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The Washington times., 1935-05-30
Visiting In Bali

Visiting In Bali
Although it draws its quota
of tourists, the Malay archi-
pelago is an almost unknown
quantity to most of us. But
this garland of islands that
swings between Asia and Aus
tralia, known as Insulinde or
Netherland-India, offers much
to those seeking the exotic, the
vastly different.
hinged with coral reefs,
crowned with the cones of
smoking volcanoes, adorned
with fantaStically-lovely vegeta-
ton and scented with spice,
these islands are like a scene
from our fairy-book lore.
The water seems to be all
colors, and gold and silver fish
dash in the sea gardens be-
tween the reefs. Flowering
jungle and forest slope down to
the waters edge as the boat
steams on to Java, visiting on
the way Kalabahai in the
island Of Alor on the "Sea Of
Flowers"
Before reaching Java there
is beautiful, primitive Bali that
somehow has resisted modern
ity although it has been "dis-
covered by round-the-world
cruises and tourists. It is good
that this is so, for there is a
place where one can walk
through lanes fragrant with
flowers and under trees that
seem to reach to heaven, some
times concealing a fairy-Story
temple, deliberately carved, dec
grated and colored and adorned
with masks and tall-gated high
stairs.
You can see the delicately.
built, golden-skinned BalineSe
women bearing huge platters Of
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Back 10 the Soil

The other day IN the subway
I sat next 10 n pallid little nan
who was 70 absorbed In some.
thing on his lap that he almost
missed his station. We got off
together and / saw that II was a
seed catalogue which had en-
thralled him. ! was curious and
made some excuse 10 speak TO
him ais we both happened 10
stop at the cigar stand.
Eagerly he showed me the
pictures Of the Dubious but regal
vegetables, in drawer colors than
even the King and Queen at
their Jubilee. He was just a
gray wisp OF man. his pallor
more marked amid these luxurl-
ant growth. He said:
"NOw you take that Royal
POcahOntas tOmato-that'S
great line. I'm saying to Minna
just this morning, 'Minna, you
can't beat the Royal POcahOn-
taS.'
Are you a gardener" I
asked.
That's a laugh! he replied.
''Me, I'm a garment worker.
But once in Odessa, when l was
a young felIa, 1 saw a lot Of
these here things growing, just
like they are in that book, and
every spring Minna and l al
ways get the seed catalogue"
VERNAL URGES
We walked down the street
together and he joined other
palid men for his day at the
machine. His needle perhaps
weaving a tapestry of lordly
fruits and floWers-dreams as
real as Goethe's "Mignon"-
where the golden oranges
gleam.'
I'm a bit that way myself in
the spring. All city men turn
penSive backward look to the
soil. You can live in a big town
all your life and never set foot
on bare earth.
can remember once seeing a
mournful drunk, weeping and
embracing an artificial palm
in a speakeasy. He said it was
the first time he had touched a
tree since he left Piqua, Ohio,
Is years before.
George w. Russell, the IA
nous AE of Ireland, writer and
farmer, returns to Ireland after
his visit to the United States,
and sends back a few trenchant
words about Americas rec
reancy to the soil. He says:
"There is a disease attacking
the United States something
like that which attacked ancient
Italy when it had passed the
peak of its glory.
''It is the decay Of agriculture
and the tendency Of rural stock
to move to urban centerS. There
is real danger to life itself in
this. The decadence which ap-
pears i'm the third generation of
all families living in the city is
usually accompanied by ste
rility."
The little man with the seed
catalogue, the random passage
by AE, a man selling bird whis-
ties and other vernal urges
turned my thoughts to the soil
and I rounded up a half-dozen
farm journals, just to see what
the farmers were up to. These
publications along with the seed
catalogues, ought to be re-
quired reading for city jewellers.
There is a sharp reminder
here that the roaring big towns
aren't all of America. Contrast
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Joseph T. Robinson code author.
tiles could sue for the return Of
the funds.
It was a highly technical
question.
Robinson shouted:
"ThOse companies would pay
money for legal advice on that
question. I can't be giving free
legal OpiniOnS!"
Copyright, 1898. The Washington
TimeS)
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.1SD9s I'm

