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Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03
DO TIME AND SPACE
REVOLT?
(Wall Street JOurnaD

In 1910 and 1911 when Napoleon was
struggling to revive the Franco-RuSSian
alliance made at the peace of TllSlt III
order to complete once and tor all hlS
continental blockade against British COM
merce, it took a month for Il round trip
communication between the two emper
orS. Similarly news of his campaigns
was very leiSurely in travelling back to
Paris. We have become so accustomed
to almost nStantaneously transmitted
newsstand photographs-from all parts
of the world that the veil which shrouds
events in Norway, slight as il is, and
temporary. irritateS our nerves and
arouSeS our impatience. That we cannot
be made instantly and completely aware
of the struggle there in all lis details
and all its significance strikes us as some
thing unnatural in the routine of life that
should at once be attended to and rem
edied We feel that we are entitled to
sit in on all that happens wherever
it happens. and have it digeSted, analyZ-
ed and interpreted for us by our new ser
wants. the commentators. When these
expert gentlemen confess that they can
not do all this. it adds to our iitterS.
Intercommunication has abolished time
and space for men. things and ideas, and
II Is this more than all else put lOEelnef,
which has made over the world, Napo-
leon and julius CaeSar-eNcept for gun
pOwder-made war under the same space
time limitations When we began our
campaign of conquest on space and time,
we had no doubts a. all that victory
would give us a world Of peace and pros
perity, Il world "lapt in universal law.
Now we begin to wonder if We We're right.
whether our new instantaneous Intimacy
of contact with everyone else has in 1act
cOnduced to our better acquaintance. We
have substituted for he old secret dlplO-
macy something approaching diplomacy
by megaphone. We start war without
any declaration. much more without any
careful preliminary discussion of our
disputes. 1t is characteristic of the
change that war strategy today is COM
ing to be conceived largely in terms of
blitzkreig. with whole divisions of infan-
try moved by air in as many hours as 1t
used to take weeks And, perhaps worst
Of all it has come to be taken for grant
ed that civilian populations must be vie
tins of war-u doctrine that the 18th
century mind re ected.
Are time and space beginning to revolt
against their new masters because their
new masters have not learned to govern
them?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03
Our Yesterdays
Among

Imperial Valley pohtlcianS began
I campaign to get out every voter
for the Presidential primary, the
Imperial Valley MIX Producers
pushed its law suit, work began on
a $4,000 Main street store, but
valley sport fans were more inter-
ested in page one story telling
the details of a 26 inning IL tie
between Brooklyn and Boston.
In regard to the presidential pri-
mary a page one story in the Press
said. we are certain Johnson will
carry Imperial Valley, but every
voter must cast his ballot to swell
the johnson total over the state" "
The creamery, with headquarters
in Holtville, entered its second year
of legal battling, apparently little
nearer the end of the Sl/..
Even twenty years ago there was
u familiar heading on the sport
page. 1t read: "Calexlco wins valley
baseball title in 1913 victory over
BraWley.'
An interesting advertisement on
the classified page urged that read
erS of the Press drink a glass OF
real hot water before breakfast" "
There was no sponsor for the ad-
vertisement listed on the page and
it was difficult to determine who
benefited by the ad.
Playing at the theatre was, Ter
ror Island, starring the great Hou-
DIM and Lila Lee.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03

