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Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18
THERE IS NO DEAD END
FOR REAL INITIATIVE

The season of graduations is approach
ing again.
And again defeatist economists are
taking the stump to warn high school
and college graduates away from dead
end jobs"-the jobs which in their opln-
ion represent no future possibilities for
advancement.
They would be doing a greater service
for the youngsters if they warned them
against dead end" philosophers
There are no dead end jobs. There are
only individuals who allow themselves
to petrify in one niche of industry.
The dead end job theory is hangover
from one of the most tragic periods of
American economic history. 1t was the
period of the depression, when defeatists
preached that youth has no chance, that
all the frontiers have been used up, that
there is no more room in the world for
brains or initiative The most tragic
phase of the period was that many young
people actually believed the dark-hued
preachings of their inefficient elders.
There is nothing more tragic, and no
one more wrong, than the young man
who starts his adult life with the belief
that he is beaten before he gets under
way. There are few crimes more deplor-
able than the crime of a beaten adult
VINO attemplS 10 allDl Tor nlmSeI1 Dy con-
vincing young people that there is no
such thing as advancement.
1t has been so since the beginning, and
it is so now, that any mans life-within
reasonable bounds-fs what he makes of
it. Success or failure is not ar external
development; it comes from within.
No matter how mean a mans first job,
it has the elements of eventual success
if he himself has those elements. From
digging bitches for a sewer line a man
can rise to foreman, to superintendent,
to construction company executive, even
to ownership. After that, only his own
limitations govern his success. The same
thing is true in any other field Progress
may be slow-but then so are most things
that are worthwhile. 1t takes 20 years
to develop and educate an individual in
preparation for adult life. Sometimes
longer. Surely success, after that, can
not be expected within the brief span of
a year or two.
Our educators-sone of them-would
do we'll to forget about dead ends
and concentrate on building in youth the
qualities that refuse to recognize OBJ
staeles which are largely mental
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18
by Willis Thornton
There Will Be Work To Do

Lots of people are furrowing their
brows over this question: when the
defense boom collapSes, what shall
we do with our productive facilities
to keep them busy and to keep men
in jobs?"
1t is a very real question, and one
which will require our very best
efforts to solve. It's nature ought
not to be misunderstood, however,
at the start.
The real question is not what
work is there to be done?' 1t is:
How shall we do it,"
There will be plenty of work to
be done when the war emergency
is over, plenty of work to create
here in our great America the kind
of country it ought 70 be.
Have our cities no slums and
blighted areas to be torn down and
replaced with dwellings really fit
for men and women TO live in? Are
our roads, built for the horse and
buggy era, sufficient !or the motor
ized era? Are RAILROADS crossing
Travelled roads at grade a mark of
a well-designed community? Are
there not even now too many people
living without electricity, without
ordinary minimum sanitary facil-
tiles? Shall not the airplane be as
common as the automobile is to-
day, cheap, easy means of trans
port for the average family? Shall
we ever be able truly to say that
we raise too much food when the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18
HOW GOVERNMENT MOVES

Most of the time red tape costs the
United States government money, but
here's one incident in which it saved mo-
ey. Of you ignore mailing costs, salaries
of clerks and the costs Of printing var
ious and sundry forms.)
Editor & Publisher, trade journal for
newspapermen, reports the incident 1t
happened to the Ware (Mass.) River
News, a weekly newspaper The Public
Buildings Agency, a federal office, in
serted an ad in the paper calling bids on
landscaping. The charge for the ad was
one dollar. The ad ran two months ago.
A bill was sent to the federal govern
ment. Then the deluge began
The newspaper had to fill out set Of
vouchers. 1t did so. A week or so later,
another set of vouchers came through.
They had to be filled out, too Hope
fully, the paper complied. Last week
the third set arrived, with blanks in du-
plicate and triplicate, each set requiring
the services of notary.
The newspaper did some figuring 1t
would cost -S5 to comply with all the red
tape necessary for collecting the one dol
lar bill.
The newspaper wrote letter to Wash
ington, notifying the United States that
the charge had been crossed off its books.
So the government saved one dollar.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18
MYTHS EXPLODED
{ Sacramento Union)

