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Evening star., 1938-11-13
Weddings
Attract
Miss Mary Snyder
Is Married to
MIR. Cheatham
Continued From First Page.)

by orange blossoms and she carried
a bouquet Of gardenias and lilies
Of the valley.
Mrs. Cornelius p. Van Ness, of this
city, sister Of the bridegroom, was
the matron of honor and only at
tendant. She was In gown of Bur-
gundy velvet with which she wore a
small hat to match. Her bouquet
was Of small chrysanthemums in
shades Of pink.
Mr.. William Denman Cheatham
acted as best man for his brother
and the ushers included Capt. Cor
nelius p. Van Ness, U. s. M. c.; Mr..
Windsor Putnam OF New York, Mr..
w. Kane Porter of Paris, Tenn, and
Mr.. William Voolfolk of Ovens
boro, KY.
A large reception followed at the
home of the brides mother, where
Mrs. Cheatham. mother of the bride
broom, assisted Mrs. Snyder and
the newlyweds in receiving. Mrs.
Snyder was in gown of garnet
colored velvet while Mrs. Cheatham
was in blue.
Upon their return from honey
moon trip Mr.. and Mrs. Cheatham
will be at home at Stratford after
December /.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
ADAPTING THE WORLD
TO MANKIND'S NEEDS

It is a bit dangerous to disagree with
an internationally known expert who has
made a lifelong study of his subject, but
somehow we cannot help treading on that
dangerous ground when it comes to the
declaration of DR.. Alexis Carrel, author
and scientist, when he says the world
must be remade TO fit mankind's nature
if we are to avoid barbarism.
Neither can we avoid the admission
that Dr. Carrel will be right which ever
way the cat jumps, because the world is
constantly being remade to fit mankind's
needs. 1t has been under constant revi-
sion ever since mankind graduated from
tail swinging in fronded palms.
But, specifically, DR.. Carrel says that
modern cities with their noise and con-
gestion and fumes, and modern industrial
civilization with its disregard for the fun
damental emotional and spiritual needs of
humanity, were never designed to fit
either mans shape or his nature. Re
adjustment is necessary, and that soon,
he declares. If it is not made, he predicts
a return to barbarism.
Therein we disagree. We do so, with
all respect to the scientist, because we be-
lieve he has in his technical studies over
looked the one thing that has done more
than anything else to make man superior
to the other animals II is the adapt
ability of the human species. Man is the
only animal that can live in any climate
and like it. He is the only one that can
change his environment hastily and en-
tirely and himself remain structurally
unchanged.
This same adaptability, we believe will
allow man to adapt himself to the terrors
of modern civilization without forcing
him to return to barbarism. Or it would
be nearer our belief to say that man will
adapt civilization to himself. 1t is
thing he has created it is a thing he can
change.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
MILE A MINUTE
CIVILIZATION
(Oroville Mercury-Register)

(Oroville Mercury
Mile minute, along with a string of
words and phrases such as you can't
take it with you and bombing civilians
no longer impress us because we have
heard it so often.
We are living in a Streamlined age.
Fathers say, Junior, | don't want you
to drive as fast as | do because there is
no necessity for it,, and sons say, Don't
mention it to dad but our car rides very
nice at eighty-five.' And cars are built
for more and more speed.
But lets get out pencil and paper and
We find that sixty miles an hour means
let's see-SS feet per second. Sounds
pretty fast, doesn't it, until you have said
it few times. Picture a space of eighty
eight feet. and then think of traverSing it
in one second Eighty eight feet per Sec
Ond is the velocity which would be attain
ed by a body after falling 121 feet. No
body would take an unnecessary chance
of falling from the top of a II story
building, but almost everybody sails
along the highway at sixty miles an hour
without thinking anything of 1t. But If
something would go wrong they would
hit the ditch just as hard as if they had
dropped 121 feet perpendicularily. And
how many persons driving at sixty have
ever happened to think that covering asa
feet in exactly the same time it would
take to fall from the top of a 4S4-foot
tower? Pretty good time, isn't it?
When we stop to consider, it isn't much
wonder there are so many auto accidents
every year in spite of traffic regulations
and safety campaigns. We cannot expect
TO enforce a remedy for slow driving,
but we believe that people can be taught
the necessity of careful driving. The
modern car is equipped with more and
better safety devices than ever before, and
it is up to us to use them properly and
see that they are kept in proper working
order.
We urge all you folk who are planning
trips this summer to give your car good
ovehauling before you start out. And if
you aren't going on any long trips, keep
your car in good shape anyway and you
will be making a contribution to the safe
ty of our highways.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
SPEEDING AND STOPPING
INSIDE CITY LIMITS

