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Evening star., 1938-11-11

Editors note: This story OF
tUhdt has happened to one of the
heroes of the World War ,Dds pre-
pared for The Star BY one OF his
adn,trinQ ,Dartinae "buddies.")
BY A BUDDY OF THE 18TH
INFANTRY.
You probably won't see him at
any Of the Armistice Day celebra-
tions today, but he deserves to be
right up front.
He 10 one Of the real ex-soldiers
who emerged from his sufferings OF
40 years ago with his patriotism un-
marred by bitterness or cynicism:
now peace-loving and contented but
eager to tight for his country again
If 1t needed him.
He is Newell B. Davis, now S. years
old, and strangely enough he still
carries q pistol-but in peaceful
setting-as night watchman at the
Union Trust Co. here. He and his
wife live in q modest home they
built themselves near Kensington,
Md.
Twenty years ago he was fire.
eating Corpl. Newell B. Davis, Co. I,
28th Infantry, 1st Division, A. e. F.,
recuperating in q hospital from
) wounds he received in winning his
Distinguished Service Cross in the
Battle of Cantigny-a battle re-
enacted by National Guardsmen in
a pre-Armistice Day celebration at
Sligo Park last night.
d. S. C. Presented on U. S. Soil.
His Distinguished Service Cross
was the first presented on American
soil for World War heroism. While
he was a patient at Walter Reed
Hospital here in 1919, Gen. Pershing
cabled from France a request that
he be given the cherished cross and
1t was done.
You can see it in the Smith
sonian Institution. Mr.. Davis gave
it up for preservation there, mot
seeing the use of having it around
the house, as I didn't show it to
people anyway"
Gen. Pershing's citation, on view
at the Smithsonian, reads:
Near Cantigny, France, May %,
1918, he voluntarily left shelter and
exposed himself to violent machine
gun fire to bring in a wounded COM
rade. While performing this mer-
itorious deed, he himself was seri-
. ously wounded"
Corpl. Davis enlisted when war
was declared and landed in France
June rs, 1917, with the first con-
tingent of American combat troops
to land on European soil.
Took Over Line.
After a grueling summer Of train
ing, short stay at the front and
a winter of maneuvers-WhichG Gen.
Bullard described as being the
worst conditions to which he had
ever seen troops subjected, except
in actual battle"-the outfit took
over the line at Seichprey, near
Mont-Sec, called the "Toul front"
The following month they were sent
to the Mondidier- -Noyon front and
prepared for the first battle Of the
war by American troops.
The 28th Infantry, with its many
veterans Of former campaigns
Cuba, China, the Philippines and
Mexico-wAs chosen for the assault
at Cantigny, which, due to the fall
ure of both French and English to
Evening star., 1938-11-11
Texos for Defense

Jews in Palestine are paying vol.
untary taxes on cigarettes, bus fares,
tickets Of admission to places Of en-
tertatnment, and even on imported
vegetables, to raise funds for security
measures. =
Evening star., 1938-11-11
Hero of fWorId War Carries Gun
But in Peaceful Setting
Newell B. Davis Was
Severely Injured in
Saving Buddy

Editors note: This story OF
,phdt has happened to one OF the
heroes Of the World War tDns pre-
pared for The Star by one OF his
ddntring 1Darttn1e "buddtes.")
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16
A NEW LEASE ON LIFE
FOR AGRICULTURE

When someone mentions agriculture.
a lot of us still think of an overall clad
individual who puts seeds in the ground,
watches them sprout, harvests the re-
sulting plants and retires to his farm
to repeat the operation, meanwhile mas
ticating wheat straw or something that
looks like one.
Once IN while a city Slicker gets
disabused of the idea when he returns
to his metropolitan haunts after visit
TO the rural areas, still wondering what
happened to his trousers, not to men,
tion his shirt.
Only few of us have grown up to the
realization that the average American
farmer is a pretty smart individual-he's
got to be if he's going to remain farm
er. The dumb ones migrate to Los An
geles and go on relief.
SO it is that farmers throughout Cali
fornia will welcome the efforts of the
California state chamber of commerce
to obtain for this commonwealth a farm
study laboratory with the purpose of
developing new scientific chemicals and
technical uses for farm by-products.
There will be four such laboratories in
the United States, established under Sec
tion 202A of the farm bill which recent
ly passed the u. S. house of representa-
tives. 1t is hoped one of them will be in
California.
The future of agriculture lies along a
clearly defined path of what we might
call industrial expansion. The dividing
line between agriculture and industry
is growing fainter every day. The time
will come when the farm, like the iron
mines, produces the raw materials for
great new industries. Scientific re-
search already is paving the way for
such development. Establishment of pub
licly endowed research laboratories in
the nations key agricultural centers
will do much to further the arrival of
the day when there will be no waste in
farm produce.
Stories about travelling statesmen will
go out of date when the farmer drives
a tractor operated on fuel made from the
leaves of his squash plants-and that
alone should be sufficient incentive to
spur scientific development.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16