riage gave a woman a second
lease on youth. But a Spinster,
today, if well-preServed and
well-groomed, IAN look ten years
younger than a married woman
who has let herself slump be-
cause she thought that the
competition was all over.
Not that a SpinSter-or a
bachelor either-iS completely
satisfied with life (Who 1872.
Not that she doesn't intend or
wish to marry. There are very
few women, like the beautiful
Mary Garden, who deliberately
choose the single life; and even
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Human Side of theNeWs
Bv EdUin C.. Hill

ed TO the artifice and Selfcon-
sciousness OF "city" writing, I
maintain that these farm jour.
nails have some of the soundest,
the most moving writing which
gets into print anywhere in
America today, and there isn't
a frill or a flourish in the lot
of them.
One could make a brave epic
OF the years of adversely in an
anthology Of these letters. Here's
the mother Of six children, first
telling how she cured old Dan,
their best work horse, Of moon
blindness" and then drifting
into other matters of commu.
nifty interest:
II love cows. I don't see how
we could have kept on if it
weren't for our four cows. Old
Brin' is nine years old now and
she's just like a member of the
family. She knows her name
just as well as I know mine.
"When Stanley, he's our
youngest boy, drives the cows
down to water, I call out Hello,
Brin,' and she stops and looks
over the fence just as knowing
as can be. Three of the cows
were fresh all through the win
ter, and all the children had
plenty of milk. Last fall John
made a fine root cellar and we
had plenty of potatoes and
beetS and onions and turnipS.
Il canned everything l could
lay hands on. The bank that
fOreclOsed on the old StimsOn
place let John clear out the
dead timber, and we had wood
enough to keep us comfortable
all winter.
ut was pretty hard at times
Ella had the Group very bad
and we didn't have any ready
money, but we managed some
how, and here it is spring again.
If Mrs. HI. E. r. will write me,
I will send her some of those
seeds 1 wrote about in the last
letter, and tell her about how I
made that cold frame. My
zinnias are shooting up like
everything"
INGENIOUS SAGAS
There are a hundred stories
like this. It's spring again, and
the Swiss Family Robinson"
tells, naively and knowingly,
how it has survived another
lean year. In just such vein did
the settlers of the outpost at
Scituate write back to the col
ony at Plymouth at the end of
a bitter Winter-alWayS with
hope, always with love of the
soil.
We made a great fuss over
'"The Good Earth" Pearl Bucks
tale of the Chinese farmer.
Here's a Good Earth" of our
own, if someone would CLEAN it
from these superbly honest and
ingenious farm sagaS. Knut
Hansen has done it, but no
American of native stock.
"My dear, 1 was plaStered.
After we left the restaurant we
hit an uptown joint, and 1
don't know what all. George
gave milk wagon man $40 to
drive us home. 1t was a scream
it was a scream"
Thus we tune out the farm
mother and dial in New York
matron who also managed,
somehow, to get through the
winter. Set up your own dra-
matte antithesis, or, as we say
in the big town, make your own
ticket.
Copyright, 1885. King Features
Syndicate, Incl
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Words of Wise Men

