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Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
THE LAST WORD IN
INCOME TAX MUDDLES

We have before us a 60-page pamphlet,
or booklet issued by the bureau of inter-
nal revenue headed Your Federal In
come Tax We are able to decipher
enough of it to know that it relates to
the filing Of income tax returns between
now and March Is. This conclusion
was reached after perusing the table of
contents which covers Sd subject Think
ing we were doing right well with what
universally is declared the most cruel
and undecipherable" tax tangle ever
wished upon a taX-suffering public, we
abiectly surrendered when it was set out
that "other issues" will be Forthcoming
when congress completes the pending tax
measure.
Since the people passed the amend
ment to the constitution inaugurating in
come taxes it seems that the taxing au-
thorities have made a special study of
comphcating the whole business of in
come tax declarations and this one would
appear to be the last straw.
Just why the lawmakers and the treas
ury should make one of the most uni
versal contacts between the government
and the people SO distasteful and SO inn
possible has yet to be explained. Much
is made of the horrors of taxes. The
people like to joke about the subject,
but as a whole the American people DO
not fight taxes. But this attitude is be-
ing broken down rapidly by the absurd,
impracticable and impossible laws.
The declaration of incomes now due
is nothing short of bid for lawbreak-
ers, tax lodging 1t certainly breeds
disgust with the whole income tax busi-
ness if not pure contempt.
We confess to inability to do much with
figures. But in this income tax filing,
everybody is in the same boat. The
bright boys in the treasury department;
the passel of professors lowering about
Washington, heralded as top-notchers in
economies and what not, admit being as
helpless as the average person IN inter-
preting their own handiwork. To over
come this admission, the revenue depart
ment is establishing training classes Tor
the army of assistants, who in the end,
of course, will make out the majority
of the returns, and you and | will just
have to practice blind faith and pummle
up. The funny part of this instruction
class business is who does the instruct
ing? We don't know, but if we find out
we will pass it along.
And we are Just mad enough to pre-
dict that the forthcoming tax measure
will hand out worse mess than ever,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
capitaI Talk
-by-
Peter Edison

the imposition of maximum prices
below existing levels might stop all
sales, which would be disastrous.
Similarly. there are no definite
plans for forcing the sale of cars by
non essential drivers still on the
road under an A gas ration. And
only the gravest emergency would
cause any effort to be made for
government requisition of cars from
non-C essential drivers.
Gasoline rationing has definitely
heightened car and tire life by
cutting down the average car mile
age from 5000 to less than 5000
miles per year But military de-
mands for gasoline are still increas-
ing, leaving less and less for civil
ian uses. There have been threats
from Ickes, BoWles and others th/
gas rationS might have to be
further cut if war emergency de-
Yelops. Certainly gas rations will
not be increased.
The gas ration system, in fact
offers the one most effective means
for policing the entire auto trans
portation crisis, saving it from
breakdown by limiting it to essen
tialS
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
FDR RECASTS JEKYLL-
HYDE ROLE

(Riverside Daily Press by Guest Editor)
Washington correspondents must be
hardy lot to INCEST what is handed out
in presidential interviews these days
In the latest Allce-in-W Onderland tale,
the President recounted the accomplish
ments of "Old Doctor New Deal, who
cured the nation of some thirty-odd ills;
but the patient being still sick, and the
nation now being at war, he asserts we
must call in "Doctor-W r-Wm-the-War.
He did not say so, but the inference is
plain that Observation-Disclosures ar Wall leave
the patient with worse complications
still. and Doctor Observation-Disclosures
will be called in. Undoubtedly President
Roosevelt thinks of himself as the actor
made up for these various roles, ana
the thought suggested to the cores
pondentS was that the President intended
to stand for fourth term What bright
boys they are,
What happened was that Doctor New
Deal was an advertising mcdlco who tout
ed his nostrumS eXtraVagantly, kept the
patient in bed for eight years, whereas
other patients recovered from like Ills
in much less time Doctor New Deal
was bankrupt of remedies when the new
disease, war, broke out and covered up
his mistakes. The old fellow simply
changed his disguise and now passes
himself off as Doctor Win-the-War. lie
will next turn up in a new outfit as Doc
tor Postwar DECENTRALIZATION
The situation is not unlike a story
current in the Mississippi valley many
wears ago about an old country quack
who was called to treat very stubborn
ailment that he could neither diagnose
nor dislodge. At last he told the anxious
family. well, tell you what I'm agoin
to do I'm a-goin' to throw him into
fit. I'm hell on fits
SO Doctor New Deal Win : the War
Postwar-Rehabilitatio throws the coun-
try into one fit after the other and has
just about made his living off one patient
for the past ten years. It's time to
change doctors. This one has an emer-
gency complex.
The Washington correspondents are
not telling US anything when they say
that old Doc New Deal wants to stay on
the job He is a political doctor, and
his discard of the New Deal costume is
decidedly crafty He will not lose any
of his old New Deal patients because
they know him and feel assured he will
still pass out the old pills but in his new
makeup the old Doc will fool lot of
credulous people.
A man like the old Doc, whose total
earned income in the course of his life
time has come from the public payroll,
must necessarily regard an custer much
the same as the rest of US regard death,
the supreme sacrifice, and end OF 1t all.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO
ENGAGE IN THE SALE OF
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

