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Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
WHITE PLAGUE KILLS
SILENTLY, THOROUGHLY

The white Plague" kills silently, with
out the noise and fanfare of war but
just as effectively and painfully as
burst of shrapnel.
Every year the worlds most deadly
communicable disease takes a frightening
toll. But just as in world politics there
are good men striving to bring an end
to this needless loss of life.
New methods of control are being de-
vised to care for and cure the infected.
tuberculosis is no longer equivalent to
a death sentence, as it was not so
many years ago.
Cooperation is the keynote in fighting
the White Plague as it must be in find
ing solution for the problems which
bring nations to war against each other.
The cooperation which Americans can
give in the fight against tuberculosis
consists of purchasing Christmas Seals,
small gummed StickerS sold every year
during the holiday season.
The proceeds from the sale of the
seals goes into a fund set up with the
avowed purpose of completely eliminat-
ing tuberculosis.
In actual money value of the Christ
mas Seals is comparatively small. But
they are symbolic of never-ending fight
to make the world free of disease
Words are easily said. 1t is with words
that our statesmen hope to lay the
groundwork for a lasting peace.
Christmas Seals cost money - some
thing a little more tangible than words.
Therefore the fight against tuberculosis
will be felt more acutely by the individ-
ual combatants who are helping science
find newer and better ways of eradicat-
ing the disease.
Any small sacrifice you may have to
make in order to purchase a block of
Christmas Seals is we'll worth it.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
ONLY GOD CAN MAKE A TREE

(Ontario Daily RecordD
We shed tear when we learned that
the city planning commission had okeyed
the removal of eight beautiful, stately
palm trees The reason given was the
fact that these 60-year-old trees had
grown until they were interfering with
electric wires.
1t is an example of the old tug-of-war
between beauty and utility. Of course
we must have electric service. But it
does seem a shame to sacrifice beautiful
trees to keep it going.
With war conditions we know that it is
impossible to suggest the Southern Cali
fornia Edison company substitute under
ground cables for Old-fashioned over
head wires. Materials and manpower
are not now available for such modern
improvements.
But we do believe that the time will
come when all modern and improved
cities will require every unsightly and,
sometimes dangerous, wire to be carried
underground.
Lights are used by fools like me,
But only God can make tree.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02

Having been consistently on the
side of those who want the whole
story of this war told the public, as
fast and as accurately as national
security permits, we feel free to eX-
press disgust of the horror pictures
of American wounded which are
being released from time to time.
These have resulted from insis-
tence of the Office of War IN
formation, inspired by Third War
Loan publiSts who feel that the
perturbation of American gore will
make the public more realistic in
its reaction to the war, and thus
will sell more bonds.
With this we disagree heartily
We feel, as we have said frequent
ly, that the news of the war should
not be sugar-coated. When Ameri-
cans land in North Africa, or on
Sicily, or at Salerno, ships are
blasted, men are killed and wound
ed, materiel is destroyed. This the
public should be told with all peril
nent and Illuminating detail.
A landing barge suffers a direct
hit. Many American soldiers are
killed outright, more are injured.
The Germans know it. The Ameri-
cans should be told, SO that they
will realize that this is no Fourth
of July picnic, no fox hunt with
the Americans riding gloriously into
the fray and the Germans doing
all the running and dying
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
WAGNER BILL

New York World Telegram)
The American Institute of Account
ants at recent meeting adopted a resolu-
tion calling on congress to establish
nonpartisan commission to write a sim
pie revenue law which will express per-
manent and consistent policy of federal
taxation"
The resolution pointed out that since
the passage of the original income tax
law in 1913 there have been 20 statutes
revising it.
With each revision the bookkeeping
bureau of the taxpayer has increased, un-
til now the filing of tax return has
become, for most people, hobgoblin
proposition. Congress would make
friends for itself if it responded to the
accountants suggestion and moved to-
ward simplifying and regularizing feder-
al tax policy.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
INTRIGUING POSSIBILITIES

