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at a. m. Saturday. Through the
courtesy of Roy Womach who pro
vided truck and driver for the
occasion the girls and their equip
ment were in camp at Bankhead
Springs by 7:30. An active week
end was enjoyed in which many
camp honors were earned, among
them being awards for tracking,
treking, baking bread on a stick,
frying eggs on stones, camping out
for a weekend, making bed from
material at hand and pitching tents.
Those who made the trip were
Frances Allen, Frances Sunstrom,
Allyne Pyle, Vesta Riodon, DeLyte
Focht, NADIA Brown, Mary Louis
Brown, Louise Shaw, Mrs Ray.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-03

to be held in May in Sacramento.
Mrs. Willard Gardner of BraWley
was chosen as alternate delegate
to the western federations conven-
ton to be held in Los Angeles i'm
mediately following the state con-
vention. A representative from the
federation will be appointed later
to the safety council.
Poetry Contest
1t was announced that Stella Van
Fluss of Holtville had been selected
winner of the county poetry con-
test and that the Calipatria club
had the prize, book of the poems
in the contest, for obtaining the
most publicity.
In the morning sessions Mrs.
Henry T. Miller conducted a ques-
tionaire on the constitution of the
United States.
After luncheon a program was
featured which included a talk by
Curt Effler of Calexico in which he
described modern Germany as he
saw it last summer. Among other
things he pointed out that every
American should rejoice in the free
dom of speech and the liberties
which his country enjoys, contrast
ing conditions here with those in
Germany.
Taxation Discussed
Elmer Heald district attorney,
talked on taxation, the ways in
which taxes are raised and how they
are spent. In conclusion he dis
cussed the proposed single tax
amendment speaking in opposition
to it.
Mrs. j. w. Lawson of Calexico,
accompanied by Carroll Campbell,
also of Calexico, sang a group of
charming German songs.
Supervisor Hugh T. Osborne was
then introduced and spoke on Com,
munism, its organization in every
community in the country, the leg
islation which Communists are at
tempting to secure. declaring the
criminal syndicalism law the best
protection Americans have. He
pointed out the important influence
women may have in maintaining
the institutions of this country,
saying I'VE must preserve demo.
cracy for our children
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-03
Friday Bridge Club
Luncheon Hostess

Friday bridge club members met
this week with Mrs. Dorsey White
law, 457 Sandalwood Drive, where
they enjoyed smartly appointed
luncheon and an afternoon of
bridge.
High scores were won by Mrs.
Kutz and Mrs. Holt Members and
guests present were Mesdames For
rest E. Kutz, Leroy Holt, Allen P.
Nuffer, Dorsey Whitelaw. r. B.
Whitelaw, Don c. Bitler, Minor O.
Simms and j. d. Adams.
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Jenkins-Berry Wedding Sunday
Leading Weekend Event

ry attended Central and were pop
ular younger set members. They
were prominent in all musical work
and have kept up their music in
terests ever since. doing some radio
work. Miss Jenkins is a member
of the Pacific Coast Symphony or
chestra and also does considerable
work for churches.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-03
Beginners Bridge
Section Party

Beginners bridge section of the
Junior Ten Thousand club will
meet Monday at Kenyon's Desert
plunge for a swimming party to
be followed by a Dutch supper
The losing side in the years games
will act as hostesses for the occa-
sion.
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NankOakaga GrOup

Nankoakaga Camp Fire girls
were guests at dinner Monday at
the home of Mrs. Forest Manley,
Mrs. Manley, Betty Neid, Betty
Hoy and Bonnie Wilson preparing
and serving the dinner to obtain
their firemakers' rank. The regular
business meeting followed, Mrs.
Manley, Betty Reid giving special
talks to earn their ranks and Ruth
McClimans one for the torchbear-
er'S rank.
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j. c. Nominations

At a meeting held Friday noon,
the executive board of the Junior
college nominated officers to serve
for the coming year. May 8 is the
date selected for the election at
which the students will vote upon
the following candidates: President
Bill Moody; vice-president, Joe
Golf, Warren Brock; board men,
bers, Earlene Northrop, Jean Phil
lips, Jane Hartzog, and James
Carter.
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Barbecue Sunday
In BrauUley

