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Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-12
HOUSE DELEGATION
APPROVES PROBE

WASHINGTON, April Y. (UP)
The California house delegation
today unanimously endorsed Rep
John H. Tolan's resolution for an
investigation by a five member
house committee of migration of
destitute citizens across state lines.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-12

for Barge Pease, 80 for Alex Spence
and the same for Defending Cham
pion Ralph Petty Joe Cooper went
out in 38
Qualifying rounds will close We'd
nesday night with a barbecue at
the club house. Director n. j. Nc
Namara urged all club members.
as well as all interested in golf, 70
attend
Continued on Sports Page.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-12

JOgeJher TWO 36S. Taylor went OUT
in 27 and came home in 38.
Most of the out of state players
either started late in the forenoon
or will qualify in the afternoon.
Laddie Willoughby of Calexico
posted an 83 Wednesday morning,
that possibly will not let him into
the championship flight Forrest
Manley shot an 81.
First nine scores included 80 for
Dick Lott, SO for Jim Canning, AZ
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-12
SUMMER CAMP ACTIVITIES
TO BE DISCUSSED

Finals plans for The Boys Scout
summer camp and other summer
activities will be completed Thurs
day night at a meeting of the Ell
Centre district committee, accord
ing to Hugh Wilcox, scout execu-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-12
Olson Suffers Severest Setback as
Assembly Defies Budget Demands,
Paves WAY for Relief Restrictions

SACRAMENTO April II. (UP)-Governor Culbert L..
Olson and state administration forces laid desperate plans
today to- overcome the defeat of any California gov
ernor in years, administered when conservative
assembly Democrats Joined Republicans late Yesterday
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-12
Taylor Leads Early QuaIifiers for
Southwestern Golf Title Tourney;
Round Closes with Big Barbecue

Imperial Valley Champion Dave Taylor led early quail
fers in the championship flight Wednesday of the South
western Golf tournament the Barbara Worth golf
when he carded rs.
Close behind came Ward McPherrin with 76 who put
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-12
Enough Narcotics for Million Doses
Nabbed as Federal Agents Break Up
Nationwide Ring by Kansas Raids
Arrests Come While Public Hearing Results
In Charges X. c. Most Corrupt City in u. s.;
Witnesses Tell of Police Link to Crime

KANSAS CITY Mo-, April r. (UP)-H. J. Anslinger,
u S. commissioner of the narcotics bureau disclosed to-
day that enough narcotics for million doses had been
confscated and 13 men arrested in breaking up ring
which had ramifications throughout the nation.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-12
Uncle Sam S Fleet TO Show Strength
In 1b-Mi|e-Long Parade Of warships
; Off Eastern Coast on April 9th

WASHINGTON April II. (UP)-The U. S: fleet will
parade its might April 27 off Cape Henry Virginia in
he eastern seaboard 1884 the announced today
About 70 warships including eight battleshps four
arcraft carriers five heavy cruisers light cruisers and
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-12
Britoin, France Swing
Club Over MussoIini as
Worships Sail Secretly
Democracies Agree to Announce
Decision to Fight for Greece. Turkey
Unless Italy Withdraws Army from Spain
: COpyyight 1889 by United Press -

LONDON, April II. (UP)-Great Britain and France
agreed tonight to simultaneous declaration Thurs
day that they will protect Greece and Turkey against
lgressOn Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain intends
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-12
Ritter TrruiIed
Bv UnderSheYiff,
City PotroImon
international Confidence Man Captured
After EIudins Netin Imperial County;
Faces New Jersey Conspiracy Charges

DR.. Otto Benjamin Leo Ritter AZ, self-syled nterna-
onal confidence who March II euded trap set for
him by federal officials at Brawley and escaped into
Mexico is to Ell Centro from Nogaes, Ariz. in
custody of Undersherff Rodney Clarke and Ell Centro
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-12
y AMBLING
IMPORTER
Human, Too

