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Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
EVERYBODY ELSE WORRIES
ABOUT IMPERIAL VALLEY

IN .olIh Leigh. who l,g''aS. is author
tally worried about Imperial Valley. Mr..
Lvighs Wei ry is possibly Not 50 serious,
:5uj X: - 10. oI other people worried,
too. And al. on account Of that old bogey.
the Gulf of California.
We have not read Mr.. Leigh's book,
"Forpotten Waters Adventure in the
Gulf of California" but we have read
couple of reviews of it, and the reviewers
are worried about Mr.. Leigh'S worry
which troubles us. II botherS Us partl-
cuiarly because this newspaper went to
considerable trouble some time ago, on
the occasion Of another such scare. 10
gather scientific data and proof which
should have torpedoed fer all time the
perennial false assumption that the Gulf
Of California Is about ready 10 lnundale
this valley. 1t isn't so now, and II lsn
ever liable to be so, our facts proved. And
it wasn't guess-work. either. that estao-
ished the facts 1t was hard-headed
study. analysis and investigation by the
most competent scientific experts.
So we're bit perturbed that the old
bogey is back again.
To do Justice to Mr. Leigh. one reviewer
says of his book that he admits 1t
would be rash to assume that the lmpe-
rial Valley -. ever again will be beneath
the waves. But, this same reviewer re-
ports "Mr. Leigh @ is convinced that
the Gulf of California is moving north
ward since the building of Boulder dam
and that the Colorado river is doomed.
He further believes that because of the
changes wrought by the dam, the gulf
slowly is eating into the Imperial Val
lev
To lIr. Leigh and to his reviewers,
we should ike to say on behalf of Impe-
rial Valley that, having conquered the
far greater menace imposed by the river
itself when it was an unchecked giant,
we should not allow the gulf for one in
stant to "eat into Imperial Valley, even
if the gulf showed any indication OF do
ing so-Which il does not.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

The goodwill of the governments and
the better understanding between the
peoples guarantees an early, satisfactory
settlement - Mexican Ambassador Cas-
tillo Najera on the Chamizal boundary
dispute with the l. S.
Now we can concentrate all our efforts
and devote all our resources in a deter
mined effort 70 preserve and advance
civilization as advocated by the democ-
racies Of the word.-Dr. James +. West,
speaking for the Boy Scouts.
We are fighting against an outlook OF
brutal cynicism and unholy contempt for
the human race-Rabbi Joseph ZeltInn
New YOrk
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
EARLY TO BED

sacramento OmOn)
Daylight saving time-that clock iug
sling stunt that CalifornianS have re-
po&tedly rejected, and presumably would
continue to reject under ordinary cir
cumStances-haS been whiSked through
Congress with barely Quibble.
The measure which goes into effect 20
days after it IS signed, will move all
clocks in The nation forward one hour,
ard they won't he moved back until six
months after ,h2 war is over.
In peacetme. daylight saving still is
Il silly way to get people out of bed an
hour earlier But in time Of war, the pO-
tential value Of daylight saving time as
Il means to conserve electricity is suffic-
rent to throw all the old arguments
against it overheard.
The reason it will be helpful. of course,
Is that it will automatically bring the
ordinary commercial life of the nation
to an end an hour earlier than before.
thus shutting more offices and stores be-
fore it becomes necessary to turn on the
lights. Tampering with the clock is the
easiest way to do this because the open
ing and closing times of SO many indus
trial. financial. commercial and public
institutions are fixed either by law or
by deeply-rooted custom.
SO it's early to bed and early to rise
until the end of the war-and we can
hope that it, too. will have been moved
ahead an hour or two.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
Mexicans Arrest
Nine Japanese at
Port Of Maza:lan