NSacfamentO Un!On)
Up til now, the United States has
gingerly edged into the convoy ques-
ton, by bringing Greenland under its
wing, by declaring the Red Sea no longer
combat zone, by turning over coast
guard cutters to Britain
Up til now, we've been training Il
draft army for defense, but presumably
not for an eXpeditionary force.
New pins have been stuck into these
myths Of steps short of war, however,
with President Roosevelt's announce
ment that armed protection will be
furnished American ships carrying war
goods to the Balkans via the Red Sea,
and Secretary of War Stimson's state
ment that the draft army must be pre-
pared for the possibilities of war" out
side the Americas.
The campaign to crystalize American
opinion behind open intervention has
been gathering momentum for months,
and now it looks like the administrations
pulse-feelers are nearing the conclusion
that it's safe to blow the lid off.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18

Surgeon General says that 40 per
cent of the people ale not properly
fed? viii there be no friendly.
neighboring countries to whom We
can lend techniques and money 10
raise their standards of living with
our own? Are there no more schools,
recreation fields, and cultural CEN
ters to be built? Is il conceivable
that men, once shown the facilities
and the techniqueS for building all
these things as they have never
been built before, viii then be de-
MED them?
To ask questions like those is to
answer them. The Oily question Is
Howe"
The answer in turn by no means
implies public provision for all these
things. Builders Of things, con-
structors of buildings and works,
are already turning their minds to
means of drawing private capital
on vast scale to such projects
The Urban Re-Development Cor
porations law in New York state is
only one such plan. This provides
easier condemnation of blighted
areas, and certain tax concessions
on improvements Gnstead of i'm
mediately taxing Improvement, as
we do now.
The New York law Is only a fore
runner There will be other plans.
all addressed to solving not the
question "What?" but the more
veXatious problem How"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18
FUN ON THE
DIAMOND

Other evening when Buddy Eb-
sen began Dragging about the in
vincibility of q soft-ball team he
had organized at the studio, Mere
dith impulsively challenged for
game the next night. Meredith show
ed up at the field with team of
girls, champions oI local league,
whom he had hired at $5 each and
a fancy dinner at the Brown Der
y Anything for a nib.
For year or so he has been
living at Jimmy Stewards house.
When the corporal was about to
come home on leave recently, Mer-
edith prepared welcome. He strung
banner across the house an
nouncing it as headquarters of the
Peace-at t-Any-P Price Association, and
then he hired a lot of ragged, un-
shaven extras to lounge on the
lawn
Meredith even ribbed the studio
press agents who had trumped up
a lot of hoopla about how the last
pages of the Tom, Dick and Har-
ry' script had been sealed up and
none of the three leading men
would know until the last day which
one would win the eirl. Buzz Mer-
cdith launched a WhirlWind court
ship OF Miss Rogers Immediately and
Kept 1t up for Weeks-dime- store
JeWelry, carnival candy, field flow
ers, a magnificently tattered fur
coat, and finally junk automobile
painted in red, white and blue
stripes which he toweu to her house.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18
Uranium Crackers
BOY MEETS GIRL

Varied and interesting situation;
are cooked up by movie makers for
the introduction of heroes and her.
oines Can you identify the pictures
where the boy met the girl in the
following manners, ana name the
players involved.
l. A surveyor meets the girl IN
a telegraph office in Omaha.
2. A gangster meets the girl in
a mountain tourist cabin in Cali
fornia.
g. A rich young man meets a
white-collar girl at her fathers
home in Philadelphia.
4. A banker meets the girl at 4
Cincinnati railroad station.
5. Reporter meets the girl at a
peace foundation luncheon in Lon
don
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18
ANSWERS

1. Robert Young meets Virginia
Gilmore in telegraph office in
western Union"
2. Humphrey Bogart meets Ida
Lupino at tourist cabin in High
Sierra"
3. Dennis Morgan meets Ginger
Rogers at her fathers home in
Kitty Foyle.'
4. Charles Boyer meets Margaret
Sullivan at a railroad station in
Back Street"
5. joel McCrea meets Larraine
Day at luncheon in Foreign Cor
respondent"
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18

