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Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-21
Central Labor Council Here Urqes
U.S.. Keep Out of SenseIess War

Opposition to the United States
entering the world conflict was
expressed in strongly worded re-
solution passed by members of the
Imperial Valley Central Labor
council at their last meeting.
They sent copies of the reSolu-
tion via airmail Wednesday to the
state labor convention headquar-
ters in Oakland and asked that the
state convention pass similar
resolution.
The council also sent copies to
the American Federation of La
Dor in Washington with a request
that similar action be taken by the
national organization.
War in all its ramifications. =
the resolution said, "is destructive to
all that is best in the world: not
only of treasured buildings, works
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-21
War Threatens
Movies Says Chief,
Calling Parley

HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 2l CUP)-
Warming that the European war
threatens the entire structure OF
the motion picture industry" Sam
uel Goldwyn today called for an
industry-wide conference to meet
the crisis.
Wholesale firing of wage-earn-
ers is not the answer to the PROB
lem of reduced foreign picture re-
ceipts. Goldwyn asserted in a let
ter sent to Charles Bracket, presi-
dent of the Screen Writers Guild.
Copies went also to Joseph Schenck
and Will Hays of the Motion Pic
t,1re Producers association; Frank
Capra. president of the Directors
Guild. and Ralph Morgan, head OF
the Screen Actors Guild,
Goldwyn asserted that the facts
are:
l. Two thirds of Hollywoods S
English business is wiped out and
the fate of the rest is problematl-
cal;
.. Canada is controlling export
of funds, and is levying new movie
taxes;
3. New Zealand is restricting
currency export, and Australia Is
likely to follow suit;
4. American films are shown IN
Japan but for some time no film
company has gotten a single yen
out"
5. Italys market SIS no longer
available. Obviously Czecho-slova-
kia and Poland are gone"
6. France for years has return
ed little more than the film costs
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-21
HAPPY RELIEF
FROM PAINFUL
BACKACHE

Many oi those gnawing, nagging, painful
backaches people blame on colds or strains are
often caused by tired kidneys-and may be
relieved when treated in the right way.
The kidneys are Natures chief way Of taking
excess acids aiid poisonous waste out of the
blood. They help most people pass about pints
a day.
If the 10 miles of kidney tubes and ilters
don't work we'll, poisonous waste matter stays
in the blood. These pO5Ons may start naggin ng
backaches, rheumatic pains, ioss II pep and
energy, getting np nights, swelling, puifiness
quent Or scanty passages with srnarting and
burning sometimes shows there is something
wrong with your Kidneys or bladder.
Don't watt Ask your druggist for D0an's
Pills, used successfully by millions for over 40
year,. They give happy relief and will help the
- Iailes II kidney tubes fush out poisonous
waste 4om Jour t.ood, Get Doau's Pills.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-21
4-H Completes Plan
ToPurchase Calves

Arrangements for the valleys
All club members to purchase
beef calves from the Santa Mar
garita ranch in Oceanside and to
transport them to the valley are
complete, Lee Landerman, assis-
tant county agent said Thursday.
The Alters will purchase the
calves from a herd of 1000 animals
on Saturday, Landerman said. The
calves will then be fattened for
sale at county fair time.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-21

of art and the products of many
years of effort but also, and which
is more important, war wrecks and
destroys life itself.
"The coming war will destroy not
only young men. the fighters, but
also women and children it
brings only sadness. misery and
destruction"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-21
No Excuse For Failure TO File
Registration, County Clerk Says

Registration is possible at the FL
Centre Chamber of Commerce.
All registrations must be in order
by September %, McClelland warm
ed
Those who voted at either the
August primary or the November
general election in November 1895
need not re-register unless they
have changed their addresses OF
their names by marriage or di-
vorce since registering.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-21

Voters will have no excuse for
failure to have their registrations
i'll order for the Ham and Eggs"
election Nov 7. County Clerk w.
j. McClelland said Thursday.
Registrars of voters were sent to
all communities in the county; ev>
cry city clerk was provided with
REGISTRATION supplies and can reg
ister those who cali at the various
city halls; the staff at the county
clerks office in the court house
has been registering voters all fall.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-09-21
MARINE COMMANDER
SENT TO NEW POST

