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Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-16
THE TROUBLE WITH
WENDELL [. WIllKIE

Wendell WILKES biggest handicap in
the national campaign is that he talks
like a common man and tells the truth as
he sees it.
"All right, this is Cicero. To hell with
Chicago" he said the other day when
someone in the crowd to which he was
making a platform speech corrected him
after he started a speech with the words,
"Here in Chicago :" Cicero is on the
outskirts of Chicago, but like all such
communities, is jealous of its separate
identity.
Now, most any man would have said
the same thing, in the same friendly way,
with the same absence of any real mean
ing. Most any average man, that is. But
not politician. A politician would have
attempted to assuage the people of Cic-
ero and at the same time drip words of
honeyed sweetness for the people of Chi
cago.
"I can't promise you the moon," Will
kie said on another occasion. No politi-
clan would have admitted to such
statement He would have promised, just
as a political gesture.
I'm against the Smith amendment to
the conscription BILL Willkie said at still
another time. Most sensible persons are
against it, but the politicians have been
afraid to admit that they do not favor it.
Il don't want the votes OF those VINO
preach prejudice and hatred" That was
another Willkie statement. A politician
would have been smart enough to keep
quiet, on the theory that a vote is VOTE
regardless of where it comes from. pres
ident Roosevelt, the nations outstand-
ing politician, has never repudiated any
kind of a vote, from any source. He well
comes them all.)
That's the big trouble with Wendell
Willkie, candidate He is not politi-
clan. If he doesn't agree with the people
in his own party, he says so. If he does
mt agree with those in another party, he
says so. If he is defeated in November,
it will be because he made the terrible
political mistake of telling the people
what he thinks-not what he thinks they
want him to think
Personally, we're all for him. We'd
like to see president who leads public
opinion for change, instead of one who
changes his views whenever it is polite
to do so. We'd like to see a man elected
president who says what he believes dur
ing the campaign, instead of trying to
hide it until the campaign is over.
We'd like to see somebody in the White
House who is not a politician first and
president second.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-16
by Bruce Cation
The Inside Track in Washington

be ready until some time this win
ter.
If the war should choke off the
existing rubber supply within the
next year or so, none of this will
be of any use in the emergency.
What the experts have in mind is
effect on the world rubber market
a long-range program which prob
ably couldn't begin to have an
for eight. or 10 years.
COST WOULD
BE LOWERED
What it could do then, however
would be plenty.
British and Dutch growers, Sc
cure in their monopoly, have let
themselves get stuck with what in
dustry would call an obsolete plant.
Production on their Far Eastern
plantations generally runs between
200 and 400 pour.ds per acre. New
strains giving much greater yields
have been developed. but since it
takes a good five years to get q
new plantation into production, the
Far Eastern growers have gone
along with the old low-yield strains.
In the New World, however, the
story would be different. Once the
best soils and climates were found,
and the proper disease-resistant
varieties of rubber tree selected,
the Latin American plantations
could start from scratch with yields
of around 1900 pounds per acre.
Best guess right now is that the
Latins could sell profitably at 10
cents a pound-as compared with
the current level of around 20 cents
for the Far East.
A goc1 deal of research of New
World rubber possibilities has al
ready been done-chiefly by Good
year, with stations in Costa Ri
ca and Parama, and by Ford with
plantation in Brizal Until June
t lie Department Of Agriculture
could do little more than keep in
touch with what these privately
employed experts were doing; now.
however, with plenty of money
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-16
by Paul Harrison -.
Hollywood $ Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

