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Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
WHO IS CONDUCTING
BUSINESS AS USUAL?

Bigwigs in Washington have been be-
moaning the fact that some branches Of
American industry, by their inSiStence
upon conducting business as usual" "
have delayed the national defense effort.
There should be no place for business
as usual" in national effort such as
this nation is called upon to make these
days.
That holds true of private industry
and governmental agencies as well.
Who is guilty of the most steadfast,
stubborn adherence to a business as
usual" policy?
Well, here are the figures on one out
fit that insists upon going ahead Just as
usual with routine business.
The particular payroll we refer to
a payroll distributed to men and women
for the most part not engaged in any
branch of the national defense effort.
many of them not in any way connected
with national defenSe-tOtaled 1.31O1l0
persons on June 80, 1941. The figure rep
resents an increase Of 355,993 employees
for the fiscal year-an increase of 35
per cent
Nor was the increase in this particular
payroll brought about during the early
days of the national emergency, before
anyone really realized what sacrifices
would be necessary. The total in June
was 4.SS per cent than the total for the
Immediately preceding month Of May.
when 1,306,333 employees were on the
rolls.
That particular payroll, in case you had
not already guessed is the civilian pay
roll of the United States government.
The payroll is one which comes out of
the pockets of the average citizen. He,
the average citizen, is being asked to
make many sacrifices these days, in the
way of taxes. The soaring government
payroll seems to indicate that some Of
those taxes, at least, are not going dir
ectly into national defense, as we have
been made to believe.
The federal government, it seems, is
the biggest exponent yet Of business as
usual"
Perhaps, when the federal government
wakes up to the emergency and trims
non-defense expenditures as they should
be trimmed it will find that the average
individual will feel bit more like wax
ing up, also, to the full effort necessary
in real defense preparatiOnS.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
THEY
GOT FUN
(Chicago Tribune)

(ChlcagO 1rlbune)
Hellzapoppin' with our way of life,
says Leon Henderson, or soon will be.
And let no one misunderstood Mr.. Hen
derson. He's having fun. There will be
wailing and gnashing of teeth. There
will be grOaning and grunting. There
will be shrill cries of protest, but you'll
take it and like it. The honeymoon is
over. says Mr.. Henderson. The play is
ended. Them days are gone forever. l..
II. and everybody else in the Office of
Price Administration and Civilian Supply
chOrtle at the prospect There isn't go
ing to be anything for the consumer any
more. The American standard of living
is tumbling down.
Mr. Nehemkis referred recently to the
fact that 10 considerable enterprises in
their entirety are about to pass out. They
cannot obtain the materials to continue
production. The small business man,
he said, is on the verge of extinction The
not so quiet satisfaction revealed IN these
estimates of the future America by the
New Dealers who have at last got their
way of handling it, is not encouraging.
1t is to be suspected that admonitions
which come to us regarding the depriva-
tions to be experienced beginning tomor-
row or the next day are far from unwel-
come in the new order of things. You
won't get any pots and pans. You won't
get new refrigeration, and possibly not
needed parts for the old machine. Your
radio will last you till it wears out and
then there will be none. Automobiles
will be off the market and there will be
no gasoline for the old ones. Silk stock
ings are out and nylon will go into para
chutes. Cosmetics will not be available.
The hairdresser will be out of business.
Wood for furniture is going for trim for
the navy. The consuming public, accord
ing to prediction by the New Dealers,
more gleeful than unhappy, is going back
to the days of its great-great-grand-
father
We are all apparently headed for the
underprivileged life, with the commissar
making as many calls as the postman.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
Uranium Crackers
WORLD RULERS

Heads wearing crowns these days
aren't as uneasy as they once were,
for rulers are inclined to be more
democratic. Here's a king-size set
of questions about Sovereigns, past
and present.
|. What ruler has been restored
to his throne since the beginning
of World War II?
2. How many kings has Britain
had since 1900?
3. Who was the last emperor
of France?
ANSWERS
l. Halle Selassie has been restor-
ed to the throne of Ethiopia. Also,
boy King Michael is back on the
throne of Rumania.
2. Britain has had four kings
Edward VII, George V, Edward
VIII, and George VII-since 1900
Also, a reigning queen. Victoria,
who died in 1901.
3. Louis Napoleon, president of
the second republic of France, and
later emperor of the second en-
pire, was deposed in 1870 at found
ing of third republic.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
THE SUBMARINE ATTACK

