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Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21
The GERMAN-AMERlCAN
BUND'S ACTIVITIES

That the German-American bund, led
by Fritz Kuhn, is in reality an arm OF the
Nazi party in the United States cannot
be doubted, in the light of testimony be-
fore the Dies committee. What its aims
are have not been proved as yet
1t seems likely, however, that such an
organization as the bund, attempting to
pledge its members to nation and poll
tical belief other than those in which
they live, must be aimed primarily at
hindering any attempt to embarrass the
mother country.
If America should become embrolled
in war with Germany, the bund would,
without doubt cause considerable trou-
bic in this country. Many members OF it,
of course, would prove entirely loyal to
their adopted country, as many Ger
mans did during the last war.
Americas greatest weapon against the
Fascist ambitions of the bund is full pub
licity. for such an organization cannot
long survive in the limelight, or-lf 1t
does survive-it becomes an entirely dlf-
ferent organization. German-born per
sons have, in the main, made good clti-
zens in this country. The doings OF a
few radical leaders should not be allowed
to reflect against them.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21
NOW WE WILL KNOW
WHO IS RIGHT

Does rigid control of private business
by the federal government help or hurt
business?
For more than six years that question
has provided cause for argument in con-
gress, in state legislatures and in indus
try itself. For more than five years the
federal government operated on the
aid to prosperity which, New Dealers
believed came with government regula-
ton.
Now those regulations have been eased
The pendulum is swinging in the other
direction. Soon the nation should know
whether control by the government of
some of the primary functions of busi-
ness helped or hurt
Consider the record In 1888 the 73rd
congress passed Is laws aimed at regu-
lating business. In 1885 an all time peak
was reached when the 74th congress
passed 18 laws regulating business. The
downswing began in 1887, when the 18th
congress passed II laws to control prac-
tices in business. This year only four
such laws were passed.
Business is out from under the threat
of further government domination. 1t is
safe to say that the next congress will
look no more kindly than the last on
regulatory laws. Now it is up to business
to show that such regulation is not neces-
sary.
Business cannot prove its point in the
profit column, either. 1t must prove 1t
at the pay window Big profits will help
the business operator and will, to GER
tain extent, reflect in the buying power
of the nation. But the nation needs more
than big profits to pull it out of the hole.
1t needs more employment, even if the
profits are held to minimum.
Draf;te will follou If ann l0Vmeut ill.,
creases. If employment does not increase,
any boost in profits will be merely tenn
porary Profits cannot continue when
buying power lags, and buying power
cannot bear up under an overburdenlng
unemployment.
Too many opportunists who try to take
advantage of a business boom to chlsel
on labor, boost profits and go along as
non-payng passengers can hurt business
far more than they help themselves-and
they will hurt themselves in the long run
by hurting business as a whole. OF course
if is lust as foolish in good times as II
bad for any business proprietor to over
load his payroll. Nobody should serious
lv suggest that. But there is such thin&
as equity, and it should be applied II
business as well as elsewhere.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21
CHURCHILL TOO HOT
Sacramento UniOn)

1t is a peculiar fact that the British
cabinet or government" which is now
desperately trying to convince Hitler
that it will fight and that it will oppose
his policies, does not contain the men
who are most outspoken in their opposl-
ton to Germany's policies.
These men are Winston Churchill and
Anthony Eden. Eden, in fact, was kicked
out of the government because of his out
spoken advocacy of measures to stop Ger
many.
Churchill, who was first sea lord dur
ing the World War, enjoys the reputa-
ton of having predicted events in Europe
correctly, something which Chamber ain
has not been able to do. Churchill began
TO urge Britain to rearm when Hitler
came to power in 1888.
All this has not been lost on Hitler,
who has attacked Churchill violently a
number of times.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21
Famous Sayings

