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Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
WHILE OTHERS RECOVER,
CALIFORNIA SINKS

Most of the states in the Union are
recovering satisfactorily from the re-
cent business recession.
Not so California.
There are too many taxes, too many on
relief, too many high relief payments and
too much governmental interference in
California to allow rapid recovery. The
so-called Little New Deal has done for
California this year what the original
New Deal did for the whole country two
years ago. 1t has blocked the road TO re-
cOvery with a mesh-work Of restrictions
against private enterprise.
The greatest thing Governor Olson and
his aides could do for California right
now would be to announce that economy
in government is henceforth to be a fact,
not political promise But before he
can make any such announcement. the
governor must toss overheard the pres
sure groups that demand increasing eX-
penditures, the political satellites who
feed from the public pork barrel, the
head-in-the cloud idealiSts who believe
the way to Utopia is through public
spending.
CALIFORNIA; record under a spending
government is not good.
The United States News. published in
Washington, this week printed a map
showing a comparison of business in the
various states. March business as meas
ured by check payments, the News said,
exceeded that Of the same month last
year by 7.24 per cent in the United States
as whole.
Fourteen states Jagged behind the ma
tional uptrend. Three of the fourteen
showed no increase at all. One of them
was California. The others We're Okla
homa and Wyoming.
Thus, of three states worse off than
last year, California was one. All the
other AS states of the Union We're better
off.
Nor is that all Consider these facts:
California was among the six lowest
states in automobile sales last year. Cali
fornia's gain in gasoline sales was only
per cent, against national average of
six per cent. California Jagged behind
the parade in numerous other categories
of business.
Why?
Because Californians have the hardest
load of all to bear in the form of taxa
tion and government regulation. CalifOr
MAS government is among the most eX-
penSive state governments in the Union.
California; in other words is spending
itself into poverty.
Well stay there as long as the spend
ing goes on.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
Willis Thornton's Editorial On:
It's Our S. >OO0> 900, 900 Itch

quainted with American territories
and possessions for the first time
Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico. the
Virgin Islands. Thousands will seize
the opportunity to drive across the
borders to call on our neXt-doo
neighborS. Canada and Mexico. The
RotarianS and Lions conventions
form an alVance guard of a huge
tourist invasion of Cuba, and Gen.
tral and South America are certain
to see streams of tourists such as
have never flowed southward before.
1t is an unparalleled opportunity,
with Europe closed. for the Ameri-
cas- to get acquainted with each
other. And it is also fine chance
to solve in some little measure the
problem of inter-American trade.
The southern countries. and Can
ada, all want to buy more American
goods. They are handicapped be-
cause we buy so little of theirs, and
hence send them SO few American
dollars with which they can buv
our exports. But travel is one thing
which the other American countries
have for sale which we can buy
more literally.
This year it seems certain we're
going to do it, with the result that
the western hemisphere will have
a million new cords of friendship.
association and memory binding it
together into a unit before 1910 ends.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
THE new RAILROAD
INTO MEXICO

Another evidence Of the fact that Ba-
ia California and other areas of north
ern Mexico are rapidly approaching the
status of a dangerous business competi
tor and a respectable neighbor in the
matter of industry is given by opening
of the new railroad line from Mexicali
to Puerto Penasco on the Gulf of Califor
MIA.
The railroad, laid large part of the
way over shifting sand dunes, was an
engineering problem equalling any rail
roading feat accomplished in southwest
ern areas of the United States. How we'll
the MeXicans solved their problem, only
time will tell-but it is to be assumed
that it is in fact solved.
With the railroad and airlines travers-
ing Baja California and Sonora state,
with development of commercial ship
ping and recreational facilities on the
Gulf Of California, that region will soon
cease to be a desert and will become in
stead one of the busiest parts of Mexico
No wonder Mexical is celebrating
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
Among
Our Yesterdays

