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Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
OPA--WRITE OR WRONG?

Was the idea of Congress in creating
OPA to set up price control mechanism
to pattern American business along the
lines of Socialism We do not think so
but the monster has grown into almost
this category.
Is the rank and file of little business,
which is mostly affected by OPA, at
tempting to comply and live through their
many and changing regulations? The
answer is YES we are doing our best as
good patriotic American citizens to COM
ply but We feel that OPA's methods of
approach to what they are trying to ac-
complish are basically wrong. Why would
it not be better for an OPA representa-
tive to drop around occasionally--intro-
duce himself, and leaving off the snooper
complex, explain to the little business
man that OPA feels that he might need
little help and advice in Interpreting
regulations and that OPA has sent rep
resentative to furnish that help. Better
than 80 per cent of the little business men
of this country are good, honest and hard
working men and want to do everything
they can to win this war, but they resent
being stealthily approached. Why doesn't
the OPA change its methods and attempt
to sell itself and its usefulness to the
public?
Are the Industry Advisory Committees
ever consulted? If not why not? These
committees are made up of experienced
business men-men who know how to run
a business because they have actually run
one. Their advice and counsel was un-
doubtedly what Congress expected to help
OPA make workable rulings. Utter dis
regard of these committees and the pro-
mitigation of rules and regulations by
theorists and professors is what is basic
ally wrong with OPA.
Business, and especially little business,
acknowledges the need for wartime price
control. We need it to survive and pre-
vent initiation which would ruin all of us.
But with the added burden of labor
shortage and increased taxes and de-
creased earnings, can the small business
man survive if his already heavy burden
is increased by unwOrkable regulations
and a price governing body whose ap-
proach to price control is one Of distrust
rather than helpful cooperation from its
inception?
L. J. GOREE
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21

the Fifth Army, whose jurisdiction
includes Rome and Florence, an
nounced that church bells would
toll in the event of an Allied land
ing on nearby shores.
once the invasion alarm has
been given. Bern said, all traffic
would be banned and inhabitants
would have to remain in their
homes pending further instructions.
Renewed Italian invasion filters
conceded with the announcement
that Premier Mussolini and Adolf
Hitler had met in a northern Ital-
ian town Monday while American
planes were dropping bombs on
Rome.
The terSenesS of the commune
que announcing the meeting and
the absence of the "friendliness"
and cordially" phrases that mark
ed announcements of previous
meetings was interpreted here to
mean that there had been a show
down between the two Axis leaders
on the increasing seriousness of the
Italian situation.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
S. Burton
Heath
Writes:

A reporter on midWeStern
newspaper asked 80 men and wom-
en-, interviewed essentially at ram
dom, which United Nation has
made the greatest contribution to-
ward winning this war. Two said
Russia, one China and q the
United States.
Such a question and the answers
make an excellent feature, but the
results of the poll prove only one
thing, which is the willingness OF
almost everybody to express a firm
opinion on matters about which
he knows very little.
To such q question there are at
least six answers which can be
argued with considerable logic
Britain, China Russia or the
United States, Germany by her
errors, or our own favorite-that
the war hasn't been won yet, which
is not really a quibble.
We should not be in position to
dream of winning the war, eventu-
ally, if the British Isles had not
weathered the crisis that followed
Dunkirk. England might not have
survived but for the weapons and
other aid we contributed. But that
aid would have been futile II the
British had not used 1T with
courage and optimism unparalleled
in military history.
The best we could hope for would
be a stalemate if Russia had not
amazed the world by the bravery
and skill of her battered armies,
and by possession Of material re-
sources of which none OF us
dreamed. But without British and
American aid, Russia probably
would not have been able to turn
back the Nazi tide.
Without American materiel or
without British sea and military
manpower, the victory of North
Africa could not have been won
nor, for that matter, would it have
been won if much OF Hitler's
strength had not been tied up in
Russia.
It is utterly impossible to sort
out the combined contribution OF
any one country and say that 1t
was greatest. Common sense tells
us that any one of these nations
produced q balance of power with
out which at best we should have
been forced to an indecisive arms
' tice.
And if Germany had invaded
England Immediately after Dun
kirk, or had refrained from at
tacking Russia, we should have
lost one or other OF those in
= valuable allies.
Let's go ahead and win the war
, and leave it to history to decide
, whether it matters greatly who
made the greatest contribution.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
CRIME OF SUCCESS

