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Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17
OUR GOOD LANDS
BEING BIG INTEREST
EDITOR. THE POST-PRESS:

Ed lOR. Nt. IOSl-PEESS:
You We're barking up the right tree
in Your l-trnt editorial. The Valley s
Most Enduring Nalue-Farm Land" Try
il again soon. Show that good farm land
here never has ror is it likely 10. increase
out Of proportion to is intrinsic value.
Few realize what are the true facts and
economic value OF good Imperial Valley
land Based on cash rents paid over d
period OF IN Near>-tNen the last ten
our good lands nave Nctted big interest
or twice ~ more what would have been
the sales price
10 he conservative. remember that ten
ans expect 10 make a profit. and actual
ly do on the average. Net income from
rent. theI tore, Is a Sounder basis upon
which to fix values than is production by
oWnor-operator. which often is so out Of
proportion to other agricultural com
munitie> as t. appear fabulous. The
places.
Wha1 should land bc worth on which
the tenant pays SO per acre per year
and all tuNr> tor q ten Year lease. and
leaves thr place n alfalfa at expiration?
Should land have sold or S55 in i35
tha. h,,S rented for the last two Years
with Oh more Year to goat $50 per
ace pen. year. These are facts
Good land properly handled has had
cash rental value for various crops at
SD per acre per Year right through the
depr. S>iun. and the total tax ON such
Lands. district and county, has been S5
to 81 per acre, mostly around $3.50 10
5000 per acre per year. Yet such lands
are selling II Sl00 to $50 per acre with
cXtreme cases Doth above and below
With initiation here and more coming,
Many who are not farmers are wonder
ing what to do with their life savings.
If through repeated editorials you can
reach and teach these people more of the
real facts and economic >oundness of
good Imperial Valley land, you will have
accomplished something worthwhile.
And don't forget that program YOU
mention once in a while of a unified effort
t. ct facts regarding Imperial Valley
before farmers ii less favored states to
the cast
7 4
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17
by Willis Thornton
Dual Citizenship

It would probably be a fine thing
if the world were such that nationa.
borders could be less rigid than
they are. A man is First of all a
man a member of the human race
and there should be 20 timer title
than that of citizen of the world. Of
Some dav ,hIs may come 1t has
no. come as vet. For the past 80
wears the tendency has been the
Other way toward raising and
tightening the barriers between one
country and another
1t would be plain suicide for any
country. III this world OF ultra =
natlonalism run riot. to let down
those barrier when others will not.
And to allow breaches in our own
barriers to be regularly used as
channels for flooding subverSivc in
fluenceS into the country is simply
stupid
Most Americans probably do not
know even the meaning OF the term
dual citizenship" In our simplicity.
we always assume that 10 be a
citizen of our country means un-
divided loyalty to this country and
to this country alone. Because
Americans generally have this sim
pie, mcomplicated view OF the mat
ter very few of them ever become
naturalzed citizens of another
country They feel the linality OF
the step. knowing that they would
render the same undivided loyalty
to a new country that they paid
to their own.
Not all countries or people t:ke
this view. There are several voun
tries recOeniHing dual citizenship.
That is. they permit their nationals
to go to another country and be-
come citizens there, yet retaining
4 claim on their loyalty to tie
homeland Germans coming to Mex
leo and other l.,ltin countries. Tree
" take out citizenship there, never
assuming for an instant that this
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17
PORK BARREL STILL FULL
(Santa Ana RcgiSttl)

The needs Of the defense program are
now icing used aS an alibi for the un-
precedentedIy swift rise in our national
debt. But that ;libi cannot stand up on
an analysis.
The Treasury's own figures tell the
tale. IN the fiscal year ended June 30,
Federal expenditures We're S12,0O0,00O,-
600 About half Of that sum went for
defense purposes.
What is happening is simply this: The
staggering cost Of defense is being piled
on top Of an eXorDitant depression fed
RAJ budget which has not been cut in a
single important particular. The waste
goes on. The overlapping and duplica-
ton Of activity goes on. All the costly
needless "luXurie>" and political taX
exempt business projects on which the
government embarked during the depres
sion in competition with highly taxed pri-
yate business, are being maintained as
usual
Our leader, are now pointing out that
all must sacrifice for defense, which is
necessary. But how about the politicians
sacrificing Some Of their pork barrel ac-
tivjties which are driving this nation
down the road to bankruptcy?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17
by Paul Harrison
HolIywoods Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

