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Evening star., 1940-12-10

promised TO denver the ARABS from
the clutches of British imperialism.
He showed them his feet and his
tanks and his airplanes. Italian
agents in Suadia Arabia and in
Transjordania predicted the early
downfall Of the British Empire. The
Bario radio station was busy telling
the Moslems that the hour of free
dom was approaching. And to en-
able them to hear all those nice
things, radio sets were established
Evening star., 1940-12-10
BY JAY G.. HAYDEN.

Selection of Charles F. B. Price
for a major generalship last week,
less than two weeks after he had
qualified as a brigadier general,
orkoI tho do
Evening star., 1940-12-10
New Dealers
Fear Veto
Won't Work
WoIter-Logon Bills
Friends Remuin Close
To Capital
BY JAY FRANKLIN.

New Dealers are privately far
from certain that President Roose-
velt's anticipated veto of the Wal
ter-Logan bill to hamstring the New
Evening star., 1940-12-10

al the enable the native 70
listen II Duces of wisdom.
geratons' to the cedulous population of the Near East
Evening star., 1940-12-10

HE opinions OF the rers page are their oun not
necsssary % Ths Stars Such opinions presented IN The
Stars eDort to gUe all sides OF questions
readers although such opinions be contradictory among
themselves and directly opposed to The Stars
Evening star., 1940-12-10
Hitler Seen as Francois OverIord

this point of view shared by military and political
free than these two rulers The Ger
Evening star., 1940-12-10
Asks Chance
In Campaign
Fund Laws
Limit on Spending
Declared on Aid to
Party in Power
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

Limitation of campaign expendi-
lures this year worked to the ad-
vantage of the party in power,
judging by the latest available
Evening star., 1940-12-10
Cooperation Is Offered

Magazine conducts polls
McKlar offering full cooperation the
conduct polls He the that polls probable
results of little value but that polls of public opinion
o public
public opinion
advocated
test of public opinion there be such polls One such
would
getting far ahead far behind public
The Privileges and Elections Committee nothing
with
important bring
act
Evening star., 1940-12-10
Check Is Impossible

sentative and that the elected representatives of the people
policy that might put this country The
directly
resolution therefore impossible
poll a
might
poll such the election officer
whether be President Senator Representative the
There always election day and the actual the ballots
elections
inclined public be
poled
information published with the results the poll the people
able
of how much value these samples Of public opinion really
election
poll
the particularly national poll
swung first side and then another.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01
RESOLUTIONS FOR THE
VALLEYS NEW YEARS

Imperial Valley, entering 1910. can
make it a year Of destiny by resolving
and working to keep the resolves-to:
Settle once and for all the problem Of
Imperial Irrigation District bonded in
debtedness.
Promote a unified, complete drainage
system for Imperial Valley farm lands.
Put the All American canal into oper-
alton.
Begin the settlement on valley farms
of experienced, scientific farmers attract
ed from among the best farmers in other
areas, by promoting the development of
more small farms in the valley.
Accelerate the irrigation district power
system to full speed ahead.
Assure credit facilities for valley farm
ers to promote drainage and greater farm
er-ownership.
Work out method for opening up
mesa lands at the earliest possible date.
Merchandise Imperial Valley as de-
sirable place to live, both for winter
residents and all-year citizens
The resolves, for that matter are al
ready taken. They make up the ambitious
program set up by the special Objectives
Committee of the FL Centre chamber of
commerce. 1t is the job of the valley now
to see that they do not suffer the fate of
many New Years resolutions They must
be kept ever in the civic mind, as things
to be accomplished during 1910.
No one committee, working alone, can
accomplish these things No one town
in thevalley can do it. This is a program
for the whole valley. 1t must be active,
aggressive backing not Just moral sup
port.
In Imperial Valleys prosperity lies the
prosperity Of every person who lives
here This program will assure prosperity
for the valley, and for its residents There
is no better time than now to resolve that
it will be done.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01
CALL FOR GENGHIS
(Riverside PresS)

