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Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
WHY? ASKS The
AVERAGE CITIZEN
Avail Street JournaIl

Mr.. Average Citizen may be pardoheo
for being somewhat puzzled about many
of the things he sees and hears these DAYS
He listens to eXhortations designed 10
impress him with the idea that ne Is not
fully aware of the dangers that threaten
democratic civilization. In recent DAYS
he has noted that grim-faced otflc@l
personages have appeared be1ore We
House Foreign Affairs Committee, warn
ing that a crisis may be preclpltaleo III
the next 60 to so days unless all posslple
aid is given to Great Britain. lie IS I'M
pressed. for the most part, ana Is III
agreement with the view that we snoulu
help Britain quickly. Much more is he
convinced that our own defense arma-
ment should be accomplished with ali
possible speed.
What puzzles him is to read IN an m
conspicuous corner of the press that Ihe
Bureau of Labor Statistics has just COM
pleted a survey of industrial operations
in defense plants. Out OF l54 de1ehSe
plants, it is reported, only Is are "olh-
ing seven DAYS a week and 90 are work
inc five davs a week, SO are working ~
davs and 45 six days. Of the 154 plants
SURVEYED, 72 are operating on a one-shi1t
basis.
All this is rather difficult to square
with the exhortations that time is of the
essence. In a dim way Mr. Average Cn.
zen may perceive that the problem OF
time and one-half for overtime in excess
of 40 hours a week may have something
to do with the partial use OF our defense
facilities. But since we plan to spend
we'll over $1,000, 100000 in the next fls-
cal year, of which nearly $1l ,OOO 0OO,-
600 is for defense, it would seem to be
the part of wisdom somehow to OBTAIN
maximum productive effort. surely
that is not being done when 72 out of 154
defense plants are operating only one
shift and many are working only five
days a week.
It IS all rather incomprehensibe to the
average citizen. He may be pardoned for
asking: .'Why?"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
Did You Know?

A mans hairy chest is no indi-
cation of superior strength.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS lotus
seeds from Manchuria terminated
and grew sprouts.
A man named Train constructed
England's first street railway.
Rural womenfolk of China cul-
tivate silkworms in the home as
means of adding to the income
of the family.
When driving-a a car by night, it
is said, dark-eyed people see better
than those with blue or gray eyes.
When considering both price and
specific gravity, one ounce of pal
ladium will replace two ounces OF
gold.
The cucumber is mentioned in
the Old Testament and figures in
ancient history as far back as 5000
years.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
by Willis Thornton
In .HuddIing the Government

Bitter are the lessons being writ
ten in blood across Europe today
and woe to him who will not learn
them
One of them seems to be this:
there is danger in too great cen
tralization. That is: if all your
government offices are huddled in
one small area. all your steel works
huddled in another, all your auto
and munitions plants in another,
all your bodybuilding facilities in
another, so much greater the chance
of a single Gripping blow by some
overwhelming bombing raid. That
country is best off whose productive
facilities are 50 scattered that q
whole series of successful blows
might not necessarily cripple it.
The war has centered attention
on decentralization New powder,
plane and munitions plants are
being built in remote places which
had hitherto been without great in
dustries, even without great popu-
lations. And this at a time when
the tide of people flocking to the
cities seems to have reversed Itself
and for the first time the census
figures show an increase in the
rural population.
But against this tide swims gov
ernment. The population of Wash
ton has grown SO per cent since
1890 rate of Increase exceeded
only BY Miami and San Diego It
has stopped over its limits, and Ar
lington county. across the Potomac
in Virginia is the fastest-groWing
county in the United States. Office
buildings cannot be built fast
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
Cranium Crackers
Workers of the World

