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Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
DUCKS COMING BACK
TO FEEDING GROUNDS
(Oroville Mercury-Register)


After many years during which the
game hog and the market hunter had
their own way in this valley conservation
is making progress and it doesn't please
the aforesaid gentlemen very much.
The game hog, of course, worked HIM
self into a hole, as hogs will 1t is his
fault that now, when he goes out for a
duck hunt he comes back with only 2 or
3 birds. But he does not blame himself
for his plight. but raps the conservation
lists. AS for the market hunter, his sled
ding grows tougher and tougher year by
year.
The complaint of the game hog is that
the conservationistS have bought up huge
stretches of the best gun club country
and turned it into refugees for water fowl
where they cannot be disturbed. The
smart ducks and geese soon learn that
they are safe in these refugees and stay
there, leaving adjacent lakes free of
birds. 1t CRATES on the game hog to sit
and wait for birds that never come, but
to see them settling in safe waters far out
of his reach. He doesn't realize that he is
responsible for this because for years
and years he insisted on 25-duck limit,
when all he and his family could eat was
4 birds. Of course, to go back further,
there was limit of so birds.
Meanwhile, the market hunter still is
doing his bit to waste the ducks. Last
Saturday night game wardens heard 5
drag shots and realized that probably
400 ducks had been killed. Game ward
ems are becoming steadily more efficient.
Judges are becoming steadily more Sc
we're. Ducks have been scarcer, so it has
Mt been very profitable for the bootleg
gers of ducks. That class is passing out.
But what about conservation? Conser-
vation will bring the duck back to where
the hunter once more can bag his limit
on a normal day We only wish conserva
ton of natural resources were as eff
cient in other directions.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
The LITTLE FISH

Earl Browder, general secretary OF the
Communist party in America, has been
indicted for passport fraud.
Fritz Kuhn, leader of the German
American bund in America, is on trial
in New York for grand theft
The government is cracking down on
aliens Or is it?
Harry Bridges, Australian born ClO
waterfront leader, in spite of recent
deportation hearing-and what happened
to it, by the way?-is going merrily on
his way tying up the entire San Francisco
waterfront in disastrous, costly,
senseless strike.
Browder and Kuhn, who talk lot but
do not do much damage, seem mighty
little fish by comparison with Harry
Bridges.
If the government is sincere, it might
try out its legal talent on Mr. Bridges
and do lot more good than it can with
Messrs. Browder and Kuhn.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
A LAW CANNOT CREATE
A DICTATORSHIP

If national dictatorship is created in
the United States it will be the fault of
the people, not the fault of any single
law.
Every now and then some proposed
law arouses the political fears of some
candidate, would-be candidate or office
holder, and results in an eruption of ora
tory warning the nation that, if this law
is passed, it will result in dictatorship.
Ordinarily that is so much blather.
Before dictatorship can be estab
lished in this country the people must be
in mood to submit to it-and if any
thing they are farther from that mooo
today than ever before in their history,
unless it be for the time of the American
revolution.
Sen. H. Styles Bridges, New Hamp-
shire, who aspires fondly to the Republi-
can presidential nomination in 1910,
warned his listeners at Los Angeles the
other day that enactment of proposed
law to draft wealth in time of war would
result in dictatorship, if war should come.
1t might-during wartime After that,
we believe, the American people would
not tolerate dictatorship, law or no law
1t is conceivable that a series of laws,
drawn out over a long period of years,
might so condition the people to the idea
of government domination that they
would submit to dictatorship. To adopt
such laws it would be necessary in the
first instance to muZzle the press, and
even in wartime that is not possible eX-
cept where military secrets of strategic
value to the government are concerned.
With the American people as enlight-
ened as they are today, as conscious of
all angles of government, and as inform
ed about government procedure, it is
impossible for one suddenly imposed law
to bring about dictatorship.
People are governed because they al
low their rulers to govern them. That is
so even in Germany and Russia today.
The people in those nations may allow
themselves to be governed by Hitler and
Stain because they are kept in ignorance,
through a censored and controlled press
but the fact remains that they do al
low themselves to be governed, in the way
they are governed.
One law, and only one, could pave
the way for dictatorship in the United
States-and even that law could not Of
itself bring about dictatorship. 1t would
be a law giving the government leaders
absolute control over what their people
think through censorship of newspapers,
radio and all other means of public COM
muncation And the constitution would
have to be amended before such law
could be enacted The constitution must
be amended by the people themselves.
! So. YOU see. dictatorship is up to the
4 people
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Disseets the News

