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Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-11
THOSE HORSE
AND BUGGY DAYS
[ Portland OregOnian)

- WI Ii''ii' vi SSoiAiS'ili
The only part of the Democratic plat
form of 1896 that is likely to he remem-
bered by the person who was then old
enough to vote is the plank declaring for
free and unlimited coinage of silver At the
ratio of Is to l without the aid of con-
sent of any other nation.
A deliver into the records offers re
mlnder that the Democratic national plat
form of that year contained also the fol
lowing:
We are opposed TO the issuing of inter
est-bearing bonds of the United States
in time Of peace.
We denounce arbitrary interference by
federal authorities in local affairs as Il
violation of the Constitution of the Unit
ed States and crime against free insti-
tutionS.
During all these years the Democratic
party has resisted the tendency of selfish
interests to the Capitalization of govern
mental power and SteadfaStly maintain
ed the integrity of the dual scheme Of
government established by the founders
of the republic
We demand a return to that simplicity
and economy which befitS Il democratic
government and reduction in the number
of useless offices. the salaries of which
drain the substance ot the people.
Such We're the quaint notions of the
Democratic party before the days of auto
mobiles, airplaneS and Streamlined trains,
and when the Constitution was made of
granite instead of rubber, and the peo-
pie felt in honor bound to pay their way
through any peacetime emergency with
Out cost to postellty.
Funny old f0pit-s, tht. Democrats Of
1886
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-11
Among
Our Yesterdays

"Advices from the Rhineland re-
port the French commander-in-
chief in the area occupied by his
troops has ordered all Germans to
salute the French flag and French
officers. He threatens reprisalS If
there are further outbreaks.
That was 90 years ago-not today.
Al the same time WeStmorland
was having a boom. A press story
of the time recounted:
The development in the oil fields
west and northwest of WestmOrland
is already having a marked effect
in this locality. Several people are
buving and building in anticipation
of greater requirements as develop
ment proceeds
The drums are beginning to beat
for the municipal elections in FL
Centro and an advertisement set
forth the citizens ticket by which
voters were asked to support J. l..
TraverS. ChaS. f. PitZer and O. +.
OhmStede. They are for the up
building of a bigger, better FL Gem
trO.'
There was also a political adyer-
tisement that went this way:
Vote for the $4,000 automatic
fire alarm system . The most
vital question before the people OF
Fl Centro today -. will protect
your home and reduce insurance
rates .
The governor of New Mexico was
visiting in Imperial Valley two dec
AIDES ago. He stopped at CaleXico.
THE governor was en- route from
Los Angeles where he addressed the
League of the Southwest and stop
ped for his first visit to tn valley
He speaks Spanish fluently. He was
amazed at the growth of Imperial
Valley in l3 years.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-11

Lie is precious gift Men cher
iSh it. cling to it desperately long
after all its juices would seem to
have been sucked dry.
Yet it is cheap. It is SO cheap
that men pour.it out with thought
less lavishnesS when they turn to
war
How many men died in the SHOWS
of Finland? Nobody knows. Here the
sacrifice to the war god was not
even measured as it poured forth.
Nobody knows within thousands,
within scores of thousands, how
many brave young men. Finn and
Russian died in the brief northern
war.
There We're tales of the slaughter
of Russian divisions. one after an
other. marched to the ShambleS like
the dumb animals who march pa
tientlv into the Slaughter-pens.
There is no reason to doubt those
stories in detail, especially those of
trustworthy American eyeWitnesSes.
Eut il begins to seem clear now that
the cumulative effect of those stories
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-11
SENATE MAY PROBE
FOREIGN PROPAGANDA

Keep one eye-or maybe both of
them on the resolution for a spe-
cial senate committee to investigate
foreign propaganda. The resolution
is sponsored by Senator Clark of
Missouri and was just okayed by the
foreign relations committee Inside
dope is that if the senate adopts
the resolution. some of the hottest
stories of the year will presently be
forthcoming
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-11
Bruce Cation in Washington
Dissects the News

is now legal for the administration
TO restrict trade with Japan if it
wants to. and it pretty obviously
doesn't want to. Senator SchWellen-
bach hus been trying all winter to
get action ON ms bill to embargo
shipment OF any GOODS used in the
war ON China, and 50 far he hasn't
even been able 10 get a hearing.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-11
So They Say

