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Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
BY REX BEACH
Author of "The Spoilers" THE Bar

AutnOr Oh Inc SpOileTS, Iuc DdE-
Iier," alaskan Adventures" etc.
In spite of the fact that de-
mocracy is threatened with eX-
tinction, there is an alarming indif-
ference in this country as to what
it is or what the results of its ex-
tinction may be. Probably that is
because few of us Americans have
taken time out to consider what
the democratic way of life means
to us, either as individuals or as
people, and also because it has been
difficult to get complete picture
of the new order which the dicta-
tors propose to substitute for it.
1t has been hard for us to make
sense out of the meaningless gen.
eralities broadcast by the German
spellbinders or from the hysterical
chief himself but now it is all made
plain. The official mouthpiece Of
the Nazi Labor Front, Doctor Ley,
recently proclaimed that Hitler has
made Germany happy and it now
becomes his irrevocable mission tc
bring Europe and the world to rea-
son and to make them happy, too
We shall see in moment just how
that is to be accomplished.
We are told that the democracies
are weak, inefficient, Senile and
corrupt and that they must make
way for the young, vital. incorrup-
tible peoples. This war is being Wag-
ed for our good; together the Ger
mans and Italians will make us and
all the world as happy as they have
made the Ethiopians, the Czechs
the Poles and Others.
1t may help us to appreciate what
the American idea stands for to out
line the totalitarian scheme. Nov
that 1t finally takes shape, lets
examine Herr Hitler's blueprint and
see how happy 1t will make us. Here
is what he sees:
A German people in undisputcc
mastery not alone of Europe but
also of the entire world a race re-
cognized by all others as superior
and ordained by right of birth tC
rule with an iron hand and tc
rape, rob and despoil by brute forc'
as is now being done in every con-
quered country.
A German Volk with an aristoc
racy of its own. Herren class o
Hitlers, Goerings and Goebbels
chosen to govern lesser German
and the rest of us who are ever
lower down in the human scale: ;
world held in bondage by German
might: a world of sweat-shop ma
tons toiling for their keep.
A German people exercising th,
sole and exclusive right to bea
arms and build engines Of war: tn,
rest of mankind eternally disarmed
disfranchised and doomed to econ
omic slavery.
A German world in which onl
the ruling class will enjoy free ac
cess to culture, literacy and edu
cation, class which will bestoI
upon all other peoples-ours anon
the number-the blessings of litter
acy and the priceless privilege O
serfdom
There's more to it but this is tn
general shape of The apochrypha
vision that came 10 Adolf Hitler a
he sat in solitude reading the star
and gnaWing carrot
The effrontery. the conceit, til
incredible gall of it is astounding
That such a plan could be adopte
and made holy by his 30 million fol
lowers indicates the inflated ego
tiam the pfepoatrrous vanity, Tn
lutileslnes1 aud yalngl0ry Of Tn
German people,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
STAMP PLAN
ONLY STOP-GAP

For about a year,noW, FSCC has
beer, experimenting along that
line-in Shawnee, Okla, where the
food stamps have been made avail
able to all families whose total in
ceme is under Sl9 a week. The
Shawnee experiment has demon
strated that a huge number Of
headaches would be involved ir
any general extension of the. plan
to loW-income groups; family in
comes fluctuate considerably in
that bracket, and a terrific amount
OF case work is necessary.
FSCC has a good deal of evil
derce to show that malnutrition
due to lack of sufficient food in
the depression years is genuine
defense problem. A letter from an
army recruiting officer TO Milo
Perkins, head of FSCC. is cited !:
this officer told of a test enlist
ment campaign in large city re-
Gently. in which rs per cent of the
recruits were rejected for physical
defects, with more than half Of
those rejected showing under
weight.
Nevertheless, there is no pres
ent indication the stamp plan will
De expanded as a defense measure.
on the contrary. there is a coed
chance that it may even be cut
down @onewhai ia oHrtain local
tiles as a result Of The defense pro-
gram,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
.OUR COUNTRY

