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Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
A TWO-CYLINDER CAR
(Chrlstlan Science M0nltof)

Marked interest surrounds the current
introduction of an inexpensive tWo-cyl-
inder automobile TO motor-conseious Am
orleans by Crosley radio interests. From
an automotive standpoint, the venture
will represent a significant test of the
sales possibilities said to be inherent in
the untapped reservoir of wage earners
who cannot now afford the luXurieS of
individual transportation facilities. On
the other hand, a tWo-cylindered car
capable of fifty miles to the gasoline gal
Ion may meet family demands for two
cars, one for office committing, the other
for the rest of the family.
Introduction of the low-priced car at
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, April %,
has revived debates current in automo-
tive circles for the last decade concern
ing the possibilities of a new car break
ing into the existing used-car price range.
Some experts feel that a new S400 car
may kill the used car business. Yet man
ufacturers have avoided building under
sized cars because the used car had been
found too efficient to Justify competi-
ton
A big factor in favor of a very light
car as opposed to used cars in the same
price range is its economy of operation
and upkeep. The most difficult hurdle
is the educated American taste for en-
gine power, roomy bodies and streamln-
ed designs A car must be good to make
a permanent niche in competitive auto
mobile market which today has only
tWenty-seVen survivors from a list of
1000 automobile manufacturers who
have tried their hands at satisfying Am
erican motorists.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
LOW FARM PRICES
HELP NOBODY
Sacramento Bee)

William B. Parker, the new state diree-
tor of agriculture. who is himself 4 far
mer. recalls that he has sold beans for
S155 a hundredweight, eggs for 8 cents
a dozen. butter fer Il cents per pound
and peaches for less than So per ton.
He expresses the hope he may be help
ful in putting more Justice and equality
into farm returns in the future.
The California consumer of farm prod
ucts, as we'll as the producer, will wish
him luck.
Low prices such as Parker quotes are
good neither for the person who con-
sumes food nor the person who raises it.
The California consumer who thinks
he is profiting by g cent eggs or II cent
butter is fooling himself If they con-
tinue the farmer presently will be with
out means for purchasing the commodi-
ties he needs for his family and his farm
and thus all business will come to q
standstill.
The low national farm income has been
one of recoyery's biggest retardation fac
tors 1t is problem with which a great
many keen minds have wreStled but for
which none has found perfect solution.
IN California where the basic industry
IS agriculture and where speciality crop
ping has reached the proportions of big
business, the problem is particularly Vi
tai
Farm living standards cannot be main
tanned unless the farmer receives ade-
quate compensation for his labor
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
WITH SO MUCH SMOKE,
THERE MUST BE FIRE

There remains little to be said against
the National Labor Relations Board
which has not been said at committee
hearings in Washington on amending
the Wagner Relations Act, under which
the board operates.
Most of the complaints are directed
against favoritism shown by the labor
board to the Congress of Industrial Or
ganizations, as opposed to the American
Federation of Labor. So great has been
the burden of testimony that an observer
is almost forced to accept the fact that
the labor board has favored the C1O
against the AFL in every possible way.
This might not be SO if even one witness
had testified that, in even one case, the
labor board had favored the AFL. There
has not been so much as hint Of such
testimony.
There are many in Imperial county,
who have attended labor board hearings
here, who do not need testimony in Wash
ington to convince them that the labor
board is one of the most unfair, one
sided federal organizations ever con-
ceiyed. They have received visual and
oral proof.
No wonder, in view of these facts and
this testimony, there is growing ma
tional movement to amend the Wagner
act and remove a great deal of the labor
boards power.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
Willis Thornton's Editorial On
What War Does to Freedom

World War showed the way, but
which the next war will bring to
full bloom
The horror of it is that once one
powerful country or a group of them
sinks to this level. all others are
dragged down with it. So tradition
ally-free Britain still sings "Britons
never will be slaves" but pays the
price that "Britons must be SOL
dierS."
British organized labor views with
distrust this move. For q body of
labor that is also a body of army
reserYists is never quite free
In France they recently found
that out. In the face of the Ger
man crisis, Communist leaders of
the railway unions insisted on a
general strike. 1t was no time for
il. for no country can afford to have
its defenses stripped bare in the
face of the ~enemy. SO the strikers
were all simply called into active
army service, breaking the strike
and almost breaking the unions.
Thus it is that militarism is able
10 break down the liberties of free
men even without war. The COM
ing of war itself will make that
triumph absolute. Then men will
have to fight back through the
chaos of -wreckage and per-
haps even civil war. to the liberties
they once had and did not know
enough TO keep.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07