WASHINGTON, Sept. 81. UP)-
Brig. Gen. Holland M. Smith. as
sistant to the commandant of the
marine corps since 1887 today was
ordered to Quantico, Va, where he
will command the first marine bri-
sade of the fleet marine force
Smith is native of Scale, Ala.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31
4 TRUCE AMONG
The STATES
wall Street JournaD

wall Street JournaD
Public protest against public evils is
good; successful protest is rarer, but
better. The current issue of State Gov
eminent, organ of the Council of State
Governments, records with satisfaction
that THE spread of interstate trade
barriers was virtually stopped in the
"A states which have held regular leg
islative sessions this year A few bar
rier laws have been repealed, many more
similar measures were defeated or aban-
doned and the governor of one state,
California, gave timely notice that he
would veto any enactment obstructive
of interstate commerce. In large part
this general reform movement followed
the national conference on interstate
trade barriers held in Chicago last April
which woke the country up to the des-
tructive nature of this economic war
among the states.
In our opinion, the importance of
free commerce among the states can
hardly be exaggerated. The immediate
effect of these barrier laws and regu-
lations-a vicious circle of retaliation
which constructs markets, artificially
raises prices to consumers and leaves
goods to rot in hands Of producers-is
bad enough. The ultimate effect of COM
petition among the respective legisla-
lures to exclude the products of other
states could well be such an aggrandise-
ment of the federal power as would re-
duce state sovereignty to the level of
county administration.
Essentially, this campaign of the
Council of State Governments is an eff
fort to persuade its constituent bodies
not to destroy themselves
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31
A SUBSCRIBER WRITES
CRITICISM OF SOLONS
Editor, the Post-Press !:

The record do-nothing legislature has
come and gone The legislature. turned
down every law proposed by the gov
of the peolpe, including his hospitali-
ernor that would benefit the majority
cation proposal.
Imperial county has the poorest hos
pital accomodatins of any county in the
state. The private hospitals here are
small. The cost of treatment at these
private hospitals is beyond the reach of
80 per cent of the people. The more
population, the less hospital accommo-
dation. Twenty-Five years ago the county
hospital would take patients for SO per
week, and treatment was more salts
factory for the patient and saved money
for the county. The proposed scheme of
the governor to give disqualification and
medical care at cost to all people who
could not afford the cost of treatment
in a private hospital was just one. The
legislators turned it down and gave the
excuse that it would interfere with the
private hospitals. And that shows the
number of people they represent.
The record of the California legis-
lature for the past six or eight years
shows they have done everything they
can to bring all the indigents, the lame,
halt and blind to California from other
states for the tax payers to support. The
California Old Age Pension was intend
ed for old time Californians who had
lived and worked in California most of
their lives and earned this pension, and
it was due them.
California needs legislature that
will take care of its own people, not one
that will judge everything it does by
politics.
(Signed) w. S. Holcomb
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31
NJ is lust 10 years ago that Presi-

1t is Just 10 years ago that Presi-
dent Hoover proclaimed effective
the Kellogg Pact designed to outlaw
forever war as an instrument OF
national policy among the By ma
lions which signed it.
With Aristide BRAND, Frances
great postwar peacemaker, Kellogg
hoped and believed that they had
helped put the nations of the world
or a new track toward peace and
amity.
The world hoped SO, too, YEARLY
with postwar wrangling and the
failure to make good on the war
promises that means would be ia
Zen to make it the last war.
But what was ushered in with the
kellogg BRAND pact was not the
higher craftsmanship, but the higher
hypocrisy. What was outlawed was
not war itself, but the word war.
In 1881 when Japan seized Man
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31
ASSOCIATED FARMERS
FORCED INTO POLITICS

The Associated Farmers of California
is an organization conceived to protect
the rights and property of farmers
against the depredaions of radical labor
unions whose ambition long has been to
control agriculture in the state In no
way was the Associated Farmers a po-
litical association.
Only lately has it assumed political
importance-and that for one reason
alone. Politics has been forced on the
farmers. Faced with political interven-
ton in behalf of their enemies, the rad
ical unionists, they cannot help fight
ing back with the only available wea-
pons. If politicians in power impose upon
the farmers, they can expect to be fought
with every means at the farmers COM
mand
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31
Bruce Cation in Washington
Dissects the News