EDITORS NOTE: The foliOiUing
editorials are presented as interesting
opinions Uoiced by editors elsewhere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18
BY LUCIE NEVILLE
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, MAY l7.-Burgess
Meredith is happy actor these
days. 1t has been nearly a year
and four pictures since anybody
called him modern Hamlet
In a series of zany characterize
tons, he has won the right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of Wacki-
ness in MovietoWn.
Trouble was that flicker people
took him seriously from the time
he first came here in 1886 to du-
plicate his stage performance in
"Winterset.' They regarded him as
an earnest and moody young intel
lectual. Sometimes wien he got 20
talking they wouldn't know Wheth-
er he was kidding The movies or
not. The suspicion was strengthen
cd when it was learned that Mered-
18th was refusing to make screen
tests for other studios, but was
sending them instead a ridiculously
Dad test which had been made OF
him in New York years before.
The real reason for Meredith'e
behavior was that he was under
contract to return to New YORK.
and he couldn't bear the notion Of
turning down big-money offers from
the studios. SO he sent around the
unflattering test SO that no offers
would be made and he wouldn't
face any disturbing decisions.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18
Did You Know?

A veteran fireman is called n
"harquebus".
Persons in the southern hemi-
Sphefe see the left half of the '
moon at first quarter. In the
north, they see the right half.
The wind blows in curves, never
IN a straight line.
Clouds may be seen moving ST. =
muitaneously in three different
directions in the mountains.
Belva Ann Lockwood was the
llrst woman permitted TO practice
before the United States Supreme
Court in 1879
Courses in public housing now
are offered in more than 200 col
legeS of the United States.
Portuguese is the official Ian
guage of Brazil.
Texas is larger than pre-vxr
Germany.
The onion was Worshippcd by the
ancient Egyptians.
Some species of large Chinese
moths have a nine-in Widespread.
A flash of lightning may last only >
one ten-millionth of second
Longs Peak Colo, is 1925 feet
above sea level.
The horse has increased con-
siderably in size since it has been
domesticated by man.
Ancient Romans regularly ate five
times day.
One section of southern India has
an annual rainfall OF 500 inches.
Normandy is a district of France.
The United States has more than
half million gasoline filling sta
tions.
Both Ontario and Michigan touch
four OF the five Great Lakes.
Women who roast others are not
always good cooks.
Easiest way to find a tack is
turn off the lights and hunt bare
footed.
--- "a h.l4
When you come out the little
end of the horn, turn aro;.nd and
blowl
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18
WASHINGTON BULLETINS

w bAcHIIfO L SCs bSLLtl tINo
Red Cross has sent $50 am
balances and nearly Is million
surgical dressings TO England . E. 4.
American railroads carried 800
million pounds of high explosives
last year with only three minor
accidents Emil Schram, the
Peru, Ind, boy who agreed to
accept presidency of New York
Stock Exchange, has 10 import
ant government jobs, ranging
from chairman of Reconstruction
Finance Corporation to repre-
sentative for agriculture on the
beard of the Department of JUS
tees Federal Prison Indu,t tries,
Inc. Newest classification OF
government worker is social pro.
lection representative" The Job Is
to persuade women to quit hang
ing around army camps
Strikes OH the Sl.2 billion pro-
gram to construct some $50 army
camps caused time loss of three
one-hundredths of one per cent,
or $4,000 man-days out of 40
million.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18

Germany passed up it's customary
May Day celebration this year. Not
bad idea to wait until they're
positive they have something to
celebrate.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18

The efforts of the Yugoslav gov
ernment to maintain peace with
honor failed because Germany was
determined to convert Yugoslavia
INTO a German colony.
-ConStantin Fotitch, gos1av
minister to WaShinptnn.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18
Famous Sayings

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less
inclined to do The very idea OF being able
weakens the desire.-Ovd
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18
by Paul Harrison
Hollywood S Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

Lucie Neville is pinch hitting
for Paul Harrison, now touring
army camps and defense indus
tries.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18

