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Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-07
WHAT'S WRONG
WITH THE BOYS?

Qllinos State JournaD
President Roosevelt, say Washington
gOssips is much distressed over the per-
versity of congressman who refuse to give
Wholehearted support to his benevolent
plans for remaking the government. The
President can't understand why they
balk when they have an opportunity to
participate in so worthy an undertaking.
The lamented Editor Thomas w. S.
Kidd, whose home was next door to Lin
coin residence at Eighth and Jackson
streets, one day observed Mr.. Lincoln
coming from the house with his two boys
struggling about his long legs. The editor
asked what was wrong with the young
Sters:
The same thing that's wrong with
all the world" laughinly replied the phil
osophical Lincoln. Il have three pecans
to divide, and each wants the odd nut
President Roosevelt's plan to reorgan-
iZe the government means the creation of
new jobs and new honors under govern
ment. Congressman who haven't been
properly taken care of in political way,
or who fear they will be overlooked when
the pie is cut, are not disposed to go
along quietly and await the decision Of
the chief.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-07
WE'LL | |!
Tell Y You..
Says
Bob Burns

think everybody should spend
some time i'm a city jest to kinda
complete their education and SO
cial training. Everybody is SO busy
scratchin' out living that he
doesn't have time to even find out
who his neighbors are, let alone
what they are doing.
One time one of them city fcilaS
cOne down home to live and due
to his city training, he kept pretty
much to himself. One day, some Of
his neighbOrs called on the, chief
of police and says, I'VE want you
to keep an eye On that new fella
that lives in our neighborhOOd--
there's sOmethm mighty suspicious
about the way he minds his own
business"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-07
CAN YOU REMEMBER
FIVE YEARS AGO?

Five years ago the summer in Impe-
rial Valley was as hot as it is now Five
years ago Imperial Valeyites mopped
perspiring brows and kept an impatient
eye on the thermometers. Five years ago
every indication Of a tingling breeze was
welcomed with Joy as warm as the
weather
Remember?
Five years ago it was a lot different
than it is today. The weather was about
the same, the residents were about the
same, and the valley wasn't much dit
ferent. Only-five years ago there were
Mt many desert coolers. homemade or
otherwise, in FL Centre or any other
Imperial Valley town. And that's where
the difference comes in.
Nowadays, with the vent of
cheaper cooling systems, many who pre-
viously left the valley during the sum-
mer are staying here, and many others
are planning only the usual weekend
pleasure jaunts TO other places. 1t is
summer in Imperial Valley-but busi-
ness is as usual. thank YOU.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-07
Famous Sayings

The wars in Spain, China ano
elsewhere make dreary and heart
breaking reading, but they have
performed one light and refresh
ing service. They have shown
once again, that the military big
wigs and self-elected authorities
ON strategy don't really know
what they are talking about.
Not long after the World Wal
these gentlemen began to sing q
new song-or, more precisely. q
new verse to a very old song. They
assured us that there never Woulc
be another long draWn-out wal
like the one which began i'll 1914
The offense. they said, had be
come too powerful.
So We began to hear about the
irresistible things which attacking
armies would do hereafter.
First. there were airplanes. They
would come out of the sky i'll
swarms. raining immediate and
complete destruction ON every city
hamlet and filling station IN thell
path. Nothing could stop them;
neither anti-aircraft guns, hostile
flyers, bad weather or poor marks
manship One quick sWoop and 1t
would be all over.
Then there were the tanks. No
longer would few machine gun
nests be able to hold I'D an entire
division The tanks would go Wad-
ing right through, and the infan-
try would Saunter along after
them and pick up the pieces. There
just wouldn't be any stopping EN-.
Lastly, there were the infantry
attacks. Mechanized armies would
move swiftly, striking with the
speed and force of thunderbolts.
Armies wouldn't have time to dig
in; the war would inevitably be
ended before any long trench lines
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-07
Bruce Carton Says
The Drawn-Out War the BelIigerent Bogey

