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Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-04
Social Breyities

Sunday school board members of
the Methodist church are asked to
meet tomorrow night at the home of
$. l.. MfCrory, $50 Euclid, at 1880.
\ full attendance of teachers and
officers is desired in order to get
the coming years work outlined and
have everything in readiness for the
coming of the new pastor, Rev.
Baker.
DIR. and Mrs. Roy f. Bose visited
with Postmaster c. c. Jenkins yes
tcrday enroute to Tempe, Arizona
where DIR. Bose will fill the pulpit
of the Methodist church. DR.. Bose
has Just graduated from Z. S. c.
and this is his first appointment.
Mrs. Bose is the daughter of Mr..
Jenkins.
Rev. and Mrs. Mvron Insko and
children were overnight guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. S. l.. McCrory and
left this morning for their new
home in San Gabriel. Rev. 1nsko
was pastor OF the Calexlco Methodist
church last year and through his
interesting talks before various
clubs made wide number of friends
throughout the valley who will be
glad to hear of his appointment as
Assistant Superintendent of the
Good Will Industry in Los Angeles
He was also District Boy Scout com
missioner at CaleXicO and his loss
is felt keenly in scouting and
church circles.
The Loyal Young People s Sun
day school class of State Street
Christian church will meet tonight al
the home of Rev. and Mrs. W. G.
Chcverton, 575 Euclid at O. clock
for an ''Auto Party Members OF
the class and their friends are in
vited. y merry time is expected as
many clever features are planned.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-04
SOCIETY AND CLUB NEWS

along the line for the welfare Of
humanitv-for Service.
"Know Your District' which
was the slogan last year, justified
itself, according to Mrs. DeNyse,
who declares that by the location
and arrangement of board meetings
cluhwOmen became ''bctter ac-
quainted with district geography, as
we'll as its charms and assets.' At
tendance at board meetings, too,
averaged 100, which is considered a
very good average.
Mrs. DeNyse attended the bicn-
nial convention at San Antonio and
praises the courtesy and hospitality
of Texas clubwomen. Twelve of
the 45 California delegates were
from the Southern District and the
benefits they reapcd from attending
will no doubt react Unto the club
and federation life this year"
Policies and plans of the coming
club year were forecasted at the
meeting held in Riverside when the
adoption of an Illiteracy" pro-
gram as the major project of the
year was decided upon. The Hitter
acy committee will have as its OBJ
icetive the clearing up of illiteracv
in the five southern counties and
will make a survey on immigration
in the district for consideration.
The October board meeting in
Brawlev was announced by Mrs. De
Nyse who urged large attendance
Mrs. DeNyse very fittinglv closes
her message with "Let us remember
this: Though we may not attain
that at which we aim, no honest eff
fort is lost
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-04
PLANS OUTLINED
AT MEETING OF
OASIS SHRINE

Activities for the fail season
were opened at Tuesday night S
meeting of Oasis Shrine No. 20,
White Shrine of Jerusalem. A good
attendance was present, with all
valley towns repre e n d.
Plans for the coming year were out
lined. IT was decided to hold meet
ings on the first and third Tuesdays
of each month instead of ~Wednes-
days as has been customary.
Announcement was made that Mrs
H. P. Wilkie of Brawley would en-
tortain the White Shrine Social club
at her home, 10S G street, next
Tuesday. The meeting will be an
all-day affair With pot-luck lunch
con at noon. Local members will
furnish the dessert.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-04
MRS. G.. w. BROCKMAN
HOSTESS TO MOUNT
SIGNAL CENTER

With 90 interested women in at
tendance the first meeting of the
Mount Signal Farm Home Depart
ment was held at the home of Mrs.
c. w. Brockman Yesterday. Mrs. M.
r. Downing, chairman, was in
charge. Miss Mary +. Little, home
demonstration agent, spoke on
1.-The Home Medicine Chest and
care of invalids in the home.
A pot-luck luncheon was served
at noon. Plans for future activities
were discussed and an interesting
year is being planned by the de-
partment.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-04
PLANE SITE BOUGHT
By United Press Leased Wire

PASADENA, Calf, Oct. 4.-Pur.
chase of so acres for site for
81, 100000 airplane factory was an.
nounced today by Hackathorn and
Company, Pasadena investment
house. The tract will be used by
Pasadena Airport and Transportation
Co, as flying school.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-04
Canadian Pacific
Train Wrecked
BY United Press Leased Wire

