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Evening star., 1936-12-19
By MIC. r.

-oR some time, this department
l. has received with truly touch
ing regularity copies OF st.
Il Nicholas. And it has been the
Departments lamentable custom to
place these copies straightaway in the
files. How different, indeed. Is the
manner OF reception from the one
which characterized the department
when younger!
There was a rule, the department
remembers, that nothing could be
read during the week except school
books. Not until Friday afternoon
could one make an undisciplined foray
into the library, hauling chairs hither
and thither in order better to inspect
top shelves and wreaking destruction
in the neat piles of periodicals placed
on the center table. But this rule
simply did not apply to st. Nicholas.
The weeks when it arrived were weeks
OF literary dissipation. No amount OF
parental correction. coercion or even,
alas, punishment. could change this
condition. The department even re-
members one guilty golden day when.
the adored periodical arriving in the
noon mail she conveyed it secretly
back to school and read it under her
desk top the whole afternoon session.
That was a real scoop. Brothers and
sisters of the department did not even
know St. Nicholas had arrived.
Alas, the guilty golden days, indeedl
Into the files with the one-time book
OF treasure-that is the. rule Not
Just a rule dictated by a dull lack of
Imagination, but rule obeyed hastily,
Evening star., 1936-12-19
FAME AND FAMILY TALES GIVE FORCE TO STRATFORD BOOK
JUVENILE STYLE
Arrival of Magazine ST. Nicholas Revves Memories of Daring
Literary Forays of Childhood-Colege Publication
Is Dedicated to France.

People, Yes" putting the question
terribly as follows:
Another baby in Cleveland, Ohio,
In Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Why did Sne ask,
Papa,
what is the moon
Supposed to advertise? p"
But st. Nicholas continues to he
published. There must be, one sup
poses, children who do read it.
THE editors of Transition announce
- that they have just received from
Paris a 7,000-word manuscript OF "a
new fragment from James Joyce
Work in Progress" which will be
published In the Winter issue OF
Transition, now in preparation.
"The new installment." say the
editors. will be the seventeenth frag-
ment of the work to be published in
Evening star., 1936-12-19
Nor-Fiction.

Non Fiction.
THE FRENCH QUARTER. BY Her.
bert Asbury. New York: Alfred A.
Knopf History of New Orleans
French quarter, with considerable
number Of pages devoted to denizens
of somewhat dubious virtue.
RoADSIDES. BY J. M. Bennett. Bos-
ton: Stratford Publishing Co. Ar
gument for roadside development.
WEST OF THE GOLDEN GATE. By
Frank Harrison Beckmann. Boston:
Stratford Publishing Co. Manual
for travellers in the Orient.
THIS WAY TO BEAUTY. BY Hell
ena Rubenstein. New York: The
Dodge Publishing Co. The famous
beautician tells how.
THE VEGETABLE GARDENERS
HOW BOOK. BY Chesla c. Sher-
lock. New York: The Macmillan
Co. How to raise vegetables.
HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND IN
FLUENCE PEOPLE. BY Dale
Carnegie. New York: Simon q
Schuster. The publishers Of Mrs
Dorothes BrsAdes recipe for ehirp-
Evening star., 1936-12-19
Brief Reviews of Books

ing your way to happiness. add an
other to their list of helpful hints.
How to do whatever you want to do,
and the like According to Statis-
tician Barnum, it ought to sell one
minute.
THE BIBLE IN AMERICA. BY p.
Marion Simms. New York: Wilson
Erickson Co. The history of Bible
publication in this country.
HER NAME WAS WALLIS WAR
FIELD. BY Edwina H. Wilson. New
York: E. P. Dutton e. Co. Ro-
mantle and bubbling biography OF
Mrs. Ernest Simpson.
Fiction.
DOOR TO HAPPI-
NESS. Elizabeth Borton. Boston:
L. C. Page. One reads with horror
that this Is the ninth" glad book.
Have there then been eight others?
Poetry.
GAILY THE TROUBADOUR. BY
Arthur Guiterman. New York: E.
p. Dutton & Co. A collection of Mr..
Guiterman's ever delightful poems.
Worth having, but does one need to
say thati J
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CONTINUED from Page B-l.)
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MANHATTAN ISLANDS HUMOR
Record of New Books Includes Study of Hundred Persons Who
Accompanied Napoleon Into Exie-Gardening Facts
in New Guise-Again the Medc.

