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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-02
BAERING DOWN ON TIE NEWS:
Coffee y. Pistols
BY ARTHUR "BUGS" BAER

The fellow who said pen mightier than the sword
forgot one thing. between the the sword
supplies the and red. IT, blood
If man ever challenges you to coffee and pistols for
In here's my advice you. let him take the coffee
and you depend O The pistols.
This has defeated so-caed ntellectuais
who claim that idea die Well idea may
never die but get awful SICK.
o. o. Mcintyre said hishbrow disguised
Iowbrow Well folks here's notice that I'm going to keep
getting lower after what e happen 70 The bright boys
lowbrovs walk under lot 81 places without
taking his hat off,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-02

of labor's most effective weapon.
We cannot strike. If we are to
get shorter hours or higher
wages, we must get it through
action by the United States
Congress, and we must have
public sentiment behind us to
get action by them.
LEO VI. CAMERON,
Secretary, Detroit Federation of
Post Office Clerks.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-02
25 YEARS AGO TODAY
August 2, 1916

French advance in drive at
Verdun and claim gains along
the Somme
Six Zeppelins raid the coast
of England. -----------------r
U-boat Deutschland eVadcs
British warships awaiting out
side Baltimore, Maryland, and
makes good her escape.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-02

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-02
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Mich
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-02

HAPPILY. both lawyers and
physicians as class marry
young. so there are not as many
victims OF "the torch among
them as we find ina other pro-
fcSSions. The torch" Is con-
fined largely to the unmarried.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-11
Life Is A Business
Reprinted from the Bluefieidian

Our lives are misunderstanding
businesses. They are giant cor
porations and involve all the
main principles of business. An
innumberable number of stock
holders contribute to- our lives
and in return receive dividends
in proportion to our good bust
ness principles. One of the main
good business principles is to
Opei ate I, the greatest efficiency
to insur the maximum profit.
Our business is begun from
birth. Cur parents m ay be
though, of as our first stock
holCeTo. They in general lay the
foundation or give us our need
ed backing. They provide the
business with its first essential
need 10 ! tHr1"nt e credit
VIII c,l - the ccmpositor Of
character, capacity. collateral
and capital. the reminder of our
lives ne either add nr detract to
this essential. ne ccurch as an
institution generally is the next
investor in our business of life.
This may be a large share of the
corporation or small share
depending chiefly upon h e
efforts of the founders to in
crease the business. Then follow
ine ne church, the school be-
comes cur largest investor. Here
Or aims of business are set and
the stabiliZing factors obtained.
The infancy of the business is
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-11

government that it would under
write an increase in coal prices
prior to signing a wage agree
ment.
Our proposed advance repres-
ents an increase of wages in vari-
Gus groups in the South of from
$40 to SIS a month to over $780,
600 men, or total advance of
S1,500,000 to one million eight
hundred thousand dollars pei
month ...
ANY implication that the
Southern operators are obstruc-
ting or delaying a proper settle
ment to get men back to work
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-11

eXemplified in TIL e primary
grades through high school. The
other factors previously men,
toned tend to increase or
diminish in their contributions.
On entering college our bust
ness life is branching out into
larger areas. If we are active and
not inclined to be introyertic,
more stockholders are sold
shares in our lives. Praise is orr
dividend to our stockholders and
q stepping-Stone on our road to
success. We take the investments
of our stockholders, who are our
teachers, and speculate for great
er investments. Thus il takes
great persistency ofttimeS to re
coordinate the business principle.
If we falter in our l.forts, a host
OF stockholders suffer a loss.
Therefore, we should establish
our goal, if we haven't, and
realize the prCphesy of Spelman
is that "fIe th;.t sets his eyes
resolutely upon a given goal
shrtens the distance to attain
ment!" Such an attitude will
not only contribute to a greater
and more worthy efficiency, but
also to sOunder, more stable and
tangible profits, dividends and
greater general economic securi
ty. Thus Let us not be weary in
well doing: for in due season we
shall reap if we faint not"
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-11

