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Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-02
THOUSANDS OUT OF WORK AS FRENCH STRIKE SPREADS
New Charm College
Holds It's First Class

SAN DIEGO, June .. W.p - The
college of Charm. founded on
the theory that men can be judged
from form charts and breeding
history like race horses, held its
first class last night with the hope
its girl graduates would pick more
winners than the average hoss
player.
The college, a sort of press agent
sponsored institution at the Cali
fornia Exposition, goes further than
mere picking. In fact picking Is
but the freshman course and from
there you get down to the serious
business of cashing in on your
picks.
The way it started, somebody
said it was national romance week.
and while no one could figure out
Why or who had designated it. such
ideas began bursting from the fer
tile minds of the press department
like roSebudS after a warm spring
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-02

shower and the college of charm
was born. Bing! Just like that.
It's Leap Year
TITS leap year and we thought if
the girls are to make the most OF
it they'd better know what they
want and how to get it. 1t will
save them lots of time and they'll
get better men, said pretty Irene
Silver of the faculty.
A mans family background,
physical and mental size and
whether he cuts his hair regularly
are important. items. Miss Silver
said. A quick thorough size-up Of
those and similar matters should
enable young woman to tell after
the first date Gf she is a C. of c.
grad. of course) if a prospect will
make nice safe husband or an
aSh-on the-rug- -scatterer, a Zion
check or a wife-beater.
Interpretation of the many straw3
in-the- wind which might ordinar-
lily be overlooked is one OF the
main premises on which the COL
lege hopes for success, Miss Silver
said in explaining that a little
thing like letting his eyes follow
every shapely girl who passed
might mark a man as a potential
philanderer.
After they get him all sized up
like bay geld:ng in the eighth
at Santa Anita, the next step is to
decide without hesitation whether
he's worthwhile bet and if so to
move in Nith the heavy artillery.
Every Girl For Self
From there it's every girl for
herself, but the college aims to
implant sound theory in such mat
ters as when and when not to be
kissed, clothes. makeup and per-
That kissing business is a touchy
roint," said Miss Silver, "and es-
pecially ON the first date. Some
men nave to be kissed the first
tme or they won't ccmc back, and
others would think a girl too for
ward. Every case is an individual
problem
And after the first date?
We'll" said Miss Silver, we
can't teach them everything
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-02

ed 81 new strikes in the metal
lurgical industry. concentrated
mostly in the Paris Red Belt.
Ten new strikes have developed
IN chemical plants which have
been seized by the workers who
demand increased wages, a closed
shop and a 40-hour working week.
Fifteen strikes called at the
start OF the industrial unrest last
week still are in progress, making
the total idle factories rs.
Factory owners issued a COM
munique asserting there is no
reason for the new strikes, which
they blamed On unjuStified orders
from unions and Communists.
The strikes came as a blow TO
the government, while workers OF
l3 other factories already were
cl siege strikes despite efforts to
satisfy their demands.
Strikers demanded 4 collective
labor contract. a 40-hour work
ing week, vacations with pay and
higher wages.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-02
NEW DEAL FOE
LEADS IN VOTING

DES MONIES. Ia, June 3 UP)-
United States Senator L. j. DiCkin
son. bitter foe of New Deal farm
policies and mentioned as a Repub-
lican presidential candidate. ap
peared to have Won denomination
today.
Dickinson based his campaign on
his opposition to the New Deal He
was the particular target Of Demo-
Gratis urging retention of New Deal
farm policies.
Incomplete returns from yeSter
days primaries give Dickinson al
most to l lead over his closest
rival, former Sen. Smith w. Brook
hart.
Republicans, as usual in Iowa.
cast almost twice as many votes as
Democrats, indicating that compar-
atively few voters changed their af-
filiations.
Gov. Clyde L. Herring swept
ahead OF his opposition in the race
for Democratic nomination for SEN
ator, where he was opposed by Rep
Hubert Uteback
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-02

quotations were $l90 to $225 per
crate.
Watermelon shipments to June
show an even more flatIering in
crease than other melons, over a
year ago. Carload shipments this
season total ia, while a year ago
only two carloads had been ship
ped out OF the valley to June l..
Ell Centro stands at the head of
the list with 80 cars sent out, with
shipments made from the other cities
as follows: CaleXico Is, Calipatria
13, Westmorland g. and Holtville |.
Growers are realizing a good
profit with the present quotation
listed at S25.000 per ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-02
CROWD
STAYS HEBREW

