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Evening star., 1938-01-06
WHAT YOU GET

The NCAA plan offers you 48 Famous Paint
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printing process which retains with remark
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originals. These paintings have been selected
by distinguished committee of art authorities
as significant examples of the finest art of the
five centuries since the Renaissance. The color
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venient if you wish to keep the pictures as
collection on your livingroom table or as
de luxe volume for your library.
The series of 4s pictures is divided in groups
of four, arranged in a sequence to illustrate
the development of art through the ages. One
set becomes available each week.
Evening star., 1938-01-06

Just What Busy People Have Wanted
possible
unbeevab
Here last kind history been wanting for years.
life. You will always neglect this opportunity
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
THE OTHER FELLOWS
BACK YARD

The time IS 1t hand when we in I'M
perial Valley are privileged 10 take out
annual look into the sacred corners Of
the other chaps back yard
Between March > and March l3 the
man or woman who has the least little
bit Of curiosity about how the other fel-
low iiVes-aad Who hasn't2-will be gix-
Ell the opportunity to find out.
The ninth annual Imperial County
Fair, beginning Saturday morning. pro
Vides the one opportunity Il year for
the valley II become acquainted with
itself.
Most of the time tie majority Of Us
are So closely bound 10 our own affairs.
and so tightly bounded by them, that
we Go not realize The problems. the
achievements and the developments Of
our ne.ghbors. If we work in a store,
our horizon Is limited to the stacked
shelves. Ii we work oh farm the
fields and the cattle become. to us. the
most important things in life If we
are employed in a garage, the eatrails
of an automobile limit our vision.
Most Of US are sadly lacking in realiza-
ton that our own lives and those of
every. other resident Of Imperial Valley
do not depend solely ON ourselves, our
employers or our friends,s but on the
entire scheme of things that makes up
the complicated life of the valley.
There is no better place to achieve the
broader viewpoint and the wider hori-
zon than in the aisles and paths at the
county fair grounds during fair week.
There we realize, if there is a spark of
intelligence in our makeup, that it not
only takes all kinds of people to make
world-it also takes all kinds of busi-
nesses to make a community.
The best way to become of greater use
to ourselves is to make ourselves more
useful to our community, and none of us
Gan do that without realizing just what
comprises our community.
The county fair is the best place in
the world to find out
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
SIGNPOSTS IN
THE HEADLINES

In one recent copy of this paper there
We're three separate stories which, taken
together, paint as black picture of the
future as we have seen in some months.
They were:
l. The United States War department
completed plans for mobilization of
manpower and industry to place $780,
900 well equipped troops in the field
within four months after the outbreak
of possible warfare.
2. L. S. federal agents named a red
haired hair-dresser on a North German
Lloyd liner as the principal character
in a spy ring which has been pilfering
United States military secrets.
3. Airplane Designer Glen L. Martin
told a house naval affairs committee
that the day will come when the United
States has a huge fleet Of 142Aton fight
ing airships to protect its battleships
in war.
On the front page of the same issue
there were two other stories dealing
with trouble in Italy and in Austria
trouble that may set off an internation
al powder barrel at any time.
Was there ever a better time for the
United States TO keep its nose entirely
out of the range of other nations trou-
bles?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
That Simpler
Tax Return
tFrom the Christian Science
MOnitor)

Made out your income tax re-
turn yet? What? No? Perhaps
newspapers in the United States
should run pictures of little cherubs
chanting, DO your tax return filing
early and avoid the rush." as they
do for the benefit of Christmas
shopping.
At any rate, the task can be
approached with a little less ap-
prehension ii one remembers the
hopeful statement issued from the
Treasury in March, 1887, that the
income tax returns were being SIM
Dlified. Yes, a special committee
worked on them, and the blanks
you receive this year are the result.
Except for the use of larger type
there may not appear at first glance
To be much difference But the
larget type is Indication that some
thing has been left out. 1t appears
that on the returns for less than
5000 the number of personal ques-
tions is now five instead of six,
and for the returns over $5, 1000 these
have been reduced from thirteen
to seven.
The number of separate "sched-
ules' for itemizing income or de-
ductions and credits has been re-
duced in one instance and increas-
ed in the other. 1t may be neat
question whether the return for
larger incomes is really simplified
by occupying four small pages in
stead of two large ones, but any
way it allows more space for de-
failing ones capital gains df any ,
and at least one is no longer eX-
pected to know, apparently, which
of his bond holdings paid 2 per
cent tax at the source.
Thanks unquestionably are due
to the Treasury committee for what
ever elucidation has been accom-
plished either in the return itself
or the accompanying instructions.
But the laws and the peryersities
of taxpayers being what they are,
one can hardly expect even these
gentlemen to remove all the mys-
teries from income tax paying.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
Well III
Tell You.
NtIf
says
Bob Burns

