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Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07

the moves, freQuented SODA 1Oun-
tains; for the most part wasted
their time. But Gae Foster de-
cided to get something out of her
precious free hours. She wanted
more than anything else in the
world to dance: so she cut down on
her lunch money, walked instead
of hopping the street car, saved her
nickels and took dancing lessons.
The other girls thought her foolish
and asked her what good it would
do She couldn't say: but she did
know she was getting something
out of her time, and learning some
thing she wouldn't otherwise know.
She didn't realize it then, but
she was putting into practice the
first principle of successl Learn
something Equip yourself to do
something. Be a do-er, instead of
a drifter.
One day show in Los Angeles
needed a dancing girl. Gae got
the job. She did so we'll that the
manager offered her a permanent
position.
She came back to the office and
told the other girls. How lucky"
they said. why can't something
like that happen to us?"
She heard there was a vacancy
with Albertina Rasch who was
putting on sensational dance pro-
grams, and she went to see her
She got job in the chorus. The
girls who we're still working in
the office through this piece of
luck, too.
There famed across the sky at
this time a blazing dance meteor
Michel Fokine master of the bal
let in the capital of the mighty
Cars, he had had as his dancing
partner the famous Pavlova. The
Car himself had applauded Fokine;
and, for that matter, so had the
world. Well, this excomptometer
operator got the job dancing in
Fokine's production of "Aphrodite"
which, when it opened in New
York, created sensation. The pa
pers applauded Gae. SO did New
York.
When she was no longer fitted
for dancing, Foster got a job pro-
ducing dances for Fanchon e.
Marco. She hired and drilled other
chorus girls. She was so success
full at it that the girls she drilled
became known as the "Gae FoS-
ter" girls. You have probably seen
then in some theatre. If you go TO
the Roxy Theatre in New York,
you will see them each week doing
the most attractive dances. She
has hired and drilled more dancing
girls than any one else in the
United States. asked her for ad-
vice for the girl who wishes to be-
come a professional dancer. But
see my space is running short, so
II tell you tomorrow. EesMW
Gae Foster lifted herself out of
a job she didn't like by making
use of her free time. Can't you do
that? Decide what you want to
do, study, improve yourself. When
you least expect it door may open
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07

WASHINGTON.-One of the most
complex legislative battles of the
next session of Congress apparently
depends pretty largely on whether
the price of sugar goes up or stays
where it is. ..r
If it goes up. the expectation here
is that there won't be a very press
ing demand for re-enactment OF
the sugar law, with its marketing
quotas, processing tax and subsidy
payments. If it stays where it is,
that demand will develop. And if
it does, Congress is in for some
headaches. .U.e.
Sugar legislation is complex
enough in itself, but the conflict
ing preSSures back of it are even
more so. There are rivalrieS between
beet sugar producers and cane Su-
gar producers. between sugar grow
erS in the continental United States
and the "offshore" growers in Ha-
Waii and Puerto Rico, between all
America flag producers and the
producers in Cuba-with the pro-
ducers in the Philippines coming in
as a further complicating factor
The existing law is due to expire
at the end of next year. To all in
tents and purposes it has expired
already. since the president Sus-
pended the marketing quotas early
in the fall when the war boom"
sent prices up.
He can revive it at any time, how
ever. by restoring those quotas. But
in either case there won't be any
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
CHRISTMAS CLEARING HOUSE

Almost every service club, lodge and
women's organization in Imperial county
is planning a special Christmas program
to help needy persons. Several already
have announced that they will contribute
to the happiness of county hospital in
mates, others plan to help county deten-
tion home residents celebrate. Other or
ganizations will help other needy per-
sons.
So great has the participation of SER
vice units in Christmas donations be-
come that the need for Christmas clear
ing house, to coordinate and direct all
these activities, is becoming increasingly
apparent. Without such clearing house,
the danger always exists that one needy
group will receive everything-another
nothing
We all want to help those who need
help. We all should remember that our
help will go farther if it follows central
plan, and is not scattered hit-or-miss
without regard to what somebody else is
doing.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
Bruce Cation in Washington
Disseets the News ...........

