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Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
IT'S FOR
CONGRESS TO DO

(Wall Street JournaD
Secretary Morgenthau's reply in his
press conference of last Monday to the
complaint of Representative Jenkins of
Ohio, that the Treasury head had failed
to specify budget items for reduction
was beautifully pertinent. He said. in
effect, that it was the business of Con-
gress to make appropriations. So it is.
1t is true that the executive depart
ments contribute to the making of the
budget which the President presents to
Congress as indicating the Administra-
tons judgment of the expenditures ap-
propriate to be made in the following fis-
cal year. 1t is also true that we have no
efficient legislative system for confining
Government expenditure within plan
ned budget.
But the fact remains that final re-
sponsibility for the Governments fiscal
position rests upon Congress and can
not be shifted while the Constitution re-
mains what it is Mr. Morgenthau has en-
pressed his opinion that sound public
finance requires reduction of not less
than 81 billion in annual non-defense
expenditures. Members of Congress may
challenge the correctness of his iudg-
ment-if they have the hardihood to do
so-but they cannot wave if aside by
complaining of the Treasury heads fail
ure to Skin skunks" for Congress.
At this moment the legislative branch
is preparing to levy unprecedented taxes
on the county. These are to be "for de-
fense,'' but that means simply that we
are all to pay these taxes in order to
keep defense borrowing down to a mini
mum and, by surrendering purchasing
power to the Government through taxes
and bond buying, to fend off menacing
price and credit initiation But every dol
lar of non-essential federal expenditure
works against safe defense financing and
increases the danger of price situation
which everybody abhors.
The job of retrenchment is waiting on
the congressional work bench. It can
not be done anywhere else
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
AGREEMENT NOT ENOUGH

Since an editorial appeared on Page
One of this newspaper the other day,
in the form of a petition to congress
from the men Of draft age demanding
action to prevent labor strikes and lock-
outs in defense industries, congratula-
tions have poured in by the scores Only
enc person out of hundreds took active
exception to the editorial-and his politi-
cal views The is registered as Social
ist) explained his reaction.
But no matter how much people ap-
prove of the thoughts expressed in the
editorial, it will do no good for them
merely to call up and say, you're right"
1t takes action, not words, to remedy
such a situation. Action, in this case,
means wires and letters to senators and
representatives 1t means concerted ac-
tion by groups with large memberships
to let congress know how the people feel.
1t means putting forth the effort to over
come the danger that threatens us.
If we do nothing but talk among our
selves we'll get nowhere. If we carry our
fight to congress, we will get somewhere
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
by Willis Thornton
Out of the Niqht Sky

Far above London, drumming dog
Vedly through the night sky, a Ger
man plane, one of many, enters
the London area. Below them the
city spraWls along the Thames, try
ing to conceal in its own darkness
the greatest concentration of human
beings on the globe
Eyes strain at the Pickering dials
on the instrument boards of the
planes. Pilots and bombers, unknown
and never to- be- known boys. make
their calculations in silence. tense
with concentration.
A signal, finger on a lever, the
press of finger on a button, and
the bombs plunge downward through
the darkness.
Edward the Confessor began the
building of Westminster Abbey in
1850 A. d. For 900 years a race of
men Worshiped God, crowned their
kings, honored their great upon
that spot along the Thames side.
Down, down, out the night SKY
shrek the bombs, and a heap of
smoking Wreckage smolders where
kings had stood in awe. Into the
stern oldfashioned room of the
House of Commons, where Disraeli
and Gladstone debated, and where
Sir Edward Grey told the peoples
Representatives that war had come
in 1914, falls compressed. destruc-
ton. Into the British Museum
greatest depository of the worlds
knowledge, it falls again.
The boys III the bombers, con-
sciouS of nothing but that they have
done their job, are already far away,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of LLOYD r. TERRY,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the
undersigned, ELIZABETH TERRY
as ExccutriX Of the estate of Lloyd
r. Terry deceased, to the creditors
OF and all persons having claims
against the said deceased, sNoat
within six months after the first
publication of this notice they either
file them with the necessary youch-
ers in the office of the Clerk of
the Superior Court of the State
OF California, in and for the Coun-
ty OF Imperial, or exhibit them
with the necessary vouchers to the
said Elizabeth Terry, as executrix
of said estate, at the office of D.
B. Roberts, 207 Bank of America
Building, Ell Centre, California. the
same being the place for the trans
action OF the business of the SAID
estate in the County of Imperial,
State of California. -
Dated at El Centre, California,
tlllS 9Th day of May, 194l.
ELIZABETH TERRY.
Executrix OF the Estate of
LLOYD r.. TERRY
80. i Deceased. s
llMl2-l9-26; J2l --..-..-.....-ss :
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

