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Titahluht'd i« a Daily New*paper July 8 1892
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WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 16. 1940
WASHINGTON FORGETS THE BORDER
ri HE northern and southern or southwestern bor-
1 ders of the United States are rather sparsely
settled areas except in the eastern part of the Can-
adian border in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of
Texas and at Laredo and El Paso.
Washington sometimes has occasion as in these
times to pass general laws which control the move-
ments of persons from one country to another.
When this happens the Washington officials who
draw up the necessary regulations think of the over-
seas movement of persons either by ship or by air-
plane. They think of those people who use the great
harbors of the east coast or those of the west coast.
No thought apparently is given to the local traf-
fic conditions of the Mexican and Canadian borders:
the movement to and fro of persons living on these
borders. These people these permanent residents of
the border move back and forth in their immediate
neighborhoods. They go to buy groceries or meats.
They visit relatives. They cross the border to go to
church or to attend a meeting or a funeral or for
a hundred and one other reasons.
These borders are not fortified. Fassage across
them has been an ordinary uneventful uncomplicat-
ed thing. Even a slightly stringent regulation can
have the effect of entirely upsetting the economy of
towns and cities such as happened last Jul\ when
the new passport regulations went into effect. For a
couple of weeks these border residents were required
to provide themselves with the same passports they
would have needed to visit the interior of the coun-
try. Then it was discovered this strict regulation was
unnecessary for permanent residents of the border.
Hut traffic and business between the two sides of
the border had come to a complete halt. Then less
difficult regulations were set up and only so-called
border permit cards were required. These were soon
being issued in large numbers and now after some
three months local intercourse at border points is
almost at normal.
Persons on the American side who do business in
nearby Mexico are again puzzled by a regulation of
the draft laws. This regulation prohibits registered
persons from leaving the country without first noti-
fying the local draft board. Many of those who will
register today may have occasion to go to nearby
points in Mexico perhaps daily on their usual busi-
ness. So far the draft board is without information
on this point. It is assumed that when the board
goes to work as it will immediately after registration
day it will ask for a ruling on cases of this kind.
The law is not intended to work an unnecessary hard-
ship on any one and presumably some means will
be developed to permit these registered persons to
go about their usual duties until such time as they
may be called for service if at all.
In the meantime Americans will be patient with
new regulations. Not pverv person’s peculiar prob-
lems can be foreseen in a giant task of the kind
made necessary by extraordinary world conditions.
The men in Washington who work out the details
of these government regulations affecting the daily
lives of millions of persons cannot possibly foresee
all individual complications especially the unusual
problems of the isolated and relatively thinly settled
border areas where life often differs from that in
the interior.
SALES TAX — ENGLISH VERSION
GREAT BRITAIN’S latest tax measure proves
again a fact which no longer needs proving—
that wars cost money.
Scheduled to go into effect Oct. 21 is a “purchase
tax” similar to the sales tax now used in many parts
of the United States. The rate on such common
items as hooks newspapers shoe* kitchen utensils
and clothing will he 12 per cent. On “luxury" goods
as silk stockings furs and jewelry the rate will he
24 per cent. Compare those rates with American
sales taxes which range between 1 and 3 per cent
generally.
Yet that is the way it must he. Somehow this
war must he paid for if Britain has any hope of re-
building economically after the dark days pass.
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Views of Other Papers
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BRIEEGROOM GETS A BREAK
The newspapers are giving a free
Hd? to a new type of marriage
report.ng which was introduced it
seems bv a small newspaper in
lowa called The Augusta Union.
The editor of the Union remem-
bering that bridegrooms usually
receive little attention at the hands
of the society news reporters de-
cided that he would vary the rule
• little when it came h s time to
mUndlr the caption. Yc Editor
Takes Himself a Bride he wrote as
follow: for his own newspaper:
-Clarence (Tudy) Rogers aoniof
Mr. and Mrs. Georg- R°8<;rs of °*Z
mo. becam* th( husband of Miss
Margaret flilb?rtson. daughter of
Mr and Mrs Mart n Gilbertson of
Augusta in a beautiful ring cere-
mony Saturday noon. June 22. be-
fore a Justice of peace at Waukon.
Iona.
•Blushing prettily he replied to
the questions of the justice in low
but firm tone.* never Indicating
that he noted the omission of the
obey1 questions in the brides an-
swers.
• He was attractively attired in a
three-piece suit of black pin stripe
eoolen material consisting of coat
vest and pants. The coat was
harmiiigly festooned with a white
flower in the left buttonhole.
