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Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-11

and the author of the book, Mental
Hygiene DR.. w. H. Mikesell.
In June, 1907, young Mikesell
had been in college year. Then
he was forced with the necessity
Of finding a job to earn money for
going back that Fall When ne re-
turned home to Wilmington, Della
ware, and told his family that he
was going to get a job they said
'lmpossiblei Nobody can get a
job IN his own family was living
evidence: his father, brother, and
two brothersin in-law, all unemployed.
They had been tramping the
streets for weeks, some of them
for months, looking for jobs. Des-
pair and futility were written all
over their faces.
Then young Mikesell made ID
vastly amusing remark: I'll have
a job within twenty-four hours"
They merely laughed Imagine the
ego of the kid. Been to college
get some sense knocked into him.
The next morning he started out.
determined to assault the doors
of a boat building plant named
Pusey &, Jones. He arrived early.
A crowd was milling around the
gates, begging for jobs. He studie..
them and knew that he would have
to do something to make himself
stand out from these job-seekers.
They were discouraged looking
mass, some Of them unkempt, none
presenting a we'll grommed appear
ance First. he decided that he
would not apply at the same time
and place. Second that he would
dress like a prosperous and sec
cessfGl young man.
He went back home and ,sut on
his best suit. A guard was or duty.
Young Mikesell breathed deeply
squared his shoulders, and headed
for the gate where the plant Off
Gals entered. The guard looked up
but didn't question the Well-gronm-
ed young man walking in with so
confident an air.
Inside, he did not go 20 the
man who saw the unemployed
storming the gates every day. He
went to a minor official The man
was sufficiently impressed to turn
him over tc another official, and in
trifle less than an hour, he had
q JOB as night Watchman on q
newly y-launched beat. That night
his relatives were astonished They
could not understand how ne had
landed Job when they had failed.
The reason? lie had made himself
stand out from Che crowd. He mad
sized up a situation and made his
attack from a different angle.
Soon came promotion from nipht
to a job as machin.st
When Fail came he had money TO
20 back to college.
Here are two points to rener-
aer: First. don't become discour-
aged because others haven't job.
Second. make yourself stand out
from the crowd.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-11
THE TROUBLE WITH
WOMEN IS
(Tulare Advance Register)


You can't tell what they'll do next
1t seems that masculine pickets "a
round strike-bound Los Angeles plant
ran into women trouble or women
trouble ran into them. The ladies, an
nouncing themselves as wives of the
strikers, showed up to picket the pickets.
Sample signs:
How about the car payment?"
walking picket line won't feed the
children
My husband is one of those damn
fools -
The picketed pickets, who probably
would have faced boldly any other form
of interference, promptly wavered and
yelled for the cops. The police, also be-
ing men-or perhaps because the ladies
weren't entitled to picket, not being on
official strike themseves-rescued the
men pickets by ordering the women to
disperse But several of those pickets
likely have been rendered gun-shy for
life.
Truly, the wives union" is the old
est and most potent of all unions. And
with the ladies on the war path, even
Harry Bridges had better pull in his
chin and keep peace-unless he has the
temerity TO defy the wives union!
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-11
Willis Thornton's Editorial on:
Means of Danzig Settlement at Hand

to cooperate in finding a solu'ioil
which will give each party nlose Vi
what he wants.
Failure to make use of the league
commissioner on the spot at DAN
zig will show the world that wilae
is desired is not a just solution, but
an excuse for doing something else
that has nothing to do with the
actual needs or rights of the parties
involved.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-11
Photographs

The population of England and
Wales include twice as many old
women as old men.
Among the largest necklaces
in the world are emmense ones
made of strands of roots ana cane
worn by women of Angola, West
Africa.
A permanent memorial is being
planned in England for Lord Bea-
eonfield, known better as Disraeli
on the estate on which he lived.
A color blind person sees bet
ter in the da-' than person
with normal vision.
When ostrich tips were fash
ionable for trimming Women's
hats, they were sold at auctions in
the same manner as fur.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-11

Let me tell you
how a young STU
dent got a, joh
during another
depression. The
depression of 1907.
I met him recently
when l was lee
turing in Wichita
Kansas. He is pro-
fessor' of psyche
logy at the Uni
verSity of Wichita
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-11
Barbs

FED up with Yankee and Giant
victories. New Workers are turning
to Brooklyn for baseball 1t isn't
lust that the Dodgers lose. now and
teen. It's the entertaining way they
40 Il.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-11
Dale
u / ~


