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LaFo|Iette Digs
Into Fund Drive
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president of the Pacific Gas and
Electric company; Colbert n. Cold
we'll. a member of the state cham
Der OF commerce finance committee
in 1884: and Alfred Emes, vice
president of the California Packing
corporation.
U. S. Senate Robert LaFollette,
Wisconsin Progressive conducting
the hearing, read letter written by
Coldwell to Leonard Wood, executive
of California Packing Corporation,
listing contributions of about $4,000
to the Associated Farmers.
A contribution attributed to John
F.. Forbes, who was not otherwise
identified, headed the list. 1t was
for $4,000.
The other contributions listed
we're: Gamers League of California,
$4,000; Dried Fruit corporation So
eco; The Utilities, $1,250; the oil
group $i,47325; the railroad group
$1,000; banks $780, sugar compa-
nies $1,000; and container companies
S2,60O
LaFollette remarked the contribu-
tons seemed to have been assessed
on pro rating basis. Emes agreed
with him.
Emes said that an impression had
arisen in some quarters that Cali
fornia Packing corporation had TAX
en- part directly and officially in the
Embarrassing campaign. He said
this was not true. The impression
arose he explained from the fact
that traffic employe of the pack
ing company had solicited money.
Emes insisted the company itself
had not taken any official action.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-17
IS New Citizens
Accepted Here
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mitted 10 change his first name to
John.
Three Of the successful candidates
were Greeks. They were Marie
Shenas, D. Panageotopulon, who
was permitted TO change his name
10 Jim Panagit, and Nicolas Z.
Korditos, who was permitted to
change his name 10 Meg Carter.
The others who successfully pass
ed were Martin Torok, who was
born in Germany, Francisco Carin-
CELIA. who was born in Italy, and
Margarita G. Vde de Gallegos. who
'as born in Mexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-17
Christmas Light
Judges Selected
For rEICenfro
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A total of Sl33 in awards will be
sent out next Thursday Final judg.
ing will be Wednesday night, al.
though judges were expected tc
make preliminary tours of the city
earlier in the week.
Winners will be announced in
Thursday afternoons Press ano
Fridays Morning Post and the
awards will be in the mail Thurs
day in time to be pre- Christmas
gifts
The grand prize of S25 contrib
uted by the chamber of commerce,
will so to the best individual dis
play in the city. regardless of clas-
sification.
The divisions. each one of which
carries a $40 first. SIS second. So
third and 81 fourth prize, are:
Best decorated tree in front of
home; best decorated bush. shrub
or vine; best decorated window in
home; best Christmas scene: best
decorated doorway or porch: best
miscellaneous display.
Donors of prizes in this greatest
Tournament OF Christmas are: I'M
perial Irrigation district, Nev-Cal
Electric. Sears Roebuck & Co.
Sones Lumber Co, Tom Allen. E.
w. Riggs, Otis Hinson, Edgar Bros
Co., Imperial Hardware Co, and
H. L. (Joe) Bush.
Citizens were expected to rush
completion of half finished displays
over the weekend. Many displays
are not yet up because owners have
taken particular pains in construct
ing them this year. However, next
week should see Ell Centre. partially
II not wholly, City of Christmas
Lights.
Whether you wish to qualify for
the tournament or not. please do
cooperate to the extent of putting
at least one Christmas light in
front OF your home, so that there
will be not single dark residence
when Santa Claus comes to town.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-17

ROME Dec. 16. CUP)-Italy was
given only two days notice that
Germany. her Axis ally and anti
comintern alliance partner. was GO
ing TO sign non-aggresSion treaty
with Russia, Count Galeazo Ciano.
foreign minister, told the chamber
OF Fascist corporations today.
He indicated that the German
Russian agreement was a complete
and unwelcome surprise, but one
for which he blamed Great Britain
and France.
Italy knew last April or May that
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Strikers Cannot
Get Job Insurance
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$4,000 from Nov. 10 until today
$4,000 weekly as long as the strike
continued, and as much as $1,000
900 annually.
A reversal of the appeals bureau
ruling was asked TO block payment
OF benefits in this strike and any
others that might follow.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28
INTERNATIONAL:
Neutrality

