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Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03
- OUR COUNTRY

United States. according to recent
and reliable figures, between Is and
90 millions of Germans and about
5 millions of Italians. They and
their children aren't here because
they found Germany and Italy too
perfect. They came because they
wanted more freedom or more
money or more peace than they
could get in their own country.
And with very few exception they
want to belong. With deep sincerity
they want to belong. But there is
this strange new Hitler-spawned
tendency to call them foreigners.
What are we all but foreigners!
What is a foreigner in America?
Albert EinStein? Paul Robson?
Thomas Mann? Jascha Heifetz?
Carl Schurz? Lindbergh? Or are
the foreigners eXemplified in those
countless millions Who over the
past century, have built the rail-
roads that criss-cross the country,
the Skyscrapers that are the orr
ginal architectural form produced
by us here? Thereservoirs that
furnish our water supply, the man.
moth dams that make the building
of the Egyption Pyramids seem
child's play done with blocks, the
great steel ingotS turned out white
hot in the steel mills, all, all done
hty Of
For they were refugees, though
they may not have come to A
merica in war time. They came here
for refuge from oppression or pov-
erty or persecution, or militarism,
or some form of Illustration. They
came, and they want to belong.
and they have the right to belong.
Some are strong in talent and in
intellect; some are strong in mus
Gle. We reed them as much as
they need us. More! They want
TO join the club and pay their
dues and vote. And if we don't
welcome them to these privileges
then they'll turn to another club
Stie1I VIII ibo may Dt NdLloIl
or Communism. But the fault will
be Ours.
They knew what they were talk
ing about-those old boys-whcn
they coined a lot of phrases. They
weren't hollow phrases. They rang
true. United We Stand. Divided
We Fall. IN Union There Is
Strength. One and IndiVisible. As
the United States of America we
can surmount these next 10 years
that are looming so terrifyirgly
ahead. AS the Divided States of
America we never can.
We are listening for that Voice
a Voice to lead us out of the
wilderness of doubt and uncer-
tainty and apprehension. We need
only realize that the Voice is win
in each one Of us if we have the
courage and the spirit to speak
The saving of democracy calls
for an entirely new pattern of gov
ernment, writes Stewart Edward
White in the next article of this
series on Our Country.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03
PLAGUE, PESHLENCE
FOLLOWS WAR
Nevada State JournaD

An epidemic of typhoid fever and dys-
entery is reported to be sweeping the
prison camps of the occupied area of
France, with the number of victims eSti-
mated at 100000. Pharmacists in the
occupied area have been called upon to
take an inventory of the medicines they
have on hand with view to meeting the
shortage of such supplies in those Sec
tions where Hitler rules.
This is one of the first intimations that
the alarming forecast of what will take
place this winter are about to be fulfilled.
The German advance through Holland,
Belgium ana northern France left trail
of death and ruin. Stocks of food were
carried to Germany ard the native popu-
latiOn was lett on starvation ratlonS. 1t
was pointed out that the Nazis were
bringing a calamity upon themselves as
we'll as the people whom they. so merci-
leSsly ground beneath their heel. Malnu-
triton could not fail to bring on sickness
and unsanitary condition would provide
a breeding ground for the plague.
This is an Ominous word for those who
have read history. Wave after wave of
the black death and other forms of pesti-
lence swept over Europe and into Eng
land in the days gone by In some sec
tions practically the entire population
was wiped out. The plague knew no ma
tional boundaries then and would know
none now. I'm the very nature Of the case
it would sweep into Germany. Every
denSely populated area would invite the
contagion in a special degree.
The story of this outbreak comes from
Vichy, seat of the Petain government 1t
may not be true. 1t may be part of a
subtle propaganda to induce the United
States to send food supplies to the oc-
cupied territory. From Berlin comes
dispatch which says the food reserves
accumulated before the war not only are
not spent at the beginning of the second
year of the conflict, but could be ncreas-
ed with respect to certain foodstuffs by
economical consumption and the unim-
paired production of German agricu-
ture
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03

