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Evening star., 1937-02-14

GEORGE E. SoKoLsKY, whose
interpretations of life appear on
this page from time to time, has
lived all over the world. He spent
most of his boyhood on New
York's lower East Side. He has
written about street gamins be-
cause he knew them hrst-hand.
He struggled for his education
and became scholar. He has
lived in various corners Of the
world. He spent fourteen years
in China and speaks that most
difficult language fliently. His
Hrse wife was a brilliant Chinese
woman.
When he left Columbia Uni
versity in 1917, he headed for
Russia to watch the revolution.
For a year he edited the only
English-language newspaper in
Petrograd; then he was put on
train, bound out of Russia. He
landed in Harbin, with a single
dollar in his pocket, eventually
making his way to Peiping. For
IA years he edited and published
newspapers, wrote textbooks for
China's schools, advised Chinese
youth.
How does the rest of the world
live? His answer, will be found
in the columns to the right:
mot BY BREAD ALONE"
Evening star., 1937-02-14

10 find the peaceful-appearing
citizen whose picture appears
below, look where trouble is
breaking! Douglas Newton has
spent most of his life searching
for excitement and finding it
ON four continents.
Vienna boils up in one Of its
many revolutions; Newton is
there.
Danzig, International hot spot,
stages riot; Newton is there.
King Alexander of Yugo-Slavia
is assassinated; Newton is on
hand.
Editor, airman, special CORE
spondent, in all his wandering he
has found much exciting plot ma
terial. He uses some of it in a
Hollywood story of love and
jealousy and a winning trick,
which appears in an early issue
of THIS WEEK. Look for it:
'HoUsE DOG HUSBAND"
Evening star., 1937-02-14
Snotches
Nosozins Section

RECENT pictures of Herbert
Hoover show him again with the
smile of pre-depression years. He
has a real sense of humor, and
even in the war days made many
a sad soul laugh. Once he drew
and passed around the table
queer-looking diagram and asked
us to guess what it was. Nobody
knew the answer. Then he ex-
planned that it was the coffin for
one-legged Scotchman. A we'll
known Englishman to whom |
once told this story completed
the picture by sketching the
Scotchman inside.
Evening star., 1937-02-14
Drswiss By J.F. Qyass

UsowtSS oy J.t. 0v0~
Der the blue milk in a tin can in the
grocery. That blue milk gave the baby
what used to be known as Summer
complaint" and babies still have this in
many parts of the world today - blue,
watery milk-and summer sickness!
They come together. And often with
them later comes tuberculosis!
That is what is important in our lives
- milk and meat - sunshine and lei
sure - and freedom.
Three yardsticks may be used to
measure the standards of living of any
people. The first yardstick is that of
Consumption Goods. What is the per
capita consumption of goods each year?
That answers the question: What does
man get in material things for the work
he does? How much can he buy for the
wages he receives9
You notice that | do not ask what his
wages are. What | do want to know
is what those wages can buy in goods.
The second yardstick is Leisure.
That is, how much of his life does a
human being have to give to earn
enough to buy the goods he needs and
wants to use Man used to work in this
country IL and IA hours day. Today,
he considers 48 hours long week. He
used to begin work at II or IA. Today,
we call it child labor if he begins to
work at Is and in many places we ex-
pect him to remain at school until l8.
Now this question of leisure is tre-
mendously important to the individual.
1t gives him time for education, for
play, for thought, time with his family.
In lots of places, human beings still
have no leisure. They have to work
from sunrise to sunset. They never
have the time to think whether they
are dissatisfied with their lives.
And the third yardstick is Human
Freedom. How much does human be-
ing have to sacrifice to the state for the
things he has and the leisure he enjoys'
For instance, in this country and in
England and in the Scandinavian coun-
tries, he gives up little of human free
dom. But in the collectivist countries of
Europe, he has no freedom at all. He is
the servant of the state - to do ex-
actly as the state wants him to do.
These are yardsticks of living. These
are measures of a mans life - of any
mans life. And when you take these
measures and apply them to our own
country, it seems to be mighty decent
place to live in.
Evening star., 1937-02-14

