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Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
Willis Thornton's Editorial Or,
The Cooperative Movement Expands

organizations of every sort, they
are represented by unofficial loo-
bies which defend their group III
terests before the legislators.
The growth of cooperative as
sociations in the United States has
been so great in the last few years
that it represents a powerful group
interest.
The Consumers Cooperative as
sociation, a federation of 425 CO.
operatives in the middleWest, has
more than 100000 patron members.
The Credit Union National asso-
citation reports 100000 members
of credit unions, most of which
growth has taken place during the
last 10 years.
One-sixth of all farm supplies in
the country are bought by CO.
operatives, which also handle huge
quantities of oil products. At least
3,330,0O0 consumers buy through
II 900 co-operatives.
This is a big factor in the ma
tional economy, and one which Is
no longer to be ignored in any
CALCULATIONS OH UIlt UuolllcoS oSCiiS'
Through its affiliation with the
International Cooperative A1li-
ance, representing 70,500000 men,
bers Of co-ops in SO countries, the
Consumers Cooperative associa-
ton is inviting to Kansas City the
triennial international convention
in 1910, previously scheduled for
Prague.
Such a meeting under Nazi aus
pices would be practically impos-
Sible. If the American co-ops coulo
land such a meeting, it would
bring thousands of progressive
minded people TO visit the United
States, which is now beginning al
active campaign to bring travellers
from abroad.
The cooperative movem en- I
which only a few years ago wat
regarded by many as a visionary
activity of a small group, is itsel
getting into the realm of big bllsi'
ness.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13

WASHINGTON. - Common goS-
sip here says that one of Presi-
dent Roosevelts first acts under
the reorganization bill will be to
lump all OF the New Deal housing
agencies together in one new set
up.
Nobody except perhaps,
the president himSeli-Whether he
is really going to do any such
thing. But an examination of the
present bewildering array of nous
ing agencies leads you to the con-
clusion that only magician can
put all these agencies together.
SO far, in money actually laid
on the line and not counting
money whose expenditure has been
authorized, the government has
acquired a S5,000,O00,000 stake i'll
the housing business.
/. Through the Home Owners
Loan Corporation, it has spent
some three billions to buy dis
tressed mortgages and save i mil
lion families from eviction.
2. Through the Federal Housing
Administration il has committed
itself to make good mortgages
worth 81 400 100000 if the lending
institutions which hold them find
it necessary to foreclose.
3. Through the U. S. Housing
Authority and the Public Works
Administration it has loaned OF
given Sl61 100000 to cities for slum
clearance projects. This does not
include some S640,000,000 addition
al which the USHA has earmarket
for disposal in the same manner.
4. Through the Federal Home
Loan bank board and its member
agencies it has used S525 100000 II
secure the credit reserves of build
ing and loan associations and tt
insure their depOsitors' savings.
5. Into various rehousing project!
now under the wing of the Farm
Security Administration it has pu
S49,000,000.
The principal headache in all ol
this has been the conflict of pur-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

noses between the Home Loan
Rank board and the Federal Hous-
ing administration.
With the former organization, the
government has been trying TO
help the building and loan associ-
ations. with the other it has been
promoting competition with them.
This situation arose naturally
enough. When the depression came,
the building and loan companies
were loaded with long term mort
cages which they couldn't liqui-
date. They had borrowed, in turn,
from commercial banks on short
term notes-and their depoSitors
were clamoring for their money.
They began to go bankrupt III
droyeS.
The u Federal Home Loan banks
were set up TO remedy matters.
They have altogether some 4OOO
building and loan association mem
bers. who deposit mortgages as
collateral and get long-term loans
at low interest rates in return. The
Federal Savings Loan Insurance
Corporation was set up to insure
the deposits made by individuals
in the building and loan aSsocla-
tions. And the Home Owners Loan
Corporation went to work to cleal
up the debris by acquiring the
mortgages that had gone or were
going sour.
So far. so good. Then the Federal
Housing Administration went tC
work to promote building through
lower interest rates made possible
by federal insurance of mortgages
To date it has insured 335,O0(
mortgages on private homes, rep
resenting a total investment O
slightly more than $1,400,000, 900
But by making easy credit available
and providing a safety catch fol
the lender, it drew new agencies
into the picture-insurance cor
porations, big banks, and SO on
and thus provided the building anC
loan associations with a new anC
spirited form of competition.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
Nv CHARLES p. STEWART


