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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-08-10

During the working life of so
years. on an average wage of $50
week, says a London expert, the
ordinary man viii spend $50, 900
on feeding his family and himself.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-08-10

SEVERAL REBUILT washing ma
chimes. $3.50 and up. Appliance
Shop, aPsco. .ERG l9c
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-08-10

Babies born in Tokyo. Japan last
year numbered 130,540 which is TO-
1874 fewer than In 1897.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1939-08-10
Elites to be Held
friday for A. O. Frye

~ services will be held from
tn er Funeral Home Friday,
Au II at 2 o'clock for A. O.
Fry -.y time Kennewick resident.
AT Olonzo Frye was born on
Mar L 1875 at Frebeines, Ohio.
He :lited in marriage to Flor
enc !. Shoemaker on October
Is, ~. II moved to Washington
Mar 9 1914 and has made his
hon since that time. He died
at t. % hospital after short
lin 8 Wednesday, August 9.
r. .vived by his widow, four
chic. s'orence Constantine and
Ray. Of Kennewick, Leona
Barr IcMinnviile, Oregon and
Fred 1kima and five grand
chic The last survivor of his
fam. brother, passed away last
nec
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03
Willis Thornton's Editorial on:
4 Bounce for Two Common FalIaeies

NAL. and the average for all goods
was set at less than per cent OF
the cost of the final purchaser
The COST for instance, in clgarets
selling at ID cents was just over a
half cent a package. A widely adj
vertised soft drink put less than
16-100ths of a cents worth of ad-
vertising into each five-cent glass.
A standard breakfast food paid
3-10thS of a cent for 15-cent
package.
Obviously, when the wider dis
tribution, with consequent lower
production costs is balanced against
such small percentage expenditures
as these, a good argument could
be made that advertising had actu-
ally reduced the cost to the final
consumer
That's one handicap of us anna
teur economists. We SO often start
off from the wrong information
that it's no wonder if we some
times wind up behind some eight
ball on the pool table of economic
theory.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03
NO CIRCUS STUNTS
FOR HOWARD HUGHES

1t is an unspoken compliment to the
character of the man that Howard
Hughes, round-the-world flier. showed
anger at unfounded reports he planned
a nonstop flight around the globe with
refuelling arranged so that his plane
would never touch the earth from be-
ginning to end of the trip.
Il believe that nonstop flight
around the world by means of refuel-
ling in the air is a circus STUNT Hughes
said.
In all my flights | have attempted
to aid aviation by making advance
flights over routes that were suitable
for commercial aviation, never engaging
in circus stunts of little practical value"
he added.
Young men in aviation and elsewhere
can learn lot from those words of the
aviator who, next to Charles Lindbergh,
is the most famous in the world today.
He does not go in for circus stunts He
is sensational only because he does con-
structive things in a big way He is not
a headline hunter. He would not sub
scribe to any plan just because it would
bring him publicity.
Howard Hughes wants to build up
aviation; the building up of Howard
Hughes is entirely secondary.
fhe world needs more men like him.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03
Imperial Valley Press

Established Apffl 20, 1901.
Published every afternoon except
Saturday and Sunday (Saturday
afternoon issue now succeeded
by The Post7Press Sunday, fes-
tablished 1880 by the Imp erial
Valley Publishing company, 625
State street, Ell Centre Calf
Taul jenkins, publisher; A. C.
Johnston. vice president and
general manager; T.. A. Fitz-
hugh. secretary and managing
editor. West Holiday Co, Inc,
National Advertising Represent
atives.
Entered at El CentYo. California
post office as second class mat
ter.
Subscription rates, sc per COPY.
In conjunction with the POST
Press Sundays, per month,
6Oc; paid in advance; months,
$1.65; months, 1926: one year.
SO. 90.
Member California Newspaper
Publishers sss0eietioh.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03
GOVERNOR OLSON VOTES
AGAINST HAM EGG PLAN