Brawley Sacret Heart parish is
planning barbecue for Sunday at
the Ralph Buffers home, beginning
at 4 p. m.
Swimming, games, music are
planned as entertainment and the
affair is open to the public.
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Quartette Sunday At
Nazarene Church

Members of the Pasadena college
quartette will be in charge of hte
morning service Sunday at the
Church of the Nazarene. Irving c.
Benson, executive field secretary
will preach at The IL o'clock service
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Aid Society Plans
Kitchen Sho,Uer

A kitchen shower is to be one
OF the features at the meeting Of
the Methodist Women's Aid So
ciety to take place Tuesday after
noon at 2:30 O'Clock in the new
social hall
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Radio Program

Radio Program
Given under the direction OF
Freda Hyers, a program composed
Of songs and reading honoring the
late Rudyard Kipling was present.
ed on the regular Wednesday night
school broadcast. Following the
Introductory remarks by the di-
rector, Buddy Kilgore read the
poem, when Earths Last Picture
is Painted" A reading, "The Ele-
plants Child was next given by
Don Smyser. "On the Road to
Mandalay," was sung by Jim Ryer-
son. Wee Willie Winkie" was
dramatized in an abridged form
by Junior McChristy, Freda Hyers,
Bill Moody, Buddy Kilgore, Don
Smyser, and Jim Ryerson. Con-
cluding the program, Wesley Jun
kins sang "Recessional', accom-
panied by Mrs. L. D. Hanks of
Seeley.
Assembly
Eighth graders from all the coun-
- Il
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Los Angeles Guests
At Johnston Home

Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Barr of Los
Angeles are spending the week END
in Ell Centro as the house guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Johnston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barr have visited in
Ell Centro often and have many
friends in the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-03
County Council
At Calipatria

American Legion Auxiliary coun-
ty council meeting is scheduled for
Monday night at o'clock in the
Calipatria Veterans hall.
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Warrior r-NOmad

National Public Schools week was
featured in this weeks issue of the
Warrior -Nomad, the twice monthly
school paper Included in the mum.
ber were descriptions of the work
done in the various departments OF
the school, advance campaign news
and special article concerning the
activities of former Central stu
dents, as well as the regular news
reports.
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Nominations Headline Activities of
High. School and Junior College

special guests at the Friday assem-
| bly, at the high school. As enter
tainment, the first-period class of
public speaking presented one
act play entitled Town Hall To-
night" Included in the cast were
Kenneth Kenyon, Boyce Palmer,
Bobby Thacker, Bertha Gillett,
Maxine Spears, and Tommie Sue
McChristy. Bobby Thacker also
acted as director. The production
staff was composed of Mary Cook,
Vivian Whitehead, Marjorie Bowles,
and Frances Sunstrom. Mrs. An
nette Gillett supervised the play.
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Weekend Trip
Members of the Wihetonga left
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Assembly

Assembly
Eighth graders from all the coun-
try schools of the district were the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-05-03

NEW PATTERNS IN DAINTY dress laces
so popular right now and showing unusual
values at 79c and $100 yard. See the pastel
shades of pink, orchid, henna, light blue,
maise, green and natural, also brofn and navy.
Let us help you plan a new lace frock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-21

"a comradeship of altruistic effort to
further the kingdom Of God among men
at time when, in the face Of war and
revolution, economic disorder and fam
Inc, the need for a reign of righteous
ness and charity in the world is too
obvious for argument. Begin with your
selves" DR.. Buchanan tells congrega-
tons of thousands. The appeal is echoed
by the Marques of Salisbury, speaking
in the House of Lords on March 10 last:
What you want are God-guided per-
sonalities to make God-guided nation
alities" And the Archbishop of Canter-
bury gives the work his blessing in the
words: This movement is most Ger
tainly doing what the Church Of Christ
exists everywhere to do"
The visiting team, it seems, has caught
the vision of a great and cheering light.
Meeting the pilgrims, one finds them
profoundly convincing. Even though their
stay in the Capital be brief. they are well
come for the encouraging inspiration ex-
emplif1ed in their ardent faith and their
gentle but inspiring dedication to a
cause which wants such friends.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-21