have been an exciting experience. The
numerous excerpts from the dailies Of
the time. with which the book is lib
orally peppered, prove that, in spite
of the dull writing which seeks to hide
that fact.
The sad impression left with the
reader of THE Man Who Built San
Franciso" is that this book is mis-
guided attempt to whitewash q man
who, perhaps, needs no whitewashing.
AS chronicle of early San Francisco
it may be historically accurate, but Is
not emotionslly satisfying. r. r. T.
so FREE WE SEEM. BY Helen Todd.
New York: Reynal a. Hitchcock.
THIS is book by an author who
confesses with engaging frank
ness that she is not writing q novel
so much as she is portraying con-
flict. 1t is. of course, praiseworthy
of her to admit it. However, her book
gets out in novel form. and her
charmingly straightforward announce
ment, being on the inside of the
jacket, may be overlooked by prospec-
tive purchasers. Having spent their
money for a story they may be dis
appointed on getting home, to find
that they have only conflict" 1t
seems fair to mention it.
1t Is one of those interminable
things fashionable at the moment, in
which characters are trumped up to
represent forces, or issues, or cosmic
rays, or the spirit of analytical chem
istry, or something not quite what
one expects. In this instance. they
represent forces that we're brisk and
active in Missouri about hundred
Evening star., 1936-12-19

fully Just the reasons for possible
failures, and how to avoid these pit
falls on the way to success.
Recipes are clear and concisely
given. All needed materials are care
fully listed, and suggestions in the
final chapter include many valuable
words of advice to the woman who
wishes to put her candy making on a
commercial basis. As a text book on
the fine art of making sweets and
comfits," this volume should prove OF
untold assistance to those interested
in this pursuit. b. g.
ALL THE DOGS OF MY LIFE. BY
Elizabeth. Garden City: Double
day Dorsn.
livery dog lover will recognize at
least one of his own dogs IN the
II so sympathetically and wittily
chronicled by Elizabeth of German
Garden" fame.
Elizabeth's reflections about her
dogs, her adventures very mild ones)
with them and her reactions to them
are delightfully."- told. Even more de-
lightful, however, are her reflections
about her human relationships as
brought out by dog ownership. Her
father and mother are portrayed in a
few searching, yet kindly, words. Her
German husband and his universal
cure for any sorrow, another baby,
comes alive for few pages. Her
cogitations about widowhood and her
attempts to remain a
widow are as amusing as her un-
ceasing house party in the Alps.
These are all real dogs, as the peo-
pie are real people they are not to be
confused with the dogs Of the average
dog story. animals with superhuman
sagacity and godlike strength and
loyalty. Elizabeth's dogs are just
loved and loving NUTS. r. r. T.
Evening star., 1936-12-19
Improving Turkeys.

IN RECENT years turkey and other
poultry rsisers have turned to cod
liver oil and fish meal to stimulate the
growth of their fowls and and par
ticularly to tied them over the dan
gerous days soon after Matching in
spring when the ground is cold and
damp.
The excellent results In size were
offset for a time by an unpleasant
flavor in the meat and fishy odor
when the birds were cooked. A num-
ber of experiments at Beltsville, Nd.
however, disclosed that if the Oil and
the fish food were stopped the last
four or Ave weeks before marketing,
an tatnt was elimin4Aed.
Evening star., 1936-12-19

fortnight reporting 1t Is. Vivid with
anecdote. it news to the line of what
he saw, avoiding conjecture and ran
cor, and thereby at one stroke attains
reader interest and historical value.
In Belgium he found how the Bel
gian government, removed into France
and desirous OF paying its employees in
German-held Belgium, combined with
the Commission for Relief in Belgium
to get the funds into the country by
paying for food for approximately
7,000,000 persons on the way, yet had
the original sum arrive undiminished.
Seeking grain for Poland's starving
hundreds of thousands, he journeyed
into Rumania, finding enormous heaps
Of wheat rotting an hours journey
from the central powers, where it was
under ration. Hearing of typhus in
Serbia, he went there to discover an
epidemic, it's full extent kept secret,
killing thousands SO fast the plight of
the Poles seemed light.
In Warsaw he found the American
Consul complaining that a German
aviator was trying every few days to
bomb the consulate. He solved that
mystery by recalling his conversation
months earlier on the German side OF
the lines with an American soldier of
fortune, who said he had to bomb
Warsaw every few days, but could
never see what he hit.
So the book goes to the end, when,
the commissions major relief plan
thwsrted by the sinking of the Lusi-
tania. the imminent entrance of the
United States into the war closed ef-
forts at aid as neutral. +. r. I.
HOW TO MAKE CANDY. BY Walter
w. Chenoweth. New York: The
Macmillan Co.
THE housewife, the domestic science
student, and the woman who Is
ambitious to earn little extra
money, will all be interested in this
new book by the author of Food
Preservation.
Prof Chenoweth, who has had
many years of experience in teaching
the fine art Of candy making through
demonstration and laboratory work,
has endeavored. in his latest work, to
remove all the guesswork from home
candy making. and to render the
process practically "fool-proof;"
The book contains number OF
Photographic illustrations to enable
the student to get a clearer idea OF
the utensils used in making the var
ious types of confections, and also to
portray certain important steps in the
molding and dipping processes. Chap
ters are devoted to an exhaustive de-
scription of the chemical why's and
wherefores" of candy making, which
help the worker to unhArstGnd more
Evening star., 1936-12-19