Uncle Sans insistence that a German
U-boat attacked the U. S. Destroyer
Greer first, and Berlin's insistence that
the Greer first attacked the German L
boat, has more serious implications than
appear on the surface.
President Roosevelt has ordered the
U. S. navy to "eliminate' the submarine
which attacked the Greer. If the navy
does find and eliminate the sub, and if
Germany holds rigidly to her official
Interpretation Of what happened near
Iceland, Germany will be in the position
of having to ignore what she considers
an attack on one Of her vessels by sup
posedly acknowledgement nation, or to or
der retaliatory measures against ship
ping Of the supposedly acknowledgement
nation-the United States
If such retaliatory measures are or
dered more submarines will fire on more
American ships. If that happens the
shooting war will be on.
If the Greer incident is to be the first
of many such incidents, it will undoubt-
edly lead to War-no matter who attack
ed first. Governments such as Germany
do not abide by facts-they abide by
their official version of facts. And if
Germany does that in this instance, she
is on the road to war with the United
States, for she cannot let what she calls
an unprovoked attack 60 without punish
ment.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
f keeping out of a fightP

of keeping out of a fightP
Why. a clear demonstration to
the world that we've got the ships,
we've got the men, we've got the
money, too!'-and further, the clear
demonstration that, if necessary, we
propose to use them.
The United States has nothing
very directly against Japan. 1t
wants no war with Japan. But 1t
simply will not acquiesce in Japan's
putting a Keep Off" sign on the
whole of east Asia. The United
States has nothing very directly
against Germany. But it will not ac-
quiesce in Germany's putting
Keep Off" sign on the whole Of
Europe and Africa. Especially since
those signs are expanding signs, by
their nature and by their past per-
formance.
There is chance to avoid war il
the United States will pile up suf-
ficient force that no party of World
War II will wish to offend us. There
is a chance to avoid war if enough
surplus war supplies arc produced
and sent to those resisting aggres-
sion so that they may win out.
There is a chance to avoid war If
U. S. power is SO great that fear
of it forces a decent peace.
But those are the only chances.
Otherwise the United States faces
war whether it wants to fight or
not. In either case, the ships, the
men, and the money are as nee
essary to the national life as
breath itself.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
by Paul Harrison
Hollywood Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

desperately needed to keep that
job.
Could he help? OF course. He
told her to pour a certain melted
material in the scar depression.
From that he made a positive cast,
and in it he baked strip of light,
fleshlike rubber compound. He told
her to stick it on with spirit gum
and powder it like her skin. Even
the critical gawkers at the ring
side tables won't see it.
BETTE DAVIS ON ICE
Bette Davis, who, lost her dig
nifty in a cactus patch in THE
Bride Came COD" is practicing
falls on ice for a skating sequence
in The Man Who Came to Din
ner." Shirley Temple is rehears-
ing the most elaborate dance rou-
tine of her career for a dream Sc
quence in her forthcoming "Kath-
leen" at Metro. She'll initiate
Eleanor Powell, Fred Astaire, Bill
Robinson, Ray Bolger, zorina and
Ginger Rogers.
Charlie Chaplin's next production
apparently is going to be about
Landreau, the French Bluebeard
It'll be a real creepy -jeepy, and
Chaplin's present intention is to
play the lady killer himself. Other
wise he'll just produce and direct.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 8 - You
often hear about the benefactions
of movie stars, who have kids
crooked bodies Strengthened or
drive lethal bugs out of poor peo-
pies lungs just by writing checks
but today 1 want to tell about a
studio makeup man, a former jug
gler and circus clown named Don
Cash.
He makes rubber noses. Or ears,
or cheeks, or rubber chins. Here is
one case:
Three years ago. Joe x was
thrifty and respected paint con-
tractor. A year ago-broke, be-
Wildered and masked by a band
age he stumbled out Of a hospi-
tai. While removing a cancer, sur
gcons necessarily had taken Off
part of his face.
He was too old for extensive
plastic surgery He was so shock
ing in appearance that there was
no use even thinking about trying
to resume his business. He suf-
fered under the avoidance of eli
rect glances from his family. Joe
x wasn't a coward, but he began
thinking about suicide. 1t seemed
better way to go than crazy.
HAPPY ENDING
One day after Joe X had gone
to free clinic for a routine check
up, a young doctor recalled a news
paper account of how Don Cash
had made some unbelievably life
like facial additions 20 change the
appearances Of actors. The doctor
telephoned. The makeup expert
said sure, send him around. The
charge? Don't be silly; glad to help.
The END of the story comes from
a letter written by a hard-boiled
official of g hospital: Joe x is re-
c&JaOlSRed IN his business. He is
happily rcpaying some medical
debts which he didn't have to as
sumo. The plastic nose and con-
Meeting inlay worn by Joe x is SO
perfect that acquaintance believe
he merely has removed the band
ages from a marYelously success
ful operation.
That gives you an idea. Maybe
not the least of his kindly services
is a JOB he did the other day for
a chorus girl-not a movie dancer
but a cabaret torso-tosser. She had
been terrified by a glimpse of a
costume she'll have to wear in the
new show next week. The ensemble
is a few beads and adhesive span
gles-sure betrayal of an ugly ap-
pendicitis scar which she conceal
cd when she got the job. And she
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
by Willis Thornton
yIilg0

