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Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08
WHAT THIS
COUNTRY NEEDS

Billy Gilbert, rotund comedian
was nightclubbing at one of Holly
woods higher-priced spots the othe,
evening and decided he'd have a
cigar. When the cigaret-girl hand
ed it over, she said sWeetly, That
will be one dollar, please" What!
roared Gilbert, Haven't you got
any 10-cent cigars?' Well. the
cutie admitted this is a 1O-cent
cigar
Most apt casting of the season
Saddles, a shepherd dog. in "A
Cerain Mr.. Scratch. Director
William Dieterles next planned
pitcure is THE Band Plaped On"
but it isn't trailer for strawberry
Blond. it's musical. Most re-
cent patients on the measles cpl
demic list are Laird Cregar and
Russell Gleason: Cregar has the
most spots because he weighs 300
pounds. . Judy Canova, the come
dienne with the grand opera
scream, is trying to persuade Re-
public to let her play Trilby, with
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08
WHAT THE BALKANS MEAN
TO AMERICAS FUTURE

The military campaign in the Balkans
is more vital TO Americans than any other
phase Of the European war.
Our own future may be bound up in
The failure or success of the Germans.
The Balkans may decide the question
that Is at the back of every Americans
mind: VIII we get into the war?
Strategically, the Balkans are as i'm
portant to Great Britain as the Rock
of Gibraltar. If Britain loses in the Bal
kans, she will have her back against the
wall. She will then be vulnerable in Afri-
ca, which she has only just now wrested
from Italy. She will be truly confined
10 the British Isles, for the first time
since the war started She will need
help, and need it badly.
That is where our own future comes in.
We have gone so far along the course
of our international policy that we can
not now afford to see Great Britain lose.
If actual defeat seems inevitable for her,
without our military help, it is quite
probable that we will go to war. That
is the hard-headed. realistic viewpoint.
There is no use taking any other
1t will be different story if Britain
wins in the Balkans, or even if the COM
bined British sh-Greek-Jugoslav forces are
able to stall the German-ltalian often
sive.
If the offensive is stalled. and nothing
more, the British will retain their foot
hold on the continent of Europe From
the Balkans they could, when the time
is ripe, launch an invasion of Germany.
They would have good bases from which
to operate. They would need only the
time it takes to prepare such an inva-
sion.
An outright British Greek Jugoslav
victory in the Balkans would be another
thing again. Such victory might very
well mark the beginning of the end for
Germany. 1t would Immediately remove
Italy as bellgerent. 1t would give the
other small nations of Europe new cour-
age to rebel against the German invader.
Above all, it would give the British their
chance to sweep onward after retreating
German troops, through Rumania and
Hungary. Britain, victorious in the Bal
kans. might very we'll retake half the
continent of Europe before serious oppos-
ition developed.
Bound up in ''ifs' about the Balkan
battlefront are possibilities of the
gravest disaster and the highest triumph
Americans. their policies inextricably
linked with those Of Great Britain, might
very we'll pray for British Greek-Jugo-
slav victory in the Balkans.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08

mobile for $1,000 than he did for
$1,000 80 years ago.
All these things are taken into
consideration, however, in deter
mining the index number ON prices
the farmers pay, and the computa-
ton shows that for a given bill of
goods, a farmer today would have
to pay $128 for what would have
cost him only $l00 in l909-14.
PLUMBING
BEATS FLOWING
Against this, the prices which
farmers received for the crops they
raised have been generally lower
than they were in the base period
lSO9-l4. Grain and cotton have
been running only 80 per cent OF
pre-19l4 levels. Considering the
prices farmers get have been 20
points under, while prices farmers
paid have been % points over the
pre-l9l4 base levels, you have the
main arguments of the case that
the farmer has not been getting
his share. That share, incidentally,
was about five billion dollars last
year, or 7 per cent of the total.
In 1914 it was ID per cent of the
total.
Furthermore, the farm argument
is that the farmer doesn't get his
share when bis income is compared
with that of others. Farmers, work.
ing 100 hours week, have an av-
erage income of under S14 a week,
while plumbers, for instance, aver
aging a 38-hour week, have a wage
rate of $50 week. The point
overlooked is that all plumbers
weren't working all the time to
make these fancy wages.
All these arguments, however.
will be knocked into grave if the
price increases on grain, sweeping
in like a lion at the end of March,
hold firm or go higher The 1909-l4
average price for wheat for in
stance, was 88 cents plus. Wheat
at 80 cents means the parity
price level has been passed.
Some other items are already
we'll over the 1909-l4 averages.
Dairy products are 18 per cent
above pre-war prices. Truck prices
are "a per cent above. Meat prices
29 per cent. The average of all
farm prices is now per cent above
the 1909-14 average.
With an upward price trend
there would seem to be ample
grounds for cutting the farm aid
program from the Senate levels.
Politics being what it is, however,
and with the tendency for every
body to get his'n, you can bet your
eyelasles that little cut will be
made.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08

