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Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-28
by Peter Edson..
The Inside Track in Washington

the big-hearted mood to spend
millions for relief but not one cent
for defense. that WPA was given
projects like building military air
fields and naval yard docks and
machine shops. And today WPA
labor has completed or is working
on no less than 1900 defense prof.
ectS costing in all 1886 million. In
less than six years, WPA has built
or improved $1,000 buildings for
army and navy. 500 airports, 1900
new airports buildings.
Also to WPA credit are the vo-
cational refresher courses which
are now training $4,000 unemploy-
ed. formerly skilled workers, so
that they can take their places in
defense industry If there had been
more of this vocational training
in times depression, we wouldn't
have the shortage of skilled la
borers now
The charge that WPA is COM
peting with defense industry for
= labor supply hardly holds water
Tor by law, man on WPA offered
Job in private industry, must take
It
An interesting sidelight to this
is that whereas WPA labor pre-
viouSly worked only 80 to 40 hours
per week, it now works 48 hours
a week. on all defense projects.
So far, there has been no OBJ
lection to the longer hours, for
the simple reason that they mean
more pay.
AS far as reduction of unem-
ployment and relief are concerned
however, the best you can look
for is a drop of three million by
the end of 1912. That figure is
on the basis of two million absorb
ed by private industry, and one
million more called into the army.
And the only way to wipe out the
three million still unemployed
would be to put them in the army.
WASHINGTON WORRIES
First of the 200 ugly duckling
freighters being built by the Mari
time Commission won't be deliver
ed before December. Six million
gallons of gasoline would be re-
quired for an all-out attack of say
5000 planes. To sWeeten the flavor
the $500 million worth of tobacco
proceSsed in the United States in a
year takes SO million worth of
sugar, SO million worth of licorice
and 81 million worth of molaSSeS
and syrup. One big achievement of
the criticized Civilian Pilot
Training Program, C.P.T.P, is that
it weeds out college men who aren't
fit to fly and saves army and
navy that effort. Earliest form of
life on North American continent
has been found in Grand Canyon.
1t is 500 million years old. 1t was
a jelly-fish.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-28
DEFENSE SPENDING SMALL
IN BIG WPA AREAS

In the second place, defense
spending is not spread evenly, like
soft butter over the national bread
line. The butter knife was wiped
off on the crusts, with the result
that the old industrial east and
the new industrial west and the
Buffalo to Milwaukee area of the
Great Lakes region get the biggest
jobs Of governmental gravy And
the center OF the loaf gets COM
paratively none.
Putting it statistically, 30 per
cent OF the defense contracts
awarded thus far have been in
areas representing only 20 per cent
of WPA employment. Putting it
t'other way round, 80 per cent of
the people on WPA live in areas
which get only 20 per cent of the
contracts. -Four out of five don't
have much chance of getting off
WPA, therefore, unless some way
can be found to spread out the de-
Tense benefits, or until the defense
effort raises the general prosperity
10 such a level that the monde
fense areas are carried along in
flood tide Of recovery.
The idea of moving workers from
the areas which need relief into
the areas which have a defense
boom is generally frowned on Past
experience has proved that big mi
grations of labor have been disas-
trous failures unless carefully pre-
pared for. and furthermore, it isn't
the unskilled relief worker who is
wanted in the defense industries
where the highly skilled labor
shortage pinch is felt sufficiently
to make employers say Ouch!
Another and most important fac
tor is that there are today more
workmen than there ever were be-
fore, more people who need jobs.
In the last 10 years there has been
q net increase of 6 million po-
tential job holders, and this figure
you can balance neatly against the
6 million people now unemployed.
In other words, there are now
more people gainfully employed
than there were at the peak OF the
boom in 1929. In still other words,
the depression now, so far as un-
is concerned, is just
about as acute as it was in 1880
and 1881, and from only third to
a half better than it was in 1892
and later years when there were
from 8 to u million unemployed.
No one, Of course, knows just how
manv there we're.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-28
So They Say

Without in any way trying to
depreclate the preparedness of the
Japanese, I still maintain that,
owing to technical inferiority, she
IS bound to be beaten in any war
with the United States.
Sir Victor Sassoon, British bank
er in the Far East.
If the world of modern science
Is too new for us to understand
its potentialities, the movement for
international peace as a part Of
practical politics is newer still
Prof. James T. ShotWell, Car
negie endowment for interna-
tional Peace.
Our national pulse beats strong
er, more determined than ever be-
fore. AS a united people we en-
dure this trial.
Queen Wilhelmina of the Free
Netherlands.
No air force can be expected to
expand a number of times and
maintain the same low accident
rate it has fought FOR years to
establish.
General Marshall, chief of staff.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-28
Did You Know?

