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Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-23
Ell Centrans Take
Bridge Honors

Mr.. and Mrs. END. Hatch took
high bridge honors for the men and
ladies at the Past Matrons and Past
Patrons association meeting and
bridge party Monday night in the
Masonic hall, BraWley.
Prior TO the bridge game, the
BraWley members Of the association
acted as hosts at a delicious pot
luck dinner.
Present from Ell Centro were Mrs.
Grace Lanier, Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Col
ins, DR.. r. L. Palmer and Mrs.
Palmer, Mrs A. N. Bucklin, Mr. and
Mrs. END. Hatch, Mr. and Mrs.
C. H. DuSold, and Mr. and Mrs.
S. L. Hood.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-23
'Match-Point Club
Holds Meetine

Mrs. Florence Swanberger and F..
D. Jacobs took high honors at the
MatchPeint Duplicate club meet
ing Tuesday night at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Nance.
Henry Swanson and Mrs. Cali
Harrison, were second and Mrs. A.
Fl. Keller and Mrs. E. A. Nance
were third.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-23
Ell Centro Couple
To Wed Sat.
Morning

Mrs. Hazel Neale and E. F.. Sur
face, El Centre residents, will be
married Saturday morning at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. r. p Moore.
543 Brighton avenue. Relatives
the couple will witness the cere-
mony.
After the marriage they will
leave for a tWo-week wedding trip
They will make their home in El
Centre. Both Mrs. Neals ed Sur
face are we'll known. She has been
office nurse for DR.. o. II. Van
Eman for several years and Sur
face has owned property in Ell Cen
tro for many years.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-23
Mrs. Dee PerciuaL
Takes High At
Bridge Party

Mrs. Dee Percival was the con-
tract winner at the Tuesday bridge
club meeting at the home of Mary
Brown at CaleXico.
The hostess had her home gaily
decorated with yellow and orange
spring flowers. At the end of the
card game she served delicious re-
freshments.
Present were Mrs. Harry E. Bogue,
Mrs. Dee Percival, and the Misses
Rheta Percival, Inez Smith, Lillian
ShaWley, Vivian Moffatt, Mae
Thomas, and the hostess, Mary
Brown.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-23

Guests at the meeting were the
Misses Jessie Brown and Theda
Deem.
The nominating committee was
appointed Tuesday night to pre-
sent a slate of officers to the
members at the next meeting,
April IL.
The executive board appointed
Mrs. Vera Grant. chairman of the
committee, and the president, Mrs.
Lucy Adair, appointed Mrs. Bar
bara Rawles and Mrs. Leah Boyer
committee members.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-23
Book Section Will
Meet Thursday

Mrs. William Duflock will be
hostess to members of the Book
Section of the Junior Ten Thou
sand club at 7:30 pm. Thursday.
7l3 State street.
Members who will be unable to
attend are asked to call Mrs. Duff
lock, telephone 1877.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-23
Baby Girl Born
Here Monday

Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Grayson of III
Centre became the parents of
daughter at 1880 am. Monday, Mar.
81 at the county hospital
The boy who was named Billie
Yvonne, weighed four pounds, two
and a half ounces.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-23
New Books

Books TO be released Mar. 26, by
the FL Centre public library in
cmde
FICTION
Young Robert George Albee.
Enchanted Oasis Faith Bald
win.
Boom Town Jack O'Connor.
The Rising Tide M. j. Farrell.
The Black Spearman Pitt l..
Fitzgerald.
The Prodigal Parents Sim
clair Lewis.
One Was Beautiful Alice d.
Miller.
The Best OF Runyon Damon
Runyon.
Murder On The Bluff Esther
Tyler.
NON-FICTION
In The Golden Nineties Henry
c. Brown.
One American Frazier Hunt.
More OF My Life Antfaa Ma
iocchi.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-23
Home Department
To Meet Thurs.

A cooking project will be taken
up at the McCabe-Eucalyptus home
department meeting at 1920 am.
Thursday at the home of Mrs.
John Frohley. 4141 South 9th street.
Each member will take a dish
of food to the meeting which she
is especially proficient at making,
and she will explain how it is
made. The food will later be serv-
ed as the pot-luck luncheon.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-23
Camp Director Will
Speak At Luncheon
Meeting Saturday

Charles Barry, director of the
Federal migratory camp at Braw-
ley, will be the main speaker at
the University Women's Guest
Day" luncheon at l pm. Saturday
at the Barbara Worth hotel.
Barry's subject will be The Mi
gratory Labor Situation in Imperial
Valley.
Also on the program will be Miss
Ruth MacClenathan of San Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-23
Mrs. Edgar Moore
At Hospital

