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Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16
EVEN THE GOVERNMENT
MAKES THIS MISTAKE

Uncle Sam begins today to pay for a
mistake that, usually, is found only in
individual members of the human race.
The mistake will cost Uncle Sam $780,
600. all because Uncle paid too much at
tention to exterior appearances and not
enough to the interior. Postmaster Jim
Farley's official office building in Wash
ington was damaged to the extent of
100000 because flimsy shelving in file
rooms caught fire from spontaneous
combustion. =
The exterior of the building was eX
tremely modern. Architecturally, it was
perfect in its outside details. Much time
and money had been spent to give it mod
ern facilities and beauty in accord with
the modern idea of beautiful buildings.
All this had been accomplished. Then,
in the file room where no one but clerks
ever ventured and which would not be
exposed to public view except under the
most unusual circumstances, Uncle sam
decided that the wooden filing shelves
would do to hold up the records.
Uncle Sam was making the mistake
many persons make in decorating the
outside and leaving the inside uncared
for. 1t cost Uncle Sam a rather large
sum. It usually costs the individuals
plenty. in the long run. Sometimes 1t is
the outside physical appearance to when
attention is devoted. Health may be the
thing allowed to suffer. Or it may be
the mind, trained to give charming
surface performance, but paying no heed
to the more important, deeper matters
of lasting happiness and full knowledge;
The exterior is important, but 1t should
not be given rank above the interlor-tor
most of the working parts are in the IN
terror, and they are the parts that keep
things going.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16

NEW YORK, Dec 16-Diary: Be-
times and wrote a preface for Bob
Davis's book on dogs. And came an
epistolary bouquet from Bernard
Baruch, for whom have such high
regard. Also an oaken cask of brandy
pressed from desert dates which
Harry Richman sent from Palm
Springs.
This day Baron Wrangel told of
a painter greatly admire living but
two floors away, yet I have never
seen him nor have I ever seen Julia
Marlowe and E. H. Sothern also
neighboring tenants. Tipping until
Baird Leonard phoned in a frenzy
over the loss of her dachShund along
the street.
To dinner at Lindy'S, stimulated
as usual by the Broadway buzz-fuzz,
the preening and cock-a-doodle-
do. Then early to my couch with
feeling I have attained the lonely
years, missing SO greatly the COM
partnership of Will Hogg, Irwin Cobb
and my Boston. Read until a. m.
Walter Durantys Il Write as I
Please"
Francis Lederer, embryo Holly
wood Romeo, is out, so his press
agent trumpets, to become the worst
dressed actor in Hollywood. He has
not bought a suit in three years,
doesn't expect to for several years
more, and never patronizeS a press
err. He likes to go necktieleSS and is
usually three weeks in arrears on a
hair cut. Another gesture in his biz
arrerie is carrying fountain pen
in his hip pocket.
Lederer, Slouchily surtouted, may
become a No. l Boy in expressing
feminine appeal, but there are
many presidents, including history
against him. The professional heart
breakers from Lord Byron to CLARK
Gable had steady eye for sartoriaI
splendor. Physical deformity is rare
ly deterrant. Byron had a club
foot and the more modern Maurice
Chevalier had an underslung liz
and legs that bowed. But they knew
their toys.
Personal nomination for the
greatest radio Snowman of his time
Major Edward BoweS.
The best dressed woman question
is also one greatly mooted. One week
it's the highly publicized Kentucky
belle Mrs. Harrison Williams, anc
the next the equally exploited anc
snow-haired Elsie De Wolfe. The
distinction depends largely on which
dreSs-making establishment has the
most astute press agent. If I were
pinning medals on the fashion.
ableS of the New York scene
would feel torn among such exhibit.
as Mrs. Robert Rubin, Peggy Hoyt
Mrs. Byron Foy, Fiji Wichfeld anc
| Mrs. Orson Mum.
That up-the-holler philosopher
Bob Burns, revealed by the miracle
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16
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Bold bidding would 60 as fol-
lows: South, 1-Heart; West, 2-Dia-
monds, to first show his longer
suit; North, 2-Hearts, he is not
strong enough to suggest Slam,
and he cannot bid 3-Diamonds as
he does not hold no losers in that
suit; East, 3-DiamondS after which
he must pass consistently, unless
to shift partner back to diamonds;
South, 4-Clubs, forcing by show
ing a new suit; West, 4-Spades, to
show his second suit; North, s.
Hearts, his partners showing two
suits warrants the belief in one or
the other suits shown by west;
South, 6-Hearts, which is a very
bold call, but not unreasonably SO.
If either opponent risks double
it should be West, on the strength
of his partners immediate support,
showing some high card strength,
at least. I would not double in
Vests place. Showing the second
suit indicates great strength in
South's hand.
Vests best opening lead is the K
of diamonds, as partner has sup
ported that call. AS a matter OF
fact, an opening lead of anything
else will assist the declarer squeeze
West for a grand slam.
Win the opening lead with dunn
my's Ace of diamonds. Lead the
10 of clubs. This is done because
entry to dummy is small. Let the
10 run unless covered, and East
need not put up his j. 1t is pos
sible that West may ruff as South
may have a 6-card suit and risk
Vests possessing no hearts and a
single club. The fall of Vests 8
of clubs will force declarer to lay
down the K of hearts. The way
West did shows that he cannot hold
two 6-card suits, as then he would
have first bid spades, not diamonds.
The fall of the 9 Of hearts is
enough evidence that West holds
no more of the suit. 1t is highly
improbable that he bid spades af-
ter partner had supported his lon
ger minor suit. On the K of hearts
have declarer preserve his lower
heart, by unlocking his 10.
Lead the 6 Of clubs. Cover East's
7 with the 3. Re-enter dummy with
low trump. Win with the Z
Again lead clubs, thus picking up
Easts last two cards of that suit
Easts trumps must then be taken
from him. Lead declarer's last club
At the end a single spade trick
must be given West, just fulfilling
the small slam contract, with what
practically amounts TO double
dummy play, but which actually
was made by South in the original
| play.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16
NEWS OF CRIME AND
PUNISHMENT OF CRIMINALS

