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Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03
PROBLEM CHILDREN
IN CALIFORNIA
Woodland Democracy

Californias problem children, at least
a part of them, are the Japanese-Ameri-
cans. Not that they are problems to the
state = far from it but international
conditions make life in their home state
a problem for them.
If all citizens Of California had the
same record as the Californians of Japa-
nese descent there would be few prob
lens at all They have the lowest crime
rate. the best credit rate and the smallest
relief rate-none, in fact-of any single
group in the state.
Still, without thinking, many Ameri-
cans of European rather than Aslatic
descent have an attitude concerning their
fellows Americans of japanese descent
that springs from honest reaction to the
present-day political leadership of the
land of Nippon. In World war days
many Americans of German descent suf-
fered from the same unthinking attitude.
One of the major prize winning floats
in the New Years day Rose parade of
Pasadena was that of the Central Japa-
nese Association of Los Angeles county,
Il beautiful float depicting cherry bios
som time in Washington, d. {.
The theme, and the carrying out Of
the theme, was singularly appropriate
in present times.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03
IA Service. Inc

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3-Nothing
has surprised official Washington
recently much more than the way
Frank Knox has taken hold of
the Navy Department.
A secretary of the navy is likely
to become a fifth wheel If he
doesn't watch out. The department
is full of cagy officers who like
nothing better than to keep the
secretary amused with inspections,
reviews, honor guards and general
diet of fuss and feathers while the
service staff goes ahead with the
job of running the outfit. A secre-
tary who steps in at the age of g.
and whose appointment is a OBJ
viously political as was Knox's, is
a particularly likely victim.
But it hasn't worked out sthat
way with Knox. He is head of the
Navy Department in more than
name.
Since last July he has definitely
stepped up the tempo of things.
He figured that he got the job
because the President wanted some
body to keep things moving, and
he has acted on that theory.
SETTING UP EXERCISES
KEEP KNOX IN TRIM
For one thing. he keeps moving
himselW. He can't wander around
the building as much as he did
when he was publisher of the Chi
cago Daily News. when you were
as likely to find him down in the
press room as in his office. but
he gets around good bit. When
he can't drop in on bureau or
division head personally he can
always get him on the phone.
These men accordingly know the
secretary is keeping close tabs on
their work. A little added effort
to keep things rolling swiftly is
the result, all the way down the
line.
Secretary Knox believes that it's
no accident that at 67 he has the
driving energy TO make a huge
government department click. It's
mostly a matter of physical fitness.
he thinks.
His own fitness he ascribes to a
course of l5-minute setting up exer-
cises which he has taken religiously
every morning for the last 40
years. They're the first item on
his daily program. and he talks 'em
up quite a lot-has even converted
some of the officers at the depart
ment to the idea.
A NAVY SECRETARY'S
TYPICAL DAY
His official day begins around
in the morning. when he checks
in at his office and plunges into
his mail He has no set time for
answering it. Gifted with a keen
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03
by Paul Harrison
Hollywood S Fads, Fancies and Foibles

cause the cameraman was saying
he couldn't photograph fancy
all-white costume designed for her.
And it couldn't be dyed. saio
this seemed a suitable penalty Tor
putting civilized clothes on the
Sarong siren.
DeSylva would like to take MISS
Lamour to Manhattan next fall 1or
a stage show, probably satire on
her sarong pictures; but he knows
Paramount wouldn't let her be
gone so long. Dozens of other Holly
wood people would like to go back
with him to hypo their careers WIN
Il Broadway show They remember
his rescue of Betty Cradle by that
route, and they point to what his
current hits are doing for former
NOVELTIES Jimmy Dunn, Phyllis
Brooks, Arthur Preacher, Benny
Baker and Bert Lahr
HE'D SAVE If HE
QUIT WORKING
With his days so full of movies,
I hoped to discover that DeSylva
works nights on his next New York
musical. Doesn't, though, because
he seems to be able to bat those
off any time. preferably at the last
minute. He and Herbert Fields did
finish scrips on "Du Barry and
Hattie in 12 and Is days. LOU
isiana Purchase" took longer, he
said, because he and Morrie Rys-
kind took the job to Palm Beach,
and DeSylva never could find his
collaboration.
After one of his trips to the
telephone, DeSylva admitted he is
going to be embarrassed by his
income this year. Although he ne
yer dreamed all his shows would be
hits, they have fully paid for them
selves and now are piling up whop-
ping profits. The movie rights will
pring in lot of money. and there's
also his salary as producer of two
pictures.
All these will put him into such
= high tax bracket that ii would
be cheaper ii he quit right now and
went fishing. Trouble is. he actually
likes working even when work be-
comes Il paradOXical luxury.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03
by Willis Thornton. :.
Give Us Courage and Gaiety'

