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Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-12
HANDOUTS BY THE HUNDRED

Both ARM and Navy press sec
t!Gna nave what are known as
"handout" services. duplica t e d
sheets Of Information on keel lay
ings. ship launchlngs, new contracts,
camp location, some production
figures and copies of speeches de-
liyered by the gold stripers and the
secretaries and assistant secretaries.
From 80 10 100 sheets of this are
issued every day and are available
on request or by mail to publica-
tionS, radio stations and newsreelS.
The real heavy job of defense
publicity however, has fallen on
the civilian Office of Emergency
Management organization OF OPM,
OCD. and the like. GEMS budget,
on top of the S75O,0O0 listed at
the beginning of this article for
salaries, travel, and miscellaneous
items. includes S122400 for press
releases. the duplicating of an aver
age of 85 pages day. Combined
Army and Navy press releases W'O
easily double this. and on top Of
that are items Of $4,000 a year 70.
national defense posters and $4,000
for national defense magazine,
issued once a week and made up
almost entirely of compilation
the week press releases.
Not TO be overlooked in thic
pilatlon IS one item of $4,000.
which goes to the Rockefeller office
of Inter-American Affairs.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-12
HITLER S NEWEST
PEACE OFFER

I2ao, Cairo. izrNpt.. come rumorS that
Adolf ii.5.tr = planning Ia clean up the
~~.H ~.t.,;...saa Within the next SIN
-..l#<>. ;.,d tne4 consolidate his position
-, >ast. .u,s- ~ Europe and starve
.B..tt.s /. : Il logical SuppoSltlon,
.-.' his s.ert;.G GUe>ti iOnahle features.
..g.a Win. the Jnjted States can
.,.... - Z the British down now.
\ .'9.a'.sr 5ov tirrlely the battle of the
\as.,., r.t.,S. We are committed to the
.....gs II everything or nothing, winch
a,,s.s> .ss.t before the Germans can de
-. British the must defeat the
,..a 81 -. TOO. Mr. Roosevelt has
~;..s' -. !. lot : direct statement
fae!. -. = Gumuel ol reasons why
U.tler N.sorN n Europe would be dis
~.sa.~ a#tnr U@lt"d States and not the
..~-.u: IN a. conditions created by
Wa>hMgton administration itself. One
= carried a a hole in the ground at Fort
hseN kentucky. 1t is the major share
.I ne worlds supply Of gold, which
..u.0ld Hc tremendously deprecated in val
- q British defeat.
A..o.her potent reason Is the way the
We'd States has. without iuSttlable
,.>r.4~t. n4t,rtcred in The affairs of other
Aut.a'.~ M.d attempted to set itself up
u~ II den,ocratic saviour OF the whole
...d,. world. And TO make a bad matter
V.ur~e. some ut the methods employed by
.t,. Pur,iden, and his aides have not been
.-.thn@ +or Americans to brag about.
= il seems premature to discuss Ser-
.uu,Is lie rumorS that Hitler is plan
i... cunsolid,st, his victories on the con-
.'.t!' ut Europe and Sturve Britain into
e.. lryoti;red peace. The United States,
aHethcr ~ like it or not, could not af-
+..a t. 1e, that h~ppen. Maybe there
Hu~ a TIM when We could have main
.ar.al different attitude, but not now.
" 6at. been caioled and pushed to the
lie, Nher, i Is noW everything or moth
~. W. ,tand OF fail with Britain.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-12
PUBLICITY
THE OLD ARMY GAME

