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Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23

So now they arc dying again III
Belgium. The battle RACES where It
ragged 1900 years ago, and perhaps
long before that, in tho "ccckplt
of Europe
Caesar. whose Commentaries have
plagued generations of school chll-
dren. wrote: OF all these the Bel
gians are the bravest. because
they arc nearest to the German,
who dwell beyond the Rhine and
with whom they arc continually
Waging war
In Caesars day there was plenty
of "lebcnsraum,' or living-Spacc,
for all the scattered and barbarian
tribes. And today there is living
space in Europe and in the world
for all. if the peoples of the world
could only bring themselves to see 1t,
There lies the tragedy of the pre-
sent war The Germans had a case.
Their need for "lebenSraum was
real. in the sense of broad region
which could function together in
close economic utilization. In this
sense. Canada and the United States
are part of the same "lcbensraum. y
They are an economic unity IN Y
broad sense. But each remains en-
tirelp independent politically. ThC"
is no political pressure on either
side of the border Tho economic
unltt is natural. unforccd and UNI
political,
German, might have tai.on tins
path The nppO@ltlon aroused by
"ansChlliSS or customs and cConn
mic union With Austria Wa due
not to the thing ltself. but ia the
fact that everyone knew It meant
political and military UNION as WCll.
Al Munich Germany was gwen
free hand. She could then have
settled down quietly to develop her
economic "lebenSraum' in south
eastern Europe peaceablv and in a
nOn-militarv manner. graduallT r"-
ducing the army which was giving
all Europe the jittnrs. and croaf.a%
b. free cooperation and muCual
advantage the economic living
space she needed
But Tacitus, writing of the Ger
mans 300 GEAR ago, noted th's
thing: without beng armed tnoy
transact nothing whether Of public
or private ConCcrnmcnt.'
And tho German quest for lcbcn-
graum" took tho familiar pattern.
instead of gong to neighbour with
mutual advantages 70 be trcclT ac-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23
GRAFT IN THE
WPA SETUP
(San Diego Tribunc-Suu)


Open confession may he good for the
soul. but acknowledgement by the new
deal politiloS at Washington that admin
iStration Of the WPA hitherto has been
marred hy abuses. including a varied as
Sortment Of illegal devices for milking
the United States treasury at the expense
of the taxpayers and the unemployed. is
anything but rcaSSurlng regarding the
direction in which our nation is headed.
1t is nice to be told that these things will
not happen again but where is our guar
antec? The same gang is still hanging
around the WPA money-Spgot.
For every graft and crooked device ur-
covered by the congressional inVeStiga-
tors. how many millions Of dollars have
been stolen from the public purse thru
the media of the WPA that the people
will never know anything about? The I'M
detected thieves were more careful than
the Louisiana grattc"S; also, in many
instances. they were clcVercr. How many
millions of hard-carncd taxpayers dol
lars have been poured down new deal
rathOleS of waste and Extravaganza?
How many millions have been flagrantly
utilized for the purpose of influencing
votes? How many more millions will be
utilized in the coming elections for pre-
cSely the same purpose?
Who knows? Who cares 1t is public
money and everybody feels fully entitled
to grab and gOuge and get what he can
while the getting is good; that is, all
excepting those thoughtful citizens who
arc conscientious enough and intelligent
enough to fear for the future and seem
ingly they don't count
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23
FAIRNESS
Riverside Press

a cultured German lady who lived for
some months in England as a refugee,
and is now in America, says: The Eng
lish could not do those terrible things
that the naziS have been doing They are
how do You say II? They are far
She had come 10 feel. from her own
observation, the quality that BritonS and
Americans refer to aS 'sportsmanship."
And she found it missing in Hitler and
his followers OF such abstract qualities
as Justice. tolerance and mercy she said
nothing. The big fact as she had come
to see it was that one side of the war was
trying to play fair and the other side
wasn't.
Perhaps much should be forgiven to
Premier Chamberlain and others around
him. because he has been let down 80
often by an enemy who does not recog-
nize the promier'S own code. And it is
a tragic thing that such ideals Of fair
play are probably doomed TO disappear
from both sides as this conflict grows
more bitter.
Chivalry and port smanShip may van
ISL alike from government and battle
field There Will he hardness IN high
places and low places. You can already
sec it coming. May if not overwhelm us.
We Americans should try. above every
thing else, to preserve our ability to see
straight, amid the growing bitterness of
a great, many-sided conflict where our
interests and emotions are already in
volved
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23