HAMILTON, Ont, Oct. z.-Thc
International Limited, Canadian
National Railroads crack express,
was derailed near Aldershot at sos
this morning when it was sideswip.
cd by a Canadian Pacific Railroad
freight. Four people were taken to
St. Joseph S hospital at Hamilton
and IS were taken to Toronto hos
uitalS
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-04

ed for Soft Brown Scale. These
Young trees were sprayed early in
the spring for the control of this
pest when a light infestation was
found over a small area. At the
Imperial Valley press., 1928-10-04

time of the present inspection, no
trace of the infestations were found.
Three hundred pounds of poison
grain were distributed for pest con-
troll
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-08

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-08
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$50 Genuine Mahogany Colonial
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Evening star., 1928-09-23

ship have been put on the market and
sold.
There is even a.Kipling Society 18
months old, with regular journal a
membership of 5000 or so, and Stalky
otherwise Maj. Gen. L. c. DunStervllle
as its president. But when the society
sent him greetings Kipling failed to an
SWer them.
When. prosperous and famous, he re-
tired to rockingham, that picturesque
little village at the foot of his beloved
Sussex downs, he thought he was safe
The railway stopped miles away. Nc
movie theater in rockingham then.
Few visitors at the one inn.
But some fashionable folk discovered
this quiet backwater. 1t became IA
vorite week end jaunt for smart Bo-
hemia staying at nearby Brighton, Eng
lands Atlantic City. 1t got lot OF
publicity Still. protected by high, Ivy
covered walls around his domain, Kip
ling stood it for some time.
But then motor coaches took the
roads, bringing new class OF trippel
who thought nothing of stopping the
monster outside Kipling's house ano
leaning over the ivy-clad wall, talking
loudly and eating things, and sometimes
dropping paper inside.
And, possibly quoting himself:
II hear the old gods say
Here come Very Many People.
| We must go away -"
Kipling fed to the remoter village oi
J BurWash, where the motor coaches
don't go-yet.
But even here he has not found the
utter peace he longs for. People from
the cities who have fallen under the
Kipling spell--not few Americans
among them-Will come in by car tc
look at Kipling's retreat, and then they
hang about the lanes for sight of him
and buy drinks in the local inn and ask
questions about the poet.
The unfortunate author even discov-
cred not long ago that his tradeSmer
thought his small checks in discharge
of his account we're worth more framed
and traded to autograph hunters than
put through the bank. He pays in cash
now.
Kipling never was celebrated for g
mild and amiable temperament. He
never suffered fools gladly, and now he
takes them hard.
An American lady Is said once to
have looked long at him. "a small man
dressed to match his pipe" and then
said disappointedly: "You know, Mr.
Kipling, thought you would be dif-
ferent."
"Oh, I am" replied Kipling, "but this
is my day Off"
. He inherited his hatred for the froth
and folly of much Of postwar life and
Evening star., 1928-09-23

miliar sights and is always ready 10
lump into the papers or onto the plat
form in any controversy. Even J. M.
Barrie is sometimes accessible ana mas
a London home.
But though every Englishman knows
Kipling's name, few can tell you where
he lives, and few still have ever SET
eyes on him.
Occasionally he comes to London from
the depths of Sussex for a season func-
tion-a royal garden party, the annual
cricket match between Eton and Har-
row, the two great public schools; a
dinner given by his cousin, Premier
Baldwin.
In town he Shuns the fashionable
hotel restaurant and stays at small,
old-fashioned place in quiet back
water of Piccadilly. Occasionally one
finds him in one of his two clubs, the
learned Athenaeum or the Tory Carlton:
Winters now (since he nearly died OF
pneumonia) he seeks the sun in some
spot favored by the English public
school educated upper-middle class, TO
which he belongs and which he reveres.
He is, of course, a die-hard Tory, a
stanch imperialist who has no patience
with radicals. His pungent politics
were too much for the Asquithian Lib
erals, always in Office from 1904 on to
the World War, and although the great
singer of British imperialism was
awarded the Nobel prize in 1906, an
opportunity to make him poet laureate
was passed over by the government OF
the day in favor of the entirely harm
less academic Dr. Bridges.
! Kipling expressed his opinion of the
{ Liberal policies by making new garden
in his grounds and paving its paths
with stones taken from mills which had
! fallen into disuse with the decay OF
British agriculture.
When the New World rolled smoking
| from the oven of Armageddon the crit
| les thought for a while that Rudyard
Kipling might make the crossing. But
now even those who fervently acknowl-
edge the old enchantment have given
up hope of finding the tough, small
man, his pale blue eyes glinting behind
strong glasses, his thick muStache and
heavy eyebrows bristling, on the strange
new shore.
In 1928 he seems to belong definitely
to England's past, TO that England that
! passed away forever in the maelstrom
| of the World War
! Old landmarks have vanished. Great
new landmarks have come. Domestic
politics have changed profoundly. Rela-
tionS between nations have been dras-
tically modified. India has constltu-
tion and is being tested for eventual
dominion status. The American Navy
shares with the British Navy mastery
of the seas.
Evening star., 1928-09-23