Reports that Herr Hitler is think
ing of a German grab of Patagonia
from the Argentine Republic, not
some time in the indefinite future
but pretty soon, sound rather wild.
Nevertheless, the fact that arrests
of suspected plotters in the Argen-
tine capital of Buenos Aires indi-
cate that the government there
takes the situation seriously. Nor is
it to be forgotten that President
Vargas of Brazil did have to put
down a recent Nazi uprising in his
realm, and that certainly was no
pipe dream, for it involved con-
siderable loss of life. Chile also
had a Nazi- Fascist revolt to squelch
not long ago. That, too, was real
thing. Consequently, Argentine ru-
mOrs don't sound so altogether
improbable. President Ortiz's re-
gime in Buenos Aires is inVestigat-
ing. anyway. It doesn't pooh pooh
the scare
That Hitler plans am early mya-
sion of South America with forces
from Germany itself IS, Of course,
too ridiculous an idea for even him
to entertain. However, the Father
land has formidable concentrations
Of already resident Germans. es-
pecially III southern Brazil and the
Argentine. They haven't been To-
cally aSsimiated, but are as Ger
man &c tbav upra ubpto tIair init
ial settlers first arrived. That
these folks think they might be
able 10 gain control is not so crazy
a notion Maybe they couldn't do
it on any country wide scale, but
undoubtedly they could make a
deal of trouble in spots.
Anyhow, this Patagonian story
has given Chief Laurence Duggan
of the State Departments division
of Latin American affairs some
thing to think about
Patagonia a Queer Place
Patagonia is a queer place. The
Argentine Republic is about one
third the size Of the United States.
and Patagonia (the southern end
of i0 has approximately the area
Of New England. 1t extends west
ward to the Andes and southerly to
Cape Horn. It's population is a
scant $4,000 to 10000 1t has a few
little ports scattered along the At
lantic coast. Inland it's a darned
sight wilder than ever our wild
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
LABOR LAW
IN WISCONSIN
Nevada State JOurnaI)


1t is hard to see how any worker who
earns his living with his Drawn and brain
can find fault with the new Wisconsin
law which confines labor disputes to
employers and their actual employees.
The law upsets a state supreme court
decision which justified and legalized
picketing and economic pressure by un-
ion leaders in cases where there was no
employer-employe relationship and no
dissatisfaction over wages or working
conditions.
The new law protects the individual
workman in his choice of a bargaining
representative, and does not deprive him
of any of his inherent human or constitu-
tional rights.
1t prohibits what has come to be known
as stranger picketing, in which organiz-
ed leaders have been able to impose pres
sure on helpless employers, not to i'm
prove the conditions of the workers but
to strengthen their own positions as or
ganiZation leaders for backmail
Wisconsin has lost important indus
tries because of its apparent willingness
to subordinate the right Of the individual
to the demands of organized minorities
1t is now among the first to recognize
that an injustice to any class cannot fail
to work injury TO the entire community
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13

business. lie ndQ IIeu III Foii w
find a lob. but there were no jobs
to be had. The future seemed blank
and hopeless.
As he waited for the tie to be
wranped. his eye fell on blank
space of wall in the store. There
was nothing on it. Just blank ugly
space He began specializing on
whv the store didn't fill the space
with something attractive, when
suddenly an idea was born. lhaG
idea2 To make enlargementS OF
photographs and fill the space WIN
them. Simplel OF course But no
one else had ever thought OF 1t.
Photography was his hobby, ana
at night when he wasn't out pad
ding the streets searching Tor a
lob. he experimental with his cam
era and chemical and enlarging
outfits.
Finally he made a call.
I'D like to speak to the man
ager." he said, and after waiting
awhile, was shown into the manag-
er'S office.
The manager listened attentive
" as Blum explained his idea. AL
first he was prejudiced against 1t
because it was new, but Blum was
filled with enthusiasm and talked
we'll At last the manager said, IL
YOU want to take the risk, I'll
look at the pictures when you BRING
them in
Still fired with his idea, Blum
went back and set to work. lie
selected one OF his small negatives
and enlarged it to twelve feet by
four feet. and took it to the man.
ager. who looked at it, then called
his assistant, and finally some oi
the clerks. Why, it was stunning!
He ordered five additional photos
They are still in the store. On tor
of this, he ordered them for theil
thirteen stores in the New Yorf
area
, Another idea was evolved. HI
made others. and took them t(
different stores. The store manag
), ers gave him orders. Blum worked
, feverishly. He had found his job
, his hobby had become his lif'
a work
But there was no word for thi
. new business he had originated
, He simply called it, Photographic
;, enlargements." Then the tern
. photo murals' was hit upon.
o It swept the country. 1t becam
the rage. Department stores seize'
! the idea, restaurants grabbed il
= beauty parlors.
: Blum has prospered. I saw TWEEN
. ty-tWo people at work in his studio
When you come to the World
n Fair you will see thousands an
y thousands of photo murals" Blum
9 has made most of them.
i, He accomplished the most diff
. ficult thing in all the world. Orig
:. mated a new business idea. If yo
g want to get ahead in the WorlC
. think up something new. 1t wi
pour money into your lap.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
Herr Hitler Scare Spreads to South
America Following Nazi Uprisings

