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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1939-11-25
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taihoiirS irClided pr. Hudson
J, Oliver Catholic lnlcrracial coun-
eli president Nacco A. Thomas,
Catholic Laymcn's union president:
City Engineer Archibald j. Glover:
Emanuel A. Romero. DcPorres club
vice president: APT Matthew v
Boutte ard pr Edward S Best. as
sociaie cdilers Intcrracial Review.
and Elmo VI Anderson. editor OF
our Colored Missions.
Elmer Carter ir his statement
said
"The Catholic inierracial move
mcnt which has done and is doing
splendid work IN The cause OF race
relaii ms should now he assured OF
The support Of all Catholics in
America
"The recognition of The predica-
meni OF The colorcd people IT, Amer
lea by Pope Pins III must G
gratifying 20 all American Negroes
ana inclr lrlohdS sald HOY W lih-
ms.
Dr. Roberts asserted THE en-
cyclical was full OF hope and in
splratior. To have His Holiness
make such an appeal TO the mem
bership OF the great Catholic church
Is of immense benefit 10 Negroes
Catholic and non-Catholic alike
All over the world The Pope Is
praying that the Negro be given
the bios sings Of religion, educa-
tion ard social Justice.
"The Popes words are particu-
larly significant coming as they do
but few days after his exposition
and rcfutatior In his preceding en-
cyclical Of the deadly errors q ra-
clal intolerance"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22
Editorials and Comment
MONDAY, MAY %, 1889
EXIT ECONOMY
IN WASHINGTON
(Christian Science Monitor)

The Senate has just thrown economy
overheard by raising Mr.. Roosevelt's s
budget estimates several hundred mil
lions in voting additional farm subsidies,
and there are indications that the House
may follow suit The Senate took its
action by vote of 81 to IA after a rec
ord vote had been avoided on the item
amendments. Evidently there was an
advance undercover agreement to save
Senators from going on record until
point where the issue was sufficiently
blurred that conservative Democrats and
Republicans joined the stampede.
This upsets the theory that it is Con-
gress which is striving for economy,
against the spending policies of the Pres
ident. There is a popular will for econo-
my in Congress, but it is not sufficient
to overcome the willingness to vote for
big appropriations on specific issues.
It is the aggregate of these individual
expenditures which defeats economy.
One is reminded of the homely facts
which Senator Pat Harrison presented to
the United States Chamber of Commerce.
The Chamber had demanded economy
on all fronts Mr. Harrison is himself
sympathetic to the plea But he declar-
ed that local Chambers are the worst
offenders on the 5 / d e of spending.
There isn't a project desired at Sque-
dunk or Yellow Rabbit or Vinegar Bend
=. that your local Chamber of Com
merce doesn't meet and resolute and
frighten the Congressman or Senator to
obtain approval
Businessmen and legislators all favor
economy in the abstract But it is on
the penny-pinching for individual local
or group items that the rub comes.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22

blind Jewish printer. For years,
Ike was makeup man in the Ashe-
vile Citizen Times composing
room. Working under stress ana
strain, he helped to rush the Varl-
Gus editions of the paper out on
time. One day last July, a terrible
thing happened. He was in the
composing room, bending over
page of type, when suddenly tragedy
struck him-stark binding tragedy.
He stopped work, put his hands to
his eyes in confusion. A fellow
printer asked him what was wrong.
y can't see he said.
He was blind
He was rushed to the eye clinic
at Johns Hopkins Hospital where
one of the most skillful eye sur
geons on earth performed a series
of operations Ike Kuperman en-
Cured ten weeks of agony, mental
and physical Useless! He went
home. Blind. hopelessly blind for
everl
Now here is the point of the
story Did Ike Kuperman whine
and give up? Did he complain
about. his misfortune? Did he say,
II can't get a job now
No, sir Not Ike Kuperman.
am happy to report that a Catholic
charity offered to give this blind
Jew a sum of money. The very
thought of it cut him SO deeply
that he wept No charity for Ike.
He marched right back to the COM
posing room of the Asheville Citi
Times where he had worked for
twelve years; and fixed himself up
a little lunch counter over in the
corner where he now sells cigarettes,
candy. hot coffee, cold drinks. ice
cream, sandwiches, potato chips and
pie to most of the employees of the
paper. Some of them buy on
credit; so he has learned to oper
ate j typewriter by the touch syS-
tenn to enable him to keep a rec
ord of his accounts. He is making
a good living at it, supporting his
family, keeping his chin up.
DeSpondent? I didn't meet
more cheerful man in all Asheyille
He loves 10 hear the voices OF the
printers with whom he has worked
for years. to hear all the familiar
sounds of the composing room, the
shouted Instructions, the clink and
tinkle of the linotype machines, the
scream of a metal saw cutting
through a cast.
As I talked to him, he radiated
cheerfulness.
Ike Kuperman, you are a tribute
to your race. TO your country. You
are fired by the proud fighting
spirit that inspired our ancestors
TO cross the seas, conquer the
wilderness and build a new ciyiliza-
ton. You have in you some OF the
courage and self-reliance that in
spired our great grandfathers a cen
tury ago, to load up their old shot
guns. climb in the covered wagon
and head out across the plains in
the face Of hell hunger, high water
and Indians
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22
new YORK ENTERS
HOUSING BUSINESS
(Wall Street JournaD

