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Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17
KNOW THEIR PLANES
Woodland Democrat)

1t was cheering news for California to
hear William Knudsen, National defense
commission chairman, declare that the
aircraft industry is cooperating 100 per
cent with the nations defense program
with its members unanimously going
about the job of building planes first
and talking about profits afterward."
California. maker of fully 60 per cent
of the nations military planes, has fur
ther good assurances that the eXacting
and complicated Job of plane building is
in able, experienced hands. In one typi-
cal southern California concern the 10
top executives have among them, more
than one and half million hours of air.
craft experience, averaging more than
II years per man. They have the ability.
They are showing the cooperation. Only
those ingredients can speed the national
defense effort to early completion.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17
by Willis Thornton j..
While Stain Smiles

Europe at death grips now Whirls
dizzily down to the very edge OF the
vortex of destruction. Can anybody
win a war of the kind that is now
convulsing Britain and Germany?
What sort of prize awaits the vic
tor?
The prize Will be a Europe rob-
bed of its best youth in France,
Poland, Italy, Germany, and Bri-
tain. 1t will be a starving continent
whose crops have been destroyed
or fed into the NAV of the insa-
table military machine. 1t will be
continent whose best productive
facilities have been bombed out of
existence, a continent condemned
to lower standards of living from
which it must again crawl pain
fully upward. It Will be a continent
filled with raw wounds and hatreds
famed and made eternally bitter
by memories which will not vanish
1t will be a continent in which rev.
olution has been made inevitable.
Hitler chooses to jest lightly
before delivering his "all-out"
stroke. Churchill grimly prepares
his people for worst to come. Pet
ain wanders among the fragments
of shattered France, picking up a
piece here and there in mournful
abandon.
Only Stain smiles
In the cauldron of Europe there
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17
GERMAN AGGRESSION
PLUS u. S POLITICS

1t is unfortunate for Present Roose-
velts third term hopes that Adolf Hitler
has postponed until Spring plans for
his invasion of England-if he has actual
ly postponed them.
This is not to say that the President
is disgruntled over the recent German
setbacks. Probably he is as pleased about
them as anybody else. But it is never
theless a fact that crisis in Europe works
to his benefit in the national political
campaign; comparative quiet works to
the benefit of his opponent.
If it were not for the war in Europe,
President Roosevelt would most likely
not be running for third term. And
most political observers believe that, If
it were not for the war; he would not
have one chance in a hundred of being
elected, even if he did run.
Most of the Presidents strength eX-
cept for the comparatively slight staunch
New Deal support which would be his
regardless of what happened, comes from
people who believe him to be a great in
ternational statesman. The more critical
the situation in Europe seems, the more
these people are able to win others to
Roosevelt's side. The less critical the
situation in Europe the less weight their
arguments have.
Thus, if the siege of England settles
down to winter-long series OF bomblngS
and er-bOmbingS-which sooner or
later will cease to interest the sensation
seeking American public-the President
will lose great deal of his strength This
is not guesswork. 1t has been demonstrat-
ed conclusvely during recent weeks.
There was a seeming hull in European
warfare for while after Wendell l..
Willkie was nominated on the Republl-
can ticket. Willkie gained strength so
rapidly that it seemed nothing could pre-
vent a landslide in his favor. Then the
German attacks on London began with
increasing fury, and day by day an in
vasion seemed more inevitable. And, day
by day, President Roosevelt gained
strength in the American political scene.
The invasion was originally scheduled
to come during the weekend just passed.
A Gallup poll, released during the same
weekend, showed for the first time that
Roosevelt was gaining slightly in three
states.
Now. with all signs pointing to dig
ging-in'' war for Europe the New Deal
if the trend continues-will be losing
strength again.
No matter which side of the fence you
are on, it is unfortunate that this country
should elect a presient because OF what
is happening in Europe but the mere
fact that We shouldn't does not give us
reason to ignore the fact that we do. And,
after all, quiet in Europe may give,us a
chance to talk of the domestic issues that
are so important, and have been so badly
neglected.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17
STRENGTHENING ALASKA
Oakland Trlbune)