was nothing out of fairy tale.
The jockeyinging between the
French and Japanese in IndO-
China for Far Eastern power is
playing an important part in
Oriental imperialism.
No one can understand the sig
nificance of the skirmishes' between
Italians ard British in eastern and
northern Africa unless one has n
pretty good idea where Egypt and
Somaliland are-where Port Said
and the Suez Canal are. These" arc
no longer places you see ir TECH
nicolor film and promptly forget
about. They're places where the
worlds destiny is crudeiy being
shaped.
Yes. the man with the newspaper
in his hands is expected to be a
pretty smart egg. He must have
practically the whole world at his
fingertips.
The gratifying thing is that he
has. Most readers to know where
places are-do understand why
certain things are happening there.
Most Of them have been taking
the trouble to find out.
If they didn't, much of today's
news would be pointless-the whole
picture of world upheaval as it
unfolds day after day in the daily
press would be hopelessly confused
and meaningless. The press is do
ing what it can; the rest is being
taken care of by the readers.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03
NOT QUITE FAIR

The United Automobile Workers of Am
erica (CIO) has aInounced nationwide
campaign to organize CIO unions among
employees of Henry Ford. The campaign,
CIO chieftans announced, would employ
nightly radio broadcasts and the publica-
tion of a weekly newspaper designed to
appeal to the Ford workmen. Organic
ers will circulate among Ford employees,
attempting by word of mouth to bring
them into the CIO Before many months,
the CIO hopes, it will be strong enough to
win certification as bargaining agent for
workmen in Ford factories
All the things the CIO proposes to do
are within its legal rights.
But what of Henry Ford and his eXecu-
tives?
They cannot utter one word in reply
to any organizing effort the CIO makes.
They cannot explain to the workmen in
their factories the benefits they are deriv-
ing now which they would not derive un-
der ClO leadership. They cannot recall
to their employees that Ford workmen
have been, for many years, the highest
paid in the nation.
The law prevents Ford from making
any effort at all to combat the CIO eff
forts. 1t prevents him from making any
statement addressed to his employees.
That hardly seems fair.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03
by Willis Thornton :.
Readers Have TO be Smart

Geography has taken an awful
licking in the past few years.
There was a time when bound
aries could be depended upon to
remain reasonably static at least
long enough for the seventh grade
class to memorize them. Maps
could be drawn in the confident
belief that they would be just as
authentic five years hence as they
were when the map-maker tackled
on the last inland. That time is no
more.
Yet the average newspaper read
er today is expected to know more
geography than ever before. He
must be reasonably well informed
if the stories he reads daily on
the front page are to make sense.
He is expected to know where to
find the places talked about in
cable dispatches and what they
were called when he first studied
about them.
Once upon a time, places like
Dakar, Bugbug and Dong Dang
were just exotic or barbaric places
you were likely to read about in
travel magazines or novels once
in while. Nobody ever went to
them, Nothing real ever happened
there
What's happening there these
Gays is very real. All the weird
places of legend and travelog are
jumping out at us. The battle at
Dakar between the Free French
English and the French colonials
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03
by Bruce Cation -.
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON. Oct. 3 Con-
trary to what you may have heard,
nobody in particular is trying to
get the U. S. government to give
Great Britain the 50-odd flying
fortresses" now in the service of
the army air corps.
What is being attempted-.eSpe-
cially by the William Allen White
committee-iS to make availa BILE to
Britain the flying fortresses which
are now under construction for the
U. S. army. The understanding is
that about dozen of these giant
bombers are now ready for delivery,
with approximately 10 more due
to be finished by Jan. l. The
White committee hopes that the
administration car be persuaded to
release the manufacturers so that
these planes may be sent to Brit
ain, it isn't agitating for delivery
Of planes now in service, Cor is it
asking that the famous bomb sight
be turned over.
Importance of these huge bomb
ers to Britain is that they would
make intensive bombing of Ber-
lin and other German cities much
easier, because of their long range
and great carrying capacity.
Memo: Look for concerted
drive this winter to modify the
neutrality law and repeal the
johnson act banning loans to for
eign governments which havn't
paid their World War debts. Un-
derstanding is that before so ter
ribly long the British will run out
of ready cash. A big push to make
credit available will then be in
order.
YOU'RE FIRED!
HERE'S WHY
Files of the Social Security Board
have some odd bits of evidence on
the reasons why men get fired
from their jobs.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03
CARL SCHURZ SPEAKS
Riverside PresS)

