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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-28

FOR RENT - 6 bedroom house
patio, grill, swimming pool, bad
minton court. Call before Sun
day, 687 South Imperial Ave.
BraWley 81
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-28

FOR RENT-Furnished apartment,
suitable for two adults. 305 S.
4th ST. 7-3l
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-28

LOST: Gas ration book &C" belong
ing to Mrs. Mary Emerline Han
son. Please return to ration board
7-OQ
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-28
l0-Apartments tor Rent

MODERN air-cooled 2 and room
Apis. Singles ice box. Doubles
cleo, frig. Large coolers. Green
Lantern Auto, Phone 17l0-J.
PeaSopah
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-28
Il-Houses tor Kent

COMPLETELY furnished house for
August with option on very nice
two bedroom house on south side
after August. Inquire at 1T S.
Fifth st or $50 He'll after $50.
A
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-28

FOR RENT: Apartment for one
or two adults. $500. 304 West Bird,
Imperial. 7-29
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-28
l2-Wanted TO Rent

WANTED TO RENT - Furnished
2 or 3 bedroom house in nice
neighborhood Adults. Call at
Brooks Jewelry. 562 Main st. or
Phone 289-W.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-28
Lost, huunG, otrayed

BAY horse, seven years old, white
marking in forehead, weighs about
1000 pounds. Name trimmed and
about half grown out. CaleXico
ORA. 80
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-28

TWO ROOM furnished apartment
adjoining bath. 513 Olive Avenue.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-28
COUPLE

HELP WANTED Mailman about
SIS for night Waterman at hotel
De ANA in CaleXico. Good salary
with room and meals if desired.
See Mr.. Wall, mgr. S-31
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-28

FOUND-Young female dog, appar-
emily a cross between Boston Bull
and wirehair. Phone 237 or 1895.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-28
The FAIR

me TAIN
Phone 1000 1915 Main st.
-1--50 Diesel Caterpillar, COM
plete overhaul.
-1--Trap Wagon, $40 gal. tank
and pump.
IT. Btrm John Deere pillow, al
most new.
-l--Gallion Grader, IL TT.
-1--Killifer Bedder, 3 row.
III. H. G. Border Disc new.
-3--Standard Sub Soiler.
-1--18x30 Field Float.
-1--Killifer IL TT. Offset Disc.
-1--12 TT. B. G.. Scraper, new,
heavy duty pump.
-1--AtlaS Scraper, 4 ydS.
Two Million Articles for Sale.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-28
Sell Your Don't Wants" Then Buy War Bonds Stamps
Business Services

Business Services
>~'e-~-~>~~~~~~-~~S~-~~
MONEY TO LOAN -.
SECURITY WAY"
LOANS
For Personal
and Family Needs
Discuss YOUR financial prob
lens at the nearest Security
First National Branch. Come in
today. Borrow Security Way"
and
KNOW YOUR LOAN
COST IN DOLLARS
A 500 loan repayable in IL
monthly installments costs you
only Sc. Easy credit require
ments, prompt service-no red
tape.
SAVE WITH SECURITY"
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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-28

FREE ROOM and cooking privileges
to couple in exchange for light
housekeeping for two. Phone
709-W. 618 Ell Centre Ave. 81
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-28

LOST-"C" gas rationing book, Car
los Chapparo. Finder please re-
turn TO Rationing Board. 81
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-28
i2-Wanfed TO Rent

TL-FF dTTtI TO INV'I' :
UNFURNISHED 2 bedroom house
south side preferred. Permanent
with record as good tenants.
Good pay. Phone go days or
1851, 572 Hamilton, night.
30
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-28

EXPERIENCED waitress wanted at
Planters Hotel at BraWley. 7-29
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-28
WASH TUBBS

NEW Gul1EA
NIo AUSTRALIA,
THEN ABOARD a
coNSTEllkNIoN...
BCnNp FOR TAE
ARMY A,S foRc
TACTICAL CENTER
IN FLORipA...
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1944-07-28
WANTED = FURNITURE a. RUGS
DEPARTMENT MANAGER
345 OLIVE ST.