is wholly unfounded. This is evil
denced by the fact that our Of
fer to 90 to work an pay the adj
vance wage still stands
The Associations uniting in
the above statement are:
Greenbrier Coal Operators,
Winding Gulf operators, Poca-
hontas, operators, Upper Buck
harmon Smokeless operators,
Kanawha operators. Williamson
operators, Big Sandy-Elkhorn
operators, Harlan operates, So.
Appalachian operators, Virginia
operators, Hazard operators and
Logan operators
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-11
Operators Propose
Continued from page one

page
"RESOLNED-That all mines
resume work Immediately and
continue at work pending nego-
tiationS until Il new contract is
agreed upon, under all the
terms and conditions of the Ap1
palachian contract and the dis
trict agreements which expire
March 81, 1911, except as fol-
lows:
Short wall machine mining
rates shall be increased TIC per
net ton, &c of which shall be
added to the existing rates for
leaders and $0.6c shall be added
to existing short wall cutting
rates
The pick mining rate shall be
increased 7.2c per net ton. Where
tonnage, footage or yardage
rates are paid on conveyors or
other mechanical loading devices,
the percentage of increase as it
is applied to the basic loading
and cutting rates.
Rates for all regular CLASH
tications of inside and outside
day men shall be increased 6Oc
per day; 45c per day for trappers
and partially handicapped old
men.
Negotiations to develop a
contract to expire March 81, 49,
43, shall conti6nue without
prejudice to any element in the
controversy due to the adop-
ton eff this resolution.
Simply stated, this provides
for an increase of II per cent,
effective the day of resumption
OF operations. Acceptance of
operations. Acceptance Of this
proposal provides for negotia-
tions to continue on such other
matters as may be before the
conference. and such acceptance
would result in immediate re-
sumption of work.
"A coal shortage is now
threatening. We are again urg-
! ing that no further time be lost
in completing negotiations and
) getting the mines back to work
That was a vital consideration
in making our proposal without
any contigcnt guarantee from the
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-11
UPLIFTING REPUBLICAN
CLUB OF WILLIAMSON

Members of the Uplifting Re-
publican club and their guests
enjoyed a covered dish luncheon
last Thursday at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Taylor on
Anderson street. The rainy day
project held during the month
of March was also completed.
The regular monthly meet
ing for May vii be held at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. B. T.
Washington, 907 Vinson street.
ay 1 at 8;0Op. m.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-11
Eggs? Dummies? Of Course. IL, Easter

Thousands Of years old, The scnti.
mental pastime Of coloring egg, for
Easter still aruses young and old alike.
Centuries ago in Persia, uhere the Gus.
tom originated, eggs tcere chiefly paint.
ed red, by some in honor Of The blood
Of Christ, and BY Others TO represent
joy after IKE 40-day fast. In grand.
mother, day, tea, coffee and onion-sIin
solutions ~ere deemed the only safe"
methods for dyeing Easter eggs. Mod-
ern lung has changed all thar. Note
the mother daughter meihod-decorat.
ing eggs rith noreity cut.oufs. They
should please ercn the most aristo-
erctic Easter bunny! -
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-11
Washington. Water sunrau

Army engineers have supervised
Washington's water supply since
1893 when they recommended the
present source, Great Falls on the
Potomac river, lG milea from the
national capital.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-11

Fir: River Ship 10 louisville
.'a .iTst Chic river snip 10 reach
L,a2 ot hyp arrived on June is
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-04-11
Sunny in yuma. Arizona

Clouds hide the sun only about
II per cent Of the time in Yuma,
Ariz,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-10
CHURCHILL GIVES
A LINE ON HESS
(Oroville Mercury-Register)