4 KNOW young lady who can tell you
all about every country. Spain
comes into the headlines and she
rattles Spanish politics with swift
ness. Chang Kai-shek is kidnapped and
she knows the difference between Shansi
and Shensi, between Soochow and
Hsuchow. She knows all about not only
one 6ve-year plan in Soviet Russia, but
two. She speaks about the struggle be-
tween Fascism and liberalism in Japan.
She has inside dope on what wars are
brewing and when they will take place.
But when you ask about the people Of
the countries she talks about, the plain,
ordinary people - then she is silent.
When l ask, what do the people of
that country eat? How many times
week do they have meat? Do they have
vitamin-giving foods, the orange, the
tomato? Do they ever see lettuce?
Can they get rich, fresh milk for the
baby's formula? These questions throw
my friend for loop. She had never
thought of that.
So l 60 on. In China, l say to her,
most people live in mud huts with
thatched roofs. In Japan, the little
wood and paper houses are 6re-traps.
What kind of homes do the people you
are so excited about live in3
Do they have electric lights: Do
they own electrical refrigerators! Or
even ice-boxes? Do they have a radio!
What kind of furniture do they own?
How do they 60 to work? Do they
have only their legs to use for locomo-
tion9 Or do they ride donkey? Have
they ever seen an automobile?
You say these people are doing well.
All right. What kind of clothes do they
wear? Can their women afford silk or
rayon stockings? Can their men afford
woolen garments in winter?
Can their women afford the luxury
of keeping their nails clean and attrac-
tive? How about permanent wave!
What about soft underthings3
And do the children, when they 60 to
school, have cereal for breakfast, and
some orange juice? Do they walk to
school or is there bus?
In a word, after the argument is
over, l say: LETS try to work out some
yardsticks that will make it possible for
us to say whether people are better or
worse off. How do they live? Is it by
bread alone or do they have something
more than mere bread?
Those of us in our forties still remem-
Evening star., 1937-02-14

IHERE is Russian nobleman in
Hollywood, California, who has a
unique profession. He is reader
of faces. He can look at man or
a woman, or even at photographs
of someone he has never met and
tell such minute details of their
characters and habits as, ''He is a
good horseman," "She plays
bridge" "She doesn't buy her
own Clothes" "She could play
parts written expressly for her
but could never interpret charac-
tiers different from her own"
This Russian began his profess
sional work as personnel direc-
tor in a chain store company.
High salaries are paid by movie
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
by him.
Evening star., 1937-02-14

lADYBUGs had a place on the
program at a recent meeting of
the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. 1t was
announced that a new livestock
industry has been started - lady
bug raising. DR.. Gordon w. Haug,
of Ohio State University, care
fully feeds and nurtures these
little insects throughout the win
ter, letting them loose in the
spring to feed on the destructive
aphids. Two ladybugs can save
rosebush from aphids. Score one
for the feminists.
M. M. M.
~ Halted Newsna r,era MaSazane Cornorstso.
Evening star., 1937-07-11

You need plenty Of these soft,
highly absorbent, large size tissues
for Summer. They're grand to
take along on trips, to keep the
face wiped clean Of CRIME and dust.
Evening star., 1937-07-11

Fastidious modern women prefer these
superior type sanitary napkins because
they are super-soft. highly absorbent,
and comfortable. Won't chafe or show.
Evening star., 1937-07-11
musco
Rubbing Oil

Relieves aches and
pains duickly-it con-
tains quick-penetrating
Oil Of Wintergreen.
Evening star., 1937-07-11

Lubricates the intes-
tinal tract. Easy to take
because 1t is odorleSs
and tasteless.
Evening star., 1937-07-11

An exceptional fan for the none
ing breezes. Economical to n
current.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-01
At first he was astonished, then


