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Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06
A UNITED NATION
FACES THE WORLD

Today the United States of America
stands, united people, facing the world
in new strength, new power, new assur-
ance that we, the people OF this repup-
lie. are a people who will not be driven
by internal strife.
Our election is over. The people have
spoken, and every person will abide by
the voice of the majority. There VIII
be no looking back, no regrets, no recrl-
limitations.
We NAV criticize in the days to come,
but we will do so as free people, III
earnest effort to strengthen our nation,
not to weaken 1t.
We have elected a president, and he
is the president of all the people lie Is
the chief of state, the man entrusted
with the responsibility of serving the
needs of the people. And as long as he
serves those needs, woe be to the aggres-
sor from foreign soil who mistakes our
internal pickering for a sign OF dlsunlty
Our election is over. Before us lies
such a task as this nation, of all the ma
tions of the world is best fitted to per
form. 1t is a task calling forth the ut
most in unity, the greatest possible de-
gree of unselfishness, the most thorough
cooperation between all elements OF the
national life. 1t is task We will per-
form as united people, serving IN the
ranks with a president chosen by our
own vote.
We must build such a defense machine
as the world has never before seen. We
must give our material aid to the democ-
racies of the world, battling against
terror which, if not stopped, will be
knocking at our door far too soon. We
must rise toward stable prosperity built
on sound basis of private enterprise
There is no room in the discharge of
these duties for any hatreds or distrust
left over from political campaign. We
have fought hard battle. Let the win
ners win with good grace; let the losers
lose gracefully. For today we are Meth
er winners nor losers-we are Ameri-
cans with one purpose. 1t is the preserv-
alton of liberty in the world.
As one people, with one goal, we go
forward from here under the leadership
of Franklin D. Roosevelt, our President.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06

In the late summer of 1914 an Of
ficer two years retired but recalled
in the emergency. came to Leoben,
Austria, to take command of a
platoon of infantry. Though he was
then 80 years old, within matter
of weeks he was on his way to
Galicia to fight the Russians. Plung-
ed thus into the earliest fighting
of the World War was Fritz KrciS-
Ter, great artist of the violin.
Kreisler's military career was rela-
lively short Within a few months
he was invalided out of the SER
vice, his shoulder crushed by a
Cossack cavalrymans horse in a
savage hand-to-hand fight.
A modest little book the following
year told of this artist and war
He had been no little thrilled by the
comradeship, the more colorful as
poets of campaigning that had not
yet settled down to the grim attri-
tional slaughter that was to come
later He was able to sleep in the
field, his cloak drawn about him,
my soul filled with exaltation and
happiness over the beauty around
me-"
True, on later night, he re-
coiled in horror as the Red Cross
parties climbed over piles of bodies
in front of the Austrian trenches
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06
Bruce Cation
In Washington

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. "A legal
battle to re-establish the federal
governments power to police" pri-
mary elections in the states is be-
ing launched by o. John Rogge, as
sistant u S. attorney general.
If Rogges fight should succeed
it would reverse a decision Of nearly
two decades ago and vastly widen
the field in which the government
can operate against vote frauds,
As things stand now, the go
vernment can act against election
crCokedness only in general cleo
tions. In the famous NeWberry case
the Supreme Court ruled the cor
rupt practice act unconstitutional
ir so far as it applied to primaries,
which were held to be purely state
concerns.
Rcgge hopes to get the court to
reverse this ruling, on the ground
that the civil liberties statute
which provides penalties for per-
sons who conSpire to deprive a
citizen of his legal rights-can be
applied to primary elections This
statute, passed shortly after the
Civil War to protect the new civil
rights of southern Negroes, has
been resurrected under the New
Deal and was used effectively in
cleaning up the Kansas City cleo
ton fraud cases.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06
by Willis Thornton -.
Kriesler Looks at War Down the Years

trying to sort out those which still
held life. II felt faint and SICK at
heart" he wrote, land near sWoon-
ing away" But the arrival OF an OLD
officer, Injured to all that, Jerked
him to his feet, and Il regretted
that my artistic education had
over -sharpened and over-strung my
nervous SYSTEM So a great artist
finished his military service, CRATE
full that 1 had been permitted to be
Of any, if ever so little, service TO
my Fatherland.'
The years have passed, Kreisler
is now 65, his Fatherland no longer
exists as such, and another war
desolates the Europe he knew.
Worse, the grace and almost-for-
gotten charm of the Vienna he
breathed exists today only in the
kind of haunting and nostalgia mel
odies that still issue from his pre-
ciouS violin
1T seems that now I am living
only from day to day, from hour
to hour he told Elliott Arnold
of the New York World-Telegram
the other day. There is only one
thing I know. That is the hides
tructability OF music. The world
may surrender itself TO hatred, but
music will outlive the hate. Nothing
can hurt art
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06
INDICTMENT ACCUSES
ELECTION OFFICIALS

