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Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-23
Used Cars Moving!
Post Press Auto
Sale Takes Hold

Used moving in El Centro!
No, it's not It's just the dealers that the
Post-Press Used Car Sale the becoming most
Ting automobiles
incident demonstrates the pulling the event.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-23
The Sun Never Sets

The Sun Never Sets
Imperial Valleyites seem to be
something like the English, who
may be found following the IriSh)
from the place the sun rises to
where it sets. Walter Carey and
Dan West, coiventioning up Uki-
ah way, returned with reports
they were virtually besieged by
former valley residents wanting
to know what 1t is like back
home"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-23
ENTRY LIST SWELLS
In GOLF TOURNEY
Field for Valley Championship Slated
To Go Over $50; Hot Rounds Carded;
Wednesday Qualifying Deadline
tPOst-Press engraving

Thirtysx golfers Monday turned in their qualify
ing bringing the total close to 100 for entries
the Amateur Golf Championship of Imperial Valley
Tuesdays and Wednesdays qualfers are expected to
boost the total $50 Cunning to break 73 the low
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-23
II Gets Around

II Gets Around
You can't convince ID. Doc
Zinn that the Post-Press isn't reat
about everywhere-not after his
recent trip to Imperial Dam. En-
route, he picked UP a hitch-hiker
Dangerous business, Doc Intro
ductions followed.
oh" said HH., you're the
man who writes that column q.
etc, etc"
Later. in Winterhaven cafe, the
waitress heard Docs name. She
stopped.
Are you the philosopher who
writes that column ETC., ETC.
Now it takes a pretty long tape
measure TO reach around Docs
chest.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-23
The Only Way

The Only Way
A. K. Paul, Gust another golter)
has found the way to protect his
golf ball from Fred Trude's ac-
quisitiveneSS. When Trude stopped
to pick up Paul's rubberized sphere
the other day, you could hear Pau
across three fairWayS:
"Hcyi Stop that--Ill sue you"
Fred, being an attorney, stopped
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-23

Here's The Winner
Police described him as hobo.
He is a rather tough appearing Gus
toner. On the docket at police
\ headquarters he inscribed the name,
Clarence Hardnock"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-23

Butter: Los Angeles 35lsc;
Butterfat. Imperial Valley fob.
ranch, Grade A 42Isc; manufac~
turing milk 371sc; route gather
ed cream 331ac.
L. A. Hay: u. s. No. extra
leafy S31-32; u. S. No. 1 S2S.50-
$3.50; u. S. No. 2 leafy $3.50
$3.50; u. S. No. 2 S25.50-26.50;
Minneapolis flax S2.13-2.1S.
Evening star., 1937-04-08
Feature Article on United
States Mints Corrected

TO the Editor of The Star:
In feature article appearing on page
"B-3" of The Star Qast edition. of Sat-
urday, April 3, entitled 1.-TWO watchmen
and SO dog guarded first mint" it
was stated among other things, that
The three mints started in the South
in 1888, at Charleston, s. c. ."
which is in error The mint started was
located at Charlotte, N. c., where gold
coins were minted until 1858 under the
mint mark &C." many of which coins
are now in existence and kept as SOU
venirs.
The original building, considered ar
chitecturally perfect, remained in use
as an assay office and later for other
Government activities until about five
years ago when it was removed to make
room for the new Post Office and Federal
Court Building. Prior to its being dis
mantled, the exact measurements were
made by architects and the building
materials secured by the City of Char
lotte and Mecklenburg County and the
citizens Of same, and today there stands
in the City of Charlotte, N. c., build
ing known as the Mint Museum, which
is an exact reproduction of the front
part of the original building and con-
structed out of the materials from the
old building. The Eagle was purchased
by patriotic citizen and donated to the
museum and is now among the relics to
be seen there. FLOYD M. GRESHAM.
Evening star., 1937-04-08
Plan to Prevent Strikes
By Division of Profits
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
Strikes ordinarily arise from unjust
and unfair wages paid by prosperous
firms.
have often heard firms head or a
member boast that "by many years of
hard work he had now built up a good
business" But is this strictly true? He
and his employees working together built
up paying business, for alone he could
have done nothing.
Now my plan is simply this: When
q firm shows substantial profit or even
any profit it should divide it $3.50 with
its employees, in addition to the wages
paid them. For example, say there are
10 members to firm and 200 employees,
and suppose the yearly profit is 500 900.
Then dividing it equally each member
would get 5000 and each employe $3.50,
believe that most Of the strike trouble
Is with firms that are slave drivers and
who try to hog all the profits, giving
their employees very little for good serv-
ices rendered. Find a group of con-
genial men well taken care of by a firm
or corporation and judge for yourself.
In such an entity no dissatisfaction is
usually found, and the company is pros
pering. Today's wage and salary prob
lem faces nearly all of us. There are
so many slices to be cut from our dollar
In order to pay for so many things now
deemed essential that unless one makes
. fair salary he merely exists, which Is
lot my Interpretation of . "living wage
W. N. CHRISTMAS.
k11Annton. Va
Evening star., 1937-04-08
The Judiciary in Canada.