perhaps already on their way back
to their bases, as firemen ploW
their way among the jumbled
benches of the House of CommGns
What was it that thus became
heaps of rubble at the touch of a
button by obscure German youths
high in the night sky? Nothing that
was not itself only brick and stone,
timber and cement and tinted glass.
The House of Commons is more
than that It is an idea, and bombs
cannot destroy it. The rude Saxon
warriors had their Witan, or as
sembly of freemen, when the site
of Westminster was a swamp. ST.
mon of Montfort called the first
parliament direct ancestor of the
one whose house has been bombed,
III 1865 A. d.
For more than six hundred years,
this Mother of Parliaments has been
developing, finding new and better
means by which free men may gov
ern themselves. 1t is more than a
particular political institution. It is
an idea-an idea that has spread
to take hold on the imagination Of
men across the wide world
1t is bigger than any building.
stronger than stone or glass or
steel The French constitutional as
sembly, in 1889, barred from its
house of meeting, took an oath to
defend constitutional government
in tennis court The spirit of free
dom needs no roof
Bombs may shatter the House;
they cannot move the Commons.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
Uranium Crackers
Know Your Senate

Helping lead the nation in the
building of its defense is body of
96 men known as the United States
Senate, upper house of our national
legislature. Here are some ques-
tions about the men in our Senate
today.
l. Name the senator whose father
was president of the United States
and a chief justice of the Supreme
Court.
f. Name the senator whose father
er was speaker Oh the House Of
Representatives and whose son Is
now a member of that body.
g. Name the senator whose father
was once governor of Tennessee and
later became president of republic
other than the u. S.
4. Nome the senator whose father
was a famed Progressive senator
and whose brother was governor of
Wisconsin
5. How many senators are there
from your state and who are they?
ANSWERS
/. Senator Robert Taft rep, o.
is son of the late William Howard
Taft, who was both president and
chief justice.
2. Senator John Bankhead Dem,
Ala is brother of the late Speaker
William Banknead, and father of
Representative Walter H. Bank
head
3. Sen. Andrew Jackson Houston
Dem., Tex is sor OF Sam Houston,
once governor of Tennessee, later
president of the Texas republic.
4. Senator Robert M, La Toilette,
Jr. Prog, Wis., is son of the late
Senator Robert M. La Toilette, and
brother of former Wisconsin Gov
ernoor Philip La Toilette.
5. There are two senators from
each state. You should know who
yours are.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

The lack of government action on an
air school branch for Imperial Valley,
particularly in view of the enthusiastic
reaction of every person sent here to
look over the field, is astonishing. 1t is
made even more SO by the fact that the
government has stressed time and again
the need for year round climate where
air schools are situation.
Is it politics? Is it that we have a
representative in congress who is not
interested in our welfare? Is it that we
have a representative in congress who is
not interested in our welfare? Is it that
high army officials have closed minds,
made unreceptive by fallacious precon-
ceptions of region they have never seen?
Imperial Valley has right to know
the answers. The aviation committee
should insist on direct official answer
in the air school matter, from the peo-
pie who have the right to decide.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
Did You Know?

