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Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-26
Willis Thorntons Editorial Or
Our Service Civilization

all workers will be actually pro
ducing basic goods. A larger ana
larger percentage of all workers
will be engaged in service and dls-
tribution And the lower costs Oh
producing goods which follow great
er mechanization and efficiency,
are at least in part offset by the
greater costs of distributing them
This is not standoff, however.
Take automobiles. When they FIRST
appeared. they cost $4,000 or S5oOO'
and the service and gas station
the elaborate distribution and IL
nancing systems, were non-exStent.
Today the industry supports nun
dreds of thousands in the distriou-
tive and service end, and yet a lar
better car is to be had for $1,000
than could be had in 1905 for $4,000.
The expansion of this distrioutlve
field and its effects is we'll worth
the further study which the Twen-
tieth Century Fund economists and
others are preparing to give it.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-26
s u Nj nj o N S
No IROSI

5 u NJ Nj d >
No. 1921
In the Superior Court Of the State
of California, in and for the
County of Imperial
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT, Plaintiff
The People of The State Of Cali
f0rnia Send Greetings TO:
VS..
JOHN OLSEN. ct al,
Defendants.
Harry w. Horton and Geo. r.
Kirk. Attorneys for Plaintiff.
JOHN OLSEN, CECIL HANSEL-
MAN, PIONEER TITLE INSUR-
ANCE AND TRUST COMPANY. a
GEORGE B. ARNOLD, DORIS w.
HUGHES. JOHN DOE, JANE DOE,
RICHARD ROE, JOHN DOE COM
PANY, a Cooperation, CHARLES F..
Corporation. as Trustee, MAR
ARNOLD. RICHARD ROE COM
GARET MURPHY, MAVIS CLARK,
MERRILL CLARK, GRACE AR
MOLD, ELIZABETH A. RAPP, w.
A. ARNOLD, JAMES II. ARNOLD,
PANY. partnership, AND
JOHN DOE as Administrator OF the
Estate of Richard Roe, Deceased
Defendants.
You Are Hereby Directed to Ap-
pear and answer the Complaint IN
an action entitled as above, brought
against you in the Superior Court
of the County of Imperial, State ol
California, within ten days after
the service on you of this Summons
if served within this county; or
within thirty days if served else
where.
And you arc hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plantiti
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plaint, as arising upon contract, or
it will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plant.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court Of the
County of Imperial, State OF Cali
fornia, this 2nd day of June, 1888.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
(SEAL) County Clerk.
BY CITHA LAMSON,
A. ID 81 28-M. 5 IL 10 26-J. 2 9 16
Deputy Clerk.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-26
Famous Sayings

Service IS the hallmark of our
civilization.
Everybody knows how accustom-
ed we all are to getting service. we
want our one pound, fifty-cent
purchases delivered. We want the
milk on the back porch promptly
at six. We want those photographs
developed and printed this after
noon-tomorrow morning at latest
We want service, not only with a
capital IS but in gold-face type.
Perhaps when we back off and
take look at this, IL may become
the most distinctive fact OF our
time. Never before has so great
a proportion of human energy gone
into service.
The result? We all know in q
vague way that this is costly, and
that 1t has meant an increasing
number of jobs in that field. But
1t has remained for the Twentieth
Century Fund to study how far this
trend has gone and what it means
The funds economists have made
such study, and they have reach
ed the rather startling conclusion
that 1T costs considerably more
ON the average to distribute goods
than it does to make them
Further, about SO cents out OF
the consumers dollar goes for the
services involved in distribution
and only al cents for the services
in production
The result is a constantly higher
percentage of workers employed IN
distribution as compared with pro-
duction. In 1870, about rs per cent
of all gainfully- employed workers
were in farming, manufacturing OF
other actual productive activities
Only 25 per cent were occupied
with distribution and service. BY
1880 it had become $3.50.
AS productivity per worker gets
higher, what with more and better
machinery and greater skill ano
specialization, it is clear that
smaller and smaller percentage OF
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-26
Bruce Cation in Washington
Dissects the News

