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Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31

: do s. with indignation and re-
sentiment
ARNOLD'S CHARGE
In previous testimony before the
committee Assistant Attorney Cen
eral Thurman w. Arnold charged
that Farish's firm and I. CT Far
benindustrie. Cermeu chemical
trust. had entered into a cartel
agreement which retarded synthetic
rubber production in this country
but encouraged it in the reich.
Committee Chairman Harry s.
Truman D. Mo. has described the
purported cartel arrangement 2S
treason on the part Of Standard.
I wish 10 assert With conyic-
ticn." Farish said that whether
the several contracts made with I.
G.. did or did lot fall within the
borders set by tie patent statutes
or the Sherman act, they did in
ure greatly to the advance CT
American industry and more than
any other one thing have made pas-
Slble our present war activities in
aviation gasoline. toluol I'D eX-
rlsSIFes and IN synthetic rubber II
self.
BEYOND EVIDENCE
Referring specifically 10 Arnold S
charges which he denied Farlsh
said:
1t seems TO me that the press
and others have gone Beyond the
evidence which the committee has
heard. perhaps ard probably.
through misapPrehens.en,
Standard Oils agreement with
Farben III 1929 he asserted. was
d normal business transaction He
mace a particular polnt OF answer
ln2 Arnold charge thai III 1919
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
countY's School
Attendance Up

Imperial county's population de-
creased 10 per cent between the
1870 and the 1910 clnsus takings
BIZ the number of children in aver
aga daily attendance increased 10
per cent in the same period, the
Ceiroa ia Taxpayers association an
aGuaced Tuesday.
Throughout California associa-
ion members said, the population
increased % FER cent and the ele-
mentary average daily attendance
Increased cnly per cent During
the 1G-%ear period while the pop
ulation was increasing 1,230,000, the
elementary average daily attend
ance INCREASED only 17.C00 going
from 657 776 in 1890 to 674,959 III
1910.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
GoeEbsls

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=. .ixs Officer . - sEH Geaied
DE-. a!legat.a3s "a. ae Sa> ill
acc VITA q osasa.s....s. sreg' or-
ga..zat2sa
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Die Is psI5s.ezea Na&s.2n sa1a.
Il i Is rot. I VII a.. Ia ast.o.
BE- la.t.ta.ed -s..:..s. II. E!es :.
lb1..
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
DECLINE EXPECTED

Carr@-over of the decline IN ele-
mentary school enrollments into the
high school and junior college
grades will be felt iii decreased en-
ropments throughout the state on
these levels for sew years. Su2a
effect will be furthel accentuated
by the demands CT the war for m an
rover and labor which are causing
young people to leave the hlea
schools and junior colleges at an
earlier age. Preliminary checks OF
enrollmentS iii high school grades
to u showed low CT IT par cent
in regular day school enrolment
between October, l940 ana October,
l94l. A decrease of IL per cent III
Junior college enrolment during the
same period was also shown.
Over the state as a whole, the
association predicted the probable
trend for school enrollmentS next
year is toward an increase in the
kindergarten and elementary school
enrollmentS, a decline in high school
pnrollnentS. and still larger de
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31

SAN FRANCISCO, March 81
eUP1-The army moved today to
protect the vital Los Angeles hdrbor
area against possible sabotage b.
ordering the evacuation Of ncariT
5000 japanese aliens and tier
Amerlcan-bo born children.
Il vas tkc second evacua'ioH o.
dered b. the Western Defense Com
mand since Il was given control ot
cncmH aliens IN the Pac.tlr coast
states b. Order Of Presideni Poor
Yelt.
THe hsst covered 227 JapaAase
rcsdonta Of BaInbliGqc Hland IN
Pusef So4nd not far from fAc
Blamcrton Eagg yard who 3cfc re
moved b. SPECIAL frau yesterday
10 reception ceutes n Msnzanar.
Cauf
a Proclamation lssaed la5t night
b. Lieut. Gen Join / DeWnf oi
tho Western Defense Command OF
dored japanese aAens and cltZnns
mo9rd II an assembly centnr At fac
Santa hnIfa lare tgarE ueHt FRIDAY
Safgtda9 ana Ssnsas - lie lata
ot 1860 da@
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
ADVERTISE?
i'm THIS newspaper:
To make people KNOW, LlkE and hhhahsE u M S"''
guowy would THAT help yOu ID sell:

ymI want TO the store or lhc "llI'f
of the men that you knoW and bcl'efe N
and like?
You do! We do!
So, also, does The corporation PURCHASING
AGENT,
Don't doubt il. Don't forget it! People,
must like AND belicre IN you or they IL
never buy from you. II you create bel'ej
in minds and neglect 10 create warm
friendly feeling, too, they II nerPr buy
from YOU. If you make them like you, and
fail 10 make them believe in all you make
and say and sell, They never buy from
you.
These arc The homcIy simple fondam"nl-
ais that control buyers, they re The reasons
mhy people buy, and PREFER TO buy,
from This store and neglect another store
even though il may have equal or better
commodities, equal or heller service, and
equal or even lower prices.
DO Won get something to take hold oI IN
this taIc2 Doesn't il give you mpoi'em
urqe and coAfdcHcc 10 get into this n"wS-
paper miIh your olrn rcgplW adrcrltSmg,
even though il starts with SMALL adsp
VIII you phone?
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31

cIsase en- the Junior college IeYeL
The distribution Of these changes
however. will nc. be uniform. he
association warned.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
SHOWDOWN REASONS

Major cause or this slow down i'll
elementary school attendance was
the low birth-rate, both nationally
and in California. i'll the rericd be
tween 1922 and 1898, the association
said Since 1898. there has been a
rapid rise in birth rates, which is
reflected in the up-turn in first
grade enrollments in California
schools in 1940-4l Between 1929
and 1899 40, the association stated,
first grade enrollments dropped
from l42385 to 109, $40 The first
year in which births since 1893 ap-
pear in the first grade was in 1910
Al which showed an increase of al
most 1000 enrolled in the first
grade, compared with the low point
for the preceding year.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
VITAL AREAS

Included n 80 9I9a9acd area
arr tAc clucs II lug Be.ch. San
PEDRO. Wilmington Redondo Beach.
Torrance. Saual HI and Hynea=
roughly al rlat territory lyina
south Of Atfesla bDaIcgard between
tuc Pacific occan and the Los An
Orange CUNT lie
Within It re lie vital water
laoats Il L. Aage.es-L5ug Beach
harbor With Their ahipyards and
naval Installations; the fabulous
Sl2nal Hi and other smaller OIL
fields the steel center Of Torrance,
innHner9Dir manufacturing and as
emba plaif.. tae uee Dpapi3z
4rei13l Ia, tot. ~ liza i.eteh
NOslII AKMIRe
Iit. ailc,tra JaDJ,a , SO Dlluf-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31

Let 5 strip il down and lind out
Maybe il is sophomoric dismissal ot The
real function and purpose OF adYerlISlng'
Or, maybe it is a sound, pay-dlrt tundd-
mental, a rock-bott0m fundamental OF ad-
vcrtising AND selling?
Let $ find mhicb?
Take the clothes you wear: your Shoes
your suit, your hal, your gloves soH' your
iopcoat =. Lake the automobile you
own .... take The watch you wear .....
the beverages you use =. take the grocer
les that go into your home under the arms
of your wife and children or under your
arm or by delivery boy -, Or take gt,y- ny.
Hirq else thai you buy =. or anything
Thai yonr friends buy .......
WHERE DO YOU GET THEM?
Don / YOU buy them inUar:"bty from
the man that you kH0l0 and beticce
in and Ike? iloes any other man
stand show?
Don't YOU buy where you beliefe, proYId-
iny that you like him, loo3 Don i you g
hlook5 out Of Your way, g. past dolei re
.rns lhat'd sell eraeily The commonly
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
Movie Teaches &c.
Lessons ofLondon
When Bombs Come

When, and if, the war comes to
ImperL : Valley, bringing its newt
able death and destruction from Tie
skie, how will the folk hegeaboats.
react?
Will they flee in wild disorder to
a thousand imagined safer rlaees.
leaving the dead and WounGed un-
attended and their homes aud bus
inesses to burn without putting up
q fight to save them?
That's what harpend in london
during the first da@s of the war.
But London learned the error Of
its ways. and in subsequent air
raids, successfully battled high eX-
plosives and incendiaries, with the
resultant saving of many lives and
millions of dollars i'll property
Imperial Valley press., 1942-03-31
MOVIES OFFERED

How Londoners did this and how
the valley can do likewise, will be
shown Thursday night in motion
pictures filmed under actual raid
conditions,
The film. brought to Fl Centro
under Joint auspices Of the city eli
VILLAIN defense council and Central
Union High school. will be shown
at pm. i'll the high school auditor
ium.
Chairman Corn Reed of the de-
Tense council and School Superin-
tendent Gu A. WeakleH. Tuesday
urged all citizens to view the pic
ture for their own coed, and for
the good Of the whole community.
Block Wa"dens and all others en-
gagged in defense activities of any
sort are particularly urged to attend
the showing Reed said.
The place again auditorium of
Central Union High school. Ell Cen
tro Time, 8 pm. Thursday.
Evening star., 1942-12-18
The Army's S Size

