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Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26
TGday's Horoscope

If this is your birthday, prepare
to use great discretion and sell
restraint in the year to come. 1t Will
be an exciting and eventful year,
with a good prospect of unexpected
inheritance and benefit through a
stranger. The child who is born to-
day will be endowed with enormous
strength and energy and will have
a very forceful personality. Best
success will come where these quail
tiles can be used to the full.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26
You re Telling Me-

The situation of the japanese
seems to boil down to this: they
must either swallow China or their
own pride.
The man at the next desk says his
chief complaint against Hitler is
that he doesn't practice what he
speeches.
These belated snowstorms have
one salutary result. They remind
Dad that he needn't bother about
oiling the old lawnmower just yet.
What's become of the fellow who.
during an international crisis,
would wonder what the League OF
Nations was going to do about it?
The man who has the most
friends is he who is generous with
everything but his personal opm-
ions.
Though there are u different
varieties of snow, big city dwellers
know only one kind-that which
turns grey an hour after it falls.
New York Worlds Fair officials
wonder what to do with the Czecho-
Sloyak exhibit there. That's easy
let the German exhibit annex it
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26


intending t h e
col1Ftruction of
a house for a
prominent doc
tor. This doctor
was SO impor-
tant, and had SO
much Influence
in the conmun-
ity. that if Mr.
Garstang coulc
secure that or
der he would bt
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26
Famous Sayings

WASHINGTON-Six new u. 5
battleships are now under con-
struction. The North Carolina and
Washington are about one-fourth
completed
Contracts for the building of the
South Dakota, Indiana, Massachu-
sets and Alabama were let last
December. and-here's an illustra-
ton of the times it takes to get
those plans ready-their keelss
haven't been laid yet.
It costs upwards of $3000,OOO
simply to make the necessary de-
signs and plans for a new bat
tleship. The job keeps from 50o
to 600 men busy and may run to
three or four years In fact it isn't
done until the battleship itself Is
done-and sometimes not even
then.
When a new battleship is au-
thorized ana appropriated for by
congress, the general board of the
navy begins by deciding what sort
of ship is wanted-the character
and thickness of its armament, the
speed, cruising range, and SO on.
In conjunction with the secre-
tary of the navy and the chief OF
naval operations, a decision is
reached on these matters, and the
result IS communicated to the
preliminary design section of the
Bureau of Construction and Repair
in Washington.
Now the designers get busy.
They prepare and submit designs
showing what layman woulo
consider complete details of the
proposed vessel-deck plans, Sec
tional plans, outboard profile
They make up number OF these
with variations; it isn't uncommon
for 60 or 70 sets to be drawn.
These go back to the secretary
and the board for decision. Mode
hulls, built according to some ol
these designs are tested In TIT
model basin. Eventually, some ont
set of designs is decided on, ano
the navy is ready to ask contract
ors for bids.
Now come more plans. TIT
various contractors must have very
detailed blueprints and specifiea-
tions, in order to estimate costs
These are duly drawn up ant
passed around. In the course o.
time, assuming that the ship Ii
not to be built in a navy yard by
government workers, some shl.
builder gets the contract and goe'
to work.
But the planning has only
started. The ship yard need
working plans-a prodigious mum
ber of them, showing every las
rivet hole in the vessel.
To build a modern battleship, i
will need fully 1000 plans. Its owl
drafting and designing staff
which probably numbers 400 mel
more, gets busy on these.
Production of these plans con
tinues as long as the ship is OF
the ways. It may even go on afte
the ship is launched for certain
out. and before they can be rene
defects in construction may GRO
died new plans must be drawn
Thus the designing may contlnu
after the vessel is, to all appear
ances, completed.
Meanwhile. other plans are need
ed for the other contractors, plan
for the firm that is building th
engines, plans for the guns, plar
for the intricate machinery that
required in all parts of the ship.
One of the legacies of the re
cent naval building holiday, inc
dentally was a shortage of skille
, naval architects. Right now tt
navy is training some 200 gradl
ates of recognized technical schoo
in it's navy yards.
The navy's design staff keel
busy all the time, and is forev'
looking ahead to possible futul
designs. If this month, for IL
Tho Atlantic side of the Panf
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

stance. the administration should
decide to build a couple of 45,oOo,-
ton battleships in place OF the
standard 35,OOO-ton type, the de-
sioners would have something pref
~ definite to offer Immediately.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26
Photographs
In the Hawaiian revolution COCO

In the Hawaiian revolution COCO
nut shells filled with explosives
we're used as bombs.
An association of business men
recently stated that 80 per cent oil
the promotions or discharges IN
their firms result from personality
characteristics rather than skill.
Queen Victoria once received l32
dolls as Christmas gifts from! friends
and relatives.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26
Hints on Etiquette

