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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-05-02

Bidding went: West, 1-Club, not
vulnerable; North, 1-Heart, vulner-
able; East, 2-Clubs; South, 2-Spades;
West, 3-Clubs: North, 3-Diamonds;
East, 4-Clubs; North, 4-Hearts, In
stead of bidding Diamonds, and
asking partner to shift to the major
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
News Behind the News
Hypocrisy Season In Washington ;.
SidetrackS Most Popular Cam
pdign Year To Blame

WASHNGTON-This is that period in
Washington which always is marked by more
weaseling, duty-dodging, and hypocrisy than
any other.
The closing days of any session of Congress
are invariably more conspicuous for the legis-
laton sidetracked than for legislation enacted.
In a campaign year the politicians in charge
of Senate and House machinery seem to have no
scruples in ditching bills of great public import
ance Their efforts this year have met with
no opposition from the president, who apparent
ly takes the tacit position that almost anything
controverSal-eXeep taxes and relief had bet
ter be put over until next year.
Lately it has appeared that practically any
one who wanted TO hire a lobbyist to make a
fuss could step almost any bill he desired to
have killed.
The only excuse for this state of affairs is
that there are a couple of political campaigns
in the offing.
Congress can work with remarkable speed
when it wants to and could pass the following
measures if it stayed around through June.
Just as a check list, here are some interesting
bills the fate of which is in great doubt at
this session, although all are in one or another
stage close to final action:
The take-the profits ut-of war bill, modified
from the Senate munitions committees draft by
a Senate Finance subcommittee. but which would
still impose a total wartime tax of SO per cent
on a $4,000 income. This would have to pass
as an amendment 10 the tax bill or not at all.
The Black bill, requiring registration of all
lobbyists who try to influence legislation or ad-
miniStrative decisions, long held up in confer
ence. due to difference between the Senate bill
and the House bill. which Senator Black be-
leves would result in no registrations at all.
Housing legislation as called for in the Wag-
ner-Ellenbogen bill, doom of which has seemed
to be sealed by RooSeveltS conflicting state
ments about it and apparent desire to compro-
mise between those who would recognize housing
as a permanent government responsibility and
those who want no housing legislation at all.
Food and drug legislation, which everybody
agrees is badly needed to protect health and
human lives. bill has been passed by the
Senate and another reported by House COM
mittee. Each bill has clauses which strengthen
and clauses which weaken existing protective
legislation, SO the outlook is messy.
The Wheeler Federal Trade Commission bill,
which would outlaw dishonest business
practices which victmiZe the consumer, instead
of merely limiting FTC action to complaints
of business men against one another.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
.SHORTCOHING
or POLITICAL ARGUMENT

Politics is very much a subjec of
conversation these days. This is as it
should be- as it always has been, and as
il always will. Our country is a govern
ment of the people, and the voters should
discuss the pro and cons Of candidates,
planks, platforms and records.
All would be we'll if discussion could
be confined to logical reasoning and un-
emotional debate. 1t is when discourse
becomes angry argument, rationalizing
becomes heated accusation, opinion be-
comes not a conception but a universal
truth lin the acceptance in the advocate)
that the benefits of comparing ideas lose
their merit
The danger of enthusiasts becoming
too enthusiastic is a very real one; life
long friendships have been rendered,
business associations severed, husbands
and wives tossed into combat over
politics.
1t would be we'll for us all to take a
VOW at this time, NOT to call the other
fellows candidate a So-and-so NOT to
say that anyone who thinks differently
from US is a profound such-and-such
lunkhead; NOT to insist on doing all
the talking ourselves; NOT to assume
that we are the only ones appointed by
heaven. to do the thinking for the rest
of the world; NOT to become so angry
with the conversational partner as to
want to sock him Tor herr in the face.
In all truth. we should admonish our
selves not to take argument too serious
ly. Few if any have been sold as the
result Of political argument. The most
we can accomplish is to so silence an
opponent as to send him away determin-
ed to find new arguments to support his
contentious We have not sold him
on our views; quite to the contrary, we
have sold him on more deeply barricad-
ing his own case.
Preferably, representatives of two sep
arate points of view should conform to
the rules of debate. A half-hour should
be assigned each for presentation of his
case, and fifteen minutes allowed for
rebuttal. But that would take all the
fun out of it, and make it rational =.
which most political argument is not.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
Everyday Philosophy
HAROLD E. DOTY
Pastor, First Baptist Church
COlumnist for This Week