Modelled largely on the United States
duced into the New York legislature to
put the state into the low-cost housing
business The bond issue which made
the venture possible was approved in
the form of a constitutional amendment
last fall. 1t is, therefore, logical to be-
lieve that the experiment has the ap-
proval of the ma jority of the taxpayers,
or at least the voters of the state. There
is, therefore, no reason to oppose the
measure in principle at this time. Wheth
er it be altogether wisely drawn or not
is another matter.
The United States Housing Authority
has made genuine progress in realizing
low-cost housing in New York City. Ar
chitecturally and in other respects, its
projects appear to be, on the whole
success But further extension of the
federal authority is, in spite of the un-
doubted need for low-cost housing in
many cities, Objectionable in principle.
For if there is one phase of our economic
system which is local in character, it is
housing.
That is why the state experiment must
be watched with interest. What New
York has chosen to do, other states can
undertake if they wish That is up to
them. Meanwhile, there is every reason
to oppose enactment of the Wagner
Steagall bill to double the present issu-
ing limit of USHA securities and increase
the federal subsidy proportionately. Let
this local matter remain what under our
form of government it should be-local.
At least let there be no further eXten-
sion of federal housing now, while this
important state is making the expert
ment on its own.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

ket for whatever price he could
get.
Differences between the coSt-of-
production and domestic allotment
plans are chiefly these:
1.-The cost of production bill
covers all crops with an annual
value of $10,000000 or more. The
domestic allotment plan thus far
covers only tWo-wheat and cot
ton.
2.-Under each plan, the secre-
tary of agriculture would fix the
percentage of a given commodity
needed for domestic consumption.
Say he put this at 80 per cent.
Under the cost of production
scheme, the farmer could get the
fixed minimum price for 80 per
cent of his crop, whether it was
1000 bushels or 10000 Under the
domestic allotment plan, he could
get the price for 80 per cent OF
his production basis" a figure
which would be based on his
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period of years.
If his production basis was 1000
bushels. for instance, he would get
the price for 1900 bushels and no
more.
3.-The domestic allotment plan
has a sliding-scale provision which
would try to reserve more of the
domestic market for the small
farmer; the cost of : production
plan does not.
4.-Under the cost-of production
plan. it would be to the farmers
interest to sell his entire crop
promptly, for his percentage would
be figured on his actual sales at
the elevator. Under the domestic
allotment plan the farmer would
have a fixed quota and could, if
he pleased, withhold the rest of
his crop from the market-storing
it on the chance that the world
price might rise, using it for stock
feed.
Senator Wheeler's bill deals with
wheat and Senator Lees with cot
ton. Both are backed by sub
stantial farm organizations, in
Guiding the Farmers Union. The
National Grange has indorsed the
coSt-of- production bill.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22
TFISH DIE WHILE
:FICIALS BICKER

