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Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27
TIME FOR A PROBE
(Santa Monica Outlook

Two recent news items emphasize the
strange and battling shortage in cigarets
and cigars, which has now extended to
Army areas and is continuing in spite of
the fact that production has been sub
stantially increased.
The first item describes the cigaret
shortage in every part of the country,
the prevalence of black markets, and the
dearth among American troops in the
European war theater. In some sectors
of the front soldiers are now restricted
to two packages per week. At the same
time, American cigarets diverted from
Army supplies are selling on the black
market in Paris at S1.50 per pack and
are in great demand at that price.
The second is an announcement that
the OPA has decided not to try to ration
cigaretS, because many nOnsmokerS would
give their ration to smokers. In other
words, the OPA cannot conceive of ra-
tioning except by the same complicated
system which has been applied to food
and gasoline and which holds it sin to
give coupon away.
This agency also confessed that it could
do nothing about cigarets unless the food
administration first applied some kind of
rationing control. Here is another lovely
example OF Lne WOHueT1ul WlzdIdS VI
Washington at work.
The shortage of smokes is not a small
matter when it occurs for no apparent
reason and extends to our troops at the
front. 1t cries out for congressional in
vestigation. A relatively simple control
would prevent our cigarets from going to
black markets, if any Washington agency
would show the intelligence necessary to
remedy the situation
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27
Heavy American
Bombers Hit
In Munich Area

+ LONDON, Nov. 81. tUP)-More
/ than 500 American heavy bombers
raided rail yards at Offenburg ano
/ Bingen, W. Key German front-line
/ supply points. Moncay in the wake
of a pre-Cawn attack by british
LancaSterS on Munich, industrial
and transportation center in the
southern Reich.
An equal number of Eighth air
force Thunderbolts and Mustangs
at the same time carried out Of
fenSive sweeps over northwestern
Germany.
Approximately ESQ Mustangs es-
corted the Flying FOrreSseS and
Libsrators as they laid strings OF
bombs acrcSs the freight yards at
Bingen, west of Mainz. and Offen-
burg. southeast of StraSbourg.
Offenburg took the brunt of the
air blow with both LiberatorS and
Forresses slanming at freight con-
centrati3ns there. Most OF the
bombing at both Offenburg and
Bingen. 100 miles to the north. was
done by instrument through clouds.
New .abulations at Eighth air
force headquarters meantime re-
vealed that l38 German planes we're
DESTROYED during heavy American
attacks on the Reich yesterday. U.
{ fighters shot down ia, destroyed
another eight on the ground, and
bonbers brought down l6 more. The
Americans lost So tombers and six
fighters.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27
WHERE PEACE STARTS
(San Diego Union)

A basic feature of future world peace
is stressed in a recent address by Harold
B. Butler, British minister to Washing
ton, on the text:
Peace is going to depend on the man
in the street and on the farm. If he
wants it hard enough, he is quite likely
TO get it. If he doesn't know enough or
care enough to work for it, he probably
won't, but will find himself swept into
another and much worse war in another
20 years or so.
Stressing the vital need of cO-Opera-
ton between the three great world pow
ers. Mr. Butler says:
1T is the will of these three great
peoples working together that will de-
eide whether the new (peace) organza-
ton gets going and keeps going. That
means the will of the man on the street
and the man on the farm, or the woman
in the kitchen or the office or the factory.
If they make up their minds that there
must be cooperation between them and
their partners in the peace enterprise,
then their governments will really work
hard TO bring that about In the long run
the people get pretty much what they
want or deserve-and that includes the
Germans who got Hitler, as we'll as the
British and Americans, who got a war
they didn't want, because they didn't go
the right way to stop it.
Dictators can impose war or peace up
on their people as they choose. In democ-
racies the decision rests with the people.
So far as America is concerned, there is
no doubt about the choice or the will to
bring it to pass.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
OF DOING BUSi-
NESS UNDER FICTITIOUS
FIRM NAME

