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Evening star., 1937-08-01

that ninety-nine men out of a hundred
hate red nail polish. She knows, too,
that a man is revolted by blood-red
toenails thrust out through the ends
of evening sandals. And every man
hates makeup when it is 50 thick that
by no stretch of imagination could it
possibly be real.
Perhaps most of all man hates the
untidy makeup that won't stay put.
such as mascara dropping smudges of
SCOT, teeth smeared with lipstick.
powder on a dark dress, and all of
these coming off on his coat and shirt
front.
As to behavior, every well-bred
man hates to be made conspicuous,
either directly by anything woman
does to call attention to him. or in
directly by calling public attention to
herself when she is out with him.
Writing on this subject was not
really my own idea, but was suggested
to me by an accumulation of letters
from men - both college students and
those who are obviously established
in their own professions. in different
sections of the country. Each has
made the same protests against the
modern girl and woman, for her re-
pudiation of charm.
Not long ago the student editor of a
college paper came to ask me about
the chaperonless situations of today.
Our talk SKINNED the general ques-
tions of when chaperon? And how
much of part must be given her?"
But his interest was vital when he
asked: will you please tell me why
girl wants to wear pants? Can't she see
how she looks? Then. too. she goes
sloppy! The dirtier she gets them and
the baggier at the knees, the freer she
feels. Anyway" he ended. girls
don't give darn for what men think"
asked if he thought men showed
evidence of caring what girls think
about the sloppy clothes and dirty cor
Evening star., 1937-08-01

IHE seals of the Pribilof Islands have an
uncanny sense of identification. The
place is populated with thousands
upon thousands of seals. The adult
females leave their young. swim out
into the ocean for varying lengths of
time and. returning to shore, i'm
mediately find their own young. al
though the latter have wandered from
place to place and are all mixed up.
Evening star., 1937-08-01
by EMILY Post

smooth and unwrinkled. Everything
the smart golf player wears is equally
severe, and perfect in cut
On the tennis courts one cannot say
that 'shorts" are tabu, especially when
made of material like Alice Marbles
and cut as we'll as hers. But it is not
convincing when the ordinary player
says she cannot do justice to her game
in anything but hip length shorts.
Evening star., 1937-08-01

The men tennis stars of the world are
still winning championships with long
trousers Tapping about their ankles.
The propriety of slacks is dependent
upon the where and how they are
worn: On beaches. in camps. at pic
MICS and on boats, or anywhere in
rough country, they are suitable. On a
very slim woman, and when perfectly
cut. and in the right circumstances,
Evening star., 1937-08-01

duroys and sneakers of boy students.
"Oh. but that's not the same thing.
A girl is different. When man asks his
best girl to fraternity house party week,
he wants her to get the red roses at
the Bull Session. Don't you agree?"
"Of course l agree" l answered
But tell me. does the girl who gets
the roses wear frilly clothes with trail
ing skirts. big picture hats and that
sort of thing?"
For Commencement Day. yes, and
long swishy dresses at the dances.
Swishy ones Che laughed make girl
look graceful dancer"
A more serious criticism was ex-
pressed lately in letter to an impor-
tant metropolitan paper. 1t read:
The recent ruling of the Appeals
Court concerning shorts must be de-
plored by thoughtful, decent-minded
persons. The undress of women and
girls in public places, to say nothing
of the beaches. has been a painful
sight. which brings a disquieting
realization that we are on landslide
back to barbarism Shorts are
the ugliest garment ever worn by
woman. Clothes give glamour to
the human form Our women are
throwing away the respect and chivalry
of men. to make themselves a target
for laughter and jeers. while cocktails,
cigarettes and cosmetics &C. G. G.
- are doing dreadful things to their
minds and faces"
In answer to these - and many,
many other comments - there are
number of things should like to say.
To begin with the outstanding criti-
cism Of undress on our beaches: have
no way Of knowing whether the critics
are themselves above criticism, since
not one has mentioned the picture
that men contribute to the bathing
scene in trunks without tops.
But in attempting to consider the
present fashions, the obvious ques-
tons to ask are whether scantiness is
essential to utility and comfort, or
whether it is the result of careless
ness? In any case, it is reasonable to
point out that the addition of an inch
to the shorts would make an obiec-
tionable suit proper, without handi-
Gaping even a champion. But the
two-piece suit divided into trunks and
brassiere, leaving space at midriff,
can seldom be described except as ugly
On this subject of women's clothes
for sport, praise is due to the examples
of good form set by women golfers.
Clubs, such as Woman's National or
the Pasatiempo and the Others at the
top of smartness, ban shorts or bloom
ers, bare backs, mussy skirts or fussy
blouses. The golf skirt must come
precisely at the break of the calf
and ideally it is made of tweed - or
for hot weather, of white material
which can be counted on to hang
Evening star., 1937-08-01
The Girl Men Like

