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Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13

10 miles from railroad, anC
wanted to study music more thar
anything else in the world. But
there was no competent teacher ir
the tiny village where he lived
Then came an event that changed
his life. The government decided
to fling a railroad across Poland
and, by a miracle of good luck, il
came through the village where the
boy lived His father seized the idea
Now he could take his son to a
conservatory in Warsaw where there
were expert teachers. So eager were
the boy and his father that they
piled onto the first train that pulled
into the village-a freight train
where they sat among boxes and
barrels and bleating sheep all the
way to Warsaw.
By piece of good luck the con-
servatory authorities accepted the
boy as a student. PadereWski ROOM
ed with four other boys. No carpet
on the floor; but the room had
som e h ing young PaderewSki
thought marvelous-a coal-oil lamp.
Until then he had always used cam
dies. But now actually-coal-oil !
He attended his first lesson with
feyerish eagerness, and played the
selection he had been practicing for
weeks. The teachers face grew
cold. PadereWski was asked to play
another number. The teachers ex-
preston froze the blood in the veins
of the hopeful young student. Fin
ally, the teacher asked the principal
TO excuse him from trying TO pound
music into the boys head he
said the boy didn't have real talent,
and particularly, he didn't have the
right kind of hands, The boy was
heart broken. A second teacher
was engaged. He said the boy had
some talent, but was so deficient in
technique that he was wasting his
time So he gave him UP too
PadereWski decided he would try
the flute, and teacher was engag-
ed for this. The teacher told him
that his lips were too thick, and ac-
tnally drove the boy from his flute
class.
Paderewski then studied the
oboe Failed. Next he tackled the
bassoon. Failed. Finally, the horn
At this he did fairly well; but all
the time. at the bottom of his heart
he longed to play the piano. Pader-
ewski was 81 years old before any
one except his father gave him the
slightest encouragement in piano
playingl
Did he give up? Every newspaper
in the country has printed the an
swer for years The entire world
him the greatest living
pianist
So, young man. young girl, if you
fail at something in which you long
10 excel remember the story of Pa
dereWski.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13
PREVENTION BEGINS
Ar HOME
(Christian Science Monitor)

(Christian Science Monitor)
Despite the efforts of Boys Clubs and
other agencies devoted to the welfare
of youth, the recently issued bulletin of
the Federal Bureau of Investigations
Uniform Crime Reports shows high
rate of juvenile delinquency In the first
six months of 1899 the largest single
age group involved in crime was 10 years,
according to the report.
From 1885 to 1888 definite progress
in the reduction of juvenile delinquency
seemed indicated as the most common
criminal age group rose to 21, %, and
%. The reversal shown by 1889 figures
may give point to the remarks of J.
Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, who has said:
rests on the doorstep of the home. We have
youth in crime because of the lessening of par
entail responsibility and family discipline 1t
is due to tendency to evade responsibility that
parents in many instances have allowed their
children to stray. Every parent should give
deepest consideration to this problem
Schools, welfare and social agencies,
and churches can do much to help solve
the juvenile crime problem, but home life
of an uplifting character can undoubted-
ly do more.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13

A ciyjc-minded individual recent
ly donated to his local zoo monkey
which. during his first 10 minutes
on Monkey Island. slapped down
seven other monkeys, beat up two
raccoons and grabbed three fish.
That would explain the philan-
thropy.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13

found impression
on our life today.
Who is that
man? AS a boy he
bore the nick
name of "Squir-
rel, = due to the
redness o f h i S
hair. That young
failure is Pader-
ewski, once pres
ident of Poland.
He was born
n 4
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13
Dale
A
CARNEGIE

Today is the 18th birthday of a
man now world-famous, but who:
when young. was not considered
very promising. He was put down
as failure, but he has left a pro-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13
TOday's Horoscope

TOUayS Horoscope
II today is your birthday, even
if 1t is the 18th day of the month,
you may be very happy about the
whole thing, for your outlook for
the next twelve months is indeed
bright. The stars favor happy love
and marriage, excellent business
prospects. and gain by speculation
or inheritance. The child born to-
day will be intuitive, clever and ar
tistic, but somewhat tactless. abrupt,
careless and inconsequential. lack
ing sense of responsibility and ba-
lance.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13
One Minute Test Answers
The secret police Of SoVit