We weren't overly interested in the
Tom Moore Distilling company's liquid
dividend because, by the time excise taxes
on the whisky and income taxes on its
value had been paid, we might just as
well step out to the corner store and buy
a few bottles.
But it does open up rosy vistas. If
Tom Moore can pay dividends in whisky,
why can't Swift pay in hams, Armour in
prime rib roasts, Texaco in Fire Chief
gasoline, Goodrich in tires, American To-
bacco company in Lucky Strikes, and
Andrew Jackson Higgins, perhaps, in one
of those family helicopters he plans to
build? Everybody can make his own ad-
dtions to his list, including those with
men overseas who would gladly take
their Western Union or American Tel.
& Tel. dividends in messages from
abroad
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
MEDICINE AND THE
milwaukee Journal)

milwaukee JournaD
The National Physicians Committee
for the Extension of Medical Service OBJ
jects-and we think rightly-to the medi-
cal provisions of the Wagner bill to
broaden the scope of social security. This
bill would make possible, if not newt
able, change from private to "political'
medicine in the United States.
Under terms of the bill, social security
taxes would be increased to provide the
Surgeon General with some S3,000,000,-
900 annually to pay for medical service
to the 110,000,000 persons who would be
covered.
The almost blanket power to spend so
much money would naturally mean de-
struction of medicine as it is now prac
ticed in the United States and the sub
stitution of bureaucratically controlled
system of national clinics and dispensar
ipS
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02

A little of this and little OF
that:
The United States government
now owns a total of 3S4,519,5 $50
acres in the United States. This
includes public lands. 1t is APPROX
mately 20 per cent of the total
area of the United States. Most
of it is located in the western
states. The computation is made
by the Byrd committee.
The committee of which I was
a member for a short time after
entering Congress, the House COM
mittee on expenditures in the
executive departments. also heard
with some aStonishment the figures
concerning government ownership
of property as a direct result of
the war. There is no question but
that the government will loWn $50
000,000,000 worth of property, real
and personal. is not dumped upon
the markets to upset private buSi-
ness. The government has every
intention Of seeing that this is not
done. A recent report dated No
vember "a. gives the amount as
SIS, OO,0OO,O00. This includes trac-
tors, jeeps. food supplies, wearing
apparel, all sorts of things, and
real estate.
SANS AUTHORITY
Hearing on the Farm Security
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
WE
the Women
By RUTH MILLETT

One thing a lot of husbands and
wives. separated by the war, are
learning is the fun and companion
ship of having friends of their own
sex, chosen by themselves for no
other reason than that they are
congenial.
Of course, they had friends when
they were living together. But
most of their friends were married
couples, liked by either the hus-
band or the wife and merely toll
Grated by the other.
Many a woman, after marriage,
never made a good friend strictly
on her own. And the same was
true Of husbands.
The wife played bridge with the
wives of her husbands business
associates. And the husband saw
something of his wife's old school
friends and their husbands. And OF
course they spent good many of
their evenings with people they felt
they had to 'be nice to" for busl-
ness reasons.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
GIorifying
Yourself
BY ALICIA HART
NEA Staff Writer

For some a shower is much mol
refreshing than 4 bath, yet they d
miss one of the biggest benefits g
a bath-relaxation.
Women who have little time d
loll in a tub, and 1 guess that goe
for most of us these days, shoull
try the pickup bath model Ka'
Cannon says both relaxes and pep
you up. 1t takes but 10 minute.
and you can dress and go out i'm.
mediately without running the ris
of taking cold.
"The water should be not NOR.
than lukewarm, spicily scented am
foamy," says Kay. Spend the frs
few minutes relaxing with you
eyes closed-she, however, some.
times reads or writes a note lon
overdue-then scrub yourself DIR
with rough towel to promote cir
culationand renew energy.
I'm the two minutes left, apply
deodorant, dust your body with bati
powder or sachet, and you're read
to step into your clothes and stej
out for bit of fun," Kay concludes
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
ST. Gas Stations
Are Out of Fuel

