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Evening star., 1940-05-28
Corporation Bonds
Join in Retreat
On War News
Germun Liens Among
Few Exceptions to
General Trend
Bond Averages
10 LOw-Yield Bonds.

10 Low Yield Bonds.
Close - 1887 Prev. day 1885
Ninth ago 1929 Year ago. 1872
1910 high 1882 1910 low 108.5
1899 high 1925 1899 low 1895
"New 1910 low.
Compiled by the Associated Press.)
Evening star., 1940-05-28

Cities Svc p & L
| ca of 15.75k
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| Claude Neon l.
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Club Alum Uten
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Col Fuel & | war
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Columb Oil 4 Ga
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Compo Shoe %
| Conn Tel & Elec
Cons Retail Strs
Consol r S pf tS
Cons Steal Corp
ContlG&B pr Of
Cont RON T. Stl
| Cooper Bess -.
Copper Range
Cosden Petrolm
Creole Petr 60a
Crocker- Wheele
| Darby Petroleum
| Decca Rec so
| Delay Stores 30,
Dennis n Or Of g.
| Det Stl Prod .25l
Distilled Liquor
| Divco Twin TBS
| Duke Power .75e
| Duro-Test
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Ind Pipe l. l0e
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| interest q .Eo 50.
Iron Fire vtc 1.zl
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| Jacobs Co
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| Jones & Ian Stl
| Kennedy's (.e5e)
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| Lake Sh M del
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Lehigh Coal
| Ls Tourneau az
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Loudon Packing
La Land&Ex 20,
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Evening star., 1940-05-28
Baltimore Quotations.

BALTIMORE, May IS Pl.-Wheat-N0
3 red winter sarlicky spot domestic. 1.01 "a
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-12
Willis Thornton's Editorial On:
Get The Work Done, Quickly and Well

other. and settled now.
The clock ticks on. Every day that
passes is a day lost forever. We can
not get it back by tear or prayer II
the moment of need should burst
upon us as it burst upon Belgium,
Holland, or Norway.
One way or another, the conscrip-
ton bill should have action, and
have it without another moments
fruitless pickering. Legitimate de-
bate or proper consideration OF de-
tails. yes. But pickering, filibuster-
ing, personalities. no. More is on
trial here than the bill itself-what
is on trial is the ability of our re-
public to function cleanly, decisive
ly, swiftly.
The defense issue must be met
eye -to-eye, head-on. No miserable
straddle will do. Five million young
Americans. willing and ready to do
what is required to defend their
land, walt uneasily to know what
that is. The world waits to see what
the United States will do.
Everything waits but Time, In
exorable, unpausing Time!
The clock ticks. Listen-tick- -tock,
tick -tock While you read this, an
other minute passed. We are vast
ing one OF our most priceless de-
fense assets-Timel
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-12

Again there are whispers of con-
gressional adjournment. Members
itch TO get back home and mend
fences. The session has been long
and trying.
But there is only one way TO mend
a political fence this year. That is to
do the job in washington and do 1t
well before going home.
A long six weeks of debate have
now flowed through the congress-
ional mills on the consumption bill
longer than it took to conquer Po-
land-longer than it took TO bring
about the fall of France. And dur
ing that precious six weeks. only the
national guard has been in line
for real training of the kind requir-
ed of soldier Of 1910. Volunteers
have been triekling in. but neither a
great volunteering effort nor nat
ional army setup has been provided.
The house plan for a 60-day de-
lay. putting the whole business of
until after election. is the merest
political eowardice. Conscription is
either right or il isn't. II is either
needed or it is not. To take this
siffyf stand. this tentative dipping
of a tremulous toe into the waters
Of preparedness, is to temporize and
daily with a crucial problem that
ought to be settled one way or an
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-12
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Dissecfs Hle News

