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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-12-08

TESiTeu IrOn Cne nelQ a1ter the
Democratic landslide of 1892.
The average Negro enterprise
is used to adversely and poverty
and is practically immune to
starvation and other effects the
lack of coin of the realm some
times results in When we had
money we got out the paper.
when we did not we got it out
also somehow. Not for one or
two years but since t h turn
of the century. The only differ
ence was we cut down on ex-
penses. There was no change in
policy. There will be none.
The Times was and is now q
power for Republicanism in it's
field. It's readers vote and they
are concerned over it's welfare.
They were not blind to the i'm
plications of a certain part of
the program of the Young COP
meet last week at Fairmont,
as reported in the Times which
merely copied the Official release
sent to it. All this is perhaps
OF no moment, but the southern
West Virginia Negro voter is
not so hopelessly New Deal that
efforts made to win him back to
the Republican column in larger
numbers are a futile waste of
time, and he is not blind to even
unintentional things that do
happen which go against his
ideas.
Can it be so that the northern
Republicans are so sure of a
great victory in 1910 they do
not feel the need of wooing the
southern Negro vote? We do
not think such is the case, but
events certainly have been a bit
OFT the course generally set.
We feel confident that the
Republicans will take over about
| every office on the ballot next
year If they get together and
pull hard for victory. The giant
public debt, unemployment and
misery of our people for which
nothing has been done what
ever by h e administration but
the receipant was clearly made
to understand it was a political
loan to be repaid next voting"
| The Times and it's ownership
has said nothing but followed
It's usual course of fighting for
victory even up to the day of
the election. Even this article
I is not an official" editorial
utterance, though it might we'll
be such. The Times and it's fol-
lowing are willing to face facts
Tor what they are without. try
ing to delude itself, for their is
but wind and folly in doing amy
thing else. -Inghram.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-12-08

the right to the fruits of his Ia
bors, and shall go as far as his
own brains and energies can
take him. Private enterprise
made this ration as we know it.
And if ever private enterprise
is killed, this nation will die with
it.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-12-08

(The political Parade" 1t
appears in papers having circu-
lation of many millions.)
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-12-08
Filipino independence.

| I've vi Sih yCii - dGo sthy
Filipino so politically blind as to
campaign for office on platform
advocating the maintenance of
the Philippines on their then
existing basis as an American
&c ony would have gone down to
igomious defeat. Today, a candi-
date advocating absolute free
dom would have about as much
chance of political survival as a
SNOWFALL in July. Four years
back, when Congress passed the
Tydings-McDuffie Act, providing
for complete independence for
the islands in 1916, the Islands
put on the greatest celebration
in their history - the ambition
Of all Filipino patriots had been
realized. Last November plebis-
cite was held, and where $4,000
Filipinos voted in favor of
maintaining the Act in it's pres
cnt form, more than 100000
voted to modify it.
There is plenty of reason for
that rather astonishing shift of
Island sentiment. The Philip
pines are worried. There are two
primary worries-one has to do
with their economic life, and
the other with their security as
a people and a nation.
AS Newsweek expresses it,
Tee averagh PHILIPPINE fears
that independence will mean pow
erty.' So long as the Islands re-
main u. S. dependency, Philip
pine exports can enter this
country without tax or duty
and we, of course, provide their
greatest single market. Under
the terms of the Tydings-McDuf-
fie Act, as the day of freedom
nears, Island goods are to be sub
jected progressively to our tar
ifs. That would naturally mean
higher prices for Island-raised
produce here, more competition,
and declining sales. 1t would
be virtually essential for the Is
lands to revolutionize their eco
nomy, if they were able to es-
| cape economic disaster. That
would be a difficult revolution
lndede, and so far, apparently
little progress toward that end
has been made.
| So far as the Philippine securi-
| ty is concerned, the great fear
is Japan. Nippon frankly wants
the Islands, which are relative
| y close to her shores. The Japs
have already penetrated deeply
into the economic life Of the Is
lands, and are dominant figures
in a number of major industries.
| The Philippines have laws de
@igned to restrict Japanese pro
perry holdings, but according
| to reports, the wiley subjects of
the Son Of Heaven have found
lite difficulty in getting around
them, by the use of dummies
al similar stratagems.
The L. S. Army, it is known,
is not enthusiastic for the Is
lands-it regards them as be-
irg dangerously close to being
indcfcnsible against a major
fleet such as possessed by Japan.
which has sources of supply
within easy reach. The Navy.
while it too appreciates the diff
culties of defense, wants the
bases in the Far East which the
Islands provide. SO the Admirals
are generally in favor of modifi-
cation of the Tydings-McDufIie
| Act.
What HAPPENS to the Islands
of considerable importance to
this country. We have invested
scores Of millions there. and we
sell great quantities of our goods
to the Islands anrually. Some
largue that the best out is to en-
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1939-12-08