Words are like people, Some OF
them get bad names, some good
Some deserve the bad and some the
good, but all are affected by the
reputation they bear.
"Jingo' has become a bad word
1t has come to mean an irrespon-
sible war-monger.
The name comes, if recollection
serves, from an old verse reading
in part. I'VE don't want to fight,
but by Jingo if we do, we've got the
men, we've got the ships, we've
got the money, tool"
People remember the catchy
word 'Jingo". They forget the I'VE
don't want to fight
The United States, whether we
like it or not, is getting into a posi-
ton just a little like that today
We. too, don't want to fight. For
two years we have resolutely stay
ed clear of fighting. We have given
up rights to ship our goods by sea
which we always claimed before.
No American ship has gone into a
European port which was blockaded
or in the actual war zone, though
we always previously claimed the
right to send them there.
Why did we give up those rights?
Because insisting on them % years
ago got us into a fight and today
we don't want to fight
What is the best assurance today
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
Did You Know?

Peeling is easy and waste negli-
gible on new variety of potato
with protruding eyes.
In London, a man named Col.
larbone fell down a shaft and broke
his arm.
The drum fish, OF the Gulf OF
Mexico, can crush oyster shells
with its teeth.
Modern telescopes bring about
three hundred trillion stars into
view.
Persons earning less than $4,000
a year own two-thirds of all the
motor cars in the United States.
Amundsen, the first man TO reach
the South Pole, attained that point
Dec. II, 1911.
Only Is per cent of the total
number of railway coaches in Eng
I'd are made Of steel.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
DELINQUENT
COUNTY TAXES

