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county Jail but sentence was sus-
pended during the good behavior Of
he defendant. Stephens was ar
rested following an automobile ac-
cldent at tie intersection of the
San Diego and Imperial highways
last week. j. p. Smith, driver of
the other car figuring in the crash,
was the complainant.
Phone 96e, Todd Poultry Ranch.
1852 Woodward. Turkeys, fat hens,
fryers, soft. bone roostcrs, dressed
10 order. adv
We Have Not raised the price of
Bread. National Bakery. adv
The Gertrade N. Bower School.
Tuition, $12 per school month
Books furnished. Gertrude N. Bow
er, e. A, A. NJ, 603 Park Ave.
Phone 1855. adv
Grcenwell Cited to Court-An or
der to show cause WAS issued by
Judge A. c. Finney this morning in
the case Of Nell Greenwell against
Aaron Greenwell. The order de
rlands the presence of the defend
ant in court on Friday morning to
show cause why he should not be
held in contempt of court and pun
iShcd accordingly for failure to pay
attorneys fees in accordance with
the Judgment rendered by the court
III the case.
Genuine Pyrex Ware and Holders,
Christmas patterns. Edgar Bros.
Hardware. adv
Gas Heaters, Gas Floor Furnaces,
Hot Water Boilers. Steam Rad1a-
tors. Call 241. Cheapest and best.
adv
Bank Changes Name - The San
Diego Savings Bank has been grant
cd privilege to change its name to
the San Diego Trust and Savings
hanl; by order of the superior court
The decree was granted by Judge
Andrews in San Diego county and
a COPY of the court s decision was
filed at the county clerk S office
here this morning.
DR.. A. B. ransun, Dentist, Davis
Bldg. Extraction specialist. adv
Parissenne Beauty Shoppe. 127 n.
Fifth st. Phone 7S3. adv
Grapefruit CuIls for sale at
wholesale prices. Packing House,
Commercial and n. Third. adv
Buy Your Christmas cards now
Office Supply Co. Open evening
until Christmas. adv
Typewriter. Dr.. Fix-It Shop.
adv
Electric Heaters. With solid cop.
per reflector. Fully guaranteed fol
one year. 1885. Valley Lumber Co.
adv
Fuller Brush Company reprcsen-
tative is located at 764 Olive, El
Centre. Phone 1016. adv
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NEWS BRIEFS
From City and County

clothing and "A rifle. Their stories,
however, satisfied Judge Perkins
that they had committed no crimes
and they were released with u
warning.
Buy Your Christmas cards now.
Office Supply Co. Open evenings
until Christmas. adv
Let US Warm your house for
Xmas. Call 241. adv
Cars in Crash.-A minor autome-
h'le accident was reported to po-
Ice headquarters last night. Ran
Gdll Baker and j. l.. Farmer wee
the drivers Of the cars which fig
l red in the clash at the intprscc-
tien Of Sixth and Orange streets
according to the report Baker was
going south on Sixth street AID
I;ade turn into Orange. The ears
crashed as TIE turn was being
m1de, Farmer going east ON Orange
street at the time. No one was in
.ured bus both ears were quite bad.
ly damaged.
Have Your House pipc6 for gas
by FL Centre Plumbers. Fncne 529J
ad,
We Have Not raised the price of
Bread. National Bakery. adv
Admits Having Weapon. - Frank
ortcga entered a plea Of guilty to
a charge Of carving concealed
weapon when arraigned before
.'Hdge !. MaYficld Yesterday after
noon. The defendant was sentenced
to spend 60 DAYS in the county laii
and was rcmanded to the custody of
tie sheriff. Ortcga was arrested a
lew days ago by G.. w. Wright.
ccputy sheriff, who appeared as
complaining witnesses in the case.
Panl's Specrar. T,esh rutterei OF
Sweet Pop Corn, Orangcade, Lemon.
ade and Hires. Pickwick Stages.
1Stf
Sporting Goods, everything for
quito door games. Edgar Bros. Hard
ware. adv
Electric Toasters. With selfturn,
ing feature to prevent burning of
the fingers. Special at $3.50. Valley
Lumber Co. adv
Gets Suspended Sentence. !.
stephens Of Seelcv district was
found guilty bv Judge |. MavficH
on charge of reckless driving fol
lowing = bearing in the case vcster-
day afternoon. Stephens was sen
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-20

General Dawes has announced he
is not candidate for the presi-
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-20

What thisco untry needs is not
more companiCnate marriage but \
rW less uncompanionate ones.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-20

Phcne 96e, Todd Poultry Ranch.
loS2 Woodward. Turkeys, fat hens,
f"yers, soft bone roostcrs, dressed
10 order. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-20

