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ITEMS OF NEWS
FROM .EASTSIDE

The Girl Reserves of the East Side |
high school gave an entertainment
and social last night honoring the
mothers and included as guests
were representatives from the va
rious organizations that have as
sisted in financing trips for repre-
sentatives and kindred purposes.
Elvessa Moore reported the sum-
mer conference at Asilomar and Ed
ma Spruell reported the Pasadena
conference.
The First A. M. E. church on State
street will give benefit concert to-
night, the proceeds of which will go
to assist the needy in the vicinity.
A splendid literary and musical en-
| tertainment will be rendered. A. E.
Prince is master Of ceremonies and
| Mrs. Prince, accompanist. No ad-
| mission fee is charged but silver
/ offering will be taken.
A number of persons living in El
Centre have received messages from
relatives and friends from numer-
Gus points in the Southland telling
of the suffering and privation among
the people there. A number are
sending help monthly from theil
earnings. The ladies of the Mis-.
sionary society of the Second Bap-
tist church is open from 2 to 4 p
m. every day and competent com.
mittee is receiving and checking do
nations. Anyone having anything
to offer may call either phone 149'
or Alb. Where persons do not fint
it convenient to come to the church
someone will call for the articles.
The Imperial-Palo Verde distric
association will convene with tn
Second Baptist church Saturda
and Sunday of this week. Repre-
sentatives from the several churche
in this county and IN the Palo Verd
valley will attend Among Tn
workers who will be present ar
Rev. I. N. Whitten, evangelics
missionary: DR.. w. r. Carter, gener
al missionary; Mrs. Eva Overr So
ONION, director of religious educa
ton. The public is invited to al
= tend these services.
= Messrs. r. j. Burleigh, exalte
e ruler Of Salton Sea lodge of Elk.
:. W. 4. Payne, past exalted ruler: ]
l H. Cross, tyler, are representing til
= local lodge at the dedication of tn
new Elks Rest III Los Angeles. Payr
will also attend the annual Dime
!, OF the Denison university alumni
: Granville, Ohio.
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Seven growers in Tulare County
who girdled Thompson Seedless
vines last year have found the
operation profitable.
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For Rert--Fayni Lands
By COWAN

FOR LEASE,-Iwo 20 acres and one
. 100 &C. tracts, all in alfalfa. C. w.
Knapp, 630 Main st. 23tf
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GOVERNOR TO BORROW TAXES

JACKSON, Miss.,-When asked
how he was going to pay his taxes
this year, Mississippi's governor.
Theodore C. Bilbo, replied. I'm
broke, too, and viii have TO borrow
some money somewhere, like every
body else, and pay en-"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-30

FOR SAIE-Improved strain Of ex-
ira fine Mary Washington as
paragus roots, from selected seeds
Have sold millions Of plants in
the valley and all fields have
been large producers of first-class
asparagus. Also all varieties OF
strawberry plants including the
new "Blakemore" which is taking
the place of the Improved Klon-
dyke and Missionary varieties
Write for information and prices
Jamison's Hollywood Ranch Nur-
sery. Box 476. Ontario, Calf.
25ti
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Furniture For Sale

FOR SALE-Dining table $2.75, bed
So. cot and new mattress SIS,
snitary couch $3.50, springs $3.50,
rocker 50, new dresser SIG, new
batteries 1896 exchange. BAG
Broadway 3Otl
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FOR SALE-300C exceptionally fine
grapefruit trees. S125 at nursery.
A. p. Perkins, Box 1912, Laguna
Beach. 19tf
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FOR SALE-300 tons cool baled
alfalfa hay. Two miles west of
McCabe School, II mile south.
r. K. Green. Phone 8702-R-3.
13tlmo.
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Zinc chloride treatment Of pear
blight has proved 100 per cent ef-
fective in Mendocino county.
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Miscellaneous For Sale

FOR SALE-Grape Juice, red cold
storage, $l.00 per gallon delivered
Write H. E. Baumunk, Wineville,
Cal. 29t2O
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Houses Furnished

FOR RENT-Furnished house,
bedrooms, garage. Phone 234.
28t4
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HelD Wnnsed-Femals

