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Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-14
coPitoI Talk
-by-
Peter Edison

there were only few states with
planning boards at the beginning
of the war, today there are As and
the nu'nber of citv planning
boards is i'm the hundreds.
LOCAL LEADERSHIP
AS an example of how these local
communities are going about their
postwar planning, take the case
OF Denver. There is a huge small
arms plant there, operated by
Remington. 1t employs thousands,
but after the war, what good is it?
Remington doesn't want to operate
it. What Denver is trying to work
out is scheme of breaking the big
plant up into smaller units with
centralized power and light and
janitor service. adapting it for
smaller industries. Similar plans
are afoot in Buffalo, Salt Lake
City, the Puget Sound area, ship
building, aircraft, aluminium and
magnesium production centers.
The overall requirement is that
all this effort be pulled together
not by regimentation- by lead
ership. Charting the course for this
leadership in effecting the transi-
ton from war to peace is the one
big job the National Resources
Planning Board had not completed
when its work was stopped by con-
gressional cutting off of it's funds.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-14
STYLE IS STYLE, AFTER ALL
Christian Science Monitor)

(Christian Science Monitor)
There's something about uniform,
you really have to admit-and there
really has to be if the feminine auXiliar-
les are to attract, and hold, volunteers
who have normal reactions to personal
appearance and personal comfort.
AT the U. S. Naval Training school at
Smith College where the Wave officers
blues, printed fitting instructions, signed
by Mainbocher himself, are posted on the
wall and explain exactly how the skirt
should sXing from the hips and the jac-
ket fit at the shoulders and waist.
Women Marines set nifty style this
summer in their cool, becoming green
seersucker dress. Wacs in khaki with
close-fitting collars and ties, and Spars
warmly buttoned into cotton jackets
looked with envy upon their un-perspir-
ing comrades in service
Next summer the Waves, too, will be
outfitted in seersucker. A white dress
with separate jacket is being designed
for them.
Having pioneered in this feminine uni
form field, it seems as if the Wacs also
should be entitled to profit from expert
ence. The Wac uniform, while trim and
neat, is admitted to be rather severe par
ticularly the hat With $4,000 members
failing to re-enlist when the organization
merged with the regular Army, it seems
that something is needed to inspire in
creased enthusiasm for this branch of
the service Just possibly that "some-
thing" might be a new uniform,
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-14
Mind Your
Manners

Test your knowledge of correct
social usage by answering the
following questions, then check
ing against the authoritative
answers below:
l. At a party should you keep
urging a person to get into card
game if he has said once" The
stakes are too high for me-?
2. If a girl makes a money bet
with a man and loses, should she
insist on paying him?
3. Should you make a con-
scientious effort to repay favors
done you by friends and acquaint-
anceS?
4. In times like these if acquaint-
ances are trying to find house, a
maid, or some kind of second
hand household equipment should
you give them any leads you can?
5. If several women can fruits
and vegetables together should
each one be sure to do her part OF
the work?
What would you do if
You get stuck in corner at a
large party with a person who is
either boring or antagonizing YOU
(a) Stay until someone rescues
you?
% Say something like, "Oh,
there is Mrs. Jones. I must
see her about the meeting of
a committee we are both on
and make a getaway? .,-
Answers
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-14
BY CONGRESSMAN JOHN
PHILLIPS

Back again to the grind. Mon
day October 4th, l943 Will stand
out as a red-letter day on the cal
endar of one new congressman from
California. Since this column must
be mailed from Washington a week
before you read it in the home pap
ers. the 4th is yesterday as I
write this.
Ever congressman tand every
senator or aSsemDlyman in a state
legislature for that matter) II he
has in him the makings of any
kind of a representative, or the
experience which previous service
has given him, must have tucked
away in one of his mental pigeon
holes a list of the things he hopes
to accomplish for the people he
represents. Without deliberate in
tention or thought, he divides the
list into several parts. One part, II
he were to think about it that way,
would list the immediate and urgent
things he is trying to do: shells for
the Imperial Valley farmers to
help save the crops; the cost OF
production for milk; the news of
a war-prisoner son for some family;
the bcttleneck on contracts for the
harbor area; and hundred little
things requiring personal attention
all at the same time!
OVER LONG PULL -.
The second group would list the
things he wants to do over the
long pull; the things that require
planning and thought and patient,
persistent effort. The third group
is smaller and lists only those
things for a larger area than the
congressman's own district; perhaps
southern California or the state.
Chambers of commerce, whether
they realize it or not, have similar
lists. A chamber, representing as
it does the continuity in community
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-14
WE
the Women
By RUTH MILLETT