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
J. E. SMITH and E. M. SMITH are
doing business under the fictitious
firm name and style of EMSCO
RANCH and that the names IN tull
and places of residence of all per-
sons interested in said business so
operated under the name of EMSCO
RANCH are as follows:
E. M. SMITH, 1901 Cadbury Drive,
Whittier. California;
J.E. SMITH, 1861 Victory Boule-
ward, No. Hollywood, California.
That the principal place of the
business operated under the firm
name ard style Of "EMSCO RANCH
is in Imperial County, California.
In certification of the foregoing,
witness our signatures this 9th
day of October 1914.
E. M SMITH,
J. E. SMITH.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27
B-79s TELL TRUTH
As HlROHITO LIES

The japanese bigwigs may talk and
broadcast and assure Tokyo and all the
other big cities that no harm can be done
bv the bombs from Yankee planes. But
the B-29's are telling different story
and story that carries conviction by the
picture left behind. And it is story
barely at the introduction stage: It's chap
tars will unfold with speed and precision
from this time on and the Emperor must
match his fairy tales against a flaming
munitions plant; devastated rail center;
a myriad of falling planes sent down
by the harmless Yanks." Deception
can't compete with the naked truth and
It remains to be seen whether the Japan
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27
COMPULSORY MILITARY
TRAINING IN u. S.

The move to have compulsory military
training for the youth of America is
meeting with just and widespread re-
sounding public opposition amounting to
resentment. The plan runs contrary to
the principles of democracy. Militarism
and democracy never were nor can they
be partners.
The lob before the American people
and the peoples of all nations is to build
postwar peace, not a post war military
machine which could be no more nor less
than bid for another war.
Sponsored by President Roosevelt and
backed by his new deal leaders in con-
gress, especially members of the military
committees of both house and senate,
the proposal smacks too much of
scheme to supply jobs to millions of peo-
pie, plan that would relieve the admin
istration of the embarrassment of reviv-
ing the old WPA and similar make-Shift
Job set-ups.
Up to the moment the new deal has
not even volunteered any definite and
forward policy looking to helping create
Jobs for the millions who will be need
ing jobs when the war ends, millions of
returning service men and women and
more millions who will need placing
when the war plants have finished their
work
But most assuredly this one gesture
of enforcing military training upon the
youth of the land is not the right ap-
proach and if this be all the administra-
ton can do toward solving the greatest
problem the nation ever had TO face, 1t
as we'll admit its impotency, swallow the
dose and reestablish the WPA and the
dole.
So insstent has been the rolling op-
position to the compulsory training pro-
gram that congress has deferred action
until after the first of the year when
the 18th congress takes over.
The chairman of the house military
affairs committee, a dyed in the wool
new dealer, Representative May of Ken
tucky parrots the President in his "ap-
peal to put the youth of the land behind
guns'' when he said, on decision OF the
committee to defer action on request OF
the war department because of the grow
ing opposition, said: "The longer we
postpone it the more difficult 1t will be.
It may be impossible to pass such legis-
lation after the war because there may
be a natural reaction against anything
military. .,,.
There it is. A scheme to put millions
of Young men in uniform instead OF JOBS,
and the administration would take ad-
vantage of the present war spirit to put
it over.
There is one argument against COM
nulsorv military training that alone
should smother the plan so deeply it
never will show again and that is that
it does not prevent wars. On the other
hand it makes wars. One needs only to
look at Europe where the plan has been
universal-where war too, has been UNI
versal-
Let us forget the things that have to
do with war. Let us think about and do
the things that will bring peace.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27
for God and man.
CHARACTER BUILDER

Religion, he asserted. is rec
ognized tool of great worth in build
ing strcng character demanded by
our democratic society,"
The Church Federation, being an
interdenominational organization, is
conducting its 43 weekday church
schools on a basis slightly different
from the other religious groups. Its
staff CT nine paid teachers, all OF
whom are college graduates with
state teachers certificates and spe-
cial religious training, present only
the broad basic concepts of the
Christian philosophy, which is
taught without emphasizing any
controversial doctrine. Questions
pertaining TO specific denomina-
tiCnal issues are referred by teach
ere to ministers and parents of the
child making the inquiry.
CHURCHES HELP
Seventeen denominations are CO.
operating with the Church Fedora
ton in its religious education pro-
gram, which has drawn more than
$500 enrollees. Administration is in
charge of Rev. Wilbur C. Parry. Di-
rectors of the released time program
for the other religious groups in
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27
TWO MILLION IRONS
EXpFCTFD BY NOV, 30