WASHINGTON Although most
congressman don't realize it, this
Congress before it adjourns will, in
effect, decide whether the wage
hour law is to be continued or to
he scrapped.
On the surface. all that Con-
gress is being asked to do is vote
d deficiency appropriation of $4,000
900 for the wage-hour admins
tration. But the fate of the whole
law hangs on that Appropriation.
Contrary to popular impression
which is that there have been
remarkably few violations of the
wage hour sct-complaints about
violations have been coming in
much faster than the Wage-hour
administration can handle them.
There are now on file nearly TO-
DOC complaints which await inves-
tigation The existing staff is not
adequate to handle them. Admin
istration Elmer Andrews figures
that he needs at least TOO in
vestigators. He won't be able to
hire more than $50 unless the de-
f'ciency Appropriation is passed.
A high official of the wage-hour
administration remarks that the
uage-hour law right now is du-
plicating the history of NRA. Nom
compliance cases are piling up fas-
tel than they can be handled. If
something isn't done soon, there
will be such a general breakdown
of enforcement that the whole
structure will collaSpe.
There are. of course. plenty of
congressman who knowing that
their constituents feel the same
way-Would be glad enough to see
just that happen. But if the de-
ficiency appropriation is not voted
there will be one final bareback
which will be even more unpleas-
ant for the acts foes than for its
friends.
Under the law, an employee who
has been paid less than the mini
mum wage required by the act
may sue his employer in civil
court. If the court upholds him.
he can collect double the amount
due-plus fees for his lawyer.
Now if this deficiency bill does
rot pass. and the wage-hour adj
is unable to hire
enough investigators to handle COM
plants, it will probably make
final effort to secure compliance
by making public appeals to all
labor unions and to labor gen.
orally to resort to those civil suits
instead of filing complaints. The
flood of expensive litigation which
v ould then be turned loose on
in the 100000 plants
covered by the law can only be
AS matter of fact Administra-
tor Andrews remarks that he needs
the added number of investigators.
not merely to handle complaints,
but to make regular, routine checks
for compliance in all covered in
1ustries. This, as he sees it, is even
more important than handling COM
plants. With TOO investigators, he
points out, he would still have only
one investigator to every 1874
workers covered by the law. New
York state, which has investigators
checking for compliance with its
,tate labor law, employs one for
each 5000 workers covered and
.he job of checking for compli-
,nce with the wage-hour law is
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31
POLITICS RULES IN
ELLIOTT DISCHARGE

Discharge of Robert Elliott by the
State Relief Administration brings home
TO Imperial county with the force of
dynamite blast the political machina-
lions which guide the destiny of relief
in California.
Elliott is a highly trained man. COM
petent IN every way 10 fill the Job he
held. He is not visionary, nor vet a
reactionary. His social service work is
tempered with justice and common
sense. He Is such director as Imperial
county needs in the local office of the
relief administration. Yet he was dis
charged because he did not fit the po
lltlcal pattern the present state admin
lstration has drawn up.
1t is glaringly pertinent that the COM
plants about Elliott did not come from
those who received relief through his
office. Neither did they come from the
rank and file of tax payers
They came from the politicians.
1t as plain as Imperial Valley day.
light can make it who is running the
relief administration.
Elliott was told that he was discharp-
ed because he played with the Associ-
ated Farmers and the big growers, sup
plying them big reservoir of cheap
labor
The charge is ridiculous.
Elliott could not have supplied the
farmers of Imperial Valley-and almost
every farmer in the valley is member
of the Associated Farmers-with one
one-hundredth of the amount of labor
they need. As to cheap labor''-the
phrase sounds as if it had been dictated
straight from the office of the Workers
Alliance, or from that of one the Com
munist labor unions which have from
time to time attempted to gain a foot
hold IN Imperial Valley The farmers in
Imperial Valley-big and little = are
paying as much in wages as they can
afford to pay, uness they want to go on
relief themselves.
Perhaps that is what the administra-
ton wants them to do
1t has been pointed out time and again
that California farm wages, and they
include. wages in Imperial Valley are
the highest of any state in the union. To
the politicians it means great deal.
however, that CALIFORNIA; relief rates
are among the highest in the United
States. 1t means d great deal because
1t means that a great deal of money is
available, through relief channels, for
political purposes.
The discharge of Robert Elliott is in
itself only minor incident, but it car
ries with it an implication that the pso-
pie of the valley cannot afford to over
look. Relief is rapidly becoming politics
greatest pork barrel in California
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 3006
Estate of
ANNA LANGLOIS,

ANNA LANGLOIS,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, M. D. ZINN, Public
Administrator, as administrator of
the estate of ANNA LANGLOIS,
deceased, to the creditors of and
all persons having claims against
the said deceased, that within six.
months after the first publication
of this notice they either file them
with the necessary vouchers In the
office OF the Clerk of the Superior
Court of the State of California, in
and for the County of Imperial, or
exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers to the said M. d. linn. as
administrator of said estate, at STA
Main Street, Ell Centre, California.
the same being the place for the
transaction of the business of the
said estate in the County of I'm
perlal, State of California.
Dated at Ell Centre. California.
this 10th day of July, 1899.
M. D. zINN.
Administrator of the Estate %
ANNA LANGLOIS,
July 10 II "a 81. --..
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31

worn out, they
went home.
The next morn
ing working peo-
pie stopped to look
casually in the
Window. o n e
window that had
b e e II decorated
late at night had
a fur display.
A girl. seeing
it. was about to
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31

the more complicated of the two.
On Oct. "a the minimum wage
required by the law automatically
rises from 25 cents an hour to 80
cents, and the work week shrinks
from "A to AZ hours. This, the
wage hour administration estimates,
will mean pay raises for fully $780,
600 workers.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31
You re Telling Ne.

