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Evening star., 1937-06-06

Edna shook her head. Il don't. but
some of my friends do. They've seen
him around with her. They tell me
she's common little thing, hard
boiled, painted Gawd knows what he
sees in her. Oh. III get ahold of her,
some day -
Then what'll you do?"
Them" Edna waved the iron
around wildly. "I'll tell you what I'll
do I'll get her in chair, just like l
got you here, and I'll get an iron hot,
lust like this. And then - then - III
mark her for life. She amt going to
get another woman's husband when
I'm through with her. Maybe I'll burn
her eyes out, too, just so she can't 60
making eyes at men again. Maybe
III"
Ouch, you're hurting me-" cried
Daisy in alarm.
Edna recalled to the task in hand.
Pardon me, dearie," she said, apollo
getically. Il didn't mean nothing, only
when | think about that girl it gets
me. You want brilliantine on your
hair?"
All right, put some on
Evening star., 1937-06-06
- Here's Why:
American college boys ond girls are growing taller
BY DR.. Ira S. VILE
BY DR.. Ira S. VILE

child gave promise of growing into a
short man. there was nothing much
we could do about it. Now we know
that healthy habits of living and a
carefully planned diet. including the
right proportions of meat, milk. fruit
juice and vegetables. may help Johnny
become taller man than his father.
A dramatic proof of this is the fact
that Japanese born in this country
are, on an average, two inches taller
than their relatives of the same age
who grow up in Japan, where the
poorer classes have a very limited diet
and frequently not enough of that.
We may in time develop race of
giants in the United States.
Evening star., 1937-06-06
THIS WEEK

for the picture. I'm 80 sorry" she
was saying, IN pick up everything
and clean it off," Her hand was
already touching the picture post
card. Daisy's heart almost stopped
beating. She quickly planted her foot
on the card and kept it there firmly
You're stepping on something that
dropped OUT" Edna was saying. 1T
looks like picture. Here, move your
foot. You'll ruin it."
It'll ruin me, Daisy thought. She
said: ''Never mind. That's just an old
postcard I've been carrying. Leave it
lay, l don't want it any more"
Edna stood up and mopped up the
brilliantine with quick little dabs. She
efficiently put the finishing touches on
Daisy's coiffure. Now she held out
hand mirror and began to swing the
chair around so that Daisy might
admire her back, but Daisy refused to
bulge She kept her eyes on the hot
curling iron and her foot planted on
the tell-tale picture. ITS all right"
she said nervously. 1T looks good
enough, l can see from here" She
wished fervently she hadn't thought
of giving Wills wife the once-over.
While Edna ran razor over the back
of her neck for good measure, Daisy
went through agonies. 1t couldn't
have been pure accident that Edna
had knocked down her bag. Did she
suspect -
At last Daisy had to get up out OF
the chair. She stood up gingerly, be-
tween the picture and Edna "Ah, let
me pick this up for you now" Edna
was saying, but Daisy shook her head
and didn't give way.
That's all right, told you don't
want it no more" she said. Now,
what do owe you?"
Funny thing just happened"
Edna told Mabel few minutes later.
That girl that just dashed out, did
you see her? was telling her what I'd
do if found the hussy Wills been
travelling around with. Well, she
couldn't take joke. l musta scared
her. She hands me two-dollar bill,
and here l come back with a dollar
and quarter change, and she's gone.
Well, I'm in dollar and quarter"
Il guess she didn't have sense of
humor," Mabel said judiciously.
But that was not the only thing
that happened to Edna that same
evening. When she got home. Will was
there, all Unexpectedly, because ear
lier he had said he was going to be
busy. THE man l was gonna see
didn't show up," he said.
Tke End
Evening star., 1937-06-06
Life-lines
BY GEORGE CONRAD EBBER1

thank God for rouge - the four
flush of youth!
IT'S easier for some women to make
up their faces than their minds.
MANY a Broadway gal burns up her
boy friend with an old fame.
n HOT temper has often landed its
owner in the cooler!
loo many people, these days, are
dolling up on a dollar down!
n HUSBANDS weaknesses make his
wife sorry for him; wife's weaknesses
make her husband sorry for himself.
lHE real problem of your leisure is
to keep other people from using it.
Evening star., 1937-06-06

Give q lifetime OF happiness,
Thrill the bride and the
groom also. This present brings
better tostine coffee protect
ed by Pyrex brand gloss, euoron-
teed oeoinst heat breokoee, And
there's q special this spring -
Evening star., 1937-06-06