We Have Not raised the price of
Bread. National Bakery. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-20

Have Your House pipeo for gas
by FL Centro Plumbers. Fncne 529J.
ad,
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-20

The Gertrade N. Bower School.
Tuition, $l2 per school month.
Books furnished. Gertrude N. Bow
er, E. A., A. NJ, 603 rark Ave.
Phone 3S5. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-20

Electric Heaters. With solid cop.
per reflector. Fully guaranteed fol
one year. 1856. Valley Lumber Co.
adv
Fuller Brush Company reprcsen-
tative is located at 764 Olive. FL
Centre. Phone 1016. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-20

clothing and rifle. Their stories,
however, satisfied Judge Perkins
that they had committed no crimes
and they were released with %
warning.
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-20

Genuine Pyrex Ware and Holders,
Christmas patterns. Edgar Bros.
Hardware. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-12-20

Gas Heaters, Gas Floor Furnaces,
Hot Water Boilers. Steam Radla-
tors. Call 241. Cheapest and best.
adY
Evening star., 1927-03-06

smith were recited by Mrs. NJ. T.
Ewing.
National WOman's Party-At tea
to be held at headquarters. Il First
street northeast this afternoon, DR..
Henry b. Hazard will speak on citi-
zenship laws affecting women. DIR.
Hazard is chief naturalization exam
iner of the Bureau of immigration of
the Department of Labor. Miss Emma
Void. practicing attorney of Wash
ington. will preside at the meeting
Miss Void is legislative secretary of
the National WOman's Party and is
regarded as an authority on naturaliz
tion and citizenship laws affecting
women. Miss Margaret Lambie. q
member of the National Council OF
the Woman's Party, will be hostess at
the tea table
Writerscraft Club-At the last meet
ing Miss Ruth Fishel read an original
story called The Mountain Nymph.
1t was received with enthusiasm by
the listeners. Due TO illness in her
family. Mrs. T.. w Davidson. who
was also on the program. could not
read one of her stories. so the story
was held over until next week. \
published story, entitled "Detour.
was read by the presiding officer, Mrs
Weber, for the purpose of studying IT.
Miss Virginia Patterson was ad
mitted to the club. Another meeting
Will be held Thursday at pm. al
the Mount Pleasant Library. when tbs
program will consist of Mrs. David
sons story. one by Miss Green ant
one by Mr.. Mclaughlin. Visitors in
terested in writing are invited to the
meeting.
WOman's Community Club of Ken
singtOn-The domestic arts depart
ment will meet in the domestic science
room of the Kensington School eacf
Tuesday at ] pm. The china paint
ing class is doing naturalistic. con
ventional and luster work under the
direction of Mrs. George II. Snyder
Glasses in crochet rug making anC
hooked rug making are being con
Mrs. Spencer Bean.
At the monthly meeting of the lit
erature department held at the home
of Mrs ii. M. Milburn Monday. Mrs
Clarence E. Miles read a paper on the
life and works of Lord Byron, and
Mrs. Walter c. Scott. jr.. read paper
on the life and works of Sir Walter
Scott. The program also included the
reading of poems by these two poets
followed by Il general discussion
The next meeting of the literature de
partment will be held at the home OF
Mrs. W. T.. Parker. March rs, at pm
The music department will hold its
next meeting at the home of Mrs
George II. Snyder, March 7, at 1875
am.
Lincoln WOman's Relief Corps. No
6, met February % in G.. \. K. Hall
The meeting was called to order by
the president Mrs. Ella Orr. Nationa
general orders No. were read. Two
applicants were initiated into the
order. Following the flag salute. re
freshments were served by Mrs. Orr
and Mrs. Bricker. There were two
visitors, one from WarrentOn. Va.
and a comrade from Gushing Camp.
Florence Crittenden Circle-Chevy
Chase Chapter will be addressed anC
entertained formally at tea by Mrs
Reba Barrett Smith. daughter of the
late DIR. Kate Waller Barrett, at hel
home, 40S Duke street. Alexandria
Va, on Tuesday at 2:30 pm. AL
members are urged to attend and any
one desiring transportation should
communicate with Mrs. f. B. Pretty
mann. Phone Cleveland 1886.
Zonta Club.-Dean Wilbur of George
! Washington University viii be th'
honor guest at the Wednesday
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luncheon, ! pm. Of the club. at the
| Hotel Raleigh. Dean Wilbur will
speak on Shipping Out of Noanch
| Harbor When Sailing Vessels Were
on the Seas"
/ BY vote Of the members at the last
meeting a convention song was chosen
and an award of $40 given to tha
! convention team of which the COM
/ poser. Mrs. Amelia Guide Thomas, is
| a member. The song is a jolly greet
| ing sung to the tune Of Il Want To
| Be Happy" from NO. No Nannette."
! Mrs. Charles G.. Hartung was n
! guest of Mrs. Nan Street. and Miss
| Rhea Fulghum Of Miss Maud Harper.
| The Dahlgren Terrace CritteniOn
| Circle celebrated it's tenth anniversary
at the monthly business meeting Feb
ruary "a. The circle was entertained
at luncheon by Mrs. T.. J. Duties and
Mrs. NJ. w. Lewis at the home Of
Mrs. Duties. 2412 Twelfth street
northeast.
| The guests of honor were Mrs. 7.
| f. Robertson. president of the home
| board: Mrs. A. u. McManus. first
president and organizer OF the Dahl
gren Terrace Circle, and Miss Cole.
superintendent of the home.
a brief business session. at which
the president. Mrs A. w. Cummings,
presided. was followed by a program
in honor of the anniversary.
Mrs Robertson extended the greet
ings Of the home board and explained
some of it's activities. she also eN-
pressed the appreciation of the board
for the activities of each individual
circle
Mrs. McManus. who worked untir-
| ingly to give the circle start, eN-
pressed pleasure at its growth.
The vice president, Mrs. A. c. Proc
tor, read an original poem written In
honor of the occasion,
TO bring a fitting close to the pro
gram. Miss Cole talked about the
everyday activities of the girls at the
home
The WOman's Club of Chevy Chase,
Md.-The music section gave colo
| nial musical tea at the home OF Mrs.
| Henry y. BraWner. $500 Ritten-
house street, February %, at 2:3O pm.
| Nearly one hundred were present.
The hostesses and those on the pro
gram were dressed as colonial DANES
and many lovely costumes were seen.
Mrs. Roy s. Stewart and Mrs. Lyles
Offutt poured, while others assisting
the hostess were Mrs. Campbell Mrs.
| Waters, Mrs. Stanley. Mrs. Wolfe.
Mrs Roger. Mrs. Wells, L. w. Nor
cross. G.. F. Stuhler and Misses Sarah
Brawner, Frances Darr and Elizabeth
| Wagner.
The following program was given:
Piano selections. "Saraband," Bach:
| "Tamburin-R Rameau," Godowsky, by