hiding. While these wires and calls are
being put through, Old Calamity is in
terviewing the cellmates of the missing
prisoners, interrupting himself every
few moments to listen to reports from
the various squads of guards sent out
in automobiles after the getaways and
to tell them where. to go next.
Not half hour has elapsed. Old
Calamity has not left his desk nor
raised his voice nor betrayed the slight
est sign that he was in the least bit
worried or ratified. 1t is simply a part
of his days work. The chances are
that in an hour or two a guard will
come in with three sheepish-looking
prisoners and inform the deputy that he
found them hiding out" in the car
penter shop. Old Calamity takes all
their good time away, locks them up in
the cooler" and then, the incident for
gotten, again turns to his thousand or
so other duties
Not one prison guard In 500 is
capable OF being deputy warden, and
not deputy warden out of 100. no
warden. He's usually lacking in edu-
cation and influence. All he has is
an extraordinary ability in guiding. by
the sheer force of his own personality.
the lives of 5000 men of every degree
of criminality and viciousness and of
every shade of abnormality and sub
normality so that they can dwell to-
gether under the most unnatural con-
ditions with an absolute minimum of
friction and chaf1ng. For this, If he's
an exceptionally good deputy warden,
he may receive as much as $4,000 a
year.
Evening star., 1928-09-23
Kipnq Shuns Acclaim Ignores Changes in World

after his return from the States, gath
cred much material for tales and arti-
cles, travelled down to Cape Town on a
hospital train and in three days wrote
600 letters home for the wounded Tom
mics.
|. 1t was a period of intensive produc-
ton. His books came out at the rate OF
one and two year. Each was liter
ary event and sold enormously. pre-
war world, hungry for the Kipling
glamour and color and magic, could net
get enough of those books.
The machine was slowing down by
1910. Now the output Is small. Also,
we have the measure of the Kipling
genius.
His sense of character. his feeling for
atmosphere, his appreciation of the per-
manent values of life-all remain un-
vitiated But the old breathlessneSS and
the old surprise have gone. The poets
mental curiosity about the world seems
to be satisfied. He will not again dazzle
us with novelties of technique, give us
glimpses of new and marvellous worlds.
set the English world singing with his
jingle of songs.
He is still, however, the conSummate
craftsman, with no use for theory and
contemptuous of art" There are, he
says, IlIIy ulIuIIdIc COIiICA1Co anu OAaSC-
dies to which the gods mercifully limit
human action and suffering.
Fiction began when some man want
ed a story about another man. 1t de-
veloped when another man told stories
about a woman"
The conservatism of this unchanging
EngliShman, who is still inclined to
look upon America as old England'S
cousin and to be resentful of her new
power and her resolute independence,
is worth noting by Americans who have
tasted the Kipling magic and yet have
been puzzled by a new note of irrita-
bility in a great writer who, in former
works, showed much understanding of
and appreciation for the American
character-who wrote in frank admira-
ton of the young American pioneers
and the bigness of their challenge and
their achievement.
If they understand the limitations of
the elder Kipling, essentially a nation
alist, they may understand what is
moving in him whey they read poem
like "The Vineyard" which appeared in
under the title of Land and Sea Tales: ::
"At the eleventh hour he came,
But his wages were the same
AS ours, who all day long had trod
The winepresS of the wrath of God"
There are even Englishmen WHO rec
ognize that with Britain smashing the
German Navy, sharing in reparations
and Seizing large and rich German
colonies. and with England menaced
Evening star., 1928-09-23