We refused TO organize the world
as living space for all when we
had the power in our hands.
Prof. D. F.. Fleming, Vanderbilt
University.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18
by Peter Edson...
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

of 20 eX-neWspaper men turned
press agents to Ballyhoo the show.
It's so big. so complicated and its
growing so fast, it keeps this staff
going overtime.
Covering the defense activities
in the whole country, with factor
les shooting up here, Sub-contracts
all over the place ard civilian CO.
operation being sought everywhere,
has become such a job that OPM
publicity men are now being placed
in the IL federal reserve districts.
They'll work Independently from
the army and navy publicity officers.
but the whole effort, co-ordinated
or not, will be to let you know that
there's something going on and
that it has something to do with
q war
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18

The quickest way for a doctor
to lose a patient is to tell her it
was only a minor operation.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18

National Cotton Week is May l6
to "a. We hope to see cotton battcn
thousand.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18
Barbs

The best guide book to consult
while touring is the pocketbook.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18

Belva Ann Lockwood was the
iirSt woman permitted to practice
before the United States Supreme
Court in 1870.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18
HEXED BY
HAMLET

Meredith liked movies from the
beginning but when he finally was
able TO return he found himself
IN demand only for creamy dram
attic roles. The young radical in
Idiots Delight" was a terrible eX-
ample. Producers somehow couldn {
b alicve that he had done comedy
on the stage.
Naturally he relished his role III
"Of Mice and Men," but afterWarc
he was appalled, when some enthus-
last tabled him the Hamlet of
1910" The phrase was repeated un-
til the actor felt he ought to have
"Hamlet-l940' letterc6 on a sweat
cr like collegian.
Gradually, perhaps through the
missionary work of people who had
been to parties at the amazing men,
age maintained by Meredith and
F'ranchot Tone, Hollywood began to
understand that Buzz did some
thing besides stew about social in
justices and the fate of civilization,
and that he could be as goofy as
any local character.
So he went into Second Chor-
us and into That Uncertain Feel
ing" both in zany parts. And now
as a lazy and philosophical screw
ball, he has the thiro title role in
Tom, Dick and Harry" Ginger
Rogers starrer directed by Carson
Kanin.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18

Texas is larger than pre-wtr
Germany.
The onion was Worshippcd by the
ancient Egyptians.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18
So They Say

Liberty has been in danger often
but some forget how often it has
been seriously and successfully de-
Tended.
Fired S. Harris. national COM
mander JEWS War Veterans.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18

Courses in public housing now
are offered in more than 200 col
leges of the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18
MEMBER

MEMBER
American Newspaper Pub
Editorial Association. Cali
fornia Newspaper Publish
ers Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18

c. B. S. believes the word of God.
in English, is more important than
the words of Hitler in German,
Broadcast official, explaining WHY
1t did not cut off a Sunday re-
Agious program to give Hitlers
speech air right-of way.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18

Portuguese is the official Ian
guage of Brazil.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18

Some species of large Chinese
moths have a nine-inc Widespread.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18

Clouds may be seen moving 81 =
multaneously in three different
directions in the mountains.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18

A flash of lightning may last only
one tenmillionth of second.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18

The wind blows in curves, never
IN a straight line.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18

Longs Peak, Colo, is 1925 feet
above sea level
Imperial Valley press., 1941-05-18

The horse has increased con-
siderably in size since it has been
domesticated by man.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-11-29
Defeats Team
at Benevine

Ypsilanti High School opened its
basketball season Friday night.
when they downed Belleyille In that
village to the tune OF 1872.
In the first game, the Ypsi re-
serves bowed before the Belleville
second stringers by the score of
2s-ls. The high scorer for Belleville
was Dunn, who sank four field
goals and one free throw for a
total OF nine points. He was fol-
lowed by Fuller. high point man for
Ypsi, who made two field goals
and four free throws for eight
points, and Goosens OF Belleville.
who had seven points.
The varsity tilt, a very we'll
matched game, ended with the
Braves In front 1922. High point
honors were shared by Hughes and
Hubbard, both of Ypsilanti, and
each connecting for four field goals.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-11-29
Estate May Not Pay .
Much of State Debt

