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Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-16
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Chapter AV, P. E. O., will meet
Monday, December Is, at l o'clock
with Mrs. Roy E. Breedlove at her
ranch home near Heber. The an
nual Christmas party will take
place at this time.
Past Matrons and Patrons aSSo-
citation, Order of the Eastern Star,
will meet tonight in the CaleXico v.
F. w. building at $50 o'clock when
a pot luck supper will be served.
Members are asked to appear garb-
ed as children.
Ten Thousand club history Sec
ton members are reminded of the
meeting Monday afternoon at p.
m. at the home of Mrs. E. J. Mack.
Miss Nettie Rayley will give the pro-
gram.
Friends of Mrs. Evan T. Hewes
will be relieved to learn that her
mother is improving in health. Mrs.
Hewes is in Beaumont with her mo-
Their and according to report
brought back today by Mr.. HeWes,
she will remain there until her mo-
Their is out Of danger.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-16

The supervisors of Placer county
have again refused to contribute
expense money for a farm advisor.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-12-16
MONDAY

Chapter AV. p. f. o., l, Roy E.
Breedlove home
History section, 2, E. J. Mack
home.
Evening star., 1933-09-25

for Red states elsewhere in Latin
America
Three Roosevelts are now at Har-
yard. Franklin D., jr., son of the
PRESIDENT. and Cornelius Van Schaak
Roosevelt, son Of Col. Theodore Roose-
welt and grandson of the late President
theodore Roosevelt, have Just entered
the freshman class. The other Roose-
vet, Theodore, Sd. elder son of the
late governor Of the Philippines. is q
Harvard Junior this Fall. The fresh
men were welcomed the other night
with salty address by former Secre-
tary OF the Navy Charles Francis
Adams. who gave them their first fight
talk" Quoting from the famous warn
Ing the late Dean Shaler of Harvard
used to telegraph to President Theo-
oore Roosevelt, Mr.. Adams told the
freshmen: 1t is a good plan not to
make more OF a damn fool of yourself
tnan God Almighty intended you
should
Attorney General Cummings recently
broke an important law. He let Sep
tember Is go by without shedding his
straw hat The infraction has since
been expiated. and a seasonable lid
now adorns the shapely crown of the
Administrators chief judicial officer.
Not every section of the country is
on the make at poor Uncle Sans ex-
penSe these days. There has lust ar
rived In Washington a delegation of
engineers and other citizens from
Arizona, who have come to protest
against the uselessness OF an sis 900 :
O0 r. F. c. authorization for 4 ornat
new water storage project on the Verde
hlver. They claim that the scheme.
II carried out. would do more harm
than good, and recommend its aban-
donment.
NO more picturesque proposition has
come before the Public Works Admin
lstration than the application for a
00OO,0 600 loan for construction of five
huge landing bases for transatlantic
alrpiane trafhc. The SeAdrome ocean
DOCK Corporation describes the project
as in many ways surprising the PAN
anna Canal in importance to the Aneri-
can people" It claims that the scheme
has been worked out to the minutest
oetall and has the approval of lead
ing engineers and aviators, who agree
That 1t would permit "a safe, rapid
and regular flying service to be main
taned between this country and Eu-
rope" The War, Navy and Commerce
Departments are giving the scheme the
once-over for the Public Works Ad-
ministration.
toopyrisht 1sa3)
Evening star., 1933-09-25

AS q younger man he had been Judged
handy with carpenters TOOLS" Using
the old materials and the old technique
he made q small table In line with an
old Colonial design. The table sold,
and he made another. Then he at
tempted q chair, q bench. q cupboard.
Now he is a more or less celebrated
cabinetmaker. and has ready market
for all the furniture he can produce.
His friends call him an artist" and
doubtless the appellation is justified.
A second man, also no longer inordi-
nately young found himself even more
stringently situated. He was lawyer.
but his practice had declined to the
vanishing point, and at last he was
obliged to give up his office. To oc-
cupy his time he began to write his
torical essays about the New Jersey
community In which he lived. The Sun
day editor Of local newspaper bought
one Of his stories. then another. Thus
encouraged, the author developed his
theme, dug into the ancient records
Of the town and county and excavated
quantities Of interesting data. The
product Of his industry caught the pub
lie fancy. In the past ten or twelve
months he has become famous as an
authority" He Is preparing a book
In response to popular demand.
The third man was all engineer on
railroad in New York State. When he
was laid Off" he devoted his leisure
to reading fiction with railrOading
slant. One day he said to his wife.
Mary, l believe could write that sort
of thing myself" She agreed to type
the manuscript. Together they created
a hair-raising adventure yarn which
they believed would be acceptable. But
they were disappointed. The editor to
whom they sent their brain child" re-
turned it by the next mail. On
gambling chance. they sent 1t to mo-
tion picture actor they had met. He
brought it to the attention of a pro-
ducer, and 1t was rewritten in scenario
form. For the idea alone the engineer
received the equivalent of years
wages.
All three Of these individuals have
reacted to the depression. Each has
made an adjustment. Each is doing
something new. Is it not possible that
there are many other men and women
who, under the influence of the depres-
sion. are aiding in the construction Of
a new culture In the land? The emer-
gency must have sharpened the wits OF
thousands. and that is gain difficult To
overeStimRte
Evening star., 1933-09-25

fore, not declining. 1t may even get
somewhere"
"A managed currency. to be success
fu!, must have expert managers" Ad-
viSes the San Jose Mercury Herald
raising the question whether Senator
Thomas land other imitation Senators
would be competent currency man.
ayers That paper warns that -un-
less public opinion is aroused, there is
grave danger of fiat money" The
Springfield CMass) Union holds that
the whole theory Of increasing farm
prices while holding industrial prices
down in the interests Of purchasing
power is untenable, and the indications
that the administration is seeking to
discard 1t by devices short Of currency
imitation are natural" The Union de-
clares that there is every reason to
hope that the depression will end with
out imitation"
The Baltimore Sun agrees that
"the future would be clearer and
the path Of recovery smoother if there
were not an atmosphere in which the
1nflationary cry may again attain q
deafening intensity"
Prices of manufactured goods and
Of articles the farm has to buy have
continued to advance. but farm prices
have somewhat declined" says the
Topeka Daily Capital The Providence
Journal Is convinced that there never
has been, is not now. and probably
never can be such a thing as 'intelli-
gent imitation Discussing the plan for
credit expansion, the Philadelphia Eve
ming Bulletin feels that it involves in
novations" and would to some extent
put the Government into the banking
business" but that paper concludes:
The innovations are not comparable
with those which would follow any
adoption of the principles of Simon
pure imitation The Wall Street
Journal contends that only in respect
to his debts can imitation relieve the
farmer, and that Is more than likely
to prove relief too dearly bought"
Evening star., 1933-09-25
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

There is this leisurely something, in
the midst OF all this hurry, which makes
itself felt, and which makes itself felt
for good
The huge competitive speed upon
which American industry lately prided
itself seems absent.
The proprietor here has time to
stand at his doorway and watch what
Is going on outside. He Is net 30 busy
that he cannot remember that he is a
human being first, . seller of goods
afterward.
Efficiency" and such slogans have
tended to pass like storm clouds over
his bland, guileless head, leaving him
entirely untouched.
The rush for place and power has
meant strictly nothing to him.
Evidently he has sent out no squad
Of statesmen with stringent instructions
to better yesterdays sales. If today's
business sticks fairly close to yester-
days, he will be satisfied. and If it
falls or but not too far of, he will
still be satisfied
* +
That is the spirit, and the wayfarer
can feel it all along the street.
The proprietor of the hardware store
accompanies q customer to the door,
and gives him a few last-minute les
sons in how to handle shovel properly.
You can see him swinging his arms,
telling the man to get his back and
legs into 1t, not try to do 1t all with
his arms.
The customer smiles, and goes away
with his shovel under his arm He is
satisfied with q good implement, and
the storekeeper is pleased with SALE
II that isn't the essence Of good busi-
ness the wayfarer doesn't know any
thing about it, as he probably doesn't
|
Personality along this street?
The wayfarer can feel it.
Character fairly oozes out Of some
Of these dusty windows
Here's the chicken feed place.
Maybe the great George bought his
feed here-or did they have chickens
III 1880?
How ignorant the average person is,
after all!
Here was the wanderer seriously ask
ing himself If George Washington had
Potomac.
He soothed his pride with the re-
Election that one couldn't be expected
to know everything offhand. One could
always find such information, II one
seriously wanted to know
There were better things to think
about along this street.
Here was a man with a big catfish
He had got it out Of the river some
place. and was taking it home.
But nobody except the visitor paid
anv attention to HIM
| This was = street where every one did
more or less as he pleased. and that
meant that almost anything might
happen on 1t without attracting undue
attention.
Here went two young girls about l3
or IA years OF age. arm in arm. bare
legs. waving bObbed hair, weaving in
and out OF the pedestrian traffic, alone
in their world
That was the secret of 1t.
In the midst of many persons, one
was quite by ones self.
The wanderer knew now.
He was alone.
He wore an invisible cloak and
nobody could see him.
Evening star., 1933-09-25
InOrdinate Salaries
OF Railroad Officials
TO the Editor Of The Star:

10 the Ecltor OF The Star:
Your issue of September Is carried
an Associated Press dispatch from
New York to the effect that the Re-
construction Finance Corporation was
lOaning $950,00 to the Denver & Rio
conditions, one being that the salary
of that roads president should be re-
duced from $4,000 a year to $4,000.
The roads insolvency results from
either incompetence or misfeasance
Charitably eliminating misfeasance, I
wish to inquire:
Why should a railroad executive re-
ceive a salary greater than that of
the Chief Justice Of the United States
Supreme Court? More than twice that
Of cabinet officer? More than thrice
that of a United States Senator?
From the same dispatch we learn
that the salary of the president Of the
Missouri-Pacific has been reduced from
$S5 GOO to $4,000. The presidents Of
our largest life insurance companies get
from 100000 to $780, 900; In one In
stance 100000
Such salaries are criminal!
The President Of the United States
is at the mead Of the biggest business
on earth; his salary is $75,00o a year;
and for q minor executive to get
larger salary than that Of the fresi-
dent Of the United States is grotesquely
absurd. Yet it appears that the salary
and commissions of the president Of
the American Tobacco Co. amounted In
one year to 81 SOC, 600.
Roosevelt's commendable efforts to
increase minimum wages are well under
way; but a matter Of equal, II not
greater, importance Is to decrease GRIM
inal emolumentss Unless this Is done,
the next depression will be worse than
the one from which we are now suffer-
ing; and this for the reason that the
predatory powers will then be more
strongly intrenched than ever.
Congress has constitutional authority
to regulate the emoluments of all ohi-
GERS Of establishments engaged In inter-
state commerce, and this authority
should be exercised. n. II. JAYNE.
Evening star., 1933-09-25
Russia Growls at Japan.

Increasing friction between Russia
and Japan is evidenced In the publica-
ton in Moscow, in the official organ
Pravda, of comment upon the Soviet
note sent on Friday last TO Toxic re-
sarding the Chinese Eastern Railway,
protesting certain alleged infractions Of
Soviet rights in the management Of the
line. Pravda definitely charges that
japanese soldiery are "fabricating" con-
fiicts with the view to the eventual
seizure of the line, and 1t delivers a
veritable threat of force in the follow
ing language: "The Soviet Union Is a
sufficiently powerful country-of that
not only our friends, but our enemies,
are aware"
This matter OF the Chinese Eastern
Railway is most complicated. The road
was built by Russia as branch line OF
the Trans Siberian to make short cut
to Vladivostok, through arrangements
between Russia and China. Those two
countries were equal partners in Its
ownership. In fact Russia has been
the dominant partner, and there was
constant trouble between the two coun-
tries over its management. In 1929
they went to war, for . brief period,
over the matter. When Manchuria
subsequently broke away from China,
undoubtedly with the aid of Japan, and
the new State Of Manchukuo was
3ormed, it claimed to be the successor
ef China's rights to the half owner
Ghip of the line. Japan is now nego-
taating with Russia for the purchase OF
the Russian rights, parley having
been in progress between representa-
tives Of the two governments at Toxic
for several months On Friday last the
nth formal session closed with the
delegations Of the two countries dead
Evening star., 1933-09-25

This was q street the passerby had
not been along for full five years.
But nothing had changed In 1t dur
ing his absence.
There were the same stores and the
same street cars, and, he almost be-
lioved, the same people.
No doubt changes had occurred, but
he was unable to detect them.
The spirit of the thOroughfare-a
there was nothing different about that
The street WAS the same busy. COM
paratively narrow way it had always
been. since many years before he had
walked 1t often.
i X r.
Streets have spirits of their own,
they make their characters over the
years, they cling to them tenGciously
These blocks of small shops-they
appear exactly the same, do they not?
Perhaps q few changes have occurred,
but the Wayfarer Is unable to note them.
1t is an Old-fashioned sort OF street,
maybe that is why 1t looks so remark
ally the same with its crowded side
walks, its narrow stores, its compare
lively narrow roadway.
Something was taken of each side
walk several years ago, but this aid
to traffic served only to make the total
width from wall to wall seem narrower
than ever.
All the everyday wants Of mankind
are catered to here.
There are food stores and clothing
establishments. and stores where one
may buy hardware and chicken feed /;
there are drug stores on corners, and
shops where jewelry and radios are to
be purchased. either TOR coin of the
realm or properly signed document
promising to pay the same over length
of days.
There is Just about everything dis
played in these small glassed-in cases
Which an average human being would
want. The passerby believes he detects
the exact dining room suite he re-
membered having seen full five years
ago. but he cannot be sure about that.
And it is leisurely sort of street,
despite its roar OF traffic, and its mill
ing throngs on the sidewalk 1t has
tradition behind it, this street, 1t can
turn up It's great long nose-about a
two-mile nose-at many another bustling
thoroughfare.
George Washington himself once rode
this way, and perhaps he even walked
this way. upon occasion.
There is real tradition here. and it
seems to have seeped into the very walls,
and sidewalks. and old store fronts.
Tradition helps set the spirit Of this
place. helps keep that spirit green. no
matter how many red lights and green
lights and amber lights flash at corners
These things have been added To the
old highway. They do not seem TO be
real part OF it, in way OF look
Ing at 1t.
Somehow. the strictly modern note Is
put ON top OF the old with the latter
still very much in evidence.
The entire prospect shows how strong
tradition can be.
Those who believe that modernism
IS something which necessarily Gusts
all prior time should come over here,
on some such similarly bright after
noon.
A quiet walk OF three or four blocks
would convert many person to the
cult of the old.
Evening star., 1933-09-25

