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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-10-18
BEST DEFENSE IS
TO PROVIDE GOOD
LIVING CONDITIONS

New York City (ILNS). Achieve
ment of decent living conditions for
everyone constitutes "the strongest
defense we have" the Rev. Bryan j.
McEntegart, president of the New
York State Conference on Social
Work, told the annual meeting of the
conference here.
"Rearmament must not submerge
human rights" Father McEntegart
declared, urging preservation of social
gains made in recent years. In his
presidential address, Father McEnte-
CART said that America must be alive
to the dangers now threatening the
democratic wag of life and that the
theme of the present conference must
be to determine what social work can
do to bolster the defenses of demo-
cratic America. He said that social
work might prove to be "a determina-
tive factor" in promoting national
defense
uSL Il IcScIfC TTctuOW
"Just as total war is a conflict not
solely between competing armies,
ships and planes but rather between
whole nations, SO, too, total defense
involves the training of soldiers, the
procurement of machines and the
spirit and strength of the whole pop
ulation," Father McEntegart said.
"To preserve democracy we must
preserve the basic civil and political
liberties which we rightly treasure.
And at the same time we must make
sure that the basic necessities for
truly democratic living continue to be
available to all our people. Effective
democracy aims at decent living con-
ditions for all it's people. The achieve
ment of this aim constitutes the
strongest defense we have"
Human Rights Paramount
Social work, if it is to help build the
nations defenses, must center largely
on two objectives-to preserve or re-
store the integrity of family life, and
to imbue the youth of the country
with devotion to democratic ideals,
Father McEntegart declared. If we
are to remain a democracy, he said,
our defenses must "come from within"
'The placing of the nation upon a
war economy is bound to have pro-
found influence on social and economic
patterns" Father McEntegart de-
clared.
"More than ever before, it will be
necessary to insist that the social
gains made in recent years shall not
be lost. Rearmament must not sub
merge human rights"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-10-18

This same sentiment was arising in
America
In early days of the Great Depres-
sion
Unattached, irresponsible, adven-
turous and idealistic youth
Boys and girls, wandering in the
mazes of now social frontiers
We're ready for any manner of life,
any method of living
Huey Long, and his kind, saw a hu-
man harvest ripe for new reaping-
But one great nation awoke in
Bringing it's children home.
War, now we know
Is not foreign to human blood and
impulses
War is right under the skin
The red rash breaks out on slender
provocation-
Not religion, plus pacifsm, plus
economic interest
Could frown down this innate hark-
ing back to primal instincts
Germans have already last, immeas-
urably, by their war
Would have been happier, though
less delirious-
Following along lines being set
among nations at large
Brute force has Cancelled thousand
years of history
Lent to barbaric leaders twentieth
century weapons
Releasing age-old reactions among
peaceful nations
Where reason had found and pre-
ferred to hold
Relations and methods of peaceful
human advance
Now, fools must be answered ac-
cording to their folly.
Dull, lazy people find dull, lazy
friends.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-10-18
Truths POndered While
Riding at
Anchor
Then gently scan
your brother man
BY MIR. Modestus-

After Gunpowder came
Reducing number of soldiers in
war
1t was believed that war would be-
come less of a menace
Because, not every man would be
potential soldier
It would cost too much to furnish
guns and powder for them
Impossible to train large armies in
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-10-18

Dull, lazy people find dull, lazy
friends.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-10-18

"They cared only for their own in
terests, their own passions
"Their own will /. ;" They could
not be reconciled-
"To condition even approximating
the social"-
Barbaric character, described by
historians:
"The pleasure of individual inde-
pendence--
"The pleasure of enjoying ones self
with vigor and liberty
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-10-18

amidst the chances Of the world
and of life
"The delights of activity without
labor
"The taste for an adventurous ca
reer-
"Such was the predominating SEN
timent of the barbarous state
This is reproduced among the Nazi-
Fascist youth of today
When one perverted Underling, who
refused to be educated
Sounds the call to the lawless life
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-29
BEING FAIR TO IVA
tChristian Science MOnitOr)

