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Milford chronicle., 1937-05-21
BETHEL

Mrs. Harry T. Williams arrived
home on Thursday after spending
several months ON the barge with
her husband, Capt. Williams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Mcclure OF
Collingswood, N. j., were mid-week
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Harley G.
Hastings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Prettyman
and son of Harbeson spent Sunday
with the latter's parents, MIR. and
Mrs. John Massey.
Mrs. Mary Cordrey entertained tbe
members of the Count on Me Club"
at her home Tuesday night.
Rev. and Mrs. John H. Whedbee
and family were given a reception
at the community house last Thurs
day evening. Everyone spent an en-
joyable evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Phillips of
Georgetown visited the latter's mo-
tber. Mrs. Laura Wheatley over the
weekend.
Capt. Eley J. Cordrey returned to
Norfolk, Va. Monday after spending
the weekend with his family.
Jimmy Lynch Of Laurel is visiting
his grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. o. L.
Bell.
Normal COulbourne who has been
employed at Ocean City for some
time spent the weekend at his home
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Smith of
Salisbury, Md, was weekend
guest of their daughter, Mrs. Harry
T. Williams.
Garfield Moore and daughter, Mrs.
William Bell spent Tuesday in Will
mingtOn.
Miss Anna Lee Smith visited Miss
Mary Faithful Valiant a part of last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison Phillips of
visited the formers par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Phillips
on Sunday.
Paul Garrett and friend. Miss Em-
Milford chronicle., 1937-05-21

The Loyal Workers Sunday school
class held at profitable meeting at
the home of Mrs. Norman Calhoun
on Tuesday night. Duet was render
ed by Mrs. Marguerite McCabe and
Mrs. Jennie Parsons. Mrs. Ethel Da-
wilson had charge of devotions. lead
ing in prayer and read the scripture.
st. John 14th chapter. Hmyns were
played by Mrs. Helen Hooker and
all Joined in singing. Mrs. Cecile
Steele presided over the business
part and carried out her program of
talks on women characters of the
Bible; described by Mrs. Florence
Burbage, on Adah; Mrs. Jennie Par
sons. on Esther, and Mrs. Sallie Cal
houn on Ruth. Delicious refresh
ments of block ice cream In abund-
ance and cakes were served.
Milford chronicle., 1937-05-21

lily Bush Of Wilmington were week
end guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Garrett. a. ''t =
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Wells, Miss
Olive Phillips of Gumboro spent
Sunday with Miss Pauline Jones.
Milford chronicle., 1937-05-21

Sometimes success comes IL one
stands still, rather than to reach out
too far.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27
Bruce Cation Says:~~
We, the People, are Boss and Can Prove 1t!

remedy at hand, if it is only brash
and fortnight enough to use it.
The Iowa farmer, with his dead
skunk and his uncultured language,
had the right idea So did the Kan
sas City fireman's wife who went
into the city managers office with
horsewhip to protest pay cuts in
the fire department. Such things
may disturb orderly souls, but they
are healthy signs.
Il Il
The grandest words in the Con-
stitution of the United States are
the first three-"We, the People"
That tells where the sovereignty re-
sides. 1t is good to have office
holders reminded of it now and then.
For that sort of thing is the final
and invulnerable defense against
misgovernment and dictatorship. Al
nation which can toss at its legis-'
lators and horsewhip its city man
ayers may have its faults, but it is
in no danger of losing its liber-
ties. For in such nation, eve, the
people" are perfectly well aware
who is boss.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27

the smartest bathrooms are black
and beige-the tub and waShStand
of the darker shade.
Most Metropolitan dramatic critics
have hobby that relieves the rigors
and tedium of inceSsant first night
ing. Brooks Atkinson of the Times
is an ornithologist and has authored
several volumes on bird lore.
Gilbert Gabriel, who is also an art
critic, turns out novel or a motion
picture between seasons. His wife is
also a painter. John Anderson. of
the Journal. is bibliophile and his
wife is an art critic. John Mason
Brown. of the Evening Post, is a
lecturer on the drama. Young Rich
ard Watts is a student of Russian
literature and theology and has
made several trips to Russia. Rich
ard Lockridge of the Sun writes
those amusing vignettes in the
New Yorker and Burns Mantle is
interested in horticulture at his
Long Island place.
The list of ten best dressed men
in New York prepared by tailor's
association had a second list of
those who just missed. I was on
the latter list. 1t must have been
the red edge on the cuffs of those
black mittenS.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