Dispatch of more American troops to
stations in Alaska will be warmly ap-
proved on the Pacific Coast. For some
time there have been misgivings about
the lack of military preparations on the
north coast Reports of Russian arma-
ment not more than five miles from Am
erican territory gave rise to some alarm.
While the latest order of the war de-
partment involves only about 2.400 addi-
tional troops, plans are under way for
considerable military outlay in Alaska.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17
RADICAuSM IN SCHOOL

1t is depressing to hear the results of
a Columbia University study of the
sources of radicalism which found that
there are more radicals among post
graduate college students than among
those who have had shorter period of
schooling. Depressing, and thought pro-
voking.
Perhaps, however, there is a reason,
and it may lie in the fact that those study
ing in postgraduate courses seldom have
come into contact with realities outside
of school. Additionally, those under
whom they study have been sheltered
most of their lives from realities. The
result is that their minds provide fer
tile soil for all sorts of theories that
sound grand look good on paper, but
will not work out in practice. Maybe
little hard experience between school ses-
sions would solve the problem.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17

voices. AS one of the ants I have
met others in good many differ
ent parts of the hill.
There are differences certainly
between man cutting pulp in a
Maine woodlot and a man on an
automobile assembly line in Dear
born There may even be an anger
between an old Yankee and an
Irishman in Massachusetts, even
blood between some southern white
men and a Negro neighbor. We
are a people ready with our epithets
everywhere.
But America! That's different. We
let the politicians and the profess
sional patriots make the speeches
about it. We don't want to go to
war. Neither did grandfather in
spite of all the things he said
after he got back. We don't
think about ourselves as heroes. We
certainly don't think about our
selves as the saviors of civilization.
We'd rather go to the movies than
the war.
But we are Americans and all
that has ever meant in any Ameri-
can time. A little bit of honest
history beside the current fears,
l think, will show that we never
feared or fought a war with any
thing like the unity which already
is erected in this land.
It isn't the newspapers, it does
not come over the radio. But it
out there in the country. 1t is in
the bank and the labor union. It's
on the porches of the country clubs
and in the pool rooms and the
Sunday school classes. Not in one
more than the others.
To hear it where it is it often
still sounds like a quarrel, as argu-
mentative, individualistic, and dog
matte as the pioneers were, as the
first patriots were. But those who
hear only confusion in it have
never heard America speaking.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17
by Bruce Cation
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

complish this result in each con
munity" says the pamphlet, Z"
similar to other drives the me
chanics of which are easily under
stood and frequently employed"
This whole procedure was almo,
exactly like the procedure calle
for by the Fish amendment-e>
cept that it aimed at getting twit
as many men. Just incidental
the pamphlet reveals that in tt
first 60 days after we entered tt
war in 1917, all arms of the sci
vice took in 100000 men by volur
tary enlistment.
LAST JUNE:
"NOTHING TO DO"
Another odd point is that ,lpnI
three months ago the administrs
ton was trying hard to get congre.
to adjourn-on the ground thei
was nothing more for it to do.
Joint Republican and rank-ano
file Democratic opposition kille
this move. Congress stayed on I'll
job. Since then it has passed I'll
tWo-ocean navy bill, the nations
guard mobilization bill and IL
draft act, and has taken on the e>
cess profits tax in addition. If tt
administration had had its wa
last June, none of these acts Woul
have been put through.
LEGAL aDVERTISENIFNT
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17
THE COOKIE PUSHERS
OF The STATE DEPT
(Chlcago Tribune)

1t appears that the young gentlemen
of the state department are to enjoy an
exemption from the draft. Why this
should be so is not clear. The primary
business of the state department, as of
all diplomacy, is to keep the peace. The
greater the need for conscription, the
greater the failure of the state depart
ment. The young gentlemen in spats can
not make much of a case for the indis
pensability of their services as diplomats
if they have led us to the brink of war.
In fact, they have been working night
and day to get us into war. The latest
evidence of their attitude is to be found
in the knowledge that the state depart
ments itself made all the arrangements
for distributing Ambassador Bullitt's re-
cent speech, calculated though it was to
inflame American and foreign opinion.
In this connection it is pertinent to re-
call that in 1917 Mr.. Bullitt was 26 years
old and without dependents, but he found
a safe berth in the state department.
Many young men at the time were enlist
ing in the fighting services and still other
young men were being drafted but Mr.
Bullitt was otherwise engaged. The state
department was then, and evidently is
to remain, place of refuge for those
who promote wars but don't fight them
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17
OBJECTIONS STILL VALID
{ (KanSaS City Starr