Rogge spent some time in Lou
isiana this year attacking vari-
Gus forms of political corruption
Figuring a Democratic nomination
in louisiana is esual to election, he
decided to chance a court test on
the plea that depriving a citizen
of his rights in such primary is
a federal offenSe
The case he brought is an in
dictment against five election Off
cials in the second Louisiana con-
gressional district, in New Orleans.
Charge is that these men phe-
naged vote totals in favor Of T
Hale Boggs, the winning candi-
date.
Carefully Wordcd SO as to get in
under the civil liberties statute
the indictment charges the off
cials conspired to deprive the two
losing candidates, and also those
who voted for them, of their legal
rights.
Lower court in Louisiana threw
the indictment out, sustaining a
defense demurrer which argued
that the federal government can't
touch primaries. Rogge is taking
an appeal direct to the Supreme
Court.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06
DESTRUCTION
AS AN INDUSTRY
wall Street JournaD

Most people are vaguely aware of the
fact that war-making are now the worlds
major industry, but it comes with some
thing of shock to find that materials
essential to war constituted APO OF TINS
country's exports during the II months
ended with August, 1910. Imports OF
such things during the same time showed
far the largest rate Of gains of anything
entering our ports Moreover, it Is clear
that as far as we can see ahead the
boom" in manufacturing and dlStrlbu-
ton which is already under way VII!
have war as its predominant cause. Per
haps nothing could more simply and
briefly describe the present state of the
world than to say that it is devotlng all
its energies and resources to the construc-
ton of things the only use for which Is
destruction of men and things. 1t is not
merely waste but waste to the nth power.
Nothing like it was ever seen IN mans
experience prior to 1914 and the 1914
episode now seems to be no more than
preliminary stage of what was then
Hew and is now giant industry.
1t is not surprising that men whose
business or bent it is to look ahead and
try to foreSee the course OF events are
wondering in what state the world will
find itself when some day the fighting
stops, as stop it must Perhaps here we
have a possible clue to that absence of
any apparent disposition to exploit the
immediate prospects of rising business
in stock speculation and investment,
which has so long been a characteristic
of the security markets. Whatever else
may be said of this state of mind it is
Individually a healthy factor in the stu
alton. for it will help to avert the dan
gers which are inherent in all booms and
inflationary periods 1t may serve to
dispel the fear that "inflation' is as in
vitable as many people profess to be-
lieve
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06
JOB THREATENED
BY .MILLIGAN

Behind-The-Sc aspects of the
case are fully as interesting as
these in the foreground
Rogge is somewhat out of favor
at the Justice Department right
nCW-as witness the recent setting
up of a special unit under Maurice
M Milligan, special assistant 10
the attorney general, to handle
vote fraud cases. That previously
had been strictly Rogge's field.
Should Rogge win this case,
however. it would have the effect
of swinging him back into the
saddle Milligan's sudden rise took
the play away from him. If Rogge
could nail down the governments
right to intervene in primaries he
in turn would take the play away
from Miiligan.
Rumors have been current lately
that Rogge will eventually be re-
placed, presumably by Milligan-
'ometime this winter according to
most predictions. Rogge is said TO
have displeased the administration
during the summer. when in the
middle west he displayed a will
ingness to open fire on Democratic
politicians.
And in Springfield Ill, the other
day. Rogge took the trouble to deny
that high politicians are trying to
sway his conduct Of federal
grand jury there investigating al
legged slush expenditures by public
utility companies 10 influence rates
and regulations
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06
AN END TO CLASS HATRED