- oLLECE boys and girls today
are heavier and taller than
their parents we're at the
q ~ same age This has been
proven by several surveys. notably
one made by Professor Lawrence B.
Chenowith of the University of Gin
cinnati. In measuring college fresh
men of 1896 he found that the boys
were. on an average, two inches taller
and eleven pounds heavier than fresh
men of the same college twenty years
ago For girls the increase was one and
halfinches and two and a half pounds.
It's all because we are eating more
. sensibly. We used to think that height
was wholly hereditary. and that if
Evening star., 1937-06-06
THE 'PuLLER DOWN"

M cases. Constipation % i. likewise to b feared. 1t.
methods slow and insidous Improper elimination
rritates the delicate of the intesnes and slowly
but frequently surely shake. the whole nervous system
Constipation lowers vitality, mPairs digestion and
aggravates other disease conditions Constpatio4
of the greatest and ills of civilization
Its complete includes proper diet proper
exercise, adequate and the acquisition of regular
habits But the establishment of such regime fire.
quently begin with regular elimination by other means
These be SAFE gentle and effective. In every way
Nuol fills these requirements 1t pure it looks
pure water absorbed into the tissues gentle
and free from any gripping action and by simply soften
ing and ubricatng material its regular
Evening star., 1937-06-06

pictured above. rs Beautifully
embeIIished with q decorative
she'll OF red or black MoIdex,
handle and cover TO match. with
handsome stove with handles.
This special offer expires soon;
buy it now al your fovofite store.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08
A NEW STRONG MAN
IN NORTHERN MEXICO

Sonora. the Mexican state that spawn
ed Pancho Villa and his bandits, only
to make him at one time MeXico'S best
loved and most hated man, has given
its country another strong leader. He is
Gen. Roman Yocupicio, new governor
of Sonora. He is known to his intimates
as a conservative, although his election
came on the ticket of the leftist Mexican
national government. He is at once
factor known for his strength in Mexican
politics, and a mystery for the future.
Sonora is the breeding place for the
most serious Mexican revolutions. Its
population is largely Yaqui Indian and
peon Mexican. It's people are at the
same time hardy, fearless and Ignorant.
Once devoted to leader, they will fol-
low him to death, if need be. Yocupicio
seems to be a leader who wins such de-
votion from these people.
To date there has been no serious,
open disagreement between the strong
man of northern Mexico, new governor
of Sonora, and the strong man OF all
Mexico, President Cardenas. On the
surface, they are in agreement. Basl-
cally, their theories clash. Whether
there will be an open clash, and whether
Cardenas is strong enough TO crush
Sonora revolt, only the future can de-
termine. Perhaps there will be no clash
The Mexican administration has ac-
complished many worthwhile things. 1t
has begun to free the poems from vir-
ual slavery 1t has given the land back
to the people, or has started to do So
If the program is carried out sanely, 1t
is a good one. If the people, ignorant
for the most part, are allowed to over
step the bounds of reason, then the Mex
lean government is treading on very
thin ground. Should this happen,
clash between two strong personalities
would be the logical result
What happens in Mexico in the next
few years depends upon whether Mexi-
co has outgrown the childhood stage OF
revolutions.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08

closing time. Elderly, bookish folk
still lost in the illusions Of literature.
They are the sort who may bump
into you and express looks of be-
Wilderment-Good Lord-you! Most
are small remittance folk. The quiet
dodgers of the rooming houses. The
Major and Mrs. SO and Sos of
whom the landladies whisper: They
have seen better days!"
90
Edwin C. Hill is one Of the few
newspapermen to quit the field for
Hollywood gold, return to his first
love and rise to greater heights
than ever. He was one Of the lar
ripping stars of the old Sun in the
Frank O'Malley era. And a few
years in the studios he could not
resist the tug of Park Row. He re-
signed and returned to his former
managing editor for his old job.
Then came the radio and his news
reel announcements, lectures, syndi-
cate articles and what not. Today
at an age when many active news
papermen are living in dread of the
inevitable Blue Envelope, he is one
of the most highly paid OF his call
ing-and turning down enormous
offers weekly.
Musical comedy plots are facing
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08
TROTZKY rs NOT
THE GREATEST MENACE

