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Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06
Well Ill
TeIIYou.;
says
Bob Burns

ri You'll take the trouble TO eN-
anime the speeches that've made
history in this country, you'll find
that the ones that done the most
good and that have been remember
ed the longest are the simplest.
That's because the people dldn I
have any trouble understandin
what the fella was talkin' about.
Not long ago, when my COUSIN
Wafford was visitin' me, tried to
impress him with little hish-tone
language so l says. "Wafford, I'm
going over to town to get a piece
of meat and while I'm gone, you
pare the potatoes"
When I got back, i found Wafa 4
ford in the middle Of the kitchca
with potatoes spread out all over
the floor. / says, What IN the
world are you doing? I told you
to pare the potatoes" We says,
"Wen. l did pare most of en-
Then he held up a little potato and
said, But to save my life, 1 can't
find the mate to this little One!"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06
BASEBALL : SOMETHING
MORE THAN A GAME

There aren't many men this time of
year who don't know what you're talk
ing about when you walk up and ask:
"What was the score?'
And there are fewer women every
year who raise questioning feyebrows
when somebody mentions the "Yankees"
or "Cubs" or pirates.
The World Series is as truly nation
al event in the United States as is pres
idential election. And it is as typically
American. That is why, perhaps, it has
never been duplicated in any other ma
tion-although Japan has tried.
Some of us go through the entire base
ball season without giving a whoop in
a hollow rain barrel who's leading the
American league or the National league,
or who's liable to beat Babe Ruth's home
run record. or who's the most valuable
player. Then comes the World Series.
Immediately we are transformed into
rabid baseball fans, one and all.
We can't quite make up our minds
what the connection is, but somehow
we're satisfied that there's not much
danger of dictatorship or anything like
that in these United States as long as
a man from Arkansas can bash in the
hat of a perfect stranger from Califor-
MIA who's sitting in the next bleacher
seat, and get a joyful smile instead of
a sock in the nose as his return, all be-
cause man down on the field has knock
ed a home run.
Perhaps it's the fact that baseball
is truly a democratic game, and the
World Series is the apex of its democ-
racy.
At any rate, in this war-torn world,
we thank God for the World Series-and
sanity.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06
Famous Sayings
Bruce Cation Says
Acts of Provoeation Followed the Armistiee

were not satisfied with military
victory; they aimed to keep Ger
many permanently weak. And since
Germany is one of the most virile
and industrious nations on EARTH
such an effort was foredoomed to
failure.
In any case, the allies created
Hitler. They provided the atmos-
phere of desperation in which his
frantic appeals to his people would
be listened to; they made it clear
that only through force could Ger
many hope to get relief. They
set the stage for him, down to the
last prop.
And then, having done all this,
they retreated again and again be-
fore his threats-adding the last bit
of proof to his argument that by
acting tough Germany could get
what she could not get by being
conciliatory.
To-day the allies face a dire
problem in middle Europe-and al
one can say is that they have beer
asking for it ever since 1918.
To the end of time, this ought tc
be an object lesson to all nation,
an object lesson in how not tc
behave after a victory.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06
CHEWURGICAL PEACE
(Tulare Advance Register)

Chemical magic, the world learned this
week, may succeed where peace pacts
and diplomatic proposals have failed.
Chemistry may halt the japanese inva-
sion of China.
The marching hordes of Nippon have
tramped to war with all the equipment
of battle. Yet, actually, they have had
only one weapon-silk. Japan has no
store of things that make and maintain
the toys of Mars-oil, steek copper,
coal, and lead. But Japan has been able
to buy these things with the dollars her
silk has brought in the American mar
ket
Now. however, a simple combination
of chemicals has upset the balance. Ar
tificial silk, strong and lustrous, as per-
feet as the fragile product of the silk
worm, has just been perfected by an
American company.
Ninety per cent of japanese silk has
been sold to America. Ninety per cent of
American-bought silk has gone into wom-
ems stockings. The might of Japan actu-
ally has marched to war on the silken
tread of American women. Given sub
stitute for silk, the ladies may now have
their silken hose without paying for
them in bombed cities and murdered chill
dren
If American women accept the silk
'ubstitute, Japan cannot buy food for
her machines of war. Without oil and
steel, she cannot continue to bring peace
to China.
From out of the chemical laboratory
has come simple discovery, yet that
discovery may change the history of the
East Silk has taken a million lives
Chemistry has discovered a silk thai
may save many more than million.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06
You re Telling Ne --

