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Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-20
Famous Sayings -
By o. o. Mcintyre

one of Riley's close friends, is
shortly to make a pilgrimage from
his farm in Brook, Ind, to the old
homestead of his friend Another
of Riley's intimates in his hast days
was Meredith Nicholson. Two of
the avenue book shops informed me
that the Riley sales began to take
q squirt two weeks after his demise
and the increase has been steady.
Radio has plucked another of
Manhattan's bright young men for
an executive post. Arthur Samuels
has been signed by one of the net
works to create ideas and develop
talent He was among the founders
of The New Yorker and still a
stockholder. For many years he
was editor of Harper's Bazaar Also
he has long been the leading spirit
of the famous Dutch Treat shows
and, being an accomplished pianist,
wrote the score for the musical
play, Poppy" starring w. c. Fields.
Samuels is the husband of the
former moving picture star, Vivian
Martin, and a boon companion of
the humorist, Frank Sullivan.
BY chance 1 stumbled onto a
quaint Hungarian colony along Sec
ond and Third avenues in the 70's
the other afternoon while hunting
a secondhand book shop Bill Len
gel told me about Native res
taurants, as might be expected, fea-
ture goulash. And delicatessen shops
display such rich yum-yums as
goose liver, goats milk cheese,
prune jelly and cakes sprinkled with
ground poppy seed. Movie houses
offer the blood and thunder Hun
garian versions of Wild West
thrillers.
A lady secretary down the street
was. inveigled into birthday cele-
bration in the office next door the
other late afternoon. After lifting
several glasses in toast she dropped
back to her own office for her
wraps before starting home. While
there the phone rang and she left
this message for the boss: "Mr.
James-A gentleman called to ask
that when you came into your
office and weren't here to wait for
you and he would drop by after
you were gone and wait for him.
self-S."
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-20

If you should see a policeman in
uniform neglecting his beat IN order
to help bunch of boys stage an
informal baseball game on vacant
lot, you probably would wonder IL
ritably just what that copper
thought the city was paying him
for.
thought the city was paying i'm for
might feel differently F'o1' if a cops
chief job is to prevent crime, the
officer who teaches the youngsters
in his district to look up to him
as friend and counsellor is doing
very efficient and praise-worthy
job of crime prevention.
j. Edgar Hoover, chief G-man,
touched on this point the other
day in speech before the annual
convention of the International AS
sociation of Chiefs of Police, at
Baltimore.
Suppose, said Mr.. Hoover, that a
100000 bank robbery occurs in a
given city. Every youngster in town
is. to certain degree, stirred by
the adventure of the affair. In a
great many cases he will conclude
that the robber has done brave
and romantic thing and is per-
son to be emulated. In other words,
he makes a hero of him.
But If the police have means of
contact with the city's youth-thru
police athletic associations, police
play officers, police instructors and
umpires for sandlot athletic con-
tests, and so on-then the police
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-20
News Behind the News
= Headaches for Operators

wASHINGTON.-News leaks from the Mari
time Commission indicate that Chairman Joe
Kennedy, before he quits at the end of the year,
viii hand out parcel of headaches for various
ship operators.
Current subsidies will be whitfield or dras-
tically cut in the of some shipping lines, If
anticipated recommendations based on the COM
missions economic study OF the shipping indus
try are carried out.
About 1876 ocean-going ships now enjoy federal
subsidies granted for six months in settlement
of Cancelled ocean mail contracts, but Kennedy
is trying to figure out how much Of the money
is justified from economic and military stand
points. Privately, its promised that the day is
over when ship operators could reach into the
public till and see what they could abstract.
Some shipping officials and lines which have
been supported in luxury are expected to suffer.
Current temporary subsidies will be replaced
after Jan by long-term subsidy contracts SUBJ
ject TO possible annual revision.
Officials here refused to be agitated over the
dramatic court-martial of Harold Dahl, American
aviator, by the Francoites in Spain. Dahl had
sailed from Mexico with Spanish passport un-
der Spanish name and was shot down while
flying for Loyalist forces last July.
Officially the State Department can't do
anything when an American serving in a for
eign army is said to be threatened with death
Actually it usually does and an American consul
secretly reminded Franco not to execute prisoners
OF war
Franco agreed. Reason for the wen-publicized
court-martial and the death sentence promptly
Franco welcomed the chance to suggest to Amer
leans that he was a pretty good fellow after ALL
Everyone ought to be happy suggests a State
Department official because newspapers had an
excuse TO keep printing photographs of the very
beautiful Mrs. Dahl
The Iowa City Power & Light company'S suit
to inyalidate a PWA loan-grant for a municipal
power plant was dropped the other day because
the city had decided it didn't want the plant.
PWA thinks it can explain the change of mind.
After it made half-million dollar allotment
in 1885, the power company, besides blocking the
project through court action announced a rate
cut but impounded the resultant savings in ac-
counts for each customer with the announcement
that the reduction would be retroactive and effec-
tive only if the city decided to have no public
plant.
The money mounted up to $4,000 and the
average electricity user found he had s25 or more
in his special account. The company kept remind
ing with each monthly bill and urging customers
to agitate for their money. The scheme worked.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-20

