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Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-20
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relatives Mrs. Lester Patton and
children. Gary, Verdene and Max
me. returned to their home at Bis
bee, Arizona Wednesday, They
were the house guests of Mrs. Pat
IONS parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. l..
Boone.
Frank Gallaher left Thursday for
San Francisco where he is en-
ployed.
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Cannon ac-
companied by Mr.. and Mrs. Gene
Higgins attended the celebration at
Imperial Dam Monday.
Sunday visitors of MI. and Mrs.
Fred Denton and family were Mr..
and Mrs. Bernard Sims jr. of CAL
cXico.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hackleman
recently returned to their home in
the valley after pleasant summer
on the coast.
Arriving from Bisbee, Arizona for
few days visit with friends and
relatives R. Berry was a guest of K.
Patton while here.
Teddy Roe recently purchased
fancy riding pony from the plains
OF Arizona.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Cob
leigh had as house guests for sew
eral days, Cobleigh's brother, Mr.
and Mrs Marshall Cobleigh from
New Mexico. They also visited an
other brother while here, Winfred
Cobleigh, principal of Westside
school.
Mr.. and Mrs Bill DuBoise and
son went back TO Oklahoma after
several months in the valley.
Tuesday Mrs. Nora Rister and
son. Gerald Of Calexico were visit
ing with Mrs. Olive Cannon.
Birthday Party
Wednesday evening Mr. and
Mrs K. Taylor entertained a group
Of friends at their home celebrating
the birthdays of their daughter
Marjorie Jean Taylor, and Mrs.
'Ua--Ior'c cic+or Mrc o1o Cbr,, ri
Guests included: Robert Richter.
Opal Anderson, Echodel Wilson, Pat
Arner, Bobby Putnam, Vernon Put
nam, Fern Shumard, Mary Lou
Putnam, Ivan Cook, Marvin RAIDER.
Eddy Hall, Glenn Shumard, Nadine
Hall Mary Earl Muncill, Eva Shu-
mard, Edwin Allen, Virginia Lee
Taylor, E. Shumard, Mr.. and Mrs.
K. Taylor, ard the honorees, Lola
Shumard and Marjorie Jean Taylor
Games were enjoyed during the
evening.
Sunday visitors at the E. Shu-
mard home were: Ivan Cook Mar
vim RAIDER, Virginia Lee Taylor
Marjorie Jean Taylor and Opal An
derson and Echodel Wilson of El
/ Centro.
Thursday Mrs. Olive Cannon and
Mrs. Iva Lee Higgins we're calling
on Mrs Fred La Rue.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-20
Record Of HeoIes, Sood
On All American Conaa
By MARGUERITE BROoKS-

Construction of the All American canal and Imperial
lam was a healthfu task for the men who put IN 10
5535l man-hours the projects in the last three and
half years DR.. Warren F. Fox county health officer.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-20

Fl Centre Purchasing Department
Installed in Clerks Office;
Business to Go to Local Firms

Installation of the city of Ell Centro purchasing de
partment in the office of the city clerk was completed
Thursday The department, formerly located in the city
engineers office moved by the city council this week
10 eaualize the burdens of city government.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-20

VACANCIES Cost Money, Rent
Through st-Press Want Ads.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-20
New Drug Store
To Be Opened in
WestmorIand
WESTMQRLAND NOTES

Howard Smith, pharmacist in the
Cut Rate Drug store in Brawley, is
planning on opening drug store in
Westmorland ON November /. The
building next to the hardware store
is being renovated and fountain
is being installed.
Several members of the local
Legion post and the auxiliary at
tended the district meeting held IN
Brawley Sunday afternoon.
The Twice Told Tales Book club
met last Wednesday at the home OF
Mrs. Bryan Walker, Mrs. Martina
Lyall gave an interesting review on
THE Great American Family by
Lee Shippy Four new members
we're voted into the club.
When the Westmorland Sewing
club met yesterday at the home of
Mrs. Harold Dickerson. for their
weekly meeting, Mrs. Edward New
ton was pleasantly surprised by a
pink and blue" shower, given in
her honor Many lovely gifts were
received by the honoree, and after
several games were played, the
hostess served dainty refreshments.
Assisting Mr.. Dickerson were Mrs.
Charles Dickerson ana Mrs. Robert
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-20


a Summary Of Receipts and Disbursements by
To the Honorable City Council City Of Ell Centro,
Ell CentrO California
Gentlemen: AS required by law | herewith su
of Ell Centro for the fiscal year 1937-1938 man
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-20
(UNDER FHA)

.4o,. per month repoyns the Bo"k OF A"e''s'
tho, finoneed this home in NoPo co'"o'"'o .
. r.. ..... tables the monthly fhe 100" soo '
Evening star., 1938-05-23
Spare the Indian!