On the open road there are a lot of
causes responsible for fatal accidents-so
many that it is hard to limit the field
down to two. Within the city limits, how
ever, the causes are not so numerous, but
their results may be equally deadly. In
Ell Centre these days, two major traffic
infractions outnumber all others, and
either can be responsible for a serious
accident.
They are speeding and failure to stop
at boulevard crossings.
Anyone who has watched automobiles
passing through the residential districts
knows that many Of the drivers show
wanton disregard for speed laws-and in
so doing show an equally grave disregard
of human life.
The other day an observer watched SIX
automobiles pass the intersection of Sixth
and State streets, travelling on Sixth
street-and saw only one of them prop
erly observe the stop sign there:
1t is nothing to wonder at that we have
SO many accidents 1t is a wonder we do
not have more.
Any motorist guilty of speeding in a
residential district may at any moment be
responsible for the death of child play
ing there This is especially true now
that school is no longer in session. Any
motorist failing to make boulevard stop
at any place in the city may at any time
cause a fatal accident.
The police should enforce laws govern
ing speed and boulevard stops, but po-
liceman cannot be at every corner. The
motorists should observe the laws, and
make enforcement unnecessary, but the
average motOrist seems to be considerably
below par mentally, especially when be-
hind the wheel of his automobile.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28

where they please without aid from
anyone. But not Lawrence. He
always has had to depend upon
crutcheS.
But if Lawrence was denied that
great boon, he was given another
asset Whicn may mean more to him
in the long run. That asset? The
capacity for smiling Would you
like to know what Lawrence'S smile
has done for him? I'll tell you
because l think there is good
lesson in it for all of us.
Lawrence sold newspapers - on
his crutches, mind you. But Law
renee always gave smile with a
sale. One customer noticed that
ready smile, and he noticed those
crutches too The smile cheered
up the customer when things were
MT going so we'll. This man hap
pened to be a physician; and he
knew a marvellous surgeon!
The result? Well we haven't
come to the final result. But Law
renee is now in the hospital, under
the care of the surgeon who en-
courages him to believe that he
may yet walk like other people.
l am writing to Lawrence today
to learn how he is getting along
When l hear from him, am going
to tell you IN this column how
things are going with him. 1 am
sure you will all be interested to
know the final result of a ready
smile.
Try a smile when things aren't
going SO we'll with you. See If at
least three times out of five IL
doesn't bring you good results.
1t is easy enough to start with
enthusiasm, but whether or not you
nourish that enthusiasm will prove
your mettle.
Mary Roberts Rinehart once TOLD
me that she had written forty-seven
books and thousands OF magazine
articles-of the magazine articles
she had long since lost count. She
said that in reality she had written
about al books since she wrote
each book three times. Think OF
that.
Every time Mrs. Rinehart writes
a book she gets SO discouraged, SO
depressed, that she wants to throw
it all away and never touch her
typewriter again.
For every good book that has
ever been written, the writer has
had to nourish enthusiasm for ev-
cry chapter, every page, perhaps
every paragraph.
SO when you come to discourage
ing point in your work, don't think
yourself incapable of going on. just
know that all successful people
have come to discouraging places,
too. They achieved success only
because they kept right on.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
NIGHT SHIFT
(Christian Sscience Monitor)

(Christian Sscience Monitor)
POSITION WANTED-Steady night work on
dams weight 35 pounds, height "a inches. power
full muscles expert lumberman; used to hard labor
and overtime Labor of wife and four children
included.
Secretary Ickes has accepted the appli-
cation. Six hundred of these workers
have been hired at So each and are being
put to work on a series of check dams
which will prevent soil erosion and in
crease water facilities in the state of Ida
no. According to report, these govern
mental employees are worth at least SO
times the initial cost of trapping and
transportation.
Because the beaver is a modest sort
CHS is a neat dive, without splashes),
moderns are apt to forget his impor-
tance, his dignity and antiquity. Accord
ing to American Indian legend, the world
was originally made by gigantic beavers,
possessed of superhuman power. Even
today some tribes proudly claim descent
form the beaver.
MAN has harnessed the tides peO-
pie have exclaimed with great wonder
ment, but for aeons the beaver has been
at work. building family tradition of
cooperative energy while hewing down
forest trees, making ponds deep and
meadows lush by harnessing streams.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT


STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In and For the County of Imperial
SUMMONS
No. 1922
I'M IAL IRRIGATION se DhSr
Tp1C,r Plaintiff
PIRDIE WOLTERS, JOHN DOE,
JANE DOE, RICHARD ROE
John DOE COMPANY, a Cor
poration, RICHARD ROE COM
PANY. Co-Partnership, and
JOHN DOE AS Administrator OF
the Estate of RICHARD ROE
Docoacod Defendant.
Harry w. Horton and George Il.
Kirk, attorneys for Plaintiff.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STAlE
OF CALIFORNIA SEND GREET
INGS TO BIRDIE WOLTERS,
John DOE, JANE DOE, RICH
ARD ROE, JOHN DOE COM
PANY. A CORPORATION, RICH
ARD ROE COMPANY, A Co-Part-
nership, and JOHN DOE as Ad-
ministrator of the Estate OF RlCH-
ARD ROE, Deceased, Defendants.
YOU ARE HEREBY DIRECTED
TO APPEAR and answer the Com
plaint in an action entitled as above,
brought against you in the Superior
Court of the County of Imperial,
state of California, within ten days
after the service on you OF this
Summons if served within this
county; or within thirty days II
served elsewhere.
And you are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as
above required, the said plaintiff
will take Judgment for any money
or damages demanded in the COM
plant, as arising upon contract, or
will apply to the Court for any
other relief demanded in the com
plant. -
Given under my hand and the
seal of the Superior Court OF the
County of Imperial, State OF Call
fornia, this 18th day of May, 1888.
(SEAL)
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk
BY c.. 0. KENYON,
Deputy Clerk.
(J21-28 J5-12-19-26 A2-9-l6-23)
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
WE'LL II!
TeIIYou..
says
Bob Burns

l don't know much about dress
in for different kinds of parties,
but always thought that there
were just two ways to dress. You
either wore dress suit or you
didn't.
The other day I called ON a
friend of mine who has the repu
taiton CT havin' the finest ward
robe in Hollywood and says,
what is the proper way to dress
for these real high class parties
out here?" He says, We'll, if it's
strictly formal, you'd better wear
a dress suit over a bathing suit
then you're prepared for any
thing"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
faetoqraphs

The London, England, Morning
Post scored great Journalistic
scoop by printing the first Euro
pean copy of the American Decla-
ration of Independence-44 days
after the document was signed.
A Tulsa, Okla, minister recently
sued a theater for damages, claim
ing bank nights at the show had
ruined his church collections.
A leading Italian life insurance
company now offers a free gas
mask with each new policy.
Modern Toxic has 1000 retail
meat stores. Only three were in
the city Is years ago.
Three full-length films constitute
the ordinary bill at Argentine
theaters.
Hydrogen has the simplest
atomic structure of all the ele.
ments.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
u. s. Whe at Loans
Announced Soon

SAN FRANCISCO, June % CUP
w. B. Parker, state executive Of
ficer of the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration said today
that government loans on 1898
wheat in California would be an
nounced shortly.
Under the AAA act of 1888 the
Commodity Credit corporation, on
the recommendation of the sec
retary of agriculture is authorized
to make loans to wheat farmers
when the price of wheat is below
So per cent of parity June 10, or
when the July crop estimate is in
excess Of normal years domestic
supply and exports.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE
APPOINTED FOR PROVING
WILL AND HEARING AP-
PLICATION FOR