Decalcomania Is the art of trans
ferring pictures from paper to
other surfaces.
The first alarm clock appeared
in 1920.
The expression "fits to a T" re-
fers to the T-square or rule used
by carpenters when exactitude is
required.
England's 1910 home grown beet
sugar supply is equal to % pounds
OF white sugar per head of the
population.
A pudding composed largely of
salt beef is known as a station
jack.
One person in every two hun
dred in England is named Smith,
according TO estimates.
In Detroit, Mich, for carrying
chickens by their legs, upside down,
you can be jailed for 30 days or
fined 500, or both.
According to estimates, total
farm mortgage debt in the Unit
ed states declined to $7,071 100000
IL 1889
Americans smoked more than
$4,000, 900 cigarets in 1889.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-28
by Paul Harrison :.
HOLLYWOOD S Fads, Fancies and Foibles

wasn't flashy enough.
When she danced it for me IN
the bare rehearsal hall, her hair
was streaming out from under a
rubber band; she had on the cum
bersome woolen sweaters and slacks,
and ugly black oxfords. No light
ing, no music except the piano
and, for my money, it was one OF
the most exciting things ever
listened to.
The boogie- -Woogie number isn't
finished, and it's the toughest-so
tough that no dancer ever has at
tempted to work out a routine to
1t. Pianist Walter Ruick, who
haunted sepia Central Avenues
hotspots for months beforehand,
said that this improvised, tune
less rhythm never has been played
on more than three pianos, so
they're using five.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-28
Uranium Crackers
SOUNDIE STIKERS

photographers found long ago
that you can mix the alphabet's
&c letters many different ways,
but you can't get away from re-
peating certain sounds in forming
words. Can you define the words
in these similar sounding sets?
l. Jerkin, gherkin, workin'.
2. Anagram, parallelogram, ca
blegram, gramophone,
3. Galley, gulley, gilly, golly.
4. Sampan, shlmont samphire.
samovar.
5. Larrup, stirrup, giddy-up.
ANSWERS
/. A jerkin is a jacket; gherkin
is a type of cucumber; workin' is
what I've been doing on the rail-
road.
2. An anagram is type Of puz
zle in which letters of one word
are tranSposed to form another
word; parallelogram is a quadri-
lateral with opposite sides paral-
lei; cablegram is a message sent
via cable wires; gramophone is an
old type of phonograph.
8. A galley is a ships kitchen,
or old type of sailing ship; gulley
is a small valley or gorge; gilly is
a Scotch caddie; golly is a slang
term.
a. Sampan is a Chinese fishing
boat; salmon is a fish; samphire
is plant growing along the sea-
shore; samovar is a Russian tea
urn.
5. Larrup means to beat or flog;
stirrup is foothold suspended
from a saddle on a horse; giddy-
up is what you tell the horse to
make it go.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-28
PURE, RANK
SABOTAGE