Tin which Their MajeSties, accom-
panied by the Princess Elizabeth
and Margaret Rose. rode from the
palace As they passed Admiralty
Arch, 1lagS We're raised in salute
from buildings ON Trafalgar Square.
At the railway station peers and
diplomats waited 10 bid farewell
or to board the train and ride
as far as Portsmouth.
Cheering crows lined the route
and television broadcasts were
made from in front of the palace
and the station.
1t was an auspiciouS beginning
of a voyage that for laVishneSs and
historical significance has had no
counterpart since Cleopatra's jour
ney up the Nile.
Ambassador Joseph Kennedy was
on their train to see them off.
Especially chartered for the royal
party of 23 persons was the 20333-
ton Empress of Australia, once the
German liner Tirpitz. There We're
no other passengers. In its stores
were 33 cases of champagne, 30
kinds of cheese, strawberries SO
fine they cost $486 a box. Packed
into two cabins were so tons of
royal luggage including 40 trunks
of the queens dresses. In the salon
was a specially-selected orchestra
of Il pieces. There were different
movies for each day of the trip,
including Jesse James, Charlie
Chan at Monte Carlo and two
old Marx Brothers pictures.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
You re Telling Ne.

European boy king must soon
quit school. says story. to attend
to affairs of state. Which will make
a lot of American youths wish this
wasn't a democracy.
Don't rave too much over those
new spring blossoms. BY June be-
meath each petal will lurk a mos
quito
New rubber RATS are offered to
amateur fishermen. Now an agler
can be comfortably unlucky.
The common man in those die
tator-led countries begins to look
more and more like a plain come
on man.
The world gets worse and worse.
Now they've discovered the exist
ence of fresh water sharks.
General Franco is rounding up
thousands of cats to get rid of rats
which oVerrun Spain. That's one
kind of liquidating we're in favor
Of.
Former King Alfonso is to get
his property back But he'll never
be sure he gets it ali. When he left
Spain he went SO fast he didn't
stop to take an inventory.
A nephew of Jesse James has
been named a marshal in Missouri.
Maybe he saw the movie and de-
cided if his uncle was like Tyrone
he'd rather be with the law.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07

The decision of the British to
train eonseript army instead OF
relying on their traditional volun-
teer force is of the greatest i'm
portanee to every lover of freedom
It shows. better than anything
else has recently shown. what war
does to freedom It shows that
men can never be truly free as long
as they live under war or the
shadow of var
Chamberlain had promised no
conseription in peace time to his
supporters IN British labor circles.
The on!y explanation of this broken
pledge is that these are not in
any true sense peace times
That is ingenious. but it has some
sense. too. For Europe is not really
at peace today The war that is
going on there simply has not yet
reached a point of actual armed
conflict But It is not peace.
War today IS something different
from war down through all its sick
ening 5000-year history just as
invention has changed the face of
the world more since 1900 than
in hundreds of years before. so war
today is a different thing than
ever before
"Totalitarian war" that is. a war
which abSorbs and demands every
ounce OF strength. every minute of
thought every penny of money.
every drop of blood of every citizen,
is a development for which the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07

For many years during her IA
theirs reign Queen Elizabeth was
declared illegitimate 1t took an
act of parliament to declare her
eligible to rule England.
In Iceland it is against the law
to whistle.
There are too many COWS on the
roads at night, motorists in Fire
claim. They want the bossies to
be outlined in lights, so they may
readily be seen.
To make operations as pleasant
as possible for patients, artificial
perfumes are being used in anes-
thetics.
In the United States and Can
ada the death rate among blind
persons is more than twice that of
those of normal vision.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
NavyCaI!s New
DiriuibIe Bids