Workers of the World
Decline in unemployment may be
due to the increase in the different
kinds of work a man may do in
this expanding age. With the
multiple choice clews to guide you.
can you identify the type of work
each of the following does?
l. Oneirologist (O makes maps;
tb) studies dreams; Co catches
fish: i'd sprays insecticide.
2. Longshoreman. ca gathers
driftwood; (b) shears sheep; (c)
loads or unloads vessels; Id charts
navigation.
3. Pediatrician. ca doctors the
feet; (b) teaches school; (c) is
honked at motorists: cd specializes
in medical treatment of children.
4. Compositor. az sets type; (b)
pretends he's another person; (c)
doctors horses: cd sells hosiery.
S. .Calligrapher. (a) makes maps;
ages by wire; (b) makes maps;
(c) runs switchboard; ID writes
with a fine hand.
Answers:
l. An oneirologist (b) studies
dreams
2. A longshoreman Co works
at the wharves, loading and un-
loading vesses.
3. A pediatrician Id specializes
in the medical treatment of chill
dren
A. A compositor (a) sets type.
S. A calligrapher (6 is good
penman, writes with a fine hand
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE FORECLOSURE

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE FORECLOSURE
No. 1851
OFFICE
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL } SIS.
OF CALIFORNIA;
HOME OWNERS LOAN COR
PORATION, a Corporation,
Plaintiff.
HOLDAM STUART, BANK OF
AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST and
SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, a Bank
ing Association, CORPORATION
OF AMERICA, a Corporation as
Trustee, Defendants.
Under an Order of Sale and De-
cree of Foreclosure and Sale issued
out of the Superior Court of the
County of Imperial, of the State of
California, on the 9th day of jan
uary AID. 1941, in the above en-
titled action, in which HOME
OWNERS LOAN CORPORATION,
a Corporation, the above named
plaintiff, obtained Judgment and
Decree of Foreclosure and Sale
against Holdam Stuart, Bank of
America National Trust and Saw
ings Association, a Banking Asso-
clatlon, Corporation of America, q
Corporation as Trustee, defendants,
on the 10th day of January AID,
194l, for the sum of Six Thousand
Five Hundred Fifty and lO/lOO dol
lars, ($6,55010) in lawful money of
the United States besides interest,
and costs, which said Decree was,
on the llth day of January A. D..
l941, recorded in Judgment Book
Il of said Court, at page 337 am
commanded to sell all that. certain
lot, piece or parcel of land, situate.
lying and being in the City of Ell
Centro, County of Imperial State
of California, and bounded and
described as follows:
Lot Ten 10) in Block Twenty
(20, Subdivision of Blocks Nine
teen and Twenty, First Addition
to the City of El Centre, County
OF Imperial, State of California,
according to Map No. "a, on file
in the office of the County Re-
| corder of Imperial County, in
Guiding all buildings and i'm
| provements thereon.
| Therefore notice is hereby given
that on Friday, the 21st day of
February AID, 1941, at Ten o'clock
AM. of that day, in front of the
North and Main Street door of
the County Courthouse. in the City
of Ell Centre, County of Imperial,
State of California, will, in obed-
ience to said Order of Sale and
Decree of Foreclosure and Sale.
sell the above described property,
or so much thereof as may be nee
essary to raise sufficient money to
satisfy said judgment, with interest
and costs. etc, to the highest and
best bidder, for lawful money of the
United States.
r. w. WARE,
Sheriff.
BY S. T. ROBINSON,
I Chief Deputy.
Dated at Ell Centre this 9th day
of January AID. l94l.
(J30, F6-l3-20)
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30

The only thing that will keep one man
or group of men from stealing govern
ment and administering it in the interests
of privileged few is free press.-Grove
Patterson, editor, in tribute to BenJa-
min Franklin.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30

enough to hold the bulging bureaus;
rents skyrocket.
One answer has been proposed by
Representative Everett NJ Dirksen
of Illinois. He has introduced into
the house a resolution which would
call for moving many government
bureaus bodily from Washington to
other cities. Even allowing for
Dirksen's probable direct interest in
getting some of them for Chicago
or for his native Pekin district,
maybe this is worth thinking about.
Dirksen argues that Sl00,000,000
was spent last year by officials in
travel from Washington TO other
places where government business
was being done; that many of the
functions of government, like So
cial security, railroad control of
various kinds, census bureau, hous-
ing and home loan work, maritime
controls, WPA, CCC, veterans
work. and agricultural aid could
just as efficiently and perhaps more
economically be discharged in other
parts of the country.
Does too great a concentration Of
the nations life blood for safety
pass through Washington? New
York? Chicago? Detroit? Ought we
begin thinking seriously OF doing
something about it?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30