Elizabeth Gardner Coombs. Paper.
Colonial Music" by Mrs. Clarence
Dawson Vocal solo. Drink to Me
Only With Thine Eyes" Mozart:
within q Mile of Edinboro Town,
! McCulloch. by Dorothy Halback.
Illustrated. "Old English Airs.
pianist, Mrs. Harry Cunningham.
Vocal. Wed Better Bide a Wee,
Barnard; LAS We Part" Ilge Fritz.
by Dorothy Halback. Plano. Irish
Air" Granger; gavotte. Gluck. Brahms.
by Elizabeth Gardner Coombs. The
program was arranged by Mrs. Car!
+. Stuhler
March II, at pm, the nature sec
tion will meet with Mrs. Ellery &.
| Stowell. 1884 Oliver street. There will
be a talk on THE Use of Birds in the
Garden" Springtime walks will he
| taken Tuesdays, 10 am, from the
circle.
TakOma Park Civic Study Club
held it's monthly meeting in the ball
room of the Takona Theater Tuesday,
Continued on Fifteenth Page)
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The Cultus Club met recently at the
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catur's steel fingers caught the wrist
as il drove down.
Only now did he remember the
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so important. Grammar school or
two years of high school should be
enough. Those of merely average in
telliGenCe do better than those who
pass mental test necessary for a
good minor executive. The personal
ity must be alert. reasonably and
agreeably aggressive. courteous. re.
sponSiVe, convincing free from IA
tendency to introspectiOn and mental
SOSSiping with themselves, and. above
all, interested in people and be able to
make even passing contacts easily and
pleasantly.
This type of person is ~ own to psy-
chiatriSts as an eXtroVert-a person
more interested in turning his atten-
ton to and dealing with people and
things around him than in preoccupy-
ing himself with ideas and the inter
probation and meaning of life.
In this second group, known as in
troverts, we find many of the success
full poets, inventors, philosophers and
artists. The introVerted. shut-in, day
dreaming individual, who waits for the
customer to speak rather than sensing
his needs and interests. does not make
a good salesclerk. Neither does the
neurotic. self-centered employer, over
solicitious of his own bodily ills. whose
mind is mainly concentrated on him.
self and his own personal problems;
nor the disgrunted, dissatisfied, super
Cilious. cynical employe, whose atti-
tude toward people and life in general
is distorted, abnormal and unhealthy.
OF course, such individuals are usually
poor personal risks in any sort of Job,
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but sometimes they turn out well in
office positions where they do not
have to come in close contact with
others.
Those qualities which make for sue
cess at Cashiering, that involve motor
speed and deXterity, a high degree Of
accuracy in handling figures and
money, interest in things rather than
people, ability to maintain high de-
gree of psychological tension and con.
centrate effectively on a routine job in
small space, might well produce
failure in work such as merchandising
or selling goods. The reverse is also
true the good salesman may make a
poor cashier
The good cashier may make a poor
marker; intelligence, mental alertneSs,
interest in figures and types of person.
atty makeup useful in clerical work
would, If used in selecting markers
undoubtedly produce a large turnover
among employees. For straight, sim.
pie marking-a monotonous task
only fair intelligence and education OF
less than grammar school gradua ton
is not only sufficient but desirable.
x X y
ELLEN T. aged 20. was a
cashier-and a poor one. She
made frequent errors in handling
change. and found it difficult to hold
her attention to her work, which she
said was "mOnotonous and uninter-
esting." Figures and money had lit
tie hold on, her. and she found herself
constantly listening to the converse.
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personality makeup, or their drive is
misdireCtCd, or they are held back by
unhealthy mental preocCupations or
faulty habits and attitudes, or inferi-
GRITTY feelings, anxiety states, fears
and hatreds. unsatisfied longings, IRA
tional thinking, pcSsimiStic moods,
violent prejudiCes. obsessing reVerles
or emotional disSa tiSfactions. Such
elements are the background of fail
ure.
To one who has studied large mum.
bers of young workers on the job, who
has witnessed their failure, and who
has devoted much time to working out
adjustments in individual cases, it Is
hard to understand why the worker
himself does not recognize the situa-
ton as 1t really is and frankly admit
his own personal responsibility for
failure why he does not seek within
his own personality for an eXplana-
ton OF his failure and, what is more
important. basis for future success;
why he does not intelligently work
out his salvation through an honest
effort at reconStructinG his own ma
turC. reforming his own personality
rather than trying to change his de-
partment or his job or society in
general
This right attitude toward job fail
I'll e on the part of the individual him
self is essential for really good ad-
/ justive efforts at work; yet it is often
lacking in those who change jobs fire.
quently. who are dissatisfied with the
jobs they have. who are disturbed at
not getting ahead, and kSho wish TO
fina exactly the right sort of work
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nosis and conscious responsibility for
preventing factor that later lead to
such unfortunate results.
* x
THE conditions that lead to work
failure are frequently recogniz-
able through proper individual meth
DDS of study early in the employees
work career and at a time when suit
able abusive efforts give promise Of
results. BY this one means there are
possible results not only in terms of
human salvage but in terms OF in
creased production and in terms Of
dollars and cents.
The reasons for Job failure are
many and varied. Probably 15 per
cent of such failures are due to seri-
Gus physical conditions calling for
medical treatment. The remaining
So per cent are due to actual inability
10 perform the task, to definite de-
fects of personality or to temporary
influences of the environment.
Most people fail in life or in work
not because of poor intelligence or
lack of ability, lht because they can
not or do not use properly the abili-
ties they possess. Though ambitious
in Il visionary sort Of way to be
something else that what they really
are and insisting that they wish to
amount to something some day. they
have not that urge and definiteness
Of work purpose to do we'll the thing
at hand the Aask facing them. Either
they haven't sufficient drive in their
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Odd Lunar Visitors.