amusing dialect When the Gcrsh-
wins moved to Riverside Drive alIeI
George got into the money, Pop was
piven charge of the furnace after
being shown how to operate II.
One fact was stressed, a cs' Yam
lever should not be touched or tne
house would be set afire. A night
or so later the family left Pop IN
charge and returning at mldnlght
found the house ablaze. Pop with
violent shrugs insisted he had not
touched the furnace lever. George
But you must have touch
ed If The house is on fire now.
The department has arrived. After
A few seconds, reflection, Pop said;
We'll. then-maybe!'
Paddys Market may be sacrificed
to civic duding. Along that rabble-
rousing stretch on Ninth avenua
between 37th and And streets once
foraged the motion picture fellows
James Cagney and George RAFT.
For 48 years its curbs were lined
with push carts representing faith
ers and sons of two generations.
The proposed adjustment Is 10
make way for the entrance to the
I lincoln Tunnel and is fought des-
perately and a bit pathetically by
the push-cart men, who claim 1t
will leave nothing for 200 Of them,
save to go on relief
The chronic race track followers,
as a type. has always perked my
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16
Other Editors Say
FIFTY YEARS FROM NOW
New York Times

Those of us who are unduly depressed as we
view the political state of the world today may
merely have lost our perspective. 1t is at any
rate, both consoling and stimulating to read the
latest prophecy of that prince OF prophets, H. G.
Wells Like the rest of us, he has no crystal into
which he gazes, but few men compare with
him in his amazing combination OF perspectiyeS
Imagination and range Of aWareness
The common man Of today he declares
SIS healthier, better informed, better fed, lit,
housed, with greater power of movement and
leading a fuller and more interesting life than
the common man of 1888" Life in 1898 he in
fers. judging from tendencies in the last half
century will be less cellular" than ours-more
open. with the school -centercd community re-
placing the household the social unit Our
descendants will be more free, candid agreeable
and healthy than we are; Their streets roads,
gardens, architecture and clothing will reflect
this openness and freedom; and their houses
and clothes particularly will be revolutionized by
the new materials which science is just now be-
ginning to develop.
This outlook, of course, is based on Mr.. Wells
assumption unfortunately not beyond question,
that political dictatorship-Wth its accompany
ing suppression Of freedom of thought and in
quiry-is not likely to reach the point where
it will prevent scientific progress.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16
News Behind the News
Farm Bill Freedom