You young college students
how are you going about getting
JOB this summer? How are yor
flaming to raise money to go
back to school this autumn?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-11

Both Germany ana Poland nave
claims in Danzig. The Germans have
claim to the city based on the fact
that most of its people are German
and presumably would like to come
under the German system. The Poles
have claim based on the fact
that their country must have free
access to the Baltic.
Very we'll, Are these claims mu-
tually exclusive?
Is there no way in which Ger
many could have Danzig, yet Po-
land be assured Of a free outlet TO
the Baltic for its growing CONNER
ce? There must be such a way,
given the merest shred of the will
to find it.
The Poles have developed their
own port city of Gdynia on the
Baltic. What they need is assurance
of the use of that port, equal as
surance with Germany that they
can use the Vestula basin which
runs up through the neutralized
corridor to the open Baltic and
the worlds trade. The Poles have
III large part abandoned Danzig
anyway, as a shipping point. Ger
many claims it wishes only to re-
store Germans to the Reich.
What silly thing TO have war
about Here are two neighbor ma
tons at daggers drawn over the
kind of question that sensible, sane
men are settling every day all over
the world. And here a neutral re-
fierce is ready, willing and anxious
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-11
Grab BaQ-
One-Minute Test

l. What present day city was
known in Roman times as Lu-
tetia?
2. In what Canadian province
is Calgary?
ball team called before 1t was
named the Indians?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-11
TOday's Horoscope

A busy and active year is indi-
Gated for those whose birthday Is
On this date, and moderately good
fortune will be enjoyed They
should, however sageguard their
health. The child born on this
day will be blessed with an even
temperament. and be tenacious and
persistent in obtaining what he
desires, and will be very decided
about those desires.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-11
Hints on Etiuette

In reading a newspaper In n.
crowded conveyance. learn TO fold
oi hold it In such manner tnet
you do not thrust 1t into the faces
of fellow passengers.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-11

Two trucks collided. spilled 10
gallons Of beer on a Colorado
highway. Every pesser-by wanted
to help clear UP the wreckage.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-11
Words of Wisdom

One OF the Godlike things
this world is the venerat on done
to human worth by the hearts of
men-Carlyle.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-11
thoughts for the Day

Rejoice not against me, mine enemy, yhen
fall. shall arise: when sit in darkness, the Lord
shall be light unto me-Mcah rs.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-11

The cacomistle is mixture
of cat and -rodent-about the size
of cat, with a fox face and long,
bushy tail. 1t lives in Mexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-11

One Minute Test Answers
l. Paris.
2. Alberta.
3. The Maps.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-11
Famous Sayings

Whether the Danzig affair comes
to crisis and war, no one yet knows.
But if it does, it is just as well
for the world to remember that
there is not the faintest excuse for
this happening.
The means of a peaceful Danzig
settlement are at hand. Danzig is
an artificial political creation of the
Versailles Treaty, whose admins
tration is in the hands of the
League of Nations.
The leagues commissioner, DR..
Karl Burckhardt, is on hand in that
city. He is a Swiss, and therefore
neutral in the Danzig controversy.
He is a scholarly man, devoted to
peace and justice
Let it be granted that the league
is not what it ought to be, nor even
what it was. Let it be granted that
Germany is no longer member
of the league, and therefore no
longer bound by it.
Nevertheless. not enough Is being
said about the fact that the Danzig
situation can be peaceably settled.
If it is not, it will be because some
body doesn't want to settle it peace
ably.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-11
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF OIL PROTECTION
CHARGES DUE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
THAT
Imperial Valley press., 1939-07-11

Bow-legs are a sign of courage
we read, Is that why some men
dare wear golf knickers?
Evening star., 1939-08-01
Operating Revenue Rises
For Baltimore T.. & P.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


BALTIMORE, Aug. 1.-Operati ting
revenues in June for the Chesapeake
g. Potomac Telephone Co. of Balti-
more City, serving the State of
Maryland, were S1,352458, as COM
pared with S1,245,413 for June of
1888. Operating expenses, including
taxes. were s1,085,760, which was
S84 OCT more than for June of last
yeer. Net income for the month was
1856 6eS.
Taxes for June amounted to s198.-
764. or about Is per cent of the Gus
toners telephone bills, and were
$l5,599 more than for June, 1888.
For the first six months Of 1899
taxes were s1,170209, which was
sl02.706. or about 10 per cent, more
than for the corresponding period
in 1888.
Maryland was served by 271 1853
telephones on June 30, an increase of
16.545 over the number in operation
on June 80, 1888. Telephone users
made more than IS ,452 200 calls dur
ing the month, an increase Of 70 per
cent over those made during June of
last year
Evening star., 1939-08-01
Washington Gas Net
Lower During June;
Up in Half Year
Slump in Cos Sales
And Higher Expenses
Cut Months Profits

