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Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
By SOPHIE KERR
Author of big Hearted Herbert,
"There's Only One" Zine to Look

"There's Only One" Fine to Look
At" etc.
Mr.. and Mrs America, to make
up our minds about what we want
in this country, we must also make
up our minds what we don't want
To discard is the first step in Selec-
ton. Therefore let us ask ourselves
some plain questions.
We have four basic freedoms here
freedom of speech, freedom Of as
sembly, freedom of religious Wor-
ship and freedom of the press.
Do we want to give up freedom
of speech?
No!
Do we want to give up freedom
of assembly?
No!
Do we want to give up freedom
of religious worship?
No!
Do We want to give up freedom
of the press
No!
Beside these basic freedoms we
have our long established form Of
government which has thre e
branches. executive, legislative and
judicial, actirg as check and bal
lance to extreme power in any
one.
Do we want to give up a govern
ment which combines executive,
legislative and judicial WerS,
working together comparatively?
No
We have tWo-party system,
which ensures each citizen the
right to express his will by ballot
as to the persons who snail govern
him.
Do we Want to give up this two
party system, guaranteeing our per
sonal participation in our govern
ment?
No!
Do we want to endoW any branch
or individual in our government
with exceptional authority which
would parallel dictatorship?
MOI
Do We want TO submit to super
taxation which can be uscl against
the will of the majority of the
people?
No!
Do we want rulers with power
to make war, conseript citizens.
seize property crush opposition with
fines and prison. sentences and set
their will above our law as in the
totalitarian states today?
No!
Do we want America to be any
thing but free and strong and
forward looking, offering her peo-
pie constant opportunity for decent
living. and national peace TO give
this living stability and perman-
enee?
Mo-
Mr. and Mrs. America. we. you
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL
No. SLY

IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE AND GUARDIANSHIP OF
RAMON SANCHEZ, DECEASED.
NOTICE OF HEARING OF Pc
Triton TO LEASE REAL. PRO-
PERTY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that Mariana Guizar, as guardian
of the estate of Ramon Sanchez.
incompetent. has filed his verified
petition praying for an order au-
thorizing the lease of the real
property hereinafter described: and
that Friday the 9th day of Sep
tember, 1910, at two o'clock, p. M.
in the Superior Court of the State
OF California, i'll and for the Coun-
ty OF Imperial, in Department 2
thereof, has been appointed as the
time and place for hearing said petit
ton when and where any persons
interested in said estate may ap-
pear and object to granting said
petition
reference is hereby made to said
petition for further particulars as
to the terms and conditions of the
proposed lease.
Said property which it is pro.
posed to lease is situated in the
City of Ell Centre, Imperial County.
California, and particularly describ-
ed as the:
North 80 feet of Lots /, 2, and
3 of Block Ii. of the Townsite
of Ell Centre.
Dated. September 16, 1910.
w. j. McCLELLAND.
County Clerk and Clerk of said
Superior Court.
BY CITHA LAMSON.
Deputy.
Sept17 to &c incl.)
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23

Back in fathers and grand
fathers day, 'the alien problem"
was a constant source of worry for
the kind of people who have to
have something like that to worry
about.
That problem is rapidly solv-
ing itself. Very soon there will be
so few aliens as rot to make any
problem at all. In 1880 there we're
estimated tc be 6,284,613 aliens in
the country. Today the estimate is
3,595,333. q decrease of practically
SO per cent in the past 10 years.
At that rate, unless immigra
ton restrictions are changed, there
soon will be no important number
of aliens in the country at all.
That's good enough as far as it
goes. But the world is arranged in
this perverse fashion: as soon as
one problem is solved, another pops
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
MAKING Ell CAMINO DEL
DIABlO LIVE AGAIN