speak public better they
by lively genius and ready than when they all
they would communicate to their hearers-WattS.
The worst wheel always creaks most.-Shaw.
though authority led by
the with gold.-Shakespeare.
He's half absoved who has confessed-Prior.
The last act the pay.-Quarles.
great many people want devout wants TO
be humble.-La Rouchefoucaud.
Life is not to be alive but to well.-Marta1
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JOY IN other uVeS-Wnlcn is a
very rare thing.
TT IS so EASY TO WEEP
WITH THOSE WHO WEEP,
BUT so EXTREMELY HARD
TO LAUGH WITH THOSE
WHO LAUGH.
But my father laughed when
laughter came to others. And
often he said, do NOT TAKE
HIS SONG FROM ANYONE!"
I did not understand that
saying when I was a child. But
now, think, I understand.
EACH HAS SONG
Everyone has a song.
Something that makes music
in the heart.
1t may be something at
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He has be-
come the self
a p poln ted
S p ok eSman
for the Repub-
lican party
a | t h o u G h
from most in
dications the
G. o. P. does
n o t p a.
much atten-
ton.
S pc a K e r
j oS e phi w.
ByrnS ok
him down a
bit tn ough,
%h@ Akhn~ lnHy
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M a J RI t y
L e a d e r
j o S e p h T.
Robinson was
m u c h dis
turbed.
Questioned
by n e W s.
papermen he
was obvious
ly disguised.
One scribe
a S k e d him
whether COM
panieS tn q t
h a d pa d
m on eV to
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The Spinster Arrives

When a screen star gets up
and publicly declares that she
has never been married and de-
mands to be regarded as a spin
ster, it raises le-blessedness
to a new high.
The spinster has found her
place in the sun! I'm fact, it
has been a long time since she
was in the shaded
Many men have tried to mis-
lay their wives and to pose as
bachelors. But Miss Mae West
is probably the first woman on
record who ever publicly put up
a fight for the right to the
title of "Spinster."
It is high time that the spin
ster claimed her own. She has
been taking it on the chin"
from the near-wits and the nit
wits for quite a few centuries.
But, in these days of woman's
freedom and economic equality,
she sometimes has as much
cause to be proud of her title as
a bachelor has of his. And as
much reason to be grateful for
her freedom.
And HAVE you ever observed
the SNUG smile of Self-satiSfac-
ton on a mans face when you
introduce him as "a bachelor"
Do you imagine that he would
radiate such beaming self-com-
placency if you had introduced
him as "Mr. Smith, a married
man? Just TRY it!
A bachelor regards himself
as one of the ''lucky survivor"
who has escaped the moose of
matrimony and is still one Of
the boys. Why then should a
Spinster regard herself as a left
over or a "blighted being?
She doesn't! She is zone Of
the girls" with a full and color
full life, an attractive back
ground, and more money and
smarter clothes than most of
her married sisters can afford.
They used to say that mar.
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getting a clutch on some mascu-
line meal-ticket should fill her
with a superiority complex.
A smart and snappy spinSter
is as good-and sometimes quite
as contented with herself as a
bachelor! The Spinster has ar.
rived!
Copyright. 1895. by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1935-05-30

He died aft
er years of
bitter h ar d
W ork a n d
great suffer
ing. But in
spite of that
labor and SUI
+ ering h e
never forgot
joy.
He believed
in joy, though
he had so lit
tie of it for
himself.
He rejoiced
when he saw
The Washington times., 1935-05-30

In recent weeks Of the pres
emit session of Congress, Repre-
sentative Robert F. Rich, Re-
publican of Pennsylvania, has
become exceedingly lOquaciOuS.
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OLD FAVORITES

The Sands of Dee-By Charles Kingsley
80 Mary, go and call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home
Across the sands of Deep
The western wind wild and dank with foam,
And all alone went she.
The western tide crept up along the sand
And DER and DER the sand,
And round and round the sand
AS far eye could
The rolling mist came down and hid the land:
And never home she.
They rowed her in the rolling foam
The cruel crawling foam
The cruel hungry foam,
To her grave beside the sea:
But still the boamen hear her call the cattle home
Across the sands of Dee!
IReaders invted to send to the editor their sugges
tions of old favortes among the poems for reprtmg in
this spGce)
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The Democrats wanted to ad-
journ.
The Republicans didn't.
When the roll was called,
Rich leaped to his feet and face
tiously demanded:
"Mr. Speaker, a parliament
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Marry-GO-ROund
BIZ Helen ROWLund

those usually weaken in the end.
But while a Spinster may be
perfectly aware that the COM
partnership of a happy marriage
is a rare and precious thing,
she no longer feels that just
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''DO Not Take His Song
From Anyone"