One thing above all others stood out
during the presidential campaign just
ended.
The people want no more of class war
fare in this nation. They want unity,
cooperation, mutual effort.
Whether the speaker was Mr.. Roose-
welt or Mr.. Willkie, and no matter where
he spoke, the cheers were loudest and
longest when he pleaded for united
people in a united republic, moving to-
ward one goal.
That is as it should be in democracy
Just as one mans vote is as good as any
other, so should one mans opinions be
as good as any other in pointing out the
way America will go. Just as one mans
labor determines his hire, SO should one
mans ability determine his place in So
ciety. There is no class in America ex-
cept as it is determined by the shortcom-
ings of men. There can be no boundary
lines in a Democracy of which it is said,
'you cannot cross them"
Ours is one of the last remaining ma
tions in the world in which we say, you
can go as far and as high as your ability
will carry you; you are not bound by
birth to be branded as of this class or
that one"
Let us keep it that way.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING
CALLED BY THE DIRECTOR OF
AGRICULTURE, STATE OF CAL
IFOkNIA, UPON PROPOSED
AMENDMENTS TO THE STABIL-
IZATION AND MARKETING PLAN
FOR FLUID MILK, AS AMEND
ED TOGETHER WITH PROPOS-
ED AMENDMENTS TO THE REG
ULATIONS PERTAINING THERE
TO, FOR THE IMPERIAL COUN-
TY MARKETING AREA.
Notice is hereby given that the
Director of Agriculture of the State
of California, acting pursuant to
and by virtue of the authority vest
ed in him by the provisions of
Chapter 10, Division w of the Ag-
ricultural Code, as Amended, has
called a public hearing to be held
in the Grand Jury Room, Court
house, Ell Centre, California, be-
ginning at 1000 A. NJ, Pacific
Standard Time, on November 18,
1910.
The hearing will begin at 1000
A. M. on said date and will be for
the purpose of receiving testimony,
evidence, and amendments relating
to the proposed Departmental
Amendments to the Sterilization
and Marketing Plan for Fluid Milk,
as Amended, together with proposed
Departmental Amendments to the
Regulations pertaining thereto, for
the Imperial County Marketing
Area.
Factual information upon which
said proposed Department Amend
ments were formulated may be in
Spected in the office of the Bureau
OF Markets, Department of Agri-
culture, l25 Tenth Street, Sacra-
mento, California, and results of
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06
DUST BOWL
CHALLENGERS

(Woodland Democrat)
You've heard of the migrant Joads,
who, fleeing the Oklahoma dust bowl,
sought a plot of earth in the Promised
Land and failed.
Now it's time to hear about the dust
bowlers of Oklahoma who refused to
get blown away when the big winds
churned up tons of earth across the Pan
handle and buried their lands and homes
under mantles Of dust.
The other day when that state sought
to peddle 80 tracts of dry, wind-whipped
soil, officials were startled Young farm
ers eagerly snatched up these cheap
tracts of seemingly worthless land. Less
disheartened than their elders, the young
men were anxious to pit their brains and
Drawn against a hostile Nature with all
the new-found methods and weapons
they had acquired at Panhandle college
the dust bowls only center of higher
learning, and one which specializes in
training young farmers new and better
ways of dry farming with all the Weap
ons scientific experiment can devise.
These technical methods won't inter
est the general reader but what may
we'll interest him is the resourceful am
bition of these Young people, undismay
ed by hardships as severe as any which
have ever struck those who till the soil.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