human, 100
RR feels much, much better now
Johnny Revolta has taken six puts
on a single green and Evelyn Brown
and Doris Shibley, expert telephone
operators, have wasted Is cents in
pay telephone.
With the calm assurance CT the
skilled, Evelyn and Doris entered a
pay phone booth while on a trip to
San Diego and plunked in their
erin. Three times they either dial
1t at the wrong time or plunked
lat the wrong time and finally gave
up in despair.
Yes sir, it certainly is comforting
to have company.
Curb Sitter
Shades of the old street corner
horse trading days. Eddie Arrow
Tuesday night conducted a warm
bit of business while sitting non
chalantaly on the curbing on Fifth
street. He was there when RR
passed at 9 and was still there when
RR again passed at 1890
HardbOiled Jack
Out at the ball game Tuesday
afternoon one of the lads, Lloyd
Edgar, started onto the field with
his shirt tail waving in the breeze
= ard Umpire Jack Stark with an
eye to proprieties, handed down
Ithis order:
Either tuck that shirt in or take
it off"
The lad took it off and Jack did
MT have a thing to say. Bob Moore
dryly remarked:
"I knew umpires had a lot Of au-
thority but that's the first time I
ever saw one take off a players
shirt"
That Time Again
Stave it off as long as you will
summer is practically here. Prime
indication is that Custodian Marvin
Moore and his gang at the court
house have started making the
rounds, putting up coolers.
Wild Cat
rs this the sheriff. came an
excited voice early Wednesday and
Sheriff Robert Ware admitted as
much.
This is Mrs. George Witcher
My cat has gone mad. locked it
up in the kitchen and it is tearing
up the place. I can't find my hus-
band"
Deputies Robert Parrish and Jack
Weart got on their horses, figur-
atively, and rushed to the rescue
Their report read:
"Killed the cat. We couldn't find
her husband either"
Immune, Apparently
y Frank Richmond ordered Keep
off the grass" signs at the post
office, but somehow we noticed a
distinct path that leads across the
lawn to where Penny parks his car
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-12

Butter: Los Angeles. "a; but
terfat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch.
grade A, 81; manufacturing milk.
24Hci route gathered cream, 22c.
L. A. Hay: U. S. No. l, S14.00i No.
2 Ieafy, $3.50; No. 2 S11-12. Min
neapOliS flax May Sl.73I4.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-12

Immune, Apparently
, Frank Richmond ordered Keep
off the grass" signs at the post
office, but somehow we noticed a
distinct path that leads across the
lawn to where Penny parks his car,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-12

That Time Again
Stave it off as long as you will,
summer is practically here. Prime
indication is that Custodian Marvin
Moore and his gang at the court
house have started making the
rounds, putting up coolers.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-12

lTotal cash, checks and drafts sent
through the tive Ell Centre banks
Evening star., 1939-08-06
Aid for Philippines

Passage by Congress Of the Philip
pine bill, designed to make less pain
full the process Of economic readjust-
ment to the gradual elimination Of
their preferences in the American
market after 1941, satisfies the i'm
mediate economic needs of the
islands as they approach independ-
ence.
The bill not only substitutes de-
clining quotas of duty-free imports
into the United States for export
taxes on certain vital industries
which were threatened with extinc-
ton after 1941, but it also effects an
important change in the time of
making a comprehensive study of
Philippine conditions and trade re-
lations with the United States.
That study, which is expected to
provide panorama of Philippine
needs in the years following inde-
pendence, is to be made in 1914 in
stead of 1945, as provided in the In
dependence Act.
Congress efforts on behalf of the
islands are by no means finished.
The Joint Preparatory Commission,
which devoted most of year to ex-
amining the prospects and needs Of
economic readjustment in the
islands, recommended last year that
a sliding scale of diminishing pref
erences be legislated for Philippine
goods In the American market after
1946.
Such a proposal was included in
the first Senate bill on which hear
ings were held, but all provision for
the post-1946 period was stricken
out when controversy developed over
preserving United States Philippine
trade ties for fifteen years after inde-
pendence. The bill as it goes to the
President now makes no provision
for economic readjustment after 1916.
There is grave doubt that Congress
can afford to wait until 1914 to settle
such basic matter. If Congress has
the interests of the Philippines at
heart-and the nations moral obli-
cation demands such an attitude
1t will not tarry long in threshing
out the entire question, for whether
the islands survive as an independent
state depends on whether their
people have work and their indus
tries prosper.
Evening star., 1939-08-06