It is easier for us to understand
the drab doctrine Of Communism
than to grasp the full measure of
this fantastic Teuton dream. Stain
would like to crush capitalism and
kill every owner of bank book but
thus far he has expressed no desire
to swell his own vanity by actually
enslaving the world. Neither has he
proposed to reduce the rest of hu-
manity to level of want lower
than that enjoyed by his own people.
He merely wishes to have us share
with them in the general equality
of destitutiOn.
AS to Fascism, it now appears
to be merely an Italian translation
of the Nazi creed but it is no less
bloody and intolerant. Listen to a
quotation from Popolo d'Italia, Of
ficial sounding board for Hitlers
hired hatchet-man, the pompous
Mussolini.
England must be destroyed! All
the material and spiritual forces of
Europe should unite around Ger
many and Italy for this vital work
of liberatioE, after which Europe
will TRANQUILITY resume her historic
administration of civilization . .
If, later, humanity desires nationally
to solve the British problem, it
should sterilize at least two million
EngliShmen."
Now that it becomes plain how
civilization is to be administered by
the dictatOrs and we realize how far
they propose to go in making us
really happy, it's almost waste of
time to ask what the democratic
idea stands for
Ours isn't perfect political and
social system, nevertheless it is the
best one yet devised. 1t has flaws
and weaknesses, to be sure. but they
are nothing as compared with the
appalling injustices, the monstrous
cruelties of that tyranny proposed
by the madman of Berlin and his
anthropoid ally If you like thai
sort of thing, by all means oppose
the draft, belittlc the emergency
and write your congressman today
to Gelay our defense program. Il
you don't like it, rise up in wratf
and demand that we meet with full
force, both physical and moral, this
menace to everything America
stands for. Do it now, for there i.
no time to lose.
Edna Ferber urNes all of us, to
become better members of that
greatest of clubs, the United
uf a
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO FILE REPORT

NOTICE TO FILE REPORT
ALL HANDLERS MARKETING
AND SELLING WITHIN THE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA GRAPE
FRUIT GROWN IN IMPERIAL
COUNTY AND THAT PART OF
RIVERSIDE COUNTY SOU TIL
AND EAST OF SAN GORGONIO
PASS IN THE STATE OF CALIFOR-
MA, PLEASE TAKE NOTICE:
Pursuant to the provisions OF Sec
ton 13O0.13 I'd of The California
Marketing Act of 1887, being Chap
ter 10, Division vi of the Agricul-
tural Code of the State of California,
as amended by Chapter 665, Statutes
of 1899, notice is hereby given to all
handlers marketing and selling with
in the State of California, during
the l939-40 marketing season, grape
fruit grown in Imperial County and
that part of Riverside County south
and east of San Gorgonio Pass in
the State of California to report
To the Director of Agriculture, State
Office Building, Sacramento, Cali
fornia, not later than Friday, Oct.
IL, 1940, the following information:
(a) Your correct name and ad-
dress.
(bl The number of standard
packed boxes or the equival-
ent of grapefruit sold by you
in markets within the State
of California during the 1889
40 marketing season from
the 1899 bloom. (For non-
standard pack sixty-five t65)
pounds net is equivalent to
one standard packed boxD
(c) The correct name and mail
address of grapefruit growers
for whom you sold grapefruit
in markets within the state
OF California during the 1939-
1910 marketing season from
the 1899 bloom.
I'D The quantity of grapefruit
sold by you in markets within
the State of California for
each of the different grape
fruit growers during the 1899
-l940 marketing season from
The 1899 bloom. If you are
grower-handler, please list
= your own fruit and that of
other growers separately.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF. this
order is hereby executed and is
I. sued in the City of Sacramento
California, this 25th day of Sep
tember, 1910.
tSignedD
w. B. PARKER
Director of Agri-
culture.
(Sealed with the
Seal of the State
Department OF
1 Agricultural
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

Twenty first of "a articles on
"Our Country, written exclusively
for NEA Service and the Post
Press by the nations most famous
authors.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

I'm your newspaper reporter.
You know me we'll, because I an
your second self. While your jobs
and responsibilities keep you busy
I serve as your eyes and ears. I
see and hear for you the many
things you have neither time nor
means to see and hear for your
self.
Your bank is robbed at midnight,
You are asleep, but I am there
for you.
Your council meets at noon. You
are at work. but I am there for you.
For you, I am all things to all
men. The fat politician, the noisy
reformer, the hunted criminal, the
executive, the housewife, the guy
with the pick on a WPA job
talk to them all and they talk 10
me.
For you walk through the broken
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
THOUGHTS for the Day

But he said unto her. Thou speakeSt one of the
foolish women speaketh What? shall we receive good
at the hand of God and shall not receive evil? In
all this did not job sin with his lps-Job 2:10.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
So They Say