Dy hO
The young man is back in this
country for what promises to be
only a brief interval after having
been in foreign service for months.
He wants to marry his girl and
she wants to marry him. But his
mother is putting up fight. She
IS widow and she thinks her only
unmarried son hasn't any business
acquiring wife at this time.
Mama doesn't know what she would
do if her son would stop support
ing her and make his life in
Surance over to another woman.
That is no isolated case, either.
Many dependent mother is try.
ing to keep her service son from
marrying for no more noble reason
han that she wants to be his num-
Der one dependent.
What those Self-centered moth
ers apparently don't see is that a
Young man who may not have any
tomorrow in which to have mar
riage has a right to be a marriage
today. And the girl who loves him
has a right to marriage, too.
WORK, A SOLUTION
If a mother has to be supported.
and there are no other relatives
who can assume the entire re-
sponsibility, surely she and her SON
and her prospective daughter-in-
law can work out a financial ar.
rangement. Perhaps one or both
women can go to work.
A great many middleaged and
elderly women could get out and
support themselves today. Their
age INT against them, nor is their
lack of experience. All they need
is the desire 10 support themselves
instead of sitting back asking to
be supported.
The picture of a healthy woman,
of whatever age, demanding that a
son consider her a dependent isn't
very touching today. Not when jobs
are so easy to get.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-14
EYES MAY WELL BE
TURNED TO The AEGEAN

(Riverside Daily Press)
America is getting less news from the
Aegean sea these days than from any
other front. This strongly suggests that
a play is developing there which is be-
ing screened from view. There are sew
eral powerful allied armies in that region
and their active participation in battle
may be imminent.
1t has been, disclosed that the allies
have seized three key islands in the
Aegean sea and that a new battle area
has been established in the approaches
to the Balkan peninsula Allied planes
have bombed Crete and Rhodes and the
air fields around Athens.
Holding Samos, Leros and Kos of the
Dodecanese group along the Turkish
coast, allied forces have strategic out
posts deep within the defenses the nazis
threw around Greece in 1941. Samos,
the largest of the three, is east of Athens
and closer to it than either Crete or
Rhodes. All three of the islands have
air fields and Leros was the main Ital-
ian naval base in the Aegean.
German island positions are outflanked
and presumably the nazis could not
effectively parry an allied thrust into
the Balkans. One possible route of pen
etration mentioned is through Saloniki,
near the mouth of the Vardar river, his
toric approach of armies from the south
to central Europe.
Reports have filtered through that
powerful allied fleet is in the Aegean.
Air forces are being built up. There are
perhaps million troops in the region.
The situation can lend itself to another
great amphibious operation, perhaps in
conjunction with one out of Italy into
Albania. Doors to the Balkans are
swinging open and that troubled ponn-
sula may be making big headlines before
long.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-14
Bv GAYNOR MADDOX
NEA Staff Writer

Youngsters want lots of cookies.
You can help the Food Fights for
Freedom Campaign by making
YOUR cookies with cereals, one of
the few vital foods in abundance.
These tested recipes are from
Julia Kiene of the Health for Vic
tory Club of Mansfield, o.
Corn Meal Cookies
One cup shortening, 112 cups
sugar, 2 eggs, teaspoon lemon
extract, Y cup iaisins, chopped, 3
CUPS sifted all-purrCSe enriched
flour, l teaspoon baking powder, /
teaspoon nutmeg z teaspoon salt
cup yellow cornmeal tuncooked)
Cream shortening, slowly add
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-14