Frightening up as result of the
Worlds Fair in 1899. The long,
shabby l25th street and its approach
to the Tri-boro bridge will be the
main artery to the Fair And al
ready the thoroughfare is being
made over. Cheap john stores are
making way for sound and expansive
enterprises and real estate values
in the area are decidedly on the up
beat after a long period of stand
still.
The passing of Frances Marcos
son was a crushing blow to her
husband. Isaac Marcosson. traveller
and writer Red haired, beautiful
and an animated conversationalist,
she presided as hostess at Marcos
sons select little dinner parties to
world notableS. When she became
i'll a year ago, he gave up all writing
and was constantly at her bedside,
save for a walk around the block
each sun-down. Their devotion made
them remarked as the ideal match
Bathroom decor takes on the
sudden style change almost of Mi
lady's frock. There was period
when the all-white bath was the
thing. Then came coral pink affairs,
robins egg blue and color combi-
nations of yellow and green. Today
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27
THEY SCOFF
AND THEN DIE

In the never-ending war against death
on the highway, each individual, to con-
tribute his part, must know the habits
of the enemy-the habits of accidents.
Where do accidents happen? Why do
they happen?
An analysis of accidents in California,
one of the most thorough and searching
on record, was issued the other day by
the State Department of Motor Vehicles
And here, briefly, are few of its most
revealing discoveries:
In every hundred accidents on city
streets, there are five deaths, while on
rural and private roads there are sixteen
deaths per hundred accidents. Drivers
between the ages of 20 and 20 have more
accidents than those of any other ten
year age group Accidents involving
drunken drivers or pedestrians increased
nine per cent during 1886.
Of persons killed in traffic last year,
% out of every hundred were women.
Out of every hundred accidents, three
were caused by mechanical defects Of
vehicles-faulty lights, or faulty brakes.
In all of these facts there is food for
thought. But in one further discovery
the very heart of CALIFORNIA; traffic
death problem is laid bare 1t is pity
there is no way to scar it permanently
into the mind of every driver who scoffs
at the law-who scoffs and then crashes.
1t is this-that by far the greatest
number of California auto accidents oc-
cur on good roads, in daylight, during
clear weather, and involve violation
of the lawful driving rules.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27
BRINGING
ALL THE NEWS
TO IMPERIAL
VALLEY
A CURE
FOR THE RUSH ACT

Not so long ago the legislators at
sacramento were hopefully talking
about adjournment by May Is. But to-
day, being up to their necks in budget
business and labor trouble, it begins to
look as though they'll be in the capital
for good many days beyond that date.
Of course the lawmakers, just as or
dinary mortals would be, are anxious to
get back to home and family and to have
some time for their private affairs. But
let's hope that this year they'll avoid
some of the patent evils of the last-min-
ute legislative rush.
What usually happens is this. Bills
by the dozen are brought on the floor
and passed without any attempt being
made to discover what is in them. Then
these are tossed on the Governors desk
and everybody goes home but the Gov
ernor.
He then, in effect. becomes a one
man legislature 1t is up to him to sort
through the whole batch, signing the
ones he likes, discarding the ones he
doesn't. So diverse are these bills, many
of which the lawmakers wouldn't think
of passing if they read them, that the
Governor can vote yes or mo" unani-
mously on most any conceivable subject.
Is this fair to the public, or to the Gov
ernor either, for that matter?
A governor might cure them of this
someday. He could sneak through bill
in the last-minute rush, and then when
it came to his desk unread he could sign
it. 1t would be a measure calling for a
fifty per cent slash in all legislators
salaries.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27
OUT OF
THE ASHES

A city asleep, just before dawn, on
the morning of April Is, 1906. 1t seems
no different from any other morning.
But it is destined to be one long remem-
bered in California.
Just before dawn, and then . sud-
denly the earth lurches There is a jar
ring jolt that all but filings people from
their beds. For many seconds the rock
ing motion continues, shaking down
buildings, splitting the streets. Then
all is quiet. And then the bedlam Of
populace terror-struck by catastrophe.
This week, thirty-one years later, old
timers are telling stories about the San
Francisco earthquake, about the fire
that followed, about the refugees with
their tents in the parks, about the an
xious hours the nation spent waiting for
full reports of ire disaster.
But that is not all they tell. They
tell too about city rising again out OF
the ashes of destruction, about the pluck
and vigor of a people setting out to re-
build their lost homes and lost fortunes.
So quickly did the city rise out OF
embers scarcely yet cold, that the world
was astonished. The rest of the nation.
having thought fear of new earthquakes
would cause people to leave the State,
was getting one Of its early lessons about
the courage and spirit of these far west
erners.
1t was the spirit that has since built
present-day California, and is building
now for greater California of the fu-
ture.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27
Other Editors Say
SPRINGTIME is CLEANUP TIME
(San Rafael independently