Every congressman and senator
wants to keep the U. S. out of war.
But of ideas on how this shall be
done, there are almost as many as
there are lawmakers. Late in 1885
congress banned shipment of arma-
ments to warning countries in the
first neutrality act. Early the next
year it added a provision banning
loans to belligerents. In 1887 came
third provision, banning export of
goods to embattled nations except on
a cash-and-carry basis. The latter
provision expired two months ago.
This year, with war lowering over
Europe and Asia at the. probable
expense of Friends Great Britain
and France, President Roosevelt
wanted new neutrality legislation.
His chief aim: Repeal of the arms
embargo because it encourages self
sufficing aggressor nations like Ger
many, Italy and Japan. To replace it
he wanted the cash-and-carry pro-
vision restored, since Britain and
France would nominally control the
sea during wartime and could pay
for their purchases. Isolationists
meanwhile called his attention to
the fact that Japan is also q big
maritime power.
Upshot was a senate foreign rela-
tions committee decision to table
neutrality for this session.
While British economists were pri-
vately calling wary U. S. isolation
lists ''cowardly," there was good
reason to think all neutrality legis-
lation may be wiped from the books
and a return made to old interna-
tional law. Thus the President would
be better off, isolationists would be
partly satisfied and-politically inn
portant-the intra-party Democratic
squabble would cease.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28
Folks Awakening to Fact
That Waste Must Be Paid For

We have witnessed waste in more
forms in the last few years than
ever happened in our nation or any
other. Folks throughout the coun-
try are awakening to the fact that
this waste has to be paid for, be-
cause taxes are beginning to sneak
up on them from the most unexpect-
ed directions. There will be more.
OF that, there can be no doubt.
Meanwhile, instead of slowing up
federal spending, we find AAA pay
ing 81 for a garden. There should
be something in the way of aid for
those who grow window boxes.
1t was only the other day that the
treasury released final figures on its
condition at the end of the fiscal
year, July l. Those figures showed
that the government had spent
S., SOC, 000, 900 more in the last IL
months than it had taken in by taxa
ton. Shortly, thereafter, a private
organization issued a statement
showing income and taxes of 1853
great corporations. Those figures
which were claimed to be official
revealed that only about half of
those corporations had made enough
money in the last year to meet
their tax bills. In some instances,
the taxes paid by those corporations
amounted to as much as three times
the income that was left to them
after they had paid their workers
and their overhead expenses.
Thus, it seems to me that when
our government is running so far
behind; when it is already taking
from it's citizens as much or more
than they earn in taxes and when
more taxes are as certain as death
is to all of us, when these condi-
tons exist it is about time to take
stock and see where we are going
to end up. The future is not so
black but that we can see streaks of
light in it, and these problems can
be solved. They can be solved rath-
er simply, too, if-as in the case of
the vegetable gardens-we stop to
figure that government is going to
take several times 81 for every vege-
table garden brought under this new
scheme Of cooperation"
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28
NAVY:
Heart Break

Fifty-two days after the subma-
rine Squalus carried 26 men to their
deaths, patient salvagers got their
giant chains around her leach link
IS inches long, 21s inches thick, rs
pounds heavy, pumped air into
stern and bow pontoons and raised
her from a 240-foot grave to 1855
feet. From there she was to be
towed to shallow water, pontoons re-
adjusted and raised again. AS
planned, two top stern floats broke
the surface, indicating the Squalus
lay at even keel. While jubilant
salvagers sighed over a job well
done, water suddenly began churn-
ing around the submerged craft. Up
for a moment burst two huge pom
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28

I. Arrow points to Providence,
Ky. Why was it in the news?
2. Of the three crops, corn,
tobacco and wheat, which will be
larger and which smaller than
last year?
8. True or false: Paul v. Me-
Mutt has dropped his candidacy
for the 1910 Democratic Presiden-
tial nomination.
A. Choice: Father Divine, Har-
lem spiritualist leader (a) got
married; (b) refused to eat ham
sandwiches; (c) bought a house
at exclusive Newport, r. L.; (d)
called on his Krum Elbow neigh
Dor, Franklin Roosevelt.
(Ansoers at bottom OF column
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28