The monthly report Of the Wash
ington Gas Light Co. filed today
with the Public Utilities Commits
sion shows operating revenues Of
s520,083 for the month of June COM
pared with $534,915 for June a year
ago. decrease of $14832 as a result
of the somewhat smaller volume Of
gas sales. Operating expenses, in
cluding taxes and uncollectible bills,
amounted to $5l0,1000 this June
compared with SAB, IA for June,
1888, an increase of S66,956 princi-
pally due to the provision made dur
ing June for the new District of Co.
lumbia corporate income tax cover
ing the estimated tax liabilities for
the entire first half of the year.
Incorporating revenues amounted
to SIS 1872, or $6,498 more than June
year ago. Interest and amortiza-
ton was $70,23l for June this year
compared with $80,56O for June last
year, a decrease effected by the bond
refinancing last November.
Due principally to the provisions
for taxes for the full half year, the
final balance for the month was a
deficit of s44,416, compared with net
income of $20.545 in June, 1898, a
decrease of $64,961.
Net income for the first six
months of 1899 amounted to s9Oe,-
1862, compared with s729,080 for the
same period last year, an increase
of s18O,282.
The company reports gas sales of
7O9,677 million cubic feet, or a de-
crease of l8,549 million cubic feet
compared with June a year ago.
There were l54,350 meters in service
as of June 80, 1899, a gain of $3.50
meters over the same date last year.
The report also shows that sub
stantial expenditures are being cur
rently made for extensions to
property. The company expended
approximately $4,000 in improve
ments for the service to customers
for June and over S448,O0O during
the first six months of the current
year.
Evening star., 1939-08-01
Poles Revive Herrinq
And Margarine War
Amid Nazi Threats
Donzig Firms Products
Are Refused Entry in
Customs Dispute
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
FREE CITY OF DANZIG, Aug. /
Revival Of "the herring and mar
garine war" brought threats from
Danzig Nazis today that further
Polish measures against Danzig
trade would compel Danzig to ig-
more treaty provisions placing the
Free City within the Polish Gus
toms administration.
The conflict became bitter after
Polish customs officials moved to
halt shipment of the products of
one Danzig margarine firm into Po-
land, charging violation Of recent
customs arrangements.
Informed Nazis, whose party dom
mates the Free City government,
said this and previous Polish re-
strictions on the margarine and her
ring trade would deprive Danzig of
approximately $5,000,000 worth of
business year.
More Propaganda, Say Poles.
1t was emphasized that the with
drawal of Polish customs officers
from the Danzig margarine concern
Amada- -Unida, indicating that no
approval would be given for exports
Of its product to Poland, came with
out formal notice to the Danzig
Senate.
In Warsaw Polish official circles
said sales of Danzig margarine and
herrings had been subjected to GUS
toms control because the manufac-
turers and shippers had failed to
comply with an understanding that
they would permit inspection OF
their products.
The Danzig reaction to this situ-
alton was termed another phase OF
German propaganda"
A Polish informant said that the
Amada -Unida firm had refused tc
allow Polish customs inspectors tc
inspect its manufacturing methods
and ascertain whether the mar
garine actually was produced In
Danzig or outside.
Espionage Charged.
| NaZi leaders used the occasion tt
revive their old complaint that
Poland had sent to the frontier un.
necessarily large forces Of customs
guards whose real task was espion.
age for the Polish war ministry.
The Danziger Vorposten, Nazi or.
gan, described the Polish action a,
"the beginning of the destruction Of
legal basis of the Free State"
1t added that if such disturbances
of trade continue and if the number
Of Polish guards are not reduced
"the Free State will direct it's trade
to the German market without re.
gard for the former customs frontier
now broken by Poland"
Several weeks ago Polish authori.
ties imposed restrictions on fisf
shipments from the Free City and
with today's action, there were indi.
cations reprisals and counter.
reprisals soon would extend to Ions
list of articles which, according tx
existing trade agreements. are sup.
posed to pass freely over the common
border.
Evening star., 1939-08-01
McGi|I Commodity Index
Shows SIiqht Decline
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special DISPATCH 10 lhe star.
AUBURNDALE, Mass, Aug. L.
The irdex of all commodities COM
pile by the McGill Commodity Serv-
ice, Inc, registered another slight
decline during the fourth week end
ing in July. The decline was due
primarily to lower prices for agri-
cultural products, livestock, coarse
textiles and paint materials. A
checkup of IA individual classical
tions shows that during the week
S advanced, declined and 5 re-
manned unchanged.
The industrial price index has for
all practical purposes moved on a
horizontal course since the first of
the year, this week advancing
slightly over last weeks index due
to higher prices for hides and leath-
er, non-ferrous metals and fine tex
tiles. This advance is in direct align
ment with economic betterment
Preliminary estimates place indus
trial activity for the month of July
at SO as compared with only 81 in
May.
The index for agricultural prod =
ucts declined moderately during the
final week in the month under the
leadership of grains, despite an in
crease in cotton, wool, f1axseed and
butter. While there is every assur-
ance OF adequate foods and feeds
chiefly as a result of the large car
ryover, yet drought conditions are
becoming more pronounced in GER
tain growing sections.
Livestock, the third major group
recorded weakness due to lower
prices for cattle and lambs.
Evening star., 1939-08-01
IDEAL Is Struck
To Manufacture
|Cheop Planes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the associated PreSS.