ltlOSS III dlillOSt ". ". EuCAntyTe
any area. Those familiar stretches
of the East Side frescoed ON the
Lee Lash theatre back drops are
no more. The only old custom pre-
served is sitting out in front of
shops in the evening.
Tompkins Square is the debating
ground of the discontentS. Always
there is a C.IO. fellow rallying his
fellow workers" Capital is the
everlasting enemy and each speaker
seems to grow bright-eyed talking
about a probable march on Wash
ington shortly.
East Side streets to me have the
most enchanting names in the di-
rectory Grand. Orchard, Pit, Clin-
ton, Sussex, Norfolk. Hester, Suf-
folk, Baxter and Avenues A and B..
Then. too, Delaney. robust with
life and noise, much as Broadway
was in its greater hi-de-ho,
The most picturesque sportsman
in Paris is the American, Jefferson
Davis Dickson. of Natchez, Miss.
He is the Tex Rickard. Jimmy
Johnston and Mike Jacobs of
Erance-all rolled into one. Like
several other Parks who prospered
over there, he is a war leftover.
Joe Williams thinks he fits the song
lyric: They couldn't keep him down
on the farm after he had seen
Paree. Dickson returns to his home
town every year to fish. as only
the country boy fisherman does,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-20
Bruce Cation Says:
- Showing Youth That Crime Doesn't Pay

have fine chance to make youth
see the robber, not as a hero but
as a sap.
"You simply cannot combat in
the literal mind of youth the fact
that someone got 100000" said
Mr.. Hoover. " He can listen to pla-
titudes forever, but the thought re-
mains in his mind-a man robbed
bank and a man got 100000,
and certainly in this instance
crime must have been made to pay.
And so our job az che guardians Of
youth is to say why and how that
100000 is worthless
1.-The boy must be made to under
stand that the money can be spent
for no sensible purpose. He must
be shown that this sum will & be
split among dozen of persons whom
the robber must pay for aiding his
escape.
"He can be convinced that every
cent of this money for which a
man has dared his life and the
penitentiary must either be expend-
ed for things which do him not
Ollc Pdl OiNlt vi SOoQ Vi NC PblQ
out in a desperate effort to defeat
the law, leaving him in the end
penniless, broken being living in
a filthy, worm-eatenh rocking
house Of crime and robbed of every
thing worthwhile which life of
decency might have given him
That, as Mr.. f1oover says, is jobl
well worth doing. 1t is a job the
police can do easily enough, if they
have the contacts with youth that
enable them to get their message
across. Such contacts, obtained
through a systematic campaign of
friendship and understanding,
could be Invaluable in the great
work of crime prevention. ~
The average criminal starts aout
as a Juvenile cop-hater. If that
trend can be reversed, great step
in law-enforcement can be taken.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-20
Hiram Johnson Speaks
The Country's Mind

Senator Hiram Johnson, the Callfor-
MIA institution, in lengthy statement
released to the newspapers this week,
declared that the nation has a right to
know what part the New Deal intends
to play in international affairs, and if
President Roosevelt intends to lead the
country into international entanglements
which may eventually lead even to war.
He is entirely right.
In matter reflecting so seriously on
the lives of everyone of US, it is not too
much for us to ask in trite but pointed
fashion
'Whither are we drifting?"
There is no need for the United States
to become entangled in foreign affairs
to proteGE its own shores. Sufficient
preparedness here at home, without
strings going out to other nations, would
accomplish our own safety admirably.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-20

Persons over six feet tall live as
long as their shorter friends and
suffer the same diseases in the
same proportion, insurance statis-
tics indicate.
The U. S. Girl Scout movement
now has a membership of 425,000.
Middlesex is the most heavily
populated county in England.
The horse ranks fifth in intelli-
gence among animals.
Ambergris, a substance used in
making perfumes, is produced in
the intestines of whales.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-20
with his hands.