ish gal who ran restaurant deal
ing out lots of food but no favors
whatever to the predatory pioneers
However, Miss Hasso wouldn't play
the role like some She-Viking with
a cleaver- -brOadsword at her belt.
The actress is too warm a person.
atty
The dark red hair helps, of course,
yet there's nothing about her that
reminds you of her anemic and
pale-spirited countrywoman, Greta
Garbo. There's nothing flaccid about
her handshake or frigid in her grin,
and she's enviably equipped for
grinning. If she resembles anybody
hereabout, tits Steffi Duna.
PLAYED MOLIERE
AT IL
Miss Hasso haSso little accent
and gallops along so smoothly in
conversation that her idioimatic
Erackups seem especially funny.
She'll stop on a syllable and grope
around in utter confusion for some
little expression like time after
time" or sure of myself
I don't know why all studios try
to represent their foreign players
as linguistic geniuses who mastered
English by talking with the steward
ess on the plane coming from New
York. Miss Hasso is no exception,
although she didn't come by way of
New York. She came from Stock
holm through Russia, Manchukuo.
Japan, Manila, Honolulu and San
Francisco, and is supposed to have
learned English en- route.
The trip helped, of course. She
had a month to study in Japan
while waiting for steamer reserva-
ton. But she also won a scholar
ship for drama study in London
several years ago.
American talkies aided her, too.
Miss HasSo has seen most of them,
even though she has favored the
stage ever since she stepped into q
Moliere play at Il, That was to
have been a brief engagement, in
cidentally. but Just then good luck
came along in the disguise of fl
nancial ruin for her family. Signe
had to go on working.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-16
zOUR COUNTRY

for individuals than total subJuga-
ton TO their tools. In America
people have continued to kee p
mans character in command OF ms
material The most Intellectual eX-
pertinent of the New Deal, the most
passionate protest of the reactlon-
ary. are both, in essence, express
sions of that one, single human way
of life. To ask ourselves now for
a statement Of the American case
is to show some absorption OF the
poisons being force-fed to US. There
has raver been any other case Tor
man than democracy.
In that clear certainly we will
maintain ourselves. Since it is
wiser to seize lunatics that to build
barricades against them, we Will
establish upon the land that is
ours, not merely fortress, but a
great base from which to strike
every mania at its source. Human
reason has not yet prevailed, there
fore our arms must. We will give
to this effort our brains, our blood
our treasure, because to do 50 is TO
conduct with dignity the painful
process of our revolution and To
achieve one further step n reanzlne
mans unshakeable self-confidence
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-16
BY PHILIP WYIIE--


Author of "The Murderer invis-
ibIe." "The Big Ones Get Away"
etc.
A nation is no different from an
individual. It's nature is COM
posite of human natures, whether
its policies are expressed by one
man or by all. People associated
in states cannot long maintain eth
er subhuman or superhuman ap-
pearanceS. In a restless effort to
make a better world, mankind has
often tried to invent and impose
upon himself a government Su-
perior TO himself. Such boot-strap
lifting has ended inevitably in fail
ure because of the nature OF us
all.
We have hiterto guessed lnStlnc-
lively, and now we can show scien-
tifically, that to be in harmony
with an environment, each indlvi-
dual must be able to exercise GER
tain biological functions. He must
have a purpose that is not out OF
reach of his particular capacities
He must be free to make his own
choices. Such freedom can only
come from an intrepid inspection OF
all motives, lofty and base, cerebral
and animal. Those are the ele-
mental conditions for one man
and thus for many. They form the
basis of our Constitution.
Many nations have now gone
mad for the same reasons that
drive individuals crazy; frustration,
defeat, avarice. vengeance, delu-
Sions of grandeur, and SO on.
FaSciSm and Communism are not
revolutions" They are escapes
the same escapes which rob indi-
VidualS of their reason by not
taking into consideration all the
actualities of human living. Fascism
is an attempt to compel economic
order from a minority down. COM
munism, to compel it from the
masses up. But man does not live by
economies alone.
The duped radicals among our
youths and the pension-salivating
morons among our old people ma
lively imagine that man can be
legislated into being someone else
So do many other reckless nit
wits. But every attempt TO outlaw
a frailty of the human species, or
to administer a synthetic virtue in
TO it, has run through immemorial
phases of enthusiasm, dictatorial
enforcement" and deDacle. We
remain. neither black nor white,
left nor right, but an evolving
breed that is at once both altruistic
and competitive.
In these terrible weeks we 'dimly
see why most of mankind is SO
dissatisfied. His new forward step
the machine-has given him so
much so quickly and with such a
tangle Of illogical distribution that
it has made him variously SNUG,
spellbound, submerged, and desper-
ate. Some men have decided ma
chinery is a god and invented Com
munism for its universal worship
The Nazis have iconized science into
devil worship ard set out TO destroy
with it. They have no better plan
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-16
BY PAUL HARRISON