Unless the governments of California,
zona and Washington, D. C. get to-
her pretty soon, there will be no cat
left in the Colorado river.
secause officials cannot decide wheth
Arizona, California or the federal
ernment has jurisdiction over the
orado in enforcement of fish and
ne laws, pelican-like individuals who
neither fishermen nor sportsmen are
)wed to proceed unhindered with the
1mercially inspired task of destroy
all the catfish in the river.
'hese persons. who make it a business
catch catfish from the river and sell
m to restaurants and private families,
nets, traps and any other wholesale
ch contraption they can devise to bag
greatest number of fish with the
st possible effort. Their job is an
one because the catfish, going up
Colorado river to spawn, can pro-
! no farther than Imperial Dam.
ire. Just below the dam, the biggest
ches are made.
{ thousands of catfish are taken out
the river for sale commercially, and
e are put back, it will be matter
very short time before there are no
.e fish in the river, and none in I'M
ial Valleys canals. Hundreds of true
rtsmen, who use regulation hook and
giving the fish a fighting chance
ill be deprived forever of their plea
z.
he real sportsman is no menace 10
posterity of the catfish. His catch
so comparatively slight that the
wning fish replace those taken out
aral times over. The man who needs
alation is the one who concentrates
bagging the fish in wholesale lots,
ardless of the methods used.
is high time such regulation, as
ct as it can be, We're provided. The
pie do not care whether it comes
m Arizona, from California or from
federal government. But come it
st. 1t might be wise for the three
ernmental agencies to get together,
hey can do nothing else. and provide
joint supervision of fishing in the
orado river At all costs, delay must
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22

the world is to breathe normally
again and resume a prosperity
based on decent normal relation
ships.
First the arms burden must be
lifted For the armed-to-the-
teeth relationships of all the great
countries of the world today are
strangling and poisoning them all
AS soon as the immediate ten
sions of the moment are loosen
ed, a leader must arise who will
offer anew TO the world the OPP
portunity it threw away in 1919
Second the organization OF
peace must again be attempted
The League of Nations failed
Wilson and SmutS and Strese-
mann and BRAND struggled il
vain for a better world. Today the
League as now organized is prac-
tically deaG
But the cream of a world or
ganized for peace is not dead, and
it will never die.
II waits only for a leader with
Imagination and daring and wis
dom and strength enough to rol
away the rock of tradition, anc
inertia. and stupidity.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22
EI Centre Girl in
U.S.. Speech Tests

Alice Combs of Central will rep
resent that high school in the ma
tional speech tournament June 19-
"a in Beverly Hills as a result of
placing third in eXtemporaneous
speaking in the state tournament
conducted this weekend at the
University of Redlands.
Helen Moore, recently elected
senator, will also attend the ma
tional tournament.
Some 26 high schools of Califor-
nia represented by 300 students,
competed this weekend. Bill Elliott
of Central placed fourth in oratory;
Tommy Daniel, third in dramatic
defamation.
Other members of the speech
team who participated in the meet
are: Howard Rhodes, Bob Weakley
Eugene Adams, debate; Bob Weak
ley, extenporaneous speaking; Nit
Suru Sakai, oratory; Bill Elliott, Ell
rose Maquar, Helen Moore, Mary
Louise Sigmon, defamation. Mrs.
Annette Gillett, coach, accompanied
the group.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22
II Prisoners in
FL Centre Court

Nearly a score OF prisoners. pre-
dominantly dark, crammed El Cen
tros police court Monday.
Four women, accused of Vagrancy,
forfeited bail of $50 each. They
we're Shirley Gilbert, Louise Wright,
Wanda Young and Jean Kennedy.
Sentenced for drunkenness to
minor fines or Jail sentences were
Jose Ramos, James Wilfong, C. L.
Moreno. w. r. Johnson, Daniel Gar
cia, s. j. Richardson, Luther
Champ. Joe jefferson, C. j. Mills
and Joe Garcia. Matias Luna will
be heard later. j. P. Paiz, accused
of battery by a waitress, will face
trial Thursday. Paul O'Bannon, ar
rested on a suspicion of attempted
rape, was held pending formal
charges.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22
You re Telling Me-

A Nebraska COW will jump on and
off a box if kissed. Getting up
enough nerve to kiss Bossy is a
better trick than that.
Suburbanite: A fellow who gets
mad at the dandelions dotting his
lawn and then spends hours caring
for flowers not half as attractive.
As the Nazis have discovered by
now-Poland has plenty of Beck
bone.
Another of natures noblemen is
the fashionable restaurant owner
who successfully resists the tempt
alton to give ham and eggs an un-
intelligible French name.
What puzzles us most is what
gag writer's gagged about when
there weren't any dictators.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22
Willis Thorntons Editorial Or.
But What of the Lonq Future?