war was started the world was
somehow bound TO pass no Judg-
ment on which side was right, but
to treat both precisely the same.
The years from 1890 to 1910 were
fine demonstration of the folly
of such a view neutrality. Had the
League been able to put effective
pressure on Italy, or on Japan,
much that has happened might not
have happened. Had united
world insisted on saying MOI to
Germany When ii marched back
INTO the demilitarized Rhineland,
the whole tragedy enveloping the
world today might have been avoid
cd.
At any rate, the world has found
that it cannot afford to be in
different when the worlds peace
Is broken by any nation. We all
feel the effects of that violation
III fact, Jackson scarcely eXaggerat-
eel when he said that any aggres-
slve war today is "a civil war
against the international commui-
ty.'
Today. any major war affects ev-
cry country in the world. 1t is idle
and unreallstic for neutrals to pre-
tend dlsinterest. And until the
time comes when a potential ag-
9ressor is restrained by the thought
that he will find the whole neutral
world against him, either actively
Oh passively. there will be small
chance that aggressive wars will
cease.
We do not approve military
aggression. While neutral, we
propose to help victims of aggres-
sion, and help them effectively 1t
Is not war as we see it. It may,
admittedly, lead to war. That is the
risk we take. but unless some are
willing to take 1t. there is no road
to a world free of the constant
crerhanging fear of aggression.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08
by Willis Thornton
We're Not at war.and May Not Be

II is not a time to assume, as
some impulsively do assume. that
the United States is now prac-
tically at war, what with the Lend
Lease act and the seizure of Euro
pean shipping in American ports.
We are not at war. and we may
not be. though there is no longer
any question that to support our
principles we are taking desperate
risk of war Probably the President
himself would not disagree with the
statement of objectiveS made by
the very islotationtist President
Hutchins of Chicago University .
The country wants to defend it
self. aid Britain. and stay out OF
war" There is still a chance OF
doing all three.
We are nor neutral IN the sense
that was understood toward the
end of the last and the beginning
OF this century. AT that time, an
idea of neutrality began to be
built up which meant a rigid im-
ltli biellllA W JOllI piAlto III WI
amounting 10 indifference. The
World War taught us the extreme
difficulty of maintaining any such
position.
But Attorney General Robert H.
jackson set before the Inter Amer
lean Bar association at Havana the
manner IN which the concept Oh
neutrality has changed Grotius, the
founder of international law, was
cited by Jackson as writing, in 1925;
-. it is the duty of neutrals
to do nothing which may strength
EN- the side which has the worse
cause, or which may impede the
motions of him who is carrying
on a just war
Thus the original concept of neu-
trality was not one of indifference
or even of rigid impartialty. This
legalistic idea grew up in the late
10Th century, the idea that once
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08
BASIS OF PEACE
(Orange News