The japanese, it is reported, are hatch
ing plan to seize the remains Of Genghs
Khan, which have lain for seven cen
turies in a silver casket at Etsinhoro, Sui
yuan, and place them within their own
conquered territory in China. The idea
would be to win the allegiance of Mongol
descendants Of followers of the Great
Khan who carried his conquests across
Asia and halfway across Europe in the
18th century.
Well, it's not bad idea. But it could
be carried still farther Why not seize
the bones Of the most ruthless and un-
scrupulous of all conquerors and carry
them instead to Europe Then the peace
ful country Of Switzerland could be over
run, the inhabitants bombed and butcher
ed, and the bones Of Genghis Khan en-
throned atop the tallest Alp, in the midst
of a desert.
That would be setting up an appro-
pirate idol in the very midst Of Europe
which should inspire the armament race
in all countries during the next 20 years
until Genghis Khan's ideals are finally
completely triumphant and civilization
returns to the point where he dominated
SO much Of it, back in the 18th century
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Disseets the News

broken anG can bring the law
breakers to justice.
"a Congressional committee can't
do that; the Department of Justice
IS doing it. 1t has already obtained
such-and-5uch results, so the thing
TO DO now is stop making sensations
and let the Official law enforcement
arm OF the government do its job
II spite oil all Of this the indica-
tioI5 at present are that Congress
is likely to be in mood TO extend
the Dies committees life. 1t ought,
TO be borne in mind that Dies has
had the strong support OF Vice
President Garner during the past
yeal.
On one occasion, it is said, Gar
ner spoke up in cabinet meeting
to defend the Dies committee. And
the Garner influence in the House
of Representatives is still powerful.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01
Willis Thorntons Editoria! Oil:
Loan Sharks Have Big Appetites

the grasp of the shark. The Dallas
man needed 500, got it from an
illegal lender. The loan was made
in November, 1929, and the man
agreed to make payments at the
rate of 1925 a week. In November,
i938-nine years later-the man was
still paying. And he Still owed the
company more than he had origin
ally borrowed
For nine years this man diShed
out total OF $l053 Tor the privilege
Of using $40 Interest i'm this case
amounted TO 585 per cent Il year
RackeCS such as these. victimizing
people in the lowest income brackets.
tlourishing widely because of in
adequate laws, can be arrested only
when state legislatures take a sin
cere interest in stopping them. They
are even more vicious than the
alcohol and narcotics rackets be-
cause they strike at persons COM
pletely innocent of the results.
And they strike, usually, when fin
ancial hardship has caused people
TO turn to any feasible plan of
escape.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01
u. S. CONTRIBUTING
TO HITLER RELIEF
tSan FranciScO Chr0nicle)

It would be to the public interest, but
perhaps cruelty tough on the WPA work
ers who gave Fritz Kuhn, head of the
German American Bund," money for
German relief purposes, to call them
before the Dies committee To tell why
they gave the money. And it might be
equally tough to require them TO explain
why they belong to the Bund. as Kuhn
testifies they do.
The reason it would be tough on them
is that probably a great many, if not all,
have relatives in Germany This, in a
country where every person is at the mer-
cy of official whim, gives a terrific grip
on victims across the sea and presumably
free citizens.
The argument may be made of course.
that WPA pay belongs to the workers and
they are free to do as they please with IT,
Yet that may not be strictly correct. II
is provision made for relief of unemploy-
ment out of the United States treasury.
The United States is making relief pro
vision and it is on the theory that the re-
cipients need it all If there is any sur
plus they can afford to give to German
relief, then the treasury is indirectly car
rying the German relief burden as well
as our own.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No 20S2