fish consulate at Tsingtao. Spread
ing down the coast, Japan's block
ade of British concessions struck
awfully close. to home when the
crown colony of Hongkong found it.
self threatened by food shortages as
Nipponese vessels blocked ports at
Changchow, Tungshar and Chaoan.
ALI able bodied Britons in Hongkong
were subsequently conscripted.
In such tense atmosphere Brit
ish Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie
Craigie opened his long-touted con-
versations with Foreign Minister
Hachiro Arita, knowing full well no
settlement would be reached. Japs
demand that Britain cease support
ing General Chang and abandon her
"anti-Ja Japanese policy in China"
which would constitute complete
surrender of all her Asiatic inter-
ests. Britain, on the other hand, in
sists that discussions shall deal only
with the original conflict over Jap
blockade Of the British concessions
at Tientsin.
When the first days preliminary
confab ended in hopeless deadlock,
key Jap officials on the Chinese front
issued more Threatening statements
and precipitated a few more Incl
dents to help make up the harried
British mind. First sign of what
may become wholesale British with
drawal from China came when mis-
sionaries were shipped from Kai-
feng, important Honan province rail-
road city, sharp on the heels of
Jap-inspired ultimatum.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28
The Answers

/. Lifting the anchor so the ship
may proceed.
2. The only tin mine now OPP
Grating in the United States is To-
Gated at Lincolnton, N. c.
8. Natural generation of life
from life.
A. Estimated at $500, OO0, 0OO, 900.
5. Twelve. Rhode Island did
not send delegate.
6. Because of the heavy trans
piration that takes place in trees,
an acre of forest releases more
moisture than an acre of lake.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28

A TORE smoking-besses smoking
N1 tbr;ftier smoking...W Which Gig
arctic offers all of them? Read inn
portant cigarette facts revealed by
scientific tests on Is Of the largest
selling brands:
4 CAMELS were found to contain
4MORE TOBACCO BY WEIGHT
than the average for the IS other Of
the largest-selling brands.
q CAMELS BURNED SLOWER
q THAN ANY OTHER BRAND
TESTED $50 SLOWER THAN
THE AVERAGE TIME OF THE IS
OTHER OF THE LARGEST-SELL-
ING BRANDS! By burning 1870
slower, on the average, Camels give
smokers the equivalent Of 5 EXTRA
SMOKES PER PACK!
q In the same tests, CAMELS HELD
- THEIR ASH FAR LONGER than
the average for the other brands.
Thanks to Camel's economy, everyone
Can enjoy the real thrills in smoking
the GOODNESS, nsildness, delicate tssts..
the added bonus of Camels costlierto-
baccos. Don't miss the smoking Amer
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28

To satisfy the pension vote, to pro-
vide weapons for next years Demo-
cratic campaign based on ''humani
tarianisna" and to soothe tax-eaten
businessmen, the senate passed
amendments to the social security
act which, if approved by the house,
would:
~ Broaden old age insurance to
include 100000 persons like seamen
and bank employees, and step up
the starting date from 1912 to 1910.
(2) Require states to supply $40
per month for each pension bene-
ficiary, the U. S. to match state
funds 2 to up to a total pension of
SIS per month; i.e., a total monthly
minimum of $25 for each benefi-
ciary.
81 Freeze the present per cent
payroll tax against both employees
and employers until 1913, instead Of
jumping to 11s per cent next year.
Estimated saving to employers and
employees. $275, 600, 900 annually.
az Permit downward revision in
payroll taxes to finance state unem-
ployment insurance. Estimated an
nual saving to employers: $50, 00O,-
600. - s -
Fly in the ointment was that the
plan actually boosted federal-state
cost while lowering taxes, a situa-
ton which on its face fails to add up.
Though a new Contingency" social
security reserve of So, 900, 600, 900 will
replace the old plan for an eventual
reserve of $47, 600, 000, 600, Michigan's
Sen. Arthur Vandenberg figured the
senate had added $3.50, 000, 900 to the
cost (spread over Is years. without
providing any method of paying.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28
RELIEF:
sUngratefup