MANSFIELD, Ohio, Nov. 27. CUP)
Two million electric irons-the first
civilian goods to roll off the assem-
bly, line at the Westinghouse Elec-
trio plant he-e-will be produced
by November 30.
j. H. Ashbaugh, vice president and
plant manager, said that the two
million irons to be made for civil
ians are intended by the govern
ment to GO to those who need them
most. Based on prewar production,
the appliance industry would have
sold about 100000 flatirons in the
past two years.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
On this lst day of November, A.
D., 1914. before me, E, N. BOON, a
Notary Public in and for said Coun-
ty and State, personally appeared
Z. M. Smith, known to me to be
the person whose name is sub
scribed to the within instrument
and acknowledged to me that he
executed the same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
my official seal the day and year
in this certificate first above writ
ten.
E. Y. BOON,
(SeaD Notary Public in and for
said County and State.
my Commission Expires
April 10, 1945)
mo. 79) (N6-13-20-2D
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF IMPERIAL

COUNTY OF IMPERIAL)
On this 80 day of October, A. D.,
1914, before me. GEORGE r. KIRK,
Notary Public in ano for said
County and State, personally ap-
peared j. E. Smith, known to me to
be the person whose name is sub
scribed to the within instrument
and acknowledged to me that he
executed the same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOFF, have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
my official seal the cay and year
in this certificate first above writ
ten.
GEORGE r. KIRK,
(SeaD Notary Public in and for
said County and State.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27
CHURCHES HELP
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.

1HE STATE Of CALlf OhNlh,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
No. 3645
Notice of Time and Place Appointed
for Proving Will and Hearing
Application for Letters Testament
tary.
In the Matter Of the Estate OF
ALLAN C. JOHNSTON, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that a petit
ton for probate of the will of AL
Ian C. JOHNSTON, deceased, and
for the issuance to Pauline c. john
Ston of letters testamentary, has
been filed in this court, and that
Friday the 1St day of December,
1914, at O'clock pm. of said day,
at the courtroom of Department Two
of said court, at the Court House
in the City of Ell Centre, County of
Imperial, State of California, has
been set for the hearing of said
petition, when and where any per-
son interested may appear and con-
test The same, and show cause, if
any they have, why said petition
should not be granted
Dated November l5, 1914.
w. J. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
By G. o. Kenyon,
Deputy Clerk.
NO. 86O (N2O-30 inc)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27
You re Not Too Old
TO Feel Young

This is a message for men who have
known life but no longer find il thrilling
because OF the lack Of certain vitamins
and hormoneg TrOmone. recent medical
discovery combining vitamins and hOr-
mones may multiply the vim and vitality
enjoyment you once knew. Your whole ap-
prOaoh, your whole attitude toward life
may improve when you begin To use
Tromone Now il may be possible for mid
die aged men to again enjoy the same
spirit vitality and Tleasures that made
their youth a thing 10 remember. Added
years may not subtract from your pleas
ures when you use TromOne the ney
medical formula combining vitamins ana
hormones. Follow directions on label
Troin0ne for sale by Valley Dpug Co,
sol Main. Phone -,
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27
DEATH FUNERAL
NOTICES

E. j., died Saturday at his
home in Holtville. His survivors
are his wife; one son, and four
daughters. Funeral services will
be held at the First Methodist
Church of Holtville at 2 pm.
TUESDAY, with the Rev Joseph
McShane officiating. Lemons Nor
tuary of e Centro is in charge.
11-28
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27
$3FgTafa

clude Rabbi Rudolph Lupo, Jewish;
Rev. John K. Clarke. Roman Cath
olic Rev. Einar l. Knudsen, Evan
gelical Released Time Education,
Inc, and Mrs. Winifred Arbogast.
Christian Scientist.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27

EDITORS NOTE: The folioUing edit
Oridls are presented as interesting Opin-
ions Uoiced bg editors eiseiCheIe. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27
LONDoNERS TRY GOAT MEAT

LONDON, Nov. 27. tUPD-Goat
meat may not look so good, but TO
rationed LondonerS it may taste
mighty fine. Anyway, London resi-
dents will socn be sampling it. A
trial shipment is being sent from
New Zealand.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27