Sometimes it takes stern measures to
awaken the American public to the need
Tor action against organized crime.
Newspapers endeavor to present a pic
ture of the situation by printing news of
crime not because they like it but be-
cause 1t is news. 1t is something the
public should know. Periodically, there
Is furry against crime news. Individ-
uals and organizations arise to protest
the printing of any crime news. They
would be like ostriches, sticking their
heads in the sand to escape danger.
The case of Walter Liggett, assassnat-
ed newspaper editor and publisher of
Minneapolis, is case in point. Liggett
printed news of crime. He had gone fur
Their. Seeing crime tied hand in hand
with officialdom, he campaigned against
crime and laXity of law enforcement.
Naturally, he made enemies. Finally, he
paid with his life for his temerity. If
Walter Liggett had printed no crime
news in his newspaper he would still
be alive-and crime would flourish more
verdantly than ever in and near Mime
apolis.
Liggett, martyr to the cause of law
and order, accomplished in death what
he sought to accomplish in life, sweep
ing Investigations of the conditions which
gave crime a full reign. The entire
public of the region IN which he lived
will benefit from the Investigations.
Crime, for while at least, will cease to
thrive so Justify there. If crime-wheth-
er it is crime among officials or among
thugs-threatens again to gain strangle
hold on that or any other community,
another Walter Liggett will arise.
If newspapers printed no news OF
crime, there could not be such men as
Walter Liggett. There probably would
be far more men of the type he attacked
in his news and editorial columns. Grim
inals and their allies fear the spotlight
of publicity above all else. Wavering
officials who would be crooked if they
dared, do not dare because they know
the punishment through public opinion
will be swift.
Newspapers maj ority of them-do
not like to print crime news. They would
far rather give their readers information
of constructive nature, or news OF out
standing business, inventive or scientific
matters. Only-they know that such
news cannot endure in a country over
run with crime and they know that crime
flourishes in the dark places. Suppress
sion of crime news would be welcome to
criminals in high and low places.
There is no logical argument against
the need of the public for information di-
rectly affecting its welfare, and crime
does just that.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16
NEW YORK
DAY by DAY
By O. O. Mcintyre