tOrange News
Speaking to the Canadian people, Mr..
Wilkie outlines the kind of peace which
he thinks should follow the defeat Of
Hitler.
It is an honorable peace which Mr..
Willkie visions, such peace as Presi-
dent Wilson suggested before we entered
the last war; such a peace rs President
Wilson was unable to secure after the
war.
THE moral degradation of Versailles,
he said, somehow produced the Frank
enstein of Nazism and war
Civilization cannot afford such an
other mistake. We must begin now to
shape in our minds the kind of world
We want
I'VE must have the imagination to dare
and the vision to see that from such
cataclysms as We are experiencing today,
great ventures are possible.
THE conquered countries of Europe
must be restored to liberty. Czechoslo
vakia, Poland, Holland, Belgium and
Norway must live again, vitality as part
of a larger world of trade, not con-
tracted into arid economic units. China
should be saved from aggression and
permitted to go forward ON the path of
the New China with her enormous pos
sibilities of trade within her self and with
the rest of the world.
''Nazism and all means as a menace
to liberty must and shall be eradicated
utterly and its leaders driven from pow
er But we must not again lock S0,000,-
OOG people in a prison wall of trade linn
its and economic degradation to spawn
brutality, racial intolerance and war"
These are wise words that could pro-
vide basis of peace before the Western
world is destroyed. Unfortunately the
leaders of the nations at war cannot have
the perspective that belongs only to de-
tachment. The Wilson plea for peace
without victory fell on deaf ears, as this
one will
Men with blood in their eyes do not
see clearly
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08

Lucie Neville is pinch hitting for
Paul Harrison, now touring army
camps and defense industries.
LUCE NEVILLE
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, April 8 up
Behind the scenes: Britain found
work for idle hands to do on the
night club set of sunny, where
100 dress extras ordinarily would
have daWdled away time between
scenes by playing gin-rummy or
mapping. Instead, they were busy
making glass coasters out of the
gay colored serpentine strewn
around the set.
British star Anna Neagle started
the fad when she was fiddling
with some of the paper streamers,
ourled and plated them into a
table-mat. Producer-Director Her.
bert Wilcox offered a daily prize
Of $40 for the most original pat
tern, and production stepped up to
some 400 coasters day, to be sold
at the Bundles for Britain shop.
Only holler came from the prop
man. who complained that he
couldn't keep the set decorated be-
cause, after each take, the extras
all scrambled madly for the SER
pentlne they had just thrown.
Know anything to make out of
confetti or cigaret butts?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08
THIS GETS
COMPLICATED

CruX of the whole business is the
item Of parity payments, and to
say that it would take a Moscow
lawyer, TWO agents of the Gestapo
and Albert Einstein to get to the
bottom of this one puts it mildly.
A parity payment, in case you
have forgotten and wish to paste
the information in your hat, is
The price which will give to the
commodity a purchasing power with
resect to articles that farmers buy,
equivalent to the purchasing power
OF such commodities in the base
period" which is August, 1909, to
July, 1914.
This is what will keep the Mos
COW lawyer busy for time, and
EinSteln will come in on the for
mula for computing parity price
Parity price equals B times I
divided by 100, in which b Is
the base price of the commodity
in the halcyon days Of 1909 1914
end r IS the index number of
prices paid by farmers for the
things farmers buy. including in
terest on debts, their taxes and
freight rates. Department of Agri-
culture economists figure out this
index number Please Do Not Dis
turb.
Putting the two agents of the
Gestapo to work and trying to find
the why's, wherefores and merits
if any. for all this, the need for
parity payments is based on points
like these:
In l909-l4. the price of a five
foot moving machine was around
SAT In 1910 it was around $97.
That is illustrative of the way
prices have advanced on the things
farmers buy, but it is offset to a
degree by the fact that a farmer
today gets a much better auto
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08
DIRECTIONS
FOR DIETERS

Anne Baxter's formula for losing
Is pounds in 40 days: Il never eat
meals-just eat between them The
Federal Census Bureau says there
isn't any Hollywood it's merely
the local name given to an unincor-
porated area which lies partly in
Beverly Hills township but the
Bureau of internal Revenue re-
Gently got a lot of envelopes, stamp
ed Hollywood. that enclosed the
latest checks in the country
Director Gregory Ratoff is having
a terrible argument with Actor
Gregory Ratoff trying to persuade
Eim to play a role in Producer
Gregory Ratoff's Tonight Belongs
to Us. Red Shelton look
ed in fascinated terror at Virginia
O'Brlen's incredibly long red fin
eernails. finally asked guardedly,
DO you sleep on a perch?'
John Barrymore's testing at RKO
for Unexpected Uncle" but studio
Wag insists he's going into Para
chute Battalion' says they can
use the bags under Barrymore's
eyes.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08
by Peter Edison =.
The Inside Track in Washinqfon

