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Evening star., 1928-05-01

Dear Sir. This and that have kept
me from time to time from breaking
out in approval of the many things
in your column that to my mind are
right as trivet' AS friend l over
look the reactions on the subject or
tobacco caused by your occasional
wanderings in a field in which you are
a comparative novice.
Your editorial of recent date said
exactly what l would say If l had been
blessed with the knack of timely and
pointed expression / would. however,
have added q few strong adiectives.
The man with the dirty yard'-the
child with the lawn-digging heels-they
are always with us.
"A close second are the baying hounds
of Gayvilla, the youths who mistake
ones yard (never their OWN for Clark
Griffith's Stadium. and those with a
very keen sense of humor who are
blessed with or inherit the belief that
the funniest thing in the world Is to
cavort around other peoples houses and
make firSt-class nuisance OF them
selves.
THE only thing that keeps me in
my usual good humor is the morning
diversion of watching the dear lady
bus riders flap from north, east, south
and west, speeding the parting bus rum
ming on a four minute headWay, by de-
manding of the long-Suffering engineer
that he wait for them. Later he waits
for them to find ticket or nice new
five dollar bill for him to amuSe himself
with.
We'll. what of it? Spring is here
and We must bury our grouches in our
back yards-and then find some new
ones.
Yours with appreciation.
ID. L."
Il x
While we appreciate the kind things
said by Mr.. L., we rather resent his
slur at our activities in the wide fields
of nicotine.
Have we not "caked" two pipes COM
pletely. so that scarcely a pinch OF
tobacco could be inserted in either
bowl?
Have we not suffered the tortures OF
the damned in breaking in a third
pipe which resolutely refused to be
broken in?
Have we not spent a pigmy fortune
in the search for the perfect pipe
tobacco?
And have we found 1t?
we dSh IN4l ~ NAAAh a AAA0AA AAA0oN oS
to qualify as an expert. according
to his notions. If doing all these things
makes one only "a comparative novice,
what must one do TO become an "au-
thority''?
II
Innocently enough, We have alway:
believed that an expert" was some one
who put up q tremendous bluff about
knowing something about something.
Not everything about something. oi
course. but just something or Other
about something.
Experts have sprung up like weeds
in recent years. 1t used TO be that nc
man was regarded as all expert until
he had taken IS years of consecutive
study in educational institutions. but
nowadays any one with the rudiment;
of poker playing in the back of hi'
head seems to be able to get away
with it.
There are, of course. some genuine
experts.
They know their stuff"
The trouble seems to be that wher
a man really is an authority" or
Evening star., 1928-05-01

What is called war" in China looks
from a distance like the clashes of
gangs In different towns
Evening star., 1928-05-01

Tn one little point the modest Lind
bergh niscalcuIated. A successful flyer
needs no letters Of introduction.
Evening star., 1928-05-01
NEW BOOKS
AT RANDOM
I. C.. Nj.

RAINBOW ROUND MY SHOULDERS:
The Blue Trail of Black Ulysses.
Howard W. Odum. The Bobbs-
Merrill Company.
"Eve'where I look, look this mornin'
Looks like rain, LaWd, looks like
rain;
got rainbow tied round my shoulders;
Amt gonna rain, Lawd, amt gonna
rain"
True to both form and character Is
this "black Ulysses" when he plucks
down out of the sky the immemorial
pledge of God to Noah, tying the bright
promise round his own shoulders to
fend off rainy day.
For this black man, like al other
children, is the surprising egoist,
counting his own tiny orbit the great
universe itself, his own near needs and
desires the proper preoccupation Of
whatever gods there be. Six feet tall
and I don't know how many years old
but a child all the same. Just negro
taken up with his own body-food,
sleep. laughter, lust, the hot sun on
his back. his feet shufflin' along to
the tum-tum of picked strings. driving
him here and there. Amt gonna
stay here any longer" is the refrain
that for tWoscore years has passed
him on over a large part of the United
States Working O little playing lot,
drinking. gambling. breaking the law
and running away from 1t. sobbing like
a child over a lonesomeneSS that is
deeper than his own life. And all the
time he goes talking to himself, or TO
the long ribbon of white road before
him, or to the bird with bright. curious
eyes perched on a wayside weed. He Is
telling about when he was a little boy
of the games he played. of the friends
he had. of the doingS of the nelghbOrs
roundabout. Then he moves on into
the later years of roistering and drink
ing. of working now and then, of hid
ing away from real or imagined pur-
suers He recalls chance friends, ques-
tionable amusements, chuckllng at a
passing advantage, whimperlng over
deserved punishment. Just a child, a
lost and alien one at that, whose fears
and superstitions run back and DacK
to some forgotten time, to some other
where. To the surface f1oat strange
fears and deep urges toward nerce
goa VI UG HldI0ICSA Oy
and offerings.
Here is an Odyssey running twice the
time that it took the reluctant ulysses
of ancient Greece to get back to VIE
and hearth; one. besides, that Is calcu-
lated to make the King Of Ithaca looR
a shade wan and to turn his wanderings
into something like plain philanderme
and transparent time-killing. Raw as
red meat is this latter recital. brutal as
life itself. disconsolate as a lost anc
homesick ghost. Nothing Is held PACK
nothing is smoothed over. Instead. mere
is an innocence of full self-disclosure
that is indispensable. An amazing per-
sonal revelation that reaches out to take
in a people and race. No, you dom
like it! Nobody assumed that you would
once inside the book, however, the oe'
is that you will stay inside up to thE
last word Then you will sit back won
dering over the insight and sympathy
of the author who has delivered over x
you. body and soul. this black Ulysses
and his race.
Evening star., 1928-05-01
Ghangefml Outlook.

