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Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
THEY'VE GOT HEADLINITiS
Jacksonville Register-Pai iaronian)

(NdlSonNllle heSlSlef-fa afOnlan)
The Picayune used to be a copper coin
worth a fraction of a cent. it has long
been obsolete, out its name still is used
to describe what is petty, paltry, mean.
Picayunish does not describe with COM
plete accuracy the petty, mean activities
of some members of congress, because
Ine picayunaS were not vicious.
Such episodes as representative Lam
bertSOn'S attack upon the Roosevelt boys
military records, Representative Taber's
criticism of the owl 5 Roosevelt cartoon
book, Representative Cooley'S alarm
about wooden guns atop the house office
building, are both petty and vicious.
The Presidents sons have made good
officers. and deserve that respect which
we pay to all good fighting men Con-
gresham LambertSon was out of bounds
when he permitted his dislike for the
Presidents policies to slop over as stab
in-the-back criticism of the four boys.
Congressman Taber has been around
long time, and knows that the President
of the United States symbolizes to the
whole world the might and the will of
American democracy. If part of the
American electorate disagrees with the
Roosevelt philosophy of domestic gov
6IHlileHl Ildl Is ITO TedSOIl WHY we SHOulQ
refrain from capitalizing, in global war,
upon the fact that to our allies, no neu-
trails, to the conquered people of Europe
Franklin Roosevelt personifies militant
democracy about to become triumphant.
If Congressman Cooley really was wor-
ried about wooden guns and wooden men
defending his person, why didn't he take
the matter up quietly with the war de-
partment? If he has been in North Afri-
ca, and discovered that wooden guns
and tanks were deceiving Rommel while
the genuine weapons were being sneaked
around to smite the Nazis Unexpectedly
from elsewhere would he have felt i'm
pel'ad to get onto the radio and tell Rom
mel?
The most charitable explanation for
such petty, harmful actions is that these
congressman are victims of headlnitis
"a far from rare disease that becomes
Vrulent when politicians have not seen
their names in headlines for a few days
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
YES NO JUDGES
Grass Valley Union)

California thought it had happened
upon a clever system for the election of
judges of the appellate and supreme
vice which appears on the ballot. But
gradually, it has been dawning upon
the people that back of the simple ges-
ture turks a life-term for judges; or, in
the remote chance of one being deposed
by the mo" vote, the multiplying of the
elective system. The governor on such
event. would merely start another end
less chain. Under the process few if any
Judges Of the higher courts in California
actually serve by grace of the people.
Now the LEGISLATURE has taken cogniz-
ance of the situation and remedial legis-
lation is proposed. But the chances are
that the Eyes" and mo- will cling for
numerous wears to come
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
Koreans Lay Claim
To Cherry Trees

WASHINGTON, april l (Up)-
The Korean-AmoricGn council TO-
day urged Secretary OF Interior
Harold L. Ickes to render unto
Korea the things that are Ko-
rean."
That was tie councils way of
asking Ickes that the cherry trees
in the capital be known henceforth
as Korean cherry trees" instead of
japanese cherry trees"
In a letter to Ickes, the council
said that the trees were 'ravished
originally from Korea by the Jap
anese." 1t recalled that it had
submitted proof last year that
the place of origin of the trees was
Korea, but added that it was now
astonished to learn that your de-
partment proclaims pontifically
they should be known as oriental
Towering cherry trees"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO ELECTORS OF
IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
INSTRUCT