Television sets are offered at low
prices. Now I suppose we'll be see
ing yellow baskets as we'll as hear
ing about 'em, not to mention null
berry bushes.
The California pension plan calls
for $50 a week in the form of an
order, not cash. Shall We call it
& strip tease?
If it's true that back seat drivers
cause many accidents, it's just as
we'll they didn't have automobiles
in King Solomon's day.
The man at the next desk says a
great many people probably will go
TO Florida this fall to get away
from the New England hurricanes
TODAY'S QUIZ; How many
NEW YORK people will see the
worlds fair in New York City? But
suppose both of them can't go?
The average healthy person has
q teaspoonful of sugar in his blood
says a scientist. Ano is that why
SC many of us like to raise cane?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06
FROM THE SLUMS
INTO THE GARDENS

christian Science Monitor)
Turning from city to the small town
press exchanges that come to the editors
desk is like stepping from the slums,
full of vice, into an old-fashioned gar
den sweet with lavender and thyme and
the scent of perennial flowers. The
pages of the big dailies are full of MUIR
der thievery, immortality and selfishness
that the better news is obscured by these
glaring shatterings of the Decalogue.
One puts the paper aside with a feeling
of depression and heartache that the
world is so full of terrible and unhappy
things.
Then picking up the papers that re-
cord the happenings of the little towns
around us, one gains renewed faith III
life Here are set forth that which up
lifts a community-the activities of the
business men, the church items, the hap
py local gatherings of the people, the
marriages, births and deaths, farmers
items, and all the thousands and one
daily occurrences that make up the SIM
pie annals of the great common people,
who are really the foundation of this
country of ours.
Scandals are seldom published in the
country newspapers, but if it so happens
that decency demands it, the uglier de-
tails are omitted or given kindly touch
that it is widely different from the un-
feeling publicity of the city press. The
offenders may be our neighbors, or peo-
pie we have rubbed elbows with all our
lives. They are real human beings to
their town paper, while to the great city
dailies they are merely grains of a sort
that are ground out hourly in their new
mills.
Sometimes people speak lightly of the
country newspaper, but it is one of the
most potent and uplifting factors in our
national existence.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06

He has made a special study of
girls and their problems. He says
that they have 7.4OO problems. Yes,
that is right. I did not add cipher
too many.
For instance, he says that a girls
greatest problem in life is getting
a husband When he first said
this, he was bitterly denounced
from one end of this country to the
other. Now this is accepted, and
he Is recognized as one of our
greatest leaders in helping girls to
live happy. successful lives.
He has shocked people by what
he teaches. For instance, he i'm
ported a beauty expert from New
York to teach the girls how to dress
their hair becomingly. But his
plan works. More of his girls get
married the first five years out OF
college than do the girls in any
other college in the United States
I asked him to send me ten sug-
gestions vital to girls. That is, ten
rulings for helping you to find sue
cess and happiness.
Here they are exactly as he sent
them to me, without the change OF
a comma:
l. As a college graduate, you will
be judged not so much by what you
know as by what YOU can do and
how we'll you do it.
2. Be sparing in your criticism OF
others. There is enough snobblsh-
ness in one nature without deliber-
ately :ultivating it.
3. Do not let your emotional lie
control you-unless YOU have first
learned to control your emotions
Feel deeply, but think clearly.
4. To look your best you must bt
your best. Poise and personality
are nine points of good appear
ance."
5. Be able to do something use.
ful and co it we'll. Even if yot
never have to make your own WAY
financially, you will experience
Geep sense OF satisfaction in being
equipped for independence.
6. Choose a man you can respec
for his ability and character. Th'
way he wears his manners is mor'
important than the way he wear
his clothes.
7. Learn to converse intelligent
II and pleasantly. Small talk /
useful at tea parties but is ques
tionable diet for daily conversation
s. Don't pay too much for popu
larity. Think honestly; maintain
high sense of values; and set you
standards accordingly.
9. Keep your confidence in your
self; you will need it not onl
while YOU are in college but muc
more after you graduate.
10. Don't be afraid Of intelliger
inquiry into the religious values
life. Whether you kl.ow it or no
you are constantly developing
spiritual creed. And your ultimat
philosophy of living will be yot
religion.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06
News Behind
the News
UnfOrgettdble Hours i.
Silent Emergencies :.
Ry RODNEY DUTCHER