In 4 democracy the AluE belong
to the people It must be popular
SO the Army has PLAYED the publio
relations game, PLAYED i hard and
in most instances, played il well.
Every effort ha, been made to
avoid censorship, but a. General
Richardson explained Whcn Con-
gresham George MahOn OF Colora-
DO Citv Tex. asked hlm what he
did ABOUT acrrrsc unfair and i'm
proper p4bAcIt" 7 have written TO
the EDITOR myself and ha.c then
gIyca unL tuc correct Gata and, III
Ger casr. nave bad @olY mic"
letter bark from nm
The Nay JOB has bccl little
different Hot having the samc de-
gree Ot expansion To 70 through,
not having to use selccti9c service
men not being handy for tie clos"
inspection of the folk from hOm"
and having 10 deal with more Ser
rcte ne Navy public relations job
has been one Of kerDina on the
course, and making sure nobody
rocked the boat To that extent
there is a shade more Of The censor
ship element IN the NAYS JOB
than there i in The Amy
But what the Nays prp9ee JOB
costs is a. buried a. IS the HImE&.
III The naval approprH'Jr D."
there L no clcal-cat brIdGs .oy ihc
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-12
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pany, Ell Centre, California. -
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3. That the known bondholdsf
mortgages, and other security hoh,A
ers owning or holding per cent o
more of total amount of bonds
mortgages, or other securities are
Ed Haas, lOO6 Broadway Arcad
Building, Los Angeles. Calf.
4. That the two paragraphs mex
above giving the names of the own
ers, stockholders. and security hold
erS. if any. contain not only the lis
of stockholders and security holder
as they appear upon the books o
the company but also, in cases Wher,
the setockholder or security holde
appears upon the books of the com
pany as trustee or in any othe
fiduciary relation, the name of tn,
person or corporation for whom
such trustee is acting, is given; alSt
that the said two paragraphs con
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circumstances and conditions unde,
which stockholders and securit,
holders who do not appear upon tn,
books of the company as trustees
hold stock and securities in a ca
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owner; and this affiant has no rea.
son to believe that any other person
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interest direct or indirect in th
said stock, bonds, or other secur.k.
les than as so stated by him.
5. That the average number o.
copies of each issue of this publica
ton sold or distributed, through
the mails or otherwise, to paid sub
Scribers during the twelve month";
preceding the date shown above Il
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-12

'usable thing her soldiers could get
their hands on in every conquered
country: why captives must work in
Germany. and why labor must be-
imported under pressure from sa-'
trapies like Italy, Vichy France.
Hungary. and all the others.
The answer: Germany has just
cut clothing rations by 35 per cent
so that the army may be clothed:
Italy cuts bread rationS. Too many
producers shooting each other, not
enough producers producing.
1t is the sheerest madness, and
he who started it all must be con-
ceded the place Of chief madman.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-12
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OF THE OWNER
SHIP, MANAGEMENT. CIRCU-
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THE ACTS OF CONGRESS OF
AUGUST "a, 1912. AND MARCH
3, 1881 OF THE POST-PRESS,
Published Sundays at Ell CentrO,
California, for October l, l941.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
County of Imperial-ss.
Before me, a Notary Public. in
and for the State and County afore-
seaid, personally appeared Paul A.
jenkins. who, having been duly
sworn according to law, depoSes and
SAYS that he is the Publisher and
Editor of The Post-PreSs and
that the following is. to the
best of his knowledge and belief, 4
true statement OF the ownership,
management Cand if adaily paper
the circulation etc, OF the afore-
said publication for the date shown
in the above caption, required by
the Act of August "a. 1912, as
amended by the Act of March 3,
1888 embodied in section 537 Postal
Laws and Regulations, printed on
the reverse of this form, to-Wit:
|. That the names and addresses
of the publisher, editor, managing
editor. and business managers are:
Publisher, Paul Jenkins, 589 Wen
Sley, FL Centro, California.
Editor. Paul A. jenkins, 589 Wen
sley, FL Centre. California.
Managing Editor, F. A. Fitzhugh,
l049 Euclid FL Ccntro, California.
Business Manager, S. f. Shaw
$50 Commercial, FL Centre, Califor-
MIA.
3 That the owner is: Of owned
By a corporation, its name and ad-
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mcdiatelY hereunder the names and
addresses of stockholders owning
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-12

EDITOR'S NOTE: The folIOwing edit
oIiais are presented as interesting Opin-
ions roiced bg editors elsewhere. They
DO not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-12
So They Say

If we believe we have seen aglta-
tation by enemies of our form OF
government, by the Fasclsts and
Communists, let me say that We
haven't seen anything yet
Rep. Joseph w Martin, Jr., Mass
aChuSettS.
The additional lcvies imposed by
the Revenue Act of l94l will bring
the tax burden in the United States
above that in Britain.
u. S. Chamber of Commerce.
bulletin.
This is the life What a lovely
way to earn a living!
Regis TOomey, movie actor, after
breaking the long distance kiss
ing record.
It's no place for crying the
North Atlantic.
Captain j. C. Mackenzie of the
tOrDedOed Pink Star.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-12
WHAT 1T COSTS,
WHERE 1T GOES

