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Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28
CURBING THE
OVER JEALOUS

(Wall Street JOurnaD
Members of the Administration have
accepted and the Senate Military Affairs
Committee has approved a modified form
of the socalled property seizure bill.
This fact goes far to prove that the orig
lnal form Of the bill was unnecessarily
drastic.
Instead of applying the power of seiz-
ure for compensation to any kind of prop
erty which the President might designate
as essential to defense, as did the orig
lnal bill, the committee measure specifies
any military or naval equipment, sup
plies or munitions, or component parts
thereof, or machinery, tools or materials
necessary for the manufacture, servicing
or operation of such equipment, supplies
or munitions" The authority granted
expires June 3d. 1943. Whenever the
President determines that any property
so acquired is no longer needed for de-
tense he is required to return it to the
owner on payment of the fair value"
thereof In any event the owner may
demand its return not later than Decem-
Der 81, 1943
These time limits can of course be al
tered by action Of Congress hereafter.
Nevertheless they are important To-
gether with the designation of specific
kinds Of property to which the power of
seizure is limited they express the will
Of Congress that the extraordinary au-
thority the bill grants the Executive shall
be used to expedite defense preparations
and for no other purpose.
1t is probably safe to attribute the ex-
cessive violence Of the original bill to mis-
taken zeal on the part of it's reputed
authors in the War Department to curb
their devoted but mistaken extremism.
That, among other things, is what Con-
gress is for
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28

The world has been treated to
many Sorry spects.1,eS of late, but
none more depressing than the
puppet show in vacuum now being
staged in France by the aged but
no longer venerable Marshal Pc
tain.
Though the French people are
completely under the heel of the
German conqueror, the ancient, ga
ycar-old marshal solemnly goes
about the business of having a
constitution" written for France.
A constitution" BY whose right
and authority, one wonders? Have
the French people ever repudiated
their existing constitution? A few,
yes, like Charles Maurras, who as
Monarchist leader has been fight
ing the republic for many years.
A few like Laval and Darlan, and
the others who leaped SO avidly
at the German-granted opportunity
W lCol 5diliHC Il diiIC 'ISoi uiilS w
their own design, while the Ger
man occupation troops kept the
people from speaking.
But the French people them
selves? The farmer on the soil, the
village shopkeeper, the worker in
a Bordeaux factory? No one has
heard them speak, for their mouths
are stopped.
1t is a year now since Petain re-
ceived from the National Assembly
the grotesque Shreds of power that
the Germans suffered to remain to
France. No one can interpret the
mind of the French people at that
CHASTITY moment, for it had no
mind. The awfulness of the military
disaster had robbed it Of all power
to think. Possibly many turned to
the old soldier, Petain, in hope
that he could save more fragments
from the disaster than anyone
else. But that the French people
ever directly or indirectly, vested
Petain with power to write a new
and permanent constitution for
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28
by Paul Harrison -.
HoIlyWoods Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

HOLLYWOOD, July 28-This is
about a mean man named Jack
Carson. one of the highest paid
heels in Hollywood Actually he
is an amiable, sentimental guy,
but for acting be has discovered
that the SNUG cOUntenance and
manners of a drugstore corner
Casanova are better career inSur-
ance than the hcaying chest and
patrician profile Of a gent who al
ways gets the gal.
Being the kind of actor who can
steal scene before the average
ingenue can count to 10 by fives.
Carson is big and handsome enough
in broad way to become a lead
ing man, but he prefers being
heel. and he is al it again.
Our hero, who holds the undis-
puted record Of having lost Ginger
Rogers six straight times on the
screen, now unfolds his low char
acter as a married man in New
ORLEANS Blues, over at Warmers.
He is married to Priscilla Lane,
10 whom you'd think any bright
young man would be kind and at
tentiVe. But not Cad Carson.
SOCkED IN THE PUSS
AS usual, he gest a poke in the
jaw. During bis career of some
five years, audiences have learned
TO control their ire until the fine
moment when somebody hands him
a retributiye haymaker. In New
Orleans Blues, he gets it from
245-pound Peter Whitney. 1t should
be satisfactory.
Fresh from a career as a MASTER
oG-ceremonies in mid western the
aters. where a glib delivery and the
nerve OF a sailor in a harem are
required, Carson created a new
kind of villain for the screen-a
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28
HALFWAY BLUFF
is NO BLUFF AT ALL