WARSAW. June 2 UP)-Enraged
peasants today invaded the Jewish
quarter of Minsk and killed a jew
ish shop keeper and destroyed II
Jewish shops.
The i-Jewish outbreak occur
red after a Jew had killed a Polish
soldier.
While the angry peasants were
storming Jewish shops police reen-
forcements hastily encircled the
town and ordered drastic precau-
tions to prevent further rioting.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-02

Full bed size. Rich, sol
id colors Sith shaded bor-
der silk binding, 1907
virgin wool.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-02
RIVERS FLOW
OVER BANKS IN
CANADA AREA

VANCOUVER. B. c.. June 2 UH
Swollen rivers which. went out of
their banks in eastern British Col
umbia today closed more than 100
miles of Canadian national railway
track leading to Prince Rupert.
The Skeena river. swollen by
melting SHOWS roared out of its
banks in the northwestern part of
the province, flooding villages and
diSrupting communications.
JUNEAU. Alaska, June 2. WR)-
juneau residents breathed slightly
easier today as a two day. near-rec-
ord heat wave appeared broken.
The mercury reached 10 degrees
the highest mark since
1884. The maximum tenn
perature Monday was 70. Husky
dogs suffered noticeably from the
heat. while miners. hardened to
snow and cold, shed their black
wooden underwear.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-02
Trial of Nurse Put
Off Until June 9

PHOENIX. ARR. June 2. U.D -
Trial OF Mrs. Billie Kinsey, Phoenix
nurse who Is accused OF murder.
today was continued 10 June 9 at
the request Of her attC cney She
was scheduled to 20 on trial yes
terday.
Mrs. Kinscy eH25 charged with
causing the death OF Odessa Ball,
81, Coolidge Sunday school teach
er, by performing n criminal OPP
Grafton upon her.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-06-02
Marriage License
Issued on June I

CuDid decided tc make uo for
lost time Monday and late in the
afternoon started the month of
June with one marriage license and
cne notice of intention to ,Aed.
A marriage license was issued by
County Clerk Ed Law 10 Shingoso
Tsudo. 40. and Tashiko Kanemoto,
"a, residents of the BraWley area.
Notice OF intention to wed was
filed by David Goddard, 20, of El
Centro. and Beulah St. John, II,
Of Heber.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
The Spanish CaldrOn.

. Recognition of the rebel government
by Italy and Germany does not consti-
4=tute formal Intervention In the Spanish
war, but 1t closely borders on such
step. To that extent it injects a grave
new element of danger into the seething
.caldron now boiling over at Madrid.
= Until Mussolini and Hitler actually re-
sort to the extreme of sending armed
forces or other forms Of official aid to
General Franco the international nom
intervention pact of London stands, and
the fiction that foreign powers are keep
ing hands Off Spain will be maintained.
Meantime, nothing really has happened
that has not in effect already occurred.
The Italians and the Germans have
never made any concealment of their
aggressive sympathy with the insurgents,
the continuance of whose military opera
Ztions notoriously was only made possible
by material assistance from the Fascist
powers. Soviet support of the govern
sment's cause has been no less open and
siinabashed, and 1t is everybody's secret
that the Loyalists have been sustained in
the latter stages Of their desperate strug-
gle mainly by the aid and supplies re-
ceived from Russian Communist quarters.
Barring overt action like an Italo-
German blockade of the Spanish east
Evening star., 1936-11-20
Republicans Must Now
Heed the PrOgressives
TO the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Please let me commend Mr. Mark Sui
Ivan for his fine column in a recent issue
of The Star. Republican party must give
attention to Western Progressives."
His statement of facts is very clear
though he has fallen into one error that
is common. He says: The Progressive
movement consisted Of farmers and small
towns that depend directly on farm pros
perity. 1t was from fifth to third of
the entire Republican party" He is
right as to the elements, but it included
also all the larger cities in the West, and
it numbered far better than half the
entire party.
In the election in 1912 the State of
washington was shown to be 65 per cent
for Theodore Roosevelt, yet the delega-
tion to the national convention was in
structed for Taft! Roosevelt claimed
they were stolen and he split the party.
At that time the movement numbered far
more than so per cent of the entire Re-
publican party, but this group is the
most independent, completely Embossed
group that has ever formed in American
politics
In 1928 under boss rules Herbert Hoo
yer was nominated. He did not repre-
sent the desires Of one-quarter of the
Republican party. There was only one
man in America he could defeat The
Democrats found that man and Hoover
defeated him. In 1882 there was no man
Hoover could defeat
In 1886 Hoover obtained small group
of delegates to the national convention,
not enough to make a noise over, but
enough to let him shove Landon into
the nomination, and then the great un-
bossed group defeated Landon! The
Progressive movement has never lost a
single voter, though many have gone out
OF the Republican party in order to de-
feat the principles of boss rule and
crooked politics.
Yes, Mr.. Sullivan is right. The Re-
publican party must give attention to
the Western Progressives, as they now
constitute about three-fifths of the entire
party! HERB E. SHARP.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
A League of Nations of
The Western Hemisphere

