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Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
THAT THIRD TERM
DECISION

Anyone who expects President Roose-
welt to announce right soon whether he
is going to run for third term is liable
TO be disappointed. Even if the president
knew what he was going to do, it would
be political suicide for him to set him.
self up as target this early in the game
and the chances are he does not yet
know what he will do.
One thing is becoming increasingly ap-
parent, however. Mr. Roosevelt would
like to run for a third term if he
thought he would be elected.
His recent speeches have been more
like campaign speeches than anything
else His personal supporters hape made
no secret out Of trying to find out how
the people feel about a third term. The
trial balloons have been numerous, the
results dicouraging.
1t is probable, however, that the preSi-
dent will seek third term if he relies
on what he hears in Washington. There
are two chief reasons. First, the ardent
New Dealers who are his closest advisors
realize that Mr.. Roosevelt has a better
chance than any other New Dealer in
| I1940. and so will encourage him to run
again. Second, it is only human nature
THAT Mr. Roosevelt will hear, in personal
chats, only the most optimistic assur-
ances of his 1910 chances; he will not
| get the other side of the picture.
On the other hand Mr.. Roosevelt does
| not trust what he reads in the news
papers. This is natural too. Most of
' the nations papers oppose his policies
| in their editorial columns. Believing that
' he is right and they are wrong, the presi-
dent discounts their news dispatches
along with their editorial opinions, which
| is mistake. Any experienced reporter
could tell him that, while a newspaper
expresses only its opinions in its editorial
columns and so is liable to be wrong
there, in its news columns it strives to
report only facts, regardless whether
the facts fit its own opinions. Quite hu-
manly, however, the president prefers
to listen to the optimistic reports of his
own friends about his third term chances,
rather than the pessimistic reports that
are becoming more numerous in the ma
tion's news columns.
If it is true that Mr.. Roosevelt plans
to seek third term if he thinks he can
be elected, it is safe to say that he will
seek third term. The people he talks
to will take care of that
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

WASHINGTON. - Uncle Sam
holds one big trump card in the
international wheat conference at
London. He probably won't ever
actually play it, but all the other
players know that he holds it and
its effect is not lost upon them.
This card is the fact that, by
quiet use OF a subsidy plan, the
United States managed to slip l0G,-
900 ,000-odd bushels of wheat into
world trade during the past year.
Viewed in comparison with some
of the nations oldtime wheat eX-
ports. that isn't very high figure;
considering the present state of
the world market, however, it Is
pretty good one.
The four principal wheat-eXport-
ing nations now are Canada, the
Argentine, Australia, and the Unit
ed States. Because so many coun-
tries are trying TO make themselves
Self-sufficient for military reasons,
the world wheat market is now
down to about 400,000,000 bushels.
The London conference was called
to discuss the possibility of dividing
that 400,000,000 busnel market
among the four big wheat-producers.
And the point is that the Amer
ican negotiators are in position
to make some such crack as this:
"All of you people are substituting
wheat exports. Very well! We spent
a modest S2O,OOO,OO0 last year on
subsidies and exported 100000 900
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
Willis Tkornton's Editorial Or,
In Spite of Everything, We 60 Ahead

to indicate that 3O5 leading IN.
dustrial corporations made nes
profits of 100000 in the llrsV
quarter of this year. That is more
than double the profit reported Ill
the same period of last year.
The coal strike is over. The Eu-
ronean war situation is less acute,
for the moment at least. Wheh
nrices have risen somewhat on
drouth reports. The motor ana
construction industries are holding
nm well Traffic should squirt, now
that the mines have resumed work
ING and restocking of exhausted
coalbins begins. Employment is
gaining slightly, not enough, but
some, and relief rolls have been
slightly pared. The stage is set tor
a considerable revival of business
this summer. The bigger units Oh
business, realizing that they must
function, whether conditions exact
ly please them or not, have sue
ceeded in making money in the
first quarter. 1t can be done. 1t
is being done.
What the country needs right
now is: forget Europe and its war
talk, forget politics and partisan
ship, forget gripping, and saw wood!
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
IA THOUGHT FOR THE
SERVICE STATIONS