You can see signs of spring fever almost
everywhere. Farmers are plowing and sowing
their fields Suburbanites are planting their
gardens. Housewives are cleaning and reyamp-
ing homes Communities are starting improve
ment projects.
Winter is apt TO be time Of general neglect
partly because of severe weather and partly
because of the press of other matters IN that
busy season. Vacant IoCs, yards and even
streets become unsightly Now is the time for
a thorough spring cleaning, extending through
the community in the interest of health, safe
ty and civic progress.
Such cleanup campaign is a splendid activ-
ity for civic clubs, chambers of commerce, Boy
Scouts and similar groups TO sponsor. Every
town should emulate those communities which,
through spirit Of fine cooperation have sue
ceeded in gaining the name Of "Spotlesstown.'
When movement TO paint up cleanup and
beautify sweeps a community, it leaves in its
wake a healthier, happier town. From the
standpoint of fire safety alone the movement
pays big dvidendS-as the records show, many
a disastrous fire has been caused by rubbish and
litter Drop a cigarette or a cigar butt into an
accumulation of trash and a conflagration may
follow-furthermore Piled rubbish is always sus-
ceptble TO spontaneous ignition.
Garry out the cleanup campaign by care
fully burning all trash in incnerators and under
close supervision Every CITIZEN and every bus
ness will benefit-socially and economically.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27

NEW YORK, April 27-James
Montgomery Flagg continues the
Ponce de Leon among artists. Some
where he seems to have tapped
youths eternal fountain At an age
when many limnerS have put away
their drawing boards, he is doing
more work than ever before, and
with a zip.
Not that he is a MethuSelah, but
he is certainly no spring chicken.
Yet he hasn't gray hair or a Sus-
picion OF thinning in his tousle of
wavy locks. And his mind has the
speed of a roulette ball. He dresses
as becomingly as any juvenile on
the stage and screen. Indeed, he sets
many styles.
He and his fellow artist. Arthur
William Brown. were first in eX-
plotting the colored collar to match
the shirt fancy. He is a lively part
ner at tennis and the"life of the
party" on those annual jauntS of
New York artists for two weeks of
caper at Palm Beach.
A tireless worker, he will sit at
his tasks all dav. dance the night
aWav and be willing fourth at one
of those suddenly CONCEALED quar-
tetteS at sun up. Or he may go up
the gang plank at hours notice to
see Paris again or fly to Hollywood
to act and paint a picture of
Dietrich
Visitors to Manhattan are now
paying S150.000 a year to go on the
hourly walking tour of Radio City
with uniformed guides. It has be-
come a greater sightseeing magnet
than the statue of Liberty, the
Aquarium. Central Park Bronx Zoo
and the Empire State building. A
little known but instructive trip
is the dollar boat excursion around
the island in summer. It gives the
geographical outlay that nothing
else does. Otto Kahn. used to take
his European visitors on this circle
OF the town before he introduced
them to Fifth Avenue dinners,
theatres and opera.
X
Jacob Rupert. the brewer and
ball magnate, is regarded by many
as the best dressed middle-aged
New Yorker. He goes in for sombre
shades. blue serge, dark browns and
ash gray ensembles and his ties are
of dignified sedateness, but he is
always so meticulously groomed
people turn as he passes along. An
other middle-aged dresser of notable
sartorial distinction is Joseph E.
Widener. To my mind the worlds
best dressed man was the late Jean
Patou. Paris dresSmaker. His Surt-
outs were study in color blending
I used 10 stand outside his establish
ment in the rue FlOrentin to watch
his arrival and his symphony for
the day. 1t was never disappointing
and he never repeated.
i *
Harlem is in the throes of a
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27