As TO what all tbs defense public
relations work costs. it is possible
only TO guess and give incomplete
estimates.
The OEM costs are definitely
budgeted and in order, approved by
a congressional appropriation and
all on the record: a payroll of S570,-
900: travel, $4,000: miscellaneous
current expenses, sl50O00 Total,
S750000. The Army and Navy costs
are beautifully concealed.
When the War Department came
before Congress last spring to ask
for its funds for the fiscal year
beginning July |, l94l, Maj. Gen.
Robert c. Richardson. Jr. then
chief of the new Army Bureau of
Public Relations. asked tor only
$4,000. Under questioning. General
Richardson explained that in the
last World War the Army publicity
was handled BY the George Creel
Committee on Information which
was openly propaganda bureau.
The new Army Bureau of Public
ReIatlONS, the general explained,
was definitely not a propaganda
bureau, 1t was set up merely to
give information
None of the salaries OF the SO
Army Officers or the II civilians
doing public relations work in the
War Department III, Washington,
nor the officers and enlisted men
assigned to this work at each camp
are charged against the informa-
ton services Of the press branch,
the radio branch. Photographic
branch, procurement and contract
branch, planning which
,l!ps newspapers and tries TO keep
j finger on the puolic pulse to sec
low the country reefs about the
Army. All that IS charged up to
'eplllar line of dutY
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-12

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. Nation
al Editorial Association.
California Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-12

A wire that would reach twic,
around the world could be drawi
from one cubic inch of platinum.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-12
Famous Sayings

I fear no foe with Thee at hand to bless Ills have
weight and tears no bitteness-Henry Francis
Lyte.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-12

COnnecticut's tuberculosis deati
rate was 1874 per 100000 of it:
population during 1889
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-12

Even in favorable conditions, tR-
life of corn rarely exceeds 10 yea
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-12

life of corn rarely exceeds 10 yea
Fire damp is commonly known q
COLA, OIL
Although he made it famous y.
his poems Stephen Foster neve
saw the Suwannee river.
The contents of l8 hens egg.
can be held in an ostrich egg shell
Air marShals in the British
Royal Air Force receive a dali,
salary of $26.08.
Washington, first president
the United States, was a soldier
surveyor, and wealthy land owner
The 1890 census. 18th in tn
country gave the United States {:
population of 122,775,046.
Cancer causes $4,000 deaths il
the United States every year.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-12
Did You Know?

There are about 10000 Moham.
medanS in North America.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-12

Fire damp is commonly known q
COLA, oil.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-12
Thought for the Day

=, .st. ,.r:.sa..... -. t'... tor y
~. ..ae. ..a,r Romans
-
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-12

Ell Centre has four from J@aH~
One faces toward Ho.H#.lc. a#r -
toward CaleXieo, another II #a.rp.-#
Of Brawley and still meta.r .a...-
on the mountains and - n.e.. -
~
The Sauk Centre herald., 1941-09-11
FREE WEDDING
DANCE !! !
AT GENES BIG BARN

Thursday, Sept. IL, and FRI
day, Sept. 12th.
On Sunday Glenn Bran and
His Radio Artists Play. Adm.
2Oc. Monday, Sept, 18th, Free
Wedding Dance. Also Tues
day, Sept. 10th, and Thurs
day, Sept. 18th. Roller Skate
every Wednesday.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1941-09-11
STATE OFFICIALS
ARE TO CONTINUE
MARGARINE FIGHT
Stassen Wires Protest
To McNutt On Threat
To Dairy Farmers

With the application for a post
ponement and rehearing on the
federal oleomargarine regulation
turned down by Paul v. McNutt,
federal security administrator, Min
nesota state officials and dairy
leaders who have been carrying on
the fight the past month to obtain
revocation or modification of the
order indicated that they will not
quit, that the fight will be carried
to the floors of Congress if nec-
essary.
The order, promulgated by Nc
Mutt, prescribes a definition of
oleomargarine which allows manu-
facturers of this product to include
coloring, flavoring matter and 9th
er ingredients that make it an al
most exact imitation of butter.
With the appeals to McNutt from
Minnesota and other midwest dairy
and farm states denied, the order
became effective Saturday.
Governor Harold E. Stassen i'm
mediately wired McNutt upon an
nouncement of his decision urging
him to reconsider and grant the
dairy farmers and agricultural
states an opportunity to present
The Sauk Centre herald., 1941-09-11