present the list includes butter, eggs,
dry beans, dried prunes, oranges,
grapefruit, flour (both white and
whole wheaD and corn meal. Later
on the list may be varied to take
care of local, seasonal surpluses.
Bureau officials are confident
that retail grocers will do their best
to make the plan work by cutting
retail prices whenever increased de-
mand makes a cut justified, For a
long time the grocer has felt that
the relief system didn't give him
a fair break.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-26

gave me the following Six secrets
for Being a Successful Typist.' Here
they are:
l. Strive for accuracy You Will
make mistakes in spite of yourself,
so make every effort to be accurate.
You can type several lines in the
time It takes to erase, or correct,
the mistake of a single letter
2. Learn to keep your eyes on
your COPY instead of on the type
written sheet.
3. Develop a steady rhythm. Hit
tic KEYS evenly. Raise your fingers
at the knuckles where they join
yCur hand.
4. If you habitually make Ger
tain error, such IS striking "a
instead of q, there is probably
something wrong with your posi-
ton. You may be sitting too far
from tie machine, or too close. You
will have 10 experiment until you
nave eliminated your bad points.
No two persons ever assume The
same positions at a typewriter and
should not expect TO do so.
5. The best way to develop speed
is to copy from book, or o printed
page. This familiarizcs you with
all the possible combinations OF let
ters. Don't copy page after page
but select a few paragraphs ano
copy them over and over. If pos
sible select a book, or magazine
without quotation marks. Ouott-
ton marks slow you up. 1t is the
constant repetition of a sentence
that develops speed.
6. Don't practise speed writing
for more than Is minutes at a time
You can even cut this down to II
minutes. If you type when you
fingers are tired, you become fati
gued and will make mistakes. /
you are in a contest, these error
will be costly and may make yol
lose.
Miss Phclan surprised me by say
ing that any one practising 10
speed should not play tennis, a
tennis tends to stiffen the wrist.
She says that there are "pla
tcaus" in learning to be an eXper
typist. You work long time with
out showing improvement. Then
/ suddenly, you leap up. Then ther
5 is another plateau, then NOR
{ Work-and another leap up.
Grace Phelan's success was S
phenomenal that she was besiege'
by typewriter companies to joil
their staff and give speed Writin
demonstrations. She says that an
girl who will follow the above rules
and will practice 80 minutes a day
can add ten words a minute to he
speed in two weeks. Grace Phelal
ought to know. She started at tn
bottom and rose to the top.
She asked me to give credit t
her teacher. who is Miss Wilverd
, M. Hodel, now of Duquesne Uni
versty, Pittsburgh.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-26

WASHING 1CN.-lC Will De SIX
months or thereaboutS before the
Department of Agriculture knows
whether the food distribution stamp
idea, now being tried out in Roch-
ester. N. Y, is really coming up to
expectations. And even then. the
way the reliefers use the stamps TO
buy food Won't be the determining
factor.
In the long run, this plan will
stand or fall by the degree to which
it boosts retail food sales to nom
relief people.
Since non-relief people won't be
getting any of the orange and blue
stamps, the plan doesn't directly
affect them at all. Indirectly. how
ever. Agriculture Department econ
omists hope that it will affect them
very much.
In effect the stamp scheme adds
so per cent tC the weekly food
buying power of the relief clients.
In Rochester, where 10000 fam
lilies are getting some form of re-
has it that the groccrs will sell
something like $4,000 worth Of food
a week beyond what they have
been selling
AS the demand rise the grOcrrS
will naturally handle greater vol
ume of the various foodStuffs of
ficially designated as surplus. /.
hence. they will be able to reduce
their margins and cut prices AS
they do this, non-relief buying of
these commodities can be expected
to increase.
That, at any rate, is the theory.
IF it doesn't work out that way
if, by neXt fall it is found that tho
stamp scheme has been very nice
for the relief clients and the gro
GERS. but no good to anybody else
then the plan will, in all proba ability
be Abandoned as a failure.
As the department sees it. the
only way in which buying food
for relief people at retail prices can
be Justified is through a narrowed
price margin which will lead to low
e. retail price levels and to wider
consumption by the general public
There is already some reason to
hope that it may work out that
way.
DR.. F. V. Waugh, head Of the
Division Of Marketing Research in
the Bureau of Agricultural Econ
omics, was in Rochester when the
stamp plan officially got under way
there. He talked with many grocers
among them the head of the largest
grocery chain in the city Thi,
man said his chain had already
begun a price cutting experimen
in one of the surplus" commodities
According TO this grocer, tht
chain had been carrying corn mea
at 100 per cent mark-up; il
ether words, the retail price wa
double the wholesale price In or
dinary times, that was fair cnoug!
spread corn meal moves rathe
slowly and requires a substantial
mark-up to make it profitable Il
handle.
But since corn meal is one 0
the eight commodities on whicl
the Rochester reliefers must spent
their blue stamps it is likely Il
move a good deal faster now. 81
the chain has cut the retail pric'
third, and is waiting to Sc
what happens.
Meanwhile, the department /
gathering data on other cities wher'
the experiment may be started
Use of the stamps is to get unde
way in Dayton, o., probably within
a fortnight; beyond that, no cit.
has been definitely selected, al
though 35 or 40 are under consi
deration.
The foodstuffs officially designat
ed as surplus" will undoubtedly bl
changed rom time 10 time, Al
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-26