WASHINGTON. - Hours which
seemed the last few before world
war-those preceding Hitler's sum-
mons 70 Munich-are unforgetTaole
even in washington, far from pros
pectiye backgrounds. Around the
clock
EMERGENCY" c A B I N E L
MEETING: AS hundreds of groups
surround loud-speakers to hear
Chamberlain. and attaches sit on
newstickers in embassies and le-
cations. most cabinet members
reach the White House to listen 10
the premier and discuss Roosevelts
next move. Sober, silent Hull,
lanky Hopkins and grim-faced lit
tie IckeS pass through. Busting
Miss Perkins. Woodring of War,
Morgenthau, Cummings and Wal
lace. all parade in and out
two hours later. with never a word.
ROOSEVELT PRESS CONFER
FNCE: Playing 10 a packed house.
tie man who once said nothing
else would ever seem tremendously
important to one who had spent
two years learning to wiggle q big
tee. now increases tension by an
nouncing no news and taking three
separate cracks at the press. The
first crack was irritable, the next
amiable. the last scOrnful.
CZECH LEGATION: In a Mas
sachusetts avenue mansion, seated
at a large square table, slender,
blue-eyed, gray mustached nervous
man greets two dozen reporters,
disputes Hitler claims and promises
Czech resistance. Il am a Slovak,'
says Minister Vladimir Hurban,
promising Slovak loyalty.
Might Czechoslovaks give in to
Hitler at the last minute? Hurban
draWs himself up, puffs cheeks and
eXplodeS: mo! No! MOI"
STATE DEPARTMENT: Press
room starts phoning correspondents
at 9 p. m. Assistant Secretary A.
A Berle himself calls some. By
1905 when Chief Of Current IN
formation Michael ]. McDermott
starts reading RoCsevelt's final
message to Hitler, the mob num-
bers so or 90, cameramen perching
on file cases.
More hours next morning when
officials, correspondents, all believe
the day will bring war. Suddenly
the ting -ting-ting of a newsletter
signal a flash" The Department
learns Hitler has called the Munich
conference. Officials congratulate
each other, slap backs.
Clack- -clack-clack! Noisy leath-
er heels on stone floor announce
approach of German Ambassador
Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff to Hull's
office. He gets quick access to Hull.
Welles, Perle, Assistant
Secretary Messersmith pop out of
adjacent doors almost -simultan-
eously Portly Myron Taylor, rep
resentative to Europe on refugees
enters for the next Hull appoint
nnent.
HULLS PRESS CONFERENCE:
Looking piously like a cat which
hasn't swallowed a canary but has
hopes, Hull stands beneath huge oil
paintings of Republican Secretar-
les Stilnson, Kellogg and Hughe;
to give a superb new example Of
ability to use many words whil'
saying absolutely nothing except h,
is glad to see So many present.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06
Hints on Etiquette

To keep business visitors need
lessly waiting reflects on the good
breeding and kindliness OF the man
at the helm of an organization. If
one is too busy to see a visitor. 1t
is much more courteous to send
him word telling him so and asking
him to call another time.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06
TOday's Horoscope

The person born on this day has
periods of moodiness and melan-
choly. These usually are due to the
fact that he Cor she) is not physi-
cally equal to the drive Of his en-
ergetic personality. A methodical
nature and the ability to make
talents pay are assets Of those born
on this date.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06
DALE
CARNEGIE
Author of How to Win
Friends and Influence
People

Girls. would you like to know
what one of the most successful
presidents of a girls college in the
world says about you?
He is James Madison Wood. pres
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06

dent of Stephens
College, Colum-
bia. Mi S S ouri
You've heard of
one of his stu
dents j o q II
Crawford. A II d
you've heard of
one of his former
teachers - Maude
Adams, - the ia
.mous stage ac-
treSS.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06
ne-Minute Test Answers

|. Tail feathers of ! rooster, otter
used 10 trim millinery.
2. Jenny Lind.
3. Singapore, city in the British
Straits Settlement Asia; n d
Quito. capital Of Eucuador.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06
GRAB BAG
One-Minute Test

One-Minute Test
l. What is cog?
2. To whom was the term "Swed-
ish Nightingale given?
3. What are the two cities near
est the equator?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06
Photographs

The word linen means made of
lin. The word lin" means flax
IL old English, and originates in
the Latin word 'linum".
The prefixes Mac" or INC" in
surnames merely means "son." So
the name Macdonald" means son
of Donald.
The wind alone will not burn hu-
man skin. 1t only make the skin
more susceptible to the ultraviolet
lays of the sun. This fact has
been definitely ascertained.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06
Words of Wisdom

1t is not wealth, nor ancestry, but
honorable conduct and noble dis
position that make men great.
Ovid.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06
But what happened? ?

