Imperial Valley press., 1942-08-20
CAPITAL TALKS
by
Peter
Edison

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One of Americas leading screw
ball organizations had its very
heart and "raiSon d'etre' cut right
cut of the other day when Walt
Disney donated to the war produc-
tion scrap iron collection campaign
a couple of Cast-iron deer weigh
ihg about a ton. Back some years
there sprang up an organization
known as The Guild of Former
Pipe organ PumperS.
Ring LardnCr was one of the
moving spirits and the only
qualifications for membership
was that as boy the member
must have operated hand
pump organ i'm his hometown
church. In the goofy '20s. the
Guild flourished. IL held meet
ingS regularly, and il made
show of several real national
convention. Like all conven-
tons. the Guild had to pass re-
solutions and do things official
Iy. II was THE preservation of
cast-iron animll life i'm Amer
ca"
Well, this business of Walt Dis
news donating his caSt-iron deer
to be melted up into howitzers
bombs and nigh explosive shells
lust about wrecks the motto of the
G.OFP.O.P., and there seems to
be nothing that can be done about
it Early in the war, Chet Shafer
of Three Rivers, Mich. who is the
present Grand Diapason of the
Guild. wrote a letter to President
Roosevelt, pledging the organiza-
tion's loyalty and offering to be of
service. But for some reason or
other the White House chose to
ignore the communication
TYPED
A New York department store re-
Gently wrote into the Army. asking
for the loan of a typewriter that
had been through the war. What
the store wanted was something
that looked pretty we'll shot-up to
put in the window to encourage
people to turn in their surplus
typeWriters for government use. In
the Services of Supply headquarters
there was finallT found a batter
/ ed old portable which was just
what was ordered. Maj. Karl Det-
zer. who used 10 write pieces for
the magazines before he became
A public relations officer for the
SOS. and a ghost writer of speech
! eS for generals. thereupon sat down
and ghosted the poor little type
writer's autobiogra ply 1t read like
this:
Il am an Army typewriter
Il have been to war on five con-
tinents and above the seven seas.
last year, aboard plane OF the
Ferry Command. Army Air Forces,
I flew the Atlantic to England
have heard the sirens cry their
warning of a London air raid.
was u Niscow when the Nazi
ARM was pounding at the gates
L have done duty at Cairo and
have flown over the African desert
front l have pounded out orders IN
India. l served with General Mac
Arthurs forces in Australia
Il have flown home across the
Pacific and across the continent
There's still some fight left in
nc"
There is Ciie spot in the eastern
seaboard which has had plenty OF
gasoline all summer, and practically
no takers. That is the Shenandoah
National Park, over in Virginia
Though the Shenandoah resort has
had almost the heaviest attendance
of all national parks ever since the
famous Skyline Drive was opened,
this wear the number of people who
have made this two or three-hour
drive from Washington has been
reduced to practically nothing
There were several government
concession gas stations along the
picturesque route. and at the be-
ginning of the gas rationlng pc
riod. deliveries to these stations
were cut so rer cent. 1t was way
too much with the tourist trade
missing. so most of the station
operators have thrown up their
conc sssionS.
This slme thing has hap
nened, with modif cations, at
practically every one of the
national parks in the country,
even in areas where there has
been no gas rationing. People
haven't been taking vacations
and they've been saving their
tires. Bus line operators, hotel
camp operators and other park
concessionaries have taken
terrible beating.
BOTTLED
The Puerto Rican sugar industry
which has been battling Gov Rex
Tugwell all over the island and
back to Washington has a new
reason for warfare. Puerto Rico has
a surplus Of sugar and shortage
of food. and the business interests
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