Members of the Nassawango Tribe Of
the Improved Order of Red Men have
started a campaign to save the Indian
head nickel threatened with elimination
to make way for the proposed Thomas
Jefferson bicentenary fve-cent piece. In
letters to Maryland Senators and Rep
resentatives they have appealed for the
continuance of "a real American coin"
Their contention is not without merit.
Without disparagement of the third
Chief Magistrate, it may be argued that
the aborigines are worthy of remem-
brance on the face of some current ma
tional token. They were banished from
pennies in 1909 in order that Abraham
Lincoln might be commemorated in
copper and never have been restored.
But the Nassawango Tribe must not
be too sanguine. The New Deal has
Evening star., 1938-05-23
Smithsonian Progress.

At the moment when the Franklin
Institute at Philadelphia is beginning a
new chapter in its history, 1t may be ap-
propriate to consider the future of the
Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
OF course, what is wanted for every such
establishment is steady expansion. The
demand of progressive civilization
must be for increased facilities of every
kind for the diffusion of knowledge.
But the Smithsonian has been neglect
ed for approximately a quarter OF a
century Congress knows the needs Of
the institution, yet thus far has met
them only in part. The bill providing
for gallery to supplement the Mellon
Gallery and to furnish shelter for VAL
liable pictures already available for dis
play has been passed in the hope that
private funds will be offered for con-
struction expense. Yet even if or when
some unknown friend gives the money
required, it will be comparatively only
drop in the bucket.
The Smithsonian wants wings added
to the National Museum, also a separate
building for accumulated relics of Amer
ican history, modern edi1ce to house
the Arts and Industries Division and
other supplementary accommodations
large enough to permit the acceptance
of gifts which constantly are being Of
fered-and rejected because there is no
room for their exhibition.
Certainly the time will come when the
institution will be endowed with capital
equal to its merits. Its name already is
famous the world around. Like the
prophet without honor in his own coun-
try, it is better appreciated in foreign
lands than at home. A few thoughtful
friends try to help it. The larger public
is conscious of it's utility but does not
dramatize its gratitude. Perhaps the
problem will be solved When some indie
pendent citizen will undertake to do for
it what Prince Albert did for the
museums, laboratories and schools of
South Kensington in London.
Evening star., 1938-05-23
Wish and Reality.
From the Charlotte News.

Instead of letting wages be reduced"
John L. Lewis said to the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers, I'VE will force wages
higher and higher" Well, it suits us, who
subscribe to the theory that the laborer
is worthy of his hire and that the di-
vision of income between capital and
labor ought to favor the latter. At the
same time, it's a good thing that Mr..
Lewis was addressing clothing workers
and not, say, textile workers or railroad
workers.
For textile workers appreciate all too
keenly at the moment that talk about
wages is more or less academic when no
wages at all are coming in. And rail-
road workers, though they reject vehe-
mently any suggestion of cut, must
have an uneasy hunch that the roads
can't continue indefinitely to pay out
more than they are taking in. Already
the roads have filed notice Of wage cut.
Against such grim realities as are to
be found In the railroad and textile in
dustries, organized labor's opposition to
reductions in wages is bound to be fruit
less. We say it sadly, for there probably
isn't any class Of employers nowadays
who wish more ardently to keep wages
up and operations going than the rail.
roads and the textile mills.
Evening star., 1938-05-23

been radically high-handed about money
and only "pernicious optimists" will have
the hardihood to hope that the nickel
can be exempted from coercion at this
late date. Forces which cut its buying
power approximately in half are not apt
to be persuaded to listen to reason SO
tardily. Also, it must be admitted that
the proposed changes in design are
frankly political in character. Like the
presidential postage stamps, the new
Jefferson coins are intended to advertise
the administrations brand of democracy.
Many of the alleged reforms inaugurated
since March 4, 1888, have been pro-
claimed to the world as fathered by
the Sage of Monticello. 1t has been
forgotten that he was stanch believer
in sound currency and habitually de-
plored "calamitous fluctuations in .
our circulating medium"
OF course, the Indian should be spared.
His pale face" brother similarly should
be preserved in his natural integrity.
The times, however, "are out of joint"
and "hard cash." in common with most
other things, symbolizes the confusion.
Evening star., 1938-05-23