against us is for u.s." This generous,
open-minded method broke down oppo-
Sition and won even the rebellious, He
would have His modern followers less
rigid, less fixed and narrow in their
opinions and set ideas.
What peace and satisfaction would
ensue If we were less set and determined
in our opinions and judgments, more
open-minded and kindly in our dealings
with those who. by temperament and
training, follow ways and practices diff
ferent from our own. Politics and re-
hgion, these constitute the areas in
which most of the conflicts are waeed,
ano with what results? Increase of bit
terness, increase of hate, divisions, CLASH
fications and unbridgeable CULTS that
separate group from group, class from
class. 1t is the survival of the clan
spirit, feudalism in a democracy. The
caste system of ancient India lives again
In free America. Christianity with it's
great principles is the antithesis of this.
The second great command of Jesus is:
Thou shalt love they neighbor as thy
self" Forgive, not seven times, but if
necessary seventy times seven. If your
neighbor has aught against you, first be
reconciled, then come and pay your de-
Votions and offer your gift; these are
the Masters ways of creating happy con-
ditions in home, in business and in the
church.
What folly We commit when with our
conceits and prejudices we close our
minds to the good in our fellows; when
we encourage competitions and rivalries
between one type of religious habit and
another. Where shall we look for in
falliollity OF judgment? With whom
does all wisdom reside? We are in
changing world. New ideas. new con-
cepts, new practices crowd upon us with
each new day. Despite this there are
certain convictions and ideals that are
as fixed as Gibraltar's rock Be this as
it may, 1t should not preclude a readi-
ness to deal kindly and sympatheticallv
with new ideas, new systems and new
methods. New wine must be put into
new and flexible wineskins," said the
Master, else fermentation will destroy
the containers. This was a plea for
mental flexibility, an open mind and
generous Judgment. In church and
state we shall register progress when,
with freedom from passion, we exercise
more generous judgment of men and
movements
Evening star., 1939-08-06
AN OPEN MIND
BY the Right Reu James E. Freeman D. d, IL. d. D. c. L.
Bishop OF Washington.

No progress can be made by one whose
mind is closed and unresponsive to new
ideas and new concepts. To close the
shutters of the mind is like closing the
shutters of q room, expelling light and
living in shadows and growing darkness.
The certain evidence of intellectual ma
turity in advancing age is a readiness
to respond and give heed to new view
points and fresh outlooks. Bias and
prejudice are inimical to the develop
ment of contented mind and happy,
useful life.
Now and again we meet some one who,
despite the multiplying years, discloses
spirit of optimism that is born of an
open and receptive mind It is the sure
sign of the survival of the spirit of youth
and it is highly commendable. 1t is the
evidence OF strength. not weakness. To
be strong in convictions is not incom-
patible with a generous attitude toward
new and sometimes strange ways of
thinking and living. Youth in particular,
= with its vivid imagination and its ideal
ism, looks to its elders for a kindly and
sympathetic hearing 1t will respond to
kindly judgments, it is repelled by stern
and ungenerous criticism. 1t is just here
that balanced, seasoned judgment
serves as consistent curb to impulsive
and unreasoned judgment.
No finer example of this is to be found
than the way Christ practiced in all His
dealings with men and women of every
sort and kind. He met them with their
imperfect views of life and by gentle
persuasion showed them the better way.
He was never harsh in His judgments,
never impatient. Bold, impulsive Peter
repeatedly found his judgment in con-
f1ict with the Masters, but always Jesus
checked his impulsiveness. not by re-
buke, but by q method that made evi-
dent the folly of his course. Satan hath
desired to have you, that he may sift
you as wheat" He said to Peter on one
occasion, and added this reassuring
word: But I have prayed for Thee,
that Thy faith fail not" Even the faults
of His bold disciples could not draw from
Him the word of censure The imper-
feet judgments of men did not incur His
displeasure.
At another time, where Jealous dis
ciples came to Him saying: I'VE found
one casting out devils in Thy name, and
he followeth not with us" Jesus said:
FORBID him not. for he that is not
Evening star., 1939-08-06
The FuIIs Bridge