7. The secret police Of Soviet
Russia.
2. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk,
concluded March 3, 1918.
3. Substances secreted by the
ductless glands and poured directly
into the blood stream
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13
You re Telling Me-


The man at the next desk rises
to say that he's always noticed
November mist appears far more
attractive in novels than it does
outside ones office window.
And Zadok Dumbkopf adds that
a government bureau often contains
a lot of drawers-of salaries.
The reason many ambitious young
writer's fail OF success is that their
typewriters do everything for them
but think.
This month marks the tenth an
niversary of the discovery by every
boy that if there is q Santa Claus
he doesn't live In Wall Street, New
York
There's nothing new, according
to the old saying, under the sun.
And in q good part OF the United
States these days there even isn't
any sun.
A contributor suggests that maybe
the reason SO many politicians are
interested in relief is because they
never know when they'll be on it,
Politicians running for office
ought to use ghost speakers. Then,
if after the election they break their
campaign promises, they can truth
fully say they never said it.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13
Words of Wisdom

The most insignificant people are
the most apt to sneer at others.
They are safe from reprisals, and
have no hope of rising in their own
esteem but by lowering their neigh
borS.-Hazlitt.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13

Salt. is the only food product
that hungary doesn't produce her
self, and must of necessity import.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13
Hints on Etiquette

Always introduce a man to n wo-
man: a young person to an older
one.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13
Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

One Minute Test
|. What is known as Ogpu?
2. BY what treaty did Russia
withdraw from the recent World
war?
3. What are hormones?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-11-13

And Zadok Dumbkopf adds that
a government bureau often contains
a lot of drawers-of salaries.
Evening star., 1939-03-07

with red top second in quantity. The
Italian rye is used only In small amount,
with the clover in very much smaller
amount.
If one were to mix their own-which
cannot be advised-some such mixture
as the following would be used: Ken
lucky blue grass, pound; red top, one
third Of a pound: Italian rye, two small
handfuls; white clover, small handful.
1t is much easier and cheaper to buy
them already mixed This is a standard
formula much used in this vicinity
If sown thickly enough, and kept
watered when needed, in time this will
give good lawn but, Of course, there
is many slip between the seed sprinkled
so hopefully in springtime, and the fine
green thick turf which is every ones
grassy dream. The sparrows get certain
portion, some of the seed is blown away,
to come up in a neighbor's lawn, some
OF it is washed away, some OF 1t simply
fails to germinate.
Crab grass sometimes Is called yard
grass" not bad name at all.
Attempts to extirpate 1t commonly
end in failure.
The best way is to crowd it out
with more desirable species.
This takes longer, but in the end one
gets better lawn, especially as to winter
color After all, this is one of the most
desirable aims in lawn making. There
is no beauty in the gray or brown lawns
so often seen all fall and winter.
Grass cannot be as green and lush in
winter as in rainy spring and summer,
Of course, but still it need not be gray.
The purpose of the red top grass in
the lawn mixtures is to make resistant
turf, which will stand an average amount
of walking.
We have not considered the bent
grasses, because these require special
treatment and care which the average
householder is not prepared to give
them.
He should beware the now outmoded
advice to make his lawn acid in charac-
ter This requirement is for the special
types of lawns.
Practice reveals that the old standby
lawn mostly of Kentucky blue, with the
oldfashioned preparation Of lining, is
about as good as one can have around
here.
Several years will be required to get
rid of most of the crab grass by this
method of taking advantage of every
bare spot in the yard to plant handful
Of such mixture as here advocated.
This work must go on unremittingly
during growing months. In time it will
result in better lawn, not the perfect
type one sees in the pictures, but al
least yard which is more or less green
the year around
Evening star., 1939-03-07
Wants Investigation of
S. E. C.. Personnel.