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 81. lUPJ-
Nine japanese arrested at the STRAIT
egic west coast port of Mazatlan
have been brought to Mexico City
under military guard to be i'm
pri1oned, the government disclosed
today. Particulars we're not given.
At least three other Latin Amer
lean nations mTed to draw the
stingcrs of Axis agents.
Police in MOntevideo, Uruguay,
held IngleS Heinrich, 47, who, the
suspected, was a German spy pos
ing as a carpenter Numerous docu-
ments in German were seized in a
raid on his home
LIVED IN LUXURY
Heinrich aroused suspicion by liV-
ing in luxury far beyond his visible
means. Police learned hc went to
Berlin in 1893. ostcnsibly to see
about an inheritance. He left Ber-
lin in July, l94l, but didn't get back
to his carpentry until five months
later. because he was touring Eur
opean resorts in an airplanc.
The Bolivian foreign office told
the japanese charge d'affairS and
his staff TO be out of the country
by 10 am, Monday, Other Axis
diplomats apparently will be given
more time.
Axis nationals in Sac Paulo, Bra
dill were forbidden 70 hold gather
ings in their own homes, change
places of residence or travel by
plane without Police permission.
They were Internationally forbid
den to play or sing their national
anthems, display pictures Of their
chiefs of state where they would
be visible outside their homes or
sneak in public III their native
tongues. ~,
Firearms permits were cancelled
and the German community news
naner Diario Allemao suspended
publication.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
BN JERRY CRAVEY

The migrant farm sa3or surplus
in Imperial valley had gone MP to
6OC9 Saturday, when one jallopl\-
load after another Of Oakles and
ArkieS and Texans and OregonlanS
continued 10 pour in in Searth o'
that economic Wraith-Work.
The great majority Of these driven
souls admittedly were fleeing M
aginarv axis bombs Berkeley 5 o'~
NAL Notwithstanding. And al ol
them wanted work in northern I'M
pcrial Valley pea fields. but tinolnt
tins l.lavailablc just nov were NOT
unhappy at receiving the p2rIiaI
subsistence preferred them by the
farm security administration
With the after-lree2e pea crop
y little slow IN dcvelopmS. the
yarieu, migrant camps maintained
by the government are teemlne
with men. women and children -
and dogs - in every conceivable
state of we'll being. the sole COM
mon attribute of all beinE a non
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
5000 Migrants i'm ".

wanted To know more about this
school fer machiuists that is opef-
ated by the III Ccutro high school
He admitted his schooling hadn
been anything tG write home about.
But he was mechanically minded
he said. Hadn't he torn the innarda
out of his old car time and AGAIN,
and put them all back again That
was his idea of what constituted
qualifications to learn how to put
airplanes and tanks together III the
defense Industries which tlnleE
supplies with skilled Workmcn.
When Finncy told him 1t wash L
enough. and that he was sorry,
the man smiled. a little ruetuliy at
first, then 4 full flCdGcd. wide
mouthcd grin that had no trace
OF bitterness.
We'll. there's ncthnG 10 1t but
20 ON picking peas il the peas
ever get ripe he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01

A farm bureau committee Satur-
dav had taken action to reduce the
number of alleged "thcttS' OF nay
or grain on valley ranches.
The sheriff'S office recently has
been harrassed by reports OF missing
farm products Upon investigation
it was found that in many case"
BUYERS or truckmen had taken hay
or grain from the wrong pile with
out reporting to the owner the
change.
Acting TO relieve confusion, the
committee composed OF w. H. Gra-
ham. j. E. Harshman, {. r. Walker
and L. c. Hawk outlined pro-
gram for use by farmers. Recon-
mendationS include:
|. Posting OF large, durable signs
bearing owners or sellers name
and address at site storing.
,. Stacking of hay and grain
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01