Tic finest wool on sheep
grows ON the cheek or back of the
car.
A wild turkey "volplaning,7 can
attain a speed Of a mile a minute.
Canbcrra is the capital of Aus
tralia.
Mount Mckinley, loftiest noun
tain in North America, is ice plat
ed for $4,000 feet below its summit
st. Patrick was not an Irishman
and was not born in Ireland, but
Lear the present site of Glasgow
Scotland.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
SMALL FRY
EXEMPTED

When the assets of any nation
are frozen in the United States.
what happens first is that word
goes from the Treasury Foreign
Funds Control office, under As
slstant Secretary John w. Pehle, to
the IL Federal Reserve Banks.
These banks notify their member
banks, brokers agents and others
dealing in foreign exchanges that
assets of these foreign nationls
must be scheduled with the Fed
eral Reserve Bank within 80 days.
Owners of assets less than $3.50
are exempted, as are the foreign
nationals who are resident and
domlciled in the United States.
All others, however, are licensed
for 90-day, renewable periods to
carry on their business, spending
So much money a month in the sew
eral categories conforming to the
type Of business they had been
doing Reports must then be filed
10 show how Tie money was acta.
ally spent,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

Judging from divorce figures, this
is not only the home of the brave
but the land of the freed.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
Balbs

ALLEGED LIQUOR SELLER
UGHT"-headline. Alleged IL
quor' probably is a perfect descrip-
ton
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

Crooked politicians figure it vii
all come out in the WhiteWaSh.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

1t is not only with physical in
yasion that you and l are concern
ed, but with spiritual invasion
which, if permitted, would work
greater havoc than all the tons of
high explosive . -Viscount Hall
fax, British ambassador to the us
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

I deny that the defense of the
United States is dependent upon
any other nation.
Herbert Hoover, former president.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
by Peter Edson...
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, May 10 = Some
consideration being given to the
idea of freezing the $3.50 million
worth of German assets now held in
the United States, adding this little
nest egg to the S45 billions of this
country's assets owned by the ma
tlonals OF the ID nations Hitler has
taken over. there should be COR
rected the erroneous idea that when
this freezing process takes place,
the money is put in a bank and left
there till something else freezes
over.
In the first place, these assets
aren't all money. They may be
stocks and bonds. or they may be
real property like apar m n
houses, or they may be businessrs
like drug or optical goods manu-
featuring establishments, or import
ing houses or agencies for the
WholeSaling Of French perfumes or
Yugoslavian opium The point is
that all these assets don't have to
be converted into cash and the cash
stuck off in safety deposit vault.
BUSINESS
AS USUAL
All these businesses are allowed
to carry on pretty much as usual.
If they make a profit on their
operations, that's all right too. The
only restrictions are that the pro-
fits or proceeds can't be sent back
to the occupied country where they
might be seized for the benefit of
the Nazis.
The U. S. Treasury dosen't at
tempt TO run these businesses,
either. The Treasury has enough
headaches of its own and you
wouldn't cali this foreign owned
property control an aspirin. Man
agement of frozen assets is left
where it was before the freezing
took place, subject only to licens-
ing and control of the Treasury
regulations. In this respect, the
freezing differs entirely from the
work of the Alien Property Gus
todian in the last war when phys
lcal control and management were
taken on all enemy assets.
The present Treasury control
costs the owners of the assets moth
ing. 1t will cost the Treasury nearly
81 million to exercise this control
In the next year, but the govern
ment considers this money we'll
spent as it prevents the dumping
OF, these assets on U. S. markets
and as it prevents these assets
from falling into the hands of Ger
many through Nazi pressure on
residents of the occupied countries.
An interesting contrast, not a
parallel TO this situation, is the
case Of what has happened to
American capital in Germany. u. S.
nationals own about 5000 million
assets in Germany, $50 million more
than Germans own here. Ford.
General Motros, Singer Sewing
Machine, WoolWorth, International
Telephone and Telegraph, Electric
Bond and Share and Union Carbide
are some of the biggest. OF course,
those firms haven't been able TO
get a dime out of Germany since
Hitler. In most cases the plants
are undoubtedly at work on Ger
man war orders today through out
right plant seizure.
SMALL FRY
EXEMPTED
When the assets of any nation
are frozen I'm the United ctatcc
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