To the Editor OF Ine star:
The Star of March contains letter
from Robert Kern Williams indorsing
a statement of Mr.. Frank McNinch rela-
tive to regulatory bodies.
The we'll informed are aware that
there are few men in public life who
have taken so constructive a part in
public utility regulation as has Mr.. Nc
Ninch, and that his record as chairman
OF the Federal Power Commission is
ample evidence that he will do a good
job as chairman of the Federal Com
munications Commission, though he ap-
pears to have a difficult assignment.
But what is the condition existing in
the Public Utilities Division of the Sc
curities and Exchange Commission about
which Mr.. Williams speaks, and which
division is responsible for the admins
tration of the Public Utility Holding
Company Act of 1885? Can 1t be that
the many persistent rumors current
throughout the country, for some time
now, that this division is of1icialed and
dominated by those who are unusually
friendly to the public utility holding
companies are founded on fact?
Perhaps Chairman Douglas of the
Securities and Exchange Commission is
blind, or to be more charitable, perhaps
Evening star., 1939-03-07
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles Z. Trdce1Uell.

Rainy days in March mean ideal days
for beginning to get the home lawn in
order.
There are few yards where some aid
is not necessary, II the owner wants
his grass to be In good condition this
summer.
Now Is the time to begin, the sooner
the better, provided there Is no flare
back to snow and ice. Even If this
should intervene, the seed sown now
would not be harmed.
Every grass plot has bare spots in it.
In most cases these will smooth out
some time in June, but why should one
wait that long?
BY sowing good seed in bare spots at
this time, the appearance OF the lawn
is not only increased, but, more to the
point, poor types of grass are replaced
by good types, or at least may be, pro-
vided the sower selects with wisdom
There is far too much crab grass in
Washington lawns, as rule.
Not that this despised species is alto
gether bad. Crab grass, despite its un-
savory reputation, has its good points,
one of which is that during its proper
season. June and July, 1t is thick and
green.
During the fall and winter, however,
it is mostly gray.
Now gray grass, at any season, is not
desirable.
Many persons who move into new
home in the summer, with a fresh green
lawn. wonder why in the ensuing cold
months the grass has such dead, almost
unwholesome appearance.
1t is because their lawn is composed
mostly of crab grass, Syntherisma
sanguinalis.
Some persons interested In the gen.
eral subject OF home lawns fail to real
ize that grass is not just grass, but
separate kinds of grasses, growing as
colonies.
What one wants is a colony COM
posed of just a few species and these
the desirable ones, which means the
ones which grow best around here.
Italian rye, for instance, so widely
used, is annual. and dies out shortly
after it comes to maturity. While it
is going, however, it is bright and green,
and that is why it is used.
Italian rye is used in mixtures in
order to give quick effect, and also
to shade the slower growing species,
and gives them good chance to mature.
That is why it is called nurse grass
The lawn at the White House in early
spring is mostly Italian rye.
4
The favorite mixture used hereabouts
is one composed of Kentucky blue grass,
Italian rye, red top and white clover.
Kentucky blue is the main seed used,
Evening star., 1939-03-07

plighted word to the Zionists, the
necessity of appeasing Moslem senti-
ment.
Not only are the five Arab nations
Moslem, but the majority of the peo-
pie Of India are also Of the world
Of Islam, of which Mussolini two
years ago appointed himself Grand
Protector"
Mohandas Gandhi, knowing that
politics is the art of opportunism,
may have decided, from his bed of
starvation in Rajkot, that now, with
Britain jittery in the Moslem Near
East and menaced in the Far East,
is the time to strike for independence
for Mother India.
Evening star., 1939-03-07
Cutting Expenses