WASHINGTON, May 23.-People
here who Try to weigh the chances
of the United States getting in
Volved in the war arc beginning to
look west and south rather than
cast.
Few sec any danger that tho u. 6.
army or navy will be sent to Europe.
There is good deal of concern,
however, about the shape things
might take in Mexico and Japan.
Mexico has presidential election
this year, and there is a good deal
of danger the election may be fol-
lowed by a revolution. Washington
advices are to the effect that if that
happens it won't be Just another
Latin-A American squabble between
the ms and outs. but a deadly Sc
riouS affair in which one of the
parties will have important Nazi-
Communist backing.
The Communists are strong in
Mexico. They are reputed to have
an understanding with Nazi agents
there. More important, according to
current reports, is the fact that some
thousands of leftistS veterans of the
Spanish civil war have asylum in
Mexico. These men brought their
rifles with them, and are understood
to have been accompanied by a SUBJ
stantial allotment of machine guns
Since Mexico is a good deal closer
to the Panama Canal than the
United States is, it goes without
saying that this government would
be unlikely to sit on its hands if 4
rebel group with a definite Nazi-
Communist tie-up seemed likely to
get control of the country.
In that connection, note that
there is now a heavy conccntra-
ton of U. S. troops in Texas fol
army maneuvcrS. Note, too the cur
rent report that these troops won't
go back homo as soon as the mancu-
VprS end
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF HEARING
No. 3O78-In Probate

NO. .SU16-ln TIODdeV
In the Superior Court of the State
If California i'm and for the County
of Imperial.
In the Matter of the
Guardianship of
DAVID SINGH DILLON,
ESTHER SINGH DILLON,
JOE SINGH DILLON.
SHAM SINGH DILLON.
HARRY SINGH DILLON,
REUBEN DOMINIQUE and
CELIA DOMINGUEZ,
Minors.
Notice is hereby given that Sam
Singh Dillon has filed with the
clerk of this court, petition pray
ing for authority to purchase 26
acres of land from Anderson F..
Brewer and Neva Brewer for the
sum of Two Thousand t$20000O
Dollars and to execute notes and a
trust deed. or to sign a contract Tor
$l5000O of the purchase price and
that Friday the 3lSt day of May,
1910, at two o'clock PM. of that
day at the court room in Depart
ment 2 of the above court in the
City of FL Centre, County of I'm
perial, State of California has been
fixed by said court for hearing said
petition when and where any per-
son interested may appear and show
cause why the said petition should
not be granted.
Dated this 18th day of May, 1870
w. J. McCLELLAND,
Clerk.
BY MAXINE CONSOLE,
(SEAL) Deputy Clerk.
M. a. "a incl.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23
Willis Thorntons Editorial On:
The Weary Old Story of Death

rcptcd .hc went with the threat ol
planes and ,anks. And what has
happcrcd Is the only thing that
could have happened.
Some day the war Will end. And
then tho problem of economic living
space for 80.OOOO00 Germans Will he
back where II wa before Munich,
when Europe made its last frantic
effort to solve ~ problems by VT
natcrd ui war.
That effort tallcd. Hrtlrr'S effort
10 force his own one sided solution
Ey blood and bomb Will fail. OnlV
a pcaceable and voluntary r@2'-
rangcmcnt of Europe offering de-
cent economic living-Space for all
can offer hope for the future.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News

tifiCation of Guam. Quite a few of
the men who voted against the plan
last year have quietly given notice
they'd vote for it if it should come
up now. but some of their COL
leagues who worked hard for the
idea a year ago arc reluctant 10
push it this spring
Right or wrong, these men feel
the situation in the Pacific is just
too tickliSh-tnat if Congress dld
vote now to fortify the island.
Japan might simply move in and
take it before anything could be
done.
u. 5. MIGHT MAKE
DEAL FOR TIN
Despite the noise you're hearing
about it. don't look for much OF a
push to modify the johnson act
so that direct loans can be made
to the allies. What you might sec.
however. is the advancing VI
somewhat similar proposition-that
loans be made to Great Britain, Sc
cured by big quantities OF TIN ara
rubber.
Those commodities rate as Stra-
tegic materials. the u. 5. necd"
them badly. and Britain has lot"
of EN- Talking point for TINS piah
is that if the loan should go in dc
fault. Uncle Sam would get some
thing out of it.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23