evidence of the harmful effect Of
the ruling. Should this fail, r. A.
Trovatten, Minnesota commissioner
of agriculture, said that the fight
against the order will be carried
to the people and action sought
in Congress. Trovatten headed the
Minnesota delegation in a series of
conferences between officials of the
dairy states and the cotton states,
arranged by Governor Stassen in
an effort to obtain postponement
and rehearing on the order.
1.-THE fight will be carried to
Congress If McNutt sticks to his
position" Trovatten said. 'Tf this
order stands, the manufacturers of
oleomargarine will be able to take
over markets for butter that have
been developed by our farmers ov-
er many years. Income of our
farmers here in Minnesota, parti-
cularly, will be tragically reduced,
and our cooperative creameries
will be imperilled II not destroyed.
This Is the most serious threat that
has faced our Minnesota farmers
in a generation"
Wiring McNutt, Governor stas-
sen said:
II strongly protest your action in
refusing the request of the Council
Of State Governments office to
grant re-hearing on your regula-
ton permitting flavoring, coloring
and otherwise doctoring UP oleo-
margarine as a substitute for but
ter. I strongly urge that you re-
consider and grant to the dairy
farmers and. agricultural states Of
the nation a full opportunity to
present to you the evidence of the
harmful effect of this ruling upon
the whole economy Of the country
and upon national unity on the
whole. 1t will certainly give rise
to a renewed burst of trade bar
riers which the Council of State
Governments has been opposing,
and even the Cotton Council has
stated that it has no objection to
a re-hearing. I feel certain that
a new hearing would bring many
new facts to the careful considera-
ton of your department and would
give rise to a compromise amend
ment that would meet the situation
you are facing without such lasting
damage to agricultural income, par
ity and unity"
The Council of State Govern
ments was interested in the matter
by Governor Stassen, who is its
president Realizing that the ord
er would prove disastrous to farm
ers, Governor Stassen asked the
Council to arrange a meeting be-
tween the officials of the dairy
states and the cotton growing
states that an attempt might be
made through negotiation to OBJ
tain withdrawal or modification of
the order. Officials of the cotton
producing states were impressed
and asked for another meeting,
which was held just this past week
in Chicago.
Representing the state admins
The Sauk Centre herald., 1941-09-11
Camp Haan Officers
Went Deep Sea Fishing

217th Officers Go Deep-Sea Fishing
Seventeen officers of the 217th
Regiment were taken on a deep
sea fishing trip Sunday, Aug
ust "a, 1941, by the McGrath-Ol-
son Clothing Company Of River
side, California.
At $3.50 Saturday evening the Of
ficers, accompanied by their hosts
Mr.. Eggart, Mr.. Korte and Mr.. Nc
Grath, left Riverside for San Diego
where a special fishing boat, the
Worrier VII, had been chartered
for the occasion. At 1:30 they
reached San Diego, and one-half
hour later, safely slowed away on
the big boat, they made their way
across some twenty miles Of chop
py water to the fishing grounds.
Although almost everyone had a
slight touch of sea-sickness, they
rallied sufficiently well to all have
a whale of a good time-with the
fishing luck running high. In ord
er to make things a bit more in
teresting, jack pot was started,
the man pulling in the largest fish
to win hands down. Captain John
Vagemast and Captain Carl S.
Fischer split the pot when each
pulled in 29-pound white sea bass.
Runners up were Captain Olson
with a 2O-pounder and Captain
Tanner with an 18-pound bass. AL
though the others could not come
near to that figure of % pounds
most of them caught something.
The entire party came home with
four white sea bass, nine barra-
cuda, nine bass and miscellaneous
fish. Captain Vaegemast and Cap
tain Paulus each caught three each
with Mr.. Eggart, Mr.. Korte, Cap
tain Scheidinger. Captain Johnson,
Captain Olson and Captain Fisch-
er each leading two apiece. Cap
tain Tanner and 1t. Col. Nemzek
each caught one.
The officers on the trip were 1t.
Colonel Scott, 1t. Colonel Chrysler,
1t. Col. Nemzek, Major Robbins,
Captains Vaegemast, Lewis, Good
The Sauk Centre herald., 1941-09-11

saw her only son inaugurated three
times as President Of the United
States was buried In the church
yard Of st. James Church, where
she worshipped more than half a
century.
Heads Of nations throughout the
world, American officialdom, and
plain, common citizens continued
to tax communications facilities
with messages Of coincidence.
Mr.. Roosevelt was alone Monday
with his family and with his grief.
An American flag flying at half
staff from the Franklin D. Roose-
welt library, near Hyde Park
House, was the only visible EVIL
dence of his sorrow.
Final arrangements for the fu-
neral emphasized the Chief Execu-
tive's desire for privacy. He pre-
ferred that not even his closest
friends be present to share his
bereavement, so attendance was
restricted to relatives and to those
who live on the 1900 acre estate.
Reporters were not present.
It was as Franklin d. Roosevelt,
the individual, rather than as the
President Of a nation, that Mr..
Roosevelt bore his sorrow. Yet
duties of his office intruded into
the privacy he sought.
White House officials placed be-
fore him, reluctantly, papers de-
manding his immediate attention.
The President was described as
standing up "very well" under the
shock Of his mothers death.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1941-09-11