For every country. the vital space
is the whole world.
No greater thing could come to
our land today than 4 revival OF
the spirit of religion.
1t is now almost impossible for
parents in cities At almost any in
come level to faiSc more than two
children.
Any attempt to keep the hand OF
the past ON the pulse of the iu-
ture. TO solve the problems of to-
morrow with the meChaniSmS OF
Yesterday. can. at best be only m
differently successful.
Germany bt@Ina worrying about
next winters ro;t shortage. evidently
firm IN the belief that Europe viii
stlll br ON the map ii that Tune
MRS Roosevelt is to begin series
of radio broadcaStS. A neat way OF
solving her eyer present problem
of how to be in more than one
place at the same time.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-11
Photographs

At least one Oriental nation cuts
American motion picture scenes
showing acts Of thoughtfulnesS to-
ward women such as opening Il
door or giving up ones seat to one.
such politeness breeds ideas of
equality which are not to be en-
couraged.' - is the reason given.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-11
Thoughts for the Day

Then Job answered the Lord and said I know that
thou canst do every thing and that no thought can
be withholden from thee. Job AL, >
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-11
Barbs-

You know another big election
is near when the posters Of the
last campaign finally disappear from
telephone poles.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-11

Three hundred and forty-fiye
species of fish have been identified
in North Carolina waters.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-11

There once was a temple to
the sweet potato in Japan where
offerings were made to the plant
god every spring and autumn.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-11

Corn beef and cabbage is now
popular item of diet among the
Japanese. we read No use. It'll take
more than that to make the Japs
as fine fighters as are the Irish.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-11
Famous Sayings

Live God and so all things will appear you
little in comparison with eternal realities-R M.
McCheyne.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-11

Britain has at last placed respon-
Sibility for the sinking of the sub
marine Thetis. and can now turn
her undivided attention to the mat
ter of 100000 tons of merchant ship
ping.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-11
L. S. NEEDS PLANES,
CONGRESSMAN SAYS

The administration clam tilal
sale of planes abroad is not in any
way hampering procurement for oui
own services is hotly denied by Con
gresham Melvin Mas OF Mime
sofa
Mas just returned from trip tc
Panama. whereas a member OF d
special house communicative
and others inspected canal defenSeS
Land defenses. Mas says. are III
good shape, but there's shortage
of planes,
High officers there say they need
three times the plane strength they
now have" he says. They holler to
Washington about it-and are told
that there just aren't any planes
to spare. Meanwhile, the allies are
going to get lot of new planes be
cause we don't need them.
JAPANESE TRADE
STILL GOES ON
The famous japanese trade agree
ment, abrogated with flourish. ex-
pired two months ago; but its death
has had no practical effect what
ever. All that happened was that it
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-11
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MEMBER:
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. Nation
al editorial Association.
California Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-11

WASHINGTON. = Despite aaSur-
ances that all is sweetness and light
within the administration ON the
sale of military alrplanes to France
and England, there have been some
sharp behind-the- scenes rows.
At the White House conference
of the co-ordinatlng committee,
headed by Treasury Secretary Nor
genthau, reliable report says har-
mony was obtained only by eXertion
of presidential authority; that both
War Secretary Woodring and Navy
Secretary Edison strongly opposed
the program. gave in only because
they had to.
1t also reported that upward OF
year ago there was an inslde-t the
administration proposal to turn the
famous bomb sight over TO England
and France, and that this was block
I'd by unyielding opposition OF hi2h
The midland journal., 1940-05-03

Babe Ruth at the PLATED Those pow
erful muscles. those quick eyes that
knew just the right split second when
to connect" with the ball. You
wouldn't think Of him as being a pro-
fessor Of poultry husbandryl Certainly
notI But he had great lesson for
the chicken growers Of this country ;.
Q lesson In timing.
II we start one or two broods OF
chicks for layers and both Of those In
the spring. isn't 1t sound Judgment to
select the right time to start them?
Shouldn't we start our chicks In rela-
ton to the time we want them to come
into production? These logical ques-
tions are from c. s. johnson. head OF
the Poultry Department for Purina
Mills.
&c to 10c Extra
Facts long established show that
The midland journal., 1940-05-03
WHEN SPRING COMES