But what happened?
Impossible peace terms were i'm
posed. The Germans were COM
PEELED to remember the treaty with
burning resentment; and all of
their efforts to negotiate better
terms were scornfully rebuffed.
When the fantastic reparations
scheme broke down, French army
marched into the Ruhr; when econ
omic pressure forced Germany to
seek a customs union with Austria
the French sternfy barred the way
Nor did the allies honor their own
pledge to disarm.
Year after year, the victors did
everything conceivable to prove
that Germany could not improve
her lot by peaceful negotiation
and let it be remembered that the
republican government of Germany
did honestly try to live in peace
and friendship with its neighbors.
One can understand all of this
only by assuming that the victor'
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06

RENT cheapIy and quickly through
Post Press Want Ads!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06

When you have SAID all that there
is to say about Herr Hitler's ap-
peals to violence and his acts of
provocation, one fact remains, and
there is no dodging it: the victor
nations in the World War have Ger
tainly been asking for something
ike this.
If one thing is completely obVi-
Gus in this tragic European situ-
alton. it is that the Czech crisis and
all that goes with it We're created,
dcwn to the last detail, by what the
allies did after the armistice of
1918.
Armistice Day found Germany
utterly beaten. The worlds most
feared army had been roundly
whipped. the militaristic gang
which had led Germany into the
war was disgraced and in flight,
the German people had acquired a
deep and sincere desire for peace.
On that foundation there could
have been built lasting peace; all
that was needed was little justice,
a little reason, an evident desire
tc do the right thing.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-10-06
thoughts for the Day

To everything there is season. and time to every
purpose under the heaven-Ecclesiastes 81.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-09
.LUSITANIA RELIC
UP AT AUCTION.

Auctioning of a letterhead from
the Inflated Lusitania will be one
of the interesting events of the
Goodwill Guild bazaar to be given
tonight at 1918 New Hampshire
Ave. N. w. for the benefit of
Goodwill Industries.
Considered collectors items, let.
terheads from the ship whose
sinking by a German submarine
was responsible for bringing the
United States into the World War
are so rare that they are eagerly
snatched up.
The bazaar will be held from 2
to 10 p. m. and will include, be-
side the auctioning of various ar
ticles, dinner in the cafeteria
and program of songs
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-09
General Didn't Kill
Fidncee, Brother
Of Victim SQuS

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 9
G.N.SD.-Reopening of the still
unsolved Staying of Mrs. Verna
Carr Taylor was under consider
alton by the Attorney Generals
office today.
The mysterious case was re-
vived yesterday with statement
by a brother of the beauteous
widow that she had not been
killed by her fiance, Brig. Gen.
Henry H. Denhardt.
The World War hero and promi-
nent Kentucky political leader
was shot to death by Mrs. Tay.
lor's three brothers on the eve of
his second trial for her murder.
GARRS ACQUITTED
The first trial had ended in a
deadlocked jury and it was be-
lieved the Cars had taken the
matter into their own hands in
fear he would be acquitted.
Two of the Cars subsequently
were cleared of any criminal
guilt in the killing and the case
against DR.. E. S. Carr, the eldest
brother, was dropped.
DR.. Carr yesterday created a
sensation with the statement to
Attorney General Hubert Meredith
that he had material evidence"
tending to show General Denhardt
had not fired the fatal bullets the
might Mrs. Taylor was shot in his
car.
The La Grange, KY, veterinari-
an added, however, that Denhardt
had been in league with the actual
killer.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-09
Stars Shun
NdziGOOdS

HOLLYWOOD, December Q
U.N.SD.-CaIIing for a boy
colt against Germany, plans
were being formulated in
Hollywood today by a number
of leading film stars, directors
and executives to spread the
movement throughout the
United States.
Meeting last night at the
home of Edward G. Robinson,
he actor, the group felt that
drastic action should be taken.
Among those attending the
meeting were Fred AStaire,
Gale Sondegaard, Joan Ben
nett, Claudette Colbert,
George CukOr, Rosemary
Lane and Miriam Hopkins.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-09
DON'T FORGET,
TOY Matinee
is TOMORROW!
Gifts Needed for 1900
Kids at Christmas