i.cm the film
IUpr Is star, bul ne consist
tull} REFUSES 20 behave like one
Wien l went on tie Sai fuun
her in heated argument with
Director Charles Barton oy".
whether she should work that eve
nine. He had rolac scenes that
needed doino, but i was fieht night
at the Legion Stadium. and Mis-
Velez always goes The unusual
feature OF this argument was that
Barton was saying that She had
been working too hard and ought
to go, and she WAS inusting tha,
she'd stay at the studio and Go Xth"
night scenes
Her mstaylkc behavior ON the
se:a is equally remarkable When
the assistant director GOES TO look
lc" her TO tell acr they're ready
for q scene, he ms ird her cut
side OF The Stag". l. IL" uidGls Of a
delighted GrC01 o. techntcldnS and
extras, giving torrh with hcr orig
lnal story ubop inc three polar
bears. or tine ole ABOUT the little
OWl.
when Mis- Vr'c2 Dlo"= up in her
lines. she rcprC&cues herself with
an acrobatic Kick Inst lands where
kicks are supposed 20 land. No mat
ter that she may be wearing long
evening gown, or that she has just
muffed serious dramatic scene
She kicks herself and storms; "Lupe,
YOU are telrr-riblei Lupe, you
teee-e-e-enk!a
watched q brief shot IL which,
having been insrited b. Jack RAY
mond. She deliver, q couple o. ha%-
making slapa. TINS Vas repeated
three time, before TIE airecto"
okayed ii Miss VelcI hey fine
rage forgotten. ryshed baak and
showered the blushiug actor WilA
apolosetic kisses.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17

alters their relationship TO the
homeland.
Secretary of War Stimson has
proposed legislation to eliminate
complications arising from such
dual citizenship" He says he has
evidence that advantages gained by
such 4 system have been used to
facilitate spy work His bill would
provide that any national consider
cd under the laws OF another coun-
try to be a subject of that other
country :may be required to apoear~
before U. s. commissioner an Z
either renOunce United States citi-
Zenship or formally rcnounCe any
allegiance elsewhere. Refusal would
subject the national to deportation.
As long as national citizenship is
recognized and apparently nee
eSSary institution, it must mean al:
or nothing, Other countries may
tolerate or even encourage in their
laws such divided loyalties. There
is no room for them here American
citizenship either means undivided
and unreserved loyalty to America,
or it means nothing at all. This
bill is worth Congress earnest at
tention
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17
NEA Service Staff Correspondent


HOLI WOOD. Oct Is - LIp,
Vele2 rarely has any trouble With
the Hays Office Some o. her g.
vOrtlngS, costumes and comment,
before the camera would curl tie
whiskers of film censorship if an;
other actress We're involved. Bu.
Lupe's exuberan' comedy wlns Ecl
. lot Of latitude
It's anybody's guess. though. what
Will happen when Honolulu Lou
is submitted for a Purity Seal and
Miss VeleZ is seen IN sailors
honky- -tonk taking off her pant.
To be sure, they're merely sailor
pants. and it's true that she j.
found 10 be wearing cellOphaac
hula skirt under them. But tnS sell
constitutes q StrlO tease IND, con-
bined with the dance that follow,
may be regarded as more sedurtlf"
than silly.
Nj. leo Cauillo,S reaction IS sis-
nificant. After most OF q day spent
IN watching the preliminary strap
anG the Latlnlzed version OF Il
South Seas hip -slinging, he we4-
home and to bed with a te.npe!a-
ture OF l04 Also on the -, WaS
a paid audience Of about l02 -. -
in naval uniforms. There Wa os-a
talk among them Of marching .
Columbias front office and hand
ing back their checks in aDprCCla-
ton of the days entertainment
EASY TO LOOK AT
Miss Velez. l must say looks fine,
There are times when l think that
if she would squelch some OF her
-crackery and retard the tempo
of her acting to the feline languor
of Hedy LAMAR. she could make
half the screens glamour gals look
like Edna May Oliver
But Lupe is ioopy. and she IS
justifably content to remain unique.
She does get a kick out OF initiating
some of the slinky screen queens.
In fact. she mimicS Katie Hepburn
and Marlene Dietrich in his pic
ture. and gets extra satisfaction
from the latter burlesque because
Legs Dietrich is working on the
same lot. in The Lady is Wiling, :
and has dressing room across the
hall from Miss Velez. Lupe will
be seen in a Blue Angel costume
and Will be heard singing a screWy
medley of Failing in Love With
You" and See What the Boys IL
the Back Room VIII Have" IN
low. tuneless voice.
IMITATIN' ADOLF
Up to now it has been a great
secret. but among the limitations
that the peppcyy tamale will do III
Honolulu Lou Is one Of Adolf
Hitler She showed me some clips
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