Canada has a judiciary controversy
resembling in some respects the Supreme
Court issue now agitating the United
States. Conspicuously involved in the
situation which has arisen is question
Of empire relationship, already discussed
as containing the seeds of critical pos
sibilities. To grapple with all it's rami-
fications, the Ottawa government plans
q conference OF political leaders similar
to that which preceded confederation in
1857. The purpose is to consider con-
stitutional changes to give the central
government more power than it now
possesses.
Matters were brought to a head by
recent decisions of the British Privy
Council invalidating most of the So
called Canadian new deal social reform
measures instituted by the late Con-
servative government. Debate in the Do
minion House of Commons this week re-
vealed unaninity of view among all
parties that Canada should substitute
Its own Supreme Court for the Privy
Council as final tribunal of appeal and
Evening star., 1937-04-08

demand corresponding amendments to
the British North America act. The
latter, as interpreted by the Pr1vy
Council, has produced the same sort OF
challenge of judicial dicta as underlies
the Roosevelt plan to enlarge the United
States Supreme Court. Recently
Canadas two largest provinces enacted
wage and hour legislation, just as some
of our States have essayed to do, but
the Federal minister of justice ruled
that such reform as unemployment
insurance could be established only on
a national scale. This conjures up the
States rights issue so long a bone OF
contention here.
Even abolition of appeal to the Privy
Council would not suffice to revive the
Bennett new deal laws, inasmuch as
the Dominion Supreme Court had also
declared them unconstitutional. But in
the course of its judgment against them,
the London Privy Council also denied
Canada effective treaty making powers
This Interpretation by the highest i'm
perial tribunal, now assailed in Canada
as "reactionary," might conceivably cur
tail the Dominion's right to conclude
reciprocal trade agreements with the
United States or even a st. Lawrence
waterway pact. The Privy Council de-
creed, in substance, that Canada may
override provincial rights in making
treaties only if these are negotiated on
behalf of the British government
Canada has proceeded on the theory
that under the Statute of Westminster,
in force since 1881, the self governing
dominions possess degree of autonomy
that fully comprehends the treaty.
making prerogative. Mr. Cahan, secre-
tary of state in the Bennett government,
declared in Parliament that the Privy
Councils pretension to rob Canada OF
such authority can only tend to hasten
and insure the dissolution OF the British
Empire" He demanded that the London
government disclose whether it concurs
in a judgment that may have "far-
reaching and tragic consequences"
Evening star., 1937-04-08

One gate opens downward into the ogre
haunted dead ages through which the
race was carried as an infant In the arms
OF evolution and of which it has only
fleeting, distorted memories such as come
In insane aSylumS, in dreams and in
moments OF transcendent passion. That
Is the gate Of the emotions. The other
gate opens upward into region where
man never has been, but which he may
traverse in the coming days Of his long
pilgrimage. 1t is gate which is opened
by the key Of mathematics. Few have
passed through it throughout the ages
One OF these few was the bowling, smil-
ing old man who tramped over the New
England campus in the January blizzard
He was the loneliest figure 1 ever
saw. He lived alone in an attic room
and cooked his own meals What would
he have done if some students had in
vited him to frat house party? What
would he have done If some Of them
had asked him to the saloon on the corner
for glass of beer? I don't know. I
suspect he would have been unutterably
happy. But nobody could quite approach
him with any such proposals. Nobody
could get through the gate to him. And
II anybody had, suspect the old man
couldn't have gotten far enough back
into the world Of sights and sounds to
have accepted.
Johnnie the Lion, I suppose, is dead.
His poor, wandering soul is pleading at
the gate no longer. I have met from
time to time great soldiers great ex-
plorers, great statesmen, great criminals.
They have all seemed dull, earthly fig
ures compared with this old man. He
had known greater adventure than any
OF them. What was the interior on
Antarctica or the crest of Mount Everest
compared to that superiority beyond
the gate where he, imagine, had been.
Others have opened the gate Perhaps
johnnie the Lion was one of the least
OF the select few from Pythagoras to
ElnSteln for whom, in this life, the portals
have opened. He is a vague memory
now, after almost a quarter of century,
until DR.. Eric Temple Bells just pub
lished Men Of Mathematics" was laid
on my desk. 1t is the history of the most
glamorous company OF adventures in the
annals of the race, done by one of the
lew men who might have some claim to
be numbered among them-himself a
mathematician and a member of the
National Academy Of Sciences. 1t should
be one Of the greatest adventure stories
ever written.
The 7OO-page volume is talisman. It
brings back this Winter afternoon the
howing, smiling, white haired, sad ghost
OF Johnnie the Lion, the snow falling on
his long white hair. Strange, pathetic.
mystical, gently pleading
Evening star., 1937-04-08

