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Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10
THE REAL BATTLE
IS STILL TO BE WON

Out Of all the mass of things that
were said when they put down the first
rural electrification pole at Magnolia
school Tuesday, two things stand out:
l. That a milestone has been reached in
Imperial Valleys struggle to develop
electrical power on the All American
canal, and, ?. That the greatest strug-
gle of all is still ahead.
The second item is actually the most
important. 1t is something the people
of Imperial Valley should not for one
minute forget. If their vigilance IS re-
laxed now, it may mean the loss of every
thing.
Until now the people, represented by
the Imperial Irrigation District, have
been in a situation similar to that of an
army maneuvering into position for
decisive battle There have been skir-
mishes, marked by attacks and counter
attacks. There has been a jockeying for
position on both sides. The people have
been fortunate in their leadership. They
have won every skirmish, and right now,
for the first time, are in a position to
force the final, decisive battle on their
own ground.
Too often an army, worn out by
long campaign, relaXes before its tlnal
battle is won. The people of lmperla
Valley must remember that danger, and
avoid it.
Before many months are gone, cleo
trio power will be surging over the peo-
pies lines to all parts of Imperial Val
ley 1t is then the final great struggle
will begin. The people can win it easily
or they can lose it woefully. 1t will be
a battle nobody else can win, or lose.
1t will be up to the people.
Victory will be found in unanimous
support by the people of their own pow
er system, and united opposition to any
destructive force which threatens its
success. Defeat might lie in lalf-hearted
support and public lethargy.
Above everything else there is one
thing for the valley to remember now
that the greatest power fight of them
all is still to be fought.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10

w { u 1 / Z / UldllO. ~. McIntNre
type of humor was extinct he was
making a thousand or so a week
exploiting topsy-t turvey talk with
his foil Cliff Hall. on stage, ra-
dio and screen.
Like so many other of the dia-
lect funsterS, Pearl is a product of
the lower East Side and arrived
via Gus Edwards kid revues, A
shy fellow with a hang dog visit
fulneSs, he has been among the
few to salt earnings when the 60
ing was good and is financially
secure.
My favorite Of all the old time
Dutch comedians was Cliff Cor
don, brother of the now top pro-
ducer Max Gordon. Cliffs was a
standard vaudeville act whose
routine never changed in the 20
years I saw him. Yet he never
failed to bring down the house.
The Astors-Nancy and Waldorf
hid away during a large part OF
their Florida vacation in Seques-
tered inn at the sea edge near
Delray. Zoe Beckley, who was in
similar seclusion finishing up
some magazine pieces. was nearby
and plopped into them several
times. Lord Astor's chief interest
centered in the trailer life so pro-
nounced in that state He could
scarcely believe that people lived
in them and had no other homes
So Zoe showed them around and
introduced them to a few of the
other half.
Zoe Beckley. fresh from an eX-
pert secretarial job in Wall Street
came to the Evening Mail as a sob
sister cub shortly after | went on
the staff. Buxom, apple-cheeked
with a zest for life and an infect
ious laugh she did much to brigh-
ten the drabness of that gloomy
editorial haven. Once she got a
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10
Bruce Carton Says
- White. at 70. losses Kiss to the Future

he has broken with his party only
when that organization became. in
his views, too sane. He fought for
Theodore Roosevelt and against
Franklin Roosevelt, and when the
latter won, wrote:
I'VE are going on a great new
adventure. The dam gave way
which has been slowly filling for
40 years, fed by the waters of
Organism, of La Follette's Wis
conSin insurgency. the waters
of the New Deal cover the earth"
Whites faith in Kansas and the
United States has marked his
writing, but simpler things than
politics more often take his atten-
ton. He prefers to write placid
quizzical editorials on the town
drunkard, a quarrelling married
couple, a girl in trouble, or the
roast that wouldn't brown proper
ly He is the epitome of Main
Street. if Main Street means the
everyday things of life in the
everyday fashion of meeting them.
At 65 Editor White remarked
that he was giving the past a
shameless, characteristic gesture,
while he threw kisses at the fu-
ture. Afr 10 he will probably con-
tinue to toss his kisses as long as
he has Kansas-bred arm to raise
and a world in audience.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10
News Behind the News
- Good Clean Fun

