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Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13
OFF THE RECORD OR ON,
THE THOUGHTS THE SAME

When Joseph P. Kennedy, U. 5. Ambas-
!, sador to Great Britain, scolded Boston
newspaper reporter for quoting what
Kennedy said were off-the-record re-
marks, he should have made his position
clearer.
Unless he does make it clearer, we be-
lieve he should resign as representative
of this government, in any capacity.
The reporter, employed by the Boston
Globe, printed an interview quoting Ken
nedy as declaring that democracy Is on
the wane.
Kennedy repudiated the interview. He
said the reporter had misquoted HIM. He
added that the interview he gave was
supposed to be off the record. But he
did not deny that he believes democracy
is on the wane.
Unless he does deny it-and deny it
feelingly-his usefulness to the Amerl-
can people is ended.
For the belief that democracy is on
the wane is the belief that the people are
not strong enough nor intelligent enough
to govern themselves. There is no room
in our government for any such belief.
ANY high official who holds such be-
lief is dangerous to this republic-dan-
gesous because he might tolerate and
even encourage an effort to bring democ-
racy to an end in this country.
No newspaper man can excuse the re-
porter who published an off-the-recOrd
remark. Such statements, made for the
reporters information but not for pub
lication, are sacred to most newspaper
men. In this instance it is difficult to
know the truth, because the reporter III
question said it was his understanding
that only that part of the interview spec
ificallv pointed ont by the ambassador
as not for publication was off the record.
1t is possible there was a misunder-
standing 1t is possible the reporter
violated an ancient rule. Of so, he should
be discharged.) And it is possible the
ambassador realized too late the error of
expressing his real thoughts, and sought
to cover up by blaming the reporter.
That happens all too often.
Wherever the blame rests, the cat is
out of the bag now.
4 We want no ambassador, nor any other
efficial, who believes democracy's day
has ended in the scheme of world affairs.
How about it, Mr.. Kennedy?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13
SOME LIKELY CHANGES
FOR THE CONSTITUTION
(Oroville Mercury-Register)

Now that we have broken the unwrit-
ten third term law, says Chester Rowell
in an address before the Commonwealth
Club such a law should be written into
the constitution. He suggests either
SiX-year term without reelection or a
four-year term subject to one reelection.
He does not ask this congress to do 1t
but says it should be submitted to the
states as a constitutional amendment be-
fore the matter becomes political again.
It sounds very sensible, and we favor
the one six-year term. This is for the
very reason we gave yesterday. During
the term when the President is expected
to run again his actions necessarily are
influenced somewhat by the fact that he
is to be candidate again. 1t has been
generally noted that the second terms OF
our presidents have found them at their
best because they have been freer from
politics.
And while We are talking about chang
ing the constitution, why not change 1t
in another place so that presidents would
be elected by popular vote rather than
by the votes of electors representing the
various states?
President Roosevelt in this election
might have been defeated although he
received a plurality of about five million
votes more than Willkie. The entire cleo
toral vote of a state may be delivered by
a plurality of one vote. In fact, lead
of one vote is as good as a lead of a mil
lion.
BY the same token Roosevelt, who was
elected by five to four lead in the po-
pular vote won by an electoral vote of
five to one.
The people are supposed to rule III the
United States, but it is conceivable that
they might not rule under our electoral
college system.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13
MOB OF WORK TO BE DONE

Unless something changes the mind
Il Farm Credit Administration repre-
initiatives who last week investigated
4edit ratings in Imperial Valley, we
ill be without federal land bank loans
b the future just as we have been IN
he past for our farmers.
81 That, at least, was the implication in
4 statement issued by the group denying
That there had been discrimination
against the valley in the past and say
ing there would be no discrimination in
the future, but advising this community
to first set its own house in order before
asking credit.
We cannot help thinking that power
full influences, seeking to prevent frui-
ton of major public projects in this
area, still have the ear and close atten-
ton of the land bank officials, in spite
of the overwhelming public support in
the valley itself of these projects.
The only way to overcome such oppos-
ition is by downright hard work-such
work as it will take to assemble and
present the complete picture of farming
-potentialities here That is a job for
every chamber of commerce, and for
every other civic organization, in the val
ley.
The farmers welfare is the interest
of every one of us. Just now it depends
largely upon more available credit.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13
by Bruce Cation
The Inside Track in Washington

