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Evening star., 1937-08-24
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL,

Building up a personal library is one
OF the duties of a cultured person.
The sooEer 1t Is begun, the better.
Such a library Is grow wth-both phys
ically and mentally.
1t is especially interesting, in later
years, If the first books have oeen kept
At this end Of the progressive scale
ones books commonly tend to get away
from one, most often because the COL
lector does not realize the value of his
earlier items.
Let us suggest that a special effort be
made by some one older, in any given
case, to keep the first books Of the boy
or girl.
In later years these will be especially
valued, and given a favored position In
the shelves devoted to the personal COL
lection.
Every small library worth keeping Is
personal library, but it becomes Pc
culiarly so II it Is built up with this idea
in mind.
The young person at the very begin
ming should realize that the individual
mind, as reflected in the books pur-
chased, and read, and kept, is = chang
ing mind.
Old loves there will be, but new loves,
too.
Interests come and go. with the pass
ing years, dictated by friends, education,
occupation accident.
There is growth sometimes Of the
better sort, but not always However
1t is 1t will show in the bookshelves.
In later years the collector may wonder
OF of rl;o
him or her not be ashamed of them
They, too, show change, and often are
not to be despised in their own right.
Many a reading hobby Of yesteryear is
undergoing revival today. Often ones
youthful selections were better than
ones elders or ones self knew.
Books secured in the early years have
way OF getting lost stolen or mislaid,
1t is difficult to tell which or how.
The owner should be on guard against
these losses
Some Of them occur in the movings of
the family from one house to another,
and from town to town.
Especial precautions must be had
against these almost inevitable happen
ings, which occur in mysterious ways
enough, whether one is on the lookout
or not.
Afterward it is easily seen that many
Of these losses were strictly ones own
fault
One did not value that old set of Poe
sufficiently, let us say.
DO you want to keep this old set of
Poe?"
No. one did not
One said 1t very emphatically.
Years later the generous person wishes
he had kept the set. 1t turns out to be
precisely the collection which contains
much matter not found elsewhere, with
notes and Recommendations not in more
expensive sets.
So it goes all along the line Of the
shelves. Reading enthusiasms come and
60; what one especially admires one sea-
son is merely part Of life the next.
How is one to know?
The point Is that no one can know
All We can do is to accept the self,
Evening star., 1937-08-24

MacGregor hopes to return in September,
1888 but food stores sufficient for two
years were taken, as we'll as emergency
rations for third year. The cargo
weighs nearly $50 tons and includes q
wide assortment of supplies, including
building material for three houses, an
alrplane, eighteen cylinders Of hydrogen,
fifteen tons of coal, sixty 50-gallon drums
OF gasoline, a 110volt storage battery and
late model electric washing machine.
This expedition, 1t is stressed, is not
planned on spectacular lines. 1t hopes
to carry out q full program of scientific
work and bring back solid results.
Through the cooperation of the Weather
Bureau, an extensive meteorological pro-
gram is assured. A complete weather
station will be operated at the base.
Upper air work will be stressed with at
least two balloon flights daily supple
mented by airplane flights Two COM
plete weather reports will be wired daily
to Washington.
Through the cooperation of the ter
restrial magnetism laboratory of the Car
negie Institution of Washington a COM
plete magnetic laboratory will be estab-
lished. Weekly reports Of magnetic &C
tivity will be radioed to Washington, and
detailed reports of magnetic storms fur
nished.
The expedition is planning to make
continuous visual observations on the
occurrence and intensity of the aurora
borealis. Simultaneous photographs of
aurorae will be taken at two stations
The first color photographs of this spec
tacle will be attempted.
Two complete radio transmitters have
been taken to the Arctic. An innova-
ton is the provision of two wind driven
generators for charging the storage bat
teries used for the transmitters at the
field stations.
A large collection OF mammals, birds,
reptiles and plants of Panama has just
been brought to the United States Ma
tional Museum by Gerrit s. Miller, jr,
Smithsonian Institution curator OF man.
mails. BY accompanying detachments
of Army engineers engaged in cutting
new roads through the jungle, Mr.. Miller
was able to secure considerable variety
OF curious epiphytes, or air plants, which
grow on the tops of trees often more
than 100 feet above the ground. 1t is
only when the large trees are felled
that collecting of epiphytes can be
carried on with comfort.
He also obtained a large number of
bats by visits to the celebrated Chilibrillo
bat caves just north of the Canal Zone
proper. In these caves the flying NAM
mails are found in such vast numbers
that more than 100 specimens were Sc
cured with single shot Of 80 cartridge.
Evening star., 1937-08-24
CONTROVERSY.