CHICAGO, Aug. IA deal where
by the Fairchild Engine g. Air
plane Corp, the Haskelite Manu-
featuring Corp. and Howard Hughes,
famous flyer, will collaborate in
manufacturing low-priced airplanes
was announced yesterday by George
r. Meyercord, jr., vice president of
Haskelite Corp.
Following a new pattern Of mold
ing aeronautical parts, Mr.. Meyer
cord said, the manufacturers would
use in the construction of the planes
special product of wood fibers and
synthetic resins fused under heat
and pressure.
I'VE believe this new method OF
making planes will prove cheaper
and better than any other method
ever devised" he averred.
A process of molding fuselages
and aircraft wings, as we'll as non
aviation products, was developed
jointly originally by subsidiary OF
the two corporations under the en-
gineering direction of DR.. Olin H
Basquin and Col. v. E. Clark.
Rights to the process have been
controlled more recently by the
Clark Aircraft Corp. in which the
Fairchild concern has held a mi
nority interest.
Evening star., 1939-08-01
Distribution Costs
In u. 5. Too High,
Survey Declares
Elimination Of Waste
Proposed in Report Of
Twentieth Century Fund
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-Moving
goods from the producer into the
hands Of the consumer costs too
much in the United States, the
Twentieth Century Fund said yes
terday.
The fund, research organization
founded by the late Edward A.
Filene OF Boston, presented the con-
clusions of its Committee on Dis
tribution. headed by Willard T.
Thorp, economic aide to Secretary
Of Commerce Hopkins and director
of research for Dun & Bradstreet.
Elimination of waste was pro-
posed as the way to reduce distri-
button cost.
The research staff, in gathering
facts for the committee, estimated
Wiping out net profits of distribu-
ton all along the line from the pri
mary producer to the consumer
would result in an average saving of
mo more than cents out of every
dollar paid by consumers for fin
ished goods"
Bulk Flows Out Again.
The bulk of the income received
for distribution services. it was
pointed out, flows out again in pay
ment of wages. salaries, rent. taxes,
supplies and other items over which
distributors have little or no control.
Opportunities for savings, the
committee said, rise out of:
l. Duplication of sales efforts, too
many sales outlets, excessive serv-
ices. multitudes of brands and un-
necessary advertlsing-"al caused
by competitive conditions"
2. Unreasonable demands and
misinformed buying by consumers
3. Ignorance of distribution costs
too much zeal for sales volume, poor
management, unwlse pricing.
The committee reported newer
distribution agencies, through the
economies of standardized and
large-scale operation, have proved
the ineficiency of those which
they have displaced
Percentage Figure Lacking.
1t acknowledged it was impossible
to say how much too much" dis
tribution costs the consuming
public.
I'VE can say with confidence" it
continued, that there is waste in
distribution, but we cannot reduce
it to percentage fgure-as a whole
or in any of its parts.
There is little evidence that gen.
eral high profits are being made in
the field of distribution considered
as a whole. Some firms, it is true,
and some of the newer branches of
distribution have been conspicuously
profitable.
But for every outstandingly sue
cessful and profitable organization
there are many that barely break
even and some which operate at a
loss, even in good years. In rela-
lively prosperous 1886. for example,
half of all trading or distribution
corporations in the United States
showed loss on the years opera
tions.
Taking into account both the un-
profitable and the profitable, the
net profits of the entire group of
corporations engaged in trade
amounted to little more than 2 per
cent of their sales"
Evening star., 1939-08-01
Crude Oil Output
Rises 251,581
| Barrels Daily
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TULSA, Aug. with the heavi-
est increase in Texas, daily produc-
ton Of crude oil In the United States
rose ,5S1 barrels to 3,836,753 In
the week ended July 20, the Oil and
Gas Journal said today.
East Texas production was up
74,658 to AT ,654, Texas as a whole
increased 1853 to 1851 ,588. Kansas
gained 1925 to ITO 400 and the Rocky
Mountain area 1920 to $4,000
On the downside were Oklahoma
26,050 to 440,376; Illinois, ALSO to
276,900; Eastern fields, 1900 to
10000; Louisiana, 253 to 275,602;
California, 1000 to COS. $50, and
Michigan, "a to 68,163.
New Mexico was unchanged al
115,940.
Evening star., 1939-08-01
Public Utility Preferreds
Reach New Hiqhs
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW YORK, Aug. Public util-
ity preferred stocks during the past
week continued their steady advance
OF recent weeks to again close at
new highs for the year. according
to the public utility preferred index
of Holt, Rose & Troster.
The index of Is dividend-paying
utility preferred stocks reached a
new 1889 high of 94.78 at the close on
Friday, July %, up 102 points, or
IL per cent above the previous week S
close of 9376 on July 81.
The index of Is non-dividend-
paying utility preferreds also touched
a new high at the week end. closing
at $3.50 on Friday. July 28, to show
gain of 1.9 points, or SO per cent,
over the close of 3440 on July 81.
Evening star., 1939-08-01
18,065,610 Shares Sold
On Exchange In July
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASBoclated Press.
NEW YORK, AUG. 1.-Transac-
tions on the New York Stock Ex-
change in July totaled 1905 $40
shares. compared with 1883 100 in
June, which was the smallest month
ly total since August, 1921.
In July, 1888, during the midyear
boom in trading, volume expanded to
38,773,575 shares.
The month ended today with bond
transactions down to Sl19,475.9OO,
compared with sl26,57OOOO in June
and $178,265 900 in July last year.
Evening star., 1939-08-01
Boston Wool Market