1t slowly begins to appear that
the most immediate pressing dan
ger of war in Europe may have
been averted One hesitates even
to write the words, lest even be-
fore they can be read they may
suddenly cease TO be true
Balanced in teetering scales of
opposed power. the peace of Eur
ope and perhaps the world hangs
suspended. There is equilibrium
only because the forces are now
SO evenly balanced that neither
dares disturb the situation lest
the scales tip against him.
This is no peace. This is the
mere absence of military war.
while a war scarcely less des-
tructive of the peace of the world
goes steadily on. And this war, if
not abated, leads inevitably on
toward military war in some fu-
ture day.
All the craftsmanship the world
can muster, and it does not seem
to be much at the moment, is
concentrated grimly on trying to
checkmate from moment to mo-
ment the outbreak of the great
conflagration which all agree must
burn Europe to the ground once
it starts.
Let us suppose, as practically
all men and women hope in all
counhiea that Europe slides
through the summer without a
general war. Is there no vision
beyond that?
If even that bare goal is reach
ed, what then? Peace will still
rest uneasily on that delicately
balanced point between two giant
opposing organiza tions of force. For
the German Italian and the
British French Turkish Polish
relationships are no more than
military alliances. That brings US
back to 1914, when peace also
poised on such a balance, and fell.
The world must do better than
this. First, this is no peace. And
second. it merely assures that
practically any war will become
a general European, then a world
war.
Two things must be done If
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22
Judges Salaries
Not Tax Free

WASHINGTON, May %. CUP)-
The supreme court ruled today that
federal income taxes may be ap-
piled upon salaries of federal judges
without violating the constitutional
ban against diminution of judges
salaries.
The tribunal reversed a decision
by Nebraska federal district court
stitutional imposition of $500 fed
Judge T. C. Munger holding uncon-
eral income taxes on the $12,500
salary received by eighth circuit
court of appeals Judge Joseph w.
Woodrough in 1886.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22
MONDAY, MAY %, 1889

WASHINGTON-The movement
TO scrap the central part of the
administration farm program and
set fixed prices at a level which
would guarantee the farmer
against loss is by no means dead.
The Senate's recent passage Of
the .2l8.000000 farm bill may
even have helped the movement
along
For the fiXed-price plan has a
talking point: it does not require
heavy annual payments Or loans
to farmers. Nor, for that matter,
does it require subsidizing of eX-
ports. 1t finances itself out of
taxes on the professors and
whatever these might do to the
consumer, they at least would take
a load off of the federal treasury.
The fixed-price plan takes two
forms-the cost of production plan
and the domestic allotment plan
Similar in effect, these two
schemes seek to reach the same
goal by slightly different routes.
A cost production plan intro
duced in the House by Congress
man Sam Massingale of Oklahoma
has been pigeonholed by the agri-
culture committee, and a petition
to discharge the bill from commit
tee and bring it to the floor of
the House for debate and a vote
is now being circulated. A similar
bill is pending in the Senate.
Domestic allotment bills have
been introduced in the Senate by
Senators Wheeler of Montana and
Lee of Oklahoma.
The fundamental Idea in all of
these bills is that it is perfectly
possible to figure out both the
average, normal cost of production
of given farm commodity and
the average, normal amount of
that commodity which is consum-
ed annually in the domestic mar
ket. With those two figures work
ed out, the proposal is to fix a
domestic price minimum, appor-
ton to each farmer his share of
the market, and permit him to
sell his share at the minimum
price level. Whatever he had to
sell above his pro rata share
would be sold in the world mar
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22
Il Bus Drivers
Take Examinations

Twelve of the 125 school bus driv-
ers in Imperial county took opera
tors license examinations at Cali
fornia Highway patrol headquarters
Saturday.
Highway Patrolman Everett
Weatherbie warned the drivers
against delay in taking the exam
nations as insurance does not pro-
tect unlicensed drivers.
Examinations will be given in
patrol headquarters in the court
house basement from 9 am. until
5 pm. next Saturday night, Wealth
erbie said
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22
Imperial Janitor
Dies Suddenly

IMPERIAL, May %. - Green
Crawford, SO, janitor of Imperial,
died Saturday night after brief
illness.
Funeral services will be held in
the Methodist church here at 2:30
pm. Tuesday He will be buried
III Evergreen cemetery by B. E.
Lemons, Ell Centre funeral direc-
tor. Crawford is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Ida Crawford, and other
relatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22
Stores TO Observe
Memorial HOLIDAY

