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The Key West citizen., 1940-02-26
FOR SALE

LARGEST COLLECTION
OF ANTIQUE DOLLS in
America, Wood, China,
Parian, Wax, Papier
Mache. Only interested
in nhadvance collectors.
LANES at Cactus Ter
race. Nfeb23-6tx
The Key West citizen., 1940-02-26

HOUSE and TWO LOTS, nine
rooms. all modern convel.
fences. beautiful lawn, double
garage. All taxes paid, furn-
ished, radio, piano, typewriter,
etc. $4500 cash or $250O down,
balance in ia years. Robt. j.
Lewis, 1911 Won Phister street.
dec11-s
The Key West citizen., 1940-02-26

for additional seating capacity
as demand for reserved seats in
dicate "a record breaking crowd.
The Key West citizen., 1940-02-26

THREE PFLEUGER TEMPLAR
REELS. In good working con-
dition. Will sell cheap. Also
have Redwing 1886 horsepow-
er motor with many new parts.
Will sell entirely or by parts.
Apply Box P, The Citizen.
jan19-tf
The Key West citizen., 1940-02-26
Cage Season
| Nearing End

(SpecIaI 60 The s(slfIxenl
MIAMI. Feb. 26.-Miami High
basketball teams viii bring the
The Key West citizen., 1940-02-26
Jupiter Tigers

Officials: Solt and Saunders;
scorer: Smith; timekeeper: Berk-
oWitz.
The Key West citizen., 1940-02-26

FOR SALE-2 lots, each 50x100.
Run from Washington to Won
Phister street. $3.50. Apply
rear 1917 Petronia street.
l9u apr14-s
The Key West citizen., 1940-02-26

BUILDING, CAN BE moved or
dismantled. Good lumber. APP
ply 1903 Olivia street. feb26-3tx
The Key West citizen., 1940-02-26

V-BOTTON
CYPRESS BOAT; Four Horse
Johnson Outboard Motor; Four
Life Preservers, One Fire Ex-
tinguisher: Pair of Oars and
Row Locks; Anchor with Rope
all for $4,000. Apply 1917
Petronia street. jun27-s s
The Key West citizen., 1940-02-26

TWO-STORY HOUSE AND LOT.
GIG Francis Street. $2500O0-
$500,00 down, balance $25.0O
monthly, SO interest. Price re-
duced for cash. Also several
vacant lots, low prices, terms.
Apply Box RI, The Citizen.
jan22-s
The Key West citizen., 1940-02-26

LOT, Cor. Duval and Louisa
streets. Apply 1912 Olivia
street. nov23-mon-fri
The Key West citizen., 1940-02-26

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Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26
GREAT BRITAINS
HISTORICAL MISSION
(London EconomiSt)


There is no cause for any Englishman
to have feeling of superiority when he
contemplates the spectacle of h +
thoughts and municipalities that is now
being revealed in the United States. we
may deride the American delusion that
it is possible to take any effective steps
at all if you proclaim beforehand that
they are to stop short of war; but we
had the same deluSi0n in 1885. We may
deplore the slowneSS with which the Am
orleans realize that it is easier to fight
while YOU still have strategically-placed
allies than to fight alone; but we made
the same mistake in 1888. We may smile
at the earnest discussion of how war can
be waged without lowering the standard
of living: but we have had the same
Gripping anxiety in 1939-and in 1910,
too. The only solace we can draw from
the spectacle is to discover that, after
all the abuse that has been heaped by
American writers on Great Britain for
her blindness. her. slowness. her effet-
eness, our brand of democracy is not dis
covered to be so much inferior to the Am
emican, when it comes to the acid test
We both share the same weaknesses and
the same strengths. Indeed it has be-
come our historical mission to hold out
in our fortress and give the Americans
time to think things out. If we play our
part, they will play theirs.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26
Uranium Crackers

The 1910 presidential election
generated more interest than any
similar contest in years. How much
do you remember of the results?
Here are five questions TO test you.
/. The Republican ticket carried
10 states. How many of them can
you name?
2. How was the electoral college
vote divided?
3. Approximately how many vo-
ters cast ballots in the presidential
election?
4. Which of the four major
party candidates for president and
vice president carried their home
states?
5. The presidential Inauguration
will be held January 20. How many
presidents have been inaugurated
on that date?
Answers
/. The Republicans carrie d
Maine, Vermont, Michigan, Indi-
ana, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Nebraska. Iowa, Kansas and Col
orado.
2. The electoral college vote was
449 for Roosevelt to 80 for Willkie.
3. Total vote in the presidential
contest was slightly under 50000,-
900, highest in the history of the
nation.
4. President Roosevelt carried
New York; Willkie carried Indiana;
Wallace failed to cary Iowa; Nc
Nary failed to carry oregon.
5. Only one inauguratioh-that
in 1936---has been held on January
%
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26
NO EASY WAY OUT