WASHINGTON.-Bo and girls taking the
course in current events Oueht to be Watching
the farm legislation.
It is the only measure Congress indicates
any intention OF passing and, moreover. the I'M
ished bill will be the first response OF Congress
to eXhortations that ii legiSlate independently
and stop being a White House rubber stamp
The measure as reported cut by Senate ana
House confereeS will be the first farm bill since
1888 not written chiefly by men in AAA and the
Department OF Agriculture. This time those Oh
fcials lust haven't known what the conference
committee was doins and their advice hasn't
been asked.
Not only is Congress more independent. Chair
man Marvin Jones of the House Agriculture
Committee and Senator John Bankhead OF Ala
bama conference chiefs. knew Just what they
wanted without asking Secretary Wallace. Their
chief difference bound to result in compromise
was that Bankhead wanted considerably more
rigid crop control than Jones.
AAA officials sure the finished result
will be unavoidable and that they wouldn't want
to be found dead with it.
What could be sweeter than sugar bil?a
is an old chant among lobbyists and there were
10 Well-staffed sugar lobbes operating when the
last sugar quota act went through. The secret
of it all is that American consumers pay $780,
100000 in excess of the world market in order
that 100000 domestic producers may be pro-
tected.
Sugar. in fact, is practically magic word in
Congress- ConfereeS on the general farm bill
have decided that benefit payments TO growers
shall be limited to $4,000 a year. But just
the other day. with astonishing speed Congress
rushed through a S39000000 appropriation bill
for carrying out the sugar act, which is expected
to mean single benefit payments of at least S400-
600 for each of at least six large producers.
Probably 1t isn't true, some cyncs have
suggested. that the speed was due to fear that
someone might propose limiting sugar benefit
payments.
At the nearby Department of Agriculture
experimental farm in Beltsville Md, where eX-
perts do all kinds of tricks with plants and ami
mails eyebrows are being raised at the peculiar
result OF an experiment with certain hens.
Somebody thought it would be smart to cross
breed Rhode Island Reds and White Leghorns
possibly hoping for something in stripes or spec
kles
But after the two species had been crossed
back and forth few times and the chromoso-
mes thoroughly mixed. it turned out that all
the males hatched from the resultant eggs were
red and all the females white.
Incidentally, the Belsville farm is not trying
to astonsh everybody by producing cross be
tween a chicken and a turkey, as widely re-
ported. The experiment has been tried with
marked succeSs-exCept that the chicks always
die.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16
ANOTHER BILL THE PUBLIC
IS FORCED TO PAY

The people of the United States pay
billions of dollars of taxes every year,
and they pay in loss of jobs because cor
porations are so taxed that they cannot
add improvements, and they pay to fl
nance relief rolls. They pay so many
ways that nobody has ever been able to
tabulate them in detail.
Last year the public paid another bill;
in fact, the public is still paying that
particular bill.
The working people of the United
States paid more than 140 millions of
dollars during 1897 for the privilege
of going on strike. Those who did not
go on strike paid too, because costs went
up and the amount of money in circula-
tion went down.
A direct wage loss of more than S11O,-
900, 900 to the strikers involved resulted
from industrial disputes in 1874 year
that saw all records broken for loss of
man-days of work through strikes. In
the first 10 months of 1887, man-days
lost through industrial disputes totaled
26,617 900, as compared with 13,9O1OOO
for all of 1886.
That many days lost to industry in
any one year is bound TO have some re-
suit on the general economic trend Of the
nation 1t did-and the strikers, and
everybody else, suffered d loss.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16

For many years it has been an
industrial custom for all companies
to strive for the day when they
can have their headquarters in
New York.
A firm begins business locally,
it prosperS, grows. Then comes the
urge for a New York address, the
magic of a letterhead carrying a
number on Broadway or Fifth ave-
nue.. And soon you have the spec
tacle of the management Of that
local company moving to New
York its president and directors
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16
Famous Sayings --
By O. O. Mcintyre

interest l lived among them in a
hotel out in Cincinnati. Their rou-
tine is thoroughly NeitzSchian, "liv-
ing hard and dangerously" AT a
hotel on upper Broadway l ran into
nest of them the other day
birds of feather flocking together
Yet despite their come-easy, go
easy careers, they did not look much
older than 20 years ago. Many are
husbands and wives still making
their seasonal pilgrimages of the
circuit-Belmont. Haver de Grace,
New Orleans, Latonia, etc Save for
the fever of gambling. which con-
sumes them. they are extremely
temperate. l never knew one who
would not admit it was a sucker
game and l never knew one, caught
up in its eXcitements. to quit.
Having succumoed at one time
or other to most of the minor vices,
l often wonder .why l never had a
joust with gambling, Perhaps an
ingrained Scot wariness. l played
poker for awhile, but with no relish,
and my total bets on the ponies
wouldn't total $40 I have kibitzed
the feyerish intensity of those
around tables at Bradley's in Palm
Beach and at Monte Carlo without
the slightest inclination to partici-
pate. Indeed, the only real amuse-
ment I ever wangled from the side
lines was watching a Negro crap
game under railroad trcstle. That s
devastating funl
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16

