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Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-10
REMOVING JUDICIAL POWERS
OF NATIONAL LABOR BOARD

AT last bill has been placed before
congress to revise and amend the Nag-
ner Labor Relations Act, an act so OBJ
iectionable to American business and
to more than half of American laborlng
men that it has been called the nations
greatest barrier on the road to economic
recovery.
Most important phase of the proposed
revision, perhaps, is that which would
remove judicial powers from the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board. Since its
creation, the NLRB has been complain
ant. attorney for the prosecution and
Judge all in one Its operation has been
entirely un-American, since the prose-
cutor is also the Judge Business and
business alone has stood before the bar
of NLRB judgment. Labor has never
been called there.
In Imperial county. when labor union
lists representing very small percentage
of employees protested against alleged
unfair labor practices of the Lewis
Chambers Construction company work
ing on the All American canal, the NLRB
ordered and held hearings in the lmpe-
rial County court house. Anyone who
attended those hearings will remember
what happened
The labor union was allowed to pre-
sent all manner of evidence and much
that was not evidence by any stretch Of
the imagination. Opinions of labor or
ganizers went into the record under the
guise Of fact.
Then the company asked for evidence
showing if union members had ever been
allowed to vote on a strike proposal
The union leaders objected. Their OBJ
lection was sustained. Even though it
was pretty thoroughly established that
no strike vote had ever been called, and
that most of the union men were not in
sympathy with the strike, the labor board
refused to accept evidence on this matter.
The company attempted to present evi-
dence in rebuttal of claims made by the
union. The board would not receive the
evidence. Throughout the hearing, the
same trend was noticed. There was no
justice in the manner of that hearing.
Complaints from other parts of the
country indicate that similar tactics are
used everywhere 1t is no wonder a grow
ing move TO revise the Wagner act is
gaining support rapidly. If no other revi-
sion is made, it would be worth no end
of effort simply to make the labor
board either prosecutor or Judge, but
under no circumstances both.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-10
TOM MOONEY AGAIN
ASKS FOR DONATIONS

For p years the Tom Mooney Mould
ers Defense committee collected hun
dreds of thousands of dollars from per
sons all over the world purpOrtedly to
finance a battle to obtain Moneys re-
lease from prison.
Now Mooney is free.
Before he was pardOned, in line with
Gov. Olson's campaign promise, the pre-
diction was made in these columns that
efforts to collect money in Tom Moo
ney's name would not end with his re-
lease This week the prediction came
true.
The Mooney defense committee broad
cast throughout the world a plea for
money. The plea was signed by Mooney.
He wants, he says, to use new funds to
obtain freedom for Warren Billings, con-
victed along with him of the 1916 Pre-
paredness Day bombing in San Fran
cisco.
Now for another prediction:
When Billings has been freed, the
committee will beg for funds for some
other purpose.
It's too good thing to lose.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-10
A MIRROR HELD UP TO
IMPERIAL COUNTY

On March Imperial county will
draw aside a curtain from gigantic
mirror which, despite its size, reflects
in comparatively minute detail the agrl-
cultural, industrial and social life OF
the community. On March 4 gates of the
Imperial county fair will be opened to
the public, to remain open for nine days
Success of the fair is already assured,
as to number and type of exhibits.
Two things remain to assure complete
success in every other way:
/. Attention and careful planning Of
detail for exhibits to be shown at the
fair.
2. Hearty support by the public at
large.
Judged by past performance, there
can be little doubt that operation OF en-
tertainment and judging programs as
scheduled by the fair board will go
through just as planned. So we'll has
the fair board planned in the past that
the management of the fair is noticed
only in the smooth operation.
To a great extent, however, success
of the exposition depends upon the eN-
hibitors 1t is to their own interest, as
well as to the interest of the county at
large, to prepare entertaining, lnstruc-
tive and attractive exhibits. SllpShod
preparation of one exhibit can detract
greatly from the effect achieved by all.
So this year we again express the hope
that fair board. exhibitors, entertainers
and public cooperate to make the fair
an even greater success than II mas oeen
in the past.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-10