With the establishment Of a supervised
recreational program in FL Centro, it
will be extremely interesting to watch
any corresponding change in Juvenile de-
linquency figures for this part of Impe-
rial Valley.
The figures can go up, instead of down.
if a majority of parents adopt the wrong
attitude toward the supervised play pro-
gram.
The parents who use the program as
an excuse further to shrug off their own
responsibilities will be doing the pro-
gram, themselves and their children the
greatest possible disservice For no SUI
pervised play program, however exten-
sive, can take the place of parental dis
cipline and training among children.
The new program in Ell Centre can
supplement the training child gets at
home. 1t cannot possibly replace such
training.
The child whose home environment en-
courages delinquency will be little better
off because of better environment out
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26

Better than a heavy sermon, bet
ter than long anG involved dis
course on Americanism, is a little
story.
1t happened. in Camden, N. j. A
boy came to the recuiting office to
enlist in the Army Engineering
Corps. His father proudly walked
with him.
Anton Schmager was the fathers
name. He knew what war was about,
for just % years ago he was in
one. He was a machine-gunner
with a German outfit on the
Somme. So when he presented his
boy to the examining officer, he
knew exactly what he was doing.
So did the officer. Lieut.. Col.
Lee Summer was also on the
Somme, on the other side He and
Schmager may actually have fired
at one another in those days. They
understood.
Schmager is one of those men on
whom Nazi Germany believes it
should exercise some hold. He is
one of those men of German blood
whom the German organizations
concerned with Germans aboard"
would like to control.
But Schmager is not having any
of that His boy Rudolph is going
into the American army, to fight,
if necessary, for the country his
father has adopted, and which is
his own country. Rudolph is an
American, ready to do his duty.
Anton is an American, ready to
help him do it.
This sort of race and blood must
be the despair of those who insist
that the call of race and blood
must always be stronger than the
call of country. 1t must BATTLE those
who insist that a man may go to
foreign land, assume its citizen
ship, and yet remain loyal to the
land from which he stemmed.
1t is not the American way. The
thousands of fine American soldiers
of German ancestry and blood who
fought in every war from the Re-
volution on down to the war against
Kaiserism. give it the lie every day,
every hour. ....---...
The best Americans are often
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26
UNFOLDING THE
CHECK AND BALANCE SYSTEM

If ever there was a bill in congress
that needed active support by the public,
it is the Walter-Logan bill which the SEN
ate at last has agreed to consider.
Passed by the house of representatives
with humping favorable vote, the wal
ter-Logan bill has been tied up IN the
senate for eight months because admin
istration bureaucrats would not allow 1t
to come to vote. SenatorS-both Demo
crat and Republican-have finally taken
the bit in their teeth, however, and will
vote on the measure regardless of ad-
ministration wishes.
The bill is a simple thing, in the end
it seeks to achieve.
1t would merely make the acts and
rulings of quasi-iudical federal agencies.
such as the National Labor Relations
Board the Federal Communications
Commission, and others, subject to re-
view in federal courts. That is all.
But that has been enough to make the
bill the most bitterly fought measure
placed before congress in many months.
1t was fate or coincidence that, on the
same day the senate voted to consider
the bill, the control of the federal gov
ernment over radio was established on an
almost dictatorial basis = entirely be-
cause the federal courts were denied the
flgnU 10 REVIEW rulings oI Tic
Communications Commission in matters
dealing with transfer of licenses.
The commission already has the right
to revoke any radio license on 60 days
notice, and can grant or withhold licen-
ses. Thus one federal agency controls
the second greatest means of public COM
municatiOn in the United States. If those
who object to the federal agency's rul-
ings cannot go into court to voice their
objections, they have lost every vestige
of freedom they should have-and the
public has suffered by virtue of govern
ment domination of one of its great
sources of information.
The right to court review of federal
agency's rulings is merely the right to
retain in the American government the
system of checks and balances set up by
our constitutional fathers. 1t provides
only that no one governmental dominated
group can have the first and last word
in the destinies of those with whom it
comes into contact.
AS it is now, there are federal agencies
which have all the powers of Spanish
inquisitorial court, and from their acts
there is no safeguard.
California's senator's ought to know
how the people back home feel about the
Walter-Logan bill. They ought to know
that we want no agency, no matter what
it is, to be all-poWerful.
The Walter-Logan bill should be pass
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26