ceitS include an electrically lighted
gown that lit up the town. She
is the wife of a prominent lawyer
ani her son has figured in the
Shanghai bombings as a photo
grapher.
AS one of the duennas in Cholly
KnickerbCckerS Cafe Society, she
sets a swift pace in gaddin9. She
never comes into a restaurant, she
makes an entrance. Everything
stops. Elsa Maywell is another who
dotes on rigging herself out in gro
tesque costumes, but she makes it
pay
There are stories that Mrs. Men
ken has appeared in outfits that
cost as high as $4,000, And that
her Sartorial eXtravaganzaS repre-
sent a financial outlay of $25,000 a
year Considering that each cos
tune may be worn but once, it Is a
high in something or other.
Ida M. Tarbell now in her 80'S, is
still quite active. both socially aud
in literary cndeaVorS. While her
writing no longer has the crusad-
ing flair of her Standard Oil eX-
poses her pen is trenchant. She
looks upon the changing order with
mixed emotions and has no panacea.
Although she did confide to friend
recently: Il think it would be a
good idea if everybody stopped talk
ing for a year"
A favorite character of the artist,
writing and music composing crowd
was the father of the late George
GershWin, who passed away only
a few years before his illustrious
son. Pop Gershwin was kind and
humorous major domo with an
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16
Imperial Valley Salt Balance
Feb. 1880 TO Feb. 1899
Ton Equivalents Of Constituent

Tot. Neg. 133,62O 97,678 2O,32O 66,262
Irrigation Supply plus Displaced
SaltS-153,94 $40 TIE.
Drainage and Waste plus Resid-
ual SaltS-15394O TIE.
The relationships between the
constituent ions in the irrigation
supply and in the water leaving
the Valley are shown on the accom-
panying geochemical chart, CDia-
gram G) together with the deriva-
ton of the character Of the salts
displaced points b, and of the
salts left in the soil and subsoil of
the valley points RI. Points p
represent that portion of the salts
in the irrigation supply which pass
ed through the valley.
(To be Continued
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16
You re Telling Me --
BY WILLIAM RITZ

EMPEROR HTROHITO has jusi
written and published a poem. Ur
to press time, strangely enough
the japanese government has not
apologized. Nor has the mikadC
promised not to do it again.
Zadok Dumbkopf, who has not
read the mikado's poem, thinks q
proper beginning for would be
Nothing could be fina, than tG
be in Central China
Famed British actress urges that
actors be given chance to run
European governments. She un-
d0ubtedly means the trdgedians-
the comedians appear to be in con-
troll now.
In dictator-lcd countries tha
first lesson a young man studying
Journalism must master is how to
wear a muzzle.
East Indian swami cures i'll per-
sons according to cable dispatches,
by simply staring at them. We
wonder what sort of technique he
uses when trying to collect his
/ bill
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16
Bruce Cation Says
- Puneturiinq the Spell Of New York Address

ensconced on Long Island, and the
local factory left to shift more or
less for itself under salaried man
ayers.
Business management ought to
question the universal wisdom OF
this, and to weigh against the un-
questioned advantages of New
York headquarters the advantages
lost by pulling up roots from the
old home town. This often creates
the feeling that the locally-built
enterprise is JUS an orphan alter
all. administered by those who
have lost interest in the locality.
Is this the dizzy idea of some
provincial theorist? Not at all. 1t
is the serious question posed by w.
Averill Hartmann, chairman of
the board of the Union Pacific
railway, who put it flatly up TO
the Bond Club in New York.
Hartman called on business men
to analyze quite frankly this con-
centration of industrial control and
to "either justify it or change it,"
Often there are good reasons for
a removal to New York. Hartman
indicated. But too often the move
is made for on better reason than
the prestige of a New York ad-
dress the hope Of better access to
| financing, or even Just because
the president or his family think
| it would be nice to live in New
York In many such cases. Harri-
man felt. the weight of the values
may be on the side of their NOV
! ing to CenterS of their business
activities or their production
This urge for removal to New
York Hartman felt gives greater
impetus than the situation perhaps
warrants, to the criticism of con-
centration of industrial control
which is again rising to high pitch
as it has in the past.
| Certainly no rule will apply to
all businesses. each must decide
for itself But in a time when all
social and business trends are un-
der criticism, and each is being
made to justify itself anew, 1t
might be valuable for many COM
panies to study this situation. Ger
tainly, other things being equal. it
is best for the management of an
industrial firm to remain an lnte-
grail part of the community on
which its business has been built.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16

likewise the tar
get of many sly
twists from the
pundits. Tall, stat
uesque, she takes
all the side
jeers in magnifi-
cent stride.
She does not
bar expense in
h er coStuming.
Designers are Civ
en- carte blanche
and shoot t h c
works Her cOn.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16
Editorials and Comment
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY l6, 1898.
New York Day by Day