Until mankind IS willing TO get
down to bedrock and put into
peace fraction of what he puts
into war . . we are going to have
war flourishing forever with us.
Arthur Sweetser director of sec
retariat, League of Nations.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

There are neither hates nor am
bitions strong enough to cause the
American people to bctray each
other. y
President Cardncas of Mexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
Bruce Cation
IN Was|,inqton

WASHINGTON. Oct. 2 The de-
fense commissions recent report
that one-third of the population
isn't getting enough to eat touch
ed on an issue the Department OF
Agriculture has been hammering
at for years.
Whole point of the famous food
stamp plan-which is costing the
government around 100000, coo
this year-is that this lower thirds
inability to buy all the food it
needs is a major cause OF the
farm problem.
Officials of the Federal Surplus
Commodities Corporation, which is
in charge of the stamp plan, fig
ure it this way:
The American farmer has lost
an export market worth $800,C00,-
coo because of the war. But he
would gair a market worth con-
siderably over a billion if all the
people of the United States were
able to buy as much food as a
family with an income OF $lOO a
month normally buys.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
FSCC AIDS
RELIEFERS

The plain FSCC figures tell the
story,
Right now the food stamp plan
is operating in 1874 communities
and is serving some 100000 per-
sons. Under present plans, it will
soon be in operation ir 200 cities
and will be serving 100000.
So far with one minor excep-
tom only people certified as eligi-
Bile for public relief can partici-
pate in the stamp plan. The 5,O00,-
600 who will be taken care OF
when the present program reach
es its maximum will constitute
about one-fourth of the total eli
gible. Since experience has shown
only about three-fourths of those
eligible actually take advantage
of the food stamps. the estimate
is that TO cerve all the relief fam
lilies in the country the stamp plan
would have to be expanded to ac-
commodatc some l5,0G0.000 people
In addition to this group, the
FSCC people figure there arc
about 2OOOO,00O people in the ma
ton, not on relief or eligible fol-
it, who are in the extreme low
income braket.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub.
fishers Association. National
Editorial Association. Call
fornia Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

The only difference between a
molecule Of quinine and one of
stryehnine Is one atom OF carbon
and four atoms Of hydrogen,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

Edna Ferber ur1es all of us, to
become better members of that
greatest of clubs, the United
States of America, i'm the next
article of this series on Our
Country"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

A man 1870 years old. in Baroda
state. India. is said 70 be the old
est inhabitant OF the British en-
pire.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

We reject the Communist pro-
gram as a solution of the problems
of the Negro, because it is the
negation of democracy.
A. Philip Randolph, president,
Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car
Porters.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

This is one of series telling the
story of your newspaper. The Post
Press is presenting the articles in
connection with National News
paper Week, Oct. Is.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
Famous Sayings

1t is some compensation Tor great evils tnat tiley
enforce great essons.-Bovee.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

The difference between any Two
digit number and the number form
ed by reversing the digits Away
is diyisible by nine.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

The first American college 10
teach political economy was VIII
liam and Mary which began such
a course in 1784.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

The strength of any church or
government depends upon the in
tegritv of the last man in the group.
DIR. Frederick s. Fleming, rector
Trinity church, New York.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02
Did You Know?

Only plums that will dry withAlt
fermenting are Used in maxim !
pruneS.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

In a day like this, there are but
two things to do-read history and
remember God.
Bishop Herbert WEIGH at New
York's Marble Collegiate Church.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

NEXT: Your newspaper artist.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

Cactus spines make excellent
phonograph needles.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

I am not pro-Nazi. The only shirt
I wear is white.
CASTOR Henri -Haye, new French
ambassador.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

How good that ere the winter
comes I die!
Then ageless, in your heart III
come to rest
Serene and proud, as when you
loved me best.
DR. Hans ZinSser, bacteriologlst
and author, in his book "As l
Remember Him." which appeared
lust before Z;nsser'S death.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-02

(Signed)
w. B. PARKER
Director of Agri-
culture.
(Sealed with the
Seal of the State
Department OF
Agricultural
Evening star., 1940-10-16
Bridge Party
To Aid St. Mary's
Junior College

