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Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07

IN connection with the registration.
Already INSCRIPTIONS persons have
appeared, ready for a suitable fee
TO help aliens through the regis
tration. No help is required except
tlxt which will be freely given
through postoffices. Th. registra-
ton must not be allowed TO open
up profitable source of graft by
preying on ignorance.
Director Harrison is not expect
ing any widespread disclosures of
criminal activities or fifth column
work. He is convinced that the
vast majority of aliens are peaceful
and laW-abiding.
Among the questions asked with
penalty for Willful falsifications3 is
one covering all membership or
activities in clubs, organizations.
and societies. Another covers con-
nection with political activities of
foreign governments.
Persecution and injustice could
easily follow abuse of such infor-
nation, and even of the mere fact
OF registration itself.
On the old Anglo-Saxon prin-
ciple that all are innocent until
proved guilty, all should guard
against jumping 10 conclusions. The
government has instituted the reg
istration. The government is quite
capable of taking any necessary
action on it in an orderly and
legal manner
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07
PREPAREDNESS?

What kind of preparedness is this
in which government that voted billions
of dollars for defense three months ago
has not yet been able to use even small
part of that gigantic fund to re-arm?
What kind of preparedness is it in
which a national administration efforts
for defense are halted against barrier
of rules and regulations which that same
administration, of its own volition, care
ing years?
iIamstrung by taxes and regulations,
bound hand and foot by New Deal red
tape, American inustry is unable, even
though willing, to meet preparedness
needs
No fifth column could do better
job Of slowing down defense
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07
Willis Thornton's Editorial On:
We Learn About Our Aliens

For the first time. the United
States IS going TO get together some
really complete information about
It's aliens
The registration which will begin
Aug. q and close Dec 26 is a
a tremendous undertaking. Per-
haps 100000 residents. non-citi-
aens, will be required to list with
The government basic data about
themselves. including their finger
prints.
Time was when proceeding of
this kind would have been regarded
as smacking too much of European
restriction to fit into the American
picture Scarcely today. Left to it
self the United States would never
lave adopted such a plan. But the
impact Of European tension on the
world has brought about adoption
Of this registry almost without op-
position.
Several things ought 10 be kept
clearly in mind as the day ap-
proaches when all aliens must ap-
pear at one of 1900 registration
centers to leave record of them
selves and their activities.
First, this is no Witeh-hunt. The
definite assurance of Director Earl
G. Harrison has been given that
all loyal aliens will be protected
from unfair attacks or diserimina-
ton The fact that a person must
register IS nothing against him.
Second. there is no eharge or fee
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07
GOING AWAY? GET
YOUR ABSENTEE BALLOT

If you are going to be cut of the val
ley on August 2Sth, date of the Cali
fornia primary, don't let that cause You
to throw away your vote.
Any day between now and August
% you can obtain from County Clerk
w. J. McClelland, or any of his depu-
ties, an absentee ballot which allows you
to MAXI your vote count, even though
you are not within reach of your pre-
cinct on election day.
Never has there been a time in the
history of this country when every vote
counted as it does now Especially is
this true of the votes of intelligent, con-
scientious persons who know the issues
at stake. Democracy, challenged over
two-thirds of the globe, must be made
to work in this country in an efficient,
intelligent manner.
If the people do not vote when they
are entitled to do so, then the onus of
failure rests with them.
No matter where you are going to be
on election day, see that your vote is
e>tered on the records If you're going
to be in the valley, resolve right now
that you will vote. without fail. If you
are going to be out of the valley, get an
absentee ballot-and use it.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07
Uranium Crackers

Compounds of Black
Here are some compound works
starting with the word black. :"
Give a brief definition of each.
|. Black Maria.
2. Black Death.
3. Blackfoot.
4. Black List.
5. Black hole
ANSWERS
|. Black Maria: A closed wagon
or truck in which prisoners are
taken to and from a jail. patrol
wagon
2. Black Death: A particularly
virulent plague which ravaged Asia
and Europe in the 14th century,
in some cases taking as much as
two-thirds of the population.
3. Blackfoot: An Indian of the
Algonquin tribe formerly inhabit-
ing the region between the Upper
Missouri and the Saskatchewan.
4. Black list: A list of persons
thought deserving of censure, pun
ishment, or adverse discrimination
5. Black Hole: A tiny cell in Cal
cutta in which 146 English prisoners
were thrust one night in 1756. Heat
and lack of air killed 123 of them
before morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07
Bruce Cation in Washmqton
Dissects the News