Gbangefui Outlook.
/ bade my sud forebodings hush,
joined the joyful list,
1 tried 20 fili four-eard fiush.
I'm now d Dessimiat
Two paltry detces came 10 view,
yentured 10 persist
And then drew The other two
I'm now an 6ptimIst.
"a Joy ride" said Uncle Eben, most
100 often amt regarded ~ complete
wifout a fool ~ de stesrin ghssl."
Evening star., 1928-05-01
The Lindbergh Lever.

From the New York Herald Tribune,
Iindhergh raised the average level
OF Congress for a day or so anyway.
Evening star., 1928-05-01

A "joy-ride" too often proves .
grievous occasion.
Evening star., 1928-05-01
Gaining Credit.

Gaining Credit.
Don't you know that man you shook
hands with is a bootlegger9"
II DO" answered Uncle Bill Bottle
top. And that handshake improved
my credit He's the most expensive
b0otlegger In the community"
"A woman In politics." said III Ho
the sage Of Chinatown lis a powerful
influence, as she reminds the influential
male Of the danger OF a maternal
spanking"
Evening star., 1928-05-01
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Evening star., 1928-05-01
Mundane Monotanx.

Mundane Monot0ny.
Out in the sky
Are men 50 true,
The men who bravely ny,
And boldly try
And dare.
Where is the thrill2"
These men inquire,
When earthly banquets fill
The usual bill
OF fare?
Jud Tunkins says a foolish man Is
lucky II he can be funny instead OF
pathetic.
Evening star., 1928-05-01

The Evening Star Newspaper Company
Business Office:
lith ST. and PENNSYLVANIA Ave.
New York Ofices 10 East ASnd st.
Chicago oifice: Tower Building.
European Ofsce: Ia Resent ST.. london.
England.
Evening star., 1928-05-01

O. There is a train on the Chesa-
peake 6S Ohio Railroad called T. z. Y.
Limited. What does the F. z. v. stand
for?-E. H. H.
A. The letters F. F. v. as applied 10
the Limited on the Chesapeake 65 Ohio
Railroad stands for Fast Flying Viz
ginian.
Evening star., 1928-05-01

@. What IS bob in English cur
rency?-L. ".
A. II is a slang term for the English
shilling. which is worth approximately
"A cents in our money.
Evening star., 1928-05-01

@. How may the color be restored in
a faded crex rug?--W. S. L.
A. A grass rug may be recolored by
using any dye used on cotton material.
Dissolve it in boiling water and apply
it on the rug by means Of a brush.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-12
THEY NOTICE US

"Do you realize that your city has distinctive ap-
pearance?" visitor asked the other day. We knew
it but asked him just what he meant.
We'll, had reference to the arcade construction for
thing. 1t is found in many other towns in the
Southwest but you seem to have of it here. Ny
wife and are travelling to the coast by auto from the
East and as came to Ell Centro COM
mented the arcades and admired them.
However, had one objection. That is some Of
them are painted over with signs. You have idea
perhaps how much that detractS from the appearance
] wonder if your merchants think of that?
The other distinctive mark is the splendid lighting
system you have Main street. We drove the length
of it several times the other night, and stopped for
several minutes at the west end, admiring it. The
full coming up in the east and added to the
attractiveness Of the l wondered again, if
your people here have grown too used to to notice
the fine appearance you make
We wondered too, and admitted nwardly that
do park very often Main street to admire
the scenery,
The gentleman with whom we conversing re-
marked that Ell Centro would surely stand in his
mind, we'll as his wife's of the most attract
i've cities they had passed through. We will recall it
the city of arcades and splendid lights, he said.
Wonder what of the boys think about the
signs the arcades. Are they really necessary
could we improve our appearance by removing them?
Strangers notice many things cannot see
selves.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-12
SURVEYS