A British statesman arrived in
the United States 20 years ago and
declared that EnglandS sauabble
with Ireland was at an end and that
as soon as the home rule bill went
though, Ireland would be left to
wrestle with its own political scram
bles.
1T takes two to make a fight, the
Imperial Valley Press of April l8.
1920. quoted the statesman as say
ing, "and England just won't fight ;"
If nations would follow that axiom
in all political differences, there
would be considerably less war and
its accompanying sorrows and blood
she'd
In Imperial Valley on the same
day a poster appeared in the win
dow of the Southern Pacific depot,
explaining the railway need for aid
from the public.
A freight rate boost of IL cents
is needed to aid the railway stave
off financial troubles, the poster
said. We believe the people are
willing to help us that much. The
Imperial Valley Press agreed.
Railways are still fighting for ex-
istence, today, as other freight ser
vices continue to take share of
the business.
A group of Australian agricultural
leaders arrived in the valley on the
same day to study irrigation me-
thods as employed by valley farmers
The visiting officials were a little
amazed at the vast irrigation sys-
TEN.
Farmers who flooded county roads
were taking a beating, according to
n press story, as the county crack
cd down on viOlators. A regular
endemic of road flooding had made
several roads impossible, county Of
ficials declared.
The Press carried coupon on
page One for subscribers who wished
IN ioin the Hiram johnson for
President CLUB.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18

The itchy foot, one of the most
pronounced of American character
istics. is going to hand business a
$4,000 100000 boost this summer.
That's an estimate of what the
people of the United States will
spend on travel and things connect
ed with it in 1910. That is a ire
mendouS business. the third largest.
i'll fact. in the country.
This year. lor the first time in
many year, pract cally all of it will
be spent H. the " stern hemisphere.
and most Oi il in the United States
and its pu""""2iCnS. Europe is largely
closed this year to the traveller, and
the quarter of q billion dollars
which used to be spent there on a
single summers travel will tinkle in
western cash registers this season.
The New York and San Francisco
fairs will continue to draw their
millions. The national parks and
favorite domestic summer resorts
will again be strong magnets.
But more than ever before, this
vear will be Pan American year for
the wayfarer Cruises through South
American waters. and by air to the
southlands are already being book
ed full.
Many thousands will become ac-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
Editorials and Comment
THURSDAY, APRIL 49, 1910
FREEDOM AND SAFETY
OF OUR PEOPLE AT STAKE
tDavid Lawrence in The United
States NeWs)

NDdNlu Lawrence IN | ne llnlleu
States News)
Based on what has happened thus far,
the United States has no justification
for entering the war. Deep as may be our
SympatheS with the cause Of the Allies.
the American people at this time do not
feel that the safety of the United States
is actually ieopardized.
We are about to enter, moreover, a ma
tion political campaign. The Republican
party candidates are flirting with the
idea of isolation and are beginning to
attack the administration as desiring "tu
drag us into the war. In my judgment,
nothing is calculated to insure the reelec-
ton of a Democratic administration than
such a mistaken approach by the Repub-
lican party or its candidates. The Gallup
polls last Autumn revealed that the
Presidents position on repeal of the en-
barge added to his own popularity and
the strength Of the Democratic party in
the nation.
Early last July, this writer among 9TH
ers warned the Republicans about the
embargo issue and urged that it be dis
posed of at the regular session of con-
gress but the Republicans preferred to
filibuSter and this move subsequently,
lolSCN Stl Chli q SSSSIOll Nlltll lllt E1ul u
pean war broke out The Republican
party today can gain for itself real pres
tige with the independent voters of the
country by standing behind the position
which Thomas E. Dewey took in his
speeches in the East in January and not
behind the speeches which he made in
March to court the votes of the isolation
lists in Wisconsin.
An American policy today should not
be partisan or political. The future safe
" of the American people and this hem
isphere is at stake. PartiSanship must be
tabooed where foreign policy is concern
ed. We must put our faith in the Secre-
tary of State, Cordell Hull, and his asSo-
ciates whose wisdom has guided us thus
far
We must build a navy and an air force
second to none. 1t will cost Us heavily in
taxes. But this burden we must bear
for it is the price We pay for freedom in
a world that is more slave than free.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
Imperial Valley Press