believablc rate Of
l29 five = stroke
words a minute
not just for
t W o or three
minutes, but for
80 minutes.
She is employ
ed by a typewrit-
er company at l
P a rk Avenue,
New York, to
give speed ex-
hibitionS. S h c
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-26
You re Telling Ne.

Archeologists have discovered
some illustrated jokes among re-
Gently uncovered ancient Egyptian
hieroglyphics. So that's where the
radio comedians have been getting
them!
When you see picture OF a
politician with rapt expression on
his face it may be because he's
listening to the far-aWay buzzing of
n presidential bee.
Power is dangerous. The more
control a dictator gains over his
people the less he seems to have
over himself.
Wives should meet their hus-
bands halfway, says a domestic
relations court judge. Well, great
many of them do-on payday.
While the government Is award
ing medals TO heroes why not one
TO the first guy who wears the first
straw hat Of the season.
The world needs a fly trap that
draws insects as rapidly and eff
ciently ~ n euest room draws rcla-
tiyeS,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-26
Grab Baq-
One-Minutc Test

/. What is the chief seaport on
the coast of Greece?
2. What island lies at the mouth
of the Adriatic sea?
3. In what country is the Volga
river, and into what body OF water
does it flow?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-26
Hints on Etiquette

II you arc a guest In q homo,
don't criticise your hostess, her
home, husband, children, or any
thing that is hers. IF you can't say
something pleasant about them, say
nothing.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-26
Words of Wisdom

Neither praise nor blame is the
object of true criticism. Justly TO
discriminate, firmly to establish,
wisely to prescribe, and honestly to
aWard-theSc are the true aims and
duties of criticism -SimmS.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-26
Dale
Carnegie

Yesterday I told YOU how Grace
Phelan-Who didn't even have a
typewriter of her own-made her.
self the worlds champion amateur
typist. She can type at the un-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-26
Barbs

Says a congressman speaking of
congressmem Many of US, with
ability for publicity and high-poW-
cred salesmanship, could get five
times the salary We receive from
the government" First half of his
statement goes unchallcnged.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-26

The worlds toughest town must
be that midwestern metropolis
where the holdup men seem to stick
up none but taxi and truck drivers.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-26
IndaY'H HOrn.COpr

noday'5 birthday children will be
fortunate in the coming year. Their
fortunes will increase. and gain will
come to them through inventions,
novelties. and unexpected and un-
usual methods. Children born ON
this date also will be blessed with
clever, original, inventive and en-
terprising natures. They will pos
sess really remarkable talents. and
will be fortunate and successful.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-26

Average house in the U. S. costs
$4,000. Which is Just about the
number of months it takes to pay
for one.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-26

One Minute Test Answers
/. Salonika.
q Corfu.
3. Russia, and it flows into the
Caspian Sea.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-05-26

Minority peoples in the Reich are
being asked: "Of what folkdCm do
you consider yourself a part?" They
have a wide choice of one answer.
It's getting toward graduation
time And what we'd like to see
is a yaledictorian with courage to
admit he's going forward-to take
a postgraduate course.
Biggest trouble with experimental
television broadcast of a baseball
game was that you couldn't see the
ball. That's okay, though, as long
as you can see the breakfast food
box.
Evening star., 1939-06-07
Reich Ponders Fate
OF American Youth
Ey the Associated Press.