WASHINGTON. May 3 If You
want good third-lerm tlp-oli,
mavbe you can find il in FDR'S
suggestion about the new WPA APP
preparation.
He proposed Congress give WPA
slightly less than a billion and let
WPA spend it all in eight months
beginning July l, instead of making
il last year That way two political
birds are killed with one stone:
sharp election year cuts in relief
rolls are lodged. and the govern
ment's debt isn't put over the S45-
00O0OO00O limit
But here's the catch. The ad-
mniStration that's in office next
winter will inherit lots of trouble
II Will almost certainly have to meet
4 WpA deficiency bill early in the
winter. Il will have to boost the
debt limit or econOmize as no New
Deal administration ever economic
ed So. for your tip-off-
If FDR figured he was going to
be in the White House next win
ter. would he arrange to bequeath
himself a mess like that?
TOO MUCH FARM
PRODUCE
If someone would kindly tell Un-
Gle Sam how he can unload the vast
quantities of farm produce he now
owns, the old gentleman WOuld b."
very much obliged indeed.
As of the end of Marcel.
Commodity Credit CORPORATION irjt
title to more than 6600,000 bale OF
cotton and 9l000C00 bushrl, o.
corn-the whole business worth.
roughly. s370O0O0O0. In addition.
100000 bales of cotton and 460. i.
100000 bushels Of corn. and before
another year ends the government
may be stuck with most of that.
Stuck Is the right word. Situation
is worse IN regard to cotton; law
saTs none of the gOvernment-OWne
bale may De sold unless the price
received equals the MONEY put out
in leans. plus the carrying charges
which have been about Sl500000
monthly. Practical effect is that it
lust cant be sold at all even Fed
era! Surplus COMMODITIES Corpora
tIon. which gives cotton away. can't
buy any Of it. About 100000 bales
will 90 70 England in the barter ar
ranpement for rubber What will
happen 10 the rest, no one seems
to know
If corn prices go up this year
the government may get rid of9the
460 900. 600 bushels on which it has
made loans. If they 20 down. on the
other hand, it may get the whole
ball Of wax. Storage charge. by the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03
A SILLY SITUATION

Did YOU ever think how silly it is to
be complaining because modern methods
have made possible greater production
with the expenditure of less energy?
Milo Perkins, president of the Federal
Surplus Commodities Corporation, was
telling the truth When he said scientific
progress has made it possible ito grow
two blades Of grass where one grew be-
fore" 1t is the same in industrial pro-
ductiOn 1t takes less work now to make
an automobile, a radio, an airplane or
dress than it took ten years ago.
Ever since Adam and Eve, man, lazy
creature that he is, has been hunting for
the way to do things quickest and best,
with least work.
And now, because we're finding out
how, We complain.
We're making leisure possible, yet we
kick about it.
Let's stop it. Let's not devote our ener
gy to trying to do away with the ma
chimes and methods which make greater
production possible. Let's be sensible,
civilized beings-and find out how to
distribute the leisure we've won, and
how to distribute the products we make
so that everyone can share in them.
Let's 90 forward, not back. Instead of
trying to get rid Of what we've got, let's
make use of it.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03
Willis Thorntons Editorial On.
Fighting Fire with Fire

You can't fight war against
tOtalitarian country without going
totalitarian yourSelf-at least for
the time being.
The British and French are find
ing that out. For seven years, Hit
lers Germany has been making its
people work longer and harder. The
extra production instead of going
to the people to make life better.
has been flE.G INTO preparation for
the wa"
Now ,ho B"itiyl and French, out
to destrsl auch Il system, find that
in fighta2 il they have to do about
the sam; thing.
As early as last November. John
MAYNARD Keynes. British econo-
mist. put forth a plan now elabor-
atcd into :, book, How To Pay For
the war" Details aside. Keynes
proposes that each wage Garner or
family be allowed only specified
income. based on present normal
subsistence needs The rest OF its
income would be taken at the source
and credited to him as savings.
After the war, at such times as
the government decided purchasing
power was needed that is Whcn
the inevitable slump comes) these
compulsory savings would be paie
back to those who had earned, but
not received them.
KcVneS sees these results: people :
allowed income would roughly cqua'
the amount of goods civilians Woulo
be- allowed to consume. The war
time race between rising prices and
wages would be- avoided Prices
would be riporouSly controlled; wage
increases would be allowed only
if lVine costs rose in spite OF con-
trOle
It will b. readily seen that this IS
lust about what is done in a war
unvway, except that it is compul-
SOW and systematic, whereas volun-
tary war savings remember Liberty
Bonds and Thrift StampS) are hit
or-mlSa Keynes argues that civilians
must consume lv:S. 50 that more
can br pnt INTO the var effort. The
way To Ito IT i simply to see to IL
that lllrl don't have any money
beyond actual need. Then, the war
over. war production turns to civil
ian goods again. and the savings
funds are paid. back to people so
they can buy them.
In Canada. too Graham F. Tow
ers. governor of the Bank of Cana
da. has strongly suggested that eX-
cess income must not be pent for
private purposes, but must go 10
the state for war purposes, in one
WaV or another
1t won't b. any harder to pay
these savings back to everybody
than to pay war debts back to those
who now put up the money, Keynes
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