Canadian troop ships be used to
bring the children over on their
return voyages. OBJECTION voiced
here is that the Germans might
well consider such ships fair tar
gets for torpedoes, even if they
did agree to the general principle
of letting the mercy ships come
through -unScathed.
For that matter, no one knows
whether any kind of agreement
can be had from the Germans;
lacking it, the isolationists in House
and Senate are almost certain to
oppose the plan, on the theory that
the country would be too likely to
get into the war if an American
flag liner full of little children
should be sunk.
On top of this, even the 100000
children who are already registered
are but a fraction of the eight or
ten million British youngsters
whose parents might want them
over to safety.
WHAT WILL
MIR. HITLER SAY?
Despite the obstacles. the work
of preparing to receive the children
is being pushed. Both State and
Justice Departments are cooperat-
ing. A committee. headed by Mar
shall Field, is handling the whole
complicated job of finding homes
and financial sponsors for the chill
.dren, and is undertaking to meet
the Youngsters as they arrive and
get them to their destinations.
Working with the committee, al
SO. is the Childrens Bureau of the
Labor Department Every home Cho-
sen TO receive a child must get
the bureaus okay.
Next step is up to Congress.
Congress is ready to help; but it
would like to know just what Mr..
Hitler is going TO have to say about
the whole scheme. if possible, be-
fore committing itself.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07
DON'T GIVE UP TOO MUCH

In debate on bill to allow wire tap
ping by federal agents who are on the
trail of spies, saboteurs, traitors and
neutrality law violators, the committee
which recommended its passage remark
ed that "some sacrifices must be made.
Some rights may have to be yielded"
Some sacrifices-many of them, in
fact-must be made.
Some things that have come to be
regarded as rights must be yielded, too.
That also is true
But every American should, for that
reason, be more than ever alert to safe
guard those real rights which are the
very foundation of democracy. Free
speech, freedom of the press, freedom
of worschip, freedom of action. Those
rights should never, under any condi-
tions, be surrendered.
Let us remember always that Musso-
lini led his people along the road to
dictatorship by convincing them that
"some rights must be Yielded for the
good of the nation Hitler did the same
thing. And the people of Italy and Ger
many yielded "some rights willingly
and gladly. Then they yielded more
rights, and more. Now they have none.
Let us pray God that we never be-
come so subject to mass hysteria, to
fear, to political oratory, or to admira-
tion of any one man, that we willingly
yield our rights without questioning why,
and whittier.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07
BY PAUL HARRISON

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 6-Equipped
with a Peek-a-Boo Portable Dicto-
graph, and parachute for emerg-
ency eavesdropping, your observer
has been investigating the Little
Oomphie Annie Sheridan George
Brent romance. The following report
may prove hcartening to many
hopeful fans:
Last Thursday at approximately
1890 a. M, your investigator heard
Mr.. Brent remark to Miss Sheridan
that he didn't know what he would
do without her Miss Sheridan then
said, II know one thing you can
do with me- and to his somewhat
naive inquqiry of WHAT" she re-
piled, Get married" After some
incidental conversation, the couple
embraced and kissed.
Later in the afternoon and sew
eral times during the following
clay they repeatedly embraced and
kissed, under variety of circum-
stances. On Saturday, morning there
was evidence of disagreement.
'Anne, darling said Mr.. Brent.
attempting to take Miss Sheridan
in his arms, you know you're The
only Miss S interrupted by slap
ping his face. Director -Eioyd-Ba-
con barked "No, no-try it again!
It's funny how much better you
two are in love scenes than in
fight scenes"
ON THE TRAIL
OF ROMANCE
Your operative now realized that
for three days he had been watch
ing Mr.. Brent and Miss Sheridan
working in a picture called Honey
moon for Three. My only excuse
for the oversight is that. the kissing
and empracing seemed quite real
although I do recall now that be-
tween these demonstrative episodes
the principals addressed each other
as Butch" and Red, and that
Miss S once threatened to break
Mr.. BIS - Irish neck if he
didn't stop ad libbing and making
her blow up in her linSe
I then tried a more direct ap-
proach for my investigation. query
ing the two stars about whether
they were really in love. and what
of it, and how would guy go about
courting an oomph-g girl, anyway.
Miss S. a friendly creature who
usually talks freely on almost any
subject, displayed what I should
term suspicious reluctance. Her
only coherent admission was that
Mr.. B provides her with more laguhs
than aybody she ever met. Brent,
in turn, was scarcely more commun-
icative He said, "Well she's lotta
fun
Hollywood investigators have
found, invariably, that people who
talk about each other are not in
love. But when a skilled actor
grows fIustered and mumbies, We'll
she's a lotta fun" he's hearing we'd
ding bells.
Since the pair are co-Starring in
a zippy farce, it is fair to wonder
whether this might be one of those
publicity romances arranged by
studios. WITHOUT such encourage
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07
Paul harrison's S Notes
On HOLLYWOOD S FoibIes and Fads