ES the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June THE ministry
of justice today was deciding what
to do with William Bardwell Curtis,
20, of Oakland, Calf. who is in
Heidelberg Jail charged with SLAM
dering the German Reich.
Consul General Raymond H. Geist
has urged German officials to be
lenient.
Curtis, who was born in Cincin-
natl, was arrested May IS in a
beer hall in the old university town
after he had written in the guest
book a verse which was considered
uncomplimentary to the Nazi re-
gime.
Other guests took offense, a fight
ensued and police were called.
Courts wrote his guardian, Bes-
tor Robinson, in Oakland, that
"the beating I received did me
a lot of good-not bodily, but
spiritually and morally" Robin
son translated the verse thus:
DER Fuehrer has no wife. The
carpenter has no lumber. The
butcher has no meat. This is the
Third Reich.')
Curtis case is in the hands of the
chief attorney of a special court
in Mannheim, who, however, since
Curtis is a foreigner, cannot act
without . recommendation Of the
ministry Of justice.
Evening star., 1939-06-07
Europe Has Another Crisis
As London 'Swe|ters' at "a

United States heat wave, but the
average Western European isn't used
to mercury reading around the 100
mark. There is little or no ice water
or air conditioning to ease suffering
In London the thermometer
showed "a degrees, the warmest
June figure in three years. A third
day of heat in Paris brought SO. In
Italy temperatures generally were
above 30.
A hot spell in Germany, with tenn
peratures near 30, was welcomed by
farmers.
Dust, churned up across the great
plains of Russia, scratched the
throats of thousands in Middle Eu-
rope.
Drought worried the British.
Moors and woods were ablaze with
summer fires in small section of
Yorkshire. In many areas In Brit
ain the rainfall for May was only
IN inch, compared with the normal
3h inches for that month.
Evening star., 1939-06-07
Hull Reheurses Introduction
Of Royalty to the RooseveIts
Protocol Experts Give Secretary Minute
Details on Steps and Etiquette Of the Hat

ant chief of the State Department
Protocol Division. Soon they were
joined by George T. Summerlin,
chief of protocol
Then Mr.. and Mrs. Hull started
asking questions of the protocol ex-
perts on the minute details of their
roles in the international drama that
will be played in the richly decorated
reception room of the 33-year-old
station
1t was explained that Mr.. Hull
should walk beside the King and
Queen on the rather long trek from
the royal train on Track No. 20, into
the reception room and up to the
center of the big. high-ceilinged
chamber, where President and Mrs
Roosevelt will stand waiting at the
end Of long mahogany table.
Should he wear his hat on this
tSee REHEARSAL, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1939-06-07
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, June 7-Dazzling heat,
and drought and dust in some areas,
troubled perspiring Europeans to-
day more than guns or armies. i,
Crop talk took precedence, for the
moment at least, over talk of diplo-
macy. On the streets, temperatures
were quoted more frequently than
air fleet totals.
The British judiciary dispensed
justice without benefit of wigs!
A few daring members Of Parlia-
ment appeared without vests;
Frenchmen walked the streets In
their shirtsleeves. Italians rejoiced
that the wheat crop would be saved.
Prime Minister Chamberlain left
his umbrella in its hall stand and
wore a gray-top hat. Noel Coward
drank chilled lemon juice (not to be
confused with lemonade) at : gar
den party.
The Fahrenheit figures were far
from comparable with those Of .
Evening star., 1939-06-07
Mrs. Roosevelt Asks
Youth Safeguards in
Work Congress Talk
Hits at Critics Of U. S.
Debt by Citing Needy
Children in Country