Critics of Uncle Sans big power ex-
pertinent in the Tennessee Valley have
repeatedly emphasized the charge that
IVA is taking millions Of dollars worth
Of property off the tax rolls in the states
where it has built reservoirs, and bought
up private utility systems Clearly.
IVA ought to do something about this.
1t is estimated that the state Of Tennes-
see and its counties will lose this year
S800,O00, much Of it badly needed to keep
schools open and roads in repair
But rather interestingly, IVA is eager
to pay Tennessee and the other affected
states the equivalent of these taxes The
IVA board is asking congress to author
iZe it by legislation to distribute 10 per
cent of its gross revenues to the states
and counties in question. instead of the
5 per cent which it now is instructed to
pay to only two states. This bill, spon-
sored by Senator George W. Norris and
Representative John J. Sparkman, was
passed by the Senate on April 30. The
House committee or military affairs
more than three months ago held hear
ings in which testimony Overwhelmingly
favored the proposal, yet the committee
has not reported the bill.
What is holding it up? Opponents of
IVA have insisted that it ought to pay
taxes or their equivalent if it is to pre-
tend to be yardStick for power rates or
to compete at all fairly with the private
electrical industry. Are these same peo-
pie now responsible for holding this bill
in committee? If So by what reasoning
can they Justify hindering it from doing
what they have demanded it should do?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-29
Among
Our YESTERDAYS

There. VAS SOME elatl0n IN I'M
perlal Valley 20 years ago because
only 4 handful of families had de-
parted for the coast and cooler tenn
peratufeS.
The Imperial Valley Press COM
mented:
The atmosphere in Imperial VAL
ley IS so crisp that the summer
exodus has not begun and will
probably be delayed until June Is
or July l." That was before the
days of the desert cooler and the
1929 depresSion.
Elsewhere in the paper was the
news that "a cars of cantaloupeS
had already been shipped to the
eastern markets. This year, with
an early season, 400 cars have been
shippedD
Miss Walter Moore and Winnie
Barry entertained at an evening
party on that date Thirty-five
Wilson scnool graduates received
diplomas CaleXicO water users
were notified rates would be IN
creased Packing shed wages
were raised
Special plans were announced for
a Memorial Day program. Page one
carried a story which listed among
other things the words to America
and the Star Spangled Banner" "
A parade in which all city and
county officials were included was
cited as the highlight of the days
celebration.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-29
Henry Ford Could Turn Out 1000
warpIanes a Day at Gigantic Plant
Without New Buildings, He Says

reference. said peak production
could be attained only if industry
were permitted to manage itself.
He suggested that competent aVia-
tion experts such as Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh or Capt. EDDIE KICK
enbacker, president of Eastern Air
lines and a former auto producer
could be placed in charge OF the
mass program.
OF the war abroad and its pos
sible repercussionS in America,
Ford said that any American citi-
zen should be willing to participate
in the defense program" He SAID
he and his industrial empire would
swing into production whenever
the order is given.
In the World war, many resources
of the Ford plant were used Tor
ornaments production. The COM
pany produced Liberty motors,
Eagle boats helmets, tractors and
gun carriages. Ford made no refer
ence to the possibilities of his trac-
tor construction unit, but Ford
farm tractors now are being pro-
duced at the rate of several hun
dred a day. The tractors have cat
erpillar traction. similar TO army
tanks
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-29

DEARBORN, Mich. May %.
CUP)-Henry Ford says he could
turn out 1000 warplanes a day at
his gigantic River Rouge plant,
and that he is ready to throw the
resources of this worlds largest
factory into national defense.
Surveys OF the plant already have
been made by army and navy eX-
pertS and fighting ships could be
turned out at the 1000 a day rate
without adding any new buildings
10 it, Ford sad.
Production facilities would have
10 be revised. company officials said,
but within six months the entire
plant, covering 1896 acres and
equipped with railroads, ships, blast
furnaces. and more machine mech
anics than any other industrial
concern in the world. could be con-
centrated on output of airplaneS,
engines. and parts.
Ford said the 1000 a day figure
was no dream He recalled when
the automotiVe industry was enter
ing mass production, 1000 cars a
day were regarded as an impossible
output. At its peak, the Rouge plant
has turned out 10000 a day. The
plant employs 10000 men.
Ford a foe of governmental in
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-29
THREE BILLIONS AND
THEN SOME MORE
The payoff is here ,