Mrs. Edgar Moore underwent a
major operation Tuesday night at
the El Centro hospital
Her condition is very satisfactory
but she will not be able to see visit
orS for at least a week.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-23
Mrs. R. {. Barter Maintains
Chairmanship of Section

tea room. Hostesses will be Mrs.
w. A. VIE and Mrs Oria Kenah.
Mrs. Robert w. Ware. newly elect
ed president of the club, attended
the meeting as a special guest.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-23
NeWs Items About
Valley Residents

Mr.. and Mrs Fred Nuttall, Of
San Bernaldino, former FL Centre
residents. were weekend visitors i'm
the valley.
ID. w West. a"seSSor-collecto
returned to FL Centre Tuesday. af-
ter having attended the collectors
convention in Yosemite.
J. M. Kunkel of San Diego is in
the valley on business.
Mrs. Ruth Travers Kier and
Diane of Hollywood visited in Ell
Centro over the weekend with Mrs.
KierS parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jas
per L, TraverS.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hamilton OF
Arcadia, former Ell Centrans. visit
ed in the valley over the weekend.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-23
Rebekahs To Meet
Thursday Night

Members of the Barbara Worth
Rebekahs will meet at pm. Thurs
lay at the First Baptist church for
their regular business meeting.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-23
Sixty>Fipe Valley Eastern Stars
Attend Yuma Anniversary

Bucklin, Mrs. Joyce Small Mrs.
Meader Mrs. Leon Miller, Mrs. Lii
lah Knudsen, and Mr.. and Mrs.
c. b. Collins.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-23

Everyone in Hollywood is won
dering whether Charlie Chaplin
will have a new leading lady
for story he is now writing,
and speculation centers around
the young lady pictured above,
Dorothy 'Comingore Meltzer. %.
The girl, who does little mod
cling around Carmel. Calf,
won't talk about the situation.
but her father said she told him
Charlie had offered her a part.
"but her husband doesn't want
her to accept"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-23
1t Is Da

1t is dangerous to seu a SUBSTI-
TUTE for 666 just to make three
or four cents more. Customers are
your best assets; lose them and you
lose your business. 666 is worth
three or four times as much as a
SUBSTITUTE
The Hagerstown globe., 1938-02-11
JONES FAMILY AT :. :. :
ACADEMY THEATRE
Appear Friday and Sat
urday, Next Week, In
borrowing Trouble"

Ihere's a honey, quiet street in
Los Angeles where members of
the screens popular Jones Family
are not looked upon as movie ac-
tors but as friends and neighbors.
During each new picture the
family spends several DAYS at
this residence. Recently thew
completed &C work on their latest
film, Borrowing Trouble" which
IS to be shown next week at the
Academy.
The entire neighborhood gather
ed to watch the proceedings and
u uuflng a change in scenes some Of
the neighbors produced some
homemade cookies and lemonade
The Hagerstown globe., 1938-02-11
Hollywood Hotel, Featured at Nd Next Week
HOLLYWOOD HOTEL"
A MUSICAL COMEDY
Dick Powell Has Splen.
did Part In Fine
Picture

Every one in the United States
possessed of q radio as undoubt-
edly heard that big weekly broad
cast called Hollywood Hotel"
supposedly originating from an
immense and luxurious hostel1y
in the capital Of FilmIand. which
has been the most popular air
program for the last three wears
And now Hollywood Hotel" in
the form of a musical comedy. is
coming to the Maryland Theatre
next Thursday as presentation
from Warner Bros. 1t is NOT
merely an episode entertainments
ike its namesake of the ether.
waves, but fully-plotted dra.
matte show with a star-studded
cast.
Dick Powell has the most i'm
portant part-that Of young
crooner who comes to HOLLYWOOD |
with promises of a movie job, and
gets into all sorts of difficulties
before he wins success.
The Lane Sisters, Lola and
Rosemary, have the leading fem
inlne roles, the former as a tenn i
movie star who re- /
fuses to appear at a premiere and
the latter as a totally obscure ho-
Tel worker who takes Lola,s
place on the big night.
Louella Parsons, famed dra.
matte and originator of the "Hol-
yWood Hotel air show. PLAYS
herself in the picture, acting as
mistress of ceremonies and intro
luclng a great number of stars to
Ter audience in the famed "Or-
hid Room"
The Hagerstown globe., 1938-02-11
WALT DISNEY,S REVUE
AT ACADEMY THEATRE

