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Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12
AN IDEA FOR The
CITY FELLOWS

Possibly it has been done. but if it has
Mt, it should be-
1t is application of the All club and
Future Farmer idea to city youngsters.
In All clubs and the Future Farmers
of America, farm boys learn practical
aspects of the calling they will follow
in later years. They learn the best ways
to feed and raise livestock. the most i'm
proved methods of soil conservation and
improvement, the highest grade of scien-
tific farming.
The only approach the city youngster
has to such program he gets in the
schools, through manual training classes
or business administration courses But,
where the farm youngster gets practical
experience, the city lad gets none.
Why not, then, organize a movement
to give the urban youngsters the same
experience in the callings they will fol-
low that the farm boy is able to get? 1t
might be done through revolving en-
ployment in d store or by the boys set
ting up their own store under sponsor.
1t might be done in a hundred ways-but
it should be done.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12
RUSSIA FIGHTS EUROPE
(Santa Barbara NeWS-PreSS)

Unless historians are badly fooled. the
RuSso-Finnish war is likely to be {; turn
ing point in Europes history. They see
in it the forcing of all lesser powers to
decision on which side of the ideologi-
cal struggle their rea! interests rest.
This view is reflected in news dis
patches each day in reports Of aid for the
Firms Already two divisions of Italian
volunteers have arrived in Finland. Great
numbers of Swedes, Norwegians and
Danes are fighting under Finnish colors.
Great Britain, France and even the Unit
ed States are furnishing war materials.
The latest reports declare General Fran
co is shipping unused supplies from the
recent Spanish civil war to Finland.
. This makes it seem all Europe, with
exception Of Germany is allied against
Russia. Of course, this is without official
recognition of the countries involved.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12
YOUTH COMES INTO
us OWN

Now that the gates are closed for an
other year on the Imperial county fair,
one accomplishment of the fair board
stands out above all others.
1t is the encouragement given to young
sters in all lines of activity, but parti-
cularly in agricultural pursuits.
If the fair accomplished nothing else,
the boost it gave the new generation
along the road to farming success would
more than pay for the trouble. the money
and the energy expended by officials.
The fair did accomplish other things,
many of them. 1t was beyond a doubt the
most successful of the county'S annual
expositions thus far. in all departments.
it was far and away better than any
thing else of the kind ever seen in this
county. Yet standing out above all other
departments in interest and social Sign-
ficance were the exhibits of the young
sters-the Future Farmers of America,
the All clubs. the Boy Scouts. and other
similar organizations for both boys and
girls.
In the agricultural exhibits, particu-
larlv. visitors to the fair were given q
pre-view of Imperial county as it will
appear several years from now. when
the boys and girls now growing up take
over the helm.
The instructors and counSellors who
guide these youngsters in their character
building pursuits deserve much of the
credit for their success Much credit
too, belongs to the fair board and its
employees for the encouragement they
have given the boys and girls. and for the
way they have shown the valley what its
youngsters are accomplishing.
But in one place. and one alone rests
the majority of responsibility for the
achievements. 1t is in the character of
the youngsters themselves.
Those who cry against the ''decadence'
of the younger generation. those who de-
claim that youth is lazy and inefficient,
found all the answer they deserve at the
Imperial county fair, in the exhibits en-
tered by Imperial Valleys boys and girls.
The valleys future is safe in the hands
of these youngsters.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12
AMERICAN RUBBER
(WOOdIand DenOcrat)