In taking up the slogan that America
must be the arsenal of the democracies,
are we forgetting that America must
be the garden of the democracies Rev.
Dr.. Ralph w. Sockman, New York.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30

AS Hitler made the Jews his
scapegoat, SO we are making Hitler
ours.
President Robert M. Hutchins,
University of Chicago.
3 don't see how the United States
and victorious Germany can exist
peaceably side by side for any
length of time.
Bertrand Russell, British ex-paci-
fist.
There is an irresistible and un-
stoppable impulse to recovery in our
economic order.
DIR. Neil Carothers. Lehigh Uni
verSity.
I think I'm doing just the right
thing.
Winthrop Rockefeller, son Of John
D. Jr., on volunteering for army
service.
Hitler expresses what is in the
German mind, or he would not re-
main.
DIR. Carl j. Hambro, former
speaker of the Norwegian Stor-
ting.
Scarcely anyone doubts that today
is one of the most favorable per-
iods in our history for embarkine
on home ownership.
Dean R. Hill, president Mortgage
Bankers Association.
Although I have preached paci
fism all my life. I am convinced
now for the first time that free
dom cannot be preserved without
military struggle.
Bertrand Russell, British philo
sopher and author.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
Editorials and Comment
THURSDAY JANUARY 80 191

EDITORS NOTE: The f0Hotp.ng
editorials are presented as IafereSrth0
opinions rOiced by editors eiSepnere.
They do not necessarily refiect tne
ODiniOu of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30

If we have faith and are willing
TO have a little sweat for year
or so. then we might save little
blood later on.
William S. Knudsen, defense CONF
missioner.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
Thoughts for the Day

Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments and
the statutes, and the judgments which commanG
thee this day to do hem-Deuteronomy I'll.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
MEMBER

MEMBER
American Newspaper fuD.
fishers Association. Nati0nai
Editorial Association. Cali
fornia Newspaper PUBLISH
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30

A mans hairy chest is no indi-
cation of superior strength.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30
So They Say

AS Hitler made the Jews his
scapegoat, SO we are making Hitler
ours.
President Robert M. Hutchins,
T1,,;vorcitv of ChinopO
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-30

ESTATE FORECLOSURE
No. 1851
SHERIFF'S OFFICE
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL } SIS.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
HOME OWNERS LOAN COR
PORATION, a Corporation,
Plaintiff.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-09
Reopen Manganese Mines of
West Before 1t Is Too late

The United States has manganese only months according
the War Department which the No strategic
war material of wartime opening of hole the outside
supplies manganese be shut off The situation perhaps the
most serious facing the defense authorities.
However there shortage OF manganese IN the Cned
IF THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOW FOSTER IT'S DEVELOP
MENT.
The government fixes quality price which makes virtually
impossible development of the great supplies of owade man
gane which may well the first line Of defense OF this country
Is months hence
mum would possible operation of many mines which
be protaby operated the 48 percent requirement
break published
in purchase of foreign running less than 48 percent manga
nese planning blending 40 with 40 percent metallic
manganese privilege is denied domestic producers.
ucng percent manganese the of lOOO tons per
could be mixed with equal amount Of 40 percent manganese
to obtain standard grade of 4S percent
prices In its anxiety to impress the public with
program fixing the gisang against the
tegc minerals necessary for national defense The large profitable
deposits already capacity operation he ceiling IS established
to keep the big operators whose low from making
profit which would be returned to the government the form
nothing cura the small
who would gladly loWgrade deposlswhch deposits
NAV spell difference between and failure OF the national
defense program.
Given Better price and develop 40 percent manganese
ore there hundreds of mines that could be opened by small
and there would be danger OF shortage OF manganese
after the present exhausted
Present production of domestic at full
pac-is sufficient to provide only EIGHT PtCNl OF present
Ii is an easy matter to look the history Of the last when
in May 1918 James Farrell warned that steel production would
completely within months unless
ore were During the year 1918 stimulated by price OF O
per ton produced 05OO OF averaging 40
small producers
pioneer DEVELOPMENTS in areas starting from scratch
deposits known and these with scores OF others can
be put into production -
The price of eromanganese is Sl2O ton against stabilized
price of $3.50 in the World war.
Fourteen pounds manganese required for OF steel
and there is substitute
Must the government allow steel mills to shut down before en-
couragng the re-openlng OF small mines!
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-09