Ill haveta aomit that city peo-
RE en- correct my kinfolks ON
the us6 of English and some 9TH
er unimportant thinks like that.
but when you come right down
to real common senee knowledge
about The important things. I'll
put my kinfolks up against any
body.
Las. Sunday. after church the
minister complained Ct havin' =
headache. IN elderly, society
ladg spsk5 up and SAYS Well, if
YOU lust pet \ cabbage leaf from
the naI.h end of u field On top
of your head, It'll cure it in
minute.
My Grandma spoke up and
says THAT cabbage leaf wont do
a mite of good unless yon put
black button upside down ON
Top of it."
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

There's nothing about the price
of farm machinery in the farm re-
lief bill now before President
Roosevelt for signature, but the
average farmer would be lot hap
pier if a paragraph or two dealing
with the subject could be inserted,
somehow.
The comments of several mid
Westerners attending the recent
Farmers Week at Michigan State
College brought a survey of the
cost of implements and the views
held by the users thereof. Both
were interesting, not only to the
soil tillers but to the average city
man who probably has never given
much thought to tools of the agri-
culture trade.
The survey showed a steady and
considerable rise in the cost of
implements from records as far
back as 1900 Then the tWo-horse
wagons complete with Whippletrees
and box cost $45. Now. without the
box the wagon costs $40. In 1913 a
grain binder cost $125. In 1919 it
cost $204 and in 1897, $2.19. A
common harrow in 1913 sold for
around $8. Now it costs more than
$13. A single cultivator that in
earlier days cost S. now sells for
$12. A walking ploW formerly sold
for $15. Now the price is $25 And
SO on.
Of course, the cost of many COM
modities has doubled since 1900,
but these figures show rigid prices
doubling and more since 1913.
Said one farmer:
The cost of farm machinery
just doesn't make sense. Compare
it with automobiles. A few years
ago few farmers could afford auto
mobiles and the first cars they
did get limped along and stalled
when it rained. They had leaky
tops and draft side curtains.
Nov automobiles have steel
tops and heaters and radios-and
they don't cost nearly as much. 1t
just doesn't make sense"
Implement dealers, on theri side,
point to the higher cost of labor
and of raw materials, and add
that the price of farm products
has gone up, too, aiding the far
mers
And the farmers retort in re-
buttal that farm products certain
ly haven't doubled in price and
that furthermore the nrice of
farm products is variable and the
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
Bruce Cation Says
- Keeping the u S. Army Out of Party Politics

farmer has no foundation of price
stability on which to build his eco
nomic structure; that the price of
wheat and corn goes up and goes
down, but the price OF implements
stays up forever.
Labor and materials have in
creased the cost OF manufacturing
farm implements, just as they have
increased the cost of all manufac-
turing, but there aren't many
trades in which the price of a
mans production machinery has
doubled over a few years.
Perhaps the material used in the
machinery now is a little better,
perhaps lot better, but that does
not alter the fact that the farm
er has to pay the higher price,
either for requirements or to en-
ter his trade-and still stay in
business while he pays those prices.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
Other Editors Say
A PECULIAR RACE
T TEIU IThN NHtI
(Ontario Report