and bolstered up by the mental re-
mark that St. Nicholas. in world
of wicked change. must too have
changed, that st. Nicholas could not
be what it once was, since nothing else
was so.
A rule, in other words, dictated by
resentment against growing old. 1t
is high time that something be done
about it.
So il seems proper time to go on
record that. except in shape. st. Mich
olas has not really changed. To be
sure. it has a motion picture review
department today. To be sure the old
Mature and Science for Young Folks"
section has become simple Mature
Lore" To be sure the boys and girls
of its illustrations are streamlined and
bobbed- haired. But the rest OF 1t Is
there. Some of its old contributors
are even writing for it still. Does
the change in the rest of the world
work to cut off magazine magic from
children, one wonders?
no FUTURE newspaper depart
ments. now dwelling in small
country towns, hurry home from
school, taking elaborate forbidden
cross-cut through fields (are there
still fields?), not really in order to
hurry (since the short" cut usually
was the longest way but in order to
free the young mind from the dull
patterns of arithmetic and spelling,
and make it ready to receive the brave
strange world that lay between maga-
zine covers?
Do they? Or has the radio altered
all that-the radio, the electric lights,
the family automobile, the excellent
hard road and the promised excursion
to the movies that evening? One
wonders. Isolation, somehow, in
retrospect, hardly seems the evil that
it is currently painted. 1t was large.
for one thing 1t had great spaces in
it. A child could fill them, aided by
such good helpers as St. Nicholas,
coming mysteriously from some OUT
side source unpredictably once q
month. Does a junior short-wave set
(or whatever they call the things do
quite the same today? Is space, filled
with voices advertising hair tonic and
cereal, equally conducive to imag-
NATIVE growth? Well, one can only re-
call a line from an American poet in
answer, Carl Ssndburg, in his THE
Evening star., 1936-12-19

-oR some time, this department
l. has received with truly touch
L ing regularity copies OF St.
IL fkA
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-06
A c 7 | 0 N OF
M EXC 0 70
D RAW FIRE
Protests Dispatched
To Sen. McAdoo
Asking Aid

CALEXICO In protest
to plans for a "free zone
at Mexicali, the chamber of
commerce Wednesday night
dispatched kilograms t c
Senator William G. McAdoo, Con-
gresham George Durham and
Senator Hiram Johnson, asking
them to "use every means possible
to prevent this action"
The protest followed close on
the heels of statement by Terri
torial Governor Gildardo Magma
that a free zone of entry will be
created soon.
81 The chamber of commerce tele-
gram reads:
I'VE have definite information
that Mexican government will es-
tabliSh a zone consisting of all
territory adjacent to California as
a free zone into which all classes
of merchandise may be imported
duty free. This will be ruinous to
established American business
firms located on the border who
Continued on Page 8, Col. -
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-06
RELIEF LOAD
UNBURDENED
FOR COUNT
Cases Drop to 500 As
Private Jobs Call
More Workers

