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Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13

WASHINGTON. - Just as if 1t
didn't have enough trouble with
the subject session, this Congress
is going tc WreStle anew with the
thorny project OF government re-
organization.
Only he Supreme Court fight
touched off more fireworks than
last years reorganization bill. A
bitter struggle during which PreSl-
dent Roosevelt was denounced as a
Wculd-be dictator ended when the
House pIgeon-holed his proposal.
This time it is likely to be dlf-
ferent. There is practically no
chance that the reorganization Dill
could be passed in its original form.
Seventy seven Democrats who vot-
ed against the original bill are
back this year. Add them to the
1863 House Republicans, who prob
ably would be practically solid
against the bill, and you get an
other adverse majority.
An effort is now under way to
provide a bill which will accom-
plish some of the streamlining the
President asked for without rails
ing the objections that the last bill
raised. A few days ago the House
formally revived the special COM
mitee on reorganization, under the
Craftsmanship of Representative
John j. Cochran of Missouri; and
Representative Lindsay Warren CT
North Carolina has been working
out compromise plan to present
to this committee.
Any such compromise would have
to take care Of three principal is
sues:
First Congress wants the right
to pass on any changes the Presi-
dent might make in the various
government departments, agencies
and commissions.
Second, Congress 50 far has been
dead against the Presidents plar
to abolish the office Of comptroller
general and lodge that Offices pre-
audit functions in the Treasury
Department.
Third Congress objects to the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13
PHISHING
christian Science Monitor)


And no man is born an artist, so no
man is born an angler" Columbia univer
sity's Teachers college-belatedly and
yet in advance of other universities-ha
decided that Izaak Walton was as right
as Barnum about fish. Teachers College
is to provide new angle on angling.
Contrary to many country school
teachers experience with boys whose
thoughts wondered
In genial sprng. beneath the quiyering shade
even when their bodies did not, fishing
need not be anti-educational. So Teach
ers College plans to include in its curri-
culum course on fishing. And why not?
"Angling may be said to be so like the
mathematics that it can never be fully
learnt" And though fishing rod may
be "a stick with hook at one end and a
fool at the other" angling has also been
described as AN art worthy the lnoWl-
edge and practice of a wise man.
All that are lovers Of virtue -. and
be quiet are eligible for its benefits.
These. since far back in the stream Of
time. have included hours for mediation,
lessons in resignation, exercises in moral
courage whether to go home empty
handed or buy ones catch at the fish
market on the way) and many other such
influences as educate man in that in
dispensable branch Of learning, self
knowledge. Well might Teachers College
take the phoo. make him a phisherman
and bestOW upon him Ph.D.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13
THE NEW PIONEERS
OF AMERICA
Contra Costa Gazette)

Yes America worries about its kid
napngS. hopes for an end to its labor
troubles, looks forward to the day when
unemployment will be banished, sees
there is much to be done in providing
medical care and proper housing for
hundreds of thousands of families, and
on occasion finds the outlook a little
dispiriting. But outsiders. with a new
perspective see America differently. Here
is Paul Van iceland. speaking. After an
extended visit in these United States,
this very able former Premier of Bel
gium warmly declares. You are very
fortunate here. If everyone could realize
the conditions in Europe and compare
them with the United States, you people
would consider yourselves very luckyi'
And we ARE lucky. despite the many
economic and social problems which
press for solution, We have the precious
and essential freedom of democracy, and
the means of treating our problems
peacefully and with sanity!
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