European reactions to the Eighth
Pan-American Conference at Lima
are coming in now, and they re-
enforce the feeling of American re-
porters that much was really accom-
plished.
The Manchester Guardian of
England says: "The results are a
little less than most experienced
observers expected, but not much" p"
And it is odd TO find even The
Berliner Tageblatt admitting that
at would be wrong to say that
the Declaration of Lima contains
nothing, for it actually says some
thing fundamental and decisive
about the political attitude of the
double American continent"
For the German newspapers
made every effort TO belittle the
Lima conference, and most of them
still represent it as a complete
failure and disappointment to the
United States.
Recognition by prominent papers
in both Britain and Germany that
Lima was important, is a good sign
that its lesson was not lost on
the world 1t backs up those Amer
ican correspondents who have
written that much was accom-
plished. The only disappointed
ones were those who expected too
much.
Pan Americanism has moved
slowly for so years. That it con-
tinues to move forward is the best
augury-it is the direction that
is important, not the rate of speed
Some Of the European comment,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-10
Roger Babson on
How Small Stockholders Vote

what it is supposed to be: A check
on the officers and operating po-
licies of the company.
All Depends On Character
am not advocating That we
should have new legislation cover
inc this We have enough laws. l
would hate TO see the government
get any further into business. 1t
has made a terrible flop OF most
of the industries it has trled TO
regulate. May the reason Is pc
cause the personnel has been Sc
lected by political favortism rath-
er than by ability. SO long as the
"spoils" system exists, we cannot
expect much from government
regulation.
A general system of profession
al" directors would be a great boon
to the investor. provided they are
men of character. No law or :"
f C. ruling, however, can make
men able honest, and courageous.
Hence. l keep repeating thas
Americas greatest need is for
spiritual revival!
Losses Can BE Avoided
In the meantime, the small
stockholder must not lay the blame
for all his losses on bad manage
ment. Many of our companies are
run with amazing efficiency, nom
esty and ability The small III
vestor, who has taken a licking,
should ask himself if he has vlolat-
ed any of the accompanying ten
Investment Dont's.' These are
responsible for the majority OF m
veStment losses.
/. Trying to pick one or two low
priced winners
2 Attempting to catch the short
swings of the market.
8. Buying securities on margin
or borrowed money.
4. Over concentrating in one Sc
curity. industry, or locality.
5. Selling short and similar
forms of gambling.
6. Forgetting to maintain back
log of good bonds.
7. Loading up with unlisted
stocks and bonds.
8. Buying for yield or price rathe'
than for quality.
8. Acting en- tips from unreliable
security statesmen.
10. Putting good" securities il
safe deposit box and forgetting
them.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-10
Hamlet Was Right
Riverside Press

Riverside Press
A careful reading of the news
these days convinces us that our
old friend Hamlet was as right as
two peas When he commented on
the affairs in Denmark he said
more than he thought.
II something was rotten in Den
mark when Shakespeare gloomy
Dane was in evidence, the loyal
citizens of that progressive and
democratic little country would to-
day admit that present conditions
are even more precarious and peril
Gus to their safety than they were
in the sixteenth century.
Within the past three weeks six
Danish Nazis have been arrested
on charges of stealing secret docu-
mentS from police headquarters in
Copenhagen A high official in
the police department itself has
been exposed as a German agent
and accused of giving police plans
for quelling political disturbances
to the Nazis.
Eight other persons in Copen-
hagen have been indicted as spies
The evidence indicated Germans
and their Danish accomplices hao
organized an information center,
in Denmark's capital to spy OF
shipping in the Great Canal which
runs from the Baltic to the Nortf
Sea--a strategic artery III time o
war.
Uneasy Denmark. whose only lanC
neighbor is Germany, seeks onl.
her peace, while aggressive Nazi
proceed to seek their piece-of Den
mark. Today loyal Danes have rea
son to fear that Hamlet was right
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-10