a L various points on the Atlantic
coast. particularly in New Jersey.
there have been found queer hollow
balls, or masses, of yellow iron ore
containing loose particles that rattle
when shaken like the contents of a
child's rattle box. 1t is thought that
when the concretions of ore were
formed the central parts consisted
principally of some material that
afterward dissolved away, so that the
interior space now contains only frag-
ments Of ore and sand. When these
balls are broken the fractured edges
sometimes show beautiful bands of red
and yellow.
Billion. an island, lying between
Sumarta and Borneo, has long been
noted for it's tin mines controlled by
the Dutch government. It is here that
there are found the mysterious glass
balls of Billion" which occur among
some of the tin deposits. These queer
balls are quite round, Nth grooved
surfaces. Similar balls are occasionally
found, but not in such numbers, in
BOrneo and Java, as well as in Aus
tralia. 1t is thought that the Billion
balls cannot be of local volcanic origin,
since there are no volcanoes near
enough to support that theory. Be-
sides. the CLASSY rocks produced by
the nearest volcanoes are essentially
different in their nature from the ma
terial of the balls. It is believed. there
fore, that the mysterious objects were
elected ages ago from the volcanoes Of
the moon, and afterward fell upon the
earth
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pistol that was in the pocket of his
loose pantaloons. There was no time
to draw and aim blindly he CROPPED
for the trigger, cooked it, and with a
last despairing twist shot through the
cloth. The grip at his throat relaxed,
the dagger dropped from a hand gone
limp. and once again Decatur was on
his feet
The spectacle of that blood soaked
figure, come from the dead struck
terror to the Tripolitans, even as it
gave new inspiration to the Americans,
and soon they trod a deck deserted by
all save the dead and dying.
High and higher hlazed the courage
of Decatur and those he led. Three
times within the week American gun
boats and bombards went into the
harbor for midnight attacks, drench-
ing the town with grape and canister
until its demoralized inhabitants fed
into the desert.
Still the stone walls held and still
the Bashaw would not sue for peace,
knowing that the season of storms was
near at hand. Again DeCatur's thought
turned to the little Intrepid and he
suggested its use as 4 fire ship for
the destruction of the castle and the
harbor shipping.
Ardent Somers begged command,
and that this beloved friend, the com
rade of his heart might have his
chance for glory, Decatur stepped
aside. One hundred and fifty barrels
Of powder and a hundred bombs were
packed in the ketch, all connected with
fifteen-minute fuses. Ten volunteers
went with Somers, and two of the
fastest rowboats in the fleet were
towed along to bring them back-if
they came back.
AS darkness fell the Intrepid moved
Stealthily to the harbor mouth. follow
ing the path first blazed by Decatur.
Every heart waited in sick suspense.
for all knew SomerS-llnew his
courage and resolution-kneW that he
would choose death to failure.
Suddenly the roar of the land bat
teries told of his discovery, and sud
denly the midnight sky blazed redly as
an appalling explosion shook fleet and
city. All the sad night through boats
lowered about the harbor mouth.
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Dashing Decatur Won Fame as ScOurge of Arrogant