Francisco and almost died. 1t was
through the Major, though, that
he got this movie cantract. A
scout with 20th-FoX was looking
for an East Side type urchin and
asked the raGloman to recommend
a talented one.
The Major had heard Tall, Dark
and Handsome" was to be musl-
cal, so he figured they wanted a
singer and he wired Slash who was
back in the subway by then, to
show up for an addition. What they
really wanted was an actor, but
Stash went up against 40 profess
ional kids and won test and the
job.
He was a little scared when he
first faced a camera. 1t was a feel
ing like walking past a cop and try
ing to look innocent and casual
when you've got some swiped bana-
mas under your shirt. But acting is
a cinch now. Slash is confident that
it will be a terrific and stupenda-
tive movie.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26
by Bruce Cation, :.
The Inside Track in Washington

I'VE have a long way to go be-
fore we even absorb the backlog OF
unemployed skilled workers, to say
nothing of the unskilled.
aside from that consideration
there's a question whether an m
crease in the work week increases
productivity anyway. Just what the
optimum is in any specific field
I confess that l don't know. In
dustry generally has gone to the
4O-hour week because it's the most
productive.
In defense industries that are on
q production line basis where a
man performs a routine operation
over and over. l should say that
even 40 hours is probably too long.
COOPERATION
FROM EMPLOYERS
In general, Col. Fleming believes
the Wage-hour law is coming to be
accepted as a permanent feature OF
the American industrial landscape.
Il think in the last year or SO
we've developed a consciousness
among DOlll tIllplOyCio anu A"|O-
that the law is being enforced.
he says. Because that is true,
business is helping to enforce the
law. We've had lot of help from
trade associations. Many OF them
are going right to bat, reprintlng
our publications and sending them
out to their members to help them
comply with the law.
Our industry wide drives are
doing a great deal of good. At first
we we're only able to handle COM
plants, and we weren't doing a
very good job of that. Now with
an increased staff we're clearing up
the complaints and are also putting
on these drives in which we take
one industry at time and inspect
every single plant in it, all across
the country.
What I'm striving for now
and I think l can see the goal
ahead of us-is to make a routine
periodic inspection of every en-
ployer covered by the act
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26
by Paul Harrison :.
HOLLYWOOD S Fads, Fancies and Foibles

HOLLYWOOD. Nov. 26-There's
an actor in Tall Dark and Hand
some" who is short, fair and sort
of funny looking. His name is Stan
ley Clements and he's a 14-year-
OLD, sharp featured, wild haired
Brooklyn kid who only few weeks
ago was singing for nickels and
lodging guards in the subways
He's strictly a desc -dose-an'- :
dem guy, solid brass, and as self
possessed in his new surroundings
as a Greenpoint tomcat would be
if tossed into a dowager's limou-
sine.
A TWO-TONE
VOICE
His train trip out here was "a
very monopolous joiney' except for
his meeting with a guy who had
just run for vice president of the
country and got licked He was
sitting there alone and looking like
a Dodger fan after a disastrous
double header. so the kid went
over and stuck out his mitt and
said, I'm Slash Clements" And
the man said, I'm Charles Nc
Nary"
They sat and talked. The boy eX-
planned how "Stash" was a Polish
nickname for Stanley, and how he
has two singing voices and can
change from tenor to baritone just
by taking a drink of water, and
+ h trrnc n
a sort Of fluke to be an actor in
stead Of a singer They had a real
nice confab and some laughs and
Mr.. McNary wished Mr.. Clements
luck.
His voice is a freak, going up
almost to soprano-only none of
the kids around Leonard street
ever razzed him about it more
than once. Anyway, he was walk
ing along one day singing num-
Der Bobby Breen had done in a
picture, and some gypsies stopped
him and said, That's good; sing
more" So he did, and people act
ually tossed dough on the sidewalk,
and the gypsies actually gave him
most of it.
That looked pretty good, espe-
clally with his folks on relief at
the time. Stashs stepfather Igna-
thus Adroncik, is a house wrecker
or a "demolisher, if you want
it toney-but he couldn't find any
demoIishing to do. So the kid be-
gan competing on amateur bills,
and won every time, he says. And
then he got on Major Bowes' radio
program and won, and he made
two tours with Bowes units.
ACTING'S A CINCH
On one tour ne got homesick in
Fargo, N. D., and quit, and on the
next he got strep throat in San
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26
ICKES RESIGNATION
Nevada State JournaD

