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Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Dissects the News

the smallest. 1t will provide a
complete picture of retail and
wholesale trade, an up-to-date
tabulation of mines and mining
activities, a survey of the entire
farming set-up, and a full listing
of lands under irrigation and the
crops they grow.
1t may do other things, too. Its
scope is set by Congress; and
this year there is a good deal of
pressure to broaden the census's
field and have it include study
of housing. The pressure comes
from such business groups as real
estate boards and construction
firms and such government agen-
cies as the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration and the US. Housing
Authority.
This country has gone a long
way since 1890" remarks Mr.. Au-
stin. There will have to be num-
ber of new inquiries in the 1910
queStionnaires.
We'll have to give consider
alton to birthrate, which has been
falling for the last few years. If
the declins continues, we'll soon
have stabilized population, with
birth and death rates about equal"
The Census Bureau is going
concern all the while, since it con-
ducts many inquiries at far less
than 10-year intervals. Right now
it has about $50 permanent en-
ployes, plus perhaps an equal num-
Der of temporary ones. The di-
rector, incidentally, is the only
employe in the bureau who isn't
under civil service.
The big army of field workers
next year won't be civil service
people, Of course. as most of them
will work only a few weeks. At
the peak, there will probably be
more than 125,000 of them.
One thing that keeps the bureau
busy year in and year out is
verifying birth dates for people
who want to prove to the Social
Security Board that they're old
enough to receive old age bene-
fits.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17
WHY A BUSINESS
DRIES UP
alameda Times-Star)

alameda Times-Star)
A small industry operating for 30
wears and employing approximately $50
skilled persons, one evening last week
turned the key in the front door for
keeps. The end of its financial rope had
been reached. There was nothing else to
do. The management had exhausted
every avenue of help.
The pathetic thing about this unfor-
tunate ending of useful industrial life
was that it had through the years led
the community in attractive wages, hours
and conditonS-and no employe was eN
pected to work too hard. In all, it was
an exceptionally happy business family,
until
Hard times, because of the continued
depression struck. 1t weathered the first
few years, drawing on its reserves. 1t
might have pulled through the ''receS-
sion" had not the forces that controlled
its destiny through wages and hours IN
sisted on higher pay, and had not other
sources of supplies demanded an addi-
tional levy-both beyond the power OF
the institution to control.
Appeals to the powers pushing for
increased compensation that ruin was
practically certain if costs were increas-
ed before business returned to normal
fell on deaf ears and on minds that
voiced the I'VE don't care anything
about your troubles" attitude. The in
Stitution was between two forces that
squeezed out its life With its life went
the jobs of $50 persons, many OF whom
have never any other business home.
Revenues of the institution were suf-
ficient to maintain every family depend
ing on it in more than average circum-
stances until the return of better cOndi-
tions. With mutual interests and sym
pathy possible of consideration the busi
ness would have been kept solvent,
homes intact, investments sound, and in
the end a return woud have been made
to former standards.
1t is unfortunate that labor organiza-
tions are so set up that some plan of
this kind could not have been possible.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17
WHAT MR. MORGENTHAU
FORGOT MOMENTARlLY

Faced with a popular economy drive
in congress, New Deal treasury chief
tains have abandoned plans to request
the lawmakers for a new, higher limit
on the national debt The nation will
be able to struggle along this year under
its present debt limit, Henry Morgen-
thau, secretary of the treasury indicat-
ed but the New Deal will just have to
ask for a higher debt limit next year.
What Mr.. Morgenthau must have for
gotten for the moment is that next year
is 1910, and 1910 is presidential cleo
ton year Considering this detail, it
seems absolutely safe to predict that
the New Deal, if it does not ask for
higher limit this year, will not ask for
one next year. There would be too much
political dynamite in such request.
The nation is fortunate, probably, in
the fact that 1910 is an election year.
An increase in the nations debt ceiling
could mean only one thing-continued
spending and an increasingly high tax
rate As long as the legal limit on the
countryS debt remains where it is there
is some assurance, no matter how slight,
that spending will be curbed to a GER
tain extent.
If the New Deal is reelected in 1910,
there is little doubt that the higher debt
limit will be sought from congress in
the following year-and there is little
possibility that such a request would be
refused by a congress which had just
seen a national election go in favor of
the party making the request.
As matters stand, the dormant re-
quest will be minor campaign issue.
If it is brought into the open, it will be
the livest issue Of the 1910 campaign,
and an issue very hard for the New Deal
to cope with. 1t hardly seems likely that
the party lea,lers will permit them
selves to bring up the very issue which
will cause them most trouble.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17

