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Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-08
University Club To
Elect Officers

Reservations for Women's Uni
yersity club party Tuesday night
in the Holtville civic center should
be made at once with Mrs. John
w Cook Of FL Contro telephone
4557-J.
In addition to the annual cleo
tion of officers, the Holtville men,
bers are planning party featur-
ing a series of amusing games.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-08
Auxiliary Unit
Meets Tuesday

Boyce Aten unit, American Legion
Auxiliary, is planning a regular
meeting for Tuesday night at
o'clock in the Veterans hall. The
women will serve refreshments lat
er joining the post for a social
hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-08
Mrs. McEuen Reelected Head of
Chapter CIV Saturday

danes Everett Gullett r. M. Arm
strong, M. w. Brents. j. E. Brock
r. c.. Clemons, M. j. Dowd, Nor
man E. Dupont, Scott B. Foulds,
j. D. Foss, H. S. Cow, Guy l.
Hatch, J. l.. House, Joe E. King
S. L. McCrory, w. w. McEuen, M
C. Pinnell, D. B. Roberts, E. w
Schiller, L. w. Slee, c. E. Sones,
Donald l.. Young.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-08
Jasper Session At
F. w. Leng Home

Jasper home department will
study the cake Filings and frostings
project Wednesday at the meeting
to be held with Mrs. F.. w. Leng.
An all day session will be featured
with pot luck luncheon at noon.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-08
Recreation Council
Meeting Postponed

Rural Recreation Council men,
bers have postponed their meet
ing one week in order tS avoid
conflict witr the county fair. The
conflict with the county fair. The
20, III the Imperial Veterans hall.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-08
NeUs Items About
Valley Residents

Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Steinhoff of
San Diego and their infant daugh-
ter, Ona Aline, spent the weekend
in the valley visiting the j. I. S.
McE,lvaney family. Mrs. Steinhoff
is the former Vera McElvaney.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-08
Len Buckets Haze
Daughter

Mr.. and Mrs. Len Bucket have
a baby daughter born Feb. rs at
their ranch home, weighing 81
pounds at birth, The baby has
been named Eileen Ellen.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-08
Episcopal Guild
Calls Meeting

st. Paul's guild will meet Tuesday
at 2:30 o'clock with Mrs V. Garcia,
67f He'll avenue.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-08
Postpone Meeting Oi
Hard of Hearing

Regular meeting of the Ell Centro
society for the Hard of Hearing has
been postponed one week.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-08

Tom Drumheller. Walla Walla.
Washington, was elected president
OF the State Wool Growers Associ-
alton for the eighteenth time.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-08

TO-
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore p. Rey-
nolds and Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Duer
spent Sunday in San Diego.
Mrs. Jean Robertson of Long
Beach is visiting Mrs. Jessie Sar-
gent and Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Polzine, spending the week in Ell
Centre. Mrs. Ethel Wade of Los
Angeles was house guest of theirs
last week. Mrs. Robertson and Mrs.
Polzine we're choolmates at Collegi-
ate in Los Angeles.
90
Terril Heish, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. II. j. Heish, who was op-
Grated on recently for mastoid, has
recovered sufficiently to be able
to return to Ell Centro from San
Dicgo's Mercy Hospital.
90
E. A. Nance, county probation Of
ficer, is recovering from siege of
flu which kept him away from the
office the greater part of last week.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-08

Mrs. Jessie Conner is in Pasa-
dena for a short stay.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-08

FAMOUS SKI EXPERT. Sig Buchmayr
says: 81 smoke with my meals and after
wards, for digestion's sake. And I'll pick
Camels every time for favor
Modern life often pushes us to the limit.
At such times especially, smoking Cames
is an aid to digestion. Camels help to ease
tension and speed up the flow of digestive
fluids alkaline digestive fluids-th play
so vital a part in the way you enjoy food
and in the way food agrees with you. Camels
are milder- an important point with steady
smokers. With their finer tobaccos, Camels
are gentle to your throat.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-08
Lovely

STREAKS DOWN bob-run at
60 m. p. h. Steel-nerved Raymond
Il. Stevens says: 81 enjoy the pleas
ure of smoking to the full, knowing
Camcls never bother my nerves. "
Evening star., 1937-03-06
An Error of Kindness.