Inc nlCeueS OF dlplomatlc language
were never better illustrated than in the
statement of Secretary Hull issued last
the United States toward the present
situation in China, where American lives
and interests are imperiled. Although
bombs are falling upon the International
Settlement, destroying property and en-
dangering lives, indeed already costing
heavily in both, there is no mention of
war for there is no war, in strict
accordance with international usage.
Neither side OF the present conflict, has
declared war and none Of the foreign
governments, the interests OF whose ma
tionals on the scene of the happenings
are endangered, has used that word in
a definitive sense
Secretary Hull, with commercially
strict regard for the circumstances Of the
case and their bearing upon the position
Of a neutral government toward them,
refers in his statement to the present
controversy in the Far East" Now that
is indeed highly diplomatic term. True,
the dictionary gives another meaning Of
controversy" than such state Of turbu-
lence and tragedy as that which now
prevails at Shanghai. 1t defines con-
troversy as debate or disputation, espe-
cially when prolonged or carried on in
writing" 1t adds the supplementary
definition dispute regarding practical
schemes or antagonistic opinions"
This immediate crisis at Shanghai has
little of the aspect of debate. 1t is
indeed 4 "disputation," with shells and
shrapnel and bombs as arguments. 1t
is the outcome of practical schemes and
antagonistic opinions. 1t is controversy
plus. Yet it is not war-not yet. Per-
haps that definition will come later.
Maybe this argument now being carried
on at Shanghai will actually be advanced
to the point where the dispute will be-
come an international nuisance. Thus
far it is only an annoyance.
Secretary Hull, for whose acumen In
such matters there is high regard in
this country and 1t is to be believed in
other countries As well, has chosen appo-
sitely the term with which he describes
this melee overseas. Would that others
in high position of authority and respon-
sibility always select their words with
equal consideration.
Evening star., 1937-08-24

in its many changes through life, Al
something worth while.
On that sure basis, honest but not
necessarily conceited, the book lover
builds up his true books.
His shelves are mirror of his progress
down the years.
They present him as he was, as he Is
and as he will be, without fuss furry
or feathers.
Paths Of the mind, body and spirit
through life mirror themselves here
without fail
Each book is more than 4 book-it 1,
4 looking glass, in which the reader may
see himself plain.
II he does not, he may rest assured
that he has kept the wrong books.
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The only way one can be sure about
this Is to be proud of ones self, to be
certain that what one likes is what one
really likes, at the time, that what one
does not care for one simply does not
care for. 1t is not easy. 1t Is possible
to make mistakes!
That, too, Is one Of the best reasons
Tor keeping ones book as long as possible
Mistakes made honestly are part of the
personal picture. 1t is not necessary to
get rid Of all such purchases. Let some
OF them stand on the shelves as grim
reminders not to do 1t again.
In the main, the books kept over the
years will do pretty faithful job of
picturing the changing human being
who owns them
There are fashions in clothes and hats:
so there are fashions and styles In ways
OF thinking in being
The world has in 1897 clothed itself
again in certain large sections in the
brutality of tiger and leopard skins, with
added f1ourishes strictly from the mind
OF humanity. (Tigers and leopards would
be aShamed)
Ones own library need not be large;
If it is built by the average person, the
lack OF money will insure this good re-
striction; but it ought to be larger than
three books, no matter how good the
trio.
Great men who claimed only three
books in their personal collections were
not mental adventurers They were too
easily satisfied. One may suspect that
economic conditions wholly dictated the
stringency on which they later prided
themselves.
Buy as many books as you can, within
reason, making sure each time that the
book purchased is one really desired, and
felt necessary in the personal scheme of
things.
Neither borrower nor lender be-"
Famous words. which apply equally
we'll to books. especially personalized
collection
Rest assured that nobody else, not
even a dear friend, will value them in
the same way, or take the same care OF
them
This is not a circulating library, and
it is just as well if the owner realizes it
from the very start, then he will be saved
many heart throbs, if not heart breaks
Order, cleanliness, protection-these
are the big three of book care. The
sooner they are put into operation the
better
One need not be cranky, just careful
Books are worth 1t all.
Evening star., 1937-08-24
An Unenviable Record,