December 3lSt, l943.
Notice is hereby given that fiji
teen days after the date posted
the undersigned proposes to sell
alcoholic beverages at these prem
iseS, described as follows:
S/E Cor Hwy. 80 g. Ash Canal
HOltville, AZ Mi. w of
Pursuant to such intention, the
undersigned is applying to the State
Board of Equalization for issuance
of an alcoholic beverage license Tor
licenses for these premises as fol-
lows:
On-Salc Beer and Wine
On-Salc Distilled Spirits
Anyone desiring to protest the
issuance of such license (s) may
file a verified protest with the
State Board of Equalization at Sac
ramento, California, stating grounds
for denial as provided b. law. The
premises are now licensed for
the sale of alcoholic beverages.
FRANK VAN DER LINDEN.
(No. 00) Jan. y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO
ENGAGE IN THE SALE OF
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

January 5tn, 1874.
Notice is hereby given that fiji
teen days after the date posted,
the undersigned proposes to sell
beverages at these premises, de-
scribed as follows:
PIT SO. Fourth St.,
El Centre.
Pursuant to such intention, the
undersigned is applying to the State
Board of Equalization for issuance
of an alcoholic beverage license COR
licenses) for these premises as fol-
lows:
ON-SALE BEER
Anyone desiring to protest the
issuance of such license (s) may
file a verified portest with the
State Board of Equalization at
Sacramento, California, st tt
grounds for denial as provided by
law. The premises are not now
licensed for the sale OF alcohollc
beverages.
JOSEPH r. SLOVAK.
(No, 00D (Jan, y
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
Bricker Launches
Drive in Detroit

DETROIT. Jan. 7 up Gov
ernor John w. Bricker Of Ohio
launched his drive for the Republi-
can presidential nomination Friday
with a bristling attack upon the
New Deal and an assertion that
win the war became the motto
of every real American when the
japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
The three-term Ohio executive,
addressing a cheering throng of l.
900 Wayne county Detroit Re-
publicans, took cognizance of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's recent statement
favoring substitution of win the
war" slogan for the term New
Deal, first used by Mr.. Roosevelt
in 1882.
Every American citizen today
has The right to resent any political
leadership hat assumes to take
unto itself credit for winning the
war" Brickcr said. "Thc motto
win the war became the motto OF
every real American on December
7th. l941, and it must be the motto
Of all until the day of victory is
here"
In his first speech to a political
group since he announced his cam
didacy for the Republican nomina-
ton, Bricker denounced New Deal
"inefficiency" and declared a Re-
publican victory this year will as
sure US here at home that no one
party or office holder is indispens-
able
This war" he asserted, cannot
be fought or won upon the New
Deal defeatist philosophy of ma
ture economy. If our armed forces
had no more faith in self-govern-
ment than our political leaders
have shown in the last 10 years, We
would not today be winning the
war
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
SOUNDS WARNING

Senator LaFollette, Progressive, SOL
emnly warns congress and the nation
that another world war will be bred and
come within 20 years unless speedy steps
are taken now to feed starving peoples
of occupied Europe. Senator Bob is hard
ly the right person to get response from
the administration. Others better quail
fled than the Wisconsin senator have
been sounding this warning for long
time. Perhaps some one near enough to
the powers that be will get around to it
one of these days. In the meantime,
where is Mr.. Lehman?
We have got the JapS beaten but we
have to keep pushing. The Japs had
Jungle training long before the war and
we didn't But the Japs are restricted
and lack variation Our great advantage
is our enterprise and resOurcefulnesS.
Gen. George c. Marshall.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
G0P Leaders Call
On Warren to
Seek Presidency