There is good deal to be said
for the Iowa farmer who heaved
dead skunk into the state capitol at
Des Moines to show his disapprov-
al of law recently passed creating
a closed season for these pungent
little animals.
Not that people ought to go
around tossing dead skunks into
legislative chambers. Not that a
closed season on skunKs may not
be a very good thing indeed But
Just because there is an up-from-
the-grass-roots independence about
this sort of thing that stems direct
ly from the finest traditions of
American democracy.
The citizens of democracy must
have a number of qualities in Or
der to make their democracy work
as it ought to, and one of the great
est of these is a spirit of rowdy and
irascible independence. AS long as
they have that spirit, their office
holders are never in any danger of
forgetting who is really boss in the
republic; and if the spirit OCCASION
ally leads to SXunk-throwing, it is
an excss that an be forgiven.
Il X
Consider the case of this angry
IoWan, for example. He raises
pheaSants, and the skunk is nat
ural enemy of the pheasnt. Here
is the way the Iowan explains HIM
self:
Your silly senate passed a bill
yesterday putting a closed season on
skunks in my county. Last night a
skunk got at my coops and killed
eight pheasants and three chick
ems. I killed him this morning. And
the next time a skunk gets any of
my pheasants I'm going to kill him
and bring him down and toss him
in the middle of the damn senate. y
Shakespeare once mentioned, as
one of the crosses suffering man
has to bear, "the insolence Of Of
flee" We Americans know all about
that. for somehow we do seem to
have a way of breeding officehold-
ers who are insolent beyond Shake
speare's most pesSimiStic dreams.
But democracy always has the
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27

merry men. It's a modern yarn, de-
spite the fact Tombstone currently
has all the law it can use.
Tenor Michael Bartlett has ash
canned the Clark Gable system of
training, because he got fat on it.
Worried by his 1853 pounds Bartlett
retained Howard, Gables trainer,
and went in for a strenuous regime
of boxing, e-skipping and road
work. Two weeks later he stepped
on the scales and tine needle flip
ped to 1853.
No wigs will do for Barbara STAN
Wyck who had her red hair dyed
two dozen shades of blond before
she found the right tint for Stella
Dallas" And here's why: Stanwyck
has a nervous habit of tugging at
her locks. The wigs can't take it.
Hobart Cavanaugh got off to a
bad start with the tax man, and
shudders 10 think what his 1887
assessment will be. While Cavanaugh
was cajoling the assessor for a low
rating. his police dog pounced from
behind and bit the man in the leg.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27
Drunk Drivers Go
To Jail in County

Four violators of traffic laws,
three of them drunk drivers, were
transferred to the county Jail Mon
day for long Jail sentences i'm
posed by Judge T. E. White in Win
terhaven justice court.
Crate Lowell. 26. was sentenced
to 80 days for drunk driving; An
tonic Rivas, 81. go days; and Clar-
ence North, AZ, drew &c days for
similar charges.
Ike Price, %, was sentenced to
30 days on charges of reckless
driving resulting in bodily injury
to human being.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27
A RADLY NEEDED SUBJECT
on THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Almost every Imaginable subject but
one has been included on the program
of the 29th annual meeting of the Cali
fornia Conference of Social Work at
San Jose May 9 to 13. Imperial Valley,
where social workers for while direct
ed relief expenditures, knows that the
missing subject should be.
1t should be, Practically above theo-
ny. always and first"
The lad who used to follow the peri
patetic Rover Boys now shadows Charlie
Chan at the opera, race track, etc.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27
Strolls Thru Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, April 81. U.P)-
Broadway's too strenuous for Fred
Stone grand old man of the drama,
but Alaska is not.
Rising SO, Stone admitted he's
all through with the stage and will
probably never tread legitimate
boards again.
All winter he has allied with a pull
monary disorder induced by his air
crash of a few years ago, and on
the advice Of physicians has held
his film contract revised SO he'll
only make three pictures a year in
the future.
They'll tell me 1 got to take it
easy" he explained, and a stage
show just takes too much out of
a feller 1 don't think I'll even visit
New York any more. Nope. Instead
I'm going up to Alaska to hunt them
Kadiak bears. Always wanted to
shoot one"
The grey-haired actor who can't
take BroadWay's two-a-day will go
north to take Americas toughest
big game animal with his novelist
son-in-law, Rex Beach, late this
spring.
Stone has been acting 81 years,
beginning as slack wire acrobat
with a Wagon-train circus in 1886.
His last Broadway appearance was
in THE Jayhawker' in 1884.
o..
Shirley Temples a big gorl, now.
Eight years old, and rid of most of
her milk teeth. Cshe uses caps for
picture work.. The No. l box office
queen will host birthday party for
100 odd screen youngsters over the
weekend Meanwhile she's trying
out a making set presented by
her parents in honor of her am
bition to own a pie factory when
she grows up.
Maurecn O'Sullivan finally found
a use for one of those guides to
homes of the movie stars" who set
up shop along Sunset boulevard.
She was too busy to houSe-hunt
when her lease expired, and Pro-
ducer Jack Warner lent her his
beach home While she was at work
servants closed her apartment and
moved to Santa Monica.
On her way to the place for the
first time she suddenly found she
had lost the address, and was a bit
panicky until she ran across a
guide. and evinced burning deside
to see the home OF Jack Warner.
He must have ben surprised when
she paid him off at the gate and
walked in.
Law For Tombstone" is the
piquing title of Buck Jones next.
It's based on a new novel by ChaS.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27
Film Actress Files
Divorce, Damage Suits