AS an extra added attraction.
the Academy Theatre is offering
on their program Friday and Sat
urday, February IS and 19, Walt
Disney's Academy Award Revue.
This Revue contains all of Mr..
DIsney's greatest creations, and
among the winners in this Revue
are: The sensational Three Pigs.
the Orphan Kittens, Trees and
The Hagerstown globe., 1938-02-11
HISTORICAL DIRECTORS

j. H. Stoner, Waynesboro,
was named director of the Kit.
tochtinny Historical Society at a
meeting held in Hotel Washing.
ton Chambersburg. Three direo
tors were named each for the
three-year term. as follows: ].
H. stoner, Waynesboro, and Ar.
thur Gillian and George K. Leh.
ner, both of Chambersburg.
The Hagerstown globe., 1938-02-11
NEW STORE

the Coverway Grocery has
opened in the room formerly oc-
cupled by Brewer Brothers. cor
ner OF Washington and Elizabeth
streets. Curtis Cover, formerly
IN m the employ Of the A. & p.
stores, is the proprietor.
The Hagerstown globe., 1938-02-11

HIr Grilo gets
quade parties But others ask him to paint
their friends He also obtained
In other places. ~
Mr Cauthers bottles pointing inward
eEe 1000 altogether points never have
ake out mOrgage Hem just ax down part building and
coEsCt Ehe deposit Che bottles
The Hagerstown globe., 1938-02-11

A Jug OF bootleg whisky explod-
ca |hen placed near a steam radi-
a'or' and blew out the windows Of
police station in Chicago.
The Hagerstown globe., 1938-02-11

Mr.. and Mrs. L. H. Miner. Wav.
slde Avenue, are spending several
weeks in Miami, Florida.
The Hagerstown globe., 1938-02-11

knowledge is of two kinds; we
know subject ourselves. or we
know where we can ind informa-
ton upon it.-Johnson.
The Hagerstown globe., 1938-02-11

Flowers and the Tortoise and the
Hare.
The Hagerstown globe., 1938-02-11
NEW ELECTRIC SIGN

A large neon sign has been
erected at the City Light office.
at City Hall.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-29
JEFFERSON ON A THIRD TERM

A splendid memorial to Thomas Jefferson will be
constructed in Washington. This is fine enter
prise, not because Jeffersons name needs it to
cape obscurity, but because the American people
need to remind themselves constantly and visibly
of great men, great thoughts, and great deeds of
the past The past is the only teacher any people
has, From the past, people must derive also much
of their inspiration to wreste with problems of the
present.
jefferson was, as every one knows, the powerful
democrat of his times. He urged and guided the
United States into democratic ways. 1t is, there
fore, strkngly appropriate for this memorial to be
under construction now, when democracy is slip
ping as it has not slipped since the Monticello
philosophers life The present is an apt time for
people to study Jefferson and if they do study hin,
they will find this among his comments:
@"The example of four presidents, voluntarily re-
firing at the end of their eighth year. and the prog
ress of public opinion that the principle is salutary
have given it in practice the force of precedent and
usage; in much that should president consent
to be candidate for a third election I trust he
would be rejected on this demonstration of ambi-
tious yiews."-Columbia State
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-29
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
ARMING THE UNITED STATES

The United States, according to all signs, IS pre-
pairing to embark upon the greatest era of arma-
ment construction in its history, excepting that of
the World War There is talk of large increase
in the army, in the navy and the building of ten
thousand war planes. War planes soon become OBJ
solete Battleshps cruisers, destroyers and subma-
rines are comparatively shortlived.s Army equip
ment must keep abreast of foreign invention and
development and the payrolls of the army run on
as long as the army exists.
Perhaps the unsettled state of the world makes
this rearmament program necessary, but the ad-
ministration and the Congress Should know that to
sbe true before adopting program that vii! cost
billions in comparatively few years. ...
It is true that the building of craft for water
and air, the equipment of great army and the
construction of Notifications will release vast sums
of money to relieve unemployment, but that alone
should not be considered. The same amount OF
money might be spent to construct highways and
roads, to build good schoolhouses where poor ones
now are in use, to remove every railway grace
crossing in the country, to bridge every stream
where bridge is needed and unemployment would
be relieved on broader scale.
Many critics of lending and spending, of pump
printing, will be found to endorse the program of
ornaments. Yet is it not pump printing much
as were +otnef expenditures VI 'tie P4Ne-' -
isration to which such violent objection was taken?
The world situation may make it necessary for
the United States to as never before, but there
should be no explanation save that the nation is in
danger of foreign attack Italy, Japan, Germany,
France and Great Britain have relieved unemploy-
ment by the adoption of great armament programs.
The money they have spent, had it been invested
in permanent internal improvements, would have
given work for the unemployed and at the same
time it would have revolutionized industry, bust
ness, and the comforts of living Those nations and
Others with the exception of Great Britain are al
most bankrupt. Is it not possible that the United
States may as severely feel the burden of the pro-
posed armament program if it be authorized by
Congress ?-Spartanburg Herald. ;,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-29
CANADIANS ARE OUT
FOR PENAL REFORMS