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, Sept 13.-As De-
putty Commissioner of the Depart
ment of Glamor, Wham, Zowie and
Umph, it is my pleasure to announce
the arrival here of red-headed
trick named Signe Hasso, She's
Swedish. "Signe" means "bless you"
"Hasso" seems to be just a name,
like Stiernhielm or Gustavsen, ex-
cept that it locks better on the
marquee.
Hollywood has been trying to
get Signe Hasso over here for five
years, or ever since she was 20
and already an established stage
favorite of the fjord and smorgas-
bord regions. Metro and 20th-F Fox
started the bidding. She was i'm
pressed, naturally, but she had a
husband and brand-new son who
were not.
Her husband, besides being an
artist and director, is a cinema
scientist who has invented several
important camera contraptions Any
way, he knows a lot about the mo-
vie business, and he told her not
to be in a hurry about listening to
Hollywood. He even kept her out
of Swedish films until she was able
to enter them at the top, as a
theater celebrity.
ON LINE FOR
SEVEN PICTURES
When it finally was decided that
she should come here, RKO was the
studio she chose. Her contract isn't
the sort of excursion ticket on
which score or so of foreign cuties
their ballyhoo by doing a couple
of bit parts before fading out again
Miss Hasso is on the blotted line
for seven pictures in four years
and with four months of each year
free for return to the Swedish
stage or studios.
What the seven pictures will be
is anybodys guess. The first one
may be super r-Western-the re-
cent Clarence Buddington Kelland
yarn about the founding of Phoenix
Ariz., and reclamation of the des-
ert, Miss Hasso would be the Swed-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-16

WASHINGTON, Sept. l6. - Al
lost sight Of in the press Of more
spectacular happenings. the govern
ment's drive to re-establish the rub
Der growing industry in Latin Am
erica may eventually rate as ore
of the most important events Of
the year.
Launched as part of the hemis-
phere defense program, the venture
is really one which the Agricul-
ture Department has been plugging
for 20 years. If completed along
the lines now projected, it would
rot merely mean strategically safe
source for u. S. rubber import; it
would break the Anglo-Dutch Far
Eastern rubber monopoly and cut
Uncle Sans annual rubber bill in
half.
incidentally, it would probably
mean more exports for the United
States, by vastly increasing Latin
Americas purchasing power.
PERENNIAL
REQUEST GRANTED
Every year for a long time the
Agriculture Department has been
asking Congress to finance the eX-
perimental and research work
which must be done before the
industry car be re-established in
the new word Each year Con-
gress has turned the request down
This year. however, the request
came up just after the conquest
of Holland, when Congress was be-
ginning to worry about the future
of the Dutch East Indies and the
Malay peninsula, when 80 per cent
of the U. s. ru0oer supply now
comes. So S500,00 was voted, and
the department went to work.
Three research expeditions are
now in the field; one along the
Amazon and two ranging fro m
Colombia to Yucatan. Local gov
ernments are giving full coopera-
ton and are chipping in TO defray
various local expenses. Reports
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-16

Doctors advise keeping the feet
on the floor during moments of
nervous tension. Excellent advice
10 the guy behind you when his
side has the ball on the one yard
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-16
THOUGHTS for the Day

And charged your judges at that time saying Hear
the between your brethren, and judge right
eousy between every man and his brother, and the
stranger that is with hm.-Deuteronomy 1:l6
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-16

Jonathan Daniels sounds a
warning to those who hear only
confusion i'm America, in the
next article of this series on
sour Country"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-16
Famous Sayings

The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in
the heart-We to judge wrong If we do not
feel right-Hazlitt.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-16

Seventh of PA articles Oh
Our Country written eXclu-
sively for NEA Service ana
the POst-Press by the nations
most famous authors.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-16
Did You Know?