tration and the dairy interests Of
Minnesota at the Chicago meeting
were Commissioner Trovatten, De-
putty Commissioner e. ]. Thye, w.
r. Combs Of the dairy division Of
the University of Minnesota, and
Paul Miller, director of extension.
Delegated to represent the Mime
sofa state senate were Senator's
Oscar A. Swenson and A. o. Slet-
void. The Minnesota Federation
of Labor also was represented by
Gene Larson, of Minneapolis, who
reported that union labor is stand
ing solidly with the farmers Of
Minnesota in the fight.
Representatives of the southern
states and the Cotton Councir
agreed that they would not op-'
pose a request for postponement
and a re-hearing on the oleomar-
garine order. Appeal of the dairy
states for this action then was
forwarded to McNutt through the
Council Of State Governments, but
McNutt refused.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1941-09-11
CAPITOL
7-NezIS
BY Representative Harold Knutson
of Minnesota
A MeritOriOuS Veto

The Presidents veto of the bill
to keep off the market some 300
million bushels of wheat and 6
million bales of cotton, owned by
the Commodity Credit Corporation,
met with general approval. In
deed, he could hardly have done
otherwise. These holdings repre-
sent enormous investments of gov
ernment money and the carrying
charges, plus spoilage, also run in
to respectable figures. With the
war on in Europe we have an op-
portunity to unload with mini
mum of loss which at one time
threatened to wipe out the invest
ment. Then, too, orderly liquida-
ton now will tend to stabilize
prices.
Extension Opponents Vindicated
When the measure to extend
draft service indefinitely was be-
fore Congress the President, Sec
retary Of War, Army Chief Of
Staff and other military author
tiles informed committee of Con-
gress that any limitation on SER
vice, even 80 months, was bad and
would lead to disintegration, or
disorganization, of our armed
forces. By a vote of 203 to POP
the term of service was fixed at
21s years, which the President re-
luctantly accepted.
When the President suddenly
reversed himself by announcing
that hereafter service of selectees
would run from IA to 18 months
we hardly knew what to make of
it. To say the least it was a bit
surprising. However, to those OF
us who had voted against the ex-
tension measure it came as a COM
plete vindication of our vote and
position. Those who voted with the
The Sauk Centre herald., 1941-09-11
LOCAL BOY IN SERVICE
ON KODIAK ISLAND
Continued from Page One)

so sheer that we had to wade up
the river itself to make any pro-
gress. We found beaver dams that
were years old and very large. We
found spring water that couldn't
be purer If it had been boiled" his
description ran.
OF the general information costs
intrigued him most. Explaining
there are quite a few horses and
dairy cattle on a small ranch near
the camp, Buzz pointed out that
hay costs from so to IS dollars a
ton and grain is at comparable
prices. But on the other hand
milk sells for 35c a quart and they
rent a horse for dollar an hour.
A cup of coffee in the town of
Kodiak is ten cents; a hamburger
without extras is 35c; and waffle
is 75c. His comment on these eco
nomic notes: I'm sure glad Uncle
Sam has to foot the old grub bill
while I'm up here"
He described listening to the
short wave radio as one of the
pastimes, and pointed out "the
other night" they had heard Col
umbia program broadcast from
Minneapolis WCCO, like a note
from home. An ordinary radio, he
explained, won't pick it up at all,
but they get Berlin, London, japan
and others regularly.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1941-09-11
STATE FAIR POLL
CLOSE ON STASSEN,
HJALMER PETERSEN

Throughout the State Fair a poll
was conducted by John T. Lyons,
of st. Paul. on the question of the
Roosevelt-Willkie foreign policy
and possible candidates for election
in the 1912 Minnesota campaign.
A total of nearly 10000 ballots
were cast on the foreign policy and
choice for governor-the names of
the three 1910 candidates being US
ed. A lesser number of ballots
were cast on the other questions.
The results of all five ballots fol-
low:
Do you agree with the Roose-
velt-Willkie foreign policy? Yes,
$3.50. No. 1887. Labor Day vote
on the same question, included
above Yes, 796. No, 1858.
Would you vote for Charles A.
Lindbergh for U. S. Senator? Yes,
5,527. No, 2,620. Labor Day vote
on same question, included above.
Yes, $50. No, $50.
Who would be your choice for
U. S. Senator, Governor Harold E.
Stassen or Charles A. Lindbergh?
Stassen, $50. Lindbergh, LILO.
Would you vote for Stassen for
Governor again? Yes, 280. No, 300.
Who would be your choice for
Governor? Gov. Harold e Stassen,
9,040; Hjalmar Peterson, 9,252; Ed.
Murphy, 788.
Labor Day vote on same ques-
ton, included above. Stassen, 998.
Peterson, 1,016; Murphy, PA.