Service stations are engaged in the
business of selling gasoline, oil, tires
land auto accessories, but a lot of them
lin Imperial Valley are more or less con-
tent to let the customers come If they
Twill and drive as the mood moves them.
A lot of motorists, by the same token,
|are content to drive their automobiles
around town and loll at home in the
afternoons and during weekends. Most
|of them stay in town, especially on week
lends, because they cannot think of any
|place to go.
1t would be good business for the
Service stations to encourage the motor
lists to do more driving. 1t would be good
flor the tempers of lot of motorists to
|go more places. Imperial county, as the
chamber of commerce can tell you, has
a lot of places to go. Trouble is, the
average motorist doesn't go to the cham
Der Of commerce to find out about the
places he hasn't seen.
The service stations could increase their
own business, and render even greater
service, by installing complete informa-
tion bureaus about Imperial Valley
places of interest
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25

Whatever else you choose to say
about this country we certainly can
take it.
There is tremendous strength
latent behind a system which can
move forward, even slowly and
cumbrously, in the fact of war
fears. in the face of a nationwide
coal strike, in the face of an un-
predictable tax system and Con-
gress that talks economy and then
bursts the dam of budget limits set
by an executive they have con-
demned as money-reckleSS.
When, in spite of all these things,
the national economy moves creak-
ingly forward, you know that un-
derneath there is strength. Given
any sort of a chance it will rise
to the surface somehow.
March, announced the Alexander
Hamilton Institute, is the fifth
consecutive month in which the
national income was larger than
in the corresponding period of a
year ago. The national income for
the first quarter of 1889 is esti-
mated at $14,332 100000 as COM
pared with $12,883 100000 last year.
In short, we are doing better
than last year. But not enough
better, considering what poor
year 1888 was.
Profits are up. The National City
Bank of New York presents figures
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25

chances of getting job, When She
graduated. were pretty thin.
dozen other girls were just as gooo
as she was. 1t was then that Grace
phelan made the decision which
changed her whole life.
She decided that she would never
get anywhere unless she made her
self better typist than the average
then she would have something
to sell She found the average typ
list, on graduating from COM
mercial course, was able TO WriIe
40 words minute. This was lar
bcvond her own typing speed, but
she decided she would work haro
and. some day. do even better
Other students in the typlng
class had machines at home, ana
practiced on them But Grace"
family was poor--six children
and she did not have a typewriter
SO she came to school an hour
early each morning and practiced
on class machine. She was the
poorest one in the class. But she
had something that put her ahcad
of all the other girls in the class.
Invincible determination.
The teacher decideded TO SelecC
six of her students to enter IN
Spring speed contest, and, to every
body's wonder, Grace was one OF
them. why" said the others, "She
was the poorest in the class when
we started"
But Grace kept pecking on.
Contest day came. Grace Phelan
won.
She thought she was pretty good.
So at the age of ID she went out
of the state for the first time in
her life. She went TO Sacramento,
California. to enter the Novice
speed contest" She lost. She lost
sadly and badly She was fiji
teenth.
But she came home and began to
peck away again at the old school
typewriter. She passed 40 words a
minute. She passed 30 words a
minute When she graduated she
was able to do 100 words min
ute!
She got job which paid her
tuition and expenses at Duquesne
University, in Pittsburgh. Mean
while, she kept blinking away. She
won another contest. She was now
doing 100 words minute.
In August, 1887, there was to be
held the International TypeWriting
Contest, in Toronto, Canada. Grace
Phelan had been strumming the old
typewriter ten years now-ten
years of hoping, dreaming, plan
ming, working. Grace Phelan-the
girl who didn't have machine of
her oWn-broke the worlds anna
teur record with had stood for IA
years. She wrote at a speed never
before equaled by woman, l29
five-strikc words minute for 30
minutes,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
NEVER MET A PAYROLL
(Orange Daily News)