To the Editor of The Star
Why should not the United States,
South and Central America delegates of
the "Pan-American Association" soon
to convene in convention at Buenos
Aires, unanimously resolve for Western
Hemisphere Nations League? With
President Roosevelt's dictum of good
neighbor," especially among the ma
tions of the United States, South and
Central America, the extraordinary well
come and acclaim he received from bona
fide citizens of Venezuela when he Wis
tied one of that country's cities, the
economic, financial, social and cul-
tural result would be effective to
marked degree in each and all the ma
tions of a Western Hemisphere Nations
League. The Eastern Hemisphere has
its Nations League! Why not the
Western Hemisphere its League of Ma
tions? Then would the United States
see Jefferson's and Washingtons mo
foreign entanglements" of the United
States with Europe finis.
In the event President Roosevelt visits
and makes the opening speech at the
Buenos Aires Convention and suggests
Western Hemisphere Nations League
I am confident that it would be received
with acclaim and unanimously indorsed
by the personnel of the Buenos Aires
Convention.
A Western Hemisphere Nations
League at this time would open up new
fields for United States exports and i'm
ports. Then why not Western Hem
isphere Nations League?
We. RYAN.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
Miss Nav Bradshaw.

The principalship of Washington
high school carries with it prestige, in
addition to other emoluments, and a
pending vacancy is usually the signal
for a subsurface scramble among appli-
cants and their patrons not confined to
those already identified with the school
system. This being the case, one of the
greatest tributes to Miss May p. Brad
shaw, just elevated to the principalship
of the Roosevelt High School, is that she
was the only logical candidate for the
position and her appointment was taken
pretty much for granted before 1t was
formally announced.
She Is an able woman in her own
right and her long Identification with
Business High School, Roosevelt's pre-
decessor-in later years as assistant prtn-
cipal under the beloved Allan Davis,
so soon to retixe-has equipped her ad-
Evening star., 1936-11-20
Shooting Stars.
BY PHLANDER JOHNSON.
The Dollar Quest.

The Dollar Quest.
OF the dollar you'll find
There is many a kind
While you seek it, as men have to do;
And you shouldn't neglect
Some care to select
The kind it is best to pursue.
There's the dollar that works,
And the dollar that shirks;
There's the dollar that loves to assist;
There's the dollar that slacks
And just stands in its tracks,
When it ought to get out and enlist.
There's the dollar that thrives
And the one that contrives
An indolent fancy to please;
The dollar that hopes
And the dollar that gropes
In the haunts of improvident ease.
There are dollars that roam;
There are those that stay home,
They are built both for JOY and regret
And success will depend,
More or less, in the end
On the kind of dollar you get.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES r. TRACEWELL.