When you are introducing people,
be sure to speak the names dis
tinctly. To be careless about this
is embarrassing to the persons you
are introducing.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26
Dale
A -
Carnegie

When Charles E. Garstang, an
architect. living at 1921 La Cresta
Court, Los Angeles, California. was
starting out he was most anxious
To Land q inh desioning and SUPER
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26
One-Minute Test Answers

/. The Apprentices.
2. William Henry Harrison, In
augurated in March, 184l, died IN
April, same year
3. At Mons, Belgium, August %,
1914.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26

The Atlantic side of the Pana-
ma Canal Zone has twice as much
rain and twice as much sunshine
as the Pacific side.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26
Grab Bag
One Minute Test

|. What mountain range is the
backbone of Italy?
2. What president of the United
States only served one month?
3. Where was the first battle
fought between German and British
troops in the World War, and
when?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26
Words of Wisdom

Judge a man by his questions
rather than by his ansWerS.--Voi-
taire.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26
THOUGHTS fer the Day

Trust in him at all times ye people, pour out your
heart before him; God is a refuge for selah
Psalms 62.s
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-15
THE REFUNDING CHOICE
a SIMPLE ONE

It would be hard to find large finan-
cial deal simpler in actual practice than
the refunding proposal on which voters
of the Imperial Irrigation District will
be asked to vote yes" March %. There
is nothing complicated about the plan
except its legal wording-and the aver
age layman always puzzles about legal
phrases.
Stripped down to its actual meaning,
the plan offers a method for reducing
interest rates 25 per cent, providing
drainage and setting up machinery TO
bring about eventual reduction of prln-
cipal In addition it cancels part of
bond interest now due and hands over
to the people of the district, as a gift
from the bondholders, large sum to
finance the beginning of a drainage sys-
tenn.
Details of how these things will be
accomplished are explained in a series
of articles appearing elsewhere in this
newspaper There is no necessity to treat
of them at length here.
II is paramount, however, 10 under
stand the simplicity of the refunding
plan, and to balance it against the chaos
that will result unless this plan is ap-
proved That there will be chaos unless
the plan is approved is certain, because
there is no other proposal now before
the people, nor is there any probability
that one could be worked up and pre-
sented in time to overcome pressing dif-
ficulties.
Opponents of the refunding plan, hap
PLY very much in the minority, suggest
tentatively that the district should scrap
this proposal and go to the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation at Washing
ton in an effort to obtain federal financ-
ing Their suggestion, tentative though
il is, will not stand examination in view
of the facts.
The facts are these: The district did
go to RFC The district received abso-
lutely no encouragement from the fed
eral agency.
Add to these the current economy
drive in Washington, which is bound to
result in a Tightening of federal purse
strings, and you have more than enough
reason to dismiss any suggestion that
RFC will pull the district out of the
hole.
The people Of Imperial Valley must
depend upon themselves, not upon any
federal money lending agency, to solve
their problems, and the refunding plan
upon which they will vote March % Of
fers the best solution yet proposed.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-15
CRACKING DOWN ON
DEPARTMENT SPENDING

An enthusiastic cheer would go up
from most taxpaying Californians if the
state assembly would follow the sen
ates example in passing a bill returning
the power of appropriation to the legis-
lature, and outlawing the practice of
various state departments in living out
side their budgets.
1t has become so much a habit in re-
cent years for a department to spend
whatever sum it feels like, then present
the the bill to the legislature, that many
departments pay little attention to the
budgets set up for them at the beginning
of the year. They know they can spend
the money before it is okayed, anyway,
and the legislature cannot do much but
nod its head.
If the departments are forced to ask
approval before, instead of after spend
ing additional money, it is safe bet
most of them will confine their spend
ing activities more closely to the bud
gets upon which they are supposed to
operate
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-15
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

these planes are interchangeable
with the engines and parts for
Germany's army bombers.
Theoretically, Germany could
on a few days notice put good
sized fleet of bombing planes in the
northern part of South America,
and have available extra engines,
spare parts and plenty of fuel for
them.
Someone has figured out that
those planes could take off from
point within two thousand miles oil
such Widely-separted American
cities as Philadelphia and Fort
Worth. And, of course, they would
practically be in the back yard OF
the Panama Canal.
But if there is anything in all of
this to worry any Americans, the
Puerto Rico base is a pretty COM
plete answer to it. For even If you
assume that the Germans did want
to make an attack on America,
that they could get sizeable fleet
of bombers down to South Amerl-
ca without being intercepted, and
that those bombers could stay there
without being promply bombed
off of the face of the earth by
American planes operating out of
Panama-eyen if you assume all OF
that. the Puerto Rico base would
still remain an almost inpassable
barrier
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-15