WASHINGTON.-As little Peter
kin remarked, it was a famous vic
tory. The queer thing is that there
is still a lot Of argument over who
won it.
Two years ago President Roose-
velt called on Congress to enlarge
and reorganize the Supreme Court.
Congress argued, studied, and fl
nally refused flatly to do any such
thing. Today the famous court
plan is dead.
But-Who won the war?
Those who fought the plan say
they did. The court is still the
same size as it was before. 1t, has
been shown that a president who
tries to alter or enlarge the court
to get the kind of rulings he wants
will get his fingers burned. The
independence of the judiciary has
been sustained.
But the other side remarks that
somehow the court has been pretty
kind to New Deal legislation since
the fight began. Senator Sherman
Minton of Indiana suggests that
F.. d. r. lost the battle and won
the wal. Congressman Wright Pat
man says briefly: He mfoSSlllzcd
EN-
Early in February two years age
the President made his proposal
In TWO nationally-b speech
es a month later he defended 1t. Or
March 10 the Senate judiciary COM
mittee opened hearings on the pro-
posal.
Then the Supreme Court uphe!o
the Washington state minimum
wage law. A couple of weeks later
it upheld the Wagner Act. A month
after that Justice Van Devantel
announced his resignation-on tn
same day. incidentally, that thu
Senate committee returned an ad
verse report on the bill. A Weei
after that the court upheld unem
ployment insurance and old ag
benefits.
A month or more Of heated de
bate followed. Early polls hat
shown a majority Of the senator
in favor of the plan; now it wa
apparent that the tide was shift
ing. Senator Joe Robinson finally
on July 2. introduced a substitut
proposal and debate got under wa
on that.
Then came the turning point. o.
July IA 1887, Joe Robinson die
suddenly.
Robinson had obtained pledges o
support from a number OF senator
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-10
Willis Thorntons Editorial On:
Lima Conference Re-Eehoines

unyersed in the Pan American way
of doing things, has adversely
noted that no treaties were Slgneo'
and none remain TO be ratl1led py
the countries taking part. That Is
a strange criticism from con-
tinent where treaties have become
nothing but pipe-spills, and the
most solemn signed agreements
only the scraps of paper so dis
dainfully referred to by Bethmann-
HollWeg. Declarations have served
the Americas quite well enough, as
Secretary Hull reminded the dele
gates at Lima. And each OF them
remembered that their very free
dom rests on mere declarations
of independence.
Hitler's reference to trade rela-
tions with South America in the
Jan. 30 speech bears directly on the
Lima decisions. The German peo-
pie must live-that means export
or die said Hitler
The Lima decisions do not tend
to bar Germany from any rightful
and proper share in South Ameri-
can trade. That nature and her
own and South Americas needs
destine her for such a share, Sec
retary Hull is we'll aware.
What Lima does strike at is the
German custom of exporting a
pound of political propaganda and
intrigue with every ounce of goods.
1t is this, and her own trade meth
DDS which tend to exclude others
from fair competition, which hurt
German trade and help produce
the situation which Hitler himself
admitted is getting desperate,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-10
PERILS OF PATRONAGE
IN DEMOCRACY

Today's fight in congress between Sen
ators Byrd and Glass of Virginia on one
side and President Roosevelt on the
other over appointment of federal dis
trict Judge is not worthy of any of the
men involved. 1t is little more than
petty pickering over partisan control OF
one state delegation in the Democratic
party.
Patronage is the root of this particu-
lar evil We should like to think that
the people of Virginia will vote according
to their convictions in 1910, regardless
of who hands out federal jobs.
Official Washington is convinced that
the President has attempted to use nomi-
nation of a federal Judge to prove to
Virginia politicians that they cannot get
anything out of the federal government
if they support Senators Byrd and Glass
The theory-a theory as old as patron
age itsef-is that the states political
leaders, the men who control the votes,
will desert the two Objectionable sena-
tors if, by deserting, they can obtain
more appointments and more federal
money.
Forgetting President Roosevelt and
Senators Byrd and Glass for the mo-
ment, we should be sorry if we were
forced to believe that the people Of Vir
ginia are so docile, so easily led, that
they will follow the patronage trail re-
gardless of policy.
For that reason we believe it unfortu-
nate, as we'll as unworthy of the men
involved, that patronage should have
been allowed to enter the picture at all.
If there is an issue, we believe it should
be an issue of political and economic
beliefs, not an issue of jobs handed over
to the men who can deliver most votes
at the polls or at forthcoming national
convention.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-10
Barbs-