WASHINGTON. - The Census
Bureau is already preparing for its
big job next year. Congress has
not yet legislated or appropriated
for the 1910 census, and the field
men won't start going out with
their pencils and notebooks until
the second of next January. But
the preliminary work is now under
way.
william L. Austin, director Of
the census, believes that next
years will be the most important
and significant census ever taken
in America, with the poSSiable eX-
ception of the first one-that OF
1870.
The census, as he sees it, is
Uncle Sans periodical stock-tak-
ing, in which the old gentleman
studies his assets in the way OF
human beings and natural re-
sources. And a great many things
have happened to those assets
since the last stock-taking.
First and foremost, says Nh.
Austin, there is the question Of
unemployment. What has the de-
preston done to us? Exactly how
many people are out of work now?
AS for the people who have jobs,
what kind Of jobs have they?
Are they making enough to sub
port their families decently?
How about the young people
who have reached working age
during the depression years? How
many of them have jobs, and how
many of them have displaced
older people?
There have been profound pop
ulation shifts in the last 10 years.
The 1885 agricultural census
showed that the long farm to city
migration had been checked, and
that the number of small farms
in the United States had increased
by 100000 since 1890. Has that
shift been halted? Is that tide
moving the other way again
and, if SO, how fast is it moving?
The census will answer all of
these vitally important questions,
and many more besides. 1t will
cover manufactures, from the big
geSt factories in the country to
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17
Famous Sayings

Strange, is it not, that in far
off India one slight and aged man,
so fran physically that it seems
he might blow away, can cause
viceroyS and potentates to await
q sign from him.
Strange that tiny and wiz
ened patriarch can be the unper-
turbed storm-center of the poll
tical and social winds that blow
across India's millions.
Strange that this man, with no
storm troops, no trained rufflanS
or street fighters at his disposal,
can yet WELD power given to few
BY his purely negative act of self
starvation, he forces compromise
and concession from those who
have the armed might of an en-
pire behind them.
Why? Mohandas K. Gandhi
wields the weapon-an idea, and an
ideal.
He has followers, yes. Not men
trained in a military manner TO
obey. unthinking, his commands.
But men and women by the thou
sands who are devoted to his idea,
his ideal, OF increasing self-gov-
ernment for his country. India
They follow not his orders but his
life; not his teachings alone, but
his living.
They know that for 20 years
this wizened, almost toothless little
man has never had a thought
for himself, not for his own COM
fort or his very life.
They know that while othei
leaders hope for place and advan'
cement. Gandhi, wants nothing but
TO see his idea made reality.
They know that he has .dont
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17
Willis Thornton's Editorial Or:
Spirit Not Without Power, Even Today

more than the millions of men
who have given their lives for
causes. Gandhi has lived for his
cause. and for theirs. 1t is a har-
der and rarer thing.
So the mute protest OF frail
old man of nearly 10, whose gnome
like body scarcely scales 85 pounds,
is sufficient to force a great empire
to come to terms, because within
the failing flesh there burns the
flame of an idea, selfless and un-
quenchable.
In years to come, it is possible
that the brutalities of forceful rule
may be listed in history as mere
catalog of meaningless disturbances
of bygone age But those same
future historians may write pages
about little old man who trusted
in ideas alone, and who, because
his people trusted him, won more
lasting victories without raising his
hand than ever Napoleon blasted
out upon the battlefields of Europe.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17
THIRD TERM BUGABOO
(Porterville Recorder)