Established April 20. 1901.
Published every afternoon except
Saturday and Sunday Saturday
afternoon Issue now succeeded
by the Post-Press Sunday, les
tabliahed 1856 by the Imperial
valley Publishing company. 626
state Street. FL centro, Calf.
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Johnston, vice president. and
general manager; +. A. Fitz-
hugh. secretary and managing
editor. West Holiday Co. Inc,
National Advertising Represent
atlvrs.
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tt
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Member California Newspaper
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Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
FREEDOM TO
PRINT ERRORS
{ Riverside PresS)

A Chicago librarian says that publ
Libraries shouldn't have on their shelves
''the deliberate falsehoods of demigods." ="
He gives some examples of books in
which he thinks much of the material is
mot merely distorted but misquoted and
deliberately mis-stated."
Many will agree with him that "therc
is no reason for Libraries to perpetuate
contention in cases as clear as that"
But we imagine an effort to accept or
reject controversial books on basis of
absolute truth would certainly make life
hard for librarians-as matter of fact
it would be almost impossible to do
In the first phrase quoted for exam
pie, it might be quite chore in any given
case to determine whether book con-
tanned falsehoods, and if so, whether the
falsehoods were deliberate and on top Of
that, whether the perpetrator was a
demigod.
Succeeding generations have frequent
ly changed their minds about such things
There would be quite a bit of trouble
too in determining whether distortion
or misquotation was deliberately mis-
quoted. One hundred per cent truth in
any book is a very high ideal and most
severe censorship may often be mistaken.
Freedom of the press may include free
dom to err.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18

Sam Rayburn, majority leader
1887.
Hatton Summers, chairman of the
judiciary committee-1O,889
Eugene Cox, untitled boss Of the
rules committee-5137.
Marvin Jones, chairman of the
agriculture committee-19,048.
William Wilmington, chairman of
the flood control committee-2l72.
Henry Steagall, chairman of bank
ing and currency-1O.090.
Carl VinSon, chairman of naval
affairs committee-4389.
John Rankin. chairman of World
War veterans legislation committee
1894.
CLAIMS BILL AIMED
AT POOR WHITES
Geyer put his bill into the hop
per last summer, managed to get
hearings on it before subcommit-
tee of the judiciary committee just
recently He has been getting help
from representative of the liberal
Southern Conference of Human
Welfare.
Poll tax came into being in most
of the eight states ostensibly as a
means of disfranchising Negroes,
but notwithstanding to Geyer-
to make the poor whites behave. In
all of these states but Tennessee, he
says, there are educational tests in
the election laws which would keep
Negroes from voting. Also. in all
of these states, the poll tax is en-
bedded in the state constitution
and hence can't be removed by the
legislature.
BILL HAS
MANY OBSTACLES
Getting the bill to a vote is apt
to be tough. The sub committee
now holding hearings on it reports
to the judiciary whose
leader. Congressman Summers. is
highly unlikely to send it any far
ther. Getting a rule from Congress-
man Cox will be equally tough. Get
ting any help from Majority Lead
er Rayburn won't be simple either.
In the end, Geyer will probably have
to circulate a petition to disharge
the bill from committee.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
MANY never
SUSPECT CAUSE
OF BACkACHES
This Old Treatment Often
Brings Happy Relief

Many sufferers relieve nagging backache
Of their trouble NAV he tired lid I;dnsv. ''A' '"'''
:, The kidneys are Natures chief way OF taking
the excess acids and waste out Of tho blood.
They help most people pass about 3 pints day :.
When disorder Of kidney function permits
poisonous matter to remain in your blood, it
may cause nagging backache, rheumatic pains
leg pains. loss Of pep and energy. getting up
nights swelling, pufiness under the eyes, head
aches and dissinees. Frequent or scanty pas
shows there is something wrong with your
Kidneys or bladder.
Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doan's
Pills. used successfully by millions for over 40
Is miles Of kidney tubes flush out poisonous
waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
TOday'S IIOrOScOpe