Hugh Johnson isn't much impressed
by the argument that Japan must be
kept down at whatever cost, SO she cant
grab the East Indies with their rubber
and tin. We do not need a lot of such
products. he saws: but if Japan had
those islands she'd be selling such prod
uctS to somebody. and why not to us?
And on top of that. he wants to know,
if we're so scared about a lack of rubber,
of which we use half the worlds supply,
why don't we grow our own
This last question. at least, is reason
able and timely. Rubber was transplant
ed from the Amazon valley, where white
men first discovered it. to the East In
dies. where il thriveS If it will grow
there. maybe it will grow in the West
Indies. Has rubber culture ever been
tried in Puerto Rico. which is American
territory? Or in the loWlandS of Central
America?
If the Amazon Valley is best for rub
ber, we might encourage its production
there on a vast scale Henry Ford has
been growing rubber there for his own
industry. with good results. Uncle Sam
could doubtless cooperate with the Brazi-
liam government in such a plan. 1t might
even be found possible to grow more
hardy species of rubber in Florida or
southern Texas With the world in it's
present state. it might be worth while
to invest considerable money in such Il
project.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12
UP
Po1o Alto TimnSA

Lieut.. Gov. Ellis Patterson, addressing
meeting of students at the University
of California on the theme. Making De-
mocracy Work" said the first essential
IL improving government was to require
candidates for office to state what they
stand for and then check their records
to see that they live up to their pledges"
Sound advice, indeed. But it would
have been embarrassing to the New Deal
administration at Washington, which the
Olson-Patterson regime has sought to
initiate, if that test had been imposed on
President Roosevelt. whose prediction
pledge of governmental cost cutting was
abandoned after he got into office In
stead of cutting costs the New Deal ad-
ministration in its eight years will have
spent SO , per cent as much as all admin
istrations put together in their aggregate
14412 years.
1t was Mr. Pattersons statement that
economy hypocrisy among public Of
flee holders and the "something-for-
nothing" philosophy Of the people are
responsible for the present huge govern
mental deficits And we think he is right.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12
The Story Democracy 49,
Cayemen Got the First Idea
= BY HENDRIX VAN LOON :

nobody cared.
And Aristotle was always safe
person from whom to quote. Before
his erudition even the highly sus-
picious Church Fathers had bowed
their pious heads with deep revcr-
ence.
Yes. Aristotle was the ideal mine
of information for all medieval
writer's. but unfortunately for the
sake OF the democratic ideal. that
famous disciple Of Plato hated DEM
ocracy almost as thoroughly as
Thomas Carlyle came to do twenty
two centuries later when he dis
missed all democratic forms of gov
crnment with a ContemptuouS SneCr
and granted. Democracy! Huh. A
form of government in which the
vote of Judas is as good as that of
Jesus" BY the way. you will OBJ
serve thai l use "quoteS.')
This intense dislike for d 'mocracy
on the part oi Aristotle was quite
loeical and entirely de,Etandablc
Under The clever leadership of Peri
cies in the fifth century Be. the
city of Athens had enjoyed-for a
few brief years-Such an outburSt
OF democratic glory that even today
the world is still talking about this
Golden Age.
But | said il had lasted only
few years. 1t had started in 444
B. C. 1t had been all over in 429
B. C. And most people laid the
blame for this defeat to the out
rageous miSrule of the Demagogues
,the rabble- -rousers) who succeeded
Pcricles and Who hiding behind
their contemporary bill-of- rights.
h2d merely used their own liberty
Of expression to CnSlavc all those
who did not agree with them.
The final destruction of tbs
Athenian Empire after the treason
of AlcibiadeS casually regarded as
the best example of an ariStocrat
gone democratic). had given tho
cause Of rule by the people" such
bad reputation in the eyes of ali
Unbalanced and reasonable mind
cd people that according to Aristotle
who of course had an axe to grindD
democracy was the perversion OF
that desirable form of government
which one might call constitutions
government" To Aristotle this
meant the rule by the majority OF
all free and equal citizens as op-
posed to a monarchy or an aris-
tOcracy.
And SO. as early as the fourth.
century B. c. there were already
people who we're beginning to recog
nize the vast difference that exists
between democracy and self
government"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE
APPOINTED FOR PROVING
WILL AND HEARING APPLICA-
ITO. FOR LETTERS TESLA
MENTARY
M n02l