 At first he was astonished, ther alarmed.
 He remembered the experience with Carolee. Here, though, the brushy growth was negligible. He remembered to look for tracks. Sure enough, they led of, and were easily followed.
 The hoof marks went 200 yards or so then suddenly disappeared at a cliff edge. Stuart peered over Good Lord!" he breathed.
 The horse was dead-literally smashed-on the rocks several hun dred feet below.
 Stuart hastened to circle around and down to the beast, but there was nothing he could do. How could a mountain horse have slip ped so fatally? Stuart realized the seriousness of his situation. He was long rugged hike from the Lodge. But he wasn't as helpless as when he and Carolee became lost for a while; he had thought to bring wa ter this time. Water!
 Quickly he looked. The canteen was under the dead animal and the saddle. By straining he extract ed it, but it had been smashed in the fall and was quite empty now.
 Diabolically, at that instant, thirst seemed doubled within him.. (Many another man has experienced that sensation, when water is discovered gone)
 This is getting fantastic!" Stu art told himself. "All that hooey about Superstition Mountain-and yet I get lost with a girl, dad gets shot at, and now I'm in new spot. I'll be seeing the Thunder Gods next!" He was confused at the train of events as well as concerned for his own safety.
 He had good reason to be con- cerned even more than he realized. Arizona air is thin" dry. Wet clothes in back yards dry in 20 min utes. Meat is cured quickly or "jerked" simply by hanging outside on string. The aridity is even greater in desert attitudes such as Superstition provides. Rainfall is rare, totalng but five or six inches in a year, often less. Canteens are standard equipment with every man who works outdoors. Sun and thirst can cause real suffering in four hours, delirium in six or eight, death in "A.
 Stuart didn't know all these de- tails, but he was beginning to sus- pect them, By p. m. he was ill. His tongue seemed double in size, and he was seeing his first tantal- izing mirages, always of lakes and streams. Yet he felt rational.
 He fired his pistol repeatedly but his only answers were mocking echoes.
 He tried chewing the scanty green leaves, and once he sucked some moist earth that he found in deep, shady girge, but that only made him vomit and caused his mouth to bleed.
 The air turned sharply cold after nightfall. The wind changed, too. Stuart wondered where he intense
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-01

Yesterday: Stuart's father is shot at while riding in the mOun- tains. The next day Stuart, armed, starts out to investigate the source Of the shooting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-01
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sun heat had so suddenly dis sipated. But the night wind seemed no more humid. He was shivering Once-he had been walking for hourS-he thought he heard Caro- lee Golfers laughter. He looked ur suddenly and saw nothing, and knew that he was beginning to lose control.
 His collar had seemed tight earlier and he had unbuttoned it. He had thrown the neckerchief away. Now his throat seemed even more constricted and he tore off his entire shirt, panting a bit at the exertion.
 That made him realize his semi hysteria, so he calined for a while. He could see fairly well by the stars. He kept going in what he believed to be the back-tra direc- tion, down the rocky slope that would lead into Apache Canyon, thence home. But sometimes he climbed, too. He wasn't sure.
 It was late when he decided final ly to sleep. He moved, partly by in stinct, toward low slip of rock that would afford protection from the wind, and crawled under it.
 Something went "whs's's, a-a-a-a, whs-s-s-s-s-s" at him, and he could see moving forms. He saw that they were babies, knew them for lion kit- tens. He had stumbled onto a pam ther den. He didn't remember about partners, but he imagined they ate men. The mother cat would be com- ing home.
 He backed away, and soon he stumbled onto some buck brush. He fell and it was soft, and so utterly exhausted was he that he just lay there.
 (TO Be Continued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-01
Stamp News
BY I. s. KLEIN C

OFFICIAL announcement by V Postmaster General Farley confirms the report, made recently, of a proposed stamp commem- orating the 350th anniversary of the founding of colony in South Carolina by Sir Walter Raleigh. The new stamp will honor Vir- ginia Dare, first child of English percentage born in America. It will be of the five-cent denomina- ton. First day of issue will be August IS.
 A set of nine stamps is being prepared for the British colony of. Kedah in the Straits Settlements. Not since 1922 have new stamps been issued from this colony.
 %
 Coronation stamps from many of the British colonies and outly- ing possessions may be rarer than was first expected. Some colonies already have stopped printing the ACW otdlllpo' AI LIIG odILlG tAIIIC, increased difficulty in obtaining the issues from distant possess sions will make such stamps all the more desirable.
 
 Cuba. in July, will issue a set of three stamps commemorating the fourth centenary of sugar cane growing. The 1c value shows the plant. The 2c stamp pictures an ancient mill with oxen furnish ing the power, and the Sc shows a modern sugar refinery.
 
