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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-03
TO ENTERTAIN SOCIETIES

Salem. Mich. Oct S-The FEEDER
ated Ladies' Aid Society is spou-
,soring MONDAY luncheon Tues
day. October IS. at p. M. in the
church dining room Guests will
be from Whitmore Lake. piNboro,
Plymouth. Newburg. Worthwhile and
Salem Congregational Aid Socie-
ties After the luncheon program
win be presented.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-03
KILLED AT CROSSING

Flint, Oct. "A grade crossing
crash in Flint Wednesday cost the
life OF Eva Madzelan. is. The girl
was in a car driven by George f.
Longstreet, rs, when it struck a
Pere Marquette switch engine
which was backing across the in
tersect;on. Longstreet was serious
ly injured.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-03
College Calendar

TODAY
$50 m-Womens League executive board meeting women
lounge. Charles McKenny Hall
400 p. m.-WA.A Officers Meeting. gymnasium.
700 p, m.-Little Theater Players Sarkweather Hall
700 p. m.-Stolcs meeting, Charles McKenny Hall
FRIDAY
1880 p. m-Newman Club St John Church.
500 p. m.-Baptst Student Reception, Baptist Church.
p. mEpscopa Peoples Party, St Lukes Church
500 p. m.-Wesleyan Guild Party, Methodist Church
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-03

The committee on entertainment
Is Helen F. Scharp and Oris Scharp.
while the committee on refresh
ments is headed BY Miss Marion
Green, assisted by several women
OF the church.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-03
Campaign Dinner Oct. 9

The Federated Aid Society will
sponsor campaign dinner October
3 in the Federated dining room com
mencing at 6 p. m. Political speech
es and entertainment will follow.
The public may attend.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-03
Improving Church

The women OF the Congregation
al Church met Wednesday and
cleaned the church after which new
rugs and runners were placed. The
men are busy each Saturday paint
ing the church which win add much
TO its outward appearance.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-03
pauahter improved

The llttle two-year-old twin
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs Nern Kah.
Ter returned to her home last week,
much improved. after being con
fined to University Hospital in Ann
Arbor for infantile PARALYSIS
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-03
TO TAKE BIDS

Lansing, Oct. S-Ar-Bids for
the construction OF the FIRST unit OF
a new super highway 10 parallel
MAJ. Grandyille TO Holland. will
be taken Oct Is.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-03

The Congregational Aid. Society
will be entertained by Mrs Ralph
Wilson. Seven Mile Rd.. for noon
day dinner Thursday. October 10.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-03

Mr.. and Mrs. A, c. Wheeler left
Thursday for an indefinite stay at
Houghton Lake.
Walter Hammond spent the week
end as the guest Of his uncle and
aunt. Mr.. and Mrs. William Foss.
Whitmore Lake.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. f. Clark. Lam
sing; were Friday night and Satur,
day visitors OF Mrs. Julia Foreman.
Mr.. and Mrs. T.. A. Foster, Detroit,
were Saturday visitors.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Rankin and
family, Silver Lake, and Mr.. and
Mrs. c. w. Payne, were Sunday
dinner guests OF Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Mankin Afternoon guests
were Mr. and Mrs. Homer Clickner,
Plymouth.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-03

Mrs. George Roberts and Mrs. c.
o. Hammond entertained 30 women
Friday afternoon in the home OF
Mrs Roberts at farewell party
in honor OF Mrs. Opal Lyke and
daughter. Doris, who are moving
this week to make their home in
Plymouth. A dainty luncheon was
served by the hostess.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-10-03
Glasses seaIn

Classes began today at Michigan
State Normal College. Classified
ton and registration were complet-
ed Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08
THERE'S NO NEED
FOR A HOUSECLEANING

