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Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-31

tration have made farm conditions
only little less tough than they
were 10 years ago.
Government Enters Private Affairs
All members OF the family have
had their national government
brought into their affairs as never
before. All feel that the Thirties
were time OF experimenting in
new relations between government.
the individual, and his business or
trade.
John reflects often on technical
progress. He knows that he gets
4 better automobile or electric re-
frigerator or radio for the same
or less money than in 1890. But he
has seen the new machinery elm
mating the jobs in steel mills. coal
mines. and all industries.
He knows that production IN
most lines must rise far beyond
1929 levels to need as many men
as worked in 1929. His own sons
show him how the stream of new
workers keeps flowing from the
schools into industries faster than
the older men retire.
He has seen tyranny grip sew
eral of the great nations OF Europe
and seen its ambitious plans TO ex-
tend itself result in widespread
war. So John @. Citizen knows
that as tough as the Thrities have
been for him, they have been worse
for many others.
He looks those 1910 blank pages
in the face with hope that the
next 10 years will see some of the
prolems solved which so bedevileo
the Terrific Thirties.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-31

cult by the bitter antagonism be-
tween the CIO and AFT4.
The split in the labor movement
stimulated economic Jealousy and
put the board in the ungenerous
position of having to judge in a
civil war in the labor movement, y
he said.
Manufacturers he said, felt ii
their duty to repudiate the law" and
sought to enjoin the board from
even holding hearings to bring out
the facts about a respondents busi-
ness And the very fact, he said
that the board took cases for unions
that had been expelled from the
AF'L. created resentment in the
AFL"
1.-The board had no possible right
under the law to refuse to give
to these people lCIO unions) the
same status the law gave them,
Madden asserted.
Organized opposition to the act
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-31

WASHINGTON. Jan. 81. up
Chairman J. Warren Madden told
the the house inquiry into the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board today
that most of the boards difficult
ties are attributable to organized
opposition to the Wagner act and
The AFL-C1O split in the labor
movement
Madden was the initial witness in
a unique rebuttal procedure adopted
by the house committee. The board
is being permitted to conduct its
own defense against charges made
during a months hearing on board
operations.
The board chairman reviewed III
detail the widespread legal attack
on the board and the labor statute
in the period prior to the supreme
court ruling holding the act con-
stitutional. In addition to this prob
lem. he said. the boards work was
made even more complex and diff
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-31
Americans Discuss
1ienfsin Blockade
Without Result

TIENTSIN. China, Jan. 81. up
The American chamber OF COM
merce met today and discussed de-
velopments in the japanese block
ade of foreign concessions at Tient-
sin, especially in connection with
food supplies.
No decisions were announced.
Two Americans complained TO the
American consulate general that
japanese sentries had forbidden
them to take food into the block
AIDED British and French conces-
sions despite their special passes
issued by Japanese to Americans
TO exempt them from blockade
regulations.
r. T. Evans. of Indianapolis. an
attorney, protested TO Consul Gen.
eral John K. Caldwell that he had
been hated at two barriers because
he carried suitcase, which the
japanese suspected contained food.
At third barrier, his suitcase was
opened by Japanese soldiers. They
found 1t contained no food and
permitted him to pass.
William j. Bowen, of Los Angeles,
q reporter for the American owned
English language North China Star,
protested that he was refused pas
sage at two barriers because he was
carrying eggs.
A foreign correspondent was for
bidden to take five apples past the
barrier.
1t was understood that the con-
sulate intended to take no action
here bat to report the incidents
to the state department NJ Wash
ingtOn.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-31
Organized Foes Blamed
For Labor Board Troubles

faced the board from the start,
Madden said.
The day the Wagner Act was ap-
proved" he declared, the National
Association of Manufacturers issued
a brochure attacking the act, and
advising business firms that the law
was invalid.
Less than a month later the as
sociation's law department issued an
opinion holding that the act was
"inapplicable to manufacturers" and
that majority rule in industrial
plants was unconstitutional" On
Sept. 5, 1895. he recalled. American
Liberty League lawyers presented
brief holding the law to be uncon-
stitutional and in effect advising
against compliance with it.
This led to more than 100 injunc-
ton suits against the board and
created an enormous problem for
the board" Madden said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-31
Peace Officers TO
Meet at hoItviIIe