For the first time in the hectic his
tory of the Thirty Dollars Every Thurs
day pension scheme Governor Culbert L.
Olabn is on record with what he thinks
OF the plan.
!. He doesn't like it.
Il He thinks it is unconstitutional.
He thinks il would make conditions
worse instead of better in California
He thinks it would raise the hopes
OF .oldsters in the state to an unreason-
able level, only to puncture them again.
He is right.
Even those who criticize Gov. Olson
most harshly for calling a special cleo
tion on the pension issue when it had
Deen only SIX months since it was de-
feated at general election cannot help
applauding the governors final pro-
nouncement. His decision was the only
one straightthinking public leader
should have been able to arrive at
The Ham-Egg pension plan is un-
SOUND at bottom. Even if it were work
able, however, it would not work in one
single state. 1t would have to be placed
IN erect on national scale This fact
alone makes it appear more probable
than ever that promoters of the plan re-
gard it as business proposition, financ-
ed with the pennies of the "senior citi-
zens" for whom they profess such hig
regard.
In spite of the unsoundness of the pen
SION plan, it was great surprise to
many to learn that Gov. Olson had gone
on record as opposed to it. He was elect
ed with the implied, if not actual sup
port of the Ham-Egg group He had, un-
TIL last week, done all in his power to
help the pension group short of actual
~ taking up the cudgel himself in be-
half of the Ham-Egg scheme.
In the face of these facts, it took
courage to make such pronouncement
as that voiced by Olson when he declar-
ed he believed the scheme a bad one.
For such courage, Olson deserves
praise fully as strong as some of the
criticism that has come his way since
he became governor.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

900 worth of rubber. OF this,
$4,000 900 worth came from Brit.
ish Malaga and $35, 100000 worth
from the Dutch East Indies.
During the same year the United
States imported $45,000,000 worth OF
tin 1t got $32000,000 worth OF IL
from British Malaga, $2,700,0 900 from
the Dutch East Indies, and 81 ,800,-
600 worth from China.
But if Americas supplies of two
vital raw materials are on one
side of the equation Americas
trade with Japan itself is on the
other side. -.
Last year the United States sold
just less than $240,000,000 worth
of goods to Japan. Included were
$52 100000 worth of cotton, $751;
100000 worth of oil and oil prod
ucts, $49,000,000 worth of machin-
ary and autos, and $66,000, 900
worth of metals and metal prod
ucts. Seventeen per cent of our
total trade in crude materials and
II per cent of our trade in semi
manufactured goods goes to Japan.
ouI dW-lIldhCIS Call put oIl
some odd performances, but they
outdid themselves wnen Senator
LaFollette brought in his tax bill
amendment to hike the income
tax rates in the middle and lower
II iddle brackets. ga.
Some of the most earnest bud
-balancers voted against it,, in
Guiding Senators Bailey, BHrnes
and Harrison. Voting for 1t were
staunch conservatives like Van
denberg and Taft and left-wing-
ers like Norris and LaF'ollette.
Senator King made a speech
praising the proposal and then an
nounced he would vote against 1t.
Senator Tydings managed to vote
both ways; he gave it an AYE" on
the roll-call, and then changed his
vote to mo- when it appeared
that the amendment was about to
carry bv one vote
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03
PAYMENT
WITHOUT WORK
Science Monitor)

Some of the good will among nations
which the New York Worlds Fair was
designed to produce seems to have been
dissipated temporarily when commits
sioners for foreign nations checked up
what it had cost them to install the eX-
hibits in their buildings. These costs in
the aggregate are said to have run mil
lions of dollars over the estimates, and
one of the principal, or at least most
protested, items was to American work.
men who under union rules were re-
quired to stand around and draw their
nay while native workers did special
jobs for which they had been brought
over.
Of course, it may be that the COM
missioners forgot the premiums they
paid willingly in attracting workers to
finish up their buildings in time for the
opening. But American employers have
had experience with union rules which
require payment not for work done but
as an assertion of right to particular
jobs. Like monopolies of special advan-
tages in many fields, this prerogative is
often abused. Trade unions in the United
States could do with little more friend
ly public understanding than they seem
to have enjoyed the last two or three
years. Perhaps self-helpful course for
them to take, as for manufacturers, mer-
chants and professional people, would
be to lay emphasis on giving full value
for every dollar.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03
JERSEY CITY
YIELDS
Riverside Press

Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City
IS quoted as blowing to the decision of
the supreme court regarding the con-
stitutional rights of free Speech His be-
lated acceptance of this American prin-
ciple recalls a remark made by Samuel
Johnson, the famous English author,
when someone told him that friend
had decided to accept the universe. "E-
gad,' said Johnson, he'd better"
The long suppression of free speech
in Jersey City and the apparent indif-
ference of local citizens to this form of
tyranny is one of the strangeSt episodes
in recent American history.
Free speech is basic in a democracy.
When this freedom is lost, the other
freedoms tend to go with it. In a world
of tyranny swinging back in so many
places toward medieval darkness, it is
more than ever necessary to keep the
lights of democracy burning. Better have
free speech, free press and free assem-
bly, abused by blatherskites and enemies
of the historic American system than to
blanket them into silence by the edict
of any man, group or party.
Americans who cannot endure the Ut
terance of fellow-citizens who oppose
their own political or economic princip-
les should visit the authoritarian" coun-
tries and see for themselves what sup
preston of these basic liberties does to
nations.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03
BETTER THAN
A COMPLIMENT
christian Science Monitor)

For the average person to be mistaken
for some celebrity may be something of
a compliment. But some days ago New
York shoe salesman mistook Henry Ford
for Henry Ford What apparently con-
fused the salesman for a moment was
that Mr.. Ford was buying pair of $1.19
rubbers. One doesn't expect celebrities
particularly those with rubber planta-
tons of their own-to be buying S1.19
rubbers. If Mr.. Ford seemed little
pleased as well as surprised that he was
recognized, perhaps that is only natural.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE CALLING FOR BIDS
FOR SCHOOL BUS

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN
that the Board of Trustees of Mt.
Signal Union School District of
Imperial County, will receive sealed
bids until 7:30 o'clock pm, on Mon
day, July 10th, 1899, for furnishing
one school bus complete, body to
have the capacity for approximately
fifty pupils, bus to be equipped
with four, six or eight cylinder en-
gine and shall comply with all legal
requirements of the State Board of
Education and Motor Vehicle De-
partment, and all other public
agencies; bidders shall submit bids
on two plans, one fer cash within
thirty days of delivery and one ON
lease contract with rental payable
not less than 25% in advance for
first year and not less than $50
for each subsequent year of lease
period. District shall have option
to purchase BUS during lease period
and obtain credit on purchase price
for all lease money paid; all bids
must be accompanied by Cashiers
or certified check for not less than
five per cent of amount of bid. to
insure entering into contract. by
successful bidder, and all checks
to be payable to Board of Trustees
of said School District. Checks of
unsuccessful bidders to be returned
on signing of contract by success
ful bidder. Payment for said school
bus by school district warrant. Bids
to be addressed to Richard Brink
man, Clerk Of Board of Trustees,
Route 2, Box lat, Ell Centre, Cal
ifornia." The Board of Trustees
reserves the right to reject any
and all bids.
BY order of the Board of Trustees.
MT. SIGNAL UNION SCHOOL,
DISTRICT OF IMPERIAL COUN-
TY.
By RICHARD BRINKMAN.
Clerk.
Dated June. %, 1899.
(June 26,-July 81
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

Now that every man is his own
econmist, and even the dumbest OF
us never hesitates minute to work
out his own particular remedy for
our economic ills, it might be just
as well to note two very common
fallacies which were badly bounced
around recently.
One. that Wage.earnerS are gra-
dually getting a smaller and smaller
share of the national income as
great fortunes pile up.
Two: That advertising SO greatly
increases the cost of goods that
things would be cheaper if they
were not advertised.
A great many people assume the
truth of one or the other of these
hypothesis without worring much
about whether they are true or
not. But both questions have been
carefully studied recently. and the
results of the studies are inter-
eSting.
First, Secretary of Commerce
Harry Hopkins had thorough study
made of where the national income
went in 1888. And this was the
conclusion: that the wageearners
share was the greatest of any
year since any calcuation began to
be made of the national income.
Dividends, that is, the reward
Of invested capital, fell off one
third from 1887. Wages paid to en-
ployes in 1888 fell off I per cent
from 1887, due more to reduced
employment than to reductions in
pay. But the share of the wage
Garner Seached a new all-time
high of 673 per cent. In short, the
entire national income was down
18 billions from the 1929 peak,
though it has been raised 60 per
cent from the depression low. But of
that reduced income. the Wage-ear-
ner got a bigger share than ever
before.
Second. the Twentieth Century
Fund, which has been studing dis
tribution problems, found that the
cost of advertising is far less than
many have supposed. The cost
actually is from a small fraction of
l per cent to maximum of about
l8 per cent. On many widely adj
vertised products 1t was infinitesi-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