cOmIubtce.
Schroeder will have an interesting re-
port to make, especially to the large
and small gold and sapphire placer
operators in Montana.
P. r. Gorham, Christ Aassen and
Sylvia Vincellete comprise the local
committee at Silver Gate. William W..
Thayer, president of the Cooke City
Commercial club, announces the fol-
lowing Cooke City committees: Elk
hibits and Registration-William W..
Thayer, E. w. Wade, v. o. jackson,
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-09
take the Family" AdmOnish
Mining Association Officers
In Call to COOke-SiIver Gate

The seventh annual convention Of
the Mining Association Of Montana Is
to be a family meeting" according
to announcement by Anthony Strojan,
IT of Helena, chairman Of the execu-
tive committee Of the association. The
meeting is to be held on Sept So at
Cooke City-Silver Gate, northeast en-
trance to Yellowstone park.
It is a family meeting because
miners can take their whole families,
secure comfortable, modern cabins and
enjoy an outing as well as a conven-
ton for less than ordinary city hotel
expenses for one person. Many wiz
take along a grub stake" and prepare
to do light housekeeping during the
convention, thus relieving the rush on
restaurant facilities Of the two towns
Strojan, Montana manager Of the
gold dredging operations and other
projects of Winston Bros. company OF
Minneapolis, was the sparkplug Of the
highly successful convention in Helena
and he is taking keen interest in
the coming Cooke City convention,
which will be one of the most unusual
meetings ever held by the association.
One of the high points Of the FRI
dav session will be addresses by DR..
7, M. Farmer and H. T. Walrath, re-
director and engineer Of the
newly created department of Indus
trial Hygiene of the Montana State
Board of Health.
This new department was estab-
lished upon the recommendation OF
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-09

reason other than the misconduct Of
a dealer in securities"
This is deemed adequate to cover
the sale of stock in primary mining
ventures or in oil companies which
sell stock, although it does not apply
to oil companies which sell overriding
ROYALTIES or working interests, which
come under special procedure. 1t
does apply to stocks or shares Of cor
porations or common law trusts.
Montanans desiring to finance con-
Germs up to 100000 should write to
Day Karr, Regional office, Securities
& Exchange Commission, Seattle
Wash, to secure the proper forms on
which notice of intention may be re-
corded. Once filed, the exemption is
allowed provided copies Of all adver-
tisements and other sales literature
are furnished to the SEC office. The
commission requires no prospectus and
does not pass on the literature unless
there is evidence of fraud.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-09

Vice president of mining association.
the 1899 Montana legislative assembly
and was set up under the direction of
DR.. w. F. Cogswell, secretary of the
State Board of Health. DR.. Farmer and
MIR. Walrath have had many years ex-
perience in their line of endeavor and
will tell the members Of the Mining
Association of Montana what the de-
partment has done since organization
and the program of the department
for the future. After they make their
addresses they will answer questions
from the floor and the meeting viii
devolve into a round-table discussion
of the subject.
Another important feature of the
convention, pointed out by Fred W..
Bleck, vice president, of Virginia City,
will be the report of three permanent
committees at the Friday afternoon
session.
The Workman's Compensation COM
1nittee is headed by Stanley r. Moore,
manager of the Standard Silver-Lead
Mining Co., operating at Wilborn,
Mont, and near Sheridan in Madison
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-09
CRIrnE STOCKS DOWN

Stocks of domestic and foreign crude
petroleum at the close of the week
ending July 26 totaled 252,728OOO bar
rels, according to data reported by the
Bureau of Mines Compared with the
total of the preceding week, this rep
resents q decrease of 1890, 900 barrels
comprising decreases of 100000 and
10000 barrels in stocks of domestic
and foreign crude, respectively. Heavy
crude-oil stocks in California, not In
cluded in the "refinable" crude stocks,
totaled lO,353,0OO barrels, a decrease OF
100000 barrels from the amount on
hand July 10.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-09

OIL SALES HALTED
TOKYO.-The Standard Oil Co,
stopped selling oil throughout Japan
as a result of the japanese freezing
order
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-09