Japan's philosophy is the philosophy
of the totalitarian nations. Briefly, it
is this: take all the territory you can get,
from whOmever it may come; take it
without fighting if you can, but take it
by fighting if you've got to-and if you're
ready to fight.
The United States stands to lose heavi-
ly through that policy, if it is allowed
to develop unhampered in the Far East.
The United States has lost heavily al
ready, for that matter. The vital re
sources of French Indo-China are now
closed to US. They are closed to us be-
cause our policy Of appeasement during
the last two years made it possible for
Japan to seize lndo-China.
That policy of appeasement might
have been justified. Certainly we are in
a much better condition to fight now, if
we've got to fight, than we were year
or two years ago. Possibly our policy of
appeasement was really a policy of de-
laying the showdown until we were ready
for it.
The showdown has come now.
Japan is grabbing all the territory she
can. She has taken Indo-China. Her
next step will be Thailand. After that
we'll there are the Dutch East Indies,
and the Philippines, and Australia. With
each grab, if it were successful, Japan
would be stronger. and in a better posi-
ton to make the next grab. The seizure
of Indo-China precipitated the showdown.
Uncle Sam called the hand by joining
with Great Britain and Canada in freez-
ing japanese assets and credits, thus
blocking the oil shipments so vital to
Japan's continued military and naval
operations Uncle Sam did so knowing
hot ba lIy O+ nj
get oil is in the Dutch East Indies, and
the only way she can get it there in the
quantity she needs is by seizing the Dutch
East Indies.
Japan tried her bluff by occupying
Indo- China Uncle Sam answered by
freezing japanese assets.
Half bluff is no bluff at all-and the
bluff is only half made on both sides.
Two things can happen: one side or the
other will back down, losing face and
trade and influence or there will be fight
mo
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28
SHALL THE UNITED STATES
FOLLOW THROUGH?

If the United States backs down now,
she might as we'll get out of the Orient
entirely, abandoning the theory that the
people of any nation can trade wherever
they want to in time of peace, leaving
democratic China to its fate, and leaving
England's back door open to a treacher-
Gus stab which might very we'll bring
the war in Europe to a disastrous close.
She might as well give up the Philip
pines and Hawaii, and relegate Australia
to place in the japanese orbit.
On the other hand there is more than
a possibility-there is distinct prob
ability-that an open declaration by the
United States and Great Britain at this
time, bluntly worded and backed up by
a stern intention to follow through, that
the democracies will fight if Japan moves
any farther, will prevent any more Japa-
nese eXpansionist moves.
Japan has given numerous indications
of not wanting to fight-but she's going
to 90 Just as far as she can as long as
she believes there will be possibility of
avoiding a ma or war.
We believe this country should say to
Japan now, so that there can be no doubt:
eve shall fight if the Dutch East In
dies are invaded or occupied"
And, saying it, we should be ready TO
Fighter bluff is no good if it is not
backed up.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28
b. Peter Edison.
The Inside Track in Washinqton