In the excitement incidental 10 last
minute campaigning, FL Centrans should
not lose sight Of the fact that faithful
service deserves recognition.
Many employees of the city of Ell Cen
tro are honest, efficient, experienced and
otherwisa fully qualified to hold their
positions There should be no need 10
replace these persons when a new council
majority new city clerk and a new
treasurer take office.
In the police department, the engineer
ing department. the clerks office and
other branches of city government, there
are employees who are just as sincere
and honest. Just as deserving and Just
as capable as any in private employment.
Those who go into office should recognize
this fact, and act accordingly.
Whatever public dissatisfaction there
is with administrative department heads,
whatever new administrations are put
into force, should not be allowed to react
against those who have acted honestly
and Loyalty to the city IN carrying out
the orders given them.
1t would be silly to discharge every
policeman in Ell Centre, for instance,
Just because the department head is un-
der fire Law enforcement in the city
would suffer a severe setback if green,
untried men were to replace every officer
on the force And, in addition. great
injustice would be done to those who have
worked hard on the Jobs assigned to them,
lust as they would work hard on jobs in
private industry.
You cannot root ont any trouble by
skimming the surface. FL Centro, need
ing a change, can get it by replacing
administrative officers, not by venting
an unthinkmg anger on those who are
not in any way responsible.
1t is our sincere hope that anyone elect
ed to office here will weigh calmly y the
ability of every man before making
change.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08
UNEMPLOYED
SOUTH AMERICA

More than Just a bit of advice was in
the words of Professor Won KleinSmld OF
the University of Southern California
when he told an Imperial Valley teachers
institute Saturday that the American
educational system should pay more at
tention to South America and less, IN
proportion, to Europe and Asia.
1t was sound advice. But it was, also,
Signpost along the road to new divisions
of world economic, diplomatic and splr-
iual thought and practice.
1t was an indication that thoughtful
minds among American leaders are awak-
enng to the realization that South Amer
lea is playing large part IN the economic
life of the world. and will continue to
play an increasingly larger part. 1t was
a demonstration that Uncle Sam is awak-
ening, at last to the importance of his
neighbors in the Western Hemisphere.
To most citizens of this country, South
America is unexplored territory.
To most of us, surprise accompanies
the realization that great. modern cities
with millions of inhabitants form the key
stones of South American life. Somehow
or other. lot of us have always pictured
South America as a tangle of jungles,
great rivers, unconquerabe mountains
and uninhabited plains
When the surprise subsidies. it is with
feeling akin to shame that we realize
how very little we know about this South
America that is out neXt-door neighbor
among continents.
Knowing so little. how can we main
tain the close relationship that should
exist between our nation and those 9TH
ers? How can we appreciate their i'm
pOrtance to US and ours to them?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08
Among
Our Yesterdays

Holtville restaurants of 20 years
ago started a campaign in Imperial
Valley to reduce the price of pota-
toes.
A page one story in the April s,
1920 issue of the Imperial Valley
Press said:
No Potatoes Served" is the most
prominent display line on the Holt
Vile restaurant and hotel menus.
Caterers have announced that con-
tinued service of the precious spuds
mean an increase in prices and that
patrons prefer some other veget-
able to paying more than at pres
ent
In addition to the public eating
places. many of the homes of the
city have ceased serving potatoes,
and it was declared by housewife
that none will be placed on tables
until S5 per hundred or less is the
price
Probably a good deal for the
spinach and string bean growers at
that. because who is more unre-
lenting than a houseWife?)
Another story from Holtville laud-
ed the Srowth of the eastern city
from COW town with dirt streets
into modern city with new build
ings. pavement and residences IN
the short space of one year.
France denied Germany's plea to
send Reich troops into the Ruhr
area on the same day by dispatch
ing its own troops to the district
to maintain order. Germany protest.
ed violently. but to no avail. (SOme
observers of today credit Germany's
attitude in the present situation to
the French treatment of Germany
in the early 20's)
An Imperial Valley Press editor
ial predicted collapse of the Amcri-
can Federation of Labor because of
its stand in the political controvel sy
Any organization that takes stand
in politics and dictates to its meln-
bers is riding for fall the Press
commented.
Jack Johnson. former heavyweight
champion of the world was hiding
III Mexico twenty years ago, fear
ing to return to the United States
and living in the constant fea" he
would be turned over to U. S. au-
thorlties by Mexican police.
Mexico officials, however, we're
somewhat reluctant to send him
back across the line because of The
large share of tourist trade he drew
tn MeYicalj and Tia Juapo hot " .ap
which towns he shared his time.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08
A WAY TO PUT
MEN TO WORK
(Wall Street JournaD