WASHINGTON.-EXpertS on la
Dor disputes here believe that the
recent history Of the textile industry
offers a valuable tip to the auto
industry in wrangles like the one
currently causing costly stoppage
of work in the Chrysler plants.
Central point OF this dispute is
the speed at which certain opera
tions are put through.
The union demands voice in
setting that speed The company
replies that to grant it would be a
long first step toward admitting the
union to share in the manage
ment of the organization.
TEXTILE INDUSTRY
HIT SIMILAR SNAG
The textile industry hit the same
snag several years ago and got
around it to the satisfaction OF or
ganized labor and management
alike. 1t did this largely by US.
ing the services of a skilled tech
nical staff maintained by the Di-
vision of Cancellation of the u. S.
Department of Labor.
Here's how this body works:
A dispute over speed of opera
tions arises in textile mill Rep
resentatives of management and
labor argue and reach no agree
ment.
The Division of Cancellation Of
fers its services and they are ac-
cepted. A government technical
expert comes to the scene.
He makes detailed stop-watch
study of the operation in question.
Then he makes studies of similar
operations in other textile mills
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
TOO MANY PEOPLE?
(RiverSide Press

DR.. Jacob Meyer of Western Reserve
university has a new theory for the
worlds present troubles.
World population has doubled, he says,
in the last 100 years so that IF every
thing were divided there wouldn't be
enough for everybody"
Here's a chance for good argument
by the earnest discussion groups now so
rampant in this country. Is there really
less for everybody because there are more
people to share the earth's blessings and
opportunities? Is there just SO much
Giving" available on this earth? And
when the given limit has been reached,
must increasing population fare worse
and worse?
Some valuable resources, of course,
give out A time may be foreseen, for
instance, when there is very little petrol
cum left in the ground when the rich
est iron deposits are exhausted, when
the greatest portion of the earths soil is
impoverished But it's we'll to believe
that other resources will be discovered
and developed to meet human needs.
Is there any limit to the production
of new products and new forms of wealth
by modern science? Has not mankind,
on the whole, lived more comfortably
and richly in the last generation than
half its number did a century ago?
Perhaps material wealth and comfort
and the human ingenuity to gain them
are inexhaustible We know that human
poverty on a big scale may come from
moral rather than material causes. Prob
ably if the human race as a whole were
more cooperative there would be plenty
for all.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

the same department. ne 0ieiiiio
that youth has the enthusiasm ana
energy: age has wisdom and ex-
perience; and together they make
a perfect combination.
E. H. Little, president OF the
Colgate -Palmolive-Peet Company
told me that during the war ne
could not get men for his sales
department. for all the formerly
available young men had enlist
ed and were either in France, or
ready to go. So he was oDnged
to take on old men. He knew the
prejudice against hiring old peo-
pie. But now comes the suprise
these older statesmen turned out
to be better than his young ones
Let me tell you of one employ
er who would rather hire old peo-
pie than young people! In other
words, if young man OF 20, and
a man over 40, with equal ability
applied for job, this employer
would take the older person.
She is Mrs. Ora H. Snyder, the
Illinois housewife whose husband
fell i'll and thus placed upon her
the responsibility for earning the
living. Mrs. Snyder knew nothing
about business, SO had none of its
traditions to follow. She started
on a nickel, and finally managed
to open a tiny little candy store
in Chicago. Following the depres-
sion of 1929, when stores were
closing right and left, she opened
five. Today she has 16 stores, and
300 persons in her employ.
She told me one of the secrets
OF her success has been in employ
ing older people. And when she
says old she means old. She has
one man who is 96; He is an eX-
pert candy maker, does his work
well, and she has no intention of
replacing him.
In fact, Mrs. Snyder told me
that in the 80 years she has been
in business she has never dis
charged anyone because of age.
Her hard-candy maker is 76,
and makes better candy than when
she first engaged him. She says
that he keeps studing the art of
hard-candy making, goes TO all the
exhibits, reads everything on the
subject, and is still learning. "a
man like that is never old, she
declares.
Pob is 81. Jim is II. They will
have a place with her as long as
they work.
have a secretary who has been
with me % years. 1 recently en-
gagged a bookkeeper, who is 60.
So don't be afraid of hiring the
oldsters. They have a sense OF loyal
ty that is seldom found in young
people. And with modern machinery
and modern methods to supplant
possible loss Of vitality they can
do the work just as well.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