WILL AND HEARING AP-
PLICATION FOR
TESTAMENTARY
No. 1881
In the Superior Court Of the State
of California i'm and far the
County of Imperial
In the Matter Of the Estate of
JESSE B. NORTON,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that
petition for the probate of the will
OF Jesse ,. Norton, deceased, ana
for the issuance to B. A. Harrigan
of letters testamentary, has been
filed in this court, and that Friday
the 9th day Of July, 1888, at 2
o'clock PM, of said day, at the
courtroom, Dept. 2 Of said court
at the Court House in the City OF
FL Centre, County of Imperial, State
of California, has been set for the
hearing of said petition, when and
where any person interested may
appear and contest the same, and
show cause, if any they have, why
said petition should not be granted
Dated June 2l, 1888.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
lsFAT) Clerk
BY C. o. KENYON,
Deputy Clerk.
j. q - J, Z,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
News Behind
the News
Wdge-HOur Act :.
Scales Go Up

WASHINGTON. - No one has
yet offered any worthwhile esti-
mate of the number of workers
whose pay is likely to be raised
under the wage-hour act. Those
closest to available facts, however
think the number will be much
larger than most guesSerS and ccm-
mentators have supposed.
Labor leaders who at first snort
cd in contempt when an initial 25-
cent minimum wage was proposed
began to look into the facts and
were surprised at indications of
widespread effectiveness. The fact
that minimum wages may be set
at anywhere from 40 cents an hour
in individual industries might con-
ceivably add one or two millions
to the number of workers benefit
ing.
Garment industries have many
beginners" working for as little
as 50 or So a week. Arkansas is
the only southern state with a
minimum wage law and its mini
mum wage of $1.25 day COM
pareS with the minimum OF 81 for
an eight-hour day under the fed
eral act.
Surveys in recent years have
shown 43 per cent of women in
Florida factories to be getting less
than 20 cents an hour and about
half the men in the same factories
less tnan Sl1.30 a week, 10 per
cent of factory workers in Ten
nessee making less than 20 cents,
and one-third of women and one
fifth of men in the seamless hosiery
industry earning less than $40 a
week.
Wages lower than the federal
minimum aren't peculiar to the
south. About half of DelaWare's
factory workers were found earn
ing less than $40 a week, about
half of Connecticut's knickers-
trousers factory workers less than
80 cents an hour and about % per
cent of District of Columbia work.
ing women less than $40 week.
These are only random samples,
But they seem significant.
Congressman David j. Lewis,
seeking to unseat the ariStocratic
and socially impeccable Senator Mil
lard Tydings in Maryland, went
to work in the coal mines at the
age of 8.
But that was an Improvement
in our family" says Lewis. MY
father was put in the mines when
he was only g."
Lewis is possibly the only sena-
torial candidate this year who ac-
tually was born in log cabin
in Center County, Pa. He educat-
ed himself and eventually made
higher mathematics his hobby
reveling in problems OF geometry
and trigonometry. He has fathereo'
wholly or partly, parcel post, the
Guffey Coal Act, the Social Secur-
ity Act and the original New Deal
federal relief bill.
81 don't remember a time when
couldn't read,' LcWis-noW 69-
says. But the first writing ever
did was when l was II ana mao
run away from home and Wanteo
TO tell the folks where 1 was.
got an old speller which had the
script letters and printed letters
side by side and carefully WORKED
it out"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
You re Telling Ne --
BY WILLIAM RIFT

IF A HOMELY woman wishes
to see herself termed beautiful all
she need to do is arrange to have
herself arrested as an internation-
al spy.
A western politician, campaign
ing for reelection, complains be
cause the noble voters won't both
er about coming to hear his
speeches. Well, why doesn't he take
tip from the movie theaters and
stage a bank night?
Junior, who has strange ambi-
tions to acquire fame and FORUM
quickly, now demands to know
what sort of mouse trap was used
by Walt Disney TO trap Mickey.
Fathers day continues to bring
Dad a double surprise. He'll get
the second one the first of next
month when he discovers what th1
first one cost him.
That Indiana scientist who rio
his home Of rodents by keeping his
radio turned on has demonstrated
one important fact-not even rats
can survive the ceaseless bomb
ardment Of brief commercial an
nouncemcnts.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
Bruce Cation Says
-FrivoIity - SYMPTOM of Basic Well-BeIng

out of that war, we can, ana no
nation can be as confident of ulti-
mate victory if war should come IN
spite of everything.
II doesn't hurt to remind our
selves of these things. They simply
mean that although things are bad,
they could be ever SO much worse
and that they are probably gong
to get better faster than we some
times suppose.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