didn't cry before they were hurt,
nor much, nor often, even when
they were.
Il hear lot of people talk as
though the world were coming to
- cd" said Frank O. Lowden,
l.AO.5 elder statesman" on his
8Gth birthday, and this I do not
believe -. I have never lost my
faith that right triumphs in the
ed If we shall exhibit the high
courage which our heritage calls
for, 7 think we may look forward
to the future with faith and hope"
The British, who are actually un-
dergoing the things our JeremiahS
are worrying about, do not moan
and wall. But we, still free, still at
peace, still functioning, are asked
TO go and sit covering in some
dark corner to wait for the end of
everything.
1t is no witleSS Pollyanna Opti-
mism we peddle here it is clear
sighted courage which admits all
the pitfalls and terrors that may
lie ahead and then says $50 what!
Even these we can conquer; even
these will pass away"
Let us write upon our hearts the
words craven in Edinburgh on a
bronze memorial to that gay, brave
man, Robert Louis Stevenson:
Give US grace and strength to
IGlbear and to persevere. Give us
courage and gaiety and the quiet
mind"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03
by Bruce Cation
The Inside Track in Washinqton

memory, he can read mail in snatch
es, keep in mind what he has read,
and dictate replies hours later.
At $50 he always has confer
ence with Admiral Stark, chief of
naval operations, and seven or eight
other ranking officers, to talk over
basic problems that are up for
consideration or decision.
The conference finished, there is
no set routine for the rest of the
day. Appointments are sandwiched
in when there is time
Secretary Knox is out of his Of
flee almost as much as he is in
it-down the hall talking to some
department executive. or across
the street in the Office of Produc-
ton Management, or up at some
other government department seeing
some cabinet member. He often
lunches in his office, alone or with
an aide. Quite often he crosses
the street to eat with Defense Com
missioner Knudsen and Stettinius.
He makes no bones about the fact
that he honestly enjoys being head
of the navy and that he likes the
inspection tours that fall to his
lot During the past summer. while
Mrs. Knox was at their summer
home in New Hampshire, he lived
aboard the u S. S. Sequoia, trim
60-foot yacht which the navy main
taines for the secretary's use and
which is kept docked at the Wash
ington navy ward. Right now he
and Mrs. Knox have a suite at the
Wardman Park Hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03
1T is NOT THE SHIPPER
WHO IS BIG LOSER HERE

Valley shippers are suffering some
economic loss in the strike, but compared
to the workmen, the shippers are well
Off The so-called striker is the fellow
who's being hurt most. Consider his case:
He doesn't want to Strike, but he's got
to. There's work to be done, and he wants
to work, but he can't pass the picket lines
He doesn't give hoot about the CLOS
official strike demands yet the law says
he's got to support them. He doesn't
even know Ted Rasmussen, yet the law
says he is bound by whatever decision
Rasmussen makes. He might change
unions, but it wouldn't do him any good
it would be three months before his new
union could be recognized as bargain
ing agent.
There's something rotten about setup
like that.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03