broke their treaties early in the war
and were once more scourging the sea
lanes.
$40
4 T the head of a squadron. Decatur
"A sailed for the Sarbary Coast m
May. 1915. whipped Rails Hammida.
the Algerine grand admiral. in a de.
cisive battle, swept on to Algiers and
forced the dey to fun PREPARATION and
an iron-bound treaty.
The Bey of Tunis, secure behind i'm.
pregnable defenses, tended his flowing
beard with a tortoise-shell comb set in
diamonds. but when they told him #
was Decatur. the beard lost impor-
lance and his capitulation was ahiect
Nor had Tripoli forgotten. Dungeons
opened.
Give me every Christian captive"
cried Decatur; and as he sailed to re.
store the poor wretches to their homes,
the power of the Barbary pirates
crushed, Europe hailed him as the
Bayard of the Seas" the Champion
of Christendom.
Loved and honored by his country
as no man since Washington, happy
in the devotion of a beautiful wife. De.
catur settled down to a life of peace
and repose. But almost on the in
slant a cloud came to shut him off
from the sun.
Back from Europe came Commodore
James Barron, that commander Of the
Chesapeake who had been suspended
in 1907 for having failed to fight his
ship when insulted and attacked by
II. M. S. Leopold. The suspension ex-
pired in 1913, but he had not returned
to serve his country during the war,
and now that he asked to re-enter the
Navy, Decatur opposed with all the
force of his virile personality.
Decatur's stand was open, explicit
and impersonal. taken as a high officer
of the Navy. but Barron chose to re-
sent it as a direct insult.
Decatur had served under him as
lieutenant-by this former juniors
height he measured the depths to
which he himself had fallen-and out
of his bitterness and despair the
broken man came to an almost mani
acal hatred.
A lengthy correspondence took place.
curiously paralleling that between
Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton.
Like Burr. Barron pursued implac-
ably. Like Hamilton. Decatur viewed
dueling as a barbarism that settled
nothing, vet gave it full obedience as
part of the established social code.
The two men met at last at Bladens-
burg. near Washington. and Decatur.
so invincibly the Bayard. sacrificed
every advantage that he might have
taken.
II do not desire his life" he said to
cambridge. II mean to shoot him in
the hip"
The two reports rang out as one;
Barron fell with a ball through his
right thigh; his bullet ripped Decatur's
abdomen. The great commodore had
seen death too often to be afraid of It
or not to know it,
Il am dying man." he said simply.
Would that had fallen in defense Of
my country"
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