Tho.e VIM have bIrthd4g' t0d4y
M; e>poct .ccrct help drulng tho
coming year from = WOrnan They
should exercise all pO@slbl" care N
regard TO thor business affairs and
correspondence" The child born on
this date Will be hasty and impul-
sive, very actiVc, frank and out
spoken. Success will come to such
through travel or III a legal career
Il IS Indicated.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23
FLEET STAYS NEAR
DUTCH EAST INDIES

The Japanese angle, of course.
has to do with the Dutch East In
dies. 1t may or may not mean any
thing that the u. S. fleet is not
coming back from its mancuvcrS in
Hawaiian waters, as originally sche-
dulcd instead. ii has been ordered
miles west Of Hawaii, in a spot
which Just happens to be ON the
flank of tho japanese route TO Java.
Note. too. queer SHIFT in con-
GrCSSiOnal sentiment about the for
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23

/ Goethe, the German poet.
2 In the old state capitol at
Frankfort. which was built in 1929
3. From the term "rOokery,"
which. in English military slang,
refers to quarters in the barracks
occupied by subalterns.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23
Barbs

With Vienna. Prague, Warsaw.
Copenhagen. Oslo, The Hague, and
roW Brussels, securely within his
grasp, the Fuenrcr is we'll supplied
with capitals. But his growing need,
strangely enough, is more capital
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23
Thoughts For The Day

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thnc heart. tho1
shalt not in any wise rcbuke thy neighbour ana not
suffer sin upon hm.-LeviticuS 1911
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23
Words of Wisdom

A mob Is tho scum that rises up
most when the nation bOIla.-Dry-
den.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23

It was tho Dutch. looking up into
tho SKY ono day. who began to think
Or&ou Wclles wasn't foolng after
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23
Famous Sayings

Hate one; hate their vices not themselves. G.
c. Branard.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23
You re Telling Ne

An ASiatlc country is reported to
be without single radio set and
no telephone. But shuCkS. it's too
far away for VISIT on a two weeks
vacation.
soon Il all h" IA" "a ~ tul.
H., hunup" pr"rou r;'cr' -. ri..d
A .ocd tip !. THAT the dU@r ii p'a.c
vii BE- IL I.
A ucwspaprr storY toll. "t =
swimmer. succc,, ful battle with y
small octopus. That What :aYs
the man at the next desk one
might call a gripping drama.
one bright spot in this Worr-
some world is the fact we need no
longer fear what would happen to
tho American league If tho NcW
York Yankees weren't stopped.
Hitler. it seems, works in sequence,
occupying first one, then two, and
now three nations at once Those
,,,ddled figures in the corner would
no the Balkan quadruplets Hun
gary. Rumania, YugosluVia and
Bulgaria.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. Nation
al Editorial Association.
California Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23

The Wnrldf Far abandonS its
world nf Tomorrow title for the
current season. Tomorrow having
arrived. and turning ont as il has.
tho fam is sorry it brought the
whole thing up.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23

They still aren't ratoning food in q LOT
Of European countries. they're Just cllmi-
mated the rim around doughnutS.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23

It looks as if we can go on trust
ing ourselves for that as billion
debt we owe us. With things the way
they are abroad. there's no danger
of us skipping the country.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23

Now that it's happened Sumner
Wclles might tell US just what it
WIS, if anything. that Europes big
Wigs cOnfided to him about the flu
turC of the war.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-05-23

NEXT: Why the Engagement?
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-25
Parkway Construction Is
10 Be Rushed This Summer

Carolina section of the parkway,
is open on a travel at your own
risk basis"
Skyline drive in Shenandoah
National park, extending along
the crest of the Blue Ridge from
Front Royal to Jarmans Gap, Va,
is an integral part of the greater
parkway. From Jarman's Gap to
Rock Fish Gap is an 8 IL mile
unit of the Blue Ridge parkway.
From here to Adney Gap, ap-
proximately 18 miles south of
Roanoke, several sections of the
parkway are under construction
and motorists may temporarily
use u. S. route 221 to reach the
14O-mile stretch beginning at Ad-
ney Gay. The North Carolina Sec
ton may be entered from Boone,
N. c., via u. S. route 421.
This portion of the parkway is
conveniently connected at. tempo
rary terminal points with pri-
mary state highways, so that
passage over first
class roads is possible.
Secretary Ickes was told num-
erous parking overlooks provide
vantage points from which to
view the magnificent scenery for
which this part of the country is
famous. For the entire length of
The parkway these varying road
side pictures will be protected by |
4 right-of-way averaging 1000
feet in width. Free from bill
boards and other instructions.
Use of the parkway is restricted |
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-25