Monolith mears a single stone of
large size, shaped into pillar,
statue, or monument
OCCUPANTS of automobiles, espe-
cially those in swift-moving closed
cars. very rarely are struck by
lightning.
The picture of Abraham Lincoln
has appeared on eight different
United States postage stamps.
Pensions for widows of the Revo-
lutonary War were paid up to 1882.
The Thoroughbred Stud Book of
Horses first was published in Eng
land in 1893.
American vanadium production
represents about Is per cent of the
world total, with her consumption
being 25 per cent of the world out
put.
Great Britain turns out three
billion buttons annually in its fac
tories.
Strawberries and raspberrieS are
not berries, while grapes and
oranges are.
The province of New Brunswick
Canada. has 805 manufacturing
plants, with 1852 employees, with
in it's borders.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-16

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
lishcrs Association. National
Editorial Association. Call
fOrnia Newspaper Publish
crS Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-16

Monolith mears a single, stone of
large size, shaped into pillar,
statue, or monument.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-16

The picture of Abraham Lincoln
has appeared on eight different
United States postage stamps.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-16

Pensions for widows of the Revo-
lutionary War were paid up to 1882,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-16

The Thoroughbred Stud Book OF
Horses first was published in Eng.
land in 1893.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-16

Strawberries and raspberries are
not berries, while grapes and
oranges are.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-03-14

was for neutrality, but all his sympathies
were on the side of the Allies, and he was
toying with the idea of entering the con-
flict during the very months that Democra-
tic politicians were urging the voters to re-
elect him because "he kept us out of war"
The people were never asked what they
thought about the matter. Just few men,
any office, discussed and finally decided
this most momentous question. A similar
group could do the same thing today, to-
morrow, or next year.
In other words, the people of this coun-
try have practically no control over the con-
duct of their foreign affairs.
Congressman Louis Ludlow has been
branded a crackpot because he believes
there should be a referendum before the
declaration of war. Certainly, he's not
branded as such by the people who would
be called upon to leave their homes and
families, shoulder rifle, and live in dirt and
fifth, become manned and killed. Those
people are in favor of the idea. The breast
beaters opposed to his plan include the ma
nipulatorS of international policy and poll
tics
Unless some foreign power invades this
hemisphere the people should have some
thing to say about declarations of war. We
can see nothing wrong with the idea. We
advance it as being far better than the pres
ent undemocratic set-up.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-03-14
Damaged Sidewalks
AS A Menace

ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS THE CON-
dition of sidewalks in various parts OF
the city has been brought to our attention.
And on each occasion the broken concrete,
the uprooted bricks and other forms of dam
age have been responsible for an accident
in some shape or other.
Not all of these defective walks are in
the residential districts. They may be
found in front of business properties dis
tinguished by their proximity to the public
square But wherever they may be locat-
ed they constitute a menace to the safety
of pedestrians A turned ankle or the more
serious fracture resulting from fall may
cause loss of time at work or prove dis
advantage in many ways.
Failure to repair these walks can prove
a distinct liability to the property owner
also There is the inevitable right of any
citizen so injured to place his case in the
hands of the courts for redress. So trif-
ling expenditure now in fixing these dam
aged walks may eliminate possible involve
ment of greater spending at later date.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-03-14
County Church
Council Idea Good

A PLEASING NOTE WAS STRUCK LAST
week at the dinner attended by repre-
sentatives of Licking county churches when
the thought was advanced to institute and
put into action a Licking County Council
of Churches. The plan was set into motion
by the appointment of a committee, men,
bers of which will ask county and city
churches to send delegates to meeting to
consider forming such council.
The council will have as it's main object
i've the coordination of all churches regard
less of creed in a variety of purposes. Re-
commended plan of procedure is frequent
meetings of groups representing all sects,
formation of inter-church study classes,
and working in harmony for the success of
all enterprises of interest to local churches
The good that such council can accom-
plish would be beyond assessment Any line
of endeavor that is successful today has
earned a measure of that success through
the coordination of manpower and ideas of
all persons interested in or affected by its
actions. And if it has proved successful
elsewhere it will have similar results if
adapted to the broad field of religion
1t is hoped that the plan will receive the
greatest amount of support possible. With
out doubt, it will have bearing upon more
people than any other that can be called to
mind Churches and what they stand for
have an important part to play in the daily
theater of life They stand now, as always,
head and shoulders above any institution
as molders of character.
Their continued presence is more essen
tial to the cause of Democracy and freedom
than any other influence in our social and
political structure. They are the one place
to which we can turn for consolation when
all others fail.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-03-14
EDITORIAL COMMENT
EDITORS DUTY
TO SUPPLY NEWS