 Italy will shortly commemorate the 600th anniversary of the death of the Florentine painter, Giotto, with a series of stamps.
 Copyright. 1887, NEA Service. Incl
 NEXT: What gate marks the western entrance to Berlin? 12
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-01
RATS PLAGUE zuzuLANn

Johannesburg (UP)-Zuzuland is suffering from an unparalleled pla- que of rats. The rodents are scurry- ing across country, eating all crops, especially maize and pumpkins, and leaving locustlike devastation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-01
Brain TwizzIers By Prot ], D. Flint

This one almost always gets 'em because it deals in something which seems so big that it is confusing.
 If telephone company has a wire which runs around the earth Gap proximately 25,000 miles) at a height of 10 feet above the ground and wishes to increase this height to eleven feet, how much wire would Ha crew need to complete the circle?
 This does not need complicated Figuring.
 Answer to Yesterdays Twizxler
 Brine is Captain of the Albatross. Captain Salts ship is not the His paniola, which has been in dry dock for seven weeks because hS wife became i'll near the end of the last voyage and was only in the hospi- tai week so his ship is the Amer acus. Then Tarrs ship is the Ha- paniola. Anericus is headed for Liverpool with owners report. AL hatross must be heading for New k0fk because it took on stowa- NaY for the Americus and was headed the other way. Therefore Captain Tarr and the Hispars~la afe headed for Crerbourg.
 lCOpyright John F. Dille Co)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-01
CAST OF CHARACTERS CAROLEE GOLFER, heroine daughter.

STUART BLAKE, eastern ssdude" tourist; Carolee's lover. HENRY GOLFER, prOspectOr. PAUL AN DSILAS GOLFER, prospector's sons.
 NINA BLAKE, Stuart's sister.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-01

NEXT: What gate marks the western entrance to Berlin? 12
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-18
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF HEARING TO
ESTABLISH BIRTH
No. 2731

No. 273l
In the Superior Court Of the State
Of California. I'm and For the
County OF Imperial.
In the Matter of the Petition of
CATALINA GUERRA GSIMA, to
establish the birth of
HELEN GUERRA DHILLON.
Notice is hereby piven that CAT
ALMA GUERRA GRIMA has filed
2 petition in the above entitled
Court to establish the birth ~
HELEN GUERRA DHIILON. Sai
petition will be heard before The
above entitled Court on FRIDAY. the
29th day of January, 1887, at the
hour of 200 o-ciock p M. OF said
date, at which time any person in
terested may appear and show cause,
if any they have. why an order
should net be made establishing The
birth of Helen Guerra Dhillcn.
Reference is hereby made to said
petition for further particulars.
w. j. .tMcCLELLAND,
County Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk
of the Superior Court, Imperial
County
DOROTHY S. REYNOLDS.
Deputy Clerk.
tSeaD J18-28inc
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-18
News Behind the News
Planned HulIabaloo Making
Target of the Court The STORY
of 'ReactiOnaries -.