The belodon-fantastic ele-
plant of 100000 years ago with a
lower jaw shaped like a gigantic shoe
horn and coming to sharp edge-iS the
latest addition to Americas ancient
fauna.
The first fossil of the strange creature
an almost complete skull which COL
lapSed when it was dug loose from the
gravel which surrounded twas re-
Gently found in a Western Kansas sand
pit by DR.. E. H. Barbour and George F.
Sternberg of the Nebraska State Mu-
scum. The finders describe it as a new
species of the mastodon family-and one
of the wierdest.
The specimen was the largest ancient
elephant skull yet found and the entire
animal, presumably, was of comparable
size. 1t belonged to the great family
of the el-tuskers-elephant who
had taken to swamps and shallow ponds
to survive by grubbing succulent roots
of water lilies and other aquatic plants
from the mud. But in this case there
were some notable variations. The
creatures tusks had not been trans
formed into shovel" but retained for
defense. They were in the upper jaw
only, between and feet long, curvlng
gently upward and slightly outward. The
strange feature was the lower jaw. 1t
was between so and go inches long and
10 to II inches wide at the end. It
might be compared in appearance either
to q shoe horn or to an enormous car
penter's gauge.
The creature evidently was in a po-
sition between the shovel-tuskers and
the more elephantlike mastodons. The
tusks presumably would have hindered
its digging operations, so that, in the
end, it probably was reduced to scooping
up heritage from the top of the water.
Over the gauge shaped jaw, in the
tentative reconstruction, lay short,
greatly flattened, fiangelike trunk-an
upper lip elongated proportionately to
the lower jaw, which could be pressed
tightly against it. This enabled the ami
NAL to get firm grasp on bottom grow
ing heritage. The skull was found about
IA feet below the surface of the gravel
pit in q geological strata of late pliocene
age-just before the beginning of the
last ice age. At that time enormous
hordes of elephants were roaming over
the high plains region. For the most
part they were browsers. essentially like
the elephants of today. There were both
mastodons and mammoths of several
varieties.
There is some evidence that the coun-
try underwent q progressive drought,
perhaps extending over centuries. There
was competition for food and some va
rieties were driven into the swamps and
ponds for food. There the anatomical
changes requisite for q successful mud
grubbing life may have had fairly
rapid development.
The animal machine evolves from the
complex to the simple-just like q
human machine. o.~.~.e
One Of the laws of evolution is that
1t Is irreversible, and that the parts in
an organism as It ascends the scale OF
life tend to reduction In number with
the fewer parts more and more special
ICED in function. When an animal race
loses bone, either by fusion with some
other bone or by drd ping 1t altogether.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-21
Punitive Resolution.

Mr.. Blanton's continuing resolu-
ton introduced yesterday in the House
is not, properly speaking, continuing
resolution at all. 1t is punitive reso-
luton. 1t does not contemplate reten-
ton of the status quo in District appro-
priations pending settlement of disputes
between House and Senate. 1t proposes
to maui the defenSeleSs District with
heavy reductions not only in capital ex-
penditure5, but in sharp curtailment of
maintenance funds. The unheard-of
proposition of making the District
'buy" from the United States the site
for the new Police Court Building in
Judiciary Square is merely an added
sardonic slap.
The resolution, proposed in advance
of any actual failure by the conferees to
agree on the 1887 bill, is obviously in
tended for strategical effect, with the
possible idea of forcing Senators to sign
conference report under the duress
of its threats.
fulton recalls the similar move in 1880,
when, with the District bill tied up in
conference, former Representative Sim
mons proposed continuing resolution,
which the House adopted. Former Sen
ator Bingham, chairman of the Senate
Subcommittee on District Appropriations,
struck from the House resolution every
thing after the title, appending the Dis
trict bill then under consideration. The
Senate adopted that, putting the bill
back where it was before. The bill was
finally enacted, with an increase in the
lump sum.
In 1918 deadlocked Congress enacted
a continuing resolution for the District,
which retained the fifty-fifty appropria-
ceding year. 1t was, in effect, practi-
cally the same appropriation bill Of the
year before. Congress then took two
months recess, returning in the middle
of the Summer and enacting new APP
preparation bill which superseded the
continuing resolution.
Nobody wants continuing resolution
for the District. It carries with it stiff
penalties in Capital City maintenance
and development. But if continuing
resolution should prove the only solution
of the pending deadlock over the lump
sum, the continuing resolution should
of course follow precedent and enact in
substantially the same form, the bill for
the current year.
But that ought not to be necessary.
The deadlock between the two houses
up to this time has been over the
amount of the lump sum. Every fair
argument points to the necessity and
justification for its increase above S.
100000. The Senators know that a de-
crease below the Presidents budget rec
ommendation is so utterly unfair to the
District that they have determined, in
simple justice, that the compromise
figure of $5,70o,0O0 shall stand. If the
House membership will decide the issue
on its merits, the $5,7OO,0OO would be
agreed to.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-21
Stabilizing China.