Estate of VANDORNE SKAGGS,
deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by
the undersigned, MAUD f. SKAGGS
as Administrative of the estate of
VANDORNE SKAGGS, deceased,
TO the creditors of and all persons
having claims against the said de-
ceased, that within six months after
the first publication of this notice
they either file them with the nee
esSary vouchers in the office of the
Clerk of the Superior Court of the
State of California, in and for the
County of Imperial, or exhibit them
with the necessary vouchers to the
said Maud E. SkaggS, as admins
tratriX OF said estate, at the office
Of ID. 3. Roberts POT Bank OF AM
erica Building California, the same
being the place for the transaction
ri the business of the said estate IN
the County of Imperial, State OF
California.
Dated at FL Centre. California.
this day of December, 1899.
MAUD f. SKAGGS,
Deceased.
Administering of the Es-
state of
VANDORNE SKAGGS,
CDll-l8-25-JD
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01

CdllOII Is likely 10 make man 100
hesltant for the task of money max
ing when daring and courage are
the prime necessities"
Let me tell you briefly about
some people who didn't receive
much education.
AIussolini could not read until he
was fourteenl
Amadeo Peter Claimant, the CAL
I'15ua banker vino has 480 banks
under his control and whose family
were truck gardeners near San Jose,
California. a. P" Gas they call
hlmJ had to leave school and go to
work when he was thirteen. For a
short time, he attended business
college. Except for that experience,
he never stuck his had into a
school room again.
Crville Wright never finished
high school. But he had something
tar more important than a college
diplOma-resource and am
bltion.
In Greensboro, North Carolina,
there was a boy who missed out on
formal education. Never got as far
as high school. But he got along all
right That young man was o. Hen
~.
One president Of this country
never went to school. He could not
read nor write until his wife taught
him. Than man was Andrew john
son.
Near IngeloW, Manitoba, Canada,
lived an orphan boy eleven years
old. He had never gone to school in
his life, so his foster father made
arrangements for him to enter. The
boys tin dinner bucket was packed
and ne trudgeo off early every NOR
nInu The yery first day he disobey-
sd q rule. The teacher was enraged,
pulled off MS belt and gave the
De- q tnrashinP The belt buckle hit
fAt boys hand and bruised it, and
b. The time he reached home his
aaGd was badly swollen. His foster
father was indignant He sued the
senOOl the trial was held in the
lasge-- official place III toWn-a
l8x-lar. which also served as the
town depot The boys foster father
Won the suit. but by the time he
Won IT the boy had grown restless
and left home. to try TO get job
an actor
We'll. hr got it. That boy who
went % school only one day in his
rfe Is wallace Ford. the movie
.fasl you've seen him in "Of Mice
"a Men. sack Door to Heaven
I'D Isle Of Destiny"
80. a formal EDUCATION isn't abb
.#.uj-l. necessary TO succeed in
N. Hnre af work It helps i'm
llanael5 but 1t is never absolutely
essantlal The important thing is to
keep going 10 school outside the
aghool walls. Educate yourself. Read.
absorb. Read on the run. Cut out
chapters from a book. Garry them
u your pocket. Read them every
i#up ,OU have a minute TO spare
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01
Photographs

Among the treasures in the
Athenaeun, Boston, Mass, is the
biography of an English outlaw
bound in his own skin.
Nearly 40 per cent of the popu-
lation of San Antonio Tex, is
Mexican.
In a large modern candy factory.
10 70 80 men and women are en-
plgYed for a full working week
scgubbiag floor wndows and equip
mcul.
Between the ages Of % and 26
Honore dc Balzac. French author.
completed two dozen novels.
Elimination Of noise and throob-
ing OF the engines is the latest de-
yelopment in air lanes. making for
passengy~comfort
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01
ISLANDS FOR WAR DEBTS?
(Des Moines Register).