Maybe this is what Imperial Valley
has been needing so long!
The plan broached by Riverside coun-
ty group, and met with instant acclaim
by Imperial county, for an annual cav
alcade along De AnZa's tabled trail, can
be developed into something that would
center nationwide attention on south
eastern California at least once each
year.
And it would be a whale of a lot of
fun, too.
"El Canine Del Diablo"-the road of
the dewitt was when De ANA and his
armored Spaniards dragged weary feet
across this part of the North American
continent The bravery of that little
group, and the historic significance of
the trail they blazed, has been given too
little attention in the very territory they
discovered.
Riverside, of course, is interested in
publicizing its annual De ANA celebra-
ton. But then, so is Imperial county
interested in promoting CaleXico's Desert
Cavalcade, which is so closely allied to
the De ANA theme.
Possibly some time schedule could be
worked out bringing the two celebrations
closer together-making of them, in fact.
one continuous celebration with a bulge
at each end, joined together by the week
long journey of horseback riders across
the desert trail that De ANA blazed.
Calexico's cavalcade could come first,
leading into the beginning of the massed
ride across the desert. The arrival of
the riders in Riverside could signal the
beginning of that community's festival.
But, even if no such schedule can be
agreed upon, the ride in itself, with its
potentialities for color, romance and
enjoyment, can be made into signifi-
cant annual event all by itself. 1t would
become, and justly, as famous as Santa
Barbara's great Fiesta Visitadores.
It's an idea worth backing.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
by Willis Thornton
Self f-SoIving Alien Problem

up to take its place.
That is the case in REGARDS W
alters. Though the the number OF
actual aliens is falling rapidly
the problem of the second-gen-
GRAFTON American is just as oli-
ficult and no less important In
many cases second-generation Am
ericans. born here OF immigrant
parents, are even worse aaJustee
to American life thar the oia
folks.
What happens in many cases IS
this: the immigrant parents CAME
to this country as their ciloice'
They wanted freedom OF oppof-
tunity, or both they were prepared
to be politically loyal to the new
country, and they We're But they
REMAINED cuturally attacheo 10
the old country and the old ways.
In dress, in language, in tastes'
in cultural interests, they remain
ed of the old country, With foots
too deep to change.
But their children, too olteh'
have been another and less happy
story. Born in this country they
they were Americans not by choice
but by circumstance. The Old cul-
ture. the old ways, the old coun-
try, were only tradition ana
sometimes family ridiculous one.
In language, in dress, IN tastes'
thev were of the new world, yet
they were somehow set apart from
it by the nearness of their alien
origin.
Instead of kindly help in achieV-
ing a solid position, economic ana
social, in that world, the met rid
icule ard rebuff. They felt amen
to both worlds. the old world le1t
behind, and the new world not
yet quite achieved.
So the problem which used TO
be the alien problem Is now
'1he econd-2eneration American
problem" 1t will be solved by no
rigid demand that such people Ut
terly forsake the ancient culture
to become synthetic Yankees. 1t
will solved only by accepting ana
encouraging their roots in ancient
backgrounds as not inconslstent
with the highest loyalty to the
United States, but as contributing
a very definite share i'll a culture
which we may make the richest,
most varied and hence the high
est in the world.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF TAXES

NOTICE is hereby given that all
taxes for the fiscal year OF July l.
1910 to June 80, 1941 in the city OF
Ell Centre are now due and payable.
That all taxes upon personal prop
erty and one-half of all taxes upon
real estate, mortgages, DEEDS OF
trust. contracts or other obligations
by which debt is secured upon real
estate will become delinquent upon
the last Monday in November next
thereafter at five O'Clock pm, and
that unless such taxes are paid
prior thereto ten per cent will be
added to the amount thereof
That the remaining half of the
taxes upon real estate, mortgages,
deeds of trust, contracts or other
obligations by which debt is secured
linquent upon the last Monday in
April next thereafter at five o'clock
pm, and that unless such taxes
are paid prior thereto, five per cent
will be added to the amount there
of.
That all taxes may be paid at the
time of the payment of the first
installment as herein provided.
That taxes may be paid at the
City Hall to the Deputy Tax Collec-
tor, between hours of eight o'clock
am, and five O'Clock pm, with
the exception of Saturday and on
which day the hours shall be from
eight O'Clock am. to twelve o'clock
noon.
Dated this 10Th day of September,
1910.
H. E. Cox, City Tax and License
Collector.
BY NEAL II. GAVIN,
Deputy.
(S19-O2, inclD
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
. OUR COUNTRY

and I and all of us, are the people!
We are part of Americas govern
merit and responsible to it as it is
reponsible to us. Our responsibility
begins in our town and county
elections and goes on to our State
and Federal elections. We have the
right TO be heard, We have the
right to act Only our own apathy
and carelessness can give us bad
government.
Will we forget that this govern
ment is ours to make or spoil? Will
we forget that III our hands lies
our welfare and the welfare of
those who shall come after us?
And will we forget that the time
to think to speak to act
is NOW?
e The answer. MI. and Mrs. Ameri-
ca, is ours to make.
1t is MOI
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
IION'S ROAR
SYNTHETIC