NINiNtl sue lCSSj
With unashamed effrontery Wilhelm
Kunze, "Fuehrer" of the German-Amer-
lean bund, has attacked the conscription
act as a declaration of civil war on Ger
man-AmericanS.
The conscription act is the deliberate
democratic decision of the American peo-
pie, by the American people, and for the
American people. 1t certainly diScrimi-
mates against none whose loyalty to the
United states is uncomplicated by reser-
VatiOnS.
There once WAS a great American of
German blood whose words are worth
repeating today, not only to the Kunzes
but to every American. His name, Carl
Schurz. His fame, that he made America
proud of its citizens of German origin.
His words:
Nor can ! fail to speak with pride of
those American citizens of German blood
who hold their rank among the best of
our people by their industry, their civic
virtues, their conservative spirit, and
their self-sacrificing patriotism, which
has drenched every American battlefield
with Teutonic blood.
ut may well be said of them that, how
ever warm their affection for their native
land, they have never permitted that af-
fectiOn to interfere with their duties as
American citizens, and least of all. to
seduce them into any desire or design to
use their power in American politics for
foreign ends"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03

Under the law, discharged
worker is entitled to unemplOy-
ment compensation unless he is
fired for his own misconduct. Files
of the board are full of hearings
before the various state appeal
boards, in which divers ex-workers
have sought to show that they
were fired through no fault of
their own.
Prize case, perhaps, is that of a
hotel elevator operator. who got
let out for giving fellow employe
the hot foot. He was held not
guilty of misconduct; his ex-boss,
incidentally, backed his plea.
Less lucky was warehouse cm-
bad names over the phone while
talking to a fellow employe; boss
was listening in. The Texas appeal
board held this was misconduct.
FIGURE
THIS OUT
Because somebody made mis-
take in arithmetic. the U S. Hous-
ing Authority has $lO0,OOO,000
which it doesn't know whether it
can use.
Under the original act, USHA
could lerd S800,0O0OO0 on hous-
ing, making loans up to 90 per
cent of the cost of any project; it
could also grant an outright sub
sidy not exceeding 3h per cent
of the total cost of a project.
In setting up the subsidy ap-
preparation. however, somebody
figured it as 3R per cent of the
total loans instead of 31z per cent
of the total costs. Thus subsidy
money was provided to accom-
pany only 80 per cent of the total
project costs. AS a result. USHA
ran out of subsidy money before
its lending authority was exhaust
ed. Potential loans of $100,000,000
were thus frozen up. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03
So They Say

Nothing could be worse for high
er education in this country than
to have it thought that enrolment
in a college or university is a
method Of avoiding conscription.
DR. Robert M. Hutchins, presi-
dent of Chicago University.
Do you know where Dong Dang
is? Do you want your boys to die
for Dong Dang?
Representative Bruce Barton, of
New York.
There is much concrete evidence
of our failure to appraise our posi-
ton between political enemies.
Paul V. McNutt.
I don't want any publicity.
Wilhelm Jakob Muhlenbroich, as
he was arraigned on charges of
kidnapping of Marc de Tristan, jr.
The three powers Germany, Italy
and Japan have no intention of
challenging or threatening anyone
Count Galeazzo Ciano.
War is not the worst possibility
we face. The worst is the complete
triumph of totalitarianism.
DIR. James B. Conant, president of
Harvard University.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03
Barbs