WASHINGTON. April 8 1t
will be interesting TO see if the
House approves and if it does, il
the President approves or vetoes
the SI.340,000 600 farm bill which
the Senate has just cooked up. It's
the largest farm bill in history, of
course.
The background, you'll remem-
ber. was this:
In mid-March. farm leaders went
to the President with plea for
greater farm aid in the way of
increased parity payments.
When the President disapproved,
House farm leaders passed the bill
for the next fiscal year with a
total appropriation of $890000000.
This the Senate proceeded to up
by a mere S450.000000.
Fair aid. as now on the books
consists of several things:
/. Payments for soil conserv-
ating letting ground lie fallow or
planting it in crops which will re-
store its productivity, but definitely
not planting It in wheat, cotton or
corn.
2. Crop loans: giving farmers
money en- their crops OF wheat,
cotton, corn, rice and tobacco, then
storing the surplus because no one
has figured what else to do with
it.
g. Purchase of surplus: acqui-
sition Of unmarketable foods which
are disposed of through the Sur
plus Comm dities Corporation
stamp plan.
4. Parity payments.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08
Uranium Crackers
Late Literature

Late Literature
Book worms can come out from
between the covers now, for here's
neWsy set of questions on authors
and the books they write. Whether
you're up on the latest literature
or not you shouldn't have much
trouble with these.
l. What is the source of the
title Grapes of Wrath" and For
Whom the Bell Tolls" and who
are the authors of those books?
2. Three well-knoWn authors, Ger
trude Stein, James Hilton and Up
ton Sinclair, are among the authors
of new books. Can you give the
titles?
3. What well-known British au-
thor is now writing his latest novel
while confined in a Nazi concen-
tration camp?
4. Name the author of North
west Passage and his latest best
selling Work.
5. Two Well-knoWn authors re-
Gently died; one an Irishman. in
Switzerland; the other an Ohioan,
in Panama. Who are they?
ANSWERS
l. For Whom the Bell Tolls"
by Ernest Hemingway. is from
passage by the preacher poet, John
Dome: e. never send to know
for whom the bell tolls: it tolls for
thee Grapes of WRATH by Jonn
Steinbeck, is from the Battle Hymn
of the Republic: vineyards
where the grapes of wrath are
stored"
,. Ida by Gertrude Stein; Ran
dom Harvest by James Hilton;
Between Two World by Upton
Sinclair.
3. P. G.. Wodehouse was captured
by Germans last spring; is now
writing novel in a concentration
camp
4. Kenneth Roberts wrote North
west Passage; currently has the
historic novel, oliver Wiswell," on
the bookstalls.
5. James Joyce, Irish author of
Ulysses "Finnegans Wake died
in Zurich, Switzerland. Sherwood
Anderson, American author OF
"WineSburg, Ohio" etc. died in
Canal Zone hospital.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08
The WEATHER

We take the weather pretty much for
granted in Imperial Valley. We take it
so much for granted, in fact, that we are
likely to gripe no end when a bit of
wind blows up, or few clouds appear
in the sky, or showers make the going
uncomfortable.
There has been a lot of that sort of
grouching in the last three or four
weeks.
Why not look at the other side of the
picture? Los Angeles and San Diego
had what we would consider cloudbursts,
while we We're having showers Northern
California had floods that did thousands
of dollars worth of damage. The midwest
and east had storms that took scores of
lives and did millions in damage Even
our neighbor to the east, Arizona, had
rainfall that, to US, would have been an
historic downpour.
When you consider what was happen
ing elsewhere, the weather has been
downright pleasant in our own part of
the country You couldn't have found
weather as good any place on the Pacific
coast.
1t really is a privilege to live in Impe-
rial Valley
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08
Did You Know?