in and indicted a lot oil people
local building materials dealers
local unions, and the CHIEF oil po-
lice Gunnison was then able to go
ahead and build the house. But
the case illustrates the KIND OF
problem the pre-fabrlcateo mouse
encounters.
BUILDING CODE
REVISION SOUGHT
Local building codes provide an
ether problem.
These codes undertake to set up
reasonable rules for house con-
struction in the interest OF health
and safety. Sometimes they are
framed by collusion betwees city
officials, building supply dealers
and manufacturers, and local u
MONS. to keep certain loW-cost
materials and fixtures off the
market.
Sometimes they are framed with
good intentions but in utter lgnor-
ance-as witness the small Arizona
city which, anxious to have good
building code, simply copied the
New York City code verbatim, thus
writing into its local code all sorts
of rules devised for skyscraper con-
struction.
The antitrust people have the
idea that great many OF these
restrictions - which sometimes do
fantastic things to keep prices up
would collapse at once if tested
in court. Justice Department can't
test them, though, unless it can
find citizen directly affected who
is willing to file suit on his own
hook. 1t has standing offer in
such cases to join with the petit
toner as an amicus curiae, but SO
far has not been able to make much
heaoway on it.
What the antitrust division
would really like is a concerted
move to revise building codes, re-
writing them in terms of tests
rather than in terms of specific
materials. This would safeguard
the public and at the same time
remove the restraints which do SO
much to bar fabricated and
other types of low-cost housing.
But the division lacks men and
money.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 3142
Estate of RAMON SANCHEZ,

EsoOiOS VI
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un-
dersigned, Mariana Guizar as Exec
utor. of the estate of RAMON SAN
CHEZ, deceased, to the creditors
of and all persons having claims
against the said deceased, that
within six months after the first
publication of this notice they
either file them with the necessary
vouchers in the office of the Clerk
of the Superior Court of the State
of California, in and for the Coun-
ty of Imperial, or exhibit them with
the necessary vouchers to the said
Mariana Guizar, as Executor OF said
estate, at the office of D. B. Rob-
erts Room 207, Bank of America
Building, Ell Centre, California, the
same being the place for the trans
action of the business of the said
estate in the County of Imperial,
State of California.
Dated at FL Centre, California,
this 18th day of November, 1910.
MARIANA GUITAR,
Executor of the Estate of
RAMON SANCHEZ.
Deceased.
(N13-20-27, D4)
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13
JOBS AND DEFENSE
(Wall Street JournaD

Now that the smoke from the election
is clearing away We will be able to see
more distinctly the problems that lie
ahead of this country. Foremost is an
adequate defense in the quickest possible
time.
While bringing about this defense it is
necessary not to lose sight of the fact
that it is drain on the country. The
fact that jobs are provided and business
indces rise should not be allowed to OBJ
scure the fact that no real wealth is be-
ing created-that only man hours Of la
Dor and materials are being consumed.
To help offset this burden we must do
everything within our power to see to it
that the burden on government of caring
for the unemployed is eased. When 90O,
900 are put to work in two months-as
President Roosevelt pointed out in a re-
cent speech-we can look for a substan-
tial reduction in the relief rolls.
In a recent speech at Montreal, F. J.
Horning, an economist of the Royal Bank
of Canada, discussing fast increasing en-
plOyment in Canada. said: "The absorp-
tion Of so many workers in industry has
caused an encouraging reciprocal reduc-
tiOn in the number of unemployed and
has materially lessened the amounts re-
quired for relief purposes"
is logical to expect the same thing to
happen here. 1t is the governments job
TO see that it does.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13
So They Say

New blood never hurt any liter
ature, and these people Crefugee
authorS) are turning their tre-
mendous talents toward the task
of interpreting an exciting new
scene.
DIR. Claude Jones, English in
structor, University of California.
Whether contemporary democracy
can survive will depend entirely
on it's leadership and the intelli-
gence of the people who follow it.
DIR. Robert j. Kerner, University
of California history professor
The freedom we have enjoyed in
this country is worth it. If they
need me I'll serve along with the
boys.
Dan Will, Iowa farmer, father of
three sons who enlisted.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13
by Willis Thornton :.
The United States Goes TO College

