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Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-12
Advanced Students Presented
In Concert Friday Night

Nine advanced students of Marie
R. Jenkins were presented in a
splendid concert Friday night in the
State Street Christian church, the
soloists being assisted by the Jen-
kins violin choir of 30 pieces and
by Martha Jenkins Rauenzahn, ac-
companist.
The soloists were: Ortha Con-
sole, Bob Gilkison. Harold Maddox
Marjorie Moore, Wally Christian,
Betty Lea Horton, Eleanor McCul-
Tough, Donald Rabineau and Jimmy
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-12
News Items About
Valley Residents

Friends of Mrs. F.. P. Lehman
will be delighted to learn that she
has recovered sufficiently from a
recent operation to be able to re-
turn to her home and to receive
visitors. Mrs. Lehman returned to
the valley Friday from Paradise
Valley Sanitarium where she under
went a serious operation some two
weeks ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. l. S. McElvaney
Valley sanitarium Friday for OBJ
servation there. Lewis McElvaney
has been seriously ill for a number
of months. Mr.. and Mrs. McElvaney
have not returned to the valley as
yet.
Robert Patrick, brother of Mrs.
Don c. Bitter, is seriously i'll with
pneumonia at the Bitter residence,
535 Len Rey avenue.
H. w. FaWcett and Bert FaWcett
are in Atlanta, Georgia, attending
a convention.
E. S. Strickler, who has been
quite i'll, was reported as slightly
improved Saturday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Spear and
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Spear return
ed to FL Centro Friday from VIM
slow, Ariz., where they attended
funeral services Thursday for their
nephew, William Dean Burney, il.
Mrs. S. L. McCrory is enjoying
visit from a girlhood friend, Mrs.
Mary B. Poland of Cedar Falls,
Iowa, who will spend several days
in Ell Centro as Mrs. McCrory'S
house guest.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-12
Clubs
Society
chntsas SsnSG OF Interest to Women sssis7 sssss
Calendar

SATURDAY
Hard of Hearing club, 1880, Will
son music room.
Dance, $40. 10000 club.
SUNDAY
Sunday services, churches.
Musical tea, $3.50, NJ. f. social
hall.
MONDAY
Twice Told Tales, 2, ID. c. Ranch.
Toastmaster's club. G:15, Califor-
mia hotel.
Ell Centre lodge No. 1884, +. and
AM, 1880, Masonic temple.
Troop 3. B.S.A., 1880, Scout hut.
Troop As, B.S.A., 7:3O, Heber.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-12
Auxiliary Juniors
Guests at PARTY

Junior members Of Boyce Aten
unit, American Legion Auxiliary.
had a delightful Valentine party
Friday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. Arthur Roberts Cn South
Fourth street
Appropriate games were played
and the girls enjoyed the refresh
ments Of sandwiches, ice cream
and cake served later in the after
noon
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-12
Beginners Card
Group Meets

Mrs. William E. Summers, 232
South Eighth street, and Mrs. j..
w. Beshears were hostesses Thurs
day night to the Beginners Bridge
section of the Junior Ten Thou
sand club, members meeting at the
Summers home.
Those present, in addition to the
two hoStesSes, were: Mrs. Roger
Acker, Mrs. Richard Hammer, Mrs.
Welton Martin, Mrs. Norman Crox-
on; Miss Julia Tucker, Miss Winnie
Trudell and Miss Margaret Plem-
onS.
Mrs. Martin will be hostess Feb.
90 at her home, 629 Vine avenue.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-12
Entire Nos Club
Dance Tuesdav

"Cupid's Capers" is the title for
the Entire Nos clubs Valentine
dance Tuesday night at 8:45 O'Clock
in the Ten Thousand club house.
Dr. and Mrs. Arnold A. Ariaudo
are chairmen CT the committee,
the other members including Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Marshall, Mr.. and
Mrs. r. Rockwell and Mr., and Mrs.
Louis B. McManuS.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-12
AnnOunc en- ents
Of Ne etinos

Ecyce Aten unit, America Legion
Auxiliary, is looking forward to a
Valentine party Tuesday night, to
Re preceded by a short business
meeting set for 7:30 o'clock in the
Veterans hall.
Hard of Hearing club members
have called q meeting for Saturday
night at 7:3O o'clock in the Wilson
school music room.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-12
HoItviIle Church
Plans Dinner

HOLTVILLE, Feb. IL. - Monthly
pot luck dinner of the Holtville
Methodist church is set for We'd
neSday, Feb. IS. at 7 pm. in the
church, each one contributing q
covered dish for the menu and sup
plying his own table service. Her
man Smith, chairman of district
No. 3, is in charge and has arrang-
ed many entertaining games, The
dinner is open TO church members
and their families. The official
board will meet after the dinner.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-12