During the Is months which ended June
80, American yards turned out 1923 COM
mercial ships-cargo, tankers, etc. Their
aggregate tonnage ran close to II 100000
tons. Nothing like this ever has been
dreamed by the shipbuilding industry.
Of that stupendous construction 724
ships, which is more than "A per cent,
came from yards with which Henry j.
Kaiser is identified. Assuming that av-
erage tonnage figures this year did not
vary greatly from last years, Mr.. Kaiser
!, chant shipping. That. is equivalent to
about two-thirds of the total tonnage
under the American flag in 1939-to one
third the tonnage under the Union Jack
to greater tonnage than any other
nation possessed when World War II
broke out.
Moreover, Mr.. Kaiser's influence went
much further than the ships he built
The mass production pre-fabrication
methods he developed, and the stimulus
his success gave to others, account for a
sizable increase in the tonnage con-
structed by his rivals.
1t would appear that Mr. Kaiser had
earned the respect and gratitude of Am
orleans, and had established prima facie
right to be permitted to continue in busi-
ness after the war.
Apparently he has not. For some rea-
son Representative Cecil r. King of Cali
fornia considers it highly reprehensible
that Mr.. Kaiser would like to purchase
from the government one of the yards he
has operated so successfully.
What does Congressman King have in
mind? Does he believe that the govern
ment should retain ownership of the ways
it built to meet this war emergency? In
that event, does he propose that the
United States shall compete with the pri-
vate yards which have co-operated SO
whole-heartedly in the war effort? Or
would he have them confiscated, to pro-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
SHOULD I8-YEAR-OLD
YOUTHS BE GIVEN THE VOTE?

There is considerable discussion going
on nowadays as to whether lS-year old
youths should be given the vote, and in
dications are that the ayes have 1t, and
that the nays can make only an inferior
case.
Those favoring a vote for the young
sters stand primarily on the argument
that if these young men are old enough
To fight, then they are old enuogh to vote.
And we concur.
Opposing this cornerstone stand, is the
argument of the nays that while young
man may be alive with physical vigor he
still hasn't the judgment to decide the
important issues which are involved in
elections. In answer to this, we can point
out that once we try to distinguish be-
tween who has sense enough to vote in
telligently and who hasn't, then we are
entering an endless trail.
Our voting procedure isn't founded up
on who is wise and who isn't well in
formed. There can be some monstrous
dumbells of any age and any sex and any
color. Certainly, well-informed 1S
year old soldier can vote as lntellgently
as an uneducated oldster. If the voting
franchise is to be allocated on basis of
ability, intelligence, experience, education
and the like, there can never be common
1oOtlng and the whole democratic Scneme
of things will be destroyed.
1t may be said by politicians that rec
ords show that larger percentage of
young voters cast their ballots for the
New Deal party, and larger percentage
of the older voters made their X marks
for the Republican candidates. That argu-
ment is selfish and political and has no
right in being considered in the case
We can see no reason why young men
and women of today should not be given
the vote as long as they are being per-
mitted to take their places in the eco
nonlic and military schemes of things.
The sooner the better, say we.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
Optimism Leads to
Needless Death of
Men, Says Knox

WASHINGTON, July q (UP)-
American naval leaders, looking
forward to war in the Pacific for
another six years, today led cam
paign to discourage almost GRIM
inally careless" optimism among
civilians.
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox
told radio audience last night
that Americans who think the war
is won contribute to unnecessary
extension of it and that such COM
placency will bring about the cruel
and unnecessary deaths OF many
thousands of Americans in uni
form" unless checked Immediately.
In his prepared text, Knox had
said persons who cause death
through carelessness were guilty OF
manslaughter. But he deleted that
paragraph in the delivered version
and continued:
AT present this country is faced
with two acute problems, one is a
steady loss Of production in war
plants, now in its third month.
The other is steadily rising wave
of optimism, based on almost
criminally- careless belief that the
war has already been Won.'
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
Post-Press,
Ell Centre, California.