in the world" are a symbol which ought
not to be neglected nor misunderstood
A gift from the East to the West, they
constitute bond of friendship between
Japan and the United States. The
thousands of Washingtonians and
visitors who will make 1t duty to see
them should pause for a moment to
think what they mean. And the principle
they represent is universal. Civilization,
1t seems, depends upon such things.
Through untold generations OF human
experience q certain process of exchange
has been in operation-literature, music,
painting and sculpture, ideas and ideals
of every kind have been distributed from
hand to hand, from nation to nation,
until the whole earth is linked in one
common relation of fellowship.
The Outstanding philosopher is en-
couraged by the spectacle. He knows
that the forces which divide the race
are less dynamic than those which draw
it together. OF course, strife interrupts
the normal pace of progress from time
to time, but peace heals the breach Just
as consistently through the passing CEN
turies. Viewed from distance, the pic
ture is not one of ruin and devastation.
Rather. it is bright with flowers. And
each blossom may be regarded as
star to guide any wanderers who have
strayed from the path toward the Ever
lasting Garden.
Evening star., 1937-04-08
Tidal Basin Not Proper
Site for the Memorial

To the Editor OF The Star:
AS transient resident of Washington
the past five years, I desire to protest
against the destruction of the Tidal Basin
for the purpose Of constructing the JET
ferson Memorial
To me the Tidal Basin, with its cherry
blossoms, is the most beautiful spot in
Washington. Beauty is greatly desirable
in the Capital of our country.
Why not erect Jeffersonian Memorial
on the south side of the Mall facing the
proposed Mellon Art Gallery This con-
struction would give balance to both
structures; it would be an added attrac-
ton to the Mali; it is much more con-
venient and accessible to the visitors who
come by the way of the Union Station.
I simply offer this as suggestion.
CHARLES j. GOLDEN.
Evening star., 1937-04-08
Inconsistency of Nations
Seeking New Territories