Germans have confiscated old
French wine stores. Presumably
then propagandists were in need
Of new inspiration.
o.
A street in South Bend Ind, has
been renamed after Knute Rockne.
To make it more fitting it should
be for one-way traffic, if you re-
member Rocks teams.
D.
Valuable cat which has a part in
Hollywood movie disappears from
the set. kidnapping in this case
would be a feliny.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03
BY EDNA FERBER

authors.
BY EDNA FERBER
Author of mother Knows Best,
SHOW Boat, CimarrOn", etc
Everyone wants to belong. From
birth our instinct is to join with
someone or something that will suS-
tain and reaSSure us. While we're
infants we want to belong to our
parents and our home. To these
We cling for physical and economic
and mental support. Then we
branch out in d search for further
assurance. We join school, a
gang, a club, guild, a religious
sect, a business group, a profession
a union. And we work for them
How we work for them. We A
mericanS are the greatest ioinerS
ness and Our feeling of insecurity
in the world. Perhaps it's our new
that makes this SO. But it is true
And how we work for our own
group. We pay dues, we pay
special assessments. we plan bene-
fits, build places Of meeting, try
to gain new members, vote, ap-
point or elect officers, criticize,
praise, talk shop. We belong Law
yers, doctors, writers. artisans, en-
gineers teachers, students. labor
ers, designers, merchantS-hoW we
love to belong!
But that biggest club of all. that
vast and inclusive union to which
every one of us belongs that one
we have lately got irto the habit
of treating with neglect or con-
tempt, Or disreSpect or mere care
lessness. The strongest and most
sustaining organization in the
word, to which we here in America
nave been privileged to affiliate
ourselves. has been allowed, by the
great majority of us. to get along
rs best it could without our help
That club. union, guild, home, re-
fuge is known as the United States
OF America. It's dues are called
taxes, its officers are called presi-
dent. senator, congressman, gov
ernOr, mayor, and many more titles.
It's passwords are freedom and lib
erty and equality, ard the organi-
zation lives up to its slogan, though
its individual members frequently
Go not.
It's members keep pushing fellow
members in the face. They want to
belong, but they don't want to work
at it. So then, little by little,
with magnificent help from Hitler
and Stain, we have built a fine
machine Of destruction, we have
bred a gang whose object is to
destroy our guild, our union. One
section OF the country has been
stirred up against another; religion
has been set against religion, class
against class, national origin
against national origin
The very worst thing that could
possibly happen to Hitler would be
70 see a United States of America.
A United States of America. There
are certain things I've seen and
seen in the past five or 10 years,
and I'm sick Of seeing them. I'm
resentful Of seeing labor set against
labor, two camps j flying each
other through their power-hun-
cry leaders. Why doesn't labor, as
ono man, stand up on its legs and
say which it wants and what it
wants, and then function again as
The thing it truly is-the most Vi
tai muscle in the whole body Of
America-the heart that pumps the
life blood through the United
States.
The vast majority Of us hate
the plan on which the German gov
ernment Is conducted. we despise
The conduct Of the Italian dictator
and his crew We have here in the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub.
fishers Association. National
Editorial Association. Cali
fornia Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03
thoughts for the Day

For wrath killeth the foolish man. and envy slayeh
the silly one.-Job So.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03

Twenty-secOnd of "a articles on
Our Country, written exclusively
for NEA Service and the Post
Press by the nations most famous
authors.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-10-03

Files of the Social Security Board
have some odd bits of evidence on
the reasons why men get fired
from their jobs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-11
The Eleventh Hour