Presidents proposal that the civil
Service Commission be abolished
with its duties transferred to a
single administrator directly re-
sponsible to the President.
Last year Senator Burton K.
Wheeler proposed an amendment
TO the bill under which no merger
or reorganization put through by
the President could become effec-
tive without affirmative congress
sional action. The administration
refused to accept this, declaring
that the whole subject would be
thrown open to log-rollins and that
nc reorganization would be accom-
plished.
The matter of the comptroller
general is an especially sore point.
Congress only check on the eXecu-
tive. in the last analysis is through
its control of the purse strings
congressman feel that unless Con-
gress has its own agent to deter
mine how money shall be spent, the
President could do practically any
thing he wanted to-
Much the same argument applies
to the civil service business-that
the Presidents original plan would
give the White House complete
power over all appointive jobs, that
Congress would not merely lose its
fattest sources of patronage bu
that the President would get them
under his sole control,
One compromise that is suggest
ed would leave the Civil Service
Commission untouched, appointing
an administrator who would sim
ply act as the commissions agen
in making changes and cnlcrcina
regulations
It can be taken for granted thai
Congress would not permit Sucl
quasi judicial agencies as the In.
terstate Commerce Commission t.
be tampercd with. and Senator ByrC
Of Virginia predicts that the Presi.
dents proposal for a new Depart
ment Of Public Welfare will have
to be dropped.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13
Willis Thornton's Editorial On:
The Sudden Importance Of Guam

le of copra as the reward.
Guam was kept III the moment
or naval enthusiasm that swept
the country after the Spanish WaL
when all countries were grappiil5
for "coaling stations 5 and naval
bases" all over the world. BY the
United States it has been largely
forgotten except by naval officers
who always regarded Tour Vi
duty there as something IKE
French sentence to Devils island
Guam itself. as Guam, is nothing.
Now suddenly it is important
again. For a proposal is being mace
to fortify it. This forsaken island
in the south Pacific is to be turn
ed into a Gibraltar, a Singapore,
out of the poorhouSe, with a TRICK
a Pearl Harbor.
This is something into which
every American ought to look with
the greatest care. 1t is vital; the
decision made here may affect the
whole future of the country.
Guam is $3.50 miles from San
Francisco and $500 miles from the
Panama Canal.
1t is 1850 miles beyond Homo
lulu, which for years we have
called our outpost defense" in the
Pacific. 1t is only 1900 miles from
Yokohama.
Assume that we are interested
only in the defense of continental
United States, the Panama Canal,
and Alaska. That's been our usual
assumption, for we are to leave
the Philippines within few years
we have promised.
There may be good military de
fenSive reasons for forti ing
Guam. That is for the military to
show, and it would seem to want
a lot of showing. The more natur-
al assumption~to the ordinary man
is that a fortified Guam would
be used for offensive operations
in the Far East.
Certainly Japan will assume that.
Look at the map. You have only
to imagine Japan fortifying an
island 800 miles this side of HaW-
ali to imagine how the Guam move
looks to them.
This is not an rgument for or
against fortifying Guam. It is
merely an effort to suggest that
this move, once taken. commits
the United States to obligations
and implications which ought to
be assumed open-eyed and with
utmost deliberation. If we are to
fortify Guam. let us understand
quite definitely. "Why?"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13

ll4 SLOlleS lOIO III II.
The Bethlehem Steel Company.
few years ago, was not satisfied
with the amount OF work the men
we're doing. The mon worked hard,
but did not accomplish as much
as they should
Frederick w. Taylor. the famous
efficiency expert was engaged 10
make a study Of the situation. He
chose q department where the men
had to do the hardest kind OF man
ual labor which was the carrying
Of Dig-iron. The conditions have
changed since. but that was the
problem he was required to solve
At that time Each man during
the working day. carried y tons
of pig-iron At the end OF the d/
they We're exhausted.
7 think those men can carry
more pig-iron and not be as tired
at the end Of the dag.s MI. Taylor
said
Tho plant MANAGER was disap-
pointed in the new expert. Didn't
the expert know the men were as
tired as dogs when quitting time
came?
At the end Of the two days Tay-
lor said Now. I'm ready TO begin.
Schmidt. YOU work too hard. You
must rest more.
Schmidt knew now that the pro-
fessor was crazy: no doubt about it.
Pest one minute out OF five. That
settled the matter as far as Schmidt,
the pig-iron carrier, was concerned.
But ne did rest
Now. pick up your load" said
the professor. NOW set it down
Well. Schmidt. by working and
resting was able TO carry AZ tons
Of pig-irOni More than three times
a. much' And he was not as tired
al the end Of he day as he pre-
yiouslg had been Let me repeati
When this man rested at short in
teryals. ne accomplished three times
a. much as he had formerly ac-
complished and was less tired Nor
was this merely q weeks spurt for
Schmidt did this for three years
before he was moved to another
plant.
This matter Of alternate work
and rest is just as important in
an office as it is in a steel mill.
You should take five minutes off
every hour and read, CT look out
the window, or telephone your
sweetheart, or better still lie down
and relax Where? / have often
relaxed flat on my back on the
floor. Schools are recognizing the
value of relaxation such as this.
The teachers have the children lie
flat on their backs. and become
limp as they play the game of rag
coll" When the children rise from
the floor they are relaxed, rested
Twenty minutes a day OF complete
relaxation can change your entire
life
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13
Famous Sayings