Limited in scope as it is, the monetary
agreement just concluded between the
United States and China is a tangible
and gratifying move in the direction of
Sterilization of world currencies. This
country undertakes to purchase Sub
stantial amounts" of silver from China
and to make available to her dollar ex-
change for currency sterilization pur-
poses. To facilitate the projected opera
lions. the Bank of China will open a
branch in New York City, into which
will be paid American gold earmarked
for Chinese account. The proceeds of
the silver purchases will thus be chiefly
maintained in this country, but utilized
strictly for the purpose of maintaining
the foreign exchange rate of China's
managed currency. The Chinese gov
eminent is confident that the agreement
will assure perpetuation of an indie
pendent, permanently stabilized cur
rency system not linked to any foreign
monetary unit and will inevitably lead
to the greater econmic improvement and
prosperity of the Chinese people. The
Marking authorities evidently consider
that the arrangement with the United
States will 60 far toward ameliorating
the chaotic situation which followed
China's monetary upheaval last year.
Silver purchases from China arc to
start Immediately and will be made at
the world market price, which has lat
terly averaged about forty five cents an
ounce. In November, 1884, the Treasury
bought 100000 ounces of silver from
China, and in November. 1885, 50,0O0,-
600 ounces. It is not indicated in either
American or Chinese quarters to what
extent purchases are contemplated I'M
der the agreement Just completed.
Secretary Morgenthau describes the
pact as IAN important step toward the
desired goal Of stability Of world cur
rencies." He suggests that more can be
accomplished by negotiations with indi-
vidual countries than by the world con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-21

ference method, which proved so lamen-
tably abortive at London in 1888. Presi-
dent Roosevelt reflects the same senti-
ment, a circumstance which hints that
bi-lateral discussions with Great Britain
and France may be the next recourse to
which the United States will resort in
an effort to adjust relations among, re-
spectively, the pound, the franc and the
dollar. 1t is universally agreed not only
that earliest possible currency stabiiiza-
ton is indispensable to world economic
recovery, but that Anglo Franco-Amer-
lean agreement to that end is the all
essential need.
The significance of the deal with
China, as Mr.. Roosevelt points out, lies
in the example of what can be done at
a frank round-table discussion of this
highly complicated and controversial
subject. The United States on its part
finds opportunity, on mutually agreeable
terms, to aid China in her laborious
process Of political and economic regen-
Grafton. American trade, in the vast
market in which the maintenance of
the open door is a cardinal principle OF
Washington fopign policy, cannot fail
to derive advantage from the co-opera-
ton into which the two countries have
now entered. In addition to economic
benefits, the agreement may provide the
hard pressed Marking government with
some much-needed moral stamina in its
resistance to Japanese pressure in North
China, now manifesting itself afresh
through military movements in the re-
gions of Peiping and TentSin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-21
Oxford Group Movement.