,11aIanre thai |, beyond comptc-
hCuNlan.
CHANGE FROM WAR
This reporter, along NTH most
of the rest et y"I had br,l juNt
a bit cynical about sG"n prar"rs Gay
ncouvcnIcuces a. tfe i1tsnn, and
the threatened sGs.r .n9h..'s atd
lrr&s ccnsorsmu .a@ 20 Aat1-
astr Tom Fmacg ol the El Cnt,o
ctfl,a of ,he united States employ
mcnt service l-ok a, on Il u..'r Il
the Brawley CphpGua P0u Nj
land migrant rara J'5 oyne.Sn
has Gwen " - m"r}# me- -
ton.
We Fmucy and 1 ,aW III enc
camp a 32-ycar-eld couple win
10 children. living i'll two dlhsy
tents. We saw INST outside the
boundaries Of another camp hFC
very young people. three boys ana
two girls between the axes ot Il
and Il shooting dice.
DISPOSITIONS SUNNY
NTo cav. aODtbCT AGGREGATION G1l.-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
BY f. 4. FITZHUGH

He told Imperial Valley audi
euces Thursday and Friday that
Americas trends in government
these days are trends along the
nath to national socialism, but
Banning'S Senator John Philips
DELAYED H.. return home long
enough late Friday to tell the press
that he has an idea Americas sense
of humo. Will shift the trend m
to new channels before long.
Americas sense OF hWmor-and
income taxes.
The income taxes come first
strangely enough. and the sense
of humor second. if you want
chronological order If YOU want
Importance. the sense of humor
comes first.
Imagine" said the state sena-
tor. what this countrH's cartoon
lists would have done with little
man named Adolf SchickelGruber
alais Hitler, who laughs when he
cries and cries when he talks, and
has Charlie Chaplin moustachc
THEY'D have hootcd him back TO
his beer cellar"
IT'S SERIOUS MATTER
But the gray-halred, slender
economy bloc leader, whose pale
blue eyes show just enough OF a
twinkle to relieve their sharpness,
vas serious about this sense Of
humor. and the safeguards it needs.
It's because Americans will be
able after the War to laugh at
over -pompous officials that this
nation will escape permanent ma
tional socialism, Sen. Phillips be-
lieves.
Permanent national socialism?
Yes-thats what he meant. We
can't escape it temporarily, he de-
clared, for very good reason.
We've already got 1t.
The government is telling manl-
facturerS what they can manufaC-
ture, stores what they can sell,
farmers how much they can grow
and in Sen. Phillips mind that
adds up to national socialism. no
HldIlel lOW SOu IllllItt II.
WATCHFULNESS
Its inescapable in wartime he
added. Our job is to see that it
doesn't carry over into peacetime. ''
How? Simply by realizing what
is happening, why it is happening
how it came to happen, and that
it is dangerous unless safeguards
arc set up now. and the old safe
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
WASHINGTON PARASITES

President Roosevelt Friday made ont
of tie s.nest non-war suggestions OF ms
aGn!n.s ra.ion when he urged parasites
70 g,t out of Washington to make room
for people needed there in prosecution
o. tie war.
OF course. the President more or less
nu,lified his first statement by explain
ing that he referred to persons who are
in Washington for social reasons, or be-
cause their children are there in school,
or people who occupy 20-room houses
on Massachusetts avenue. They, he said,
will be invited out when the capital
reaches the saturation point IN housing.
The parasites we've got in mind-the
ones who are far more costly to the tax
payers than mere social minded persons
are the ones holding down fat political
Jobs at anywhere from $4,000 to $4,000
a year simply because they are in rlght,
with the administration or with some
senator or representative. Half OF them
are on Jobs not in any way connected
with the war effort, and the other halt
is so inefficient that the war effort would
be better off without il.
Yes-we think the parasites ought to
get out Of Washington, and they include
research assistants" to congressman,
job-holding friends of ranking New Deal
ers, and every other kind OF political
hanger-On YOU can mention.
They ought to get out-and not espec-
iallv because of the housing shortage. It's
the money shortage among taxpayers
we're thinking of.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01