Women compositers. linotypers
and type settlers are growing fewer
in the United States.
Until 1885, when Jean Papillon
Of France conceived the idea, it
did not occur TO anyone to make
the designs of one sheet of wall
paper meet those of the next.
The only man to mint gold
privately died penniless. He was
Aug Bechtler, and he made coins
near Bessenner City, N. c., about
1885.
The curfeW bell was introduced
into England by William the Con-
queror.
Bartlett dam. located near
Phoenix, Ariz., has the highest
multiple arch in the world,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

the finest trainings in the world Tor
business. 1t teaches economy, per-
sistence, hard work.
Did you catch anything on our
fishing trip? Sure. We caught
glimpses of sea gulls soaring in
the wind and pelicans Hopping
their heavy wings just above the
waves. We caught the caress of
the East wind and the warmth
of the sun We caught leisure that
relaxed taut muscles. We caught
free hours to walk through villages
where the descendants of Jean
Lafitte and his pirates are now
making theii lives by nothing more
bellicose than raising string beans.
But the most thrilling experience
I had there was addressing high
school students. I jokingly told
them I would let them vote as to
whether I should talk on THE
cultural value Of the study of Latin
(groans,l cries of mo! No!o or
How to Get and Hold Husband
Wild applauseD
I said during the course of my
talk: Il am going to tell you the
most important rule for human
conduct that has ever been evolved
by the philosophers of all time.
Here it is in eleven words. The
most importent combination of elev-
en- words in the English language:
DO unto others as you would have
others do unto you
What do you suppose happened
when said that? Shoulder shrugs?
Grunts of disapproval? Indeed not.
Instead I got applause. Long
hearty. sustained applause!
I refuse to worry about younger
generation chat gives the Golden
Rule more applause than their
grandfathers gave to the hefty Choir
us girls in Billy Watsons burleSque
show.
I saw a sign in a garden the
other day that made me want to
cooperate in keeping the garden
neat and beautiful
This sign in the famous Brook
green Gardens, near Murrel's Inlet,
South Carolina, merely said: These
gardens are entrusted to the cour-
tesy of the visitors"
Wouldn't sign like that be more
likely to win your cooperation than
one which bluntly commanded you
to keep off the grass or warned
you not to pick flowers?
Perhaps it is necessary to threat
en- some people with the law But
the gentler, more subtle approach
is indefinitely better for the aver
age person who visit a garden.
Ralph Waldo Emerson said. 1.-The
worthless and offensive members
of society, whose existence is a So
cial pest. invariably think them
selves the most ill-used people alive,
and never get over their astonish-
ment at the ingratitude and sell
fishness Of their contemporaries"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03
Today'S Horoscope

II your birthday IS on this date,
prepare yourself for a somewhat
trying year ahead. Exercise care
in dealing with correspondents, and
run no unnecessary risks when
travelling. The child born today
will be full of good intentions, but
somewhat erratic and moody, and
likely to be disturbing to folk hold
ing different views. Much inter-
est in social welfare work is indi-
Gated.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

Alfred Danger
Judge and Mrs
William c. Holm
es and Gladys
Moore-the Miss
America of 1926.
Colonel j i m
was brought up
on a Virginia
farm a n d he
d e C a re- S that
spending y ou I
childhood on a
farm is one OF
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03
Words of Wisdom

The only freedom which deserves
the name is that of pursuing our
own good, il cur own way, so long
as we do not attempt to deprive
others of theirs, or impede their eff
forts to obtain 1T. S. Mill.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

A Philadelphia pastor has been
head of the same church for 45
years. After that long a stretch
as a visitor at Ladies' Aid meet
ingS. he ought to have a pretty
fair knowledge about everybody in
The community.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

One-Minutc Test Answers
|. Queen Victoria who reigned
81 years.
2. "The Yearling," by Marjorie
Kinan Rawlings.
3. Korea
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03
Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

|. Who had the longest reign in
the annals OF English history?
2. What book won the 1898 Pull
itzer prize?
3. In 1910 what former kingdom
was annexed by Japan?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03
You re Telling Me-

The japanese are in a spot be-
cause they put up mo Parking"
sign in China and now the western
nations have asked TO see their
badge of authority
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