in as many as Is or 20, sometimes.
He comes back, calls in both sides,
and explains his findings.
BY showing how the operation
speed in the local mill compares
with the average for similar plants,
and by calling on his own techni-
cal knowledge to suggest ways in
which adjustment can be made,
he usually is able to suggest a
speed which both sides agree is
fair.
Sometimes he is able TO show
that by slowing down the speed
at the spot which has caused the
trouble, it will be possible to in
crease the speed at another point
in the operations. BY suggesting
readjust1nents in operations, he
can profit both worker and en-
ployer.
DISPUTE SETTLED,
NO FACE LOST
In any case, the point is that his
arbitration is accepted.
On the one hand, union griev-
ances which arise over questions
of speed are settled without strikes.
On the other, the management is
able to make concessions, where
concessions are advisable, without
in any way admitting that labor is
entitled to a voice in setting the
policy of the company
For one thing, tremendous sums
of money are involved in an auto
factory, and costs are shaved with
micrometers. A saving OF a third
of a cent on one operation. and
half a cent on another can mean
a difference of millions of dollars
on the years balance sheet.
The thing that has been estab-
lished in the textile industry is
that determination of the speed
at which certain operations are
to be conducted can be made q
matter of collective bargaining
negotiations. This can be done with
out implying that a union has ar
actual or a theoretical right to
exercise voice in shaping manage
ment policies.
Within limits, the matter can
be classed with the setting of hour
and pay schedules. To that extent
the record in textiles may be use
full guidepost to the auto industry
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
TOday's Horoscope

If your birthday is today, you
are advised to use care and prud-
ence in all things, and avoid quar-
rels and disputes. A child born on
this date will be audacious, adven-
turous, erratic and quicktempered.
Such a child will be intuitive and
of a rowing disposition, but lover
of art and music.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Horoscope for Sunday

Exceeding prosperity is predicted
in the next year for those whose
birthday is today. Much domestic
happiness, too will be theirs They
will benefit through military mat
ters and machinery. A child born
today will be of profound intelli-
gence, exceedingly fond OF art,
music and literature, but, if born
in the morning, rather short-tem-
pered.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

America learned a lot of things
from the first World War. Cen
orally they were things that the
people of this country could have
learned without the terrific expense
in lives and money, if they had
Just taken the trouble to tackle
some of the war problems in peace
time.
One of the things the people of
this country discovered was that
the United States was far more
nearly Self-sufficient than had been
commonly believed. When trade
routes we're cut off in 1914 and
warning nations couldn't afford to
export materials they needed badly
at home. the browS of industry
were creased with worry lines. Many
needed materials and the benefit
from many valuable manufacturing
secrets were rapidly becoming I'M
available, and the United States
looked sadly toward the day when
certain industries, particularly
chemicals, would have to close and
the public would have to do with
out commodities to which they had
become accustomed.
Then the laboratories got busy.
They learned how to make optical
equipment and they produced dyes
which had suddenly become un-
obtainable New chemical formulae
for manufacturing processes were
evolved and industry as a whole
began gradually to understand that
American genius was equal to the
new problems.
The problems we looked at with
horror in 1914 we approach today
with calm elf-assurance. The shock
of the first World War was not
quickly forgotten, and scientists
have been experimenting constantly
since then in an effort to find new
substitutes for standard processes.
1t was once believed we could
obtain rubber only from distant
tropical places. Stoppage of this
supply would have been serious
enough to sprout gray hairs on the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

An inventor has recently turned
out tiny windshield wiper which
may be attached to the hand. What
motoring really needs, of course,
is a vest pocket brake for back
seat drivers.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