This country proSpers and those who
want to work have Jobs when capital is
freely flowing into useful durable goods
from which a return on the investment
is expected. Since 1881 an average of ten
billion dollars less each year has been
invested in plants, machinery and pri-
vately financed construction than flowed
into such production tools and living
quarters in the 1920S. This figure is
based on Il study by the National Bureau
of Economic Research The total figures,
exclusive of the large amounts spent to
keep these durable goods in repair, were
then a round 14l > billions annually. They
averaged little more than H. billions a
year in the four years following 1881. 1t
is common knowledge that the diScrep-
ancy has not since been made up.
We have become "a one-legged nation,
as Harry Scherman has said. We are
hobbling along on our consumers goods
leg, with the spending of Government def
icitS supplying \ weak crutch for that
leg alone 1t is high time to consider
reestablishng circulation in the other
leg.
Probably nothing else would SO en-
courage the owners Of the idle deposits
in the banks or Of the capital now run
ming to cover in taX-eXempt bonds to en-
bark their funds in job-creatmg ven-
lures as would the abolition of the in
come tax on capital gains. If we confined
the income tax to Il tax on incomes, cut
out the heads the government wins and
tails the taxpayer loses" provisions Of
the revenue law, the So-called strike of
capital would soon end idle money would
go to work and the unemployed would go
10 work with it, The successful business
man, the entrepreneur, the commercial
ventuler could then Ell Joy the fruits of
their efforts; they would extend their
operations, to the advantage of the tax
gatherer as we'll as of the unemployed.
At the moment there is little to midi
cate that Congress will undertake amy
helpful revision of the revenue laws at
the present session. But this one item
of the tax schedules could be quickly and
easily eliminated by itself. 1t would be
done if all Of us, in and out of Congress,
were willing to admit what we all know,
that private enterprise can use capital
to better advantage for all than the Gov
ernment can.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 3081

Estate OF MARCUS L. CURTIS,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, NELLIE S. CURTIS.
as Executrix of the estate of MAR
Gus l.. CURTIS. 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 County
of Imperial, or exhibit them with
the necessary vouchers to the said
Nellie S. Curtis, as Executrix of said
estate, at the office of D. B. Roberts,
POT Bank of America Building, Ell
Centro. California, the same being
the place for the transaction of the
business of the said estate in the
County of Imperial. State of Cali
fornia.
Dated at Ell Centre, California,
this 23rd day of March, 1910.
NELLIE S. CURTIS,
EXecutriX of the Estate of
MARCUS L. CURTIS,
M. 25-A. /. 8. Is Deceased.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08
NO SHORT CUTS
FOR CONSUMER, CHARGE
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 3076
r rn0CT HTNc

Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, M. D. ZINN, Public
Administrator, as administrator OF
the estate of FROST KING. de-
ceased, 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 County of Imperial, or
exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers to the said M. D. Z1NN,
as administrator of said estate, at
STA Main Street, Ell Centro, Cali
fornia, the same being the place for
the transaction of the business OF
the said estate in the County OF
Imperial, State of California.
Dated at Ell Centre, California,
this 18th day of March, 1910.
M. D. ZINN,
Administrator of the Estate OF
FROST KING,
NJ. l8 25-A. 18 Deceased.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08
SCHOOL FEES AND TAXES
{ San Francisco NeWS)

Attorney General Warren's ruling that
the right to free education in CalifOr-
MIA means freedom Of the student from
all fees and charges in elementary grades,
high schools and junior colleges doubt
less interpretS the law as it was written
and intended originally.
But perhaps the new law needs chang
ing.
1t would throw tremendous burden
on the taxpayers to shift to them the
aggregate of all the special fees collected
from public school students now At the
same time parents would be relieved of
these same charges. To parent-taXpay-
ers it would only mean shifting the bur-
den from one pocket to another
But these are times when almost every
property owner is crying for lowered
governmental budgets and reduced taxes.
1t isn't possible to reduce taxes and in
crease costs at the same time.
Is it possible some or many of the ser
vices for which students are charged eX-
ira fees are unnecessary and could be
eliminated entirely? That is different
angle raised by the attorney generals
ruling Maybe it should be explored thor
oughly, with consequent possible saving
both to the school system and the par
ont
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