of the radio, has been making STEADY
nrogress. His post-office stop Is van
Buren,, Ark, and when they get all
the straw out of his hair and MS
ears pinned back, the studios believe
he NAV "go to town." At the mo-
ment he is broadly but hllarlously
funny. He is reputed to have crack
ed the serenity of a Tory group OF
after dinner thumb-twiddlers at the
Union League recently with his
broadcast of an uncle inquiring OF
an isolated Darker: ut must be
hard, away off here, to get the ne
cessities of life?" The reply: "YeSsir,
it is and half the time when you
get it it amt fit to drink" The same
uncle married and after couple OF
weeks got to wondering where his
wife spent her nights. So he went
home, and there she was!
Sign over a West 54th street hat
check room: I'VE think you pay
enough for your hat and coat when
you buy them"
Bagatelles: Mayor La Guardia
won't have a phone on his office
desk Michael Arlens latest:
White shirts with pink collars and
cuffs . H. L. Mencken and George
Jean Nathan still say Hello as they
scurry by q. . John ManSfield'S En-
glish pet bull dog is afraid of dolls
Senator Carter Glass weighs
only 100 pounds . George GerSh-
win has joined the graying-around
the temples brigade -. Prince Louis
Ferdinand has been showing Fra
zier Hunt all the dime museums and
soda water hell holes in Berlin E. :.
Charlie Journal is at the silk ropes
of the Casino.
On Fifth avenue today self-con-
sciouS fellow walking a bit stiffly
in front of a somewhat bewildered
and corn-fed lady. And I thought
of Kin Hubbard's En- Moots, who
said: I've got a cousin in the city
but I allus hate t'go any place with
him cause he tries to act like he
Wuzn with me-"
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16

Published every evening Except Sunday by The
street, FL Centre, California. Telephone 800. Full
leased wire United Press Association. Entered at
FL Centre, California post office seeond-class
matter. Member California Newspaper Publish
ers' Association. NJ. c. Mogensen, national ad-
vertising representatives
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16

A plebiscite is a form of voting
introduced in France under the
Napoleonic regime by which the
whole body of voters ratified or re-
fused to ratify a legislative enact
ment.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16
GRAB BAG

What is called the City OF Mag
nificent Distances?"
What was the name of Dante's in
amorata?
To the people of what country has
the use of the mariners compass
been known for more than 5000
years?
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16

German list of public enemies" in
cludes would-be suicides, and any others
who try to usurp state rights.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16

Bags is an old vulgarism for trou-
sers. Oxford university students now
apply the term to very wide trou-
sers usually made of flannel.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16

The 11-year-old King Tut curse has
claimed another victim" which reminds
us of the man who % years ago, dreamed
he died and, sure enough, the other day,
did.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16

Now that gasoline has gone up so high
in Italy, it's only matter of time I'M
til station attendants there deal out the
tire air at so much puff.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16
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CONTRACT
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WRITTEN FOR CeilTRAL PRESS
BY E. V. SHEPARD
CAN SIX-ODD BE MADE?

THE INTERESTING hand today
comes from the State Teachers COL
lege, Trenton. N. j. 1t was played
at 6-Hearts by South. How should
bidding, also best defensive and
offensive play, go? Can 6-odd be
made against the best defense?
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16

There's one place America could stand
a little erosion-in some Of its current
novels.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16

The man who offered himself for the
freezing-alive experiment is to wed. The
experiment will probably coincide with
his first boner at bridge.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16
Words of Wisdom
TOday's Horoscope

Sin let loose speaks punishment at
hand.-Cowper.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16

Boy violinist is retiring because he
''feels great things lying dormant" with
in him. Instead of retiring, we walked
briskly when we felt that way after
Thanksgiving dinner.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16

Persons born on this DAY are proud
and self-reliant, and keep an eye or
everything.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16

Answers to Foregoing Questions
/. Washington, DC.
2. Beatrice.
3. China.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16
CORRECTLY Speaking

In dividing a word at the end of
line place a hyphen after the first
element of the word, and there only;
never put a hyphen at the begin
ming of a line.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16
TEN YEARS AGO

Mrs. Frank Self is one of the first
to win a prize offered by local
baking company.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16
L o O kin
3 ack w a r d
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
TWENTY YEARS AGO
necemher 16. 1915

E. M. Burk, well-known rancher
residing southwest of Ell Centre was
acquitted yesterday of charge OF
flooding.
H. H. GrisWold of CaleXico was in
town yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16