Excerpts firm George Roth
well Browns Column
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
MEMBER
NO MORE DEMANDS :
EXCEPT COLONIES

1t is far beyond the realm of probabili-
ty TO expect Great Britain and France
to consider seriously Fuehrer Adolf Hit
ler's self-styled bid for peace.
After Munich, Hitler informed the
world in blunt terms that Germany had
no more demands to make He added,
however, that Germany would like to
consult with the other powers about her
pre-war colonies.
Everybody knows what has happened
since Munich.
Now, after Poland, Hitler is ready to
assure the world again that Germany has
no more demands to make This time,
however, he does not even say he would
like to consult" about the pre-war Ger
man colonies. He says mo more demands
except the colonies"
Hitler is less reaSSuring now even If
his words are taken at face value, than
he was at Munich. Then he wanted to
consult about the colonies-now he indl-
Gates he will demand their return.
Is it any wonder the allies see scant
hope in his speech for peace?
1t is possible that Hitler, in the queer
way his mind works, actually believed
he could force peace at his own terms
upon the allies. 1t is doubtful, however.
Hitler, mad as he may be in some re-
spects, has nevertheless proved himself
stern realist in international dealings.
Why, then, did he keep the world
waiting for speech which he knew
would be ineffective, as far as its pur-
ported objective was concerned? Why
did he refrain from unleashing the arm
ed force of which he boasts against his
enemies? Why has he kept Germany
marking time, when every day OF war
further depletes his nations resources,
vitality and courage?
Can it be that he was waiting praying
against fear, for definite assurance from
Italy and Russia that those two nations
would send him armies to serve his
whims? Perhaps If he was, and II
news dispatches from Italy and Russia
are to be believed, his waiting was IN
vain.
More and more it appears that Hitler
stands alone against the world-an un-
happy fate for any man, great or small:
1t is the eventual fate, all the same, OF
those who depend upon force, threats
and aggression to get what they want.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
GERMANY AIDS CASH-CARRY;
BRITAIN TOO COCKSURE

StrangeSt news OF all out OF Europe
came Friday, in simultaneous but un-
related dispatches.
German officials charged in Berlin
that British officials were planning to
sink an American passenger vessel so
that Americans would blame the Ger
mans and be drawn into the war.
British officials said in London that
Great Britain cannot accept the Safe
ty Zone" surrounding American repub-
lies, as drawn up at the Panama con-
ference.
Thus the Germans, all unintentionally,
gave a powerful argument to senator's IN
this country arguing for a cash-and-carry
neutrality law which would keep Amerl-
can ships out of war zones; and the
British, still muddling through, demon
strateh such a cocksure confidence IN
American support that they believe they
can violate American neutrality with
impunity.
The news was all the more strange
because Germany desperately opposes
the cash-and-carry program, and Brit
ain desperately needs American friend
ship.
The only good those two dispatches did
was for Americans-they prove that, IN
a war, it is every man for himself, and
destruction take the hindmost.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
Bruce Cation in Washington
Dissects the News

the administrations proposal would
represent a relaxation of the pre-
sent law, then, is in its clause
which would permit the export OF
arms and munitions.
AS a tactical move, this may be
of considerable Importance in the
fight in the senate.
Administration leaders are now
in a position to say to the isola-
tionists, in effect:
"If you're so anxious to keep the
country out of war, why not take
our plan? 1t would keep American
ships and American cargoes out of
the war zone completely; the pre-
sent law only keeps munitions out.
We could be dragged into war
through the torpedoing of American
ships carrying wheat or cotton, un-
der the present law; we couldn't,
under our plan"
The islationists, however, have
their answer ready for that one:
"Okay. Why not keep the arms en-
barge, and then take the other fea-
lures of your plan, and be doubly
sure that we're safe?'
What all of this boils down to,
of course, is the fact that the arms
embargo is the single important
issue at stake. To get it lifted, the
administration seems prepared to
yield on practically everything else
and the isolationists will give up
practically everything else to keep
IT,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08