WANTED - FURNITURE ~ RUCS
DEPARTMENT MANAGER
If you know furniture and rugs,
maybe you're the very man we
need to fill this excellent job.
Managerial experience not nee
essary. Fine starting salary,
with liberal commissions on total
department sales. This is real
opportunity for permanent Ca
reer with the leader in its field
with added chances for prog
ress in our postwar expansion
program. You may be our man
so willy not come in, or write?
Let's talk it over. Ask for Mr..
Dalton.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
Brain Game

Score 10 for each correct answer through
question siN, 40 each for the remaining two
tract h,e. IN, score IS or higher is eN-
Ccllent.
4 tiny island off the eastern
coast Of the United States
was at one time especially
notcd for It's whaling fleet.
Benjamin Franklin'S mother
came from there. Can YOU
identify the island
. True or false? tal Any
American may file an appli-
cation for A patent at the
patent office in Washington
on payment of fee OF $50;
Cbl The period for which any
patent may be granted IS y
Years.
5 Delta Kappa Epsilon. Chi
Psi Phi Beta Kappa. Sigma
Chi These arc all Greek lot
ter fratcrniticS, but can you
eliminate tho one not prop
crly included in the list be-
cause Of IT'S unique charac-
tor?
4-On seeing tho word Matter
horn YOU promptly think of:
ca a lonC-beakcd bird Of
South America. (b) the name
OF a European dynasty, tc)
q mountain.
Tom Is a common American
nickname. Get five of the
following six famous person
altlcS who answered TO it:
a president. a football player,
q midget, an inventor, a boy
character of fiction, steel
\magnatc
6 What did the following nurS-
cry RHYME ChardCtCrS do.
ta) Jack llorncr, thl George
Forgio Co Jack Sprat, IdJ
y Jaek-3-Dandy
tai Hard coal is known As
? tbl Soft coal is known
as '
S What docs the signature
w. a. Julian" mean To YOU?
(AnSwers on opposite page)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
NtATIONAL COMMANDER WARREN H.

NJ Al lONAl- \ " vi vi y y ~ w [AltINl-.N IL
~ ATHERTON says that the Legion has begun
modelling all its national defense and legislative
forces for the drafting of universal military train
ing legislation to be presented to Congress after
the tWenty-sxth annual Legion convention in Chi
cagO next month.
The bill to be presented to Congress may adj
vocate compulsory military training for all males
between the ages of Is and % years with sub
seQuent transfer to the reserve and 1t would call
for the plan to become operative with the eXplra-
ton of the Selective Service Act.
We are not a military people, but bitter eX-
perence has taught us that to accept the pacltlst
philosophy while all the other major powers con-
tinue to arm either secretly or openly, would mean
in the end the invasion and conquest of our
country.
If we continue to maintain a strong civil
establishment based on the bill Of rights we can
have no fear Of military domination.
The men of the American Legion and the
Overwhelming majority of our fighters in this war
are imbued with one idea-and that is:
THE PRESERVATION OF AMERICANlSM.
And for that SPECIFIC PURPOSE, if for no
other the veterans of this war should be repre-
scented at the peace table of the United Nations
and the projected Legion bill for universal military
training should become law as soon as possible.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
Fighters at thePeace
able
By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES

THE American Legion is our patriotic or
i ganzation that comes nearer to interpreting
the pratical thoughts and aspirations of United
States Americans than any other organization we
have ever had.
1t is nonpoitical.
1t is fair and sane in its demands and seldom
in its history has it's foot slipped"
The latest recommendations of the New York
Department of the Legion, recently in session at
Buffalo, is so obviously just that it is wonder
one ever thought of it before.
The state Legion recommends that war vet
Grams be represented at the peace table ITO the end
that American democracy in this republic be main
tanned and in order that the source of war be not
again inflicted upon us"
And this statement of the Legion is un-
answerable:
"NONE HAVE A BETTER RIGHT TO BE
HEARD IN FORMULATING THE TERMS OF
PEACE THAN THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO
ACTUALLY FOUGHT
The millions of men in service are fighting for
peace
They will bring us peace.
1t will be-we feryently hope-an AMERl-
CAN PEACE, as it will be an AMERICAN VIC
TORY.
THE men who make the peace at the risk of their
L lives on the battlefelds of Europe and in the
Pacific should sit at the peace table.
Naturally the guarantee OF strong peace,
participated in by our veterans, must be backed up
by strong ever-ready army, navy and air force.
The convention urged immediate passage by
Congress of bill providing for universal military
training in peacetime. In resolution the dele
gates reaffirmed the Legions demand that strong
national defense be maintained and stated:
THE present war has unfortunately brought
to the attention of our nation the fallaCy of our
national leaders ignoring the plea of our Organiza-
ton for an adequate national defense by actually
scrapping our armament, sinking our ships and
discOuraging the growth of our air force after
World War /"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
IN
REVIEW
By Maj. Gen.
D. P. Barrows