CHOICE! Use formula sent
us by Thornton x Minor Clinic. Relieves pile
pain, itching, soreness QUICKi Then tends
10 shrink swelling; sOftcns. Get 81. 90 tube
Thornton & Minors Rectal Ointment. Or get
Thornton X Minor Rectal Suppositories only II
w cents more. Try DOCTORS way TODAY.
At all good drug stores everywhere. In FL
Centre at Clements Drug.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27
Editorials and Comment

ese people are as dumb as the German
people in listening to the lies of their
military leaders.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27
[. A. Schools Mark Success in Offering
Wholesome Religious Training

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27. tSpeciaD
The introduction of religious in
struction into the curriculum OF the
Los Angeles public schools the first
of October has met with inStanta-
neous and surprising success. Both
clergymen and parents are now
clamoring for q wider opportunity
to provide weekday religious train
ing fer the young.
The program is still in the eXpe-
rimental stage. school authorizes
say, and where and how 1t Will IL
nally fit into the curriculum Is still
coniectural, as it is the question OF
how large it will loom in the general
scheme.
OFF SCHOOL PREMISES
All religious instruction is given
off school premises, and is supplied
to Roman Catholic, Protestant and
Jewish children by the clergy OF
their respective commmions.
The exneriment was inaugurated
through the Inter-Faith Committee
on Week Day Church Schools,
which is headed by the Rev. &. c.
Farnham, executive secretary OF the
Church Federation CT Los Angeles.
At present, public school students
are released for 40 minutes each
week to receive religious instruction.
DR.. Farnham disclosed that al
though each religious group offers
a different type of subject matter
according to its particular beliefs
all groups are united in seeking to
help young people develop respect
for property and government ana
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-27

SUES FOR DIVORCE
Marjorie Helen Colson Friday
filed suit for divorce from Forrest
Z. Colson
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-10-14

Anxious 10 get ample supplies for
our fighting men, the War Food
Administration made statement
this week urging a speed UP in the
turkey procurement drive.
Said Wea: Turkey processing
and procurement for Americas
armed forces must be speeded up
Immediately so as guarantee tur-
key for Thanksgiving, Christmas
and New Years Day dinners of SER
vice men and women overseas. Des-
pite unusually 1894 light delivery
of trukey thus far made available
to the RAINY, the VIA poultry pro-
curement board and the office of
the Quartermaster General are de-
termined that turkey will go over
seas enough and in time" to our
fighting forces.
The Cotton Situation
During the month ended August
Is the 10 market price of Middling
1916 inch cotton averaged 21.33,
a decline of AZ points from a month
earlier.-July was the 10Th conse-
cutive month in which mill con-
sumption of cotton was lower than
in the corresponding month a year
earlier.-This downward trend in
consumption has been both mark
ed and uninterrupted, declining on
daily basis from 46, 142 bales per
day in the month of peak daily con-
sumption-April, 1942,-to 36,208
bales in July, a drop of % per
cent.-At the same time that cot
ton consumption per working day
has declined % per cent (from
April 1912 through July 1944, it
is significant that deliveries of ray
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-10-14
Farming Is Family
Enterprise
(F'rom the National Council
of Farmer Cooperatives)

There are 6,096,79 farms in Am
erica. There are only 530,131 900
acres of tillable land. This means
that the average American farm
has only 81 tillable acres.
Although farms as a whole are
the important producers of basic
wealth, the average farm is a fam
lily size business. Yet the individual
farmer has the same problems of
buying and processing and selling
that the big corporations have-and
without their concentration of
money and facilities.
To enable the individual family
farm operator to cope with the
advantages in capital, trained per-
sonnet, and research facilities of
the other great industries of the
country, the United States and the
legislatures of all the states in the
Union have authorized the organi-
cation and operation of producer
owned and producer controlled CO.
operative associations by farmers.
At the same time the legislative
bodies of the country imposed GER
tain conditions which effectively
safeguard both farmers and the
general public from the misuse of
cooperatives, such as:
Restrict participation to bonafide
agricultural producers.
Limit the return on invested cap
ital.
Base control on membership ra-
Their than investment. One man one
vote.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-10-14