lIOflefVlIle heCOfQefD
Newspaper correspondents at Wash
ington are convinced that President
Roosevelt will make no statement re-
garding a third-term candidacy until
near the time of the 1910 nominating
convention David Lawrence is of this
opinion, and so are most of the other
experienced observers of national poll
tics.
The explanation of the probability
that Mr. Roosevelt will not issue for
more than a year an '1-do-(or don't
choose-to-run-in-19 $40 statement is that
whether he does or does not intend to
be candidate for third term, he would
lose strength by saying anything about
it now If he does desire the nomination
next year, he will want it to appear that
he is being drafted as necessary to his
party and the country.
If he does not seek another nomina-
ton, he will not want the fact to be
known any sooner than it must be made
known, because it is the possibility of
his continued party leadership and occu-
pancy of the White House that gives
him influence over party members in
congress.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17

native England; towns Such as
Dover, Ramsgate and Margate
So to stop the violent pounding OF
her heart, she used to walk up and
down behind the scenes gripping
her hands and saying over and
over to herself: New York is only
a little seaside town. 1t is only a
little seaside town! Don't be afraid
1t is only little seaside town."
I met is Paris last year a chap
who was doing what virtually
every millionare wants to do: he
was travelling around the world
and he was doing it on about
q thousand dollars. This man is
Louis Decottignies of San Fran
cisco, and if you want to know
how he managed it read on: He
travelled third class by boat ano
train. He bought a cut-rate bus
ticket which took him from San
Francisco to New York for $40
His transportation from New York
City around the world and back
to San FranciSco-With the ex-
ception of the stretch between Eng
land and Egypt-cost him $4,000
In other words he was spending
about five hundred dollars on
transportation and another five
hundred on food and lodging for
six or eight glorious months of
seeing the world. He was wearing
a fifty cent shirt and he carried
everything he needed in one suit
case.
1 talked to Louis Decottignies
for hours. He fascinated me- He
had been d diamond cutter: a
mechanic; house painter; and he
had once operated a chicken ranch
in California. He had no family,
no responsibilities to anyone but
himself. He had bought an old
house, repaired and painted it and
sold IL for a thousand dollar
profit; and he took his profit and
started out TO do what almost every
one longs to do travel.
Louis DecottignieS, I salute you.
You haven't any bonds and you
probably couldn't borrow a hund-
red dollars at the bank; but you are
getting more out of life than some
millionaires I know You are not
dreaming about what you are 60
ing to do some day. You are living
now. Bon voyage.
BY the way, Louis, why did you
squander fifty cents on a shirt?
Remember the story of the old
king who sent his messengers out
to discover the happiest man in
his realm and TO bring back his
shirt to the king? The messen-
gers finally found a philosopher
who was completely content; but
they couldn't bring his shirt back
TO the king because he didn't have
any shirt.
And why did you squander a
dollar on a hat? | once travelled
all the way from Ney York City
10 Shanghai, China without any
hat at all.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17
Barbs-

Dorothy Lamour has been invit-
ed to do a Sally Rand at the New
York Fair. Sarong thing, of course
Wonder why they call baseball's
spring training league the grape
fruit circuit? There are often so
many lemons in the lineups.
One of those rabid Indiana bas-
ketball fans fell from his chair dur
ing game. Afterwards he discov-
cred he had a broken leg = but
that's minor in Indiana. What if
he had injured a vocal chord?
The employer must decide wheth-
er Massachusetts is to have work.
ing wives or not. After all, it's his
lap.
Germany still knows how to
laugh, says Goebbels. Maybe-but
its the type of thing they laugh at
that gets us.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17

feat fear. V TO-
let K e m b ! e
Cooper, the fa-
nous E n g Ii S h
actress was al
W avs terrified
before each of
h e r Broadway
performances. She
had often played
the theatres in
Ii t t lie watering
towns of her
%@..,- rAat@
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17
4 TIMELY WARNING
FOR THE READERS