Did you vote for Franklin D.
Roosevelt or Wendell Willkie for
President on Tuesday, Nov. S?
Pardon us, but you didn't.
You voted for electors, who you
hope and expect will vote in the
ELECTORAL college for the candidate
of your choice. That is the unique
college to which all the United
States goes, once every four years,
to find out whom it has elected its
President.
Those electors, for whom you
really voted. will meet and THEY
will vote for the presidential can
didates. The result of their vote
will pe forwarded to Washington,
there tabulated with similar votes
in other states, and the result is
the official election of President.
A long way around to achieve a
result everybody knows about any
way? Perhaps. Some people think
it ought to be eliminated as a use
less snarl of red tape, to say moth
ing of the possibility that the elec-
tors just might possibly get to-
gather tnd vote somebody you
didn't intend them to vote for at
all.
It all started when the country
was young, and had fewer than
100000 people, most OF whom
were not trusted. 1t was felt that
the voters ought to delegate the
right to choose a President to a
select group of respected citizens.
These would be chosen by the vo-
tiers for their standing and judge
ment, and they. in their wisdom,
would choose anybody they thought
best for President.
Their number, too, equal in each
state to the number of senator's and
representatives, guaranteed mini
mum representation to each state
as such, no matter how small.
But after this college had twice
elected Washington. parties sprang
up, and the idea became more and
more firmly entrenched that the
electors were to be pledged in adj
vance to vote for a specific candi-
date, thus reducing them from a
choice-making body to mere
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13

WASHINGTON, NOV. l3, Pre-
fabricated housing might - just
possibly-break the log jam in de-
Tense housing and help knock down
small home prices all along the
line.
Experts see in pre-farbricated
housing an ideal answer to the
need for vastly increased but
largely temporary, housing accom-
modations in certain defense pro
duction areas.
They recall the famous Fort
Wayne experiment of a few years
ago. in which serviceable flve-room
houses were put up for around
5000. Since WPA labor was used,
this doubtless was under any price
private industry could be expected
to meet; nevertheless, the houses
came in pre-fabricated panels
which could be erected i'll one
day-and which. after the need was
gone, could be knocked down in
another day and moved to any
spot where they were needed.
UNIONS STYMIE
CONSTRUCTION
Files of the antitrust division
of the Department OF Justice are
eloquent about some of the things
that have stymied prefabricated
housing. Take the experience of
the Gunnison Manufacturing Corp.
at Belleville, III.
Gunnison huilds pre-falbricated
houses. Its plant in New Albany,
Ind, is a C. I. o. shop. Recently
it got a contract to put up one of
its houses in Belleville.
At Belleville it couldn't get a
contractor to handle the job, nor
could it hire any A. F. of L. union
workers. Hence it bought in its
own crew of c. l. o. men to do
the job. When the materials were
shipped in, local workers wouldn't
unload them at the freight sta
ton, and local haulers would not
handle them. When, finally, the
materials were got to the lot,
pickets swarmed around and there
were daily fights and near riots.
Efforts to get police protection
failed.
Justice Department finally moved
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13
Uranium, Crackers

Here are five general questions
about places which have been in
the news lately. How many can
you answer correctly?
|. Italians claim to have bombed
Bahrein. Where is Bahrein and
what is its significance?
2. Japanese planes have been
bombing Running. What is the
reason for the attacks?
3. An important German OBJ
iective of the Royal Air Force has
been Essen. Why?
4. Germans have occupied Illiec
Island off the coast of Brittany.
Illiec was in the news several years
ago. Why?
5. Where is Matruh?
Answers
|. Bahrein, an island in the
Persian Gulf, is an important oil
producing field.
2. Running is the Chinese city
at the eastern end of the Burma
Road important Chinese supply
line.
3. Essen is the site of the Krupp
armament works.
4. Illiec island was for a time
the home of the Charles A. Lind
bergh family.
5. Matruh is an Egyptian city on
the route the Italians hope to
take to the SueZ Canal.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13

transmission belt for choice made
by the voters themselves.
Thus we are reminded every TOUR
years of two things: first, that our
government is more democratic to-
day than when it was first set up.
and second, that it is a federal
union of sovereign states, and that
our presidents are chosen by the
vote of the people of the states as
such, and not directly by the mass
of all the people.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13