WASHINGTON May 6. up
The navy, facing a congressional
controversy over competitive prac-
tees, prepared today to call for
new construction offers on a pro-
posed $3,000.000 dirigible 1t re-
jected all previous bids.
The action was taken by Secre-
tary of the Navy Claude A. Swan
son upon recommendation of the
Judge advocat generals office after
Sen. Charles w Tobey, R., N. H,
protested that the navy failed to
consider the bid of the American
Mechanical Engineering Co.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

gossip of people who could not
otherwise be reached
The league is amply financed and
sohdiy organized It has no notion
that the campaign it plans will, OF
itself bring about the downfall Of
Hitler.
1t does believe that it will help
10 confuse the Nazi organization
that it will spread disquieting ru-
mors and create poisonous suspi-
cion, and that in the end it will
help pave the way for Nazism s
downfall
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
Fire SuffoCates
KneeIinq Woman

LOS ANGELES. May g. CUP)-
The kneeling figure of Mrs. Tarin
Enriquetta, 70, was found today i'll
her fire gutted cottage She died
of suffocation.
Firemen believed that a candle
was knocked over and ignited the
cloth of a tiny altar before which
the woman was kneeling in prayer
in her home.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07

organization winch mas evolved q
brand-neW method of undermining
the Nazi regime in Germany, and
whose membership embraces con-
siderable number OF government
employees both III the United States
and abroad has Just completed the
first move in its anti-Hitler cam
paign.
This organization is called the
International League for Truth in
Germany.
It has adopted the familiar
technique of printing anti-Hitler
pamphlets. booklets and other lit
erature fol distribution inside Ger
many, but it has added a surpris-
ing new twist TO the method of
distribution.
Instead of sending its literature
to opponents of the Nazi regime, it
sends them to its friends-and is
NEST anxious Of all to get the ma
terial into the hand of the Gestapo
itself.
For its principal aim is not to
supply the anti Hitlerites in Ger
many with propaganda material.
That is beine done quite capably
b. the existing underground move
ment. with which the league has
no connection whatever.
The big idea is to SOW dissension
and create confusion within the
Nazi movement. 10 make Nazi Off
Gals suspicious Of one another, to
give the Gestapo the impression
that the threat of the underground
movement is greater than it really
is-and as a final end-product to
arouse in the Nazi movement it
self a distrust of Hitler
rs first venture involved the dis
tribution in Germany of several
hundred thousand copies of a play,
Nights in Armor''. an allegorical
study of a dictator written by a
U. S. government employe. The
play advances the idea that the
dictator quite recognizable as
Hitler) is an underseXed, neurotic
person whose whole career is sim
ply a compensation for his own
ptISOildl SIlOllCOUllllSS.
Now the big idea was not SO much
to get this play into the hands of
the ordinary people as to get it
into the hands of the Gestapo
Bundles of copies We're left on
street cars. in public buildings and
in other places where the author
itles would be sure to find them.
The theory is that after some hun
dreds Of bundles had been con-
fiscated in all parts of Germany,
the Gestapo would begin to get a
highly exaggerated idea OF the eX-
tent to which such material is
actually reaching the populace.
Then there was this sort of stunt.
II a given German city the league
might know that there are 200,
Nazi groups It would get its
pamphlets into the hands Of 100
of the group leaders These leaders.
presumably as loyal Nazis would
Immediately turn the copies in to
the GeStapo.
But the other 100 group leaders.
never having received any copies,
would have nothing to turn in. The
Gestapo. however, assuming that
distribution was made to all the
groups in the city. would begin to
suspect that half of the group
leaders are disloyal.
Part Of the pamphlets sent to
Germany are printed in English,
Ct some other non-German tongue.
The Gestapo naturally has them
translated BY government experts.
These translators are men Of cul-
tire, many of them are -Nazis
whose devotion to Hitler is mild
al best
They absorb what they translate,
start talking about it to their
friends and, before long, the ma
terial in the translated pamphlet
becomes part of the undercover
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
CHURCH OF CHRIST TO
PIT DOWN CORNERSTONE

Church of Christ on East Orange
is planning a cornerstone laying
for Sunday, the ceremony to be
under the direction of the worship
ful sovereign grand lodge of Cali
fornia, F.. and A. M, with A. c.
Fair, worshipful master and E. w.
James, secretary, in charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
SNUEES OUT OWN LIFE