Given rOuSlng ovation and pre-
sented with an honorary member
ship in the organization, Mrs. Roose-
welt this afternoon addressed the
National Right to Work Congress,
urging adequate provision for safe
guarding the youth of America.
Mrs. Roosevelt. referring to criti-
clsm OF the mounting public debt,
said she had theory that the coun-
try is piling up debts many persons
don't realize because of underfed
children. That is a debt you will
pay for, all right" Mrs. Roosevelt
said, mentioning that the payment
would be in tuberculosis institutions,
prisons and hospitals.
I think we want to take stock of
all our debts, even financial debts. =
Mrs. Roosevelt remarked. But 1 am
far more concerned with these other
debts which We have been piling ul
for long time"
Appearing without prepared talk
she said she had been asked to dis
cuss the youth problem. She said
the youth problem was one of deep
concern today While it is hard
to have job and lose it, she said
it is much harder never to have had
a job.
Mrs. Roosevelt said the most seri-
Gus aspect of the problem is that
young people, unable to get work.
are settling into hopelessness and
are ceasing to try to solve their
difficulties.
Urges Civic Activities.
She urged that young people. as a
means of keeping alive their interest
in democratic institutions. be urged
to take part in civic activities.
1T is tremendously important" "
Mrs. Roosevelt said, that our young
people work for democracy" Mrs.
Roosevelt was loudly cheered as she
reached the platform for her ad-
dress and was greeted by David Las
ser, national president of the Work.
ers' Alliance of America. At the con-
clusion of her talk, she was present.
ed with a bouquet of flowers by a
committee of the congress.
After dipping into politics by re-
jecting Vice President Garner as a
1910 presidential candidate, the
Work Congress today turned to a
discussion of small business and in
dorsed the Mead bill providing loans
for small concerns.
This action was taken after for
mer Senator SWith w. Brookhart
Of Iowa, representing the Small
Business League of America. told
the conference that small business
men are backing the Works Progress
Administration.
Until we have a limitation on
corporation profits" Mr.. Brookhart
said. land a more equitable dis
tribution of the goods and services
of this Nation. We must preserve
and extend the purchasing power
of the vast majority of the Amer
ican people"
While the congress was in session
in the departmental auditorium. its
Committee to Investigate Investi-
eating Committees was in session
Witnesses told this committee that
investigators for the dolse COM
mittee investigating the w. P. A.
had used coercion and intimidation
in their inquiry into the w. P. A. in
New York.
Willis Morgan. president of the
(See WORKERS, Page ABB
Evening star., 1939-06-07
Committee Refuses
To Delete Presidents S
Neutrality Powers
House Group Detects
6. O. P. Restrictions
Urged for New Measure
By the Associated Press.

bs tne ASSOCIATED PfeSS.
The House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee refused today to strike from
new administration approved neu-
trallty legislation a section which
Representative Fish. Republican. of
New York, a member. said would
give the President more power than
that given any President"
The section authorizes the Chief
Executive to define combat zones
through which American ships and
citizens could not pass except under
regulations issued by the President
The committee also refused again
to write an embargo clause into the
legislation, asked this time by Rep
resentative Schiller Republican, of
West Virginia, who wanted to retain
a ban on shipments to belligerents.
A modified embargo provision was
defeated by the committee yester-
day.
The bill, on which the President
has been represented as wishing
vote at this session, would repeal
the embargo provision. The COM
mittee will meet again Monday.
Reading down through the bill, the
committee gave tentative approval
to three sections:
Giving the President authority to
declare existence of a state of war
or condition the war endangered the
peace and security of the United
States and the lives of its citizens.
Prohibiting travel by American
citizens on vessels of states at war.
Providing for the areas of combat
operations.
Representative Fish asserted that
the last gives the President war
making powers. and that's what he
been after from the beginning
He could say" the New Yorker
continued, I'm a case where Italy
and England were at war that Italy
was combat area and England was
not"
Evening star., 1939-06-07
s7th YEAR. No. 34,735.

Secretary of State Hull will not
be lad libbing' when he introduces
King George vi to President Roose-
velt tomorrow.
For his historic moment he took
time out from a busy schedule to
hold an informal dress rehearsal
with only the principal characters
and some of the stage settings miss
ing-in the Presidents reception
room at Union Station last night.
The reception room was opened
and lighted especially for the occa-
sion. The Secretary and Mrs. Hull
arrived shortly before 8 pm, paus-
ing in the reception room before en-
training at $50 for Niagara Falls to
welcome the visiting British King
and Queen when they cross the
border from Canada tonight.
Awaiting them in the reception
room was Stanley Woodward, assist