1. What city has the highest
tax rate among large U. S. muni-
cipalities?
2. Who has authority to call out
the national guard?
3. What state is nicknamed
Sooner?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28

pleasure? 7 h c
simple one of be-
ing able to walk.
This young man is
named Lawrence
Gore. He is in his
twenty fourth
year.
He had an at
tack of paralySfs
when an infant
before he had
ever learned to
walk. All around
him, he sees peo-
pie who can go
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
Famous Sayings

Every time hot weather comes
on, and the American indulges
himself in his incurable interest in
all of the active and passive sports
someone is sure to complain that
this simply prove how very frivol-
Gus, low-brow, and generally light
minded we all are.
A prize fight draws million
dollar gate, two hot big league
pennant races set whole cities hall
delirious, golf courses and bathing
beaches do land-office business
swing music festivals draw enor-
nous crowds, motorists set out on
their annual hegira to cool breezes
and inspiring scenery-and some
one is certain to pipe up that we
are a needless folk fiddling while
Rome burns.
Now II is quite true that dire
events are taking shape in this
world, and that man seriously
given to worry could sit down ano
find food for steady, uninterrupted
pessimism for weeks on end. Things
are going badly at home and
worse abroad, and no one knows
what the end is going to be.
Yet this very frivolity OF ours is
probably one of the most encour-
aging symptoms we could possibly
display right now.
Obviously, a nation which car
suspend all its other business for q
couple of days to wonder which oi
two prize fighters will beat the
other one is not a nation which is
living under the shadow of inn
mediate disaster. A city which car
go haywire over its ball team il
still enjoying pretty robust health
And a country which can send it.
citizens out to spend $4,000, ,000,0 ,00l
on the vacation highways is Ions
way from collapse.
These things are self-evident, tt
be sure. Yet they are worth re-
peating, if only because they are
welcome antidote to the cries o.
the calamity hoWlerS.
We don't need to adopt a Polly
anna attitude about it. We have
our troubles, they're big ones, ane
we're going to be long time solv'
ing them.
But the basic fact, underneath
them all, is that we are the luck
lest people in the world today.
Our economic system is in bat
shape-but it has more of the ele
mentS needed to restore it 30 com
plete health than any other sys
tenn on earth.
We have much unrest and dis
satisfaction among our people-bu
We have less than any other grea
nation, and we have bette
chance to cure what we do have
We face the danger Of WorlC
war-but if any nation can sta,
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
DALE
CARNEGsE
Author of How to Win
Friends and Influence
People

Down in Dallas, Texas, recently,
I learned the story of lad who is
denied one of the greatest pleas
ures in life-and one which almost
every person is granted. That
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
REAL ESTATE
LICENSES DUE

SACRAMENTO June % CUP)-
California real estate agents have
only three days in which to renew
licenses without paying a double
fee. j. Mortimer Clark, state real
estate commissioner, warned today.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28

A California inventor predicts a
"push-button era. Oh, he's be
hind the times; it's going TO be a
pull-zipper one.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
Hints on Etiquette

An unmarried woman signs her
letters with her fun name. When
writing to strangers, she prefixes
Miss" to her signature.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28

An interest in nature is charac-
teristic of persons whose birthday
occurs today. OF even tempera-
ment, they seldom engage in argu-
mentS.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28

Qne-Minute Test Answers
l. Jersey City, N. j. (45.8D.
2. State governors.
3. Oklahoma.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
thoughts for the Day

But to us there is but God, the Father, of whom
are all things, and we in Him. and one Lord Jesus
Christ. by whom are all things, and we by Him-1
Corinthians Sc
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
Words of Wisdom
TOday'S Horoscope

Rank is a great beautifier.-
BulWer.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28
Barbs --

Somebody has invented a double
is-hook to make everything fool
proof The fishermen keep right
on biting.
French police picked up the
wrong men during a recent hunt
for two escaped convicts. 1t turn
cd out they were couple of other
fclOns.
What with all the cracks at the
movies based on their immaturity
Hollywood would have done we'll to
suppress the news about the direc-
Tor that got socked in a little
boys free -for-all. 1t seems he was
mistaken for one of the gang.
The son of the premier of Japan
has fIunked out at Princeton
That's one thing the old man cant
blame on the summer floods.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-06-28

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