READING
Practically
of
really
places
rightly
other matters. nothing from
little capacity
could
would select first Shakespeare revised of the
Bible
a complete a lonely island with
mentally food
spiritual livelihood
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
WARNING TO
PARALLEL PIRKERS

Under the former ''nose-in" parking
plan prevailing on Main street, drivers
when backing out from a curbing couldn't
see whether or not there was on-coming
traffic. SO they just backed out and
trusted to luck. Parallel parking, how
ever. permits drivers to look back down
the street. Although this involves some
neck-twisting. it should be utilized to
avoid accidents. Just giving a hand sig
nal is not enough to guard against COLI
sion. Parkers should let traffic go past
before moving into traffic lanes.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
Other Editors Say
JApAN'S POPULATION GROWING FASTER
alameda Times STAR

The cabinet bureau OF statistics announces
that the increase in Japan's population last year
by the excess of births over deaths was lO20,623
the largest annual increase on record. The
nearest approach TO il was in 1882, when the in
crease was 1,007, 1893.
On an average 24O japanese were born
every hour in 1893, while 1873 died.
For the last five years Japans annual in
crease Of population has been close to the 1000
900 mark and the total IS now above 69,OoOOoO.
There were 169 people to the square mile is
1881. compared with 1873 in England, 266 in Bel
gium and 243 in The Netherlands but Japan
has much more mountainous land than the
others.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
Dionne Quintuplets
Turn to AcrobaticS
90

CALLANDER, Ont, July 4. W.P)-
The Dionne sisters are thrilling
and alarming visitors with a daring
acrobatic act on a gymnasium plat
form presented to them two weeks
ago, 1t was revealed today.
The platform is about six feet
high and four feet square. The
babies climb it by means of ladders
on each of it's sides To visitors
unaccustomed to the sprightliness
of the quints, it Is nerve -racking
to watch them slip, slide and scram-
BILE up the runs.
The tiny babies put on their act
almost daily and climax the show
by hanging across the top rungs on
their stomachs.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
Eleanor Foster
Honored at Party

Mrs. Charles Ralphs and her
daughter. Mrs. Gene Werve of Cali
patria, were hostesess at a lovely
dinner last Friday evening at the
home of Mrs. Ralphs in honor of
Miss Eleanor Foster whose marriage
to Mr.. Earl Ritter of Calexico will
take place in July. Those present
were Mesdames Martin Foster, Wal
ter Bennett, Pike Meadows, Bill
Housewright, Lloyd Hopewell, Al
Hayes Paul Werve. Misses Helen
Marshall and Marie Foster.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
THIRTY YEARS AGO

There are about 400 acres of can
taloupes in the Ell Centro aSsocia-
ton but of these probably not to
exceed SO acres we're planted as early
as they should have been. There
are several fields though that show
forth pretty effectively what can
be done on our lands when they
are planted in proper season.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
TWENTY YEARS AGO
July 5, 1916

Victor H. Bell, recruiting agent
for the engineering corps, reports
that fifteen expert mechanics and
engineers enrolled in Ell Centro
Tuesday.
Some strenuous work has been
done during the past week by the
cantaloupe inspectors Melons not
aggregating not less than the
contents of four cars were reject
ed in one day it is said.
w. w. Todd of the Imperial
Telephone company has left the
valley for few days. He is stay
ing with friends in Long Beach.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05