Dc you ever get tired of the
whining, spineless, hopeless sort Of
person one NESTS every once in a
while these days who is convinced
that there is no hope ahead-noth-
inc but a short, quick chute down
tc the demnition bow-WoWs?
You know the kind OF PEI ''.-.
ereets you sadly, al W mar
tired D.. oonfe5sca that all is lost
it is only a QUESTION cf time until
chaos ruics-thc British, lie has
confidential information, can't pos
sibly win : CCln2ans, or the Boil
sheviks are about to take over prac-
tically overything-wc are goin9
to get into a war, sure pop-and II
we do. it will be the end OF every
thing-and so on, and so on, until
this modern jeremiah is practically
embalming himself in acid tears.
Talk about n-AmericaniSm! II
anything in un-American it is this
supine cringing before an unknown
future-this loud, persistent holler-
ing before anybody is hurt.
Certainly the future looks black
and doubtful-but SO it did, 10
doubt, in 1777. and 1863, and 1877,
and even in l932-but we staggered
through somehow each time, with
our freedom intact, stronger than
ever
Certainly we may be dragged into
a war, and if we are, it will be
bitter and cost Us dear-but we will
win, too, and there will be a better
world to make. And it is by 10
means certain that we will b.
dragged in.
Certainly there are social changes
afoot, new and untried paths to
tread-but when did Americans
ever finch from the new and un-
tried? Nobody ever guaranteed any
thing to first settlers, the covered
wagoners, the sod-busters. and
plainsmen, the homesteaders they
plunged straight ahead, and they
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03
WHERE IS THE
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING?

Imperial Valley is finding out through
the medium of its lettuce shed laborers
how union racketeerS have perverted the
theory of collective bargaining into
vicious weapon instead of a GLORIOUS bless
ing.
They still call it collective bargaining,
but it is not. 1t has no more to do with
the men who actually perform the labor
than it had before the Wagner Act was
passed
The original theory of collective bar
gaining was that it would give the Labor
ers in any industrial plant chance to
deal as unit by themselves or through
a representative approved by them, with
the employer 1t is a good theory. One
man alone, working in the average IN
dustrial plant, has no chance to stand
up against an uscrupulous employer. The
men must stand together if they are to
win fair treatment from such an en-
ployer.
Under true collective bargaining, the
shed workers of Imperial Valley would
send their own representatives to deal
with shippers if any dispute existed. They
would vote among themselves to deter
mine what they want from the shippers
Then, if the shippers refused their de-
mands and further negotiation were I'M
possible. they would vote to determine
whether they wanted to strike. That
would be their right and there are few
people who want to deprive them of 1t.
The shed workers of Imperial Valley
have been deprived of that collective bar
gaining right today. They have been de-
prved of it by labor racketeers whose
interest is more in collection of dues than
in obtaining better conditions for the
men and women who earn their hvngs
in the sheds.
The men who called the strike in I'M
peral Valley do not actually represent
the packers and trimrlers in the lettuce
sheds They do not even speak the same
language. They are paid employees of
gigantic organization known as the ClO
They come in from the outside. they pre-
sent demands to the shippers which the
laborers have had no hand in fOrmulat-
ing, they call a strike without even TAX
ing a vote among the laborers. They do
all this because, by technicality, they
are able to claim that the CIO represents
the laborers in collective bargaining"
Actual collective bargaining is the es-
sence of democracy in labor relations. 1t
means that employees and employer dis
cuss their differences as man to man, on
a basis of equality, without fear that the
employer may exact economic revenge
against his employees.
What is going on in the valley today
does not even remotely resemble cOllec-
tive bargaining.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 8 This is
mostly about Buddy DeSylva, but
first let me cite a coincidence.
When Shirley Temple struggled
with her last few poor pictures at
20th-Fox. the studio kept another
youngSter. Joan Carroll, under
wraps as a threat and possible sue
cessor to the star. Came the blow
up and Shirley's temporary retire
ment. Joan, who hadn't been per-
mitted to do anything, was taken
to New York, went into Panama
Hattie" and became the surprise
of that talent-packed show Now
M-G-M is buying the screen rights
to Panama Hattie" and will use
Miss CAROLS role as comeback
vehicle for Miss Temple.
B. c.. DeSylva happens to have
had lot to do with the careers OF
both kids. He produced the Shirley
Temple pictures on which she
climbed to top ranking in box Of
flee popularity. He produced and
helped write Panama Hattie and
he hired Joan Carroll to play in 1t.
The seasons best Snowman is
back in Hollywood now. In the
morning he's the producer OF
'"Caught in the Draft a comedy
with Bob Hope. In the afternoon
he prepares the production of
Birth of the Blues a musical
which will star Bing Crosby and
feature young Carolyn Lee. Be
tween these two jobs today, he, had
lunch with your correspondent.
SOOTHING
LAMOUR
AT least, I had lunch. DeSylva
kept jumping up TO answer the
telephone. 1t seemed that deals for
two of his stage hits were getting
hct Metro was offering Sl25,0O0
for Panama Hattie; Columbia
had bid $75 COO for "Du Barry Was
a Lady" and another studio was
Going up from there. Paramount
already has sowed up Louisiana
Purchase" which DeSylva himself
i likely TO produce.
Another Time, he had To 90 10 a
nearby table and soOthe Dorothy
I.amour, who was worrying be
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03
Barbs

