of the last 20 years.
will be presented at the Student
Union Theatre. Montana State Uni
versity. Missoula, for one perform
ance only on Saturday night. Sep
TENDER g. Mail orders are now be-
ing received.
John Barton heads the cast of the
company which is on its fourth
coast-to-coast tour of the larger
cities of the country. This is the only
company presenting Tobacco Road
on tour.
Written by Jack Kirkland and
based on the celebrated novel of the
same name by Erskine Caldwell,
Tobacco Road has stirred more
discussion than any other stage play
of many years. Its phenomenal
success is attributed to the fact
that it shows truthful secion of
life among the penniless share-crop-
pers of the back country of Georgia.
1t is now in its sixth year on Broad
way 1t has been presented in more
than $40 of the larger cities of the
country. including Boston, Phlla-
delphia. Baltimore. Pittsburgh, Chi
cage, Detroit, Cleveland. San Fran
cisco. Los Angeles. Seattle, Cincin-
natl. New Orleans, Atlanta, St
Louis and Washington.
Tobacco Road takes a typica
family of tenant farmers living II
squalor and poverty, ignorant of ev
erything but sex and religion, anc
shows the humor and drama to b.
found in the routine of their dali,
lives So powerful is this dram;
that leading newspapers Throughout
the country editorially pronouncet
Tobacco Road to be the spi
American play 1t has also beel
Endorsed as an authentic and i'm
portant American document by sue
literary celebrities as Theodor