To the Editor Of The Star:
20, Consistency, thou art jewel" :"
is an old saw, and have been reminded
OF it frequently here of late in reading
comment on the state of our troubled
world. Consistency is expected OF ma
tions just as 1t is expected of persons,
because nations have frequently been
compared to individual persons, and
rightly so, because they are made up
OF such individuals, and do in the mass
perform many times in the same fashion.
And nations have many of the same
problems as do individuals. For instance,
lately there has been a grouping Of
nations into two claSSeS-the HAYES and
the Have Nots, and certainly no one will
deny such classification to individuals
within the nations.
Nearly two years ago Col. House
wrote an article describing the tension
between these two sets of nations, and
because of his prominence it was widely
read and created quite a stir in official
circles. More recently the League of
Nations, probably inspired by the article
OF Col House, set its International Com
mittee to work to study the problem
OF the HAYES and Have Nots
But what interests me at the moment
Is the Inconsistency of the nations which
shows Itself in their endeavOr to solve
their problem, and the unwillingness Of
these nations and those persons who
think these nations do have a case at
court, to also see that within these ma
tions the case between the individual
HAYES and Have Nots is just as vital and
important to the peace of the world.
Within the nations they seem willing to
let the strife continue, and many noble
and fine gentlemen who would like to do
something to equalize the tension be-
tween nations in order to avoid war are
entirely Indifferent or antagonistjc to
efforts to compose like tension between
classes within the nations, apparently
being unable to see that the strife be-
tween individuals and classes of indi-
viduals is the real cause for the clashes
between nations which is war.
There is abundant proof of this. Ger
many had her colonies prior to the
World War, but this did not prevent her
from arming to the teeth and going to
war at the first opportunity, nor did 1t
prevent all other nations, whether Haves
or Have Nots, from taking a hand in
SAAO opoAt
But there is another phase of this
matter upon which would like to touch.
Italy, Germany and Japan are said to
be the Have Nots and because they feel
that way they claim the right to seize
the country of weaker nations in order
to find sustenance for their growing
populations and to maintain their in
dustrial life. OF course, that may all
be very fine for these Have Nots, but
what about the helpless peoples who
have been slaughtered, whose country
has been seized and whose children will
be exploited and enslaved? l wonder
If the nations, whether HAYES or Have
Nots and individual persons within these
nations are not trampling under foot
that unchanging and inexorable law:
With what measure you mete, it shall be
measured unto you" And do they under
stand that this trampling is the cause
for all their troubles?
S. L. HOOVER.
Evening star., 1937-04-08
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Whatever Americans do, they overdo.
Ine latest example of this tendency,
according to Templeton Jones, is the
picture field.
Bigger and better photographs, in
books, magazines, newspapers all cater
Ing to taste for pictures, eh7
Cameras popping of from all angles,
MIN manufacturers working night and
day to supply the demand, dark rooms
always glowing with red light
Jones believes that they are slowly
killing the goose that laid the golden
egg. It's an old story
Talk, he feels, has given the knockout
blow to radio.
Blah, blabber and blubber, these
three, and one more, just plain talk,
and people no longer turn on their sets
rs they used to, at least according to
Jones.
He hopes it won't be that way with
pictures.
For pictures are swell, he feels, but
when six poses Of the same funny look
ing fellow are thrown at the gentle
reader, or spectator, as he is getting to
be, IN row, it is much too much.
One would do the trick.
The basic fault of the newer tech
nique (still according to jones' lies in
the failure to understand the difference
between words and pictures, between
brains and eyes,
Word craft is building craft
Use OF words, to entertain, to instruct,
or to impel or all three, demands q
buildup.
Proper writing technique calls for the
cooperation of the reader. He is gently
induced by writer to put himself in
the latter's shoes, and reconstruct along
with him.
X
When this work OF reconstruction is
done for you, II you have q standard
amount of brain, you tend to become
tired Of doing nothing.
This is where the motion picture, at
least according to Templeton Jones, falls
down with bang, and where the radio
Is falling down with bang.
Numbers OF movie fans, and numbers
of radio listeners, he feels, do not alter
his contention in the least.
There might be ten times as many
spectators and listeners as there are,
and his contention would not be shaken
AL VIC SA6lAGSStp dG 4C0ct ACCO1Ol1lk W
Jones.
To certain type Of mind-the Jones'
ian mind, of course, and its fellow
minds-the proper cooperation is what
makes anything interesting.
The reason many persons are going
back to the phonograph lies directly in
the path Of non-co-operation of the
radio
Nothing is asked of the listener, and
he grows tired of it,
Not so many years ago he was la
menting the fact that he must be
hopping up and down" changing
records.
Now he sees that such hopping" was
mighty good thing.
1t gave him part in the music.
Inventive genius, always ready to in
vent, conceived the mechanical record
changer
The mind of man, always ready to
admire itself, admired the record
changer immensely.
1t, however, took away what was left
of his self-help in his mechanical music
Now all he had to do was look at the
box, and it ground out an hours music
without requiring any movement on his
part.
Evening star., 1937-04-08
Shooting Stars.
BY PH1LANDER JOHNSON.