NhdIISotS OIVy OtetI
When the third term issue was under
discussion in the Coolidge administra-
tion leading Democratic senator's and
Senator Norris expressed the opinion
that the third term was a danger to the
country. Senator Norris, the Star quoted
Sunday as stressing the menace to free
institutions of the use of the enormous
presidential patronage machine to obtain
a third term Senator Wagner said a
third term proposal was ''unwise, un
patriotic and fraught with danger"
In his acceptance speech President
Roosevelt wholly ignored the third term
issue He spoke as if a third term were
no different from a second provided the
incumbent were so sef-scraficing as to
want it.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17

can claim no credit because I
come from a region where long
ago men went about grumbling
that it was a rich mans war and
a poor mans fight but fought
like the devil just the same.
I'm glad I'm man of a land
where a part of freedom has been
to cuss the boss, damn the Repub7
licans and denounce the Democrats,
to stomp brOganS in fury at town
meeting, fuss about taxes, complain
about the poor, blame the rich. We
began to quarrel before we landed
in the wilderness, we moved across
the mountains and the prairies
arguing among ourselves, some
times with guns. We made the
American unity in a bloody civil
war. %
Maybe we could have made a
better job of America if we had
always moved in disciplined agree
ment. l doubt it, Maybe this
would be a stronger America now
if we the people always spoke with
the same voice, the same views.
am not sure. But | am sure that
there is now as there has been an
American unity stronger because it
is the willing unity of individuals
and not the docile or driven unity
of the mass.
But America is different now
they tell me. We are not the homo
geneous people once we were. We
are product now of a melting pot
that did not melt. q
1t may be So but sometimes as
an old American I have felt almost
rebuked in my own casual accep-
tance of my citizenship by the
eager, passionate allegiance of new
Americans to the meaning of this
land.
Among the new ard the old Am
ericans undoubtedly there are trail
tors and grafters, profiteers,
trOublemakers and termites. The
past did not lack them; the pres
ent should not be incapable Of
dealing with them.
But the world IS different now,
they tell me. You could wait for
the growth of a fighting unity
once, now it must be full-grown
in an instant It is true. But we
made speed here. We have made
it not only on wheels but on wires
without wires. Sometimes now
We swoop in decision like a dive
bomber. We may be quickly wrong,
but that is not lack of unity. That
i somebody's minority opinion.
maybe mine.
But today decision must not only
be swift in emergency. it must be
also continuous, implacable, main
tanned. There was continuity
which ran II years from the cleo
ton Of Harding to the defeat of
continuity in the Ameri-
can mind which ran at least from
1920 to the decision-making disaster
in the fall Of 1929. 1t has been eight
years since the first electoral deter
miration upon the New Deal. Now
in almost unopposed unity. the de-
cision upon military and naval Sc
curity has been made. Who expects
that mood 10 change soon?
America a babel, an ant hill over
turned? I have heard some of the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-Now
that the smoke has settled over the
scrap on the draft bill, couple of
extremely odd things about the
whole business remain to be exam
ined.
First is the whole matter of volun-
tary enlistment as a means of fill
ing up the ranks of a greatly en-
larged army.
During debate on the bill, ad-
ministration spokesmen said over
and over again that the War De-
partment had absolutely no faith
in volunteering as a means of get
ting lot of men in a hurry. They
also asserted that to try to combine
volunteering and conScription-as
contemplated in the Fish amend
ment-would simply mean delay
and confusion. Lastly, it was as
serted that in the World War the
United States was never able to
raise more than 10000 men in one
month by volunteer enlistments.
PLANNED TO RECRUIT
100000 MEN
Simple fact, however, is that the
original protective mobilization plan
of the War department-the army's
official schedule for war until the
present draft bill came along-set
up scheme very much like the
Fish proposal for raising a wartime
army.
Furthermore, this scheme called
for raising the army to war strength
pending application of the draft
by enlisting-not 100000 men, as
the Fish amendment would have
provided, but 100000
It's all set forth in a pamphlet
called American Selective Serv-
ice" prepared under the super
vision of the Joint Army and Navy
Selective Service Committee and is
sued in October, 1899.
At that time the army did not
dream of getting a draft law in
time of peace. All the figuring was
done on the idea that draft law
could be passed only after war
broke out and that it would be at
least 60 days before drafted men
would start coming into camp. Dur
ing those 60 days it was proposed to
get at least 100000 recruits for ar
my, navy, national guard and
marine corps.
EXTENSIVE DRIVE
OUTLINED
A gigantic enlistment campaign
to accomplish this was envisaged
Each governor was to set up drive
covering his own state, reaching
down into each city and county, all
of which would be allotted their
quotas of men. Civilian committees
would be set up to see that the
quotas were met.
"The promotional work to ac-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17
CraniuIn Crackers
Defense Commission