This is ticklish subject, but it
is subject that needs dealing with.
Unpleasant to think about, 1t Is
easier to gloss over than to look
squarely III the face. 1t must be
faced
One hears it said and more
oftan suggested tslVlv than said
outright that the thing to do Is to
fight Japan and let the European
war stew on IN its own juice in the
hope that Germany and Russia
will yct exhaust one another IN
nO-declSion bout. Many Of those
who Werc most ardent isolation
lists befor" the war now swing to-
ward some such view. 1t is bascd
on the idea that a Communist Rus
sia too triumphant over Germany
will turn the whole continent CT Eu-
rope to Communism and from that
vantage Yolnt CGmmunl1c the
world
Quite blmtlY lot us say. 1T could
happen" There are no sure thlng"
in wal, greatest Of all CANDLES. Inc
reSultS of a war can never be &C
curatcly fDrcScCn
However the results of losing are
30 plain. so terrible, and SO imml-
ncnt that there can be no doubt
about them We know what lmpO-
sitlon by military force of Hitler
ism means. Balancing that all-too-
definite menace against some pos
Siblc later outcome leaves only one
decision.
The war. in its total phases, must
be supported in every way that
will bring victory, including every
possible assistance tC Soviet Rus
sid The choice between a present
certain evil and possible future
evil is a simple one
It is an odd thing that the same
people who assume that Britain
ald the United States face sweep
ing social changes as a result OF
the war also assume that Russia
Will emerge unchanged. 1t seems
unlikely. Already Stain seems to
have called off the anti-rcligiouS
campaign for the duration, and it
may never be revived Men return
me from "A war usually demand
greater freedom than before, and
Russia is just as likely to move to-
ward democracy as the democracleS
arc to move toward Communism
In Russia, Communism has already
EaSscd through three aystcms III
which all changed but the name
The war may we'll bring on a
fourth. There is no reason to as
sumo that Russia will be exempt
from the general expectation that
no country will be quite the same
1t is because we have faith in our
American institutions that we fight
to uphold them against military
aggression. We must have talth
that we can uphold them equally
against whatever condition (and nc
one can guess what it will be- may
arise in the wars aftermath. Right
now. our guiding star in the wal
| effort mr. hr jhi,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
Program Curbs
Theft by Error

away from public roads yet near
a place of habtation if possible.
3. Making routine inspection tlPS
by owners of stacks not on nome
ranch.
/. Refusing 10 tahe balcra count
without ycrificalon.
5. Not leaving thrcahcd gram
OVERNIGHT in fields.
6. Eciug certain. on part ol
buyer. that truck drivers Nno"
exact location OF haH or cram To
be moved.
7. Determining, in buying, whcth-
cr more than enc person has equity
in hay or @rain.
8 Using caution i'll choosing
truck operators.
9. Picking up weight tickets soon
after weighing loads
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
Income Tax Men TO
Aid I.V. Residents

Imperial county residents may Tile
their l94l federal income tax re-
turns at internal revenue offices
in FL Centre. CalcXico, and BraW-
ley al specified dates announced
Friday by Nat Rogan, collector oi
internal revenue IN southern Cali
tornia.
The offices Will be open for this
service in the Fl Centre pest oiilct
building Feb. to March l6, in
elusive and IL temporary office Will
be open in the BraWlcy post office
Feb. II and i'll ;hc CaleXlco city
hall Feb. l. and IL. All Offices
Will be open from 8 am. to 43o pm.
on week da;s and from 8 am. 10
noon on Saturdays.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
RELEASE FLOW
or LIVER BILE
And You Nav Enjoy Life More
Sleep Soundcr-tWakr Refreshed
Ready for a Good Days Work.