Drivers OF motor cars have killed
seventy people in Washington in less
than eight months. making 4 record fos
slaughter Of ten persons a month, or one
in every three days. The total today
stands at seventeen more dead In 1881
than for the same number Of days In 1896
It Is q record that evokes no sentiment
Of pride, no sense Of qualification.
One case Of smallpox in the Nations
Capital would set the public health ma
chinery in motion Immediately to iso-
late the victim and to locate and eradi-
cate the source of coRtagion. Nine cases
Evening star., 1937-08-24
A Rhyme at Twilight
BY
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton.
A Hard Climb

The stony mountain before him lay;
But his feet were weighted by sorrow
And he longed to stay in the soft, darl
clay
OF the valley until tomorrow.
Yet he knew he would find the noun
tain crest
A place that was worth the climbing
II he stood the test ON the heights he'd
rest
Fer the vesper bells were Ginning
So lifting his feet out Of sorrows thong
From the dim. safe valley he parted
Yet he vhistled song to cheer him alon}
As up the long trail he started.
Evening star., 1937-08-24

Some of the Congressmen are contem-
plating with satisfaction the feminine
earning capacity and rejecting that the
form Of government that Is truly sue
cessful is one that can point to its ability
to make home happy.
Evening star., 1937-08-24

When John Garner has time to ex-
plain. he may make it clear that Cactus
Jack" was term never applied to him
personally. However, he may accept the
designation In good humor as an indi-
cation of ability to utilize a new deal
diet regardless of few sharp corners.
Evening star., 1937-08-24

There may come time when Amer
lean women do not fully approve of one
another in politics, but the American
gentleman may be depended on to post
pone for long time the direct discussion
Of the value of services as related to the
expense account.
Evening star., 1937-08-24

After President Roosevelt thinks over
the story of Virginia Dare, he may have
to decide that she was the kind Of woman
to inspire sentiment, but not to be con-
sidered very seriously Is political
quantity.
Evening star., 1937-08-24
No Surprise.

From the Charleston wv. Va Mail.
The Government has promised speedier
news of approaching hurricanes. No
doubt it will be great comfort not to be
surprised when ones home is blown away
Evening star., 1937-08-24

Congress has definitely adjourned, but
the freedom with which remarks cir
culate does not indicate that the fact
makes any particular difference.
Evening star., 1937-08-24

New York has many representatives of
the higher forms OF literary and dramatic
expression, but is constantly subjected
to simple demands OF the plain taxpayer
to get his moneys worth.
Evening star., 1937-08-24

Songs of aviation have no great popu-
larity In groups inclined to melodious
celebration. HE floats through the air"
has to do with flying trapeze and
Wagon Wheels is, after all, only re-
minder Of hard going In the mud.
Evening star., 1937-08-24
Japan's Dilemma.

From the Kansas City Star.
Japan gives the impression of nation
that should be very happy In q war with
either Russia or China were t'other dear
charmer out Of the way.
Evening star., 1937-08-24

After all, there is no serious benefit in
declaring" war which is due to demon
strate possible occasions for salary grabs
in all languages.
Evening star., 1937-08-24
Hits and Errors.

Prom the Battle Greek Ineurer-Nswx.
The kids who complained their teacher
used . base ball bat on them didn't
ds,fe hits should result from their errors.
Evening star., 1937-08-24

Shanghai has fire departments, but
they are not manned by people who have
had the advantage of European edu-
cation
Evening star., 1937-08-24
The CreenhOrn.

From the Pittsburgh >Post-Gazette.
It's still good-that old one about the
horn that makes the most noise In q
trafnc jam being the greenhorn.
Evening star., 1937-08-24
Glad That East Is East

Prom the AShevi!le Times.
Americans should find comfort in the
fact that tho Far East y % Tar. p
Evening star., 1937-08-24
War News

From the Pontiac (Ach0 Press.
In Spain each side seems to know for
publication only what Is going on behind
the others lines.
Evening star., 1937-08-24
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Questions.

Questions.
How muchll 1t cost-and who shall pay?
These are the questions from day to day.
What's the price Of gingham, the price
of silk,
The price of bread and the price Of
milk?
A chance to walk in~the halls of pride
Or breath of air in the country wide,
An end to the battles fierce array
How muchu it cost-and who shall pay?
Each of us feels with resentment grim
That heavy the reckoning falls on him,
Nor pauses among his accounts to know
OF the self f-denials that others show.
We shift the burdens and shift the
blame,
But some one must bear them, Just the
same,
And whatever we do or even say
How much'll it cost-and who shall pay?
Evening star., 1937-08-24
A Disbursement.