From Mexico comes another interest
ing comment, that of Mexican business
men in their warning to newspaper
man from north of the border:
.'You Americans are the ones who
should worry about (Leon) Trotzky
Trotzkv always conducts his propogan'
da in countries adjoining the one IN
which he lives in exile, not in that OF his
hosts"
The man who was too Communistic for
the Communists is now in exile in Mexi-
co. The warning of Mexican business
men could mean only that they believe
Trotzky intends to direct barrage OF
revolutionary propaganda to the United
States. Glass hatred destruction and
bloodshed are his weapons. II there was
ever an undesirable citizen of the world,
It is Leon Trotzky. He is not wanted
in the Poland of his birth, he is not
wanted in the Russia of his adoption,
he is not wanted in any European nation.
Mexico, somewhat grudgingly, has eX-
tended him refuge. Yet the Mexicans
keep a wary eye on his activities.
Trotzky may intend to send agents
into the United States, to breed discord
and discomfort. Such possibility
should be guarded against-but it is by
no means the greatest menace to the
American system OF SoVtihhicht' A"do
menace does not come from outside. lt
is internal. It is the discomfort of those
uneducated, unthinking m ses who
want something. but do not know what
Rthey want In their cropping for the an
swer to their wants, they are too likely
to adopt some crackpot scheme as their
goal. The problem most serious to the
United States is not one that will be
overcome in day or year. 1t is one
of education, and education is necessari-
ly slow.
The people, the whole of them. must
be taught to know the workings OF their
government and their industries. When
they have such knowledge, there will be
little danger of serious trouble leading
to worse consequences.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08
Bruce Cation Says:>>
Americans Still Are Made of Stern Stuff

> Fears often are expressed that we
moderns are becoming flabby, phys
ically, mentally, and morally.
Pessimists frequently point out,
for instance, that soft food eventu-
ally will deprive us of our teeth
and the automobile of our legs;
that nudists, strip-teasers, and the
like are corrupting our morals; and
that predigested ideas, served up
in books, newspapers, and radio,
are weakening our minds.
1t was not thus, we learn, in
grandpa's day. Then, it seems men
were men; and chores. church
meetings, and cracker barrel de-
bates served to keep mind and body
in fine fettle.
Under lal this criticism modern
Americans have been in a fair way
of developing a huge inferiority
complex. But now comes some
news that should dispel all their
uneasiness.
Under all this criticism modern
Americans have been in a fair way
of developing a huge inferiority
complex. But now comes some news
that should dispel all their uneasi-
ness.
1t is revealed that knitting mill
at Cohoes, NJ. Y, is doing a land
office business turning out red
flannel underwear. And a prom
inent Toledo, o.. dealer in the flam-
boyant garment reveals that his
customers always keep coming back
for more.
* 4 X
To understand how significant is
this information, it is necessary to
delve into the history Of red flan-
mel underwear, starting-as the say
ing goes-from scratch.
To begin with, it is contem-
porary of the buggy, horse trough,
stereopticon, mustache cup, and
wooden Indian which now can be
seen only in museums; and OF the
horse, which. on city streets, is al
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08

most as much an object of curiosity
as the giant panda.
Doubt clouds the origin of red
flannel underwear. Some believe
it an offspring of the penitential
sackcloth and ashes. Others vow
it was the invention of one of the
more inhuman managers of the
Spanish Inquisition.
In any event, if half the stories
told about it are true, wearing old
fashioned red flannel underwear
through a church sermon was an
ordeal that would have made
Spartan bite his lips.
To boys especially was it said to
be bane, and not only because of
the physical discomfort. In the
old days, it seems, there were few
things more embarrassing to the
young hopeful than to pass his
house with his best girl just as
pops crimson undies were flutter-
ing in the breeze.
Even after taking into consider
alton the vast number of lives red
flannel underwear must have saved,
in warding off death from pneu-
monia and train wrecks fire.
quently came in handy, we Under
stand, for tagging trains at wash
outs-old- timers must frequently
have wondered if ii al was worth
the, price.
X +
And for this reason the knowl-
edge that Americans are still dis
porting red flannel underwear is
encouraging. 1t is a revelation that
we are not going namby -pamby;
and that we are made OF the same
stern stuff as our granddads, who
sat stolidly in their pews while a
rash of itches cried out for scratch
ing.
We, therefore, shall have some
thing to say to the next calamity
howler who tells us that Americans
are going soft.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08