sugar control law after the end OF
1910 unless Congress acts.
Briefly, the law works like this;
the secretary of agriculture makes
an estimate of the amount of sugar
the United States will need during
the coming year. Each of the nam
sugar-producing areas then gets a
quota representing its share of the
market.
Slightly more than SIS per cent
of the total is reserved for domestic
producers, and this allotment is
then sub-divided so that the beet
sugar growers get 90 per cent of the
total. mainland cane sugar growers
six per cent, Hawaii Ia per cent
and Puerto Rico IL per cent-with
a tiny additional allotment for the
Virgin Islands. OF what remains, the
Philippines may send in Is per cent
of the total and Cuba % per cent,
with a tiny additional allotment for
other foreign countries.
The big fight, of coure. comes
in the setting of these quotas, which
are written into the law. One OF
the sore spots with domestic pro-
ducers has been the fact that more
than a fourth of the entire domeS-
tic market is allotted to Cuba; but
the lifting of the quotas has tended
to reduce competition, since the
existing trade agreement with Cuba
cut the tariff on raw Cuban sugar
from IA cents a pound to nine
tenths of q cent-only as long as
the quota system remained in effect,
In other words, the tariff on Gu
ban sugar went up the moment the
quotas were lifted.
In with these quotas the present
law contains further restrictions on
the amount of refined sugar which
may be shipped into the country.
During the past year, for instance,
Puerto Rico shipped $4,000 tons
of sugar to the United States, but
was allowed to include only 10000
tons of refined sugar. Of the million
odd tons shipped by the Philippines
only 10000 could be refined; OF
Hawaii's 100000 tons, only 10000
odd were refined. -
This feature of the law drew
sharp criticism from President
Roosevelt when he signed the sugar
act in 1887. He charged then that
"a little group of seaboard refiners'
had joined in IAN unholy alliance
with domestic producers in order tc
lobby successfully for those added
restrictions on shipments of re-
fined sugar. When he suspended
the sugar quotas this fall, those re-
strictions were automatically sus-
pended also. The way is now open
for additional shipments of refined
sugar, although Cuba-Which is
best equipped to take advantage of
the opportunity-has not yet in
creased her shipments.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07

Along about October of each year,
the building industry has come to
expect an increase in the number
of construction contracts. During
the past 13 years building activity
has averaged an increase of 8.7 per
cent in October over September
contracts.
So while the industry waited with
ink filled pens and Sharpened saws
to tackle the increased volume of
business it quite naturally anticl-
pated. figures began coming in to
show that something had gone hay
wire. Business not only failed to
show the usual seasonal increase,
but contracts fell off 93 per cent in
October of this year from the Sep
tember level. This situation was all
the more enigmatic because the
general manufacturing curve was
heading upwards.
Residential building contracts in
October. 1899, aggregated 29,37l 900
square feet of floor space as con-
trasted with 32,977,000 in Septem-
Der. Building contracts of all kinds,
including residential, totaled a.
865,000 square feet in September.
The October, 1889, total is about
5.5OO.OOO square feet below that of
October, 1898.
1t is very likely that Thurman
Arnold, assistant u. S. attorney
general in charge of the antitrust
division, holds the key to this dis
turbing puzzle Arnold has charg-
ed into the building industry with a
stiff-bristled broom, determined to
pry out all the muck he may find in
the corners. 1t is not exactly hid
den fact that Arnold, with the
blessing of his boss, Attorney Cen
eral Frank Murphy, has started a
general housekeeping and that he
hopes to bring about decreased
building costs by uncovering con-
tractors monopolies and union OBJ
struction.
AS long as there is any hope that
building costs are to be trimmed in
the near future, few prospective
home owners are going to sign con-
tracts now. There is no point in
buying more than just enough sugar
if a drop in the sugar price is ex-
pected. If the dream cottage has
waited this long, there is no reason
why it can't wait few months
longer when, perhaps, the price will
be substantially reduced.
October was the first month this
year during which building con-
tracts failed to exceed the volume
for corresponding months last year.
During the first 10 months of 1889,
construction contracts were 20 per
cent ahead of those in the same
period last year. The October vol
ume was off l per cent from that
of October, 1898.
Whether Mr.. Arnolds dynamic
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
RAISING THE
DEBT LIMIT
(Wall Street Journal)

Someone has discovered that it is not
exactly S45, ,000,0 100000 that present law
allows the Federal government to owe,
but more than that by the amount of
the debt existing at passage in 1917 of
the measure authorizing its increase.
Deducting the debt as of today, the $780,
100000 new bonds subscribed this week
and an allowance for the increasing prin-
cipal of the baby bonds already sold,
the remaining margin of borrowing is
perhaps a little greater than three bill
lions but not more than $4,000, 100000.
If the Treasury deficit were to run
throughout this fiscal year at the same
rate as it has during the first five months,
that is, 1887 100000 month, the years
gap at the end of June would exceed S4,-
000,000000. 1t is more than likely, how
ever that income tax collections of March
and June based on incomes of 1889, will
turn upward; customs and excise. reve-
nues have already done so. Hence the
prospect is that the remainder of this fis-
cal year will no more than exhaust the
borrowing margin and may even leave
half billion or SO unused.
But the margin of authorized loans at
the end of June, whatever it may be, will,
of course, be woefully insufficient to see
the Treasury through even the first half
of the succeeding year-barring miracles
of economy in this winters appropria-
tion bills. 1t is as nearly certain as such
a thing can be that an increase in the
national debt beyond its present statu-
tory limit will have to be made at the
coming session.
How much of an increase will, of
course, depend upon what Congress does
with the budget and extra-budget appro-
priations. In any case, there should be
no open-ended authorization. If the legal
limit had not been the seemingly fantas-
tic figure of $4,000, 100000 when the
real debt was under S20,000,O00,000 the
fantasy and the reality might not have
changed places as they did.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
A LOCAL SITUATION
(Oroville Mercury-Register)

