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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-02-17
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Mrs. Barbara Peoples, a charm
ing lady, who has returned home
from Los Angeles, is now employed
at The Dunbar, $40 Carroli.-Advt.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1939-02-17

M. r. W.: Please tell me will
Joe Louis do as / ask of him?
Ans: Heck, NO. Joe Louis has
troubles enough of his own with
out adding yours. Through your
own efforts you will be successful
enough to get started in a bust
ness of your own THIS YEAR.
w. M. c.: Not long ago met
man who is without a doubt
gentleman. He is kind, depend
do. These girls seem to think that
able and truthful. Should invite
him to my home?
Ans: If he is all that yOu claim
him to be, then you certainly
should make every effort to culti-
vate his friendship. No one could
reasonably condemn you for at
tempting to win the affections of
such Christian gentleman. If he
is all you claim him to be you
must use caution and judgment, as
he would readily see through any
sham or pretense.
S. M. w: every Saturday,
when he gets paid off, he comes
home drunk and cusses me like
dog and throws away his money
and then wants to run me away.
He is terrible with me when he
has been drinking and is just as
evil as he can be. Will he ever
change 2"
Ans: It's going to take more
than sweet treatment" to change
him. He has got to be jOited out
of his present state of mind and /
think the best way to do is to
make plans to leave him. If he
thinks you are in earnest about GO
ing off -. he'll change for the
better.
x. Y. T.: / am deeply in love
with young. girl who sometimes
treats me fine. Anything she does
is okay with me, but now she says
she wants me to stop going around
with her. Does she mean this?
Will / ever get back in with her?
Does she like me and what must
1 do if we get back in?
Ans: Your girl friend is afraid
that people will start talking"
about you if she continues on with
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Evening star., 1939-09-22
Stock Averages
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Writer.

Associated Press Financial Writer.
NEW YORK. Sept. 22.-The stock
markets war boom faltered today
after an opening bulge in which
gains ran to or more points.
Overnight buying orders put the
ticker tape behind for a while at
the start, with blocks of 1000 to
5000 shares changing hands. The
furry was brief, however, and
profit taking soon cut extreme ad-
vances or converted them into
losses. Minus and plus signs of as
much as a point were widely dis
tributed at the finish.
Dealings slackened to the smallest
in some time, but the forenoon
sprint brought the days approxi-
mate volume to 1,60O, 600 shares.
Steels and other war stocks. best
at the getaway, were among the first
to retreat. Utilities then stepped
out and some managed to emerge
with modest improvement. Rails
held fairly we'll, along with aircrafts.
Motors were listless, as were coppers.
Railway equipments. strong in the
preceding session, took rest.
Brokers gave credit for the initial
upswing mainly to speculative cheer
fulness following the Presidents ad-
dress to Congress after the close
yesterday urging repeal of the arms
embargo.
Subsequent cooling of bulish ar
dor was attributed partly to second
thoughts of traders which brought
the realization shelving of the neu-
trality measure might meet stiff OPP
position in the Senate and result in
possible temporary market repercus-
sions, to say the least.
News from Europe, while still
watched closely in the financial dis
trict, seemed to have been obscured,
for change, as a market influence
by happenings at Washington.
Evening star., 1939-09-22
District Gas Sales
So Far This Year
Far Exceed 1888
Demand in August
Also Well Above
Mark Year Ago
BY EDWARD c. STONE.