Cheer Up! Told You So!
Some time ago when I was feeling
glum,
I said, Cheer up! The worst is yet to
come!"
AS time went by, the worst came draw
ing near,
And called Us faithfully to presevere.
1t was a small sarcasm; yet it proved
A sentiment by which our minds were
moved.
And when the world set forth its tale
Of woe
ventured to remark, II told you sol"
And now, as hearts prepare for courage
true,
While brighter skies present themselves
to view,
shall repeat in accents Arm though
bland,
Beware! The better days are now at
hand;
Beware the recklessness which may
arise
To scatter hopes that seem so near the
prize.
And when fruition ere long we know,
I'll venture to repeat, I told you SOP"
Evening star., 1937-04-08

Templeton Jones, and many like him,
shortly discovered that he was no
| Buddha.
Unwavering contemplation of Moth
Ing Is unsuited to the human animal.
Where mechanics, as applied to life
and industry, falls down with more than
the proverbial bang, is in regard to this
demand that man, a rowing, moving
creature, be chained to a desk or q
machine.
Man can stand it, but only at great
cost, both to himself and what he is try
ing to do.
Discomfort the world around, Jones
feels, may in part be laid directly at the
door OF unhuman ways of doing things
in work and play. The word "unhuman''
has been used so long to indicate some
thing bestial that it requires some
effort to give it the proper connotation
OF "other than human" but it may be
done by slight bit of effort.
So people today, in 1887, are going
back to the piano.
Why, they have taken all the works
out Of the mechanical pianos OF yester-
year, the bellows and the pedals and the
what-not, and are selling them as
straight" pianos!
Similarly, you don't hear so many
radios blaring as you go around the
streets
People are tired-at least Jones so
explains it-of the incessant chatter on
radio, and, what is more more than tired
of being able to take no part in what
is going on.
ho nd
In the same direction. All the kids want
to learn to play.
Stores which two years ago had prac-
tically gone out OF the disc record busi-
ness today are selling 10 times as many
records as in the old days
The perfection of the new electrical
recordings, with the huge selection pos
sible from many foreign makes, as well
as American, helps explain this back
trek, but the desire of listeners to have
part in what they are doing says
more, at least to our friend Templeton
Jones.
Jones explained his attitude carefully
the other day. when we ventured to
remonstrate to the effect that pictures
also demand that one enter into them,
and actively do bit of thinking
1T isn't the same thing" he said "If
people are going back to own-make
music, as they are, they will go back
to own-made pictures, which require
words to construct them in the mind.
THE present urge toward pictures is
a gross OVERRIDING and will suffer the
same fate, in the end, as has overtaken
all other mechanical arts, for photo
graphs, in the sense OF which I speak,
are strictly mechanical.
Consider this new picture magazine
which has made such a hit. I, too, tell
for it with bang. I treasured all my
copies. Then I began to find myself
looking at nothing but the pictures I
stopped reading the lines and explana-
tory matter.
Now I merely glance at the pictures,
and I find that the more I just glance
the more bored l become
"A picture gets what it asks fora
glance, whereas with writing you have
got to put yourself into it to get any
pleasure or instruction out of it,
Mark my word, this present craze
for pictures of all kinds, including semi
nudes and shockers,' especially of the
medical variety, is going to be the biggest
thing that ever happened for writer's"
Evening star., 1937-04-08
Cherry Blossoms Bloom.

The cherry blossoms have not dis
appointed waiting multitude Yes
terday the sun called them out of their
protective coverings, buds became iow-
ers all along the Tidal Basin rim. c.
Marshall Finnan, superintendent OF the
National Capital Parks, inspected the
scene and then announced that the dis
play should be at its best over the
week end.
But more than passing beauty Is in
volved. The most widely famous trees
Evening star., 1937-04-08
Birthday Anniversary
Of BENJAMIN Franklin
r. tho Edifov ~ tn. ctor.

To the Editor Of The Star:
On your editorial page I noted that
April II was mentioned as the birthday
anniversary Of Benjamin Franklin I
may be laboring under a misapprehen-
sioz, and If 50, humbly apologize for
prasuming to correct your writer, but I
have distinct impression of having
observed DR.. Franklin's birthday each
year in school on January II.
GERTRUDE L. KANE.
Note-Benjamin Franklin was born on
January II, 1706, and died on April II,
Evening star., 1937-04-08

Sulphur and molasses was a favorite
old Spring tonic. AS a philanthropist,
Professor Rex Tugwell might be willing
to divert from his present business
enough molasses to combine eficaciously
with the sulrhurous invective in sena- :
torial hearing.
Evening star., 1937-04-08

AS history has developed since Harry
Daugherty was aimiably but not always
felicitously in Office, nothing has been
done to relieve the Attorney General of
the necessity of working overtime, re-
gardless of the wage.
Evening star., 1937-04-08

Maryland craftsmanship is generously
solicitous about the gambling morals of
the Nations Capital. No matter what
profit the pari-mutuels may yield, the
District of Columbia will not be per-
mitted to touch nickel of it.