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Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-20
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Liain Street Collision - An auto.
mobile driven by J. l.. Morrison OF
Snyder, Texas, collidcd with 4 cui
driven by b. u. llemeon, FL Centre,
this morning at the intersection OF
Main and Eighth streets at Q O'Clock
Neither of the mCa was inJurch
aud but slight damage was caused
t. tho ears.
Fresh Buttered Popcorn at Paul =
Stages Depot. adv
Mrs. II. Sorensen Nurse. 77a
Olive adv
Coast Men Visit Valley f. w.
Fairchilds, manager of the Ocean
SIDE Merchants Baseball team, and
L. II. Barnwcll, Il mining cngincr:
and surveyor of the same coast city,
were visitors in FL Centre yesterday
nd This morning.
Fancy Grapefru:r ror Christmas
gifts, packed in Is, Il, Y, or whole
boxes. The !. V. Grapefruit Grow
Srs. Broadway X Railroad.
adv
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-20
All coats up to $500 reduced t,

Sl9.j0. Hats TO S6.9J down TO $2.9J.
Nice line of dresses at 1895. All
leather purses 25% off Mariposa
Shop. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-20

Chcck Passcrs Arraigned-A H.
Ross aud w. +. Marschcll were ar
faigncd in Judge Mayfield's court
yesterday on bad check charges and
their preliminary hearing was So;
fer January 3. Ross was held in
$500 and Marsehcll in 1000 hail
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-20

Mimeographing, Typewriting, Pub
lie Stenographers. Superior work.
Prompt service. Reasonabl" rates.
Service department, Imperial Valley
Business College. Phone 3S0. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-20

And Now-llol sandwiches and
coffee A. Er,dgcrs Fancy lee Cream
store. Opeu noon till midnight.
adv
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-20

Gull Grapefruit N large burlap
sacks at $3.50. l. V. grapefruit
Growers, Broadway & r. II. Tracks.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-20

Fresh Buttered Popcorn at Paul =
Stages Depot. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-20

LEGAL Man in Orient Friends III
El Centre have received postal cards
from Nj. T. Paul of this city, who is
making trip around the world.
The cards were mailed from Shang-
hal, China, and convey Christmas
and New Years greetings. Paul eX
poets to make a lengthy stay in his
native land, Greece, returning hci"
IN the spring.
Imperial Valley press., 1929-12-20

Mrs. II. Sorensen Nurse. n;
Olive adv
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-12


states Academy which the 20 District of Columbia appointees will
shown below District
that for State.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-11-01

ffcer has defended himself against armed
liquor gangsters. No one seriously de-
tends any misuse of firearms by any pub
lie officer, but one cannot ignore the fact
that public servants are not intended to
be the passive targets of criminals, that
armed resistance to arrest is commonly &C.
cepted as serious offense and that in
nocent citizens are more apt to cooperate
with public officials than to take pot shots
at them.
The steady anvil chorus rllng by the
hammers Of the foes of prohibition has
wrecked many of these hammers but the
anvil remains unmarried. One might glance
back over the past decade and note the
continuous gains registered by prohibition
in spite of these assaults, unparalleled not
alone for their number but for their Vio-
lence. It is heartening to those who be-
1ieve in the theory underlying democracy
to note the popular response in this war
of sophistries and fallacles. Each year
has marked growth in prohibition SEN
timent Each electoral year has marked
decrease in the number of elected public
servants who are known to be opponents
of prohibition. Each twelve months has
marked renewed insistence upon positive
enforcement of the law. Complementing
these is steady development in the OBJ
Servance of prohibition by a people who
seem strongly convinced that it is far bet
ter to own homes, automobiles, radios, and
the other adjunctS of modern life than it
is to dwell in the SlumS or crowded tene-
ments where one browns not alone ones
sorrow, but ones wealth and health and
happiness III a pail of beer.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-11-01

Many and living remember the
when there u.
when blue ribbons young
total abstinence and when children
pledged themselves
days of Francis Murphy Neal Dow pioneers
These early made the
tated educated and organized for the
y local option prohibition
Total abstinence Of the individual
making prohibition laws effective country.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-11-01
VOICE FROM THE SOUTH
LAND
Warning Sounded at Big Church
Convention Only Dry Candi-
date Will Receive Support