There were q great many things in the
world that Templeton Jones didn't like
but what could he do about them?
What could any one do about them7
Even discourtesy had a new name, and
you were told by some to regard 1t as
force.
Jones was in low mood. Walking
along the country road on q bright, crisp
afternoon, he went with q mind Ill at
ease.
Things seemed all wrong, but 1t didn't
do any good to protest.
The very people you protested to didn't
know the difference.
Background-that was what they
lacked, Jones thought to himself
He took vicious kick at an inofending
weed by the wayside.
One of the charms Of country roads
still remained. Speed, which had ruined
traffic, just as radio had ruined music,
had not yet managed to kill the weeds
by wayside.
Wayside weeds
How vigorous they grew, today just AZ
in George Washington's time.
No curbs or curbing in Washington's
time, except in the deep cities. and prob
ably even in them very little thought was
given to neat curbs.
Today weeds grew only along country
roads, where they had struggled in that
determined way Of weeds the world
around
Perhaps along this very way were
growing plants which had come from all
the countries of Europe and were now
full-fedged citizens of America.
America!
Templeton Jones wondered why that
name had been chosen.
Wouldn't Columbia have been infinitely
better and fairer to better mariner?
Columbia, the gem of the ocean-"
to have been the real name.
America!
OF course, 1t meant more than a
mariners name today. One didn't stop at
all to think of old Vespuccius, and
whether he did or didn't deserve to have
a great New World named after him.
* 4
Templeton Jones found his mind stray
ing from the manifest miseries of the
world to a bird feeder erected in a back
yard.
Sparrows and pigeons were fiuttering
around it.
Very large meshed wire had been
placed over the tray to keep the pigeons
out.
Hence these large birds had to be
content with eating of the ground.
In and out the wire sparrows few.
Jones. the observer. forgot his miseries,
as we'll as those of very perplexed world,
in watching living things eat.
There is something very human about
eating! Probably that helps to account
for the widespread interest in feeding the
birds-they are so human eating.
Man and bird are drawn together in a
common act. necessary for vitality The
man may be a college professor, but he
must eat. The bird may have not half
teaspoonful of brains, but he eats, too.
All living things eat. There is some
thing satisfactory in the process, not only
to indulge in, but also to watch.
Templeton, Jones stopped by the side
of the road. looked into the very small
back yard and saw one of life's most
Evening star., 1936-11-20
Unwarranted Attacks
On the Supreme Court
To the Editor of The Star.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Error is a hardy plant; 1t flourisheth
in every soil"; to which might have been
added, particularly in certain journals
in America" The truth of this state
ment was strikingly illustrated in a re-
cent editorial in such q paper attacking
the Supreme Court and concluding as
follows: But the Supreme Court long
ago assumed the power to pass on the
wisdom of laws, first of the Congress
and now Of the States" No statement
could be more erroneous and misleading
or better calculated to prejudice the
ignorant masses against the court. AS
O matter Of fact, the court has no con-
cern whatsoever with or authority to
pass upon the wisdom or the folly Of
laws enacted by either the Congress or
the States, a fact which the court has
stated again and again in its decisions.
The power to legislate belongs exclu-
sively to Congress in national affairs and
in the legislatures of the States in local
matters, subject only to the limitations
thereupon by the respective constitu-
tons. The sole and only function Of the
court, when case comes before 1t, is to
determine whether or not the law is "in
pursuance Of the Constitution; that is to
say, whether it does or does not violate
some prohibitive provision of the Consti-
tuition or some individual right asserted
hereunder. Whether a proposed law is
wise of unwise, just or oppressive, is ex-
clusively within the province Of the legis-
lative authority.
A law may be ever so unwise, unjust or
oppressive, and yet if it is not in conflict
with some provision Of the Constitution
the court cannot and will not interfere
with its enforcement, for otherwise the
court would be usurping the constitu-
tional functions Of the legislative branch
of the Government, which is expressly
forbidden by both the Federal and~State
Constitutions. Objections to a law be-
cause it may be unwise, unjust or oppres-
sive must be addressed to the legislative
body and not to the courts. In the pres
ent state of the Union and of the public
mind such attacks upon and miSrepre-
sentation of the court do the country
very great disservice by inflaming the
ignorant rabble against the courts, which
are a coordinate and independent
branch of the Government, and which
are indispensable for the protection of
our constitutional liberties and property
rights.
ALEXANDER SIDNEY LANIER.
Evening star., 1936-11-20