Spring is time for many things
a time for writing poems, for plot
ting military attacks, for watching
wide-eyed and wondering as nature
renews itself after the long winter.
Spring is a time for good things
and bad-for sweet fevers OF lazl-
ness, for sulphur and molasses, for
art, for war, for love, and for the
purely practical And the latter is
not by any means the least import
ant. For when spring comes in a
peaceful land, the purely practical
releases forces much more signifi-
cant than is commonly supposed.
Here in America, as spring comes
and as war abroad as yet affects us
only indirectly, the purely practical
means largely the humdrum business
of patching up and cleaning up, OF
repairing and rebuilding. For mil
lions of American housewives, II
means things like washing, mop
ping, sweeping, busting, polishing
and redecorating. And for millions
of American family men, it means
getting out the screens, fixing that
loose brick in the doorstep, painting
the cellar door, Strengthening the
porch light, buying some putty and
"a new pane of glass for the base
ment window.
On the surface, these purely prac-
tical springtime activities seem little
more than dull domestic chores
Viewed in the aggregate, however
viewed as something done en- masse
by the solid citizens of the nation
these tasks take on dignity and i'm
portance peculiar to themselves. In
at least three respects, they are OF
outstanding value to Americas we'll
being: (1) hygienically, because
when households clean UP on q
countrywide basis, public health is
incalculably aided; (2) socially, be-
cause when homes are seasonally re
furnished, their Inability is enhanc-
ed and individual domestic tran
quillity is promoted thereby; ano
(3) economically, because seasonal
housing repairs not only increase
property values but also serve tc
stimulate a key business field-the
building materials industry.
A spreading realization of such
facts as these is expected to show
itself in the months ahead, chiefly
through a special seasonal squirt OF
activity in the building-materials
field. At any rate, this is the time
for that kind of activity in the Unit
ed States-a time for the so-called
dull domestic chores, when house
holders repair, replace, spruce ur
and modernize. Abroad, the coming
of spring means only that war grows
bloodier, but in America it means
among other good things, the peace
ful, practical business of making
better homes.-The Pathfinder.
The midland journal., 1940-05-03
TRAFFIC SAFETY POSTER
CONTEST

Much interest has been developed
throughout the State in the Safety
Poster Contest being conducted by
the Maryland Traffic Safety Com
mittee, in cooperation with St
Mary's Female Seminary Alumnae
Association. To date Is county sup
erintendents have notified the Com
mittee that the high schools of their
counties will participate, as follows:
Allegany, Charles L. Ropp, Supt.,
Cumberland; Anne Arundel, George
Fox, Supt., Annapolis; Carroll, Ray
mond s. Tyson, Supt., Westminster;
Charles, F. Bernard Gwynn, Supt.,
La Plata; Frederick, Eugene w.
Pruitt, Supt., Frederick; Hartford,
G. Milton Wright, Supt., Bel Air;
Howard, H. c. Brown, Supt., Ellicott
City; Montgomery, Edwin w.
Broome, Supt., Rockville; Prince
Georges, Nicholas Orem, Supt.,
Upper Marlboro; St. Mary's, Miss
Lettie M. Dent, Supt., Leonardtown;
Caroline, Benjamin C. Willis, Supt.,
Denton; Cecil, H. e. Mcbride, Supt.,
Elkton; Dorchester, w. Theodore
Boston, Supt., Cambridge; Kent
Louis C. Robinson, Supt., Chester
town; Talbot, ]. Willard Davis
Supt., Easton; Queen Anne's Frank
lin ID. Day, Supt., Centreville; Wi
comico, James M. Bennett, Supt.
Salisbury; Worcester, Arthur c.
Humphreys, Supt., Snow Hill.
The midland journal., 1940-05-03
Salt Money

The word salary finds its origin
in: Salarium Argentum-a Roman
soldiers allowance for essential salt.
Salt is so all-important to the human
body that, to stay healthy. each per-
son requires about six pounds Of
cooking salt annually. In warfare, it
is known that Napoleon owed his
defeat before Moscow to the loss Of
his salt supply. Thousands Of men
died whose wounds refused to heal,
and whose systems seemed to invite
rather than repel disease. Salt is
often carried by savages and Of
fered to each other to lick much as
Americans offer chew Of tobacco.
The midland journal., 1940-05-03
WHY NOT SENATOR ROE?