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN BY
rHE IMPERIAL IRRIGATION
DISTRICT under and pursuant to
The provisions of Section 4c OF the
Statutes of 1915, page l, as amend
ad. of the intention of the 1mpe-
.ial Irrigation District to make
md enter into a cont act IN Writ-
.n2 with the United States OF Amer
Ca relative to the furnishing ana
disposal of electric energy to be
hereafter generated by the Imperial
Irrigation District and that SAID
proposed contract has been spread
upon the minutes of the Board OF
Directors of the Imperial Irrigation
District and that the nature oil sald
agreement, the consideration there
ior, the date that said agreement
is to be effective and a brief sum-
mary of the contents thereon are
as follows:
Said agreement is a contract be-
tween the United States of Ameri-
ca and tie Imperial Irrigation DIS
trict for the purchase of surplus
electric energy by the Government
of the United States from Imperial
Irrigation District.
The consideration therefor is that
| tie United States is to pay TO thY
Imrerial l rigation District for tR7e
electric energy delivered pursuant
to this agreement at a schedule of
rates as more particularly set forth
in pa agraph 9 of said proposed
contract. reference to which is here
o. mGde and which is hereby in
.orrorated by reference.
The date that said contract is
to become effective is ninety days
from and afte. the first publication
OF this notice.
That a summary of the contents
of said agreement is as follows:
Tlat the United States OF America
! owns and operates a power system
| throughout the Lower Colorado Riv-
er area in Arizona, California and
Nevada and Imperial Irrigation Dis
trict owns and operates power
system in California and may have
surplus electric energy available
frcm its generating stations. That
the two systems are inter-connected
near Drop 4 on the All Ame lean
Canal. That said agreement is
! made in conjunction with a con-
tract of 1910 between the parties
which contract provides for the
delivery of electric energy by the
United States to the Imperial r.
Iigation District That after the
District has supplied its own pres
ent and future requirements the
District may deliver to the United
States electric energy at times and
in amounts as requested, from sur
Plus power had ut schedule of
rates provided for in said para
graph 8 cf said agreement.
That the term of said contract is
until ninety days after the cessa-
tion of hostilities of the present
war.
Dated this 3Oth day of March,
l943.
IMPERIAL. IRRIGATION
DISTRICT
BY Evan i. Hewes ~(Sgd)
President. ..sef
BY G.. l.. Dermody (Sgd)
Assistant Secretary.
District SeaD
mo. SD tAl-6 inco
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
GL0RlfylNG
YOURSELF
BY ALICIA HART
NEA Staff Writer

In yo,,r wartime thinking about.
and doing housekeeping, you
might consider a good bottle of
hand lotion every bit as essential
as soap Put it down on your shop
ping list, and keep it in your closet
with cleaning equipment. Then,
the lotion will go right along with
your washing pail, anG that will
overcome automatically one of the
prime beauty hazards of house
cleaning.
You know about housekeeping
and beauty. If ever you washed
dishes (and who hasn't by noWO
you have experienced the harsh
effect of soap, however good, and
plain water on your hands. You've
also learned that Softening, lu-
bricating lotion mends the appear
ance of your hands. The only point
is, you forget to keep the bottle
handy. Well, just settle that now
by putting it down on your clean
ing list
Soap will serve you as a beauty
aid too Before you start heavy
task, dig your nails into bar of
soap: this will prevent dirts work
ing into the skin, and save your
hands looks, as well as your time.
British women. three years prac-
tically without help at home, still
have hand lotion and they list it
next to lipsLick among essential
wartime beauty aids. For them, a
fine toiletries house developed
new hand cream, palest pink in
color, refreshingly fragrant, and
an efficient restorative for house
cleaning hands. This is one of
many good lotions which are avail
able in America now.
In case you do have help at
home, keep the lotion handy for
her also. It's a token of considera-
ton that will help keep her happy.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
LET'S SUSPEND THE
'FULL-CREW LAW

The war must be won as soon as pos
sible. Every minute that it unnecessarily
! rogresses adds to the cost in American
ives. And yet the length of the war
has increased right here in California
by delay in the flow of materials to in
tended destinations on the battlefrorts.
Unlike delays in the past this has not
been caused by a strike or Il work stop
page, as some prefer them to be called
1t has been caused by an outmoded law
of our own state-the "full-creW' law
which regulates our railroads.
This law makes it necessary for trains
to be manned by a certain number OF
brakemen, according to the number of
cars and the grades over which they
must travel. Unless this designated
number of brakemen is on the train 1t
cannot leave for its destination, even
though it be carrying planes for Mae
Arthur or rifles for the men on Guadal-
canal.
If the question of safety of train and
cargo were involved it would perhaps
be advisable to keep the trains fully
manned. But experience has proved
over a long period of time that far fewer
brakemen are actually needed than the
number which must ride the rails by our
law.
During the time that the marines were
fighting their hardest to Wrest the Solo
mons from the enemy, trains were held
up thousands of travel hours on Califor-
mia rail lines
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
Colorado May
Turn Back Clocks:

DENVER, April l tUP) = Colo
ado MAJ return to mountain stand
lrd tine in rlace of the present day
light savings or war time under
plans now being studied by GOV.
John c. Vivian.
Cove nor Vivian disclosed he had
asked the attorney general for rul-
ing as to whether he had the au-
hority to turn back the CLOCKS IN
he state on2 kour after petition
)earing the names OF some 3oo
dams county farme s asking the
harge was presented to him.
These people, all of them farm
Is, said that under mountain war
.ime they get up in the dark and
'ose daylight hours late in the day
the Republican governor SAID
Farming should be done by the
sun and not by some time idea from
Washington"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
WE
the Women
By RUTH MILLETT

1t seems as though bunch of
women can't work together without
some squabhliHg-even when they
are working for SO important and
unselfish a cause as volunteer war
work.
There is frequently dissatisfac-
ton among the workers with the
way the supervisors run things.
Well, there are two sides to the
question. The women who sew or
make surgical dressings shouldnt !
demand to be handled with kid
gloves. Nor should they ever de-
eide that because they don't ike
so-and-so and the way she is run
ming things they will just give up
their volunteer work. They don't
spite anyone but destitute war rel'I
ugees and American boys in the
front lines when they decide 10
strike"
On the other hand, the women
who take on supervisory jobs ought
to exercise all the tact they pos
sess. For they are working with
human beings, who aren't much
more noble in war than in peace
time.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

At the moment we've coSmic strug-
gle on our hands. Even apart from the
fact that we wish to keap gossip from
aiding the enemy wouldn't this be
grand time to keep our thoughts on the
Hush" placards, and put part of
that conserved energy into pourinq out
ships and shells rather than sound?
-Channing Pollock author and lecturer.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
PEOPLE REMAIN PEOPLE

So, it is a mistake for leader
in any kind of volunteer work to
AXE the attitude that since the
cause is noble-the people who are
doing it don't require gentle nam
ding.
If you are leader, be as TACT
.ul in your criticisms and as gen.
lie in giving orders as you know
how to be. = you, don't know how
earn how
If YOU are a woIEer cont go
lround looking for hurt feelings.
And if you do get your feelings
lmt-forget it. 1t really isn't I'M
Jortant.
The only important thing is that
he work gets done.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
MODERN MENUS

because of salad oil.
To add protein to the luncheon
salad bowl (the main course), add
leftover baked beans or cooked
dried beans, thin strips of left
over cooked meat or chicken, slic-
ed hard-cooked eggs, or cooked
soybeans. flaked cooked fish, or
cream cheese. Serve whole-wheat
toast, bran mullins, rye bread or
other whole-gain products to add
protein to the meal.
A salad luncheon seems more sat-
isfying if begun by cup of hot
soup. Keep all scraps of meat and
vegetables and gravy for these
luncheons and soon you'll have a
supply of your own tasty recipes
But remember, the leftovers used
for SOUP stock must be kept well
refrigerated. Slightly spoiled food
never made good soup.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
she She SHOPS
cash AND CARRY
Without Painful Backache

Many sufferers relieve nagging backachee
quickly, once they discover that, the real
cause Of their trouble may be tired kidneys.
The kidneys are Natures chief way OF TAX
ing the excess acids and waste out of the
blood. They help most people pass about 3
pints day.
When disorder of kidney function permits
poisonous matter to remain in your blood, 1T
leg pains, loss OF pep and energy. getting up
nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes.
headaches and dizziness. Frequent or scanty
passages with smarting and burning some
times shows there is something wrong with
your kidneys or bladder.
Don't waitl Ask your druggist for Doan's
Pills, used successfully by millions for over
40 years. They give happy relief and will help
the IL miles Of kidney tubes flush out poison
GUS waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
Navy Announces
New Ki!ska Raids

WASHINGTON Anril 1.-tUP)-
Three ro"e air attacks cn Japanese
bases in the hlputians end another
on Mund9 in the Solomons were
announced todav hv the Navy.
Two of the Aleutian attacks were
made on Kiska and the third en-
Eoltz Bay, Attu island. These at
tacks, all on Tuesday, increased to
80 the number Of raids made Oh
KiSka during March.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
\ Rise
= ! O
Y e nm ork'
BY JOR>r PHILLIPS, NJ. C.