Adolf Hitler must be grinning happily
about what is happening on the United
States labor front these days.
The Allis-Chalmers strike-the Bethle-
hem Steel strike-the International Har-
vester strike. Pure, rank sabotage, every
one of them. Possibly they aren't con-
sciously intended to help Herr Hitler es-
tablish world dictatorship. But, inten-
tional or not, they are helping him in
the mighty effort he is making. Sabotage
does not have to be intentional to be dan
gerous 1t can do just as much damage,
whether it is accomplished by self-cen-
tered fools or scheming international
agents.
Guns. tanks, ships-all the sinews of
WARFARE being delayed in the factory
and on the assembly line because a few
labor union chieftans, whose tactics are
worse than those of prohibition day rack
eteers, insist upon their pound of flesh
taken from employee and employer alike.
What was it Hitler boasted of when
first it became apparent that American
productive genius would go to the aid
of Great Britain and other embattled
democracies?
He boasted that Germany and her al
lies have forces in the United States
which would so hamper production that
United States aid would be of no actual
harm to Germany, nor of any actual
benefit to Britain. He boasted that the
twin monsters of sabotage and strikes
would cripple any war effort this country
might make.
With or without his direction, it looks
like his boast is coming partially true.
We have labor union doing something
even the decadent unions of France did
not do-defying an order by the federal
government to bring strike to an end.
For 65 days the ClO has enforced a
strike at the Allis-Chalmers plant, and
government or no government. it does not
intend that the strike shall end.
We have another branch of the same
union-ClO-preventing millions of dol
lars worth of defense work in the Bethle-
hem steel plants in the slliest of all dis
putes. Not wages, not hours, not work
ing conditions, form the theme of the
strike. Not even bargaining rights are at
stake The CIO called the Bethlehem
strike on the flimsy pretext that it want
ed to prevent an independent union from
electing officers,
Is that any reason to cause a delay in
defense preparations which might very
we'll be fatal to the life of America?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-28
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IMPERIAL.
IMPERIAL.
No. 1883
S IL MI M q N S

No. 1883
SU Nj MONS
Harry w. Horton & George r
Kirk, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DIS
TRCT, Plaintiff,
VS..
REDLANDS BUILDING LOAN
ASSOCIATION, a Corporation, ROY
r. ZACHARY, MYRTLE A. ZACH
AIRY, SOUTHERN TITLE & TRUST
COMPANY, a Corporation, as Trus-
tee, CHARLES B. JEFFERS and
NORA JEFFERS, Etc, Et AL, De-
PENDANTS.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO REDLANDS BUILDING
LOAN ASSOCIATION, Corpora
ton, ROY r. ZACHARY, MYRTLE
A. ZACHARY, SOUTHERN TITLE
& TRUST COMPANY, a Corpora
ton, as Trustee, CHARLES B.
JEFFERS AND NORA JEFFERS,
Husband and Wife, as Joint Ten
ants, FRANK zINNEL, JOHN DOE,
JANE DOE, RICHARD ROE, JOHN
DOE COMPANY, Corporation,
RICHARD ROE COMPANY, a Co
Partnership, J. DOE, as Executor of
the Estate of r. ROE, Deceased,
and j. DOE, as Administrator of the
Estate of r. Roe, Deceased, Defend
ants.
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED
TO APPEAR and answer the Com
plant in an action entitled as above,
brought against you in the Superior
Court of the County of Imperial.
State OF California, within ten days
after the service on you of this Sum-
mons-if served within this county:
or within thirty days if served else
where.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said Plaintiff
will take judgment for any money
or damages demanded in complaint,
as arising upon contract, or it will
apply to tn Court for any other re-
lief demanded in the Complaint.
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial State of Cali
fornia, this 9Th day of November.
1910.
w. J. McCLELLAND,
(SEAL) County Clerk.
BY G.. O. KENYON.
Deputy Clerk.
h28: M7-l4-21-28: A4-11-l8-25)
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-28

Lucie Neville Is pinch hitting for
Paul Harrison, now touring army
camps and defense industries.
BY LUCIE NEVILLE
NEA Service Staff Correspondent
HOLLY WOOD, March 81 =
Eleanor Powell is trying to do what
she does in every picture: figure
out something that never has been
done before by a dancer. and do it
If everybody tells her it's impos-
sible, she knows it's worth trying,
and if she hasn't got much skin
left on her feet when it's over,
that's okay.
In Born to Dance, she slid
down a 55-foot pole; last years
Broadway Melody" had her whirl-
ing and tapping up flight of un-
evenly spaced, curving stairs, wear
ing a mask with eyeholes which
didn't let her see where she was
stepping. Now, in Lady Be Good,
she's working less for acrobatics,
more for novelty in her three num-
bers.
Ones a fast, riotous affair with
a spotted, flop-eared pup for a
partner. Another's the Pair of
New Shoes" she did, without mu-
sic, for Toscanini when he was
visiting Metro and asked her to
make for me the dance with the
noise"-a dance that SO delighted
the great man that he wept hap
pily and swore her feet were a
symphony. The third number is
hottest. darkest boogie-woogie, with
five pianos rumbling an accompani-
ment.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-28