to passenger vehicles.
I'm areas of outstanding science
interest, varying from 1000 to
10000 acres in extent visitors
may take foot trails to the more
remote and unspoiled beauty
spots,' the report continues.
-Four of these recreational areas,
including trails and picnic
grounds are now complete at
Smart View and Rocky Knob in
Virginia, and Cumberland Knob
and the bluff in North Carolina.
Trailer and tent camping areas
also are available at the Bluffs
and Rocky Knob.
"For anglers, there is excellent
mountain trout fishing in Rock
Castle creek and in Basin creek
in the bluffs. State fishing licens-
es are required.
Accommodations along the
parkway vary from resort and
tourist hotels in the adjacent
larger cities to modest cabin faci-
lities. Accommodations for over
night guests within the recrea-
tional areas, such as now provid-
ed at Skyland in Shenandoah
during the summer, will not be
completed in time for the 1910
season."
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-25
All WPA Employees Informed
Not To Work In Campaigns
POULTRYMEN URGED
TO CHECK FLOCKS

Poultry problems attended TO al
this season will eliminate much
trouble later in the year. says T.
T. Brown, extension poultryman
of State College.
During the spring, the poultry
farmer should be on the alert for
feather-picking, prolapses, pick
outs, lameness, blindness and 60
ing light, problems of great eco
nomic importance to the indus
try.
The habit of feather, toe and
vent-picking usually gets Its
start during the brooding stage,
chiefly resulting from overcrowd-
ing, overheating, and insufficient
feeding and watering space.
Removing the cockerel chicks
or dividing the brood to give
more room, furnishing an ample
amount of ventilation without
floor draft, allowing chicks &C.
cess to open air and sunshine,
and providing plenty of feeding
and watering facilities generally
prevent most of the picking ha-
bits, not only during the brooding
stage, but also during the laying
year.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-25
Many Additional Miles To Be
Completed and Open For
Travel In 1910.

Washington. = Many additional
miles of the Blue Ridge Park
way will be completed this sea-
son, Secretary of Interior Harold
lckes was advised by the national
park service Saturday in a re-
port prepared for nationwide
distribution. More than 800 miles
OF roadway, free from sharp
curves and steep grades, will be
completed or under construction
during 1910, the report stated. In
addition, numerous wayside parks
are being developed and recrea-
tional facilities are being in
stalled.
The parkway, threading the
picturesque Blue Ridge noun
tains between Shenandoah Ma
tional park and the Great Smoky
Mountains National park, is the
first of its type and scale planned
as a single unit, the report stres-
Ses.
When the season opened this
spring, the longest continuous
stretch was 40 miles between
Adney Gap, Va, and Deep Gap,
N. c. with the "a miles between
Pinnacles of Dan, Va, and the
North Carolina state line opened
for the first time.
Another stretch of so miles be-
tween Grandfather mountain and
Mount Mitchell, both in the North
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-25

committed to Governor Arthur
H. James. Under state law the
delegates must use all honor
able means within their power"
to nominate the preferred candi-
d-te but are not bound by unit
rule.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-25
Glendale Women
At District Aux.

The Third District of the Wo-
mans Auxiliary met in Grace
church, Morganton, April 18th.
Holy Trinity church, Glendale
Springs, had a delegation of eight
women.
Bishop Gribbin had the noon
PRAYERS and address.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-25

AS Ye Photographer gets Gov
ernor Hoey, his excellency SIM
ply doesn't crave utilization as
stepping stone.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-25

The infant death rate ought to
be relatively lower in view of the
fact that it applies to persons too
young to be pedestrians.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1940-04-25
THURSDAY, APRIL Is, 1910

Maude Cutler. Provincial Field
Worker in Christian Education
and who is at the present time
filling several engagements in
diocese, Mrs. Fred w. Thomas of
the National Executive Board and
Mr.. George F. Weise of the Pat
terson school for boys, all spoke.
Evening star., 1940-01-21
By G.. Adams Hosuard.