way. are about $3.5OO 900 Il month,
TOO MUCH
MONEY
Nothing will happen at this Ses-
sion. but next year Congress is apt
TO cast some inquiring and critical
glances at the money which is pill
inc up under the social security law.
During the next fiscal year,
payroll tax money collected for the
old age and unemployment insur-
ance funds will amount to $780,
100000. Of this. around S740 00,O0O
will be paid out in benefits; the
rest will 60 to swell the reserve
funds.
Unemployment insurance fund
will go up the fastest. 1t stands now
at sl.60O,OO0 OOO-odd, and will rise
by around $360,0OOO00 during the
wear. unless the bottom falls out OF
things. On the double -barreled plea
that such a set-up is deflationary
and that business can't stand the
gaff anyhow, you can look for a
drive to cut it down pretty sharply.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03
You re Telling Ne

Abe Pickus. Clevelands self
appointed telephone ambassador, "
after vainly attempting to get Mus
solini on the transatlantic phone,
says II Duce talks too much about
war. But. evidently not Abe.
A three-eyed reptile has been
found in New Zealand. Imagine
getting a dust speck in all OF EN-
at the same time!
The third eye of this reptile is
on top of its head. Must have a
tough time getting fitted for spec
tacleS.
The radio has one big advantage
for the listener. says the man at
the next desk 1t never expects
YOU to applaud for an encore.
In another month the family will
be staging blitzkrieg OF its own
against the common Ctoo common)
house fly.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03
So They Say

We want liberty. but we want
also the good things that come from
effective organiZation.-Prof Will
liam V. Ogburn, University OF
Chicago.
Voting is your own business. Keep
it that Way.-Notice to all WPA
employees by Commissioner Harrine-
ton.
1t was, above all, our own com
mercal policy which made almost
intolerable the burdens under which
the world labored after the World
War.-Dr. James t. ShotWell, Car
negie Endowment for International
Peace.
l honestly doubt whether any
belligerent will deliberately aim to
kill civilians in an air raid. Bombs
are expensive, and civilian life is
chcap.-Wade Werner. American re-
porter who covered Finland.
Labor, inspired by a new dignity
and purpose, can be the foundation
of a new age of mutual trust
George M. Harrison, president,
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03
993Ifd!EHNd} 95]|][51H!'I}1a3|TT11Ell2 ;1}|T1El2
p | l E s
Almost Drove
Him Crazy
Couldn't Sit Down Because
of Itching and Soreness

The person who suffers from this
torturins and embarrassing ailmcnt
knows only too well what ii means
mentally and physically. He or
she would give anything for Just
relief
Then why not get a small bottle
of Moone'S Emerald Oil and use it
in this simple way. First cleanse
the parts, bathing with warm wa
ter using good soap; dry and APP
ply mixture of equal parts of
Emerald Oil and a good olive oil
inserting little into the opening
on a piece of absorbent cotton.
Avoid constipation and repeat this
soothing application as often as may
be necessary. Small wonder thouS-
andS are grateful. Get a bottle today
at any good drugstore and test It
for yourself on our guarantee OF
satisfaction or your money back.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03
Grab Bag
Onp-Minute Test

! What citizens Of the United
state have won the Nobel prize
for literature?
2 What country does Mr. Loring
{ Christie represent as ambassa-
dor u Washington, D. c., U. S. A.?
3 What state does Mrs. Hattie
w Caraway represent in the United
States Senate2
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03

argues. but if it is, you just have a
whopping capital levy.
Whether Keynes plan is adopted
in full, total war must eventually
mean something very like this. Free
countries fighting totaltarianism
have no choice but to become them
selves totalitarian, with the hope
that after the war they will be able
somehow to scramble back to free
way of life again.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03