Joe Shaute former major league
pitcher, is candidate for sheriff
H. a Pennsylvania county. Opposi-
ton forces arc reported looking
up the number of guys who stole
bases while Joe was on the mound,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03
Hints on Etiuuette

Eat as heartily as you can when
you are guest at a meal. The
hostess likes to have her food ap-
preciated, and is flattered if her
guest asks for a second helping.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

Men arc picketing a California
plant. Wives are pics,eting the
pickets, demanding that they
return to work. All that is needed
now is for children to picket the
mothers. demanding that they come
home and cook dinner again.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03
Barbs :

A 100-year- man attended
the Townsend convention at IN
oianapoliS. If that fellow intends to
wait for the pension, ne may beat
Methuselah.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03
Dale
- II


I recently spent a few days in
romantic colorful Old New Orleans,
where I spent the weekend fishing
at Grand Isle in the Gulf OF Mex
ico with Colonel James Thompson,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

Congress hasn't gone home yet
Somebody must have made mis-
take, covering the calendar instead
OF the clock
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

Looks are deceiving. Many
m lid, meek appearing scientist
isn't really happy unless he is
smashing an atom.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

Japan hasn't done much about
Americas mo" to the Swatow
ultimatum. Leaders are probably
trying to find out what that
strange word means.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

Research discloses that no new
sin has developed in 5000 years.
But were still having lot of fun
with the old ones.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03
Thoughts for the Dav

For reckon that the sufferings of this present
time are not worthy to be compared with the glory
which shall be revealed in us-Romans s18
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

Nevadas legislature forgot to en-.
act any taxes for the next ye
Members will stage their next cam
paigns on "lack of memory" plat
fl,.,n1
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

HERE 1T is VACATION TIME!
Do you find yourself short of
funds this year? If you do, don't
let the shortage spoil your chance
for a real vacation. Come in and
let us explain how easily you may
borrow the money you need and
pay it back AFTER your vaca-
tion in small monthly payments.
Have real vacation this year!
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

The man at the next desk says
folks who raise eyebrows harvest
nothing but ill-feelings.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03
Famous Sayings
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Disseets the News

WASHINGTON. = Having b G II
equipped with dams, power plants
and various other things, IVA is
apparently about TO get one more
fayor-direct water transportation
To make its riches accessible to COM
merce.
Authorization for the spending
of $66,000,000 to provide a nine
foot waterway from Pickwick Dam,
is contained in the rivers and har-
bors bill as reported to the Senate.
The headWaters of the Tombig-
bee river, which flows down to thte
gulf, rise some 40 miles from the
lake formed by Pickwick Dam.
Under the pending bill, canal
would be sliced through this gap,
locks and dams would be con-
structed, and an improved water
way would be carried all the way
10 Demopolis, Ala, where nine.
foot waterway to the sea already
exists
Congressman John E. Rankin of
Mississippi, supporting the mea-
sure, points out that the waterway
would not only give the Tennessee
Valley direct approach to the
gulf, but would also shorten the
water haul from the upper Mis-
sissippi Valley to the gulf. The
work would be equally important,
he says, as flood control project
and, just incidentally, he re-
marks that the Tombigbee Valley
right now is getting out from
under its worst flood in century.
The project has been discussed,
off and on, for years. AS far back
as 1927 DR.. Arthur E. Morgan,
later of the IVA governing board,
suggested that the waterway be
constructed. He had more elab-
crate ideas about it; proposed a
waterway deep enough to make
an ocean port out of Cincinatti, o..
Anyway, the project has been
favorably reported to the Senate,
and Congressman Rinkin is con-
fident that it will go through both
houses.
4.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

Man is supposed to be the most
intelligent of animals and yet he
alone of all creatures worries over
such matters as too little hair on
top of his head and too much on
his chin.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

OF course, we don't believe it
that rumOr that certain Euro
pean dictator refuses to install
oscillating electric fans i'm his Of
fices because they wag mo- in
stead of "yes'.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

A glance at the trade figures
is enough to show why the United
States government is so deeply
concerned over the row at Tient-
sin, China, where Japan attempts
another step forward in a drive to
dominate the Orient.
Last year, for instance, when
trade was far below normal, the
United States imported $130,000,-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

Dent worry about the grass of
your neighbOr's lawn because il
is grcener. Yours can be higher.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-03

Optimist; Its smart to be
thrifty" PesSimist: Its impossi-
ble!" Both are right.