originally to a far greater extent than
was America, that verse betrays a dis
tinctly unjudicial prejudice.
But these things, these bad-tempered
gusts at the breakfast table of the
worlds life, really do not matter. The
Surging onward current of the wears
sweeps them away. They pass and arc
forgotten as if they had never been.
The real things remain-the Imperish-
able magic of The Brushwood Boy"
the Puck of Pook's Hill' tales caught
IN dreams over the sun-soaked, windy
downs, the creed of "If" the solemn
sweep of the ''Recessional," the charm
and wonder of those jungle Books
that Kipling wrote for his son John.
John Kipling is dead. On the village
green of BurwaSh monument COM
memorateS him along with the other
men of the old hamlet who went ont
to the war and never came back. Kin
ling's son was 18 when the war blass
caught him and obliterated him. He
had been on.y year subaltern in the
Irish Guarcs, whose history Kipling
subsequently wrote.
That was the final drop in Kiplings
cup of sorrow. His little daughter died
while he waa on his American tour. He
himself lay Ill in the next room at the
time. He has been three times so close
to the next world that he might have
heard the murmur of Deaths wings.
Perhaps that is one of the reasons
why, his tide of productivity at low ebb,
he retains unimpaired the second sight
of the poet and sees further into things
than most men.
And now he thinks less of new works
than of the fate of the tales he has
n q f10N0apod In hr0Y1za tho Hfdrar-s
history of the English race
Aware that quite a dozen writer's
have achieved immortality in the last
$500 years. he wonders dryly If he will
make a thirteenth. 1t seems worth
while to him. and he said as much 20
the Royal Society Of Literature at its
centenary banquet on hot Summers
night two years back.
He had written his speech. The
phrases slipped out in neat lengths Of
Continued ON Seventh Page)
Evening star., 1928-09-23

These things strike no spark from
the elder Kipling. In 1900 his scale of
human values was ahead of his time.
He anticipated. He no longer antici-
pates. Reading him, one looks back.
He shows no signs of perceiving the
rising of the tide of world change
around the castle in which his genius
has entrenched itself. His tales are of
an Old World still.
This largely explains why he is the
most eagerly collected of all cotempor-
ary authors. A pirated edition of one
of his early books, published in San
tiago, did not sell, and the publisher
ultimately sold the remainder at cents
kilo to get rid of them. The other
day copy of that book sold at Sother-
by's in London for 5000.
He scribbled "A Ballad of the Ski
for fellow guest in a Swiss Alpine
hotel 18 years ago-eight lines on the
title page of Tauchnitz edition of his
Seven Seas" of 1897. 1t came into the
auction room in 1926 and fetched fat
sum.
Every scrap of the Kipling writing is
money today. His typewriter manu-
scrips with marginal corrections are
highly priced by collectors. The very
chits he signed for drinks on board
Evening star., 1928-09-23

the cheapness and sensationalism and
ostentation he sees all about him.
Both his grandfathers were Methodist
preachers. The cult of endeavor, cour-
age, sound work and bit-on-it grit, plus
a tough and tenacious character, were
in the very marrow and fiber of the tiny
white-faced English boy who passed his
early years in crowded, chattering La
hore, great British military and ad-
ministrative center, capital of the Pun
jab, a focus point for the infinitely
varied life of India, where his father.
John Lockwood Kipling, was art director
and curator of the museum.
On the way home to put young Rud-
yard to school in England, the elder
Kipling succumbed to the weather and
went below. There he was disturbed by
an alarmed ships officer who banged
on his door and shouted: "Mr. Kipling,
your boy has climbed out on the yard
arm If he lets go, he's done"
Eyes, but he won't let co." sighed
Kipling senior, and stayed where he
was.
1t was at school that young Kipling
learned the art of story telling. He
read everything, including the head
masters and chaplain's libraries. In
the dormitory at night he was called
upon to tell yarns. When his memory
which for the written word was prodi-
gious-gave out, he had to invent.
He revived the school magazine and
wrote four-f1fthS of the contents, verse
and prose- "War is no theme at all, +"
he declared in those days, and COM
posed an essay on the abolition OF war.
The first of those verses and stories
which were to make him rich and ia
nous were written when he was cub
reporter on the Civil and Military Ga
Zette at Lahore and sub-editor on its
rival, the Pioneer, at Allahabad he
wrote so fast and so abSorbedly that ne
used to splash himself with ink, to the
anger of his editor, who liked to see his
editorial staff spotless in their tropical
whites.
He celebrated his majority by per-
suading a Bombay firm to publish his
Departmental Ditties" They paid him
500 rupees, which he spent on shoot
ing trip. That book has since brought
author and publisher around 100000 In
royalties. It still figures in the list OF
Kipling books which sell an aggregate
of 100000 copies year in and year out.
After his "Plain Tales from the Hills"
and Soldiers Three" he came on a
world tour. His short stories presently
won him as much fame in America as
in England. He married an American
girl Miss Balestier, and one of the most
beWitching of all his tales is OF an
American couple who came to live in
an English countryside which still re-
tanned the flavor of its feudal past.
He went out to the South African war
Evening star., 1928-09-23

