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LIONS SHARE
ALLOTTED TO
QUICK RELIEF

WASHINGTON. Oct. 30. qIp)
--Comptroller General John r.
McCarl today pushed past the
Sl,000,000 COO mark in the amount
Of money authorized for small.
quick employment work under
the $4,000 100000 work relief pro-
gram.
He approved Sl34.829 ,397 in prof.
ects for eight states, allowing sec
tional work progress administrators
TO spend S200490 900 on work they
could start without delay.
McCarl's action put his approvals
Tor actual spending at S1.0l4947.-
649, the money to finance projects
from his s2450.293 ,894 approved
project total.
President Roosevelt, meanwhile.
authorized expenditure Of S3l.572.-
2l9 by Works Progress Administra-
tor Harry l.. Hopkins. bringing pres
idential WPA approvals to sl,O60.-
607,831.
New Project Set
The President also approved new
WPA projects with a S776l9.622
value, swelling that classification
of work 70 s3,330,843, ,8O3. The fig
ure represented more than three
fourths the entire work fund
Belief that MI. Roosevelt and
Hopkins will impound money prev
iously earmarked for heavy con-
struction and throw full force OF
the jobs drive into WPA, grew
stronger as a major portion of the
S40o.000,000 highway improvement
and grade crossing elimination al
location remained unallotted.
Department Of agricultural off
cials reported that. OF the S200.OO0.-
600 set aside for highways, they
have approved 893 projects for ex-
penditure OF S37274,00
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AGAIN
STRIKES STAR

PARIS. Oct 30. U.P)-Pola Negri.
Polish star Of stage and screen, was
in the American hospital here today
owing TO a recurrence of an all
ment for which she was operated
upon two years ago.
Although her condition was re
garded as critical when she enter
ed the hospital Tuesday, physicians
thought today she might be able
% leave within a few days
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Services For
Deceased Woman
I'm Ocean Beach

Funeral services for Mrs. Mar
garet Steele. who died here Tuesday.
will be held at the Sacred Heart
church, Ocean Beach-t 10 a. m.
Thursday. with interment in Holy
Cross cemetery.
Mrs. Steele is survived by her
daughters. Mrs. Dorsey G. White
law and Mrs. Robert B. Whitelaw.
both Of FL Centro. and Mrs. Seth H.
Rice, Of Ocean Beach.
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0UN1

Hotel California and Coffee Shop
now completely refrigerated with no
advance in rates. Rooms from ST to
So. Special weekly and monthly
rates. Cafe open all night. 30-tt,
Wind Velocity-Wind reached a
peak of 384 miles per hour at 2:40
pm. Tuesday, according 10 Howard
Emmons. local observer for the
United States weather bureau
Reserve Officers Meet-MaJor A
e. Benedict, department president OF
the Reserve Officers association will
meet with the valley group Satur-
day evening at a dinner at 6:45
o'clock in the California hotel.
stores To CloSe-General closing
of stores on Armistice Day was indi-
Gated in a telephone poll of mer-
chants made by the Chamber OF
Commerce. Only few groceries and
markets are expecting TO remain open
Cn the holiday
At CCnvention-W II. Tyler, Jr.,
director of the California insurance
association. and Langston Goree
will attend the convention in San
Diego tomorrow. Goree will be
present for q Scottish Rite meet
ing this evening.
Hickox In Brawley-J. Kenneth
HickoX, WPA manager for Imper-
ial Valley spent the day in Braw-
ley on business. He was expected
back this afternoon.
o. c. Sprinkle Here:-O. C. Sprin-
kle, former FL Centran. was a visitor
in the valley yesterday. Sprinkle's
chief interest was his young son,
born few days ago.
Mrs. Huston Here: Mrs. J. D. Hus-
ton is spending few days in the
valley
Seed Whea;--Wnite Federation
$50 per 100. Seed Barley-Common
and Merriott S1O0, Seed Oats
White Kanota S150. Mckinley 5lh
miles east Ell Centro, highway 80.
Phone 8709-R-1. O29P-NlA
Business Trip:-George McMullen
Of the Carlisle Co., was a business
visitor in FL Centre yesterday. call
ing on friends at the court house.
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Are Your Plates
Driving You Crazy?