Sonia Heinie, who says she eats
all kinds of sweets In abundance
and then reduces her weight by
skating, is one gal who can eat
her cake and have 1t too.
Wintry days prompt the observa-
ton it must be tough to be able
to winter in the south with nothing
to wish for except that you were
back home.
Despite the reamS of publicity on
the casting of Scarlet OHara
there remains considerable doubt
as to who will play The Wind.
whom Scarlett's Gone With.
The sale of airplanes by this
country to France seems to answer
Mussolini's question to France,
you and who else?".
AS Jimmy Hines might say,
Judge Mott Tint yc bo not
Judged
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-10

eXlllDlClOl OI illS WCih woo iNiN -
the neighborhood, Everybody SAID
he would be famous. When he was
older he copied the drawings at the
art galleries. He wasn't interested
in playing with the nHiBhborhood
boys he wanted to paint.
His father was tallOr-clcVch
children-you can see what hap
pcned Little John had TO work
in his fathers shop
He had to walk three miles to
the shop - and three miles back
that night, after eleven hours of
work. The passion to be an artist
still burned, and he painted at
night, though he had no time for
lessons. He knew he would never
be a painter at that rate.
So he looked around and picked
out what the psychologists call
substitute interest something to
replace the interest he desired. This
was photography which could give
him an outlet for his artistic
abilities.
He had so little time for even
this that he had to print pictures
on the way to work. He carried
the printing frame in his hand as
he walked and held it this way and
then that 20 the sun.
Finally he came to America where
he worked at his trade of tailoring
Every extra penny he spent on
photography Next he opened a
little tailor shop of his own, nine
feet and four inches wide, at 1892
Madison Avenue, New York.
He put into his photography all
the enthusiasm he could have de-
veloped for painting 1t took him
away from the drudgery of the
tailor shop.
He hung his pictures in his shop.
One OF his customers told him that
the New York Daily Mirror was
sponsoring a contest and that he
ought to enter John Albok held
back; he was just a small tailor
not big Fifth Avenue photograph
er.
Finally he entered and won two
prizes.
Encouraged he entered other con-
tests and has won eleven prizes.
Then one day last year The Museum
of the City of New York put on a
special exhibition of his photo
graphs.
Think of that and visualize the
satisfaction that must have been
John Albok's, man who has the
tenacity that makes for success.
Hegel, the great German phil
osopher, famous for his ability to
concentrate, taught in the Univer-
sity of Berlin exactly 100 years ago.
One day he walked into his class
roim and delivered a lecture wear
ing only one shoe. The other shoe
had stuck in the mud outside. He
hadn't noticed it, he was concen-
trating on the pcrplcXing problems
of philosophy,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-10
You re Telling Me-

The radio comedian who was
fined on a smuggling charge prob
ably feels fortunate that he escap-
ed a chain hookup.
One of the difficulties of Eur
opean dictators is that they insist
on spelling the word of peace
wrong.
A Cleveland burglar stole stove
with q fire IN it. Probably he hio
out while the heat was on.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-10
Dale
Carnegie

Are you faced with giving up
something that you hoped to make
your life work?
Let me tell you how a man nam
ed John Albok solved that problem.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-10

Born in old
CZe choSlovakia
the eldest of
eleven children,
he had an al
most overwhelm-
ing passion to
become an artist.
He was a child
pro d j g y, and
d re w so well
with col or G q
chalk at the age
of four that an
,,,D,l, uraC hold in
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-10
Photographs

The beloved hymn, Nearer MY
God to Thee" was written by an
EnglishWoman, Mrs. Sarah Flower
Adams. who died in l848.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-10
thoughts for the Day

And charged your judges at that time saying, Hear
the causes between your brethren, and judge right
eously between every man and his brother. and the
stranger that is with him-Deuteronomy l:l6.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-10
d Thousand Feet
(MarysyilIe Appeal-DemOcrat)

CMarysyille Appeal-Democrat)
There is a reason for every auto
mobile accident Most of the rea-
sons are human rather than mech
anical. Speed, attained mechan-
ically only as the driver elects, is
a chief factor. A Yale university
traffic study may help to explain
the frequency Of head = on and
sideswiping collisions, comments
the California State Automobile
association. At so miles an hour,
it is pointed out, 1000 feet Of high
way and 10 seconds are required
by the average motorist to pass
another car Too many drivers, OBJ
vously do not observe this unequi-
vocal requirement.
A woman has social prestige when
she can report a gem robbery and
other women will not say the gems
were imitations-Carey Williams,
Greensboro Ca Herald journal
The problem, says the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, is TO make every
body honest. We take it this is to
be the next major New Deal project,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-10

BRINGING
ALL THE NEWS
TO IMPERIAL
VALLEY
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-10

what it is supposed to be: A check
on the officers and operating po-
H. e tl,n cnlnnanN
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-12-21
Expert Advises Against
Using Restaurant Lingo

John B. O'Meara, of Chicago,
an expert on the proper and i'm
proper manner of restaurant serv-
ice, has given walters and wait
resses tips on ways to get ahead in
their business. Some pointers:
If man orders milk toast the
waitress should not yell: ''Stew for
a stiff"
Two poached eggs on toast should
not be called adam and Eve on
raft" nor should frankfurters and
sauerkraut be referred to as 'dogs
in the grass"
Headwaiters should never employ
the old-fashioned trick of speeding
up service by shouting: Get
move on, you soup Jockeys"
Mattresses should not paint their
fngernails. 1t takes a customers
mind off his food. The advice is
repeated for wearing engagement
rings.
Both a spoon and fork should be
served with a fruit cocktail, despite
Emily Posts approval of the for
mer. because when a customer pre-
fers to eat with a fork he doesn't
want to be bothered with telling the
waiter about it.
The waiter or waitress should new
err place a napkin on the patrons
lap. That's being too familiar.
The worst blunder O'Meara re-
membered was committed by a
waitress who brought a customer
a rare steak and remarked:
II don't see how you can eat that
stuff"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-12-21
Published every Thursday
by the
Cliniwood Printing Co.
Clintwood, Va.
We Shall Be Ever With
You

According to weekly newspaper
custom, we shall take Christmas
week off, and the HERALD will
not come to you until the New
Year is with us.
The first issue of our paper
came off the press during the
month OF May. We came forth
with a modest bid for your sup
port, and that support has come
10 us steadily and surely. It was
predicted then that the HERALD
would lapse into nothingness by
The first Of November. We, how
ever, will greet you in the year
TO come and will go with you
through the year. If you like the
type Of paper we have published,
we shall give you more of it next
year.
We have a conviction that there
is a definite field for a county
newspaper, and we expect to stay
within that field. A weekly has
no other reason for being than
20 give the little homely news of
the community that never reaches
the pages of the daily papers. Our
field is not large enough to take
any partisan politics, except to re-
port it fairly and with the eye of
an observer. We do not think
that weekly can successfully act
as an organ of propaganda for
any cause, however worthy. AS
we have in the past, SO shall we
in the future stay within the linn
it's we have set.
We hope that we shall not have
any deaths to chronicle when we
start again. We hope that you all
will have a very happy holiday
season.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-12-21
The Herald under it's present

The Herald under it's present
management is young in years,
and our success in the field of
journalism has not been spectacu-
lar or perhaps even noticeable.
But our progress during the year
fast drawing to a close is entirely
due to our customers and friends.
We thank you for your support
and hope that in the future we
may bring you much better
county weekly. It's the same old
wish, but it never grows old. To
each and every one Of you: ga
very merry Christmas and happy
new yearv'
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-12-21
turning Eggs

Some authorities assert that when
eggs are Matched in an incubator
they should be turned three or more
times day from the third to the
eighteenth day. Be sure the hands
are clean and free from oil or grease
when the eggs are turned. If
Matched under a hen, this handling
is unnecessary as the hen will take
care of the necessary moving. How.
ever, all Matching eggs should be
candled on the seventh day and all
infertile eggs removed.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-12-21
Killed by ELECTRICITY

IONA, MICH.-Stephen Ludwick
68 years old, was killed when a
pipe he was pulling from well
touched an electric wire. William
Baker, at whose home the accident
occurred, was hurled several feet
by the shock.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1939-12-21
Has He a .Lnh9

DANVILLE, PA.-A man walked
into the jail and informed the sher.
if he had been sentenced to five
days.