Similar reasons may exist for all tht
others. Each is thoroughly investigated
and enough of them prove true to make
Old Calamity exceedingly grateful TO ms
invisible friends who take this means OF
showing their appreciation Of his square
treatment.
This atmosphere of anything being
likely to happen at any moment which
surrounds Old Calamity day and night.
year in and year out, would make
nervous wreck out of almost any one
except born deputy warden. Add TO II
the innumerable things which do hap
pen and you get some slight idea OF the
kind of stamina it takes to hold po-
sition of this kind. During the yea1
there may be two or three fires in the
various shops, almost invariably started
by prisoners.
There will be several occasions wher
the lights will be suddenly short cir
cuited by some prisoner sticking piece
of metal in a socket. These are usu-
ally designed to cover an attempted es-
cape. No one knows where the blow Is
going to strike, and there are few
moments of feverish activity until the
break down" electric service gets to
work and the officers can check up to
see if any one is missing. There will
be a dozen or more sudden knife fights
between prisoners, and there will be the
anxious times, possibly a half dozen
during the course of year, when the
count" is short.
ONE must see Old Calamity at such
~ time to get lesson in what
smooth, noiseless efficiency really Is.
Let's assume that the evening count
shows three prisoners missing. Three
things may have happened. There may
have been a mistake in taking the
count" the count may be correct and
the three prisoners hiding OUT in
some part of the institution awaiting
an opportunity to escape or they may
actually have escaped already.
Old Calamity takes no chances. I'M
mediately the report reaches him he
| telephones the boiler room. In a few
seconds the escape siren is being sound
| ed, warning the country folk for four
or five miles around and causing many
a farmer to take his old rifle from the
wall and go out for the reward. A few
moments later the prison printing shop
| is running off thousands of wanted cir
culars, giving the names of the prison.
ers, their aliases, descriptions, peculiar
markings and fngerprint claSsifica-
tions. AS fast as they come off the
press they are sent to chiefs of police
over the country.
| While this is being done Old Calamity
has sent for the correspondence record
of the three Ftisoners giving the names
of the peopi with whom they have ex-
changed letters. Wires and long-dis-
tance calls notify the police in the
, towns where these correspondents live
to watch their homes to see if the es-
capped men come there for shelter or
Evening star., 1928-09-23

First-claSS deputy wardenS are like the
locust plague-they only come once IN
II years. Deputy wardens are born
They never have been and never will be
made. And the good ones are not even
born witt sufficient frequency to meet
the demand. For the successful Dep
or "Old Calamity" as he is known in
prisons the country over-muSt have
such a Superabundance of rare and
often contradictory qualities that it
seems to take some upheaval of nature
to produce one.
Old Calamity is the heart and lungs
of the prison system. Around him re-
wolves the entire institution. Upon him,
and often upon him alone, depends the
success or failure of the warden's ad-
miniStration.
HERE'S what the deputy warden of
an institution of, say 5000 prison.
ers and about $50 guards and employees,
does to keep from being bored
He must interview every new arrival.
In a big prison as many as 40 or so
convictS will arrive in a single day-a
heterogeneous collection from every
social stratum and of every conceivable
anti-Social background. Each of them
has been "mugged' ana nnger-prlnteu
and has given as much of his history as
he's willing to give, which is just about
as much as he thinks the officials al
ready know anyhow. With these data
and q dozen or so quick questions, the
deputy must decide how the man is
to be "celled," who will be his cell
partner and in what shop he will work.
One man asks that he be celled with
prisoner Hendrickson. Cousin O.
yours?" the deputy inquiries casually.
The prisoner mods. Somehow or other,
they're always cousins.
''Well, We'll see what Hendrickson has