1t would be helpful to the war
effort if the Presidents recent reply
to critics Of the plan to raise an
Army of 100000 men by the end of
1943 should serve to end that con-
troversy.
In general, this criticism runs
along two lines. First, that we can
not equip and transport such an
Army without doing excessive injury
to our civilian economy, and, second,
that we can safely depend upon the
Russians, or the Chinese, or some
other nation to do the bulk of the
fighting if we will but supply them
with the guns and ammunition.
These assumptions are as inaccurate
as they are unworthy.
Mr.. Roosevelt's remarks apparently
were directed to a statement by
Pierre Cot, former French Minister
for Air, that France had blundered
in building "a huge army instead of
a small, highly mechanical one" and
the conclusion by some individuals
that this same criticism is applicable
to our own war effort. The nature
of the war effort which confronts
us is not comparable to that which
faced the French in 1899, however,
and even if it were, the views of M.
Cot should not be permitted to in
f1uence our own military planning.
The truth Of this aspect of the mat
ter is that we have not yet made a
maximum effort to furnish the sup
plies and transportation for a large
Army, and we ought not to be willing
to say that we cannot do it until
such an effort has been made. AS
an example, we have not yet risen
above an average work week of 43
hours. But we can do better Job
Of supplying an Army if we want
to work longer and harder at that
task.
The contention that we should
rely to a greater extent upon our
Allies for fighting men also is Of very
dubious validity. These Allies are
fighting . good night, but ths notion
Evening star., 1942-12-18

that We can continue to depend upon
them to carry the burden for us
finds little support in reality. The
size Of the Army has been fixed by
experts, and is based upon the best
possible estimate of the magnitude
of the Job which lies ahead. It Is
gratifying to learn that the Presi-
dent does not propose to set aside
their judgment at the behest of civil
ian critics. whose knowledge OF the
facts is limited and who would be
the last to assume responsibility If
a reduction in the size of the Army
should lead to military disaster.
1t is we'll to keep in mind the fact
that the increase can be checked at
any time, If military developments
should warrant retrenchment. But
II we have learned anything by ex-
perience it is that the reverse is not
true, that we could not improvise an
adequate Army If a premature re-
duction In size were to be followed
by turn for the worse in the mill
tary situation.
Evening star., 1942-12-18
GuIIunt Lady

With oentleness she takes it from
its fold
OF tissued Wrappings now worn
trail and yelloD,.
She thinks OF days no longer touched
NTH gold
When choosing colors now oroun
soft and mellow
She Uorked so lovingly her quaint
design:
A bird, fo,Der, q ship and willo,D
tree,
The alphabet and figures up to
nine,
And little house and fence beside
the sea.
She smooths 1t carefully on tr4-s
bling knees;
1t breathes the fragrance of .
country lane,
Mint, ldDendar and spring dnen,o-
mes,
And Persian Hlacs net pith April
rain;
She tells US of old fashioned after
Moons,
With mfnted tea and my great great
dunts spoo,1si
NEz SHELDON TYLER.
Evening star., 1942-12-18
Complete Middle

Unless Senator McCarran or some
committee Of the new Congress steps
in with a knife, the hospital build
Ing program for the Metropolitan
Area has been tied into such hope
less knot that we shall spend the
rest OF the war talking about it-and
doing nothing.
Under the Lanham Acts Congress
provided funds for construction Of
hospitals, schools, water plants and
other facilities made necessary by
war congestion. The Federal Works
Agency was designated to allot the
funds to communities where the
need for construction was estab-
lished and to supervise the con-
struction found necessary.
Under this authority the Federal
Works Agency made a survey OF hos
pital needs in the Metropolitan Area.
Participating in the survey were the
District Commissioners, the United
States Public Health Service, the
District Health Department, hospital
authorities and others A program
was announced, based on meeting
minimum desirable standards of
beds per capita.
Senator McCarran objected stren-
uously that the program was made
quate. Population estimates were
revised and a larger program an
nounced. An understanding in
writing was reached between the
FWA and the WPB regarding the
materials to be used in construction.
Architects were put to work prepar-
ing plans for the buildings. Requisi-
tions for the construction material
which could be made available were
prepared. Within short time plans
for an addition at Gallinger were
sent to WPB and approved Work
was begun.
Now, everything else has stopped.
And why7 Because the WPB has
decided that before it can approve
the release Of building materials for
the rest Of the program it must COM
plete q survey Of its own to deter
mine the needs. A hospital expert
has been hired, who is conducting
another survey. The opinion of this
expert and the opinion of other hos
pital experts on what should be done
do not agree. The WPB feels that
much Of the new construction au-
thorized by FWA is really unneces-
sary.
The experts disagree and there is
no one who can say which expert is
right FWA has the money. WPB
evidently has the power to say
whether 1t shall be spent. Yet FWA
was created for the purpose OF say
Ing how 1t shall be spent and it is not
likely that FWA will finance a WPB
plan. The muddle is complete.
Neither hospital construction pro-
gram is worth the paper it is printed
on unless somebody has the author
ity to put 1t into effect. That au-
thority seems to be lacking.
Evening star., 1942-12-18
Railroads in RebuttuI" "