with MS hanuS.
City fishermen know little about
what the small towner calls rock
fishing" or fishing with bare hands,
It is an accomplished art along the
mud flats and especially about
creek bottoms. Barefoot and shirt
less, the fisherman feels among the
rocks in shallow water for the mud
cat and often in flash lifts out
a large sized catch, with the thumb
and forefinger nipped into its gillS.
1t not only requires great skill, but
expert timing, for the slightest de-
Election may result in a fin slashing
that is painful.
AS in the case of Kipling. the
works of James Whitcomb Riley
are showing steady increase since
his passing. His home at Green
field, Ind, has now become ma
tional shrine and is visited by
scores of tourists daily. George AIDE,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-20
TEN YEARS AGO
October 20, 1927

More than 100 young people of
the county are expected to attend
the big booster rally tonight.
With Sterling Oswalt as host and
his sister Miss Ruth Marable as
hostess, charming lawn party was
given last night at the Oswalt
home.
A large crowd was vending its
way through the turnstiles at Cen
tral field today as the Central Un-
were warming up in preparation for
the opening game of the league
season at 2:30 this afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-20
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

/. Who is chairman of the u. S.
house ways and means committee?
2. From what country did the
United States acquire the Louisi-
ana territory?
3. Upon how many hills was
ancient Rome built?
Hints on Etiquette
The man who shuffles half
heartedly from his seat in a crowd
ed car or bus is expressing only
half courtesy to the woman who
accepts the seat.
Today's Horoscope
Many persons whose birthday oc-
ours today are self-contained. They
seldom seek the counsel of others,
preferring to take the praise or
blame themselves.
Words of Wisdom
You will find poetry nowhere un-
less you bring some with YOU
Joubert.
One Minute Test Answers
1. Rep. John j. O'Connor, Demo-
crat, of New York.
2. France (1803).
3. Seven.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-20

East Side of ten
ement squalor and
filth is gone. Vast
Fairgrounds ap-
pear on every side
and modern houS-
ing is supplanting
the ancient and
5 C a b rous fire
traps.
The residents
down there seem
as content and
pros pc rou S as
al, J.. .1,., z.f
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-20
Looking Backward
In Our Files
THIRTY YEARS AGO
October 20, 1907

E. R. Fairbanks has returned to
Imperial and opened up an abb
stract and real estate office op-
posite tbs Imperial bank in T. P.
Banta's office.
E. K. Henderson of Ontario and
Perris is in the valley looking for
land. He says he expects to locate
in the valley within the next year
providing he can purchase salts
factory tract.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-20
TWENTY YEARS AGO
October 20. 1917

c. S. Pratt has. passed the army
examination that won for him
six months course in radio train
ing at Harvard according to let
ter received here by his father to-
day.
Mrs. Jennie A. Ward and family
have returned from their vacation
at San Diego and the beaches.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-20

Tarantulas will be imported to wipe
out japanese beetles in certain counties.
And after that the residents can always
just pick up and abandon the county.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-20

The man who we'd the nudist queen
isn't so dumb Imagine having a wife
whose most expensive plant is Darling,
| simply must have another coat of tan"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-20
New York Day by Day

NEW YORK, Oct. 20.-A saunter
through the lower East Side is
convincing proof that the old East
Side of stage plays and books. the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-20

A Michigan woman who brought some
fruit cakes to doctor to have them x
rayed might have been trying to locate her
husbands teeth.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-20
Barbs -

There's plenty of beef" about
the high cost of meat, but not
enough of it is edible.
An American duck in October Is
the one who really understands
the predicament of Chinese
civilian.
These housing studies are all
right for the Duke of Windsor but
he ought to find country irst.
Baby, born dead, is brought back
to life in hospital. Maybe the
Liberty League would like TO hire
those doctors.
Joseph Stain has been announc-
ed as the first nominee for seat
in Soviet Russia's new Congress.
Betting commissioners have had
trouble in locating any rubles rid
ing against his election.
Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky, Is
host to beetles which have lost their
wings and eyes during te centuries
Of their incarceration.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-20
thoughts for the Day -

And they were married into the families of the
of ManaSseh the son of Joseph and their inheritance
remained in the family of their father-Numbers sc:
The Washington times., 1937-02-25
Herndon Association
Notes Founding Date