Present Day club members will
be entertained on Thursday Of this
week by Mr.. and Mrs. Ross T. Hick-
cox.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
December 16, 1920

December TO, IJEU
Mr.. and Mrs. S. o. Lingo enter
tanned Friday evening at their home
on Vine street.
The bridge west of Seeley is slow
" coming to pieces, hunters along
the river bottom have reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16

Personal nomination for the
greatest radio Snowman of his time
Major Edward BoweS.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-16

That up-the-holler philosopher
Bob Burns, revealed by the miracle
The Washington times., 1935-06-05
Dispose of the Report

More than month ago subcommittee of the House Dis
trc Committee submitted report containing serious aega
lions against the higher officers of the Police Department and
the District Attorney The report also contained several
sucve recommendations for legislation designed to remedy
crime conditions in the National Capital
is unfair to Washington that this report should be left
hanging in mid-air it has BEEN
The recommendations of the report are course conro
versa but the fact that they have been made by duly
authorized subcommittee of the House warrants that they be
considered and acted upon with degree of expedition
Either report should considered and its recommends
tons on should be considered dsapproved and
the recommendations thrown into the waste basket.
AS have been leaving the job of crime suppress
group which has been condemned by high official
body.
These officials deserve to know whether that condemnation
Is accepted officially whether is isapproved And the
taxpayers Washington deserve know whether the charges
against these accepted whether they groundess
the upon whom they depend for protection worthy OF
their high trust
This determination cannot be made long the report Of
the subcommittee held state of indefinene
The status of the report not contributing to the morale OF
the Police Department Neither it aiding in prosecutions
after the police make arrests
the report suspended between the subcommittee
full committee the recommendations for improvements
in the law have had effect.
Several these recommendations of Importance and
action them would generally bring about more effective
the criminal element But with Congress sralnng
adjourn little likelihood that the bills recommended
will pass during session unless these sections of the report
speedily considered
This report should be disposed of at once
The Washington times., 1935-06-05
Profits and KIDNAPPING

The kidnapping of young George Weyerhaeuser happily
ended with his return to his parents Saturday. should impe
the States pass laws OUTLAWING the payment
Such laws would end kidnapping for profit because they
would TAKE THE PROFIT OUT OF KIDNAPPING.
AS long criminals make money by "snatchng the
children of wealthy parents it will be attempted-and fire.
quently carried out.
subsequent punishment of kdnapers strong enough to
deter others from rskng life Imprisonment death at the
hands of the law the chance that they be able to exact
heavy
were would been Weyerhaeuser kidnapping
Hauptmann is in jail, awaiting execution
Some other knapers and their accompces have
been killed sentenced to long prison terms in the last two
years.
But these examples did not the snatcng of George
Weyerhaeuser
The lure of 100000 stronger than the fear of the
sequences, for those who took him.
Only by making the payment of ransom compromising a
felony" the kidnapping menace be stamped out.
Canada is virtually free from this crime.
Other countries where is forbidden almost
totally so.
The United States control kidnapping effectuay by the
means.
It cannot control it by other means though hunts
down each kdnaper AFTER the event and fills him full OF
lead-as he richly deserves.
The Washington times., 1935-06-05
The Yukon

The Yukon
Recently, we left our Alaskan
travellers at Skagway, preparing
for their trip by train to White
horse and from there by
steamer along the Yukon
river to Dawson City. You
will enjoy WhitehorSe, for
there you'll really experience
the midnight sun. Whitehorse
in summer lives under the spell
of the midnight sun and the
mighty Yukon that flows way
into the North.
A strange river, that Yukon,
and it isn't surprising to know
that it fires the imagination
and colors the lives of those
who know it. Two days it
takes to go down to Dawson
from Whitehorse, but four days
to come back against the
mighty current.
BLUE WATERS
After a day on the Yukon,
you'll already love the river,
where for miles the blue waters
curve in a series of linked SIS,
with the boat taking right-about
turns. You'll see waterSide In
dian camps, dense stretches of
forest, strange islands, and
you'll gaze upon the scene in
the eerie midnight radiance.
The houses of Dawson are on
the right bank of the Yukon
and we glimpse them far ahead.
You'll be sorry that the trip to
Dawson is over, but you will
enjoy the famous town. Soon
you'll be seated on one of the
chairs on the sidewalk in front
The Washington times., 1935-06-05