She knows how TO dress and how 10
behave even in difficult sitvofions.
Rsod Ms. POST 5 answers 10 tho sort OF
problem every womon meets. To get
tho isofIst send three cent stomp
with this coupon or with q letter TO
This Week Moooxins> in core Of this
newspaper.
(PieAss Print)
ST00T.
City ond Stots
Evening star., 1937-08-01

F THE mod
ern young
W o m a n
cares about
being thought
fascinating by a
man. she Ger
tainly doesn't
20 about in the
way to please
him E very
woman knows
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-05
News Behind the News
Suppressing The Investigations -.
Sensation and Censorship ;. RdH-
road Finance Gag Sought

WASHINGTON-It usually happens that the
more sensations a Senate investigating COM
mittee digs up the more surely certain inter
ests are to seek to suppress the investigation.
This has been true in the cases of the Teapot
Dome Daugherty, munitions, lobby, Wall Street,
silicoSis and labor spy-eivil liberties lnVestlga-
tions. It is true today Of the inquiry into rail-
road finance and reorganl2atlons belng conducted
under Senator Burton K. Wheeler Of Montana.
The committee has been disclosing such BIZ
zarre little secrets of high finance as how
fellow with $1,000 might get control OF railroad
and other properties valued at S3,OOOOOOOOO,
and how one great road is alleged to have cook
ed" its books with the result that investors
and RFC lent it money under misapprehen-
sion as to facts
The story OF how it was arranged that one
man could buy control of s375,000 and its accom-
panying powers for each one dollar he put up
was as astonishing as anything heard In WASH
ington in long time Few get the significance
of it even yet for the detailed testimony was
tireSome and hard to follow.
The committees early hearings have touched
on the affairs of only one system, that of the
Van Sweringens and the bookkeeping o1 one
road, the Missouri Pacific.
A Senate resolution ordering the committee
to inuuire into relations between railroads and
security houses and banks, provided that Rail-
road Co-Ordinator Joseph B. Eastman should
designate 25 roads or systems for investigation
The committee can't do the job the $780,
600 the Senate appropriated and of course the
investigation is to persuade certain senators in
key positions to block further appropriations.
The lobbyists advance the argument that
such appropriations a sinful waste of the
taxpayers money that the investigation is rock
ing the boat of recovery" and that sensational
revelations are dangerous TO a sick industry.
The Wheeler committee has partly investi-
gated the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Great
Western, Kansas City, Southern Pennsylvania,
Missouri Pacific, Chesapeake & Ohio and Chi
cago & Eastern Illinois roads.
1t has not yet touched the New England
roads Chicago 81 Northwestern Southern, Cen
tral of Georgia Seaboard, Illinois Central Fris-
co, Erie, Pere Marquette, and one or two other
roads.
The way it was arranged for one dollar to
control s375000 was revealed in the story of
Allegheny Corporation, holding company which
headed up the three billion dollar Van Swerin-
gen railroad empire. Control of Alleghany shares
meant control Of jobs of dozens of big railroad
executives and tens of thousands of employees,
with salaries and wages running into millions,
of dozens OF lawyers, Of hundreds OF millions III
contracts and subsidiary corporations.
The shares, among collateral pledged to Nor
gan and other New York bankers for loan, were
sold to Midamerica, organized by the Van Swer-
ingens, for S3750O0
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-05
~ VII SGE1 says
~ FRANK WATANABE
XNO BY I'D HOLDEN
EXCUSE PLEASE
BY ED HOLDEN