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 7 tUPD -
Gov. Earl Warren Friday promised
quick answer to request OF
state Republican groups that he be
a candidate in the state presidential
primary next May, but it was con-
Sidered possible the answer may not
be direct commitment to run.
The governor announced receipt
of letter signed by officers of all
statewide Republican groups in
California asking that he allow a
delegation pledged to him to be
placed on the MAY ballot.
Warren has said. repeatedly he is
not a candidate for president Oh
vice president, but there was little
doubt here that he would silently
or openly consent to be nominal
candidate in the election.
The campaign plan for election
of a Warren slate was indicated by
the letter, which said in part:
"In urging you to allow your
name to be thus presented, we
respect your reiterated statement
! that you are neither a candidate
for the presidency or vice presi-
dency of the United States. We are
not urging you to change that
position We are asking that you
permit the Republicans Of Cali
fornia to select delegation which
in our opinion will be most repre-
sentative of the best interests oi
our state and nation
The letter was signed by the Re-
publican acting national committee
man for the state, and by Officers
of the state party central com
mittee,. the council of Republican
women. the California Republican
assembly and the state Young Re-
publican organization.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

There is no evidence on the front line
that we are a soft people.-Col. Albert S.
j. Stovall, back from the Mediterranean.
Attacking cOeducation as cause Of
juvenile delinquency is so much tomfool-
cry. The attack should be leveled against
those schools which separate boys and
girls and keep them from normal daily
associations.-Dr Clifford r. Adams,
Pennsylvania State College.
In two years of warfare we should
have learned that evidence, not prophesy,
makes public opinion and cndowS it with
the SineW necessary to endure what may
comc.-E. Palmer HOyt of OWL.
Today we march with a lightened bur-
den, as many of us have nothing more to
losc.-Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul
Joseph GOebbels.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
TOSCANINI FINISHES
"UYMN OF NATIONS"

NEW YORK, Jan. 7. CUP) -
Arturo Toscanini 76-ycar-old con-
ductor has completed motion
picture of Verdi's Hymn OF the
Nations for the overseas division
of the Owl, it was learned Friday.
ToScanini, who turned down a
Hollywood offer of $250,000 for one
picture three years ago, donated his
services in the hope the film, which
will be shown abroad, would de-
liver another blow to the Fascist
leaders, whom he always has OPP
| posed.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
s. Burton Heath
Writes:

Liberties Union that the Supreme
Court was wrong not to review the
conviction of 18 Trotskyites for
sedition in connection with adj
yocacy of forcible revolution.
But whereas the ACLU thinks the
Supreme Court should have heard
an appeal in order to find the
'edition act unconstitutional. we
wish that the court had heard the
case in order to affirm the laws
conStitutionality.
Free speech is priceless. But ad-
vocacy of violent instruction Of
lends every concept of conStitu-
tional democracy, and does not
seem to us to have or deserve the
proper guarantees that are APP
plicable to free speech otherwise.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
PRESIDENT ROUNDS OUT
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. (UP) -
President Roosevelt cancelled his
regular Friday morning press and
radio conference, remaining in his
residential quarters to continue
work on his state of the nation
message to congress.
Virtually recovered from his at
tack of grippe, the president sched-
uled an appointment with budget
director Harold Smith,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
TYPE OF SHOES SELLS
FREE OF COUPONS

Retailers will be allowed, accord
ing to the office of price admins
tration, between January II and
29th, to put on sale not over 10
per cent of the shoe stocks as re-
ported in their inventory of last
September 80, ration free. The re-
striction is this, that those shoes
do not retail for more than So per
pair. Shoes for which over So per
pair is charged will require shoe
stamps as usual.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
M piod