Lincoln's birthday was the theme
for the interesting program enjoy
ed Friday, by Anna Maria Ross
tent No. ~, Daughters of Union
Veterans of the Civil War, at the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-12
Camp Fire Notes
BOARD MEETING

Camp Fire board members will
meet Tuesday instead Of Monday,
the session being called for 1918
noon, in the California hotel.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-12
WANKANKA GROUP

The Wanhanka Camp Fire group
started its meeting by singing songs
and then planning a skating party
for the group and its friends for
Feb. 13. Plans for play day, Feb
l8 were also made
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-12
TAWANKA GROUP

Tawanka Camp Fire group We'd
ueSday has a council fire where
honor beads were given to the girls:
Members present were: Cherie
Hamilton, Esther Louise Weakley,
Doris Ashley, Dorothy Greenwood,
Phyllis Maxwell, Peggy Mcclure,
Roberta Gum. Dorothy Lively
Mary Lou Paskle, Helen Sanderson
and 10 Ann Winn.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-12

Finance your New Cars purchase
through our Easy Finance Plan!
You will obtain more actual plea
sure from new-car ownership-and
escape the payment burdens that
go with older type, bigger payment
schedules Come and inquire.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-02-12
MINNEHEKA GROUP

Minneheka Camp Fire group met
Monday at Wilson school and dis
cuSsed with Mrs. Mark McMahan,
guardian, the birthday honors and
dinner and the play day.
Members present were: Fayola
Roach, Margaret Tyler, Patricia
Jones, Juanita Donnelly, Lois Vogt,
Rosemary Rice, Janet Thompson,
Janet Shaller, Jeanne Oostenveldt,
Ellen Costello, Dorothy Rapson, Vir-
ginia Reed, Wilma Graves, and Mrs.
McMahan
Evening star., 1939-04-20
Warwick Memorial Clinic

Throughout the United States dur
Ing this month concentrated drives
are under way against cancer-drives
for stimulation of research, for pub
lie education, for earlier diagnosis
and treatment, for more adequate
equipment.
It Is generally admitted that the
cancer mortality rate could be re-
duced by considerable degree If
full use were made Of the knowledge
and facilities available-even if there
should be no advances whatsoever in
research and no more treatment CEN
ters opened. But in order that the
present weapons against the dread
Inalady be used to the utmost the
public must know about them.
This is the sole appeal at present
OF the Helen and Mary E. Warwick
Memorial, attached to Garfield Hos
pital and operated by a group of
Washington physicians who are rec
ognized as among the foremost
roentgen ray specialists in the world
The Warwick Memorial clinic MAIN
tains costly apparatus, the best to be
found in this part OF the country.
Costs are adjusted to the means OF
the patients and no cancer sufferer
is turned away. It has no desire to
hide its light under a bushel. The
campaign against cancer is one field
in which the utmost publicity is
sought and welcomed. The most
Evening star., 1939-04-20

We believe it IL not 50 much due to
belligerency on the part Of the sparrows,
but rather to the little chance which
they give the smaller birds to dart in
and dart away.
Both chickadee and titmouse prefer
to grab and run, rather than stay and
eat at feeding station.
They find some difficulty in doing this
when the considerably more bulky SPAR
rows are out in numbers, as they always
are.
Let US say right here that we prefer
80 sparrows to one titmouse, although
the former are very common" birds and
the latter is one of the best of all.
This attitude Of mind comes about as
the slow result Of several years of cater
Ing to the birds as they come.
We had titmice and chickadees all
winter, the first two years, before the
English sparrows found their way from
the District of Columbia.
We enjoyed them, too, none better, but
when the sparrows came, we have
enjoyed them, too, perhaps not quite as
much, but almost
1t Is best to let the birds come as they
will, accept them all, and try to make
the best Of them, because nothing can
be done about the matter except to the
detriment of the keepers of the feeding
station.
In other words, the coming and going
Of the birds is in the hands, let us say
claws, of the birds themselves.
The pageant of birdland which will
be seen at feeding station is not for
month, or for year, but spread over
many years and seasons; it has as its
chief and only actors the birds them
selves.
He or she who buys feed and stations,
and sees to it that the latter are kept
filled with the former has no other part
to play in this little drama.
1t Is the part of the feeder to feed,
and then sit back to watch.
Otherwise, feeder of birds becomes
meddler, nuisance, and a threat to
conservation.
Take it easy, brother, when it comes to
bird watching
Above all, don't take sides. Find some
thingegood in all the feathered folk which
come, and try to forget what you may
not like.
There are enough ways to be un-
happy. without creating them and paying
for them, too.
Like the English sparrows, when they
come, and the titmice, but say to the
latter, If they do not come, '"Ta, ta tit
mice-youu come some other day!"
Sure enough, they will; they are out
in the garden now, happy in the sun
shine.
Evening star., 1939-04-20