HOLTV1LLE, Jan. 3l.-Chief of
Police w. H. CorneliSon and his
officers will be hosts to members OF
the Imperial-Yuma Peace Officers
association here Friday night.
A chicken dinner will be served
in Holtville city hall. Frank j.
Burns, immigration border patrol
man, and his assistants will be in
charge OF the entertainment pro-
gram.
Undersheriff Rodney Clarke, new
ly elected association president, will
preside for the first time since his
election last month.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-31
Produce Man Held
On Check Charqe

Dennis Anderson. produce dealer.
was ordered TO trial in superior
court on a charge OF issuing bad
checks Wednesday.
Judge John Z. Simpson sent An
derson back to the county Jail in
lieu of $4OO bail. Anderson is charg-
ed with issuing bad checks in Fl
Centre, Calipatria and Long Beach.
A charge that he drove an auto
mobile without the consent OF the
owner was filed against him in Cali
patria justice court recently
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-31

some day to own it. But the word
he gets from Cousin Elmer, who is
q farmer, Is not encouraging.
Elmer says II Is still hard to
make farming pay i'll spite OF re-
peated efforts to pay the farmer to
reduce production and thus make
prices rise to a point where it is
worth while TO produce food. The
long succession of experiments by
a tremendous organization of the
Agricultural Adjustment Admins
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-31

right himself. couldn't help him
much.
Henry's greatest consolation came
from the fact that between 9.000,-
900 and 100000 others were III
the same boat, and that as 1899
closed. one American in seven was.
like himself, existing through some
form of public assistance.
Through the Farm Security A
ministration, he hopes to get a
chance to 60 on a farm, perhaps
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-31
AnnuIment Asked
For Minor Girl

Alleging that his daughter, Betty
Sue, married without his consent
vhen she was only l3 years of
age, Erwin j. Almond Wednesday
asked the court to annul her mar
rage to Vernon B. Latham.
Almond asked that Latham be
forced to support the child that
is to be born soon and provide the
expectant mother with medical care.
The young couple separated twice,
Almond alleged. after their marriage
in Yuma last May. They separated
finally, ne declared, Jan. 4.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-31
REPUBLICANS INCORPORATE

SACRAMENTO. Jan. 81. (UP)-
Articles of incorporation on file to-
day for Republicans United, Inc,
San Francisco group proposing to
unite Republican effort for the
good Of the Republican political
party and true Americanism. Elmer
p. Delany, Dan j. Mclaughlin,
George P. Iovejoy and others are
sponsors.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-31
Jean Gale Breaks
Her Hip in Fall

Miss Jean Gale, salesWoman at
the M. o. King company for many
years, fell and broke her hip Tues
day.
The accident occurred while she
was in her room at the F.. E. Cous-
inS home at l445 Olive avenue
She is patient at the Ell Centro
hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-31
Nozis Threaten Smaller
Nations Chamberlain;
Want Peace. Says Hitler
British Prime Minister Warns War May
Cause Inconvenience to Neu+rals;
Says Germany 'CaI|ous|y Indifferent

DORCHESTER HOUSE, London, Jan 81. tCP) :
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain reminded Europe s
neutral nations today that the exercise of allied bellgef
rights might them Inconvenience and loss but
pledged that Great Britain would avoid effort To draw
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-31

EDITORS NOTE: Shaken and
a bit puzzled, the world Is emer-
ging from another decade. the
Terrific Thirties." Here is All
article telling. from the view
point Of the ordinary man. the
story OF this period.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-31
BY WILLIS THORNTON