Secretary of Interior Harold
Ickes has been invited to join the
Crouch Club of America because
of his recent book, criticizing the
American press. Maybe Mr.. Ickes
wasn't really mad about it-just
hurt.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

Giinbal depart
ment stores says
that the most
important lesson
he has ever
learned in bus
mess is the value
of employing both.
He combines
them. He puts a
young person and
an old peson in
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

Max Schmeling says he would
like TO come TO America TO chal-
lenge Joe Louis TO another fight
if he could only figure out some
way of crossing the Atlantic. Would
it help any If we sent the Brown
Bomber over there, Mr.. Schmeling?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Barbs-

Social functions at the White
House are being curtailed, and guest
lists to receptions are being Ii
mited to 100 names. Just nice,
homely little crowd
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Dale
CARNEGIE

AS you know; it is increasingly
difficult for old people to get work.
And anybody over 40 is likely to
be considered old.
But Ellis A. Gimbal, Jr., of the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
one-Minute Test Answers
A mythical being sale

l. A mythical being SAID 10 nave
been created 200 years before Adam.
IT might be either a good or bad
spirit.
2. King Of Sweden.
3. Because the moons rate OF
rotation is the same as that of
lis revolution around the earth
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Words of Wisdom

He that loseth wealth, loseth
much; he that loseth friends,
loseth more; but he that loseth his
spirits loseth all-Spanish proverb.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

Hitler, says a noted dietician, eats
too many eggs. And, if you ask
us, they must all be of the hard
boiled variety.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

Those California pension advo-
Gates will try again-news item.
Next time, no doubt, their slogan
will be Ham and Eggs-With But
tered Toast"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Hints on Etiquette

The correct reply to an intro
duction is, How do you do, Mrs.
Jones'"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

In a mid-Western town an election
tie was settled by the tossing of
coin. Bet both candidates had an
anti-gambling plank in their plat
forms.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Thoughts for the Day

Thou shalt not curse the deaf put a stumbling
block before the blind but shalt fear thy God; am
the Iord.-Leviticus 1914.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

One-Minute lest
. /. What is a djinn?
2. Who is Gustave v?
3. Why do we only see one
side of the moon?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19
You re Telling Me-

College students of today COM
plains an educator, cannot write
simple, easily understandable Eng
lish. What's wrong with: I'm
broke, Dad. Please send check?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

1t won't be long now before we
read of the first penguin ever run
over by snow cruiser.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-19

A southwestern football team an
nounces it doesn't mind losing.
What's news about that is the team
admits this before instead of after
the game:
Twin-City herald., 1939-10-21
Basic BREAKS ALL RECORDS,
BUT COPS SET JIMcROW LINE

Oakland, Oct, (CNA)-Count Basic,
the swing master, broke all attendance
records when he played one-night
stand at Sweets ballroom in Oakland,
but he could not break the color line by
a local flatfoot.
1t was nasty incident, said to have
been hatched in the mind OF Sergent
O'Neil, white, of the Oakland police,
that marred an evening in which close
to 1000 followers of the Count let
themselves go in happy homage to
their herd
Everything was going along fine
when Sergent O'Neil barged into the
hall, heading police detail and pro-
mulgated decree that whites and Ne
groes could not fraternize and dance
together on the same ballroom floor.
O'Neil had a conference with the
dance management and the house bul
(white) then took the microphone tt
announce that this dance was rendered
for our "colored friends" and tha
white people would have to leave tn,
dance floor and go to the balloon,
where they were welcome as observers
Twin-City herald., 1939-10-21
PROTEST FLA. POLICE
BRUTALITY

The beating of Negro laborer in
Tampa, Florida last fortnight by two
white policemen, until the victim was
a mas of butchered flesh" evoked a
strong protest from the National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People.
In letter to the municipal chief ex-
ecutive, the Association urged that the
two policemen be Stripped of their
authority and punished to the full ex-
tent of the law"
According to newspaper reports the
victim of the brutal assault, Willie
White, a common laborer, was &C.
cused of stealing five dollars from q
Negro woman 1t was while attempt,
ing to explain the situation to the Of
ficers, that they sat upon him and bea
him until they became tired ant
weary" the report said.
Twin-City herald., 1939-10-21
DR.. Carver Awarded
Roosevelt Medal