ESTATE OF JAGAT SINGH,
DECEASED.
Notice is hereby given by the un-
dersigned, BISHAN SINGH as eX-
ecutor of the estate of Jagat Singh.
deceased, to the creditors of and
all persons having claims against
the said deceased, that within six
months after the first publication
Of this notice they either file them
with the ncccSSarT vouchers in the
,ffice of the Clerk of the Superior
Court of the State of California.
in and for the County of Imperial.
or exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers to the said BiShan Singh,
as Executor of said estate, at the
office of d. B. Roberts, Bank OF
America Bldg, Ell Centre, Califor-
MIA, the same being the place for
he transaction of the business OF
She said estate in the County OF
Imperial, State OF California.
Dated at Ell Centre, California,
his 5th day of January, 1914.
BISHAN SINGH,
Executor of the Estate oil
JAGAT SINGH,
Deceased.
mo. 81 (J7-14-21- -28)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
OPh ANNOUNCES RULING
ON SPARE STAMPS

Spare Stamp No. 2 i'll war ra-
ton books four may be used for the
purchase of five points, not pounds,
worth of fresh pork or sausage un-
til Saturday, January Is, the OPh
office advised Friday. This new
stamp, unlike its predecessor spare
stamp one, may NOT be used for
buying smoked or cured pork such
as ham or bacon.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
Pack Scouts Map
Saturday Meet

An Achievement Council for Boy
Scout Pack IT'S will be held at the
Harding School Saturday night,
January 8, according to Shields
Charlton, Cubmaster. The renewal
of the Cub charter under the spon-
sorship of the Ell Centre Rotary
club will also take place. Parents
are expected to attend.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
PRESS FLIERS' SEARCH

LAS VEGAS, New, Jan. 7. CUP)
Soldiers from the Las Vegas army
air base were organized into
search parties Friday in an at
tempt to rescue two members of a
FLYING Fortress crew who were be-
lieyed lost in the Sheep mountains,
80 miles from here. Eleven of the
l3 men aboard the plane were res
cued yesterday after they had spent
two nights and a day on the sub
zero mountain slopes. All were suf-
fering from exposure and exhaus-
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
SOCIAL SECURITY

An interesting report is Just issued
on 1943 Social Security payments in the
United States. According to this report
100000 persons received checks for to-
tai of S155, 900, 900 and that another 10O,-
900 eligible for payments failed to reg
lister for checks, preferring to go on work
ing
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The fOHOwing edit
oriaIs are presented as interesting 0pH-
ions roiced by editors elsewhere. Ihey
do not necessarily reflect the opinion OF
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
PROPERTY AT PRIVATE
SALE BY EXECUTOR

NOTICE Is HEREBY 6l EN,
that L. N. TURPENTINE, Executor
of the Last Will and Testament OF
Aida Rose Graham, who was dur
ing her lifetime also known as Aida
r. Graham and A. r. Graham, Will
sell at private sale to the highest
bidder, upon such terms and condl-
tions as may be approved by the
Court and subject to confirmation
by the Court on or within one Cd
year after the goth day of January.
1914, all the right, title, interest
and estate of the above-named de-
cedent at the time of her death III
and to the real property herein
after described, and all the right,
title and interest that the said
estate has b. operation of law, or
otherwise. acquired other than or
in addition to that of said deccd-
cnt at the time of her death in and
to the following described property,
! to-Wit.
Lot TWenty-seven (2O in Block
Thirty-four (34 of Ell Centro,
Imperial County, California,
according to map thereof No.
953 filed in the office of the
County Recorder of San Diego
County, California July 5, 1905,
as improved with fivc-unit
court.
Terms and conditions of sale:
Cash, or such cash and credit, as
may be approved by the Court; Ten
Percent 10f0 of the purchase
price to be paid at the time of
sale, balance on confirmation of
sale.
All bids or offers must be In
writing and MAJ be left at the Of
ficeS of ,he Executor in his Court
Room in Department Five of The
Superior Court, in and for said
San Diego County in the County
Court House. or at the offices of
MeSSrs. Wright, Thomas IL Dorman,
attorneys for said Executor on the
Sixth Floor of the Southern Title
Building at 948 Third Avenue, or
at the office of the County Clerk
IN the County Court House, all of
the foregoing being in the City of
San Diego, County of San Diego
and State of California, at any time
after the first publication of this
notice and before the making OF
the sale; said bid may be for the
real property described in this no.
tice, together with the furniture
and furnishings therein, as de-
scribed in a notice of sale thereof
duly posted as of this date
DATED: at San Diego, California
January LIST, 1914.
l.. N. TURPENTINE
Executor of the Last Will and
Testament of AIDA ROSE
GRAHAM, Deceased.
WRIGHT, THOMAS
& DORMAN,
By G. G. THOMAS
Attorneys for Executor.
mo. 32) (J3-l9 1nc.)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07