Clark Grifiith loves base ball and chill
dren. When twelve-year-ol Washing
ton boy ran away from home and, in
almost incredible fashion, reached the
Florida training camp of the Nationals,
1t was the human thing for such a man
to do to give the lad q kindly reception.
Such loyalty naturally called for some
recognition. 1t is, however, to be feared
that Mr.. Grifith may have failed to
consider the possible consequences of
his humanness.
The Odyssey of Jimmie Brady was one
of the best "stories" of the year. It
aroused in many nostalgia memories Of
their own Spring fevers. Unfortunately
there were others who read the same
stories. Certainly in Jimmie Brady's
neighborhood, and probably all over
washington, the lad is today the envy
Of every boy.
What chiefly impresSes the boys is
that this youngster actually ran away
as 50 many of them have threatened to
do-and has been rewarded for It.
A stern word from father Or mother
Evening star., 1937-03-06
Labor Holds London.

In John Bright's time, when free trade
was an issue, the slogan was that what
Manchester thinks today England will
say tomorrow. The British Labor party
doubtless is in mood this week to para
phrase the ancient wheeze and predict
that what London has just done the
country will emulate as soon as it gets
q chance-viZ., restore Labor to national
sion the Laborites, under the militant
captaincy of Herbert Morrison, won the
London municipal elections and thus re-
tained control of the County Council, the
body which administers the vast affairs
Of the metropolis through correlated
system of borough governments. While
the issues at stake were purely local, the
Labor party always insists that its pre-
dominance on the Thames is an augury
Of its return to Downing Street at no
distant date. If and when that ensues,
Mr. Morrison is expected to be graduated
from the County Council Craftsmanship
to the prime ministership.
In the teeth of charges that British
Labor is saturated with Red leanings,
the Morrison hosts fought the recent
campaign on their record, particularly
their social program, and were hand
somely vindicated. With the count Of
votes complete for "a out Of 124 seats,
Labor has won S.; its opponents, the
Municipal Reformers, only 80. Results
still outstanding will not offset the sub
startial majority by which Labor Will
Evening star., 1937-03-06
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

ITO labor is to pray" said the old
Latin motto.
To eat may be to pray, too, If It il
done properly, and with reverent -
well as scientific knowledge.
Divine, indeed, is chemistry.
It may be that mankind got its first
idea Of bowling the head in prayer by
watching the birds eat.
This was brought to attention the
other day in watching sparrows at
small feeding station outside the dining
room window.
There is, at the rear Of this structure,
a small box, or tiny room, in which the
seed is placed.
When the assemblage has eaten most
Of the food there is room in this place,
almost like q tiny rostrum, for just one
bird.
One sparrow had turned around and
was facing the others, which. in turn.
were facing him.
He, in his little pulpit, would seize q
seed, then raise his head high in the
air
The other birds, now one and then
another. would dip the head downward.
1t was as II the single bird were q
preacher, who was geSticulating and
raising his head in talk, while the other
birds were members of the congregation
and were nodding assent from time to
time. and bowing their heads in prayer.
Eating, with these strange little crea-
lures. is prayer, in real sense, to the
unknown God" Who is at once their
Creator and Sustainer.
1t may be that early man, watching
the birds eat, sensed something OF this,
and unconsciously began to initiate the
bowed head.
Grace with meals, that pleasant old
custom, may be a reminder OF the
ancient days before reading and writing
and arithmetic.
We could do worse than make the
birds our models. Only We should take
conscious thought, to keep in mind the
wonderful chemistry of food.
1t is not necessary to think upon the
subject, at the very time Of eating, but
to give a thought now and then, in
order to understand that the necessary
things OF life need not be, indeed are
not, unwholesome.
Food intake, for instance, need not
be mere Shoveling OF food into the
NAV Custom and etiquette combine
to take most human eating out of this
category and place it in the halls OF
art. We have music, flowers and
laughter with our meals, and benefit
from all.
What we need, too is a little chemis-
try with breakfast, lunch and dinner. in
order to keep always before us the
marvellous laboratory which We are.
Everybody is laboratory, and high
powered one in sense the biggest
best and most capable chemical labor
atory in the world.
The chemical processes involved in
converting the things we eat into the
materials used by the body for fuel
growth, rebuilding blood and all other
cells of the body. have been studied more
in the past so years than in all time
past.
Think of that, for a second. and then
realize that even today the average per-
Evening star., 1937-03-06