WASHINGTON.-The startling
fact emerging from a comparison
of the two measures is that the
administrations proposed revision
of the neutrality law is a far more
stringent "isolationist" measure
than the present law-with the
single exception of the arms en-
barge clause.
Under the existing law, for in
stance, trade in munitions to bel
ligerent nations is prohibited; but
trade in other commodities-steel,
oil, wheat raw materials, and man.
ufactured goods of all kinds-can
go on freely, and may be carried
in American ships.
Under the administration pro-
posal, no American vessel may car
ry any materials whatever to any
warning nation, and no American
business firm may export any ma
terials whatever to any warning ma
ton unless title to the goods is
transferred to the purchaser before
the shipment is made.
Under the present law, Amer
leans may travel to belligerent ma
tions on American ships. Under
the administration proposal, they
could not travel to belligerent ma
tions at all on American ships, nor
could they ride on anybody else's
ships if those ships have to pass
through a combat area"
The present neutrality law is not
called into operation unless the
president so decides. The admin
istrations proposed revision would
empower Congress to put the law ir
to effect.
The cash-and-carry section o.
the administration proposal woulC
restore a feature which the admin
istration permitted to die las
spring. Strictly speaking, it is no
precisely "a cash-and-carry section
since it provides for 90-day credits
In this, it is similar to the present
ban on loans to warning nations
which excerpts ordinary CONNER.
cial credits and short-term obli
cations "customarily used in nor
NAL peacetime commercial trans
actions"
Almost the only point in which
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
DEFENSE IS
CHEAPER THAN WAR
California Legionnaire)

It will cost lot of money to build our
defenseS to point where we would be
attack-proof in this bandit harassed
world. But not nearly as much as it
would cost to send another expedition
airy force into another European war.
War Department officials are talking
in terms of 700-million-dollar increase
in appropriations for next year. to en-
large the Army, intensity its training,
and equip it with modern arms.
Other defense enthusiasts are suggest
ing that we build a two-ocean Navy.
Rough estimates fix four billion dollars
as the probable cost of building another
fleet equal to the one we have now.
Those are large figures, but not so
frightening when contrasted with 90
billion dollars = that being the total
United States expenditures on account
of the World War, up to 1880, including
postwar costs attributable to the war
and including war loans to European
countries which will never be repaid
Moreover, we're still paying, and be-
fore we get through We'll be out of
pocket money enough to gold-plate the
Gatun locks and diamond-stud the bat
tleship turrets of at least tWo-ocean
NaVV
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
E. A. Fitzhugh, Ell Centre, Calf;
A. G. Johnston, Ell Centro, Calf;


A. G. Johnston, Ell Centre, Calf;
Logan H. Jenkins, Ell Centre,
Calf
8. That the known bondholders,
mortgages, and other security
holders owning or holding per cent
or more of total amount of bonds,
mortgages, or other securities are:
Bank of America National Trust
and Savings Association, Ell Centre,
Calf;
Ed Haas, 1O06 Broadway, Arcade
Building, Los Angeles, Calf.
4. That the two paragraphs next
above giving the names of the
owners, stockholders, and security
holders, if any, contain not only
the list of stockholders and security
holders as they appear upon the
books of the company but also, in
cases where the stockholder or
security holder appears upon the
books of the company as trustee
or in any other fiduciary relation,
the name of the person or corpora
tion for whom such trustee is act
ing, is given; also that the said
two paragraphs contain statements
embracing affiant's full knowledge
and belief as to the circumstances
and conditions under which stock
holders and security holders who
do not appear upon the books of
the company as trustees, hold stock
and securities in a capacity other
than that of bona fide owner;
and this affiant has no reason to
believe that any other person, as
sociation, or corporation has any
interest direct or indirect In the
said stock, bonds, or other securi-
ties than as so stated by him.
5. That the average number of
copies of each issue of this publica-
ton sold or distributed, through
the mails or otherwise, to paid sub
scribers during the twelve months
preceding the date shown above Is
6611. (This information is required
from daily publications only.
PAUL A. JENKINS,
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 5th day of Octoer, 1899.
| (SEAL) S. E. SHAW,
(My commission expires June
IA, 1941)
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
Willis Thornton's Editorial on:
Tax Fiqures Show What War Means