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE GET
ups Of Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken
for the outstanding masquerade
balls have made her the No. l
figure of the photograVures and
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16
The Grab Bag
One Minute TcSl

]. Who is u. S. secretary of ag-
riculturC?
,. Name the capita Of Missouri.
3. What heavenly body is the
satellite of the earth?
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16
TOdaY'S HOrOscGnn

Persons whose birthday occurs
today are usually quick in thought
but slow in action. This gives them
great powers of stability.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16
OnCrNIinute Test Answ

/. Henry A. Wallace. Of Iowa
2. jefferson City.
3. The moon.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16
Words of Wisdom

Countries are well cultivated not
as they are fertile, but as they are
-MonteSquieu
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16
Photographs

More than 21.000,000 workers in
the United States are employed in
Jobs covered by federal and state
unemployment compensation laws.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16

French medical authorities say
that an ordinary cleansing bath
should not be warmer than 80 de-
greeS.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16
Hints on Etiquette,

1t is poor taste to linger at a
social gathering if you already
have indicated a desire to leave.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16

Fifty-three perSns claiming to
be more than 100 years old are re-
ceiving old-age pensions in Florida.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16
Barbs 80

With sweeping predictions as to
the role labor will play in America
John l.. Lewis joins the ranks of
the minor prophets.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16
GIVE HIM TIMT,

san Francisco ChrOnIClcl
The PHILIPPINE brother in his new budget shows
a healthy surplus, but we must be patient He
just lacks experience in the ways of free peoples
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16

There were approximately 28,-
900 one-room schoolhouseS in oper-
alton in the United States during
1927
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16
thoughts for the Day --

And Immediately he received his sight and nc fol
lowed him. elorfying God and all the people,
when they saw IT, gave praise unto God.-LukC 1843
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16

He opposes the major profits.
William Green, who speaks from
authority as an honorary member
of the musicians union, thinks
Lewis often harps on a sour note.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16

Mrs. Roosevelt advocates the eli
mination of tipping, but some
would have you believe, now that
union grievance committees are
here, tipping is the only way to
keep the walters finger out of
your soup.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16

British statistics indicate that
one inhabitant of India is killed
by snakebite every seven minutes.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16
DISTRICT
REPORT
CONTINUED
lI4th InstalImentl

During the past four years,
method has been developed when
makes it possible to interpret these
analyses more fully and accurately
than could be done at the time
Mr.. Scofield made his report. The
results obtained by application OF
this method are described below,
from which it will be noted that
there was a net accumulation OF
almost 100000 tons per year OF
deleterious salts during the time
covered by the investigation, and
that considerable sodium was also
left in the soil as the result OF
base exchange.
In the following tabulation are
given the total amounts IN ton
equivalents of the various conSti-
tuent ions in the irrigation waters
and in the drainage and waste
waters. In addition there arc given
the n-equivalents of the ions
making up the salts which probab-
ly were displaced from the soil
and subSoil in the Imperial Val
lev and of the ions making up
the salts left behind as a result OF
irrigation. A ton-equivalent of any
ion is equal to the total tons divid-
ed by the combining weight; for
example: 20 tons of calcium is
equal to l ton-equivalent and would
combine with l ton-equivalent OF
sulphate, which would have a
weight of 48 tons. This term is
used in order that the sum of the
positive ions, ie., calcium, magne-
sium. and sodium, will be equal
| to and therefore directly compar-
able to the sum of the negative
ions, that is. the carbonates, sui
phate, and chloride.
Table 2
Imperial Valley Salt Balance
/
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16

Beth Lewis and Green think its
about time labor had a finger in
the pie. too.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16

Certain species of tropical fish
climb trees. scientists have OBJ
served.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-16

about time labor had lln8er IN
the pie. too.
The chairman of the National
Labor Relations Board says the
National Labor Relations Board is
all right
Industry and some dissatisfied
labor units, cycling thousands of
pages of testimony taken at NLRB
hearings and still no decisions, say
the NLRB is all write.
The Greek philosopher Aristotle,
who was equipped with remark
able brain, believed that this or
gan's chief function is to cool the
blood.
Indian writings more than TOO
years old appear on Newspaper
Rock" in the petrified forest of
Arizona.