DOE. RICHARD ROE, JOHN DOE
COMPANY. A CORPORATIONS,
RICHARD ROE COMPANY A
CO-PARTNERSHIP. j DOE AS
EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE OF
r. ROE. DECEASED, AND J. DOE,
AS ADMINISTRATORS OF THE
ESTATE OF r. ROE. DECEASED,
DEFENDANTS.
You Are Hereby Directed to APP
pear and answer the Complaint III
an action entitled as above, brought
against you in The Superior Court
Of the County Of Imperial, State
Of California, within ton days after
the service on yoV Of this Summon
If served within TINS county; or
within Thirty day. II served else
where.
And you arc hereby notified that
unless you app ar and answer as
above required, thc SaId plaintiff
will take judgement for any money
or damage demanded in the COM
plant, as auslns upon contract, or
It will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the Com
plaint.
GiYen under my hand and the
seal Of the Superior Court of tie
County Of Imperial, state of Cal
ifonla, thia day of Nogcmbcr,
1910
W J. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk
BY G. o. KENYON,
Deputy Clerk
(SEAL)
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17
Barbs

Well be glad when the old world
gets back to having only its usual
enc revolution a day.
The one thing proved by StatiS"
tics is that you can't always prove
4 thing by statistics.
A drunken pig in Kentucky lei
officers to a still. They simply fol-
lowed the picked pigs feet.
Some parents worry about keep
inc the kids in ciotheS-otherS about
keeping them out of atoS.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17
Did You Know?

A salary Of $223 = daE i, paj
corporals in the British Royal Air
Force.
Michigan5 population increased
from 4.842 .325 in 1890 to 5,245,02l
in 1910.
The planets Ncnus and MercurT
pass through the same phases Il,
the carth'S moon.
Italy has radio equipment in II"
lifeboats of its newer liners.
Quebec. Canada. has a . D"r cent
tax on restaurant meals COSTING -
CcltS or more.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17

EDITORS NOTE: The fOil0wing edit
0rtdis are presented as interesting Opin-
ions r0iced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17

In America it is suggested that
people eat less for their own good.
In some foreign countries it's de-
manded that they eat less-if they
know what's good for 'em.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY
OF IMPERIAL
No. 1854

SCMAONS
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION DIS
TRICT. Plaintiff, vs.. A C..
BURCH, JANE DOE BURCH.
ct al, Defendants.
Harry w Horton and Geo r Kirk.
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
CALIFORNIA SEND GREETINGS
TO A. c. BURCH, JANE DOE
BURCH, L. S. Lesson. JANE
DOE Lesson. G. L. L1NDLEY
JANE DOE LTNDLEY. WILLIS j.
GOULD, DOROTHY H. GOULD
THOMAS j. FAULKNER, JANE
DOE FAULKNER, A. H. HOLFORD,
INEZ L. HOLFORD, HUSBAND
AND WIFE. HORACE C. LONDON,
GEORGIA NC VI. LONDON, HUS-
BAND AND WIFE. H. f. GROOM,
GEORGE w. DAMRON AND
FLORENCE F.. DAMRON, HUS-
BAND AND WIFE. LAND &. NAV
IGATION COMPANY OF LONG
BEACH, A CORPORATION, MER-
CHANTS HOLDING CORPORA
TTON. LTD, A CORPORATION,
RELIANCE TITLE COMPANY, A
CORPORATION, AS TRUSTEE,
TITLE INSURANCE AND TRUST
COMPANY, A CORPORATION,
AS TRUSTEE, JOHN DOE, JANE
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. Nation
al Editorial Association.
California Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17
THE BIG NEED IS FOR
A UNIFIED CONTROL

Enlarglng upon the board OF trade IN
Vltatlon, why not a sort of constitutional
convention to set up an active. we'll fin
anced advertising organization 10 do the
whole job? Members Of the board of
trade and Of the supervisors. as we'll as
officers of the countTS various and Var-
led civic organizations, should attend.
Then, without rancor or eiudice, with
out self-interest or political considera-
ton, they could set up an agency with
full-tlme, salaried head man, to place
Imperial county in favorable light be-
fore the world.
Such an agency might be revised,
broadened board of trade without the
present strict political control exercised
by the supervisors, OF it might be an en-
tirely new organization.
Whatever it is, it should be we'll fin
anced-and not by donations or contribu-
tions, either. Its financing should be
assured and secure for an advertising
campaign of this kind. to be effective.
must be continuous The Financing
should be up to the supervisors. for the
benefit would be countrywide. The pro
gram should be administered by d man
with nothing else 10 do, instead Of by
men with other Jobs which are more i'm
portant in their eyeS-aS IS the case now.
Imperial cOunty's advertising today IS
a by-product of hundred other things.
instead Of the primary concern it should
be.
If We are to get anywhere, we are go
ing to have to make advertising Imperial
county job all by itself with an e,s-
perienced man doing the Job, and with
sufficient funds on hand to make SURE
he will reach those who. if they can be
attracted here. will spend thousand
times enough. TO pay for whatever sums
we put into county advertising.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17
Famous Sayings