west was in its widest days.
Away down at it's southern tip,
on TERRA del F'uego, is an Argen-
tine convict settlement lie d
Ushuaia--I can't find it on any
map. I'd prefer not to be marooned
there.
Patagonia is described as very
cold 1t isn't. 1t has a vicious eli
mate raw, but the thermometer
doesn't go very low.
The back country (flat as a pam
cake up to the Andean foothills) is
unproductive as to crops. 1t will
support cattle skimpily; sheep,
closer grazers, bit better. Essen
TALLY it's a sheep region, though
none too good. It's coastal towns
pack meat on a small scale.
One thing it's gotc-some oil. In
the province of Rivadayia it does
mt produce literally, but it produces
some.
That's about all that Patagonia is
good for. It's too remote even to be
a military jumping-off place. 1t
isn't worth shucks TO live in. 1t
does have a little wild game-gua-
nagos. A guanago is a wild llama.
A llama is a domestic animal. A
guanago is the same critter in its
wild state. Guanagos are hunted
in Patagonia with cars. The auto
lists run EN- down.
The Red Revolt
just after the world war there
was a soviet rebellion in Buenos
Aires, Argentina. The Argentines
licked it, with a loss of about 1000
lives in B. A.
Then they scooped in the soviet
rebels and started them, on trans
ports, for the convict settlement at
Ushuaia. But it quickly became ap-
parent that Ushuaia would be
sWamped So the government I'M
loaded the transporteeS, here and
there, on the Patagonian coast.
The transportees, org ganizin G,
sWooped down on the governments
coastal towns and looted them. The
government hadn't the financial
resources to resist.
But, even if it did, the rebels
grabbed their plunder and retreat
ed into the Andes. That thing
hangs on to this day
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13

while he was IN
there which com
pletely changed
his life, and it
has touched your
life.
T h e you II 6
mans name was
E. H. Blum.
The depression
had forced him
TO end his once
prosperous cos
tum e designing
- 4 r,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
Words of Wisdom

Dissipation is absolutely labor
when the round of Vanity Fair has
once been made; but fashion makes
us think lightly of the toll, and we
describe the circle as mechanically
as a horse in q ill.-Zimmerman
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
Hints on Etiquette

1t hardly seems necessary TO warn
visitors in a friends home not To
touch objects promiscuously, yet it
is necessary Tor there are those who
will enter a friends home, roam
about, lingering this and that.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
Photographs

Twin boys are welcomed in Bali,
twin girls are liked, but mixed twins
are considered q disgrace to parents.
The crop of Easter lilies was once
50 great in Bermuda that they were
fed TO the pigs.
There are eight states in the
union beginning with the letter
NJ - Maine. Maryland, Massachu-
sets, Michigan, Minnesota, Missis-
sippi. Missouri and Montana.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
Dale
Carnegie

Ten years ago a young man went
into Weber & Heilbroner's clothing
store at Forty Second street ana
Madison avenue, New York, to buy
necktie. Something happened
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
Grab Baq-
One-Minute Test

|. What is THE Cradle?"
2. Which swimming stroke do
records show is faster-the crawl
or the breast stroke?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
TOday's HOrUscope

When an unexpected event that
seems to be adverse to your for
tune occurs during the next year Of
your life, do not be too discouraged,
if your natal day is on this date
The event will ultimately prove to
be beneficial to you. 1t will change
the course of your life and bring
you romance. Great artistic or lit
erary ability is promised to the
child born today. He will also be
enterprising and enthusiastic in
everything he or she does. The only
drawback is that such an one may
be somewhat erratic and restless.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
Thoughts for the Day

Thou hast made known to me the ways Of life; thou
shalt make me fun of JOY with thy comtenance
Acts 2:28.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13

FOR quick action use
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-13
One-Minute Test Answers

/. A nursery situated in Evans
ton, Ill, suburb of Chicago, and
devoted to finding suitable homes
for the babies in its care.
2. The crawl.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07