powerful X-ray machines on earth
are OF no value whatsoever to persons
who do not know about them.
Incidentally, the clinic is a center
OF research and Of teaching. It il
not identified with Garfield Hospital,
its directors stress, except that
physically it happens to be located
there. It is eager to supplement the
services of other Washington hos
pitals. Its territory is not strictly
the District of Columbia. Patients
from the surrounding territory are
welcome.
1t must be looked upon, in fact, as
one of the world centers of the war
against cancer.
Evening star., 1939-04-20
President Held Leading
Us Into War.

To the Editor of The Star:
My name Is not well known, so I was
neither before nor behind the Committee
OF One Hundred, but had I attended the
hearing undoubtedly would have joined
In saying "You are railroading us into
war" AS 1t is, the President can
maneuver us into war, with a trouble
hunting fleet, for instance; and the
Thomas amendment would only grease
the skids to chaos.
The Pittman bill ignores the fact that
European nations have not yet paid for
their last set Of arms. I could not get
Easter finery on credit this year if had
not paid for last years splurge, so why
should nations not do the same? Wars
should be INDUCED in only after necessi-
ties are taken care of.
The Nye-Clark- Bone bill, or the present
Neutrality Act, would steer a more SEN
sible course than either OF these pro-
posals. Lillian PEARSON.
April 16.
Evening star., 1939-04-20

munity where all had equal opportunities.
But, with the growth of the cities, condi-
tions changed. The stronger and shrewd-
er men rose to the top, formed monopo-
lies which squeezed the little fellows out,
and established ruling class called the
Grab1ts.' These were supported by a
middle class known as "Babbits," and the
two soon owned all tools of production.
The Grabits and Rabbits worshiped
the god Mammon, but even more than
him they loved their Prophet sometimes
spelled Profit. In times of plenty a
goodly portion of the production was set
aside as sacrifice to the latter.
Sea shells were used for money in Woo,
and the lower classes gave so much to
the Prophet that they had nothing left
to spend on themselves. The result was
that more goods were manufactured than
could be sold. Then, the shops and mines
were closed, and the peasants could get
no fair price for their crops. They had
the first depression recorded in history,
in Woo.
Millions Of sea shells were buried in
hole in the ground instead of being kept
IN circulation. Soon the unemployed had
used all their savings, and the govern
ment was forced to put them on relief.
But, while this STAYED off starvation, it
did no other good, for these people were
producing nothing.
In the meantime the Prophet Il mean
Prof1t) had vanished, and the Grabits
would not reopen the shops and the
mines until they found him. Where he
was, the wisest men could not tell. But,
the unemployed could not be put to work
until the Grabits saw him. The burden
OF relief became drain on the nation,
and the wealthy started to holler about
taxes. The king wanted to kill the sacred
COWS to feed the people, but the priests
OF Mammon would not let him.
This made the king angry, so he placed
planning boards over all industries and
assigned work quotas to each employer,
and made the Grabits give the people
work.
1t turned out all right in the end, be-
cause they found their Proft-the poor
fellow was locked up in a closed shop.
April 10. WILLIAM OWEN.
Evening star., 1939-04-20
One Who Owns Beauty .

Amid great wealth, which would outdo
most kings,
She says, ''The beauty here belongs
to me;
The beauty Of this plaque, this tapestry
BY Gobelin, these precious sapphire
rings"
So speaks the humble housemaid, then
she sings
A tune, the while she bends upon her
knee
To dust a Queen Anne chair, her
drudgery
Forgotten in her love of gracious things.
II claim this beauty; it is rightly mine.
Dear mistress, sated with all loveliness,
Is somewhat covetous; art is a bore;
She has no time to worship at my shrine.
She sees so little here to love and bless:
She merely owns. while I, In tears.
adore!"
II. p. 6TODpARD.
Evening star., 1939-04-20
Rubber Robots