wall. Its root system Is not large nor
deep, and it will get along With very
little water, II necessary.
4
The fact that the catbird loves such
roosting place is all that should be
necessary to make locust seeding
doubly welcome.
To this sapling. with its fine leaves,
the catbird comes early and late, sing
ing his head of in morning and evening,
mostly contenting himself with his IA
nous news the rest Of the day.
The mockingbird, the brown thraSher,
and the catbird generally are regarded
as singing trio, their output being
somewhat alike, and especially in a gen.
eral tendency to just stand up and sing.
The catbird, too, initiates other singers,
but not nearly 50 much SO as the
mocker, according to our ears.
He likes for the world to know that he
is himself, and not some other singer.
A few minutes listening will convince
any one that this bird not only loves to
sing, but to have an audience, as we'll.
~ 4 4
Other birds which have "cat" in their
names are the catnip bird, as the gold
finch, or wild canary, is sometimes
called: the cat nycatcher, the cat owl,
and the cat-tail wren.
Most owls, of course, with their little
ears and round eyes, somewhat resemble
the house cat.
The catbird, according to the authori-
ties, eats about half vegetable food and
half insects. Thus he is regarded as a
true benefactor OF the farmer, although
the latter often inveighs against him
because Of the fruit he eats.
Ornithologists have been trying for
years to get farmers to plant certain
number of Russian mulberries, in order
to attract the catbirds, robins and other
fruit eaters, and thus keep them off the
cherry trees.
Most birds love mulberries of all sorts
There Is a fine specimen OF mulberry
across the street. and the berries have
ripened upon it but once in eight years.
Do you know why?
Because in the spring and summer OF
1896 the birds were so busy eating the
cicadas or neutrality-suspicious. that
1t was the only year during which the
fruit was allowed to ripen.
All other years the birds have stuffed
themselves with mulberries, a fayorite
Of most songsterS, so that most persons
have never seen the fruit OF the tree.
The years the "locusts" came to life
the berries were left untouched, and
finally fell in masses on the street.
X
The mulberry is berry more es-
teemed in talking by humans than in
the eating thereof, but the writer here
has very pleasant memory of them.
It was when We were about years old,
and saw Mount Vernon for the first time
1t was spring. and the great mulberry
trees were ripe.
There was fresh milk from the Mount
Vernon cows. PaSteuriZed? Probably
not, but 1t tasted mighty good, and
seemed to go with the mulberries.
They do not make large appeal, ex-
cept to songbird. and we have had no
desire to sample them since. But it is
a happy memory.
Evening star., 1938-05-23
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