The financial picture sketched by
the railroads in opposing the OPA
petition for a reduction in freight
and passenger charges differs widely
from that presented by the latter to
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion in support of the cut.
In seeking restoration of the level
prevailing before rates were raised
earlier this year to compensate for a
general pay increase, the OPA con-
tended $500,000,000 could be saved
In transportation costs while the car
riers still would be earning 424 per
cent more than in 1941. The rail-
roads, to the contrary, argue that
the rates fall $4O,OOO,OOO short of
meeting the 1897 100000 wage boost,
and further, that expenditures for
materials have advanced $110OOO,O0O
despite the OPA assertion that price
ceilings saved them 100000, 900.
The commission will have no diff
Guilty in appraising these conflicting
claims, but the carriers raise one
point that demands careful con-
sideration. Their present boom fol-
lows years Of depression, and they
ask-with reason-if they are to have
this opportunity to strengthen their
position, or must give up the revenue
that would make this possible. The
answer to that question is important,
not only to the railroads, but to the
public. For two decades the rail
road problem" has been bobbing up,
and at times it seemed as though
the industry was doomed, at least as
private enterprise. But it managed
to exist, and the place the railroads
have taken in this war demonstrates
conclusively, If proof were needed,
that they are too closely tied in with
the welfare of the Nation for their
future to be left to chance.
In challenging the rate reduction
proposal, the carriers made no men
ton Of the new wage demands just
Evening star., 1942-12-18
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles +. TrdcetDell.

Usually there will be from four to
six cardinals In an average suburban
garden in this vicinity.
These figures apply, Of course, only
where feeding Is carried on. You can
not expect red birds or other songsters
to come to bare back yard in the cold.
That is why 1t was best to have begun
feeding in the fall, but If this was not
done there is no reason why 1t cannot
be started at any time.
1t will take, as usual thing, from two
days to two weeks to draw cardinals.
II this species is wanted, two things are
necessary. One Is to see that the feed
ing tray Is full Of seed at the two times
of day these birds like best. These times
are just as the garden begins to be light
IN the morning and at twilight.
The other essential thing to attract
cardinals Is the sunflower seed.
This is the one food they prefer to
all others, at all times Of the year.
All seed-eating birds like sunhower
seed, but the cardinals like it best of all.
As usual thing, the female cardinal
Is always seen wherever her brighter
colored mate is found.
Her coloring is so much more deli
cate that sometimes the observer will
have to look closely to spot her. AS our
correspondent says, sometimes she will
be by his side, but this is not always the
case.
The best cardinal picture we have
ever had was one winter day when snow
was on the ground, Then nine male
cardinals in varying degrees of bright
coats flew into a circle not more than
feet in diameter. The presence of
so many red birds in such a limited
space was a sight no one would ever
forget.
The females did not come into the
charmed circle, but remained in the
shrubbery at some distance.
We would like to say word at this
time for the female cardinal. Although
she is not as bright as her mate, she is
a beautiful creature in her own quiet
way. To see her at her best it is neces-
sary to place feeding station at a
window. Here, in the first light of cold
winter mornings, the delicate shawl
like quality of her feathers can be seen
at their best.
1t is not often at this time of year
that the observer will see the male
cardinal putting seeds in the females
bill. This is an action usually reserved
for February and later, when the first
call Of spring manifests itself. Persons
not we'll acquainted with birds, seeing
this action, at some distance, and not
seeing the seed. think the birds are
kissing.
Sometimes 1t seems that the male
cardinals are so busy chasing each other
that they cannot take time to eat
Usually it is some male which frequents
the place which in this way shows his
resentment Of the intrusion Of other
male birds.
Surely there Is no other bird which
makes such brave show against a
snowy background. Even the bold blue
jays, as bright ana colorful as they are,
must take a back seat when it comes
to showing off in the snow.
Evening star., 1942-12-18
Anticipates World at Peace
And Made Prosperous by Goodwill.