A new shOrt-term redemption law, ex-
piring Sept. 2S, 1871, is now in effect,
and is designed especially to help those
whose properties have been delinquent
over period of years.
Greatest savings to those whose taxes
are being paid under 1O-year-payment
plans, particularly where several pay
ments have been made.
VIII also help many whose taxes are
ROW being paid under the 5-year-pay-
ment law.
Where taxes are delinquent for year of
1910 only, this law does not apply.
Write, phone to, or call upon the coun-
ty auditor, I'll CentrO, California.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 - In all
the to-do about the Russian army.
not much attention has been paid
to the Soviet navy, but in the big
game of bluff now going on be-
tween the United States and Japan
over the shipment of war supplies
across the Pacific to VladivoStol
the force of the Red fleet is some
thing to conjure with.
Just what the strength of the
U.S.S.R. navy is will necessarily re-
main a mystery. The Stain boys
don't give out on this dope the way
they should, and their propaganda
issued for U. S. consumption is
positively funny All it does is
quote the best guesses that have
been made by British and Ameri-
can reference works. James Fight
ing Ships, Col. r. Ernest Dupuy's s
"World in Arms" and the writer's
in japanese and German publica-
tions.
Taking the average Of all these
gueSseS, the Soviet navy is said to
consist of four fleets, one each on
the Baltic, the Black Sea, the Are
tic and one on the Pacific. OF bat
tleships, the Reds have from ore to
five; cruisers, seven heavy and any
thing -to49 light. That isn't
much of navy, but where the So
Wet is supposed to be particularly
powerful is in submarines with ap-
proXimately 200 If they are at all
well trained, they might have a lot
Of fun operating against the Jap
anese fleets in the Sea of Japan.
One Of the U. S. air forces most
closely guarded secrets is the Nor
den bomb sight. The Navy has been
asked so many questions about it
that one officer recently got tired
of saying, Mo- to these queries,
and had his answer printed on
cards. Now, when anyone asks
about the Norden bomb sight or
other secret information. he is
handed black bordered card bear
ing the inscription:
The Holder of This Card Is En-
titled to Our Deep and Heartfelt
SYMPATHY!
MORE ON MINES
More information ABOUT the
dreaded German acoustic mine and
the methods of combating it is be-
ginning to be received in the Unit
ed States. This mine replaces the
old magnetic mine, now successfully
made harmless by magnetic cable
belts around ship hulls The acous-
tic mine IS attracted TO the ship,
or at least exploded by vibration
Of the ship movement through the
water, and while it was at first
thought to be a deadly weapon
against all ships, it is now believed
that steam driven vessels are i'm
mune to the danger, though Diesel
driven vessels are not. The only
successful maneuver against the
acoustic mine so far has been to
stop the engines Of Diesel-driven
ships going through the mined
areas and slowly tow them into
port. The big drawback here is that
it reduces the speed of the convoy.
One Of the U. S. Nays oldest
tasks at the moment is the Job of
trying to pry out of Japan ship
ment Of pig bristles, and the strain
ed diplomatic relations aren't max
ing the matter any easier
Select, extra long Chinese pig
bristles make the best paint brushes
IN the world. Japans blockade has
made difficult the direct export of
them from China TO the United
States, but the japanese have been
doing considerable business in this
trade from their occupied area on
the Chinese mainland. Unfortln.
tely, one big shipment OF brisLles
TO be going through ia. lar
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08

EDITORS NOTE: The foIiOIcinG
editorials are presented as Interesting
opinions Uoiced by editors elseIChere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUN-
TY OF RIVERSIDE
IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE OF HENRY c. BARRU,
Deaceased.
No. BIAS
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

NollSE VI ohLL VI hChh
ESTATE
Notice is hereby given that the
| undersigned, Administrative of the
Estate of HENRY C. BARRU, De-
ceased, will sell at private sale TO
the highest bidder for cash and
subject to confirmation by said Su-
perior Court, on the 18th day Of
September, 194l, at the hour of 10
o'clock A. M, or after said day, at
the law office of Max Lewis, 508
Quinby Building $50 S. Grand Ave-
nue., Los Angeles, California. all the
right, title and interest and estate
of the said HENRY c. BARRU a.
the time of his death, and all this
right, title and interest that tho
said estate has by operation of law.
or otherwise, acquired other than
or in addition to that of the said
HENRY c. BARRU at the time of
his death in and to that certain
parcel of land particularly described
as follows, to-Wit:
That part of Tract IA, Township
IA South, Range Is East, S. b.
M, lying West of the center line
of the highway as located across
said tract as of August /, 194l,
and which property is located
in the County of Imperial,
State of California.
Bids or offers are invited for said
property and must be in writing
and will be received at the law
office of Max Lewis, sos Quinby
Building, $50 s. Grand Avenue, Les
Angeles, California, attorney for
said Administrative, or may be filed
with the Clerk of said Superior
Court of the State of California,
in and for the County of Riverside,
or delivered to the said admins
tratrix personally at any time after
the first publication of this notice
and before the making of said sale.
Terms and conditions of said
sale: Cash in lawful money of the
United States of America, ten per
cent OF the purchase price to be
paid on day of sale, balance on
confirmation of sale by the Court.
Dated August 10Th, l94l.
ANN G.. BARRU
Administrative of the ES-
TATE OF HENRY o.
BARRU, Deceased.
A. M. DE Long and MAX LEWIS.
BY Max Lewis,
Attorneys for Administrative,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
THOUGHT for the Day