WASHINGTON, July % - The
honorable Albert Benjamin Chandler
A. B. LIB. Hon. LID, captain
of the judge advocate generals de-
partment of the U. S. Army, eX-
governor of the sovereign state ef
Kentucky and by grace of guber-
material appointment and n special
election, now junior senator from
that great state in the 77th Con-
gress. has just qualified as states
man. He has successfully floor
managed a major piece o. legisla
ton through the upper house, and
won the praises CT his party chief
tans.
1t was no piddling little bill eth
el 1t was the horrible property
seizure bill the bill that was
going to cause such a storm of op-
position. the bill that would be
argued about for months, the bill
that might split the country wide
open. Senator Chandler jockeyed it
over the congressional steeplechase
hurdles in just four hours flat.
If all TINS form talk of the Sem
ator Albert Benjamin Chandler
pedigree confuses you a little, just
recall that this entry is none other
than the brash young colt who,
from 1881 to 1897, was hailed by
the hopeful voters as Happy"
Chandler. He is the young race
horse who ran in the 1888 race for
U. S. senator, but whom Trainer
Roosevelt caused to finish in the
place spot when the administration
pinned its colors on Dear Alben"
Barkley.
WOUNDS HEAL QUICKLY
But the wounds from the barbed
wire fences Of the political pastures
heal rapidly, and here is Happy
Chandler now, a full-grown stallion,
harnessed with the old horse Bark
ley to pull the administration
bandWagon.
Happy-now 43-has been in the
Senate less than two years. He
was sworn in Get 9, 1899 after
the death Of Senator Logan. Happy
hasn't said a great deal in those
first two years. He has done a lot
Of listening, cornering number
of the older and wiser heads and
trying to learn from them Just
how this Washington game is play
ed.
On the Senate floor, Happy has
been his usual grimacing, playboy
self. He gave no appearances of
taking things seriously He wan
dered around aimlessly, whispering
and Wisecrack.ng, or, seating him
self directly in front of some spell
binding orator, he has looked up
into the speakers face, pretending
TO be awed, or else grinning so
broadly that even the most ortho-
doX stuffed shirt would suffer dis
composure. Happy was, to outward
appearance, the Senate clown, the
first since Huey Long.
Happy's committees have been
good ones for a freshman senator
Judiciary, Military Affairs, Priyi-
ledges and Elections, Mines and
Mining. He has worked on these
jobs
When the West Virginia senator
ial succession case came up a few
weeks ago, Happy was put in
charge of that fight for the Privi-
ledges and Elections Committee,
and he carried it through. He won
his first ribbon there.
The Senate needs fresh young
leaders, Harrison and Sheppard
have died. Byrnes has gone to the
ipreine Court. Barley and George
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28

EDITORS NOTE: The foil0tcin0
edit oriGls are presented as interesting
opinions c0iced by editors elsewhere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28

A child who feels unhappy or rin-
loved not infrequently reacts to
this state by a kind of gluttony
what is true of children is
generally true of adults.
DR. Carl Binger, Chicago physi-
clan.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28
MARITIALLY SUCCESSFUL

He has a small home in the San
Fernando valley where he trims
the lawn, worries the hedge and
tolls in rock garden like any tired
young businessman. The most un-
usual thing that ever happened to
him, he says, was that a year ago
he managed to marry a wonderful
girl His wife is Kay st. Germaine,
Wcll-knoWn radio singer.
Jack Carson, whose real name
is Jack Carson, was born Oct. 27,
1910, in Carmen Canada. He went
to public school in Milwaukee, to
st. Johns Military Academy, and
to Carleton College in Northfield,
MINI. He played some football and
appeared in college shows, and says
he always wanted to go on the stage.
He doesn't know why; none of his
ancestors ever had thought of such
a thing.
Along in his junior year a fel
low named Dave Wilcox, of the
University of Minnesota, suggested
that they team up and go into
vaudeville. There was still vaude-
vile then, and couple of youngs-
ters who could dance, sing and
make up quaint sayings usually
could find a booking Carson also
was able to play almost any musi-
cal instrument, by ear.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28
Did You Know?

In the cafes of Budapest, Hun
gary. coffee now sells for 20 to
80 cents a cup, and retails for S3
a pound.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28

Collective bargaining means that there
are clear lines of communication between
labor and management. 1t is democracy
IN actlon.-Sidney Hillman, labor mem
ber Of OPM.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28

For every five seconds elapsing
between a lightning flash and the
resulting thunder, the strike is
one mile away.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28

A starfiSh is unable to turn to
its right since it has no right or
left side.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28

English soldiers average 4 inches
more in height today than they
did q century ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28

The phenomenon experienced by
distance runners, second wind
is merely an adjustment of the
heart rate to breathing.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28

Some species of spiders can live
10 months without food.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28

An optimist is any person who starts
out to work a crossword puzzle with pen
and ink.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28

I'm sorry for the Italians Their
government sold the country out.
Maurice Boyd. American just re-
turned from two years N Italy.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28

If I'd ever gotten even, I'd have
quit. But I never did.
Sad summary of horsc-bctting
by William d. Sahm of Chicago,
charged with embezzling $3.50
600 to lose on the ponies.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. Nation
al Editorial Association.
California Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28
So They Say

The President has said our goods
are going to arrive. All I can say
is, we are going to do it.
Harry Hopkins, lease-lend super
visor, in England
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28