like those of the World War could
be formed.
All of this was solemnly promis-
ed a waiting world. And then the
wars in China and Spain got under
way and put the theorists to the
test.
So what happened? So the ira
gic, costly story of the World Wfl'
got repeated all over again. There
were new weapons, to be sure, and
new tactics; but the irresistible Of
fensives somehow failed to develop,
and the long agony of Madrid
stands as living proof that siege
warfare today is just about what
it was 20 years ago.
Now it may be a little hard to
see just where the world is any
better off this way than it would
be if the boasts of the theorists
had been borne out. Yet in a very
real sense the world is lucky that
things have worked out as they
have worked out as they have.
1t just happens that the belli-
gerent nations are precisely the
ones which could not stand long
wars. They wouldn't mind fighting
but they'd have to wind things up
in hurry, for they haven't got
what it takes to go on fighting
year after year And because it is
becoming more and more obvious
that any war is likely to be a long
one, the worlds chance of dodg-
ing another war is measurably
brighter
If it were possible to win wars
quickly and get them over with,
the worlds peace would be much
less secure.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-07
News Behind
the News
Thr0Uing Dishes ;.
Peace Needed

WASHINGTON-Just about the
time that the whole family has
chicken pox and the landlord is
about to foreclose the mortgage is
no time at all for papa and mama
to be throwing all the available
utensils at each other and for the
kids to go experimenting with papa S
shotgun.
There may be those who will
flcut that theory, as applied to the
rather critical economic situation
which now besets the United States.
Nevertheless, there is strong
group scattered between Washing
ton, New York and points north,
south. east and west which believes
that business conditions are going
from bad to worse and that the
most sensible thing for Mr.. ROoSe-
velt to do under the circumstances
is to call a conference of the cut
standing leaders in government, in
dustry and labor whose combined
prestige would command respect
and whose joint recommendations
might inspire widespread confidence
in the country's future.
That group of induStrialiStS, labor
leaders, brain truSterS and politi-
clans is united on at least one point:
This is no time for the American
people to be having family quarrels.
1t may be over-optimistic to as
sumo that such an assortment of
lions. lambs, tigers and tom-cats
can lie down together and produce
a solution or even a partial cure
for the country's present economic
bellyache. But you can't prove
that, unless the stunt is tried.
Weeks ago a group led by John
L. Lewis, Owen d. Young and Tom
Lamont of the Morgan firm - a
group of labor leaders. industrialiSt1,
financiers and brain -trusters-WaS
invited to the White House at the
instigation of DR.. Rex Tugwell
This group told the President
that hostilities between government.
industry and labor ought to be sus-
pended until national income was
built up to a point where there
would be something to fight about.
The group urged that it be eX-
panded as a consulting, advisory
body which would work with the
President toward national recovery
1t left the matters of expansion and
subsequent meetings and procedure
to Mr.. Roosevelt.
And it hasn't heard a word from
Mr.. Roosevelt since.
Meanwhile the administration
economists who had hoped that
the promise of a new spending
lending recovery program would
prevent further recession are no
longer hopeful. WPA rolls must
be increased. Business hasn't pick
ed up. The usual summer slump is
expected even from present low
levels. The railroad situation has
MT been tackled and several large
bankruptcies impcnd. Inventories
are moving slowly. Automobiles are
in bad shape. Widespread wage
cuts are threatened.
Soon, according to present plans.
the President will take off on a
long trip, while his strategists bend
themselves to nominating New Deal
ers in the primaries. The bright
est spots in the picture he will leave
behind him, unless something pops
up meanwhile, are a desire in Wash
ington to get the pump-priming
program started as quickly as pos
sible and a general belief that if
the situation isn't better by late
August or September, he will have
to think of something new.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-07
Grab Eaq
One-Minute Test

One-Minute Test
|. Who Is u. S. secretary of
war?
2. How can salt water be made
fresh?
3. With what does the science
OF paleontology deal?
Hints on Etiquette
The ideal bridge player does not
show disappointment if he fail to
win.
Words of Wisdom
Charms strike the sight, but
merit wins the soul-POpe.
T0day's Horoscope
Many persons whose birthday oc-
ours today are known for their
originality. Others look to them
for wise suggestions.
One-Mmute Test Answers
|. Harry II. Woodring, of Kan
saS.
g. BY distilling it.
3. Fossil remains.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-07