Efforts have been made to reduce
as much as possible the red tape
All these negotiations are neces-
sarily complicated. but as the ac-
tiyities in foreign lands control
progressed, it became apparent that
there were a number of standardiz-
ed transactions which could be ade-
quately controlled by general lie
enSeS.
1t is a tremendous job, this
freezing of assets. Starting with a
small force in the Treasury, the
foreign funds control force has
grown to over 160 in Washington
For offices it has taken over a
whole floor in the big Raleigh hotel
with an option on space in two
more floors.
No wonder it's hard to get a
room in Washington these days.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
Lucie Neville is pinch hitting for
raul Harrison, now touring army
camps and defense industries.
BY LUCIE NEVILLE
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

NEA Service SIdII correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, May 10 = Of all
the players who are indelibly typed
IN pictures and the minds of fans,
none struggle more strenuously
against their secure and highly
paid fate than the buffers.
And at the same time that we're
trying to break away from our
ooor-openlng and Yes, madam
roles observed Ernest Cossart,
we're congratulating ourselves on
being constantly in demand and Oh
our long engagements.
Nine times in TO- the butler in
a picture stays on salary from the
first day to the end of shooting.
In 'Skylark' because I'm the but
Ter, 1 was on salary as long as
Claudette Colbert and Ray Miland
were there. It's nice work-and I
can get it, but I keep on looking
for other kinds of parts"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

We always will be building Amer
ica. Let us see to it now that we
build it right.
-Abner H, Ferguson, Federal Hous-
ing Administrator.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

EDITORS NOTE: The foIloping
editorials are presented as interesting
opinions Uoiced by editors elsetchere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
Editorial Association. Cali
fornia Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
So They Say

Things are done by the people
who believe that they can do sonfe-
thing.
DR.. Ralph Barton Perry, Harvard
University.
While Hitler has succeeded in
invading Dutch territory, he has
never succeeded in invading the
Dutch spirit
Queen Wilhemina of the Meth
erlands.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
MIXED
TYPES

The specialization, however. goes
much further than that. Ernest
Cossart, for example, never would
dream OF playing an Eric Blore type
OF butler; Blore never completes
with Arthur Treacher-and SO on.
HalliWell Hobbies and Wvndhao
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
JARRED
BY CRITICS

Away back in 1910 CosSart play
cd butler on the stage and drew
a couple of unfayorable comments
from reviewers. After that he dodg-
ed such roles for 25 years, but one
came along in 1885 that he well
coined. 1t was in Accent on
Youth, and next to the buffers of
"Ruggles of ked GAP" and THE
Admirable Crichton' it probably
was the best job of butling ever
offered by the theater.
1t brought him to Hollywood for
The film version and Tor two years
he played nothing but buffers.
Alarmed by such typing he finally
gave notice TO the casting directors
mat he'd accet no more butlery
jobs. Among the varied roles that
followed was that of Ginger Rog-
er5' harddrinking father in Kitty
toyIe.' Then "Skylark" came up
and CosSartS resolution weakened
BY the time it's released. he will
have butled in couple more films.
In about one-thlrd of all pic
lures produced, there's a butler
somewhere, many with important
dramatic or comedy chores, but all
the jobs are divided among about
dozen actors. Only seven of those
are definitely typed as buffers and
arc familiar To the public by face
and name.
MIXED
TYPES
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
WASHINGTON
VISITOR

The Right Honorable Robert
Gordon Menzies, prime minister of
Australia, made a lot of friends for
himself on his recent visit to Wash
lngton through his ability as a
speaker and as poSseSSor of an
American sense of humor. Here are
some Of his cracks: II had to come
to the United States to find what
you call working newspaper
man. You have to talk rough
that way to newspaper men in Au-
stralia before they start talking
rough to YOU When asked how
they handled defense strikes in Au-
Stralla, he answered, Rather bad
ly." In reply to reuqest for in
formation about what happened at
Plymouth, his sally was, That
sound like one of those questions
lawyers ask in a divorce court.
And I suppose I should give the
customary answer you hear in a di-
vorce court, I don't remember ;"
I'm not asking you to love the
Australian. But you'll love the Au-
stralians anyway" His prize cpl
gram was, This war is no part
time Job"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
Thought for the Day

IN the way OF righteousness life and in the path
way thereof there IS no death.-Proyerbs 1928
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-19
Famous Sayings