WANTED-Middle -aged woman to
care for small child and house.
Board, room and small salary.
Write Box All. 29t3
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Pewter HoIIoware, Special -. $50
Misses and Women's Goats sI975
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Washable Flat Crepe, yd. sI.'9
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a 49, 1yET 7Sa1nrS11 sSc9R3n 7N5N7 Ks 49,
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gay young father had always
managed to carry, to everyone's
astonishment. And The San
dersons gave her gift money,
now and then. They had wished
to put her on a strictly buSi-
ness basis, with q monthly sti-
pend for pin money, but she
had refused. She had her own
little room and her place, at
their table. She must do some
thing in return. And as she
grew up-at II she took over
the running of the house-she
agreed to look upon whatever
she could save from the house
keeping money as her own.
Hence, the So which was to
provide dinner for herself and
Larry upon her treat night. For
Larry was poor and ambitious
and Mary Lou was poor and
adorable. and they got great
deal of fun out of each other
and their poverty. And If
Larry hadn't succeeded in So
phisticating Mary Lou to any
great degree, he loved her to
death anyway, as he would
have loved a delightful younger
sister.
BILLY, for heavens sakeV"
Billy was out in the road,
darting with ease between the
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they laugh too much" an
swered Clara, quite seriously
they have too good a time.
When a things serious the in
terested pair are gloomy, touchy,
sensitive and-oh,. emotional!
Mary Lou isn't that and,
heaven knows, Larry isn't,
either!"
"And were we like that?" her
husband inquired, earnestly.
"You know we were!" And
here she would kiss him and
laugh little. Il like Larry"
she once said; "he's a dear
and aWfully clever-but he's
not the man for Mary Lou"
who is, o Wisdom Incar-
nate?"
Il don't know. Yes, I do.
Someone older. Someone who
needs her terribly. Not a weak
man; I don't mean that"
Clara went on trying to eX-
plain, "but someone who would
call out all her mothering in
stincts. Larry couldn't. He
might if she were an older wo-
man, a different type-I can't
explain"
You certainly can't" an
swered Howard with conviction.
They're Just friends" Clara
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cars, while drivers swerved and
grew white and the, males
among them cursed and grew
green.
A BIOOdless Rescue
Larry darted out after the ir-
repressible young man and sue
ceeded In effecting a bloodless
rescue. After which, and the
scolding, they all three walked
sedately home to the green
shuttered house, where Mary
Lou, pausing on the step, in
vited Mr.. Mitchell to share her
lettuce leaf and vegetable soup
and Billy'S spinach and baked
potato, custard, and other deli
cacieS of the season.
But Larry refused. He was
out cunning for a murder and
gun he must.
"See you tomorrow" said
Larry and, with a wave of his
very diSreputable hat, he long
legged it down the street, leav-
ing Mary Lou gazing after him,
as wistfully as she had looked
across the Narrows at the big
liner.
Copyright, 1880, by Faith Baldwin
Distributed by King Features Syndi-
cate, Inc.
Continued Tomorrow
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, about all the ms and outs OF
dope selling and dope using to
be very useful in some capacity
or other, with a vice squad.
Humane Sanitariums
Some of these sanitariums
which are supposed to cure drug
addiction are very good, and
some of them are worse than
merely very bad.
d Some of these sanitariumS,
the one at Spadra, for instance,
are we'll run and humanely
administered, but Spadra is
not big enough to afford shell
ter for the after cure. and the
after cure is a very important
thing.
Nine out of ten of these in
stitutions for the care Of the
helpless addict ana the help
less insane will bear watching,
and close watching at that.
In one institution where I
was locked up for nine months,
I remember terrible things.
Things which would chill the
blood of the coldest hearted
human being alive.
One Of the small peculiarities
I observed at that institution
was the strange. gray, dirty
looking sheet which hung sus-
pended from a big hook in the
ceiling in the room adjoining
the lavatory for women pa
tients.
I couldn't imagine what this
strange, dirty, SWaying thing
was there for. I soon discovered.
Women coming in from the
wards, sick women, insane
women, women whose p o o r
Shrunken carcasses were rotten
to the bone with disease, stopped
as they entered the room or left
it, and wiped their hands and
faces and eXpectorated into this
towel. It hung there for week
before it was changed.
Twas considered rather highly
tightly when I got my mother to
send me half a dozen large hand
kerchiefs which I could wash out
myself and keep under the pill
low in my own cot.
The nurses at some of these
institutions wear uniforms and
caps, and that's all there is
about them that belongs to the
habit Of a real nurse.
Paid a Poor Wage
They are not nurses at all,
they are attendants.
They are paid $25 a month,
and you can imagine the type of
intelligence which will work in
such institutions for such a
wage.
I saw brutality and cruelty
and outrageous neglect, time and
time again.
My mother knows the names
Of the institutions where I saw
these things, and when am
gone, I am sure she will be
glad to give those names and
all the particulars, as she
knows them through me, and
through other patients at those
same institutions, to any re-
sponsible people who wish to
make a thorough and RESPONSE
BILE investigation.
Continued Tomorrow
Copyright 1881. Daily Mirror1
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Times Daily Health Hint
DIET AND HEALTH
BY DR.. Logan Clendening-

One of the advantages claimed
foA whole wheat bread over
white bread is that it contains
more roughage.
Some of my readers have
asked me to explain what is
meant by roughage. A group
got into an argument and
wanted to know whether spin
ach and lettuce were rough
age" Both spinach and lettuce
contain roughage, as do nearly
all vegetables (potatoes being a
notable exception). Roughage
is any indigestible or unabsorb-
able part Of the food. The fl
ber or cellulose Of fruits and
vegetables is roughage. If you
chew a sliced orange or grape
fruit until you have chewed all
the juice out you will have a
quantity of pulp in your mouth
that no amount Of chewing will
further reduce. This is the
"roughage" part and will be re-
duced in size very little during
it's passage through the intes-
tines.
Quite IndigeStibIe
The roughage in whole wheat
bread is in the form of bran.
1t is one of the most indigeSti-
BILE substances on earth, at least
for the human digestive tract.
A goat or a rabbit or a COW
has an enormous prolongation
Of the intestine where our YER
inform appendix is, and when
their food enters this pouch,
which contains many bacteria,
the bacteria attack the vegeta-
BILE cellulose and finally break
it down. 1t is a long and un-
economical process and requires
the goat or rabbit or COW to
spend most of it's time chewing.
limited Amount Needed
Roughage to q certain
amount is good for the human
digestive tract, but unlike the
goat, we can take care of only
limited amount. Some people
require more than others. Only
a small proportion of people
can use much bran comfort
ably, and therefore whole wheat
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CHAPTER II


When my mother discovered
that I really was a drug addict
without any question of doubt,
she started the real fight to cure
me of my hideous disease, for
drug addiction is disease, and
one of the most loathsome,
agonizing diseases to which hui
man beings are subject.
This was a fight that broke
my mothers health, and broke
her heart, too, but it never broke
her courage or her loyal devo-
ton to me; no, not for one
minute.
When the fashionable Los An
geleS doctor was arrested and
charged with selling me dope
among dozens of other patients,
he said on the witness stand be-
fore the grand jury that he sold
dope to me for my mother, as
my mother was suffering from
cancer.
My mother went on the stand
voluntarily and testified that
she had never suffered from
cancer or from any other pain
full disease in her life, and that
she had not only never seen this
doctor, but that she never even
heard of him until she learned
to her horror and CONSERVATION
that I was getting dope from
him.
Just a Skirmish
All this was merely one skirm-
ish in the long, weary, heart
sickenfng fight which my brave
mother began to make for me
from the very hour she learned
the truth about the dope.
I had became very expert in
Kidding the traces Of the drug
habit. My husband, DR.. Good
man, was a very intelligent
man and a physician himself,
and I had to be most careful
not to let him suspect my
slavery.
When he did begin to suspect
it, he did everything he could
to cure me, but it was no use.
couldn't seem to break the
chains of dope, no matter how
hard I tried, and I did try
in deep and desperate earn
est I tried. I went from one
cure to another; I tried to
taper off on hyoceine. I re-
member the awful tremorS and
cold Sweats, and terrifying night
mares that hyoceine gave me.
Sometimes for days I'd think
I was beginning to see a little
hope, and then some strain
would come and down I would
go again.
After I divorced DR.. Good
man and married CorteZ, the
screen actor, things went from
bad to worse. To do Mr.. Cor
tez justice, he never suspected
that I was an addict, not for
a long time, and when he did
begin to suspect it, he did
everything he could to help me.
But my mother was my chief
comfort and aid. and most of
the time my only hope.
She never lost heart, she
never gave up. 1 thought time
and time again I wished 1
would go to sleep and never
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said; "love comes first and
friendship after-that is, if
you're lucky. Friendship doesn't
initiate things, as rule"
Il wonder 1 ever dared marry
you, Mrs. Solomon" remarked
her husband, gravely, at which
she threw a clothes brush at
him and the conversation ended
abruptly.
On the Shore Road
Said Larry, this autumn morn
ing, down on Shore Road:
Shall we go gadding-to-
morrow"
"Where?"'
BUS ride and I want to
see that collection of Chinese
swords at the museum. Eats,
somewhere. Not more than two
and a half worth"
my turn to treat" said Mary
Lou, placidly.
so it is. How much is avail.
able?"
Three, not counting the tip"
"Hetty Green!" gasped Larry,
IN mock amazement.
That's the kind of a friend
ship theirs was, you see. Mary
Lou had a tiny income, hardly
visible to the naked eye, from
a life insurance policy that her
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ALMA RUBENS' LIFE STORY

; I went to spadra, the State
institution, and finally I went
to Patton, where they send in
sane criminals and the inno-
cent insane and a few poor
abject slaves of dope.
DR.. Thomas Joyce of Spadra
cured me IF my addiction. He
and his wife seem to know
just exactly what to do with
poor, tortured, half mad VIC
tim of dope, to bring hope
and peace and sanity into life
again, and they did it for me.
But there was not room or
money at Spadra for the after
treatment, and that is as i'm
portant in the cure of a dope
case as the first treatment it.
self, and 1 hadn't been out OF
Spadra for two hours before
three different dope peddlers
came to me and offered me
dope to brace me up for the
long fight ahead of me.
NY old friend, the fashion
able obstetric doctor of Los
Angeles, came to me on the day
I left one of the sanitariums
and offered me a shot to pep
me up. He said it wouldn't
hurt me. I took it and was
back on the junk again before
I had been off for "a hours.
Dope. Ring Powerful
Make no mistake about it
the dope ring never loses a
trick.
No patient ever leaves a pub
lie institution without the
knowledge of every live wire
peddler in the game.
The peddlers and their su-
periors keep what they call
laSt-chance list, and on that
list is the name of every poor
victim who is trying to make
any kind Of a fight to get off
the junk.
The narcotic agents-Federal,
State and city-know your name,
and they know where you live
and how long your term at the
sanitarium is and when to ex-
pect you out.
And the dope dealers have
the same profitable information
set down in good big letters
in the debit side Of their
ledgers. Escape them if you
can.
The Federal agent who was
blackmailing me into blood
money for my dope was kind
enough to warn me against an
other man also in the Federal
employ.
He told me to look out for
this man; that he would bleed
me to death if I ever gave him
a chance.
The mans name was brought
into the grand jury investiga-
ton, which took up the case of
the first Federal narcotic agent
and of the fashionable obStetric
specialist.
The second man was dis
charged from the Federal SER
vice, but I heard his name the
other day as being at the head
of the vice squad in a large
California city. I don't know
whether he calls the taking of
opium, morphine, heroin, CO.
caine or mariiuana vice or not.
He certainly knows enough
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BY Anne Adams

Pattern 2O49 makes up beauti-
fully in printed satin, flat crepe,
triple voile or georgette. Choose
a dark ground with a very
small print-navy with tur-
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with white or green with egg
shell.
May be obtained only in sizes
SO, 38, 40, AZ, A and 46. Size
SO requires Az yards of 39-inch
material.
Send Is cents, coin or stamps,
for each pattern giving name,
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ion book, price Is cents. Book
with pattern. rs cents. Address
Washington Times Pattern Bu-
reau, 243 West 18th St., New
York City.
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This cleaner
makes soap and water
do more work

MELo softens hard water, prevents
the dirty ring from forming around
the bathtub, the washtub and the dish
pan. 1t cuts grease, dissolves spots, puts
a sparkling shine on china, makes
clothes gIisten with whiteness, and
gives you a pleasant, soft-water bath.
Use Melo. Use it because you've
got to have soft water before you can
clean anything. Melo is a wonderful
cleaner, with or without soap. And
with soap it saves from 15 to Is the
amount ordinarily used. Get it at your
grocer's.
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FASHIONS
FANCIES

The Last Days Of winter usu-
ally bring forth some extremely
colorful frocks. With a mink
coat one smart woman wears a
frock of red crepe in a deep
tomato shade. It has a wrap
over skirt and a peplum. The
deep V neck is outlined with
motifs Of Alencon lace on net.
The deep cuffs are of the lace
also mounted on net.
Fortune Telling Is Permitted
in the Sartorial world and so it
is quite in order to prophesy
the success of some of the new
spring suits. An ideal model
for country wear consists Of a
black and white tweed skirt, a
white crepe sleeveless blouse
worn with a wide leather belt
and black and white tweed
cardigan jacket.
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bread is adapted to only a small
part of the population. For
others it is irritating and results
in intestinal discomfort and
colitis of various grades. = is
also productive of a greaT deal
Of rectal trouble and irritation.
The idea, then, of imposing
while wheat bread on the entire
nation is thoroughly unscien-
tific. The damage which has
been done is that the advocates
of whole wheat bread have
frightened people so about white
bread that the people who find
they cannot eat whole wheat
bread do not eat any bread.
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open my eyes to the light of
day again.
Deep In the Mire
l went from doctor to doc
tor; some of them helped me
for a little while and some
drove me deeper and deeper
into the mire. I went from
one sanitarium to another. I
went to Rosemead Sanitarium.
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YOUR RULING
STAR
BY William Shwader-
THE YEAR AHEAD
For Those Whose Birthday L.
February Ia.

If February IA is your birth
day during the coming year an
older friend or relative may in
fluence your affairs. Condi-
tions affecting property, real
estate, agreements or official
papers should receive careful
attention. Important Dates:
Avoid excesses of all kinds,
take no risks and maintain rou-
tine from May IA to 16, May
81 to June l, June 5 to 10,
July 81 to "a, August 16 to %,
October 19 to "a. Good for
general affairs from February
rs to q, March I to 3, March
Is to 27, July 2 to 4, Septem-
Der 6 to 8, October 8 to 10,
November 2 to 4. Contradic-
tory dates show two opposing
influences.
A CHILD born February IA
will be methodical, painstaking
and rather critical. He should
do we'll in scientific or research
work. 1t would be we'll for him
to learn patience and tolerance
for other peoples opinions.
Tendencies for February IS.
The moon in conjunction with
the planet Mercury is favorable
for matters relating to books,
study and correspondence. The
mind should be receptive to re-
ligious, occult and metaphysical
thought.
Copyright 1881. Premier syndicate)
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WHATDOY YOU
KNOW?
AnsWers To TOday's Test
Questions On Editorial Page

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a mixture Of isinglass and
glycerin. 2. First. 8. Potash 4.
Party. 5. Thomas. 6. Bark. Z.
Origin. 8. Bloated. 9. A large
drinking vessel. 10. Canticleer.
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This Day in History

on February 49, 1776, James Wilson, member
31 the Second Continental Congress- offered an ad-
Oress proposing political separation from England.
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Continued Tomorrow
Copyright 1881, Daily Mirror)
The Washington times., 1931-11-19
JAMES B. NEV|N,
f. EDITOR, DIES
! IN SOUTH

ATLANTA, Ca, Nov. l9 0.N.So. /.
Victim of a heart attack as he sat
at his desk writing an editorial,
James Banks Nevin, editor of the
Atlanta Georgian, was dead to-
day. He was So years old.
The heart attack occurred yes
terday afternoon. Eight hours
later the journalist died in st. Jo'
seph's Hospital his family at the
bedside.
Mr.. Nevin is survived by his
widow, the former Miss Mary
Bryan, of Rome, Ca; two daugh.
ters, Miss Ida Nevin and Mrs. T.
M. Bradshaw, of Atlanta, and
three sons, Henry, James B., jr,
and M. A. Nevin. all of Atlanta.
For the past 10 years Mr.. NeVin
guided the Atlanta Georgian as
its editor. He was born in Rome.
where he received his primary
education. In 1892 he was gradu-
ated from the University of Geor.
gia. Ten years later he entered
the States political arena as one
of the youngest members ever to
serve in the Georgia assembly.
During the Spanish American
Wa he served as a captain in the
second regiment of Georgia Vol.
unteers. He was associate editor
of The Washington Herald from
1906 until 1910.
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RAILWAY CREDIT
i PLAN URGED

Operation of a railroad credit
corporation as a substitute for the
pooling plan of the Interstate
Commerce Commission to obtain
higher freight rates was proposed
to the commission today by the
Association of Railway Executives.
The petition asked for certain
notifications of the commits
sion's decision in the Is per cent
rate increase in order to make the
plan workable from a practical
standpoint.
The organization would be in
corporated under Delaware laws.
It's administrative office will be
located here.
In its recent decision the COM
mission granted certain increases
in freight rates, estimated to ag-
gregate between 100000 900 and
$l25,00 900, provided the reve-
nues derived therefrom are placed
in fund for the relief of rail
roads failing to earn their in
terest charges.