Mr. Harry Hopkins returns to his De-
partment of Commerce office aften ten
weeks of illness to let fly a whitening
blast at business and business men.
Asked what he thought of the resolu-
tions of the United States Chamber of
Commerce calling for repeal of the
Wage-Hour act and liberalization Of tax
laws Mr.. Hopkins snapped
Not much, they certainly spread
lot of gloom around town"
Now Mr. Hopkins may be, probably is,
a gentleman of great competency along
certain lines but for a man who never
met a payroll in his life to attempt to
accuse hard-headed business men of pes
simism is somewhat beyond his sphere,
Look upon the U. S. Chamber of Com
merce as "big business" all you will,
consider the individual membership as
tycOons of industry as you like, the fact
of the matter is that every "big" bus-
ness man was little business man at
some stage of his caeer That he became
"big" is a credit to himself, his capability
and energy and the economic system un-
der which we live and via which we have
prospered to become in scant century
and half the most powerful, the rich
est Of all world nations.
If politicians and beauracrats who
have had little or no personal experience
with business and industry, who have
never had to meet a payroll and pay off
bank loans and raise new finances and
satisfy stockholders would but give more
heed to the pleadings and the admoni-
tions of those who know what it is all
about from having gone through the mill,
a better, more workable system would
result
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25

bushels without any trouble. If we
can't come to some agreement here
and this Subsidy-contest goes on,
we can spend a lot more money on
it than any of you can. In fact,
we can lick the pants off of you If
it comes to showdown. So maybe
we'd all better get together and
work out an agreement
Nothing like that will actually
be said, of course. But the fact
that the American delegates could
say it if they chose will be an I'M
portant factor at the conference.
II Congress goes ahead and
stops the navy from buying Ar
gentine corned beef, the long
ticklish relations between that
republic and the United States
will become even more ticklish.
Really, the amount of canned
beef involved i'm the purchase
would hardly amount to one ham
burger compared to the amount
which the United States regular
ly imports from South America.
Last year, for instance, the U.
s. imported from Argentina,
Uruguay. Paraguay, and Brazil
1887 900 pounds of canned beef,
more than 33,000,O00 pounds of
which came from Argentina.
This compares with $4,000
pounds in the much discussed
order for the navy.
Probably the queerest thing that
ever happened to any government
tai agency is the fate which has
overtaken the bituminous coal
commission.
Here was an organization set up
10 handle an almost unimaginably
complex job. 1t set up it's offices,
organized a local and field staff
running to more than 900 persons
collected a tax of one cent a ton
on all the soft coal mined in the
United States, and undertook to
work out set of price schedules
1t spent year and half on the
job, spending several million dol
lars and compiling an extraordi-
nary mass of statistics, weighted
averages, sworn testimony and
heaven knows what else.
Then, just as it was moving into
the final stage of its job, with day
light ahead for the first time, the
President abolished the commission
in toto and transferred its func-
tionS to the secretary of the in
terror.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25

the navy and see the World-in the
neWsreels of Annapolis movies.
Mussolini says he can overcome
any obstacle Then why can't he
grow hair on that bald dome of
his?
There are 10 ways in which to
make your neighbors like you, says
a Judge. We'll bet No. l is-buy
your own laWnmower.
The man at the next desk has
discovered there is a town in Ken
lucky with the name of Shoe Fly,
Bet it's a summer resort.
Mid-westerner asks divorce be-
cause his wife's relatives talk too
much" Too many chinfolks?
What has us a little worried is
that in New York's World of To-
morrow we haven't heard of an eX-
hibit showing the Dove of Peace
Can we really stand proSperity?'
asks a noted columnist We don't
know. mister, but we sure would
like to try it and see.
The only sports trade that could
be bigger than that Tiger Browns
deal would be if the Phillies swap
ped their whole ball team with the
Yankees.
According to women's fashion au-
thoritieS. summer will be a slack
season, not a short one.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE

NOTICE
Registered school orders, bearing
the numbers and drawn on the
several school district funds listed,
are called for payment and will
be approved upon presentation at
the office of the County Superin-
tendent of Schools. They are as
follows:
Holtville Union High School Dis
trict, General Fund No. 93-ll6,
Holtville Union High School Dis
trict Salary Fund No. Ia.
Imperial Valley Union High
School District Salary Fund No.
9-l2.
E. L. HITEMAN,
County Supt. of Schools.
BY M. B. HART.
(M25)
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25

name was Grace
Phelan.
She signed for
t h e commercial
course in the high
school, and began
to peck on a
typewriter, just
Ii Ike a hundred
thousand OF h e r
girls. When she
had time to take
stock of herself,
she saw that her
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
Dale
Carnegie