There was an old song during the World
War with one verse which began The French,
they are peculiar race. parley-yoo'
They are, indeed. Here is the minister of
justice in Paris who went on a short inspection
tour of "short-term penitentary" After an
affectionate holiday speech to the prisoners,
the minister picked out one and kissed him
soundly on both cheeks as the cameras clicked.
Considerable progress has been made of late
years in penology in America. But we are in
clined to doubt that the practice will ever be
adopted here of having American attorney
general or even a G-man 60 out at Christmas
time to kiss few prisoners Babies, perhaps,
but not prisoners.
Besides the constitution forbids It says
that cruel and unusual punshments' shall not
be inflicted
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
News Behind
the News
Pickeiing the RF
Nv RODNEY nUTgnER

WASHlNIIlOS,- lie iSf1 iuN
has Sl.500000.000 to lend. but
Would-b borrowers may have To
cross 4 picket line to aet Il.
Representative of members of
a tunnelers' union on strike at the
san Jacinto Tunnel in California
promise to picket Chairman Jesse
Jones if he doesn't need their idea
that he bring pressure 10 make
the Metropolitar Water District of
Southern California recognize col
lective bargaining principles.
The district has received $3.50
100000 in funds for the Colorado
river aqucduct Gnd has spent
about $4,000 for deputy sheriff5
and guns. tear gas and other ma
terials with which to equip these
union breaking guards according
To IA California congressman who
have asked Jones wnether this Is
government money which Is being
used to further anti-labor pol! les
such as the administrator opposes.
About 1900 tunnelers went on
strike six months ago after union
leaders had been fi2sd. Subse-
quent shootings and gassings have
caused many casualties.
Senator Robert F. Wagner of
New York, motiVated largely by
the tactics of the Metropolitan
Water Districts board of directors,
has introduced a bill which would
require all recipients Of federal
loans, grants or contracts to obey
the National Labor Relations Act.
Code cables to the State Depart
ment reveal Chancellor SchuSch-
nigg of Austria returned to Vienna
III a state of nervous collapse after
his session with Hitler in which
the Fuehrer forced him to agree
to Nazi domination of his country.
The Austrian chancellor, in one
private conversation, is reported
10 have referred to Hitler as IA
madman-a mailman with a mis-
sion"
Curiously enough, most Of the
really bitter criticism of southern
senators participating in the anti
lynching bill filibusJer has come
from the South. Northern senators
and newspapers have been relative
~ mild in comment.
The southern senators are max
ing such spectacles of themselves
that the disgust over their antics
Is in some measure tempered by
amusement reported the Rich
mond TimeS-Dispatch.
Other measures are being ditch
ed while certain southern senators
conduct themselves like asses bray
ing at the MOON" said the Mont
gomery (Ala) Advertiser.
"The Senate filibuster against
the anti-lynching bill is still in
progress, with Senator Bilbo and
others making jackasses out of
themselves" commented the Athe-
nian of Athens, Tenn.
Radio stations often receive COM
plants from listeners who allege
that this or that statesman speak
ing from Washington was obvious
ly drunk" But it isn't true. Some
of the big shots are just naturally
mush-mouthed or nervous.
Officials of oroadcasting chains
admit quite a few senators and
other officials take a snort or two
of preliminary fortification to COM
bat radio jitters, but recall none
who arrived at the station snozzled
since the death of a certain cele-
brated senator whose name need
not be mentioned.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

q ID Af4 l NSAI a 4
away some 20
years ago. While
his output was
slim, several cap
able critics regard
him as another
O Henry.
Lyon, an alum
nus OF the Kan
sas City Star, was
in his 30's when
stricken. He was
a contributor to
Hanpton's S when
was on the
staff. and
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
The Grab Bao
One-Minute Test

l. Who was named temporary
foreign secretary of Great Britain
following Anthony Edens resigna-
ton?
2. How is membership in the
U. S. house of representatives ap-
portioned?
3. What is said TO be the oldest
city in the world?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
You re Telling Ne .--
BY WILLIAM RITT