President Roosevelt is asking congress
for new taxes to add upwards OF 60O
millions yearly to the national treasury,
and in addition he wants congress 10
boost the national debt limit from 40 10
AZ billions.
The nation is about to pay the price
of seven and a half Years of Squander-
ing.
In these columns few days ago the
necessity for added taxes and the posi-
bility of an increased national debt llmlt
were discussed. We thought the PreSl-
dent would not ask for the additional
money this year, on account of the ma
tional election Now il seems the emerg-
ency is worse than it at first appeared.
Our national credit, in other words, Is
strained far worse than most of US know
There isn't anything anybody can do
about it now. We need those additional
dollars to finance national defense How
badly we need them is demonstrated III
the surrender of Belgium to Germany's
blitzkrieg. Belgium's king surrendered
because his men had been subsisting for
days on a few dry biscuits, and were out
of ammunition. Unpreparedness We
don't want that.
But there's another thing we don't
want.
1t is a continuation of political spend
ing that ignores the economic facts.
We've got TO spend to build up our
defenses Few people will dispute that.
But we can and should cut back-to the
very bone-on the sort of wild spending
that has put Us in the desperate finan-
cial condition we face today.
For every dollar that is spent on de-
fense. the American people must demand
4 dollars worth of return. During the
last three or four Years our national ad-
miniStration has spent more than six
billion dollars ON "defense". With the
three billion dollar expenditure now pro-
posed that sum should be only little
short Of the ten billions experts have
estimated should provide adequate de-
fenses. Yet We are told that the three
billions is only starter.
Where did the six billion we've already
spent go?
Perhaps it went into the economic no.
where that swallowed all the rest of the
millions the New Deal has spent to as
sure a recovery that never happened. 1t
was those same squandered millions that
strained our national credit to the point
of bursting, that made necessary the dan
gerous act of increasing the ceiling on
the public debt.
Of one thing let us be sure nOw-that
we should demand an accounting of the
money newly spent for defense.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-29
Editorials and Comment
WEDNESDAY, MAY 29 1910
COALITION GOVERNMENT
NOT FOR US
(Wall Street JournaN

There is no occasion for amy form ot
coalition" government in the United
States and there are several good reaS-
ons why nothing of the sort should should
be attempted. National unity IN funda-
mental purposes is good. We can have
il without SuSpending the wholesome,
essentially democratic process of party
contention over the appropriate means
of attaining the common ends.
Senator Taft has terSely described one
of the controlling reasons why coalition
won't do. He says il would require
complete Subordination of all domestic
issues to foreign policy" a thing for
which the time has not arrived and is
not likely to come.
Former Governor Landon of Kansas.
who was among the first to approve of
the Presidents new armament program.
rejects the coalition idea as Il danger
GUS weakening of the two-partY sYS-
tenn and of party responsibility.
Wendell L. Willkie raises what is per-
haps the simplest objection, the one which
will appeal most forcibly to practical
men, He says, in effect, that public ser
vants should be judged by their compe
tence to handle the problems Of govern
ment and that the incompetent should be
summarily dismissed from office net
bolstered with coalition props.
One thing more: A stable working cot
lition which should embrace both houses
Of congress is unthnkable. But congress
is an nseparable part of our govern
ment A coalition would therefore, have
to be built within the cabinet. which is
the executive branch. and to be effective
would have to subordinate 10 itself the
Legislative branch in one way or another.
No no political coalition. We can oh
tain all the cooperation in the industries
and among ofticeholderS that the nation
al defense requires without minpling the
political parties into confusion and IL
responsibility.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-29
ANOTHER LITTLE NATION
GOES UNDER

Belgium has succumbed to the same
force that overran Poland, Norway,
Czechoslovakia. Austria and the others.
Is Great Britain next?
Possibly-but it would be dangerous
to say probably. Belgium, like the 9TH
ers, was small nation. relatively un-
prepared Britain is large nation-a
peer of Germany. If the Nazis do attack
Britain directly, as they threaten to do,
it will be the first time they have at
tempted to swallow 9 competitor their
own size The bite might be too big.
It is true that Britain and France sent
troops to Belgium, tried to stop the ag-
gressor, met defeat. But there is a diff
ference when the aggression is brought
home. French troops are fighting more
fiercely on French soil than ever they
did off of it. The same will be true of
British The result cannot yet be known.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-29
sLOVE. COURTSHlP
AND MARRIAGE
BY Ernest X. and Gladys II. Groves
Noted Authorities on Marriage
Relations