standard of living. Not only in
Germany, where Woodfibre bread
and ersatz clothing are already the
order of the day. but in England,
in France, and in any country that
goes to war, the great mass OF the
people must see their standards OF
living slipping, sliding, gradually
sagging downward toward sub
sistence. That S2OOO-a-year man
who has to lay out $3.50 in cash
for income tax has very definite
slice cut out of his living standards
translated into new shoes, warm
coats, healthful food, that is a
grave sacrifice. 1t is the old guns
and-butter choice all over again.
1t will be the same in France
and Germany, and in any country
that draws the sword.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
WAR AFFECTS JOBS
alameda Times-Star)


Repercussions of the European war
are already beginning to be felt in Cal
ifornia employment field, says Miss
Vera Christie, manager of the Unlver-
sity of California bureau of occupations.
In the face of certainty, many firms are
curtailing hiring, or conducting job anal
ysis to discover in what positions women
may profitably replace men during
national emergency.
AS yet, she pointed out the effects
are not to be considered alarming, but
are to be thought of only in relation to
other factors which, with employment,
affect the business barometer.
when l speak of hiring being cur
tailed" Miss Christie said, Il do not
mean that as yet the level of all hiring
has dropped. Indeed, in some cases it
has risen following the opening of hos
tilities in Europe But | ldo mean that
those jobs scheduled to be filled have
not vet been filled because of doubt and
the fact that should war come they
would Immediately become vacant again.
The drop, therefore, has hit the So
called white collar man hardest, as it is
his position that employers find to be
risk if filled under present conditions.
In the field of skilled and semi-skilled
labor, with present orders in heavy IN
dustries increased, employment may rise
for a time, but even here applications
are being rejected if they know only one
field. Personnel managers today are
most desrous of obtaining men who can
be changed from job to job; also, in
quiries stress the age and abilities of the
wife and children to be listed as a
source of future employment. Engineers
are another exception, the demand be-
ing greater than it has been for several
years.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08

and I am not justifylng murder or
anv other drastic action, as a re-
suit of nagging. Had that man
known how to handle people, in
cluding his wife, he would not have
been melted to murder. Had that
woman known how to handle people,
she. in all probability, would be
alive today.
How differently Mrs. Lyman
Abbot handled her husband. She
did it by the art of suggestion, in
stead of by the hammer-and-tong
method. Lyman Abbot was a IA
nous preacher when l was a boy.
His friend, Henry Ward Beecher,
died. and Lyman Abbot was called
on after Mr.. Beecher's death to fill
the pulpit thus left vacant. He con-
sidered this sermon TO be the most
important one he had ever been
called upon to deliver. He wrote,
rewrote, and polished it with as
meticulous care as if it were meant
for casting in bronze.
Then he gave it to his wife to
read and admire. But she thought
that the sermon was poor, that 1t
lacked life and vigor She might
have said Lyman. this is dull. 1t
is terrible. 1t will put the congre-
CATION to sleep. I've told you never
to write your sermons without
thinking them out beforehand"
Then she could have nagged him
until she had made him nervous; and
until ne had lost his self-confi-
dence.
But she didn't. Instead she said:
Lyman, l think it would make a
better magazine article than a SER
mon. I believe it would appeal to
the North American Review Why
don't you send it to them?"
Lyman Abbot was upset; he had
come expecting praise and had re-
ceived criticism. But he saw the
point. He tore up his carefully pre-
pared sermon; assembled new ma
terial, and preached without notes
His new effort was considered the
best sermon he had ever delivered
To suggest indirectly, instead OF
criticising openly, will get you much
further.
That was the technique Harvey
s. Firestones wife used. He was
buggy salesman; and while sell
ing rubber-tired buggies, he got the
idea for rubber tires to be used or
the wheels of that new-fangled con-
traption, the automobile He eX-
perimented with rubber in his wife's
kitchen. Can you imagine the odol
of that burning rubber? Not one
day, but day after day. Meantime
his wife, half crazed by the nose
paralyzing odor, quietly and unob.
trusively opened the windows ever!
time he started the fumes going
At last, she conquered, and he NOV.
ed out of the kitchen and into {
small factory. She had won withou
uttering a word of complaint!
How much BETTER the power o
suggestion than a bombardment O.
words! The next time you are temp
ted to nag, say to yourself, "Isn'
there better way to offer my sug
gestions?"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
LEGAL ADVERTISE.MENT
NOTICE OF TAXES