1t thereupon goes out for field
exercises. Smaller units exercise
first, putting into practice the spe-
cial stunts the preceding 10 months
have taught them; then come ma
neuvers by divisions, by corps, and
finally by entire armies.
Two months of this, and the
training is up The soldier has done
his years service and he goes back
to civil life-remaining ON the re-
serve list and liable to call in case
of war, when he will be a fully
qualified soldier able to step in and
go on a moments notice.
Best estimate right now is that
when the draft becomes effective
there'll be around 100000 men in
the regular army and 100000 in
the national guard. About 100000
drafted men will be filtered into
these two organizations this fall
with perhaps 100000 more sum-
moned for Service in the spring.
Next fall of course. the national
guard will finish its years tour of
duty and 60 home; 100000 new draf-
tees will be called, and the regu-
lars will be given the job Of train
ing the lot.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-12
Paul HARRISON S Notes
On HoIlywoods Foib|es and Fads

weeping of Miss Stanwyck, Miss
Chatterton made diverse sarcastic
and half audible comments. The two
gals had quite a scene afterward and
the elder one is probably lucky to
have escaped with her scalp.
Capra didn't know az this, but
he did have hunch the red-headed
youngster was not just being con-
trary. So he called all the studios
in town and asked for a look at
any and all tests made of Ruby
Stevens or, more recently, of Bar
bara Stanwyck. The stack of film
he received loomed like an uncut
version of "Gone With The Wind y
In few days he summoned Miss
Stanwyck and gave her the part.
Ladies of Leisure" retitled from
Ladies of the Night" was a hit.
Tt provided a real beginning for
the successful and parallel careers
of the director and his new dra-
matte star.
Next they made Forbidden an
other box office biggie. Their third
was Miracle Woman" which also
brought Capra into contact with
his future partner, Robert Riskin.
Miracle Woman" had been author
ed by Riskin as a stage play.
BARBARA CAME
AT BRISK LOPE
They made one more-"The Bit
ter Tea of General Yen" BY that
time the star was in tremendous
demand all over Hollywood, while
the director was slowing down to a
Chaplinesque pace. She was advised
to get out and get busy, so she did
Her d-headed temper got her
into lot of arguments about roles
and she spent about half her time
at Warmers and Fox on suspension
And she never stopped hating screen
tests.
As soon as Capra and Riskfn
broke away from Columbia to be-
come independent producers, they
. called Miss Stanwyck, who came
. at brisk lope. So everyone's hap
py again, though you might not
iguess it from the funeral hush or
1.-THE set of Meet John Doe It's
serious business. When the actress
isn't acting she sits back in the
shadows and watches as intently
as a movie-struck kid just getting
aner first chance.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-12
RADON NOTES ON
1hE RAINFALL

War and politics get tiresome some
times. Let's talk about the ram, Tor no
reason at all, with no point at all.
AS far as we can learn, the rain didn't
do anybody any good it did few peo-
pie minor discomfort-but We'll bet five
to one you can ask nine people out OF
twelve how they liked it, and they ii say,
"just fine That's human nature. And,
after all, we'd be a pretty miserable sort
if we couldn't enjoy few dIscomforts
now and then.
The folks who laid out Ell Centro's
streets evidently worked on the civic
booster theory that you can get rid OF
the things you don't like by denying their
existance. And most of them-contrary
to the rest of us-didn't seem to like rain.
AT any rate, they ignored the possibility
of it,
The least they could have done was to
build the curbs higher, so thered be
enough depth in the streets to use an
outboard motor Or use the Australian
crawl without scraplng up handful OF
mud on every downstroke.
We rather suspect that the ram was
most unpopular among landlords. 1t
showed up all the leaks in all the houses.
Another one we heard complaining was
the housewife who'd used all her kitchen
utensils to catch water dripping from the
ceiling, and had nothing left to get din
ner with.
And why is it, we'd like to know, that
nobody thinks about a storm drain sys-
tenn until the water is knee deep-and
then forgets about it again after the
water has gone?
If some freak of nature ever changed
Imperial Valley into a rainy community,
we could stock the streets with trout and
move to the mountains. What a private
fishing preserve that would be.
The merchants are the ones who really
deserve your sympathy however. Most
of them haven't a large enough stock Of
raincoats to go around-and if they did
it probably wouldn't rain any more. And
even if it did rain, most people would go
ON the theory that it was going to stop
pretty soon, so why buy a raincoat.
What's poor merchant to do?
The same as the rest of us, most likely.
Grin and bear it.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-12
VETERAN SENATOR WHO
WOULDN'T GO HOME

Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst of
Arizona, one of the United States Sen
ate's foremost figures, will be plain Pri-
vate Citizen Ashurst after January l.
The people of his state defeated him for
reelection because he visited Arizona
no more regularly than see-America-
first tourist might.
Arizonans were wise in their action,
we believe. Regardless of his knowledge
of senatorial lore and practice, Senator
Ashurst could not truly represent his
state in the senate, as all senators are
supposed to do, if he did not live in his
state, know the people there, and know
their problems. He had ceased to be an
Arizonan. He had become, instead, a
Washingtonian.
There are too many like Ashurst. The
only time they come back to their dis
tricts is when an election campaign is
going on The only real interest they
have in their districts is a vote-getting
interest To them adjournment of con-
gress is a signal to relax in. Washington
and New York, not a signal to go home
and answer to their people for their ac-
tions in congress.
After all, if the people elect represen-
tatives TO congress, they have a right to
true representation there = representa-
tion which can spring only from a knowl-
edge of opinions, problems and needs in
the home state.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-12
STABILITY BEGINS AT THE TOP

(Chrlstlan Science Monltor)
Womens hats have often inspired hui
NOR, practically never hope But this
year, in world where so many things
are shaky, an exhibition of women's hats
in New York brings into the news the
Millinery StNbilization Commission. That
alone is a service. When you see pictures
of some of the 1910 hats you may decide
that the Sterilization Commission will
have little time left over for stabilizing
anything else.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-12
By PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Corresponds

NEA Service StdII Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. Pit isn't
lust her emancipation from screen
tests that makes Barbara Stanwyck
like to work for Frank Capra. But
it helps. The actress hates screen
tests, and she hasn't been asked
to make one for the director since
she went to work for him II years
ago. s
He didn't get that first one, either.
It began when the former Ruby
Stevens, fresh from "Burlesque" and
THE Moose" on Broadway, and
the new bride OF Frank Fay was
called to Capras office to talk about
the lead in Ladies of the Night.
She had seen the play and want
ed the movie role She didn't know
Capra and he had seen her only
in a couple of swifties-"The Lock-
ed Door" and 'Mexicali Rose
which briefly had occupied her tai
ents in 1929. Il thought they were
pretty bad" the director comment
ed
They we're worse than that.
agreed Miss Stanwyck. Il thought
they
Anyway said Capra, Il won't
Judge your work from those pic
lures. You can make a test"
..I won't make another test she
said bluntly. That's all I've been
doing with my spare time for the
last year
NO test, no role.' declared the
boss. Exit Miss Stanwyok, burning
CHATTERTON
SNICKERED
In the first place, she had beer
promised the part as extra compen-
sation for appearing in 'Mexical
Rose" which under any other
name would have been stinker. Ir
the second place, before and after
her arrival in Hollywood she ha1
made tests for every company II
the business.
There had been an especially un-
happy experience in New York, dur
ing the run of the stage show
"Burlesaue." For one of her screer
tests she had a highly dramatic
sob scene from the play, and Ruth
Chatterton happened to be one ol
the spectators. To the accompanl-
ment of lugubrious music and tht
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-12

Fourth of "a articles on "Our
Country, written exclusively for
NEA Service and the POst-PreSS
by the nations most famous au-
thors.
BY LOUIS ADAMIC
Author of "The Natives Return" MY
America" From Many Lands" etc,
In the current world crisis, the
United States will scarcely be worth
defending as a place and sovereign
state unless we as a people and a
government also determine to do our
utmost. Immediately and in the
long run, to keep alive and en-
hance the American idea.
To me the United States is more
an fdea than anything else. And by
the American idea I mean the body
of ideals and practices which diff
ferent people have labelled var
iously: democracy, equality, general
welfare. liberty. the pursuit of
happiness. the American Dream,
the Promise of America, the AM
erican Way.
I mean the thoughts, emotions
and doings of people on this conti-
nent that run like a clear stream
through our history from Plymouth
Rock to Ellis Island. and that aim
ed for better life than seemed
possible anywhere else on earth.
I mean the Mayflower Concord
ant. the Declaration of Independ-
ence, the Gettysburg Address, and
the tears in the eyes of millions of
immigrants from more than score
of countries during the last so
years as they passed the Statue of
Liberty. on whose pedestal are
struck these words:
Give me your tired, your poor,
The wretched refuse of your teem-
ing shore,
Your huddled masses yearning to
breathe free,
Send these, the homeless, the tenn
pest tossed to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden
door.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-12
So They Say