They've got a lion for this show
but they don't always have to have
him on the set. A couple of sound
effects men have rigged up waste
basket and a rosined string like the
Halloween contraptions made by
lids, and it does the off-stage roar
ing.
The sound men said the most fun
they ever had with the roaring
machine was during the filming of
Stanley and Livingstone.
Walter Brennan had a scene in
The synthetic jungle ending with
bis saying nervously, Them lions is
getting nearer an nearerr At that.
they let go a couple of harrr-
rooumphs with the Wastebasket
right behind him. Brennan jumped
straight into the air and went all
to pieces.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
Bruce Cation
In Washington,

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.-Mark
down the words total defense" as
two which you are likely to hear
a great deal more of in the near
future
AS used here, they refer less to
army and navy preparations than
to the old, basic problem of unem-
ployment, unSolved after seven years
of the New Deal. The signs right
new hint strongly that brand
new attack on this old problem
may presently be made-possibly
before the election, more likely (de-
pending, of course, on which way
the voting goes) shortly after it.
The point is that for a good
many months a number of in
fluential pressure groups have been
insisting this nation will never have
total defense" until its productive
capacity is fully employed and all
its jobless citizens are back at work
This point of view is shared my some
of the top economists within the
New Deal. On both sides it is felt
that recovery and unemployment
due solely to defense spending won't
be enough that some permanent
solution to the whole problem has
got to be found.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23

The United States cannot he
compared to any other country.
past or present; ii is something
new in the world. writes Stuart
Chase i'm the next article of
this series on Our Country"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23

Thirteenth of "a articles on
Our Country" written eXclu-
siveIy for NEA Service and the
Post-Press by the nations most
famous authors.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
by Paul Harrison =.
Hollywood S Fads, Fancies and Foibles

Ringing. He stays out here all the
time now, working in pictures and
at the Venice amusement pier and
entertaining kids in hospitals and
orphanageS, and even lecturing i'll
public schools about the Importance
of brushing teeth and scrubbing
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
Famous Sayings

Think all you speak but not all you think-Thoughts
your own; your words are not so.-Delany
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
Did You Know?

IN steel mill parlance. the widest
part of a blast furnace is known
Us a "bosh"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
Thoughts for the Day

But those things which proceed out of the mouth
forth from the heart for they defile the man.
Matthew 1913
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
DARNELL DOES
DARN WELL

He mixes advice with magic tricks
and patter, but he also could speak
seriously 20 adults if they'd listen.
His own skin is soft as a baby's.
All clowns are like that. no matter
how old they get. Bozo said, be-
cause they wear that white makeup
SO much of the time. It's cold cream
and powdered zinc oxide, in case
anyone wants to try it. and he re-
moves it with olive oil.
Except for the clowns there are
no real performers in the cast,
though Linda DANIEL does amazingly
we'll as a bareback rider. Dorothy
Lamour, as the other feminie lead,
doesn't ride well at all. After being
bitten by chimpanzees. made sea-
sick by elephants and frightened
by alligators. a python and a tiger
IN other pictures. she apparently is
little fed up with having to work
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
CHURCH LEADERS
WANT ACTION