Miss Letitia Knox is in charge
of the reservations for tables for
the benetit bridge party which is
planned Tuesday evening, Ooto-
Der 20, at 8 O'Clock for the aid OF
st. Mary's Junior College at
Raleigh, N. C. The college is the
Oldest Episcopal school in the
country and the funds raised at
this party will be used for i'm
provements to the school and as
part of its centennial celebra-
tion in 1912.
Among the early reservations
for tables for October 20 are Mrs.
Albert l.. Cox, Mrs. Murray Bor-
den, Mrs. Berkeley L. Simmons,
Mrs. Elwood Seal, Mrs. George
Peterson, Mrs. Forney Knox and
Mrs. James Gillian.
The Rev. DR.. H. H. D. Sterrett,
rector of All Souls Episcopal
Church, has donated the parish
hall of that church, on Cathedral
avenue at Connecticut avenue,
for the benefit bridge party.
Evening star., 1940-10-16
Course Open
With Lecture
On District
Junior League
Begins Training
New Members

A training course for provisional
members of the Junior League of
Washington began this morning at
the Junior League clubrooms, POOL
Massachusetts, avenue NV.
Frank Lorimer, professor of popu-
lation studies at American Uni
versity, in the opening address in
troduced league members to "The
People of the District of Columbia"
The course is planned to instruct
members in the social problems of
:he community, and to indicate the
part which the Junior League and
other social organizations take in
meeting them. This enables men,
bers to determine for themselves
where they can most effectively
make their contribution.
The satisfactory completion of
the course is necessary to qualify
for membership in the Junior
League of Washington.
The course will include lectures
and studies three times a week until
November 27 when an examination
will be given. Those passing salts
factorily will become members of
the Junior League and take an ac-
tive part in its welfare program.
Speakers included on the program
are Miss Mary Winslow, member
Of the Executive Board of Women's
Trade Union League and United
States representative on the Inter-
American Commission of Women,
who will address the group Friday
at 1890 am, and Mrs. Helen Mar
tin, assistant superintendent of the
Public Assistance Division, Board of
Public Welfare. who will speak at
the class October 81.
Others who will lecture at fu-
ture meetings are Miss Jane Hoey
(Thatcher Winslow), Mrs. Roger
Robb, John Ihlder, Miss Patricia
Morss, Miss Sibyl Baker. Miss Lydia
Burcklin, Judge Fay Bentley, DR..
George c Rutland, Dr.. Joseph S.
Wall, Miss Mary L. Poole, DR.. Win
fred Overholser. Miss Lucia Murchi-
son, Mrs. G. Howland Chase and
Philip Bell.
Members recently transferred from
other cities to the Junior League
here were entertained by the Board
Of Directors at tea yesterday.
Those honored were Mrs. Cornell
W. Acheson of Indianapolis, Mrs.
George P. Baker, Boston; Mrs. F.
Evening star., 1940-10-16

Vernon Foster, the Oranges; Mrs.
Stuart Gayness. Miami; Mrs. G..
Leslie Glenn, Boston: Mrs. Weston
B. Grimes, Minneapolis; Mrs. H. F.
G. Letson, Vancouver; Mrs. Robert
Plumb. New Haven; Mrs. Lemuel
Shovel, Baltimore; Mrs. c. r..
Weaver, Oklahoma City: Mrs. Joe
Hume Gardner, Buffalo; Mrs. Henry
B. Saylor. Savannah; Mrs. Aston
Ramsey, Charlotte: Miss Nan Fer
guson, New York City: Mrs. w. l..
Breese, jr., Montreal, and Mrs. John
Mansell. the Oranges
Mrs. B. Lowndes Jackson poured
and Mrs. Robert w. Wilson made
the introductions.
Evening star., 1940-10-16