WASHINGTON.-The Senate and the House
like to hit each other over the head with rubber
clubs but it's usually all in good clean fun ana
they nearly always wind up scratching eaeh
others backs.
Especially when its. a question of spending
money
No truer demonstration OF this spirit OF broth
erly love could be found than in the slight dll-
ference between the House Independent Offices
appropriation bill for 1883 and the Senate
Appropriations committees version OF the same
bill
The House passed bill appropriating 81
4lO628515 After certain edition and Subtrac-
ton of Senate committee reported a bill callrne
for 81 14l2O69 465. The committee decreased the
House bill by Sl322O5O and increased it by 81
7630o0 Net increase: Sl,44095O
All OF which is just so many figures unless
you notice that the increase was entirely Tor
construction OF a dam at or near GAoertSVlle'
XIV" to carry out the provisions OF the IVA act.
IVA wanted to build that dam and so did the
House Military Affairs committee which nurses
IVA The House Appropriations committee oo-
jected to this extension of the IVA system
But Kentucky is the home state of Senator
Alben w Barklev Senate majority leader.
Gibertsvile dam would be big asset for Bark
lev who had been having reelection worries
because OF Governor Happy ChandlerS aSplra-
tions Obviously, his fellow senators couldn't
let Aben down.
And so, while providing for a start on the Gil
bertSville Dam they carefully pruned certain
items from the House bill for no better reason
than trading purposes. They cut $4,000 from
the Central Statistical Board Sl50000 from the
Civil Service Commission, S24 $50 from the En-
ployes' Compensation Commission, 100000 from
the National Advisory Committee for National
Advisory Committee for AeronauticS, $4,000
from the National Archives, $685. 900 from the
National Labor Relations Board and so on
None of these cuts made any particular sense
except for the fact that the bill would subse-
quently go to Senate and House conterees for
compromise. The House conferees dould be
expected to agree to Gibertsvle Dam if the
Senate agreed to restoration OF the reductions.
And so it goes in the U. S. Congress.
Speaking of figures one OF the most credit
able things to be said for the New Deal is that
most of its statistical agencies have struggled
notably to make their tables. charts and compila-
tions more and more accurate. Sometimes one
strikes Snag.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics studied
awhile and decided that its figures on distribu-
ton and sales of commercial apples were sour
and should be Cancelled for good because of i'm
possibility of getting reliable statistics. But the
commercial apple interests have made big
squaWk.
We would rather be misled than not led at
ALL, they insist.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10
By o. O. Mcintyre

rine Cornell of the screen 1rhe
original manuscript of Theodore
Dreiser's AN American Tragedy
is for sale at $500. Paul Sam,
a copy boy on the Evening Post a
few months ago, recently had a by
line on a Page l story. j. B.
Priestly is the only play author to
make a curtain speech SO far this
season.
Memory: The cloying aroma
from wet chickens after a sum-
mer shower.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10

and Surviv ing
half of Gallag-
her and Shean,
5 an OutStand-
ing dramatic hit
in the role of a
kindly priest.
Pearl is last
of the Dutch
com e d i a II S to
Scra m b lie the
language in pop
bottle gurglings
Long after that
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10
Photographs

The British government recent
ly doomed the tinplate industry of
south Wales by placing an order
for 2OOOO,OOO gas mask cans.
The European duck hawk can
fly approximately 180 miles an
hour, when diving or assisted by
strong tail wind.
LaSsen volanic park, in Illinois,
contains the only active volcano in
the United States proper.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10
Barbs -

One day some smart general
will learn that a woman with an
umbrella is still the most danger
Gus combatant in the world.
Japan, in ordering dance halls
to close, probably didn't think it
polite to fiddle while Shanghai
burned.
The late John d. Rockefeller
would certainly have no object
tions to news that his Cleveland
home will be razed to make room
for a gasoline station.
Cabinet Member Ickes puts a
comma i'm the old slogan, 60
West" TN
The Nicaraguan decree of easy
chairs for all workers sounds like
an invitation to a sitdoWn strike
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10
New York Day by Day

NEW YORK. Feb 10 Jack
Pearl is another comedian to
achieve a wish-fulfillment by ap-
pearing shortly IN a straight dra-
matte role. AL Shean, a low comic
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10

A man named j. II. O. H. c. G.
o. S. J. T. Ten Brook is dscov-
cred living in New York town.
zadok Dumbkopf thinks Ten
Brook could pick up some easy
change selling some of those ini-
tialS to the federal government.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10

real whiff of printers ink there
was no stopping her In few
months she was writing by-line
stories and her name was placard-
ed in box car type ON delivery wag-
on posters I left the Evening Mail,
at the abrupt request of the man
agement. and the next I saw OF
Zoe was on deck of an ocean liner
one moonlight night She was one
day out on way 10 interview Queen
Marie of Roumania. The same
night the ship headed into a IS
mile gale and as we limped into
port. all a shade of pea green, Zoe
wrote in my autograph book: In
memory of Mrs. Atlantic'S perma-
nent wave
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10

