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Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21
AND WHAT IS PROGRESS?
Culver City Star-News)

Culver City Star-News)
Observe the progress of civilization.
Man, who felt the first thrill of might in
the stone age and entered more fully into
his heritage of power in the iron age,
has risen in mounting cycles of achieve
ment past the age of steam and the super
colossal age of progress to the age of air
power.
Thus, through the advancement of GEN.
turies has he accomplished the great
transition from stone hatchet to bomber
Only little lower than the Angels man
has now taken to the air.
Nazis claim they have killed 100000
Reds, and the Reds, in turn, claim an as
Economical slaughter. Such mass murder
must make the shades of the most highly
sadistic of the Roman emperors turn
green with ghostly envy.
Yet, even now those impractical per-
sons, the idealists, are speaking of writ
ing just peace at wars end-of creating
a new order of justice and equality.
Some talk of that was current after
World War One There was even estab-
lished with many solemn covenants
League of Nations, that with austere JUS
tice was forever to safeguard inviolate
peace.
The pattern Of human conduct changes
little. Progressing from age to age We re-
peat our initial mistakes on an ever in
creasing scale
With the wisdom of research and inf
mite study we continue to learn new meth
DDS with which to make the same old
blunders.
In every century small and unpopu-
lar group of religionists and philosophers
has arisen to recommend an age of JUS
tiee. The world has paid them small at
tention. Watching the onslaught of
streamlined barbarism, there are those
who wonder if it ever will.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21
LITTLE BUSINESS IN
WASHINGTON

Typical of the discrimination
against small business in the de-
fense emergency, which the Justice
Department is organizing to inyesti-
gate, will be one like this:
An independent manufactures
who has been buying his raw ma
terials from one producer for years
will place new order The produc-
er will accept the order but he will
tell the manufacturer it will be i'm
possible TO make delivery for
months because of defense priority.
Shopping around the manufactur-
er will be told that a certain ware
house has ample supplies and can
make immediate delivery. Contact
ing the warehouse. the manufactur-
er will find he can get his order
filled-but only at an increased
price. Investigation reveals that
producers will have pooled their
output with warehouser in order
10 increase price under the guise of
defense shortages and priorities.
cases OF this kind can be prosecuted
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21
by Paul Harrison
HoIlywoods Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. q = Behind
the screen: A picture called Mr..
Celebrity soon to be started, deals
with group of once famous peo-
pie now living in the same boarding
house. The stars: Clara Kimball
Young and Francis X. Bushman.
At Metro they're filming 'sUnholy
Partners New York story of
about quarter century ago. In
the cast are Barbara Berford,
Charles Ray, King Baggott, NAH
Ion Hamilton, Ell Mason Hopper and
Naomi Childers-siX big stars of the
same period. Now they're working
as bit players.
In Hollywood" says Martin
Greene, when you shake hands
with someone it's generally to keep
him at arms length"
The man who financed the orig
inal production of "Ecstacy" is
peddling the rights for Hollywood
remake. Hedy Lamar, with or with
out clothes, won't be in it. Shes
happy for the first time in film
ing of H. M. Pullum, ESQ., in
which she plays a plainly-tailored
career girl who ages to woman of
middle years.
Casting notes: Mae West has an
impressive offer to appear with a
circus. . Mickey Rooney joins Jack
Benny and William Powell as fe-
male impersonator; done Latin
American dancers outfit for song
and dance number in Babes on
Broadway. Sigrid Gurie has
turned down another anti-Nazi
film role, fearing reprisals against
her family in Oslo.
At least two U S. companies, Col
umbia and M-G-M-, will make sew
eral pictures in BuenoS Aires STU
dios, with executives and scripts
from Hollywood, and actors and
technicians hired in Argentina. But
I'll bet the best gesture OF good
neighborlinesS will turn out to be
Walt Disney's tour of South Amer
lea with a crew of artists and story
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21
by Peter Edison
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

ness unit now being set up in As
sistant Attorney General Thurman
Arnold's antitrust division. Ar
mold has just picked his man to
head this unit in Guy Holcomb of
Atlanta, Ga
Tt will be early September before
Holcomb will be set to start func-
tioning, but in the meantime, he is
willing to receive letters from small
business men who feel that they
are being left out of the defense
picture, or are actually being dis
criminated against. When organized
this unit will have staff to fol-
low up on these complaints and an
economic staff to analyze them. Ad-
dress: Small Business Unit, Anti
Trust Division, Department of just
ice, Washington, D. C.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21