Today young people who are
about to marry make scientific
preparation for their new estate.
Several weeks or months before
the wedding they go, separately and
together. to a careful doctor who
Is interested in marriage prepara-
ton. If they have Il choice of spc-
ciallStS, they 90 to a gYnecOloglSt
a urolOgiSt. or an lntcrniSt
With the medical authority. they
take up any questions upon which
they feel the need of information
With the aid of charts and dia-
grams they learn much that IS
helpful about the physical side OF
mating and reproduction.
Acquiring S-entific vOcabu-
larry for the structure and func-
tioning OF sex aS il operates IN
marriage, both the man and woman
become able TO put into words their
desire for specific knowledge
Usually one or both have miScon-
ceptionS, even aupersitlonS. that can
readily be cleared up. once they
are expressed,
After talking together with the
doctor they are prepared to learn
to adjust to each other in their
marriage relations, and are able to
express themselves rather easily
on anything that needs explana-
tion or compromise of their two
different points OF view. Through
talking together. each becomes
more tolerant and understanding of
the other.
Also at the time Of the visit to
the doctor, each is examined tor
obvious physical abnOrmalitleS and
the more or less common condi-
tions that would interfere with the
marriage role The doctor can then
give appropriate advice, and ar
range for remedying anything that
calls for slight medical or surgi-
cal treatment.
Seeing the man and woman who
are marrying, the doctor is in a
position to give them Individual
advice, suited to their special needs.
For instance, if one or both seem
likely not to BE- very fertile, ne
may help them to bring about par
enthood if that is possible
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-29
Barbs

On the market comes the new
nccktic. made of glass fiber. Just
the thing for the efficient slayer
who can now strangle and slit the
throat with one movement.
Only the keeneSt observers are
able to perceive, at this early date,
the mistakes being made in this
war that directly contribute to the
Wagins of the next.
The British camouflage a re-
treat in the sounding phrase,
'readjustment of position" This is
also known as having enough sense
to come in out of the rain
Into retirement at the ripe age
of II goes Shirley Temple. And can
those be circles We see forming
under Baby Sandy's eyes?
Agriculture'S new StarchleSS po-
lato can never go far. The nervous
gourmet would always fear it was
about to collapse, like one of those
shirts finished by the wife.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-29
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

enable restraints of trade. When
ever the army and navy can show
that a certain industrial cOmbina-
ton is necessary to the national de-
fense. the reasonableness of that
combination is automatically proven
and the antitrust laws do not ap-
ply to it.
IT, in other words, a production
controlling or price fixing Set-llp
does become necessary. if it is sup
ported by responsible persons in
government and industry, for rea-
sons which can be examined in the
open-then it can be had without
any suspension of the laws.
On the other hand. the antf-
against sub-rosa ice-fiXing
schemes as energeticallv as ever.
CONSUMER PROTECTION
NOW BEING PLANNED
The division. furthermore, is anX-
ious TO swing into action on a broad
program of consumer-protection.
During the last war food prices
shot skyward. and an acute housing
shortage developed Arnold is anx-
ious that this be kept from hapA
pening again.
His famous building costs cam
paign is protection against an undue
rise in building costs-or would be,
if little more money were at hand
to carry it farther and keep on
with it longer.
Plans are now being laid for a
thorough study of food distribution
costs, probably centering in New
York and Chicago. in which eveW
combination and all of the big and
little rackets which affect big cMy
food costs would be attacked.
This program has been reviewed
by Arnold with Mayor La Guardia
of New York. La Guardia is strong
for it, and will if necessary. as
sign New York city lawyers and m
vestigators to work with Depart
ment of Justice men on the in
vestigation.
Standing in the way of the pro-
gram, however, is the antitrust di-
visions lack of money. Not 1 great
deal is needed; Arnold figures $3.50
900 would be ample. That money Just
isn't in sight now. The president
could furnish the money from the
special 5000, 900, 900 fund he has ask
ed for-if congress gives it to him,
and if he himself can be sold on the
Importance of the food drive.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-29
Willis Thorntons Editorial On:
Pan American Protest Important