Dear Mrs. & Mr.. Reader:
Mrs. Simpson give Edward some Tan
gerines for Crissmus. SO | sending a
telegraph wire to my friend in Europe,
Kepji Gowa Japanese reporter) l ask
ing: ARE f D w r d X E E P | n g
NEIGHBORS UP ALL NIGHT PLAY
ING THOSE TANGERINES?' f. w.
Today he answer: 'TANGERINES
is NOT A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
STOP YOU THINKING ABOUT Okla
REENAS STOP PLEASE SHUT UP"
X. G.
Then answer back: Il NOT THINK
ING ABOUT OKAREENAS BECAUSE
THEY ARE A VEGETABLE STOP
CHIC KEN OKAREENA SOUP ARE
WELL KNOWN STOP THAT'S WHERE
YOU CAN GO" F. w.
That just showing you how difficulty
it are to get news out of Europe.
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-05
MEXICO WANTS MEXICANS
TO STAY AT HOME

1t may be surprise to many citizens
of the United States to learn that the
Mexican government has launched upon
a program to prevent migration OF its
citizens across the international border
into this country. 1t is a surprise-but
at the same time it is a pleasant bit of
news to custodians of relief rolls in the
United States, and to border patrol Of
ficers, too.
Mexico along some sections OF its
border is enforcing regulations prohibit
ing migration of any laborer unless he
has both properly vised passport and
DEFINITE EMPLOYMENT CON-
TRACT with either farm or industrial
managements.
The program is one that will benefit
both Mexico and the United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-05
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date In
Past Years.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
January 5, 1912

E Centro is once more setting
the model for the world. This time
it is the new plant of the Holton
Power company, which is the larg-
est of its kind in the world. The
foundation is now being built and
the machinery has already arrived.
Visitors are coming from all parts
.of the valley TO sse it, and en-
stineers in various sections of the
nation are watching its progress
with interest.
County superintendent Of Schools
L. E. Cooley today began systema-
tic tour of all the schools in the
county. This is no easy job as
many of the schools are inaccessible.
To reach the farther schools trip
of IS miles by auto is required.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
January 5, 1917
M T. Emanuel, Imperial Valley
representative for the Automobile
Club Of Southern California, re-
turned today from three weeks
stay in Los Angeles.
G. T. Kelley, assistant general
sales manager for the Southern ST.
erras power company is in town.
TEN YEARS AGO
January 5, 1927
George Carroll, former mayor OF
Cincinnati, Ohio, enIoute to San
Diego where he expects to spend the
remainder of the winter, is a guest
of F. B. Ferris Of this city.
Report of killing a large noun
tain lion in Pine Valley yesterday,
was reported by Harry Hammond of
Riverside who passed through this
city today.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-05
WHEREIN AMERICA
DIFFERS FROM FRANCE

"If YOU would know people, fead
their newspapers" someone once said.
Raoul de Roussy de Sales, French
journalist, viewed American newspapers
and in a current magazine gave his I'M
pressions. Among other things, he said
that French editors turn green with
envy at the sight of the advertising their
American confreres are able ito push
down the throat of the docile public
under the guise of informing 1t what
is going on in the world"
Arthur Robb, in his weekly column IN
Editor and Publisher magazine, Jour-
nal for newspapermen, speaks well for
American editors.
at is probably a fact Robb says,
8sthat the French do believe that
even if they never read another line OF
advertising =. they would still be able
to eat, drink, sleep, wash, dress, travel
and amuse themselves.
Probably they could, though it would
be difficult to convince some 1OO,O00,0O0
Americans that 4O,O00,000 Frenchmen
have the right idea in dress, travel and
amusement. Advertising has put into
the homes OF America workmen n
farmers useful gadgets that are COM
monplace only to French politicians and
millionaires. Advertising has made Am
ericans possessors of 28,27,000 out of
the 100000 1000 automobiles registered all
over the world, and American automo-
biles, by advertising, comprise most of
the 100000 remaining outside OF the
II. S. A. And France was making real
automobiles when a trip in an Amer
lean car was as blind an adventure as
the 1892 voyage of Columbus"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-05
Other Editors Say
LAST GRAND PRIZE-SIBERIA
(San Diego UniOn)