point Of the ordinary man. the
story OF this period.
BY WILLIS THORNTON
NEA Service Staff Writer
When the bells rang out Dec.
81, 1889, the Terrific Thirties were
over. For John Q. Citizen, the
average American, the Forties are
a clean, unopened book.
Despite all the disillusionment
and disappointment of the past
ten years, John has managed to
get along.
He still has the same job he had
when the 1930s opened. But it is
now affected by national regula-
ton of Wage and Hour law, and
by a strenuous effort to unionize
the industry. His hours are short
er His pay is little higher, just
about compensating the cost of liv
ing. His state has a sales tax OF
3 per cent on everything John
spends. but still he eats, dresses
and lives just about as he did in
! /ernment Comes
To Johns Aid
The home he was buying, and
which he nearly lost in 1884. was
rescued by the Home Owners
Loan Corporation, which suaran-
tees the mortgage.
His SONS. John, Jr., and Ed, are
in a Civilian Conservation Corps
camp and small college respec-
lively Ed works on a National Youth
Administrator project to help him
through college, hoping that bet
ter qualifications will help him to
get d job. Neither boy was able
to get one after leaving high school.
The family's small account IN u
reorganized bank is guaranteed by
the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor
poration AS further security for
the future, John is one of the
$4,000 people for whom 1910 means
the beginning of benefits under the
old-age insurance provisions OF the
Social Security Act
Public Assistance
For One of Seven
Johns brother, Henry, Jared less
we'll. Out Of work early in the '30s
he worked on Civil Works, Public
Works, and Works Progress Admin
,stration jobs when he could get
them. Several times he was on pub
lie relief. John, though doing all
Evening star., 1940-08-02

one European country to another.
Acting Secretary of State Welles told
the press that a change in SOW
ereignty might be considered to have
occurred when a free and inde-
pendent nation lost its independence
and came under duress. Is this the
status Of France? Undoubtedly one
Of the principal motives in the Pc
tain governments choice of a new
Ambassador is the desire to bring
new vigor to the urging that the
United States make a formal an
nouncement of its recognition OF the
government headed by the old mar
shall. The Treasury has frozen
French credits in the United States.
The Act of Havana has the implica-
tions of threat to Frances American
empire. France has long been this
country's friend. The United States
would be slow about cutting France
off our list. Two tests apply here:
Whether, by befriending France
even in the most formal fashion, we
befriend the immoral use of force
which has brought France to her
knees; and whether by befriending
her we endanger the Act of Havana.
On the answer to those questions
rests the future of our diplomatic in
tercourse with the government Of
VichV.
Evening star., 1940-08-02
Factual Mistake Charged
To David Lawrence.
tn tn. Editor ~ tn. Star.

To the Editor Of The Star:
I wish to call the attention of your
readers to a misstatement of fact
made by David Lawrence in his
column of July % on the Democratic
convention in which he said: In all
the 1,10o delegates not a single one
ventured to debate the third-term is
sue. Not a single member of the Reso-
lutions Committee dared to bring in
minority report so that the issue could
be debated"
An nti-third-term resolution was car
ried to the floor of the convention on
July II, 1910, by Representative Elmer
j. Ryan Of Minnesota; it was hooted
down by the delegates.
Mr.. Lawrence has also been one OF
the loudest voices crying about "Roose-
welt controlled" convention In that re-
gard I submit to the readers if it would
be fair to take the names of each and
every delegate or alternate to the con-
vention, check his or her source of in
come and family's source of income and
he may be surprised at the result. Not
one Federal employee attended that con-
vention as delegate or alternate-in
fact, unless am badly misinformed, very
few attended even as spectators! I i'm
agine even Mr.. Lawrence has heard of
the Hatch bill, which was introduced in
and approved by a Democratic House
and Senate and signed by President
Roosevelt. How about asking Mr.. Law
renee to do little research on this sub
ject and then to publicly announce the
results? VERDA BARNES,
July 20,
Evening star., 1940-08-02
"Greuter East ASH"