arms caches seized.
Peru: Local NazlS raise rumpns
at showing of British propaganda
movie, forcing its withdrawal. Pc
ruvian senators indignant
Colombia: Government take steps
to protect oil pipe lines to the
coast from interior, believed en-
dangered by organized activities
of 2O00 Nazi sympathizers directed
by a nephew of Ribbentrop
Brazil: Vargas government, which
forcibiy smashed RightiSt Integra-
listas in May, 1888, smashed active
Communist activities this April.
German airlineS set up new routes
To interior.
Cuba: Flooded with German pro-
paganda.
Mexico: Government investigates
Fifth Column charges, and alleged
infiltration of German agents work
ing closely with Communists. Fear
July elections may present crisis
with possibility that German and
Russian agents will foment vio-
lence
These are only a lightning sketch
of what IS going on to the south.
They give however, an idea of
why Nazi success in Europe has
alarmed the existing regime in al
most every country, while giving
new heart to all pro-Nazi, pro-Fas-
cist, and Falangist elements.
now strangely cooperating with
the Communists.
Thus the united protest of the
American countries against the
LoWland invasion is important in
giving one more evidence of the
Americas determination to stick
together against influences which
might some day menace them from
abroad, and which are already at
work to undermine them at home
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-29

Nobody ~ Germany is gong To
pal much attention to the united
protest of the II American nations
against the INVASION of the Low
Countries. Though the Americas
with one voice denounced the in
HaSlOn as "unjustifible and cruel.
and called for re-establishment OF
law and justice among nations,
nobody can expect Hitler to be
much impressed at a moment when
he is shooting the works IN a
make-or break military effort.
That does not mean. however,
lhat the American protest is mean
nslesS 1t is highly significant,
Franklin Wryly told his co-Slgners
Of The Declaration of independence
that they'd better hang together
or they'd aSsuredly hang separately
later on. That's the way the A
mcrlcan countries are beginning 20
fcel about the expansion of totali-
tarIanlam III Europe.
The countries TO the south have
even more reason than the United
States 10 be conscious of possible
future danger and of present local
interference by Sympathizers with
foreign systems. Note these re-
cent occurrences:
Argentina: Police raid meetings
End demonstrations noisily favor
ing Germany; arrest German oper-
ator of secret German propaganda
radio station. Defense measures
speeded. series of new naval, air.
and coast defense bases planned.
Italian Facist cells also active.
Uruguay: Government opens in
vestigatlOn Of "Nazi Fifth Column
activities; vast quantities of Ger
man propaganda alleged shipped in
for organizations of local Nazis dl-
rected from Berlin. Some small
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-29
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
CERTIFICATE OF BUSINESS
Fictitious Firm Name

THE UNDERSIGNED does here
by certify that he is conducting
Mail Order business at BAT Heber
ST.. Calexico, California, under the
fictitious firm name of THE
MEXICO CO., and that said firm
is composed of the following per-
sons, whose names and addresses
are as follows. to-wit
EARL NJ LINHOLM, BAT Heber
st., Calexico, California.
WITNESS my hand this 4th day
of May, 1910.
EARL M. LINHOLM.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-29
You re Telling Ne

AS rule the average college
May queen has very little difficulty
becoming a June bride.
Hitler and MuSSolini can't be
such close pals or Adolf would be
tipping Benito off on the right
time to hop on the band wagon.
That Vancouver man who picked
up steak and walked off without
paying the butcher was just being
modern. The steak was neutral,
wasn't it?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-29
One Minute Test Answers

!. Red tape is a popular name
for official and legal formality and
delay and originated from the GUS
tom in England of tying documents
with red tape.
3. They are softened by the heat
used in cooking and processing the
fish.
3. 1t does not differ from other
lightning, but is merely a diffused
reflection of lightning produced by
a distant electrical storm which is
too far away for the thunder TO be
heard.