"The vest was sleeveless closed
in the front end gracefully fash-
ioned with pockets. It was held to
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By PaulMalios
VT/A5HINGTON—The master key
w to Hitler s scheme of propa-
ganda in the United States was
discovered by Dies committee
agents when they seized the Zapp
correspondence. It is: “Keep Jap-
anese-/1 met lean relations rtnfled to
prevent U. S. involvement in Eur-
ope"
Manfried Zapp. th? Nazi agent
masquerading as a German news-
man. set it forth in his report to
his hem? news * office in Berl n
January 15. 1940—a report which
appears to have be-n adopted by
Der Fuehrer hin seif in view of re-
cent developments in the far eatt.
“Summing up all the facts.” Zapp
wrote “It can be said that tne
masses in the Un.ted States are
still against active participation in
the war but the tremendous artil-
lery barrage of officially stated
anti-German propaganda is b%>
coming increasingly effective.
•The only and at the same time
the strong?st guarantee for Amer-
ican neutrality appears to be a
ruffled United States-Japanese re-
lationship. which for the present
and for an indefinite |>oriod to
come will not permit a European
•nvolvement of the USA.
“However there exists a visible
endeavor in the state department
to clear up the Far Eastern ques-
C.on in ord^r thereby to use a free
hand in Europe."
—
"THIS PARTICULAR report has
created a sen ation ;n the state
department where It is regarded as
a confirming revelation of Hitler's
now unfolding plan of employing
the Japanese as dupes to serve his
purposes against the United States.
Zapp could qual fy as adviser in
this respect if any advice was
needed in Berlin. He operated ill
Manchukuo a few years ago in the
.ame capacity of news-fifth col-
umning as his correspondence /pub-
lished yesterday! discloses him to
have been engaged m here. He
also served Hitler in Ethiopia
London. Scandinavia and South
Africa. The department of justice
is now investigating a report that
he was requested by the British to
leave hb South African pan be-
lore coming to the United States
in 1938 to set up his Trans-Ocean
news service.
A POSSIBILITY that Zapp was
^ even more than an offic al
propagandist has been opened to
government eyes by one particular
letter In which he summoned “con-
lldential agents" to attend a din-
ner In his New York apartment.
At least Mate department linguists
nave translated the German terms
used m the letter as meaning
“confidential agents." although they
are susceptible to a secondary
ambiguous interpretation which
might enable Zapp to plead that
his guests were only to be con-
fidential • corresponded to. "
"THE ACTUAL existence of the
1 real working fifth column in
this country is completely proved
by this Hitler newsman who wrote
too much and failed to destroy
enough. The fifth column his rec-
ords reveal is not that of the
bundlers. Its serious nature and
scope is disclosed by its name “for-
eign division of the national so-
cialist party." The initials NSDAP
itanding for the German equival-
ent of this title were found on
numerous letters in his files.
When Zapp was notified of meet-
ings of this organization In form
letters he was advised to "ihow his
party card" at the door a fact
which legally proves their secret
nature. The organization addressed
him June 29. 1939:
"Dear party member Zapp: For
accounting reasons you are re-
quested to pav this year’s special
assessment for the Nazi party con-
vention In Nuremberg amounting to
one full month's dues no later than
June 1939"
On April 22. 1939. he was re-
quired to pay $10 as "part of the
rost of the Hitler birthday celebra-
tlaa"
Dozens of names on these and
other letters are In the hands of
government authorities who have
guarded against the possibility that
their birds may fly by putting
them either under subpoena or
curve ilia nee.
'THE GOVERNMENT now has
proof of an interwoven connec-
tion between German diplomats.
Zapp's Trans-Ocean news service
the NSDAP. the German Library of
Information the Fellowship Forum
-a skein of propaganda and In-
formation wider than that which
caused President Wilson to ask
withdrawal of German diplomats in
this country before the last World
war. In addition to the $140000
which Zapp siient In 10 months
the books of the German Library
of Information show an outlay of
about $190 000 in the few months
between April 1 and August 20 of
this year.
Steps by this government are im-
minent.
DRAIN NORTHWARD
Three states of the Union drain
partly Into Hudson Bay. The
states of Mmnesotr North Dakota
and South Dakota dra’n partly
into Lake Winnipeg and thence
north through the Nelson River
into Hudson Bey.
rether at the back with a strap
and buckle.
"Hu pants were neatly pressed
for the occasion and he wore them
with an air as if he little suspected
It would bn the last time he pore
the pants’ in tha’ family as the
familiar expression goes.
"Hose and necktie added Just
the right dash of color to comple-
ment the effect Shoes were of gen-
uine leather. laced with strings of
the same color giving a chic ef-
fect "—Montgomery Advertiser.