Japans announcement of her pro-
jected domination of Greater East
Asia" while constructing a more
rigidly totalitarian state at home
should be peculiarly interesting to
those Americans who have opposed
compulsory military training in the
United States in the belief that
there is no serious threat from
abroad to our national interests and
that the sole purpose of CONSUMPTION
is to raise large military force to
be employed aggressively in Europe
or Asia.
Time alone will determine the
precise meaning of the Japanese
announcement, but there can be no
doubt that it contemplates extern
sion, by force if necessary, of the
Island Empires hegemony to such
important areas as the Dutch East
Indies and French Indo-China. A
few weeks ago Japan professed her
self interested only in maintenance
of the status quo with respect to the
Netherlands Indies, and this Gov
ernment took a similar stand. But
that is water over the dam now, and
Japan's true objective is revealed to
be domination of these territories,
and perhaps a great deal more.
Beyond any reasonable doubt, this
new and more aggressive attitude
on the part of Japan springs from
a belief that the Nazis are going to
win the war in Europe and that
British sea power is to be destroyed
or will at least become a negligible
factor in the Far East. Nor is it
improbable that American ineffec-
tiveness also is being counted on, for
the attitude of Congress on the
question of military training for
Americans can hardly fail to be in
terpreted by aggressor nations as
indicating that no resistance from
the United States need be antici-
pated.
It is becoming more evident each
day that the postwar world, assum-
ing German victory, is to be ruled
by force and force alone. A more
important question than whether we
can or should protect our position in
the Far East is whether we are going
to be able to defend our position
anywhere, and, with Britain de-
feated, that question may we'll be
answered by the decision we are
now in process of making. If re-
sponsible men in public and private
life, for the purpose of defeating an
effective military training program,
succeed in convincing the public that
there is no serious threat to us from
abroad, the ultimate cost of their
momentary triumph may be calcu-
lated in terms of national disaster.
Evening star., 1940-08-02
Army Worm

The destructive insect known as
the army worm is really the cater
pillar of the moth Leucania uni
punctata Zone punch?), and gets it's
name from its habit of falling into
line and marching in close -order
formation. It has just invaded Lo-
gan Circle, for the first time since
1914. Presumably it is mere chance
that makes it's forays coincide with
those of Germany; but in any event,
until. the United States gets an
Army big enough to study, it may be
we'll to make notes on the army
worm.
He is not drafted. The worm that
wants to eat-and they all do
simply joins the army, as the army
worm gets the grass. He may also
get the bird, but that is chance he
has to take. It is noteworthy that
he forages for himself, and it does
not take three civilian worms back
home in Virginia to support one SOL
dier at the Logan Circle front. He
even grows his own green uniform
with black stripes. Like Napoleon's
soldiery, only more so, he travels on
his stomach seeking fresh fields to
conquer and devouring. any green
thing within reach. His slogan, as
that of all armies in history, is
when do we eat?"
1t is, in fact, the only important
question, and is the key to their
deadly efficiency. When their food
begins to get poor, they just move
on to lusher pastures and steal a
march on the ordinary soldier who,
under the same circumstances,
merely grumbles at the mess ser
geant.
Evening star., 1940-08-02
Suggests Change in Line
OF Quoted Rhyme.

To the Editor of The Star:
To convey her opinion of boiling
New Dealers, whose numbers are CIV
ing concern and whom she dismisses
with a forgiving gesture in MY Day."
Mrs. Roosevelt, journalist, quoted the
nursery rhyme:
tom, Tom, the piper's son,
Stole a pig and away he run,
The pig was eat and Tom was beat,
And ran off crying down the street."
Change that second line to borrowed
ten billion" and the rhyme could apply
equally well to the crying New Dealers,
whose tears of Illustration would float
several battleships; and who cover their
definite fears Of being early also-rans
with cloak of bluster.
If the matter is of such trif1ing i'm
portance and laughable concern to New
Dealers, why comment upon 1t at all?
Yes, good advice to myself.
July 80. j. WINSTEAD.
Evening star., 1940-08-02

probabilities are that shall not; but if
do hear burglar in the house. I won't
have to hunt up revolver or cartridges.
know exactly where they are.
That is all the universal training plan
proposes for our country-that we won't
have to run out and buy gun and am
munition and learn to use them while the
burglar is already ransacking our home
The only new thing about the idea is
that our country will no longer be guilty
of the moral murder of sending unpre-
pared men into battle. When an epi-
demic RACES it is too late to train doctors.
Buying fire engines and hiring firemen
during a conflagration never saved a
burning city. The time to prepare is
now. Let's all quit being utter fools
July 81. OLD SOLDIER.
Evening star., 1940-08-02
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles Z. Trncetuell.