In San Francisco a club with the rather
lengthy but very expressive and popular
title, accept 1ekes' Resignation Club,
has been formed and it plans to stimu-
late a letter writing campaign to Presi-
dent Roosevelt urging him to take Mr..
Ickes at his word and replace him with
another secretary of the interior.
A report was current in Reno few
days ago that Ickes' resignation had a
string attached to it, a string that is Of
particular concern to Nevada. The re-
port, basis in fact not authenticated at
all. was to the effect that Ickes informed
the president that before he leaves the
interior department he wants assurance
that the control of the forest service will
be taken from the agricultural depart
ment and placed in the interior depart
ment.
The late Senator Key Pittman of Ne
vada blocked Mr. Ickes' proposal on this
score twice in the past two years and
the correspondence between President
Roosevelt and Senator Pittman on the
subject is still available for the use of
western senators to carry on the battle.
Whether Ickes' resignation was just
the customary gesture of cabinet mem
bers, expected when president is elected
for new term, or whether he meant it,
is of no particular concern to the people
of the west. They want Ickes replaced
by someone, preferably a western man
who knows something about land and
livestock problems, and they want no
strings attached to the resignation par
ticularly strings vital to western inter-
eSts.
May the San Francisco " Accept Ickes'
Resignation Club prosper and require
only very short life to attain its goal.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26
Did You Know?

There are 275 different languages
spoken on the African continent.
The punkie, which is the small
est fly that bites man, can pass
through the eye of a needle.
Sea gulls break open shellfish by
dropping them from a height onto
rocks below.
Argentina has 24,532 miles of rail-
roads.
When green goggles are placed
over their eyes, chameleons turn
green.
The Gulf Stream travels only
about 40 miles per day
The increasingly rapid gain in
the number of starlings is the most
serious threat to bird life in North
America.
100000 gallons of ice cream and
100000 gallons of assorted ices.
Fifteen million dollars of the an
nuai national income goes int o
the garbage pail in the form of
purchases of liquor, narcotics, gamb-
ling, sex magazines and other things
that undermine the health and en-
ployability of our people.
Roger Babson economist and
Prohibitionist party leader
Employers should treat appli-
cants for jobs and employees in line
for promotion in the manner that
they normally would if there had
been no conscription bill passed.
w. p Edmunds, Cleveland, III
dustrial relations manager.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26
by Willis Thornton :.
land So He Fights for Uncle Sam

those who have but recently tasted
despotism abroad. The love Oh iree-
dom if often stronger WITHIN them
than in those of us who take II
for granted.
We don't know ham, but Well pet
that Rudolph Schmager, son OF a
German machine-gunner on Ihe
Somme will be fine American
soldier.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26
So They Say

II is the finest sign of the healthy
quality of our democracy tnat III
this country today the press, party
leaders. everyone. is talking OF ma
tional unity.
Gov. w. H. Vanderbilt OF Rhode
Island
God will punish Mussolini for de-
flying Him; also for desecratlne
Good Friday by invading Albania
and for attacking the Greek people
- Bishop Spidio of the NORTH
Greek mountains.
Many believes that Eton ano
Harrow are the schools OF Erg-
land. That is correct. The common
schools of the common people--ir
them the present British attitude
was made.
DIR. Reinhold Schairer, professor
in London University.
We must be ruthlessly selfish tC
assure the guarantee of continu.
ance of American freedom.
Wheeler Mcmillan, editor of the
Farm Journal, speaking to the
National Grange.
OF course, people will think :.
am liar and fool, but I don
care about making any money from
10
Walt Disney, movie producer.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26

College teachers need not be ashamed
of a vocational taint disturbing their pre-
occupation with the liberal arts if they
are also helping the vocations to become
themselves liberal arts. = DR.. Ordway
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26

side his home After all, home is the
most important place to him-the place
where future habits of body and mind
are learned. Parents should remember
this.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26
Thoughts for the Day

But truly the Lord iveth and as thy soul lveth
there is but step between me and death.-I Samuel
20:3.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26
Famous Sayings

One life little geam of time between two eterni-
ties no second chance for forever more.-Carlyle
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26
Barbs