Something about recent news dis
patches from hotbeds of Europe and
Oriental strife are reminiscent of World
War days The something is to be found
in the tales of atrocity which creep in
now and then in even the most conser-
vative reports.
Those who remember the days of the
World War will remember also the ter
rible atrocities" that We're credited to
the Germans And, if they remember
the secrets that were laid bare after the
war, they will remember that German
people were treated in their newspapers
to stories of atrocities committed by
Allied troops.
Neutral observers, many of them,
have tried to follow down these atrocity
stories that sprang from war days, and
almost without exception they have
found them without any basis in truth.
The atrocity story is one of the oldest
known forms of war propaganda. Pub
licity men for the God of War believe
that the best way to make you hate a
man is to tell you how he murdered little
children, attacked defenseless women
and ravaged non-combatant homes.
Americans were taken in by the stories
once. Let US see that, in the future, we
examine all such yarns with a prejudic-
ed eye-prej judiced against the story it
self, not against the subject of the story.
1t is fun to be fooled sometimes, but
not when the fooling leads to war.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17
Today's Horoscope

The person whose birthday is to-
day should, through the year at
hand, avoid overstrain and run no
risks while travelling. The baby
born today probably will be a writer
or artist. He or she will be reserv-
ed, given to meditation, and may
hold original views and be attract
ed to spiritual things.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17

A new poultry feed, according to
reports, will cause hens to lay eggs
OF almost any chosen color Gosh,
don't tell us the poor, old Easter
rabbit, too, is going on relief!
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17
You re Telling Me-

This is the toughest OF all months.
Comes IN like lion, is supposed to
go out like lamb--and in the mid
die is the income tax collector.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17
Words of Wisdom

An excellent monument might be
erected to the Unknown Stockhold-
er. II might take the form of a
solid stone ark of faith apparently
floating in a pool of water.-Felix
Rosenberg.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17

carlsbad Caverns National park
area mas gradually been enlarged
from 700 acres to 49,448.41 acres.
me latest addition, made by Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Feb g. 1899. includes
several important caverns.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17

Twelve years ago Joliet, H., man
started out in search of job. The other
day he returned-withOut a job What a
line of applicants there must have been
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17
Dale
Carnegie

Fear defeats more people than
any other trait or thing in the
world Yet we can alb find some
way and it will usually prove
to be q very simple WaY-to de-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17
One-Ninute Test Answers

l. Between 1856 and 1873 feet in
internal diameter.
2. A woman's possession of more
than one husband.
8. The Rocky Mountain water
shed
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17
Hints on Etiauette

If you give your child birthday
party, be sure he or she is at your
side to greet the little guests.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17
Thoughts for the Day

And he said unto her Daughter, thy faith hath
made thee whole: go in peace, and be whole of thy
plague-Mark 5:34
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17
Grab BAG
One Minute Test

One-Minute Test
|. What Is the diameter of the
dome of st. Peters in Rome?
2. What is polyandry?
3. What is the Great Divide?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17

News item: New York Worlds
Fair officials estimate more than
30000,000 hot dog sandwiches will
be consumed there this summer"
What? No hamburger on bun with
pickle and chill sauce?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17

Little girl" fashions will be worn
by stylish matrons this Spring
Must be the influence of all those
recent newspaper stories about child
brides.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17

Noted historian explodes the old
story that Paul Revere cured George
Washington's toothache. But Paul
did give the British a headache,
didn't he?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-17

More than 100000 gas masks
for babies are now available in Eng
land. Little by little, science is TAX
ing all the fun out of bombing a big
city
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-06
Man Picks Flowers
For Sweetheart on
Eve of Suicide

MAIDEN, Mass, June 6. CUP)-
At dusk Saturday Robert w. Hatch
65, executive secretary of a Boston
warehouse company and a descen-
dent of a MayfloWer passenger
picked bouquet of apple blossoms
for his wife in a neighbor's yard.
Chided by friends, Hatch smiled
and said:
Shes still my sweetheart
But only a few hours later, Hatch
Strangled his wife, drowned their
pet Angora cat and, after meticu-
louSly seeting the house in order,
lay down beside his wife's body and
slaShed his wrists and his abdomen
until he died
Not until last night were the
bodies found by neighborS.
On a dresser beside the death
bed were at vase containing the
bouquet Of apple blossoms and an
incohcrcnt note that contained this
hint of motive
"Ill not take The position for $45
. week. I'll not dcprivc-of his
job"
Tho note concluded with a re-
quest that Mr.. and Mrs. Hatch and
the pet cat be buried together
please.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-06
Sub Disasters Easily
PreventabIe. Says Expert