modern tantrums are buying us
anything but grief.
Take, for example, the way
the modern wife is apt to feel
about housekeeping.
She has, in all probability,
spent some years in office WORK.
under business discipline-all OF
which she has accepted as nor
NAL and legitimate. Then she
marries, and proceeds to be a
wife instead of someone's secre-
tary-and instantly her whole
attitude changes.
FOR THWITH SHE RE-
CARDS EVERY SERVICE
RENDERED AS A SUPREME
SACRIFICE FOR WHICH SHE
SHOULD RECEIVE LIFELONG
ADULATTON AND COMPEN-
SATION AND ALMOST RE
LIGIOUS REVERENCE. AND
SHE GETS BY WITH IT!
SIMPLE FACT
But why?
Mind you, I realize house
keeping's no treat. Being a
hangover myself of the old
hand scrubbing era, there's
nothing you can tell me about
four-Wall cussedness. Nor have
I any illusions about the long,
tough tuSsle that's required in
rearing human young.
The years upon years when
you can't count on a decent
nights sleep. The everlasting
Sameness of preparing milk
Notwithstanding out 'grimy
little socks-wiping runny little
noses. It's still a job that's cal
culated to turn a turtle dove
into a hyena in six passes
am also we'll aware that
housekeeping nowadays suffers
plenty by comparison. When a
lively gal couldn't do anything
else she took her gift horse
without any questions. But
when she has a choice of 999
other colorful careers she's
naturally going to act a bit
nettIed whenever she things of
all she's passed up. Yet. I still
insist, girls, that your attitudes
ornery if not downright poi
SonouS.
Romance aside, the simple
fact is that you're earning your
living as you would have to do
under any circumstances.
And you aren't exercising any
more patience and endurance in
the home than you'd have to eX-
ercise in any office, nor prob
ably a tenth as much. Then
why all this self-pity simply be-
cause you're doing it with a
husband instead of for boss?
Snap out Of it, sister. You're
The Washington times., 1935-06-05
Tax Payments

While District residents being disturbed by the threat
of increased taxation and worrying about how they are
going pay existing taxes there to be reluctance on
the part Congress consider the proposal which has been
advanced to make little for
That the suggestion that tax savings unit be set in
the District Building which would permit local residents to
make deposits in special accounts against their tax indebted
ness.
Several cities have already adopted the plan and have found
that it makes both collection and payment easier
The taxpayer under the proposal could make small deposits
throughout the year. When his taxes DUE the deposits
credited against them In this way the citizen would
avoid the often stunning blow of having raise large
at given time.
hard enough meet tax bills anyway but when large
demanded time frequently becomes impossible
The Government to those who support to make the
payment easy possible
Yet little attempt has been made to make the payment easy
The savings unit Of proven worth to both the taxpayer
and the Government.
It should be given consideration by the Congress.
The Washington times., 1935-06-05
Three-Minute Journeys
Blu Ten1pLe Manning

of a hotel, listening to an OLD
timer telling you of vivid yeSter,
days when the eyes OF The world
were riveted on Dawson as the
yellow stream came trickling in.
Step into a bank and you'll
note there is grill for the gold
dust teller, for gold dust still
comes into the banks at DaW-
son.
KLONDIKE
You'll climb the Dome, just
behind the town; you'll see
Klondike River and Bonanza
Creek on which the great gold
discovery was made in '96.
You'll visit the great gold
dredges, modern machinery that
works fast and sure, hydraulic
workings that will interest even
the least mechanical mind. For
gold is ever alive, its story ever
gripping and momentous. Eighty
miles or so away, one can see
the Rocky Mountains stretching
away into infinity under the
radiance of the Polar light.
There'll be visits to the cabin
of Robert Service where he
wrote his Songs of g Sour
dough-" and to the Indian vii
lage of Moosehide. Then you'll
come back to your hotel and at
night you'll hear voices raised
singing the old songs that were
all the rage when the world
was drifting into Dawson. You'll
go out and dance in the Flora
dora dance hall, still decorated
with the gariSh pictures that
were considered not quite the
thing in the NinetieS. And
you'll go down stream back to
Whitehorse with q wealth OF
memories.