you learn that he is ice Valentino,
nephew of Rudolph the great. Joe
turns up his nose at the idea of
Il screen test, but would give an
arm to be a sound technician. He's
81 and makes sixteen dollars
week.
90
Helen Wood, screen newcomer
from ClarksVille, Tenn, is brood
ing over the we'll known obiquity
of Hollywood Producers assured
her she couldn't get anywhere in
pictures until she eliminated her
southern accent, which she did
after weeks of hard work. NOW
her very first assignment is to
play a southern girl, and she has
to learn the accent all over again.
Writer Bess Meredyth, the prac-
tical jokers' perfect st0oge, broke
a rib in a fall from a horse and
was at home several days. When
she returned to work she found
her office decorated with horse
blankets, brides, saddles, a bale
of hay and hobby horse, installed
by Gene Fowler.
90
The corset is staging a comeback
in Hollywood. Margaret Dumont,
the blonde pursued by Harpo and
hornswoggled by Groucho Marx, is
having a special harness built
to prevent broken ribs and such.
She reckons the Marxes have
chased her 10000 miles in half
a dozen pictures.
Preston Foster got a break when
Spencer Tracy was yanked from
the cast of "PlOw and the Stars
by his home studio.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
StrOlls Thru HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD, July q. U.P)-
Complaining there isn't enough
star material in America to go
around, Sam Bisking, RKO-RadiC
production chieH us set to launch
a large scale talent raid on Eng
land and Europe.
Briskin named Margot Fragey,
head of RKO's foreign department,
raider -in-chief. She leaves for
London July Is with a trunkful
of contract blanks and her eye
peeled for screen ability
Either Briskin has poor opinion
Of foreign screen talent or believes
it too we'll protected to be lifted,
for Miss Fragey will do her scout
ing in legitimate theaters.
She'll look over the situation in
England, Ireland and Scotland,
then cross the channel to skirmish
in France, Germany, Austria, and
perhaps Italy and Spain.
Briskin launched a campaign to
build up RKO's contract lists a
year ago, and has since signed II
new players, most notably Joe
Penner, Herbert Marshall, Parkya-
karkus, Joe E. Brown and Ann
Sothern.
Not only is stardust scarce in
America, but established players
have a tendency towards cutting
down their outputs, Briskin says.
Fred Astaire, Charles Boyer, Her
bert Marshall, Charles Laughton,
Leslie Howard and others have
limited their pictures to two
year.
Vaguely familiar appearance of
the dark, olive-skinned young man
who meets you in the M-G-M
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
ELECTRIC POWER CONSUMPTION
SETS A NEW HIGH RECORD.

, Imperial Valley is very interested in
the report that during the week ending
June 9th, consumption of electric pow
er throughout the United States set
new high record.
During the seven days ending June
9th, the United States consumed 1929
$4,000 klowatt hours Two billion is
almost too much for any of us to COM
prehend This was twenty-fOur million
more killowatt hours than was produced
the previously high record week
which incidently was the week ending
June goth.
Statistical figures show that the in
crease was universal throughout the
land. the Pacific coast increasing 10
per cent, the Rocky mountain area in
creasing 27 per cent.
What is important in the figures, is
the fact that they show not only a great
ly improved activity in industry and
public consumption, but an increase in
demand for and universal usage of, pow
er and light.
The time is coming rapidly when cleo
tricity and power, for lighting, cooking,
heating, cooling, will be just as much
a necessity of modern day life as water,
air, food, motor cars.
Electric power is graduating rapidly
from the status of an important COM
mercial product, into the status of a
universally essential prerequisite of
civilization.
Indian millionaire offers 100000 for
an INSOMNIA cure. He might try count
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
TEN YEARS AGO
July 5, 1926

T. M. Gallagher and 8. c. Turn
stall, arrested on the Eastside yes
terday by the Ell Centre police for
possession and sale of intoxicat-
ing liquor pleaded not guilty
through their attorney w. j. North
when they faced the judge this
morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
TOday's Horoscope

If your birthday is today, you
show persistence regarding your
undertakings and cannot be turned
from your goal. but you may, be-
cause of the nagging of some busy
body, throw the whole thing over
in disgust and never touch it again.
You do not always show good judg
ment in permitting such persons to
force you to abandon projects.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
Hints on Etiquette

On entering a restaurant, o man
precedes the woman and stands a
few steps in advance of her until
he catches the eye of the head
waiter.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
GRAB BAG
One-Minute Test

1. Name the Republican partys
vice presidential candidate for 1896.
2. What is the small goat-like an
telope of the Alps called?
3. Who Is the Democratic u. S.
senator from Pennsylvania?
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
q OH Sn/T~RANK
" sAYs1 WATANABE
ZNI BY ED HOLDEN
VACATION
BY ED HOLDEN

VACATION
Vacation grand place to going alright. The
country Lady and Gent to the city and the city
go to the country thinking anywhere which are
filling your eye and soul with different look are
vacation. For two month happy joy will be Mr. Full
charge Let hoping all vacationers shall come
home walking instead of on stretcher in wooden
box may be. But l Spposing must paying
price for everything of fun and shall be usual drown
ings-auto accident-fall from horses-slip of shoe
on mountain and rattlesnake bite. Stop look and lis
ten please :. . substitute for them words
Thank you please
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
One-Minute Test Answers

/. Col. Frank Knox, Chicago pub
Usher.
2. Chamois.
3. Joseph F. Guffey of Pittsburgh.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
Famous Sayings