I'm goin' to run fur ONCE" exclaimed
Farmer Corntossel. "Or II I can't git
nominated fur sheriff or somethin', I'll
take the stump for some one who kim"
What's the trouble?" inquired the
neighbor
Il can't get my family nor the hired
help to pay attention to anything say.
1 want to get out and try my luck with
= strange crowd"
Pleasures must be paid for" said Hi
Ho, the sage of Chinatown. Walking
wears out our shoes, but dancing wears
them out even faster"
Evening star., 1937-08-24

Machinery.
A locomotive will give out
And halt the railway train,
And then for means you cast about
To start it of again.
You've got to help 1t on its way
To do the best it can.
1t won't run smoothly every day
And neither will 4 man.
It's got to have its fuel slowed
Where heat is wanted strong,
And when it balks upon the road
You've got to see what's wrong.
Though you may strive both day and
night
To reach perfection's plan,
1t will not always run just right
And neither will man.
Don't tell me clothes don't make de
man." said Uncle Eben. "A neighbor
boy dat used to be kind an polite is en-
tirely different since he got q police
mans uniform"
Evening star., 1937-08-24
Might Be Done,

Might Be Done.
"A man should never talk about what
he does not understand"
Well" replied Senator Sorghum,
sometimes he can get away with it. II
he is sure his audience doesn't under
stand it either"
Evening star., 1937-08-24

Jud Tunkins says one difference be-
tween an optimist and a pessimist is
that the pessimist can usually give you
number of tangible reasons for feeling
Is he does.
Evening star., 1937-08-24
Reliable HanninASs.

Now let us heed this thought sublime.
AS grievous rumors fly,
The oysters always here on time;
So Is the pumpkin pie.
Evening star., 1937-08-24

voters. He has lost some ground, be-
yond a doubt, in the last six months.
But the belief of many politicians to-
day is that If he had to 60 to an election
today he would win hands down. It
all depends upon what happens In the
next couple of years and whether he
loses much more ground. With de-
cided swing against the President and
his New Deal, almost any candidate
could win in 1910 against either Roose-
velt or any other candidate he might
pick to succeed him.
X -
When Senator Guffey Of Pennsyl-
vania went on the air Friday night and
denounced Senators OMahoney, Burke,
Wheeler and Holt, all Democrats who
opposed the President in his court fight,
he spoke not alone as Senator from
Pennsylvania and an ardent supporter
of Roosevelt, but also as chairman Of
the Democratic Campaign Committee.
This is the committee which is sup
posed to supervise the Democratic cam
paign for the elections of Senators. His
remarks had nothing Of the conciliatory
tone about them which Chairman James
A, Farley of the Democratic National
Committee recently used In the Middle
west Guffey may have been expressing
the viewpoint of the President, or again,
he may have been merely making play
for the continued support Of John l..
Lewis, which is necessary to him per-
sonally in Pennsylvania. At any rate, he
aligned himself with Lewis In his de-
nunciation of the Democrats who had
blocked the Presidents program. He
Aligned himself. Also with Gov. Earle
of Pennsylvania, who weeks ago publicly
demanded the defeat Of all Democratic
Senators who opposed the court bill.
Unless Guf1ey's remarks are repudiated
and there has been no reputation 50
ntnistration VII % ahsad v1h Z p.inA-
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-30
LION MAULING
PROVES FATAL
TO EX-R ECTOR

SKEGNESS, England, July 30.
CUP)-Harold Davidson, unfrocked
rector of Stiffkey, died today while
crowds flocked to see the lion that
mauled him when he played his
side-show role in Davidson in the
Lions Den"
AS he lay dying, enterprising
promoters of his show at a nearby
amusement park drew great crowds
with a sign which read:
--latest bulletin: Rector's con-
dition very grave.
See the lions that mauled and
injured the rector, and the plucky
girl who went to his rescue"
Davidson inadvertently stepped
on the paw of a lioness, and an old
male, reused by her roar, attacked
him. The former Church of Eng
land rector, unfrocked on charges
of immortality, was preaching" in
his Lions Den.'
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-30
Propaganda Probe
Demands Renewed