We have had government by clique, government by
passion and prejudice, government by finance
and by capital by this that and the other
1t looks as if moving in the direction of gov
ernment by survey.
Once upon tine people took traditional generates
as sacred and reasoned from them to the particular
They called this deductiye reasoning. Aristotle was
quite famous deducer. Francis Bacon, along about
Shakespeare's time made popular tendency to
from observation. He the father or at least the
great-uncle, Of all researchers.
His process of watching animals or chemicals find
ing that this bird with certain feathers has this song
that bird with similar feathers has the same song the
other bird likewise and coming TO the conclusion that
all birds of that type of coat have the type of
song called inductive reasoning It's the process
that has made science what it is from reconstruct
ing Mayan civilization to building the new Ford car
and wonder are inclined to worship it,
In the social sciences this worship Of induction is
even marked. Every day somebody is being sur
veyed for some purpose
In sober earnest this process is of vital Importance
How can reason towards the future until we have
established facts about past and present?
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-12
McCABE
BY Press Staff Correspondent
QTEO2

SfT 10
MeCABE, Jan. 12.-Mrs. j. Will
son, Mrs. G.. Austin, Mrs. c. Hac-
kelman, Mrs. +. Forester, Mrs. +.
Lynch, Mrs. J. Wagner, Mrs. A.
Courtney of Heber and Mrs. Rose
Forester attended the Farm Home
Department county chairman s meet
ing Monday and the luncheon at the
Woman's Ten thousand Club.
The McCabc Sunday school is
keeping splendid attendance rec
ord this year, the regular number
holding between 80 and 60.
l.. c. Steptler and family of Mon
umcnt, Colorado were weekend
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. J. Wilson.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Hale of Calexico
and Mrs. r. A. Green of MESQUITE
Lake district were Saturday visitors
at the Wilson ranch.
The firs' Girls Sewing club meet
ing was held Saturday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. J. Wagner with
an attendance of eight girls. Most
of the time was spent in discussing
the program of work for this season.
Mr.. j. Wagner and Mrs. c. Austin
are club leaders for this year. Mrs.
Wagner is in charge of the sewing
and Mrs. Austin in charge of the
music and recreation. The next
meeting will be Saturday at Mrs.
Wagner s home which will be the
regular meeting place.
Mrs. J. Wilson announces the next
Hcme Department meeting to be
held at the home of Mrs A. Court
ney in Heber with a pot luck lunch
con. Ladies' may bring hand work.
Every one urged to come and enjoy
the day.
Mr.. and Mrs Bruce Anderson of
III Centre visited MIR. and Mrs. G.
Austin Sunday. Mrs. Anderson is
the daughter of one of Mrs. Austin =
childhood friends Of Corona.
Mrs. j. Goss and children Lorraine
and Cubell visited Mrs. e. He'll Mon
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-12
OH FOR A SMILE!

After looking at the photograph of the American
delegation to the forthcoming PanAmercan congress
in Cuba, is tempted to wish that Will Rogers
All Jolson, Thomas J. Heflin of Alabama,
might be included to provide at least the semblance
of a smile
The Pan-American congress will bring together
hundreds of Americans, noted for their vivacty
ard lghtheartedness. We pride ourselves upon our
national sense of humor but there is apparently no
more humor in this delegation than in flock of
stone Buddhas.
There is serious business to be transacted at the
congress but it will not be all seriousness If the
genial Will were only included in the party it would
seem more humane. The President and Charles E.
Hughes, for instance Zone might say horrible exam
ples) Unlocking the lord high execution
in Gilbert and Sullivan opera.
DIR. L. S. Lowe, director of the Pan-American I'm
ion and member of the delegation has the fantest
sort of snirk his face 1t is hard telling whether
he is trying to smile dodge the If the former
would bet he called down for it later on.
"a smile will go long, long way says the song
That being true delegation will not go very far
if the occasion for smile comes up in Cuba.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-12
NO MTSTAkES