HON. JAPANESE SANDBAG MAN
Answers to Your Questions
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN
A reader can get the answer to
any quesnon of ‘act by writ-
ing The bir.»nsv.:ie Herald In-
formation Bureau. Frederic J.
Haakin. Director. Washington
D. C. Please enclose three (3)
rente lor replv
Q. Plra-e give an rxJrrnlr of some
rf the oldest sumptuary laws. K. J.
H.
A All the inhabitant* of Laconia
were forbidden to attend enter-
tainments at which drinks were
served and no citizen could possess
a house or furn ture which was the
work of more elaborate implement*
than the axe or saw. Some of the
most stringent laws of the Roman
commonwealth were: The Oppian
Lav; 215 BC. providing that no
woman should possess more than
one-hnlf ounce of gold or wear a
dress of different colors or ride in
a carnage in the city except on
cccasion-s of public rel gious cere-
monies. The Orchian Law 187 B.C..
limited the number of guest* at
entertainment* and the Fannian
Law. 161 B C. provided among oth-
er things that no fowl should be
served for guest* but a single hen
and that not fattened The code of
the Twelve Table* has provisions
limiting the expenditure on fune-
ral*.
Q. What does the name Squalus
iaf w it B.
A. The word squalus is Latin for
a large sea fu>h.
Q. Do many young proplr get
jobs through the National Youth
Administration? C R D.
A. In May the National Youth
Administration placed 9482 young
persons in positions in private in-
dustry.
Q. What is the longest talking
hook that has been made for the
blind? T.J.L.
A. Tiie longest work to have been
recorded so far is Scott's Tvanhoe”
which required thirty-five records.
Q. W'hat was the population of
Memphis Tennessee in 187(1? H.
L. P.
A The population of Memphis at
hat time was 40.226.
Q. Who was the first actor to
be knightrd? K.M.N.
A. In 1895 Sir Henry Irving re-
ceived the honor of knighthood
the first ever accorded an actor.
Q. Where Is the million dollar
liffanv glass curtain? LJ.
A It is in the Palace of F.ne
Arts at Mexico City and is the only
one of its kind in the world Com-
posed of thousands of pieces of
varicolored glmsr. the novel light-
ing arrangement reveals the snow-
crewned volcanoes of Popocatepel
and Ixtaccihuatl at sunrise midday
and sunset.
Q. How manr people are there
in the United States? C.W’.S.
A On July 1. 1938. the population
c! the United States was estimated
at 130 215.000.
Q. For whom Is Applegate Peak
in Crater Lake National Park nam-
ed? C.J.D.
A The peak Is named In honor
of Captain Oliver C Applegate.
Western pioneer and Indian fight-
er who spent his early years In
exploring and developing southern
Oregon and northern California.
Q. Pte^e give the names of a
lew American women whir design
clcthe*. K.J.M.
A Some of the best known de-
signers are Hattie Carnegie. Sally
Milgrim. nii/abeth Hawes. Muriel
King. Ftra Beneson Nettie Ro6en-
stein. Mabel Mdllvaln Downs. Re-
nee Montague. Helen Cookman.
Iiou'se Mi lligan. Vera Maxwell.
Dorothy Cox. and Louise Barnes
Gallagher. !
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* Answering Your
Questions About
CONSCRIPTION
By MILTON BROWER
Manager NEA Service-Brownsville
Herald Selective Service Infor-
mation Bureau
W AS HI NGTON—There are some
queer special provisions in the ar-
rangements for registration of pos-
sible selective service draftees on
Oct 16.
In every state the governor is.
in a way the general director of
the draft. In the great national
parks the director of the National
Park Service has been given a sta-
tus corresponding to that of the
governor of a state. The superin-
tendent dl each park is to perform
the same duties as the county
clerks in the states.
MlHon Brenner will an-
swer questions of The Herald
readers regarding ronsrrip-
lion rulings and interpreta-
tions. Address questions to
Milton Brenner manager
NE A-Brownsville Herald Se-
lective Service Information
Bureau. 1013 Thirteenth St.
S. W. Washington D. C. BE
SI RE TO ENCLOSE p-Mtagc
prepaid postcard or stamped
envelope self-addressed.
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This rule applies to these na-
Unal parks: Acadia. Bryce Canyon
Carlsbad Caverns Crater Lake
Glacier Orand Teton Lassen Vol-
canic. Mesa Verde Mount Raimer
Olympic Platt Rocky Mountain.
iSequoia. Shenandoah Wind Cave.
Yellowstone. Yosemite. Great Smoky
Mountains Mammoth Cave Grand
Canyon and Boulder Dam Recrea-
tional Area.