In the Superior Court of the State
of California. In and for The Coun-
t. of Imperial.
In the Matter of the Estate Of
MAR Gus l.. CURTIS. Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that pc
ton for probate Of the will OF
MARCUS L. CURTIS, deceased
and for the issuance to NELLIE
S. CURTIS of letters tcstamentary
has been filed in this court, and
that Friday the 22nd day of March,
1910. at O'clock P. NJ, Of said
daT. at the courtroom of said court
at the Count Court House in the
City of FL Centro. County Of Inl-
Dnrial. state of California. has been
set for tn. hearing OF said petition.
Y hen and where any person inter
csted may appear and cont ut tha
same, and show cause, # any they
have. why said pct on should not
be granted.
Dated March llth. 1910.
w. j. McCLELLAND
County Clerk
EA ClfIlA iAMshN
paputy CleiL
tMl2-22 lnc,l
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12

One Minute Test Answers
| Rumania, YugoslIvia, Turkey
and Greece.
>. Nevada.
s. In Venice Italy.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12

Another reason To prefer Amcri-
ca over Europe Is that while oven
here we anticipate" spring with the
appearance of the first robin. over
there they are expecting the first
blit3kriea
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12
clally asked to be called.
TodaVS Horoscope

Prospects for the next year are
excellent tor those whose birthdays
are todly. Gain will come to them
from those in authority and through
travel. The child born on this date
will usually be fortunate through
out life, especially if born early i'll
the day before noon He or she
viii be active and industrious.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12

Five planets may be seen together
IL the SKY Maybe thcy are form
ing an alliance in fear Of this rough
tough old world.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12
You re Telling Me-

Two trampa were tossed unin-
jured INTO a snoWbank when Il
Canadian train they wero riding
smashed INTO another With their
luck. how ounG they're tramps?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12
Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

|. What are the four nations
that make up the Balkan Entente?
,. The name of what state means
snow covered
3. Where is the famous Rialto
bridge?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12

A spider, we read. has 81 eyes.
When ncs been up late the night
before. how can he crowd a bag
under each one of them?
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12
Words of Wisdom

There are braying men in the
world as we'll as braying asses; for
what is loud and senseless talkin2
other than way of braying
l. EStran9e.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12
Photographs

While chewing on lime deposits
on river bottoms, alligators of Pan
anna take in certain amount of
gold. which is mined" when the
creatures are captured for their
skins.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12

The leading occupation OF Italian
women is farming. most of the
feminine workers in the fields being
the wives, mothers and daughters
of peasants.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12
MEMBER:

MEMBER:
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. Nation
al editorial Association.
California Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12
Hints on Etiquette

Ii YOU have house guests and
your family breakfasts carly, said
guests need not be awakened for
breakfast unless they have eSpe-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12
Famous Sayings

The first law God gave To man. VII Il law OF
ubedicnCe Montaienc
Imperial Valley press., 1940-03-12
Thoughts for the Day

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said
We ought 10 obey God rather than men.-ActS 5:29
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-27
Alaska as
 Marketf0
 U.5.|sTops
1o39 Purchases High-Are Double Any Central
 American Country

WASHINGTON, D. C., July 27.- Secretary of the Interior Henry L. Ickes said today that Alaska bought a record total of $44,262,7 ,710 in merchandise from the United States this year, total up $2,000, 900 over any previous year.
 Alaska's purchases for the last year were more than double those of any Central American country and topped all South American countries except Argentine, Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela.
 Manufactured articles, particular ly iron and steel, headed the list of imports to Alaska with total of $10,611,119 purchased.
 Machinery, including automobiles, was next.
 "The status of Alaska as a GUS toner of the United States is plain ly indicative of the great trade expansion which would be possible with development of the Territory" " said Secretary Ickes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-27
ROYAL AIR FORGE HITS
 OIL DEp0T5
Nazis Continue Air, Sea Raids = Italians Claim
 Victory in Sudan
(By ASSOCIATED PREss)