The Journal printed several articles
and an exchange of correspondence
on the subject and was at that time
assured by representatives of the SEC
that the intent of the commission was
to open the mails to the sale of Sc
curities of small corporations whose
stock issues do not exceed 100000 in
any year.
The original rules provided that the
100000 exemption was not available in
a state where a statute Of the state
prohibits offer or sale of securities in
the state until the state securities law
had been complied with. BY elimina-
ton of the words by statute or" Of
Rule 221 Chl the commission allows
the free use of the mails
There has been continued hesitancy
on the part Of Montana mining and
oil men to attempt a public issue, no
matter how small lest they run afoul
of the federal securities act, the chief
fear being that the new rule definitely
required that a security be qualified
in every state in which stocks or
shares were offered for sale This
would have positively prohibited any
sales through the mails.
It is now definite that a Montana
mining man can offer up to $4,000
worth Of stock through the mails to
prospective buyers in any state where
he is not specifically forbidden to sell
The rule is as follows:
mo exemption under this regula-
ton shall be available for Chi secur-
tiles sold or delivered after sale in OF
orders for which are accepted from
a state while the right to offer OF
sell such securities in that state i
prohibited, denied or suspended by any
regulatory body Of the state for any
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-09
Sabotage in
High Places

at is nothing less than a shame
that the United States should now
find it necessary to call upon for
eign countries for aluminium, cop
per, zinc, lead and other metals
when we have all along had enOr-
nous undevelOped ore deposits of
all of these metals" says North
west Mining News Of Spokane.
eff you do not happen to know
it, we are now buying aluminium
from Canada, copper from South
America, and zinc and lead from
Canada, Mexico and South Amer
lea. And, incidentally, we cannot
get enough to supply our needs
with worse conditions yet to comet
"If this war is lost by the de-
mOcracies it viii be primarily be-
cause Of lack of metals which are
not only the muscles of industry
but also the sinews of war.
"WhO is to blame for the sit
uatiOn? Not the miner nor the
mining industry, but the alpha
betical bureaucracies fOisted upon
Ws under the guise Of a new ideal
ism"
Editor Lilly might have added
that the policy of shutting down
small mines by limiting the price
of metals below the cost of pre-
ductiOn is a form of sabotage of
the defense program even more
daStardIy than the acts of the
bureaucracies.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-09
Mines Students
Barred From Work
During Vacation

There was a time when students Of
mining and petroleum geology could
get summer jobs which would help
them get money enough to go back
to school and would teach them some
thing about the business. But the
wage-hour law has ended all that It
is unlawful to employ a boy under 10
in or about a mine or acting as a
helper or driving a motor vehicle
Sweeping up, cleaning up, handling
material or performing any work in
or about an establishment is as illegal
as actual work on machines.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-09

This Is one Of our regular jobs.
During the past Is years, our Washoe
Sampler has sampled and purchased
for cash millions Of tons Of gold, silver
and copper ores and concentrates, at
the rate of 1900 tons q Gay.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-09
Rush Pipeline
Maine to Canada

WASHINGTON.-I of expedit-
ing delivery of oil to Canada and the
flow of munitions from there to Brit
ain," Defense Petroleum Co-Ordinator
Ickes announced plans to complete
before winter a 260-mile petroleum
pipeline from Portland, Me. to Mon
treal, Canada
This followed passage and approval
of the Cole pipeline bill.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-09

VINO VIII SPEAK before miners AT RI
day session.
county. Other members Of this COM
mittee are p NJ hosier, manager Of
the M & NJ Mining Co., Radersburg;
William r. Galloway, manager Of the
Bartlett mine, Virginia City and presi-
dent of the Madison County Mining
association. Mr.. Moore's committee has
been carrying on some work looking
to the betterment of the present
worEman's compensation laws, includ-
ing unemployment compensation. His
report is expected to create quite
lot of discussion from the floor of the
meeting.
John w. Schroeder, of the Perry
Schroeder Mining Co., Helena, heads
the Placer committee and his COM
mittee consists of many members. Mr..
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1941-08-09
Mails Are Open for Financing
Stock Issues Under $4,000

Definite assurance Securities Exchange commission
eder Al registration
No that the SEC
compliance of state which exempt
determined eliminating the by
saue in the ginaI ruLn o