Among today's visitors to Washington
there are thirty-two members of an in
ternational team representing the oxford
Group Movement. They have come to
America from England, France, The
Netherlands, Norway, Denmark and
other European countries to witness for
practical Christianity.
The philosophy of the group is SIM
plicity itself. According to DR.. Frank
Buchanan Lutheran minister from
Pennsylvania who has been preaching
and teaching 1t since 1908. the central
concept is one of willing surrender to
God. That, of course, is not new. On
the contrary, it was the major message
of the Savior himself. The logic of it is
that when one who is heavy burdened
submits his problems to the Almighty
Father sincerely and contritely he may
expect divine guidance and relief. Thus,
God assumes control of individual lives
and, through them, of classes, nations
and races. The result is peace and the
noble fruits of peace.
But the movement Is not egocentric.
1t possesses no organization, no head
quarters, no churches or temples of its
own. no officials, no press, no property
of any kind to be maintained. Nor does
1t proselytize-the only converts it seeks
are those who, with stimulated enthusi-
asm and zeal, viii return to their own
natural and traditional religious afilia-
tions. There Is nothing 10 join" the
group explains.
Yet the Movement signifies fellowship
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-21
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

Playing the Game.
This politics" said Cactus Joe, lis quite
curious game.
It's wrong to gamble, but we often do it,
just the same.
The kings and queens across the sea
have been in frequent use,
All kinds of cards are sorted from an
ace down to a deuce;
Perhaps they have been cheated in the
wicked days gone by.
We will keep it on the leve1-or, at least,
we're goin' to try.
But femme give you this advice: It's
serious, by heck!
Don't let us catch you dealin' from the
bottom of the deck!
1.-THE stake is worth winnin'. We ap-
prove Of playin' hard.
But you won't get anywhere round here
by holdin' out card.
You may not be the type which we espe-
cially admire,
But we'll congratulate you on the for
tune you acquire.
If you sit in without malice and don't
try to be too smart
Each loser will esteem you from the
bottom of his heart.
But let me give you this advice: To
guard against wreck,
Don't let us catch you dealin' from the
bottom of the deck"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-21
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
ok of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

the descendants of the race never regain
the lost part.
Evidence that this So-called Williston's
law is true to facts is presented by Prof.
William K. Gregory of the American
Museum of Natural History in a report
to the American Association of Physical
Anthropologists. This evidence was OBJ
tanned by group of DR.. Gregory's stu
dents who went through the laborious
process of actually counting the skull
bones of various representative creatures
in the scale from fish to man. 1t is true
they found, not only in transitions from
order to order of animals, but within the
orders themselves.
Thus the ganoids Of the Old Red
Sandstone, creatures with the rudiments
Of spinal column and believed to be
close to the ancestry of the true fishes,
had 143 skull bones of one kind or an
other. Coming down to the earliest
actual fishes, the number is reduced to
104. The earliest amphibians, little more
than air-breathing fishes, had 143 skull
bones. From them there has been the
advance to the frog, about the most spe-
cialized Of the amphibian line, which
has only SO.
The great dinosaurs averaged about "a
skull bones and from them there is a
steady progression in the reptile line up
to some Of the most specialized of snakes
with only 81. Between the extremes are
such creatures as the crocodile, with 81
skull bones, and the boas. with an aver
age of 43.
Among the mammals there has been
progress from creatures with rs skull
bones to the chimpanzee with % and
man with n. This doesn't mean that
man stands lower in the scale of evolu-
ton than the chimpanzee. To serve
certain specialized functions he has had
to develop some new parts which cannot
be considered as reversals or survivals
OF any of the old which have been
dropped in the progress of the race.
Study of the lessening number of skull
bones, DR.. Gregory points out, points to
six revolutionary periods in the history
OF animal progression from fish to man,
as follows:
From jawless to jaw-bearing verte-
brates IN the Silurian Age, about $780,
100000 years ago.
From fishes to amphibianS in the De-
vonian, about 800, 900 900 years ago.
EIOHl 10 IepCueS III Tic
Carboniferous, approximately 100000 900
years ago.
From reptiles to mammals in the Per-
milan, approximately 210,000000 years
ago.
From primitive mammals. such as may
now be represented by the egg-laying
platypus of Australia, to the tree-dwell-
ing primates, about $50 DOC, 900 years ago.
From the tree-dwelling primates to
man, about 100000 years ago.
Each of these periods has been char
acterized by q major elimination or flu
sion Of skull bones. The process, it Is
pointed out in the report, is quite similar
to the progress Of some such machine as
the automobile from model to model. In
the beginning it is extremely complex
and cumbersome, functioning clumsily
and difficult to repair. The constant
effort of the engineers is to make it
simpler, more eficient and 'foolproof,"
until specialized education no longer
Is requires to operate it.