Imperial county's relief
case load has decreased
within the last two weeks
from 500 to less than 500,
according to w. S. Filter,
head of State Relief administra-
ton in the county.
The last two weeks, he said,
found fewer cases on relief and
fewer applications for relief than
at any time since December l, 1885.
A large share of the relief cases
was absorbed by private employ
ment Filter explained, as it is
possible for us to check the NUM-
bers given employment on Public
Works administration and Works
Progress administration projects.
The work at Imperial dam has
taken an especially large number
off the relief rolls.
Il feel that the situation is less
acute Filter concluded, "as the
last two weeks we have opened but
two and three cases a day. A few
weeks ago we were opening as high
as 40 to SO a day, with many of
them Immediately being assigned
to WPA and PWA projects. This
can be done, however, only when
all the requirements are met
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-06
CROPS ESCAPE
FROST DAMAGE

temperatures reached a low of
30 early Thursday morning in the
colder locations of the valley, re-
ported Fred A. Baughman, meteor
ologiSt for the U. S. weather bu-
reau.
No appreciable damage is believ-
ed to have been done peas in the
north end, said Baughman, judg-
ing by the temperatures reported.
The spring crop is being harvest
ed now and it is possible that a
few fields may have been touch
ed little but the temperatures
were not low enough to do much
damage.
Whether or not frost will occur
again Friday morning, Baughman
was unable TO predict definitely at
noon Thursday, advising growers
to tune in for his 1880 broadcast
over KXO. As yesterday, wealth
er conditions are in the balance
and half day may see consider
able changes.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-06
WPA DIRECTOR
PRAISES WORK
FOR DISTRICT

Satisfaction concerning the Works
Progress administration set-up in
Imperial county was expressed by
Ralph B. Smith, director of the WPA
work in the fifth district, who visit
ed the county Wednesday. He was
accompanied by w. S. Banks, district
supervisor of finance and reports;
Robert Stevens, supervisor of the
division of employment; and Miss
Magma Brace, assistant supervisor of
the division Of employment.
Smith said he was anxious to OBJ
tain approval for more projects in
this county and get. allotments Of
money in order to start work immed
lately. He hopes, he said, to pro-
vide projects so that it will be pos
sible to assign the entire relief case
load which cannot be absorbed Nv
private employment.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-06
BOND ISSUE
FOR BUILDING
is CONSIDERED
Council MuUs Over
City Hall And
Library

Details in connection with
the proposed new city hall
and library building were
discussed briefly by Ell Cen
tro city councilmen at a
meeting Wednesday night but no
definite steps relative to the devel-
opment could be taken pending
report from architects who. are
working upon revised plans.
Application for Public Works adj
ministration funds already have
been made upon more elaborate
set of plans entailing a larger ex-
penditure of money than at this
time deemed wise by the council.
1t will be necessary, council men
said, to call bond issue to place
the matter before the voters and
this cannot be done until plans
Continued on Page s, Col. 2,
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-06
OPERATION OF
ARMS PLANTS
BY u. S. SEEN

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. U.P) =
The interstate commerce commits
sion today presented to the senate
munitions committee survey
showing that at cost of SAT ,167, 296
the government could provide its
own facilities to build II warships
a year and make most of the
munitions now bought from pri-
vate firms.
The commerce inquiry was I'M
dertaken at the committees re-
quest in an effort to obtain COM
parative costs on government man.
ufacture of arms and munitions and
continued manufacture by private
interests.
Proposals have been voiced by
committee members for national
ization Of the munitions industry.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-06

The strike is off," Kinsalla an
nounced as he stepped from the
general strike headquarters.
Announcement followed by less
than two hours decision of the
Pekin association of commerce to
reopen 200 stores and demand full
police protection.
Sheriff Ralph Goar announced
the strikers had agreed to with
draw all pickets except at the
American .Distilling company, where
700 workers have been out more
than two weeks.
Thus ended brief interlude dur
ing which typical midwestern in
dustrlal town was under a vir-
tual labor dictatorship, unable to
get a shave, a cigar, a sandwich
or a drink and supplied with
meager food and coal only by per-
NIT from the strike committee.
The association of commerce at
a secret meeting adopted a strong
law and order resolution sup
porting Police Chief Harry Dona-
hue and agreed to reopen in de-
fiance of the strikers.
Terror cut across the despera te
general strike situation last night
An alleged food runner for strike
breakers was shot from ambush,
Mayor William E. Schurman slept
with double-barrel shotgun lean
ing against his bed, and guards
patrolled the waterworks against
dynamiters. City authorities de-
manded martial law and use of
the militia held in readiness at
Peoria, II miles away.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-06