The possibility OF a free, Gov
ernment-owned bridge across the
Potomac at Great Falls, one Of the
major links in the great George
Washington Memorial Parkway
which is being created along the
banks of the river, grows remote.
Rewriting of Senator Byrds bill pro-
viding for a privately owned toll
bridge which will meet the objec-
tions of the Park and Planning Com
mission brings that bill nearer pas
sage.
The construction of a bridge at the
Falls is so vital to the park develop
ment in the area of the National
Capital that free bridge is to be
preferred, but if Congress does not
consider the necessary appropriation
feasible, the toll bridge is better than
none at all. This, in essence, is the
attitude of the Planning Commis-
sion. The safeguards asked by the
commission have been incorporated
in the bill. These provide that the
bridge shall become Federal prop
erty when tolls have paid its cost
and that the Government shall have
the right to acquire it at any time.
Private capital is available to act
at once upon authorization of Con-
gress. There are doubts as to the
possible revenue, especially since
four free bridges link the Capital
with Virginia, and one a few miles
farther away crosses the river at
Point Of Rocks. It is possible these
may make amortization of the toll
bridge difficult, and it Is on this point
that the privately built project is
Evening star., 1939-08-06
GreenbeIt

A series of articles, which begins in
today's Star, takes note Of the inter-
esting fact that the village Of Green
belt is nearly two years old and
undertakes to weigh some of the pros
and cons in connection with this
most publicized of Rexford Tugwell's
broad ideas.
The chief demonstration, of course,
is this: If the National Government
is willing to underwrite the cost of
land, construction of houses and
other incidentals to the tune of
about $15,000,O0O, a very attractive
community of homes for rent can
be built. If the National Govern
ment is then willing to wipe the slate
clean OF annoying figures represent
ing investment, forget amortization
OF principal and payment of interest,
and not think too much about de-
probation, the village can be put on
a self-sustaining basis from collec-
ton of rentals. And If the Federal
Government takes the part of dis
eliminating landlord and hand-picks
the tenants after searching examina-
ton of their family background, So
briefly employment, ETC., the village
will stand fine chance of being
model village in more ways than one.
That is being demonstrated today
at Greenbelt, a happy community of
good people who ought to be proud
Of their, model town and proud of
having been the few who were
chosen as tenants from the many
who applied. But $15,OOO,0OO is a
pretty high price to pay for a dem
onstration Of what was already
obvious.
Greenbelt has demonstrated few
other things that should not be for
gotten. It cannot be duplicated on the
same terms by any group of private
builders, for the private builders
would lose their shirts before they
ever finished it. 1t cannot do much
to solve the housing problem, for
even it's low rentals are far above
what those who most need relief
from inadequate housing can afford
to pay. And it cannot point the way
to many more Greenbelts, for many
more Greenbelts would also point the
way to National bankruptcy.
Evening star., 1939-08-06

susceptible Of elimination from con-
sciousness. DR.. Samuel Johnson dis
covered for himself the medicine of
penance when he stood in the street
in front of Lichfield cathedral, bare
headed in the rain, in contrite hon.
age to his father. Perhaps he re-
called that Seneca had said: "He who
is penitent is almost innocent"
For humber, less wise, but not less
sensitive souls similar cure may be
recommended. Old mistakes rarely
are amenable to present correction,
yet the conduct of life-yes, provi-
dentially, of any life-may be re-
framed in pattern tolerable for an
awakened conscience to contemplate.
There certainly is no efficiency in
barren remorse. Shakespeare was
right when he argued that what's
past help should be past grief" but
he did not insist that ancient sins
and sorrows should be initiated end
lessly or recklessly merely to be
pointlessly repented. The greatest
lord of language was no fatalist.
Rather, he had faith in experience as
a teacher of ultimate perfection. And
he trusted in the Everlasting Mercy:
What if this cursed hand
Were thicker than itself with brothers
blood?
Is there not rain enough in the sweet
heavens
To wash it white as snoW?"
1t is tortured Hamlet who speaks,
and the answer may be discovered
in Portals appeal in "The Merchant
of Venice"
Evening star., 1939-08-06
Memories

Thackeray the novelist once wrote
that men forget nothing and that
I'VE are stricken by memory some
times" Any average person, 1t may
be supposed, would indorse his judg-
ment. Few lives, indeed, are there
in which no sorrows have occurred
The common lot never is altogether
free of grief. So it happens that for
a multitude, as Goldsmith declared,
remembrance :. turns the past to
pain"
But God gives to His children the
power to choose. The human heart
and mind are not beyond the con-
troll Of the human will. It is possible
to select such memories az may be
worthy Of preservation. The rest are
Evening star., 1939-08-06

opposed by the Public Roads Admin
istration.
So long as the authorization act
definitely provides for eventual ac-
QUESTION by the National Parks
Service, and places control over the
site and the design in the hands Of
the Secretary of War and the Plan
ming Commission, the authorization
of the bridge would do much to carry
forward the development of the
long-planned parkway.
Evening star., 1939-08-06
In Lieu of Tuxes'