coast, to prevent Russian replenishments
from reaching the government, there is
no immediate reason to fear that the
premature acknowledgment of Franco
will alter the Spanish situation to the
point of plunging Europe into the vortex
of a general conf1agration. Meantime,
speculation is rife as to the practical
purpose Of the Fascist relationships. It
may mean that they think rebel victory
is Just around the corner and that by
being in on the ground floor of recogni-
tion Italy and Germany will be first
in line for any political and territorial
favors the new Spanish government may
be in position to bestow. Or Mussolini
and Hitler may have been brought to
the conclusion by the stubborn defense
of Madrid that Franco is in perilous
plight and needs vigorous eleventh-hour
support from outside if the Spanish
Fascist cause is to be preserved from
ignominious collapse. Yet one other
conclusion is that II Duce and Der
Fuehrer are engaged in gigantic game
of bluff, with the object of browbeating
Russia as part and parcel of their anti
Communist crusade. The two dictators
may also consider 1t sagacious diplo-
matte move to play upon the fears of
democratic Great Britain and France.
which are confessedly and ardently bent
upon preventing clash between Fascist
and Communist ideologies from becoming
a cause for far-f1ung European conflict.
Momentarily, Rome-Berlin recognition
of the rebels does not itself doom Old
World peace, but it is unquestionably one
of the most menacing portents of war
yet to emerge from the Spanish crisis.
Evening star., 1936-11-20
satisfactory sishts-living things feeding

satisfactory sights-hving things feeding.
r. *
The air was crisp and the birds hungry.
The colder 1t gets the more food they
need.
On cold, snowy days, such as enveloped
suburban Washington last Winter, birds
will consume twice as much seed and
grain as on a crisp Autumn day.
The lower the temperature the more
food the flyers need to keep up all their
vital processes.
Few creatures have such need for con-
slant eating. Birds must stuff themselves,
minute after minute, II they are to keep
alive overnight in cold weather. Even
their warm feathers. overlapping, will
not do the trick, if beneath them there is
not enough vital heat to keep in.
Templeton Jones admired the birds.
Modified snakes, it is true, yet they no
longer seemed snakelike to any one,
unless the observer just chanced to catch
the resemblance in a quick look which
penetrated to realities.
Fortunately for the bird kind, such
looks do not linger; they come swiftly
and vanish just as quickly: the true
beauty Of the creature remains.
Jones found his interest in life come
back again as he surveyed the happy
scene.
He had not asked for this help, but
some one unknown, without thought of
him, had put up a bird feeder by the
side Of the road, and he, Templeton
Jones, and many another pedestrian got
the benefit of it.
AutomobiliStS who missed so many
things, missed this, too.
They were past in puff of speed. Not
one Of the many thousands of motorists
who roared by at 40 miles an hour (when
the sign called for 25) ever knew about
the birds and their feeding station.
- x \
Jones felt better.
He walked on. whistling gayly.
Suddenly he perceived he had invented
tune.
At a desolate turn in the road he
broke into song:
See those birds, eating seed,
Oh. see those birds, eating seed!"
BY George, it was a good tune, too,
Jones thought to himself, singing it once
again. (He didn't realize it, but he had
picked it up, unconsciously, from an
office mate. It's that tune about the
rgan-grinder man.
AS the second rendition Of this aria
came to a close, Templeton Jones per-
ceived. with no little embarrassment, that
he had had an audience
Four very solemn little girls, walking
down the road on the opposite side, al
most applauded
Say. mister" called one of them, you
going our way?"
Templeton Jones reluctantly admitted
that he was going in just exactly the
opposite direction, which was very plain
to all.
The children went on down the road.
Jones continued his pace, but somehow
life had frightened. Gone we're the
worries of the world, and how everything
is being ruined by something.
The sun was still bright. the air crisp
and the small people good at heart. if the
large ones weren't. 1t takes lot of
living to make bore or boor out of a
child Templeton Jones stepped along
his road briskly.