Lester Vetter came from Kan
sas City Saturday evening to joir
his family at the Mrs. Eva SchocE
home. Mr.. and Mrs. Vetter and
Jan left Monday by car for Their
home.
MI. and Mrs. c. w. Rote, Helen
and Gene spent Sunday ard Mon
day at Green Lake.
Mi. and Mrs. Gilbert Roswell
Ruth and Edwin and Beatrice
Washburn went to st. Peter Sun
day to visit at the Homer Gibbs
home. Gertrude Roswell who had
been there for two weeks accom-
panied them home.
Mrs. H. M. Azure, Irene and
Hazel Aune and Zina Ackman
left Saturday afternoon for a
short visit with Anna and Ed
Swain at Madison, Wisconsin.
They returned Monday evening.
Mrs. Roy De Pew of Milford,
Iowa and Mrs. G. w. Moeller and
daughter Virginia of Spirit Lake
were Sunday breakfast guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Lauterbach.
They were enroute to northern
Minnesota on a short vacation.
DIR. and Mrs. c. L. Lynn and
children spent Labor Day with
Jackson relatives. Enroute they
visited Mrs. Caroline Thomson at
Window.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Lussen-
hop, Ecko and Faye drove to
Mankato Monday with Lavonr e
and Ross who began work at
teachers college Tuesday morning.
The Presbyterian Mite society
will meet Friday afternoon in the
church parlors. Serving will begin
at $50.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Tyson and
Jean and Mrs. Joseph Tyson left
Saturday by car to visit Mr.. and
Mrs. r. E. Tyson at Madison, Wis
consin until Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norval Weeks
will entertain the members of
their Birthday club with a picnic
supper Friday evening in Ram
sey park.
Nh. and Mrs. j. G.. Mahal and
children, Mrs. j. H. Klaus and w.
L. Hardy went to Green Lake
Monday morning to join other
members of the Hardy family at
their cottage.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07

MIR. and Mrs. E. p. Tenney NOV
ed into the j. Schroeder house on
West Wyoming street Friday.
They have the apartment in which
Mr.. and Mrs. j. E. Morten had
been living.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Schlemmer
and children and Mr.. and Mrs.
Herman Schlemmer who have
been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. E. p.
Tenney and at the Schroeder and
Schlemmer homes at Vesta for
two weeks returned to Milwaukee
Sunday.
Mrs. E. r. Tenney entertained
twenty-five Vesta women at her
home Friday afternoon honoring
her mother Mrs. j. Schroeder on
her birthday.
Angela Swoboda returned to
Toledo, Ohio, Sunday after a
weeks visit with her parents Mr..
and Mrs. F. A. Swoboda.
MI. and Mrs. Jesse Olson and
children returned Monday evening
from a weeks vacation at their
cottage on Ottertail lake.
Agnes Breen of Oelwein, Iowa
who has been a guest at the T. F.
Reed Sr. home, left Tuesday NOR
ming for New Orleans, planning to
visit at Dubuque enroute.
Cecilia Reed left Monday for
Wabasso where she will be public
school music director this year.
Dorothy Reed also left that day
to begin work at st. Clair.
MI. and Mrs. c. P. Slocum and
family were guests of Rev. Will
Liam Rossitor and family at Tracy
Sunday.
Mr.. ard Mrs. H. A. Paradeau
and son of Minneapolis spent
Thursday and Friday at the home
of his brother Ed Sinclair.
Monday morning, Mr.. and Mrs.
{. p. Slocum went to Mankato
where their son Merton enrolled
as a freshman at teachers college.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Lauer of
Sioux Falls came Sunday to visit
Mrs. Agatha Fischer, Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Schultz and Mr.. and Mrs.
John Schweinfurter. They will be
Joined here Sunday by their dau-
ghter Mrs. Les Harding and son
of MonteVideo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Toger Nelson were
hosts to the Pot Luck supper club
Sunday evening.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07
NORTH REDWOOD
SCHOOL LEAGUE
FORMED TUESDAY
BY Mrs. o. w. Simondet