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2. CUP)
-Proprietors of many gasoline sta
tions here-their supplies drained
by patrons anxious to "fill 'er up"
before new fuel limitations become
effective displayed "out of gas
signs today.
Other station operators said they
already were restricting customers
to purchase of three gallons at a
time following announcements that
civilian gasoline supplies would be
limited to one-third the output of
California oil companies and fur
ther OPA restrictions.
Oil companies apparently were
delivering reduced supplies Of gaso-
line daily to prevent dealers from
selling a months quota of gasoline
at once.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF


IN THE SUPERIOR COURT Or
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 1921
Notice of Time and Place Appointed
for Proving Will and Hearing
Application for Letters Testa-
mentary.
Sec. 327 Pro. Code
In the Matter of the Estate of
CARL A. WHIPPLE, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that a
petition for probate of tie Will OF
CARL A. WHIPPLE, deceased, and
for the issuance to Arthur Edward
Hegberg of letters testamentary, has
been filed in this Court, and that
Friday the 10th day of December,
1943, at 200 o'clock pm, of said
day, at the courthouse Dept. No. 2
of said court, in the City of Ell
Centro, County of Imperial, State
of California, has been set for the
hearing of said petition, when
and where any person interested
may appear and contest the same,
and show cause, if any they have,
why said petition should not be
granted.
Dated November 26th, 1943.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
By Citha Lamson,
Deputy Clerk.
mo. 25) N29-30-D1-2-3
5-6-7-8-9)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
GRATUITOUS INSULT
Sacramento Ree(

(SacramentO betJ
Dillon S. Myer, who has distinguished
himself in a left handed sort of way by
his inept administration of the War Relo-
cation Authority, now comes forth with
a new suggestion on how the japanese
problem in America can be solved.
1t is very simple. Simply have the
white people assimilate the Japanese by
intermarriage. Thus, calculates Myer,
in a certain number of generations the
percentage of japanese blood will be re-
duced to an indivisible quantity and pref
ty soon, presto, no more Japanese.
Director Myer is welcome to try this
plan but the proposal is an insult to the
average white man or woman.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
CHEATED b. MARRIAGE

But when they started living as
individuals they began making
friends as individuals And friends
have come to mean a great deal
to them-so much that they are be-
ginning to realize they have let
marriage cheat them of something
that was their right-the right to
make and keep personal friendships
among members of their own sex.
And there is no reason why they
ever should have forfeited that
right. Men and Women's lives are
richer and fuller and more Interest,"
ing if they share their interests and
enthusiasms with good friends OF
their own choosing.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02

But is it necessary or desirable to
picture the broken bodies of the
men who died on that barge? Isn't
it enough to note that IL or 20 or
$50 or 5000 or very heavy casual
ties were suffered in the operation,
without narrowing the feelings of
those whose boys were participants
in the battle?
This isn't a matter of propaganda
so much as one of good taste and
common decency.
Anybody who handles news pic
lures knows the intensive magma
ton of newspaper readers. Every
mother, wife, adult daughter,
sweetheart, watches the pictures in
hope that her darling will appear.
She sees the mangled body of lad
about five feet eight inches, weigh
ing around $50 pounds, with an
indiStinguishable face that might
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The fOllOWing edit
oriofs are presented as interesting Opin-
ions UOiced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
STEER AUCTIONED

Chicago, Dec. =. (UP) - T. Q.
Monogram, 1,O20 pound grand
champion Hereford steer raised by
T. Richard Lacy, 17-year-old Kan
sas. Ill, farm boy, was auctioned
off today for 81 a pound, the high
est price paid since 1929 at a Chi
cago livestock show.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
ITALIAN JEWS TAKEN

BERN, Dec. 2. (UP) - Italian
frontier advices, quoting official
sources, said today that all Jews
in German-occupied Italy were be-
ing taken to concentration camps
for shipment to labor camps in
Poland
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 1920 In Probate
NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE
OF PROVING WILL
In the Matter of the Estate of
BEN r. DANIELSON, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that
petition for probate of the will of
Ben r. Danielson, deceased, and
for the issuance to Ruth E. M.
Danielson of Letters Testamentary
has been filed in this court and
that Friday the 10th day of De-
cember, 1943, at 200 o'clock pm.
of said day at the court room OF
Department Two of said court, in
the City of Ell Centro, County OF
Imperial, State of California, has
been set for the hearing of said
petition, at which time and place
all persons interested in said estate
are notified TO appear and contest
the same if they choose.
DATED November 23rd, 194j.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
Clerk.
BY Maxine Console.
Deputy Clerk
mo. 23) (N25-D6 inc)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
IS YOUR CHILD A
0SE PICK R?