Register In Parks
On Oct. 16 all residents In the
parks and all visitors present will
register there.
Registration cards of residents
m the parks will be sent to the
local draft boards Cards of visi-
tors will be sent to the governors
of their home states and. from
there will be sent to the local draft
boards In the home towns of the
visitors.
There are In the United State*
about 335.000 Indians. They are i
the descendants of the original first
citzens of tills continent.
The Commissioner of Indian .Af-
fairs will 1 unction as to the Indian
reservations in the same capacity
as the governors of the states. The
superintendent of each reservation
will be Liie boss of the registration
there.
Indians who will register at reg-
ular registration places in their
area or wherever they happen to
be Oct. 16. are those in the states
of Kansas Louisiana. Michigan
Mississippi Nebraska. New York
Oklahoma and Texas and those
under the Hoopa Valley Mission
and Sacramento agencies in Cali-
tornia. the Northern Idaho agency
in Idaho the Consolidated Chip-
pewa Agency and Pipes tone School
in Minnesota the Turtle Mountain
and Standing Rock agencies in
North Dakota the Sisseton agency
in South Dakota and the Tulip and
Yakima agencies in Washington.
May Krgister Indiana Early
Where conditions warrant the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
may direct that registration begin
before Oct. 16. so the task will be
completed on that date.
It is expected that quite a num-
ber of young Indians may be in-
ducted into draft service this time
especially the men who have been
educated in the public and govern-
ment schools and who therefore
speak English l^erfectly.
In the last World War there
were quite a number of Indians
in the army and many served over-
seas.
Seneca Indians of New York State
are currently on the war path
against registering for conscription.
THIS CURIOUS WORLD
By WUlitir Ferguson *
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In
* Hollywood
By PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service SUff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD — While chewing
the ragout of veal with some pub-
licity genu at one of the studio
restaurants. I asked a# little accus-
ingly whether their craft is begin-
ning to take on dignity or scruples
or maybe some newborn caution
During the past two or three years
there have been deplorably few bold
or ingenious bally hood stunts and
it seems to me that all forms of
show business need a little circus-
type press-agentry to pep them up. j
No matter that publicity and
journalism are natural enemies or
that good reporters always will try
to expose or ignore fabricated
events and faked stones. Some of
the stunts turn into legiumste
news snd some sre merely smus-
mg. But they sll add to the color
and engaging fantasy of this cellu-
loid dream world. If you want to
see what happens to entertainment
when it gels stiff-necked look at
the Metropolitan Opera snd the
1 ire of its deficit.
Well the press agents stoutly
denied they have lost their fine
flair for invention but they gener-
ally admitted their business is less
fun these days. They said that al-
though Hollywood still likes to
i think of itself as a sort of gay
asylum its individuals all want to
be regarded as sensible citizens
and serious artistes. As for the
cinema itself executives are strong
for suppressing technical news in
order to preserve "the publics il-
lusions'* This meant that they
want you to believe that the hero
leally booted the villain into the
crater of a real volcano.
Worst of all. the boys told me.
is that players themselves no longer
will co-operate in making news.
When Bcbe Daniels was a top star
she approved a suggestion that she
ijet herself anested and jailed for
4'ceding—an adventure which would
ue in nicely with the title of a
picture she had just fim-hed Misi
Daniels drove down to Santa Ana.
where there was a notoriously tough
Judge played tag with a speed cop.
and spent 10 days in the pokey.
And then there was Reginald
Denny who didn't mind getting lost
at sea coincidentally with the re-
lease of one of his nautical epics.
He hid out in his yacht down near
Ensenada for three days at which
time the U. 8. Coast Guard began
a search. Warned of this. Denny
hastily put out into the ocean en-
countered a furious storm and came
doggoned near being really lost.
There Are Blonds and Blonds
One of th; things that set me to
thinking about the decline of in-
itiative in publicity was the true
story the other day about Joan
Blondell and some other tow-head
legally forming an organization
called Blonds. Inc. Tire j urpoe of
this non-profit corporation seems
to be to combat the notion that
blonds are dumb although the stunt
itself looks prima facie evidence of
goof mess.
Miss BlondfU’s press agent would
have had more fun with some such
device as Metro's eastern exploiters
dreamed up several years ago--for
"Blond Bombshell'* I believe. Set-
ting out to prove blends are more
amorous and emotionally respon-
sive than brunets they made a ma-
• chine covered with wires and dials
which looked like something out of
Major Hooples attic. Then they
hired a man to serve ns "scientist''
and railed In a flock of light and
dark-haired chorus girls.
Members of the press kissed the
euMes while the profe.-sor read the
dials and compiled data which of
course showed much stronger re-
actions from the blonds.