Post-Press,
Ell Centre, California.
In recent letter from my father in
Wedgefield, South Carolina, he informed
me that an unprecedented rain was eX-
perienced in that community on July 9Th.
For many years my father had been a
local weather observer for the Depart
ment of Agriculture. The July 9Th rain
fall amounted to seven and One-half
inches, which fell in less than two hours;
the rainfall was accompanied by hail,
which severely damaged the cotton and
corn crops.
We are prone to forget, and to take for
granted, the tremendous advantage I'M
perial Valley farmers enjoy in the abun-
dant and cheap water supply which the
All-American Canal makes possible.
Nothing can be more discouraging to
farmer than to grow crop and lose it
just prior to harvest because of too much
or too little moisture, or other vagaries
of climate, beyond the control of the
farmer.
Sincerely yours,
WADE H. RAMSEY
(EditOr's note: Thank you, Mr.. RAM
seq. We inUite all such communications
as this. Other readers are urged to con-
tribute in kind.)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21

HEADQUARTERS, Alaska De-
fense Command, July 81 CUP -
Two flights of American Liberator
bombers successfully attacked the
island of Paramushiro Sunday, en-
countering little opposition either
from the enemy or the weather.
Dramatically confirming that the
Aleutian islands are a dagger
pointed at the heart of the Japa-
nese empire, the American airmen
took the japanese by surprise, at
tacking Paramushiro Strait and
dropping bombs among buildings
near Mruakima landing strip, start
| ing a number Of fires.
Three Liberators of the first
flight of six planes attacked ship
ping midway between Kashiwafara
and Katoakaboys and returning
pilots said they observed a stick
If bombs fall within so feet of one
vessel.
The bombers went in at 1900
\ seet, finding calm weather over
he target and little fog. Seven
enemy planes, both land based
and seaplane type, attempted TO
get into the air TO offer resistance,
but as heavy American bombs be-
gan falling among installations, the
Jap pilots either were unable to get
their planes off or veered away
from the fight when once in the
air
The pilots reported that anti
aircraft fire was light, and trailed
the American planes.
The main japanese base appeared
TO be about mile square, the pilots
said with scattered settlements in
surrounding areas. The airmen
observed an unusual huddle OF in
stallations resembling an old-time
fortress.
Many japanese fishing vessels in
adjacent waters indicated the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
Night Bombing Of Rome
Reported by Swiss Press

LONDON, July 81 tUP)-Several
incendiary and light bombs were
dropped in the Rome suburbs dur
ing a 65-minute air alarm today, a
Bern dispatch reported, but no
planes appeared over the city itself
A neutral sources, cut off at IL :03
p. IN. while telephoning Rome from
Bern, later re-established contact
with the Fascist capital and was
informed that the alarm ended
shortly after l p. m, a United
Press dispatch said.
There were no Allied reports of
a raid on Rome or its environs.
A Nazi broadcast coastal guns at
Bari in southeastern Italy had
beaten off the first Allied attempt
to land on the Italian mainland.
The alarm sounded only a little
more than 48 hours after more
than 500 American bomberS sub
jected the Italian capital to its first
air raid in history Monday. An
alert also was sounded Monday
night, but no raid developed
REPORTS RAID
Radio zeesen in Germany res
ported that Allied planes attacked
Rome last night, but it was pos
sible the station was referring to
an air alert sounded Monday
night, though no raid developed
then. Allied sources doubted Rome
would be raided by night because
of the difficulty of precision bomb
ing in darkness.
A Paris broadcast quoted Berlin
sources in reporting that British
troops had attempted a landing
near Bari, nearly $50 miles up the
! Adriatic coast of Italy. Coastal
batteries opposed the landing at
tempt and the venture proved a
complete failure" the broadcast
said.
AS usual, British official sources
declined to comment on the Axis
report. If landing actually was
attempted, it probably was more in
| the nature of reconnaissance
raid by commando troops than an
invasion attempt.
The British made several COM
mando raids on the italian Medi-
terranean island of LampeduSa be-
fore launching the offensive that
led to its capitulation last month.
ANTICIPATES INVASION
Bern dispatches revealed that
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
Capital Talk
-by-
Peter Edison
Peter Edison

the dust bowl blowing around
again.
Shall sugar beet acreage be reduc-
ed to increase potato, dry bean and
pea production? That might be
done if ships were availible to
bring more sugar from the tropics
Should cotton acreage be re-
duced for more peanut prOduc
ton? There's a law against re-
ducing cotton quotas, and it's a
problem to get enough peanut
harvesting machinery.
There, in over-simplified form,
you have the outlines of the bat
tle-ground for the war of food
production. Where is the acreage
to be found to grow all the food
that's needed for civilian consump-
ton, for the Army and Navy, for
Lend-Lease, for relief and re-
habilitation of occupied countries?
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
TO FILM BOOK