IT WOULD be well for Amer
l. lca 10 give its attention to
what IS going to happen IN the
BalkanS. and in Greece.
In no part of Europe was the
the ANS invasion more fragrant
and more cruel.
And IN no part of the European
picture has the Allied effort
been more feeble.
Together. Germany and Italy
gained A complete mastery of
this region. including the islands
-aL1hn- AEGEAN. Until the Allied
landing in North Africa in 1912,
the enemy had it all his way in
the eastern Mediterranean.
Egypt was threatened.
Then American participation
changed the course of the war.
But Germany maintained her
grasp upon the Balkans and the
Aegean islands.
The Greeks continued 10 he
wasted by starvation and enemy
brutality
80 effective steps were taken
by the Allies 30 aSSail German
power where it was most en-
tended.
Neither was any policy de-
clared with respect TO thr future
Of this part Of the world.
~ JANUARY. 1913. President
L Roosevelt and Prime Min
iSter Churchill met at Casa
blanca
II there was any Balkan pei
icy agreed upon between these
two great chiefs of government,
not A word Of il has been dis
closed
Great Britain and the United
States achieved complete naval
mastery of the Mediterranean,
but so far. in the Aegean Sea
and the Balkans no naval ac-
ton has followed.
This military futllity can only
he explained on one Of two
grounds First that the Allies
have lacked or Still lack mill
tary strength or military talent
10 do ANYTHING for the liberia
tien Of Greece and YuEoSlaNla.
Or -ocond, that the situation Is
hampered and darkcned by po-
litical intrigue.
WHAT the cynically minded
W say is that Soviet Russia
regards the Balkan countries as
her particular sphere Of infu-
cnco
That Russia has insisted that
they be invaded only by her
own armies. and that with the
successful end of the war they
ACl- como within the Russian
orbit OF power.
These cYniCS. who seem
friendly TO Russian lmperlahSt
aspirations. also insist that IN
view Of RusSia'S great military
predominance nothing Can be
done about this but accept II.
Other CyniCS circulate reports
that Great Britain. alive 10 Rus
sian intentions IN the Balkans.
and 10 the probability that Rus
S,a viii gain control of the Dar-
1 danellcS. is ScheminE 10 make
sure Of communications through
the Mediterranean by getting
Sicily Crete and islands Of the
/ Aegean
1t viii result. If these cynicS
. are right, that the United
States. having by lis participa-
ton effected the complete defeat
Of Germany. VIII allow this part
Of Europe n be settled in &C.
Cordance with the intriCueS Of
its two major allies
Tho Balkans are not the only
situation where the political fu-
turc is clouded and dubious, but
n is very important area
| Whether Mr.. Roosevelt is, or IS
not, a great war president, will
he determined by his ability and
his courage 10 employ both the
civil and military authority of
this great nation to obtain last
ing results that accord with
what American people believe
tc be right.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30

A MERlCA is losing a terrible war
n losing it slowly and almost
surely dangerously and disastrouslY
Unnecessarily and inexcusably.
Not the war in Europe, of course,
or the war in the Pacific, or any part
of the great war on the land, in the
skies and on and under the sea-
America is doing very well in all
of it's military campaigns.
We are winning the European
war, the Pacific war, the land, sea
and sky war, most surely and quite
swiftly.
The war we are losing is one
which, if finally lost, viii destroy Us.
as surely as if we had suffered defeat
on any or all of our far-hung battle
fronts-tha war against JUVENILE
DELINQUENCY.
WHY do we not put as much
w energy and enthusiasm, as much
determination and will power, as
much ingenuity and resourcefulness,
as much initiative and idealism into
this war for the salvation of Ameri-
can youth as we put into the war for
defeat of our military enemies?
We are not fighting an EFFEC-
TIVE war against juvenile delin-
quency.
We are not fighting an INTEL
LIGENT war against it.
We are, IN virtual fact, not really
fighting juvenile delinquency at all,
but are merely letting it run It's ma
lgnant course like a contagious dis
ease that has reached epidemic
proportions. trusting that it will run
itself out after the usual manner Of
such Affections.
But Juvenile delinquency IS not 4
disease Of the flesh.
1t is a disease of the mind, the
conscience, the spirit.
1t is destructive Of something
more important than health, or even
than life itself.
1t destroys the moral conscious
ness Of youth, destroys selt.respect.
It turns the natural energies and
talents Of youth, which are lnstinc
lively wholesome and constructive,
into evil ways and practices
Who has the responsibility for
this?
Not youth itself, certainly.
It is national and community
responsibility social and human
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
LETTERS To The EDITOR