Postwar studies of the now
defunct National Resources Plan
ming Board indicate that the big
Job of reconversion of industry
from war to peace will come in the
first six months. That is why PLAN
ming before the wars end is es-
sential, to cushion against the quick
shock of cancellation of war con-
tracts and finding new jobs for
workers necessarily laid off.
There is some inclination to
say that this job of recOnversiOn
is entirely a government response
bility and that il is therefore up
to the government to have ready
shelf of work projects on
which the unemployed can be
re-emplOyed till private business
is ready to go to work again.
But the best estimates available
indicate that federal works projects
could take up the employment OF
only about two million new work.
ers in the first year, and what is
that when compared to the Army
and Navy of 10 million which must
be demobilized, and the additional
10 million workers in munitions
and war production industries for
whom new jobs will have to be
found.
That throws the greater art of
the burden of postwar planning
on others-the state planning, the
local community planning, and the
planning of private industry itself.
But before going into that, there
must be considered another factor
in the situation. which is the re-
conversion or the disposal or the
peacetime utilization of the $18
billion worth of new plant capacity
which has been built during the
war; Fourteen billion dollars
worth of this is government owned.
Altogether, it represents a 40 per
cent increase in U. S. plant capac-
ity over pre-war levels.
AS most of these new plants rep
resent greater efficiency and high
er chronological development than
the old, it would be economic folly
to consider closing down these new
plants so that the older, less ef-
ficient plants would continue in
production. Yet here is definite
government responsibility to decide
how these new facilities will be
converted to peacetime use.
WHAT ABOUT CONTRACTS?
Also, there is government respon-
sibility in determining a sound
policy on cancellation of war con-
tracts. If a plane or ship or a
tank or a gun is 10 per cent finish
ed, should it be completed? Or
should the parts be scrapped? And
who gets paid how much for what?
Taking all these things into con-
sideration. you begin to see what a
tough nut to crack this postwar
problem really is.
National Resources Planning
Board, in all it's postwar reports
and research, has emphasized the
need for other than federal gov
crnment planning. 1t has en-
phasizcd decentralization of post
war planning and the need for
action at every level. Many of
its scmi confidential reports,
restricted as to circulation. have
been in the nature of trial bal
looms sent TO city and to state
governments and to private bust
ness trade associations like the
National Association of Manu-
facturers, AerOnautic Chamber o.
Commerce and the Committee for
Economic Development. to stimu-
late their thinking and get their
varying points of view. Whereas
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-14
Rate of Rejection
For Youths Hiqh

WASHINGTON, Oct. IA tUPD =
Eighteen and 19-year-old men have
been rejected by the army at the
rate of % per cent for whites and
As per cent for Negroes. according
to recent figures compiled by Col
Leonard G.. Rowntree, chief of
selective services medical division
The percentage was based on the
reports of 45,585 youths examined
at local draft boards and induction
stations last December, January
and February. They were among
the first called up after l8 and l9-
year-olds became eligible for induc-
tion on Nov. Il, 1912.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-14
IN DEFENSE OF OUR
TRAVELLING SENATORS

In defense of the senators this may be
said. If they had not made their tour
of the globe and had not come home to
disclose their opinions and observations
no issues would have been raised. Mr..
Roosevelt or other men in the know
would not have barred figures to our view,
where they should be- The truth would
never have come to light
Take the case of the number of trucks
sent to Australia The senators after
visiting in that continent said that 30,-
900 American-made trucks had been sent
there for civilian use within the period
of year Mr. Roosevelt refuted that
statement and said that 21 ,135 trucks had
been sent to Australia in period of two
years and half.
The public benefited no matter how
many trucks were actually sent down
UNDER
The senators were merely expressing
the right of every American citizen to
free speech whether the subject be the
conduct of the war or the right of a base
ball player to make left-hand turn.
Gaining a first-hand view of the war
as they did, the solons were in an ideal
position to get at the true facts.
Mr.. Churchill was also exercising the
right of a free man to express his
thoughts when he became ired at certain
politicians-without a doubt the before
mentioned senator's.
However, we must hope that the re-
buke from Mr.. Churchill will not unduly
prejudice the congress when the time
comes for looking over the Lend-Lease
arrangement between this country and
Great Britain.
While it is the duty of our elected rep
resentatives to closely scrutinize the pro-
ceedings they must not do ANYTHING which
will drastically impair relations between
this country and England nor retard the
ever-growing pace of this war
The congressman must be gifted with
another characteristic for which our form
of government has long stood-tolerance
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-14
NEW BOOKS
At the Ell Centre Public Library
FICTION