This column wishes to thank many
readers for sending In poems about the
thrush. But we must point out that we
did not say that the thrush had not
inspired poetry.
What was said here was that "this
column has always been surprised that
the wood thrush has not inspired more
music"
Which is an entirely different thing.
The bird has such a distinct tune that
1t fairly calls for incorporation into q
popular melody.
Instead of ransacking the classical
symphonies, composers of popular tunes
might turn their attention to some Of
the bird songs.
What is the use of taking a straight
song and labelling 1t "Woodpecker Song"
simply because some one has added the
rhythmic beat on wood blocks? No
woodpecker in the world ever raped out
straight A time.
What we would like to see, in the musi-
cal world, is the straight incorporation Of
the real bird songs, but built upon, to
make melodies of the sort which hu-
manity likes.
These would be- preferably, in the form
OF Hawaiian songs, "hillbilly" tunes or
straight popular dance themes.
Folk melodies, in other words.
We submit that no bird, not even a
thrush, has any idea of the sonata form.
But many birds do have real melodies,
which they lavish upon us all spring
and part of the summer.
These song patterns, as they may be
called, are definite, but not in the same
way that a typical Hawaiian hula is
explicit.
At this point, let us insist that few
Americans have ever heard the real
hulas of the better sort.
Many of these can be secured, how
ever, upon the records, if one is careful
to choose the real thing, not the
imitation.
Despite the fact that the hearer will
not understand word of what he hears,
he will realize that there is not, and can
not be, any vulgarity about these songs.
Such a combination is impossible
There is an artistic restraint about the
better hula songs, the so-caAed interpre-
tatiye hulas, which will impress any
listener who gives them a fair hearing.
AS might be expected, there are vari-
Gus types, and some of the fast hulas,
as they are called, lend themselves to
humor and, unfortunately, in any Ian
guage, evidently, humor often descends
to the vulgar.
There are few more birdlike melodies,
as a matter of fact, constructed by hui
man hands and minds than the best
hula tunes
Often they are simple to the point
of absurdity. from a cultivated musical
viewpoint. The hearer will wonder just
how on earth they manage to be moving,
with but two or three notes as their basis.
We know one very fine specimen which
really uses but three notes. 1t is close
Evening star., 1940-08-02

to the ancient chants which were the
beginning Of both Hawaiian and Ia
hitian songs. The songs Of Tahiti also
may be secured on the records They
are marked by an even greater empha-
sis on the rhythm than the Hawaiian
tunes. In fact, some authorities consider
the Tahitian melodies as better than the
Hawaiian, a verdict with which the
present writer does not agree.
The secret of the worth Of the best
melodies OF Aloha Land lies in their
utter simplicity, akin to that of bird song.
The question then arises:
If the Polynesian peoples have man
aged to construct melodies which are
birdlike, why cannot we take the real
bird songs and turn them into folk
melodies?
This would not mean that when we
got through with them they would be
real bird songs. 50 that listeners could
say, "Oh, listen to the mockingbird!"
BY no means. Such derivative songs
would simply be straight tunes which
would owe their origin to some birds
genius of invention.
The theme books of Beethoven are
full of such birdlike ideas just a few
notes, sometimes not more than three or
four, which present germ of great SYM
phonies to come.
The famous "fate knocking at the
door" of the Fifth Symphony" is just
four notes.
Many bird sings much better theme
than those four notes, to come right
down to it.
The song of the wood thrush, in its
complete form, is vastly more complex
Somehow 1t reminds us of some of the
Cajun songs of Louisiana. These, too,
may be secured in modern electric re-
cordings If you can browbeat your store
into getting them for you. There seems
to be very little demand for them
around here.
Songs that the birds might inspire,
built up right out of their own musical
ideas, are yet to be heard
This remains for some genius of the
future, who will be, first of all, lover
Of nature.
He will listen to the birds even as you
and I, but will do something with them.
He will steal from them, to use a
phrase, but it will be the same good
stealing which takes fine human mel
ody from great symphonic work and
puts it into the daily life of the people.
Bird songs ought not to be confined
to the use of birds alone.
We, as music-loving people, ought to
sing them, too.
Not just whistle Bob White" now
and then, with explosive utterance. That
is not what we mean at all.
But if we had the bob white germ
of musical idea used by real COM
poser, We would have human melody
which might, by its very simplicity, bring
inspiration to race whose greatest dam
ger and dullness lies in utter complexity.
Maybe the birds will save us yet.