Under the auspices of the Methodist
Church two great programs on temper
ance and social service are carried out
each year, one at Lake Junaluska, North
Carolina, and the other at Mount Sequoy-
alb, near Fayetteville, Arkansas. While
these programs are under the auspices of
the Methodist Church. they are partici-
pated in by members of all churches.
The report of the Fayetteville Institute
this year reads in part:
1--WE warn our party leaders that we
propose to look more carefully after our
loyalty to our country than our allegiance
to political parties, that if they want the
respect of our constituency they must
stand for principles faithful to these laws,
and nominate men whose past record as
we'll as present promises give confidence
to honest enforcement of these laws We
denounce the use of the party lash to
whip our membership into voting for OBJ
jectionable candidates for Office We de-
nounce the fight made by certain politi-
clans upon the Evangelical churches dur
ing political campaigns and the appeal to
religious prejudices then made in oppoSi-
ton to our cause.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-11-01
TEMPERANCE In GERMANY
(WeStern Christian Advocate)


the that the course for them in the future is the water Re
of
n dnecion2
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-11-01
MODELLING ON THE SOUTH
COAST
COAST

A Washington Associated Press dispatch
of October says that with winter ap-
preaching the Treasury has begun pre-
pairing for the usual, annual transfer of
part of it's prohibition enforcement ma
chinery to southern chimes.
The shifting will call for the transfer of
many coast guard and customs patrol men
as we'll as coast guard cutters from north
ern stations to the Gulf and Atlantic sea-
boards. 1t is hoped that the transfer will
be completed early in December.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-11-01

Now call for revival of the old pres
day affairs This call from than the President
United States Writing the President of the National w
ident Hoover
daily impressed with the great need for
education moral physical benefits
Since adoption prohibition many people
to rely wholly the strong of law enforce absti
forgetting the that the
foundations the conviction of the individual of the
sona value to himself of temperance in all things
Who say his advice S sound7
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-11-01
FIRM FOR ENFORCEMENT
United Presbyterian Synod Takes
Firm Stand for Prohibition
Enforcement

At the annual. meeting OF the First
Synod of the West of the United Presby-
terrain denomination. held recently in Buff
falo N. Y. the Committee on Temperance
and Reform, of which Rev w. H Hubbel
of Cleveland, was chairman, submitted q
strong report which was adopted by the
Synod.
The report contained the following reso-
lutions in regard to law enforcement:
We deplore and condemn the great
laXity Of law enforcement on the part
OF many public officials, and the en-
couragement given the enemies of
prohibition by many of our city news
papers.
We commend the officials who have
enough regard for their oath of Office
to make an honest effort to enforce
the Volstead act and all other laws,
and commend the city press that is
supporting the Eighteenth Amend
ment. ----as,
We rejoice in the firm stand Presi-
dent Hoover has taken on law OBJ
servance and enforcement and assure
him of our hearty support and recon-
mend that the Moderator and clerk
send him a message of this assurance.
We urge our people to carry on
persistent educational campaign to
arouse the public conscience to en-
list all good citizens in the cause of
good government and law enforce
ment.
We again heartily endorse the Anti
Saloon League, the w C.. T. u. and
other organizations endeavoring to
create and maintain sentiment for
law observance and enforcement, es-
pecially do we endorse their plans for
an educational program.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-11-01
ANVIL REMAINS UNFRAMED
Each Year Prohibition Sentiment
Grows Stronger and Makes
Continuous Gains Regard
less Of the Efforts of
It's Enemies
(By DR.. ERNEST Fl. CIERRrNGToN,
General Secretary of the World League
Against Alcoholism