In the little steel town of Etna,
Pennsylvania Give miles from
Pittsburgh lived a girl who made
as wise decision as any King
Solomon ever handed down. Her
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
Today's Horoscope

Good fortune will come TO the
person whose birthday is today
through inheritance and dealings
in property. A most favorable out
look for the coming year is pre-
dicted Home affairs will be exceed
ingly happy. The child born on
this date will be a sincere, thought
full and prudent, but enterprising
person. Their Judgment will be
sound and they will meet with
much success in life.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
You re Telling Me- Barbs-

Statistics show that three out of
every 10 U. S. college grads are not
employed. Even more staggering
would be figures on the ratio not
working.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
thoughts for the Day

Rsproach hath broken my heart; and I am fun
OF heaviness; and looked for to take pity but
there was none; and for comforters, But I found
none.-Psams 1920
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25

Alf Landon says character build
ing must be changed to fit the day
of the radio. But not to fit certain
radio programs, we hope.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
Famous Sayings
Grab Baq-
One-Minute Test

/. In what state is the mesa
Verde National Park.
?. What state in the Unltea states
has the highest number Of chiiaren ran
under IS years OF age per l'ooo
adults.
3 What is liminology.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25

Annual cruises of first and sec
ond year classes at the Naval
academy have been Cancelled. Join
the navy and see the world-in the
neWsreels of Annapolis movies.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25

Every once in a while we read
about a group of school kids get
ting a trip to Washington. What
a way to disillusion American
UoIitHI
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
Hints on Etiquette

The subjects of sickness, opera
tions. and other such subjects are
not suited to dinner table conVer-
Sation.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
Words of Wisdom

WORDS OF NIsUUTH
Heaven will permit no man 10
secure happiness by crime.--Altieri.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25
One-Minute Test Answers

L. OOlOI etuO.
2. South Carolina, which has 835,
according to 1880 census figures.
3. The study of lakes and ponds
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25

An Ohio trial was postponed be-
cause a woman juror gave birth
to twins Which reaffirms the old
belief that one of the worlds
toughest jobs is to get out of jury
6utV
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25

FBI men were told TO get the
kiss of death" woman in the
Pennsylvania poison murder ring.
At one and the same time, that
could have been the most pleasant
and most painful assignment these
boys have had
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25

Mr. Harry Hopkins returns to his De-
partment of Commerce office aften ten
weeks of illness to let fly whitening
blast at business and business men.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-25

Owner of a l00-pound pumpkin
in South Africa offered it to any
body who would haul it away. There
were no takers. If he'd put it into
a pie, it might have been different.
The Union League club in Chi
cago has a headache room" in
which the walls are papered with
worthless stocks, securities, bonds
and mortgages.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27

WEST JUNEAU extending along the Juneau Douglas Highway for more than half mile south of bridge on the Douglas Island side of Cas- tineau Channel has been plated and recorded in the office of the Commissioner. More than 200 lots available for residential purposes. Lots 60xl50 feet in size; gentle slope; have magnificent view of channel and mountains: no taxes;
 no Taku wind; your own fuel for the cutting; $250.O0 for lots on the highway and $200.00 for back lots
 Warranty deed: Building restric- tion, no house to be constructed less than $2,50O00. Title I of the FILA. permits you to build your own home and to pay for it on terms less than rent. THE WEST JUNEAU COMPANY. See EVER EFT HOWELL or FRANK EOS TER. Phone 494 ~
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27

CT there really is great demand for him to run for a third term. In turn 1t will build up his own position, for previous experience has demon strated that where his food treads more Democratic grass grows. !.
 Incidentally, Gamers doings con- tinue to be a mystery second only to that of whether President Roose- velt will seek a third term. Every one who talks to him comes away Believing that Garner wants it very we'll understood that he Is seriously after the nomination. He hasn't announced his candidacy and per- haps won't. He didn't announce for the presidency in 1892 although he had two important delegations committed to him.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27

the magnet for those in the Domo- cratic party opposed to outstanding Roosevelt policies. Too much Gar ner boom would have spelled almost a repudiation of the New Deal. A countering wave naturally would have come anyway
 Speculating too far ahead on the outcome either of the Garner boom or of move for third term for President Roosevelt is useless busi- ness, Only one thing appears to be agreed upon in both camps. That is that no candidate can be nom-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27
TWO JUNEAU MISSES
 MAKING 5HORT TRIP