WASHINGTON, March % - Any
hope YOU may have had that the
defense program. by creating a lot
OF new Jobs. would wipe out WPA,
now seems rather remote. And With
that admission. you begin TO Won
der lust what there may be TO the
Beautiful Dreamer Wake Unto Me
theory that we or anyone else can
ever spend our way back to pros
perity. even when we spend for
such ephemeral stuff as battleships
and bullets. made to be destroyed.
It's simply not in the cards.
In the first place, the President
has transmitted to Congress the
National sources planning
Board recommendation for a six
year public works program to aid
postwar sterilization, and the
WPA. without waiting for con-
gressional action, has already set
up a new unit to start making
plans to put in a reservoir to be
drawn on when and as the defense
effort collapses. These two move
indicate the administration has no
thought of folding up relief work
agencies.
Frank A. March, who has been
director of the project control di-
vision of WPA in Washington, has
been made national director of the
new long-range planning unit, and
while there has not been time TO.
prepare a detailed program, there
are indications that it will con-
sist mainly of super highways,
swimming pools, sewers ad such.
SO those are the things We may be
spending for when national de-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-28
barbs

Too much money sometimes goes
to a mans head and woman's
back.
Because of the war skirts will
be still shorter-which keeps Sher-
man from being 1000 per cent right.
Department of Agriculture pre-
diets a record 1940-4l orange crop
so it looks as if well squeeze
through all right.
Success comes easier if you keep
your mind on your work, but not
your work on your mind.
Washington is more specific on
just what kind of a machine age
we're living in-adding machine.
The traffic toll indicates that
horse sense iss as scarce on city
streets as the horse.
Pity the poor moth! Just when
we're getting out of our winter
clothes he'll be getting into them.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-28
HAS PEP
TO SPARE

She has had plenty of time in
the past year to plan steps that
her feet couldn't do then-time
spent impatiently in hospital bed
When I saw her, she was bundled
up in a wool sweater, shirt and
slackS, staving off a case of bron-
chitis while she rehearsed all day
long If that sounds as though Miss
Powell were falling to pieces, I'd
like to say that her energy is some
thing terrific. Sonia Henie's the
only actress who can compare with
her.
Som thing new for Dancer
Powell is a love scene, with John
Carroll-a regular Lunt-andFo
tame soft t-scuffle-and a fadeout
in his arms instead of dancing like
mad In front of chorus. What
really pleases her, the actress said
is that she doesn't have to be
sweet and drippy" or sit sedate-
ly. She has a lot of gag lines, and
while she wears a top-hat in the
finale, there are no flapping, Sc
quined pajamas or Pierrette Co.'S
tunes.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-28
DELINQUENT COUNTY TAXES

Where delinquent tax payments in in
stallments were initiated on or before.
April 20, 1910, it will be necessary to
again make payment on or before April
20, 1941, by which date current taxes
also must be paid
All delinquent county taxes not now on
an installment payment pl an may be
redeemed on the 5-year payment plan.
For further information, est mates.
statements, etc., call upon, write or
phone .e@
COUNTY AUDITOR,
Ell Centre, California
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-28
WPA PROJECTS NOW
HELP DEFENSE EFFORT

WPA cannot and must not be
written off as a total loss to the
defense effort. 1t was only a few
years ago, when Congress was IN
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-28
Thoughts for the Day

And Jesus went forth and saw great multitude, and
was moved with compassion toward them, and he
healed their sck.-Matthew 14:I4
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-28
THEY'RE ASKING FOR 1T:
GIVE 1T TO THEM!

The labor union chieftans-and it is
important to make a distinction between
the racketeers who have gained control
of the unions and the men who form
the membership Of them-are forcing
the nation into taking drastic corrective
steps. They have proved time and again
that they are not capable of considering
the national welfare
From the federal administration down
to some of their own hirelings, many have
tried to reason with the labor organizers
1t has done no good. Every constructive
suggestion merely meets with such a
rude rebuff as one might expect in New
York's lower eastside.
For the sake of America and the Am
erican future, it is time to stop reason
ing with these industrial saboteurs. 1t
is time to see that they are placed under
the legal restrictions they are forcing
the nation to adopt.
1t is their security or the peoples, and
there should be no question who deserves
the first consideration.
The job is up to congress now. The
administration can act only in an ad-
visory or executive capacity Even there
it has pampered the public's enemies too
much. The nation must call upon con-
gress to perform its duty
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-28
Famous Sayings

We do pray for mercy; and that same prayer doth
teach all to render the deeds of mercy-Merchant
of Venice.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-28
MEMBER

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fishers Association. Nationai
Editorial Association. Call
fornia Newspaper fublish-
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-28
I'M NOT
PREPARED.