NOTICE is hereby given that all
taxes for the fiscal year of July l,
1899, to June 80, 1910, in the City
of Ell Centro are now due and pay
able.
That all taxes upon personal
property and one-half of all taxes
upon real estate, mortgages, deeds
of trust, contracts or other obliga-
tions by which debt is secured upon
real estate will become delinquent
upon the last Monday in November
next thereafter at five o'clock PM,
and that unless such taxes are pald
prior thereto ten per cent will be
added to the amount thereof.
That the remaining half of the
taxes upon real estate, mortgages,
deeds Of trust, contracts or other
obligations by which debt is secur-
ed upon real estate; will become
delinuuent upon the last Monday
in April next thereafter, at five
o'clock PM, and that unless such
taxes are paid prior thereto, five
per cent will be added to the
amount thereof.
That all taxes may be paid at
the time of the payment of the
first installment as herein provided.
That taxes may be paid at the
City Hall to the Deputy Tax Col
lector, between hours of eight
o'clock AM, and five o'clock PM,
with the exception of Saturday and
on which day the hours shall be
from eight o'clock AM, to twelve
o'clock noon.
Dated this 30th day of Septem-
ber, 1889.
j. STERLING OSWALT,
City Tax and License Collector
BY FAYE BURKE,
q 3O-Oct. 16 incl. Deputy.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08
TOday's Horoscope

The signs for the twelve months
are somewhat adverse for those
whose birthday is today. They are
warned to guard against deception
and quarrels. Before the year
ends, however, happy romance
will bring them joy. If born in
the morning, a child will be of a
somewhat dreamy nature. If born
later in the day, however, he will
be cheerful, but extravagant, and
possess a somewhat unruly nature.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08

On May Is, 1877, Turkish SOL
diers stopped firing at their en-
emies, the Russians. when an eclipse
of the sun darkened the land.
They turned their guns on the
sun to shake away the curtain
that darkened it."
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08

Gold is not always golden in
color. Pure gold in different forms
may be green, brown, blue or red.
Fine particles, depending on their
size, may even be pink, dark red
or black.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-08

LAllON, EIC., REQUlhED BY
THE ACTS OF CONGRESS OF
AUGUST "a, 1912, AND MARCH
3, 1888, OF THE POST-PRESS,
Published Sunday at Ell Centre,
California, for October 1, 1889.
State of California,
County of Imperial-sS.
Before me, a Notary Public, in
and for the State and County afore-
said, personally appeared Paul A.
Jenkins, who, having been duly
sworn according to law, deposes and
says that he is the Publisher and
Editor of The Post-PreSS and
that the following is, to the best
of his knowledge and belief, a
true statement of the ownership,
management (and if daily paper
the circulation etc, of the afore-
said publication for the date shown
in the above caption, required by
the Act of August "a, 1912, as
amended by the Act of March 8,
1888, embodied in section 537, Postal
Laws and Regulations, printed on
the reverse of this form, to-wit:
l. That the names and addresses
of the publisher, editor, managing
editor, and business managers are:
Publisher, Paul A. jenkins, 589
Wensley, Ell Centro, California.
Editor, Paul A. Jenkins, $50 Wen
sley, Ell Centre, California.
Managing Editor, E. A. Fitzhugh,
1O49 Euclid, Ell Centro, California.
Business Manager, S. E. Shaw, $50
Commercial, Ell Centro, California.
2. That the owner is: Qf owned
by a corporation, its name and ad-
dress must be stated and also i'm
mediately hereunder the names
and addresses of stockholders own
ing or holding one per cent or more
Of total amount of stocks. If not
owned by a corporation, the names
and addresses of the individual
owners must be given. If owned by
a firm, company, or other unincor-
porated concern, its name and ad-
dress, as we'll as those of each in
dividual member, most be given).
Imperial Valley Publishing Com
pany, FL Centre, California.
Paul A. Jenkins, Ell Centro, Calf;