.,,,,ncroN Like it or not. girls and
bevs Won are now in the mlost OF II nus e.a,,o s
hoo and hullabaloo about the Y. ,"tpatinn .
ro',rt Consciously designed by an aomhls1ra.Mloll M
,.;o,, is determined to lick what IL cans @ eiie
.reactionary" majority OF the court ey
eons NAV prove to be the most ellee'iFe.
nv T., rubic speeches and statements, eohsies
rSehates newspaper articles. and raolo
,oadoo.ts vo,l will hear the story OF now oiae
snpreme court through the decades mas 1nws,,
ed the noble democratic aims Oh 0he iouie
fathers has favored the special INTERESTS ao ~,
- s,iu threatens to nullify the Will OF eite
neonle bv nvalidating the laws passed py i.s it
elected representatives and approved oy i''
elected president
Nv poosevelt sits in the White House, MS
cor attuned to the manifestations OF popular
reaction one eye newspaper chppiilss .a aiiu
dioests of the White House mail ana tne o'liei
oiseaO s., ,rrenoe court itself to observe the de-
% oaa U ~ which that august tribunal bends before
the camor .;.;,, +bo+ means
.,nust, he found to adapt judicial lhterpfeea-
tio, Tn the present national needs, was care
fully planned as the signal gun In cohcei'eo
attack with these aims. -,
To swing Chief Justice Hughes and JUS
tice owen j. Roberts into state OF mino winch
will cause them to support liberal lnterpreta-
tions of the Constitution in company Win Jus,
tices Stone Brandeis and Cardozo as opp9seo
to the inflexibfe conservative a.t.uae IIu "a u NJ
tices sutherland, VanDevanter. Butler ana NC
Reynolds, 49,, oo,sor,,o+i,,e ms
tices so miserable that one or TWO OF lheih ihay
be persuaded to retire ..
q To churn up the minds OF the American
neople to the point where there will be an art-
culate pressing demand for drastic action 10
curb the courts present veto power over 1edefal
legislation.
IF neither No nor No. is achieved, Roose-
Welt hopes that the people will be sufficlently
..educated' sooner or later to be not only re-
centive but eager, for presidential ana con-
pressional action. His present intention is TO
Keen pushing the educational campaign rlgnt
I'D to that boiling point.
You NAV have noticed that some OF those
who were the bittereSt anti-NeW Dealers before
election are urging that the New Deal be IN
no rush to solve its supreme court problem but
resort to the orderly process OF seeking con-
stitutiona amendment.
New Dealers closest to the president are
increasingly skeptical about that. They cite
the fact that the child labor amendment is
still unratified by the requisite three-fourths OF
the states after all these years, assert that
nothing more than an inconsequential amend
ment could be ratified quickly now, and pri-
yafelv insist that it would be all too simple
for reactionary interests to buy enough STATE
legislatures to block any amendment which
would really restore to Congress powers usurpeo
by the court.
Subsequent developments should be inter-
preted in the light of the foregoing exclusive
picture of what the administration 1s-at the
mornent-really trying to do.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-18
THE BIGGEST MOVE YET
TO .SQUELCH POLITICS

1t is not often that maj jority leaders
of the Imperial Irrigation District do
something with which not even their
bitterest enemies can find a seemingly
plausible fault. For this reason, if for
no other, the district boards action of
last Saturday in calling sweeping
election is an historic event. AS a move
toward putting district affairs directly
in the hands of the people, it is without
precedent in the annals of Imperial
Valley. Only those few who mistrust
the will of the people can find fault
with the combined general and special
election, in which voters of the district
will choose every one of the districts
elective officers.
1t is time we were getting ourselves
out of the mess in which we have been
since the invalid election of two years
ago. There is one way, and one way
only, in which we can get out of it. That
is by wiping clean the entire slate, and
starting over again with officers who
represent the people beyond a shadow
of a doubt. We will do this February
3rd. by electing five directors, trea-
surer and an assessor-collector After
that. there can be no doubt of the
right of any elective officer to the office
he holds; nor can there be any doubt
that the person in office was put there
by the voters, not by politicians.
This is no time in the current of
district affairs for factional disputes
and political back-bitiHg. 1t is no time
for .inter-office jealousies and blcker-
ing There are too many really lmpor-
tant matters to be administered, TOO
many vital projects demanding whole
hearted cooperation OH the part of all
district officials. Regardless Of who Is
elected, this cooperation should be ex-
pected-even demanded-by the men
and women who pay the bills.
In a maze of political details, even
the sharpest observer is liable to lose
sight of the broad program desired by
the people Voters of the Imperial lr-
rigation District have written into the
records time and again their approval
of their own power program as admin
istered by the district, yet there are
those even now who suggest that per-
haps the power program is not the de-
sire of the people. If it is not, then
the voters can say so on FEBRUARY 3rd.
If it is, then they may, once again,
stamp it with their approval.
Through sweeping election such as
that ordered by the district directors
in answer to public petition, the dis
trict will do two things. 1t will clean
its slate of political uncertainty, and
it will learn the wishes of the people
in the matter of power Development
1t is we'll that the full voice OF the
people will be sounded on February 3rd
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-18
ROOSEVELT STAGES
ANOTHER BIG SHOW

The greatest Snowman Of them all
is arranging the biggest show of them
all. President Franklin d. Roosevelt
will be inaugurated for his second term
at Washington January goth. Press dis
patches indicate that the event will be
by far the most pretentious inaugural
ceremony ever held.
Roosevelt, politician, statesman and
humanist, again is demonstrating the
showmanship which won. him the big
gest vote ever accorded any president.
Luckily, there is more than Snowman
ship in his nature-a fact which makes
showmanship merely a means to an
end, and the end is confidence.