But he that hath the ,tceragc OF my course direct
my sail! Shakespeare.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17
So They Say

l think that if you don't tap
wires Your espionage work goes olj
The window. Attorney General
Blddle.
A Communist is & socialist without
4 sense Of humor-President George
Barton Cutten. Colgate University.
The United States is the preach
lest nation on earth. We've done
more talking about international.
morality and made as little effort
70 further it as any country.-Dr.
Walter Van Kirk. Federal Council
of Churches.
Young people learn best from
Young people.-Mrs. Franklin d.
Roosevelt
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17
Thought for the Day

Fo. evet or t..' aos;s st .a.,'a - '.e..: nehr.
eane,hsfa ~ .-.1s e~; -, deess ~,e,c ae .cYsolru
-.Inkl.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17
WERE STILL NOT
GETTING ANY FORRARDER

The Imperial county board Of trade,
one imagineS must have been Smarung
under imagined criticism when Il adopted
a resolution this week declaring II is
empowered and VIII accept from such oE-
ganizations tthe Associated chambers OF
commerce and other civic eroups) such
funds at their disposal for advertising
purposes to be expended 10y and through
the board of trade under thv supervision
of the board OF Supervisors
The board OF trade. on the other hand,
might have been oHer-ton>cloUS Of legal
technicalities set around its existence by
the board O supervisors
At any rate. the resolution does not
represent a step toward the goal impair
tial residents OF ii" community want 20
reach as soon as poS>iblc-the goal of
attracting to Imperial Valley new farm
ers, new winter Residents n>W capital.
That may not be the fault Of the board
of trade; probably il is not. The board
OF trade Is so utterly controlled by the
board of supervisors. and the board OF
supervisors seems 50 utterly incapable
of getting away from sectional conSIdera-
tons in matters OF thiS kind. that il is
quite apparent the fault lies not n INdi-
vldualS. but in the system devised Years
ago and which has not been changed sine
the beginning.
AS the situation now exists. We believe
it would be as much of a mistake for tie
various chambers ot commerce 10 turn
their money over 10 the board of trade
as 1t would be for the board Of trade to
turn its money over to the various cham
bers Of commerce. Neither procedure
would bring anything better than ht-or-
miss results.
In one particular, We believe Tie board
sible development OF Il WORTHWHILE pro-
gram. The board extended an Invitation
to officers of various civic organizations
ito advise and counsel with the board of
trade on any advertising campaign for
Imperial Valley" SO far, So good
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17

Up to now it has been great
secret, but among the limitations
that the peppcyy tamale will do IN
Honolulu Lou Is one Of Adolf
Hltler. She showed nae some clips
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-17

(S.rnrd) W. +. HANCOCK.
Evening star., 1941-08-29
Pauses in MidafternOOn.

Midafternoon pause: He smokes
cigarettes frequently as he works.
At midafternoon, he has a glass OF
soft drink.
He usually works a five-day week
and summers he leaves the ONCE
Friday nights for Saturday. Sunday
holiday with his family at his home
at Southampton, Long Island.
There he goes swimming with Mrs.
Merrill and three British children
the Merrills are taking care of for
the duration of the war.
The children came to the United
States last December.
There are two girls and boy. and
the Merrills are pretty much
wrapped up in them. Jean, the
youngest, is years old; Anne is 7
and Alastair, the brother. is 8. They
are the children of a country physi-
clan, in Holyoke, England. whose
work has been doubled by the war.
The children's mother is in Eng
land by the side of her husband.
Just like home" said he children,
when they saw Merrill's house at
Southampton for the first time.
Says Merrill, regarding discussion
of the war with the children: II
never bring it up. If they ask ques-
tions about the war, I answer them
as clearly and simply as can"
The Merrills go South November
l to their winter home at Palm
Beach each year, and stay until the
following June. so the British chill
dren will go to school in Florida.
Evening star., 1941-08-29
Looks Much Younger