Grudge not one against another brethren lest be
condemned behold the judge standeth before the
door.-Janes SO.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08

If some people didn't have
troubles, they'd have a hard time
carrying on a conversation.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
by Peter Edison -.
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

pan for trans-shipment just at the
time the trade restrictions were
slapped on by the two countries
Whether the shipment can be freed
by State Department intervention
is question of shipping clearances.
Some of the Navy wags say they
wouldn't mind fighting Japan for
silk stockings, but they'd hate to
have to go to war just for pig
briStleS.
BLOOD ON WHEELS
A touring blood bank is Cne of
the latest defense ideas thought up
in Washington What this strange
device turns out to be is a Red
Cross laboratory on wheels, 1t viii
travel the countryside and visit
number of cities, yelling for blood,
or at least looking for blood, but
not on the hit-skip driver basis.
Patriotic citizens will be asked
to step into the car, have their
blood tested and typed, and then
the usual quantity of blood will be
drawn from the donors veins, put
in cold storage, and later dried for
blood plasma preservation and
banked until called for in emcr-
gency TRANSMISSION The cars also
can be used as TRANSMISSION first aid
stations.
WASHINGTON
BYWAYS and BYLINES
WPA writer's projects having
completed their 48-volumc Ameri-
can guide books, will turn to a si2-
volume Hands That Built Ma
ton series on regional arts and
crafts. Department Of Interior has
just published an 300 O00-word
Handbook Of Indian Law" The
Rockefeller Office of Inter-Ameri-
can Affairs is preparing a two
volume, l600page, 75CO0O-Word
guide to Latin America. CCC re-
ports that of the 1900 men who
left the camps to take jobs last
year, $4,000 joined the Army Gas
oline and power shortages viii
make bus and street car riders walk
a little farther, morning and night,
by Introduction of more skip stops
Washington, DC, per capita income
in 1910 was S1O22, nearly double the
national figure of $573 and may eX-
plain ID why people come to
Washington or % why people like
to get on the government payroll.
Correspondents in Washington
have been bothered about how TO
address Lord Bcaverbrook, but
such niceties never bother news
cameramen. One yelled out, Hey,
Lord, pet the dachshund."
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
So They Say

If the democracies are today
temporarily unprepared for mill
tary combat, it is because they
sought to assure their citizens
reasonably full life.
DR.. Paul Klapper, president of
Queens College.
The American people have been
exposed freely to every trick In
the Berlin bag for several years,
and the net result is nothing to
make Berlin happy.
Lowell Mellett administrative
aide to the President.
In many regions of France, dis
quiet is overtaking minds.
Marshal Petain, chief of state"
at Vichy.
Now is the time for wagc-earncrs
to get out of debt.
Mariner Eccles, Federal Reserve
Board chairman.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08

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fishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08
Famous Sayings

The worst way to improve the world is to condemn
it.-Baiey m,a s.hs "a -
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-08

INDEPENDENT
IMPARTIAL
and
INDIVIDUAL
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
BY WILLIAM CROWDER,
Naturalist and Artist,

AT the ancient Egyptians extremely partial to flowers
is aested only by the picture writings their tombs
but also by their books by the design Of their exqusitey
wrought jewery hierogyphccovered doc
ments they have left and other ways
would extraordinary they had not had
liking for snowy plants For thing the fertile
valley Of the Nile enclosed by desert peculiar in its
botany except palms tamarsHs and few others
timber while the other hand
kinds snowy shrubs and blooming plants are in
comparative abundance.
this combination Of prevalence and propnquy
the Of flowers. The
peng their high and singular type Of civilization
civilization that embraced culture which beauty both natural
religion Importance
The old civilization OF the Egyptians, that is TO Of about
1000 years brought the cultivation Of flowers TO finer and
perfection than perhaps that of
other people existing at the time.
Moreover is evident that they used scientific knowledge
breeding plants by that period they had
they familiar with the notation Of
weights adjusted pound Of 400 grains
the geographical division Of the country and the division Of the
three periods leach Of four months Of
months while the architecture OF the
implies knowledge geometry and its sister
practical though small knowledge of astronomy
was probably Certainly acquaintance
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-31
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