The Air Ministry at London to- night reported Royal Air Force at tacks on oil depots at Cherbourg. St. Nazaire and Nantes and also suc- cessful bombing of an enemy supply ship off the Norwegian coast.
 At home British fighter planes clashed with clouds of German bombers roaring across the south east coast in the third successive day of unprecedented wholesale raids.
 A total of % Nazi planes is re- ported to have been shot down in 24 hours.
 Germans Raid Shipping
 Meantime, the German Supreme Command claimed further inroads on Britain's merchant marine with destruction of more of her mer- chant ships.
 Vessels totaling 32,000 tons were sent to the bottom or set afire. Berlin claimed
 One U-boat sank six armed ene- my merchant ships off East Africa.
 War in Sudan
 War correspondents for the Ital- ian newspaper II Giornale d'Italia reported the capture of Curmak. British fortified town on the from tier of the Anglo Egyptian Sudan.
 In the Far East, Japanese blue jackets operating under cover of bombardment from warships land- ed at Honghai Bay, Chinese terri tory 70 miles northeast of the Brit ish Grown Colony of Hong Kong. The landing followed earlier mining of the coastal waters. lombard ments and the landing of troops along the Chinese coast south of Shanghai
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-27
ARGENTINA ANNOUNCES
 AGREEMENT
Will Prevent European Possessions in Americas
 Changing Ownership

HAVANA, Cuba, July 27.-Argen- tine Chairman Leopoldo Melo at the Pan American Conferen an- nounced late today agreement by the peace subcommittee on a plan to prevent European possessions in the Americas to fall into ct her hands.
 Previously announcement of vir- tual agreement on program to pre- vent transfer of ownership of Euro pean possessions in the western hemisphere was made by a sub committee of the American Foreign Ministers Conference.
 After meeting early this morning with the purpose in view of reaching a formula to prevent transfer of ownership of foreign colonies in time to present it in full to the commission on peace maintenance at 10 a. m, that meeting was post poned until late in the day and the subcommittee decided to work right through to present the completed formula at the postponed session of the commission.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-27
CANAL ZONE
 DEFENSE5 IN GREAT SHAPE
Enemy" Planes, Swarm ina Over Isthmus Are
 Reported RepeIled

BALBOA, Panama Canal Zone, July 27.-The Canal defenses have been checked for possible loopholes after accorded a hot reception by swarms of enemy" planes which roared across the Isthmus last night during surprise attack stimulating modern blitzkrieg.
 The methods of the defenders ap- parently were an unqualified suc- cess, according to official reports from both sides.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-27
HELP FOR
 EUR0pE'5
 REFUGEES
Fifty Million Dollars Worth of Supplies 10 Be Sent
 -Setup Starts

WASHINGTON, July 27.-Presi- dent Roosevelt has set up machinery to purchase and distribute $50,000.- 900 worth of supplies to give to European refugees.
 An executive order designates Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace to buy agricultural supplies and Henry Norge thau other materials.
 The action is take under the re- lief act.
 When the newsmen asked If the British agreed to let them through the blockade. White House Secretary Stephen Early said that was ques- tion for the American Red Cross as the relief was that organizations jOb.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-27
DRAFTING ACCEPTANCE
 SPEECH

COLORADO SPRINGS, July 27- Wendell L. Willkie today began drafting his address accepting the Republican nomination as Presiden- tial candidate.
 Associates predicted that the ma jor portion of the address will be devoted to an attack against ma chine politics. renewing his prev ious blasts against what he terms the Kelly -Nashes, Hagues and Crumps."
 Talk among his supporters is that he might seek to form third party in an effort to capture Democratic votes,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-27
Dan Olson
 Dies While
 Soufhbound
Fairbanks Prospetfor and Miner Passes Away in
 Ketthikan Hospital