the studies and Investigations made
by the Department will be made
available for inspection at the pub
lie hearing called as aforesaid.
Such information, while obtained
from sources considered reliable, is
in no manner conclusive or binding
upon the Director, and evidence
and testimony presented at said
hearing will be considered in adj
dition to evidence before the Di-
rector on the date Of this notice.
Any additional amendments Of
fered, or briefs filed in opposition
to or in support of the said pro-
posed Departmental Amendments,
must be in triplicate and properly
signed by authorized persons.
A copy of said proposed Amend
mentS to the Sterilization and
Marketing Plan for Fluid Milk, as
Amended, together with proposed
Amendments to the Regulations
pertaining thereto, for the Imperial
County Marketing Area, is being
mailed to all producers, producer
distributors, distributors, vendors,
and retail stores of record with
the Department for said Area. Ad-
ditional copies may be obtained
from the Bureau Of Markets, De-
partment of Agriculture, 1125 Tenth
Street, Sacramento, California.
You are cordially invited to at
tend and participate in this hear
ing.
w. B. Parker
Director of Agriculture
(Signed W.. J. KUHRT
w. j. Kuhrt, Associate
Chief, Bureau of Markets
(Sealed with the Seal
of the State Depart
ment of Agriculturc)
Mt, inc.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 6.-You go
up to Preston Sturges on the set
of Lady Eve" and ask him how
the pictures coming along, and he
SAYS well, he doesn't know, Sturges
wrote the story and is directing it.
and he ought to know, but he isn't
saying much.
You ask him whether it's going to
be as good as The Great McGinty'
or christmas in July" and he's
still pretty vague And to questions
about his future plans he's equal
ly reticent. Then, just as you're
about to give up and try interview
ing a hunk of Statuary on the set,
Sturges may tell you the story
which explains why he won't make
optimistic predictions, He tried it
once and reckonS he must have
used up all his guessing luck with
that one piece of brashness.
A little more than 10 years ago,
Sturges was assistant stage man
ager for the play Frankie and
Johnny" in Chicago. The main
part of my job seemed to be blow
ing an off-stage train WHISTLE he
recalled. But I especially liked it
because it also gave me an oppor-
tunity to act. In the first act,
walked out and said, Thirteen
thousand dollars will change hands
tonight, Johnny and then went on
across the stage and out of the
play"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06
STRAIGHTEN-OUT!

Does complexity of small UNI
paid bills confuse you? Then get
out - this business
like-way. Borrow from us-pay-off
your bills. Have just the one debt
to repay-and repay it to us easily,
over a long period of time if you
wish! Just as business does, when
it sensibly finances its needs. Come
in for a talk!
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06
So They Say

1t is l alone whom history will
judge.
Marshal Petain OF France.
We fight with chopsticks on land
and nothing in the air-or almost
nothing.
Lin Yutang, author just back
from Chungking.
The defense of a nation is no
longer a matter for the exclu-
siVe concern of professional war
riors.
Col Edgar S GorreI. president
Air Transport Association.
As the slogan to explain our aims
in the world, let us take these i'm
mortal words Of Woodrow Wilson:
What we seek is the reign of law
based upon the consent Of the
governed and sustained by the or
ganized opinion OF mankind"
Carrie Chapman Gait. veteran
Women's suffrage worker.
If democracy in our home towns
does not function. then we can
not expect TO maintain it nation
ally.
&. A Dyksira. president. Nation
al Municipal League.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06
A PLAY
IN SIX DAYS

1t seems young Mr. SturgeS had
an idea his combined services were
to be rewarded by a total of S85
a week. His first paycheck was
written for only $65, SO he went to
the manager and complained bit
terly. The next thing he knew he
was standing outside the stage door
wondering where he could find a
job.
1T was the middle of the season
and jobs were scarce he said I'm
fact, there just weren't any at all
So l decided to write play. l
hammered out one in six days l as
sembled the pages, bound them
neatly and told my father, We'll,
I'm going to be rich. And quick"
The elder Sturges told him to
stop dreaming and 90 look for a
nice easy job driving a truck or
something. With a desperate rail-
lying of his low morale, the son
then made a detailed and outrag-
eously cocky prediction. He said:
I'm going to mail this to Brock
Pemberton right now. Today is Fri
day. The play should reach his
office in New York Saturday after
noon. At any rate, it will be there
when he arrives Monday morning
He'll begin looking over his mail
and will see that manuscript. BY
11:30 he should have finished the
second act and he won't wait any
longer. It's an hour later there, so
at II O'Clock Monday morning a
messenger will deliver a telegram
from Pemberton at our front door
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06
by Paul Harrison :.
HOLLYWOOD S Fads, Fancies and Foibles

So he mailed the play, Monday
morning, he parked on the dlVan
in tie living room and gave his
harassed father quarter-hourly re-
ports on just what was happening
in the famous producers office.
AT IL o'clock the doorbell rang, "
Sturges declared. I grinned at my
father. who looked sort OF startled,
and answered it. There was man
in uniform, but it was postman's
uniform. He handed me my manu-
script and said This was returned
for insufficient postage"
WIRE CAME
WEDNESDAY
Sturges was crushed. His father
whooped. He suggested that any
body who couldn't stamp a piece
of mail correctly certainly didn't
know enough to write play. But
SturgeS paid some more postage
and the package went away again
That was Monday On Wednes-
day, at II m, the doorbell rang.
1t was messenger boy with tel
egram The telegram was from
Brock Pemberton, Pemberton had
accepted the play. The play was
Strictly Dishonorable. 1t made
Sturges a small fortune and the
atrical name. 1t was sold to Holly
wood studio and Sturges followed.
The writer director still speaks
of those events in an aWed voice
He says that never since then has
he dared make any Dragging prog
noStication.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06
thoughts for the Day

oh let the wckedness of the wicked come to an end;
but establish the just; for the righteous God trieth
the hearts and reins-PSalms 7:9
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06