HERNDON, Va, Feb. 25.-The
Herndon Improvement Association
observed the first anniversary cf
its organization at a banquet at
tended by 40 members in the home
economics cottage of Herndon
High School last night.
Members of the Herndon Parent
Teacher Association served the
banquet under direction of a COM
mittee composed of Mrs. Bently
Harrison, Mrs. Fannie Connor,
Mrs. E. M. Armfield, Mrs. A. E..
Steele, Mrs. A. H. Kirk, Mrs. E. B.
Hutchison and Mrs. w. Frank
Humme.
The Washington times., 1937-02-25
Child Research Clinic
Meets Here Saturday

Exceptional Child at Home
and at School" will be discussed
at a conference Saturday under
auspices Of the Child Research
Clinic Of the Woods Schools,
Langhorne, Pa. The conference
will be in the Hotel Mayflower
at 2:30 O'Clock.
Speakers will include John E.
Bentley, professor of education
and psychology at American
University, and DR.. Winifred
Richmond, psychologist of St.
EliZabeths Hospital.
The Washington times., 1937-02-25
WOmen9S Club
Calendar
TODAY

Women's City Club-Book re-
view, 2 p. m; Adventures in Mu'
sic, $50 p. m, 1876 jackson Pl.
N. w.
Washington Retreat League
Evening of recollection for ladies
of st. Gabriel's Parish, Retreat
House, 400 Harewood Rd. N. E.
Dupont Chapter Of the Y. w.
C. A.-Luncheon meeting, p. m,
home of Mrs. Ernest M. Gustaf-
son.
Blue Triangle Club-Supper and
meeting, 6:15 p. m, Y. w. C. A.
Bank Women's Club-Reception
and banquet, 7 p. m, Admiral
Club.
The Washington times., 1937-02-25
Club to Meet

Woodmen Circle, Willow Grove
No. 3, will hold its monthly meet
ing March 5 at Thomas Circle
Club. Mrs. F. Perry, the new
guardian, has invited students
from the Julia Cunningham
School of Dancing to entertain.
The Washington times., 1937-02-25

THERE is no longer any excuse for
giving-in to functional periodic
painl It's old-faShioned to suffer in
silence, because there is now re-
liable relief for such suffering. Some
women who have always had the
hardest time are relieved by Midol.
Many who use Midol do not feel
one twinge of pain, or even a
moments discomfort during the
entire period. So, don't let the
calendar regulate your activitiesI
Don't favor YOURSELF or save
yourself certain days of every
The Washington times., 1937-02-25
TOMORROW


Columbia Chapter Women Of
the Moose-Meeting, 8 p. M,
Moose Hall, 1414 4 st. N. W.
Women's City Club Bridge,
1870 p. M, 1856 Jackson Pl. N. w.
League of Republican Women
Literary meeting, 11:30 a. M,
clubhouse, Sixteenth and Scott
Circle N. w.
Sodality Union Literary Group
Lecture by Father Wilfred Par
sons, S. j., $50 p. m, at Notre
Dame Hall.
Women's Alliance of All Souls
Unitarian Church-Meeting, IL a.
M, church hall
The Washington times., 1937-02-25

Miss Eta Mai Russell, a member
of the Juvenile Court staff, will
speak on the work of the court in
Washington at the meeting of the
Women'S Alliance of All Souls
Unitarian Church tomorrow at the
church hall. The business meet
ing will begin at II a. m.
The Washington times., 1937-02-25

Father Parsons was former edi-
tor of America, Catholic weekly.
There will be no admission
charge, and the public is invited
to hear Father Parsons speak.
Mary B. McMain is the program
chairman of the group.
The Washington times., 1937-02-25

month"; Keep going, and keep COM
Portable - with the aid of Midol.
These tablets provide a proven
means for the relief of such pain.
so why endure suffering Midol
might spare you?
Midol brings quick relief which
usually lasts for hours. Its principal
ingredient has often been prescribed
by specialists.
You can get Midol in a trim
aluminium case at any drug store.
Two tablets should see you through
your worst day.
The Washington times., 1937-02-25

The State Council. Daughters
of America, will sponsor Martha
Washington Colonial drill and
dance Saturday night at the AlmaS
Temple, 1915 K st. N. w. Asso-
ciate State councillor, Miss Ovellia
Rodgway, is chairman. Past State
councillor, Mildred G. Rock, is cap
tain in charge of the Colonial drill
which starts at 8 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1937-02-25

University of Michigan alumnae
will be entertained by Mrs. James
F. Pierce, 1917 Plymouth St., Sat
urday at a tea from 4 to 6 p. m.
Assisting hostesSeS will be Miss
Grace w. Harris, Miss Florence
Hedges, Mrs. w. B. Holt, Miss
Helen Mitchell and Mrs. Mary C.
Tighe.
The Washington times., 1937-02-25