THE ONLY solution, as we see
it to the daily puzzle of both
Loyalists and rebels claiming VIC
tory the same day in the Spanish
revolution is that they must be
fighting two other fellows.
Now that some servant girls are
reported requesting they be given
the title of "domestician" the man
at the next desk thinks it is only
a matter of time until WPA.
workers will be referred to as pick
iatrists or shoVelicians.
Another school to teach young
folks how to write plays has been
organized. After viewing a few of
the recent Broadway exhibits our
New York representative thinks
what this country really needs is
something which will persuade
youngsters not to write plays.
We don't know how the ball
players in sprnig training are
coming along, but those photos
from. Florida reveal the bathing
beauties certainly are in great
shape.
YaWn Yawnson says his no
good cousin has lost another job
Yawn says that fellow has been
fired oftener than an apartment
house furnace.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

Survey shows that 10 per cent of
American school children are hard
of hearing. IIarassed school teach
ers would say the estimate is off
by 80 per cent.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

WPA steamroller disappears from
New York City. This may be the
one recently reported operating in
Washington Senate chambers.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
TOday's Horoscope

Persons whose birthday occurs
today are inclined towards learn
ing by experience rather than by
theory. Many of them are of the
show me" type.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
Day by Gay
New York

NEW YORK, = They are going
to try to make fiction readers con-
scious o ia neglected, almost for
gotten writer. He is red haired
Aaa.,.ic AIartnn Mnn who t.oSSnl
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

(See Page 8, See. for the 27th
installment of the District En-
cheering Report.)
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

Half a dozen Smith College girls
are now licensed pilots. This is
perfectly natural as most girls like
to air their achievements.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

Musicians ask that the national
anthem be changed as the present
one often becomes the Star
Strangled Banner.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
Hints in Etiquette

Courtesy and politeness are the
best protection against the rude
ness of others in business.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

Potatoes dumped by Democrats as
Frosted and unfit" turned out to be
good for roasting Name your own
place to send them.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

Eskimo fashion show will fea-
ture fur styles. This should not
be confused with the skin showing
of American fashion paradeS.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
WORDS of Wisdom

Peace is the happy, natural state
of man; war, his corruption, his
disgrace Thomson.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
One-Minute Test Answers

|. Viscount Halifax, lord presi-
dent of the council.
2. According To state popula
tionS.
3. Cairo, Egypt.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
TOMORROW NEVER COMES
Bu Il. 4. OSBORN


lReprinted from The Yuma Daily SUM
Who Vas il made n recent survey amons all
kinds Of people and asked.
What are you living for
ana found most of them were Aging for
TOMORROW.
roday2 No not today. they were Just strug-
eln2 thra today to get 10 TOMORROW
-o-
The child looks for the tomorrow when he'll
20 to school HE grade papil looks to the tomor-
row when he'll be big enough 10 PLAY football IN
high school The high school student looks Tor
The tomorrow when he'll be III college Tie col
lege student visions the tomorrow when lie Il
get started Al somelling
The eirl looks for the tomorrow when she'll
be wooed The betrothed looks for the tomorrow
when she'll be wed The bride locke Tor the
tomorrow when she'll have the ideal home and
lovely children The mother LOOKS for the to
morrow when the children VIII b. arown up ana
size can Get some rest.
Tie farm boy looks Tor the tomorrow when
dad viii let him drive the tractor in the field
ana the automobile The tractor driver looks
for the tomorrow when he'll have place OF my
own" The farmer looks Tor tie tomorrow When
lie move TO town and retire.
The clerk looks for the tomorrow when he
can start a little store OF his own And having
started the store, probably his tomorrow Is
the most hopeless OF all, lor II he succeeds he
can't let go because of the ntoXieaton Of sur
cess; and if he doesn't succeed he can't let
go Tor holding on.
Tomorrow when the younguns are out from
underfoot mother and | are going to let down.
we're going { learn TO play, we're going to en-
Joy those things which missed when We were
young says father. We're going to buy that
little ranch down in the valley, get couple OF
riding horses and ride; raise some COWS and
chickens; start dancing play golf; take some
trips have always wanted; have some iun.
But tomorrow is long time in coming. 1t
takes time TO get the children through nigh
school and then college and then settled III
something
And then creaking joints don't 90 well with
these new tangled maggot on hot skillet type
Of dances, or with horseback riding or golf play
ing, or swimming.
And the desire for travel, with its attendant
hardships. is not SO keen; the capacity Tor enjoy
ment has vanished
Take no thought OF tomorrow, the Great
Teacher said
Did He mean. perhaps, to get the fullness
out OF today
Sitting on the corral fence looking at that
perfect horse as Sam Dick and Tom Shown do;
going in for that swanky automobile you have
always wanted; going on picnics and sleeping
out under the myriad of Arizona stars; rounding
up ones whole family and having dinner to-
gether some evning, with a show afterWard
tackling todays task and enjoying todays friends
refusing to let the strife of business (and every
ones in business, the Chamber of Commerce
man says get one all wrought up; smuggling
down for an evening before the fire with book
those part OF the grand things known as
LIVING TODAY.
NYraxuar, C,oAsr7ct
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

