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Ccnoura 151 Kagt; College Street Covlna. California Published Every Thursday by GABRIEL VALLEY NEWSPAPERS, INC. wm 1 Pr dciu Corwin C. HoRland, Vice-Present A. Q.

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Covlna Citizen adjudicated Ifirch 12, 1934, decree No. 369,277. Member ot the California Newspapei Publishers Association, National Editorial Association, Los Ankelcs Newspaper Service Bureau, and United Press Association. The Covlna Argus-Citizen cannot be responsible for unsolicited manuscripts or photographs. No payment is made for verse.

The Covlna Argus'- Citizen has been tha recipient of numerous state and national for general excellence among weekly Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of Covinn, California, under terms of the Act of Mnrch 3, 1879. The Covlna Argus Citizen adjudicated July 31, 1952, decree No. 601,559. Covina Argus adjudicated March 12, 1934, decree Roots Go Deep This is the time of year again when we give thought to the preparation for citizenship of our boys and girls. The occasion is California's 35th annual Public Schools Week which recently commanded national attention when it was awarded the George Washington Medal of the Freedoms Foundation at historic Valley Forge.

There arc anniversaries in our life that have deep significance. Such as the birthdays of Lincoln and Washington, Memorial Day in commemoration of the men who gave their lives to save the Union, the Fourth of July in observance of the bravest declaration of freedom that men ever drew up, and Armistice Day which again proved that Americans would lay down their lives for precious principles. And so it is fitting that the Public School, as American as Lincoln and Washington, should have a special time of the year assigned to it. Back in 1787 Thomas Jefferson wrote in the adoption of ordinances for the government of territories vet to be annexed to the Union: "Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government, schools and the means of education shall be forever encouraged." And it is significant that years later the present Chief Justice of the United States sent this message to the people of his home state: "There is no instrumentality of our community thai so clearly represents our hopes and our opportunities as the Public School." The purpose of Public Schools Week is to acquaint the public with the work the schools are doing. An informed public is an alert public.

The most vicious fifth column in a democracy is apathy. You can do your part during Public Schools Week by visiting one or more of your neighborhood schools. Kxcise Tax Guts The $1 billion yearly slash in excise taxes which went into effect recently isn't a great deal when divided amongst 160 million Americans. But it means less strain on the family purse and the difference will permit more purchases during the year, or if saved, will add up to an appreciable sum over a period of several years, especially for a family of four or five. Phone users, theater goers, camera fans will find costs lower.

The lady of the house can now get appliances for less. Fans at professional football games will have only 10 per cent instead of 20 in tax to pay, while at college games the 20 per cent tax will be no more- People who travel" will do so at more advantageous rates, milady's beauty costs touch the pocketbook more lightly and who like Jewelry will be happy with the new prices. jflir'a special note-to'husbands, w6 wish to point out that a $1500 mink coat for the little woman will now set you back a mere $1375. It's not expected that the tax cuts will set off a buying spree but it will surely put people into a better frame of mind for spending for needed things. To say the least, that won't hurt business.

April History Within the 30 days which the calendar allots to April more vital events have probably occurred than in any other month of the year. April marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War, the Spanish-American War, World War and the start and finish of the Civil War. One of the most remarkable coincidences in history occurred in April just nine years ago when within the space of 18 days, thrco of the national leaders in World War II met death. Franklin Roosevelt passed away suddenly on April 12, Italy's Benito Mussolini died violently at the hands of a mob on April 28 and two days later Adolf Hitler took his own life as the Russians closed in on his Berlin bunker. Abraham Lincoln died April 16, 1865; the San Francisco earthquake occurred April 18, 1906; and the UN was born in the same city on April 25, 1945.

TownQiafter by The Staff Vital Experience "Please Mom, may I have a puppy?" "Please, please, please, I'll take care of him, you won't have to do a thing, and Jimmy gave me this one for nothing please Mom?" A vital 'Of grqwing up is caring for a pet, And think of all the practical experience'they, get! It has to be kept clean and fed, And trained to stay off Moth-' er's bed. And when you find out it's a "She," The cares are multiplied by three. A pet's a teacher, like some other, The one that learns though- is the Mother! Kent. IN EVERYDAY LANGUAGE A safe deposit box is a metal box locked inside a steel compartment in our vaults to safeguard the valuables of our customers: a stronghold within a stronghold. HERE'S WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU You can safeguard your important papers and valuable articles against loss, fire, low cost, in a safe deposit box here.

Come in and rent one this week. Open Friday Evenings 6 to 8 P.M. CovntA. CALIFORNIA Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FROM THE SPARKS NEWS CIRCUIT by James Dorais SPttiNG A MANS PAN-CV ANO.IF THE FEELING IS MUTUAL, IS LAUNCHED. HERE IN AWERICA.Oy TRAPITIOM ANP YOUNG PEOPLE ENJOV FREEPOM OF CHOICE IN PAIRING OFF FOR THE YEARiS AHEAD.