A good man never dies.-Callimachus.
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=e9--t9e sse se-A y --~-s -t7's-s-as=---
BILL. WOULD
lContinucd from page

n
Wilberl'oree received aecrcdita
ton as 4 lass i College by the
North Central Association q
Colleges and Universities, only to
have AZ accleditation threatened
~ passage ~ state legislation
setting ~ daal administrative
control Il the university
rhis new attempt 10 inject
more politics into administrative
affairs. II successful, according to
officials 81 Wlhefforce, is likely
70 cause immediate withdrawal Of
aecreditation IS the North Cen
tl.al Association
kilograms and letters are be-
ing sent By prominent Wilber-
force alumni and friends through
out the state 10 members Of the
Ohio legislature, urging defeat
of this measure. denouncing the
bill as a politieal patronage
scheme, and vicious attempt
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Is Doris Kennedy going steady
with Roscoe - Hear that Ernie
Davenport is back home-to stay
..l Why don't Jeanne and Floyd
make up their minds 81. Noticed
quite a few additions to the
water-wagon list over the week
end "Curley' Bratton is q
real basketball player You
should be proud Of him Berth,
r. .. Flora as quite whappy over
Harold scoring SO many points
Friday night Dorothy Ann
Jones is having nervous prosra-
tion over certain young boy
named Lockley.
Don't forget the style show at
the Plezol Hall, Friday, April 18.
See you next week
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366TH INFANTRY TO HAVE
1925 MEN ESQ MOTOR VEHICLES

popT DrvrNs Mass fANpa
rs,aa,oas f,.a,, wasb;neton
palt;.>., Ma,.eol. ana thai
.>,, .,aetea - brine
the 356th infantry commanded
BY Col. West 8 Hamilton, % -
325 enlisted men, It was revealed
here this week
wben co,,nletelv araanized the
) ~ ,.,u haye 423 officers
,.,os;,,n,a,4 ,yiu include about
oxn .,at.or ..birl4s 3w, kinds Of
ah;,,a g,,ns two tvpeS ~ anti
+an, .,,,os t,,n ilinds 81 mort -
4, tb. rno,,I.,,s arms of
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Of d division Of Negro troops.
Meanwhile, officers Of the regi-
ment report utmost cooperation
on the part OF the White First di-
vision which has its Headquarters
here and colored officers say
they have vet 10 run into an IN
stance wherein they we're not sa-
luted by white enlisted men.
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THE
DOWNBEAT
Continued from page 90


Who took Ernie Cottmae 4 t'e.
clasp 20 | know Noticed
that Helen Maddox is home. We'll
come kid The Jr. Harrison
tha, / spoke Of in last weeks pa
per as being nurse maid was
Leonard Harrison, Jr. 1t seems
that there were some questions
about the name
Where is Hugh Watson hiding
mighty fine piece Of material
George Martin is sporting on his
hack King Chavous takes care
Of all assesses.
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THE FORUM

The board, representing more
than 800 women Of the An f.
church, reminded the President
that through passage Of the bill,
S. r. rs, now in the senate COM
mittee on education and labor, q
blow would be struck at such
wholesale discriminatory prac-
tiscs. !"
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-
ABBE WALLACE
Continued from page s.

ilontinued from page %
why you should wait any longer.
You will be quite successful
there.
| want 10 know before we leave
SCHOOL,
The girl is madly in love
with you and you know it. She
seems afraid for you TO approach
her people on the subject until
she has her diploma think
too tha, it would be we'll for you
to wait until after your thru
school. 1t is only matter Of
another six or eight weeks and
you will both be graduated from
college. Call on her folks after
you are working and in a posi-.
tion TO take care of wife.
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to establish State College for
Negroes as means of shunting
Negro students away from Ohio
State University, Kent College,
Miami University, and other state
schools not desiring Negro stu
dents.
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A.M.E. Church
Women Ask Pres.
Roosevelt's Support
In Attacking Racial
Discrimination

PITTSBURGH tANP) Mem
hers OF the executive board Of the
Pittsburgh Conference branch Of
the Women's Mite Missionary So
ciety, A.M.E. church, in an open
letter 10 President Roosevelt urg-
ed him to assure A tortured
world Of an all-out attack on Ne
gro discrimination IN defense
industries