1t was smart candidate who gave
campaign cigars to men who don't smoke.
If you're Interested, toy dealers report
the OF jumping rope still is favorite.
If you're not. skip it
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06
Famous Sayings

Well does Heaven take care that no man secures
happiness by crime,-Alfier
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-06
MHMBEE

MHMbEE
American Newspaper Hub-
fishers Association. National
Editorial Association. Call
fornia Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
Evening star., 1940-03-11
Chicago Grain
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, March 11.-Unofficial
and unconfrmed reports of a Russo
Finnish settlement gave the wheat
market mild case of nervousness
today, with prices fuctuating rap
IDLY at times over a range of almost
2 cents.
Gains of a cent or more were re-
corded at one stage but there were
frequent dips of almost a cent be-
low Saturdays closing level and
final prices were only fractionally
higher than the previous finish.
Pessimistic crop reports from the
domestic Southwest accounted for
most of the markets strength.
Wheat closed unchanged to i
higher compared with Saturdays
finish, May. s104ls-3s: July,
sl.0214 -as; corn unchanged to "a
lower; May, 56ss; July, 573s-A;
oats J.. off to "a up.
Cash wheat was unchanged to u
higher; basis steady; shipping sales,
5000 barrels; receipts, IL cars; corn
unchanged to a lower; basis steady
to shade easier; receipts, los cars;
shipping sales, $4,000 bushels;
booked to arrive, $4,000 bushels;
oats unchanged to l cent lower
Evening star., 1940-03-11
Capital Store Sales
11Per Cent Above
1899 in February
Two Months Volume
9.2 Per Cent Ahead
Of Year Ago
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

Department store sales in WASH
ington in February mounted Ill
per cent over February. 1899, the
Federal Reserve Bank OF Richmond
reported today, and in the first two
months of this year scored a gain of
90 per cent.
Retail stores in the whole fifth
district increased II per cent in Feb
ruary over last year and in the two
month period stepped up 10 per
cent. Fifty of the SIS reporting stores
sold more goods last month than a
year ago.
February, 1910, had an additional
business day but this accounted for
only per cent of the II per cent
increase in the months sales. WASH
ington's advance of Ill per cent
compared with an upturn of only IL
per cent last year over February,
1898.
Other cities in the district made
fine sales records. business in Rich
mond being up II per cent. Per-
centage comparisons for February
and the first two months of 1910
with the like 1889 periods follow:
Evening star., 1940-03-11
Capital Bank Loans
Compare FavorabIy
With State Records
Analysis DiseIoses
Generous Lending
In 6-Month Period

Full details covering the loaning
activities of 18 washington banks
in the first half of 1899 are revealed
in a printed report just sent out by
the American Bankers Association
picturing bank-lending activities all
over the country during that period.
The 18 Capital banks answering
the A. B. A. QUESTIONABLE reported
36,132 new loans in the first half of
last year, amounting to $37 ,666, ,754.
The average size of these loans was
$1,042 and the average number of
loans per bank 2,007.
These same banks granted 44,433
renewals for q total of $41, ,0O5, 400,
the average size of the renewals
being for 1923 and the average num-
ber of renewals per bank 2,469. In
addition to this most notable ac-
tivity, Washington banks granted
933 new mortgage loans, amounting
to $4,770,605. The average amount
of these loans was $5,153 and the
average number per bank stood
at So.
Covering the same period, seven
Washington banks supplied infor-
nation on lines of credit outstand-
ing. These banks reported the total
amount granted as $17,189, 900. OF
the total amount available only
$5,813,147, or 1873 per cent, was ac-
tually being used.
The A. B. A. summary shows that
Washington banks have been most
willing and anxious to put out just
as much money as possible in sound
loans. The average size Of new
loans was far ahead of the average
for the majority of the States, the
same being true Of renewals. The
average number Of new mortgage