mcked on the question Of price. The
Soviet reduced its demands to 200.-
00O, 900 gold rubles and tacitly offered
a further reduction by agreeing to dis
cuss exchange rates.
Meanwhile incidents" have occurred
along the line, which bisects North
Manchuria, which the Moscow Authori
ties regard as provocations. Ten days
ago protest WAS sent to Japan against
bandit raids, arson and other forms
of mayhem" Japan has not formally
replied
Japan's responsibility for the situa-
ton Is unmistakable, for the state Of
Manchukuo Is under the protection of
the Toxic government. Furthermore,
Japan's interest in the railroad Is para
mount. inasmuch as 1t forms a natural
connection for the Japanese-owned
South Manchuria Railway 1t is known
to be Japan's hope that the negotia-
tions for the purchase of Russia's In
terest will proceed to satisfactory con-
clusion and that the railroad will thus
become the joint property of Japan
and Manchukuo. as the successor of
China. II that Is effected-and the
latest manifestation of impatienee and
anger at Moscow may possibly hasten
the conclusion of the negotiations.
though Japan is not readily susceptible
to such threats as those conveyed by
the language used by the official organ
"a potential cause of war between the
two countries will be removed. Moscow
quite assuredly does not care for an
embodiment in Eastern Asia, which
would presumably be quite beyond the
scope OF the non-sggressi0n treaties re-
Gently effected between Russia and sew
eral OF the other European powers Nor
would Japan, unless swept into policy
of aggression by the military influences
which are now so evidently dominant
at Toxic. wish to complicate her al
ready grave financial difficulties with
so large an undertaking as a war with
Russia, for any cause or on any field.
Evening star., 1933-09-25

Any reader of this newspaper is well
ccme to make use at any time Of the
free information of this department.
Address your inquiry to the Evening
Star Information Bureau, Frederic J.
Haskin, Director, Washington, D. c.,
and you will receive a personal letter
in reply. 1nclose 3 cents in coin or
use post cards. Be sure to state your
question clearly, and to write your name
and address plainly.
@. Under NJ r. A. how is boarding
house classed?-C. A. p.
A. The N r. A. says that boarding
houses are really private homes ana
domestic servants are exempt, the code
not affecting them. II the boarding
house is in competition with restau-
rants. however the substitute code for
the restaurant industry would govern 1t.
Q. How old is Joe Cronin. manager
Of the Washington American League
Base Ball Club? Is he the youngest
manager in the major leagues?-L. P.
A. Joseph Edward Uoe) Cronin was
born in San Francisco, Calf. October
IL, 1906 He is the youngest manager
now in the major leagues and Is gen.
orally accepted as the greatest all-round
shortstop in base ball. as he has been
accorded that rating the past three
seasons. In 1880 he was voted the
most valuable performer in the Ameri-
can League.
@. How many European countries
employ sales tax?-C. r.
A. Practically all except Great
Britain.
@. On what date did United States
post Offices discontinue stamping the
Gate of arrival on letters?-F. L. B.
A. The practice was discontinued
May 9, 1918.
Q. How long will good typewriting
OH good paper last?-H. F. ].
A. 1t will last indefinitely If the
ink and paper are of proper quality.
A good black ribbon carbon black
long as the paper In color, the tipping
may turn dark brown. due to the loss
of dye, but will be perfectly clear and
legible. Rag paper rather than wood
pulp should be used if long service
is required.
O. Who was the member of the
Abyssinian royalty who recently visited
the United States?-L. C. B.
A. The SOn-1n-lAW OF the King OF
Abyssinia. Ras prince Desta Demtu,
was recently visitor and was enter
tsined by President Roosevelt at
luncheon at the White House in July.
O. OF what does soil consist?-R. H.
A. 1t is the superficial portion Of
the earth's surface and is composed of
broken and disintegrated rock mixed
with varying proportions of decayed
and decaying animal and vegetable
matter.
G. What was Jimmie Wedells record
81 the international meet at Chi
cago?-D. H.
A. James Wedell few his Wedell-
Williams racer at a speed of 305 miles
an hour.
Q. Why doesn't the longest day Of
the year always fall on the same
date?-F S.
A. The equinoxes and solstices are
four equidstant points on the ecliptic,
but owing to the plan Of leap years
in our calendar, the dates of the
equinoxes and solstices vary slightly,
and the longest day of the year may
be June 81, % or 90
@. Was Voltaire rich man?-G. A.
A. He began to write at an early age
and was in moderate circumstances
until he was about IS or 36 years old.