SAN PEDRO, Calf, May 6. tUP)
-Vetur Velos, 86, former Greek
army officer and adventurer, who
participated in the rebellion against
Queen Lilioukalani OF Hawaii,
ended his life late yesterday be-
cause of i'll health.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07

to e a t 0 n ! Y
enough to live
on. AT the age
of six, it was a
constant struggle
between the lit
tie girl and her
m o t h e Her
mother coaXed
and begged her
to take just one
m or e b i t e.
S a 7 a h would
shake her head
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
TGday's Horoscope

II today is your birthday you
may be happy in that your busi-
ness will prosper in the year just
commencing. Gain will also come
to you through an elder. You must,
however, be on your guard against
some deception. The baby born to-
day will be affectionate and SYM
pathetic, also philosophical and
interested in the occult. The mini
stry would be a good choice OF a
career
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
Fiery Itchina Skin
Try This Simple Home
Treatment for Quick Ease
and Comfort

Here is clean, powerful, pene-
trating oil now dispensed by phar-
macists everywhere at triflins cost
that brings speedy relief from the
itching and torture of Eczema.
Itching Tees and Feet Rashes and
other externally caused skin tron-
bleS.
Not only does Moone's Emerald
Oil soothe the Itching and torture
but il helps promote more rapid and
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MOone's Emerald Oil in the original
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
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Mothers. do you have trouble
persuading your child to eat?
Let me tell you the true story
of a little girl in New Haven, Con-
necticut. She could be persuaded
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
Grab Bag
One-Minnte Test

|. In what two countries is Mont
Blanc situated?
3 What noted baseball player Of
the past was sometimes called
"Hankus Pankus'?
8. Who is the American ambassa-
dor to Great Britain?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
DECREE GRANTED

An interlocutory divorce decree
was granted in superior court Fri
day to Edward Monroe Westland
from Maxine Hamond Westland OH
grounds Of extreme cruelty.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07

DiMaggio has long been an established
diamond star. But announcement of his
engagement just removed him as dia-
mond prospect-for the girls.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
CHURCH ORGAN STOLEN

STURBRIDGE, Mass, May 6.
CUP)-Police today sought the
thieves who stole the organ from
the Unitarian church.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
Words of Wisdom

What we need most, is not so
much to realize the ideal as to
idtalize the Hedge.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
King. Queen Stort
Trip to America

LONDON May 6. (UP)-The king and queen rode III
state from Buckingham Palace to the Waterloo station
today and boarded special train for Portsmouth where
they will sail for North America.
ROYAL life guards marched beside the open carriage
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07

Lewis Stone has driven 100000 miles
without getting Il traffic tag What an
actor. what an actor!
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
Barbs

What goes on dept In order to
fight the menace of relationships
many anti-dictatorship states are
becoming relationships.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
Hints on Etiquette

Don't insist upon being The
first one TO board car, bus or
train, pushing ahead of everyone
else
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
MASoNs MEET MONDAY

MASONS MEET MONDAY
Ell Centro lodge No. 1884, F.. and
A. M, will conduct a stated meet
ing Monday night at 7:30 O'Clock
in the Masonic temple.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07

Two creW members Of U. S.
boat went to the brig when they
shouted. Down with Mussolinir'
That's not 50 serious. What if
they had yelled. Down with the
ship
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
Horoscope for Sunday

HOrOSCOpe TOT Sunday
The year to come may be a
rather difficult one for those whose
birthday is today. Do not make
drastic changes and avoid litigation
at all costs. Children born today
will be ambitious and perseyering.
They will have to fight a COM
bative spirit, sharp temper and
unpopularity. They will, however,
succeed. if they will cultivate toll
erance and respect for others.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07

One Minute Test Answers
|. Italy and France.
2. Hank Gowdy, former catcher
with the Boston Braves, now called
the Bees
8. Joseph P. Kennedy.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07
Thoughts for the Day

The Lord shall reward the doer Of evil according 10
his wickedneSs-u Samuel 339
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-07

MEMBER
American Newspaper
Publishers
Association
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
LAWYER GUILD
TO MEET HERE