regatta will be held
L. V. Hess of the Imperial Irriga-
ticn district office at Imperial
spurred on by the belief that his
boat can take anything in the
field, pondercd over the problem
OF entering the race. He won't
decide until Saturday,
Four entries are listed thus far
for the event which is limited TO
valley boats. Rumors flew
that a couple of dark horses"
are expecting to show up at the
starting line Sunday Boats and
boatsmen from valley towns other
than Ell Centre were especially
invited, in a statement by the
race committee, to participate.
Carl Vogt, Ell Centre enthusiast,
may enter two boats to take a
double shot at the trophies offer
ed for winner, second place and
third place. One of Vogt's boats,
a fast racing hull, is entered al
ready. The other is a large sea-
sled, not built for speed but which
might stand a good chance to
circle the three-lap course lin the
prizes"
Trophies which will go to the
winners are expected to be placed
on display Friday in the window
of o. F.. Haun's jewelry store.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-06
EPICS THREATEN TO
OPPOSE ROOSEVELT

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 6. UP)
An open break between Califor-
Mas Epics and President Roose-
welt was threatened anew today
over the selection of personnel for
the states. delegation 10 the Demo-
cratic national convention.
L. Raymond Holmes, president
of the end poverty league in CAL
ifornia, announced he planned to
call a second state convention of
the league in Los Angeles Feb. 16
unless President Roosevelt should
by February 10 accept a slate of
delegates to the Democratic nation
al convention containing al least
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-06
MORE ARCTIC
CHILL BLOWS
TOWARD EAST
BY UNITED PRESS

Far up in the Canadian northwest
the temperature dropped to SO de-
grees below zero today, chilling huge
masses of air which will follow the
present sub-2ero wave across the
country
Slight relief was expected in some
parts of the midwest today before
the new arctic blasts sweep toward
the east. Abnormal temperatures
continued in the vast territory from
the Rockies to the Appalachians.
More than so deaths were attrib-
uted to the latest cold wave in one
OF the coolest winters on record.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-06
ARIZONA REPORTS TRAWPS
HAVE GIVEN UP ENTRY IDEA

Los Angeles police departments
foreign legion" stationed at Fort
Yuma, just across the California
line, netted by IA transients, all on
the first train. The other two, re-
ports reaching here said, carried
none.
While the flow of indigentS
through here virtually had ceased,
Phoenix authorities wondered, a lit
tie uneasily, whether the wanderers
were stopping in Arizona cities far
ther east to await until the heat"
lessened, or whether they had stop
ped in states farther to the east.
City police here and in other Ari-
Continued ON Page 8, Col. u
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-06
Fresh Beefsteaks Line Tracks
When Train Destroys Cattle

Beefsteaks pot roasts en cuts and hamburger, most
of with the hair piled up along the Southern Pacific
tracks half mile south of Ell Centre Wednesday night
after the o'clock northbound train powed through
herd of Ii dairy cattle belonging to Clyde Bellamy.
What had been beefseak the hoof Immediately be-
thoroughly butchered according to a report made
at the county sheriff's office.
Nor the slaughtered herd total loss to anyone
but the The mechanically butchered cattle
srewn along the tracks for two blocks and thrifty Mex
in the immediate said to carved
asuccuent db from the fresh carcasses Beef add
ed to frijoles upon many Mexican Thursday of
ficerS said.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-06
EARTH
FILL FIGURES
OPENED TODAY

YUMA, Feb 6. (UP)-David H.
Ryan company, San Diego sub
united a low bid of 500, $50 today
TO earth lining liz miles of the
All American canal.
The George j. Brock company,
Los Angeles, was second low bid
der with an offer of 1929 900. Five
bids, in all, were submitted and
opened by District Reclamation
Engineer r. B. Williams. They
will be sent to reclamation service
headquarters at Denver for check
ing. The contract award will be
announced in Washington.
The project on which the bids
were submitted will include 225,-
000 cubic yards of conpacted earth
lining and $1,000 yards of uncom-
pacted lining.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-02-06
PEKIN STRIKE TERROR ENDS
City Clerk, Detective. Etc

city Clerk Detective, Etc
The music goes down and round,
but that's not what Ell Centre city
council wants to know. The ques-
ton is, where does it come out?
It's Cal Mousseau's job to find out.
Several years ago the city support
ed a municipal band. What's more,
the city bought band instruments
fer the troubadour troupe. Now
both the troupe and the instru-
ments have dissolved into nothing
ness, as far as the council knows.
And instruments cost money The
council wants them back.
Far be it from RR to be sacrile-
gious, but think of the things an
active imagination could do with
pictures Of Gordon Scriven all
wrapped up in a bass horn, or
Mayor Bucklin tootling away on
a tuba!