Memorial day will be observed in
Ell Centre this year by a majority of
the downtown retail merchants
closing their establishments for the
day, the Ell Centro chamber of COM
merce staff announced Monday
after canvass of merchants.
This follows the annual custom
in Ell Centro. The same custom is
followed by other Imperial Valley
towns also.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22

'matic axis into a military belt
across middle Europe, was signed
amid a demonstration of solidarity
by Nazis Foreign Minister Joachim
Won Ribbentrop and Fascist Foreign
Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano.
1t was a formal declaration of an
already effective working agree
ment between the two governments
and was designed as a counter
blow to the British and French
efforts to set up united front in
Europe which, Nazis charge, would
"encircle" The totalitarian powers.
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and Pre-
mier Benito Mussolini made every
effort to emphasize that the Nazi-
Fascist bloc was to be a factor for
peace, if only because of the mill
tary might of the two powers as
stabilizing factor in Europe.
This attitude was reiterated by
the two foreign ministers when,
after the four minute ceremony of
signing the treaty, they told news
papermen that it was the view
point of both German and Italian
governments that there are no
problems in Europe which cannot
be solved by peaceful means.
This statement echoed similar
declarations last week by Mussolini
and recalled that the Italian pre-
'mier had urged peaceful settle
ment of Germany's quarrel with
Poland over Danzig.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22
R5511fEa631E1E'HEAla{|IESElH1
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 1880
Estate of
MARTHA CHISM.


NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN by
the undersigned, M. d. linn, Pub
lie Administrator, as administrator
with will annexed of the estate of
Martha Chism, 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 said M. d.
zinn, as administrator of said es-
tate, 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
Imperial, State of California.
Dated at Ell Centro, California
this 9th day of May, 1899.
M. d. zINN.
Administrator with will annexed
OF the estate of Martha Chism,
deceased
M. Is % 20.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22
CIO DIRECTOR SPEAKS
ALIEN LEGISLATION

Ohm Brophy, who is a national direc-
of the Congress of Industrial Organ
ions, believes that repressive legisla
/ against aliens is being fostered by
ctionaries who would put-according
3rophy-"the clock of American prog
back to the Fascist hour set by Hit
and Mussolini." Needless to say,
)phy does not like legislation which
ces restrictions on aliens.
lis viewpoint provides an interesting
Eight on the policies of the CIO.
t seems hardly logical for Brophy
charge that "reactionaries" want to
slate against aliens. A reactionary
me who does not like change, regard
of its nature. A reactionary, there
2, would in this case be one who ia
no change, but would have the
tied States go back to the time of
e frontiers and free enterprise when
ms were encouraged to come to this
ntry, to compete with American la
ers, and to do whatever else they
he'd to do.
What does that make of Brophy?
is probable, however, that Brophy
another definition A reactionary,
ording to him, is one who opposes the
}.
here are lot of reactionaries in
erica.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22
CaIexico Rabies
Case Reported

CALEXICO, May GA pet dog
belonging to a family in the 300
block on Seventh street here died
of rabies this weekend
Deputy Health Officer Lawrence
Niles had quarantined the animal
as a suspected rabid animal. AS
far as Is known there were no hui
man contacts
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22
CONTRACTORS ELECT
OFFICERS WEDNESDAY

Building contractors will elect Of
ficers at a meeting scheduled for
7:30 pm. Wednesday at the Ell
Centro chamber of commerce.
The election was postponed from
last week. S. M. Saunders, field
representative of the Building Con-
tractors association of Southern
California, urged all members to
attend.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22

sion that George
Vanderbilt built
in the gay nine
ties. a mansion
that impressed
me more than
the Palace of
the Hapsbul gs
in Vienna. Yet
my most inspir-
ing experience in
ASheyille W a S
m e e tin G Ike
Kuperman, a
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22
Russell BAILEY
VISITOR HERE

Russell Bailey, personnel direc-
tor of the civil service commission
i'll San Diego and former director
OF State Employment service in
Imperial county, visited relatives
and friends in Ell Centro this week
end
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-22

Need some new clothes for that
vacation? 1t is rather hard some
times to pay for a vacation trip
and the new clothes needed for
it at the same time. That's where
we come in :. borrow the money
for your vacation wardrobe from
us before you go on your vacation
and start paying for it as you
earn after you come back Many
have taken advantage of this con-
Venience!