Iceland's parliament, the Althing
boasts a past OF 1910 years. And
knows how it feels, no doubt, to
be as old as the hills.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03

word Of warning must be given
to those whose birthdays are today:
bc on your guard against attempt
ed trickery Otherwise the year is
propitiou8, with business affairs
prOsprring exceedingly and gains
through strangers Artistic or mu-
seal ability is probable for the child
born on this date. Such a child will
also be sincere, kind hearted, gentle
fOlPivipg and hospitable
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03
Hints on Etiquette

Women attending a tea or re-
ception usually keep their hats on.
gloves, too. unless they cannot man
age the refreshments wearing them.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03

A huge river has been discovered
flowing under the Pacific off the
coast of California. Probably mis-
placed by movie propman on a
DeMille location jaunt.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03

Under way in the U. S. is a
stop Dewey" movement among Re
publicans. This, just a year after
Europe was attempting similar
curb against a man with mustache
and ambition to get ahead.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03

Bismarck was known as Ger
many's iron chancellor. CHANGING
over Hitler's birthday presents, we
see the fuehrer is destined to be-
come the scrap iron chancellor"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03
Thoughts For The Day

The Son of goeth as ii is written Of hrn. bat
woe unto that by whom the Son Of man Is be-
trayed! 1t had been good for that man if he had not
been born.-Matthew 26 "a
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03

Heat that reaches the earth from
the sun is said to be sufficient dur
ing the course of a day to melt Il
cake OF ice 5000 feet thick and
as large as the state of MaSSachu-
SettS. u. S. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03

An old Chinese custom was to
bury dead with a piece of jade
under the tongue, the quality OF
jade showing wealth and class.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03
Barbs

It's a Harvard historian who pre-
diets the U. S. will be drawn into
the war by a German invasion OF
South America. Now if he only has
d good tip on the fifth at Hialeah.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03
Words of Wisdom
TOday'S Horoscope

In bringing up child think of
it. old age -Joubert.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03

Let us finance the unpaid balance
on that New Car you wish to buy!
Walk into the ShoWroom-the show
room of the car you particularly
prefer!-with that cash-in-pocket
assurance of knowing, demanding,
just what YOU Want-not what
some financing setup tries to pre-
vail upon you to accept See us.
Then, buy your car!
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03
Famous Sayings

II Is time to fear when tyrants to kiss
Shakespeare.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03
One Minute Test Answers

/ Sinclair Lewis 1890 Eugene
ONeill 1886, Pearl Buck 1888.
3 The Dominion cf Canada.
3 Arkansas.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03
MEMBER

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. Nation
al Editorial Association.
California Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03

Colors are claimed to have very
real effects on the mind. They act
in much the same manner as do
drugs. They may be stimulating
or calming.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-03

One hundred years ago, in Rus
sia. it vas illegal to smoke in public.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-02
MONEY ALONE
CAN'T BUY HAPPINESS

A poignant story in the news this week
told of the death from heart disease ana
malnutritiOn at San Francisco of 63-year-
old Frank G. Shiot1. who died with S59o5
in his pocket Along With that he had
bank book showing deposits Of S29oo
Yet hunger brought on his death. Hun
ger had reduced him from his normal
weight of 130 pounds IL weight Of {"
pounds.
With resources of &6903. Frank Shlott
starved to death because money meant
everything to him. In the end ii meant
lonely death ON a bench in San Fran
ciScos Union Square, because Shlo1t
loved his money too much to part with
il for the food it should have bought him
The world is full of people who could
learn q lesson from this mans death;
people who grub and slave for dollars
that never bring them happiness.
They do not realize that happiness Is
a mental state uSt as possible for the
man with one thin dime in his pocket as
it is for the Millionaire on Mob Hill
Money cannot buy happiness. Up to
a certain point it can add to the happi-
ness of most people. A comfortable llv-
ing, security against old age and sudden
Illness the leisure to enjoy friends and
welcome new experiences. Beyond that.
mlljlOn OpjldIS Is no DclleI lIdn pht
cent.
The happieSt people are often those
who have leaSt-hecau,;e they have learn
ed to appreciate and enjoy the things
they do have: their families and friends,
their few scant amusements. their inter
est in life itself for the living of II.
Children are happy because they have
not yet become inhibited with all the de-
sires grownupS have fastened to them
selves. Primitive folk are happy because
they have not complicated their lives
with all the useless appurtenances of the
social veneer we boast of so much.
Happiness is the Joy of living. A mil
lion dollars cannot buy it; it cannot be
sold for one penny.
Appreciate what YOU have. and you
be happy. Grouse about what YOU have
Mt got, and you're throwing away the
most precious thing within your grasp.
If you aren't happy working toward
the goal YOU want to reach, YOU won't be
happy when YOU reach it. Happiness is
in YOU not in some eternal thing.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-02
Willis Thorntons Editorial On:
The War After the War