EOLLYWOOD,' Jan. 8. W,P) -
Necessity is forcing Hollywood to
develop it's own story material
something new under the sun-arcs
and the result is the biggest bull
market in history for original un-
published stories.
Original screenplay sales hit a
new high in 1886 and comprised 81
per cent of all stories purchased by
producers. This year the percen-
tage will inevitably be higher.
OF 9O1 stories bought during the
past year, 10 were novels, 167
published magazine stories, SO plays,
and all the rest, 497, were originals.
Obvious effect of the trend should
be to create a definite group OF
writer's working exclusively for the
screen, just as now other groups do
novels, plays and short stories, but
two circumstances which may de-
lay the process stand out:
1. Prices for originals have not
been raised by the brisk trade, and
are still out of all proportion to
sums paid for successful novels ana
plays.
2. It's harder than ever for un-
known writer's to break into the
screenplay business.
Hollywood spent a total OF 81
sos. 900 for stories in 1886, but most
of it went in fantastic splurges for
best sellers and Broadway smashes.
Sam Goldwyn paid $165,OOO for
Dead End; David o. Selznick,
S65 900 for Gone With The Wind;
RKO anted 100000 for stage
Door,, while Metro Goldwyn-May-
er dug up an unreported but huge
sum for Idiots Delight, and
Warmers put out plenty for boy
Meets GirP', and "Tovarich".
Average price for originals re-
manned at $4,000, buoyed by fancy
figures paid better known writer's.
More common prices ranged as low
as 81 900 and $1,000.
Explaining this situation, Gold
wyn offered as an'eXample his buy
of Beloved Enemy, and original
by John Balderston:
II bought the story at good
price because Balderston had a
name, first as a war correspondent
and then as a playwright. I'd
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08
PROSPERITY IN THE
LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY

Prosperity, if it is true prosperity,
does not improve one branch of indus
try and pass another by. We have heard
of increasing prosperity in the building
trades, in stores, in factories and on pro
duce farms. Now comes another report
an indication that today's good busi-
ness is not individualized. Almost mil
lion dollars more per day was paid by
the meat industry in 1886 than in 1885
for livestock Per capita consumption
of meats increased by about IL pounds
for the year. Prosperity's front grows
broader,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08
Editorials and Comment
FRIDAY, JANUARY s. 1887
q on .Sn! says
~ FRANK WATANABE
HNJN RX iEn HOLDEN
HOROSCOPE
BY Ep HOLDEN

have study very greatly the science
of horoscope. Catching success without
a horoscope are just like trapping
mice without some cheese. Here are
what shall happen in January. Venus
sits at 1856 p. m. January 11th. $50
watch out!) But on January 21st she
will do it at S:53 p. m. But REMEM-
Der Mars are RISING at l; ;02 a. m. on
January 21st! (Just eemagine) And
Juniper will did the same thing at :oo
a. m. Also please be annoyed that Sa-
turn will sit at S:57 p. m. That means
If you are born in February at 6 pm
YOU must call doctor at the age of AZ
unless you are young girl. In such
cases do not travel for three days.
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years.
TwENTY-FI YEARS AGO
anuary 8, 19l2

Imperial Valley is being inspected
today by a group Of well known
southern Pacific railway officials,
accompanied by w. F.. Holt, head
Of the Holton interurban railroad
They arrived here in special cars on
the regular train last night and
had their cars set out at Holton
Park.
The American Date CO. which
concern has acquired a considerable
acreage in Coachella Valley for the
purpose of raising dates on large
commercial scale, will send a rep
resentative to Algeria this winter
to secure lot of date offshoots
for planting on the company's
lands.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08

gress, in which he declared he sees no
Immediate need for constitutional
amendment in the United States. Some
of them will agree with his declaration
for more liberal Interpretation of laws
by the u S. supreme court
Before the construction is changed,
it will be well to determine if desired
ends cannot be reached within its frame
work.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08
TEN YEARS AGO
January 8, 1927

1t took three deputies and finally
Sheriff c. L. Gillett to place Leila
Brown, Negro, behind the bars on
the scharge Of Illegally possessing
liquors.
DiogeDes may have experienced
considerable difficulty in his day in.
finding an honest man, but today
he would have only TO poke his
lantern into 500 Main street Of Ell
Centro to find John Cappos who
returned wallet lie found con-
tanning $3.50 TO Mat Leino, the
owner.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08
TWENTY YEARS AGO
January 8, 1911

While motoring to Holtville yes
terday. Mr. and Mrs. E. p. Warner
of San Diego we're run into by
another machine. The Windshield
of the Warner machine was broken
and Mrs. Warner suffered cuts and
bruises.
Despite the erratic condition of
the peace moves, cotton maintains
an even tenor, now hanging about
the 18 cent mark.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08
GRAB BAG
One-Minute Test

l. Who gave the name Empire"
to New York state?
2. What proportion of the popu-
lation Of the United States is con-
centrated in cities of 100000 or
over?
3. What are tortillas?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08
TndaY,s Horoscnne