Instead of waiting until the age
of 35 to have her last child, a
mother should figure on having
the last one ready for high schoo
bv the time she is 40.
Prof. Carle c. Zimmerman OF
Harvard.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28

Halloween has been traced back
nearly 1000 years to the time Of
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28

sort of light-heavy He's the proto-
type of the high school bully, the
smart guy with the dull sense of
humor and the swollen ego.
Offstage, though, ne is an unas-
suming man. His business agent
shrowdly grabs Carson's check be-
fore he can get to it, with the re-
suit that the astonished actor has
annuites and other assets that bank
presidents would bow to.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28
Thought for the Day

Watch therefore for ye know not what hour your
Lord doth come.-Matthew Pap.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28

This shop is open. In case of
invasion it will be closed for half
an hour.
Sign reported in a small English
town at the Thames mouth.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28

Many persons are much concern
ed with the possibility of being
asked to die for democracy. But
living for it is something very muca
harder, for it means actually feel
ing the sense of responsibility i'm
posed by that democracy.
Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28
Famous Sayings

For God rewards good deeds done here below-ewards
them here-Lessing
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-28

INDEPENDENT
IMPARTIAL
and
INDIVIDUAL
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

Don't be surprised if you find a truck driver the first to give help at the scene of an accident. Hun dredS of commercial fleets give their men regular first-aid training courses.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

During October, 194O, 5,56O, ,7O9 automotive pneumatic castings were shipped. Of this number 140,025 were exported.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
'PARISHIONERS
 HONOR PASTOR
Rev. Samuel A. Budde Presented With Watch,
 Purse on Birthday

A gold watch and a purse was presented to Rev Samuel A. Budde, vicar of Christ Chapel, at a surprise birthday party last evening at which time the clergyman observed his 40th winter. Members of the parish arranged the party and pre- Sented his wife a large bouquet of spring flowers
 Over 75 attended the social after which John M. McGribbon, chief mate of the U. s. Naval Recruiting office here, showed movies.
 Guests attending were: MT. and Mrs. Hazen M Mckee, Miss Ethel McEvoy, MT. and Mrs. P. J. Ter rell, MT. and Mrs. George Raeburn, MT. and Mrs. Frank Soby, MT. and Mrs. William Foley, Mir. and Mrs. R. J. Armstrong, MT. and Mrs. Stanley Lucas, MT. and Mrs. John J. Wills, MT. and Mrs Claude N. Phillips, MT. and Mrs. William B. Elwell, William L. Carter, MT. and Mrs. John Hennion, MT. and Mrs. George E. Petitjean, MT. and Mrs. Harold E. Manville.
 Miss Betty Maltby,, MT. and Mrs. Arthur Baker, MT. and Mrs. Paul Schwenk, MT. and Mrs. Walter Johnson, MT. and Mrs. Frank Me- Manamy, MT. and Mrs. Thomas B. Armstrong, Mrs Clifford H. Kelsey, MT. and Mrs. Fred Thorell, Helen Armstrong, MT. and Mrs. Charles Earl, Carl Benson, Bob Alvarey, Ed ward Schoeck, Mrs Addie Russell, MT. and Mrs. Ray Pulver, MT. and Mrs. Thomas Slater, MT. and Mrs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
CORONER FREES
 LOCAL DRIVER
No Criminal NegIioenCe Found in Death of New
 Haven Pedestrian

Anthony Stasiulaitis of 89 Arnold street, this city, was freed of crim- inal responsibility yesterday in New Haven, for the death of Salvatore Rega, 70, of New Haven. who died in Grace hospital January after being struck by a car driven by the local man on Whalley avenue the night before.
 Coroner James J. Corrigan found Rega was walking. along the high way on the pavement. He wore dark clothing. and this, combined with the fact that lights of approaching cars were interfering with the local mans vision, made it very difficult for Stasiulaitis to see the man against the black highway surface.
 Whatever might be said of his failure to observe the deceased in time to have avoided the accident, I find that it does not amount to gross or wilful misconduct or negli- gence," the coroner stated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
Meet Bill And Maggie: They're London Heroes, BIimey, After
 Capturing That German Aviator
BY PAUL MANNING NEA Service Staff Correspondent