Merrill looks much younger than
his age Besides swimming, he plays
tennis for relaxation. He likes to
sail small boats.
Sometimes in the winter. he goes
fishing with friends in the Gulf
Stream. "I don't fish, but I enjoy
helping the captain run the boat"
he says.
Merril has a lot of definite ideas
on the securities business.
He thinks every man should estab-
lish his home, take out adequate
life insurance before dabbling in Sc
curities.
He dislikes margin business.
He thinks no two investors needs
are the same, contends every in
dividual securities account should
be handled separately, for each in
his opinion requires individual treat
ment.
Says Merrill: THE main trouble
with Wall Street when It was op-
Grating up to the hilt was that it
promised too much, performed too
little service for the customer"
He sees no reason why the Sc
curities business cannot be stabilized.
and securities sold for investment
on as sane basis as store merchan-
disc.
He favors permissive incorporation
for brokerage firms, and hopes this
will come along some day. Incor-
poration, he says, would not only
permit perpetuation of a firm, but
would permit proper spending for
promotional and educational adver-
tising without penalizing the income
Of older partners.
A partnership hssitates to spend
Evening star., 1941-08-29
SuIes of Chinese Silk
To U. 5. Rise Sharply
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK. Aug. 2s.-Silk, as
sociated with China since the days
Of Old Cathay, is resuming a COM
manding position in China's trade
relations with the United States as
the result of the determined efforts
Of Chinese silk producers and ex-
porters to replace the $3.50 900 900
American silk market lost by Japan.
Last year the United States took
5l3 per cent Of China's silk produc-
ton. while the remainder was sold
to France, Burma, India and Great
Britain. American consumption of
Chinese silk is already swinging
sharply upward as incipient short
ages Of raw silk develop in this coun-
try due to the crippling of trade re-
lations with Japan. which hitherto
supplied 81 per cent of American
silk requirements.
The export If Chinese silk has
been picking up since the Chinese
government began to provide funds
and technical assistance to i'm
prove and stimulate production in
unoccupied China. Hard hit by the
world depression and Japanese
competition. China's silk industry
suffered nigh fatal blow when the
japanese captured the important
silk producing provinces Of Kiangsu
and Chekiang in 1898.
China has successfully offset the
loss of her former silk producing
centers by developing new sericul-
ture in Szechwan and Yunnan
Provinces in the unoccupied inter-
rior Of Free China. Within three
years, these new centers are already
exporting on a scale surprising the
old.
Evening star., 1941-08-29
Makes Job Look Easy.

Charlie Merrill is probably one Of
the hardest executives in
Wall Street, but the way he has his
private Office organized, 1t looks tre-
mendously easy. Associates say he
is a man who can wade through a
pack of detail that would floor three
ordinary men, yet come up without
A bead of sweat on his forehead or
a wrinkle in his collar.
Merrill has no desk in his private
office. Only an oak table about
8 feet long and 4 feet wide, resting
on massive legs.
On the table is a fountain pen
set, an ash tray, and four cardboard
folders from the five-and-ten.
Each bears label:
The first is marked urgent"
The second is requiring some at
tention"
The third is things undone."
The fourth is Ito be read"
Each morning Merrill's secretary
puts letters, notes, other memoranda
in the folders that have accumulated
overnight.
AS soon as Merrill arrives, he digs
into the urgent" folder, usually
cleaning up its contents by lunch
time or shortly thereafter.
Then he tackles the things un-
done" file and handles as many OF
these as time allows. He also checks
the matters in the file labeled re
quiring some attention" and if he
gets all through these he turns to
the Ito be read" folder and reads
articles, editorials, clippings, mail
with no time element and other ''in-
definites" there reposing.
Evening star., 1941-08-29
Plane Plant 10 Devote
Entire Output 10 Defense

By the Associated Press.
ALLIANCE, Ohio, Aug. 29.-With
particular emphasis on What it
termed home guard air defense
the Taylorcraft Aviation Corp, pro-
ducer of light airplanes, announced
today its entire output after Septem-
Der would be devoted to defense
purposes.
The company notified its distribu-
tors and dealers that planes here
after would be manufactured only
for uses related to defense, and in
cluded in list of such uses was
that of forming home guard units.
Uncounted in the aircraft output
figures announced periodically by
the Office of Production Manage
ment have been thousands Of small
planes manufactured annually by
the United States light-plane in
dustry.
Currently such aircraft are being
used experimentally for messenger
and iaison service in the Southern
war games.