The iron man Is familiar figure
In the world of sport. Year after
year he monopolizes the news, until
such time as his joints get rusty and
he can no longer cover first base.
The rubber man, however, is some
thing new. He is being made to order
for the medical trade by a pair OF
New York University scientists, under
the name of rubber phantom" He
will have sponge rubber organs, and
his muscles, in sharp contrast to
those of the village blacksmith, will
be made of rubber bands. He is in
tended for the use of cut-ups in
medical schools who must have some
subject on which to practice surgery
and who would prefer one that could
be sent over to the nearest garage to
be vulcanized in case of error.
The device is expected to fill a def
mite role in civilization, but one can
not help thinking that it would be a
more glorious and useful one if the
rubber robot were endowed with the
gift Of life. Undoubtedly he would
fit better into the scheme Of modern
existence than the flesh-and- blood
man. Practically ever nation is bad
ly in need of resilient citizens who
can take whatever is coming to them
and bounce back for more. It would
be a superb idea to sign up a rubber
phantom to fight Joe Louis. While
it is easily possible that Joe would
eventually rub him out, at any rate
thousands OF otherwise intelligent
citizens would be spared the expense
and humiliation of travelling all the
way to Madison Square to witness a
bout lasting thirteen and a quarter
seconds, eastern standard time, with
the count of ten included; also, a
number of broadcasting stations
would be saved the mental wear and
tear of digging up bedtime stories to
complete their time allotment.
Meanwhile, pending the perfection
of this invention, 1t might not be a
bad idea If the New York scientists
would devote part of their elastic
talent to the subject of money. Rub
Der currency-checks excepted-that
would stretch from one pay day to
the next would be in more immediate
demand.
Evening star., 1939-04-20
The Parole Problem

EreSlQenC Roosevelt mas done q
real service to parole by exposing its
weaknesses and calling for remedial
measures. AS he pointed out before
the National Parole Conference, the
fault is not with the theory but with
the practice of it. That parole has
been subjected to severe criticism is
not surprising when it is learned that
less than a dozen of the forty-six
States which have adopted the parole
system are providing adequate means
of administering It,
The conditional release of a pris-
oner under strict supervision of
proper authorities is designed not
only to protect the prisoner from in
f1uences which might again lead him
astray, but to safeguard society from
him during the period of parole. In
the interim the parole system seeks
to reintroduce him to the community
as useful member of society. With
out parole, and unless some other
avenue of release is opened to him,
as, for example, pardon or good
time allowance" he serves his full
term and then walks out of the peni-
tentiary free of all supervisory re-
straint.
Because of the failure of so many Of
the States to provide sufficient funds
and personnel for enforcing parole, a
perfectly sound and sensible system
perforce has fallen into disrepute.
simultaneously, the parole procedure
all too often has become saturated
with political corruption and official
abuses. Charges that paroles are for
sale have been made by J. Edgar
Hoover and other outspoken critics
of parole maladministration. Vicious
criminals of the recidivist type have
been loosedepurportedly ION parole"
but actually unhampered by ofncial
supervision Of any kind. It is such
fagrant evils as these that have done
tremendous harm to the whole parole
movement at a time when it most
needed the support OF public opinion.
President Roosevelt summed up the
situation succinctly when he de-
clared: I'VE have bungled in the
manner and method At their (prison-
ers) release" He exempted from
this general indictment-and quite
properly-the Federal Parole Board,
the records Of which bear eloquent
testimony to the feasibility and eff
Evening star., 1939-04-20
THIS AND THAT
By Charles z. TraceaueH.

Pert is the word which best describes
the tufted titmouse.
This bird is the smallest, but two,
which comes to local gardens.
The ruby-throated hummingbird and
the chickadee are smaller, but when it
comes to the exact mixture of qualities
which enables one to say pert, the tit
mouse bears of the palm.
That is why one gardener was pleased,
having none all winter, to find titmouse
family had moved in during April.
~ ~
The nest Is somewhere, but so very well
hid that it defies discovery to date.
The titmice fly in small flocks during
the winter.
1t is commonly believed that such
group is one family, father and mother
titmouse and all the little titmice.
Usually there are two broods a year,
from to 8 eggs being laid each
time. Allowing for the smallest num-
ber OF eggs, with few casualties, there
would be about dozen in each family
by the time winter comes.
~
The titmouse belongs to the compare
lively small group of birds which stores
food.
This 1t does in wintertime only. Dur
Ing the summer its diet is exclusively
insects, but when seeds are available at
feeding stations it likes to carry them
away and hide them in the bark Of trees.
Bark is most often found with enough
crevices to hold such small particles of
food.
The bluejay, large and handsome, is
another songster which likes to hide food.
Nothing delights it more than peanuts
in the shell.
The titmouse is officially given as 6
inches, but as he flies around the garden
he does not seem 3 inches long.
The chickadee is 534 inches.
No doubt 1t Is the slight tuft on the
top of the titmouse's head which makes
1t look so pert, but it's movements have
great deal to do with it.
Rather tall stories are told of this
little birds lack of fear. 1t is said that
1t has come into house to build its nest,
and laid eggs there. It is told of one
specimen that it alighted atop a mans
head. and, bracing its legs, pulled out
some Of his hair for its nest.
Being a nature lover, the man was
pleased with this opportunity to con-
tribute to the nest of such brave tit
mouse.
Few birds are more welcome at feeding
stations
There can be little doubt that both
the chickadee and the titmouse rather
fear the English sparrows, and tend to
stay away from feeders at which these
birds predominate
Evening star., 1939-04-20
Questions Date In Article
On Fort Washington.