A friend sees in Churchill's recent
speech a tip-off as to the Rudolph Hess
mystery. Concerning the attack on Rus
sia by Germany Churchill said;
"All this was no surprise to me- In
fact, | gave clear and precise warnings to
Stain of what was coming. | gave him
warnings as | have given warnings to
others before | can only hope that
these warnings did not fall unheeded.'
The question arises, how did Churchill
get the information on which he could
base his clear and precise warning or
what Germany was about to do. The
friend points out that Russia presumably
has as efficient secret service as Brit
ain. How could Churchill have got his
information except from Hess?
That is an interesting question. In
this connection, DR.. Karl Brandt OF Stan
ford, a former German, who believes he
is able to see German events through Ger
man eyes, declares that the flight OF Hess
was a protest against the war. Out OF
harmony with Hitler, Hess sought a
dramatic manner with which to voice his
protest, according to Brandt. He says
doubt exists that the GeStapO watched
Hess prior to his departure. The Ges-
tapo spies on everyone and Hess could
have been no exception.
The break between Hess and Hitler
might have been over the Russian cam
paign itself. On the other hand tip is
out in Washington that Hess went to
England to inform the British govern
ment of Hitlers plan to attack Russia
and to suggest that Germany and Brit
ain join forces. That would explain
everything. That word is that Hess ex-.
pected to return to Germany in two days.
The plan failed, Hess was treated as
prisoner of war, and Germany attacked
alone.
At any rate, we nave ChurchilPs word
for it that he had inside information,
and that certainly points to Hess.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-10
b. Peter Edson...
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

nomists and thinkers in Washing
ton who say that what the country
needs is a good inflationary boom.
Let prices rise, they argue. Let's
have good old initiation such as
Germany I'D alter the last war
The miuuie classes NAV suffer, but
its the only way the government
can pay off its debts with cheap
money, and in that manner get the
country out of the hole. This idea is
held by so few men that they talk
about it only in private.
Prevailing opinion. however, fol-
lows the Baruch school of thought
based on experiences of the last
war. which holds that prices must
be kept down. Voluntary co-opera-
ton failing, the only alternative is
prize control legislation, and if that
comes, it can eventually mean
frozen prices on everything, just as
Germany now has.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-10
Uranium Crackers
ODD JOBS

ODD JOBS
There are moro than clerks,
stenographers. white-collar men,
and machinists in this working
world of ours. Some workers have
strange titles attached to their jobs.
See how many of the following you
recognize.
l. Where would you find Il
CANDY dancer? (a) at ballroom:
Cb) on a railroad; Co in an airplane
factory; td in a CANDY store.
2. What type of work docs an
agitator do? (a) gold mining; tb)
soapbox speaking; (c) soda jerk
ing; (d) elevator operating.
3. Where would you find a bush
monkey? ca IN a push: (b) in n
ZOO; (c) in a lumber camp; (d in
a garage.
4. What would juicer be? ca
a fast dancer; (b) a gold miner;
Co a soft dink salesman; (d an
electrician.
5. Where would you find smut
ter? (a) in a flour mill; tb) in an
aircraft factory; Co mixing cement;
Cd in a flower shop.
ANSWERS
|. Candy dancer is a section
hand on a railroad ID.
2. Agitator runs a pneumatic
machine in a gold mine ta.
3. Bush monkey is a tanbark
stacker in a lumber camp (c).
4. A juicer is film electrician
I'D.
5. A shutter screens foreign mat
ter out of wheat in a flour mill
(a).
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-10
WISE BOYS SHARPEN
THEIR PENCILS

Then some of the smart gentry
began to figure ways to beat Hen
derson's schedule Of prices. Records
were falsified Bills of sale were
made out for larger quantities than
were actually delivered. Phony
freight rates were charged. Dealers
were designated as buyers agents,
emitting them to commissions which
ran the prices above the ceiling,
Lower quality materials were sold at
higher quality prices. Machine
tools, instead of being sold, were
leased at rates which returned spec
ulatovs more than purchasing prices.
Better business and fair trade
simply went right out the window,
in other words, in the competitive
demand for materials and the lure
of sellers to make the most profit
possible
| There are a few government eco
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-10
WHY NOT GO
ALL THE WAY?