of making price structure more
rigid.
Manufacturer and jobhers, it
alleges, had mutual agreements;
jobbers. in turn, had agreements
with master plumbers-the con-
tractors who hire the journeymen
who actually install the fixtures in
a house. And master plumbers are
accused OF having similar agree
mentS with the journeymen's union.
Net result, according to the de-
partment, was no shortcuts fol
the consumer. So-called "DTU'
chipping-direct-to -to-you service from
factory to consumer-declined un-
til, but departmental estimate, it
amounted to less than a fifth of
the entire business. Just incident
ally, one of the departments i'm
portant studies of the situation con-
sisted of an examination of the
files of one of the big mail-order
houses.
In general, Hodges says, his men
figured the consumer had to pay
from II to 25 per cent more for
plumbing fixtures than he would
under a free and open market.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08
So They Say

The hope of achieving a peace
free from the hatreds of 1919 be-
comes increasingly dim.-Mrs. Vera
MicheleS Dean. research director,
Foreign Policy Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08

Time and death are the allies of
the enslaved, prosecuted peoples,
for the day inevitably dawns when
the empire established by the sword
becomes impotent in the hand that
made it terrible.-Archbishop Moses
E Kiley, upon being enthroned in
Milwaukee see.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08

Florence Pearsall, photographers
model, has an exclusive contract for
her hands with Ray Albert, New
York photographer, specializing in
hand photography. This is the first
time that a pair of hands has been
contracted for on a longtime basis.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08

Maestro StokoWski, it now ap-
pears, is on someone's little Red
list. So Bach and Beethoven have
just been propaganda stooges all
this time?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08
Thoughts for the Day

Go thou near, and hear all the Lord our God shall
say: and speak thou unto all that the Lord ouI
God shall speak unto thee; and will hear II and
do it-Deuteronomy 27
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08

With only three million dollars
each TO spend on campaigns, the
political parties may have to resort
to democratic methods of electing
a President.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08
Photographs

At intervals throughout the veins
in the human body, nature has
placed tiny valves. These serve to
prevent the venous, or old blood,
from flowing back.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08
Famous Sayings

Christianity is spiritual dynamic which has very
little to do with the mechanism of social life-Dean
Inge.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08

1t is a truism now to say that
If we don't end the war the war
will end us.-H. G.. Wells. British
author.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08

The South Pole actually receive
more sunlight than the tropics.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08
HODGES KEPT BUSY
WITH TWO PROBES

Hodges had a busy time of it
throughout the investigation. Not
only was he in charge of the plumb
ing investigation; he also had
charge of the investigation into the
building industry in Cleveland. The
Cleveland situation was one of the
hottest" in the country; for both
Jobs. Hodges had eight assistants.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08

WASHINGTON. April 8-lha'
102-pronged indictment voted III
Cleveland against plumbing trace
leaders was not only the biggest
indictment yet voted in the Justice
Departments building inquiry; IN
the ewes of Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Thurman Arnold it was also
the most important
That's not because Arnold Figures
the plumbing business is any worse
than other parts of the building in
dustry but because, for the first
time. a federal grand jury hit a
situation precisely the way Arnold
has maintained it ought to be hit
on a national basis, all in one bump
All of the other indictments in
this campaign have dealt with To-
cal or regional situations. TINS one
covered the country as a whole
or. at any rate. the greater part
of it. It can stand as a model OF
the antitrust divisions idea OF
the way to enforce the antitrust
law. in that it takes one specific
product and covers every step IN
its progress from factory production
line to the home of the ultimate
consumer
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08
MEMBER:

MEMBER:
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. Nation
al Editorial Association.
California Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08
MANY COMPLAINTS
WERE RECEIVED