To the Editor Of The Star:
A staff correspondent of The Star sent
you an interesting writeup of historic
Fort Washington" recently, and the
article was published in the paper Of
Monday, this week april ID. It states
that Maj. L'Enfant designed the high
stone, brick, mortar and earthen ram
parts in 1902 to protect the Capital. I
am wondering where the correspondent
obtained his date-1802
The Columbia Historical Society has
published an excellent history of Fort
Washington in Volume Z, Records OF Co.
lumbia Historical Society. The date given
there for Maj LEnfant's first engineer
ing work at old Fort Warburton (now
Fort Washington is September, 1914.
Letters to him from James Monroe and
from the War Department are given.
If there is any record of Maj. L'Enfant
having worked at Fort Washington in
1902 I should be greatly obliged to you If
your correspondent who published the
information would send me the record.
If there is not, hope that he will be
more careful in the future. Our Star
paper is too precious to contain errors
that might be used again in the future.
BESSIE w. GAIN,
Columbia Historical Society.
April 18.
Evening star., 1939-04-20

cacy Of parole when rightly adminis-
tered approximately ninety-11ve per
cent OF Federal PAROLES complete
their period Of supervision without
again running afoul Of the law. Pa
role could be just as successful in the
States If the supervision were as
rigid and as sincere as that of the
United States Government. The
Presidents parole conference un-
doubtedly will help to bring about
this much-needed reform.
Evening star., 1939-04-20
The Law of Action

1t has been cardinal principle Of
Adolf Hitler's political strategy to
keep "the law of action" in his own
hands-to require others to guess
what he would do next. While the
Reich gives itself over today to spec
tacular celebrations of the Fuehrer's
f1ftieth birthday, it is rejoicing that
once more the axis powers have
"seized the initiative" and "the world
again looks to Berlin" The thing
that evokes this outburst of Nazi
self satisfaction is that Hitler has
resumed the offensive" by deciding
to answer President Roosevelt's
peace ultimatum" personally at a
special session of the Reichstag.
Meantime well-informed political
quarters in London are agitated by
reports that Portugal is the arena in
which Hitlers "law of action" will
next be eXemplified He is credited
with dramatic plan to burst the ring
of "encirclement" by demonstrating
the unimpaired capacity for mischief
possessed by the new German
1talian-Spanish triple alliance. Ger
man propagandists are said to have
persuaded the Falangistas, the domi-
nant political power in Francois
Spain, to adopt the idea of unifying
the whole Iberian peninsula-that
is, Spain and Portugal-which was
eSpoused by the Spanish Repub-
Hcans.
The Falangistas have a consid-
cradle following in Portugal, and
London hears these elements are
now at work to produce an internal
explosion which shall extinguish the
Salazar regime at Lisbon without
armed intervention by Spain, Italy
or Germany. Later the forces Of the
Fascist triumvirate would turn up as
supporters of the new regime and
proclaim the union of Portugal with
Spain.
Germany's incentive would be two
fold-O to prove that it is impos-
Sible to "encircle" the Reich suff1-
ciently to immobilize her, and CD to
give the Nazis the lions share of
Portuguese colonies in Africa and of
its coast, including the Azores, and
in the East Indies. To Italy the ad-
vantage would be that the British
Navy would be deprived of important
Portuguese naval and air bases for
Mediterranean operations.
Portugal is an old ally of Great
Britain. If Premier Salazar calls on
London for support against any such
designs as report attributes to Hitler,
British defensive support would
almost certainly be at Lisbon's dis
posal. The Atlantic coast of the
Iberian peninsula In axis possession
or under axis domination would alter
the balance of power in Southwestern
Europe almost to the fatal disadvan-
tage of the democracies. Once the
axis flag is planted in the Azores or
on the west coast of Africa, a stra-
tegic situation would be created, of
which the Americas, too, would have
to take serious notice.