Elsewhere in today's Star an article
describes the bill introduced in House
and Senate last week by Representa-
tive Sparkman of Alabama and SEN
ator Norris of Nebraska proposing
that the Tennessee Valley Authority
be authorized to pay to the six States
covered by its operations certain
sums 'in lieu of taxes"
AS the National Government in
creases its acquisitions Of real prop
erty throughout the country, or, in
this case, takes over an industry
which formerly produced tax rev.
enues-withdraw both to the tax
exempt lists-the term payments in
lieu of taxes" is heard with increas-
Ing frequency and, assumes greater
significance. 1t is of particular
significance to the District of Co.
lulnbia, where more than half the
total land area is already tax-exempt
principally on account of Federal
1oNCl WAASAS
every additional governmental ac-
QUESTION of land means a further
reduction of the local tax base.
Senator Norris, in explaining his
proposal to the Senate last week,
said that he did not expect or even
urge any immediate action on the
bill. His chief purpose in presenting
1t at this time was to publicize the
subject with which it deals and to
invite the necessary discussion which
will accompany its consideration in
the next session of Congress.
The Tennessee Valley Authority, it
was explained, has been cognizant of
the problem created in the States of
Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Missis-
sippi, North Carolina and Tennessee
by loss of taxes to these sovereignties
involved in Government power pro-
duction, including the purchase of
private power companies. T. v. A.
authorities have held conferences
with the State officials and worked
out a formula which, it is believed,
covers the situation; a formula pro-
viding for payments to the States "in
lieu of taxes of sums based on a
downward sliding scale of percent
ages of gross proceeds from the sale
of power. The theory is that as the
percentage decreases, the gross pro-
ceeds will be increasing.
In Washington it is the recognition
of the problem itself, and not the
particular method of solving it, that
is important. For in Washington the
increasing area of tax-exempt land
also constitutes problem which
should be recognized through some
equitable formula in deciding upon
the amount of the annual lump-sum
payment. Senator Overton has pro-
posed one formula which has won
many adherents. There may be bet
ter ones. The point is that the prob
lem should be recognized and solved
In some orderly, scientific manner.
One fundamental difference be-
tween the T, v. A. problem and its
counterpart in the District of Colum-
bia is that the six States covered by
the T. V. A. experiment are ably rep
resented in Congress by twelve Sena-
tors mot including Senator Norris)
and fifty-fve Representatives. Their
case, at least, will be assured of
sympathetic hearing.
Evening star., 1939-08-06

next morning the entire household will
be industriously engaged in scratching
itself. In one or two known instances
the long distance jumpers have been
seen On the breakfast table"
Evening star., 1939-08-06

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to
the use for Iepuocauon OF al news dispatches mes
paper and also the local news published herein.
ALI rights of publication OF special dispatches
hArein also are reserved.
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Entered as second class matter post once.
Washinston. D. c.
Evening star., 1939-08-06
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Half a century ago reports reached
this city telling Of plague of fleas that
Evening star., 1939-08-06

Mr.. ROOSeVelC LnaC ne old not want
the money unless accompanied by ad-
ditional taxes.
There was one legislative battle in
which the administration occupied a
more or less neutral position. That
struggle resulted in the overhauling
of the relief setup, including elimina-
ton of the prevailing wage" and
inclusion Of provision designed to
rotate relief jobs. Another accom-
plishment, which probably belongs
in the same category, was the revision
Of the Social Security Act to freeze
payroll taxes and liberalize benefits.
AS the Senators and Representa-
tives left the Capitol last night, there
was reason to believe that the next
session will bring determined efforts
to overhaul two of the New Deals
most cherished measures-the Wag-
ner Labor Relations Act and the Fair
Labor Standards Act. These efforts
may or may not succeed, but, in view
of the damage done to the New Deal
at the session just closed, it is safe
to conclude that many supporters of
the President, if not the President
himself, must look back in sorrow
and dismay on the dismemberment
Of the Democratic party which began
with the Supreme Court bill fight in
1887 and grew to embittered matur-
ity during the sheer folly of the
purge" of 1888.