men who'll sketch scenes and peo-
pie and jot ideas for future ami
mated cartoons.
In the role of international news
commentator in woman of the
Year. Katy Hepburn will speak a
few sentences in seven languages.
Metro has been having some trou-
BILE with the heavy brogue of Barry
Fitzgerald. Nobody could under
stand him, he was told, so he was
given recording set and ordered
to practice at home in correcting
his diction. Few days later he re-
ported that the recording machine
was no good Il talk into it and play
it back" he complained, but I
can't understand anything I've
said"
When Olson and johnson first
appear on the screen in "Hellza-
poppin" they'll be seen getting out
of a taxiacb with two skunks, four
pigs, a calf, quartet each of ducks
and geese. flock of pigeons, two
st. Bernard dogs, two Great Danes
an da pair of bloodhounds.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21
UNION SHOP
IN THE NAVY
(Christian Science Monitor)

(ChriStian Science Monitor)
Both the shipbuilding company and
the union in the strike at Kearny, New
Jersey, are eager to turn over their indus
trial relations problems to Uncle Sam.
But would that settle satisfactorily the
union ship issue which divides them
Probably not.
For if the United States Government
should take over the big shipbuilding
yards in response to the company's offer
and union urging, it would Immediately
face the same question which the COM
pany faces: On what terms should 1t op-
crate the plant?
Should it agree with the union to en-
force the disputed maintenance Of mem
bership' clause which is at issue between
the union and the company? This would
mean that if any employee Joined the
union and then tried to withdraw from it,
the Government would be obligated to
discharge him. The same Government
which under the Wagner Act guarantees
a man freedom of choice about entering
union would use economic duress to
keep him from quitting a union he con-
sidered badly managed.
In the Governments own shipyards
operated by the Navy Department, the
Navy hires civilian workers who have
the necessary qualifications but does not
require that they belong to any labor
organization. If the Navy should take over
management of the yards at Kearny it
could hardly be expected to operate these
on any other basis than its own yards
along the same coast. 1t is doubtful if
this would please the C1O shipbuilders'
union
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21
RANDOM THOUGHTS
ON PUBLIC BUSINESS?

It seems to us the United States would
be better off these days if it could some
how split the government to allow the
New Deal and Franklin D. Roosevelt to
direct foreign affairs and policies, but
put some more level-headed economic
and social advisors in charge of purely
national affairs.
Since the international maneuverlngs
are for the moment most important, we Il
have to bear with the New Deal mistakes
in internal things-but that is no reason
for overlooking them. The more we over
look them, the more mistakes there will
be, and if there are very many more we'll
be in mess transcending even the inter
national crisis.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21
MISTAKE NO. / is
HAROLD L. TCkES

Most irritating if not the most danger
Gus mistake of the New Deal Is its con-
tinued support of Secretary of Interior
Oil Coordinator- Business Baiter-Crackpot
Harold L. Ickes And ranking high among
the irritations eminating from lckes-
ward was his solemn declaration this
week that gasoline rationing will prob
ably be ordered on the Pacific coast soon.
There is no scarcity of oil and gaso-
line out here Ickes explained naively,
"but the whole country ought to share
as equally as possible
Why, for the love of heaven? II they
have a theater tragedy in New York, on
a fire in Washington, do we Immediately
put bomb in one of our western theaterS
or set fire to a few of our buildings in the
west, just so we can share in the suffer-
ing?
1t is not as if rationing here would make
more gasoline and oil available to the
eastern states. Their problem is not an
actual shortage Of gasoline and oil, but
a shortage of transportation facilities.
They could not possibly get the gas and
oil we would do without. We would share,
if we could. But, since we cannot, why
should we be made to accept rationing
simply because it is in effect in the east?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21
Uranium Crackers
SIMILAR CITIES