~ may be q sign OF bowel wormst And
these roundworms can cause real trouble i
Other warnings are: uneasy stomach, ner.
vousness, itching parts. If you even suspect
roundworms, get Jayne's Vermifuge today !
JAYNES is Americas leading proprietary
worm medicine used by millions for over a
century. Acts gently. yet drives out round.
worms. Demand JAYNES VERMIFUGE.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
LUCKY LEPKE

Louis Uepke) Buchalter, one of the
most vicious characters in modern crimi-
nal history, credited with responsibility
for perhaps a score of murders, still
lives because the federal Department of
Justice and the state of New York have
become engaged in silly battle of prior
tiles.
Attorney General Biddle ignores re-
quests that Lepke be granted condition
al pardon so that New York can hang
him. Mr.. Biddle appears to consider a
12-year Imprisonment on narcotics
charge of greater Importance than execu-
tion for murder
Common sense and legal precedent
are on the side of New York state 1t is
hard to believe that presidential politics
do not figure heavily in the unfortunate
impasse.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
Rise to Ren0rk"

Administration, before sub-com-
mittee of the House Committee or
Agriculture. brought out that this
agency, and its collateral agencies
(the Resettlement Administration
the F. Z. r. A, etc. now combined
in the FSA, own more than 2,000,-
900 acres of farm land. Some of
this was brought to institute pro-
/ grams of land settlement. which
have been caleld socialistic by op-
ponentS of the FSA. Much of it
was bought without legal authority.
I have said before in this column
that the federal government does
not apply to itself the same regu-
lations it imposes upon the citizens
of the United States. Here are q
couple picked up from Minneapo-
lis newspaper. If you own a house
and rent it to a tenant with a pro-
vision that you may give the ten
ant so days notice and get the
house back, the government comes
along and applies rent control
regulations and says that the ten
ant may have 80 days. Suppose the
same tenant is living in an HOLC
house; a house with a government
loan on it, what happens? Rent
control regulations then make the
tenant get oIt in 80 days.
Everyone who has followed the
regulations of government built and
operated residential developments
knows that rental charges are often
based on the income of the tenant.
In one case, the rent was increased
from $29 a month to $43 a month,
or an increase of "A per cent, be-
cause the tenant had a salary in
crease. Private property owners
cannot do that.
143 PERIODICALS
The United States government
prints more than l40 different
periodicals, of one kind or another.
These are regular issues. This does
not include the great mass of ma
terial which goes into the mail
every day from Washington, printed
or mimeographed, but not regu-
lar issues
To give you some idea, the pen
atty mail for the last fiscal year,
ending July l, amounted to about
2,000, 100000 pieces. That took ap-
proximately 148,000,0O0 tons of pa
per- Had postage been paid for, it
would have cost the government
$ll9,0O0,000. That is just what was
mailed out, and does not include
congressional mail, or franked mail.
i think q good business to get into
would be the manufacture Of waste
baskets.
My friend Eddie Stuart says that
Stains real name is "Yussif Vis-
sarionovich Djugashville, and COM
ments mo wonder he changed it
to joe"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02

BY winter we shall be closed in upon
Hitler's central fortress of Europe and
be making our dispositions for the grand
assault by all arms next year.-Prime
Minister Jan Christian Smuts of the
Union of South Africa.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
S. Burton Heath
Writes:

be that of her boy.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02

Hearing on the Farm Security
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-02
THE ONE MAIN
ISSUE IS ~
"Rights of Employees"