To the Editor of The STAR
As the old year draws slowly to close,
one sees across the horizon the rise of
a new world Of nations independent in
their own relationships but dependent
upon each other for the resources that
must be needed to keep the body and
soul of their peoples together and man.
kind at peace.
Cooperation will be the theme Of to-
morrow, cooperation for the fulfillment
OF dreams that were impossible of real
ization under the old scheme Of things.
Concessions will be made by all nations,
for only through such giving and sharing
can the worlds wealth be disposed of
equally.
The good neighbor policy, which the
Roosevelt Hull Welles craftsmanship
made possible and which has helped to
bring the Latin American countries into
closer relationship with us, will be
adopted by other nations in their rela-
tionships. They will be good neighbors
in name and practice. Only through
such fellowship are peace and under
standing possible
FREDERICK G. FROST.
Evening star., 1942-12-18

pened that all the other members OF his
sightseeing group were either English or
Scotch. When the party returned to the
hotel after viewing the Pyramids, they
agreed over their brandy and sodas that
man has done what man can no longer
do" Scott reached down in his hip
pocket, pulled out his two-foot rule. He
got up on his feet, faced the group and
shook his two-foot rule at them.
Men," he said, you surprise me in
what you say. that man cannot build the
Pyramids today. That may be true In
England or Scotland, but, thank God 1t
Is not true in the United States! Why
there. In every town of 10000 people, you
will find at least two men who will sign
contract to raise the Pyramids and
put Easements under them with hot and
cold water and all modern improve.
ments!'
That's the American spirit which is
winning the battle of production today
We may scrap the Oregon herself. but
we shall never scrap her traditions.
r. R. 3
Evening star., 1942-12-18
QUINCY STREET NE.

Dear Sir:
"On my windowsill I have established
a bird cafeteria and these closeups of
our so-called feathered friends have
convinced me that in their family rela-
tions birds are strangely like people.
Il have found the little cardinals
or red birds-especially interesting in this
respect-maybe because they always
come to my cafeteria in pairs.
THE first pair that came were 50
utterly devoted that used to watch
them by the hour. I called them Peter
and Wendy. They always dined together
and Peter would select the very choicest
morsels on the tray and gently thrust
them into Wendy's eager beak.
Sometimes 1t was a crumb Of peanut;
II it was sunfower seed he would care
fully crack it, giving Wendy just the
sweet kernel within. And once In .
while Wendy would return the compli-
ment
Then for a time each came alone, but
always when he flew away there was
wee tidbit In Peters beak for his little
Wendy.
And one fine day they dined together
again at my cafeteria-only this time
they brought along two guests-a baby
Peter and baby Wendy! Peter there
after took entire charge Of Baby Wendy
and Wendy Of Baby Peter. I really
grieved when that family left for parts
unknown.
There have been many Peters and
Wendys dining at my cafeteria since
that day, all of them varying in degrees
Of devotion to each other.
"The couple which is at present en-
joying my hospitality Is very young and
very beautiful, but being handsome never
in my opinion did constitute gentleman,
and this Peter, to my way Of thinking, is
no gentleman!
"This beautiful couple came together
the first time they dined with me, but
when Wendy attempted to partake Of
the tempting array of food on the table,
Peter gave her a look which was arro-
gance personified
She pretended not to notice that look
and reached for another seed, where
upon she received several far-from-
gentle pecks for her temerity, and had
perforce to retire to the sidelines There
she sat-poor little humble Wendy-
patiently waiting for her lord and mas
ter to eat his fill.
"She was very hungry, but all she
could do about 1t was to utter an occa-
sional plaintive chirp.
NO this Peter never allows his Wendy
to dine until he has f1nished-not even
If she happens to get there first He
Is always on the alert to see that he
himself gets the choice morsels on the
table; she can have the leavings-if
any. He as much as says, After me,
you come first!'
Eyes, birds are like people-there are
good husbands and bad; good wives and
bad, too. I am sure-even in the little
world inhabited by my Peters and
Wendys. Yours truly, M, R.C"
The cardinal is the great winter bird.
1t is no unusual thing to see from six
to twelve pairs in single yard.