No one knew or cared then that
all but two of the blonds were
bleached brunets and that three
of the brunets were dved blonds
Everybody had a fine time.
HOW TO DODGE
MIDDLEMAN- >
FORMA CO-OP
Consumers Join Hands
To Sell Anything
From Auto Tires
To Soap
CHICAGO—Oct. 15 — Some
2.000 000 American people are try-
ing to dodge the "middle man" and
his profit.
Instead of buying the r groceries
:or instance at the private neigh-
bor. lood or chain Wore they pool
a few dollars apiece set up their
own groceiy store and hire a man
to run It for their.
Sometim*s the store'* prices are
the tame as other stores. Some-
times they are lover. But In any
case at the end of the year the
profit*. If any go not to the man-
ager. but back to the customer* {
The same principle can b? ap-
plied. and Is being applied in the
supply of everything from soap to
auto tires and Linder twine to gas-
oline. n
Other System*
It even Is be ng applied to in-
surance medical core and money-
'endmg. in which field. Instead of
paying legal interest rates that may
amount to W> per cent a year the
customer - proprietor* pay only 9
per cent.
These 2 000 000 people are the
members of consumers' cooperatives
which ex st In nearly every state
in the union. Last year they did a
lotal .Hisinr.s of 1600.000 000.
The system has been developing
since 1921 when farmers in Ohio
Michigan and Tndiana formed a
cooperative to "break" high retail
fertilizer prices which presently
dropped 35 par cent.
The system is no utopian panacea
for tlie nations economic troubl**.
A consumers' cooperative has the
same problem* of management of
an enterprise as a private opsrator.
When cooperative stores g v# spe-
cial services like deliveries arrtw
charge accounts the cui-tomervc
have to jav extra for them like the
custemers of any store gome co-
0 mt Uvea haw -.panded. g.v-
en too much credit and gone bro*e.
Fom* say lack of profit motive of-
ten falL* to attract sufficiently as-
tute maivger*.
Coop* Sare Pennies
But In general cooperative mem-
bers bv doing tlie work of organize-
!tion and admlnbtration themselvrs.
boast of garnering the marginal
pennies that ordinarily would go to
b private operator.
Cooperative business still const t-
1 lutes only a wry small part of the
nation's commerce but the move-
ment Is growing.
Wh'-n the cooperative movement’s
renfral organization. the cooperat-
ive league of the VS A. oo*ns Its
12th biennial convention here Oct.
16. will represent about 2 per
cent more nvriber.s than at its last
conclave. in 1938.
The big achievement tligt will be
marked at the coming convention
in the pushing of the consumer co-
operative principle bevond the field
of distribution Inti the realm of
production
Gasoline Distribution fy
An early cooperative enterprw
was ga.oline distribution The eon-
:mera bought wholesale from r*-
ftners and SCI up their own filling
stations. When the-* found that In
tht* vay they saved a* much a* 9
rent* a gallon so. th"v reasoned
why not can— th» Idea further ard
run th»ur own refinery to save th# 1
producer s profit. $ w
That worked too. and thev have
not only established refineries :n
Phillip1 burg Knv. Mt Vrmnn. Ind„
and Regina. Faskatchewan. but also
now have an oil ve'l of their own
In Rooks County. Ka*.t and are
uniting three more.
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French Colonies Break
With Petain Government
j FRANCE'S widespread colonial
1 empire has not capitulated to
Hitler Rumblings of revolt
against Petain's regime are evi-
dent in Syria Morocco. Madagas. i
car and Indo-China. French Equa- J
torial Africa has joined Gen.
Charles de Gaulle in continuing
the war against Germany. In the
Pacific New Caledonia and Ta-
hiti support de Gaulle.
The fighting forces of the
French colonies were honored
with the stamp above one of the
first issues of 1940. Surtax of this
stamp and a second of the set was
designated for families of soldiers.
France's colonial possessions
before the war were second only
to Britain's. Established during
the period of France's greatness
the empire included some 71.000.-
000 persons in territories totaling
4.687000 square miles.
French possessions in America
are St. Pierre and Miquelon
Guadalupe. Martinique French
Guiana and Inini With a total of
65.419 square miles and 592600
population.
WEATHERLY* HOME *
SAN BENITO — Mr. and Mrs L
M. Weatherly have returned from
a visit at Odem with thetr son
Audley Weatherly and his wife
infant daughter. Carolyn Di:
Audlev Weatherly Is a former t iVM
Benito resident *
Consolidated Life Insurance Statistics Show That Women Live Longer Than Men Again Proving Paint Is a Good Preserver
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