Are your dental plates making
your mouth so sore you are in
agony? Don't suffer this anguish
when relief may be had by using r.
S. GARGLE. This splendid formula
compounded with soothing oil base
has brought relief to hundreds Of
sufferers Of sore gums or sore spots
in the roof of the mouth. Get a bot
tie today. Hold scme on the sore
spot and see if you do not get almost
instant relief.
You can get r. S. Gargle at
CLEMENTS DRUG STORE
VALLEY DRUG STORE
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AID SOUGHT AT
DESERT RESORT

PALM SPRINGS, Cal, Oct. 30.
W.P)-Dr Rexford Guy Tugwell, un-
derSecretary of agriculture, was
guest at this desert resort today,
hoping the sunshine and dry air
would help him shake off cold.
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Best steaks at Sherwood's.
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Taken To Coast-Warren Kelly,
50, arrested by El Centro police at
the request Of federal agents on a
charge of impersonating federal
officer, was taken 10 federal court
in San Diego today by 7. A. Eggle-
ston. deputy United States marshal.
Two Fire CaIls-Negligible dam
age was caused 10 the California ho-
tel at 6 o'clock last night when a
flue from the cafe caught fire. 1t
was quickly eXtinguished by the fire
department. A still alarm went out
at II O'Clock when a power line broke
in the 600 block on Olive street. The
damage was repaired by an emer-
gency crew Of the Southern Sierras
Power company.
Minor Accident - Minor damage
was done TO cars driven by John
Dixon and Lowell Drake, both of FL
Centro. when they collided at the
corner Of Eighth street and Broad
way early last night.
DIR. 4. 3. Hanson, dentist. New
Professional Bldg. Phone 80. 9to
Drunks Sentenced-Jim Grow of
Bisbee was fined $40 for drunken
ness and Carl Miller Of EI Centro
sentenced to serve 10 days in jail
on the same charge in police court
this morning.
Texas WithdraWS-John r. Grace,
district attorney Of Robertson coun-
ty, Texas, and Deputy Sheriff Ran
zell Nicholson Of the same county,
were FL Centro visitors last night.
The two officers are escorting Jim
Eastep from the coast back to Tex
as, where he is wanted on a felony
charge.
To Confer Degrees:-Two degrees
will be conferred by El Centro chap
ter No. l09, r. A. NJ, at the meeting
Thursday evening at o'clock in the
Masonic temple.
Harness Stolen - Theft of two
chain harness sets and three new
horse collars was reported to the
sheriffs office today b. J. 4. Brown,
who said the articles were stolen
from the former Blenkiren ranch
two miles south Of FL Centro on
Eighth street. The ranch is under
lease TO Walter Hunt and Sons.
DR.. T. b. Turner. Dentist, 2O4
Penk OF American Bldg. Phone 1892.
MWF.-tf
Federal Prisoner-Erick Poikul.a-
nen, Is. a native Of Finland, was
booked at the county jail today on
d charge Of illegal entry into the
United States He said he is a sea-
man.
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year, first shipment being made on
reports at the agricultural commits
Sioner'S office.
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Called To Sierra Madre-H. Nc
Kusick, old Imperial Valley resi-
dent, was called to Sierra Madre by
the death Of his mother, Mrs. D. K.
McKusick early this week. Funeral
services are being held THE after
noon.
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Sherwood's for good steaks.
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Held To Answer-Lorencio Gu
tierrez was bound over to superior
court after a preliminary hearing
today before Judge J. E. Simpson
in the E. Centro justice court on a
charge of contributing to the delin-
quency of a minor, to which a
charge of rape was added. Bond
is $1,000.
Wooda Blesy Studio - Dancing
classes forming. 723 Orange. Phone
1888. 0l6A-Nl5P)
Freed From Jail-Don H. Clark
48. FL Centro painter, was released
from the Imperial county jail today
on his own recognizance at the or
der of Judge w. H. Lorenz OF the
Calexico police court, before whom
Clark is charged with driving while
drunk.
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Mrs. Huston Here: Mrs. J. D. Hus-
ton is spending a few days in the
valley.
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Hotel California and Coffee shop
now completely refrigerated with no
advance in rates. Rooms from ST to
So. Special weekly and monthly
rates. Cafe open all night. 30-tf.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-30