Asthma, it is now said, can be
cured by blowing imaginary soap
bubbles. We wouldn't know about
that-but we're pretty certain it
could cure imaginary asthma.
THAT mid western woman who,
after 5 years Of married life, now
seeks a divorce probably has to
listen to the relatives who said
they knew it wouldn't last.
Congressman, seeking reelection,
are having phonograph records
made of their speeches. 1t seems
that electrical transcriptions will
now not only swing it but sling it.
A New York museum has OBJ
tanned a bird which, when touched,
becomes so frightened it drops
dead. Oddly enough, the bird is not
a native of Scotland.
A New Jersey scientist says fish
are easier to catch if music is
played. That also goes for the kind
WHICH IduilJ llBllJ CluDS.
Fishermen now may have a new
alibi: II made a mistake OF play
ing Schubert's Unfinished sym
phony--that's why he got away"
In a recent treason trial in Rus
sia six were found guilty and in
stead of being executed were given
prison sentences. This lends color
to the rumors that Russia, fearing
a war, is conserving ammunition.
YaWn YaWnson, our leading To-
cal tired man, is trying to cross
dandelions with Mexican jumping
beans He thus hopes to develop a
self-Weeding lawn.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-07
Photographs

A new hospital at Washington,
d. c., has q room for expectant
fathers, containing deep leather
chairs and "diVerting" magazines.
Most milk wagon horses in New
York City are shod with rubber
shoes
More than $3l 100000 in gold has
been returned to the u. S. treas
ury since the withdrawal of gold
from general circulation.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-07

How could they
ever get ahead in
that tiny town.
How could they
ever make any
money? They did
II t know, but they
knew they we're
g DIN g to try.
When they said
SO, their friends
laughed.
you've b o t h
got jobs. You stick
where you are, :
their encouraging
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-07

Alf NJ. LandOn denies he has
been talking politics on his recent
visits in the east. Oh, he's just
tryine, to lock different.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-07
Barbs -

A British scientist says he has
discovered that a flea always starts
to jump backward. Like a reac-
tiOnary with liberal intentions.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-07
DALE
CARNEGIE
Author of How to Win
Friends and Influence
People

A few years ago two boys in a
small town in Arkansas wanted to
yet ahead in the world. One work.
ed in a grocery store and the other
in q lumber ward
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-07
You're TELLING Me --.

Today'S bedtime story: Once up
on time the League of Nations
said: mo, you cannot!" and the
big, bold dictator answered: "All
right, I WON'T"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-07

If many more spy revelations
crop out, the time is foreseen when
a man will brag to his grandchil-
dren that he was the guy who once
went a year without wearing false
Whiskers.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-07

Russia's food cGmmissar has
ordered the adoption OF American
canning methods. The old Russian
method of producing canned view
pGintS will be retained, however.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-07
WE ARE NEGLECTED.

Other nations are never fair to US
We send missionaries to save their heath
en- and they do nothing at all for ours.
Buffalo News.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-07

FORTUNE SMILES on Those who
Make a Habit of Reading
POst-Press Want-Ads!
Evening star., 1938-10-16

2 4 YHEN Danielle Darrieux rolled
Y" herself up in ball like a
w cuddlesome blond kitten
in that memorable wakng-up Sc
quence of her first Hollywood produc-
tion. The Rage of Paris" portly
gentleman sitting on the aisle reached
under his seat for his hat. growing.
Fluff" he grumbled. Fluff and
nonsense - for a girl who could do
'Mayerling'!
Now, l had just come from Holly
wood, where l had met and liked
Danielle, so l pondered: what if the
wistful. poignant heroine who fell in
love and died with the Austrian Crown
Prince failed to live up to the glowing
prophecies made for her in America?
cast dubious eye at the adorable
wiggles of the girl who is frances
Sweetheart. (She reminds you of
Mary Pickford in her early days.)
Was she Bernhardt playing in Mack
Sennett comedy? Had Hollywood
blundered again?
Then the slim young man on my
right chuckled. "Golly. the kid has a
sense of humor Amt that great?"
Time and the box Office receipts
have proved that the slim young man
and $1,000. 600 Frenchmen we're not
wrong. The petite Darrieux. intro
duced to us as heartbreakingly
tragic lady. is just as sure-fire as a
coquettish. light hearted comedienne.
in which incarnation, indeed, she rose
to her fame in France
The funny part of it is that the
American public started liking Dar-
rieux wrong-side out. as it we're. For
the real Darrieux is charming, naive,
giggling happer with faint sprinkling
of freckles on her classic nose. Despite
her dignified married state, her native
shrewdness and unquestionably great
dramatic gifts. little Danielle is by
nature a sort of prom-trotter. Work or
play. it's gay to her.
She likes to dance, to play pranks.
to swim in the pool which is part of
the garden of her dark. cool house in
Bel-Alr. She reads all the crime stories
in the papers avidly. calling them
Lawsuit" eats seven times day to
regain FIVE pounds she has lost over
here: and even when she sighs over
some slight disappointment. she shows
her dimples.
How can you help laughing when
you are twenty, and life already has
dumped in your lap half the treasures
it has stored up for human happiness?
Little Darrieux - she's actually five
feet four, but the adjective little"
fits her very feminine. frolicsome
appeal - is just completing the first
year of a fve-year 81 .0O0. 900 contract
in Hollywood; goes home to Paris
every year to make one or more
French pictures and to do play.
usually written by Henri Decoin.
eminent French playwright, who has
been her husband for more than three
years. She has money. fame. beauty.
love - everything except the two
children which are part of her scheme
of life, after she is rs. Two - just
two. One would be lonesome. Three
would be too much trouble, as she
knows, for she is the eldest of three.
And the whole thing started, like
Evening star., 1938-10-16