A great concert was being given by q
bird in the tree close to the window.
The time was early morning, just at
first light. The musician was catbird.
His soft blending of gray and black
feathers was scarcely discernible in the
general grayness of the morning.
His music, however, was for any one to
hear, and such fine music 1t was, COM
bining the best of the traditional type
with swing" Of the most up-to-date sort.
Here was a musician who had no pa
per before him, no notes OF any kind,
but who held his head aloft and let the
notes pour forth.
So many were his variations, so utterly
free, that listeners thought at first 1t
must be a mOckingbird.
The birds are cousins, of course, SO 1t
is no wonder that the catbird Is fine
musician, nor that his variations are
wonderfully we'll done.
Not all listeners realize that this par
ticular bird is such singer as he Is;
his name and his distinctive mewing
cry have kept some from realizing that
he is a great singer in his own right.
Every now and then, as If to give his
theme song, or musical trade mark, the
catbird in the tree by the window would
stop short, and suddenly give the perfect
cat call which is his.
And ours for the listening.
Few birds of any sort have such q
range of tunes. Unlike the mocking-
bird, which shamelessly initiates other
birds, the catbird scorns such tactics
for minutes at time. "A poor thing,
but mine own," says he, with Shake
spearean pride.
His variations are wonderful to hear.
even more interesting to try to figure
out from a musical standpoint, or ear
point.
The listener will feel sure that this
bird knows counterpart as a real mu-
sician should His ability at fugue
cannot be doubted.
This is real music of the wild, this
catbird music, so early in the morning,
pouring forth from the dim gray and
black shape there in the almost darkness.
AS BELTS a bird named after the do
mestic cat, this songster loves to be near
a house.
He will build his nest in shrub at the
corner Of the porch, or on tree nearby.
He loves particularly any small tree
which has sprung up close to building
wall. Locusts have this habit. and If
kept pruned may be held to shrublike
height and habit Of growth.
The pinnate growth Of the leaves OF
the locust make it peculiarly nice speci-
men for this sort Of impromptu planting.
Somehow that 1t has planted itself,
and just grown, makes it all the more
friendly and homelike.
Those gardeners who have an in
stinctive desire to pull up such self
paintings, when first noticed, should
hold the hand.
Often such plants make the very best
ornaments We have, provided they are
pruned, and not let grow all over the
place.
A locust seeding does we'll close to a
Evening star., 1938-05-23
Reminds Senator of Story
OF Ramapo Mountaineer
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
The Utah Senator who objected to the
Senate's consideration of the District
auditorium bill proposed by his colleague
from Texas and who gave no explanation
for his act when questioned for reason
by newspapers. reminds me Of story:
Arraigned before a justice of the
peace on a charge of cruelty to his young
wife, an old codger of the Ramapo
Mountains, when asked by the court why
he whipped her. replied:
Il don't know why l did it, jedge;
guess I whooped her because she was
contrary and I jes' wanted to have my
own way"
Further testimony brought out the
fact that the young mountaineer girl
had been to town on an errand for
some groceries when she noticed that
one of the town girls was wearing
pretty gingham dress. When she got
home, to the ramshackled shack in the
mountains she told her husband she
would like to have pretty dress "just
like hern"
WAL, We amt goin' to have it," the
old man was said to have remarked,
after squirt of tobacco. we've gotta
be satisfied wifi what you got"
When I told him I wo,ild like to go
to town and work for somebody so l
could have pretty dress" the cringing
young wife told the court, "he up and
whooped me with a big stick Said
was contrary child to want things that
everybody else has"
The law permitted the court to ad-
minister just punishment. The husband
was warned not to inf1ict pain on his
young wife again lest the court sent
MIN to Jail. The couple left the court
room arm in arm. A month later the
mountain girl appeared in town with a
new gingham dress!
When the editor of the town gazette
complimented her upon her appearance
the mountain girl smiled, and then said
my man thinks so, too. Says if he had
only known how purity girl looks in one
OF these gingham things he'd of gone
out to work himself to buy me one"
Perhaps the Senator from Utah, when
once shown that the District of Co.
lumbia would look SO much more civic
minded with an auditorium all it's very
own, will amend his hard-hearted ways,
and, at least. give the auditorium bill a
hearing in the Senate It's never too
late to amend! Will the Senator from
Utah yield? FREDERIC G.. FROST,
Evening star., 1938-05-23
ADumb Remark.
Prom the Miami Daily News.

FROM the Miami Daily news.
It has always been the particular role
OF Germany to say things SO bluntly as
to wreck her chances of getting anywhere
In international diplomacy. This distinc.
ton, however, has recently been subject
ed to a gratuitous challenge. 1t comes
from Comrade Stain. Just as world
opinion is nicely lined up against Musso-
lini and Hitler and almost ready to take
in Russia as its best friend. Stain pops
of about organizing the workers in other
countries to fight for the Bolshevist
world revolution.
We had credited Comrade Stain with
more sense. The only possible excuse for
his utterance is the fact that he knew
Hitler would be addressing the Reichstag
at the end of the week. Perhaps he fig
ured that Hitler would be certain to 60
him one better, no matter what he said.
Evening star., 1938-05-23
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
High Cost of Talking.