~~O~0-~A~' N~~SOAAO1AA'4AA|
The prohibition anvil HIS wrecked many
hammers No other governmental policy
ever tried in this country has been SO bit
terly or SO continuously assailed with so
little results attained by its assailants.
Every weak point in the underlying philos-
cphy Of this movement, in the laws ex-
pressing it or in the enforcement of those
laws has been found, attacked, emphasized
by keenly alert group who are not I'M
aware of the potential prize of billions of
dollars which will be made available to the
liquor trades if they may once more re-
gain legality.
Every technicality upon which even the
flinsiest arguments might be based has
formed the basis of suits brought before
the courts to test the constitutionality of
the Eighteenth Amendment itself and of
laws for it's enforcement. Tt would be diff
fcult to find any parallel to the experience
which the prohibition laws have thus I'M
dergone. The sole result of these repeated
legal assaults has been a clearer definition
of national policy now more deeply en-
trenched in the body of law than before.
The personnel of prohibition has been
made the target for unending attacks.
When the friends of this cause insisted
that men hostile to the principle of pro-
hibition could not with propriety be en-
trusted with the highly difficult task of its
enforcement, they were Immediately criti-
cized by the foes of prohibition and some
times by uninformed friends of the cause.
Many men whose whole past records
seemed prin1G facie evidence of their hos
tility to prohibition were placed in posi-
lions of responsibility for its enforcement.
When the natural and inevitable thing
occurred, then the public spokesman of
the liquor group pointed to the conduct of
these enemies of prohibition who were in
an official position as though their fail
ure to enforce law which they disliked
was an argument against the statute.
IN LEGISLATIVE ARENA
The legislative arena has been the
scene of other assaults. 1t would require
a long catalogue to list the various mea-
sures intended to make prohibition unen-
forceable. Probably every imaginable
scheme for modification or notification or
for full repeal of prohibition has been
proposed in some legislative chamber in
this country. While few of these have got
ten beyond the committees to whcih they
were referred, they, none the less, fur
nished publicity opportunities whereby the
vets might suggest to the mind of the
people at large an impending overthrow Of
the prohibitions law.
Misleading referendas straw votes and
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-11-01
AND THIS IN CHICAGO!

The Herald and Examiner of Chicago,
says that the Kildeer Country Club of
that city expelled three of it's members
for violating the clubs own prohibition
regulations, and that about 10 others had
been placed on probation. The serving Of
liquor by several members at a party for
friends few weeks ago was the basis Of
the action, the newspaper said.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1929-11-01

newspaper polls, often couched in language
which did not clearly set forth the issue to
the citizens have been conducted wherever
the field seemed most fertile to the pub
licity experts of the now outlawed liquor
group. The fact that many of these refer
enda had no legal or binding effect made
them merely vehicles for advertising pur-
poses for the foes of prohibition. In most
cases, the friends of this cause did not
participate in such straw votes. This was
merely form of guerrilla warfare by
which the foes of the Eighteenth Amend
ment sought to annoy its friends or to di-
vert the attention and activity of its
friends and supporters from the real tasks
confronting them.
Violations of the law have been ex-
plotted in the public press. There is a
justification for this, Of course. There is
news in the fact that there are people who
violate this law. The fact that such VIOLA
tons are the exception and that the great
majority of the American people are not
engaged in such violations makes them
news in the real sense of the word. Be-
fore prohibition, bootlegging and moon
shining were SO common that rarely if ever
did such ofenses attain the dignity of first
page news The lawlessness of the Ii
censed liquor traffic was so notorious that
the laWlessness of the unlicensed traffic
was commonly ignored Under prohibit
ton, however, these offenses against the
law has news value which they never
had before. Each first page story of this
character is an evidence of the naive
establishment of editors that such things
can be. However, the effect of the re-
peated publication of such news, while per-
fectly proper and, in itself, an evidence
of the common observance of prohibition
to which these events are exceptions, has
a propaganda effect not underestimate
by prohibitions foes.
HOW VETS WORK
One phase of the strategy of the foes of
prohibition is based upon rather curious
reversal of the American idea of fair play.
This lies in an immediate and vociferouS
defense of prohibition law violatorS when
ever there is contest between them and
the officers of the law. ignoring the long
list of men who have given their lives in
the line of duty as victims to some muir
derous criminals, such shooting affairs as
have occurred between officers and those
who resist arrest had been amazingly eX-
plotted. The conclusion Of these cases is
rarely reported. The fact that the courts
have repeatedly eXonerated accused Off
GERS of the law on the ground that their
acts were in self-defenSe and completely
juStif1able does not obtain that widespread
publicity given to the fact that some Of
The Washington times., 1929-12-19
PRICE
SHOWSAT MET
AND EARLE

The Metropolitan and Earle
theaters are helping the "Shop
Early for Christmas" campaign
with a plan which will bring
down on the heads Of the
management the blessings Of
Santa Claus, the Postoffice De-
partment and the other forces
which are united in an effort
to relieve congestion in the
stores during the rush hours.
Bargain matinees from II
q. m. to / p. m. daily have
been started at the Metro
politan and Earle, the admis-
sion to these performances be-
ing only a quarter-or Is cenJs
in pediculouS English.
These matinees win be COM
plete programs, exactly identi-
cal to those shown at the
theaters in the afternoons and
evenings at the regular prices.
The Washington times., 1929-12-19
When The Feature
is Shown On Screen