Old WPA regulations provided un-
ion wages for skilled worknen, who
thus labored fewer hours for their
monthly pay than did unskilled re-
iefers. Example: Union carpenters
might work So hours month and
pick up odd jobs on the side; COM
mon ditch-diggers might work 121
hours for the same money.
Said WPA Administrator F. C..
Harrington to congress: at is my
recommendation that persons en-
ployed on WPA. be required to
work 100 hours a month and that
earnings of such persons be on a
monthly basis - r. 4
Said congress: o. K.
Said more than 100, 900 reliefers,
going on strike: Congress must re-
store union wages.
Said President Roosevelt: "You
cannot strike against the govern
ment."
But strike they did. In Minneapo-
lis two lay dead after riots. Mayor
George e. Leach asked Washington
to "clean up the mess" and State
WPA Administrator Linus Glotzbach
shut down all Minneapolis projects.
X President Roosevelt found himself
on spot with both A. F. of L. and
c. !. O., who have helped elect both
him and his friends. But both con-
gress. and the White House appar-
emily stuck to their guns despite
believing by John Lewis and VIII
Liam Green. Commented the Cincin-
matt Enquirer: "The American peo-
pie have a great deal of patience
with the unfortunate and needy. But
they have little patience with the
ungrateful -
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28
NosO Comes the Pay-Of
On the 1910 Farm, Program,

Next comes Commercial vegeta-
bles." There is to be designation, as
this year, of Commercial vegeta-
BILE countless" the designation, of
course, to be done by AAA officials.
Commercial vegetable farmers, aft
err they sign up and do as they are
told, will get payments, too, and I
hope the arrangement viii make the
green onions that my wife buys from
the commercial vegetable man who
calls at our door somewhat less
spongy.
And now, we give you the pay
of on the 1910 program.
Next year, any farmer who grows
vegetable garden will get $2-two
whole dollars that are still highly
regarded by me-if he Cooper
ates" and does as he is told by the
AAA master farmers. If he fails to
grow that vegetable garden, he will
be locked So. The government will
get it, too. Uncle Sans boys are
good at that. To make sure about
getting that 50 fine, the AAA will
deduct it from whatever other pay
ment that the farmer has earned.
The regulations have not been is
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28
Ask Me 4nother
O "A General Quiz
The Questions

I. What does the nautical term
anchors aweigh" mean?
2. Are any tin mines operated in
the United States?
8. What is meant by bio
genesis?
4. What is the worlds annual
income?
5. How many states were repre-
scented when the Constitution was
adopted?
6. Which releases more mois-
ture into the air, an acre of a
lake or an acre of forest?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28
EUROPE:
Visitors to Paris

Mid-July found Europe in pre-dog
day doldrums. Adolf Hitler was re-
ported by the Chicago Tribune's Sig
rid Schultz as consulting the stars
to guide his decisions. Propaganda
Minister Joseph Goebbels fumed
over the anti-Nazi letter England's
Stephen King-Hall was writing in
wholesale lots to "dear German
readers" The Reich's toy industry
complained that an English-made
"Chamberlain-with-a umbrella" toy
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28
Ansioers to PuzzIers

/. Twenty-nine miners were killed in
a soft coal mine explosion there.
$40, 795 bushels, estimated, against 10.
year-average of 1900 $4,000 bushels)
and tobacco u,654, 622. 900 pounds, esti-
mated, against average Of l 1850, 400. 000.)
Wheat will be smaller. ZIG. 655. 900 BUSH
els against last years 0,801 900
bushels. b.
fainship of the u. S. security agency
but continues his campaigning.
4. Father Divine bought a Newport
mansion from Mrs. Angela C. Kauf-
man, socialite.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28

ICONS. Then came the Squalus' bow
like whales snout, out of the wa
ter an instant, then down to her
240-foot grave again to nullify all
that had been done. Next two days,
with falling barometers and heavy
seas around Portsmouth, N. H.,
Rear Adm. C. w. Cole and his divers
could only sit and wait, moaning
over the mess below.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28
ASIA: ss''
Exit Britain?