My father, Alex Robinson.
died when he was still a young
man
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-29
SHOW
FOR FESTIVAL
WE'LL STAGED

One OF the most enjoyable events
Of the pslo Verde Festival was the
fashion parade held on the Ten
Thousand club lawn Saturday after
noon and sponsored by the Junior
Ten Thousand club and local mer-
chants.
A group of Junior Ten Thousand
club girls, assisted by several
youngsters modelled the various
gowns, ranging from cotton for
mails prints, sport clothes, bathing
suits, house frocks to play suits.
Mrs. William J. Dickey was in
charge and as each model appear
ed. explained the particular style
features which distinguished this
garment,
Models we're MesdameS C. G
Montgomery. Barbara Daugherty
Lorene Thurlow. c. H. Edmison;
the Misses Jane Little. Virginia
Finney, Lillian Holiday, Lottie Self,
Betty DuSold and Doris Robinson.
Children who took part, display
ing the latest in fashions for young
sters, were James Gray Bennitt,
Diane Clemons and Lola Jean Fort.
Firms contributing were john
son IS, Kenyon S Desert plunge, Mrs.
Lingo s Smart Shoppe, Style Shop,
s, California Frock Shop, J.
C.. Penney.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-29
FROM
CONVENTION

Reporting an inspiring as well as
an entertaining meeting, Central s
delegates returned yesterday from
the California Scholarship conven-
ton, held at Eagle Rock high
school, for the chapters in the
southern section Of the state.
First part of the morning session
was devoted to panel discussions.
Following these meetings, the gen.
eral assembly was held. Rene
Belle, associate professor of French
at the University of Southern Cali
fornia, was the main speaker
Choosing for his subject. Mis-
sion of Youth, . ne pointed out the
fact that the youth of today is fac
ing a very new and strange world,
full OF complex problems.
Luncheon was served at Occiden-
tai college, where the delegates
spent the remainder of the after
noon swimming and dancing.
Delegates were Helen Dowd, Bill
Jones. Jack Morgan, Roberta Bar
ratt. and Shirley Schoenburg. Mrs.
A. H. Keller. advisor of the local
chapter, accompanied the delegates.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-29
Central Track
Stars Compete
In Sar, Diego

Accompanied by Coach w. S.
Tyalor, a squad of 16 track stars
from Central Union high school
will leave Saturday morning for
San Diego to enter the district
track meet being held at San Diego
State college at l p. m. on that
day.
This meet is held as a prelimin-
ary to the Southern California con-
ference meet in Los Angeles, and
those men who take first or sec
ond in any of the events will quail
ify for the Los Angeles affair
In Glass A Stafford will compete
in the pole vault; Dilbeck, shot
put; Sato. nigh and low hurdles;
Dixon, mile; Feeney, high jump.
Glass B. B. Domenigoni. broad
jump and relay; c. Gipson. 100
low hurdles and 100 yard dash; c
Reed, 100 low hurdles; J. Dubois,
660 yard run; Herrick, 1920 yard
run; Gianola, broad jump, 100
yard dash and relay; Shaw. 900
yard run and relay; Morgan, 10
yard high hurdles.
Glass G: Yamada, pole vault;
Dyer, 100 low hurdles and 100 yard
dash; Miller, $50 yard run.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-29
CLUB HONORS
MRS. PERKINS