Professor of surgery says tests
show the heart TO be practically the
toughest of human muscles.
No test are needed TO show some
folks are hard hearted.
Men are about the only people
on earth who think they have
more sense than women.
Ten carloads of iron were donated
TO Britain by Oklahomans. Any
way you look at it, it was scrap
iron
A new Italian stamp will bear
pictures of Hitler and Mussolini-
but that isn't the way we want
them both licked at the same time.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03

France has been the crossroads of
European development This
geographical fact of a central po-
sition cannot be changed even by
Hitler.
Henry E. Bourne, professor-emri-
titus of history, Western Reserve
University.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03

There are 1905 Negro physicians
and surgeons in the United States.
The African secretary bird gets
its name from the curious crest IT
wears. resembling a secretary with
quilts behind his ears.
The work done by the human
heart in one day is equal to lifting
l24 tons a foot high.
The United States Naval Acad-
emy originally was located in New
port. Rhode Island.
Houston, Texas, has 1860 auto
mobile parking meters.
Lower karat Colds are M e
more tarnish- resistant by the adj
dition of small percentages of pal
ladium.
The only common wood which
will burn when still green is that
VI lllt doii liCt'
Stem is the name of the town
that claims the distinction Of be-
ing the exact center of the state of
North Carolina.
The worlds three largest banks,
are located in England, with Am
erica largest bank ranking fourth
on the list.
A hen in Pomona, Calf, laid a
separated egg. with the yolk in one
section and the white in another.
In England, there are about 49,
COO accidental deaths annually.
About G000 of these occur on high
ways and the rest in industry.
Parking meters for automobiles
now are used in 155 cities in the
United states.
take place at Evergreen cemetery.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03
THOUGHTS for the Day

This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee
do these statutes and Judgments thou shalt there
fore keep and do them with all thine heart and with
all thy soul.-Deuteronomy 26:l6
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03

EDITORS NOTE: The fOllolcing
editorials are presented as Interesting
opinions UOiced by editors efseIUhere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03

Your fortune is made if you'll
invent u doorbell thatll tell who's
ringing it.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03

I want this war to end by nego-
tiation, before the men, women and
children of the world are debauched
and demoralized; before the wealth
and treasures of the world are de-
stroyed, and before human rights
and liberties are lost forever.
William Rhodes Davis. interna-
tional oil operator.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03
So They Say

Europe's control of the overseas
world is probably broken and done.
DIR. Clinton Howard, professor of
history, University of California
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03

The work done by the human
heart in one day is equal to lifting
l24 tons a foot high.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03

1t is common to speak of the
newspaper of today as purely COM
mercial enterprises managed with
a single eye to profits. The fact
of the study suggest that for the
most of the press Of the United
States this is a SANDER.
DR.. E. L. Thorndyke, Columbia
University psychologist.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03
Did You Know?

There are 1905 Negro physicians
and surgeons in the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03
Famous Sayings

Donald.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03

Drinking by the elite is apcd,
craved, and enlarged as it zig-zags
through the lower brackets of the
social order, gathering millions on
the way that swarm into the low
dives and dens, thence shunted Oh
to courts and speWed out into So
ciety as Divorces. criminals, dis
eased, insane, cripples, orphans and
indigents.
Former Gov. Luren d. Dickinson
of Michigan.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03

The United States Naval Acad-
emy originally was located in New
port. Rhode Island.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03

The African secretary bird gets
its name from the curious crest IL
wears. resembling secretary with
quilts behind his ears.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03
MEMBER

American Newspaper fub.
fishers Association. Nati0naA
Editorial Association. Cau- :
fornia Newspaper Pubiisn'
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-02-03

Houston, Texas, has 1860 auto
mobile parking meters.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-09-19