German soldiers get two weeks vacation
the Reich. In England they get vacation
for duration of the war.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13

If you go through life without accom-
plishing anything growing old is an aw-
full waste of time.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13

They've discontinued the famous
six-day bike race in France. This
is perhaps the first evidence that
the nation may be tired of going
around in circles and getting no
place.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13
Famous Sayings

great war leaves the country with three armies
an army of cripples an army of mourners and an
army of theves-German Proverb
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13

AMAGBKB
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. NatiOnsi
Editorial Association. Call
fornia Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13

LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13

Trucks that are under
powered or overpowered
are wastefuI.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13

Trucks with the right sized
units throughout last
longer on your job
Imperial Valley press., 1940-11-13

What you pay for trucks
is important :. but what
you get for what you pay
is even more important.
Evening star., 1940-04-01

istic hand to the problem and the
national labor mobilization law was
enacted by the Diet. Under its pro-
visions, all available laborers are
registered and may be drafted for
this or that type of work just as
the soldier is drafted. It is difficult
to perceive how efficiently this sys-
tenn Is working, save that the fact
of 20 per cent labor shortage dur
ing the 1939-40 fiscal year speaks
eloquently.
Another index is to be found in
this years graduates from the pri-
mary and middle schools, the school
year IN Japan ending in early
March. The head of the Employ
ment Bureau of the Welfare Min
istry states there are approximately
100000 such graduates, of whom
roughly 100000 will seek employ
ment outside the home. These, he
says, will mostly be placed in key
industries, but adds that he could
easily place at least double that
number. 1t was only a few wears
back when the failure of graduates
to obtain employment constituted
national tragedy.
Grandiose Schemes.
Although not numerically so
great the number of pioneers"
needed for the settlement and ex-
ploltation of Manchukuo enters the
picture. The Toxic government
has grandiose schemes in this con-
nectlon. 1t would settle manv
thousand Japanese farmers there,
especially in Northern Manchukuo,
IN the next few years.
This not only would relieve Japan's
own surplus population (scarcely ex-
lstent under the conditions Just out
lined) but also would develop the
country and form a strong OUTPOST
OF empire, bulWark against Com
munist Russia and a bandit-sup-
pressing organization.
One million new laborers, lnclud-
ing women and Koreans, are needed
to keep Japan's homeside industry
operating in the coming fiscal year.
How many more men the army will
require is problematical. If the jap
anese colonization scheme for Man
chukuo is not to fail, an appreciable
number Of young men (to be fol-
lowed later by pioneer brides must
be sent there, Jaran's cheap and
abundant manpower" would seem to
have become a matter of history
rather than of fact. and that will of
necessity affect Japan's export trade.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Garment Workers Give
Reds Only Eight Posts

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April IAN "over-
whelming' defeat of Communist
candidates for office in the Inter-
national Ladies Garment Workers
Union was announced today by
President David Dubinsky.
He said only eight of 1,147 posts
filled by balloting among the citys
100000 garment union members had
gone to Communists or their camp
followers Similar outcomes were
reported from Chicago, Boston,
Philadelphia and Cleveland, Mr.
Dubinsky added.
The alliance of Moscow with
Hitler and the subsequent invasion
of democratic Finland has torn the
mask off their faces and our people
turned away from them with disgust
and anguish" Mr.. Dubinsky de-
clared.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
$544,452 Net Shown
By Barber Asphalt
Nth