on to consuming establishments
have continued to increase.
WAF Urges Quick Use
OF Hurricane" Apples
Because an estimated 3 to 4 mil
lion bushels of apples were blown
to theg round along the Atlantic
seaboard by a tropical hurricane,
the War Food Administration ur-
ges consumers in the heavily pop
ulated eastern areas to take adj
vantage of the temporary market
surplus of this fruit for stocking
pantry shelves as well as for i'm
mediate use in apple pies, cobblers,
fritters-and as just plain apples.
Army To Get More
Yellow Laundry Soap
The American soap industry has
assured the War Food Administra-
ton and the War Department that
it will meet greatly expanded
needs of the United States army for
yellow laundry soap during the
next several months, according to
VIA.
Army officials say the sap is ur-
gently needed to meet current re-
quirments of the army and to sup
ply the immediate relief needs of
areas liberated by the Allies. None
of it will be used, they say, to build
inventories
Better Use OF Farm Land
In a discussion of post war agri-
cultural policies, A. T. Lee of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
raises the question as to whether it
would not be more desirable to
improve production on existing
farms rather than to open many
new farms Tracing recent i'm
provements in land management
and in crop varieties, he says that
use of hybrid seeds and new crop
varieties on the one hand and
wider utilization of lime and fer
tilizers on the other, have resulted
in large increase in yields of GER
tain crops. Improved production
techniques and Management bring
results.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-10-14

The head of large heating con-
Germ recently remarked to me that
the success of his company is large
ly the result Of correcting other
peoples mistakes. What he meant
was that most of their business
came from homes which were ex-
periencing heating trouble of one
kind or another.
A chief mistake is that of allow
ing the price rather than the ade-
quacy of the furnace to determine
ones choice. In doing so they ig-
more certain laws of heating which
must be conformed to if good re-
suits are expected. There are def
mite formulas for calculating the
capacity of a furnace in relation to
the size and type of home to be
heated, and while it does no harm
to install furnace of over-capa-
city. it does bring trouble to install
one of inadequate size. Size for
size, all furnaces run pretty much
equal in installed cost; therefore,
when an experienced heating man
figures out the price of correct
installation, one does not save
money by taking a smaller size
than is recommended. It just means
replacing the inadequate job later
on, which in effect is paying double
for ones heating plant. i
The heart of your home is it's
furnace, and there just isn't any
chance of having a healthy home
with an understood heart. The only
safe way is to place the matter in
the hands of reliable heating man
who makes the selling of the fur.
mace secondary to the accurate de-
termination of your homes heating
needs. He will plan your heating
system as it should be for great
est efficiency, using mathematical
calculation instead of guesswork,
and when he arrives at the correct
answer, that's what he'll stick to.
And if you also stick to his find
ings, you'll not be making mis-
take that shall later have to be
corrected.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-10-14

support. Now only 10 agencies are
authorized to engage in foreign and
domestic war charity-including
United Service Organizations, I'm
tied Seamens Service, War Prison
ers Aid, and local Community
Chest services. The $25O,0OO,OOO
fund sought this year is expected
to bring aid to go million persons.
Don't forget to send that overseas
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-10-14

Don't forget to send that overseas
Christmas gift before Oct. 18th.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-10-14
The Agricultural
Front
AZ Million Pounds of Food Go
To Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico

Food delivered for shipment to
the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico
under the War Food Administra-
ton Caribbean emergency program
for the month of August decreased
by about million pounds as COM
pared with July deliveries. The de-
cline was due mainly to thefact
that some of the supplies requested
were not available at that time.
These two insular possessions re-
ceived 1896, 48o pounds of food.
Hawaii received 16,O48,565 pounds,
and North Africa and West Africa
shared with several smaller nations
an allotment of 81 ,00O,000 pounds of
foodstuffs.
Meat, dairy and poultry products
headed the list of food deliveries;
there was also an increase in de-
liveries of grain proucts. Other Au-
gust deliveries included quantities
of fruits and vegetables, sugar, cot
ton and fibre and comparatively
small lamount of tobacco.
S5 Million Turkeys
Over 35,million turkeys, or 8 per
cent more than last year and 4
per cent morethan the record crop
of 1910, will be raised this year
according to preliminary estimates.
The 1914 turkey crp will exceed the
year Q936-40) average by 20
per cent.