WASHINGTON, July 80. UP)-
Chairman Samuel B Dickstein, D.,
NY, of the house immigration COM
mittee, today renewed demands for
a thorough congressional investi-
CATION into alleged subversive pro-
paganda. He made public list of
II persons whom he charged with
engaging in such acticities.
The names appeared in the con-
gressional record. Dickstein describ-
ed them as "smugglers, alien agita-
tors, Hitlerites and propagandists
who were seeking to undermine this
government in one way or another. u
Previously he had published a list
of 46 such names. He said he had
100 more which do not intend
to reveal now"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-30
NOTICE OF HEARING PETITION
To ESTABLISH BIRTH

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
IMPERIAL.
In the Matter of Establishing
the Birth of
TADAO OYENOKI,
A Minor.
Notice is hereby given that Juzo
Oyenoki has filed with the Clerk
of this Court a petition praying
that the date and place of the
birth of Tadao Oyenoki be estab-
lished and that the 18th day of
August. 1887, at 10 o'clock AM.
of said day, at the court room of
the above-entitle'i court at FL Gen.
tro. in the County of Imperial, has
been set for hearing said petition
when and where any person inter-
ested may appear and show cause
why the said petition should not
be granted.
Dated this Goth dav of July, 1887.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
Clerk
BY CITHA LAMSON,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-30
Churches Invite Attendance

say we'll; for so I am. A new
commandment l give unto you
That We love one another; as
have loved you, that ye also love
one another. BY this shall all men
know that We are my disciples, if yt
have love one to another" This
verse from Johns first epistle is in
cluded also: And we have known
and believed the love that God
hath to us. God is love; and he that
dWelleth in love dwelleth in God,
and God in him.
The Lesson Sermon presents also
this passage from Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures,
by Mary Baker Eddy: God is
Love" More than this we cannot
ask, higher We cannot look, farther
We cannot co.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-30

dle-aged, was declared by us. Sec
ret Service Agent S. j. Moffitt to
be the head of the gang, which has
been operating several months.
Guy Arcaro, 30, was the second
man arrested by Reno police, who
said he had been passing counter
fiet currency allegedly supplied by
SWope
One bogus bill was found in
Swope's possession. Moffitt said he
apparently had hidden a large sup
ply he was known to have had
prior to his arrest in a Reno hotel.
1t was not disclosed if SWope was
believed the manufacturer.
Moffitt said the trail of counter
felt money that led to todays ar
rests started in Reno, swung into
Red Bluff, Cal, and other north
ern California towns an into Ore
gon and Washington. 1t was traced
back to Reno on a map on which
pins marked each town in which
a counterfeit bill had been located.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-30
Fishermen Asked
To Allow Mining
On Salmon Rivers

SACRAMENTO, Cal, July 80.
CUP)-State Senator John B. Nc
Coll today requested the Associated
Sportsmen of California to recon-
slider their decision to endorse an
initiative petition to close the Kla-
math and Trinity rivers to any
mining.
In letter to Robert Allen, Stock
ton, president of the association,
he urged that a bill passed during
the last session, shortening the min
ing season and Tightening the fish
ing season on the two famous sal
mon and steelnead streams in
northwestern California, be given
fair chance" to prove its worth.
The association recently announced
it's intention of promoting a move
ment to block mining on the rivers
because pollution spoiled fishing.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-30
PIuvius Unpopular
To Waynesburgians

WAYNESBURG, Pa, July 30.
W.P)-Jupiter Pluvius was ter
ribly unpopular as a rain god
in Waynesburg today.
1t didn't rain here yesterday.
This little college town is
very proud of its tradition it
always raisls on July 29-or
nearly always. A tattered old
log book that someone started
years ago showed that it rained
every July 29 from 1875 to 1896
except twice and one Of those
times occurred in the drought
year of 1880.
But IL didn't rain here yester-
day SO that's three rainless July
29's in 62 years.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-07-30
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH

Love" is the subject of the Les
son-Sermon on Sunday in all
Churches of Christ, Scientist,
branches of The Mother Church,
The First Church of Christ, Scien-
tist, in Boston Massachusetts. The
Golden Text is from Paul's second
epistle to the Corinthians: BE per-
feet, be of good comfort, be of one
mind. live in peace; and the God of
love and peace shall be with you"
On of the Bible selections in
the Lesson Sermon includes these
words of Jesus, from John: "Ye
call me Master and Lord: and ye