Callfornians interested in the industrial welfare of their State will hope for the successful future of a brand new organization which is celebrating jts establishment in San Francisco this month, the California Ports and Terminals Bureau. A cooperative endeavor of ports and shipping concerns, the Bureau has been organized to foster the development of maritime trade. The new organization will be confronted by many problems. For far too many years, California shipping has been beset by serious troubles. Labor disputes have tied up West Coast ports in the past on too many occasions to mention.

Another serious problem has been the adverse effect on Pacific trade since the lowering of the bamboo curtain in China. Not the least of the maritime industry's problems has been the attitude of an important segment of Washington officialdom' that there is no particular in maintaining a strong American merchant marine. The recent report of the Randall Commission on foreign trade policies 60 AGO April 21, 1894) A new boy and heir made his appearance at the Kellum home Wednesday He is said to possess great natural vocal powers and has given several private exhibitions already. Straw hats arc making their appearance on the streets. will be observed in Covina next week, culminating in a joint program to be given Friday evening in the high school.

Each school in the district will bring its contribution to the program. The high' School boys have apr pointed, a committee 'to incubate a hew yell. W. Hibsch has purchased the Allison residence property on Badillo avenue. This is rather a suspicious move for a good looking young bachelor to make.

ANP HERE, A VOONG COUPLE HAS THE AOVAMTAOC ANQTHE nesPONSiQiury OF THOSE BASIC FREEDOMS WHICH AR.S THE HERITAGE OF ALL AMERICA- THE FREEDOMS OF THOUGHT; WORSHIP AND OPPORTUNITY. THEY ARE FREE TO LIVE WHERE THEY VVANTj TO CHOOSE THEIIt WORK AND TO DEVELOP THEIR OWN PATTERN OF LIVING. THEY HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY op PROVIDING FOR THEIR. OWN FAMILY'S NEEDS, PRESENT AND FUTURE -AND OF ACTIVE PARTICIPATION, AS CITIZENS, IN THE COMMUNITV AND THE NATION. THINKING OUT LOUD by RALPH SARSTOW "Freedom is worth having and no amount of security will buy it." There was a little neighborly misunderstanding out on the San Bernardino road one day last week.

Hatchets and 2x4 scantlings were flying around promiscuously, but no funerals have yet taken place. A team belonging to Irvin Greeley ran away Thursday evening, and brought up against the telephone pole opposite the drug store. The only serious result was that the outside world was disconnected with Covina for the tifhe being. 50 YEARS AGO (April 23, 1904) The newly elected city trus tees, E. H.

Lahee, C. E. Bemis, and A. R. Evans, took the oath of office at a special meeting of the old board Monday evening and were welcomed to their position by the retiring chairman E.

G. Clapp. It was Henry Thoreau who, back in the 1850s, asked, "Have we used up our inherited freedom?" It was a sound question then and it becomes more pointed now. Conditions like freedom have a do keep on, long after the initial drive has ceased. Not at the same rate.

The pace slackens little by so imperceptibly that the casual observer will not notice it. But it does slacken. How long did it take the Roman Empire to "decline and Several hundred years, wasn't it? Our security-seeking people keep dreaming that "the government" can of them. They fool themselves i thie It was naturally a matter of some surprise when it became known on Tuesday that a deal had been consummated by which Herman W. Hellman, president of the Merchants' National Bank of Los Angeles, Dr.

J. A. Graves and D. K. Dickenson, men who stand foremost in the financial circles of the state, had purchased a controlling interest in the First National Bank and Covina Valley Savings Bank, securing the C.

H. Ruddock and F. M. Douglass stock. recommended tKat more American cargoes be turned over to foreign.ships, holding that the loss to shipping was here unimportant compared to the benefit to be derived in enabling foreign countries to earn more dollars.

The recommendations of the Randall Commission have been widely criticised by those familiar with conditions in the West Coast shipping industry. Representative John F. Shelley of San Francisco, formerly president of the California State Federation of Labor, charged in Congress that the Commission was influenced by "some starry- eyed people who continue to take the position that we need not have an American Merchant Marine, but can depend upon vessels of other friendly Nations. We have found by experience we cannot depend on foreign fleets," he declared. Rudolf S.

Hecht, chairman of the Committee of American Steamship Lines, protested in a letter to the Commission that the recommendations "interpret United States needs for American merchant ships in terms of available foreign ships and in terms of the needs of foreign countries for American dollars not a sound basis on which to establish and maintain an American merchant marine. Existing legislation, Mr. Hecht pointed out. specifies that not less than 50 per cent of the United States foreign- aid cargoes be shipped on American flag vessels, which means that conversely, the other 50 per cent is available fox foreign ships. "We know of no other American industry that has been asked to hand over 50 per cent of a large part of its business to its competitors," Mr.