The 23d annual convention Of the
National Automobile Dealers Aaso-
ciation gets under way tomorrow at
the Maynower Hotel, with Stanley
H. Horner, local distributor, at the
helm. Membership sessions will be
held Tuesday. and Wednesday. and
the directors sessions Monday and
Thursday, according to Harry SOM
mers Of Atlanta, convention chair
man.
Donald r. Richberg, former N. r.
A. administrator. has been added
to the list Of speakers, which in
cludes Paul v. McNutt, Federal Sc
curity administrator, and Repre-
sentative Wright Patman Of Texas,
co-author Of the Robinson -Patman
Act.
Five special events are scheduled.
They include an old-timers' award,
to be given the delegate at the con-
yention who shows the longest record
Of continuous service as an auto
mobile dealer; an oyster and beer
supper, to be given by the c. I. T.
Corp: complimentary luncheon by
the Universal Underwriters, Kansas
City, Mo-; q similar luncheon spon-
sored by the Washington Automotive
Trade Association, and a bridge
luncheon by the Commercial Credit
Co. In honor Of the visiting women.
Nineteen hundred and forty Is
seen as the greatest American tour.
Evening star., 1940-01-21

trick taken by the defenders, and
Mrs. Linderman claimed six spades
doubled.
It was q fine example Of develop
ing and using the grand coup. The
result would have been the same II
West had originally led a club from
his four cards Of that suit.
Evening star., 1940-01-21
NEWS OF THE MOTORING WORLD
Sessions of National Automoie Dealers BEGIN
Tomorrow Great Touring Season Seen; Gasoline Notes

ing year in history by Thomas p.
Henry, president Of the American
Automobile Association. New high
way improvements also are pre-
dicted.
with 2s,ooo, 900 passenger automo-
biles in use, travelling in excess Of
200 900 900 900 miles annually, it
stands to reason that better motoring
conditions will exert a beneficial
influence on the whole economic
system.
Fortunately, the outlook for many
advances during the year ahead is
most encouraging. These advances
relate to intensive travel develop
ment; readtustment of highway
needs to modern trafac conditions;
organized drives for more orderly
and safer highway use, particularly
as regards individual responsibility:
progress In the growing movement
to halt the misuse Of tax revenues
needed for highway purposes; elm
ination Of border barriers at State
lines which hamper the free flow of
interstate commerce, including va
cation travel, and the stamping out
Of vicious practices which affect the
rights and pocketbooks Of motorists.
With the gates of nations abroad
closed to vacationists, new interest
IN travel to adjacent and South
American countries, business i'm
proving and employment on the in
crease all over the country, travel
expenditures during 1910 may swing
Evening star., 1940-01-21

The grand coup is the piece de
resistance Of contract. Opportunities
for use OF the play do not occur
Evening star., 1940-01-21
Profiteers TruiIed

On the trail of price profiteers
in Great Britain is the Central
Price Regulation Committee headed
by Raymond Evershed, K.C. He
Is Enemy No. of the profiteers. !"
His headquarters in London is the
center Of the anti-prof1teer network.
About IA local committees receive
evidence of alleged increases in
excess Of the basic price fixed, plus
the agreed allowance for increased
costs. It has become the duty of
every citizen to report any evidence
Of pronteering. These allegations
are investigated locally and then
reported to the Central Committee.
If necessary, that committee ask
the Board Of Trade to prosecute.
Evening star., 1940-01-21

b.
At the end Of the evenings play
the Rajahs, who had led from the
start of the flrst half by q wide
margin, had dropped into the Sec
ond division with only q SO per cent
game. Their place at the head of
the list was taken by q new four
some composed Of Joseph Silver
man, Orville Orson, John jacobson
and Solomon Adler.
Playing for the first time as mem
bers Of the league, they were re-
quired to begin in the lowest Sec
ton, but at the finish with an 80 per
cent rating, winning 16 out OF 20
boards, they went to the top Of the
column. The Architects, the St.
Aubins and the Agri-Trade, all
heretofore first division players, also
fell to the second section, while the
mixed party team, frequently in the
first section, went down to head the
third division. The Redskins could
do no better than make second
from the last In the third division.
In section A. the Coast Survey
team won Is out Of "A boards. q. r.
Kneip and w. M. Barron, Justice
team, had ST match points, North
and South. In that section, and j. l..
Wilson and E. H. Holmes, Rangers.
had 80h match points. East and
West.
In section B, the Allies won 14h
boards out Of "a, with Mr.. and Mrs.
w. A. Gardner. the Gs, having 75h
match points, North and South,
and r. H. Higgins and M. E. Myers,
Allies. SO match points, East and
West.
In section c, the newcomers,
known as the New Team, won 16
out Of 20 boards, with Mr.. Silverman
and Mr.. Orson having 50 match
points, North and South, arsl Jacob
sen and Adler, New Team, 5O1a
match points, East and West. The
Fairchance team took top rank in
the second division.
The percentage standing at con-
clusion Of the first night Of play
follows: