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Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27
RESTORE PRISON

ROUEN, U.p) = The prison in
which Joan OF Arc spent four
mcnths in 1880, is to be completely
restored, thanks to the generosity
OF a group of anonymous benefact-
ors, The prison was in what is
known as the Chateau. de Bcaure-
yoir in the department Of The
Aisne. She was held there by the
British.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27

bows will concentrate on the best Of
the old plays to keep them in work
ing order. The team is in good
shape with the exception of Bob
Furbass who has gone to San Diego
and may not return in time for the
Thanksgiving Day contest with
Holtville. in which event either
Wolf or Gibson will replace him at
right end. His brother, Rudy, may
be replaced by Maiden. Longacre is
definitely cut because Of illness.
Heralding the beginning Of the
end, the B and C squads turned in
their suits today. One more game
fer the varsity and then, basketball.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27

The TrolarS were out to repeat
last year 5 opening victory over the
sailors.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27

NEW YORK, Nov. 81. UP)--Fol-
lowing are All-America football sell
ections as announced by United
Press:
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27
STANFORD PLACES TWO PLAYERS
ON UNITED PRESS ALL AMERICAN

the line. skirt the ends and pass,
and IS q great defensive back.
Navy always manages to come up
With a good halfback. and in Bor-
ries Annapolis produced a great
enc. His speciality is broken field
lunning but he packs enough drive
to crack the line, and is one of the
smartest safety men in the game.
The fact that Howell was the
best halfback of the south this sea-
son IS about all that needs to be
said about him, for the south. more
than any other section Speciahzes in
great backs.
Lund of Minnesota is typically
fine Gopher back. Big and tough
and untiring, he was the handspring
Of the Minnesota attack. Like his
mates on the mythical team, he IS
q great kicker and paSser, and IS a
particularly fine blocker.
The class Of the varsity backfield
IS clearly seen in the fast that they
forced to the second team such aces
as Simons of Tulane, McCauley of
Rice, Purvis OF Purdue and Vein
stock OF Pitt. The line Of the sec
ond team would go into a game
against the varsity virtually even.
money bet.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27

weather, plan a stadium that will
have & sliding roof over a playing
field 400 by 200 feet E, When the
sun is shining, the roof will be roll
ed back.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27

their breath while making a shot
At So, Steve Donoghue, ace
English jockey is still booting Win
ners home Philadelphia promo
tors, weary of gambling with the
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27

EUGENE, Ore, Nov. 27-Strength-
ened by the return of injured var
sity men after a weeks rest. the
University Of Oregon team put fin
ishing touches today on the attack
they will launch against st. Mary's
n San Francisco Thursday. The
regular backfield OF Terjeson, Parke,
Van Vliet and Michek will be avail.
able for the first time in weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-11-27

SANTA CLARA. Calf, Nov. 27
Santa Clara's football team was
back-on the home campus today
still shaking from the close call
they had at Portland, where they
defeated Columbia, 1875. on Sun
Gay. Assistant Coach Buck Shaw
blamed overconfidence and a mud
dy field for the Broncos' poor show
ing against a team St. Mary's had
beaten, 900.
LOS ANGELES. Nov. 81. - Cliff
PropSt, who broke his hand in the
California game, is again filling the
iulIback post and probably will play
when Southern California meets
Washington in their final confer
ence game Saturday. Sparing no
one, Howard Jones sent his charges
through a rough scrimmage yester.
day to toughen them up from their
weeks layoff
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 81. - The
UCLA team will wind up the sea
son against Loyola Thursday with
4 roster at full strength. Not a play.
er was injured in the Oregon State
racas and in addition, Ted Key.
fullback, and Duke Trotter, line
man, who had been nursing injuries,
have recovered.
Evening star., 1934-08-27
''Objections'' Overruled.
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
Some six weeks ago we called atten-
tion to the strange case of John w.
Finch, dean of the University Of
Idaho School of Mines. His appoint
ment as director of the Bureau of
Mines had been agreed to by the
President. Prof Finch came to Wash
ington prepared to take the Office, but
when his commission was sent for Mr..
RooSevelts signature was found lack
ing. Instead there was a notation,
Held up temporarily because of po-
htical objections by P. M. G." Now,
however, the President has signed the
commission Notwithstanding the OBJ
jections and DR.. Finch has been
sworn in. His bureau is under Sec
retary Ickes and there appears to be
no doubt that 1t was the head of the
Interior Department who took the
matter up afresh with the President
and induced him tofoverrule the OBJ
jections of the P. M. G.. The afro
ciouS crime of the new director of the
Bureau of Mines was that he had
voted for Hoover in 1882. But Sec
retary Ickes rightly and vigorously
insisted that in filling a highly tech
nical position competence and expert
ence should be the test, not PARTISAN
ship. At any rate, the President COM
pleted the appointment, apparently
upon that principle.
Evening star., 1934-08-27

several residents of this city lost their
! lives. A car carrying motoring
party from the Capital was hit by a
machine suddenly emerging from q
side road. BY all the laws governing
traffic the side-road driver should
have observed the old rule Of driving
in respect to grade crossings and the
rule established everywhere to gov
ern motor traffic in such conditions.
He should have stopped, looked and
listened" before entering upon the
lane of heavy and speedy travel. He
did not, and tragedy resulted.
These accidents have become so fire.
quent, with such disastrous results,
that the side road Is one of the great
est dangers to traffic. 1t is impossible
to construct such safeguards as un-
derpaSses or viaducts. No gates can
be established at intersections, no
watchmen can be posted there. All
that protects the users of the main
highway is the standard rule that the
user of the side road exercise caution
on entering or crossing the main ar
terry. When he fails to do so, acci-
dents may and in distressing num-
Der of cases do occur.
So common is the practice to
emerge from a side road without
slackening speed, to cross or to turn
into the main line, that it is now a
positive necessity to give the drivers
on the highway warning of the exist
ence of such a grade crossing" by
means of conspicuous signs, perhaps
blinking lights, in addition to those
warning the users of the side roads, to
enable them to control their driving
to meet possible emergencies. In
other words, so careless and thought
less are many users of the side roads
that the burden of responsibility, for
self protection, is veritably shifted to
the users of the highways. This is
unjust, but it is a lamentable neces-
sity if there is to be safety on the
road. And in balance of justice every
violator of the rule requiring stop
or a slow speed in cross-over or a
turn-in from a side road should be
penalized severely whenever such
violation is observed, whether acci-
dent results or not.
Nothing has been gained, relatively,
in the abolition of railroad grade
crossings while these side-road acci-
dents continue. In fact, much is lost,
owing to the greater frequency Of
"headway" on the main lines and the
speed that is permitted in their use,
so long as the travel on the hyways
is attended with such wanton disre-
gard for the safety of all, the offend
ers as well as the victims of their
thoughtlessness or recklessness.
Evening star., 1934-08-27

In the same way, nearly fifty years
ago, a great public improvement
caused the passing Of another notori-
Gus slum. called Five Points" This
work was the construction of the
Brooklyn Bridge, the New York ap-
proach to which covered in part that
particular huddle of wretched houses
the occupants of which were rated as
among New York least desirable
citizens.
London has similarly unmade his
tory in series of works for the bet
terment of the people When the
great thoroughfare Kingsway was cut
northward from the Strand its de-
velopment erased one of the foulest
slums in the British metropolis,
Seven Dials," fostering center of
poverty and crime To the Londoners
of today in most part Seven Dials"
Is barely memory, rather a tradition,
and in the same way Five Points" has
passed from New York's recollection,
an item merely for historians, and so
will "Hell's Kitchen" a name more
suggestive than that of either of the
others, lose its identity.
Unfortunately, the eradication of
these slums in great centers of popula-
tion are not absolute gains. for they
are in a measure usually reproduced
or redeveloped close at hand under,
perhaps, other names. or at distance,
for the causes of this condition are
not eliminated. In London model
tenements were built by the County
Council in the hope that they would
be occupied by the evicted slum dwell
ers. On the contrary, they were taken
by people of somewhat higher So
cial grade, attracted by the superior
accommodations and the reasonable
rentals, and the denizens of Seven
Dials" went deeper into the slums and
thus added to the problem of their
treatment.
Evening star., 1934-08-27
Press Asks What Can Be Done
To Preserve Niagara's Beauty

ton, but casual visitors could find
little difference between the falls
after the rock slip and the pictures
they had seen in their school room
geography The extremely severe
Winter may have hurried the phe-
nomenon. Engineers say that during
the Winter assures doubtless were
opened in the rocks into which water
seeped, gradually undermining the
limestone until eventually the struc-
ture became topheavy."
within recent years." says the
Omaha World Herald, man has
taken a hand In the march of the
falls. Too much water, he feels, Is
going to waste on scenery, and so he
has taken a modicum for commercial
use. That interference may have
delayed the great rock slide by Is
seconds or perhaps as many days. So
far may man thwart an act Of nature
predestined $4,000 years ago. He can,
If he chooses, stop this work Of re-
cession almost entirely by robbing the
river of all its water and leaving only
trickle to scenery. But it is doubt
full if his greed will ever go to such an
extremity"
Evening star., 1934-08-27

its control plan was conceived and
executed.
Two weeks from today the voters
of Maine will engage in their biennial
election, traditionally regarded as a
barometer of national political senti-
ment. This September the Old Pine
State will select United States Sen
ator as well as Governor and three
Representatives in the National House.
Both parties, tremendously eager for
success because of its psychological
effect on the rest of the country in
November, are sending in their ablest
campaigners. For the Democrats VIC
tory would mean Endorsement of the
new deal in Republican territory.
On the other hand, reelection of
Senator Hale and recapture by the
Republicans of the two House seats
they lost in 1882 would be heralded as
a forerunner of the country's early
return to political normaley. Be
cause of the advanced date of voting
and because of the myth, "As Maine
goes, so goes the Nation" an election
IN Maine always receives an atten-
ton out of proportion to its impor-
tance. This year interest in the
Maine election is intensified because
it offers the first test of the new
deal as far as all the people of
State are concerned. Up to now the
new deal has been an issue only in
party primaries.
DR.. Rexford G. Tugwell, Undersec-
retary of Agriculture and leading new
dealer, may go to Rome in the Au-
tumn as American delegate to an in
ternational agricultural council. His
absence would remove from the con-
gressional campaign a stormy petrel
and a colorful figure. AS chief of the
brain trusters, Tugwell is anathema to
many d-fashioned" partisans to
whom blowing under is a crime and
young pig slaughter a sin.
X X X
After an absence of nearly two
months, Gov. Albert c. Ritchie is re-
turning to Maryland for the Demo-
cratic primaries, two weeks away,
| which will determine his fifth-term
nomination. He spent his vacation
in France, enjoying, among other
things,-th the racing at Deauville. "The
difference between French and Amer
ican tracks is that over here nobody
seems to get excited" the Governor
commented. mo one calls the horses
home. prefer our Maryland tracks Z"
If the people of Maryland re-elect
their popular Governor, as seems prob
able, it will be in order to propose
Ritchie as chief executive for life. He
has served Is years and fifth term
would add four more. In the primary
campaign, opponents have not stressed
fault with Ritchie's administration of
State affairs. Their contention is that
the Free State should not bind itself
eternally to one Governor.
Copyright 1934D
Evening star., 1934-08-27
The Passing of Old Slums.

Municipal housekeeping has a way
of destroying landmarks and obliterat-
ing place names that have made local
history. This is happening in New
York, where progress is now an
nounced in the development of the
Manhattan approach TO q new mid
town Hudson River tunnel Accord
ing to these plans this work will cause
the passing of large part of a neigh
borhood that has for many years been
known as "Hell's Kitchen" This was
once a desirable residential section,
but it long ago deteriorated and be-
came a veritable slum. Ninety-one
tenements will now be wiped out
some of them having stood for eighty
years. For at least thirty years most
of them have been in serious disrepair
Thus in few months "Hell's Kitchen
will be but a memory, noisome one
Evening star., 1934-08-27
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

This Is the time Of the year wher
the sensitive garden observer first sees
Autumn on the way.
Not that there are many real un-
mistakable. indications as yet.
It is rather a feeling in the air, a
belief that somehow everything has
changed although one cannot put a
finger upon anything exactly.
It is a mood, then?
Yes, perhaps a mood, but also some
thing more, based on slight evidences
of changing vegetation.
There is a definite color tone found
in plant leaves at this precise time
of August not seen before or after.
1t is not definite change-let us be
plain about that-it cannot be put
on paper, either in colors or words
Colors suggest, words suggest, pictures
may be painted with either colors OF
words. Words show colors, colors may
show words. If we see "green" we see
leaves, if we see green itself we think
Of the word.
The change in the garden is just a
few points, if we regard 100 per cent
as perfection. The garden has gone
back to 96 per cent, let us say, SO
little that few will notice 1t and none
mind it.
There are red leaves on the walks
already, however, leaves as crimson
as any touched later by Jack Frost
These are from dogwoods.
There are a few yellow ones from
the locusts, scattered in the green OF
the lawn.
Flower stalks of many varieties are
bare of blossoms, their work having
been done. They will be overlooked
by the casual observer, but not by the
person interested in changes.
In the garden, perhaps better than
most places, change comes about
naturally as a part of very existence.
Growth is so rapid and maturity so
short that every one can take the
complete cycle in at glance, almost
X
This glance" may extend over sew
eral weeks, but still the time is short,
compared with longer existences in
which the time cycle is rather lost in
the confusion of living.
One of the great satisfactions of the
garden is that nothing need be lost
in confusion over something else.
Everything has its place, and its
part to play; there is no first nor last,
no class, no mass, nothing except
existence.
This is satisfying. All the hopes
and fears of mankind, built up over
the centuries, get no farther than the
garden gate.
There is plenty of room for them
outside, why bring them here?
Here existence is enough.
Every plant, every shrub, every noble
tree, every tiny grass plant, has as
much right here as any.
Even this new plant of poison ivy
grows quite unashamed. Root it up
and burn it, but it makes no difference
in the principle of growth.
X 4 X
Every plant in the garden has a
tenancy in the entirety, as the law
yers say. They all have right to
the total amount of air there is, all
the rain, all the sun, the products of
the soil itself, beneath and around
their roots.
Nothing is lost because each plant
Evening star., 1934-08-27

| must stay where 1t has been planted.
No plant is unhappy because it en-
vies the position of some other plant.
Each plant is dull, insensitive thing?
One must not be too sure about that.
The more one observes these interest
ing living things, the more he is in
clined to feel that they do have their
triumphs and their pains, their ups
| and downs, their good moments and
their bad, and that they do in their
curious way somehow understand Just
what is going on about them and con-
corning them.
We may feel that plants know some
thing, but surely it is not knowledge
which concerns itself with the posi-
ton of another plant, how much bet
ter placed in the sunshine it may be,
therefore how much it is to be envied.
Every one who has seen trees grow
ing from cracks in walls, doing their
best, leaning out to the air and sun.
knows that plant life simply makes
the best of what it finds, and that is
an end of it.
This simple acceptance now comes
to full Standstill.
| The time has arrived, in our cycle
OF Nature, when the plant has done
all it can do, and it let's no one make
it ashamed of itself.
Whether it is an annual, or a bien-
NAL, or perennial, makes no differ
ence, because survival makes no diff
ference, in a sense.
The time is near at hand for the
annual rest, when the ANIMALS will
wither and die and some of the bien-
mails, when the perennials will pre-
pare for the Winter sleep.
If the prophets are right, the forth
coming cold season will be as severe
as, if not worse than, the last Winter.
Both professional and amateur
prophets seem united in this, phoph-
ecy which brings no cheer to man
kind, but which does not worry plant
life in the least. Of course they do
not know. But our sincere belief is
that plants would not worry much,
even II they did know what Nature
had in store for them. They are a
part Of that same Nature; nothing it
does can be strange to them, or un-
| acceptable.
| X X X
Since the things of the garden ac-
cept the immortal decree, there must
be small evidences of it already. A
few OF them have been mentioned.
Even more visible is curious sense
OF unrest f1ltering through the leaves.
Not unrest in human sense, but
solely the natural precursor of change.
/ There is nothing unchanged in Nature.
When something seems unchanged, it
is changed, nevertheless.
1t is changing.
Change lies at the heart of every
bud, every leaf, every flower.
Perpetual changing, endless differing,
ever coming to an end-these are
| Nature, as she is, and, alas as we
are, when we are brave enough to
admit it.
Man longs for rest, but there is no
rest, ever. He pants for the perpetual
changeleSs, and pictures a heaven
where such may be, but all he has to
do is look at his garden to see that
| life is not that way. When he gets
to his heaven, he will find it chang
ing all about him like an August
! garden.
Evening star., 1934-08-27
The Side-Road Menace.