For the past several months
many candidates have been pre-
sented to the voters, of the First
District of Maryland for the Demo
cratic Nomination for Congress.
Practically every county has had a
favorite son mentioned for the nom-
ination.
Now the time is growing short,
and for the sake of harmony for
the Democrats, some of the candi-
dates are dropping out of the race.
Senator Olin Higgins, of this
county, who was making wonder
full impression on the voters, has
decided to withdraw.
nhM icib do wn, n,oSeOc-ts b.firdw
tor Higgins strongly recommended
the nomination of Senator Dudley
G. Roe, of Queen Anne County. In
part he said:
"Since my first interest in
Shore-wide affairs, I have given /,
momentous thought to the
qualifications a a n d d a t e
should possess to represent the
First District in Congress.
with this thought in mind
1 have weighed the qualifica-
tions of the candidates in the
field and l feel that Senator
Dudley G.. Roe best measures
up to these specifications.
"The high position he held in
the last session of the Mary
land Legislature as majority
floor leader and chairman of
the finance committee, indicates
his recognized ability as a
proven legislator. Democrat,
Cambridge, Maryland.
The midland journal., 1940-05-03

MACHINERY--HA 1T CAUSED
FARM REVOLT

A revolution is sweeping American
agriculture as comprehensive, COM
plex, and basically upsetting as the
Industrial revolution in the United
State from 1870 to 1880.
That is the testimony of two sets
of experts before Congress. So con-
cerned is Congress over the subject
and so startled are certain members
with the national aspect now pre-
sented to them for the first time,
that the House unanimously approv-
ed a $4,000 appropriation to study
the problem of interstate mass mi
grafton.
Cumulative expert t e mo n y
heard before two congressional COM
mittees, declares that the story of
the "Grapes of Wrath" is not the
isolated product of single set of
geographical circumstances, but that
rather fundamental economic con-
ditions are transforming agriculture,
and that the arrival of the machin-
ery-farmed farm is having SIM
ultaneous effect, North, East, South,
and West.
Paul Taylor, economist at the
University of California, told the
temporary National Economic Com
mittee that not California alone, but
the whole American way -of-life is
involved in the gagantic change that
has made machinery suddenly the
agent of agriculture.
In different language, but almost
thought for thought similar to the
Taylor testimony, the La Toilette
Civil Liberties Committee issued
an interim report on it's extended
investigation of migratory farm
workers, and declared that it had
altered it's whole bose of attack on
the problem. It's study, it an
nounced, had convinced it that
California's situation 'is not an
isolated one" but symbol of a
much more far-reaching problem,
national in scope and that "the
recent marked development of the
use of labor-saving macherinery and
large-scale operations threatens to
displace from the land ever-increas-
ing numbers of the 1900, O,000-odd
farm tenants and 100000 share
troopers in our great wheat, corn
and cotton BELTS"
1t continued: "There are ominous
signs that the Nation is confronted
with a transition from the tradi-
tional family farm toward industri-
allied or cooperative agriculture.
Farming, as way of life, is
threatened"
Professor Taylor took the sub
ject up by broader agricultural
belts; from the west cotton belt of
Texas to the plantations of the
Deep South, from the Dakota wheat
belts to the corn belt of Iowa. The
coming of mechanization and cheap
er, more economical, more proficient
mass-scale farming by use of mod
ern machinery, is presenting hu-
man problem which is steadily grow
ing bigger, and threatens to become
tremendous. The "Joad Family" is
only it's fore-runners.
The La Toilette Committee listed
no less than Is States in which the
"nomadic farm migrant" already
has appeared as a problem, besides
California, emphasizing that the
matter is not confined to one re-
gion as popularity supposed. The
area ranges from the Pacific Coast
to Eastern Virginia, Maryland and
New Jersey"
Its comment wound up: "The
Nation faces again, as at the time
of the Homestead Act in 1862 and
the inquiry of the Commission on
Country Life in 1909. the periodical
necessity of restating our national
ideals of the place of agricultural
workers in society,""
The midland journal., 1940-05-03

September, October, November and De-
cember are the months when eggs COM
mand the highest prices" he says
''The average price paid to farmers
for eggs for these months during the
ten-year period from 1929 to 1898 was
273 cents per dozen. During the re-
manning seven months. only 1877 cents
per dozen was paid. A difference Of
SO cents per dozen. These are the
figures of the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture Crops and Market
reports"
Then when Is the time to start baby
chicks? There is only one answer. ac-
cording to johnson. early enough to
make sure of big. well-developed pull
let's. laying big eggs during October.
November and December. That's the
whole story in nutshell"
The midland journal., 1940-05-03
SENATOR ROE ASKS SUPPORT