Opinions voiced in the Gallup poll on
the acceptance Of West Indian islands
as payment of old war debts, owed the
United States by England and France,
are based upon the proposal that we
negotiate for such a settlement-not upon
the silly suggestion that we seize the is
lands by force.
France could no more legally barter
away GuadelOupe or Martinique than
she could sell US Paris Even if she could,
we have in our own national conscious
ness some loyalty to the ideal of the self
determination of peoples. And if the basic
laws of the countries whose flags these
islands now fly permitted them to sell"
their citizens and if our national con-
science permitted MS to "forccloso." there
would still remain to be considered the
effect on our going good neghbor" poll
cy Of such an imperial act
While some Settlement" Of the debts
will probably come ultimately, we have
vastly more important matters that need
to be commanding our attention.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01

Would you like
to hear what one
OF the most brill
liant educators in
the United States
has to say on this
subject? Profess
S or Harol d F..
CLARK. professor
of education at
Teachers College,
New York, says:
"A college edu-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01
Dale
CARNEGIE

/ have a letter from a young
mar bcwailing the fact that he has
had very little education. He is
afraid his lack of education will
cause him TO q failure in life.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01

The news that America faces
shortage of swiss cheese is calmly
received by the public-proving
that we are, after all. not mice, but
men
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01

one of the nations biggest and
most successful bootlegging enter
priSeS is neither liquor nor mar
coticS. 1t is instead the nefari-
Gus practice of illegal small loans.
According to estimate of the RUS
sci Sage Foundation, people who
tnd themselves suddenly III need
of small loans occasionally were
100 million dollars III debt to loan
sharks at the end of 1887 Such
loans are always dearly paid for.
A recent study of loan "bootleggerG"
in Dallas. Tex. revealed that the
average interest paid by victimized
borrowers to such illegal operators
was 271 per cent. The lowest in
terest was 100 per cent; the high
est 1l31 per cent.
According to a current report by
the Public Affairs Committee, one
of the surest ways of Kidding
community of loan sharks is to
establish a legal maximum interest
rate high enough for honest loan
companies to operate profitably. Co
operative credit unions among work.
ers i'll factory, frequently aided
by the employer, also help to drive
the loan sharks out Of business.
Obviously, the loan shark must
work under cover. Often his records
are jumbled up or even noneXistent
except in his head 1t is important
that nothing tangible is available
for authorities if the bubble should
burst Such illegal operators prey on
people whose knowledge of their
legal rights is slight. Always these
people come for loans only because
they need them badly for such
emergencies as hospital and doctor
bills or other imperative reasons.
The victims are invariably people
who suffer greatly from the excess
SiVe loan rates.
Many states. strangely enough,
either have no laws whatsoever to
regulate the loan business or the
laws are SO ineffective as to be al
most valueless. Only four states
west of the Mississippi have eff
fective legislation to curb illegal
loan practices. Three western states
have laws, but they are merely
paper statutes"
One of the reasons for this, the
Public Affairs Committee contends.
is that loan sharks have set up an
extreme potent lobby system to
fight regulation and to keep legal
maximum rates down so low that
legitimate companies are unable to
remain in business.
Take the case of a man in Dallas.
Tex, to illustrate the extent to
which a victim may find himself in
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01

America is the land of oppor
tunity where everyone gets a sec
ond chance to make good-every-
one, except a football coach.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01
You re Telling Me-

SWitzerlands mobilization is cost
ing that country $1,000,0O0 a day,
according to a cabled dispatch.
Even at that price it's a bargain
compared to actual war.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01
Barbs-

Billions of fish and eggs have
been planted in the North Atlantic.
What with the fish and mines clut-
tering up the ocean bottom, there
was hardly enough room left for
the Graf Spec and Columbus
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01

WASHINGTON. - Attorney Cen
eral Murphys investigation of the
activities of foreign agents in this
country is expected in some quar-
ters to be counterweight to the
work of the Dies committee.
To put it mildly. Martin Dies has
not endeared himself to the ad-
ministration The President has been
represented as determined 10 drive
Dies out OF public life. Whether or
not that be SO there is no doubt that
the administration would be happy
to see the committees work ended.
Early this fall, a number OF in
fluential people in the administra-
ton suggested that the wind could
oe taken out of Dies sails if j..
Edgar HooverS G-men were turned
loose on a full-dreSS investigation
of Communists and their creed. The
argument was that the G-men have
such reputation that the country
at large would accept their report
as complete and final.
If, as was expected, this report
should show that the Communist
menace was much less extensive
than the Dies group was saying 1t
was, then the committee would be
in a bad light and Congress could
be pursuaded to refuse it an eXten-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01