TO THE EDITOR:
As the mother Of two paper
n BOYS. ! wonder If you would
print an appeal 10 your readers
10 please pay their paper boy
when he comes 10 collect.
My boys must pay their bills
on Saturday. They collect Fri
day night and all day Saturday
and then the rest of the week,
in order 10 get their commits
son.
The boys work hard for the
little they make on paper routes
and if people would just CO.
operate by having their money
ready when they call. II would
be 50 much easier for them
A BIRMINGHAM MOTHER.
TO TIE EDITORA NN
WE WISH to congratulate YOU
w on your interesting and
-Aeearate- report nI-the news
story concerning our work with
anti-tuberculoSlS and antl-lept
rosy drugs.
Your article appearing in the
Sunday edition of The Detroit
Times was. IN our opinion, and
in the opinions OF our scientific
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
responsibility-above all, a patriotic
AMERICAN responsibility.

TN AN article written exclusively
l. for international News Service,
Katharine F. Lenroot, chief of the
children's bureau of the U. S. De
partment of Labor, said:
"WhereUer and whenever a COM
n,Unity makes up its collective mind
to do something about its young
people, and moUes into action, it
GETS RESULTS"
The basic cause of juvenile delin-
quency, she implied, is that not
enough Of our American communities
are making up their collective minds.
"The boys and girls in your
neis hborhood," she urges, need
something to do and some place to
CO."
They only find evil things to do
and evil places to 60 when family
neglect, community neglect and ma
tlonal neglect permit and compel 1t.
"The ouer-aH task" Miss Len
root concludes, us to strengthen the
home in eUery Way possible, for the
primary responsibility for the care
and protection of our boys and girls
must rest rOithin its four rUalis."
Since this is our responsibility,
what is the price of our failure to
accept and exercise it?
Boys and girls, left to their own
devices, seek pleasure and recreation
where they can find it.
Soon they are disfigured and dis
torted morally and spiritually.
Soon they are unclean in body,
mind and soul.
What kind Of fathers and mothers
are such children going to be?
What kind of citizens do we ex.
pect them to be7
Those are the questions Ameri-
cans must ask themselves today.
That is the terrible war America
is fighting today, and LOSING.
There is still time to turn looming
defeat in this war to victory, but not
MUCH time.
America must put its collective
mind to this problem, apply It's col
lective will to it, concentrate its col
lective energy and enthusiasm and
ingenuity upon it-unless moral and
spiritual Disagreement and distor-
tion are to be collective burden and
curse nnnn future generations
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30

Scrappng our ships at the behest of foreign
powers must never occur again, as 1t DID IN the
Washington disarmament conference of 1922
On the question of future national defense the
Legion is also firm and far-sighted.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-30
The War We Are Losing

A MERICA is losing a terrible war,
n losing it slowly and almost
surely dangerously and disastrouslY
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-29

Most drastic proposal is the per-
NIT system advocated by William G.
Murray of Iowa and others. It would
require a prospective purchaser to
appear before a board and show
reason why he should be allowed to
buy farm.
If the board found him an unfit
person to own land, or didn't like
his attitude, it apparently could turn
him down. No permit would be
awarded before the land had been
appraised.
Limited Loans.
Another proposal is credit control.
First provision Is that no loans
should exceed so per cent Of the
value of the land. Presumably val
ue would be established by apprais-
al. Such a regulation might be
legislated, and it might stick. Pre-
sumably, also, lending agencies
would establish policy Of refusing
to lend to men who paid long prices.
An approach to this is already in
effect. The land banks, mortgage,
trust and insurance companies have
been discouraging borrowers both
from paying too much and from bor-
rowing too much Of the purchase
price. But they don't have any con-
troll over folks who are prepared to
pay cash, or the private money lend
er who is willing to take a long
chance for a high interest rate, or
the owner who can finance his own
sale.
Mildest Of these proposals Is to
impose a stiff federal capital gains
tax. Such a bill was placed be-
fore congress by Senator Gillette Of
Iowa. It is directed at spectators
by providing tax amounting to 80
per cent of the profits II the land is
resold before the end Of two years.
Each year thereafter the tax would
be decreased until the end Of six
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-29