Few without the hope of another life would think
it worth their while to live above the allurements
Of senSe.-Atterbury.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
Words of Wisdom

The only way to have a friend
Is to be one.-EmerSon.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05

From the Royal Brown collection
of deaf stories: Two deaf men walk
ing on railroad track. Train
comes up from behind with the
engineer fairly hanging 10 the
whistle cord. That's the first robin
I've heard this year." said one to
the other.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05

NEW YORK, July 4. Spring
seems to have left everybody I know
unsprung. They are looping around
with faces chin-cupped into far
away gazing. Longing for the gurg-
ling stream, the wooded dell and
bonnie brae. Any ship sailing for
some outIandish nowhere is sure
of a human cargo.
They want to get away from it all
and invite their souls. To COM
mune with the other self. Which
reminds me I haven't had a chance
to get together with my other self
for 1 don't know when. l rather
dodge such a meeting. I fear it
might turn up with a hangover and
needing shave.
This Thoreau mood for isolation,
it strikes me, was never SO pro-
nounced and at a time in human
history when the world was per
haps never so exciting Every ro-
tation is like having the last bank
note on the double o as the steel
ball spins. Any day Europe may
blow up.
Many believe we shall all be broke
in America tomorrow and just as
many more believe we will awaken
in hright-eyed robin brightness to
find an Utopian dream come true.
But no one seems to want to stick
around for the final result Never
was 2. nation so restless, 50 itchy to
be on the go.
90
A lady who resides, appropriate
ly enough, in Limerick, Maine, has
spent the tedium of conValescence in
coming words. Out of her list she
likes best "spogfrosticus." 1t means
simply grand. A well cooked meal
may be "spogfrosticus." Or a good
book or anything that attains the
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05

Indian millionaire offers 100000 for
an insomnia cure. He might try count
inc Europeans under dictators.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05

superlatiye. It's a peach of a made
upper.
There is no circus fan more de
vout in allegiance to the big tops
than Mrs. Charles Ringing, widow
of one of tine original Ringing
brothers. Fo 46 years she has fol
lowed the circus in her private car,
going from town to town during the
season as enthusiastic as the boy
who totes water to the elephants.
She knows all the performers, their
history, their joys and sorrows. In
the winter Mrs. Ringing occupies
a palatial home at Sarasota and is
in demand socially. John Ring
ling was also a frequent visitor to
the circus this season. He is slow
ly regaining health To circus folk
he is Mister JaWn" and held in
affectionate esteem.
90
Clay Morgan sends me one of the
dog menus of the paquebot Nor
mduQle. Inc opening salute is
Pour votre Toutou-Madame Pour
votre fidele compagnon-Monsier. "
Among the items listed are: LIE plat
de Medor, lie Regal de Sweekyey,
LIE Preference du danois and LIE
Regime Vegetarian DIES Chen" And
out in Hollywood the dog lovers
have a periodical which they call
Barker's Post, filled with canine
news. The subscription price is 40
cents per copy or one bone a year"
Incidentally the most highly
competitive press agents posts at
the moment are those for the
French Line Normandie and the
British pride Queen Mary. 1t is
indeed a battle for business for
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05

Clare Briggs would indulge that
expansive Joe E. Brown grin of his
to know that his namesake daugh-
ter Clare is now the Page One
cartoonist for the Loudom, Va,
Index-Mirror. She has been pur-
suing art studies while living with
her mother there and her trial
flights to test her wings show
touches of the genius that made
her father the ace of The Boyville
sentimentalists.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
New York Day by Day

the two giants of the sea. And a
meanie, with a dry little smile like
Frank Cases who just dropped in
suggests impounding them both at
the local docks some sunny day and
sending each nation a cable: $50
you won't pay?"
Mems taiIors are speaking up
with another color idea for Fall
Dinner jackets and tail coats are
to be introduced in maroon, an al
most black brown. And pouf, like
that, goes the blue that Goadby
LoeW, Lucius Beebe, Bill Gaxtor
and other super dudes introduced
last season. Shoes of maroon will
also be made. Also evening hats
The trick, of course, is to get 8
bellWether to appear at Larue OF
the Colony so logged out the rest
of the sheep will follow. Cliftor
Webb used to touch off most Of
the satorial surprises hereabouts.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05