Seven persons comprise the Ma
tional Defense Advisory Commits
sion, the group whose task it is
to coordinate the national de-
fense program. Here are five OF
the phases represented by the COM
mission; can you identify the per-
son in charge of each?
Price tabilization.
2-Raw materials.
3-Labor.
Industrial production.
5-Consumer protection.
Answers:
Price stabilization-Leon Hen
derSon.
Raw materials Edward r
Stettinius, jr.
-Labor-Sidney S. Hillman.
4-Industrial production-William
S. Knudsen.
5-Consumer protection-Harriet
Elliott.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17
So They Say

We are too busy in France lick
ing our wounds to spend any time
on politics.
Castor Henry-Haye, new ambas-
sador from the new France.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17
%OUR COUNTRY

Eighth of "a articles on "Our
Country" written exclusively
for NEA Service and the Post
Press by the nations most ia
nous authors.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17

Mans free actions are subject tC
a law higher than himself or the
society in which he lives.
Rev. Edward B. Rooney, secrc-
tary, Jesuit Educational Associa-
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17

In arriving at these important
decisions on great international
questions it is the duty of every
citizen to inform himself thoroughly
and to bear his part in the respon-
sibility.
-Myron c. Taylor, presidential rep
resentative to the Vatican, on re-
turning home.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17


TATE AND GUARDIANSHIP q
RAMON SANCHEZ, DECEASED.
NOTICE OF HEARING OF PI
TITION TO LEASE REAL PRO
PERTY.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVE
that Mariana Guizar, as guardiai
of the estate of Ramon Sanchez
incompetent has filed his verified
petition praying for an order al&
thorizing the lease of the He;l
property hereinafter described AM
that Friday the 9th day of Ser
tember, 1910. at two o'clock, z. M.
in the Superior Court of the Stat
of California, in and for the Cour
ty Of Imperial, in Department
thereof, has been appointed as TIL
time and place for hearing said peti.
ton when and where any person
interested in said estate may ara
pear and object to granting sal
petition.
Reference is hereby made to sal.
petition for further particulars
to the terms ard conditions of til
proposed lease.
Said property which it is pro
posed to lease is situated in TIL
City of Ell Centre, Imperial Count
California, and particularly descrih
ed as the:
North 80 feet of Lots |, 2, and
of Block 18, of the Townsite
of FL Centre.
Dated, September 16, 1910. ,
w. j. McCLELLANI
County Clerk and Clerk of sal.
Superior Court. q
BY CITIIA IAMSON
Deputy
tSeptl7 to 26 inclJ
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17
body here!'
CAMERA CREW
REMEMBERED