Repeatedly squelched in the past,
the proposal to include military
training in the CCC regime has
bobbed up again.
Though no responsible military
authority has asked or even in
dorsed the plan, it continues TO
be advanced.
Congress can not too definitely
reject this proposal, once and for
all
1t is bad in theory. 1t is bad in
practice.
First the theory. Not even the
most rabid hackers of increased
armament have as yet suggested
universal military service for the
United States. Yet it is proposed
to subject to military training a
single class of young men-those
who have not been able to find
a place in industrial life.
This is undemocratic If mill
tary training is to be established
on anything like universal basis,
then let all youths be SuoJect 10
it. Even the totalitarian states do
this. and at its worst, their mill
tary program has the merit of TAX
ing everybody without distinction.
The draft of World war days at
least had the merit of taking ev-
erybody.
But this proposal would train
as soldiers a particular segment OF
the country's youth, leaving those
III more fortunate circumstances
untouched.
To advance any such program in
democratic country, whose
foundation is in the actual treat
ment of all regardless of their cir
cumstances, is grave mistake.
Second, the practical side. The
value of any such training, with
six hours week of military sand
Wiched in with the regular week S
work. is highly doubtful.
The CCC is a work program. 1t
is and is meant to be 4 Gillian pro-
gram. as indicated plainly by its
rame Civilian Conservation Corps.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-15
MILITARY SECRETS
(Orange NeWs)

The delivery of military secrets to
France is probably not very important
since there are generally not very many
military secrets that are secret. That
guarded information was revealed is
evident by the fact that the military
authorities opposed showing planes to
the French commissions; but the presi
dent is, of course, within his right in
overruling the general staff, whatever
may be the wisdom of such a course.
He has responsibility for national policy
which the army has not.
The implications that flow from the
act are more disturbing than the act
itself. Does close military cooperation
with the French which such an act in
dcates, mean that our national policy
is being shaped to include participation
in the military activities of Europe?
Would we give advantages to the French
which we would refuse to other military
forces?
Such an attitude suggests something
that can scarcely be considered as neu-
trality. The incident might very we'll
influence our relations with other ma
tions in a direction distasteful to the
American people who certainly have no
desire to be found fighting in any future
European war The French arplane
affair, therefore, suggests an admins
tration attitude that is far from COM
forting, considering the stress existing
between various European powers
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-15
Business
As Usual
Ex FREDERICK KUH

LONDON, March IS. tUP)-
Great Britain today ignored the
death of CzechosloVakia and pro-
ceeded with business as usual with
the dictators.
A British trade commission will
leave tomorrow for Berlin as
scheduled, to dicker for an Anglo
German understanding governing
the markets of southeastern Europe
At Rome, Lord Perth, the British
ambassador, and Italian Foreign
Minister Galeazzo Ciano met last
night and signed an exchange OF
notes readjusting the commercial
accord between Italy and Great
Britain
Both here and in Paris, the Of
ficial attitude was that because the
death Of the CzechosloVak republic
had resulted from an interior prob
lem-the Slovaks' secession-and
not at least to outward appearance
es, from German aggression, there
was no occasion for intervention
by the democracieS.
Diplomats in Paris believed that
France, by her silence, hoped to
insure Adolf Hitler's neutrality
when Italy makes her demands
against France.
The new crisis intensified the
ever present war scare; it recast
the map of central Europe to the
Nazis advantage for the third time
in year and thrust the German
spearhead to within 200 miles OF
Soviet Russian Ukraine, eventual
goal of Hitler's drive to the east
but British opinion was that it had
not raised any new or immediate
peril for the western democracies.
It did, however add to the stag
gering refugee problem. A special
ly chartered Dutch airliner landed
at Croydon airdrome last night
with II persons believed to be Of
ficials of the former Czech govern
ment The Czechoslovak legation
denied any knowledge of the new
comers but considerable secrecy at
tended Their arrival. They refused
to leave the plane until the field
had been cleared Of newspaper
men.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-15
REFORM DEFERS
TO RECOVERY
wall Street JournaD