SIMILAR CITIES
Many U. S. cities bear names that
look or sound alike, but they are
often many miles apart. Can you
name the states in which the fol-
lowing cities are found?
l. Oklahoma City, Kansas City
and Virginia City
2. Grand Rapids, Cedar Rapids
and Rapid City.
3. Kalamazoo and Yazoo City.
4. Pasco, Pasadena and Ell Paso.
5. Sioux Falls, Sioux City and
Sault Ste. Marie.
ANWERS
/. Oklahoma City is in Okla
homa: Kansas City is in Missouri:
and also in Kansas; Virginia City
is in Nevada, and also Montana.
2. Grand Rapids is in Michigan,
Cedar Rapids in Iowa, Rapid City
in South Dakota.
3. Kalamazoo is in Michigan,
Yazoo City in Mississippi.
a. Pasco is in Washington, Pas
adena in California, Ell Paso in
Texas.
S. Sioux Falls is in South Da-
kota, Sioux City in Iowa, Sault Ste.
Marie in Michigan. All arc pro-
nounced 500"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21
SPREADS THE WORK

Over in OPM is the Defense Con-
tract Service under Robert L. Me-
hornay which has the real job of
trying to promote sub-contracting,
bringing the little manufacturer in
TO the defense program, spreading
the work to bits and pieces pro-
duction. It's recent job of inviting
manufacturers in the Detroit area
to come in and see a torn down
model of aircraft and tank engines.
TO see what parts they could make
is an example of the constructive
work in aiding the change-oyer
from normal TO defense production.
Paralleling this work is the ef
fort of Sidney Hillman's labor di-
vision in OPM to keep up employ
ment during the transition period
and maintain steady supply of
labor for the expanding defense
efforts Both of these are positive
steps to benefit the small business
man, particularly the manufactur-
er, but they don't cover the prob
lens of the little fellow who can't
get piece of the defense pie.
Broader in its scope, and likewise
positive in its intention of actual
ly doing something to help the
small, or independent business man
caught in the defense rush, will be
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21
by willis Thornton -.
Only Deeds Can Now Speak for France

The political strip tease drearily
executed for q year by the regime
that claims TO speak for the French
people is drawing near its climax.
But the audience is getting rest
less.
These interminable pirouets, this
endless succession of noW-you-s see
it-noW-you-don't is growing tire
some Today we are going to stand
squarely and firmly on the terms Of
the armistice; tomorrow We are 60
ing to JOIN Whole-heartedly in con-
structioa Of an Axis Europe. The
only authority is that which l en-
trust or delegate, but the instinct
Of liberty, it still lives within US
Words mean little any more; few
care what they say who speak for
France; important only is what
they Go who act for France.
One thing ought to be made clear.
Most of the things being done in
France today have nothing to do
with the armistice signed June %,
1910, in the Compeigne Forest. This
was a military convention providing
for the stopping of the German
French war and setting up frame
work of regulation for occupied
France.
There is nothing in it providing
that France must set up a Fascist
state; nothing providing that min
ority groups must be prosecuted and
bounded. nothing providing phony
trials to find convenient scapegoats;
nothing binding France to co-ope-
rate in any new order" in Europe;
nothing directing how France
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21
BUSINESS MAN
TO HELP BUSINESS

Holcomb himself is not a lawyer,
which makes him one of the few
non-legal lights in the d. J. setup.
He has been a small business man.
with experience in banking, bond
selling, corporate insurance and re-
tail selling. He helped organize a
gasoline filling station retailers or
ganization in Georgia. fought the
battles of the independents against
the big refining and distributing
companies. He caught Arnold's at
ton in that and SO was picked to
head up this new unit
Numerous complaints have been
received from small business men
by the Justice Department. A lot OF
them are crackpot letters but about
one in four will have something in
it that bears further investigation
If the new Arnold Holcomb unit
can serve as a real friend of the
small business man in Washington,
where the big fellows with the lob
byists and special representatives
have an obvious advantage, useful
work can be done.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21