Washington Gas Light Co. sales
IN the first eight months of this
year were far ahead of the like
period in 1888, it was learned today,
the notable increase supplying fur
ther evidence of business improve
ment in the District. Comparisons
with 1888 reveal gains in every
month this year but June, when
warm weather played an important
part in holding down the total.
Gas sales in the eight months,
including sales to other corpora
tions, totaled 7.978,134 mcf against
7,348,614 mcf in the like period last
year, an increase Of 629, 500 cubic
feet.
Sales in August alone totaled $685.
$50 mcf against 558,1S8 mcf in
the same month last year. another
substantial gain. Comparisons by
months between this year and last
are as follows:
Evening star., 1939-09-22
Chicago Grain
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Sept. 22-The wheat
market alternated between lower
and higher courses today and wound
up with contracts for future de-
livery priced slightly below yes
terday's quotations.
The market was unsettled by short
covering in September contracts, in
which trading ended today, scat
tered profit taking and hedging and
continued drought in the winter
wheat belt as well as prospective
resumption of limited export sub
sidy operations by the Government.
Wheat closed 's lower to % higher,
compared with yesterdays finish;
December, 86as-12 May, 87ss Corn,
1s-15s down, December, 55as-14;
May, 58ls-58. Oats, ss of to "a
hipher
Evening star., 1939-09-22

WINNIPEG. Sept. % uP.-Grain range
Oday.
Evening star., 1939-09-22
BaItimore ouo}ations
WinnipeK Prices,

BALTIMORE. Sept. % uP.-Wheat,
No. 2 red winter garlicky spot domes-
tic, o.
Evening star., 1939-09-22
RoiI Operating Income

NEW YORK, Sept. % (F.-Net
operating income, before fixed
charges and other income, Of rail-
roads reporting today for August,
included
Union Pacific -s2 1850 S2,o6s,s42
southern Pacific - 2.594o54 2.645. .045
Evening star., 1939-09-22
Dividends Announced

NEW YORK. Sept. 22.-Dividends de-
clared. Prepared bv Fitch Publishing Co.
Initial.
Evening star., 1939-09-22
Odd-Lot Dealings
By the Associated Press

The Securities Commission reported to.
day these transactions by customers with
York Stock Exchange for September 2I:
S.554 purchases involving 237.5OO shares:
S;417 sales involving 22s77e shares, in
shares.
Evening star., 1939-09-22

Continued On Page A-21)
Evening star., 1939-09-22
Rubber Futures

Der futures opened Is to go higher. De.
esmber. 20.40; March. 10.46.60; MAJ,
Evening star., 1939-09-22
Chicago Cash Market.

Cash wheat sample grade, hard So
Corn. No 3 mixed. 6494: No. / yellow.
5si.-5a: No. :. 5sl4-59; No. 8. new. 81;
,old). 5s74: No. new, 54i4: No. l
white, 81; sample grade, white. 5534-61 "a.
Oats, No l feed. 36l2; No. 2 mixed. $50:
No, 2 white, Rs i7-37l2: sample grade.
white; 35 "a: Barley. mailing. $3.50 nomi-
thy seed 3.55-aO nominal. Red clover
seed, 12-50-l 90 nominal Red top. 8 So
800 nominal Alsike. 13.0O-16.00 nominal.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-20
THIS IS NO TIME
FOR DAYDREAMlNG

Imperial Valley voters are faced We'd
nesdav with the necessity of making a
choice between action and procrastina-
ton i'm dealing with the indebtedness
that is forcing the valley into an econo-
mic crisis.
They can vote yes" and clear away
the dangers that beset the communltyS
credit.
Or they can vote mo" and push the
valley nearer utter insolvency.
The voters can, in other words, act
now or put off action in the hope that
some nebulous scheme will develop later
to turn a suffering community into
glamorous financial utopia.
The case might be different If there
were two issues to be voted on. 1t might
be different if there were any other
bond refunding proposal before the peo-
ple. whether on the ballot or not. There
is not.
The proposal which goes before the
voters Wednesday is an attractive one.
1t has many good points, but all lead
TO one thing, and make one thing pos
sible: That is the tax ceiling is made
possible under this proposal. BY voting
"yes" on the bond refunding plan We'd
nesday, Imperial Valley residents will
assure themselves that they will not be
subjected in the future to cOnfiscatory
taxation to meet irrigation district obli-
cations.
If the plan is not adopted, only the
intervention of the Gods can prevent
tax rate next year which none but the
wealthtiest can pay Imperial Valley can
no more hide from that fact than W.
C. Fields or Jimmy Durante could dis.
guise themselves with dark glasses.
This is no time to daydream of q Col
den Age in which all debts are cancelled
and all taxes outlawed. If ever there
was a time when the valley must face
the facts, this is the time. The facts are
to be found within plain view, for any
one who wishes to see. They should be
acted upon.
Unless the refunding plan is approx
ed, the district will be at the mercy of
unfriendly bondholders almost imme-
diately.
Vote Eyes" on refunding Wednesday.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-20
CALIFORNIA TO PLAY
HOST TO TOURISTS
Exeter SUM