What Dark Secret, Dorothy Dud-
ley: So Little Time. John Mar
uuand; The fuckers Tune In, Hilda
Nor is: The Day of Reckoning, Max
Radin; The Free Man, Conrad
Richter; Equinox, Allan '5eager;
Delarah, Demetra Vc'.9.
NON-FICTiCli
Double-Ouick Cooking, Ida BAILEY
Allen; Angel of the Navy, Joar
Angel, USNR; Moscow Dateline'
Henri C. Cassidy: Navigation, j.
c. Kingsland; 30 Seconds Over To-
kyo, Capt. Ted Lawson; U. S. For
eign Policy, Walter Lippmann; Nor
tensen on the Negative, William
Mortensen; Doctors AWeigh, Rear
Admiral Charles M. Oman, Out
door Life Cyclopedia; Government
and Business Tomorrow, Donald
Richberg: The Waacs, Nancy Shea
Arranging Flowers, Margaret Wat
son; I was on Corregidor, Amee
Willoughby.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-14
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The foiloUing edit
oridiS are presented as interesting 0pin-
ions UOiced by editors eiseUhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-14
MODERN MENUS

sugar, then eggs, beating well
Blend in lemon extract. Dredge
raisins with y cup flour and add.
Sift remaining flour with o'her dry
ingredients and add. Mix well
Drop by spoon and flatten out
with fork, or roll out "a inch thick
and cut in desired shapes. Dough
may be made into a pinch roll.
wrapped in waxed paper and
refrigerated until needed. Bake 10
minutes in preheated oven t400D.
Lemon Oatmeal Cookies
Makes six dozen cOOkics)
One cup shortening, y cup brown
sugar, 2 eggs, u cup dark corn
syrup, 2 cups sifted all-purpose en-
riched flour, a teaspoon salt, 2
teaspoons baking powder, V tea
spoon soda, Y cup milk, l teaspoon
vanilla, 21a cups quick-ccoking oats,
Az teaspoons grated lemon rind.
Cream shortening and sugar, add
eggs and beat well. Add corn
syrup and beat thoroughly. Sift
flour with salt, baking powder and
soda, and add alternately to cream
ed mixture with milk and vanilla.
Add oatmeal and lemon rind beat
ing well. Drop, by teaspoonfuls,
onto a creased baking sheet. Bake
sor IL minutes in preheated oven
'3750. Cne cup of br. -sn sugar
LAY be used instead "a the corn
Up by adding y cup of milk.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-14
EISENHOWER 53

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers. Oct. ID up Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, supreme Allied
commander in the Mediterranean.
spent his 53rd birthday at for
ward base today without special
celebration.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-14

Today, because of the surrender of
the Italian fleet, Japan can expect no
naval aid from Germany. Today Japan
stands alone-Rep. Carl Vinson of Geor-
gia
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-14
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

AS long as war output is short of re-
qurements. we have every cause for wor-
ry. A man in bombing plane has bet
ter chance to come back alive if there
are 100 planes than if there are so.
-WPB Vice Chairman Charles E. Will
son. eEX
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-14
TOMORROW'S MENU

BREAKF Asst Melon, crisp
bacon, honey-bran muffins, butter
or fortified margarine, coffee, milk
LUNCH: Creamed carrots and
turnips, escarolle salad, enriched
bread, butter or fortified mar
garine, stewed pears, lemon oat-
meal cookies, tea, milk.
DINNER: Casserole of sausage,
sweet potato and apple, boiled
beets, Swiss chard, whole wheat
bread, butter or fortified margarine,
lemon pie, coffee, milk.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-10-14

Better What Would You Do
Solution-tb).
Milford chronicle., 1943-10-22
FISHERS DISTRICT
(Near Greenwood

Miss Betty Morris and Miss Mil
dred Messick spent Friday in Will
mington.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. E. Russell re-
ceived a letter from their son, Pri-
vate Neil Russell informing them
he is stationed on an island some
where in the South Pacific, that he
is well and feeling fine.
Rev. and Mrs. Milton Elliott of
Pennington, Mr.. and Mrs. w. 5.
Collision of Clayton and Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Collision of Andrew
vile, were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
S. F. Collision on Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Collision is little improved at
this writing.
Mrs. Wilmer Collision and daugh-
ter and Mrs. James Rust of Farm
ington were guests of Mr. and Mrs
J. w. Rust on Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Taylor were
Milford visitors on Monday after
noon.
Miss Helen Workman and friend
Harold Kinder. of Bridgeville, were
weekend guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Young and family of Cen
terville. Md.
Mrs. George Young and son and
Miss Helen Workman were guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. T. p. Morris on
afternoon.
Milford chronicle., 1943-10-22
MILLSBORO