her American success. with tragedy.
Danielle was born in 1917, during the
World War; the first sound of life she
heard was the rumble of death. Her
father, DR.. Jean Darrieux, an eye
specialist, came home from the front
for three days to get his first glimpse
of her, and returned to receive wounds
of which, years later, he died. Her
childhood was somber. for those we're
the rehabilitation years in France;
Danielle and her younger sister and
brother lived in Paris, where her father
was making his losing fight against
illness. She was young - she was
healthy. Yet she did not yet have a
bubbling over gaiety in her nature.
When she was only ten she took to
playing that most moWnful of musical
instruments, the cello; became so de-
voted to it that her mother. a singing
teacher. sent her to the Conservatore.
She deserted cello playing for the
movies when. at fourteen, she an
swered an ad for small part in the
French cinema lie Ball." and copped
the leading role.
Before she came to America, Dan
ielle played in twenty-f four French
films. becoming one of the best-known
stars in Europe. One of the pictures
was written by Decoin and Henri
Roster. During the collaboration be- =
tween author and star. Danielle and
Decoin were married He is in Holly
wood with her. The Decons are close
friends of the Charles Boyers, the
Fenand Gravets and Annabella.
Sometimes the men talk about the old
days, and to them that means the
War Decon was a World War ace
who received the Legion of Honor for
bringing down seventeen German
planes. Whenever the conversation >
veers to war talk. Danielle is - in her
own words - up and away"
Il can't speak of war;" she ex-
planned. and suddenly there was the
face of the Countess Vetsera of
"Mayerling" above her neat blue suit.
1T makes me seeck - seeck! can't
see airplanes without being seeck."
Doesn't she ever 1y, this wife of a
renowned aviator?
''Nevair," said the war baby who
has grown up to be a comedienne Il
won't fly - and my husband has not
since the Armistice 1t saves time,
yes. but then you are dead and there
is no more time"
She seemed so earnest, and the
shadows beneath her gray-green eyes
so deep. that dropped the subject.
1t was the only time in our whole con-
versation that was conscious of the
tragedienne l thought l had come to
interview.
Her biggest thrill was when she met
Edward c. Robinson at the home of
Jeanette Macdonald and Gene Raw
mOnd.
'Mr. Robinson" said Danielle, "is
a very cultivated. charming man -
he collects paintings, is fond of art.
He seems careful in every way. but -
do you know?-he yet talks out of the
side of his mouth, as in the pictures.
And her laughter bubbled forth,
fresh. infectious. the laughter of a
twenty-year-old to whom everything
has come and anything is possible.
Evening star., 1938-10-16

Open a package! Prunes peaches apricots raisins
DEL MONTE packs them ALL
Note their tenderness their rch appealing flavor.
No need to tell they're selected fit-the finest dry
ing varieties prepared the DEL MONTE way retain
Natures goodness
And how carefully they're packed. Each in its spe-
caly sealed DEL MONTE carton-kept clean plump and
delicious right to your kitchen.
This week, look for them your grocer's-right
all your other DEL MONTE favorites. DEL MONTE Quality
yet thrifty to serve. Why take less?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-08
Famous Sayings
Barbs ---.