Californians can look forward to play
ing host to a record number of tourists
this year, for rest assured goodly num-
bers of the nations populace will visit
the coast this year to see the Golden
Gate International Exposition. 1t is up
to Californians to play host in the most
courteous manner possible, and right
now is the time to start polishing those
manners.
Californians are apt to look patroniz-
ingly on those persons who never before
saw an orange tree, as in recent years,
we have never been sure that tourists
have been attracted here by our scenic
and climatic glories or by our munifi-
cent old-age pensions and relief checks
But all this is to be changed by the
exposition this year. No doubt about it
California is the nations playground,
and Californians can be as hospitable
as citizens of the states below the Mason
Dixon line.
So let us all put on our best manners
Let us not feed some innocent IOwan a
green olive freshly picked from the tree;
let us show a real happiness in the ex-
clamatiOnS at the beauty of our orange
groves and not digress into a discussion
of the low price the fruit is bringing
in the market.
During the Exposition year, let us
hang out the welcome sign, and bend
our every effort to make host of
friends among those who come to our
state for visit. 1t means that if we
snow the tourists a good time, they'll
come against some day and will tell
their friends to come.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-20
EUROPE NEARING THE
END OF ITS STRING

Developments in European capitals
during the last week seem TO indicate
that the next year will bring one of two
things:
l. Watchful, armed peace without
startling events other than continued re-
armament; or,
2. War.
When Prime Minister Neville Cham
berlain of England Laid down his um-
brella and shouldered gum as one OBJ
server expressed it when the leader of
Munich admitted his appeasement policy
had failed, he signalled the beginning
of new era. He admitted virtually that
the democracies now realize they can
not win peace by making concessions.
They must give all, or fight. And they
do not intend to give all.
There will not be war over Czechoslo-
vakia. What has happened there is done
1t will be talked about but it will not
be acted upon. Two danger spots re-
main
Rumania, if invaded by Germany, will
fight-and once battle is fought in
Europe a general conflagration cannot
be far behind.
Italy, if it presses territorial demands
against France, will press both France
and Britain too far. France will not
surrender territory; Britain will back
her up in her refusal.
Those who follow European news
would be wise TO study closely the dis
patches from Rumania and from Rome
in the next few weeks.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-20

Once there was a little boy whose
job it was to watch sheep.
1t was arranged that, should a
wolf attack his sheep, the boy
would cry Wolf! Wolf" Then the
villagers would all come a-pelting
to protect both sheep and boy.
The boy tried it out. though
there wasn't any wolf The villa
gers came a-running, putting and
steaming And the boy laughed.
He tried it again. 1t was awfully
funny.
But the villagers began to be a
little annoyed
Next day a real wolf attacked
the sheep.
Wolf Wolff" cried the boy on
terror.
But the villagers yawned. Con-
found that shepherd kid" they said.
He's hcllering wolf" again. We
should go running up the hill on
a hot day like thisl
Pass the beer. Julius!"
And so the boy had to fight it
out with the wolf all by himself
losing 13 sheep and sustaining
contusions, lacerations and abra-
sions about the head and body.
For nearly 20 years now, there
have been cries of wolf" coming
across the Atlantic from the east
ward. Some of them seem to have
little behind them but vocal ex-
ercise. Others have had an an
guished tone which showed that if
the wolf wasn't actually among the
sheep, he had been seen prowling
perilously close
Since 1888, those cries have been
louder and more insistent, and last
year they reached a hysterical
pitch which, by some trick of
acoustics, seemed to be even louder
on the American side of the At
lantic than even in the sheep-fold
itself.
Perhaps some sort Of amplifier
was being used. Anyway, the up
roar among the distant villagers
was really louder than it was
among the shepherds.
Such cries are now being heard
again.
Shepherd France is crying that
Wolf Mussolini is trying to steal
some African sheep, and that Wolf
Hitler is going to grab off some
choice merinos in the Holland and
Switzerland end of the corral.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-20
LET'S NOT ALLOW
BASEBALL TO DIE
EDITOR, POST-PRESS