At penthouse party, she's asked
to dance and murmurs languidly.
We'll, of course, I'm reahlly not
prepared but" Meanwhile, she's
shucking bracelets and unzipping
her skirt, then discovers with a
pretty show of confusion that her
tap shoes are in her evening purse,
and goes into her dance.
It's the New Shoes" number, an
intricate thing of suddenly chang
ing tempo. She has rehearsed ii
every day for two years, hoping it
would be used in a picture, but the
studio always rejected it because it
Evening star., 1941-08-18
This Changing World
Germons Are Still Unsotisfied With
Cooperation Given by viehy

war In Germany would be shot.
This had the desired effect.
whatever the intentions Of Gen.
Weygand might have been, he
decided to remain an inactive
spectator in the Italian-British
war.
The same threat is being re-
peated. Petain still is pleading
for the release of his men. About
half a million have been sent
back to France as a reward for
his compliance with most of the
German requests. But the Fueh-
rer considers it a wise policy to
keep most Of the French Army
in Germany so that he Gan put
real pressure on the French chief
of state when the situation re-
Quires 1t.
Busy In Russia.
For the time being the Ger
mans are kept busy in Russia
and are unable to start the
drive they planned in Western
Europe. In that campaign they
need the full and unquestioned
cooperation Of the French. The
Tightening of military regula-
tions In the occupied area, the
extraordinary activities OF the
French secret police in the un-
occupied zone, are only the
preparatory movements for a real
campaign for complete and unre-
stricted French cooperation.
Berlin feels that these clear
warnings coupled with a number
of executions will have q salu-
tary effect on the French leaders
and people who are still hesitant
about joining the Axis. These
prepare the ground for the next
months activities In Western
Europe.
According to reports from un-
occupied France, the last touches
Evening star., 1941-08-18
against the employers, the third

against the employers, the third
member, who represents manage
ment, is in the minority. Thus does
one mans vote in q panel of par.
tisans decide momentous issues Of
labor policy which Congress itself
has never ventured to decide.
President Roosevelt has said that
the recommendations" of the
Mediation Board should be &C
cepted and that there should be no
work stoppage pending attempts to
conciliate. In defiance Of that re-
quest, the c. I. o. union at Kearny
has called strike involving $493,-
100000 of naval contracts. The
company in question has offered its
plant to the Government for i'm
mediate operation and possession.
If the Government takes over, there
can presumably be no form Of closed
shop. So what is gained by the
Mediation Board in making public
statement which from coast to coast
will be seized upon as the justifica-
ton for the first steps on the part
of unions everywhere to strike for
a closed shop? And what can be
lost now by union that strikes
hereafter on that issue? 1t Is as
sured that a governmental agency
will back up its demands. Such a
chaotic result could have been
avoided if the National Defense
Mediation Board had stuck to its
main job-mediation between the
parties instead of taking sides on
abstract union issues which for
generations have not been settled
and which for year or two longer,
while the war emergency lasts, cer-
tainly do not need to be brought
to a climax. When any tribunal
called a mediation" board takes
sides, it outlives its usefulness and
a new board is necessary If progress
toward peace is to be made.
Reproduction Rishts Reserved)
Evening star., 1941-08-18

on the fleet have been completed,
and on the whole, Admiral Dar-
Ian can count on the loyalty Of
the officers. There is q certain
amount of grumbling among the
crews, but the sailors are no
longer as difhcult to handle as
they were before and during the
war. Communism having become
outlawed In the country, 1t is
dangerous to profess commpnis-
tic ideas. Many of the recruits
Of the Comintern were in the
French Navy, and the officers
fearing repercussions from the
previous French government fire.
quently had to compromise to the
detriment Of discipline. Darlan
seems to be convinced that what
ever happens, he is certain to
lead the marine rationale which,
ever way he wishes.