At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the guns fell silent along the Western Front. The World War was over. Loving and reverent memory of the millions who had fallen before that eleventh hour has caused the world ever since to mark the day.
 There is something suggestive about that eleventh hour. It is as though an unseen, unheard warning was being given that time is not unlimited, that Western Civilization had not Squandered quite all its resources, that one last hour remained to prove that it could profit by experience and save its soul. It had indeed been the eleventh hour. France was literally "bled white," and could not have carried on much longer. Germany was just going over the brink of revolution. Only Btaunch Britain and her empire, and the unexhauSted American might were still standing firm when that hour struck.
 The chance offered by that last hour bled when the fighting men passed the ball of world affairs to them For g wears the statesmen carried the ball, but failed to gain. And now, again, Western Civilization sees the clock upon the walls of time ominouSly pointing at eleven. It is as though time had not moved, that all the intervening years were feveriSh dream. For again, as in 1918, the ball is back in the hands of the fighting men, passed to them by the statesmen who tried to carry it, but could not gain. And again it is eleven o'clock.
 It is right and proper to remember the men who died in the World War, to re- member them with tenderness and love. They did their job. They won that re- spite at the eleventh hour which should have permitted rebuilding. They taught the lesson; it is not their fault that we refused to learn.
 So it is fitting to turn for moment to yesterdays dead, even though new gen. eration now marches in the ranks that knew their undaunted tread and to turn once again to those deathless words of Lincoln, the most solemn memorial ever pronounced over the graves of soldiers:
 ".. that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that govern ment of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-11
Collapse of a Bridge

The more you read about the collapse of that great suspension bridge out at Tacoma, Washington, the more amazing it seems that the structure had not gone down long before this. Many bridges are subject to considerable vibration and allowance is usually made for this in construction. But the Tacoma bridge, an exceptionally long one, was subject to more than mere vibration; it swayed gently in the breezes; it also had an up and down movement.
 There were reasons for such movement, according to the engineers. And efforts were being made to prevent against ex- cesSive swaying such as would bring about such conditions as occurred last week But evidently all studies of the bridge hadn't advanced sufficiently to prevent this sudden destruction with, fortunately, no loss of life. Bridge collapses like this have been comparatively few in recent years despite the fact that bigger and bigger spans are being built all the time.
 The engineering profession need not feel too set back by this disaster. It should prove testing ground which will eleminate any further occurrences along the same lines. A costly project has dis integrated, but when it is reclaimed and rebuilt no doubt the faults of the first one will be completely eliminated
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-11
Hot Chow for Soldiers

Chalk up one for the refugees! Leo Katz, who is such an emergency immi- grant from Germany, has been demon strating new device to the army. It's h ration can that heats itself without fire.
 It's two cans, really - an outer one containing chemicals, and an inner one containing food When the outer one is punctured the chemicals begin to work, heating the inner can. It means that soldiers, sailors, or civilians hiding in bomb shelters, can have hat beans or other canned food without kindling a fire.
 It's too early to know whether Katzs idea is really feasible. But if it is, he has already paid his debt to the country which gave him refuge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-11
$1OO. 100000 to Throw Away

Some people must have money. Every wagering record in the United States was shattered by New York's recently closed racing season in which sporting citizens tossed $1O3, ,159, ,429 into the pari- mutuel machines. Besides which, 1890 people found time each and every day of the season to go out and watch horses run around in a circle.
 The fellow who first noticed that one horse can run faster than another was the unconscious founder of big business. These New Workers contributed $5,157,- 971.45- in taxes to the state, and who is a better mark for taxes on the ability to pay" principle than the people who can afford to toss hundred million dollars year out on the pony track? The average toss-away per person per day was $5O Yet we'll bet there were not lacking some citizens among this throng who could be heard to mutter from time to time, Things are tough!"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-11
Views Of The Press

these potatoes in 100-pound sacks at an attractive price.
 Those who will buy one or more of these sacks will save money on their winter potatoes. 1t is easy to keep the potatoes at this season of the year.
 The experiment in cooperative marketing in New England is ail interesting one. Not only Maine but the Connecticut Valley srea li Massachusetts and Connecticut have produceG unusually large potato crops. Jn crder that these crops should be marketed 1T an orderly manner. the New England Council sponsored program through the Bureau Of hiackats.
 If these potatoes can be moved quickly it will save money fo: the householtlcTs wno buy them and guarantee a fair return to the farm- CTS who raise them. Wastage will be avoided and New England will give another demonstration vo the world of that self-re.iance which is characteristic of this region.