In June of 1898, the U. S. cruis-
er Charleston hove into the port
of Apra in Guam and fired a shot.
The Spanish governor of the is
land thinking it was a salute,
came out to explain that he could
nj reply to it, having no guns or
ammunition. The U. S. comman-
der kindly replied that there was
a war. and that the governor, like
Annie of the song, didn't live
there any more
That is how the United States
cot Guam. And for 40 years the
navy has governed it, the United
States has spent money to keep it
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13
TCday'S Horoscope

The baby born on this day will be
a clever person, and especially good
at languages. He CT she viii also
be very goodhearted, with a sunny
disposition. and good luck will at
tend him or her. Success in business
is prognosticated for the coming
year for todays birthday children.
Financial affairs will prosper, but
a warning must be uttered concern
ing friends who are not really
friends.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13

Z
once today. ]
found it in the
splendid book
why Be Tired
by Daniel w
JOselyn. Let me
urge you to read
t h a t book. ]
haven't read a
book in years
that did nore
for ne. Here is
one of t h {
many illuminat-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13
0nc-Miputc Test Answers

|. w. l.. Mackenzie King.
2. In the mid-PacifiC, which
roughly corresponds to The l80th
Meridian.
3. The Flyin2 DjJtchnan.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13
You re Telling Me-

Congress is concerned over lack
of publicity for the plans of the
French government to buy hundreds
of war planes in the United States
What we're wondering about IS
whether the deal is on cash or
credit basis.
That slogan Movies are your
best entertainment should be am
ended to read, Movies and Bingo.'
A recent news story to the effect
that the Nazis plan to ignore their
debts fails to arouse much interest.
debt doesn't mean much TO lot
of governments nowadays.
The Princeton professor who says
a new 200-inch telescope will solve
the riddle of the universe must be
optimistic. Will it show US who's
right, John l.. Lewis or William
Green?
Now that paintings from Walt
Disneys Snow White and the Sew
en- Dwarfs" are admitted to the
Metropolitan museum. Dopey can
feel honored in the company OF
julius Caesar-or vice versa.
Discussion of the proposed mill
tary base at Guam soon will become
secondary to the problem OF who's
Going TO play second base for the
Cleveland indians,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13
Grab Bag
One Minute Test

l. Who now is Prime Minister OF
Canada?
2. Where is the international
dateline located?
3. What phantom ship is sup
posed to be visible in stormy wealth
er off the Cape of Good Hope?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13
Dale


Would you like to get more work
done and not be as tired at the
end of the day as you are now?
Well. I'll give you a simple way
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13
Words OF Wisdom

l will chide no heather in the
world but myself, against whom l
know most faultS.-Shakespearc.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13
Hints on Etiquette

At parties or other group meet
ings, women - even the best OF
friends - do not kiss, but shake
hands at meeting and parting.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13

To coal ships at Rridgetown,
British West Indies, native women
are employed. They balance the
heavy laods of coal ON their h2ads
while at their work.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13
Photographs

More babies are born in taXicabS
in New York City than anywhere
else in the world.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13

On one major American airline
it is estimated that 26 different
states are represented among the
SteWardesseS.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13
Barbs =