The military alliance against Soviet Russia,
Just announced by Germany and Japan, can
be explained by foreign spectators only when
one fact is kept in mind. The two countries
possibly with the aid Of Italy covet the last
grand territorial prize the world holds for
military conqueros.
The official explanation volunteered in Ber-
lin and Tokyo for the alliance is perfectly
transparent-and familiarly conVentional-diplo-
matte evasion. In insisting that they are merely
taking steps to protect themselves and the rest
of the world against a threatened attack by the
Communists the new allies merely are prepar-
ing an official alibi well in advance against the
moment when they attack the Communists on
Soviet soil
Actually, as every competent reporter who
has visited any Of the countries involved knows,
under its present government Soviet Russia Is
too intensely occupied with building up its de-
tenses-and too wealthy in territory and nat
ural resources-to waste energy upon any plan
to attack any other power.
The question Of whether the SoViets would
proceed to attack the capitalist world once they
had developed Siberia is for the moment, large
ly academic. If experience in developing this
country means anything the SoYiets have taken
on at least fifty-year assignment.
But the allies clearly fear that they must
strike quickly or forfeit all chance Of striking
successfully Japan already has crossed a sea
and moved hundreds Of miles inland in order
TO defend" newly seized territory On the Asia
tic mainland against attack from Siberia. Ger
contact with the Soyiets by dominating some
smaller European power which touches Soviet
soil Jointly the two land hungry powers appar-
entity are determined TO seize this last grand
prize before the Soviets develop enough strength
to hold II against all comers.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-05
KEEPING ABREAST OF POLITICS
A DTFFTCI1LT JOB

For the next several weeks Califor-
mans will have a hard time of it, keep
ing abreast of politics. Reduced to a
minimum, the political picture will be
like nothing so much as four-ring cir
Gus, and the person who has tried to
watch every ring in a four-ring circus
knows that it is next to impossible. The
rings in question are the assembly and
senate in the state legislature, and the
house and senate in the national legisla-
ture.
The sideshows, made up of lobby
groups, committees, executive desires
and purely political gestures, are too
numerous TO count
The current sessions in both state and
national legislatures will be historical
ones. The nation will be watching to
see what power Franklin D. Roosevelt
makes of the whip of executive power,
heightened by the last election. Never
before has a president had such maj
ority of support in congress. So big is
the majority that many political OBJ
servers, friendly to the administration,
fear it will be unwieldy.
Roosevelt, in the next four years, will
become one of two things He will be
either the most loved man in the United
States, or the most hated How he exer-
cises his power over congress may have
a great deal of bearing on the result.
He has it in his power to disprove the
prediction assertion of his late oppo-
nent. Gov. Alf Landon, that whoever
was elected would become the most hated
man in the country in the next four
years Or he can prove it, unhapplly
for himself This congress may hold
the answer.
Tho state lepis latlre is in SharD con-
trast to the national congress. 1t is
house divided against itself - and an
election is only two years away. What
ever else comes out of the legislature
this year, you may be assured that there
will be enough political whisker pulling
to fill many columns of newspaper
space. The state assembly is sharply
Democratic; the state senate is, as al
ways, Republican The governor is Re-
publican, and the lieutenant-governor,
with his eye on the governorship two
years hence, is RepuDlican-but faces
the political necessity of not displeaslng
the Democrats too greatly.
The national congress is so entirely
partisan that it is dangerous to its own
leaders. The state legislature is so
sharply divided that it may develop
battle for partisan supremacy, rather
than an effort toward the common good
of the people. Neither national nor state
legislative bodies has balance of pow
er, with a comparative small majority
on one side, assuring sane consideration
of the issues at stake
The public. forwarned, should be in
a position to literally sprinkle with salt
any highly partisan moves in either ma
tional or state capitals.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-05

and its hope of undying fame to
the hands of its cooks.
Now the cook is not a romantic
figure, and the least romantic of
all cooks is the army type Heroic
attitudes on the ramparts are not
for him; neither are the parades,
the medals, and the cheers of the
multitude.
In its wisdom, Providence may,
and often does, send wind and rain
to put out his fires. The quarter
masters wagon may go astray the
company itself may be lost some
where in the darkness, and the
helpers assigned to him may be
nitwits incapable of slicing onions
without cutting off their thumbs.
No matter; the cook somehow has
to get the chow together and get
it UP there. He will get no praise
if he succeeds, and if he fails he
will be cursed as even Missouri
mules are seldom cursed.
But if it is any comfort to him,
he can brood on the reflection that
he is the one indispensable man
in the entire army.
Once in great while the army
cook comes into his own. Kokomo
Jones did; they made a big affair
out of his funeral, and after "Taps"
had sounded over his grave, the
bugler remarked that I'VE couldn't
have done any more if he'd been
a general"
And that is as it should be. Gen.
erals come and go, and they are
much of a muchness; cooks-good
ones, who'll be there with a bowl
of beans when you need it most
are beyond price.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-05