If your birthday comes today,
your life is filled with struggle
against worldly tendencies, and you
may get many a discouraging and
disheartening upset
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08
HIGH SALARIES FOR
MOVING PICTURE STARS

At first glance it seems ridiculous
that there should be three moving pic
ure stars among the ten most high sal
aried workers in the United States. Sclen-
lists. doctors, educators, statesmen and
leaders of industry rank below the en-
tertainers in salary lists. The argument
has been advanced often that such men
are worth more than any number OF pic
ture stars because they make permanent
contributions to the life OF the nation.
But are they?
! Life would be dreary thing without
laughter. Without entertainment, not
all the scientific development or indus
trial expansion in the world would seem
to make life much brighter Entertain
ment may be fleeting, but it is among
the necessities. There is only one incon-
gruity. 1t is that the men who made
motion pictures possible, and those who
improve motion pictures from time to
tinle-being responsible for the success
Of the entertainers-are not themselves
among the "big ten" on the salary list.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08

According to scientists, the force
of gravity at the suns surface is
more than 81 times as great as
gravity at the surface Of the earth.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08
Hints ON Etinuette

When two couples 90 walking
together, they should never walk
four abreast, but in pairs.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

a complete about face. The smart
topical stuff, kidding Hollywood,
take-offs on celebrities and such are
meeting the yawn and headed for
the ash can. The public as one
critic points out, is fed up with the
deucedly clever. The swift banter
of mo. 81" and the Hart-Kauf-
man ripostes. 1t shows a switch to
the old charm school. A new Fritz
Scheff or Christie Macdonald with
a Blossom Time" theme would
ring the bell. Sweet and swingy,
dew-spangled rose arbor stuff. How
nice it was after all!
90
A gentleman in Arkansas relays
his recent visit to a moth-eaten
rodeo outfit in a hill-billy crotch of
the creek. The weather was driEzly
and the bucking steers lacked usual
ginger. He sat next to a family of
Esquires Paul Webb mountaineers.
The old lady was putting snuff
stick and became more and more
impatient with the desultory goings
on. Finally she stood up, gave her
1920 bonnet yank and started to
&c.
where you goin' Ma-home?"
asked one of her tall gangling
young-nS
yer durn tootin. I'm going
home she snapped. Il can see a
bettes show than this at home
around milkin' time"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08
words of Wisdom

Go often to the house of thy
friend. for weeds choke the unused
path.-Emerson
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-08

NEW YORK, Jan. s. - Thoughts
while strolling: Escaping steam
name: Lispenard B. Phister, Such
genteel looking folk in that Theresa
Worthington Grant tea room. Bud
Kelland somehow always makes me
think of Kin Hubbard'S Lafe Bud
And Russ Cole of Tilford Moots.
The quick stepping Col. Joe Hart
field
So the debonaire Franchot Tone
has an adams apple for goodness
sake. And William Powell, too.
Those Texans in light-colored top
coats. Why isn't the billing Fon-
tame and Lunt? Overheard: Il
| marvel I'm still able to hope"
Dodd-Mead sounds like baby-talk
| cussing.
For my money, Buster West as
the most original of the eccentric
dancers. Longest word in the die
ionary-honorifica icabilitudinitatibu
What a natural for a stage villain
name John Drew's nephew has
Jack Devereaux The cops new
move-on cry: Break it up, boysl"
Cafe sign: Persimmon Pudding.
Bugs Baer has a set of piano mover
shoulders for you. Nobody can
gurgle over soup so ecstatically as
the radios Ken Niles. Couture
note: Irene Dunn features little
girl ribbons in her hair. And Libby
Holman features pink camellias.
Slick get-up of Coward's manager,
Jack Wilson: Coffee colored en-
semble with grassgreen tie. Major
Bowes goes into a barber shop near
the Capitol and a crowd outside.
For a score of years almost he has
entered the same shop unnoticed.
Then along came fame!
90
Literary novelty: Alexander
Woollcotts authoring Of signed
circular letter mailed from his
apartment, 10 Oracle Square, in
which he cutes up ballyhoo for
brand of whiskey, inspired much
mad waggery In closing, he ex-
plains his odd dereliction with this
paragraph: But why, as they say
in the drama, am I saying this to
you? Well, it's because the manu-
facturers have seduced bribed and
corrupted me into doing so. Be
sides it happens TO be true"
DO
That gentle group of white-haired
men and women who drift down
the public library steps just before