Young folks always seem SO silly
after you've ceased to be one of
them.
Maybe Sherman was right way
back then. but we doubt if he could
adequately express himself today.
Chicago robbers stole a petit
coat with $500 in the hem from
Mrs. Dora Goldstein, thereby reap
ing the harvest she had sewn.
One of the best ways to keep this
country rolling along in the right
direction is for all of us to put
our shoulder to the wheel
Even the state prison board
agrees the food isn't so good at a
Raleigh IN. c. prison since four
cooks escaped. Too many missing
cooks spoiled the broth.
Each year we get a new kick out
of Thanksgiving even though it's
always the same old stuff.
O.
In 10 years 10000 people have
claimed a $20O00,OOO snuff fortune
left by Philadelphia woman. Well
it's nothing to sneeze at!
3
From now on when man bites
dog it's no longer news. Germany
has legalized dog meat as human
food.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26

WASHINGTON. Nov. 26 Al
fred P. Sloans recent suggestion
that the Six-day week should sup
plant the five-day week in Ameri-
can industry as soon as the slack
of unemployment has been taken
I'D" scarcely caused the raising Of
an eyebrow in Washington. And
though the General Motors chair
man was advancing his idea as a
measure to speed up defense pro-
duction. Col. Philip B. Fleming,
head of the government wage hour
division, declares fatty that neither
the National Defense Commission
nor the American business men
has given any indication that the
4O-hour week is slowing up the
defense program.
I'm a soldier and I'm primarily
Interested in national defense"
says Col. Fleming. If 1 saw any
reason to suspect that this law was
a handicap to our defense efforts
I'd be the first one to go to Con-
greSs and ask for a change. But l
don't
Last July Col. Fleming wrote
President Roosevelt that he wanted
to be informed at once if the 40
hour week was slowing up defense
production anywhere. The Presi-
dent gave the letter wide publicity.
but only one complaint has come
in-trom a small concern which
complained that it couldn't get
enough machine tool men.
SHOULD TRAIN
UNSKILLED
Far more important than length
ening the work week, the colonel
thinks, is training the unskilled
unemployed for skilled jobs. He
points out that the wage-hour law
is amply flexible to make this
easy.
I'VE can step in on a plant -ex-
pansion basis and give employers
certificates for hiring apprentices
and learners, at less than the mini
mum wage if necessary, at any time
that it's ADVISABLE" he says.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26

Young folks always seem SO silly
after you've ceased to be one of
them.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26

Maybe Sherman was right way
back then, but we doubt if he could
adequately express himself today.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26
MEMBER

American Newspaper Pub.
fishers Association. Natlonai
Editorial Association. Caii-
fOrnia Newspaper Pupi'sn-
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26

There are 275 different languages
spoken on the African continent.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26

The punkie, which is the small
est fly that bites man, can pass
through the eye of a needle.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26

Sea gulls break open shellfish by
dropping them from a height onto
rocks below.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-26

Argentina has 24,532 miles of rail-
roads.
Smyrna times., 1940-07-04

supply, irregardless of the New
York market consequently pro-
ducer will know definitely the price
he is to receive for his output.
In cases where the standing of
the farmer justifies and proper
guarantees of performance are
given, finance for feed will be furn-
ished if required.
The plant selected is the can
merry plant at Big Oak Road and
the Delmarva Division of the Penn
sylvania Railroad at Brenford Sta
ton.
Extensive alterations will be
started this week, commercial pro-
duction is expected to be well un-
der way prior to August 1st.
For the immediate the company
can be reached by addressing it at
P. o. Box $50, Smyrna, Delaware,
pending the planned, early estab-
lishment of offices at the plant.
Smyrna times., 1940-07-04
WILMINGTON LIBRARIAN
III. A. Carpenter Appointed Head
City Library; Succeeds AL. Bailey

Harland A. Carpenter, 37-year-
old head of the New Bedford, Mass,
library, has been appointed Will
mington librarian to succeed the
late Arthur L. Bailey. He was one
of 80 men and women from all
parts of the country who made ap-
plications for the post. He is ex-
pected to take over his new duties
early in September. He was ap-
pointed to the librarianship by the
board of managers Of the Whining
ton Library on Wednesday after
noon but no statement was issued
until the board received notice of
his acceptance Friday. Mr.. Car
penter, born in Haverhill Mass.
has been librarian at New Bedford
since September, 1887 and has had
wide experience in library work in
Massachusetts, and New York.