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Evening star., 1932-01-30
ON THE SCREEN.
? mes Dunn
In Person" at the Fox.

J?nes Dunn
I'm Person" at the Fox.
rAMES DUNN. other than the
ebullent Polly Moran, is
the first first-claSs movie
~ star to be himself before
the footlights. Mr.. Dunn.
,,rovoca+ive promoter of Bad
Girls" 20. X" walks out onto
the stage of the Fox Iheater
t. is week and skaters forever
Evening star., 1932-01-30

More than $4,000 was collected in
customs duties on presents reaching
Belfast. Ireland, from abroad during the
Christmas season.
Evening star., 1932-01-30
Report for Last "a Hours.
Tide Tables.

ago As.
Lowest, 40, 7:3O pm. today. Year
ago, 80.
Evening star., 1932-02-28

unemployment could be turned into profit.
With such useful training they would not have
to vegetate until times were better; they could
be capitalizing their training and having
jolly, profitable time doing it.
I'VE should, long ago, have planned it SO
that people could utilize their spare time, not
just waste it. At present, as things are, spare
time is just wasted time, unwanted and squan-
dered. Unless We can make leisure more profit
able and enjoyable than it Is now, some of our
greatest present-day problems will go unsolved
and the future for mankind will be sorry one.
When I advocate the utilitarian way Of
spending leisure, 1t Is not my intention to
reduce it to a set program painful, busy
process in which nobody has any fun. don't
want to spoil leisure; I want to enhance it,
improve it, make it the joyous sort of thing
it should be. Today leisure is an unpleasant
phantom. something almost terrifying. don't
mean that we must reduce our leisure to
scientific formula, but what do want to con-
vey is that We should be prepared to use it to
our best advantage and in a manner which
We will enjoy the most
People should be trained in wise methods Of
developing and creating more ways in which 10
enjoy themselves. This will add instead Of
subtract from the sum total Of human happi-
ness. We would all have great deal more
fun il we shaped 1t with own minds and
hands instead of having to go out and buy
it from regular pleasure factories that make
a business of turing out fun in big job lots
the same kind Of fun for everybody, regard
less of differences in tastes and temperaments.
We should be more selective more dependent
upon our own choice and originality for our
spare-time divoCsion.
"Adversity, with its enforced lack of work,
could be turned into something rather unique
and diverting II our system Of education had
not failed us. We must go on playing the fool
during our spare time, since we are only trained
to add up figures, with no bookkeeping job in
sight; to sell insurance when nobody wants to
Evening star., 1932-02-28
Educated only for Prosperity Ne Are Totally
Unbrepa,ed for This Period Of Depression,
Contends the oxford Philosopher, DR.:
LIP. Jacks, as sHeAd0ocates framing
to Meet Ad0eryity.
to Meet Adversity.

UTHOSE who are employed and find them
] selves facing more leisure than they ever
had before are appalled, by what should be
blessing. They do not know what to do with
the idle hours even during their busiest sea-
sons. What shall they do now with added
long hours that must be whied away some
how? All of the noisy, standardized mechani
cal fun is beginning to pail. 1t is like being
offered cream puf1s when one is hungry for
more solid fare of steak thick chop. But
where can they 60 to find other and more
desirable substitutes, particularly now when
their funds are low or even nonexistent?
unfortunately, people have not been trained
to create their own amusements, to be resource
full original, self-reliant. So they go on buying
the canned recreation, If they have the money,
even though they are tired Of it. They know
Of no other way in which to fill in the hours
away from work. As for the unemployed who
face the prospect Of no work at all and plenty
of time for diversion, what shall they do to
capitalize that time and make it endurable
until better times return?
What, in the past have We accomplished
in our schools to prepare our people for times
like the present? Nothing at all. So con-
sioer this the opportune and psychological
time to call attention to the fact that our
existing system of education must be changed,
must be made over, reshaped and corrected.
While our present system prepares people for
employment, it leaves them at total stand
still for times of unemployment Unemploy-
n1ent and the resultant excess leisure put most
people at loose ends, at random completely.
They stagnate, go to pieces, drown in despair.
For them there is no dignity in leisure.
Look about you. What are the unemployed
doing? What has their education done to
help tide them over this crisis? 1t has availed
them nothing They have been educated along
the lines Of book learning, net for skill or
npda fhauh had +roi
ing in the arts and crafts and in the cultiva-
ton of fascinating and absorbing hobbies their
Evening star., 1932-02-28

unframed in its use.
It has stampeded into their midst;
and now that they've got it, they don't
know what to do with it. Instead OF
proving a jovial playmate, it has turned out to
be a great big gloomy pest.
With enforced unemployment in time Of de-
preston, the mechanistic industrial scheme
and the shorter working week, leisure Is taking
on immense proportions 1t is getting out OF
bounds, turning into a milestone around the
necks Of people unaccustomed to its society
Although it should represent glorious freedom
from occupation boon to culture and q
golden siesta from arduous labor, it Is actually
becoming lowering monster with whom the
Idle cannot cope.
This sinister quality which surrounds spare
time is attributable to the fact that America
has made the mistake of educating people
only for times OF prosperity preparing them
for material well-being and leaving them high
and dry for adversely DR.. L. P. Jacks British
philosopher, who for the last is years was pres
ident Of the Manchester College, Oxford ex-
plains in this fashion the phenomenon OF the
present growing unpopularity Of leisure. He
ts one of the best known English scholars, be-
ing holder Of many academic distinctions. He
has been lecturing in the United States spon-
sored by the National Recreation Association.
1--WE do not prepare people for adversity,
equip them for times such as we are passing
through" said DR.. Jacks, discussing the matter
of what to do with unoccupied time Both
America and Europe made the mistake OF edu-
eating people only for times Of prosperity. Our
education has been at fault The whole sys-
tenn of education must be made over-revolu-
tionized. People must be trained for SKILL
and along creative lines instead Of being edu-
Gated for book knowledge alone"
RR. JACKS described the leisure Of today as
- veritabe Frankensten of the age which
created it. q monster rearing its head among
the unemployed, spectral nightmare to men
and women so unframed to be unable to ap-
preciate its blessings or its opportunities for
creative and cultural advancement.
Leisure is more terrifying for people to con-
template in times of financial distress than
during an era of prosperity" he pointed out.
sWhen people have plenty Of money they can
solve the problem, after fashion, by going
out and buying their amusement on the open
market 1t is pretty thin stuff to 60 on with
year after year, but what are they to do now
when they haven't the wherewithal to buy
even that?"
DR. Jacks, a slender, gray-haired, scholarly
appearing man. with the tranquility that comes
from the possession of we'll stocked mind
continued:
'"They know what to do at the zenith and
are at loose ends and in despair at the nadlr
Our education has been at fault We have
been educated with one great object in view
to make money. So 1t is that when leisure
u thrust upon people it rears its head ike
specter to the employed who acquire it and
then do not know what to do with it when
they have it; like a nightmare to the unem-
pioyed who have it arbitrarily thrust upon
siem, and in such large quantities.
Evening star., 1932-02-28

L. of the Brave.
g.. Connie of the
3. Fa;tlfuness Of the Trustee
DEVELOPS qualities
for Adversely and o' by Possessing those three qu;he that
Ar difficulties
Evening star., 1932-02-28

buy it; to write shorthand when there are no
employers willing to dictate letters; to sell
stocks and bonds when the market crashes
have frightened people; to read the classics
when, just now, we would hnd this not al
together profitable"
Evening star., 1932-02-28
BY CAROL BIRD.

KLSURE today is taking on the form OF
. white elephant to men and women
unframed in its use.
It has stampeded into their midst;
and now that THEY'VE got it, they don't
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06
Postal Inspector
Probes Shooting

c. D. Lowe, post office inspector
from Los Angeles, is in Ell Centre
today prosecuting an investigation
in connection with the burglary of
the Ell Centro post office by Alvin
Self, escaped Florence, Ariz., con-
vict, and the subsequent Staying of
Self by Mearon Perkins, Negro jan
itor at the post office.
loves report on the attempted
burglary and shooting of Self by
Perkins is expected to have a con-
siderable effect on any reward
which might be given the janitor.
Self was interrupted by Perkins
while ransacking the package room
of the post office, and threatened
the janitor with a revolver taken
from post office desk. While Self
was tying him, Perkins whirled and
attacked the burglar, wrestling his
gun from him and shooting him
three times during the resulting
scuffle.
Lowe informed The Press that he
arrested Self in 1926 for robbery
of the post office at Huntington
Beach and declared the slain BAN
dit was bad actor.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06

can go in head first but I can't
climb up or back up tail first"
Then how are you going to get
me out?" asked Uncle Wiggily.
II will turn around and come
down in the stump tail first said
the bear. Il can easily back down
that way and when I am close
enough to you, grab hold of my
tail, and 1 will then climb up and
out of the stump and pull you
with me-
"Oh, that will be a fine way!"
said Uncle Wiggily. Il am so tired
of being inside this stump. Back
down, Mr.. Stubtail."
The bear gentleman turned
around on top of the stump, like
the bear in the circus. Putting
his hind feet in first, Mr.. Stub
tail lowered himself down inside
the stump, holding fast by his
claws so he would not slip and
fall down on the rabbit.
Can you reach my tail now,
Uncle Wiggily?" asked the bear.
Not yet" answered the rabbit.
Come a little closer"
Mr.. Stubtail backed farther into
the stump.
Can you reach my tail now?"
he asked.
Not YETI said the rabbit. Back
down a little more
Mr.. Stubtail backed down a lit
tie more and then asked:
Can you reach my tail now?"
"Oh, yes" answered Mr.. Long
ears.
Then grab hold and hold on
tight and I'll pull you out!" cried
the bear. So Uncle Wiggily took
hold of the bears tail. Mr.. Stub
tail climber up and up and out of
the stump, pulling the rabbit with
him. And once outside, on top of
the stump, the bunny jumped down
onto the soft leaves on the ground
and he was rescued. Then Mr.
Stubtail climbed down and Uncle
Wiggily took him home and gave
him some prune whip and floating
island and everybody was happy.
And if the black pussy cat
doesn't dip her tail in the cream
jug to make it white like marsh
mallow candy, I'll tell you next
about Uncle Wiggily's snow fort.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06
Bedtime Stories
By HOWARD E. GARRIS
Copyright, 1928, by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate
UNCLE WIGGILY GETS OUT

Uncle Wiggily was down inside
a big, tall hollow stump. 1t was
so smooth, inside, that he could
not climb up and out. There were
no holes, like windows or doors
as there were in his hollow stump
bungalow, and he had no knife
with which to cut an opening.
The rabbit gentleman, in search
of an adventure, had climbed up
the outside of the high hollow
stump by means of an old honey
suckle vine which was like a lad
der. Once at the top, the bunny
gentleman had leaned over too far
and had fallen in. He called for
help and heard a voice outside say:
Il will help you. Who are you?
Where are you?"
LIN Uncle Wiggily down in this
hollow stump and I can't get out, y
answered the rabbit gentleman
DO you think you can help me?'
"Of course 1 can" was the
answer, in a deep, hearty, growing
voice. Wait minute"
Who are you?" asked the rab-
bit gentleman as he heard foot
steps shuffling around in the dried
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06
WESTERN AUTOS
NEW CATALOGUES
NOW AVAILABLE

The first shipment of the new
1882 automobile supply catalog
published by the Western Auto
Supply company, arrived at their
local store this week and are now
ready for distribution. according to
j. A. Hall, manager of the Ell Gen.
tro store.
These catalogs may be secured
either by writing or telephoning
our store or calling at the store for
one as the 1882 edition is not be-
ing mailed except upon request"
says Hall.
THE 1913 pages in this edition
describe and give prices on more
than 1000 individual items of auto
motive needs, sporting equipment,
fishing tackle, camping supplies and
radios. The new low prices make
this edition a necessity to every au-
tomobile owner and again Western
Auto leads the way to greater mot
oring economy.
I'm keeping with the present
trend, we announce new low prices
on hundreds of items and while
offering these greater savings, We
state emphatically that the usual
high Western Auto quality has not
been sacrificed one bit. Our buy
ers are constantly on the alert for
new and better merchandise, and
when our customers buy equip
ment from our stores they receive
a greater value created for them
by the combined efforts of an or
ganization of auto accessory-mind-
ed men,"
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06
Scout Anniversary
Will Be Observed

Monday, February 8, marks the
twenty second anniversary of
Scouting in the United States and
will be celebrated in every council
in the country.
A particular feature of the ma
tional celebration will be the radio
broadcast to be sent over the N.
B. C. hookup Monday evening over
the Carnation Milk company's Con-
tented Hour AT this time the
national executive and a number
of distinguished Americans will
speak.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06

Representatives from all parts OF
Imperial Valley, the county board
of supervisors, representatives OF
city governments and of chambers
of commerce from the various COM
munities of the valley, met yester-
day noon at the Hotel Barbara
Worth to have luncheon with the
state highway commission men,
bers and engineers, who were the
guests of the El Centre Chamber of
Commerce. Members of the visit
ing party included the following
commissioners: Chairman LIE e
Kelly, Philip A. Stanton, Frank p.
Tetley, II. A. Hopkins and T. A.
Reardon; c. c. Carlton, chief of the
bureau of contracts; Col. Walter E.
Garrison, director of the state di-
vision of public works, including
water resources and highways; C..
c. Purcell, state highway chief en-
gineer; George Cook, secretary to
Purcell; John Howe, secretary of
the highway commission; Judge
Allen of the superior court of
Orange county; E. @. Sullivan, d.
vision engineer; and Joe Timmons,
feature writer for the Los Angeles
Examiner.
Kelly, to whom the gavel was
passed after the meeting was open
ed by R. B. Whitelaw, president
of the Ell Centro Chamber of Com
merce, stated that one can judge
the community by its chamber Of
commerce. A live chamber, he
said, makes a live community. He
then complimented FL Centro on
its chamber and the activities of
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06

which had been made for building
and repairing state highways, the
demand for new roads exceeds the
amount to be expended. He there
fore suggested that Imperial coun-
ty should not ask for too much
road mileage in the secondary sys-
TEN. At the conclusion I. A.
Thomas, in charge of state high
way construction in Imperial coun-
ty, was highly commended for his
work by members of the highway
commission.
Preceding luncheon the visitors,
accompanied by county and city
officials, visited the new Pacific
Greyhound Stage depot, on Main
street and the splendid stucco and
concrete structure was favorably
commented upon. The party was
greeted at Ell Centro's new $4,000
depot and garage unit by A. M.
Blackburn, local agent for the Pa
cific Greyhound lines.
Following luncheon the party
visited the J. S. Jones home on
Wensley avenue, to view the palo
verde trees growing around that
residence. The FL Centre Chamber
of Commerce is making an effort
to have the commission plant and
maintain palo verde trees on the
state roads in Imperial county and
chamber officials had arranged
that the visitors should see these
splendid trees growing around this
residence. j. S. Jones accompan-
led the party and told of the suit
ability of palo verde trees to desert
areas. The commission is order
ing one and one-half miles of trees
planted on the highways of Imper-
ial county as an experiment under
the direction of l. A. Thomas.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06
HIGHWAY COMMISSIONERS GIVE
VIEWS ON ROADS AT LUNCHEON

that organization. Kelly also stated
that Highway 80 from San Diego
to El Centro is one of the smooth
est and most scenic roads in the
state system. Kelly was followed
by Chief Engineer Purcell, who
stated that the traffic in and
through Imperial Valley necessitat-
ed the highest standard of road
construction and that it was his
plan to have the state highways
paved to standard necessary in
so important an agricultural COM
munity.
Commissioner Stanton, of Orange,
stated that he hoped to become
better acquainted with the residents
of Imperial county, and urged the
support of the local chamber. Com
missioner Hopkins of Kern county
commented on the romance of I'M
perial county and on the magma
ton of the pioneers who made I'M
perial Valley possible. He stated
that it is satisfaction to the
highway commission to feel they
are helping carry out the vision Of
the pioneers by giving this COM
munity the best roads possible.
Commissioner Tetley, who lived in
the valley in 1907, then told some
humorous incident of the early days.
Reardon also commented on the
fine spirit of the pioneers.
Colonel Garrison told of the
amounts to be spent on highways
in California and what had been
accomplished through levying the
state gasoline tax and pointed out
that, with the huge appropriations
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06

leaves outside the stump in which
he was like a prisoner.
II am Mr.. Stubtail your bear
gentleman friend" came the
answer.
"Oh, Mr.. Stubtail! I'm so glad
it's you," cried Uncle Wiggily. Il
thought perhaps it might be the
Fox or Wolf. And they would only
help me out SO they could help
themselves to some nibbles off my
ears
"Oh, I wouldn't do a thing like
that!' said Mr.. Stubtail, the kind
gentlman bear.
II know you wouldn't said
Uncle Wiggily. But get me out as
soon as you can, please. I am in
a hurry to get home to supper?"
Why" asked Mr.. Stubtail.
Because Nurse Jane has made
floating island and prune whip"
answered Uncle Wiggily. Those
are the reasons"
chuckled Mr.. Stubtail. Now to
get you out. First l shall climb
up the outside of the hollow stump
and look down inside. 1t may be
that I can reach you with my paws
and claws and that I can pull you
up that way like a bucket out of
the we'll, Uncle Wiggily."
II hope you can," said the bunny
gentleman.
Mr.. Stubtail had strong claws
on the ends of his paws and by
sticking these claws in the outside
of the stump the bear climbed up
to the top. Looking down, he saw
Uncle Wiggily at the dark bottom,
seated on a pile of dried leaves.
Can you reach me?" asked
Uncle Wiggily, anxiously, as he
looked up at the big head of the
bear gentleman stuck into the top
hole of the stump.
I'm afraid I can't" answered
Mr.. Stubtail. MY paws aren't
long enough"
Climb down a ways, inside the
stump and then you can reach
me-" said Mr.. Longears. Climb
down head first"
"Oh, if I do that" groWled the
bear, 81 can't climb up again. I
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06
TALK ON LIGHT
GIVEN LOCAL
KIWAN!S CLUB

Progress made in the develop
ment of electric light was outlined
by Robert Maxwell, representative
of the Electrical Cooperative bu-
reau. at Kiwanis club luncheon
yesterday at the Barbara Worth
hotel. =.
Development of the incandescent
light was rapid, said Maxwell, and
now is used in all parts of the civ
ilized world. He paid high tribute
to Thomas Edison as the man re-
sponsible for the invention.
Wonder. is caused, he said, by
the rapid progress made in elec-
trio lighting when it is pointed out
that the White House during
Washington's presidency was light
ed by candles of crude manufac-
ture.
Rapid development was shown
during the last so years and elec-
tricity plays its part in all appli-
ances of that nature.
He displayed an interesting COL
lection of electric light bulbs which
demonstrated the progress made
since the invention of the first one.
Maxwell told how electricity works
but said little is known about elec-
tricity itself.
Ensign Philip Lawton, of San
Bernardino. representing the Saliva
ton Army, urged Kiwanians to as
sist in the Army's drive for funds
which is scheduled to begin on
Monday. He explained that in
times like those the valley is ex-
periencing at present, the Salvation
Army was taxed to the limit in
dispensing relief.
Charles Anderson was chairman
of the day.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06
Scout Council To
Hear Rotary Chief

E. 3. DeGroot, chairman of boys
work for Rotary International will
be the guest speaker at the annual
meeting of the Imperial Yuma
council of the Boy Scouts of Am
erica to be held February Is, in
the Ten Thousand club.
Through the efforts of the reg
ional office, DeGroot's presence has
been secured and in view of the
eminence of the speaker, invita-
tions are to be sent to the service
clubs to enjoy with the council the
privilege of hearing DeGroot.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06
Brawley Scene
OF Ball Games

Brawley will be the scene of the
doubleheader baseball game Sum
clay Afternoon when Maggie Fat
Boys will meet the BraWley ALL
Stars in the game scheduled to be-
gin at l o'clock.
Winners of this game will meet
the Brawley Colored Giants immed-
lately at the conclusion of the first
game.
Interest in the play Sunday is ex-
pected to attract large crowd of
baseball fans from all parts of the
valley as the teams all are capable
of playing good baseball.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06
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Sundays. Entered at
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ter.
THE COMMISSIONS VISIT

VISIT of the California Highway Com
mission to Imperial Valley is certain
to have considerable effect on the future
of road construction in this part of the
state.
In suggesting at yesterdays meeting
that local road enthusiasts not ask too
much. the commission, in the opinion of
local leaders, did not mean to infer that
too much has been done here already, or
that too much is expected.
1t was merely a gentle hint that ev-
erything that everybody wants cannot
be done at once and some projects will
have to wait until later date.
Imperial county has been handsome
ly treated by the commission in the past
few years, and the construction which
is now under way or about to begin, is
further evidence of the commissions rec
ognition of the Importance of Imperial
county as one of the principal gateways
for traffic from the east to California.
All members of the commission ap-
peared vitality interested in Imperial Val
ley, not only in connection with high
way matters but in the progress that has
been made here and in the business actlv-
ity, which several remarked exceeds that
of nearly any other section of the state.
The commissioners left the impress
sion that Imperial Valley has staunch
friends at the head of the states high
way affairs and local road enthusiasts
have full confidence that their interests
will be given every consideration posi-
BILE.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-06
Valley Pioneer
Ill AT San Diego

Ell Centro residents will be sad
dened to learn that Mrs. George
Thing of San Diego, one of the
pioneer residents of the valley, is
seriously i'll as the result of a
heart attack.
Mrs. John T. Rice and Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Kenyon have gone to
San Diego to be with her. Mrs.
Rice and Mrs. Kenyon are her
nieceS. @a2a