NEW YORK. Jan 5.-There's a
fixed notion that artists, being SO
emotionally keyed express the
greatest jealousy in their ranks of
the creative kith. The fact is they
are the traditional birds of feather
always flocking together and their
staunch friendships are seldom out
side their own circle.
Visit an artists studio and you
will generally find fellow artist.
As a rule they segregate such as
those cliques on the Left Bank, in
Florence or in West 67th street.
Artists social clubs rarely die. The
Hotel des Artistes is one of the few
successful cooperative apartment
houses.
When Dean CornWell goes on a
bicycle or flivver journey to strange
lands he is always accompanied by
some fellow craftsmen. Howard
Chandler Christy's studio is rem
devious for artists from all over
H. T. Webster and the late Clare
Briggs were cronies. Herb Roth
and Ray Rohn, firm pals.
SO are George McManus and jim
my Swinnerton. An American trio
of painters we'll known TO the Paris
boulevards is 10 Davidson, Gilbert
White and Leon Gordon. Always
together. Indeed there's a firmer
camaraderie among painters and
illustrators than in most of the
arts.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-05
Bruce Cation. Says:>>
An Army Cook Again Comes Into His Own

Any man who ever had any part
in a military organization must
have read with interest of the pass
ing of Kokomo Jones, who held the
distinction of having been the old
est enlisted man in the A E. F.
Kokomo Jones died at the Iowa
Soldiers Home the other day at the
age of n, and was buried in Corn
ing, Ia. Te his funeral came brass
hats and political big wigs, to say
nothing of former buck privates of
high and low degree. The affair
drew a good deal of attention.
For Kokomo Jones. who served
in the Spanish American War and
on the Mexican border, as we'll as
in France, was a cook-one of the
vast, unsung tribe of army cooks
who get reviled and cursed by
whole generations of soldiers, but
who, when they are good. must GER
tainly go to one of the most COM
Portable corners of the Heaven that
awaits good soldiers.
Jones wheeled his rolling soup
kitchen after a certain Company K
of the Rainbow Division, through
Champagne, Chateau Thierry, st.
Mihiel, and the Argonne. He won
no decorations, no citations, and no
mentions in dispatches, but he sup
piled the cnow when it was need
ed most, and he got it there hot.
x *
Napoleon-or General Sherman,
or Hannibal, or somebody-remark-
ed that an army travels on it's
stomach. 1t does more than that:
it fights, sleeps, and dreams of
home on its stomach.
1t confides its morale, its valor,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-05

The U. S. bureau of animal in
dustry says that Texas longhorn
cattle were descendants of Anda-
lusion cattle brought to this coun-
try by Spanish explorers. A num-
Der of them escaped and ran wild
in the southwest. Although they
were very numerous at one time,
there are comparatively few long
horns left. One group is preserved
in the Wichita national forest, in
Oklahoma,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-05
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

player was best when worried about
his job. And he had an uncanny
panache for pitting one against an
other in his shows SO they amost
broke their necks putting across
their lines. He always rehearsed a
Follies or a musical comedy up to
opening night curtain with mem
bers of the company completely ex-
hausted. But in every instance
they would snap out OF it and give
a crack performance. 1t was like
the pain stimuli that so often mo-
tivateS genius.
While the Ziegfeld school of pro-
ducing was successful, SO was the
opposite as expressed by Charles
Frohman. &C. F." treated his play
ers as the rarest of gentle folk and
friends. Never did he lift his voice
at rehearsals and was particularly
careful to prevent fatigue. On the
morning of an opening he would
send the star and leading players
little handwritten notes filled with
gracious compliments and the as
surance that whatever the critics
verdict, he was satisfied they had
done. their best.
90
New York seldom has sidewalk
fist fight save those blurry, shadow
bookings of Bowery soaks on Satur-
day night. But there was a lulu
near the automat the other mid
night. Out of a taxi hoped a
niddle-aged, determined man who
began biting the go-gollies out OF a
fellow escorting a lady. He must
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-05

I frequently wonder if others on
their first Pullman journey were
impressed by the worldly drummer
who took the used towel and dried
the metal basin. That has always
seemed somehow as about the most
cosmopolitan of all gestures.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-05

France has been invaded by Ger
mans on an average of once every
half century for the past l,500
years, or a total of approximately
30 times.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-01-05

have knocked him down five times
before the victim took to his heels
Then the victor, turning to his
waiting taxi, said to the lady:
And don't you ever come home
again."