F0X-Charles Farrell and
Mary Duncan in THE River"
AT 1855 a. m, 2:40, 4:43, 7:55,
and 9:5s p, m.
METROPOLITAN - Charm.
Sinners" with William Powell
and Ruth Chatterton. At ii
a. m, 12:48, 2:36, 4:26, 6:14,
8:04, and, 9:55 p. m.
EARLE-Dorothy Mackaill in
THE Love Racket" At ll:4O
q. m, 1850, $3.50, 5:45. 1850, and
9:55 p. m.
COLUMBIA - King Vidor's
"Hallelujah." At ii a. M, los,
3:12, SIT. 7::24, and 9:31 p. m.
RIALTO-rRed Hot Rhythm"
AT 1l:45 a. M, 3:45. 5:45, 7;45,
and 9:45 p. m.
PALACE-''The Locked Door,"
with Rod LaRoque. At 2 M.
2:40, $40, TAO, and 10 p. m.
R-K-OKEITHS-"The Great
Gabbo," with Eric Won Stroheim.
At 11:l2 a. m. 1:18, 3:18, 5:12,
7:15, and 9:l5 p. m.
The Washington times., 1929-12-19
Drama Guild Prepares
For Play Tournament

The second event for this sea.
son to be presented by the
Community Drama Guild Of
Washington will be the fourth
annual one-act play tourna-
ment, scheduled to take place
beginning January %, with
finals on February Z, at Nc
Kinley Auditorium. All clubs
and drama groups in the Dis
trict of Columbia, the Metro
politan Area of Maryland and
Arlington county, Virginia. are
invited to participate in this
annual tournament, which last
year preserved 28 different
amateur groups in a widely
varied and interesting series of
one.act plays; and which re-
suited in the Columbia Players
winning first place in the local
tournament, and taking part in
The Washington times., 1929-12-19
TINIEL Y TIPS

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SPACE for GIlIrOpodist in husy
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Apartments, Furnished Or
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Automobiles for Sale
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find in today's Times and Herald
classified adUerfisina section.
The Washington times., 1929-12-19

PROMISED BY
LOEW'S

I.oew's theaters the country
over are launching a nation
wide festival Of optimism and
good cheer. with the slogan Of
good times are here" During
the month Of January Loew's
Palace and Columbia are doing
their share in the celebration
of that event by providing
washington, as usual, with the
very finest entertainment pro
durable on both stage and
screen. Special efforts will be
made by all those connected
with Loew's to make "Loew's
Festival Month" one which
will be long remembered.
All this is in keeping with
President Hoover's vigorous at
tempt to spur the country on
to bigger things in 1880 and
especially his idea that the
mental attitude of the nation
needs cheering up. The Loew's
theater organization, with hun
dreds Of playhouses from coast
to coast, plans to enthuse some
10000, 900 persons In Loew CEN
ters to attend these pep-up and
cheer-up festival shows. 1t will
be the duty Of Loew'S Palace
and Loew's Columbia to make
the washington public see that
most of depression Is mental
or psychological.
The great motion picture pro-
ducers are cooperating with
Loew's to release exceptional
pictures during January. En-
larged presentation programs
are being arranged. Every the
ater will be decorated nearly
80 miles Of display material will
be used by Loew's. Merchants
and industries in various COM
munities are cooperating for a
lively start for 1890. The the
aters will try to make every day
holiday during Loew's festival
month.
The Washington times., 1929-12-19
Leon BrusilOff to. Give
Xmas Show at
LeParadis

Tonight is the big night at
LeParadis for the Fox Orches-
ira Christmas party.
Behind tonight's party is a
story: For several years Leon
Brusiloff, director Of the Fox
orch \ ira and preceding that
the Columbia. has played Santa
Claus along with his orchestra
to those needy cases with which
he is familiar.
This year Meyer Davis sug-
gested something special and
that special will consist of the
entire Fox orchestra to play
for dancing and then later
for the entire Fox stage pres
entation.
The cover charge, boosted to
81, will go to Leader Brusiloff's
fund.
The Washington times., 1929-12-19

That William Fox goes
through with the plan Of Civ
ing Washington newsreel
theater at as cents admission
for q. one-hour show.
The Washington times., 1929-12-19