If anybody should tell YOU
ANYBODY mind you-that there
isn't going to be any Santa Claus
visits for the 10000 needy kids in
the District of Columbia-you can
turn your nose up so high it would
rain in it.
Yes-there is-too.
Art Brown, over at VOL, has
been in touch with the situation
like the United States Marines.
He's been getting an earful from
people who KNOW. And this
morning-right in the studio with
him-was Old st. Nicholas him.
self, stopping off from his heavy
duty at Hecht's to listen to the
personal pleas of a crowd of visit
full tots who told him JUST what
they want for Christmas.
THAT MATINEE
Well, Art remembered that there
is big Special Washington Her
ald-Times Good Cheer Club Toy
Matinee at the Capitol Theater
at 9 a. m. tomorrow. He re-
membered that Loew's is staging
that matinee doors open at $50,
everybody just so that YOU can
come and bring the children
and DROP A TOY IN SANTA'S
RESERVE BOX as the price of
your admission. A new toy-an
old toy-but a TOY.
That's the thing the Good Cheer
Club wants most of all! You see
the NeceSsaries are being taken
care of by many agencies-and by
big-hearted people everywhere
but FEW have stopped to think
what a TOY means to a little
hungry heart when the DAY OF
DAYS comes each year.
"TARZAN ESCAPES"
II isn't the costly toy that
pushes grief out the window and
brings smiles to little faces-it's
just HAVING a toy for their
VERY OWN-to play with WHEN
EVER and AS MUCH AS they
want to! And it costs hardly any
thing! Look. Suppose your chill
dren have some toys they're not
going to want after Santa brings
their NEW ones! Just send them
and the children to the TOY
MATINEE, where they can enjoy
a swell thrill watching "TarZan
Escapes" and bring joy to them
selves and somebody else at the
same time.
You haven't time to go-and the
children are going to the country
for the week end? Never mind
just call a Premier Cah-METtro.
politan 4141-and one of them
will come and get it.
AID CHEER CLUB
That's their part in the Good
Cheer Club plan to mend broken
hearts on Christmas.
And, speaking of mending, If
Arabella the dolls nose is Clipped
Or chapped-the firemen in
many of the Districts firehouses
are turning a hand to that mat
ter! And so are men and women
of the WPA under the direction
of the Playground Department
and so are hundreds of boys and
girls, too! Never fear-that OLD
toy will look JUST LIKE NEW
when it's delivered on Christmas!
How about it? Where shall we
call?.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-09
McHenry Auxiliary
To Meet "Wednesday

Julia McHenry Auxiliary, No. 2,
Army and Navy Union, will enjoy
entertainment and refreshments
Wednesday at a party scheduled
for 8 p. m. in the Scottish Rite
Temple.
The Presidents Own Garrison
Of the organization will meet at
$3.50 p. m. Thursday in the Ma
tional Guard Armory to install
Elwood w. McNelly as adjutant,
and reports will be heard from
subcommittee on the Christmas
basket fund. At a recent inquisi-
ton of the Military Order of the
Firing Squad, Lieut.. Col. j. G.
Mayton was assigned as national
patriotic instructor, and CaptS. M.
j. Eckert and w. F. McCauley
were promoted to colonelcies
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-12-09

SANITY has quit his job! Why? Because
the Herald Times Christmas Gift Direc-
tory simPIifies everybOdy's shopping.
Consult it now.
The Washington times., 1938-01-24
Place Your Clock
In Riqht Space

The clock standing in solitary
isolation on the mantel, or
hemmed in by cabinet photo
graphs and brass candlestickS. is
as sad a sight as a goldfish out
of water. In view of the fact that
clocks are more often than not
very beautiful objects, per Sc,
it is only wise to arrange them
in settings which do them proud.
Take into consideration first
and foremost, the character Of
the clock you mean to use. If it
is a capricious French affair set
on a marble colonnade and
tricked out with ormolu trim
mings, it cries aloud for delicate
figurines, or ornate cachepotS,
or fluted and scalloped gilt
brackets. The hanging clock
particularly lends itself to group
ing in that 1t may be arranged
among pictures or sconceS with
great effect.