Miss Louise Adams, daughter of MT. and Mrs. H. O. Adams. is talk ng the round trip on the steamer Alaska which sailed for Skagway during the night.
 Miss Marlyn Jackson, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Jacob Jackson. &C., ocmpSnied Miss Adams on the trip.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27
POSITION OF POWER

For the President that is a highly strategic position. It reserves pow CT for him both in dealing with Congress and in the determination
 of a Democratic presidential can didate in 1940. His forthcoming trip through the West, then. has two value. It will give him an oppor- tunity to sound out for himself, by backtracking the Farley trail, wheth-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27
Empire Want Ads Bring Results.

Sealed bids on Proposal 143 will be received by the Civil Aeronautics Authority, Room 5321, New Com merce Building, Washington, D. o., until 200 PM. July 21, 1889, for er- ection ot steel tower antenna. sys- tems, wood pole antenna systems, and radio facility buildings near Nome, Ruby, Fairbanks, Anchorage, Cordova, Yakutat, Yakataga, Tal- keetna and Cantwell, Alaska"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27
CAPTAIN BOUND FOR
 (HILk00T BARRACKS

Capt. Thomas B. Murphy is aboard the Alaska bound for Chil- Root Barracks. He is accompanied by his wife and his three daugh- terS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27
FOR -(Confiinued)

SUMMER home, furnished on Lena Beach. Large living room with fire place. Dinette and kitchen. 3 beds upstairs. Fine beach for children. Inquire at 422 Calhoun Ave.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27

ley's loyalty either to the President or to the party. Rather than thrust his own case forward at the risk of party dis-harmony, he abandoned the quest for support for himself.
 The wave of third term talk was no surprise here. The boom for Vice President Garner precipitated it. Garner is looked upon here as
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27
WANTED
WANTED-New or used bird cage. Call Thompson. Phone AT.

WANTED-A small furnished house or apartment for or months Phone Black 165.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27

GROOM house in Douglas, 3 bed- rooms. Furnished. Concrete base ment. $3,750.00. 20% down. Bal ance $35 per month. J. Weherin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27
w "A N T X D INYoRMArioN

Ir case of error or if an ad has been stopped before ex- piration, advertiser please noti- fy this office (Phone S74) at once and same will be given attention.
 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27

mated without the consent of the President.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27

POWER troller 12 h.p. engine. New Western Wright gurdy. Some lead. Call 036 long short after pm.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27

Lode and placer location notices for sale at The Empire Office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27
LOST AND FOUND

LOST-Last week, a pouch zipper purse. Kindly return papers, pho- tos, etc, to Empire Office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27

FOR SALE-Annex Booming House, First and Main Sts. Phone Red 225. s
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27

WANTED-Salesma who is travel ing Alaska Territory to sell major auto equipment. Large line of tires, springs, brake lining and batteries for Laher Spring and Tire Corporation, Seattle. Meet MT. Laher at Baranof Hotel i'm mediately on arrwal of Columbia Wednesday or return trip on Aleutian July ninth. If you miss him in either case communicate with Laher Spring and Tire Cor poration, Seattle.
 GIRL wants general office work. Empire 692.
 EXPERT stenography and book keeping-p or full time. Alice Mack, Gastineau Hotel. YOUNG BOY wishes room and board at reasonable rates. h. quire Ingram Varnell at Signal Corps Office after pm. WANTED-A cabin during the last two weeks of July. Write Empire. NIL 800.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27

PHONE Mrs. Bathe about any kind of sewing. kEA x.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27

STOP WISHING YOU HAD A MAYTAG WASHER Now only $59.95. Terms, $500 down, $500 monthly. Call Singer Sewing Ma chine Co. man at Juneau Trans fer. Phone 48.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27

DRESSMAKING, slip covers and alterations. Klein Apts. Red 763
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27

WILL store piano, giving it good care in warm apartment, in ex- change for it's use by adult. Phone Red 625 L1 d.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-27
NOW JIM FARLEY VIEWED AZ JOHN
 ALDEN, REVERSE

Continued rrona page one)
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Dressmaking, designing. alterations.
 Stout sizes speciality. [, Miss lessen, Gastineau Hotel.