This is the Tooth anniversary of base
ball. Two years ago the city taxpayers
paid more than $4,000 for a baseball
stadium. They call baseball our national
sport.
Yet, in the face Of these facts, Ell Cen
tro high school is planning to drop base
ball from its list of athletic activities.
Until two years ago there was an an
nual fight to drop baseball from the
athletic activity and they gave poor
playing conditions on the old high school
field as an excuse.
Now with the Ell Centre stadium Of
fered to the high school for use of the
baseball team they offer lack of inter
est as an excuse.
| prefer to believe, however, and |
don't think I'm wrong, that the school
athletic department is attempting to
discourage baseball because it is not
self supporting.
Perhaps it could be made self support
ing if an effort were made to turn out
a winning ball club Ell Centre has more
students than either Brawley or CaleX-
leo, yet those schools annually turn out
stronger teams. These schools would like
to play baseball this year but will not be
able to unless Ell Centric enters team
in the league.
We have paid money to bring coast
league teams to the valley during the
past two years to stimulate interest in
the game. Let us forget our investment
in the stadium but let's not allow the
game to die for lack of interest on the
part of our school athletic department.
PERCIE f. THACKER.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-20
Bruce Cation in WASHINGTON
Dissects the News

theatre project. Oddly enough,
workers on many WPA sewing pro-
jects are using silk thread that was
bought by the War Department
during the World War.
One of the procurement divi-
sion's biggest deals was turned not
long ago when the Maritime Com
mission dumped two big steam
ships III its lap. These being con-
verted into transports for the army.
Richard Reidel is only 80 years
old, but he is veteran of 81 years
service on the staff of the Senate
He started out as a page boy,
in 1918, progressed up through
various jobs, and last year-as a
20-year veteran-was, by special
act of the Senate, made press re-
lations officer. The job keeps him
busy.
He watches over the press lobby
off the Senate chamber. Core
Spondents who want to call sena-
tors off the floor, to ask them
questions, work through him.
Although he will round out
quarter-century of Senate service
before he reaches the age at which
a man becomes eligible to service in
the Senate, Riedel looks even
younger than he is. You'd take him
Tor a youth fresh out of college.
Congressman Clare Hoffman of
Michigan has no pockets in the
suits he wears I'm the House. It's
his own idea. For one thing, he
found that he had a mannerism
of sticking his hands i'm and out
OF all his pockets when he was
making speech, and this looked
like good way TO break himself Of
il.
For another, he doesn't go A.
round with his pockets all cIut-
tered up with envelopes, com,
mittee reports, bills and letters
from constituents, the way most
congressman do.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-20
You re Telling Me-

Our favorite type of spring fic-
ton are those vegetable pictures in
full color on the covers of seed
catalogs.
A timid man is one who won't
open the door when Opportunity
knocks-for fear she may be wear
ing brass knuckles.
Just as if we hadn't trouble
enough, scientist-explorer, re-
turning from South America,
brought back with him a lot Of
tWo-inch ants.
Every American is born with a
complete knowledge of two subjects
how the government should be
run and how to cure the other fell
lows cold
A 38-year- student has been
attending classes at Harvard uni
yersity for 10 years. Maybe he's
just sticking in hopes Of some day
making the football team.
Following disease epidemic the
government of Latvia is campaign
ing against kissing. That gives us
one more reason TO be glad we
were born Americans.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-20