times the 1ow-ebb depression income
of AZ billion dollars in 1888. It was
about $3.50, 900, 900 in excess Of the
1912 total. When operating costs,
including taxes, interest, wages for
labor, machinery and other items
are deducted, farmers were left with
a spendable income that was al
most double that Of 1889. Mean
while, the cost of living had adj
vanced only one-fourth.
U. S. department Of commerce
estimates Of individual savings indi-
cate an increase Of rs billion dol
lars for 1910 to SO billion dollars for
1943. A very large part Of these
savings is in highly liquid assets of
currency and bank deposits.
Whenever an industry does as well
as farming has done, there is ten
dency to speculate. Those already
in the business seek to expand their
operations. Others seek to get in
on the good thing. And thus spiral
ing boom can be born.
In the midwestern area, compris-
ing the Seventh Federal Reserve
district, for instance, which may be
considered fairly representative. it
is estimated that farm land prices
have risen about II per cent be-
tween April, 1913, and April, 1914.
From the beginning of the year until
April /, the advance has been about
2 per cent. The increases have been
largest in Indiana, Illinois and Iowa,
in which states the per cent Of pur-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-29

troubled not so much about the NIL
grafton as they are about the steady
increase in farm real estate transac-
tons. They fear that the long threat
ened land imitation is under way.
And they are asking themselves:
''Will the old cycle of boom and
bust be repeated?"
Every previous war has brought
its own land boom that left wreck
age of defation behind. The col
lapse of the speculative era follow
ing World War I is painfully fresh
in the memory of many farmer.
Symptoms are already evident sug-
costing that history could repeat it.
self in World War II, unless brakes
are applied to the fast-moving up
surge in farm land buying.
For instance, land values have ris-
en- 38 per cent above their 1858
average and are already up to 100
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-29

years, when none would be levied
There is no doubt as to the class OF
transactions which the legislation iS
intended to curb. But would farm
er who was obliged to sell within
the limits specified be subject to
the tax?
All the schemes thus far advanced
seem to be pointed toward keeping
the buyer from making fool of him
self, but of course every sale must
have two parties. So the man who
wants to quit farming; the man who
wants to retire on proceeds from
sale of his land; the fellow who
wants to sell and move elsewheres
the widow who has been hanging
on until she can get the family
equity out intact; the incorporation
who is sick of wrangling with ten
ants and who has been longing for
the time when he can get out and
save his shirt-a1l these welcome
the upturn Of prices.
Now lots of farmers who have mo-
desire to sell, who think their trou-
bles are caused by folks they don't
believe should be allowed to own
land, applaud these proposals. And
they may be right, but it will be
well to look into them, their inpI-
cations, what else may be proposed
in the future before endorsing Them
This country can have control OF
land sales and purchase in two
ways. First by doing nothing; Sec
ond by whooping it up for the pro-
posals. Farmers will be more vital
ly affected than any other group
If they want Federal agency en-
powered to say who may own land
they can have it. II they don't
care, they can have it anyway
Forces sponsoring the change i'm
land policy will see to that. But il
farmers don't want it, they may be
able to forestan it by protest.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1944-06-29
Veterans, War Workers Who Plan to Go Back to Land
When Peace Comes Should Be Cautious Board Warns

pitfan which veterans and war work. !!
ers will need help to avoid, says the
New York State Rural Policy COM.
mittee. Others are purchase OF
farms, at perhaps inflated values.
with a large debt; location in am
area which carries on type of farm
ing different from their past expert
ence; and too hasty purchase of land
that will tie them down before they
get adjusted to Staying put"
Actually, only 80 per cent of the
land in upstate New York is well
adapted to farming today, and much
of this land is in established farms
that will not be for sale. Another
38 per cent is fair farm land.
Returning war workers whose city
jobs have ended will probably be
harder to steer clear of poor farms
than the veterans, the committee
feels. They will have more ready
money to invest, and also, they will
not be directed to an agency that
can help them in farm selection
County agricultural defense COM
mittees, or other groups, should be-
charged with the responsibility OF
helping men who wish to return to-
the land, in order that they make
good investments and become pro-
ductive and gelt.sustaining citizens
the state policy group advised -