A most propitious year is fore
cast for those fortunate enough
call this their birthday. Promo
ton is promised, and the time will
be particularly beneficial in dealings
with elders and in property. The
character Of child born today will
BE- practical buSinesslike, thought
ful. critical and discriminating. II
born late in the day or evening, he
Or She may be somewhat eXtrava-
9an' however.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Dissects the News

WASHINGTON. April l8.-Don't
overlook Congressman Lee Geyer's
bill TO abolish the poll tax. 1t has
some far-reaching political possibili-
ties.
The tax exists in eight states
Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia,
Arkansas. Alabama. Mississippi,
Tennessee and Texas. Geyer esti-
mates that it disfranchises 60 per
cent of the whites and 80 per cent
OF the Negroes in that area. What
knocking it out might mean is il
Illustrated by this:
A southern congressman tagged
hlm the other day and said: Lee,
you aren't really going to push that
bill are vOu?"
Sure" said Geyer. Why not?"
Why not Why, because a lot
of Us will lose our jobs if it is passed.
Wed have to build our machines all
over again. from the ground up"
VOTING LIGHT
IN SOME DISTRICTS
Citing election returns and CEN
sus figures, Geyer argues that some
of the most influntial men in con-
eress actually represent only frac-
ton Of the electorate in their dis
tricts. Average congressional district
contains somewhere between 10000
and 100000 people; in an ordinary
northern district. the total vote in
presidential election will run
from 10000 to 10000.
But here are the votes cast in
the 1898 elections in the home dis
ticts of important poll-taxState
congressman:
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
Words of Wisdom

To be thrown upon ones own re-
sources. is TO be cast into the very
lap of fortune; for our faculties
then undergo a development and
display an energy of which they
Wrrc previously unsusceptible.
Franklin
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
You re Telling Me-

zadok Dumbkopf is writing Wash
ington asking for an appointment
as United States minister TO one
of the little neutrals. He wants TO
see what bhtzkrieg looks like,
first hand.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18

Holland fears NaZi INVASION
headline. Looks aS though IL the
former kaiser won't return To
Germany, Germany may come to
him.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18

The huge bronze doors of the
German chancellery in Berlin
have been melted down for use
in making armament. This ought
to give Hitler a chance to state
some sort of "Open door" policy.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
Barbs-

Things are bustling down in
Rome. With two kings trumped in
the north. it might be interesting
to see what results Il play Of the
Duce might bring.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
Grab Baq-
One Minute Test

/. OF what state is the city OF
Dover the capital?
. What does a barometer regis
ter
3. Who is chancellor of the cX-
chcQuor in Great Britain?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
Hints on Etiquette

The bride rides to church in the
car with her father, not with the
bridesmaid CT with her husband
tO-be
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18

Women buy three out of every
four mems ties sold, according to
statistics. And most men we know
will wear but one out of every four
their women folk buy. SO that cvens
things up.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18

The boys in the Maginot and
Siegfried lines must be getting bor-
ed now that even the war has gone
north for the spring.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
Famous Sayings

Loving kindness is greater than laws and the char
tiles of life more than all ceremonies-Talmus
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18

Whenever Mussolini shouts that
Italy must have more land we don't
know whether it's geography or just
plain jaW-graphy.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
Thoughts for the Day

Charity suffereth long and is kind charity envieth
not charity vaunteth not itself. Is not putfed up
Corinthians 1874
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18

General sherman, it appears, was
right about war. King Haakon
might also have a word to say about
neutrality.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18

An observer writes that it ap-
pears now the japanese may be
eventually driven out of China.
Maybe there is something to Il
Chinaman's chance, after all
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18
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MtMBER:
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fishers Association. Nation
nj Editorial Association.
California Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18

One -Minte Test Answers
Delaware.
Atmospheric pressure.
!. Sir John Simon.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18

Results of the primaries would
have made interesting reading. Too
bad they had to come at the same
time war broke.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18

The mustache was designed by
nature, says science, 10 be a filter.
And was reconditioned by Holly
wood to give that Gable touch to
aspiring heroes.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-18