The Smithsonian Institute is not
generally accused of deliberate
humor, but the current catalog of
government publications lists, for
that Institute, q booklet on Cole
optera" (beetles to YOU and next
on the list a booklet on japanese" d"
Apparently the Japs are Insects at
the Smithsonian, and rightly so,
I'd say.
There are two hot issues before
US now. both of which | should rise
70 remark about in this column.
One is the y-as-you-go plan of
taxation, sometimes called the
Ruml plan, sometimes other things
.ess printable. 1t is very eompli-
Gated, and emphasizes more than
ever the problem before any legis-
lator, state or national. The people
at home talk and write about
theories, and the legislator must
therefore choose the bill which
most nearly approaches the theory
he supports or the plan in which
his people believe.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
NON-FICTION

A Time For Greatness, Herbert
Agar; Let the People Know, Nor
man Angel; Barriers Down, Kent
Cooper; On Being Real Person,
Harry Emerson Fosdick; George
Gershwins Song Book; Mr.. Pitts
and Americas Birthright, j. c..
Lcng; The Long Road Home, John
Moody; "Bushido", Alexandra Per-
nikoff; Insect Invaders, Anthony
Standen; Behind the Japanese
Mask. Jesse Steiner; Tokyo Record,
Otto D. Tolischus.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The foiioIDing edit.
0riais are presented as interesting 0p'n.
IONS COiced 6g editors elsewhere. Theu
do not necessarily reflect the opinion ~
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
8 LAUNCHINGS SLATED

SAN FRANCISCO, April 1.-CUP)
Eight new naval vessels will be
launched in the first four days of
April at San Francisco Bay area
shipyards, with the christening of
the destroyer USS the Sullivans
here Sunday climaxing the pro-
gram.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
TOMORROW'S MENU

Breakfast: SteWed rhubarb, oat-
meal griddle cakes, syrup or mo-
lasses, toast, coffee. milk.
Luncheon: Hot rice tomato soup
in cups, croutons, large bowl of
mixed green's, leftover beans and
French dressing, whole-wheat muf-
fins, margarine, cup custard, tea,
milk.
Dinner: Creamed white fish with
green peppers, baked potatoes, but
tered carrots, bread, butter or for
titled margarine, lettuce and Gel
cry salad, apple brown Betty tea
milk.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
ONE OUT OF ID

California has a record of being first
in lust about everything and tie fact
that it is one Of only "A states having
a 'full-crew" law would seem to indicate
it has maintained its precedent. But this
time it's not an accomplishment at which
we can point with pride.
Under the law, which was passed 30
wears ago before extensive improvements
in railway equipment and roadbedS had
been made. it is necessary for at least
two brakemen to be on every freight
train. Every train of more than 80 cars
in length must have three brakemen.
And if the train travels over a track
which slopes at more than one and less
than one and half per cent grade an
additional brakeman must be employed
for each % cars If the grade is more
than one and one half per cent for more
than one-half mile an extra brakeman
must be employed for every Is cars over
go
Like every other industry the railroads
have been hard hit by the drafting of its
men, so that now, since freight transpor-
tation is at its highest peak in the history
of the nation, there are lust not enough
men to go around. That's the reason for
the unwarranted delay of trains.
There is only one answer to the prob
lem and that's to suspend the existing
law so that trains carrying war materials
may go with fewer men.
A bill recently introduced to the Cali
fornia legislature would suspend the sec
ton of the law recurring more than two
brakemen until after the war.
However we'ra not so sure that it
wouldn't be a good idea TO suspend that
section of the labor code forever, for
with better eouipment and lines. freight
could travel just as we'll after the war
without extra men as during it.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
THAT'S SITUATION