Nnrntlk ,uur IGrI sh"lld dlNrhai -
about = auari ul rrrcl"ns digestion .didhS
uIrrS ry,fa ~ huui> \ ScautN llUW -
sIo,,Inp up may mean Sct IIcad,rhrN
sn-r1Icd MDousurs,. Poo Digestion With
that .haIf slck depressed lrrlmG.
SIN Yourself Probably all YOU need Is
Il gentle cxcitunt: take hall a traNpoon-
ul uf Kru>chcn Salts 81 famous blend "l
81, ,.I,sl nm ihree-uuas Of = glass al
hot on cold vaIcr every mWnns half an
bouI. hcfnrc breakfast. Don't miss NOM
Ing. Tn,> simple sensible prescription thai
las worked Woul"rr for thousands
,roiid do tine sane for }ou. Ts> ktus
cAcn It Iamous hnGlIsh formula for 10
d,,l ,o ,b,,;,. Of that run down" feel
inc and .,r. il real mt Keep II up for
:io d,ys you must feed loo percent bet
Ter or your money back.
Al Clements and Central Drug Stores.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
FARM PRICES NOW
NEAR PARITY

If on the other hand, all prices
were frozen as of some given date
then no one could SquaWk Farm
prices are now lowering around
parity, and the relationship be-
tween agricultural prices and IN
dustrial prices is in genera! about
what it was in the good Gear. the
almost normal years Of 1926 and
1897. Wages are better than IN
those years and there Is more en-
plOyment. Prices have advanced
sufficiently to stimulate production.
With prices and wages frozen at
present lcveleS, thc function Of the
Office of Price Administration
would be- up TO the leaders IN each
line Of business to prove the need
for any upward revision Of prices
before 1t could be granted instead
Of t'Othcr way around
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
Chinese Poise for
Indo.China Attack

LONDON, Jan. 81. 'UP)-Chinese
forcee of Generalissimo Chang Kai
chek were said today in newspaper
,jisnatches from Chungking to be
anised for an attack on Indo-China,
pwaiting only a signal from the
The Daily Mail quoted a military
Spokesman that the time TO STRIKE, strike
,,i"" Ideal" but that no "order'
.n',d come from the AllIra
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
German Alien Held
As Enemy Agent

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 3I-tUP =
Arrested while lettering near a
Klamath river bridge, Albert Frees.
44-year-cld German alien Of Ross.
was under five months county jail
sentence today on charges Of ylo-
lattng the alien registration act
Special inspector Hugh Problne
of the Federal immigration Bureau.
,aid Freesc refused to explain mi.
Irc,+ncr near the bud.,r
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01

sisting of an old man and his de-
crepit wife. and younger man and
his wife and unCounted brood, with
20 cents between all of them, with
no work and Il disposition SUMMER
than our own after hearing from
our bCokmaker that that s. bet on
longShot at PimlicO had nCtted
us IS for one.
F'inney was scouting for prOSpec-
tive students for the FL Centre
high school free machiniStS' course,
He interviewed so men of all ages,
and not one possessed the ridicul-
Cusly simple qualifications for en-
rollment as learner
The best educated man contact
ed said he had gone as far as the
fourth grade. and / wouldn't have
got out CT that. only they bum
the school house down.
But every sen jack of them could
smile. And do it very nicely, with
out provocation whatever Why?
They were all imbued with that
silly idea that where's there life,
there's hope
Hope for what?
HOPES ARE SIMPLE
We asked them, singly and col
lectively. what it was they hoped
for And they said they had come
here from the Pacific Northwest
first, to escape the bomb danger,
and secondly because the cherry
crop was finished And they hoped
that after finishing the Imperial
Valley pea harvest, there would be
Il tomato crop, and after tomatoes.
flax and after flax. sugar bCetS.
And after Subar beetS and few
other crops, cherries again.
That's the cycle they live III.
Are they happy with it?
We'll. now. what is happiness? II
happiness is resignation. these peo-
pie are happy One fellow follow
ed Tom Finney to his car, and
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
HUMOR, PFD.
Phillips Says That's \. ;.