We thought we'd seen that cen
SuS man before. It seems that he
was around selling brushes few
months ago
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-27
PITTSBURGH COPS
GAME FROM CUBS
BUGS Mark Up Eighth Win Of
Season AS Result Of
Walk And Errors

PITTSBURGH, May 26-0RD-A
walk for frankie Cuisine, the Pits
burgh Pirates 20 year-old second
baseman, and errors by Pitcher
Bill Lee md first baseman Rir
Russell of the Chicago Cubs cost
Lee a masterfully pitched bal
game today.
Lee threw wild to Russell as
Cuisine started a steal to second,
Then Russell threw high to second
and Cuisine scampered all the way
home to give the Pirates a 81
victory, their eighth win of the
season..
In the pitchers duel between Lee
an6 Bobby Klinger, both gave ur
two bases on balls, but Klinger
struck out four batters to one for
Lee.
The Pirates scored in the first
on Lee Handley's single, his steal
of second and two infield outs, and
again in the sixth on Bob Elliott's
triple and Paul Waner's long fly,
A walk to Billy Herman in the
sixth resulted in one Chicago run,
and the Cubs tailed again in the
eighth on Herman's double, jim
Gleeson's long fly and H a n k
lLeiber'S infield out,
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-27
Divide Double
Header With Cleveland
Bildilli Hurls st. Louis To s.:
Win In Opener; Indians
Take Nightcap, 1871

ST. Louis, May 26- Up What
was sauce for the Browns was sauce
for the Cleveland Indians in a
doubleheader today.
The Browns used a left-handed
pitcher, Rookie Emil Bildilli, and
scored five runs in one inning to
take the opener, 5 to 3. Cleveland
came back with a southpaw, AL Mil
ner, started off with five runs in the
first frame and ran away with the
nightcap, 10 to 1.
Cleveland's 5-run rally was &C.
complished with only one hit, Ben
Chapman's double. Howard Mills,
who started for the Browns, yielded
the hit, walked two men and hit
another with a pitched ball. Johnny
Niggeling then took over, walked
another batter, tossed a wild pitch
and saw the last two runs of the
inning come in O Lyn Lary's error.
Hal Trosky hit a home run for
the Indians, his tenth of the season
in the eighth inning.
The Browns winning spree against
Mel Harder in the fourth inning
of the first game was initiated by
Walter Judnich's home run. -Four
singles and a double by Don Heff.
ner added the other quartet of runs,
(First GameN
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-27
ST. LOUIS GETS
ONLY One SAFETY
Big Highlander Fans Sever
In Shutout Victory; Pen
nant Ceremony Staged

CINCINNATI, May 90 Up -
Paul Derringer, who has had trouble
getting his sights lined this season,
allowed the st. Louis Cardinals one
hit today and gave the Reds a 4 to
0 victory.
The big hurler, who won 25 games
for Cincinnati last year struck out
sever men.
The triumph was fitting for the
Reds National league pennant rails
ing ceremony conducted before the
game at Crosley field in the presence
of Baseball Commissioner K. M.
Lands with the aid of p old fans
who saw the champion Reds of 1859.
Third Baseman Stu Martin singled
into ~centerfield in the first inning
for the only St. Louis hit of the day.
After that, Derringer, who has
won three and lost four games this
season, went into high gear. 1t was
up to the plate and back to the bench
as far as the Cardinals were con.
cerned.
Cincinnati counted two runs in the
first inning, one in the fourth and
one in the fifth, getting to Morton
Cooper for II hits before he was sue.
ceeded by Curtis Davis in the eighth
Derringer brought in one of the
Reds runs in the first inning with a
single after ~safeties and stolen bases
paved the way. Timely singles &C
counted for the other two Red scores.
Johnny Rizzo, recently obtained by
Cincinnati from Pittsburgh, was hurt
when he fell in leftfield after catch
ing a fly ball but the injury was re
ported as not serious.
Despite the victory, the Reds re-
manned a few percentage points be
hind the league leading Dodgers who
won a 10-inning encounter in Phila'
delphia.