1t will be of interest to many of
the readers of this letter to hear
from Sergt. Joshua B. Mitchell. Jr.,
who, at the time of his induction
into the army. was employed in the
store of J. A. Burton. Juniors let
ter is headed Somewhere in the
Southwest Pacific" and this is a
portion of it: just received your
most welcome letter of July 9th.
You don't know how good it makes
me feel to receive mail from home
Just like a new boy-and | can
hardly wait to open it. | am trying
to write as much as | can-because
before this | haven't had much
chance. The past four months
really have been travelling, day and
night, and the going has been
rough, tough and rugged-and |
will add. too noisy! l have seen
little excitement and also been
in it; there for a while | thought
my days were numbered, things
were so close. When it got to the
point where you could see the Japs'
eyes and their dirty grin. my heart
was in my throat and was wet
with sweat-but we sweated it out
and after things got calm we would
get together and have big laugh
about the things we did. You ought
to see us disperse! One day the
place | wanted to get to was about
100 yards away, and believe me, l
made it. You ought to see me take
off, l believe | made it in less
than nine seconds ducking, lodging
and a dive-mud or no mud. /
think l shall sign up for a track
team after the war. If you hear
any of the boys say they want to
see action tell them it isn't funny.
I said it several times myself-so
| have had it. and also laughed
afterwards when things are fairly
safe-but at the time it sure is a
bad feeling. I wish could see
some one here l have known. l
guess Leroy. Wayne and Mae have
swell time together. l have lost
plenty of weight, from 173 to -
l don't know what, but anyway, I'm
still solid" If any of Juniors home
friends would like to make him
happy with word of remembrance
this is the address: Co. c, 592 E. S.
Milford chronicle., 1943-10-22
FREDERICK

Miss S. Helena Case entertained
Mrs. l. w. Belts, Sr., at dinner on
Sunday.
Miss Claramond Belts, of Will
mington, and Mrs. S. Belts, of this
town, were dinner guests of Mrs.
l. w. Belts. Sr., last Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Wharton, of
Houston, were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Vinyard ON Saturday.
Their son Joseph Vinyard, of Camp
Perry, Va, was their guest last
week for several days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Seward
spent Saturday in Milford and
Harrington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Hollinger
spent Saturday in Milford.
Corp. Harry M. Boone left Tues
day for Painefield Camp, in Wash
ington, near Everett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Stokesbury,
of Essington, Pa, were home on
Sunday.
Miss Margaret Sharp. of Will
mington, spent the week with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Sharp.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Lewis and
son. William. of Philadelphia. visit
ed friends in town on Friday and
Saturday.
Corp. Oliver X. Melvin, of Okla
homa, Okla. is home on fur
Tough.
Miss Mary Melvin. of Newark,
was home over the weekend as the
guest of her mother. Mrs. Edith B.
Richard Welsh and Clarence
Person took a three-days' fishing
trip at RehobOth.
Ralph Wilson has moved to Will
mington to be with his daughter,
Mrs. Earl Adkins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merton Hovey. of
spent the weekend in
town.
Lieut.. James Webb spent several
days here last week with his wife
md relatives.
Milford chronicle., 1943-10-22
HOLLYvILLE

Mr.. and Mrs. C. H. Hazard and
Miss Kathryn Joseph were Sunday
evening visitors of Mrs. IRA Stew
enson and Mrs. Nora Prettyman.
Miss Kathryn Prettyman, for
mer resident of this section, but
now of Georgetown, has been very
i'll the past week. She is now a
patient in the Salisbury Hospital.
The Women's Society for Chris
tian Service met at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. John c. Stevenson on
Saturday evening, Oct. 16, and was
well attended. Thanks to h e
"Broadkill Revelers" and others
who furnished music. The next
meeting will be held with Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl B. Prettyman Of Milton.
The Hollymount Home Demon
stration Club was entertained on
Wednesday of last week at the
home of Mrs. Bessie Mustard. with
a good attendance. Two new MEM
bers-Mrs. Anna Mae Davidson and
Mrs. Alice Dorman-were added to
the rapidly growing list. Red Cross