Hecht observed. The shipping industry is of vital importance to all just to the coastal port cities, but to the inland areas that grow the crops and manufacture the goods transported on the ships of California registry. In its efforts to solve some of the serious problems that vex the industry, the new Ports and Terminals Bureau will have statewide support. The Indonesian language, basically Malay in content, contains mariy words from Sanskrit, Dutch, Arabic and other languages. Modern scientific terminology adopted by the young Indonesian republic is mainly of Greek' and Latin origin as it is in English.

Indonesian is the official tongue of 83,000,000 persons. the deluston); irt thinking i is what the form of many taxes. I've heard it said "Only a fool buy a. ride in his own car" but isn't that just what they are doing? ,9 Not quite. They chuckle to themselves, thinking that they do not pay the taxes.

No, the rich folks pay the taxes and we get ours from the taxes they pay to the government. What a sorry dream that is. In one- way or another, everything everybody uses is taxed. Some things are double taxed. That is, a tax is computed on top of a previous tax.

A rather attractive young woman was hired to give away free samples of chewing gum to passers-by on the street. At the end of her first day, she met a friend who said, "I hear you are going to get married soon." The answer was, "Yes, next month." The friend said, "That's wonderful! What are you doing meantime?" and the young woman replied, "Nothing much. Just giving away free samples." Obstacle Course Dancing is the thing these days on the TV screen. It is something like a gymkhana. The stage is cluttered with fountains, trees, chairs, tables and other odds and ends and the trick is to do your whirlwind dance without knocking over anything.

The' male partner nowadays has to prepare for his dancing performances with a course in weight lifting. He has to carry the gal around on his shoulder, on his hip, on his head and by any portion of the gal's anatomy he can grab as she gaily tosses herself at him. Is this dancing? "A writer, almost by definition, is a person incapable of is what keeps him at his post," observes E. B. White (himself no mean is he?) and this may explain why a number, of my paragraphs express dissatisfaction.

I'd never thought of it he may have something. But, how about the Pollyannas? Do they rate as writers? Shucks, a writer is a person who writes. Anybody can do it and most people do. Crowds of people fascinate and horrify me. It is my ambition always to watch crowds from a safe and great distance.

Crowds seem so unutterably wrong. The last crowd I saw was in the movie "Julius Caesar" the picture was recent but the crowd was ancient. Yet it behaved precisely they way crowds'of Germans behaved when they listened to Hitler; the way crowds listened to Stevenson, Roosevelt (F.D.), Truman, and any and all spell binders. As I remarked to Fred Lavelle, "They'll cheer for Many of the people who shouted "Hosanna" on that first Palm Sunday were also the people who cried "Crucify Hun!" just a few days later. Those 5,000 Easter Eggs still fascinate me.

How can you hide 5,000 eggs? Especially in the City Park where there are only benches, grass in spots, a merry-go-round and swings. And they tell me that there are always some children who cannot find an egg and who sob convulsively with envy and chagrin until a kind soul dips into a prepared reserve and dishes out an egg forsooth, not able to find an egg among 5,000. Who hard boils all. those eggs? Who colors them? And, land o' goshen, who hides them? Yea who pays for them? "What 'do you do when your employer buzzes?" asked one stenog of another. "Oh, I just pick up my pencil and note book and answer the buzzard promptly," said the, other.

The flower the Covina Woman's club wHl hold its spring flower show Friday afternoon. Bill Hunter, director of inter- tercollegiate athletics at the University of Southern California; Howard Jones, head coach at U.S.C.,- and Frank Hadlock, president of the U.S.C. alumni association, will be speakers tonight before the Covina Men's club meeting. Mme. Ellen Beach Yaw has this week started the erection, of a new home of the Spanish type on her hill property just south of Covina, between the residences of her sister and husband, Mr.

and Mrs. Ben Thorpe. 10 YEARS AGO (April 28, 1944) Some thirty-eight representatives of local churches attended a meeting Saturday night, presided over by J. D. Monday, and organized a body "for the fellowship and unity of members of many churches in their effort for righteousness in the community." California Says: Significant Statements by Interesting Citizens DOUG PLEDGGER, S.F.

disc this about more unsuitable the program, the more quiet it keeps the children." GORDON SOLTAU, S.F. '49er fans are ready for a championship team in fact, they've been ready for eight years." WALTER CREIGHTON, State Div. of Narcotics Enforcement are seeing the age group in narcotics users grow younger each year." TOM ALSTON, $100,000 St. Louis Card rookie, up from San getting this chance because of what Lefty taught me about hitting." PETER J. SHIELDS, retired judge, on 92nd "I like the rapid changes in modern life.