WASHINGTON, Aug. 81 Ii
you don't think times have chang
ed, consider just two angles of the
Washington spectacle today: big
business men, Republicans nearly
all, are working for the New Deal
administration for a dollar a year;
2-The Republican party, which US
ed to be considered the protector
of big business, has now taken the
cause of little business under its
wing
This latter development comes
through House Minority Leader Joe
Martins appointment of a commit
tee of 20 Republican congressman,
headed by Charles A. Halleck of
Rensselaer,, Indiana, to study the
problem of the little fellow squeezed
out of business by the defense ef-
fort.
Entrance of the Halleck commit
tee into the picture brings to a
total of five the number of govern
ment bodies who are now profess
sionally worried about the little fel-
low. The Halleck committee isn't
an official congressional commit
tee. 1t is purely political, it has no
appropriation. and its activities will
consist of receiving complaints from
small business men caught in the
priorities draft. The committeeman
will probably make speeches about
them.
In the Senate two committee
have tackled the problem. The Tru-
man committee, investigating na-
tional defense contracts, has touch
ed on the subject in testimony from
a few witnesses, and Truman in
vestigators have dug into it consid-
erably. Then there is the committee
headed by Senator James E. Muir
ray OF Butte, Mont appointed spe-
officially to study problems of small
business enterprises. It started work
even before the defense effort got
hot, but SO far hasn't come up with
anything very helpful.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21

should govern itself.
True, France was lett little
choice. Germany received the right
to terminate the armistice at any
time it considered that the French
were failing to fulfill its armistice
obligations A million Frenchmen
are prisoners in Germany. CONT
mental France is helpless.
But it is one thing to aid Hitler
under compulsive force, because you
are PROSTATE and helpless. The
world would understand that. But it
is quite another to go far afield
from the terms of the armiStice, to
do things the Germans had not
even thought of asking, to set up
an autocratic domestic regime and
proclaim that authority no longer
emanates from below" That differs
from the proclamation that France
only wishes to stand by her pledged
word in the armistice.
If France is merely conquered
country with no will except that ex-
ercised in Berlin, all right. No one
will reproach her for having fought
and lost. 1t could happen to any
country, our own not excepted,
which loses the concerted will nee
esSary to survival in this brutal
world.
But a country in such a status
must be treated by the world as
such. Frances acts, not Petain's
words, must decide.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21
Thought for the Day

EDITORS NOTE: The foIlolCinG
edit oriuis are presented as interesting
opinions U0iced by editors elseirhere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21
THEN THERE'S THE
MATTER OF CENSORSHIP

Mr.. Roosevelt and his Office of Govern
ment Reports Director, Lowell Mollett,
have gone to great lengths recently to
assure the people that they are getting
news uncensored and uninhibited. There's
no such thing as censorship, they both
proclaim.
Phooey,
How about the fact that the British
public knew before the American public
that Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill
were meeting at sea last week? How
about the fact that Mr.. Roosevelt refused
to allow American reporters to accom-
pany him, and has still refused to give
anything but the scantiest reports of the
sea conference, while British newspaper
men did accompany Churchill and wired
back detailed reports of the meeting TO
British papers? Britain, at war, knows
more about what its public figures plan
and are doing than does America, at
peace.
The only kind of censorship Mr.. Roose-
velt can legally impose on the newspapers
of America in peacetime is censorship at
the source-and he has used that to the
fullest of his ability. No censorship?
What do you call it. then?
THE OFFICIAL GAG
As parting shot there was the attempt
Wednesday of the Federal Power Com
mission to prevent Brig. Gen. George p.
Pillsbury from testifying in favor Of a
p. O. & L. application for permission to
construct big power project in Califor-
MIA A retired public servant, the com
mission argued in effect, has no right to
give evidence against the United States"
Who, we'd like to know, decides what is
against the United States" if expert
Testimony is thrown out?
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21

The bee louise is tiny creature
which clings to the hairs of the
honey beee. 1t is about one six
hundrcdths of an inch long.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21

OF every eight men registered for
the draft in the World War. one
saw service in the United States
Army.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21

The first free delivery of mail in
the United States was in 1868.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21

Well guess that it would take
several hours to read the minutes
of a Woman's club.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21

The average salary of police
man in London is $1,000 a year.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21

The tortoise shell is the longest
lived of all butterflies, living for
about a year.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21

Americans often are visualized as
having red hair by the Chinese.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21

Many of the uncivilized races
of the world are adept at ven-
triloquism.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21
Did You Know?