guards maintained. One ot the olo
,atcguards. he added, is Your own
freedom of the press And there
ne ven, back to the sense OF hum
or. ..
our cartoonistS and columnlsts,
he SAID. have got to be free to
use their pens ON amy potential
Shirklegruber counterpart who pops
up III America
Public CONSCIOUSNESS Of govern
ment will do most to MAINTAIN the
safeguards this country needs, the
senator said. and that is where the
income taxes come in.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
Eczema ltehing>
Burniinq-Distress

Gets Quicker EaSr and comfort
During ibr pdsi -.., Yen, ihnuN"ndN {"
hnrilcs ur Nlnour , livriaid on h,''' hrrh
.olu tor ius' .4ea r"unle-"nI' eh'''n'I>
caused >k,n c"pahuur
CO ln .mu d.uuLcsl iod.,, aud Gri Il
.n,,l uu.,Iud hutiIr ul Emciald nH md
us, q, directed Nou n get rrilei QueIs-
r ,L,n you 49,. c>pcrtcd aiding M
,utr. n. .iml.tltsa and "muIhrn' ar'loa
helps p'emo'r las1cr iraIlnG
Act todaY ou o,u rbsolu'" &tataIi"e
ol Satisfaction ~ mourS back
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The fOIioTlng edit
trials arr presented as interesting OPin-
IONS r0iced by editors elsewhere. Theb
do not necessarily reflect the opinion nj
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
THE DEADLINE

After March 5 when the first
wartime income taxes fall due)
there will be a public reaction
away from a tendency to Shirk
participation in government, and
toward a definite interest i'll tho
doings especially the spendingS-
of those charged with directing
the government, sen. Phillips be-
neveS.
There viii be an end of the
era of rromlscrs' II political life
about that time. he declared.
What comes after that? For one
thing. he said, better men i'll pub
lie offices. and a closer scrutiny by
the public of all men seeking pub
lie office But what about the time
after the war? That Sen. Phillips
said. may be another thing again.
II The public is not Watchtul
enough, it may be just another
EZRA of promiSerS. Or 1t may be
an overwhelming reaction against
those who have gone on promising,
but never delivered. Sen. Phillips
doesn't pretend to be Soothsay-
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
ROADS TO VICTORY

ROADS TO VICTORY
In all the blizzard OF DUCKS tila'
is being blown into the war clioit'
it is hard to find 20 million OF them
that will be used any more proli.
ably than the 20 just advanced 10
five Central American couhtrle" /"
finish the road to Panama
These countries, already cloAelS
tied to u. s. economy, will be all
thc more so when overland com
m1lnication is possible The ability
to truck supplies and equipment 10
the panama Canal might save that
artery in some emergency Whcn sea
communication should be inter-
rnpted. It's hard to see how we
can lose on this one.
And now how about the road 10
Alaskao The same CONSIDERATIONS
arply, and they may be even more
urgent, perhaps sooner than we eH-
nect Should the japanese olicn-
eivc in the South Pacific succeed,
what moro natural than for them
Ia turn on Alaska with most of then
fleet and huge landing force. A
road to Alaska might turn the tide
Imperial Valley press., 1942-02-01
Willis Thornton's
Personal
Observations

ANY holding out, any rcSerVa-
tions. in the united drive for VIC
tory is terribly likely to result III
universal disaster for all.
THE GOODWILL
WOODEN LEG
College football Squado for genef-
ations have heard the eXhortatlon
to Give leg for dear old SiWash!
Some of them have come pretty
close to doing it.
Many sacrifice has similarly
been laid on the altar of internal
tional good will. but until now the
exhortation to give a leg has been
confined to rowdier fields Now,
however, it has been proposed to
send back to Mexico the wooden
leg of Santa Anna, Mexican gem
cral who left it behind in a battle
near Vera Cruz, Whercupon some
Americana soldiers brought 1t hcmc
Return of this intimate little SouV-
cnir. it is felt, would be a gesture
which Mexico would deeply apprc-
ciatc. though the museum which
now holds the trophy is reluctant
to part with it.
How Mexico feels about all this
we haven't heard, but it seems
numbering approach to goodwill