Seed Whea;-Wnite Federation
S1.50 per 100. Seed Barley-Common
and Merriott S100, Seed Oats
White Kanota S1.50 Mckinley, 51a
miles east Ell Centro, highway 80.
Phone 67O9-R-l. 029P-N1A
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Reserve Officers Meet-Major A
E. Benedict, department president OF
the Reserve Officers association will
meet with the valley group Satur-
day evening at a dinner at 6:45
o'clock in the California hotel.
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Sherwood's for good steaks.
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HickOx In Brawley-J. Kenneth
HickoX, WPA manager for Imper-
ial Valley, spent the day in Braw-
ley on business. He was expected
back this afternoon.
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Wind Velocity-Wind reached a
peak of 38.4 miles per hour at 2:40
pm. Tuesday, according TO Howard
Emmons, local observer for the
United States weather bureau.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-30

o. c. Sprinkle Here:-O. c. Sprin-
sle, former El Centran, was visitor
in the valley yesterday. Sprinkle's
chief interest was his young son,
born a few days ago
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-30

Business Trip:-George McMullen
of the Carlisle Co., was a business
visitor in El Centre yesterday, call
ing on friends at the court house.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-10-30

Federal Prisoner-Erick Poikul.a-
nen, 25. native Of Finland, was
booked at the county jail today on
a charge Of illegal entry into the
United States He said he is sea-
man.
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column for adults, to which we
gave the name Listen, World" I
started my syndication career at
twenty-five dollars per week.
Then I did the hardest thing l
had ever done in my life. I sent
my boy back to the mountains, so
he could breathe. A friend offered
to drive hin-he was very weak.
I could not go with him. I had to
work. It was our first parting.
We knew-though neither Of us
put it into words-that it was the
beginning of years of separation.
He leaned out of the car, laughed
down at me. Preached up, laughed
back at him. Then he was gone.
I went back to that shabby
place where we had lived in such
poverty, yet known such a para
disc of love. I pulled down the
blinds and locked the door. For
three days. I lay face down on the
bed where he had lain, feeling
such anguish as I had never
known before,
So I had job. A name" I
was syndicated. I was still too
ignorant of the newspaper world
to know what prestige syndication
implied. I only knew there was
more work to do, but the kindest
of unseen friends to do it for
George Matthew Adams. have
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Hble here, a scrawl there. At night,
for lack of books, the boy and I
drew and told stories to each
other, Stories of the desert
beasties we'd known groun d
squirrel and ground owl, horned
toad and road runner. "blue-taileo
skinks," desert tortoises, big gray
buzzarS.
One day I wondered. I couldn't
do much with fiction. knew
nothing about reporting. But if
my youngSter liked this stuff,
other youngsters might. It was
worth try.
Once more I walked into edi'
torial offices. Walked out again.
At last on the Oakland Tribune,
I found my chance. Kid columns,
said Leo Levy, were a flop. But
perhaps he'd let me write a
column for youngsters once a
week. Animal stories, illustrated,
at $12 per. So, in 1918, I took my
first newspaper job.
Nineteen eighteen. the spring
Of nineteen-nineteen; a world do
ing tailspins. The war was over:
So was practically every portion
of a social order which had ex-
listed, with relatively little change,
since America began.
The Old-fashioned Home was
demoralized. Likewise the Old
fashioned Girl. Men-heroes yes
terday-were vagabonds today.
Intruders, often, in their own
homes. Women, under their new
semblance Of authority, were con.
fused, unhappy. Everyone had
new ideas, new liberties. No one
knew what to do with them.
CHAPTER Xxx
I started a juvenile column in
the Oakland Tribune. Juvenile
columns had become a flop. This,
too, was significant of a changing
world. Machines and movies
these things had revolutionized
the family. Children, as well as
women, had suddenly become
people. And they both wanted
out! Little Willie was no longer
"seen but not heard" He was
speaking the patter Of the day.
AS a consequence, he was no
longer interested in the platitudes
and preachmentS which had COM
posed juvenile literature prior to
the twentieth century.
Morgan Shepherd - collaborat-
ing with that radical educator,
Doctor Maria Montessori - had
started a revolutionary movement
in juvenile writing with his John
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Made Her Work
A Wide Adventure