Although she had lived With
three blocks of Wiltshire Boulevarl
most of her life, Miss DaverYol
seemed to have a hard time follow
ing directions for getting to til
Selznick studio.
Later, on sound stage an
ready for a GWTW test, she wa
flabbergasted to discover that a
the camera crew and electrician
were men from the Metro lot. ST
was barely able to forestall the
happy cries of Hello, Doris" I
tipping off the photographer to hd
trick. He passed the word alonI
and all the technicians Winked an
grinned.
The tests were good. Not god
enough to beat Vivien Leigh III til
Scarlet competition, but they cor
vinced Samuel Goldwyn. who sa
them later, that Doris Jordan Wa
what he wanted for Gary Cooper
leading lady in THE WeSterner
He didn't recognize her as a girl L
had hired three years before, an
he only laughed when she wa
revealed as Doris Davenport. Sal
it was a stroke of good Snowman
ship, and that he'd be surprise
if she didn't go right on to staI
dom.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT O
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIl
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY O
IMPERIAL
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17
By PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 1.-THE
person most anxiously concerned
with the success of Sam Goldwyn's s
new picture, THE Westerner," is
Doris Davenport. She's the almost
unknown actress who plays the
fighting pioneer gal alongside Gary
Cooper.
Action epics seldom offer much
for actresses to do, but this one
provides Miss Davenport's big
chance. And certainly it's her last
chance to make splash in Holly
wood as a newcomer She has man.
aged to be discovered twice, so far,
but it couldn't happen again.
Having lived here since she was
S, Miss Davenport deplores Movie
towns habit of ignoring local tai
ent while giving big hand (and
the old eye) to cuties from Brook
lyn and way points. She knows
lots of examples. And if she hadn't
changed her name and gone to
New York to make fresh start,
the chances are she'd still be an
extra.
A BOOST FROM
EDDIE CANTOR
A flicker career looked pretty
easy back in 1884. Fresh out of high
school and with all the assurance
of II, the symmetrical blond an
swered chorus call for kid Mil
lions" and was selected as a Gold
wyn Girl Then Eddie Cantor, lik-
ing her voice, chose her for the
secondary role of his childhood
sweetheart.
A lot Of stars have had less aus
picious beginnings. But my luck
had run out. and I just couldn't
find job after that" she recalls.
Pretty soon, to keep from dropping
clear out of pictures, I was playing
extra. Finally I got a stock contract
at Metro, but it was doubly disap-
pointing to find that it wasn't any
better than extra work. I soon
learned it was no use begging for
something to do. They'd just give
me that panied look and say
'What're you beefing about? You're
getting paid, aren't your"
For about four years, during in
tervals of idleness, the actress
worked without pay at any little
theater and radio station that woulo
offer her line to speak. She best
remembers the broadcast of mis-
cradle little skit in which she was
supposed to be young mother
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17

BY JONATHAN DANIELS
Author of "A SOutherner DiscOv-
ers New England" and "A South =
erner Discovers the South"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17
Famous Sayings

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and its
circumference nowhere-Empedocles
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. National
Editorial Association. Cali
fOrnia Newspaper Publish
erS Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17
by Paul Harrison =.
HOLLYWOOD S Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

burying her dead baby at sea. Viii
sobbing into the mike she kept on
hand in a tub of water which slI
sloshed around to make the SCUM
of waves. ..t-
Finally 1 realized l just, Wasn
getting anywhere in Hollywood
she continued. 80 I called myse
Doris Jordan and went to New YoIi
and modeled-hats, toothpaste, ci9
arets-and hoped to get into a shoy
Instead, along came Max Arno, wi
was interviewing models in the bi
Scarlett O'Hara hunt. I had rea
for him once at Warner Brother
and I pray:d he wouldn't remen
ber He didn't.
80 they put me under shor'
term contract and sent me baC
here for tests. I pretended it wa
my first visit-made all the trit
touristy remarks about oranges an
palm trees and unusual weather. M
mother didn't quite understan
what I was trying to do, becaus
she came to the train to meet N
and began waving and calling m
I finally got a chance to say ixna
I'm not supposed to know any
bodv bereI'"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17
Thoughts for the Day

God is my strength and power: and he maketh my
way perfect-II Samuel 22:33.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-17

LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-12-06
VIRTUAL

The reported new successes in the
astonishing Greek campaign would
mean virtual collapse of the Italians
southern operations.
Thirty-nine days ago when this
Balkan war started Italian forces OF
invasion in the southern sector were
aimed at capture Of 1oannlna, In
northern Greece, and eventually
Athens, the Greek capital, itself.
At the other end of the Albanian
front other Fascist columns atttem.
ed to Grive east onto Phlorina,
Greece, enroute to Salonika. This
northern drive was squelched by
Greek assaults which brought cap
ture of the Italians base, Koritza
and later Pogradetz.
Now if the reports on Porto Edda
and Argirocastro are to be credited
Italy has lost the principal sea gate
way into southern Albania and
stands to lose her last remaining
base in the frontier region for con-
quest of Greece.
Heavy fighting was reported in
southern and central sectors of the
Albanian front with italian aviation
attempting to slim the Greek ad.
vances. The British Royal Air Force,
according to Athens reports, also
was taking a strong hand in the
Greek offensive.