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 27.- Dan Olson, of Fairbanks, miner and prospector, aged about 65, died sud denly in hospital here last night.
 Olson was enroute to Seattle for medical attention but left the AL aska Clipper here last Saturday night and went to the hospital. He recovered slightly and left the hos pital and intended taking the Clip per south yesterday but instead re- turned to the hospital where he died.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-27
By JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, July 27.-Leaves from a Chicago diary:
 Be sure to notify Wall Street and the bookies that the odds al- ready are on the Democrats to remain in power. They are not wonderful odds, but they are an edge. They're to 4.
 Here's how. Of the Is men who have been nominated in Windy City conventions 10 have been blown right into the White House by November balloting. The first was Abe Lincoln, in 1860, when managers for Dark Horse Ape packed the galleries of the old Wigwam (which looked like an oversized pit for cockfights) and swept their candidate into power with as wild a hullaballoo as the city ever has seen.
 Cleveland dwice), Grant, Gar field, Blaine, Roosevelt I, Harri- son, Harding, Taft and Roosevelt II all got mandates" here-and residences in Washington.
 Old-timers around here like Pat Nash, the white-haired veteran of Illinois politics, tell me that the hottest" convention ever helo here wasn't Democratic, but Re- publican. It was 1912, Wher Roosevelt I, trying to rough-ridt over Taft, got his ears pinned back in scrap over seating ol delegates and took a walk witt his Bull Moose party. The politi. clans who figure Chicago is th' luckiest convention city in tn, land add the Bull Moose conven tion nomination of Teddy, too, be cause although the didn't win tn election, he did give William Howard a licking at the polls.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-27

WASHINGTON - Biggest chance for Western Hemisphere unity the United States has had in all his tory presents itself this week al Havana. But also it is the tough est.
 The majority of people in Latin America are aroused and worried over Hitler, feel more friendly to- ward the United States than ever before. But simultaneously, vigor- ous minority groups in every coun- try, many of them already lined up with Hitler, are doing their best to sabotage Western Hemisphere harmony.
 Inside the Brazilian army, foi instance, about 40 percent of the officers admire and lean toward the German military system. Tn Argentina are some 100000 Ital- ians upon whose passions Musso- lini can play. In Uruguay, even after a fifth column Nazi plot tc take over the country was exposed publicly, some members of the Uruguayan. cabinet thought it was better to close their eyes, not of fend Germany. Hitler, they fig ured, would be too important g customer after the end of this wal to risk alienating him.
 So it will take all the skill oi Cordell Hull's artful diplomacy te bring anything out of the Havana conference save the usual collec- tion of pious platitudes regarding goodwill, uniform customs proceed. ure and the eradication of the bol Weevil.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-27
WHERE'S CACTUS JACK?

Keep working to uncover that convention mystery: Why Cactus Jack" Garner did a fadeout during the early part of the convention and for days couldn't be reached by telephone or personal appeal. Even close friends couldn't find out where he was Maybe it's a new political technique but it sure was applied with vengeance. If the Cactus Coolidge" as Haywood Broun once dubbed him, had been week-ending in Uvalde, he couldn't have been any more scarce around Chicago. It had his back CTS biting their nails and using the kind of language that would have shocked the Texas rangers.
 Add to the most utterly ridicu- lous of all political sappery, that business of splitting state delega- tion votes into halves, quarters, sixteenths, and on. What kind of a vote is forty-eighth of a vote, anyway? Maybe it's all for a laff because you can get plenty of em anytime you want, watching convention kibitzers trying to keep scorecards on that kind of ballot
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-27
CREAMY RETURNS

J. Malcolm Creamy, of the Alaska Game Commission, returned on the steamer Baranof from Seward where he delivered 100 young pheasants to MT. and Mrs. Louis Bell of Cooper Landing for liberation after a months acclimatins in pens,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-27

Major Jesse E. Graham of the Army Infantry, arrived in Jul nesu this afternoon aboard the steamer Mount Mckinley, transferred from Fort Lewis, Washington, to work with Gov. Ernest Gruening in organizing the National Guard in Alaska.
 Major Graham is accompanied