Editorial says European states
men should use mature judgment"
in considering international affairs.
Maybe it wouldn't help = but it
would be a refreshing novelty.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01

A judge would not admit to u. 8.
citizenship former friend of Hitler.
The jurist wanted to make it clear
that a friend of the Fuehrer is no
friend of ours.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01
WOULD HALT MORE
DIES APPROPRIATIONS

Nevertheless, the anti-DieS group
in the administration is hoping that
out Of this investigation will come
material that can be used to bring
work of the Dies committee to an
END when its appropriation expires
at tine end Of this year.
1t is banking on the chance that
this sort of argument can be made
TO Congress:
Sure, the Dies committee has
done useful job but the preliminary
work has been done now. We have
enough general information about
the Communists and the Nazis What
Is needed now IS q criminal lnVeS-
t!gation thai can determine exactly
where and how the law is being
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01

Those automatic doors that open
before you touch them are going
to cause a lot of casualties to peo-
pie used to pouncing on stubborn
portals
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01
DON'T LOOK FOR TOO MUCH
FROM THE NEW CONGRESS

In Washington, senators and repreSen-
tatlves are moving into new quarters
or settling themselves deeper in the old
ones-sprayng their throat5 against the
forthcoming demands Of partisan ora
tory, and IN general getting ready for
the new session Of congress. Throughout
the nation, many misguided individuals
are expecting a history-making session.
They-the eXpectant ones-have for
gotten that this year (1940 is this year
now is an election year. They have
forgotten the lesson sad experience teach
eS--not to expect too much from congress
when ballot boxes are Just around the
corner
Congress will make headlines this year,
it is true. But they will be political head
lines, not headlines of accomplishment
The lawmakers will be too acutely con-
scious Of pressure groups, political whis-
perings and partisan maneuyerings TO go
out on a limb over any highly controver-
sia issue.
-,- The lads will amend the Wagner Act,
Ia. not too much. They may vote new
1870 but they will tread as carefully as
y sssts.ssssA They may boost or reduce bud
80 - but always with a careful eye
- - knds Of the folks back home.
- .ssEss back home, while they howl
- s. u get mighty mad if their
pm is shaved down
- - gmss- max
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01

The burnt child which couldn't
avoid the fire has now grown up
and continues to buy tickets in a
football pool.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01
FBI COLD-SHOULDERS
COMMUNIST INQUIRY

This proposal was not TOO cor
daily received at the Justice De-
partment 1t was pointed out that
the G-men couldn't very well make
a straight investigation of Commu-
nism, since after all it isn't against
the law to belong TO the Communist
party.
All the G-men could do would
be 70 look into actual violations OF
the law Besides. it was added, the
G-men'S numbers were limited and
they were pretty busy on other
matters.
Now Attorney General Murphy
reveals that preliminary inveSti-
cation has been going on since
last May and will come to a head
in short time.
1t is not an investigation into
Communism or into the party it
is study of the work of foreign
agents in this country, and is con-
cerned with law viOlations-illegal
use Of passports, espionage, sabotage
failure to register under the for
eign-agentS statute, and SO on
rather than with the extent and
activity of any one party or group
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01

There must be a lot of jobless
fiction writer's, now that the Outer
Monaghan war is over and hundreds
OF mythical planes are no longer
"dOWned" every day.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01

Jack Garner is now a candidate.
If elected, his icebox for cold
snacks will be Set up in the East
room
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01

In Europe works of art art now
being stored in bomb-proof metal
shelters. Like everything else, We
now get our masterpieces in tin
cans.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01

The French are noted as a fight
ing race-says an historian Shucks
we knew that ever since we read
that they have 40 different political
parties.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01

Only about one sixty-fourth of
the population of Russia belongs to
the Communist party. The other
siXty-three sixty-fourths may have
to be sent to Finland for purging.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-01-01

Take the case of a man in Dallas.
Tex" to illustrate the extent to
which victim may find himself in