Billingsgate fish mongers who
have the reputation of using the
strongest language in the world
are reported to be ashamed OF
themselves after hearing recent po-
litical broadcasts in Europe.
That heroine, who cheered the
survivors of the Cavalier seaplane
disaster as they clung to life pre-
servers in the darkness, has a great
future as a hostess. She could make
tea party cheerful.
The movement to keep tomatoes
out of clam chowder will gain
speed only if it is linked to n plan
TO put CLANS in it.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13
Thoughts for the Day

For are made partakers Of Christ. if We hold
lie beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the
end-Hebrews 3.I4
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13

Birds cannot distinguish the col
or blue-althCugh they are able to
see at least 100 times as well as
human beings.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13

Blind people in Seattle Wash,
may ride free on any street cars,
according to an ordinance passed
by the city council.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13

BRINGING
ALL THE NEWS
TO IMPERIAL
VALLEY
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-13

That slogan Movies are your
best entertainment" should be am
ended to read, Movies and Bingo.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-26
D'MOLAYS ARE
TO VISIT fort

Combined first degree teams Of
Tacoma and Keator chapters,
Order of DeMolay, will go to Fort
Lewis Tuesday evening to ex-
emplify at the forts Masonic
temple, the first degree for all De-
Molay members now attending the
r. o. T. c. and C. M. T. c. camps.
The Tacoma DeMolays will meet
at Tacoma Masonic temple at 6:45
and leave at 7 for Fort Lewis.
Arrangements for the demonstra-
ton were made by Sergt. Alven
Evens, master of Henry A. Greene
lodge. F. & A. M.
"Bricklayers," fun organization
of the DeMolay, will meet We'd
nesday evening at s o'clock at
Spanaway park where the brick
layers degree will be conducted
for new members.
Tacoma chapter will hold its
regular meeting Thursday evening
at Masonic temple.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-26

Director Is Due

Franklyn Waltman. national
publicity director of the Republi-
can party will come to this state
Aug. Q and 10 for conferences at
Seattle and Spokane with news
paper editors, it was announced
Tuesday by Paul H. Johns OF the
Pierce county central committee.
According to information from
state headquarters Mailman Ia
now on the west coast and plans to
be at the Olympic hotel, Seattle,
Aug. 2 and the Davenport, spo-
kane, Aug. 10. He has not sched-
uled q visit tn Tacoma.
State headquarters also an
nounced publication of the Repub-
lican State Bulletin to be dis
tributed free to state and local
party officials and to the press as
official organ Of the national and
state organisations.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-26
YOUTH ARRESTED FOR
SHOOTING ON RESERVE

Bob Ssttilly. la-year-old spana-
way youth, who told Undersherift
CLYDE Knowles Monday he was
behaving himself" was in the
county Jail Tuesday. charged with
shooting a gun on game pre-
serve.
He was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff William Long. Also appre-
hended with Sattilly were Bob
Eide, 10. and Clarence Rice. 10.
both Of Spanaway, charged with
the same offense.
Sattilly recently was given \
six-months' suspended jail SEN
tence for theft OF an automobile
radio. He has been making regu-
lar reports to Knowles. The last
one-Monday-wss when he told
the undersherif of his good be-
havior.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-26
DEATH TOLL IN
B. c. NOW SIX
Variety of Mishaps
Claim Lives of
Canadians

VANCOUV YER. b. c.
Provincial death toll during
the past "a hours mounted to
six Tuesday as British Column
bia police reported recovery
of the body of 14-year-old
Palmer Alcock, Hedley, B. C.,
missing since late Sunday.
The youth had been suffocated
when a sandbank in the
Penticton, B. c., area collapsed
on him.
Frank Lowe, 16, was crushed to
death on his fathers farm near
Chilliwack, B. c., when he fell be-
meath the wheels Of hay wagon
yesterday.
Two men, one an Indian chief,
were dead as the aftermath Of
drinking parties in the kamloops
area. The mangled body of
Antoine Larue, acting chief of the
Kamloops Indians, was found on
the Canadian National railway
tracks at Kamloops junction, while
at the eastern end of the mountain
town police reported finding the
body of Merle Watson, age I'M
known. Watson was believed to
have died from injuries when
struck by train.
At Crsnbrook, B. c., police
searched for bodies of Charles
Lund, So, and George Ross, So,
drowned Monday while attempt
ing to cross the Kootenay river in
a rowboat. Both were experienced
river drivers. In the mountains
in the North Vancouver area, $50
men from a provincial forestry
camp continued their search for
S3-year-old Donald Ross, Van
couver, missing since Sunday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-26
Suspended Terms
Giuen z Soldiers