Even the most cursory study OF
the spending authorized by the
past economy" congree shows Ger
tain salient truths:
|. Despite the economy" name,
and despite the fact that the Con-
gress definitely checked the Presi-
dent on his spending" program,
the S13,O00,O00O00 appropriated. is
a greater sum than ever before ap-
propriated in a year of peace time.
2. Many of the big increases are
in fields where it will be extremely
hard to reduce them without ell
minating whole services and acti-
vities which are today part OF
government, but which were not 10
years ago.
3. Interest on the public debt is
now far higher than it was in 1880
81 900, 100000 as against $780,
100000 1t can no longer be said
that earring a larger debt is no
more costly than earring the former
smaller one because interest rates
are so much lower
4. without a definite and large
increase in the national income
SO that more taxes can be collected
without taking larger percentage
of that national income. 1t is yer,
hard to see any path out OF thu
woods.
Lets have look at some OF TIT
expenditures for l939-40 which dit
not occur at all In 1880. First
there is $l,755, 100000 for relief
There is nearly a billion for socia
security. There is nearly $30O,00O'
900 for the CCC. Many will argu
that the expenditures for thes
things ought to be reduced, bu
voices demanding that they be abo
lished are simply not heard at a.
in 1885 This means that while tn
amounts may be reduced someWha
they will remain as substantis
items on the annual budget whic
did not appear at all in 1880. n
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21
RESTRAINING AN AGGRESSOR
lOrnnno Daily NpWSl

The British agreement with Japan, Of
ficially announced in parliament, is in
fact, British consent to the rape of China.
1t is, perhaps, necessary arrange
ment. Under present conditions in Eu-
rope, there was little that the English
could do in the Far East in restraint OF
japanese aggression.
The British surrender to Japan, how
ever, must be great disappointment to
our own internationalists, who insist that
it is our duty to restrain aggressors IN
Europe.
Those who have insisted that we rush
to England's aid in Europe must now eX-
plain why England abandons China to
japanese aggression. The explanation is
simple 1t is inexpedient to do otherwise
SO it is inexpedient for US to send arm
les to Europe
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21
Willis Thornton's Editorial on:
That's Where The Money Goes

matter who is running the govern
ment.
Defense carried appropriations OF
81, l,523, ,O00, 600, as compared WIN
s6es 100000 in 1885, Nobody objects.
But until something is done ABOUT
world conditions, 1t is hard 10 sec
how this cost will ever be reduced
any it Is much more likely 10
double again in the next lo years
as 1t has in the past 10.
The farmers dragged down sh-
272,OOO 900 incidentally the econ
omy" congress granted them $685.
900 1000 more than President Hoose-
yelt asked-as compared to $453'-
100000 in 1880. In 10 years the ex-
nenditures of the Agriculture De-
partment are up billion dollars,
so 1t goes. Everything hinges To-
day, Just as 1t always has, on bus
iness recovery. Only business recov-
ery will provide the jobs that Will
lower that relief cost, increase con-
sumption of those farm prooucts,
provide the added taxes that Will
enable the government to start
whiting away the billion dollar
charge.
ON that everyone, Repuolican
and Democrats, Communist ana
Townsendite, can agree. 1t Is only
when YOU ask How shall we DO u"
that disagreement begins.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

this summer.
Officials of the FSCC are frank
to say that they don't know where
the whole business is going. VIII
it eventually take in all the re-
lieters, plus all the low-income
wage earners? If so, how many
hundreds of millions will 1t cost
and where will the money come
from? They don't know ana 1hey
won't even try to guess.
The one obvious fact is that they
have hold of something big, which
might easily turn out to be many
many times bigger than anyone
dreamed when The experiment was
first started.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21
INVESTMENTS
IN THE ARMY
{ Alameda Times Starr

Last week marked the beginning of
the country's greatest investment in its
military defenseS. Tremendous sums,
earmarked for army and navy expansion
in their many divisions, were made avail
able for the beginning of constructive
work. The expansive program will pro-
vide employment for large additional
groups of men in practically every line of
labor skilled unskilled and extending
into the highly technical and scientific.
There will be no general complaint be-
cause of the money this program Will
cost. even though it is necessary to mort
gage the property of the people to obtain
1t.
However, the program will open the
door to an immense amount of physical
labor. And since the money invested IN
these various national defense enterprises
comes from all the people care should be
taken to see to it that labor favors are
distributed without partiality. There
should be no domination of labor PRIV
leges by any group of organized LABOR AS
a federal enterprise it should be recognlz-
ed as a contribution to the defensive mill
tary machinery of all the people, the
property of all the people and IN whlch
all the people should share equal rights
There is an opportunity in the eXpendl-
ture of this huge sum of money on proJ-
ects on all coasts and throughout the
inland regions to reduce the ranks OF the
unemployed to an extent that needed
relief which will. in turn, affect the tax
payers who are finding the demands OF
relief organizations difficult to meet.
The army and navy program presents
an opportunity for the administration to
demonstrate its ability to put large mum
bers of unemployed to work.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21