Government chemists have dis
covered means of preserving sweet
cream indefinitely. What Europe
needs is for someone to find
method of preserving the milk OF
human kindness.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31

One night the window trim
mers for Selfridge's Department
Store in London worked late fix
ing up window display. At two
o'clock in the morning, tired and
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31
Grab Bag
One-Minutc Test

One- M1nuCc Test
|. Who is Great Britain's for
eign secretary?
2. What Is known as the fourth
estate?
3. On what river is the city of
Berlin Germany, situated?
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31
Barbs

A Vermont women cast her first
vote at 80. Wonder if it will be
that long before our present-day
youngsters start exercising their
privilege.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31
TOday's Horoscope

An suspicious year is predicted
for those who today are celebrat-
ing their birthdays They will be
active, industrious and most sue
cessful. A wedding is in the offing
for them or a member of their
family. A child born on this date
will be rather quick tempered, but
also sociable, humanitarian and par
ticularly interested in politics and
welfare work. Seccess as an estate
agent is prophesied.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31

A Michigan girl caught fish as
long as she is tall, That's nice
because it saves motion. She won't
have to demonstrate the size with
her arms.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31
Hints on Etiquette

In conversation, if you are doubt
full of the correct pronunciation of
word, do not use it. Look it
up later SO that you may use it
freely.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31

It's getting SO that being q queen
OF this or that community festival
is about as much distinction for a
girl as wearing a skirt.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31

On the island of New Britain.
in the South Seas sweet potatoes
weighing as high as 40 pounds are
grown.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31

Father Divine has offered ano-
Their estate-this time in Canada.
Pretty soon his followers will have
a terrible time finding the right
"heaven.'
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31

Marriage is no hospital. says a
psychiatriSt. There are cases, though,
where it almost looks like one.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31

One Minute Test Answers
|. Lord Halifax.
2. The press.
3. The Spree.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31

one hot August day, 81 years
ago, a girl in Wisconsin asked a
Swedish boy to get her some ice
cream. The boy wanted to buy
the ice cream. but the day was
terrifically hot, and to get it he
had to climb into a rowboat and
low two miles to the town. He
liked the girl and he went. AS
he pulled at those oars, he got
70 thinking that it would be fine
10 have a rowless boat. It would
save lot of work and might
make some money, too He got it!
His name was Ole Eyinrude-in-
yentor OF the cupboard motor,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31
Words of Wisdom

WUTUS VI WIStUTH
Avarice is wider than injustice
and all fallen nations lost liberty
through avarice which engendered
injustice.-Austin O'Malley.
Hints Efinnnffn
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31
Willis Thornton's Editorial on:
Ten Years of Higher Hypocrisy

churia and turned it into Mahcau-
kuo, the United States, brioahi,
China. and other powers caiieo
Japan's attention to the TACT ona'
they had all signed the Kellogg
BRAND pact Japan returned III
nlomatic shrug and grinned that THIS
was not war; this was merely ene
suppression of unreasonably OPP
position to japanese influence IN
Manchuria.
When Italy invaded Ethiopia III
1895. the attention of Rome was
called to the fact that both nations
had signed the kellogg BRAND
treaty. But this wasn't war; the
Italians insisted, This was mere
colonial expedition aimed at paclfy-
mg Ethiopian tribesmen who could
not understand the benefits OF
italian influence in their country.
BY the time Germany and Italy
we're sending their troops to Spain,
and China and Japan becsme
locked in three1y year struggle
everybody was too tired to call
attention to the fact that they had
all formally renowned war as an
instrument of national policy. The
million dead in Spain, and millions
dead in China had died in some
thing but not in a war.
Thus the high spot of all time in
international hypocrisy has been
quickly and neatly achieved. The
SO nations solemnly agreed not to
wage war. and not one OF them has
dared denounce the pact or with
draw its signature. They just go on
wagging war, and calling it some
thing else. 1t is the higher hypo-
crisy in action.
Yet there is something signifi-
cant in the fact that none of these
warning powers has formally de-
nounced its signature or formally
withdrawn from its agreernents
II is because they all know that deep
IL the hearts of their people lies
he wish for peace. And while they
dc not give the peoples peace. they
dare not formally and officially
say that they care nothing for
this desire.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31

In China 1t is regarded as the
height of politeness to arise be-
fore the last course of the feast to
show how satisfied one is.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31

Japan has an annual Ely Mas
sacre Week" when authorities award
prizes to children for large catches
of flies
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1939-07-31

The long, prominent noses of
Scandinavians and the wide flat
ones of Negroes are believed to be
adaptations toward breathing needs
in different climates