burns, cuts. indigestion, rheumatism. pus
in the kidneys, irritated bladder. dysen-
terry, ptomaine poisoning, acute diarrhea,
sore throat. liberated tonils, toothache,
erysipelas and carbuncles.
A tea made of senna leaves and pods,
fennel Seed anise seed. elder flowers.
buckthorn bark, dog grass, orange peel
and ginger root was being sold as a
treatment for pimpleS, dizziness, toxemia,
minor eruptions. bad breath, colitis. di-
gestive disturbances and fatigue. A mix
ture Of petroleum with menthol and
wintergreen was offered for local con-
geSti0n, irritation and Inflammation,
rheumatism, neuralgia, chest colds, mus
cular soreness. bruises headaches, skin
irritations and affections of the air pas
sages."
A liniment containing alcohol, chloro-
form, ether ammonia, water. pepper
mint and mustard oil was offered for
muscular rheumatism. stiff neck, pains
in the sides, chest and back; nasal
catarh grippe. neuralgia, sore throat
and coughs. A mixture of turpentine
and few other oils was represented as
q cure for pains in the chest, side,
back and kidneys; bladder troubles,
cough and sore throat. weak lungs,
asthma, swellings. sore feet and rheu-
matism." A similar oil mixture was
offered as a treatment for sore throat,
tonsilitis, stiff neck, neuralgia. rheu-
matism, congestion, sore muscles. bron-
chitis, Group, lumbago pains and aches
in the back and joints and colds in the
chest"
What was little more than perfumed
water was advertised for apathy,
associated neurosis and psychoses, cir
rheumatism, obesity, prostatitis back
aches, nervous restlesness. sciatica, dis
turbed digestion, insomnia and loss Of
weight"
Evening star., 1937-03-06

continue to prevail. 1t derives special
satisfaction from the crushing rebuff of
the anti-Semitic attack conducted by
Sir Oswald Mosley and his Fascist forces
in the East End. All six Mosley candi-
dates were showed under in three
cornered contests. Their total vote in
no borough amounted to more than q
fractional minority. Labor asked for
prolonged control. in order to 60 on
with its slum clearance, housing and park
projects. The Municipal Reformers
made no headway with claims that
Labor has left many promises unful-
filled and is burdening the community
with unbearable taxes. Mr.. Morrison
rejected the taunt that Labor enjoys
the support of Communists. declaring
that there is no possibility of co-opera-
ton with them.
At present the only opposition group
OF consequence in the House of Com
mons, Labor contemplates eventual, II
not early recapture Of the national gov.
ernment. If Mr.. Baldwin and his top
heavy Tory majority in Parliament were
to 60 to the country today, Labor
probably would seek to exploit Britain's
colossal rearmament expenditure as
paramount issue Besides defending that
program as indispensable to national
security. the government is moving to
undermine Labor's objections by stress
ing the vast benefits to workers sure to
flow from the industrial expansion in
cidental to 81 SOC, 900, 900 outlay on arms.
Evening star., 1937-03-06

and . queer CLINT comes in the childs
eye. Now he knows what to do.
Around Tenleytown more than one
parent has expressed . sincere fear that
Jimmie's adventures will start an epi-
demic of runaways.
One account from Orlando stated that
Jimmy is to get q season pass to the ball
park. 1t is to be hoped that this is not
true, for the children who are convinced
it is are prepared to follow Jimmie'a Z
footsteps to get the same reward.
The least Mr.. Grifith can do, after
making such gesture of appreciation,
is to offer q free pass to every boy of
twelve or under in Washington. II he
does not the consequences may be feared
Evening star., 1937-03-06