This is the Ruml plan situation
We have two main bills and many
amendments. I shall vote for a
pay-aS-you-go plan; I shall vote
:or the best amendment to prevent
creating wealth in wartime; I shall
vote to impose the least burden on
the smaller taxpayers, and then on
the final vote I shall vote for the
bill which, after the verbal battles
are over, best approaches these
ends.
The most interesting news at the
moment is about the start Of ar
effort to crystalline the feeling Of
the people ON postwar agree
ments. Four senators introduced a
resolution; twenty-siX of the new
Republicans, fresh from contacts
with their people, say, in much
more dignified language, Go to it
gentlemen, we're with you" How
many people in the United States
today, really know what is meant
w the Atlantic Charter" or by the
trade treaties or the -Four Free
doms or the postwar agreements
already being made among the ma
lions of this world? Is the United
States to be greeted, as it has after
ether wars, with the familiar greet
ing Cf Tex Guinan in her night
club; Hello. sucker!" These 26
men and women, and I'm one of
them, want TO know now what this
victory will bring the world and
what it will bring the United
States; we want to know if we az
to have some postwar fancifu'
world order. o" postwar practic?l
rOlice to handle intornqtionol pano-
sters, Just as we handle lo"a' par"-
sters il the self-respe"ting COM
nH'rities. I want self-repecting
world 9gGin.
MAKING TPEATJEs
Even in the heat OF War, and
v'th the nati"rs at grips with The
CncrNv some OF the rotione Nro
mating treaties arorg themselves,
and more than one nation is o0en-
ly or quietly look'no towards 9d
ditiors to its own territorv for pro
lection. or for numerical advan-
taee. The situation here is corr
r'i""ted at the moment by the fact
that prominent and weld
travelled Republican, reading tho
senate resolution, hastilH iun'~od
or the bandwagon, so that the
rcsolUtiOn'S onDCnerts nov cAargt
hiro with initiating il.
These things I promise to wri-o
about, or if ] can get homo sho"tl"
even on a quick trim. to talk about
for if we are to understand the
issues of today, we must understand
the DETAILS, and the forces at
work, for and against the issues
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
NEW BOOKS
FICTION

The Yellow Over'Oat Sterhen
Acre; Jake Home, Ruth McKenney;
Men From Nowhere, Jean Mala-
quais; Turning Leaves, Ellen Proc
tor; Pardon and Peace, Hilda
Vaughan.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01

Freedom IS not d thing that can be
imposed from without. It can onlv be
created from within,--Capt. Eddie Rick
enbacker.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01
5. Burton Heath
Writes:

AS writer H. G.. Wells must be
taken seriously. AS a prophet,
sometimes he is inclined to take in
too much territory like the bar-fly
who annoulced his ability to lick
any Son-of -a-gun in the world and
discovered that he was boaSting to
John l. Sullivan.
Mr.. Wells expresses a profound
conviction that the newspaper is
as dead as mutton and that it will
never come back" We have no
equivalent authority as to English
journals, but we Suggest-too late,
of course that the eminent au-
thor should have consulted the 1913
Editor and Publisher Year Book be-
fore he committed himself in such
sweeping terms.
In the United States Our dead
as mutton" newspapers enjoyed in
1912 the greatest circulation in
their history. Gaping an unbroken
year-by-year advance that began
in 1885 AS 1874" ended, morning
and evening newspapers were SELL
ing more than 100000 copies
daily. This represented an increase
of 100000 eve" their p"e-War to-
tai
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01

This nation must decide to take the
lead now in the formation of system
of collective security. If we wait until
we "raturn to normalcy'' as we did in
1920. futility and sadness will be the
onlv reward for our efforts.-Rep. J. w.
Fulbright of Arkansas.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01

That Coes not suggest anything
resembling death 1t would seem
to indicate enormous vitality, par
ticularlv since many newspapers. to
meet skvrocketing costs. found it
necessary to increase sales prices.
It is Mr.. Wellss idea that after
the war we shall dial NEWS or
our telephones and listen then to
a summary of what has been hap
pening in the last two or three
hours
This is entirely possible. If the
telephone company needs a bit of
needing about establishing such a
service newspapers might encour-
9ge and assist them. A telephone
bulletin news service might do ex-
actly what radio news bulletins
have done-Whet public appetite for
news of the day.
Many newspaper publishers suf-
fered most of the pangs OF death
when the radio tegan broadcaSting
news. They feared the lightning
speed Of this competitor" 1t de-
veloped, however. that the radio was
neWsboY crying headlines and
telling listeners why they should
rush out and buy papers.
The daily newspaper has its
faa.ts, Individual and collective.
The wise editor never let's a day
pass without seeking to better his
service to his readers. Neverthe-
less, there is no medium of news
distribution that can rival the
newspaper for combined speed, &C
curacy. completeness and impair
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-01

tiality.
Does this sound boastful? Sorry,
but it's how we feel.