NEW YORK, July 81 CUP) -
Twentieth Century --Fox has pur
purchased film rights to Wendell
WILKES book, "One World" ac-
cording to Simon and Schuster,
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
Yanks Publish LIST
Paner in Sicily

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North
Africa, July 81 (UP) - The first
American newspaper has made its
bow in Sicily.
It's one-page sheet published
by the 45th Division of the U. S.
Seventh Army and called Dough-
boy News"
Sgt. Don Robinson of Oklahoma
City, is editor and Sgt. Bill Maud
lin, from Phoenix, Ariz., is car
tOOniSt.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
Editorials and Comment

vide a government monopoly in ship
building?
Or is it a crime for a man who has
proven himself as a superlative builder
to aspire to purchase, at full price, the
plant he has operated so successfully for
Uncle Sam?
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
Mind Your
Manners

Test your knowledge of correct
social usage by answering the
following questions. then check
ing against the authoritative
answers below:
l. Should guest ever make fun
of another guest when talking to
her hostess the day after a party?
2. If you go to a party where
someone suggests playing parior
game should you protest or fall In
with the plans?
3. If you are not sure whether
your hostess expects you to wear
a long or short dress Is 1T all right
to ask her?
q. If you are serving buffet
meal and there Is fowl to be
carved or ham to be sliced at the
table, may you ask good friend
to take over that job for you?
S. Is it necessary to have cam
dies on buffet supper table if the
table is crowded?
What would you do if
You entertain guests and one
leaves coat or some other per-
sonal belonging
(a) Return it?
(b) Wait and let him come
after it?
Answers
l. No.
g Fall in with the plans.
g. Yes.
4. Yes.
, S. No.
Better What Would You Do"
solution-(a'-if it is possible.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-21
Purumushiro RAID
Said Successful

enemy is making the most of the
great salmon run among the
Kurile islands and in Siberian
waters.
Evening star., 1943-12-13
Club de Jeudi
By Arfhur II. Deafe

There are good and bad cooks
among men as among women, but It
can be said for the four men who
make up the male membership Of
the Club de Jeudi (the Thursday
Night Club that each one of them
has In the year and . half Of the
clubs life become an example Of
what practice and care will accom-
plish.
Then again the success Of these
dinners, cooked invariably by the
husbands, lies in the sound selection
Of main dishes. They are we'll
within the realm Of ordinary anna
teur chef ability.
Last week the main dish was
tomato pot roast. Ahead Of 1t came
= lobster cocktail-two cans of lob
ster serving eight. With the pot
roast came spaghetti cooked In the
Italian manner and served with
grated cheese and sauce from the
roast.
A mixed green salad using . dress
ing Of one part red wine vinegar
and three parts olive oil with pepper
and salt maintained the Italian
atmosphere, and for dessert there
were broiled grapefruit from the
new and excellent crop now at hand.
Since it was matter of four weeks
since this couple had served a Club
de Jeudi dinner they had time to
save up a few stamps and came
into possession of = 4-pound eye
OF the round, one Of the finest cuts
for pot roasting,
Evening star., 1943-12-13

Got the absent boy-friend"
blues? Whip out your crochet hook
and make your self becoming new
hat. Here is one that will cheer
you up. 1t is a cute trick to finish
of the ruff1e with large beads If you
have an old string of them handy.
In addition to their decorative value,
they weigh the ruffle down and keep
it standing off from the crown Of
the hat.
Pattern envelope contains COM
plete easy-to-read and easy-to-fol-
low directions for the above.
Our 6o-page multicolored book OF
Needle Arts containing five free pat
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No. 2042 to Needle Arts Dept,
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Evening star., 1943-12-13