NEA Service Statt correspondent
 London, Jan. 23-Bill and Maggie Pritchard are heroes. They cap tured a German airman few eve nings ago and at the little neighbor- hood party given in their honor, they couldn't Eelp feeling pleased.
 It had all been so unexpected. Bill is a bookkeeper down in the City of London. Has been for 9 years, and although he had dream ed of himself leading SafariS through darkest Africa, or heading a charge of His Majesty's LancerS against the fuzzy wuzzyS in the Su- dan, nothing big or exciting had ever happened to him before
 Or to Maggie Pritchard, his wife. She had rebelled during the first years at the monotonous tenor of their suburban Londcn life.
 It wasn't so bad though, during the third and fourth years when she had Jimmy, but the night he died of pneumonia, life just seemed to stop. That was the night every body in the neighborhood took up a collection and insisted Bill send her to little village up the Thames for a weeks rest. She was all right after that.
 'BLIMEY. THAT WAS
 QUICK THINKING"
 At the party she was radiant and Bill looked pretty good himself, re- telling how the airman had been captured and emphasizing each point with a jab of the cigar bought for the occasion.
 We were sitting there in our
 basement shelter playing double patience. We had just gone be-
 low fer the night when Maggie
 suddenly heard footsteps in the
 kitchen above. She said, Bill, there's burglar upstairs said
 nonsense, it's just the cat-Or something. But she made me get
 mp anyway and as I started for the stairs the door above opened and there stood a German"
 Then Maggie, who had been edg- ing closer to the group crowded around Bill, broke in and said: Bill leaped up the stairs, grabbed the German and they both rolled along the kitchen floor. I can tell you it was exciting. But Bill had him good, by by then, and shouted for men to run for the police. So I ran out of the house and up the street until I got to the sandbag post where Alan was talking to a Warden. He came running. I can tell you, when I sand Bill had cap- tured a German"
 Maggie looked proud as canary at this and though Bill seemed sheepish as all the men began hit ting him on the back and saying, "Bliney. that was quick thinking" lie din't seem to mind.
 It was later, though, on the way home that Bill said to Maggie: Maggie, you shouldn't have said rassled that German around the kitchen floor You know I just stood at the bottom of the stairs and he came down and said Police, please and then you gave him a cup of tea and l tried showing him how to play double-patience while you walked down the street to fetch Alan."
 Alan, the policeman, who speaks a little broken German, says on the way back to the station house the blond airman, just boy, told him how, after bailing out of his flaming plane, he had landed on the roof of the house. Clinging to the chim- ney, he had unfastened his para
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

chute and clambered along the tiles until he was able to lower himself into an open window on the top floor. Then he had wandered through all the rooms in the de- serted house looking for someone to whom he could surrender He was on the point Of giving up in despair,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
PENNY DANCES AGAIN

Penny Singleton does the same Spanish dance in Columbia's 'sBlondie Goes Latin" that she did in her last Broadway musical com edy, when she was known as Dor otiy McNulty. She also sings in the eighth comedy in the "Blondie' series.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
OBSERVERS SPOT
 INVADING PLANES
General Results Pleasing to Army Officials; Nu=
 merOus Flashes Sent

Despite cloudy and at time fog gy day yesterday, Waterbury observ- CTS of the aerial defense at three observation points succeeded in spotting enemy bombers several times. The observation posts agreed that three visits were made by the "epemy,,, though others, notably ob- servers at the home of Chief Ob- server Wallace J. Inglis in South Waterbury claim to have seen enemy planes seven times.
 In all the days observations were
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

Raymond Clark, MT. and Mrs. c. A. Schlander, Mrs. David |. Lyons, MT. and Mrs. Alfred HenSel, Sry Ariste Beurdiey.. Mir. and Mrs. Harry E. Nudl1arn and Harry Nud- ham, Jr., and Miss Mary Ellen El- well.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
UNRULY LOCKS

When Arthur Lake completed work in Columbia's "Blondie Goes Latin," in which h eis again fea- tured with Penny Singleton, Larry Sinms and Daisy, the dog, it took an entire week for him to quell the horns which hair -dressers evolved for his role.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
BOWLING TO SPEAK
 FOR LOCAL APPEAL

Arthur Bowling, member of the faculty at Wilby High school, will speak in behalf of the local com mittee for the infantile Paralysis Campaign over Station WATR this evening from 7:3O to 7:35 o'clock. Attorney Frank Mcdonald is chair man of the local drive.