Mrs Kendall B. Perkins and her
two daughters, Suzanne and Mari
lyn. left this weekend for Sacra-
mento where they viii join Mr. Per-
kins who is connected with the
public works department and where
they viii make their home in the
future
Sans -Souci club members enter
tanned Saturday afternon for Mrs.
Perkins at the Planters hotel.
Brawley, where a bridge game was
enjoyed and refreshments served.
Mrs. Delp won high score prize
Mrs. Strickland. second. and Mrs
Dawson. third. The club present.
ed Mrs. Perkins with a lovely fare
well gift.
Mrs. Dozier s. Dawson. Mrs. w.
j. Strickland. Mrs. James H. Mar
shall and Mrs. Charles Brarnkamp
were guests present members in
cluding Mrs. J Keyes Mitchell, Mrs
William c. Reed, Mrs John Tyler
Mrs. w. h Tyler, Jr. Mrs. Harry
Horton, Mrs. F. E Miner. Mrs
Charles p. Delp. and Mrs. Perkins.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-29
NEW
LEAGUE STAR
BY LAWTON CARVER
United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, April 30. UP)-Dar-
rell tCy) Blanton, Pittsburgh's 81
year-old right handler starting his
first full season in the majors, to-
day has the best record of the year.
three straight victroies that include
a one-hit game and a defeat of
Dizzy Dean.
As a one-hit performer he is
matched only by John Babich of
Brooklyn and Hal Schumacher of
the New York Giants. The latter
got his yesterday in 8 to 0 vic
tory over the Phillies, but neither
has the all-around record of the
youngster from the Albany Inter
nationals.
Weighing only 160 pounds ,Blan-
ton opened the season with the
second big league game of his car
ere, and set the hard-hitting
champion st. Louis Cardinals down
with a single hit in to shut
out He famed II Cincinnati Reds,
allowed only six hits and won S to
2 in his next start, and yesterday
came back against the champions
with a to 2 win.
Even Dizzy couldn't halt Blan-
ton yesterday, as he ran his string
of strikeouts for the season to %
by tanning five. He spaced eight
hits SO wisely that the champions
two runs came in separate in
nings.
Schumacher's superb pitching for
the Giants fell short of perfect by
the margin of scratch single by
Orville Jordens, Phillie pitcher, and
a base on balls to Chiozza. Only
% Phils went to bat. while the
Giants were making nine hits off
E. Moore, Jorgens and johnson.
Jorgens was charged with the
3 to 0 defeat, which gave the Gil
ants the series 3 games to l, an
other going to a tie.
The Reds made two double plays
to run their total for the season to
10, but lost to the Chicago Cubs, 4
to l, while the Boston Braves beat
Van Lingle Mungo and the Dodg-
ers, 5 to 3.
Cleveland's six game winning
streak was snapped in the Amer
ican league by Detroit, to 8. The
Chicago White Sox won their sixth
straight. Aided by Bonura's sixth
homer, they defeated the st. Louis
Browns to 4, and moved nearer
the top.
The New York Yankees and
Washington Senators remained
deadlocked for third place. Earl
Combs, in the midst of a come
back, hit one over the wall with the
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-29
PRIZE WINNERS
IN PALO VERDE
PARADE NAMED

Prizes galore, through the gener-
osity of local merchants. firms
citizens. delighted the hearts of the
youngsters in the Palo Verde feSti-
val parade Saturday.
Five official prizes were given
for each division but so difficult
was it for the judges to make de-
cisions due to the excellence and
originality Of the various entries,
that many special prizes were
awarded also.
Official prizes for each division
were awarded as follows
Bicycle, 1st-Hawaiian dancer,
Mary Lemon; 2nd-Mickey Mouse,
Warren Currier; 3rd-Fairy. Phyl-
lis Stay; 4th-Nymph. Ann Skin
ner; 5th-Plane. Kenneth Yingling.
Doll Buggy-1st, Elaine Strobel
End. Patsy Brown: 3rd. Janet
Thompson; 4th. Doris Ashley. 5th.
Ann Moore.
Pets-1st, Them Thar Hills, Hud-
son Mitchell; 2nd, Alice In Won
derland, Nancy Maiors; 3rd, Dog
Mountain Dean. Doris Chesnut; ;
4tn. Portrait. Jack Meagher: 5th,
Wilma Graves and Evelyn Ketz,
tied for this place.
Horseback - 1st, Dorothy Ann
Mitchell; End, Wayne Purdy; 3rd,
George Cross; 4th, Holmes Lemons;
5th, Thomas Reed Henry.
Costume section-1st, Mexican
Maiden, Lenora Costello; End, Mex
lean Colonial, Edna Pacheco: 3rd,
Mexican Dancer. Viola Cox; 4th
Greek Native, Mary Lou Paskle;
5th, George Washington, ia c k
RentZ.
Floats-1st, japanese Association;
2nd. Walter Madden, a, Legion
Auxiliary, b: 3rd, Marie r. jenkins,
violin choir. a; McCabe School
Wranklers, b; 4th. Colored cou-
pie: 5th, Wooda Blesy dance stu
dio; special prize awarded Acacia
rhythm band.
Judges were Mrs: Ross T. Hick-
cox, Mrs. Leroy Holt, George Ben
nit, James P. Greene, J. r. FANS
Mrs. Frederick Trude, Roy Womack
and Mrs. Elmer Heald.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-29
ELKS ANNUAL CHARITY BALL SATURDAY
SURPASSES ALL PREVIOUS SUCCESSES