a couple of dollars in his pocket,
and he had been looking for work
for weeks. In addition to this he
was married and had a baby girl.
Casually picking up the maga-
zine, and, to keep his mind off
his troubles, he began to read. AS
he thumbed through the pages he
came to an interview with Otto
Kahn. president of the Metropoli-
tan Opera Company in New York.
Kahn. banker and a philan-
thropist, was interested in the ad-
vancement of art in the United
States. In the interview Mr.. Kahn
said that the rich should help
young artists. Young Geddes read
it again. Yes, that was exactly
what he saidl
He decided On last desperate
fling. He would send a telegram
to Mr.. Kahn, and ask to come tc
see him. He was an artist, he hao
worked hard at it, and he believed
that he had something that wa:
new and striking in the world Of
. art. He hunted through his pockets
for paper, and scribbled telegram
I Then he decided that he would no
[ do it in a casual hit-or-miss way
\ but would put force and feeling
4 into it. He went to hotel writing
L room and re-Wrote that telegram
4 six times. The sum and substance
a of it was that he wanted Mr.. Kahr
to wire him money to come II
I New York and bring his sketches
q Not only that but enough none.
h for his wife and child. When h
p paid for the telegram, he hat
4 twenty cents left.
H Otto Kahn read earnestness ant
n conviction in that telegram. HI
Il decided to take a chance on tn
n young man who had approaches
h him as man-to-man. He wired hin
Y $4OO.
" Arriving in New York, he tool
4 his work to Mr.. Kahn, who wa
II SO impressed that he called for MI
& -Gasazza, director of the Met
i ropolitan Opera Company. In
q week after Geddes arrived he wa
4 commissioned to do the scenery TO
q the American opera, "ShaneWis,
j (The Robin Woman) by Charlie
4 Wakefield Cadman.
4 Norman Bel Geddes shot upward
7 He designed and produced the stag
play Dead End; he designed tn
Z first streamlined ocean liner. /
1 you go TO the New York World
Fair, you will see the Genera
& Motors building. He designed that
Z too.
E Norman Bel Geddes was at th'
/, very bottom, but he siezed an op
n portunity. No one is ever SO fal
4 down that he cannot come up. Tht
q Salvation Army has a slogan: "A
I man may be down, but he is nevel
] out"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21

The foregoing schedule of wages
Is based upon working day OF
8 hours. Overtime and work on
legal holidays shall be paid at one
and one-half times the above rates.
1t shall be mandatory upon the
contractor to whom the contract
is awarded, and upon any subcon-
tractor under him, to pay not less
than the said specified rates to
all laborers, workmen and mech
anics employed by them in the
execution of the contract.
Said Board of Trustees reserves
che right to reject any and all bids
or waive any informality in the
bid or bid bond.
BY order of said Board of Trustees.
DATED: August IL, 1889.
J. KENNETH HICKOX.
Clerk of said Board.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE CALLING FOR BIDS

NOTICE Is HEREBY GWEN that
the BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF I'M
PERIAL UNION SCHOOL DIS
TRICT OF IMPERIAL COUNTY
will receive sealed bids for furnish
ing all labor, materials, transpor-
tation and services for repairs and
alterations to the school building
in Imperial. California, formerly
known as the County Detention
Home, each bid to be according to
specifications on file with j. Ken
meth Hickox, Clerk of said Board
at Imperial, until August %, 1889,
at 10 o'clock am, and said bids
will be opened and considered IN
the office of the Clerk of said
Board at 800 o'clock, pm, of said
day, the work under said contract
to commence within two days after
date of contract, and shall be fin
ished on or before September Is
1899. Each bid shall be accompan-
led by Cashiers or Certified check
or Bid Bond for So of the bid, the
same to be payable to Board oi
Trustees of Imperial Union Schoo
District of Imperial County"
All bidders must be licensed con.
tractors under the laws of Califor.
MIA, and must submit with theil
bids evidence of license being il
effect.
Said Board of Trustees has ascer
tanned the prevailing rate of wage
and rates for legal holiday an,
overtime work in the locality il
which this work is to be performe'
for each type of workman or mech
anic needed to execute the contract
the prevailing rates so determine
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21
TOday's Horoscope