son II exactly in the state OF MANKIND
q hundred years ago.
He knows nothing, in other words, o(
the chemistry of foods and nutrition.
1t Is not necessary, Of course, TO know,
in order to eat.
A large body of perfectly legitimate
opinion would say that such knowledge
would be harmful to the average man.
Such an attitude, let it be added. is
what holds the world back. Mankind
will never 60 ahead until he loses such
Q mental attitude.
Another opinion is that little knowl-
edge is not a dangerous thing, as the
poet believed, but . good thing, for two
reasons. One, it makes life more inter
esting for the individual; two. out OF
every million individuals so interested.
may come one discoverer.
One would not ask that the consumer
take his seat at table with q copy OF q
chemistry book In one hand and fork
in the other.
No, 1t isn't done that way.
Best consideration of the chemistry Of
nutrition is done in the library, public
or private. CThe latter, Of course, Is
Just ones best easy chair)
But some such thought ought to be
| given to the subject. now and then, by
every one 1t is, literally, q shame to
| 20 through world in which wonders
happen without knowing a bit about
| them
What good does the knowing DO? Does
the food digest any better?
Well, 1t won't digest any worse. that
| Is sure, and some little knowledge keeps
| alive the sense of wonder, which is. as
| is easily seen all around, easily blunted.
They say that q sense of smell is
dulled by constant application of the
odor. That isn't true of the sense
of wonder. Many persons lose 1t early.
because they are content to live a COM
| pletely animal life. BY using that last
| phrase, We mean no disrespect to the
| beautiful animals. An animal life, pure
and simply. is fine-for animals. But
man has something else. the world Of
conscious mind which he may or may
not enter. as he wills. Free will is not
| just phrase. Although many words
have been wound around it, until today
| it is a phrase held in no little disteem,
after all it means something, and no
where more than in regard to the most
| interesting world of conscious mind.
|
Thinking about things, as We go along
is good provided we do not overdo it
The homely wisdom Of the past said
| Too much of anything is bad
But to think about the chemistry OF
| food. for instance. at a convenient time
IS to know something not many persons
know anything about at all. One may
not know much more, but at least it is
something and that something helps
make life more interesting.
The most complex changes 60 on
Forty different compounds occur where
there was but one before
The eater could not do it, Of his own
mind; he is this chemical laboratory
although he doesn't know a formula
His own chemistry is marvellous, but he
doesn't know a thing about it. Then
Some One Else must do it for him.
So we see that when the brides bow
their heads to eat. they are, in a very
true sense. praying and giving thanks
in the only way they have of praying
| and giving thanks.
Evening star., 1937-03-06
A Rhyme at Twilight
BY
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
The Circuit.

In this mysterious round o Of a world
I wait. lost love, wait for your re-
turning;
Though Fate has borne you of by tempest
whirled,
keep the fire burning.
Round and around follow as with chart
Wide seas Fate leads you DER, our lives
to sever
The while I hold you captive in my heart
Forever and forever.
I know it will come round-though you
may roam
And 1 am forced to sit here, waiting,
yearning-
Turn on Fate's axis that will bring you
home,
Where our fire Is burning.
Evening star., 1937-03-06
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

The Life Beautiful.
A lady shot her husband dear.
A husband shot his wife
And all the wondering crowd drew neal
And said, How strange is lifei"
A lady ran away and left
Her husband far behind.
A husbands wife is now bereft
Because he changed his mind.
Now every week and every day
Brings forth assurance sad
That human nature has way
OF going to the bad.
In spite of much that's surely wrong,
The poet keeps his pull
And still he sings his little song
rs not life beautiful"
Evening star., 1937-03-06

History is not always just. Masculine
freedom in feminine attire has been
gracefully accomplished with no tributes
to the we'll meaning and courageous in
fiuence of DR.. Mary Walker. She met
many humiliations bravely, but she wore
the pants.
Evening star., 1937-03-06

Musical accomplishments are respected
more here than in Europe. A little
musical art brings so much esteem over
here that even craftsmanship demands
honor for musical saws and modern in
struments.
Evening star., 1937-03-06
LabOr's Civil War.

The c. I. O.'s policy in gaining recog-
milton seems to be guided by more ex-
pediency than consistency. Concessions,
in the form of recognition OF c. I. o.
union on the basis of its membership
only, brought peace in the General
Motors strike and gained for an "out-
side" union its first foothold in the steel
industry.
But these concessions are immedi-
ately followed by submission Of an
''ultimatum" to the Chrysler corpora
tion for recognition, not on the basis OF
union membership only, but recognition
as the exclusive bargaining agent for
all Chrysler corporation employees.
Recognition on the basis of union
membership is evidently . concession
which is to be used only as q key
to an otherwise impregnable door. If
the door can be opened the entry
will thus be made. From the point OF
view of the c. I. o. the strategy Is
doubtless sound. From the point OF
view of the A. F. Of L. it is somewhat
alarming
Of the alarm felt by the A. r. OF L.
there can be little doubt. President
William Green has been issuing many
statements calling on A. F. of L. afali-
ates to resist all encroachment by c. l. O.
unions. A. F. OF l.. organizers are driven
from automobile plants, not by the COM
pany police, but by the c. I. O. organ
izerS. The civil war in the ranks OF labor
grows more bitter as time goes on, for
there is much at stake. The issue is the
old issue of the closed shop, but in new
form.
Mr.. Lewis and the C. l. O. now enjoy
the advantage OF = basic principle Of
the Wagner act which provides that
in choice of the collective bargaining
agent the ajority shall rule A ma jority
vote in each appropriate unit shall
select the representatives for collective
bargaining and such representatives
shall be the exclusive representatives
OF all the employees - for the purpose
Of collective bargaining in respect to
rates of pay, wages, hours OF employ
ment or other conditions of employ
ment"
With that principle written into the
law, the side which gains the greatest
number of adherents stands to be chosen
by the National Labor Relations Board
some time in the future, provided the
Wagner act is held constitutional-as
the sole agency for collective bargaining.
The labor board might escape involve
ment with the A. F. of L. by deciding
that the appropriate unit" for collective
bargaining for some workers within q
plant is craft union while the "appro-
pirate unit" for collective bargaining for
other workers in the same plant might
be a C. I. O. union. Such decisions, in
the automobile plants or the steel in
dustry, would save the A. F. of L. from
loss of face without damaging the new
industrial unions.
But such a decision would be more
difficult should the Chrysler corporation
or any other corporation, the employees
of which are not now organized, recog-
nize the C. I. o. afiliate as the sole
bargaining unit. That would close the
door effectively to A. F. of L. organiza-
ton. The demand on Chrysler by the
C. I. O. affiliate for recognition as the
exclusive bargaining agent thus repre-
sents, as well, another challenge to the
A. r. of L.
Evening star., 1937-03-06
Going to the People.