Opposition to a bill to limit the
power of the administrative agen-
cieS of the Government, as pro
posed by the American Bar Asso-
citation, will be voiced at the con-
ference Of the National Lawyers
Guild at: the Carlton Hotel to-
morrow.
Robert e. Healy, member Of the
Securities and Exchange Commis-
sion, will outline the guilds stand.
A panel discussion will hear
views from John j. CorSon, of the
Social Security Board; William j..
Dempsey, general counsel of the
FEC; Charles Fahy, general coun.
sci, NLRB; James A. Horton,
chief examiner, FTC; Calvert Ma
gruder, general counsel, Wages
and Hours Board; Nathan, Mar.
gold. Department Of Interior; !;
Gerard D. Reilly, Department of
Labor; David D.. Robinson, jr.,
FEC; Lester P. Schoene, general
counsel. RIB; Joseph L. Weiner,
special counsel, SEC, and M. G.
White, solicitor, Department of
Agriculture.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
Extends "Olive Branch" to Congress: -..: =. .: -.
Perkins Seeks Peace Over Labor

anxious to establish cooperative
relationship with the congressional
committees In dealing with the
prospective bitter struggle over the
labor law.
With q canvass Of the House La
Dor Committee indicating that
drastic revision Of the Wagner act
would meet with stiff, opposition,
a group of militant members de-
cided to use the petition method.
STACKED" HE SAYS
''1t looks as If the House COM
mittee is stacked against any
changes" said Representative
Anderson CD Of Missouri, who
introduced q bill to repeal the
Wagner act and set up q new
labor relations plan.
@'1f the committee does not re-
port on my bill within 80 days,
I'll put q petition on the
Speakers desk and ask members
to sign. That will get it to the
floor.
Under House rules, q petition to
discharge q committee from con
Sideration Of 9 bill must be signed
BY ala members. a.majority.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
W'ALLACES
Secretary and His Wife
Guests of IouUanS

Representative Fred Gilchrist
was elected president Of the Iowa
State Society last night at a din
ner: given by the organization in
honor of new Members of Con-
gress in the Shoreham Hotel.
John Stacks and Mrs. Leo
Paulger were named vice preSi-
dents, and Miss Gertrude Louis
was reelected Secretary-treaSurer.
The Secretary of Agriculture and
Mrs. Henry A.. Wallace were
guests at the dinner.
New Members Of Congress also
were henored last night by the
West, Virginia Society at a recep-
ton in the Raleigh Hotel, with
Heber H. Rice, new president,
heading the receiving line.
Representative William H. Sut-
phen, newly elected, was guest Of
the New Jersey State Society at
the Wardman Park Hotel.
The Washington times., 1939-01-20

The rejections. says the Com
merce Department, were made
in wholesale" lots, affecting
many lines Of American goods,
including 'foodstuffs, wearing
apparel, tobacco, textiles, jew
elry. sporting goods, watches"
Date of report, January 140
The Argentine government
refused to allow her citizens to
bug United States products be-
cause the Omitted States had
bought insufficient products
from the Argentine. She has
adopted . bilateral trade bal
ancing program which takes no
notice Of neighborS, good or
otherwise. She is giving Britain
and Germany our trade there,
because those two nations buy
more from her-a good selfish
reason, in her opinion, no doubt.
The Commerce man reported
specifically that Britain was
getting most Of the exchange,
while Japan and Italy were suf-
fering along with the United
States.
Consequently American Off
cials, even IN the State Depart
ment, may soon stop kidding
themselves about the charming
friendlinesS Of our neighborS
on the south side of the tracks
and may try to work out a more
practical method Of common
understanding. 49,
The Washington times., 1939-01-20
LaGudrdia Asks
Break For Farmer

BOSTON, Jan. 20 (LN.S.).
While urging . truce between
labor and industry. Mayor
FiOrelIO LaGuardia, Of New
York, said today that bust
ness recovery must start on
the farm.
I'VE must give the farmer
o break," " said Mayor LsGuar-
dia. eve must put the wheel
of industry, which Is now in
reverse, in high gear and
give the farmer purchasing
power"
Speaking to the Boston
Chamber Of Commerce, the
stOcky chief executive Of New
York city advocated agricul-
tural parity with industry.