A number of dinner parties were
given last evening, many of them
preceding the premier of The Bak-
er's Wife" which was held at the
Little Theater for the benefit of the
British-American Ambulance Corps.
Mrs. Edward Beale Mclean was one
of those who entertained friends
before the event.
Mrs. Robert H. Jackson. wife Of
the Attorney General. was the guest
in whose honor Judge and Mrs.
Clarence Norton Goodwin enter
tanned at dinner before taking their
guests to the first showing OF the
French film. Among others with
Judge and Mrs. Goodwin we're the
air attache of the Canadian Lega-
ton and Mrs. Kenny and Sir Rich
ard Tute.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tuckerman
Among Those Entertaining.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter r. Tucker
man also we're hosts at dinner before
the picture, their guests including
the Duchess de Crussol. Lady Chalk
ley, Nine Lombard and the Duchess
de Crussol, Mrs. Alexander Gordon,
Miss Elizabeth Gordon and Miss
Julian Jones, who stayed with Mr.
and Mrs. Tuckerman overnight; the
Duke de Crussol, son of the Duchess;
Mr.. Robert Webster, Mr.. Walter
Davidge, Mr. Lynch Luquer, and
Mr.. Charles Mason Remey.
Others in the audience, which
filled the Little Theater, were Mrs.
A. Mitchell Palmer, Sir Willmott
and Lady Lewis and Mr.. Kemper
Simpson. Sir Willmott made brief
talk before the beginning of the pic
ture in which he said the proceeds
Of the benefit will be used for the
purchase of an ambulance from the
Washington Committee for British
War Relief and will not be added
to the general relief fund. Mrs
Tuckerman is chairman of the
Washington committee.
Mrs. Kathleen Norris
To Be Guest Tonight.
Mrs. Ronald A. Boone will be
hostess at small dinner party to-
night, when her honor guest will
be Mrs. Kathleen Norris. who ar
rived today to speak at the Willard
Hotel this evening at a Willkie-
McNary rally. Following the rally
Mr.. and Mrs. George Marshall will
entertain at a supper party in honor
Evening star., 1940-10-16
Two Debutantes
To Be Introduced

Mr.. and Mrs. Lilo McMullin Per-
rim of San Francisco will introduce
their daughter, Miss Yvonne Perrin,
and her cousin, Miss MORA Kennedy,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald D.
Kennedy of San Francisco, to Wash
ington society at a tea dance at
the Congressional Club during the
Christmas holidays.
Mrs. Perrin, Miss Perrin and Miss
Kennedy are spending the winter
with Mrs. Perrin's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William r. Harr- in Chevy
Chase. Mrs. Perrin will give a small
dinner at the Hotel 24Oo before the
Black and White ball for her daugh-
ter and Miss Kennedy.
A West Point cadet cannot marry
Evening star., 1940-10-16
Many at Benefit Premier
Dinners Precede Showing of Film;
Kathleen Norris to Be Guest Tonight

of Mrs. Norris. The party will be
held at their home, 280l Rock
Greek drive, and a number of out
standing Republicans will be among
their guests.
Evening star., 1940-10-16

A West Point cadet cannot marry
or grow a mustache.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-06-25

prolonged cold weather throughout
the country undoubtedly retarded
consumption of this food.
THE start of warm weather, and
the interest shown by retailers in
the selling helps supplied by the
industry, together with the influence
of current colorful salmon adver-
tisements in leading household
magazines, are factors that are
Frightening the outlook for summer
consumption of canned salmon.
From the orders now being re-
ceived, it is apparent that more than
10000 retail grocers in all sections
of the country are planning special
selling efforts on canned salmon
during the summer months. One of
the country's largest organizations
of independent grocers is holding a
summer salmon sale this month, and
is planning another two weeks drive
late in August.
This cooperation with the salmon
fishermen, cannery workers, and
packers in helping to move canned
salmon into consumption is typical
of the drives now being lined up by
the industry advertising Office the
report continues.
This return Of grocer support for
canned salmon now developing is
seen as particularly important be-
cause during recent months the
more economical prices on Compel
ing canned fish foods such as mack
erel and sardines have resulted in
large numbers of consumers switch
ing away from canned salmon to
these items
The industry advertising program
for this summer has been designed
to gain wider housewife interest in
cool salmon meals. and to get re-
tailers to feature salmon for warm
weather meals, the report points
out.
For this summer drive, the in
dustry advertising office is supply
ing the country's grocery stores with
several thousand dollars worth of
colorful banners to gain retailers
support for canned salmon in pre-
ference to competing food items.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-06-25
SALMON SALES
ARE REviviNG
AFTER SLUMP

SEATTLE, June 25.-Spurred by
the attractive store display banners
and national advertising for canned
salmon. interest on the part of retail
grocers is apparently reviving after
a slump of several months, report
from the advertising office of the
Canned Salmon Industry says.
Basing this opinion on orders re-
ceived from grocery distributors and
retailers for the new colorful salmon
store banners offered by the indus
try. the report says that the start
of warm weather in most sections
of the country is now leading to
increased selling effort for cold dish
ingredients, among which canned
salmon is a favorite.
Following the Lenten period, re-
tailers apparently lost interest in
pushing sales of Alaskas canned
salmon" the report states. The