An increase in cranberry prices
is expected at Thanksgiving be-
cause of the damage caused in the
cranberry bogs of New Jersey by
the men from Mars.
Weathermen say a mean winter
is ahead AS long as it stays far
enough ahead, the citizenry will
have no objection.
Citizens around Copenhagen, Den
mark, have refused to dim their
lights and participate in black
out for the purpose of testing their
defenses in air raids. IN other
words, no snuff in Copenhagen.
The approaching election may de
eide whether a promise of $50 every
Thursday is as valuable as the old
silver half dollar every election day.
A candidate for office tells the
voters that his opponents wise
cracks about agriculture are often
sive. Hlrnor too dry for the
crops, ell?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-08
Bruce Cation Says
The Warriors from Mars Sign of the Jtters

rack his brain trying to imagine
who could be doing it and why
but he will not have the instructive,
confident thought: Why, that SIM
ply can't possibly be true
And in that change you can read
the terrible, tragic change that has
come over the world we are llVlng
in.
1t is a world from which security
has vanished. You cannot survey II
calmly and assure yourself that
man-made catastrophes will not ap-
pear without warning. You may be
able to feel that as far as America
is concerned they are highly I'M
probable: but the crust civilization
built up so painfully over the say
age has cracked, and savagery can
and does break through. Those cat
astropheS can happen, and the
world today is in the situation OF
A man who. strolling by cemetery
on Halloween suddenly discovers
that he really does believe in ghosts.
Perhaps there is in the world a
more important task than the one
of restoring the old condition of
order and security-but it is hard
to imagine what that more impor-
tant task might be. For that kind
of security is a fundamental OF
civilization. Without it, civilization
IS little more than a sham.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-08
EVERY CHILD
SHOULD HAVE A PET

Last weeks annual Post Press pet
parade was a thorough-going success
from many standpoints, but perhaps its
most valuable aspect lies in the proof 1t
offers that every child should have
pet.
n is Just as natural for youngster
10 lave a pet as it is for him to collect
stamps, or coins, or whatever il is he
decides to collect when he reaches the
collection age"
The boy or girl who has never had
pet has missed one of the most glorious
experiences Of childhood. They have miss
Cd too, the small responsibility of owner
ship which develops character as nothing
else can.
Watching the pet parade, it was pitt
ful to see several little boys who, for
one reason or another, were deprived of
the ownership of any pet be it dog or
cat or rabbit, fish, fowl or animal. Their
envy of the proud pet-owning youngsters
was enough to tug at the heart strings
# any adult.
On the other hand it was refreshing
10 see the pride of each youngster who
owned a pet. Those who won prizes
swelled with pride in their animals. Those
who did not win could not be convinced
that it was because of any lack of merit
on the part of their pets. The judges,
according to them, were wrong.
And maybe they were.
Nobody knows the true value of a pet
but the child who owns it.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-11-08

That dizzy radio broadcast which
had half the country rushing to the
telephone to find out if America
really was being invaded by war
riorS from Mars was sign OF
the times in more ways than one.
First of all, of course, it was an
indication that radio has not yet
got its signals quite straight on the
matter of its responsibility to the
public. Radio seeks to be both an
entertainment medium and a chan
mel for news; but to get the two
roles confused in one broadcast is
as great blunder as if a news
paper editor should hand over his
front page to a gigantic hoax, eX-
cusing himself on the plea that he
had set an agate paragraph of eX-
planation back among the want
ads.
Beyond that. however, the thing
is significant for the light it casts
on the general state of jitters that
prevails nowadays.
It is hard to think of any other
time when a stunt like this would
have raised such rumpus. In or
dinary times an innocent citizen.
taking his ease by his fireside,
would have recognized these fran
tic bulletins about mysterious fires,
air raids. hostile armies and so on
for the fakes they so obviously
were. He would have yaWned. flut-
tered the pages of his newspaper.
and wondered idly what those script
writer's wouldn't think of next.
And he would have taken that
attitude because he would have
known, without being told, that
those wild stories simply had to be
false. He didn't live in the kind
of a world where things like that
could hapen without warning. The
framework of world order and civil
lied decency was still uncracked.
1t simply wasn't possible for doom
to descend on an innocent people
without warning.
But today-Well, the citizen can't
quite be sure. Tell him that fleet
of bombing planes has suddenly
begun to unload its cargo over a
populous American city and he will