That by the time Christmas,
1899, rolls around folks will
have stopped asking, What's
the matter with the legitimate
theater?"
The Washington times., 1929-12-19

That the next alleged comed-
ianstage or screen-who pulls
the decrspid vulgarity of hold
ing 4 baby and then looking
embarrassed, etc, be banished
Tor life to driving a 1914 taxi
cab. And 7 hope Ben Blue
reads this.
The Washington times., 1929-12-19
Brook and Powell

Two of the m st popular lead
ing male screen stars are cast in
Paramount's aN-talking, picturi-
zation Of w. Somerset Maug-
hams Charming Sinners"
They are Give Brook and Will
liam Powell. 'Charming Sin
nerSp is now at the Metropoli-
tan Theater lid h Ruth Chat
terton. Mary No,an and Laura
Hope Crews in tn cast. It is q
brilliant domes tic drama by the
famous English author.
The Washington times., 1929-12-19
FOR NEW
WEEK IN THEATERS

success IN America ne mlgIAJeS
to New York. with o hurdy
gurdy and golden voice. The
narrative then provides con-
genial settings for the introduc.
tion Of q group of typical Jes-
sell songs, composed by Abel
Baer and Walter Gilbert.
Fanchon and Marcos Jazz
Buccaneers" will provide the
stage attraction and features
Emile and Romaine, Charles
Brugge, Helen Warner, Eddie
Roy, La Petite Marie and the
Sunkist dancing beauties. John
Irving Fisher will preside as
master Of ceremonies. The Fox
grand orchestra will be heard
in a Christmas carol overture,
and the Movietone News will
complete the program.
EARLE ~ Charles (Buddy)
Rogers in his latest Paramount
feature, "Half Way To Heaven"
comes as the main screen at
traction, opening with q Friday
1880 p. m. performance. The
story is described as q breath
taking. startling and human
melodrama Of carnival life In
which the star is assisted by
Jean Arthur, Helen Ware, Lu-
cille Williams, Oscar APPEL,
Irwin Bacon and Edna West.
The supplemental program win
include q number of Vitaphone
varieties. the Universal and
Pathe News reels. with music
by the Earle Orchestra, Daniel
BreeSkin conducting.
METR OLITAN-Ted
Lewis. premiere exponent Of
classical jazz, comes as the main
screen attraction. beginning
Saturday, in rs Everybody
Happy? his first Vitaphone
feature. Lewis is cast III the
role Of Ted Todd, q young Hun
garian violinist, who comes to
America and wages a winning
battle for fame and fortune.
The story offers many opportu-
mites for the Lewis voice, and
his famous band is heard iii
poppy selections. Alice Day,
Lawrence Grant, Julia SWayne
Gordon, Otto Hoffmand and
Plrnell b. Pratt are In the sup
porting cast. The supplement
tary bill will include number
of VitaphOne Varieties and the
Paramount sound news real.
GAYETY "Flapper Follieso
is the title Of the new Mutual
burlesque attraction which bows
in Sunday matinee. Lola Pierce,
brunette dancing and singing
star. heads the entertainment
roster. and featured principals
include Jack Montague, Billee
Lanonte, Madge Vincent, Jack
Tiny Fuller, Earl Root, Peggy
White and George StelIas. The
Flapper Harmony Four, the
shadoWgraph number and the
Arts Revue Petite are featured
specialties. A large and attrac-
tive chorus assists in the pres
e.1tftion Of the singing and
dancing ensembles.
WARDMAN PARK Salute" "
the FOX feature picture which
incorporates q West Point and
Annapolis romance with George
OBrien starred is providing the
main screen attraction. today.
Stepin Fetchit has q highly hui
nlorous role. For Friday and
Saturday the feature picture will
be the Fox nloyietOne story Of
back-stage romance, big Time"
with Lee Tracy and Mae Clarke
contributing splendid charac.
terfZafionS
The Washington times., 1929-12-19

Drama Guild, Franklin Admin
istration Building. Thirteenth
and K Streets Northwest. or
may be had, by applying in
writing to Mrs. Marie Moore
Forrest. executive secretary,
Community Drama Guild, Wash.
ington. D. c.
The Washington times., 1929-12-19

the Belasco cup tournament in
New York City,
Player groups must register
with the Drama Guild on or
before January 4, for entrance
in this years tournament. Ap-
plication blanks for this pur.
pose are now to be obtained at
the office Of the Community