II get a Thrill, all rlght, all right.
This kind of vacation is some
thing new in America, though it
started in Europe about twenty
years ago. The United States is the
nineteenth country to participate
in the movement.
Who can join? Anyone from "a
to 94." However, most of the va
cationers are in their teens and
tWentieS.
Don't join up expecting to loll
in buses and on trains. No, in
deed. You'll have to strech your
legs. You'll have to work You'll
have to wash dishes. You'll have
to split wood. You'll have to sweep
and dust and clean and scour But
you'll have the time of your life!
This is the way it operates.
Hostels are scattered over certain
sections of the United States. Hos
tells are a sort of hotel, Or inn,
where the guests do their own
work They are placed about fifteen
miles apart. You join with a group
of boys and girls and you walk
from one hostel to another-with
a pack on your back! Or you ride
a biclcle. Or a horse, or you go
in a canoe. Boy, what fun!
When you arrive at the hostel
you will find it in charge of a
"house mother" or a "housefather."
They keep order, help entertain,
lead the singing, introduce dane
ing. If you get sick, they notify
your family. When bedtime comes
they send the girls to one building
where the "house mother" takes
charge of them. Then the "house
father" escorts the boys to another
building and keeps them from going
haywire
Now, what do you suppose you
sleep on? A nice inner spring mat
tress? No. In your own sleeping
bag. Sometimes the boys sleep in
the hay It's delightful. I have
done It,.
For food, shelter, everything
you pay-how much TO you sup
pose? Only twenty-five cents a
night. The next morning you wash
your dishes, and are off to new ad-
ventures. would give a great
deal to have done this when | was
a younger man. But no such thing
had ever been dreamed OF then,
in this country.
Here is your total expense:
Handbook, fifty cents. Member-
ship, one dollar if you are under
81; two dollars if you are over
81. In some hostels there is an ad-
ditional charge of ten cents a
night for fuel.
There are 200 hostels in the
United States You can travel all
over Europe. You can only see a
country, but inset foreign boys
and girls travelling the same way
and thus can learn something of
the language.
So there it is. I think I am the
first columnist to tell about this
splendid and unique way of hav-
ing vacation for an unbelievably
small amount.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-20

WASHINGTON.-Along with ali
his other activities, Uncle Sam is
an accomplished and experienced
junk dealer.
Federal departments are forever
coming into possession of things
they have no specia! use for
When that happens they turn them
over to the procurement division
of the Treasury Department.
This division then hunts around
until it finds some other govern
ment department that can use the
things. Failing that, it offers them
for public sale.
Some queer deals are put through
at times. Confiscated alcohol, for
instance, may wind up in pos
session of the War Department to
be made into gun powder. And the
copper still which the Treasury
Department occasionally seizes are
given to--of all people the Indians.
The red man doesn't use them
10 make firewateIJ though. Dl-
stead he hammers the copper into
bracelets, necklaces and whatnot to
sell TO tourists.
The Indians came in handy too,
when changing styles put an end
to the fashion of wearing beads
all over dresses. Most of these beads
were imported from italy and
Jugoslavia, and when the fashion
changed a number of importers
simply abandoned their shipments
on the New York docks,
Eventually these beads landed
with the procurement division,
which gave them to the Indain
Bureau. Now the beads are back
in circulation as examples of ma
tive American beadWork.
The division fell heir TO a lot of
imported feminine hats, when Ger
tain litigation over the payment
of duty dragged out so long that
the hats (Which had been seized by
the custom mem fell completely
out of style. These hats went to the
relief agencies for free distribution
to needy clients.
Old CCC barracks are given away
to the Forest Service. Army over
coats left over from the World war
are given to the WPA-although
the Indain again is a good GUS
toner, taking these old coats to
make layettes for papooses.
Silver fox furs seized from
have been used in cos
tuning actresses on the federal