(Wall Street Journal)
In limiting that the industrial situa-
ton needs more expenditures by govern
ment. the Federal Reserve Bulletin Is
but following Chairman Eccles we'll
known theory of bridge building which
other things being equal, has always
had at least a prima facie logical basis.
The trouble with the theory as put III
practice has. from the first, been that
other things were not equal. Other gov
ernmental policies have effectively ster-
ilized the spending policy, with results
visible TO all men.
That this fact has finally penetrated
government thinking is clear. For the
first time in six years, recoVery-normal
recoVery-noW seems to be the main OBJ
iective at Washington. Normal recovery
means removal of all discouraging lnflu-
ences from private enterprise. II signs
may be regarded as reliable, there Will
be an opportunity for Mr.. Eccles bridge
to reach its appropriate abutments on
the farther shore, and 1t will be the
first time that that chance has existed.
Should the connection be made the cost
of the final bridge section will have been
justified.
We have had more than one CLEAN Of
hope during the pendeney of the New
Deal that what private business regard
ed as a war by government upon 1t was
to be mitigated All have proved illusory
up to the present time, for actions failed
to follow olive branches. The difference
between these former phenomena and
the present is important in that the
initiative has come from another source.
The full force of last November'e elec
tion is only now beginning to make it
self felt in public affairs, and one of its
first effects is precisely the growing
demand that the track be cleared for
business revival. OF this demand there
is no doubt whatever and upon it may
be predicted a new and different hope
that what we have called reform will no
longer block recovery.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-15
Willis Thorntons Editorial On.
inflammation of CCC Bobs Up Again
Copyright, 1888. NEA

The aim is to furnish productive
work to young men who have not
been able to find a place in regular
Jobs, meanwhile teaching them as
much as possible to qualify them
for regular jobs when they get out.
Military training doesn't fit in
to this picture at all. 1t would
merely disrupt the work without
providing military training OF any
value whatever.
The CCC has done a fine job
as almost everybody admits TIC
mix it up cat great expenSe) with
military training, would ruin its
record as a work organization, pro-
vide no worth while military re-
sources to the nation, and flout the
basic democratic principle that il
one young man owes military SER
vice to his country, all owe it.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-15

last summer when / visited a glass
factory in Venice, the Venice ana
Murano Company. founded eXactiy
4O2 years before Columbus weighed
anchors on the Spanish seacoast
and headed into the sunset.
sat for half an hour watching
glass blowers transmute beautiful
dreams in glass. | maryeled at the
skill of these artists. How long do
YOU suppose they devoted TO per-
fecting their art? Two OF the star
performers were Antonio BaroVier
and Angelo Seguso. Their ancestors
were making beautiful glass for
seven hundred years. The Baro-
yiers and the Segusoes were max
ing glass while Richard the Lion
Hearted was trying TO WreSt the
Holy Sepulcher from the SaracenS
I bought in that factory, lady S
belt made of glass, belt almost
as soft as silk, and lady's even
ing bag. L was shown drinking
glasses that wouldn't break even If
you dropped them on a cement
floor. To be sure. they were very
thick. This factory is making glass
thread almost as fine as the thread
that the silk worm spins; and
women are now wearing glass
dresses.
l was on the French Riviera in
1920. and | was fascinated by the
games at Monte Carlo. Was there
a system that would beat roulette?
determinded to find out So I read
every book that. SO far as | could
learn. had ever been written on
the subject sent to London and
paid five dollars each for second
hand, out-of print copies. I read a
scientific treatise by Sir Hudson
Maxim, and was thoroughly con-
Vinced that there was absolutely
no system that would beat roulette.
And the chances of winning at
roulette are far better than on
horse racing. Here is what all eX-
pert has TO say on this subject:
Gene Normile the man who ran
the Auga Caliente race track con-
feSSeS that he has been trying for
over 80 years to beat the game and
that he has been a sucker. Gene
Normile ought to know as much
about race track betting as any
man who laid a wager; and he de-
clares that the old saying, All
horse players must die poor is
true. One of the best known book
makers in the United States, en-
rolled a few years ago for one of
my courses in public speaking. I
got rather well acquainted with
him. ! asked him what chance the
average man had to win who bet
according to the tipster sheets. "a
man could lose the United States
Treasury by doing that" he re-
piled
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-15
Russia Ready
Against Invader
Nv NORMAN b. DEUEL.

MOSCOW, March 10. tUP)-'
Soviet Russias peace time army
strength is more than $500, 900
men. Defense Commissar Klementi
VoroshiIov told the 18th Commu-
mist party congress in an apparent
warning against Nazi Germany S
march to the east.
With foreign observers Speculat-
ing on whether Germany Is head
ing toward the Soviet Ukraine, the
Russian defense commissar declar-
ed that the red army's great war
plane fleet could carry 5000 tons
of bombs in one mass flight and
that it is ready "at any moment
To fight an invasion.
Voroshilov did not refer TO Ger
many nor did he give specific fig-
ures on the manpoWer of the Red
army but he said its size and
strength was doubled since 1884,
which compares with the last pub
lished figures in 1895 of 10000
men.
In view of the armament race
everywhere, he said, the red army
had been compelled TO abandon It's
former organization by territories
and become entirely a profession
ally differed organization, trained
in "the spirit of internationalism"
His announcement meant that such
separate divisions as the far east
ern army-which was an autono-
nous fighting force-had been
brought under a high command.