MONTREAL, Dec. 29. (UP)-
The Canadian government is con-
sidering a plan to send promising
younger members of Canadian
penitentiary staffs to England to
study the British penal system, it
was disclosed here.
j. Alex Edmison, honorary le-
gal counsel Of the Prisoners Aid
and Welfare association, told the
Scottish Schools Club Of Montreal
that Ernest Lapointe, minister of
justice, was considering the plan
as part of a scheme TO abolish the
present system of political ap-
pointment to penitentiary staffs
and to improve penal conditions
in Canada.
Edmison explained for appoint
ments to prison staffs in England
a man must be well educated and:
have a definite knowledge of pc
nology. He criticised the Canad-
ian policy, which he said permit
ted defeated political candidates
and party workers to occupy these
positions. ie,a a. r-t'E'' ~
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-29
CHANGE IN ORDER

Item number one in the legislative program OF
John L. Lewis CLIO for the new year is measure
to compel industry to obey the Wagner act or fore
go its claims to federal contracts and loans. The
Clio would keep the act virtually as it is.
The American Federation of Labor on the other
hand has as a prime objective in its 1889 program
the making of substantial revisions in the Wagner
act.
The public, on the whole friendly to organized
labor and eager for labor's development and prog
ress, will hope for the success of the Federaton's
program. -tal .s--
For the Wagner act, as administered by the Ma
tional Labor Relations board, has been manifestly
unfair and unjust to industry. 1t has been one
sided Employers hauled up under it have felt that
their cause was lost before they started and usual
ly it was.
The general detectives of the act as originally
drawn were in keeping with the American spirit of
progress and fair play but passed and as admin
istered the measure has been disappointment and
stumbling block to improved industrial labor re-
lations.-Greenvie Piedmont.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-29
THOUGHTS ON THE NEW
YEAR"

Another year is past and gone
How quickly Time doth flee!
TTis like the stream that floweth
On it's course toward the sea.
1t waiteth not for mortal man,
But swiftly speeds away;
There's naught can lengthen this
life's span,
Nor add to it one day.
What golden opportunities
We've had for doing good
Which we would gladly now re-
call,
+ If only that we could.
How many kindly words and
deeds
We've left un-said, un-done;
How many erring sons of men
We might have sought and
won. T.
.-',.'s': .:ss- sgS ';sr,;g,%'-'
But there's no time for vain re-
grets,
The future still is ours;
And though the path un-trodden
yet
May not be strewn with flow
erS. --'i'''-
There's promised Grace for every
a day:
No matter what befall
The God above, whose name is
Love,
In wisdom ruleth all.
Let US then fresh courage take,
And let our hearts be glad,
Determined that the present year
Shall be the best we've had.
And in proportion as we seek
Our fellow men to bless,
So shall we find in sweet return
Our personal happiness"
Then when on earth we've done
our task,
And we are laid to rest,
"'Twill be in sure and certain
hope
Of waking with the blest."
JOHN DALE KEMPSTER.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-29

In ancient Egypt the cat was wor-
SHIPPED as a god. Perhaps that is
why the modern cat is so indie
pendent. Perhaps he thinks, "You
are but human being, come from
human beings, whilst | am a cat,
descended from gods"
Tell the human being to wor-
ship and obey right, good, kind
ness, love, and he may still be I'M
satisfied. He may insist on hav-
ing something he can see; or a
physical symbol of something he
cannot see. The less evolved he
is, the more he demands a physi-
cal idol to tie to.
As Sir Anthony Eden told us
in nationwide broadcast recent
ly, a new idol has been set up by
certain peoples to worship and
place above everything else-the
totalitarian state. These peoples
give this new idol all power; at
tribute to it all wisdom; see in
it all good; and, like ancient IA
natical barbarians, are willing to
sacrifice themselves and everyone
else to it. Like the ancient moth
ters of Egypt who threw their ba-
bies to the crocodiles, whom they
worshiped as gods and whose ia
vors they sought. theese new idol
worshipers are eager to throw the
whole world into the jaws of the
totalitarian state. 1t were better
to worship the crocodiles than
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-29
, JOHN T. FLYNN