When man is SO i'll as to be-
lieve he is i'll when he is not Ill. he
is very i'll indeed, -
English psychologist in a recent
book on psychotherapy.
o.
Those who have carried on into
graduate study include 10 times as
large proportion of radicals as
those who have barely finished the
eighth grade. 0,e .a.4.,,a.
Prof. Goodwin Watson, Columbia
I have my doubts whether Trot-
sky was murdered in Mexico at the
instigation of Stain, as is widely
assumed. The Nazis could have
wished it. ..., -.
Charles Benedict, In the Maya
zine Of Wall Street.
This is the moment and the
United States is the place for us
to revive again the faith and power
of freedom, s=.z.=.
Frank Kingdom in the Survey
Graphic.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-12

WASHINGTON, Sept 12.-The
new army which win come into
being as result of passage of the
Bulke-Wadsworth bill will take
shape in a way entirely different
from the. formation of the World
War draft army.
There won't be any great train
ing cantonments, or any new units
composed entirely of rockies. In
stead, the rev men will be fed into
existing formations-some with the
regular army, some with the fla-
tional guard. Point is every rookie
will have an old timer at his side all
the way
Assume. for instance, that the
present strength of an infantry
company, in the regular army is
around 10 men. Approximately 85
new men would be assigned to this
company. The percentage of vet
Grams in the company would be
somewhat lower than those figures
would indicate, however, since on an
average about SO of the ITO already
In the outfit would be comparatively
new men who had enlisted within
recent months.
TWO MONTHS
BASIC TRAINING
The whole course. Of sprouts which
the rookie is put through rests on
the general staffs assumption that
fD it takes at least IL months to
make soldier, and (b) that most
soldiers nowadays are specialists of
one kind or another.
So the new soldier spends the
first two months of his army ca
reer getting his basic training
learning how to roll his blankets
and shine his shoes and handle
his rifle and do all of the other
things which rate SO high in the
mind of the top sergeant.
After two months the soldier has
the rough edges polished off a bit,
and his company then goes into
special and unit training. The whole
idea Of this training-and there'll
be eight months of it's to pre-
pare the soldier for the rather spe-
cialized job he will finally fill
The figures on that, by the way,
may be of interest: army men fig
ure specialists now comprise 81 per
cent of the infantry strength, %
per cent of the cavalry 48 per cent
of the field artillery, 38 per cent of
the coast artillery, 60 per cent of
the engineers, 78 per cent of the
air corps and SO per cent of the
signal corps
WILL MANEUVER
IN GROUPS
Ten months after the rockies
have entered the service, the COM
pany-Whieh now, remember, has
a strength of about 1876 of whom
rather more than half were ORR
ginally enlisted mems ready to
become team" in the highly
complex work of a moderniZed army.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-12
THE W.C.T.U. ANSWERS
A NCHAlLENGE"
EDITOR, THE POST-PRESS /:


In your Issue of August 80 you printed
this challenge: "The W.C.T.U. might
make something of Jim Farley, soft
drink salesman, taking over the Yankees
from the Rupert brewery estate
We understand why you offer us this
challenge, Mr.. Editor. but why pick on
Mr.. Farley-when there are instances
much nearer home?
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union is an organization in which all
thoughtful, Christian women may be
proud to claim membership. 1t is the
largest and most powerful organization
of women in the entire world, and has
unions in every state and almost every
country in the world We are in dead
earnest in our efforts to inform all the
public and our own beloved communities
of the insiduous enemy we have in alco-
holic beverages. We have other interests
as we'll, to try to promote clean politics,
good morals in fact we are behind
every single issue which will make our
homes and our children happy and whole
some.
Now, concerning Mr.. Farley. OF course
we suppose that being at the head of the
Coca Cola corporation in its export trade
perhaps did not bring in as much return
needed 1t may be he took over the
presidency of the Yankees to increase
his income. If he advertises the products
of Rupert brewery interests at these
baseball games or in their training quar-
ters, to increase his income, then your
challenge would be more understand
able
Since you asked us to make some
thing" of this, we ask you, Mr.. Editor,
does not the man who Yields such a
mighty weapon in our community for
good or evil as you do have grave re-
sponsbility, as we'll as the women of the
W.C.TU.?
On my desk is a scrapbook in which
are pasted many clippings from your edi-
torial pages. All of them splendidly
written and even those which do not coin
eide with my way of thinking are there
also. They serve as an incentive for fur
ther thought.
Another much larger scrapbook lies
beside this one. What is it? Well, your
challenge. And a partial column about
Jim Farley leaving his governmental Of
flee to enter private life. The rest of the
book contains all advertisements you
have printed in the brewery interests for
the last six months in our local paper.
Also all that has been printed in the
same period of time in small items con-
corning the result of using that product.
Perhaps you did not realize what a valu-
able book you were compiling-but the
lessons therein are terrible and true.
Nevertheless, we think that you and
Jim Farley are in the same boat What
do you think? Will you please print this
letter in its entirety, since you printed
the challenge to us as W.C.T.U.
Yours sincerely,
EMMA J. McKUSICK,
President of Ell Centre Wet u
Editors Note-The itch to which Mrs. Me-
Kusick refers in syndicated column en-
titled "Barbs", and intended purely a
smile e-prOvOking observation without any real
point. We sorry if it mistaken any
thing else.
STARIITTY REIINC At THE TOP
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-12
~OUR COUNTRY

There will be danger. ] fear, in
this period of stress that Ameri-
canism win be defined and inter-
preted too narrowly by the elements
in our population which by virtue
of their numbers and priority large
ly dominate the life of the United
States.
The danger will be that the idea
of Americanism will become again,
as it was during the first World
War, too insistently nationalistic
from the viewpoint of the no-longer
true idea that the United States is
preponderantly an extension of the
British Isles and the Anglo-Sa.Son
tradition. ..
Such nationalistic Anglo Ameri-
canism will not be all-inclusive. 1t
will leave out tens of millions of
immigrants and their American
born sons and daughters who are
not of the Anglo-S Saxon strain. but
who come or stem from central
Europe, Scandinavia, italy, Poland,
the Balkans, the Near and Far
East, Mexico, and Africa. And leav-
ing them out, it is apt to weaken
their current eagerness to add their
energies to the defense effort.
Americanism must be stated or
re-stated SO it will be all-inclusive,
as something that is the monopoly
of no one strain in this country
but happy concentration. of some
of the best aspirations and tenden-
cies of humanity at its best nearly
everywhere at one time or another.
Americanism. as I see it, is
movement away from primitive rae
ism. fear and nationalism, herd
instincts and mentality and super
iority and snobbery; movement
toward freedom, creativeneSs, uni
versal or pan-human culture.
A comparison Of the two Ameri-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-12

The historic frigate Constitution
is being recomlnissioned for active
duty with IT, S, Navy Now, if they
can only resurrect John Paul
Jones'
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-12

A comparison Of the two Ameri-
cas- of today is made by Mary
Roberts Rinehart in the next
article of this series on Our
COuntry."
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-12
balbs

National defense is booming on all
fronts, says headline. indicating
the program is finally going over
with bang.
Folks can't figure out why Ger
many wants the use of Red Cross
boats to pick up fallen aviators in
the channel. UP till now the Nazi
propgaandists have brought them
home safely.
A London court was forced to
move to an underground shelter
during an air raid. Justice isn't
blind, but it sure is handicapped
in a blackout.
FDR is calling out the National
Guard and Os Witt figures it's a
swell idea, what with all these In
dian uprisings.
New book of military geniuses
doesn't include Robert f. Lee, but
just wait until they get out list
of the best steamboats,.
Willkie accuses FDR of putting
the draft in politics, and what would
politics be without a little wind,
anyway?
o.
With autumn fogs settling over
England it remains to be seen how
the Nazis do against the r. A. F..
in its natural habitat.
Too many men find the biggest
trouble with middle age is that
it affects them mostly in the middle.
o.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-12

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