The reports of the Brookings Insti-
tuition and the National Economy
League, recommending drastic re-
trenchment in governmental activ-
tiles as the only feasible means of
economy at this time, should serve
as valuable bulWarks for the Con-
gressional opponents of the New
Deals pump primers.
During recent weeks some of the
advocates of heavy Government
spending have been paying lip service
to the doctrine of economy, but yes
terday's Federal Reserve Board
bulletin contending that greater
public expenditures are needed to
improve business conditions will
bring small comfort to those who had
hoped that any new pump priming
would be frowned upon by the ad-
ministration in an effort to bring
about sounder budgetary position
as an encouragement to more extern
Sive private investment. The Reserve
Board is headed by Mariner Eccles,
chief exponent OF the pump-priming
philosophy, and while neither the
board nor Mr.. Eccles necessarily
speaks for the administration, their
advocacy at this time of additional
public expenditures of borrowed
money by the Government is bound
to have a disquieting effect.
The Brookings and Economy
League reports are in sharp contrast
with the recommendation of the
Reserve Board.
OF particular interest at this time
In the Brookings report is the state
ment that only relatively minor"
economies can be effected through
reorganization of the Federal admin
istrative agencies, matter now
pending in Congress. The Institu-
tion's analysis of this matter is timely
and important, for there is widely
held though rather vaguely-defined
belief that substantial savings would
follow approval of reorganization
plan. If that is not the case, it is
essential that the fact be established
now so that other economy moves
will not be sidetracked by an opti
mistic misconception of the results
to be expected from reorganization.
Retrenchments recommended by
the Economy League are more drastic
and more specific than those sug-
gested in the Brookings report, but
both agree that definite and deter
mined action must be taken promptly
If there is to be any real economy.
Each report suggests fields in
which appropriations should be re-
duced and convincing arguments are
advanced in support of the PROPOSE
ton that there can be no hope of
budget balancing, now or in the near
future, unless the reductions are
made. The reports will be helpful
to those Senators and Representa-
tives who are convinced of the need
for real economy, but it remains to
be seen whether Congress as a whole,
when confronted with the unpleasant
task of slashing specific appropria-
tions, will have the courage or the
desire to WELD the pruning knife
effectively.
Evening star., 1939-03-07
Gundhi's Hunqer Strike

Mohandas Gandhi is back in the
news. Embarked upon his sixth
hunger strike on behalf of Oppressed
1ndia," the spindle-legged, sixty
nine-year- ascetic is in foodless
seclusion at Rajkot, capital of one of
the tiny native-ruled states, as pro-
test against the withholding of demo-
cratic reforms. 1t is not against the
despised British Raj that Gandhi
this time is fasting. His defiance is
directed against Thakore Saheb,
Indian ruler of Rajkot, who rejected
the former Mahatma's demands for
constitutional concessions.
Gandhi is palpably playing for big
ger game than extension of liberties
in insignificant Rajkot. Willy poll
tician that he is, he reckons, not
without reason, that if the supreme
British authority, Viceroy the Mar
guess of Linlithgow, permits the idol
Of India's teeming millions to hunger
strike himself to death for even so
minor cause as democracy in Raj
kot, an empire-Wide revolt will ensue
which might easily force Britain to
grant India that full measure of in
dependence which the Gandhi-
dominated Congress party sleeplessly
espouses, despite the modified auton-
omous rights conferred by the new
Constitution.
Four great provinces are con-
trolled by Congress ministries. They
openly threaten to resign unless the
Viceroy intervenes in the Rajkot dis
pute. Should they quit Office, the
controversy could easily develop into
another critical contest between the
British government and the Con-
gressites.
Gandhi and his fellow politicians
are, of course, not unmindful of the
manifold perplexities momentarily
perturbing the Raj. Palestine is
aflame with new revolt. Japan has
occupied Hainan, athwart the Singa-
pore Hong Kong line. The Arab
Jewish conference at London is
miserable fiasco. The Moslem world
the five Arab nations around Pales-
tine and straddled across the Suez
Canal and the Red Sea-stand ready
to make common cause with their
Palestinian brethren at the Slight
est sign of too British generous con-
cessions to the Jews. Mr.. Chamber
lain's readiness to sacrifice Zionism,
or at any rate to accept a compro-
mise which Jewish leaders look upon
as equivalent to notification of the
Balfour Declaration, is obvious proof
that Britain recognizes as paramount
to all other considerations, even her
Evening star., 1939-03-07
Says Motorists Ignore
Pedestrian Rights.
To the Editor of The Star.