Whether or not passenger auto
mobile transportation now an es-
sential part of the American eco,
nomic system-Will be seriously I'M
paired or break down completely i'll
1914 will depend on five main
factors:
l. The manpower supply for auto
repair work. ,. The supply of auto
repair parts. g. The supply of tires,
the adequacy of tire repair and
particularly recapping. 4 The used
car market and the possible requisl-
.ioning of cars from non-esSentlaI
drivers. 5.The gasoline supply and
the enforcement of gas rationing.
Take them one at time. Many
localities have already reported
that the supply OF garage mechan-
les has declined as much as 40 per
cent since the war began, Ap-
proximately one man out OF SIX
lost is replaced. The Army has
taken many thousands, more thou
sands have gone into war indus
tries where the pay scale Is hlgner.
The closing of thousands of filling
stations and tire repair shops has
mean that many of the service sta
tions where the simplest jobs could
be performed simply don't exist,
and this has thrown a heavier
burden on the shops that stayed IN
business. The number IF garages
is estimated at 8 per cent less than
Imperial Valley press., 1944-01-07
BOLIVIAN REVOLUTION

1t would be easy to overestimate
the international significance OF
the. revolution in which younger
Army officers have ousted Presi-
dent Enrique Penaranda of Bolivia.
Sufficient information seems now
to be available to appraise the re-
volt effectively. And while we In
| the United States surely can take
no comfort from overthrow of a
strongly pro-Allied chief executive,
probably we need not worry un-
duly.
First suspicion that the outbreak
was Nazi coup arose from the
] fact that Bolivia long had been
one of the two South American
| republics most dominated by Axis
intriguers. German and japanese
interests have been strong there,
For instance. in the inland rub
ber center of Riberalta, population
perhaps 5000, two-thirdS of the
merchants arc Japanese. In Cocha-
mamba, second city of the coun-
try, it seems as though no store
lacks at least one German accent.
But as the situation seems to be
working out. the revolt appears to
4 be primarily domestic and South
American.
Bolivia is one ri the poorest oil
/ Latin American countries. Under
such circumstances il is difficult
even for well-intentioned adj
ministration to satisfy the public
that it is doing its best for them.
And there is another angle. 1t is
generally felt in Bolivia-and also
! in Brazil-that the latter has Gle,
signs on her small neighbor: that
! some day at least part OF Bolivia
I will be assimilated by Brazil. Not
uncommon speculation, frowned up
on by authorities in Brazil, Is thai
eventually the Bolivian lowlands
will go to Brazil and her highlands
TO Peru.
The feeling. however unjustificd
provides fuel for nationalistic fires
built by ambitious politicians
against a president who, perhaps.
seemed to be leading Bolivia into
dangerous cloSeness to Brazil and
therefore, out of the orbit of Argan-
tina. from whom for geographical
reasons Bolivians feel that the!
have nothing to fear,
So in all probability the revolu-
ton was caused in part by the
seething of impoverished masses
and in part by Army opposition to
any drift saWay from the Argentine
and toward Brazil.
Nevertheless, we must wonder
whethe the new junta, now in
control over all United Nations tin
supplies except Russia's, will be as
cooperative as was President
Penaranda. We shall have to watch
our interests down there very
closely. for a time at least.
PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Former President Hoover suggests
that we should move to obtain
either outright possession or 999-
|
year leases on military bases that
we have built all around the world
at cost of hundreds of millions OF
dollars.
With air power what it is, ano
growing ever more deadly, VIC
should feel much safer if we hao
those distant outposts. Much safer
also, to tell the truth, if we were
certain that no hostile natior
could use them against US.
However there is the question
whether other nationS-Brazll, tt
take an outstanding example -
would permit us to establish on hel
soil that extra tcrritoriality w
now have designed in China. Woult
we permit even Britain to have
permanent military bases on Am
; erican soil?
PEACETIME SEDITION
IUo n oorco uitI tho American CiVl