Early last June, an Interfaith
Conference of Catholics, Protest
ant and Jewish leaders met here to
consider the unemployment prob
lem. This conference. after three
days discussion, urged the govern
ment to set up continuing COM
mission of representatives of con-
sumers, farmers. labor, finance,
manufacturing education, religion
and government for deviSing CO.
operative, democratic measures to
solve the unemployment problem. 4"
A couple of months earlier a
similar demand was made by the
National Consumers League through
its president Josephine Roche, who
was also chairman of the Presidents
InterdepartmentalC Committee to Co.
ordinate Health and Welfare Ac-
tiVitieS. Miss Roche remarked that
industrial revival SO far had not
cured unemployment. and declared
that "the gravity and immediacy of
the problem called for a concerted
attack.
In addition, both the c. I. O..
and the A. F.. of L. have urged
the same sort of action. Philip
Murray, C. I. o. vice president, told
the Interfaith Conference there
must be broad planning to prevent
"a complete collapse of our domes-
tic economy" when, as and if the
rearmament program ends.
SAY SPENDING
ISN'T ENOUGH
Meanwhile, certain government
agencies have been glancing in
much the same direction The Tem-
porary National Economic Commit
tee will be out before long with
a comprehensive report of it's Ia
bors; New Dealers have long hoped
this could be the springboard for a
new plunge into a problem which.
they admit, the New Deal has not
yet really grappled with. Last fall
the National Resources Committee
Grew up tentative findings point
ing in the same direction. The adj
Visory section of the Defense Com
mission has also given a good deal
of thought to the matter.
The argument right now is that
no defense program is complete if
it doesn't include a plan for ironing
out the kinks in the nations econ
omy. So far this year, in appropria-
tions voted and commitments made.
the nation has let itself in for the
spending of upwards of $4,000 .OOO,-
coo on defense; the pressure groups
are asserting the load can't pos
sibly be carried unless full pros
perity-aside from defense program
stimulation-is regained.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23

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Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23

HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 23.-About
the nearest III get to a circus this
year, I guess, jg the one which has
been assembled ON the 2Oth-Fox
lot for Chad Hanna" Real circuses
don't come to Hollywood very often,
perhaps because the public here
would rather look at movie stars for
nothing.
That's the way it is with this mo-
vie circus. The kids they've hired
for the crowd shots run around
barefoot. in calico and overalls and
tattered straw hats-and ask for
autographs. 1t beats bounding a pre-
miere: they can catch Henry Fonda.
Linda Darnell. Dorothy Lamour and
Jane DarWell.
Easiest to catch is Miss Darwell.
the Fat Lady who Waddles around
or mostly sits sWeltering under huge
cotton batting pads and predicting
unhappily that she won't lose an
ounce The wardrobe department
started her costume with a suit of
heavy woolies, then stitched on
rolls of cotton. inches thick, and
L,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23

Only in one elephant tusk out of
every 80 is ivory suitable for max
ing billiard balls found.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-23
covered 1t with
CLOWNS ARE
ALL GENUINE

But Miss DarWells suffering is
alleviated somewhat by knowing she
locks genuine. One of the clowns,
telling some circus anecdote between
scenes, said TO her, e. SO then
he made an offer to Lulu-you re-
member Lulu" Miss DarWell said
no. she didn't remember Lulu. YOU
don't?" asked the Joey in surprise.
We'll. you know Marie, anyway.
Fine woman Marie; she was with
the outfit for years until she began
to lose so much weight" Miss Dar-
well didn't know Marie. either, and
finally explained that she had never
been in 4 circus.
All the half dozen ioeys in the
cast are real ones. Harry Bayfield,
was with eircuses fer wears until
he began training animals for Har-
old Lloyd Larry Valli. whose card
identifies him as Bozo the Magical
Fun House Clown was orphaned
with a circus and At II was doing
cartwheels and Walkarounds with
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03
QUESTION FOR JOHN BULL
Greensboro News

Great Britain's formulation Of policy is dis
sinctly it's own business and any discussion
by outside nations which may be affected by
that policy in it's endless convolutions must be
predicated upon the realization that his majes-
tvs government is engaged in the pursuit of
a war and that the ultimate test of each and
every step taken is its anticipated contribution
to the winning of that war.
This is the justification, from the British
viewpoint, for refusal to acknowledge the
| Americas safety zone; for embargoes upon
tobacco, cotton and other American products
which are not so necessary for pursuit OF the
war as are planes and other strictly military
materials for which exchange and shipping
must be conserved; for a turning to members
Of the British commonwealth Of nations and
other countries either within the British sphere
of influence or wooed by Germany no less
than the allies; and for such other strains
upon amity and international goodwill as stop
page Of American and other neutral ships and
search Of their mail cargoes for contraband or
information which may be going to Germany.
The weekend Immediately behind us was
largely taken up with protests against British
action of this provocative sort. The smaller
neutral countries of northern Europe. striving
valiantly and specifically to maintain peace,
found little, if anything, of a safeguard or
p~lacating nature in Winston Churchills invi-
tation to join the allies. The British first lord
of the admiralty may have spoken the truth
in warning them of the doom that would be-
fall them in event of a German victory; but
for countries caught between warning powers
and more Immediately concerned over main
tenance of their neutrality the Churchill ap.
proach was bluntly Earring. The Japanese have
gone so far as to threaten reprisals in the
wake Of a British battleship's hating Of a
Nippon vessel and removal Of a score of Ger
mans therefrom. The argument over searching
Of mail on American vessels and a%irplanes con-
tinues apace with the state department indi-
eating that transatlantic planes may be ordered
not to stop at Bermuda unless the practice is
discontinued.
What the British should consider quite seri-
ously is the ill-will which they are building up,
especially in the United States. by their irri-
tating conduct. The London government is
most concerned over winning the war. To that
end what is the valuation to be placed upon
American friendship, sympathy and goodwill
as contrasted with the relatively small yield in
money, valuables or pertinent information for
Germany which might be gained from these
Objectionable and provocative seizures?
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03
CREATES OWN JOB