There appeared in recent issue of
The Star a group of pictures entitled
These may be costly steps later on" A
few weeks previous to the publication of
these there appeared several different
groups of pictures of similar nature.
All of them attempt to impress upon us
the righteous persecution of the motor
lists. In the spirit of fair play, if that
or anything except the subsidizing of
pictures showing some of the problems
we have when crossing the street. What
about picture showing pedestrians
crossing with the light and automobiles
completely blocking the crosswalk? I
would also suggest a picture of automo-
biles speeding by street car coming to
a stop to let on Or discharge passengers,
as we'll as one showing persons standing
in so-called safety zone" flanked on
each side by line of machines. In ad-
dition it might be we'll to show one of
an automobile speeding through a red
light. I wonder if the motorist or the
pedestrian has the edge in these cases.
The motorists claim to be intensely inter-
ested in the safety of the pedestrians.
Indeed we are led to believe that the
pedestrians are not at all interested in
their safety and the motorists must take
this in their own hands. The interest
of some of them seems to consist of hav-
ing signs reading How to Get Hurt"
placed in the street cars and buses, as
was done several months ago. Some have
stated with emphasis that it is absolutely
necessary to have a pedestrian control
law. but when 1t comes to stating any,
thing about the motorists respecting the
rights of the pedestrians silence is a
valuable asset. HENRY j. HALLAM.
March /.
Evening star., 1939-03-07
Appendicitis Death Rates

Appendicitis kills between 25,OOO
and 10000 -predoninantly
young adults-annually in the United
States.
There is every reason to believe
that this toll could be cut in half.
The rate is twice that reported for
Sweden. This salvage of life need
not wait on some notable discovery in
medicine or surgery. Present surgi-
cal methods are adequate. The need
Is for proper education which will
lead to early diagnosis. The ap-
pendicitis death rate rises very alb
ruptly with the elapsed time between
the first symptoms and adequate
treatment.
The present situation was termed a
national disgrace" by speakers be-
fore the Southeastern Surgical Con-
gress the other day. In many parts
of the country this undoubtedly is
true. Lack of information on the
part of the general public combined
with proprietary cathartics are as
much to blame as the appendicitis
itself for the high death rate.
In Washington the situation is
quite different. Here a public spirit
ed, energetic Academy of Surgery,
associated with the Medical Society
of fho nictr of Co1,,r,l l;o L,c ~,
Quoted for the past three years an
educational campaign which should
have reached, in some form or other,
a majority of the citizens Even now
the medical society is planning to
make appendicitis education prom
inent part of its annual scientific
assembly the last week in April.
This malady will, it is likely, always
Evening star., 1939-03-07
Future of P. w. A.

proposals Tor a permanent Public
Works Administration or similar
agency are before Congress. Hear
ings are being held now on the
Byrnes bill to establish a Public
Works Department which would take
over not only the present P. w. A.,
but such relief agencies as the
Works Progress Administration, the
Civilian Conservation Corps and the
National Youth Administration. An
other bill, introduced by Representa-
tive Joe Starnes, Democrat, of Ala
bama, provides for a permanent
P. w. A., but its size and scope would
be greatly limited and it would have
no direct relief functions.
Secretary Ickes, testifying at hear
ings before the Senate Unemploy-
ment Committee on the bill intro
duced by Chairman Byrnes of that
committee, supported the idea OF re-
tanning in the Government estab-
lshment some organization for the
handling of public works. President
Roosevelt and other administration
leaders have indicated approval of
such plan. Secretary Ickes favors
Public Works Department of cabi-
net status if there can be included
in the department all governmental
construction activities, but he ap-
peared skeptical whether a general
agreement could be reached among
parties involved in such a consolida-
ton.
Doubt also was expressed by Mr..
lckes as to the advisability of includ-
ing relief agencies in the permanent
public works establishment. There
are many other persons who would
join with the Public Works Admins
traitor in pondering the wisdom OF
joining the two recovery plans.
While there seems to be sound rea-
soning behind various proposals for
continuing the P. w. A. in skeleton
form, at least, from one depression
to another, the thought of fastening
the w. P. A. on the Government as
a permanent institution inspires no
enthusiasm among taxpayers.
The record of Mr.. Ickes' P. w. A.
has been such as to win public con-
fldence. The money expended has
produced something tangible and
beneficial and permanent-in addi-
ton to providing needed employment
for thousands of workers. Undoubt-
edly some such organization as this
will be needed in future times of
stress, but P. w. A. cannot be built
and made to function efficiently over
night. longtime planning by ex-
perts is essential. The sensible plan
it would seem, is to maintain a
permanent public works planning
agency of some sort, ready to act
promptly and effectively when an
economic crisis develops.