Because $17.004.40 has been paid
to relatives and In other claims
against the estate, the state OF
Michigan is likely to receive little
from the bequest Of John Barlow
this city, who provided that his
estate go toward the payment OF
the states debt.
According to information releaf
ed in Lansing by Arch Black. stat
public administrator, and AuditC
General Vernon Brown, $3s5.60 hi
been turned over to the stat
Funds from the sale Of three 10
and houses here, appraised at sc
500 will also be given the stat
The three houses will be sold D.
cember 29. and a so acre farm nea
Macon will be sold later. Sealed
bids will be received.
Payments listed by the admins
traitor from the estate were rs
follows. Edwin Barlow and Waite
Barlow, $500 each; Clarence Ben
nett and Mildred Bennett, $3.50
each; Harry Moseley, $1,000; Be;
trice Moseley, $500; Leon Barloy
$4,000; fees for the attorney defen
ing the will, $4,000; and administr'
tors fee, $4,000.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-11-29

Amherst Mass -AP- Taking all 10 first places the Univer
sy of Mchgans touring swimming scored an easy SSO
victory Amherst College Friday The Wolverines bettered
four pool records
LANSING Mich Up p J. Hoffmdsey state director OF con-
seryotion Friday announced that the Dec meeting Of the
Conservation Commission he sOH ask that body TO go on record
for REPEAL of the aU Seh permits deer for camp use He sad
he s.as thoroughly Disguised Nth the (Which deer hunt
ers ddpantaq of the Legislatures frosfson for either
doe or buck for camp use.
Cleveland AP-Bob Feler draft classification will not be
reconsideed the basis of his mothers recent letter to Seecve
Service officials concerning his parents dependency the Ceve
pitchers estimated $45000ayear income Feler will
main in IA.
NeU York Up Bruce Smith, captain OF MinnesofdS ande-
feacd Golden GothcrS Friday night named the outstanding
college football player 1871 BY the Hesmdn Memorial Trophy
Committee. Smith is q halfbaek.
New York -AP-Though the tiniehonored clash between
Ays Cadets and Nays boserous Mdshpmen Philadelphia
will claim the of the football stage today of other
tusses the land will command strong sectional interest and IN
least probably decide the contestants in New Years
bowl games.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-11-29
Ypsilanti High Opens Cage Season With Victory
Alumni Downed in Opener For
Ypsilanti High School Natators

The swimming season for 1s4l-
~ was opened for Ypsilanti High
School Friday night when the
Ypsi natators outswam the Alumni,
scoring So points against the "a
points tailed by the alumni. Indi
vidual results were:
50-yard free style: first, Smith
(AL) and Tucker (Y); second,
Greenfield (Y). Time-29.2.
100-yard breast stroke: first. La
Fontin (AL). second, Briggs (Y).
and third, Cosgrove (Y). Time:
1:12.5.
220-yard free style: first, Koppin
(Y), second. Camp (Y). Smith (AL)
was disqualified.
100-yard backstroke: first, Wal
ton (AL); second, Smith (Y); third.
Drake (Y). Time: 1:14.2.
100-yard free style: first, Nor
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-11-29
Martin Zachar
Goes to Army

Martin Zachar, former Michigan
Normal pitching star, was indicted
into the Army at Fort Custer Fri
day, temporarily hating the Melvin
dale hurler's professional baseball
career. Zachar hopes to be attached
to the recreation department OF an
Army camp.
After pitching for Syracuse in the
International League and Spring
field Of the Eastern League early
in the summer, Zachar wound up
the 1941 season with Meridian OF
the Southeastern League. He topped
the circuit with the best earned run
average.
Late in the campaign Zachar
pitched no-hit-no-run ball for nine
innings only to lose a 80 decision
to heavy-hitting Admission. The game
was forced into extra innings since
Meridian also failed to score during
the regulat ion nine frames.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-11-29

- Al. n~...tt rrl..h
year ago 'ne noose'ei' hieh
school swimming team swept
through six straight dual meets
without defeat and placed second To
its city rival, Ypsilanti High School.
in the state Glass B prep champion
ships.
Six members OF he 1910 squad.
including the brilliant Arlo Cox,
have since been graduated. The
outlook this year therefore Is not
very bright although Coach John
Rpddon will have i've varsity letter