Under the auspices of the Sodal-
tty Union Literary Group, the Rev.
Father Wilfred Parsons, s. j.. of
Georgetown University, will talk
on 'The Catholic Press" tomorrow
at $3.50 p. M, in Notre Dame Hall.
The Washington times., 1937-02-27
TO TALK
HERE MONDAY

The Massachusetts, Democratic
Club of Washington will hold its
regular monthly meeting Monday
next at 8 o'clock at the Wash
ington Hotel.
Thomas Eliot, general counsel
of the Social Security Board, will
speak on Social Security. which
will be follcwed by a question
period. Mr.. Eliot was born in
Cambridge, Mass, in 1907, and
graduated from Harvard College
and Harvard Law School. In
1924, for a year. he was q re-
porter on the staff of the Boston
Globe. Later he practiced in
Buffalo, New York, and is a
member of the New York bar.
He came to Washington in July,
1888. as q member of the staff
of the Solicitor of the Depart
ment of Labor. serving for a time
as 1iaison officer between the De
partment and the National Labor
Board. Later he became Assist
ant Solicitor Of the department
During the last session Of Con,
greSs, at The request Of the House
Ways and Means Committee and
the Senate finance Committee
he served as technical adviser on
social security legislation.
All Massachusetts people and
their friends are invited to at
tend.
The Washington times., 1937-02-27
NEWS OF THE CHURCHES
N. Y. MINISTER
GUEST SPEAKER
IN CAPITAL

At the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church tomorrow
the guest speaker will be the Rev.
DR.. Murray Shipley Rowland.
minister of the First Presbyterian
Church of Binghamton, New York.
DR.. Rowland will have for his topic
"Our Spiritual Climate" At .
o'clock he will speak on "An
Artist in Living"
The Church Bible School will
meet at $50 o'clock.
The young people of the Chris
tian Endeavor Society will meet for
tea in the parish hall at 6 o'clock,
followed by a worship service in
the lecture room when Allen Eister
will lead the discussion of How
May We Work For a Fairer Dis
tribution of Wealth." DR.. Albert
Evans will give the first Of .
series of short discussions on the
observance of Lent.
The usual midweek prayer serv.
ice will be observed Thursday eve
ming at 8 o'clock. DR.. Evans will
continue his series of discussions
of the Lenten season. His topic this
week will be Challenging the Al
mighty"
The Washington times., 1937-02-27
DAILY TIMES
TABLE
TODAY

las P. M.-Lecture. the Depart
ment of Agriculture Graduate
School and the American Univer-
sity offer jointly the Frontiers of
Law and Economies, H. s. Jen-
nings, subject, Some Biological
Generalizations and Their Import
to Social Organizations, at De
partment Of Agriculture Audito-
rum.
1880 P. M.-Banquet, White
House Correspondents, Mayflower
Hotel.
TOMORROW
2:30 P. M.-Address by Major
Ernest w. Brown, chief of police.
Subject, Boys Clubs and Camps,
the National Education Forum"
at 223O California st. N. w. No
admission charge.
800 P. M.-Meeting, Bartenders
Union, Old Local rs, at 720 Fifth
st. N. w.
1880 P. M.-Meeting. Catholic
Thought Association, Willard Ho-
tel.
$3.50 P. M.-Card Party and
Dance, Kesher Israel Synagogue,
Willard Hotel.
The Washington times., 1937-02-27
SEEN
ASFL00DPER

Malaria will be the major threat
in the lower Ohio and Mississippi
flood areas next summer, Surgeon
General Thomas Parran declared
yesterday.
To combat that threat. DR.. Par
ran said, part of the funds recently
appropriated by Congress for use
in the inundated sections will be
used.
The screening of houses. the
drawing off of stagnant water
where mosquitoes breed. and the
use of quinine is part Of the pro
gram urged by the Surgeon Gen
eral.
The Washington times., 1937-02-27
4 Youths on Cycles
Reported Missing

Police are searching for four
youths who set forth from their
homes on bicycles early yesterday
and had not been heard from late
last night. They are Lorenc D.
Smith, II, 1915 Twentieth st. N.
E.; Leonard Grabner. IA, 2908
Twentieth st. N. E.; James Ever
EFT Hall, 13, 1904 Twenty-fourth
st. N. E., and Roy Longnecker, 13,
1919 Monroe st. N. E.
Late yesterday police said they
we're informed that four boys an
swering their descriptions were
seen boarding a Florida-bound
freight train near Alexandria, Va.