ment to Brazil. The New York cor
poration which built the piers of
Lima. Peru, has now contracted to
build others at Coronel. Chile. Fire
stone is building new rubber fac
tory in Brazil. There are other signs
of progress.
But all this has distinct limits
unless ways can be contrived to
import moro from South America.
Information trade must be roughly
an exchange if is to be built on a
permanent foundation. The Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
is already hot on the track to dis
cover non-co competitive products
which can be more literally bought
by the United States in the south,
and to encourage such trade.
All tins has an Importance beyond
the purely commercial. Rivals for
this trade do not hesitate to use
methods of economic compulsionS
shrewdly devised to force great areas
into political spheres of influence"
Every dollars worth of trade the
United States can secure thus has a
benefit beyond the purely CONNER
cial. We do not want any such "po-
litical spheres of inflence.' But un-
less we hold our share of the trade,
others have Just that much greater
opportunity to establish them.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-02
SIX ORANGES
(ChicO EnterpriSc)

A friend reports that he sat up to a
counter the other morning for a quick
breakfast He wanted orange juice, lots
of it.
The girl behind the counter, deftly
using little gadget. quickly squeezed
six oranges into glass and passed the
glass over the counter
Of course it happens every day. mil
lions of times But not in Germany,
where oranges arrive only SpaSmodcal y
as the result of some fortunate deal by
the government And not in England,
where oranges though available, are too
expensive to be sQuandercd. six at a time,
for a glass Of juice. Not in any country
in Europe, where a single orange is often
treat.
Should a lingering sense Of shame I've
felt at such American prodiEa llty IN the
face Of European distress?
No. Men were meant to have such
things, and have them bountifully. The
shame is not for those who do enjoy them
but for those who have set them beyond
the reach Of many.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-02
AMERICA AT WAR
AND THE AMERICAN PRESS
(NOrriStoWn, Pa, Times HcraId1


We pointed out the other day that even
with America at peace. the war is here
economically If war should yet come
to America, the consequences 10 Amer-
can trade and industry would be repc-
tition of the misery they went through
in the last decade as a direct result Of
American participation in the World
War.
we are frank to say that one of the
first to feel wars effects would he the
American newspaper Taking the Times
Herald as an example. this paper prints
an average of II To l6 pages day IN
normal times. some editions going into
% and % pages. War might cut that
into four pages with no space for advcr-
tSementS.
The London Times, leading newspaper
of England today averages only eight
pages or less Other English papers are
smaller. The Paris Soir. with daily
circulation of two millions, is down to
four pages. SO are the other newspapers
of Paris and France. The French and
English papers are now being obliged
to retrench still further in newsprint
conservation.
Most American newSprnt comes from
Canada NewSprint imports into the
United States average nearly five billion
pounds a year and are valued al nearly
$S5 100000. With Britain at war the
price in England is Sl01.O5 per ton and
going to S11750 per ton by July | next,
and consumption is being cut down to
conserve war power claimed needed for
military purposes. And should we get
into the war. conditions confronting the
American newspaper publishing indus
try would be even worse.
There is no doubt that a war admins
tration, following the Allied policies,
would clamp down stringent regulations
that would practically at length destroy
not only freedom of the press but also
the chances of large portion of that
press surviving. 1t would be economical
ly ruined. What news the survivors
would be allowed to print would be Off
cially censored, as it is in fighting coun-
tries today. which is why American news
papers and their readers often have diff
ficnlty in presenting and receiving the
true picture of current warfare.
The American press, in common with
other industries, cannot stand America
going into war