Action of this kind was IN tne
cards even before the building costs
campaign got started
The department had been getting
complaints about the plumbing bus
mess for years. Ed Hodges, ArnoldS
assistant who handled the case, had
made preliminary studies. OIL ano
on. for many months. AS soon as
the building costs inquiry was de-
cided on, it was figured PLUMBING
would be a key part.
When Hodges went to CleVelanc
last October. he had a pretty gooc
idea of the sort of evidence he was
going to get and where he was 60
ing to find it. 1t was printed ma
terial and typescript, mostly; once
the grand jury convened IN NO
vember. the job was largely one
of subpoenaing and analyzing doc
umentS.
NO SHORT CUTS
FOR CONSUMER. CHARGE
In substance, the department
charges distribution of PLUMBING
fixtures was tightly organized iron
top to bottom, not for purposes O.
price fixing, but with the ef1ec'
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-08

LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
Evening star., 1940-12-24
Nuzi Reporter at White House
Capable Berlin Newsmon Takes Many Notes
At Presidents Press Conferences

defense needs-so long as the war
lasts, regardless of ability to pay
On Friday he bolstered this decla-
ration with the formal announce
ment Of a reorganization of the
National Defense Commission, de-
signed to give William S. Knudsen
free hand in matters of production.
Even more disturbing to Berlin
may have been a discussion by Mr..
Roosevelt of the status of ships OF
German, Italian and occupied ma
tionalities now idle in American
ports, coinciding as this did with
the statement of Ronald L. Cross,
British Minister of Shipping, that
he was looking upon these vessels
with "covetous" eyes.
Leaves Clear Inference.
All that Mr.. Roosevelt actually
said on the subject of interned ships
was that up to date no law could
be discovered authorizing their seiz-
ure by the United States Govern
ment. He left the distinct infer
ence, however, that he would like to
see these ships turned to the carry
ing of goods to Great Britain if a
way could be found to accomplish
this step legally.
1t should be noted that the Ger
man spokesman made no reference
to Mr.. Roosevelt's remarks respect
ing interned ships. He declared
that the British Minister of Ship
ping, by suggesting that he would
like these ships, was "inciting
America to commit a warlike act"
He added that the United States
policy generally is one of pin
pricks, challenges, insults and moral
aggressions" against the Reich,
which is approaching "insupporta-
bility."
Whether Mr.. Roosevelt, when he
talked about the interned ships,
knew what Mr.. Cross was to say on
the same subject in London at about
the same time, Is question sub
merged in diplomatic secrecy. But
this much is self evident: Mr.
Roosevelt knew when he discussed
this and other subjects related to
American aid to Great Britain that
Mr.. Sell was on the job and that
everything he said would be reported
to Mr.. Hitler with all possible speed.
1t is safe conclusion, further,
that the continuance of Mr.. Sell
along with the newspaper repre-
sentatives from italy and Japan,
in White House press conferences,
in addition to demonstrating the
continuance OF freedom of the
press" in this country, is not with
out its diplomatic uses.
tReleased by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Incl
Evening star., 1940-12-24

AS He considered things (who was
so wise,
Whose heart was humble, and who
loved mankind),
How little change two thousand
years have wrought
Upon this planet which we call our
home.
When He looks down upon the
troubled world,
How superficial seem achievements
which
We gaze upon in wonderment and
awe.
If He could speak, I think that He
might say,
These swift machines, these
bridges, these long roads,
Cannot extend the hallowed realm
of love.
The blue of Heaven ever will evade
The tallest building, and the hur-
tling plane
Finds Gods horizon always just
ahead.
These myriad words. these thou
sand words which flash
Across the miles, or face you from
great books,
Contain no more of wisdom than
the lines
OF these old documents the sages
penned,
Laboring slowly, with a shapened
quill.
"I rode a donkey, and its pace was
slow:
Astride its back, learned there is
no goal
(Beauty is never quite attainable)
For. though the restless, hurried feet
of man
Pause by the way, to take a needed
rest,
The mind moves on, forever on and
on,
Seeking the riddle of the universe
Eyes, there are place where the
body rests;
There is no place upon the eartn
where mind
Nav halt and say, AT last, am
content;
This is the goal. this is the ultimate.