Happy is the person who dis
covers it's far easier on the facial
muscles to smile than froWn.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10

Some misers arc popular. They
arc the fellows who insist on
keeping their opinions to them
selves.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10
You re Telling Ne --
BY WILLIAM RITZ

THE TOUGHEST JOB in the
world is that of a poet trying to
write a poem about the beauties
Of spring-and unable to think
straight because of a heavy head
cold.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10

YOU haven't read ALL the NEWS
until you READ the ADS!
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10

And now the japanese are ac-
cused of poaching salmon in the
Alaskan waters. We can visual
ize Japan'S reply-so sorry, but
it's an undeclared fishing trip.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10

A favorite dish of the practiSed
diner in the Chinese cafes is meat
wormein, composed of Chinese
vegetables, boiled noodles, a
sprinkling of pork and a Soupy goo
poured over all. Since Earl Carroll
transferred his talents to Holly
wood I have been unable to keep
up to the minute on Chinese en-
poriums He was a bloodhound in
scenting out such places. They are
always excellent until the crowd
discovers them and . then they
somehow become all alike. Tops
at the moment is place on Canal
Street neaer the BoWery
Tribute: About The finest COM
pliment ever paid to actor was be-
slowed on John Drew by Booth
Tarkington Said Tarkinton:
Drew could play Simon Legree 50
that Legree became a misunder-
stood gentleman.
George Jean Nathan is the sole
chain play reviewer. He is now Of
ficial critic for Esquire. News
Week and Scribner's but unlike
the syndicated columnist, there is
no master copy run in identical
language Each of the three de-
partments is separately treated.
Question: How for can Nathan
carry this without repeating his
own stuff?
Thingumbobs: George ArllSS
thinks Bette Davis is the Katha-
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10
The Grab Bag
One e-Minute Tes'

One-Mlnute Test
]. Who is U. S. army chlef-of
staff?
2. Name the present king of the
BelgianS
3. Who were the "carpetbag-
gers?
Hints on Etiquette
The handshake should be warm
and cordial. but never Violent.
Words of WidsOm
People vote their resentment, not
their appreciation.-William b.
ManrO.
Today's Horoscope
Persons whose birthday occurs
today may sometimes be stubborn
and vindictive. They are known as
hard fighters for their beliefs.
One Minute Test Answers
|. Gen. Malin Craig.
2. King Leopold III.
g. Northerners who went south
after the Civil war to seek private
gain under the often corrupt re-
construction government.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10
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Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10
thoughts for the Day -

What then? Shall sin. because We are not under
the law. but under graee2 God forbid.-Romans els
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10

J. B. F. suggests a theme song
for that old-time movie william
now making a comeback; Happy
days are leer again!"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-10
Hints on Etiquette
OrdS Of WidSOm

The handshake should be warm
and cordial, but never Violent.
The Washington times., 1938-03-09

Miss Christine Long and Miss
Mary Jane Stanley will be feted
on Saturday, March the 26th, at
a the d1nsdnt at the Italian Gar
den of the Mayflower Mrs.
Philip B. Phillips, of New York,
who is spending the season at the
British Colonial, in Nassau, en-
tertained at dinner for James
Gerard, former American Ambas-
sador to Germany, and Sir Fred
erick and Lady Williams Taylor
:. Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred B. Sloane,
of Warrenton, Va, and New York,
also entertained at the British Co
lonial, in Nassau, many promi-
nent guests. Among those: Count
and Countess Orssick, Col. and
Mrs. Snowden Fahnestock, of
Washington; Charlie" West Bene-
dict and "Bill' Wallace, from
New York. George Vanderbilt
has his twin-motored plane flying
over Miami and visiting his friends
The Gay Nineties Club, in
Miami, will present '"The Drunk
ard," which, if you remember,
had no little success a few years
ago, here in Washington.
In honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
old Frick, of Washington, the Wal
ter Wigmans gave a dinner on
Thursday at their home, in Coco
nut Grove Sweet peas designed
in the initials of the honor guests
were used in decorating the table.
The honor guests were Capt. and
Mrs. Victor Herbster, of Warren
ton, Va, and Mr.. and Mrs. George
Hornbrook, from this city...
The Washington times., 1938-03-09