! But in the meantime, what be-
comes of government expendi-
lures for relief and work relief?
If there is any validity in the
claim that public works expendi-
lures will produce recovery, then
is il not plain that any plan which
tends to divert them into war ex-
penditures will postpone their eX-
penGiture and postpone recovery?
Six years ago the President,
when the first FWA money
was appropriated, was urged to
60 in for low-cost housing. This
he refused to do. Here and there
a few housing projects have been
built at costs and at rental rates
which put them completely be-
You'd the reach of the low income
groups.
Had the President six years ago
put behind real low-cost housing
program one-half the energy
that was expended on the i'll
starred MIRA and other almost
forgotten adventures, the govern.
ment would have something tan
gible in assets for the money It
has spent; the people would be
well on the way to the solution of
one of our most sel lous problems.
We would now know something
perhaps about loW-cost housing
construction. But row, six years
after the New Deal began, it Is a
little late to talk about housing.
It ought to be inaugurated, even
at this late day, but it will take
years to develop it to the point at
which it would be developed had
the golden opportunity been seized
in 1888. Now, apparently, we are
to have battleships instead Of
houses.
DOWNRIGHT: 1919. NEA Service. Inc
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-29
UNPLEASANT NECESSITY

Nobody but professional lingo will feel very
cheerful about the Presidents recommendations for
military, naval and air expenditures-wh turn
out to be Just about what was expected. There is
something definitely incompatible between the no.
ton of democratic society and that of large war
establishments. And the proposed measures prom
Use to add more billions to the national debt and so
further to increase taxes 1t may very well be that
for few years they will inject new life into heavy
industry and reduce unemployment, thus making
general business conditions sbetter; but in the end
it will only be temporary-un Unless and here
we come upon the greatest danger of aH-unless
we are tempted into the mad course that Germany
is presently following of attempting to solve unem-
ployment and bring about economic prosperity by
turning the whole people into vast machine for
the always expanding production Of war materials
Charlotte News.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-29
TO !.
/ THE EDITOR /
NOTE-No unsigned commu.
nications are published by The
Times-News. All letters must be
signed with the real name of
the author. No communications
signed with a fictitious name ,
will be published.-EDITOR.
, TIMES-NEWS DAILY
FEATURES

Editor The Times-News:
"Vote for you Favorite Fea-
ture in The Times-NeWs."
An important election is call
ed for just now in Henderson,
vile. The right of franchise IS
yours, and your, vote is import,
ant. Study the issue and vota
your intelligent conclusions. No
votes from the cemetery in this
election. Only living voters are
eligible, to vote. !.
A newspaper, like a man, cam
not be made up Of one feature. A
choice between nose and an
eye. as you look at a pretty face,
is impossible. Both must remain.
1t is all right to have a first
choice, where a first choice can
be made. But who would be con-
tent with one first-choice-apple
from a barrel of first-choicer
fruit? 1t is not the one apple iri
the barrel that | vote for, BUT
for the barrel full of this first
choice-fruit.
AS one apple, however goodt
does not make up the whole bari
rel, so one feature, however
good, does not make i newspaper,
Thanks be to those responsible,
The Times-News is the whole
barrel Of first-choice-fruit. As
simulated properly, all the, fea-
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tural and practical. Together
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-12-29
LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WICKF.S WAMBOLDT

the totalitarian state, for the GRO
codile is less dangerous, less de-
manding, less cruel.
The Jews of GERMANY would be
far better off wadine and swim
ming around in the Nile among
crocodiles than in Germany in the
midst of ruthless, bestial total
itarian government. The croco-
dies would bite but an occasional
Jew; and the Jews could defend
themselves against crocodiles;
while the terrible totalitarian
state is relentless, Unsuitable, dew
ilishly cunning and imaginative,
overwhelmingly efficient in its
diabolical war of determination
of a harmless, law-abiding minor
ity of other human beings.
Few creatures except the low
est, attack and destroy their own
kind. Among these is a certain
type of man, made in the image
and likeness of God-perhaps =
but so far departed from Him as
no more to- resemble Him than q
wild gorilla resembles George
Washington. :,
When any person tells you by
word CT action that he places the
welfare of the state above the
welfare of its people, that he re-
CARDS man as made for the state
NOT the state for nian--then
you can tag that person, whether
he admits it or not, as believer
in the new idolatr-'.
The state is like a fire-an eX-
cellent servant, but a horrible
master. And the state, like fire,
should be constantly guarded
against getting out of control.