New York, Oct, (CNA)-Dr. Geor-
ge Washington Carver, noted scientist
of Tuskegee Institute, was one of three
recipients of the Roosevelt Medals for
1880, it was announced this week by
James R. Garfield, president of the
Roosevelt Memorial Association. The
two other recipients were Major Gen.
Frank R. Mccoy, U.S.A. retired ana
Carl Sandburg, poet and author, both
white.
The Roosevelt Medal award, estab-
lished in 1923 is given annually to per-
sons who have distinguished them
selves in certain fields associated with
the career of former President Theo-
dore Roosevelt. The medals will be
presented at dinner at Roosevelt
House, the birthplace of the late Presi-
dent, at 28 East 10th St, on Friday
October 27, the eighty-first anniver.
sary of Theodore Roosevelt's birth.
i OF DR.. Carver the citation says:
Born of slave parents, and, in hi:
boyhood, bartered for race horse, HI
has won recognition as one of the fore
most agricultural chemists in th'
country and as vital factor in TIL
economic and social prograss OF tn
South He is best known for hi
achievement in connection with TIL
peanut and the sweet potato.
"Out of the peanut he has made 28
useful products, ranging from face
powder and cheese to axle-grease an
oils used in the treatment Of infantil
paralysis. He has transformed tn
substance of the sweet potato into IL
different products, including flou
starch, library paste, printers ink, lar
and rubber compound"
Twin-City herald., 1939-10-21
Life Membership In
Elks Lodge Illegal
UNDER PRESENT coNSTITU-
TIoN, WILSON TELLS ORDER

According to a proclamation just re-
leased by ]. Finley Wilson, grand ex-
alted ruler of the Improved Benevolent
Protective Order, Elks of the World,
the recent Grant Lodge session in
New York held that the practice of
making life members in the local lod-
ges throughout the Country and the
entire Jurisdiction of Elkdom, was and
is, without legality. Mr.. Wilson also
tells of the dissolving of Eureka Lodge
No. 5 of Norfolk, Va.
Quoting from the report of the COM
mittee on laws and revisions headed
by Attorney Perry w. Howard OF
Washington, D. c., the proposition,
known as No. E, which the session
adopted, reads IS follows:
"Whereas all life memberships in the
subordinate anc Grand Iodoe hereto
fore attempted to be created were ultra
| wires, (meaning beyond the power of
/ person, court or corporation legally or
constitutionally) and hence null and
void alb initio, (meaning from the be-
! ginning), we recommend that said pro-
position be amended by substituting the
| following:
J THAT Article Ten of the Constitu-
ton of Subordinate lodges be amended
by adding section Is to read: There
be only two classes of members, ac-
tive as hereinafter described, and hon.
orary, the latter of which shall have the
right to visit the lodge of which they
are members, but shall have no voice
or vote and shall not be entitled to
financial benefits such as sick, burial,
ETC."
Many lodges automatically made a
member a life member after twenty
: years of continuous service in his or
ganization. This honor carried with it
: the suspension of all dues, but not
taxes or special assessments. In Great
er New York, some of the orders
most outstanding members are in the
life member category.
Twin-City herald., 1939-10-21

The Silver Tea at the Parsonage,
2737 18th Avenue South, which marked
the first Anniversary of the Camp Fire
Matron's, progressive Club of Bethesda
Church of which Mrs. w. E. Wadling-
ton is founder, and Mrs. Ivy Messen-
gill is president was huge success
from 800 p. m. to 600 p. m Sunday,
October Is Everyone had delight
full time and enjoyed the refreshments
and the program, most especially the
two Solos, namely "Rose of My
Heart" and Mighty LAX A Rose by
Mrs. Dorothy Maxwell Miss Moffett
Accompanist, which was enjoyed by
ALL
The Missionary Society met at the
residence of the secretary, Mrs. Doro-
thy Maxwell, 1925 Hawthorne, Friday
October 18TH Gods covenant with
Noah, Gen. 9:1-17, was the theme
which was discussed in very interest
ing manner, and indeed very beneficial
Mrs. Maxwell very elegantly served
an exquisite luncheon to the delight o
the guest