Wendell L. Willkie emerged from
conference with President Roosevelt We'd
nesday to call for establishment of Amer
lean bases in Northern Ireland.
If we're going to do that, we might as
well go all the way, without all these pre-
liminary motions.
Iceland is one thing. Ireland is an
other. Iceland fits perfectly into pure
ly defensive program for the Western
Hemisphere Ireland would fit into moth
ing else but actual fighting in the Europ-
can area. 1t would be as sensible to say
we need the French invasion ports as de-
fensive outposts.
Willkie probably made his suggestion
with tongue in cheek. One can imagine
him in conference with the President
Willkie: Say, | just had an idea Why
not put few defense bases in Ireland?
tgrins.)
Roosevelt: (Smiling) You might sug
gest it to the newspaper boys.
Willkie: (His grin still broader.) All
right. l will. Then listen to the fire
works.
And maybe such a reconstruction of
what happened isn't so far fetched at
that. Willkie, as defeated Republican
candidate but a strong supporter of the
Roosevelt foreign policy, is in unique
position. He can suggest screwball things
like that, and if they don't go over nobody
is hurt If the President wants the sug-
gestion made, he's either got to have some
body like Willkie make it, or he's got to
delegate the job to some of his own Off
ciai family. And if he does the latter,
the Administration must take the rap
for any repercuSSion.
It is possible that the Administration
really is considering the advisability of
trying to obtain bases in Northern Ire
land But, if that is so, the Administra-
tion will have to admit publicly and i'm
mediately that the national concept Of
defense has changed entirely-that we
now regard anything as defense" which
tends to defeat Hitler even if it is actual
war.
If we establish bases in Ireland, we
might as well admit to the world that
we're going to see that Germany is de-
feated, even if we have to fight again
on EurODean soil TO do it.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-10
COOL FEELERS ON
FROZEN PRICES

There have been some feelers on
price control legislation. Hender-
sons office says it will not recon-
mend specific legislation leaving
that Job to Congress, though OPACS
lawyers have done all necessary re-
search. There have been rumors
that the President would soon make
a request for such legislation.
Here the idea runs smack dab
into a little obStructionist group
which will fight with bully and
brickbat against any form of price
control legislation. Notice of this was
served on Henderson a month ago
when he appeared before the SEN
ate Agriculture Committee. Hender-
son had just put ceiling on comb
cd cotton yarn in which there had
been unjustified speculative activity
Chairman Cotton Ed Smith of
Lynchburg, S. c.. John H. Bankhead
II, Of Jasper, Ala, and Elmer
Thomas of Medicine Park, Okla q.
all saw red, and they're still mad.
Hold down the price OF any cotton
products? Over their dead bodies.
To keep the price OF cotton down
is bolshevism.
The battle will 90 on from here
1t will be the battle of the buyers
who want prices kept down, and
the sellers who want prices up.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-10

WASHINGTON, July 10 - OF all
the headaches in Washington to-
day. the man with perhaps the
most tharklesS job in the whole de
fenSe set-up is Leon Henderson
administrator of OPACS, the Office
of Price Administration and Civil
ian Supply
All the man mas to oo is keep the
prices of everything. including rents,
from getting too high, and protect
consumers in their wants after mill
tary demands are met. The object
of all this is to prevent profiteer-
ing and initiation which in the last
war ran costs up about SIS billion
more than they should have been
and helped bring on the creash.
This sounds noble in purpose if
ever anything did but the OPACS
theory has run into the hard cold
fact that the business conception
of keeping prices down is to keep
them down on everything except the
particular animal, vegetable or min
eral kingdom items which the fel.
low you're dealing with happens to
be interested in.
When the idea for OPACS was
first announced by the President
last April. it was thought that its
purposes were so meritorious there
would be no trouble securing CO.
operation of manufacturer and mer-
chant Consequently. the agency was
set up by executive order and with
out legislative authority. The only
enforcement given Henderson for
his price-fixing DEGREES was the
power of publicity. When some firm
wouldn't conform, as one auto COM
pany behaved on the recent price
rise order publication of the act
was supposed to make the COM
pany step back into line. 1t didn't
work
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-10
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE AT PRIVATE SALE