Hlgn SOSt OF Taking.
There is a man whose kindly heart
Has caused lot of worry;
He seeks to draw his friends apart
From hustle and from furry.
The current talk he never quotes
On matters economic;
He loves the dear old anecdotes
Purporting to be comic.
He buttonholes you on the street,
Afraid that you will miss one,
And says in tones of JOY complete
"Old chap, have you heard this one?"
And then he loudly shouts "Ho! ho!"
And grabs you by the collar,
And says Excuse me but I know
This one will make you holler!"
He waits for stories as they come,
And as he tries to tell 'em,
Gets twisted in his cerebrum
And sprains his cerebellum.
His yarns are just the same old stuff
You listen to each season
And yet to call his genial bluff
To friendship would be treason.
He kills an hour for every man
He meets while loaflng daily.
It is a most destructive plan
That he pursues so gayly.
The precious time which he devours
With glee that neer relaxes,
We figure, in this town of ours,
Costs more than rent or taxes!
Evening star., 1938-05-23
Quasi-Pa Partnership Plan
To End Labor Troubles
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Now is the time for all good railroad
employees to come to the aid of the rail-
roads that feed and clothe them; and II
they agree to come down handsomely
and do it, then, now is the time for all
good railroads to get rid OF all future
labor troubles by the very simple device
Of making their employees quasi-partners
in the business.
Suppose railroad corporation should
say to each employe: Work for this
company and it will make you quasi
partner in the business, thus: After
setting aside from earnings all taxes,
fixed expenses, just rental for the value
Of it's property Ito be paid to the owners
thereof, necessary sinking funds and
surpluses to render the enterprise safe,
the corporation will pay you as large
wage as human foresight deems wise and
justly proportioned, and at the end OF
the year it will divide the remainder OF
it's earnings into two equal parts, one OF
those halves to be paid as dividend to
the stockholders, the other half as a
bonus to the employees, the latter to
share and share alike, and not an i'm
mense sum to the president and pittance
to the Office boy and the charWoman.
For example, if, at Christmas time, there
remains 500 apiece, the office boy and
the charwoman get 500 each, and the
president $l00. In addition, the corpo-
ration will give you representation on the
board by seating thereon as director
one of your number, bona-flde en-
ploye, duly elected by you each year;
and you will have free accesS at all
times to him, to the other directors, and
to the officers to bring complaints, ask
advice or offer suggestions, without fear
or favor; and if you wish to become an
actual stockholder also, the company
will make it easy for you to acquire It's
shares of stock, the money to be used
to pay off bonded debt.
If this were done, where would be the
grounds for labor disputes? 1t could be
done voluntarily by the railroad corpora
tions. by simple amendments to their
bylaws, or it could be forced upon them
by statute Of Congress- under the
commerce clause. There might be some
other possible plan, or some modification
of this one, that would be even more
fair, just and equitable. but I do not
visualize it at the moment. If others
can do so. this would seem to be a good
time to declare it. now, while the rail-
roads are in trouble, are planning a pay
cut, and are threatened with labor trou-
bic If they put it into effect.
ERNEST HAVILAND HOBBS.
Evening star., 1938-05-23
A Congressional Cruise.
From the Salt Lake Deseret News.

After the passage by the House of the
1000, 100000 naval expansion bill, 1t
seems that members of the House Naval
Affairs Committee want to find out what
it is all about. So, despite the fact that
there is an election this autumn. with a
bit of campaigning to be done, members
of that committee. together with their
colleagues of the Military Affairs Com
mittee, are going to do little travelling
at public expense, of course. There is, in
short, to be grand summer junket, one
of the most extensive on record, tour
that will cover 10000 miles-within 5000
miles of the circumnavigation of the
globe.
Honolulu is to be inspected again. The
number of times this beautiful Pacific
island has been inspected has to be cal
culated on slide rule. In 1887 Honolulu
was examined by a congressional party
for statehood, with negative results. The
junketeers are going out this time to
look into the chances of establishing a
craving dock. Then there is Alaska. full
of reindeer, glaciers, Eskimos and pros
pective sites of submarine, naval, air and
mine bases. The Gulf Coast, where the
oleanders and the tulips bloom, has to
be visited to see If the coast defenses of
the fishing camps are in order. So far
as that goes, there's the whole of the
Atlantic Coast, from Maine right down
to the Panama Canal, all open to bonn
bardment.
1t is going to be grand summer for
congressional strategists and ordnance
experts and it would be unfortunate if
some Of them. after their 2OOOO-mile
tour Of inspection. got defeated in No.
vember. thereby depriving the Congress
OF the vast fund of f1rst-hand informa-
ton gathered on the tour.