Sonia Henie thinks that she has
been badly treated in Miami. "I
came here for rest, but haven't
had it," she said. "They even said
I snubbed the governor and in
suited people I never saw peo-
pie twist things around as they
have. but I still like Miami" %.
Maury H. B. Paul (Cholly Knicker-
bocker), instead of writing about
it, gave large dinner party at the
Royal Palm Hotel on Monday
mite.
About this talk about Baron Gott-
fried Won Cramm, the great Ger
man tennis player, recently ar
rested in Germany, can add only
this: lost a tennis match to him
in Paris two years ago, and had
the pleasure of realizing that he
is a true gentleman and a true
sportsman The few times he
has lost, in his brilliant career,
he lost as gallantly as he won. But
l wager, if Germany has any in
tention of regaining the Davis
Cup, the handsome baron will be
freed.
Prosser Tabb, of Middleburg,
has been up to Washington off and
on of late to see the doctor about
his throat troubles and to visit his
friends The John Hinckleys,
of the Old Dominion country, have
a Rolls Royce built about 1910 -.
The Stewart Larrabees, Bill Street,
and many of their friends delight
in riding around the country with
them, in it. By the way, Bill STREET.
had a bang-up party last Saturday
mite.
The Washington times., 1938-03-09

came up and handed Jim
Wright his scotch and soda and,
OF course, Jim ia o member Of
the Gridiron Club and wears
his pin Of membership, very
proudly, for all to see, in the
lapel Of his coat.
A RTHUR GODFREY'S very
"A small and informal party
for Frank Parker, radio star
who appears tonight in "Travi-
ata," was, as Arthur's parties
are, gorgeous fun. Pretty lit
tie Mrs. Godfrey was there to
give everyone q welcome; there
was Brownie" and 'Mugsy,"
the two attractive secretaries:
the dramatic desks were present
and that sterling actor, Harry
Macarthur; Mrs. Abner Drury,
almost covered in silver foxes:
Paul Porter, Shorty" Lipscomb,
Hans Kinder; Mrs. Barge Hartz
in two shades Of rich blue; Ken
Lyons, who delighted us with
his gay quips and natural hu.
NOR; Nan Gooding, who is quite
an eyeful, and Of course. the
honor guest, himself, about
whom we shall have much to
say later. And the only thing
that Arthur hasn't got in his
beautiful modernistic office,
where the party was held, is q
secret spring that would burst
out into Art Shaw'S elegant
swing muSicl
The Washington times., 1938-03-09
Bolivian Envoy Present

Other members of the Diplo-
matte Corps who attended last
evening were the Minister of
Bolivia and Sonora de Qua
challa, the Counselor of the
Hungarian Legation, Mr.. An
thony de BalaSy who was Squir-
ing attractive Barbara Wright,
the First Secretary of the Mex
ican Embassy and Sonora de
Fuentes and the Attache of the
Dominican Legation, Senor Don
Sebastian E. Valverde. T h e
Chief of the Ecuadorean Boun-
Diary Commission and Sonora de
Viteri were accompanied by
their pretty dark-eyed sub-deb
daughter.
Senator Theodore F.. Green of
Rhode Island was in the au-
dience and among others whom
we saw were Ruth Tuckerman,
in a black and gold gown with a
halo hat of gold. DR.. and Mrs.
Raymond Holden, Mrs. Harold
Hinton, Comdr. and Mrs. Ather-
ton Macondray, Rosalind Wright,
Mannix Walker, sub-deb Suzanne
Masten, Mrs: R. Kenneth Hor-
ner, Miss Nell Dowling, Marian
Bowling, Edward Lohse, Mr.. and
Mrs. RiSley Hunt, the latter in
a soft yellow chiffon evening
gown, Miss Clara Reery and
Miss Elizabeth Anne Clark.
The Washington times., 1938-03-09

played 13 years ago at the chris
tening of Mrs. Richard Porter Da-
Wilson's (the former Betty Hanna)
daughter, has been engaged four
years in advance to play at the
debut of little Daisy in Coopers-
town, N. Y. Mrs. Davidson
didn't want to take any chances
and thought it would be safe to RE-
SERVE popular Sidney lo-ong
time ahead Jimmie Hall of War
renton, Va, who has come recently
here from Chicago, must certainly
know the meaning of the word CO.
LOSSAL I. He plans to build a
gigantic ballroom large enough to
accommodate 5000 people, out in
Maryland. 1t will be finished the
latter part of May >. All of the ma
tion's famed bands will be en-
gagged and the admission is the
trifling cost of zone dollah," Jimmie
says.
The Washington times., 1938-03-09
RunanianS
Dinner Hosts