Pleas of guilty to robbing the
hotel room of Villa mMarlatt. di-
rector of the Golden Jubilee page
ant, recently were entered by Peter
Knutsen. 20, and Claud F. Hamil-
ton, Fort Lewis soldiers, in Justice
Clarence D. Layton's court Mon
day afternoon.
The court sentenced them to
serve one year each, but suspended
the sentence with the provision
that the conviction be erased en-
tirely from the records il their be-
havior during the next 365 days is
exemplary.
Knutsen and Hamilton stole
two cigaret cases and various
other personal articles from Mar
latt's room at the Tacoma hotel.
All OF the stolen things were re-
turned to the director before he
departed for Newport, r. L, by
airplane Monday night.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-26
Dismiss Charges
OF Pettu Larceny

Justice Blanche Funk Miller dis
missed charges of petty larceny
against James Micheletta Of nos
Fawcett ave, in justice court Tues
day.
Micheletta was charged by II. A.
Rogers of taking IS from Mrs.
Rogers on the pretense that he
woold be able to obtain Rogers re-
lease from Jail on a property bond
last April. Rogers stated Michel
eta made no attempt to carry out
his promise
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-07-26

ave. After business session the
members viii 60 to the Elks
temple where they will Join the
lodge for a social evening.
On Thursday afternoon Mrs.
Melissa Wonder win be hostess for
q meeting of the auxiliary sewing
club at the home Of Mrs. Eleanor
vanMeter on It'll 1T. S. f. A pot
luck dinner viii be served.
The Wisconsin club will hold its
annual picnic at Point Defiance
park Sunday afternoon at ? o'clock.
Each family Ia TO provide its own
basket lunch, the club furnishing
the coffee.
Miss Ella stelling Of West Pho
neer way and Miss Daisy Parizek
OF Tacoma have returned from a
week spent at Olympus manor on
Hood canal.
The auxiliary OF Fruitland
grange will give a dinner at
grange hall Wednesday evening
from 5 until 8 o'clock with the
men of the organization doing the
serving. Cards will be played
afted dinner. Mrs. L. w. Bennett
and Mrs. George Newcomer are in
charge Of the dinner and Mrs. Clif-
ford Miller, the cards.
The willing Workers club Of the
Royal Ncighbors will hold It's an
nual picnic At sievert's on Sur
prise lake Friday. cars leaving
Redmen's hall at 1880 o'clock.
Each member will provide her own
lunch. with the club furnishing ice
cream and coffee. The committee
In charge Ia composed OF Mrs.
Clara Schneider. chairman: Mrs.
Nellie Hale and Mrs. Il. N. Hill.
ntSlUeul8 VI tnc lNOftnWSSt stt-
ton of thu city who are compelled
to use Stewart avenue to get into
town and have complained as TO its
"bumpys condition are to have a
measure Of relief. according to
Mayor w. p. Loughlin. He states
that there will soon be some gaso-
line tax money due the city and
that 4 portion Of this will be used
burning off the bumps In the street
caused by repairs. The two miles
Of the thoroushfare from the city
limits to Meridian st.. according
10 those who have to use II every
day, are the toughest two miles in
the city.
Funeral services for Charlotte
v. Norstrom will be held Wednes-
day At 2 o'clock at the Wrigley
and Clements chapel with Rev.
A.. h Morris officiating. Burial
will ~ In Woodbine cemetery.