It's dangerous to put your money
in some pools. They're full of
sharks.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21

Some parrots nave been known
to reach the age of rs years.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association. Nation
al Editorial Association.
California Newspaper Pub
fishers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-08-21
Famous Sayings

Great souls by instinct to each other turn demand
alliance, and in friendship burn-Addison
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02
Whea. Marketing
CARDS Received

Wheat marketing cards are avail
able at the Imperial County Agri-
cultural Conservation ASSOCIATION
Office. L. C. Hawk. association
chairman. announced Wednesday.
Last May 81 wheat farmers OF
the United States voted in favor
OF a wheat marketing quota as
part OF a plan to assure orderly
marketing of this years wheat crop,
All farmers who planted within
their allotmentS are eligible to re-
Ceive marketing cards. Hawk said.
Farmers with excess wheat may re-
ceiye a marketing card by paying
the penalty or, II planning to
avoid or postpone payment of th5
penalty, may store excess wheat IN
storage warehouse approved by
the federal government. or under
bond in the farm storage.
Additional information about the
marketing quota was available al
the association office at $50 State
street, El Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02
Strikers Upset
Apricot Trucks

SAN JOSE. Cal. July up
Violence Haired again last night
wnen two trucks loaded with april
cotes en- route to a Gilroy cannery
were overturned by supporters Of
the California Growers union which
has called a strike for higher fruit
prices.
Sheriff William j. Emig saio
bands Of strikers were hating
the trucks carrying fruit from un-
organized groves in an attempt to
force the oanneries TO close down
for lack Of apricots.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02
Send All Reds
Back to Soviet;
Soy Farmers

the victim of aggreSSor Nazi Ger
many in a great battle for world
domination by two totalitarian and
barbaric PHILOSOPHERS. In this in
ternational emergency our presi-
dent has announced the policy of
all aid this country can spare for
huSSia.
BE it resolved. that the people
of the United States be called upon
to make the sacrifice of giving up
the saboteurs and subversive strike
agitatorS even in our vital defense
industries for this worthy purpose
and express our humanitarian in
stinctS TO the ultimate degree Of
sending russia our parlor pinks
without any selfish thoughts OF
priorities for American schools and
universities
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02
Post.Press Vacation Where To &C"
Service Lists Suggested Resorts

cluding literature, are avail
able at the Post-Press office.
Just telephone our Resort
Service, 300, leave your num-
Der or arrange for an ap-
pointment, and full informa-
ton will be given you. There
is no charge for this service.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02
O'DunieI Wins
Senate Race

DALLAS. Texas, July 2 UP)-
Gov w. Lee O'Danlel. avowed
hater OF politicians, today prepared
to 90 to Washington as Texas
junior senator.
He will take the seat of the late
Morris Sheppard who died April
8 and will serve unitl the normal
expiration of Sheppard's term Jan
3, 1943.
Complete unofficial returns from
the special election Saturday, gave
ODaniel lead of 1,095 votes over
his nearest Of "a pponentS-Rep
Lyndon B. Johnson who had the
support of President Roosevelt ano
administration leaders.
ODaniels "trip to the capito
will be postponed, however, until
the state canvassing board official
ly tabulates the 57l,095 votes July
IA and the election bureau admitted
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02

that the margin was so small that
the boards count could change the
decision.
The final returns, as compiled by
the bureau, gave:
ODaniel 1888.
johnson l74273.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02

San FRANCISCO, July 2 (UP)
The Associated Farmers of Cali
fornia announced today they favor
ed aiding Russia to the extent of
sending all Communists in the
United States back to Moscow an6
placing all Nazls in concentration
camps.
Sresldent D. A. Stevning said
the Associated Farmers. at q meet
ing in Los Angeles ADOPTED a res
olution and sent it to the California
congressional delegation. It read in
part:
Former aggressor Russia is now
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02
Site Approved for
Homes at 5. D.

WASHINGTON. July 2 CUP)-
Federal Works Administrator John
VI. Carmody approved q site at
San Diego, for erecting 500 pre-
fabricated dwellings for defense
workers. The site includes two
tracts OF 80 and 26 acres in the
vicinity of Valencia Park
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-02

Each of the spots detailed
above on the map of San
Diego county has been visited
and inspected by a member OF
the Post-Press staff. Full
particulars as to the accom-
odations offered, approXi-
mate scale of charges, and
current road conditions, in