Don't you feel that you have made some misakes?"
magazine writer asked Henry Ford the other day.
Never" Ford's surprising answer. u never
made mistake in my life"
1t sounded monumentally egotistic, but it wasn't.
For he added Immediately:
Neither did you. Neither did anybody else.
What we here for, anyway? For what purpose
do you suppose you living earth? Answer that
question, and you will how absurd it is to talk
of making mistakes.
"I' tell you what you're here for, and what every
living person here for it to get experience That's
all We get out of life. 1t is only what learn
that counts. If, therefore, make what we call
mistake it shows that we needed the experience in
order to learn better, which in proves that was
no mistake
1t is an interesting and rather convincing philoso-
ply, you think it through. And it is no original
with Henry Ford. Buddha taught it, and millions of
orientals accept it. Some occidentas, too Theoso-
phists have borrowed it. Tennyson probably meant
the thing when he wrote that "men may rise on
steppngstones of their dead selves to higher things.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-12
Woman Claims
Husband Cruel

An action for divorce IN which
the plaintiff sets forth allegations
of cruelty was filed at the county
clerk 5 office Yesterday afternoon
~ Minnie W. Gopher against Morris
VI. Gopher.
The plaintiff sav' that they were
married in FL Ccntro on January ;.
1922 and that two children were
born to the union before she was
forced TO leave the defendant in
September, l927, because OF extreme
cruelty.
In the complaint she sets forth
numerous cruel actions on the part
of the defendant. He upbraided her
for keeping an electric light burn
ing while she listened to radio un.
I'll II one night, she declares. He
refused to buy her aud the children
proper clothing and quarrclcd with
her because she spent 90 cents
"foolishly' to purchase lid for
Kitchen stove.
NJ. c. Atchison is appearing as
attorney for the plaintiff.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-12
TEN YEARS AGO
Ian. L: 1918

Ladies' night at the Masonic
lodge was a grand success. George
b. Williams. professional enter
tainer was assisted in presenting 4
program by several local people Mrs
Wa deck Biers, Mrs. Richmond, and
t. w. Waite.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-12
THEATERS

William lIairer in high-pow
cred comedy, "Srfing Fever u
romance Of the golf course in which
trials and tribulations figure. VIII
open at the Valley thea cr tomor.
rev,
llaines is once mote an athlete,
this time galf chamnion, who by
& flukc Of fate gets admitted to an
exclusive country club where he
poses as young millionaire. He at
once get cnmeshed in series of
situations that fairly Shrek with
comedy and golf and mirth get so
ontauglcd it is hard 20 tell which is
which. Pat Haines gets by. He
rot only wins out with his clever
tricks and expert knowledge of the
game, but gets the most attractive
belle of the club Sc for his bride
The beautiful and statuesquc
Joan Crawford, as his leading lady,
supplies the romantic interest. 9th
ers in the supporting east include
George Fawcett, Eileen Percy, Bert
Woodruff, Edward Earle, George X,
Arthur and Lee Moran. Edward
Sedgwick directed.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-12
Trio Held For
Superior Court

Three men were ordered held to
answer to superior court on charges
of burglary following preliminary
bearings held before Judge Griffin
IN BrawIev Yesterday afternoon. The
men are: Antonio Garcia, %, and
Manuel IIiguera. 20, both of Braw
Icy and Refugio Rodrigucz. p, Of
Grant, y. NJ. All three were turned
over to the custody of the sheriff
pending arraignment in the superior
court.
Arrest of the three men early this
month is believed by Brawley po-
lice to bring about a solution of Il
rmber of house robbcries that have
been committed in the city recent.
". Three other men and a quan.
tity of stolen property were also
picked up by the police in a general
roundup.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-12

every well, then, come in,' in
vited the rabbit gentleman. and soon
Frozen Turnip was in the bungalow,
sitting in the chimney corner wh"rr
the icicle had stood Around Frozen
Turnip gathered the forty 'leven
bunny children-or forty twelve If
YOU count Pabv Bunty and | supp
pose she should be counted.
"What are You going to do with
Frozen Turnip''' asked Jingle.
lis he going to live with US al
wavs3' asked Jangle.
81 wish | could live here always,
sighed Frozen Turnip. 1T is Very
Jelly here and SO coy and warm.
Ii YOU let me stay, Unkie Wig, as
Baby Buntv calls YOU, | viii try te
do YOU a favor.
"Pooh. As If Frozen Turnip
could ever do favor, > laughed
/ Huntv.
re- just YOU wait and sce,'' said
the cold vegetable.
That night. when Mr.. and Mrs.
| ongears. Nurse Jane and the little
bunnics went to bed, they were GO
ing t. leave the TurniP down by
the fireplace.
ooh, but III be lonesome here
alone said the vegetable. "Let
ne come upstairs and sleep in the
hell. "
SO they let him do that. And in
the middle of the night the Wolf
got into the bungalow and was creep
ing up stairs to get Uncle Niggily
when the Turnip, who was still too
cold to sleep, saw the Bad Chap.
cha, Bite Uncle WiggilY; would
| you,' whispered the Turnip ~ Il
scare you,' So the Turnip rolled
down the stairs, making great rae
ket and frightened the Wolf so that
he howled;
"'Who is it, the Police Dog?
I "No, | am Pumpity Bump! an.
suered the Turnip, bouncing and
| humping on the last step. And then
he bounced against the Wolf $ nos'
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-12
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD E. GARIS
Copyright, 1927, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY'S BUMPITY
BUMP