ESTATE AT PRIVATE SALE
Notice is hereby given that Wal
ter Ames, as Executor of the Last
Will and Testament of Amelia C
Bridges deceased, will sell at pri-
vate sale to the highest bidder fol
cash, or upon such terms and con-
ditionS as may be approved by the
| Court and subject to confirmation
by the Court on or after July "a,
l94l, at the office of his attorneys,
McssrS. Gray, Cary, Amcs & Dris-
coll, 14l0 Bank of America Building,
San Diego California, all the right.
title, interest and estate of said
Amelia c. Bridges, deceased, at the
time of her death, and all the
right, title and interest which said
estate by operation of law or other
wise may have acquired other than
or in addition TO that of said de-
cedent at the time of her death in
and to the following described
property located in the County of
Imperial, State Of California, to-
wit:
North half No Of Tract Nine
ty-one (9D Township Fifteen
'l5) South, Range Thirteen l3)
East, S.B.M, in the County Of
Imperial, State of California. as
per Map of the re-survey ap-
proved and filed in the United
States Land Office at Los An
gcles, California;
Terms and conditions of sale.
Cash, or such cash and credit As
may be approved by the Court. ten
percent 400 Of such purchase
price to be paid at the date of sale
and the balance on confirmation of
sale.
All bids and offers must be in
writing and may be left at the Of
fices of Messrs. Gray, Cary. Ames
and Driscoll, 14lO Bank of America
Building, San Diego, California at
torneys for the Executor; or NAV
be filed in the office of the Clerk
Of this Court at any time after
the first publication of this Notice
and before making of said sale.
DATED: At San Diego, Califor-
MIA, this Bro day of July, ls41.
WALTER AMES.
Executor for the Last Will
and Testament of Amelia C.
Bridges, deceased.
GRAY, CARY, AMES
81 DRISCOLL
Attorneys for Executor.
Bank Of America Building,
San Diego, California.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-10
CRITICISM AND DEFENSE

Lieut.. Gen. Ben Lear who disciplined
$50 soldiers and their officers near Mem
phis, Tenn, by enforcing upon them a
15-mile hike after they whistled at shorts
clad girls on a Memphis golf course, was
right and wrong.
He was wrong in his failure to recog
nize the responsibility of the lesser Of
ficers who were in direct charge of the
men. Anything he had to say should
have been said to them, and disciplining
of the men should have been left to them.
He was wrong, too, if there was any per-
sonal peeve in his action, resulting from
his own presense on the golf course at
the time.
He was right, probably, in his belief
that discipline should be enforced, one
way or another, on the troops. Undisci-
plined troops are inefficient troops.
Modern and ancient military history
bears that out.
The general at his worst was not any
more wrong than the sob-sisters who
wept crocodile tears about the cruelty"
of the 15-mile hike If American soldiers
cannot hike Is miles now, under peace
time conditions, what would they do if
war came, and they had a 30-mile move
under guns and planes?
There are two sides to this matter, too.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-10
UNFAIRNESS IN DRAFT

(BOStOn TraVeler)
Unwarranted confusion and, in some
instances, hardship have developed in
one phase of the administration of the
selective act " Prior to his appearance
before the draft board, the selectee bids
farewell to his family his friends anc
his job. Yet he is not certain that he will
be inducted until the army doctors are
through with him.
1t can be quite embarrassing for re-
iected selectee to have to return to his
ordinary way of life His job may have
been filled =.
The remedy is obvious. The selectee
should know definitely that he has been
accepted before he says his fareWels.
This is possible if he is given several days
leave after the army's conclusive exami-
nation instead of being shipped off at
once. There should be no delay in chang
ing the induction procedure,