Taking long, slim and very sharp
knife, Sits were made with the
grain Of the meat. about an inch
apart, and into the Sits were pushed
strips Of bacon for larding. Then
this piece Of meat was put to soak
In q mixture consisting Of pint
Of tomato Juice, . spoonful of
Worcestershire sauce, . pinch Of dry
mustard, salt and pepper, . bay leaf
and = sliced onion. This marinated
for "A hours. Then the meat was
removed from the liquid and, using
bacon drippings, was fried to q rich
brown In an iron kettle. When 1t
was really brown on all sides the
marinating liquid was poured around
the meat and "pot-roasting" went
on for about four hours-until the
meat was entirely tender.
Gf you try this dish and 1t dries
out in pot-roasting add little hot
water from time to time, 80 that
at least about two cups Of sauce
are on hand at the finish.)
The following recipe was used for
making the cocktail sauce served
over the lobster meat which was
placed on lettuce which had first
been washed and shredded. For
eight, one cup catsup, half a cup
lemon Juice, two tablespoons Worces-
tershire sauce, two tablespoons
horseradish, eight drops tobasco
sauce, one teaspoon salt, a little
chopped onion and chopped celery
Spaghetti in the italian manner
Is cooked in huge kettle OF boiling
water with . little salt in it. The
spaghetti is put in without break
ing into bits. If too long, suspend
one end In the boiling water until
1t softens and then fold in the othe,
end. Cooking takes IL to 1s min
utes, depending on the spaghetti
Test with the thumbnail. When i,
is tender, 1t Is done. Drain in a col.
lander.
At this point some cooks return
the spaghetti to the kettle or put II
into a serving dish. I am a hereto
so let cold water run over 1t for q
few minutes and wash OF all the
starch. While that is going on ]
drop all the butter I can spare into
the kettle and, over low heat, let
the butter melt.
Sometimes, if I have extra good
sauce. and plenty Of it, pour a cup
ful Of sauce into the kettle and make
the spaghetti a lovely pink color
Spaghetti Is really lovely thing.
Broiled grapefruit are quick and
easy to do. Fix the halves as for
usual serving, having them ice cold
Spread the tops with butter Just
soft enough to move along. Then
sprinkle rather heavily with brown
sugar or maple sugar. And then
right smack into the hottest possible
broiler, with the sugared surface
close to the flame In few minutes
the butter and sugar have taken on
a crusty surface and the dish is
ready to serve, with the grapefruit
SO surprised it didn't think about
getting hot itself.
Evening star., 1943-12-13

This is not the year for elaborate
gift giving at Christmas, but time
to make your house live up to al
you have ever expected Of It. Plan
now, to do all the odds and ends of
arranging and refurbishing so that
during the holidays you may be
free to open your house to your
friends and make it pleasant for the
family.
Instead Of the big Christmas party
that is more or less traditional 1t
would be better this year to plan
q series of afternoons or evenings
to gather your friends about you.
There are many newcomers in
Washington, as well as many serv-
ice men on furlough or invalided,
who will not be able to get home
for Christmas. Invite q few
strangers to come to your house to
meet your friends. In spite Of ration
ing it is still possible to arrange
afternoon teas, buffet suppers or
Sunday breakfasts without too much
strain, and the holiday week may
be memorable, as an opportunity for
refreshing old friendships and max
ing new ones.
If you have an attractive dining
room with large fireplace you have
the perfect foil for late, lazy Sun
day breakfast. Invite your friends
In groups from II o'clock until 2.
Set the dining table as buffet. Old
fashioned country breakfast, with a
backbone of pancakes aid sirup will
entice the busiest acquaintances
from far and near. With various
members of the family manning"
the wafie iron and the griddle-
with iced fruit juice and glasses on
a convenient tray. and self service
the order of the day, you may I'LL
the house with Christmas spirit and
good friendship.
If the late afternoon is the hap
piest time Of day and the living room
the most attractive room In the
house high tea for six good friends
may be happy occasion. AS the main
point Of this Is a real visit with
seldom seen friends it should not
be one of those affairs where you
balance a tea cup on plate while
you wander about munching q wisp
Of a sandwich. Cover . large tea
table with your incest cloth. Tall
candles and flowers should be part
Of the scene. Plan to have your
friends draw up to the table and
whether tea or coffee is served, sur
prise them with scones, tarts, turn
overs and all the old-fashioned
goodies which characterized the tea