The Charge d'Affaires Of
Rumanie and Nine. Babes en-
tertained a distinguished COM
pany at dinner last night when
the honor guest was the am
bassador of Cuba, DR.. Pedro
Martinez Fraga.
Pale pink roses decked their
table at the Westchester apart
ment. Nine. Babes wore lovely
blue silver lame dinner frock.
The remaining guests were
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis OwSley,
Naval Attache of the Italian En-
bassy and Donna Blanca Cugia
MarcnioneSs of SAINT Orsola: the
Third Secretary of the French
Embassy and Nine. Lucet; Miss
Irene Boyle, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Burke.
Tonight the Charge d'AffaireS
and Nine. Babes will entertain
at a dinner party in honor Of
the former Ambassador to Chile
and Mrs. William CulbertSon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Oury, of
Rhode Island, are staying at the
Hotel Raleigh while in Washing
ton.
Miss Ella Victoria Dobbs, Of
Columbia. Mo-. is stopping at
the Martinique.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. Mel. Fal-
conner, of Ohio, are staying at
the Hotel Raleigh while visiting
Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. C. Ingersoll,
jr., of Wildwood. N. j., spent
the weekend at the Dodge.
Mr.. and Mrs. James E. Heath,
jr., of Norfolk, Va, are spend
ing a few days at the Hotel
Raleigh.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Hill, of
Piedmont, Cal, are at the Mar
Unique.
Mr.. and Mrs. Colin M. Inger-
soil, of Salisbury, Conn.,, are at
the Carlton while visiting in
town. With them is Miss Anne
McCabe, also of Salisbury.
X y
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Harris, of
New York, are stopping at the
Hotel Raleigh for a few days
while visiting the Capital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Meaders,
of San Antonio, Texas, have ar
rived in the East from their
while spending several days in
home, and are at the Carlton,
Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert A. Park
and their daughter, Miss Ruth
Park, Of Maplewood, N. j., are
visiting the Capital and are
staying at the Hotel Raleigh.
The Washington times., 1938-03-09
SinnSeS Give
Celebration

The Attache Of the British
Embassy and Mrs. Harold Sims
entertained at a delightful din.
rer party last night at their
Wardman Park apartment.
The party, at which many dis
tinguiShed guests were present,
was given in honor Of Mr.. Sims
birthday anniversary.
Tomorrow Mrs. Sims will en-
tertain at q party in honor Of
Nine. SimopolouS, wife Of the
former Greek Minister to Wash
ington, who is stopping at the
Mayflower for a short stay.
The Washington times., 1938-03-09
Paul M'Nutt
To Be Feted

Paul v. McNutt will be the
guest of honor at a luncheon
given by the District of Colum-
bia Chapter of the Military Or
der of the World War, to be held
In the Hotel Mayflower tomor-
row at 1890 o'clock. Brig. Gen.
Albert L. Cox, the chapter COM
mander, will preside as toast
master.
Among the distinguished
guests present will be the Chi
nese ambassador, DR.. Chenting
Wang; Secretary of War Harry
H. Woodring, the Assistant Sec
retary of War, Louis A. John
son; the counselor of the Chi
nese embassy, Mr.. Ying; the
Rev. Arthur A. O'Leary, presi-
dent of Georgetown University,
and the Rev. Francis A. Cox, on
leave from Soochow, China.
There also will be many of the
ranking officers of the Army,
Navy and Marine Corps attend
ing.
The Washington times., 1938-03-09
Been Abroad

Miss Claire Beckham, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford G.
Beckham and former national
committee woman for the Young
Democrats of Texas, returns to-
morrow after an absence of sew
eral months in Europe.
Miss Beckham took special
courses of study at the Sorbonne
in Paris and thereafter toured
France, Italy, Switzerland, Bel
GUM and England.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Mansfield, of
Richmond, Va, are staying at
the Hotel Raleigh during a visit
to Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph r..
Murphy arrived here yesterday
from their home in Riverside,
Conn, accompanied by their
young son, and they are occupy
ing a suite at the Wardman
Park Hotel over the week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. F. Reynolds,
New York, are visiting in Wash.
ington and are stopping at the
Hotel Raleigh.
The Washington times., 1938-03-09
Envoy Host

The Minister Of Lthuan1a
and Nine. Zadeikis will enter
tain at dinner tomorrow eve
ming in honor Of the newly ap-
pointed American Secretary to
Lithuania and Mrs. Bernard
Cutler.
Among the other guests at
the dinner will be the Minister
of Latvia and Nine. BilmaniS
and the Minister Of Bulgaria
and Mime. Naoumoff.
Miss Martha Throop, Of
Woodstock, VT, is spending a few
days at the Dodge and Is accom-
panied by Mrs. w. H. Warner,
Of Evanston, Ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Britton, Of
Atlantic City, N. j., have arrived
in Washington and are spending
several days at the Martinique.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Z. Queen, Of
Needham Heights, Mass, are
stopping at the Dodge for a few
days, accompanied by Mrs. c.
B. Adams, of Stamford, Conn.