II your birthday is today, your
fortunes are good. You will gain
promotion and enjoy great pros
perity during the year just start
ing. The child born today should
be wisely reared or it will be ar
rogant and intolerant of opposi-
ton. Good qualities are a clever
intuitive and original mind, cou-
pied with brave, independent
spirit. Such child will be amor
Gus, and likely to suffer a great
deal because of misplaced affec-
tions.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21
Barbs.

Civilization reaches the jungle!
Criminal bands Of South African
natives have started carrying
arms and using highpOwered cars.
Drivers hailed on minor tra1Iic
violations in Colorado may remit
their fines by mail. Now II We can
only figure out some method Oh
serving prison terms by correspond
ence.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21
One-Minute Test Answers

/. The calico bush.
2. The average life OF an orange
grove is from 35 to so years.
3. From the ocean the entrance
is seven miles wide, from Sandy
Hook to Rockaway Point.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21

WASHINGTON.-If you like 20
dip into the future and look for
portents and marvels, you ought
to devote little speculative atten-
ton to the Department OF Agri-
cultures famous food stamp plan
Here may be the biggest thing
that the New Deal has turned
loose yet. 1t is just beginning to
pick up steam, and it has all the
earmarks of being a self-acceler-
ator. The Federal Surplus Com
modities Corporation, which in
vented it. may yet find itself In
the position of a man who has a
bear by the tail.
Consider, for instances, the fig
tres from Rochester, N. Y. where
the plan got its first tryout. They
apparently prove that somehow
this plan creates an extra dollars
worth of food-buying power-out
of thin air, maybe-for every gov
ernment dollar that is put into 1t
Total grocery sales in the Roch-
ester stores patronized by the
stamp users rose IL per cent dur
ing the period under study-yet
the blue stamps, in themselves
only accounted for half of that
increase.
Evidently, the mere fact that
the plan was in operation some,
how created an increased demand
for foodstuffs.
Now go on from there. Th'
8OOO-odd Rochester relief fam
lilies which have been using TIN
stamps like the idea as VIII.
wouldn't they, when it adds SO pc
cent to their buying power? TIL
grocers like it. as they would ma
turally like anything that hike
business by II per cent.
The farmers like it, because
apparently, on the basis of thes
early figures-it does twice a
much to stimulate the buying O
food as lid the old direct-sales
and distribution system OF dispos
ing OF farm surpluses. And tn
Rochester merchants who hav
been getting this business hav
been spending more money on ad
, vertising, on store fixtures, and TN
like.
! The FSCC Is beginning to get
. rise out of the bankers. The bank
handle the food stamps, and dra'
cards in the plan that way; fur
thermore, they are likely to reat
, favorably to anything which stimu
. lates business among their comm
ercial depositors. And the FSCC
, beginning to get inquiries from bar
kers asking how about all OF thi
anyway. and is it as good as
, looks?
Now a scheme which does all
those things is easy to start-an
once started, is likely to be moi
: tally hard to stop.
The food stamp plan was a
I. experiment three months ago No
It is getting out of the experiment.
stage and being readied for so
100 cities. You are hardly bein
: ovsGy y-imaginative If you begil
figuring that sooner or later
might be expanded to apply to all
the reliefers in the United State
But that is only the half of !
About the first of September. FSC'
, Is starting new experiment
is going to make the blue stamp
, available to people in the low in
come brackets who are not on re
: lief at all. This is due to happe
, in Shawnee, Okla, and that ex
pertinent will be about as muc
worth watching as anything tina
will happen Ia the United State
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21

influenced his lie
but that vagrant
Whiff of wind has
also had a little
influence on your
environment.
The young man,
Norman Bel Ged-
des was discour-
aged. Veal he was
more than that
He was down anc
out. He had only
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21
Grab Bag

One Minute Test
|. What is mountain laurel
sometimes called?
2. How long do orange trees bear
fruit?
3. How wide is the entrance TO
New York harbor?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21
Dale
Carnegie