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 1.-Barber
Asphalt Corp, which has plants at
Barber, N. j., Madison, ILL.,, and
Philadelphia, Pa, reported 1899 net
profit OF $544 ASP, or $l.3o a common
share, compared with net loss of
$332,822 the previous year.
The company, which manufac-
tures petroleum products, roofing
and other items, plans to spend
more than sl,Oo0O00 in a moderni-
zation plan at the Barber plant.
Evening star., 1940-04-01
Pacific Telephone
Reports Lower Net
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April L.
A net income of $2,873,426 for the
first two months of 1910 was re-
ported by the Pacific Telephone g.
Telegraph Co., a decline from the
$2,987,576 for the corresponding
months OF 1889. The company's
gross income was higher for the
period this year.
Increased pay rolls and taxes were
cited by N. r. Powley, president
OF the company, In explaining the
situation.
Evening star., 1940-04-01

be held at pm. Wednesday at the
Chevy Chase Md) Women's Club.
Mrs. Spencer Bernizer is president
Evening star., 1940-04-01

Of the club and Mrs. Luther
Schreiner general chairman of the
card party and luncheon.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-12-12
FREEZING LOCALS

Belated reports say that Prohi-
bition Inspector Younce and Dep
uty Sheriff Dallas Mullins de-
stroyed two moonshine stills on
the headwaters of Gutter Branch
some days ago. Reports say the
plants were not in operation at
the time officers found them.
Smith Cox and Bertha Adkins
of Freezing recently hied away to
Whitseburg, KY, where they
were made one by a minister
There was not, it appears, any
parental objection to the union.
They just chose to go to Whites
burg for the ceremony.
Reports say that Grant Haynes,
former resident of this neighbour
hood, was recently married to a
Miss Mullins, either of Pike or
Letcher county, KY. Grant has
resided in Kentucky the past five
years.
Aunt Mary Holifield, about 95
years old, is ailing considerably
and her eyesight is almost gone.
She is living at this time at the
home of Zurl SWindall on Buck
ner Fork of Pine Creek.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-12-12
JAMESTOWN NEWS
Mrs. Eva Yates, Corr.

NILS. Eva dues, AOII.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl S1emp are
the proud parents of a baby girl,
who arrived on Dec. II.
Mrs. Nevelyn and Mrs. Maude
Mullins visited George Meade OF
Brush Creek Thursday. Mr..
Meade is improving after long
illness.
Mrs. Estil Stanley spent Tues
day with Pearl Hanover.
Mrs. Mamie Miller is spending
some time with her daughter,
Florence Hughes.
Mrs. Louemma Hill of Wise,
who is visiting her son, George
Hill, is very ill at this time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Maynard Bever-
1y WC1S CIlC 50Soto VI
Maryland Yates Sunday.
Princia Hughes and Maryland
Yates visited Eva Yates Saturday
afternoon.
Clarence Harlow and family
have moved into etheir house up
near the home of D. D. Hughes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Dotson
visited visited Maynard Beverly
and family Saturday night.
Mrs. Jim Dotson and two daugh
tiers. Mae and Bee, and Bolivia
Gillian of Wise visited Mrs. Dot
sons mother, Mrs. Louemma Hill,
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emerson Mullins
visited Edd Mullins and family
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-12-12
TIvIs LOCALS

Uncle Dick Mullins is very sick
with something like flu.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Mullins of
Birchleaf were visiting with Mr..
Mullins father Sunday.
Mamie Sutherland and Lula
Artrip visited with Mr.. and Mrs.
John Ratliff and Mr.. and Mrs. F.
L. Colley Saturday.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Tivis Hay
a fine baby boy, on Dec. 4th. His
name is not known as yet.
Mr.. Shipley, of the National
Forest Service, showed a very in
teresting moving picture on for
est protectin at the church house
Thursday night. Most of the com
munity showed lots of interest.
Troy Ratliff is suffering with
a pain in his shoulder.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1940-12-12

Sunday.
Clyde and Hercel Meade OF
Bold Camp were dinner guests Of
their aunt, Mrs. Maude Mullins,
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Mullins of
Bold Camp visited their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Harold Hughes, Sunday.
Mr.. n d Mrs. Mckinley
Hughes and children, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Dotson called at the
home of d M. Yates Sunday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Caleb Powers and
Odessa Robinson of Dotson Fork
called on Mrs. Eva Yates Tues
day.