ment, Brent usually has been at
tentive offstaye to his leading ladies.
But these principals began going
together long before they ever
worked in a picture. Last January,
he said.
BRENT BUYS ~
OOMPH-BOAT
Miss S and Mr.. B intimated that
they expect to wait while and
see how it endures. If, after making
love all day in Honeymoon for
Three" they can go out openings
and still find the romantic spark,
then it must be the real thing.
This investigator believes the most
significant development so far is
that Mr.. B. has become quite
docile about going around the night
spots and actually has been seen
tossing a hip in the rhumba.
On her part, Miss S has become
nautical-minded She and Brent go
sailing on most week-ends. He has
bought an 85-foot boat which has
been costing $4,000 month in up
keep. That's one way to court an
Oomph Girl.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
NJ. a. No. 053083
District Land Office
Ios AnpoIec CaIifarnia

June z. 1910
Notice is hereby given that The
Tycrete Chemical Corporation, by
Louis A. Tyce. president, of Chula
Vista, California, has made appli-
cation for patent to the White
Crystal No. l placer mining claim.
embracing E1k SEH NEA Sec. 16
and White Crystal No. 2 placer
mining claim, embracing SWh NWA
NWH Sec. Is: SEA NEH NEA Sec.
16 all in T. II S., r. 9 E. SBM
containing 40 acres, in the Ell Cen
tro Mining District, Imperial Coun-
ty, California. There are no ad-
joining or conflicting claims. The
location notices are recorded in
Book 359, page 148 and Book 358,
page 195, and amended notices are
recorded in Book 460 page 488.
Book 460. page 489. and Book 48i.
page 563, official records of Imper-
ial County, California.
PAUL, II. WITMER,
Register.
T 00 4xxaIA
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07

WASHINGTON. Aug. I'm spite
of everything being done to make
possible the mass evacuation to the
United States of British children,
it is extremely unlikely that more
than a very small fraction of the
youngsters in England can be
drought over here.
The obstacles in the Way-both
material and otherwise-are for
! kmidable.
What car. be done is being done.
1.-THE House Foreign Affairs commit
Etee has given favorable report to
a bill to modify the neutrality law
SO as to let U. S. flag mercy ships
call at British ports to get the
1 children. The u. S. committee for
the Care of European Children,
with the cooperation of three gov
ernment departments. is preparing
to see that every child who can
| get over here may be placed in. a
good home A great deal of the
i red tape connected with visaS and
passports has been shipped, and the
old quota restrictions no longer
stand in the way.
Nevertheless. the problem hasn't
been. solved yet by long shot.
NOT ENOUGH
SHIPS AVAILABLE
Foremost is the problem of ship
|ping. The U. S. Maritime Commits
sion is ready TO put its three big
|gest passenger vessels-the Ameri
lea. Warrington. and Manhattan
Into service. Between them. these
three ships could carry about 5000
|ehildren per round trip. British
shipping to carry about $500 more
lis also available.
But there are already 200 900
|children registered as in need of
transportation. Bringing them over
at the rate of $500 every three
weeks would hardly be scratching
the surface.
One suggestion has been that
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
LEGALN ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPEKrOKNcOtKT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY

THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY
OF IMPERIAL.
No. 3117
Notice of Petition to Encutnber
Real Property
IN THE MATTER OF THE BS-
TATE AND. GUARDIANSHIP OF
RAMON SANCHEZ, AN INCOM-
PErENT PERSON.
. NOTICE us HEREBY GIVEN
that Marano Guizar as guardian.
of Ramon Sanchez, incompetent,
has filed his verified petition pray
ing for an order authorizing en-
cumbering the real property here
matter described by giving a deed
of trust thereon and that Friday
the 9th day. of August, 1940, at
IL o'clock A. M, in the. Superior
Court of the State of California,
in and for the county of Imperial
in Department I. thereof, has been
fixed as the time and place for
hearing said petition when and
where any persons interested liiv
said estate may appear and object
to granting said petition.
Reference lis hereby made to
said petition for further particu-
lars as to the terms and conditions
of the proposed eneumbranoe.
Said real property is situated in
the City of Ell, Centro, County of
Imperial, State of California, and
particularly described as:
Lot 6 of Block 18 of the Town
Man sIte %o of 81 oe9tfG a fo az aec25d9g to
of the County Recorder of San
Diego County.
w. j. McCbELLAND, County
Clerk and Clerk of said SUI
perior Court.
BY M. A. Christian, Deputy
Aug. 6th-15 inc.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07

We are not at war, although every
thing that is being done seems to be
based on the theory that we are, or
that we will be at any moment-Com-
mander Raymond J. Kelly, American
Legion
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07
Famous Sayings

Let us pray God that He would root out of our
hearts everything of our planting and set out
there, with His own hand the tree of life bearing
all manner of frutS.-Feneon.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07

I'll have my office in an airplane
most of the time.-Brig Gen. Leslie J.
McNair, in charge of newly-created
Army General Hearquarters.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07
Did You Know?

Six to eight times it own weight
in leaves can be eaten by cater
pillar in a single day
When diving, bearded seals OF
the Arctic regions turn complete
Somersault.
The average rainfall on the earth
is about Is million tons a second.
Eggs are laid at the rate of 760
every second by the hens in the
United States.
The ocean contains enough salt
to make a continent Az times
as large as Europe.
In England, lemonade is known
as lemon squash
The women of Mongolia take
pride in their permanent mud huts
Eggs are wrapped in banana
leaves to keep them cool in Vene-
zuela.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07

No offense to any, but respect
from all should be the motive ofA
the united AlI-American trade bloc.
Edward L. Noble, undersecretary
of commerce, to the National
Foreign Trade Convention.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07

Aviation is the forward pass of war
fare.-Rear Admiral John H. Towers,
chief, Bureau of Naval Aeronautics.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub.
fishers Association. Natfonal
Editorial Association. Cali
fornia Newspaper Publish
crs Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07
Thoughts For The Day

And it shall be righteousness, if we observe
to do all these commandments before the Lord our
God, he hath commanded us.-Deuteronomy 6:25.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07

The women of Mongolia take
pride in their permanent mud huts
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-07

In England. lemonade is known
as lemon squash
Evening star., 1940-08-11

Poetry of the past seldom occupies Mar
shalls leisure hours; he prefers studying the
military scientists, reading history, hard
riding and surf fishing at his summer home
on Fire Island, near New York's famous
Jones Beach. But he does not need an interest
in poetry to set him off from the average run
of military men. If the opinion of his COL
leagues means anything, Marshall is one of
the best specimens of the best type of Amer
ican army officer.
Certainly he is reassauing fellow to find
in charge of the army of great democracy
in perilous time. A lean, graying six-footer,
with sharp blue eyes and an agreeably busi-
nesslike manner, he is severely practical in
method and firm cutter of red tape. He is
also enough of an Intellectual to be in con-
slant touch with the changes in military
theory; when the German campaign in
France and Flanders put to final test the
theories of recent years, he was ready to make
the indicated readjustments in the army pro-
gram without doubling or delay. Hard-work-
ing himself, he demands hard work from his
subordinates, yet has the diplomatist's ability
u OCdl Will O1lC1 ulClA llAdI d 1uSu-I 0lAnIAk
officer badly needs. If he has serious fault,
it is his dislike for the grandiose, which has
sometimes led him to plan with less boldness
than the mgencies of the time require. But
the main point is that once he has decided
what things need doing, Marshall is man
who gets them done.
Fate seems to have chosen him for soldier
A. u II
he was still little boy, and accomplished his
Evening star., 1940-08-11