SuperlativeS in great numbers are
needed to describe the success of
the ElkS annual charity ball Sat
arday night in Veterans Memorial
hall The 1900 people who attend
ed are highly enthusiastic over the
wonderful evening provided for
them and Charlie Ferguson. general
chairman. has another tremendous
hit to add to his growing list of
many successful charity balls
Carroll Campbell S orchestra de
lighted the crowd with the music
a loudSpeaker system being INSTALL
ed so that music and entertainment
features could be heard both in the
hail and in the annex across the
street.
Early in the evening entertain
ment numbers were presented by
Cecil George Cross and Elrose
Maquar, as well as by the following
group Of Wooda BleSy dancers. Bet
tie and Ruby Harmon, Marileo
Hanson, Marie Skinner, Helen Mae
Beronio. Virginia Scott, Imogene
Haun, Margaret Louise Miller. FL
rose Maquar, Carmen Vinfrido. who
presented a series of varied and
well executed dance specialtieS
Mrs. A. S. Newark played the pi-
ano accompanimentS.
Interest centered in many priz-
es awarded, the two first prizes go
ing to Mrs. Neil Gavin who won the
handsome formal offered by the
Style Shop and to Ralph Engebret-
son who won the equally handsome
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-29
IN THE HOME THEME OF
PROGRAM AT SUNDAY NIGHT SUPPER

Americanism formed the keynote
for the delightful Sunday night
supper held last night in the Ten
Thousand club house sponsored by
Mrs. T. c. Lanier, county chairman
of the American home, and mem
bers of the club executive board.
assisted by a group of club mem
members.
Flowers and greenery decorated
the club house and an American
flag of flowers and the pictures of
George Washington and Franklin
D. Roosevelt supplied the patriotic
motif which each speaker empha-
sized.
A delicious supper was served to
nearly 100 guests who enjoyed the
appetizing home cooked m n u
served in buffet fashion. At each
place was a tiny flag set in candy
standard, flowers forming pretty
centerpieces.
After dinner Mrs. Lanier intro
duced the program numbers first
Imperial Valley press., 1935-04-29
ANNOUNCE CASH
AWARDS MADE FOR
WILSON ENTRIES

Wilson school children, under the
direction Of Mrs Mildred Smith,
had an outstanding array of flow
ers on display at the Palo Verde
festival flower show Saturday in
the Ten Thousand club.
The list Of honorable mention
awards was made in Saturdays
Press. and due to the fact that the
list of cash awards had been mis-
placed at press time, the winners
names had to be omitted
Those who won cash awards
were: First prize of IS went to "a
class for most beautiful arrange
ment; 81 to Shirley Cornet Of "a
for most beautiful mixed bouquet;
81 to Joyce Schmitt Of 7-2 for un-
usual floral arrangement; 81 to
Ruth Wilson Of IL for most beau
tiful arrangement Of same flowers;
81 TO Ethel Hurst of 8-3 for ar
rangement Of several kinds; 81 TO
Frank Quon Of I'll for beautiful
one flower arrangement.