President Roosevelt has taken his fight
to revamp the Supreme Court to the
people, in a radio broadcast to be fol-
lowed by others. His purpose is so to
arouse public sentiment that opposition
in Congress to his court bill will subSide.
With the passage of that measure, the
President will appoint a maximum Of
six new justices who will conStrue the
Constitution in conformity with New
Deal ideas
The opposition to the Presidents plan
is directed mainly to the threat of q
break down of the independence of the
judicial branch of the Government If the
plan is carried through. Many OF those
now attacking the court bill have sup
ported the New Deal legislation in the
past. They are opposed to burning down
the house in order to change some OF
the details. Furthermore. it is perfectly
obvious that the Constitution may be
amended, If the people desire it amended.
In the manner prescribed in the ConSti.
In which the President properly should
take to the people his fight for the kind
OF legislation he desires.
What the President is now trying to
DO is to bring sufficient pressure upon
Congress to force the enactment of his
court bill into law. He is trying to
accomplish his end through addresses
calculated to inflame the people against
the Supreme Court as now constituted.
He tells the people that the court, and
the court alone, stands in the way OF
laws to help them. laws calculated to
solve the farmers problem and to give
the laborer less hours and more wages.
laws which will make it possible for the
Federal Government to prevent floods
and dust storms.
1t is, of course, the provisions of the
Constitution that stand in the way OF
these laws. This is not the opinion OF
the President, who holds that the au-
thority desired by him can be read into
the Constitution, and that the interpre-
tation of the Constitution by the Su
preme Court is wrong. Under the
American plan, the Interpretation of the
Constitution has been left to the court,
and not placed in the hands Of the
President,
The Presidents address at the Demo-
cratic victory dinner was q demand for
party action to put through now" his
court bill, and so to give him in effect
the right to interpret and construe the
Constitution. The President, as always,
spoke eloquently. He spoke militantly.
He decried the "defeatist lawyers" the
men who have urged that the Consti-
tuition, If it is to be amended, be
amended in the orderly manner pre-
scribed, by reference to the States and
the people. "Defeatist lawyers" becomes
now term of utmost opprobrium in the
New Dealers lexicon.
The pity of the Presidents attitude
h that 1t Is calculated to inflame many
persons against the courts; to lead them
to believe that it is the courts which
are causing all their trouble, and so to
lessen all respect for courts The pros
pect is not pleasing. For how much
respect will the people have for the
courts, how much faith will they have
in them, if the Presidents plan goes
through and the courts are packed"
and become the tool Of the Executive?
Evening star., 1937-03-06
The Are Of Mysteries.

Crimson Gulch is now metropolis"
"Its all Of that" sighed Cactus Joe.
Don't you enjoy the improvements"
Not altogether. When anybody gets
killed now the affair becomes q dark
and suspicious transaction. In the old
days when q person was removed the
sheriff like as not approved Of the trans
action as being for the good OF the
community"
Evening star., 1937-03-06
Unworkable.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel

From the Milwaukee Sentinel
English newspapers say the American
Constitution is unavoidable Well, so
far it hasn't fallen in love and abdi-
Gated 1t might be said that human
nature is unavoidable