LOS ANGELES, April 81. UP
Marie L. Marks, screen actress, to-
day had on file suits seeking $780,,
900 damages from Cecil Sillman.
scion of a millionaire Detroit fam
lily, and an annulment of their
marriage.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27
. on Sol
* CRANK WATANABE
OH LANDLORD!
BY ed HOLDEN

Roomers are humming that rent have
arose. got a fint of them news last
month when my rent was doubled. This
are very mangling to average pocket.
Too plenty for me alright. My rent are
delinquent
Of short years ago landlords was bit
ing each other to pulp, to rent us rea
Sonal. Now they doing the smil-wag
eyebrow motion which meaning in Span
iSh sign talk, "Geev eet to heem.' Much
blige
1t seem all landlords have join the
Kahoot fraternity. That are the worst
kind of boots at all. 1t are case Of sup
ply & command.
Someday | shall get my grits up and
bora a hammer & some nail. Then if |
look see lump of lumber, you better be
watching out, Mr.. Landlord. You be
sorrow.
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27
Hints on Etiuuettc

The modern girl does not keep a
hope chest in the original sense of
the word. She waits until the we'd
ding date has been set before she
begins TO collect wnat she will need.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27
Words of Wisdom

We take greater pains to per-
Suade others that We are happy
than in cndeavoring to be SO our
selves Goldsmith.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27
TGday's Horoscope

Many persons born today are oil
more than average intelligence. They
often win high executive positions.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27
BRITISH COLUMBIA
TO Re ENLARGED

VICTORIA. B. c., April 27. U.P)-
The Yukon territory soon will be
added to British Columbia to make
the latter the second largest pro-
vince in Canada, Premier T. D.
Pattullo said today.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27

secretary
2. approximately 37O,OOO,0OO
3. Light travels faster than sound.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27
The Grab Bag
Onf-MinMte Test

Unj -NIIIINtt TtSI
l. Who is U. S. secretary of war?
2. What is the estimated popula-
ton of China?
3. Why do We see lightning be-
fore we hear thunder?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27

Law For Tombstone" is the
piquing title Of Buck Jones next.
It's based on a new novel by Chas.
M. Martin, but unfortunately does
not deal with Wyatt Earpy and his
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27
Thoughts for the Day

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,-Rom. 5:1.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-04-27
One-Minute Test Answers

/. Harry Hines Woodrin. Acting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-03-12
STINCHFIELD HITS PLAN.
Says President Wants Legislative
Form of Government"

DULUTH, Mimi, March u (P).-
Frederick H. Stinchfield, president OF
the American Bar Association, in an
address here last night asserted Presi-
dent Roosevelt wants a legislative
form of government, ant not con-
stitutional type of control"
Speaking before the Eleventh Judi
cial District Bar Association meeting,
he said under the Presidents Supreme
Court plan the judiciary is to be not
q third branch of the Government,
but a mere attachment to the other
two branches of government"
The necessary consequence of the
Presidents proposal, Stinchfield added,
will be an all-powerful central Gov
eminent, with the rights of the States
entirely subordinated to Congress and
the Executive.
I'VE shall have government from
washington covering territory Of
13000O,000 people" Stinchfeld said,
"a Government which I am certain
cannot possibly be efficient, wise, sin
cere or dependable. 1t will inevitably
become government by bureaucracy"
Present experience teaches us that
with a very popular President the
legislative branch will amount to very
little" he continued, and that all
power, therefore, will be centered in
the executive departmnt."
President Roosevelt, Stinchfleld de-
clared, in seeking the change, is not
satisfied with the slow processes in
cident to amendment procedure under
the checks of the Constitution.
When majority of the people,
under whatever stress, either war or
depression, want in their excitement
particular laws" he continued; he
would give those laws to them
no matter what the stress or how
impossible it was for a majority of
the people at the moment to exercise
wise judgment.
In other words, he wants a legis-
lative form of government and not
a constitutional type of control"