AS the campaign draws to a close
/ am convinced of an overwhelming
victory. have travelled 1900
miles on the Eastern Shore of Mary
land since January first, and have
been received wonderfully in every
section. l am confident that will
carry Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's
Caroline, Dorchester and Somerset
Counties and that 1 will get a sub
stantial vote in Talbot. Wicomico
and Worcester
/ ask my loyal friends to continue
to give me their wholehearted sup
port until the polls close on May 9Th.
Dudley G.. Roe
The midland journal., 1940-05-03
MERGED GROUPS OF METHO-
DIsTs IN CONFERENCE

The first quadrennial General
Conference of the Methodist Church
opened April "a, in Convention
Hall, at Atlantic City, with 500 dele
gates, lay and clerical, who will
spend two weeks in making laws
and determining policies for the
now Methodist organization. The
merger of the three major branches
of American Methodism, effected
one year ago in Kansas City,
brought into being a Church num-
bering 100000 members, with a
total constituency conservatively esti-
mated at 2O,OOO,0OO.
Delegates representing in equal
numbers the laity and the ministry
have been elected from the $50 an
dism is divided They were assigned
among the "a committees for the
purpose of sitting the many pro-
posals for legislative changes.
Matters which hold primary at
tention of the Conference include
the adjustment of problems related
| to the church press, uniform sys-
tenn of pensions for retired minis
| ters, the admission of women into
full ministerial standing, the reloca-
vices of the Church, the reorganiza-
tion of the work of church women.
Numerous UNCONVENTIONAL papers,
some officially subsidized and others
independent, with an aggregate
circulation of $4,000 are now being
published. There are proposals in
volving consultations, regional
editions with central control, de-
mands for a lay-edited weekly to
appeal to the lay mind, and in some
quarters suggestions for Metho-
dist daily paper, frequently describ-
as like The Christian Science Mon
itor."
Ministerial pensions at present
vary widely from conference to con-
ference, the amounts depending
upon the funds held by each of
these administrative units and the
ability of the constituencies to de-
fray the costs. This system is ac-
cused of being unbrotherly, and
uniform system is advocated to make
each retiring minister's pension the
same per year of service regardless
of where the service has been rem
dered. BY only few votes women
were denied ministerial standing as
members of annual conferences by
the uniting conference last May, and
it is expected that this issue will
arouse heated debate.
| At present women are granted
licenses to preach and are ordained
with what are called "local" orders,
but complete professional standing
is denied them. While some are in
charge of Methodist pastorates they
are appointed as Supply pastors"
and do not hold full professional
status.
| Women's work from the local
church to the overhead organization
is in for a complete revision. This
will be accomplished by the unifica
tions of three types of church organ
izations, ladies aid socities, women's
home missionary societies, and wo-
mems foreign missionary societies.
In the local churches this cOnsoli
dated unit will be known as the
Women's Society for Christian Ser
vice.
The midland journal., 1940-05-03
Protective Foods

A research made by the National
Dairy council shows that three bill
lion dollars are lost In money and
time annually in the United States
because of million and a half daily
colds and related diseases during the
winter. Rather a staggering sunni
Good nutrition Of the body as q
whole, as well as excellent general
physical condition, combat infection,
report physicians and nutritionists.
The midland journal., 1940-05-03

The chief difference between
making $4,000 instead of $4,000
a year is that your lady has it charg-
ed instead of paying cash.
The midland journal., 1940-05-03

New York attorney and Senator
Taft.
But, maybe there are lot of things
that the political pot" still has to
brew from the homelands of the old
U. 8. A., where power to pick the
nominee exists-wheneve it goes
into action.
The midland journal., 1940-05-03

When a fool hen takes a notion
to set she doesn't care whether there
are eggs in the nest or not. and some
men are built the same way.
The midland journal., 1940-05-03

Fires in the U. s. caused by
spontaneous combustion from oily
rags alone-cause $50 worth of
damage every minute.
The midland journal., 1940-05-03

1t isn't age that makes the old
guy easy to lead astray. 1t is hun
ger for the romance he doesn't get
at home.
The midland journal., 1940-05-03

Very often a genial man Is one
who enjoys FUN and comfort at the
expense of others.
The midland journal., 1940-05-03

The United States uses explo-
sives at fabulous speed. Five hun
dred pounds of explosives are used
every minute of every hour.
The midland journal., 1940-05-03

The Union. of South Africa i'm
ports 1000 pounds of sulphur every
minute.
The midland journal., 1940-05-03

The U. s. cans grapefruit juice at Q
rate OF 400 cans o minute now.
The midland journal., 1940-05-03

One thorn of experience is worth
a dozen buds of advice.