BOSTON, Aug. up Omitted States De-
partment of Agriculture) Bidding was
very slow in the Boston wool market TODAY
Only scattered users were inouiring for
wools and some were bidding lower than
they had been paying in the previous two
Holders however were not inclined to
make concessions to low bidders. Small!
lots OF country-packed three-eighths and
quarter blood bright fleece woods IN mixed
lots were selling occasionally at around 81
cents. In the grease. delivered. Prices
we're UNCHANGED from last week On scat
riteSy Wools.
Evening star., 1939-08-01
CHICAGO Produce
Butter. 934,9s7.

steady: prices unchanged.
Egss, 11,73O; steady; storage-packed
extras. IS; other prices unchanged.
ture) Potatoes. 81; on track. 222; total
United States shipments, 2O7: Nebraska
Cobblers steady; Western stock dull,
slightly weaker undertone; supplies mod
crate; demand slow sacked. per cwt..
Nebraska Bliss Triumphs s5 per cent or
better U. S. No. /, unwashed. few, 1.2O;
Idaho Russet Burbanks, U. S. No. /, under
refrigeration. 200 Bliss Triumphs. U. 8.
No. /, under refrigeration. 1850; oregon
Long Whites, u S. No. / under ice 40
Is; Russet Burbanks. U. 8. No. l, under
ice, 200: Bliss Triumphs, U. 8. No. /.
under ice, 4O-6O.
Evening star., 1939-08-01
Bullock Fund Assets

NEW YORK, Aug. (SpeciaD -
Net asset value of Bullock Fund, Ltd,
was equal to $12064 per share on
l52,9l7 shares outstanding on June
80, 1889, compared with $3.50 per
share on 149,073 shares outstanding
on December 81, 1888. Total assets
with investments at market were
Sl,853,868 on June 80 and 1880, ,495
on December 81, 1888. Net income,
excluding s78,237 losses on sales of
securities, was S16,729 in the first
six months of 1889 as compared with
Sl5,462 in the corresponding 1888
period.
Evening star., 1939-08-01
Western Auto Supply,

The Western Auto Supply Co. OF
Missouri for the second quarter re-
ported net profit of SS42 1889, equal
to SLIP a common share, compared
with $464.697, or 81 cents a share, in
the comparable period last year.
The latest profit. it was noted, was
figured without allowance for ap-
proximately $4,000 in chain store
taxes which are being contested in
the courts.