army posts remain, simply because each little
fort is rich source of income to its s,frround-
ing district. Consequently Senators and Rep
resentatives buzz like angry hornets at sug-
gestions that posts in their districts be
abandoned for the sake of centralization, and
consequently also, our troops have long failed
to get the slightest experience in anything
vaguely resembling wartime duty, while our
commanding officers have been permitted to
master such essential arts as troop movement
in theory only.
Insuperable obstacles seemed to stand in
the way of change. Because of the army post
system, the Army boasted only one division
worthy of the name Another 'at least had a
history" as Marshall grimly remarked; but
the rest were mere hodgepodges of unrelated
small units. Artillery, transport, rifles and
many other necessities of field service were
lacking. Men were badly needed, and 50 was
money. Furthermore, many of Marshall's S
wisest colleagues had glumly concluded that
this state of affairs was inevitable, and when
he proposed immediate change they solemnly
warned him he was oourting disaster. Marshall
ignored them, went to the President, obtained
the needed authorization, created new divi-
sions out of chaos blandished manufacturers
into giving him equipment promptly, and
managed this winter to put 10000 men in the
field for mass maneuvers. The mimic warfare
that ragged through the South was the first
ever staged in peacetime in the United States.
BY staging it, Marshall proved his power to
overcome traditionalism and inertia, which
are the worst Affections of the military mind.
Showed Shortcomings
IT WAS successful experiment" said
Marshall, when it was all over and troops
and general had gone home, sadder and wiser
men. 1T showed us our shortcomings, and l
think it convinced Congress that the Army
needs these little demonstrations regularly"
The Southern maneuvers were, of course,
no more than the initial stage of Marshalls
task They whipped the existing army into
shape to undertake any immediate mission.
Now Marshall must plan calmly and intel
ligently for tremendous expansion of the
existing army. The extent of the expansion
will be dictated by the course of events abroad.
If worst comes to worst, the calculations of
the Army's War Plans division call for
standing force of 10000 men, trained re-
serve of 2,5OO,000 and an air force of some
10000 planes. Under the circumstances, if
Marshall were addicted to poetry, he would
be inclined to repeat daily old Andrew
Marvell's couplet:
But at my back always hear
Times winged chariot h,urying near"
Evening star., 1940-08-11

~HE hideous months of May and June,
1910, should hardly have been needed
- to prove the vital importance of mech
anization in modern warfare. Yet they were.
The crack British cavalry regiments, for ex-
ample, had bitterly resisted all efforts to take
their horses from them and it was only on the
very eve of the second world war that they
were finally forced to mechanic. Even after
the war had started, certain regiments still
proudly wore their spurs when not on duty,
and used the nostalgia command Water your
horses" when it came time to refuel their
machines.
That is the sort of thing which spells defeat
in battle And that is the sort of thing which
is now being rooted out of the United States
Army by General George Catlett Marshall,
the tall, pleasant spoken, quietly professional
soldier whom the President promoted over the
heads of thirty-three senior officers to be the
Army's Chief of Staff.
1t is difficult to exaggerate the staggering
dimensions of Marshall's task. Despite the
admirable work of his two most recent
predecessors, Generals Macarthur and Craig,
the army that Marshall took over a little
more than year ago was utterly Inadequate
in every respect except the caliber of its per-
sonnel. 1t was composed of less than 10000
men, with small and imperfectly trained
reserve in the National Guard. 1t was almost
destitute of corps troops - the experts in
such specialties as antiaircraft gunnery who
form the skeleton of any modern fighting
force. 1t was seriously short of innumerable
kinds of equipment. from blankets, uniforms
and field kitchens to tanks, antitank guns and
|smokeless powder. Worst of ALL even its best
equipped units were completely unprepared
to take the field.
These are times of desperate crisis. In the
tragic week before the French surrender
Marshall himself told the graduating class of
his old school, the Virginia Military Institute,
I'VE have been accustomed to liberty, but
after the next few days nobody knows or can
say what kind of world we shall be living in.
With every hour perhaps incalculably pre-
|cious, Marshalls task is to expand the tiny
army until it becomes force at least capable
|of defending the two Americas.
The character of the man is best illustrated
10y the story of the first major step he took
after moving into the Chief of Staff big, bleak
War Department office in July, 1899. There
was simple reason why no part of the Army
was then ready for field service. In the frontier
EZRA, when every advance in the westward
course of empire had to be fought for, the
american countryside became thicidy strewn
with army posts. No scalping redskin now lies
in wait for the peaceful farmer, but the tiny