A few years ago, as young
man sat on a park bench in Los
Angeles, magazine blew against
his feet. The fact that this maga-
zine blew against his feet not only
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21
You re Telling Me-

When a girl is referred to as being
"too lovely for words" that may
explain why all her less comely
feminine friends say nothing about
it.
fastener has ice box which picks
up radio programs-news item. Bet
it's dinner music.
Alaska wolf hunters now use air
planes. That's not only more mod
ern-but safer, too.
America has the most beautiful
scenery in the world, everybody
agrees. And we're preserving 1t,
toby keeping it safely tucked
away behind string OF billboards,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21
Hints on Etiquette

If you are a country club guest
you may tip attendants from a
dime upward. A quarter is a good
tip in almost any club.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21
Words of Wisdom

Flattery corrupts both the re-
ceiver and the giver, and adula-
ton is not of more service to the
people than to kings.-Burke.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-08-21
Thouohts for the Day

And as it is appointed unto men once to die but
after this the judgment-Hebrews 927.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1939-08-18

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Since May
18th, more than 100000 persons
from the forty-eight States in the
Union and many parts of the
globe entered the portals of Eretz
Israel of Today and Tomorrow,
the Jewish Palestine Pavilion at
the New York Worlds Fair. Not
among the most imposing struct-
ures on the Fair grounds, the
Palestine Pavilion has nevertheless
in the two months since its open
ing demonstrated an amazing
power of attraction having drawn
to its gates one of the largest and
most varied of Fair throngs.
The reaction of the visitors to
the Palestine Pavilion has equally
proven to be unusual for Fair null
titudes. An emotional thrill over
whelms the Jewish as well as the
non-Jewish visitor. He communes
with the ancient and sacred past
of the Holy Land; admires fer
vently the heroic struggles and
achievements of the pioneer build
ers of the Jewish National Home
and-unlike the placidity of reac-
ton elsewhere-is moved to do
something" for the continuation
and enhancement of Eretz Israel
of Tomorrow.
To satisfy this urge, the man.
agement of the Palestine Pavilion,
in cooperation with the Jewish
National Fund, has provided two
media for immediate action: A
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1939-08-18
Jews Get Sabbath
Wine Quota AS India
EnfOrceS Prohibition

BOMBAY (JTA)-Jews will be
allowed IL ounces of wine weekly
for Sabbath ceremonial purposes,
it was understood, in connection
with the recent introduction of
prohibition. Wine permits will be
issued by the Commissioner of
Excise upon applications bearing
the recommendation of a person
approved for that purpose by the
Bombay Government.
Similar allotments will be per-
mitted for wedding and circum-
cision ceremonies, it was indicated.
Purchase of wine for special fes-
rivals, such as Passover, will re-
quire separate permits to be is
sued by the Commissioner on the
same basis as for the ceremonial
occasions.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1939-08-18

Visitors Golden Book in which
every visitor to the Palestine Pa
vilion registers his name as a me-
mento of his visit; and Blue
White Box into which the visitor
deposits his contribution to the
Jewish National Fund for the pur-
chase of new land tracts in Eretz
Israel as the national ead inalien-
able property of the Jewish people.
The Blue-White Box is a replica of
that famous and popular recep-
tacle for contributions to the
cause of Palestine Land Redemp-
ton which is a familiar fixture
in thousands of Jewish homes
throughout the world since the
Jewish National Fund started it's
drive among the masses of Jew
ish people thirty-seven years ago.
The above, as seen through the
camera, is that part of the Pal
estine Pavilion where the Book
and the Blue-White Box are To-
Gated and cameraman'S record
of the moment when Edward G..
Robinson, the famous film actor.
inscribed his name in the Book and
deposited into the Blue-White Box
his contribution to the Jewish
National Fund.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1939-08-18
2 Nuns Graduated
By Jewish Hospital
In New York

NEW YORK (JTA)-For the
first time in the history of the
Brooklyn Jewish Hospital two
members of a Roman Catholic
sisterhood have been granted di-
plomas. The nuns, Sisters Anna
Vincent and Catherine, were grad
uated from the hospitals labora-
tory school at special commence
ment. They are leaving soon for
Puerto Rico to assume charge of
the Ponce Hospital laboratory. In
a statement the nuns praised the
very high professional standards"
at the Jewish Hospital.