Scientists say that the average
healthy person shifts his body
about 35 times during eight hours
of sleep
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

Animals IN the Angora district
of Turkey-cats, dogs, goats and
rabbits-haye long, silky hair.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

Ships in distress at sea frequent
ly pour oil on the waves to still
the water to a degree.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04
Photographs

The United States still has two
million acres available to home
steaderS.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

TOMORROW NEVER COMES!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

The child looks for the tomorrow When he'll
20 To school Tie grade pupil looks 10 the tonor-
row when he'll be big enough TO PLAY football IN
high school The high school student looks ior
the tomorrow when he'll be in college Tie col
leee student visions the tomorrow when he'll
"aet started at somelaing.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-04

3. Cairo, Egypt
Evening star., 1938-08-19
Teach Child
Beauty Of
TheNight
By ANGELO PATRI.

ROBBY and Ellen are S and 3 years
- old, respectively. During the day
they seem to get along nicely. without
too much attention from anybody
Once in a while they come into the
house and ask If mother is there and
20 out again cheerfully. even though
she is absent. But at night it is
different.
They have their baths, eat their
suppers, say their prayers and get
into their beds. As mother leaves
the room one Of them calls, Don't
shut the door. Leave it so the light
shines through" The door must be
left slightly ajar or there is trouble.
loud trouble. This has been going
on for q long time and their mother
Is beginning to think that the door
ought to be closed and the children
left to work 1t out as best they can.
think that closing the door is not
important. I do not think that 1t
is the crack Of light in the doorway
that they want at al. They have
in their minds q feeling that as night
comes upon them they are being cut
of from all they are familiar with.
Darkness wipes it out As long as
they have some connection with their
daytime world they are safe. In their
minds they are secure. II that crack.
which symbolizes for them their day
time world, goes out in darkness.
they lose their hold and feel lost.
Fear besets them and they cry for
help. What we need to do is to teach
and train them to know that they are
safe day and night. always In touch
with their familiar daytime world.
Shutting the door will not teach
them that; will not give them the
feeling of security they lack. We
have to teach them that night is the
absence of light from the sun. the
time given children and all living
things for sleep and rest and recrea-
ton for the next day. We have to
teach them the beauty of the night.
its restful sky set with stars, the beauty
of the moon. the peace of it all. Teach
them to love the night.
We cannot do this by saying,
There's nothing to be afraid OF. Go
to sleep. Nanny cannot stay with
you all the time. Big boys 60 to
bed and sleep until morning. Stop
it now or you'll get spanking" Tnat
will not teach the beauty OF night
and its peace and rest and serenity. .
Take the children into the twilight
and talk about the beauty Of 1t. Listen
to the birds going to bed, swinging
on the tree branches, glad to muggie
down under the lovely sky and the
twinkling stars. Talk about the loveiy
moonlight. II there is . garden, walk
in it. Flowers are exquisite In moon
light. Listen to the water II there Is
a brook. Point out whatever OF beauty
there is about your home IN the
night and say no word about that
crack Of light In the door. Before
the end Of another year the children
are likely 10 prefer moonlight On Their
door to ths crack q Light IN the door
vay.