The best way to find out what to
send soldiers in camp is to ask
the soldiers themselves. Surveys
among the men with the colers
show cigarettes and smoking to-
bacco head the list. Actual sales
records from service stores in the
Army, Navy, Marine Corps and
Coast Guard show the largest
selling cigarette is Camel. Prince
Albert Smoking Tobacco is we'll
known as the National Joy
Smoke" A carton of Camels or a
pound tin of Prince Albert is al
ways welcome, doubly welcome
around the end of the month. Local
tobacco dealers are featuring
these brands as ideal gifts for men
in the service.-Adv.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-09-19
Quitting Time

sWhy isn't Bill Jones at work this
morning?" asked the foreman one
Monday.
ssHe met with an accident at his
wedding on Saturday." said one OF
his mates.
Accident"
ssYes. AS he and his missus left
the church, some Of the lads made
an archway of picks for them to
pass under. Somebody blew a whis-
tie, and the whole lot downed tools. "
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-09-19

Weep for John
j. Apologize:
The gas man said,
"You're just too latel"
Eympathize
With Nell's friend Joe:
He only said,
'My watch was slowl"
Do not laugh
At johnson (Will):
He called on her
With just one gill.
The ladies' pride
Is Wallace Wright:
He saves his gas
To drive by night.
Oh lucky egg
Is Luther Mix:
The gas shack clock
Had stopped at six!
And wottaman
Is Barnett ("Puggy"):
He never sold
That HORSE AND BUGGYI
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-09-19
Plants. Flowers Grow Rapidly

"A DELIGHTFUL mystery! He
= liotrope with sweet clusters Of
tiny flowers, graceful palms and
ivy-striped pandanus-all growing
merrily in a small-necked jug. Ad-
miring friends ask 'sHow on earth
did they get there?"
Bottle terrariuns are almost as
simple to make as the more usual
kind. Pour in some drainage ma
terial, pebbles perhaps, and then
add soil. Shake and tilt the bottle
as you pour in each layer until
it lies evenly.
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-09-19

nOWN in the valley he heard the
~ train blow. So the farm boy
in the North Carolina mountains
hung up his hoe and followed the
white plume
Old Squirrel Gun of smoke to
Taught Tycoon to fame and
Draw Sharp Bead T. o : e. ;,
Thomas A. Morgan's loading
squirrel gun was an instrument OF
precision compared to the best arti-
fee of economics and business at
q time like this. It taught the fu-
ture president of the Sperry corpo-
ration to draw a sharp bead on what
ever he was shooting at and in Lin
coins phrase, never to "shoot at a
louise on his own eyebrow"
So, today, his target is post
war sOlvency. With all the rush
of defense orders and plant ex-
pansion there is each day some
thing in the kitty for what may
come hereafter. For the first
half of this year, $433,S16 has
gone into this "cushioning'
fund. The margin for error in
such computations probably
is greater than that of Sperry
bomb sight, but whatever
skilled precisionist may do is
being done.
At 16, Thomas A. Morgan fetched
UP in the navy, was quickly en-
crossed with the magic whirligig of
a Sperry gyroscope and was there
by steered into his manifest destiny.
His skill with the gyroscope
brought him in touch with its in
ventor, Elmer A. Sperry, and his
career as a maker Of precision in
struments-the need for which is al
ways in inverse ratio to the stability
and precision in the affairs of men.
1t wasn't all smooth sailing.
During the World war, the czar's
navy was ducking and lodging
and hiding in the mists. Mr..
Morgan chased it here and there
and everywhere, to sell it gyr0-
scopes, caught up with it and
rang up a sale. 1t was an epic
of American craftsmanship.
Mr.. Morgan became president of
the Sperry corporation in 1928.
Shortly thereafter he became an en-
inent patron of aviation ard soon
was caught up in swirl of insti-
<,,+oc oh am arc hoardc ft.udc
councils and societies-the inescap-
able fate of eminence and intelli-
gence in America. If the chariot
Of progress needs anything new on
its dashboard, he and his company
can be relied upon to figure it out
and install it overnight. Mr.. Nor
gan had but 10 months Of schooling
behind him when he broke home
ties to join the navy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-09-19

STUDIES IN THE GAS SHORT
Out of luck
Is Wilbur Wrenn:
He thought Of gas
At ITO.
Sad indeed ~
Is Arthur Bot:
Twas 8 p. M
And he forgot!
Shed a tear
For Minnie Wray:
Her friend used all
Her gas by day! *