Before the war, Londons popula-
ton was increasing at the rate of
10000 year.
A baby has from two to three
times as much skin surface, in pro-
portion to weight, as an adult.
The first United States census
was taken in 1890
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08
So They Say

Is it to be the tragic jeopardy of
democracy that if it would go to
war it must adopt the very sa;-
TENS which we abhor?
Herbert Hoover, former president
We are haunted by the greatest
unfinished task of civilization.
which is to create a just and peace
ful international order.
Attorney General Robert Jack
son.
The country wants TO defend it.
self, aid Britain, and stay out of
the war.
President Hutchins' of Chicago
University.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, IN
AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL,
N q T. I G. T.

In the Matter of the Petition of
FRANK HOWARD MADDOX.
Notice is hereby given that FRANK
HOWARD MADDOX, has filed in
this court Petition to Establish
Birth, the hearing of which has
been fixed by said Court for Friday,
the 1lth day of April, 1941, at 2
o'clock pm, at the Court room
thereof, at the court house in said
County of Imperial, and all persons
interested in said estate are noti-
fled then and there to appear and
show cause, if any there be, why
the said Petition should not be
heard and order made.
Dated March 28th, l941.
w. j. McCLELLAND
County Clerk.
BY G. O. KENYON,
Deputy.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08

Parents never have any trouble
finding a name for baby who has
a rich uncle.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08

The outcome of the income de-
pands on the outgo for the upkeep
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08
Warning to Mothers:
vv0 r III s
CAN CAUSE TROUBLE

Learn the truth! Anybody, anywhere, can
have roundworms. And they can cause great
distress inside your child Without yoar eue,.
Eno,Uing achat is acrong.
Many pale. nervous. underweght children
have bowel worms. Other innocent looking
warming signs are uneasy stomach. fdgeting.
itchy seat, nose-pcking.
Don't take chances with roundworms! Get
Jayne's Nermiiuge today! 1t is Americas
best known proprietary worm medicine
used by millions, for over century. Jayne's
eNpels stubborn roundworms, yet acts zenith.
III there are no worms, it works lust ma n
mild laxative. Insist on Jayne's Yermifuge,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08

EDITORS NOTE: The foIloLDing
editorials are presented as interesting
opinions Uoiced by editors elsewhere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08
by Paul Harrison :.
HoEywooGs Fads, Fancies and Foib|es

roly- -boly-eyed Jerry Colonna as
her Svengali.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08
Thought for the Day

And ye shall observe to do all the statutes an
judgments which ] set before you this day.-Deuter
onomy 1882.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. National
Editorial Association. Cali
fornia Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-08

Obedience decks the Christian most.-sehiller
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-15

Proving Sears Supremacy in "a
Speculate ed Field al Retailing
Once year we stege this Sale Of Sales
to demonstrate beyond rebuftal Sears
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Of unrivaled completeness set down in
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savings all through our stores, savings SO
xtraordinary because we bought
months ago when wholesale costs
we're lower. Join Detroit's thrifty
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-15

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80, - for gifts I'm
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Boys Union SUITS

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-09-12

Richard Burnham. q Orville.
and James Lasserty. % Chelan,
arrived here BY Seaplane wednes-
day morning for short visit
with Mr.. Burnham's grandfather.
c. A. Burnham. They left al
noon TO join the hunt for the mis-
sing plane from MeChord Field.
Mrs. Hugh Denny. Mrs. =. r.
Treutle and Adolph sehmel were
honor guests at Yelm Chapter
o. r s on Monday evesing.
Mrs. Sam l. Atkinson will en-
terrain the Ladies Social club Of
Midway. at her home Wednesday
afternoon.
The Fortnightly club Will COM
mence its winter program Thurs
day, Oct. 2.
Miss Molly Yates left Tuesday
for New York. from which port
she will sail on Sept. Is for South
America, where she will be en-
gagged in mission work.