Imperial Valley press., 1944-04-17
HAROLD THE HONEST, TELLS
COAST HOW TO HANDLE JAPS

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Secretary Ickes the Administrations
"big bad wolf has earned another title
upon his invasion Of California to tell the
Golden Staters how to handle the Jap
question He is a a Don Quixote" for
sure Anyone but Ickes would be ac-
claimed for bravery in his California sas-
hay, but not Honest Harold" His foray
is just another of his stunets, accounts
of which he will prize for his publicity
scrap book
In his TRADE at westerners for their
unfair treatment" of the Japs. the ad-
minsitration's hatchdt-man stirred up
more of racial hatred than has appeared
from the time of Pearl Harbor. He eX-
coriates coast people for creating and
building up this so-called rectal hatred
1ckes own name for the way CalifornianS
look after their own interests, while his
very words create something that does
not exist here in the west. But in this
regard, the much-titled WashingtOnian,
only reflects the so devout" attitude of
east coasters who never did have, nor
will have, we hope, the Jap problem on
their hands.
Having settled this all-absorbing mat
ter in one fell swoop. Harold. in a few
of soldiers problem by his grandiose plan
to turn all the vast war plants over to
the fighters as soon as they return. Gosh,
how easy Harold makes these things. He
hands out a teaser to industry by saying
that the plants will be conducted inde-
pendent of the government-but> he
worked in. lin soto voice no doubt in his
arm-flailing, boisterous speech) that, of
course the administration would have to
select a commission or board or bureau
to get the scheme going. he should have
added, land God help industry"
Harold held obseQuies on this same
trip for the reclamation monopolistS"
who, as he sees it. are lying in wait to
gobble up everything in sight.
All and all Don" had n doggone busy
time But it was at his own bidding. We
do hope, however, in his capacity as
chicken raiser and egg producer, the old
warrior had time to run uD to Petaluma
county and learn something about his
own business. particularly a modern
method of distributing his output so that
when he returns to the citadel of the new
deal he will no have to use his office car
to peddle eggs.
1t also would have been worth all the
turmoil had the secretary disclosed why
in the name of heaven he ever was as
signed to the dlrectOrShlp OF the War
Relocation Administration But perhaps
that also is something the western people
lust aren't able to hear and take it, like
the bad pictures in the Pacific war.
Failing to get a thank you message
from Moscow on the release of Earl
Browder. communist party leader, from
prison. the administration is making an
!. other bid for gratitude in side-tracking
federal ban so Browder's wife can stay
in the U. s., although subject to deporta-
tion.
r Announcement was made recently with
some gusto, and with doubling fliers'
world. that Flying Fortress had ac-
complished an outside loop. Shucks,
jeeps do that trick right along.
Berlin has failed on a follow-up story
after broadcasting that Churchill and
Roosevelt were enroute to a war parley
in the Caribbean. Just cub reporter
on the job.
Eleanor Roosevelt's report after her
latest jaunt that u. S. fighters are not
~ concerned with strikes at home does not
~ jlbe with letters from officers and men
y which find heir way into print.