MILFORD, Conn, June g. up
Submarine diSacters such AS those
which overlook the Squalus and
Tnetis could 5e avoided by the use
CT safety devices available as long
ago as 1894, Simno Lake, one of thC
worlds foremost DESIGNERS and in
ventors of undersea apparatus, said
tonight.
THE navy can have such simple
devices readily installed on every
submarine now in commission. at
very little cost" Lake said in a
letter to President Roosevelt. He
urged the president to see that the
protection be afforded submarine
crews.
Noting the loss of life on the
Thetis, he sent a copy of the letter
to Prime Minister Neville Cham
berlain of Great Britain.
1T is almost as easy for any
member of the crew of a sunken
submarine to leave that vessel and
ascend to the surface, or to enter
another submarine which might be
brought near her on the bottom,
Lake wrote, "as it is to walk from
one house TO another next door,
as | and many others know and
have done for many years past.
Ever since ! built my first sub
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-06
Federal Reserve System Bank Funds
Soar to AII-Time Peak, Says Board

Volume of bank loans and in
VestmentS in May, however, the
board said, declined almost TO the
lowest levels of recent years and
business activity not only failed to
show the usual seasonal advance
but dropped below volume recorded
at the end of 1888.
Lessened activity, it was pointed
out, centered chiefly in the steel
and automobile industries. Steel
operations were held at 81 per
cent of capacity by heavy back
log of orders from the auto indus
try, but subsequent excess of pro-
duction over demand curtailed ingot
production to As per cent of capac-
ity by the middle of May.
The report followed closely a
federal trade commission state
mentS showing that the seven lead
ing automobile manufacturers real
lied profits totaling more than $2,-
375, 100000, before provision for in
come taxes, from 1927 to 1887.
The federal reserve bulletin found
that wage standards have remain
ed fairly stable since 1887.
Increases brought about thus
far by the fair labor standards
CWage-hour) act have been re-
Elected in moderately higher hourly
earnings in a few industries but
their direct effect on the general
average of hourly earnings has not
been appreciable," it stated.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-06
Russell Declares
ireland, Britain
In State of War

SAN FRANCISCO, June g. CUP)
"A state of war" exists between
Fire and Great Britain and mill
tary action-bombings-will CONT
nue. until English soldiers are with
drawn from Ireland Maj. Gen.
Sean Russell declared here two
weeks ago.
At that time General Russell
sought to clarity statements at
tributed to him that he personally
had ordered recent bombings in
England.
II don't deny that I ordered the
bombingS," he said, "but at the
same time 1 think the thought was
not presented exactly as I meant it.
The Irish Republican army or
dered the bombings. 1t may have
sounded as though l was person.
ally responsible. I want to make
it clear that the bombings are the
military action of military men
who are acting in state of war
toward England.
1--WE declared war on the 18th
of last January. The military &C
tion-that is, the bombings-will
continue as the only military means
possible for us"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-06

marine, the Argonaut, Jr., in 1894,
I have always provided means for
the crews to readily leave my sub
marine vessels when they were sub
merged and come TO the surface
He said that all aboard the
Squalus. Thetis, Sd and other dis
abled craft could have been saved
by the use OF an escape compart-
ment such as he provided in sub
marines he built for Russia and
Austria more than 30 years ago
Very simple collapsible diving
hoods would have been the only
ether requisite 10 safety he said.
Nov Mr.. President, there is moth
ing mysterious or complicated about
beng able to leave a submarine
while under water and the crew
going out and walking around N
the bottom OF going 10 the surface
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-06

and coming down and re-entering
the submarine at will, at any time,'
Lake wrote.
Il have been doing it ever since
1894 from many submarines built in
this country and abroad. There Is
no secret about the operation of
these escape compartments
Turning to a later design which
he said was tested 10 years ago at
the Brooklyn navy yard, he said an
attachment enabled the establish
ment of a connection between two
Submarines. hooking them together
like the Siamese twins
With a flexible connection the
crews could pass from one boat to
another as readily as one can pass
from one room to another, or from
one boat to another while lying
side by side at a dock" he said.