by MIS-. ". w. 0lIIlOiiuSt
North Redwood Citizens
league at school organized Tues
day morning with the following
officers elected: president, Marcia
Hanson; vice president, Eddy
Bodde; secretary, Velma Brandt
and treasurer, Wayne Becker.
Mrs. John Ziegler of Belview
and Mrs. c. F. Johnson of Morton
visited last week at the B. H.
Kuenzli home
Alice Simondet will be hostess
to the E.L.C.E. in the church par
lors Friday evening.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Ostedohl
and Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Kunezli
and daughters were Sunday din
ner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Hooper.
Mrs. Carrie SALISBURY and
Mr.. and Mrs. Porter Whittet OF
McGregor spent the weekend al
the j. p. Gaffney home Monday
They left for Canistota, S. D. ac-
companied by Mrs. j. P. Gaffney.
Mr. and Mrs. Vern Nellis and
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester, Nellis OF
Fort Dodge, Iowa spent Labor
day at the Ed Hewett home.
Mrs. John Kaiser of Minneapo-
lis spent Thursday and Friday
here and at Redwood Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. j. Kurtz and
| family visited Mrs. Ziebarth at
Franklin Sunday afternoon.
Members of the Ladies Aid here
were entertained by the w. M. S.
at Middle Creek Friday afternoon.
William Prodoehl and his mo-
Their visited relatives at Revillo
and Milbank, S. D. over the
weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Pettis, Andrew
! and Wallace Pettis of Gibbon
visited at the Pettis home Satur-
day evening. Mr. and Mrs. Will
liam PettiS and sons returned to
Gibbon with them. Andrew re-
! manned here with his father.
Melvin Hewett of the CCC
camp at Red Wing spent a few
, days at his home here.
Mrs. Elmer Becker, Jerry and
Mrs. Lilly Schroeder motored to
Gibbon Monday taking Emma
Zwemke who will teach there
again this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Becker and
Won and Mr.. and Mrs. L. G.. Tau
bert spent the weekend at Lake
Koronls, returning Monday.
Mrs. William McGregor and
Billy Gene moved this week &c
Gibbon where Mr.. McGregor is
employed. Billy Gene will enter
school there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alva Gaffney and
family moved last week into the
home they recently purchased
Mrs. Nannaie Smith and the Ath-
alat Smith family moved into the
house vacated by the Gaffneys.
Mrs. o. S. Monson will be host
ess to the Ladies Aid in the
church parlors Thursday after
, noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Proctor OF
International Falls were callers
of Bertha and Lena Kuenzli Fri
day.
Willard Simpson and daughter
Dona of Minneapolis were guests
last week at the Mann and Ray
Davis homes. They left Friday
for Ortonville and Montevideo
where they also visited relatives.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07
MANY AT SHOWER
FOR LUCAN BRIDE
By Mrs. Paul Martin

Lucan = la Mae Housamann
evening at parcel shower at the
Trinity Free Church basement;
more than 100 friends and rela-
tives attended.
Mrs. L. c. Patterson and Mrs.
H. L. Jensen visited at the F. M.
Anderson home at Worthington
Tuesday. Marion Patterson re-
turned with them after spending
a few days at Fairmont and
Worthington.
Mr.. and Mrs. C.. G.. DresoW and
family were Sunday dinner guests
at the Ralph Suprenant home
near Currie.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07

MIR. and Mrs. Charles Otto and
son and Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Bittner visited at the Andrew
Hagert home at Springfield Sum
day.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07
Page Five

Erwin Bittner was a business
caller at Mankato Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Larsen and
son spent Labor, day at the Will
liam Beaton home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-03

FOR SALE-U & I Lunch. Owner quitting business. Write 20. Box c274 or phone 334.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-06-03
KEN GROSS
 I5B005TED
 T0NEW JOB
Alaska Steamship Man ai Seattle Is Going to
 San Francisco

SEATTLE, June 3.--Ken Cross, travelling passenger agent for the Alaska Line, has been appointed assistant general passenger agent with headquarters at San Francisco effective July l, according to the announcement made by h d. quarters.
 So Seattle shipping circles lose one of the best known and best liked passenger men of this section of the Coast and San Francisco by the same token, profits accord ingly.
 Ken replaces Art Stewart who also has host of friends up this way as well as in his own neck of the woods in California. Art got airminded and resigned to take over a mighty nice post with the Transcontinental Western Airways.
 South at Once
 Although Cross does not start in on his new job for few weeks he is leaving Seattle at once to sort of get settled in San Francisco
 A veteran of 15 years service with the Alaska Steamship Com pany, Ken has made an enviable record. Because of his ability to make friends and hold them, handle crowds of tourists with unfailing good nature and diplomacy he has been a mainstay of the company as cruise director and master of ceremonies.
 With French Line
 Cross got his first experience in the passenger game immediately after he returned from the World War. He joined the staff of the French Line here in 1919 later talk ing berth with the Pacific Steam ship Company His last move was to the Alaska Line where he has remained ever since.
 Besides his regular duties which mean great deal of travelling, Cross is prominent in several local organizations including the Young Mems Business Club, University Post, American Legion, Seattle Pas senger Club and Puget Sound Travel Directors He was just elect ed secretary treasurer of the former organization and is secretary of the latter.