Frequently arguments are
heard whether newspapers mold
public opinion or public opinion
molds newspapers.
A history of the publishing in
dustry would indicate that pub
lie opinion has great deal OF
influence on the press.
A newspaper prints the news
readers want. If it does not it
would soon "fold up Some
times papers are criticized for
devoting space to crime, slander,
war and other unpleasant things
of life. However editors have
long since learned that if they
are to eat they must give the
the public what it wants.
Perhaps in the department of
editorial comment, writer's may
express their opinions even in
contradiction to the public will
and by weight of their rhetori-
cal and imaginative ability get
away with it. How much or how
little such editorials influence
the public mind cannot be deter
mined.
Sometimes there are those
who believe that if newspapers
do not print accounts of events,
such events will not occur. Of
ten. after some occurrence dis
tasteful to them, readers or
friends of a newspaper will ask
the editor to "kill the story"
When the event is unimportant
from a public standpoint and has
little if any news value or will
irreparably injure some innocent
party the editor is usually glad
to accommodate. However if the
incident has public significance
or is of normal news value, the
newspaper man cannot be true to
his trust to keep the facts from
the public.
Just as the town crier in days
of old was obligated to relate
facts without prejudice, so is the
editor bound by the ethics of his
profession to give his readers a
true, impartial and uncolored ac-
count of important happenings
of the day.-Zanesville Times
Signal.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-03-14
From The Files. :.
Of The Newark Leader
5-Y E A r S A G. o = 10
1929 - DECEMBER - 1884
DECEMBER - 1884
MARCH IA. 1880

Charles A. Specs was elected president; J. c.
Brown, vice president; j. E. Husband, secretary,
and Earl Neibarger, treasurer at the organization
meeting of the Independent Grocers and Meat
Dealers Association held in the Courthouse
vention room.
Paul F. Miller, formerly manager of the Will
liam E. Miller Hardware Store, had accepted po-
stion as salesman with the Owens Motor Co.
Contract for the resurfacing of College Hi
Granville, had been awarded the Hawkins Con-
struction Co.
J. A. Black Co. had moved their uptown stores
to the Peoples Market Co. on South Third street.
Dale Stump was named chairman of COM
mittee to extend invitation to the American
Federation of Labor to hold it's annual convention
in Columbus.
MARCH A. 1885
G. l. Burrell, carpenter, had moved from "a
West Stevens street, to a farm on Union Station
road, seven miles west of Newark.
CCC camp, housing 200 young had
been secured for Newark at MoundbuiIders State
Park by Representative William A. Ashbrook. The
project was to have meant the expenditure of at
least 900 in the community
Miss Edna Award was chairman of the COM
mittee arranging the program in connection with
the annual observance of Business and Profession
al Womens Club here.
Civil Engineers of Licking Fairfield and
Knox counties were organized in Newark. Com
mittees from each of the three counties were Sc
lected to draft the bylaws and rules of the or
ganization.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1940-03-14
How America
Got Into War

TWENTY THREE YEARS AFTER THE
United States entered the World War,
the people are being let in on the secret of
just how we were maneuvered into that con-
flict. After careful editing, the contents of
some of the files in the State Department
are being published.
We see Bryan battling for peace until
he lost heart and resigned. Lansing, his
successor, crafty international lawyer
wished to get us in from the start Colonel
House harbored the same design Wilson