Contrary to popular belief in these days of
widespread idleness, there is always work to
be done and jobs to be had. The only trouble
is that so few people know how to find work
or create jobs for themselves.
One exception is found in a Brooklyn fresh.
man at State College. He needs money to pay
for his education. Casting about for a way
to earn the money, he hit upon a strange
plan. He let it be known that he would stay
with the kids while mamma and papa went
to a show or to play bridge. He met such
success that a couple of other young men
came into the business. They, too, wanted to
pay their own expenses while attending
school.
They tutor youngsters, too, and If their
summons is for an entire evening, they'll wash
the supper dishes without extra charge.
By a strange coincidence, the head Of the
firm is named Pop. Sure PETER E. POP. And
he weighs ITO pounds, and is a regular he
male guy.
But he is not averse to playing nurse.
That's what makes his case interesting. His
willingness to do a job of the sort is no more
exceptional than his creating it for himself.
He classes with the bank cashier who sup
ported himself for months at gardening when
the bank folded.
1t is men like this that refute the pessi.
mists. There's always work in the world, and
as LOWELL sand, BLESSED are the horny hands
of toll"
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03
HOLD YOUR FIRE

THE Mecklenburg sportsmen's and Wildlife
club appeals to the State Department of
Conservation and Development for immediate
closing of the hunting season. Because Of the
recent cold weather and heavy snowfall, "the
birds have been weakened to such an extent
they can hardly fly. They will have tough
enough time surviving, without a continued
onslaught against them by hunters" says the
club president.
While southeastern North Carolina escaped
the lower temperatures which prevailed in
upstate areas and snowfall was light, hunt.
ers here, who are also sporstmen, and good
ones, undoubtedly will seek to place no OBJ
stacle in the way of approval of the Meek.
lenburg proposal, which is, in fact. a con
s~eryation measure we'll warranted by a real
emergency.
serve a fighting chance. No hunter wants to
shoot birds on the ground. They must be in
Inc aif' 11eeiAs pei1' W olo" " IN .
fire. They must present a challenge to his
skill with the gun, if he is to have, and en-.
joy, the thrill of bagging them. If they are too
weak from cold and starvation to rise, they
deserve exemption.
This universal view among sporting hunt
ers gives weight to the thought that state
rules and laws will decide they are doing
no injustice to anyone in approving the Neck
lenburg proposal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-03
ANOTHER ART EXHIBIT

Once more the Wilmington Museum of Art
affords serious-minded persons interested in
the cultural efforts Of their country to view
a new group Of pictures-oils and watercolors
this time in the modern idiom. Designated
as New horizons in American art" the pic
lures include canvases and boards by YvoNNE
TwINING, CHARLES BARRows, EMIL GANso, EU-
GENE TRENTHAM, ELIZABETH TERRELL, JULIAN
LEVI and PRESCOTT JONES, a representative
group in the WPA art program. The exhibit
will remain at the museum until February %
and may be seen between 10 a. m. and 6 p. m.
daily, on Sunday afternoons and on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
The Wilmington museum is meeting a def.
mite need. It's expansion naturally depends
upon its greater use by art-lovers. As it is
capable of advancing the city's cultural de-
velopment, it is hoped that this exhibit and
others to come, will be viewed by as many
Of the city's people as can arrange to attend
it.