Strange how a few people
stand out like mountain peaks in
the course Of a lifetime. Per
haps one feels this more keenly
in a career as devoid Of intimate
human contacts as mine has
been.
AS 7 write this-in the lonely
mountain cabin where I spend
most Of my time now-I remem-
Der the great ones who have
made my newspaper years such a
wide adventure and have blazed
trails for all America by their
journalism.
Fremont Older and Cora, bat
Ting for a broader humanity, and
that great woman, Winifred Bon
fills, who-writing under the pen
name of annie Laurie"-put her
mark not only on the Hearst
newspapers, but on all American
life for the last 40 years.
Yet, great as her influence has
been on journalism, 1t cannot
surpass what she has done to life
for those of US who know and
love her. Never did spirit face
crueler croSSes-or bear those
crosses with more gallant gayety.
never knew how brave or wise
laugh could be, until I met
Annie Laurie!
And there was another.
A few months after I began
writing for the San Francisco
Call, I received a note. 1t was
very brief, tapped out in tipping
as rambling as my own, couched
in the simplest language. The
writer had seen a feature Of mine
called Listen, World" Would ]
mind telling him a little about
myself? And would I pardon his
asking, since he had - sort OF
interest in writing?
I pardoned him.
The note was signed-"Arthur
Brisbane.
Mr.. Brisbane brought me into
Mr.. Hearst'S syndicate. He asked
me to come East. I went. ] re
member was rather fused as to
what to wear. For some reason,
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Then She Went
Home to Her Boy

signed the contract. Then I
went back to the Plaza. I sat on
the bed. I sat on a chair. I
walked to the window and looked
out at New York. Such a piffling
little place. So cramped and in
adequate beside my western hills.
There wasn't enough room any
where. So lay face down on the
floor, stretched my arms as far
as they would go, dug my nails
into the carpet and laughed and
cried and shouted and prayed and
promised God impossible feats, in
a madness Of gratitude. Then
suddenly fell asleep. I had not
known I was so tired.
When awoke, 1t was mornig.
I was another American success
and I had terrible cold in my
head. Outside, there were glitter
ing glories, triumphal arches-the
usual baloney. To hell with it. 7
was going home to my boy! And
I went.
I went home 90.
I remember running-he run.
ming, Misunderstanding, crying,
clutching at each other.
remember few months in
which our laughter never seemed
to stop; in which it swelled until
the stars were not tall enough nor
the horizons wide enough to
bound our new Joy.
I remember a doctor telling us
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The Sense of
Utter Bankruptcy