For many years the railroad grade
crossing was-and to some smaller
extent still is-a cause of death on
the highway. Now the side road"
entering or crossing the highway, has
serious menaces to life on the arterial
lines of travel. There are many more
side road intersections than there
ever were grade crossings. And the
result is that there are more tatali-
ties.
Such an accident occurred yester-
day in New Jersey, as a result of which
Evening star., 1934-08-27

Niagara's loss Of $4,000 tons of rock
from the brink of the horseshoe
stimulates interest in the possibility
of checking natures gradual destruc-
ton of one of her grandest exhibits.
Recalling that special interna-
tional board recommended "construc-
tion of submerged DETECTING weirs,
together with excavation, to divert
some of the flow from the central
channel to the sides, thus correcting
the thinness of the American falls
and providing more water for the
flanks Of the horseshoe" the New
York Times advises that "the time
seems to have come for an agreement
on the method of carrying out a di-
version test, which is technically the
most sensible thus far submitted"
"A treaty." states the Chester (Pa.)
Times, was negotiated in 1929 and
the Canadian Parliament ratified it,
but our Senate refused to ratify.
Engineers agree that while the erosion
cannot be prevented, it can be slowed
down and the inevitable end indefi-
nitely postponed. Perhaps, admon-
4o11Co Uy bl1lo ldICoL OuI
Government may reopen negotiations
with Canada, with a more fortunate
result. The extinction of Niagara
Falls, the grandest and most ac-
cessible spectacle of its kind in the
world, will be nothing less than a
world calamity"
"The drop of 30,O0O,O0o pounds, 4"
thinks the Boston Transcript, may
shock the Senate into doing something.
But that body acts with deliberation.
1t seldom makes haste. In this case
it may set up the claim that there is
no need of hurry, as geologiSts have
predicted that it will not be until
AID. 21924 that Niagara will have
moved all the way back to Lake Erie"
Like motion picture, the great
theater of water and gravity at Nj
agara has changed its bill and the
customers must come back to see the
new feature" suggests the Canton
(Ohio) Repository. Honeymooners
are informed that future develop
ments are unlikely to come in time
to interfere with their plans by the
Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call. The
ACA4IlSIOll N.Y. ACduCI ou66Cobo O1LdI
very great changes in the appear
ance of the falls will become apparent
in the course Of few hundred years,
if nothing is done to correct this want
of balance" The Battle Greek En-
quirer-News declares that "the chal-
lenge remains unanswered, and Nj
agara goes on wearing itself away"
THE falls must be as embarrassed as
a beautiful woman who has broken
her front teeth" suggests the Harris
burg Patriot, while conceding that
"all hands seem to agree that, unlike
the beautiful women in similar cir
cumstances, it has made the falls
visage all the more attractive" but
that ''it is the majesty and power of
Nature at work" The Hutchinson
KanS) News says: Niagara is the
greatest single sight on the American
continent. Pixies Peak, Old Faithful
GeySer and Bridal Veil Falls aren't
even close comeptitors. It should be
bolstered with few hundred tons of
concrete when times get a little
easier, so it would stay put"
Engineers and power company
executives" observes the Scranton
Times, "are particularly interested in |
what caused the great slip. A slice
of rock $50 feet long and SO feet |
thick sheared of. Press dispatches !
say to those who see the falls every |
day that is considerable transforms
Evening star., 1934-08-27
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Competitive Theories.
The man who thinks himself exceed
ing clever
Evolves plan that should work out
forever,
But evolution, in its way mysterious,
May make the old plans seem a bit
deliriOuS.
And while great schemes we presently
are scanning,
We take account of some obscurely
planning;
However clever seems today's en-
deavorer,
Tomorrow may disclose some one still
cleverer.