"sWhat did you say your name
was?' asked Uncle Wiggily who
was hurrying into hls hollow stump
bungalow. after having poured water
on the Weasel. The rabbit gentle
man had heard some one speak to
him as he was about to open the
door.
"T am Frozen Turnip,' was the
answer. "Please take me in to get
warm!''
"Oh, YOU are Frozen Turnip; are
you?' asked the rabbit. ''Weh, l
don t see any little bay or girl who
might be called that. think you are
only the wind talking.
"No, really, am Frozen Tur-
nip went on the voice. 81 know
that, very often, boys and girls
who like to sit by the warm fire
are called frozen turnips' in fun.
But 1 really am one. Look on your
| dcormat,''
Looking there Uncle Wiggily saw
large purple and white Turnip
snugglcd down in q corner on the
mat. The Turnip had sort Of face
on one side and its roots were in
two parts, as if they had once been
legs. While on top was what was
loft of the leaves, making a sort
of eaT.
What d. you want, Turnip''
kindly asked the rabbit.
81 want to come in your bungal-
av and get warm, was the reply
II am Just what | said | was,
Frozen Turnip. The farmer left me
out in the field after lie dug me up
with many other brother and sister
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-12
Marijuana Found
In Brawley Home

Eight cans of marijuana We're
seized by 7. A. Thaanum, state mar.
cotc agent yesterday afternoon
when he paid n visit to the home
Of Il Mexican family in Brawley.
\ he marimana, contained in tobacco
cans, was found hidden beneath n
sack of flour in a bin in the kitchen
Of the house.
The woman was questioned at
length regarding its presence there.
she explained to the agent that she
had no husband and that she be.
licved it had been left there by
some visitors to the house. The wo-
man has four children, the oldest II
boy of 10.
The youth was taken TO police
headquarters where he was question
Cd relative to the marijuana but h.
denied any knowledge of it. In
view of the circumstances no arrests
were made by Thaanum but Il fur
ther investigation into the ease is
to be made.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-12
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
January IL, 1918

There was good attendance at
the Farmers Institute at Sceley. The
bad weather spoiled the meetings i'll
the other towns.
Rev. T. II. Wilkinson of Brawley
left the valley for short stay in
Los Angeles.
The county Christian Endeavor
Executive met at the Christian
church and arranged to hold the
county convention on March !. Mr..
Housman of Brawley, which was
chosen rs the convention city, was
appointed chairman for the affair.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-12

"No, but | should say he waS
sitting by the fire getting warm. y
"He tried to do that, said the
rabbit, "but he melted into a pud-
die of water
"Oh, that couldn't happen to
me- spoke Frozen Turnip. AN
icicle You know, is nothing but
water made into ice by Jack Frost.
And there is some water in me
that 5 why l freeze so easily. But
] am not like an icicle. I will not
melt if you let me sit by your warm
fire.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-12

Turnips. He forgot me, Jack Frost
found me and now I am so cold and
frozen / don't know what to do.
heard you say you would take the
cold icicle in and warm him, so |
ran here to wait for you. Please take
me in.''
81 shall be glad to let you CONT
IN my bungalow and get warm, Froz-
en- Turnip,'' said Uncle Wiggily, as
lie opened the door. But do you
know what happened to the icicle -
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-12

end hurt the Fad Chap 50 much that
away he ran.
$50 you sec, Baby Buntv,' said
Uncle Wiggily when he learned what
had happened. "Frozen Turnip did
Us favor after all
$50 he did, IN 50 glad! sleep.
ily murmurcd Baby Bunty. Then the
TGrnip went to sleep, for falling
bumpitv bump down stairs had
warmed him and the Wolf was left
out in the cold, which served him
right. So it all happened for the
hest and if the sparrow doesn t
think the chimney on the roof is a
toy bank, and drop a lot of pennies
down it so the smoke can get out,
III tell you next about Uncle Wig
gily S glasses.
Imperial Valley press., 1928-01-12

Many Washington farmers store a
summer : supply of ice during the
winter, using a square pit II feet
deep, straw on the bottom, sides and
tep. some use horse troagbs in which
to freeze lee.