They keep me looking ahead rather than back to a day upon which the book is closed." EDMUND E. Kremer, L.A., former police old- time saloon was a church compared to its modern counterpart." Following the driest April for several years, the storm which had been prevailing elsewhere in the state finally reached Wednesday. Total precipitation from that time until noon yesterday was 1.01 inches. Resale of the Wahl drug store is announced this week by its recent purchaser, Earl R. Bushard to Charles B.

Edwards of Long Beach. The postmaster general has set April 29 as the date for the competitive examination to fill the vacancy in the position of postmaster in Covina. An automobile wreck resulting in the instant death of one boy and serious injury to another, occurred on the curve at the intersection of Fifth street and Foothill boulevard Saturday. The stockholders of Warner, Whitsel and company, the'largest grocery firm in the San Gabriel Valley, held their annual meeting Wednesday. The corporation reports a most successful year, having increased their trade 40 per cent.

Friday evening, the mem- school Annual meeting of the Covina Highlands Civic association was held Tuesday evening. The meeting went on record unanimously opposing any' exploration or development for oil in the Highlands area. debate with the Monrovia high school. The question to" be debated is: "Resolved, that the railroads of the United States should be owned operated by the federal government." 25 YEARS AGO (April 19, 1929 An illuminated gas-electric- gas sign, ten feet long and three and one half feet wide, bearing the name of Finch Brothers, jewelers and optometrists, was placed in operation this week over the store, marking one of the improvements in connection with the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the business by Tom and Raymond Finch. 5 YEARS AGO (AprU 15.

1949) A blow was dealt the proposed Baldwin Park high school plant this week, from the Los Angeles 'ty recommended disapproval of the site at tSe northeast, corner of Puente and Root avenues in Baldwin Park for use as school purposes, The Easy Way Isn't Always Best Reading the dispatches from San Francisco the past couple of weeks, concerning the fireworks over the firing of the.Director of the city's Redevelopment Agency, one would think that S.F.'s famed City Hall had blown its dome. Now that the excitement has simmered down and the dome seems firmly back in place, it's of interest to San Francisco's neighbors to appraise the controversy, for the basic issue involved is important not just in city government, but in county, State and national government as well. The issue is this: who should bs responsible for determining the policy of government boards and commissions the members of the boards themselves or the staff employees they hire? In the San Francisco situation, a long standing problem of disharmony between Agency members and staff was resolved when the Agency fired its paid Director. Because he was an able and popular man, many groups and individuals violently protested his removal, challenged the Agency's right to dismiss him, and even demanded that the Agency members resign. The Agency members, however, stuck by their guns.

They declared that it was their responsibility to establish policies and the employees' responsibility, to follow- thosfr policies. pjisi- 1 A significant milestone in the of the Covina exchange of the Associated Telephone company was reached this week when the district's telephone was installed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Vaniman, 436 S. San Jose avenue.

Public School Week, fostered by the Masonic order each year, SHADE OF Because it happened in Boston, home of Horatio Alger, the wire services tpok note of a speech before the New England Council of Industrial Opportunity in. which an executive declared: "The majority of young men today are good-natured slobs; thousands resist promo. tions because they don't want to be lifted out of a rut." Commented one r-eporter: "Cemetery 'keepers noted a whirling sound from the grave of the author of 'By Pluck, Nat 'Risen From the and 'Making His Way'." But sleep on, Horatio! All is not. lethargy on the ladder of success. Probabljr that executive was feeling out of sorts, or a bit bilious, when he made that woeful talk.

The hottest days of the year gave weekend beach-goers perfect weather this week as the temperatures soared into the middle 90's. With only seven days remaining before the deadline, only one man, Glenn White, had filed for the two vacancies to occur this year on the Covina union high school board of trustees. Though he had not yet made application, James D. Reed, has signified his intention to fill for the other vacancy. James G.

Hodges, president of the board, has stated he does not plan to run for reelection. Cisco's Mayor Elmer Robinson, who withstood considerable pres-, ure to back their stand as a matter of principle. There are all. too many examples, at all levels of government, of staffs giving orders to commissioners instead of the other way around. The alphabet agencies that sprang up with the New Deal were famous for that.

Many of the State Board of Equalization's present woes obviously have been caused by ready delegation of authority to the staff. We all know of school boards, and water district boards, and rate-fixing boards, who abdi- ate their responsibilities on their professonal staffs. One reason, of course, is obvious: it's the easiest way for board members who are busily engaged in other activities. No matter how'competent the professional staff, when the legally constituted members of government agencies allow themselves to become rubber stamps and avoid the responsibilities for policy decisions, representative government is the loser. Irrespective of the personalities and side issues involved, in the San Francisco controversy government came out on top.

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