Grief-we expect that. Heart
breaking sorrow, flesh-rendinr
pain, loneliness beyond all meas.
ure OF imagining. But we never
anticipate that most poignant of
agon1eS which death inflictS upon
the bereaved-the sense of utter
bankruptcy. Death robS us of
more than our hearts delight: it
robS us OF our LIES meaning.
yet meaning or none - life
must go on. So I went back to
work. In spiritual rags. I had
never felt so poor in my life. Here
was a poverty against which I
could put up no battle; for which
there could never be q recon.
penSe.
And again the memories begin
dreadful ones. now like the
intervals Of tortured consciousness
which must come to souls racked
in hell.
The memory Of another mother
visiting me with her three little
children wanting to scream;
forcing unfeeling bone and flesh
into skeleton grin.
The memory Of touching the
clothes he had worn. clothes
which still bore the odor Of his
flesh: Of cropping back and forth,
back and forth, through rooms
which still held the echo Of his
laughter.
The memory Of standing IN q
moaning fog above a mumbling
tide, looking down with frantic
yearning at that Shiny, smother.
ing graynesS, wishing, wishing I
had never promised his dead face
that I would carry on.
Darkness. Yet, even at the first,
flashes Of sanity which slowly
strengthened and Steadied. grew
into beacon lights.
Six years Of newspaper life had
driven home the realization that
none Of our experiences are
unique. Our most exquisite costa
sizes or keenest tragedies are all
common bread. There is nothing
in life which we do not, should
not, share. The knowledge Of this
fact was to save me, but not with.
out a struggle.
concluded Next Saturday.
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Concluded Next Saturday,
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lonelier or more grilling drill on
earth.
CHAPTER XXI
There's a popular impression
that column writing is a highly
paid picnic, and practically every
graduate Of a journalistic college
course aspires to such a position.
No ambition could be more pa
thetically futile. A columnist
can't be made. He must be born
to his job. He must, within him.
self, always be writing and living
his column, whether it ever sees
paper or not.
This is why there are so few
successful columnists. It is also
why columnistS are so cusSed.
Take my advice-never m AIRY
one of them. If you don't be.
lieve me, ask my ex.husbands!
All writer's are matrimonial mis-
fits, but a columnist is a holo-
caust. Against all rules of hui
man decency, against his own
inner qualmS, he will columnize
every event, sacred or profane-
turn wedding affairs, birth beds,
bankruptcy courts, into copy!
was nearly SO when got my
first newspaper job. I was 40
when I left the Oakland Tribune
and walked into Fremont Older's
office and asked him for a posi-
ton. Fremont Older was editor
Of Mr.. Hearts San Francisco Call
now the Call-Bulletin. I had
heard of him-aS who hadn't
as a great progressive and hui
manitarian, but had never seen
him. Something happened to my
life from the moment I faced that
magnificent body, that battling
head, those strange yet friendly
eyes which seemed to put life
YEARLY aside. yet dared it to
come on!
It was impossible for anyone to
meet Fremont Older without be-
coming a drawer and more eager
person, without longing to be a
better one. And the same thing
is true of that quiet, yet deeply
colorful woman who served him
so devotedly, yet so deliberately
remained in the background-his
wife, Cora. Never have known
two people who gave so abund-
antly, yet so simply, that which
we all need above everything else
faith,
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that we might, at last, dare hope
for complete recovery.
I remember q handful Of shin.
ing adventures: the day we walked
down store aisles and bought all
the silly little things we'd always
wanted to buy. The day he told
me about The Girl, and we plan.
ned for her future and his. The
night he showed me his fraternity
pin. The long talk we had when
he decided what to do with this
life so miraculously given back to
him.
CHAPTER xxi
He was greatly talented. He
might have been artist, writer or
engineer. But something suddenly
swept these lesser ambitions away.
There had been one of our hideous
executions of haf-witted boy
an execution against which I
fought in vain for days and
nights. George watched the
flight, shocked and sickened by
his first realization of our gross
stupidity and savagery. That
night he vowed he would become
lawyer and spend his life fight.
ing capital punishment.
He entered college. I bought a
houSe-the house which was TO be
his after he married.
A handful Of memories. And
then there were no more. Less
than two years after our chance
came, it was finished. A month
after his hilarious twenty.first-
birthday celebration, my lad lay
dead.
Details? Cancer. . pneumonia.
But there are no details when
the thing you have loved best goes
on. Only a wailing, witleSS dark.
ness.
What should I tell you Of that
darkness? II you have ever known
it. there is nothing I can tell you,
II it has not come to you, God for.
DID that I should let you glimpse
its horror!
The Sense of
Utter Bankruptcy
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"a Az = a. ~ ~ SSASSSO~SeSN~O
who brought Elsie Robinson
and her column, Listen
World" into the Hearst syn
dictate.
met many successful men in my
time but never one who remained
more simple and friendly. more
understanding of his fellow NOR
tails, than George Adams.
I was working like a gang OF
tractors, literally turning out
acres of copy. But work has never
been a burden to me. It has A.
ways been my greatest adventure.
This thing we call Success"
came rapidly. But I never con-
sciously aimed toward it nor
found any enjoyment in it after
it came. The truth Is, I never
believed in it.
A successful newspaper woman.
Part, at last, of that mysterious
Bohemian world of the Fourth
Estate. So now? So now you ex.
pect I'll tell you Of the bizarre
life I proceeded to live; gay mid
night parties: glamorous week
ends with brilliant people-writ.
ers, artists, adventures, pictur.
esque vagabondS. I wish / could
tell you of such a life. I wish I
had led it. I wish-lustily-that
had been a devil in my time.
But I never was. I have seen
such a life, lived on the fringe
of it, learned its patter. minis
tered to its hang-overs. But per.
sonally, I have yet to attend my
first newspaper party. Nor do l
know Of any serious writer who
participates in such bohemia.
Modern journalism Is Big Bust
ness. You must remain sober
and hustling If you wish to stay
within it's overcrowded, highly
competitive ranks. AS for the
syndicated columns, I doubt If
any job on earth calls for more
concentrated and continuous con-
troll. Day after day, year after
year, without vacations or the aid
of a substitute, the columnist
must make his own record-and
beat it. He has no boss to give
him assignments or supply ideas.
He must create his own program
and stand or fall by his own
circulation returns. There's no