Vaguely familiar appearance of
the dark, Olive-skinned young man
who meets you in the M-G-M
reception room is puzzling until
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-05
By O. O. Mcintyre

superlatiye. It's a peach of a made
upper.
Evening star., 1936-08-13

draft, which will total $227 ,829.14 on
September 80. the end Of the Roads
Commissions fiscal year.
However, in the absence Of several
members Of the commission. the con-
ference was confined to q review OF the
account and to preliminary discus
sions of some plans under which it
might be settled.
Codd declared that no definite plan
was advanced by either side. but 1t
is hoped to reach some compromise
or agreement at the conference in
Rockville.
The conferees went over the ac-
count from October I, 1924, up to
the present time. Receipts and ex-
penditures totaling $4,740,942 were
examined.
Albert M. Bouic, attorney for the
Montgomery County Board, declared
that "Mr. Codd's attitude has been
most helpful" and. he said, it was
Evening star., 1936-08-13

not only has been a government pol
icy, financial circles pointed out, but
also officials promised to refrain from
using the new councils powers for
imitation.
Vincent Auriol, finance minister, re-
iterated the governments opposition
to imitation when the bill was ap-
proved July 16 by Chamber of Dep
uties vote of 430 to Ill.
The measure fulfilled a campaign
promise Of Premier Leon Blum, head
Of the Popular Front government,
to eliminate the so-called 200 fam
lilies" who it charges controlled the
bank.
Bank Stock Trade Suspended.
The change also created such fear
for the future Of the franc that trad
ing in bank stocks was suspended
during some of the parliamentary
debate.
The regents professed great ap-
Evening star., 1936-08-13

today by county officials and State
Roads Commission representatives,
but the conference ended without any
definite plan being reached.
A subsequent conference between
the county commissioners, William A.
Codd. chief auditor for the Highway
Department, and Thomas M. Jenifer,
special counsel for that agency, is
planned for Rockville on August 70,
and it is hoped that out Of that par
ley may come some definite method
for liquidating the account.
If this objective is attained a third
conference will then be held with
members of the State Roads Commis-
sion in an effort to settle the debt,
which has seriously curtailed lateral
road maintenance work in Montgom-
cry County during the past ID months.
The conference today was aimed
originally at reaching compromise
agreement on payment of the over
Evening star., 1936-08-13

prehension" for the nations finan.
cial future. They expressed concern
that the new regime, If it adopted
liberal credit policies, would raise
hopes "of generous mamma"
The f1nanciers also pointed out
that the Senate inserted a provision
in the bank reorganization law which
forbade discount of government OBJ
legations for the French treasury.
Under another Senate change, two
members Of the new council will be
elected by the banks shareholders.
Evening star., 1936-08-13

the belief of his board that some
compromise may be reached.
The conference today was arranged
after the Montgomery County COM
missioners learned that another county
with an overdraft of approximately
$780, 900 had reached an agreement
with the State Roads Commission
under which 1t will settle Its debts for
about half that figure.
If the Montgomery County Board
can obtain such a compromise 1t
plans to borrow funds to retire its
debt so that maintenance work on
secondary roads may be resumed.
The county officials who attended
the conference with Codd this morn
ing were Commissioners Frank H
Karn. Paul M. Coughlan and Richard
H. Landslide, Bouic, County Engineer
John Mcdonald and County Account
ant v. Vaughan Darby.
Evening star., 1936-08-13
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON c. THURSDAY AUGUST

affairs, will surrender It's power to-
morrow TO q new, government-con
trolled council.
The government will appoint most
Of the 20 council members directly.
Leon Jouhaux, president of the
Confederation Of Labor, was the first
man named to the new bank council.
Six other appointments were an
nounced by the ministry Of finance.
They included representatives Of
the ministry, savings banks, con-
sumers' co-operatives, handicrafts,
chambers Of commerce and chambers
Of agriculture.
It Is expected, however, TO continue
the anti-devaluationist policy of the
retiring board of the institution,
which since the time of Napolien has
issued the nations currency and has
been the repository for its gold re-
serves.
Maintenance Of the French franc
Evening star., 1936-08-13
ROADS OVERDRAFT
PARLEY CONTINUED
Another Conference Be-
tween Montgomery and
State Is Set.
4 staff CORRESPONDENT OF The Star.

By staff Correspondent OF The Star.
BALTIMORE, Md, August 13.-
Plans for an early settlement of an
overdraft of nearly a quarter million
dollars in Montgomery County's
secondary road account were discussed