One hot day in Tokyo workers at
the British embassy heard a storm
brewing outside. Soon a mob that
numbered $4,000 began throwing
stones and denouncing British in
tervention in China" British i'm
perialism in Asia and British sup
port of the murderer, Chang Kali
shek," who is Chinese genera1issi-
mo-. The day before two hand gre
nades had been thrown into the Brit
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28
CONGRESS-

Many Republican, and a few
Democratic legislators were elected
last November on the promise that
DR.. Francis E. Townsend's $200-a-
month pension plan-to be financed
by a 2 per cent transaction tax
would get a hearing. u Hearing it
got, but little else., Yet Townsend
ties are potent enough to cause plen-
ty Of trouble in next years election.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28
LOUISIANA:
Indictments

Out of its cell at Baton Rouge
walked a parish grand jury to plump
down the makings of scandal that
started with Louisiana State univer-
sity's President James Monroe
Smith, spread to include two of his
aides and finally caught in its net
DIR. Clarence A. Lorio who is presi-
dent of the Louisiana Medical So
ciety, state senator, member Of
LSU's supervisory board and its
medical director, physician and sur
geon for the state penitentiary and
visiting physician for the tubercular
hospital. The 20 indictments hit:
DR.. Lorio, for allegedly receiving
stolen property and conspiring with
S00-pound George Caldwell (ousted
LSU construction superintendent in
embezzling $249 in school building
materials.
Caldwell, on two counts alleging
embezzlement of LSU building ma
terials worth $2,097. He is already
under federal charges Of diverting
WPA materials for private use.
f. N. Jackson, LSU business man.
ager, charged with CaldwelD with
embezzling $3.50 in school materials,
and separately with receiving stolen
property. .
DR.. Smith, charged on % counts,
II of them with forgery, II with
altering minutes of the board of SUI
pervisors so he could ~ borrow
$500, 900 from three banks; (2) add
S., 800 bonus" to his yearly $4,000
salary: CD allow Caldwell 2 per
cent commission on all WPA con-
struction at LSU.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LoBINE
Social Security Amendments
Pave Way for 1910 Elections
By Wooing Townsend Voters

EDITORS opinions
Released by Western eMpap Union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28
Will Extend LaW as Far as
Language Can Be Stretched

Of course, as said, the regula-
lions have not been issued and so I
do not know what will constitute a
vegetable garden within the mean
ing of this act" as the official rules
will say. On this point, however,
think it can be said safely now
that the regulations will extend the
law just as far as human ingenuity
can stretch language. The idea will
be to embrace as many of the farm
ers as can be brought under the
newsstand rawest-of the schemes
for regimenting the farmers of the
nation. None will be overlooked,
except perhaps those like myself
whose farm consists of a backyard
some 60 feet deep wherein are
crowded flowers that love.
I guess that / will not get any
payment for planting trees, either.
But the real reason I resent this So
payment is that it represents gi-
gantic reduction in the price of
votes. I think those AAA men
haven't learned much about politics.
They've gone sissy. The new price
sounds like a fire sale. They ought
to know that no votes induced by
that price will stay put.
But to get serious about this thing,
this new atrocity that is being put
over in the name Of farm aid, it
ought to be said that never in all
recorded history has there been any
such thing attempted before. That,
of course, is no answer. It is an
answer, however, to say that some
governmental policies, like the ac-
tons of some private persons, are
so utterly ludicrous that they hardly
warrant discussion. Further, we
ought to remind ourselves that in
this instance a government, sup
posed to serve all Of the people, is
undertaking the course. To my
mind, the fact that government is
doing it makes it perfection on the
asinine side.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28

was outselling German-made toys in
the British isles.
Biggest news in Paris, however,
was Bastille day, 150th anniversary
of the French revolution. Hobnob-
bling on the reviewing stand with
President Albert Lebrun as 10000
troops filed by were Mrs. Sarah
Delano Roosevelt, mother of the U. S.
President, British War Secretary
Leslie Hore-Belisha and many an
other English notable.
Keynoted Premier Edouard Da-
Ladder: "We menace no one. We
dream Of no conquest. We desire
only peace among all people :. -
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-07-28

sued yet SO ! cannot report to you
in advance what you will have to do
to get your So. The AAA may pos
sibly tell you that you have to grow
SO many rows of radishes, so many
hills of beans of two or more types
maybe some pole beans if you have
planted trees under the reforestra-
ton program. Or they may tell you
to produce so many yards of spin
ach, and there must be carrots and
peas, because children must eat car
rots and peas. And potatoes! want
to warn the AAA about potatoes.
Maine and Idaho voters may kick
about including potatoes in the list
of "must" vegetables. In the South,
there ought to be melons, for there
is nothing like good ripe water
melon. Medical men advise squash
in the diet, along with rutabagas.
As a special favor to me, am CO.
ing to ask that onions be included
and planted alongside that row of
tomato vines.