Sec. 7. Employees shall have the right to self
ganizations, to bargain collectively through re
engage in concerted activities for the purpose
or protection"
The midland journal., 1943-10-15
SHOES

Children who wear out or outgrow
their shoes at particularly fast rate
and adults with extra shoe require
ments need not suffer hardship be-
cause of the longer shoe ration per-
iod (probably six months) announc-
ed recently by the Office of Price Ad-
ministration. State OPA Rationing
officials have stated.
State OPA officials pointed out
that the shoe rationing program rec
ognizes the great differences in indi-
vidual shoe needs. Ration stamps are
transferable among family members
living in the same household so that
the stamps can be shared accordint
to need. There is also provision by
which growing children, Industrial
workers and others who need addi-
tional shoes may get special shoe
stamps if they would suffer hard
ship by being limited to the regular
family stamp allowance. Application
in any of these instances should be
made to local War Price and Ration
ing Boards.
The midland journal., 1943-10-15
Maryland's Farm Front

Maryland's famous "Clover Muir
der Case" couldn't happen again, soil
conservation leaders attending a
State conference at the University
of Maryland were told by Joseph II.
Blandford, chairman of the Maryland
Agricultural Adjustment Agency and
Maryland United States Department
Of Agriculture War Board.
within the memory of many OF
u.s." Chairman Blandford said, "clo-
yer would grow anywhere in Mary
land. Eventually bare spots appear
ed in once lush fields Unable to
solve the murder of their lonce rich
clover crops, farmers changed to
other crops or abandoned fields. We
didn't know about soil chemicals in
those days.
Grimes like the Glover Murder
Case are no longer committed
against our soil fertility. The Agri-
cultural Experiment Station quickly
detects the criminal, the Soil Conser-
yation Service and Agricultural Ex-
tension Service tell the farmers how
to stop him and the Agricultural ADJ
iustment Agency furnishes the or
ganization and machinery for his ex-
ecution.
I'VE are attacking a new frontier
the frontier of soil robbed OF its
Fertility.
The midland journal., 1943-10-15
High School News

The Physical Education program
in the Rising Sun High School has
been outlined for the year by Mrs.
Daniel Fraser and Raymond M.
Shingler, teachers in charge OF this
phase of the school work.
In addition to two regularly scne-
duled periods of formal physical di-
rection, one forty-five minute period
a day is spent in organized games,
in which practically every pupil In
the school participates. Girls engage
in softball, volley ball and fieldball; !;
boys play soccer, softball and touch
football, the latter being recently
introduced. Competition is keen IN
these sports, since the student body
has been organized into various attn
1etic clubs, members of each team
making up teams in all sports to
represent that club in the varied
schedule. The boys are divided ac-
cording to weight; the large boys
compete against boys OF their own
weight and age groups.
The winter season will be filed out
athletically by the return to basket
ball, for boys and girls, badminton'
ming pong, these activities supple
menting the formal program.
Almost every teacher in the school
supervises some type Of athletic play
during the week. Miss Eva P. Nutter
is in charge of volley ball; Miss Eve
lyn Smith, fieldball; Mrs. Fraser
softball; William c. Graham, soccer
and softball; Warren Warren, Soc
Ger and softball: Raymond Shingler,
touch football; George B. Prettyman'
touch football and softball.
Teams finishing on top in league
standings will receive free movies as
awards. Sportsmanship, records, and
improvement will be considered in
announcing winners in the leagues.
The midland journal., 1943-10-15
MORE WAR FOOD

The Agricultural Adjustment Ag-
ency has made an additional $4,000
900 available to Maryland and the
other six states in the East central
region for the purchase of lime,
twenty-percent superphosphate, rye
grass and vetch to increase the war
food yields per acre on the farms of
these states.
Payments will be in materials for
soil conservation and war-food pro-
dction and for the period from July
to December 81, of this year. They
will be in addition to the regular
production practice payments and in
the same amounts, Joseph H. Bland
ford, chairman of the State AAA
Committee, said.