While Russia is raping Finland Oro-
vile and environs receive large quantities
of soviet literature printed in Moscow.
The father of high school boy brings us
a sample. He said literature like that fire.
quently is brought to him by his son. We
noted that the address of the original
recipient had been clipped from the pa
per. The father said that always is the
case.
What can we do about it?'' he asked.
So far as we know, nothing can be done
about it. Anyone has right to circulate
literature as long as it isn't libelous or
obscene and this paper, telling of the
glories of Russia under soviet rule avoids
those two pitfalls.
What we can do, however, is to instill
into our young peoples minds the prin-
ciples of democracy. We can show them
how a democracy, with governments
changing at regular intervals, cannot be
controlled for the purpose of autocratic
action We can be extremely careful to
safeguard the valuable precedents hand
ed down from the days of our forefathers,
when the flame of liberty and democracy
burned bright If we at home cannot over
come the propaganda shipped in from
the other side of the world, then we aren-
mt very fit. This is particularly true
now, with the source of that propaganda
is in world disgrace due to its notorious
acts.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
TIME TO CRACK DOWN

Complaints Of near-accidents - those
which never get into official records be-
cause they do not quite happen-involv-
ing automobile and youngsters on BIZ
cycles are growing more numerous day
by day in FL Centre. For the sake of the
youngsters themselves, it is time stern
corrective measures were taken to i'm
press upon the boys and girls the penal
ties of recklesSness.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
HAPPY RELIEF
FROM PAINFUL
BACkACHE

Many OF those gnawing, nagging, painfui
backaches people blame on colds or strains are
often caused by tired kidneys-and may be
relieved when treated in the right way:
The kidneys are Natures chief way OF taking
excess acids and poisonous waste out OF the
blood. They help most people pass about pints
day.
If the Is miles of kidney tubes and filters
don't work well, poisonous waste matter stays
in the blood. These poisops may start nagglng
backaches, rheumatic pains, loss of pep and
energy, getting up nights, swelling, pufhness
quent or scanty passages with smarting ana
burning sometimes shows there IS something
wrong with your kidneys or bladder.
Don't wat Ask your druggist for Doan 8
Pills, used successfully by millions for over 40
years. They give happy relief and will help the
is miles Of kidney tubes flush out poisonous
waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
Famous SAYINGS
Willis Thorntons Editorial on:
Waiting for Dust to Clear in Building

campaign will have its effect re-
mains to be seem 1t probably will.
According to Bruce Cation, Wash
ington columnist, downward trend
in construction costs has already
been noticed in Pittsburgh, where a
number of indictments have been
returned. If nothing else, the cam
paign against the building industry
will have a psychological eject.
Generally, however, building costs
showed a slight rise in october over
the previous month. Using 1926 as
100, the index in September of this
year was 1O5.02 but in october it
had risen to LOG. This was higher
than in peak-year 1929.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07

her first name,
and changed it
to Gae. She was
a comptometer
operator. In SIM
Pile language she
operated an add
ing machine
eight hours a day.
The other girls
in the office dur
ing their free
hours attended
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
You re Telling Me-

Nineteen Forty is census year,
when once more we discover what
an amazing imagination an ener-
getic chamber of commerce can
have.
Junior has just heard the best
news of the war: The Danish troops
toss away turnips during hand
grenade practice.
Accident takers, we read. have
developed a bruise- making machine.
Does this spell the doom of another
fashioned American instrument
the rolling pin?
Dad again regards the approach
of Christmas cheerfully. He's just
discovered December has five count
'em) pay days.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
Dale
CARNEGIE

This is the story of what a girl
in Los Angeles did with her free
time.
At birth, she had been named
GLADYS Foster but she didn't like
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
Thoughts for the Day

For was an hungered and ye gave me meat; was
thirsty, and We gave me drink; was stranger, and
We took me in-Matthew 25.35
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07

Perhaps the real reason Hitler hesi-
tates about swallowing Holland is that
the chaser will consist of sea water.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07
Photographs

Paris butcher shops which sell
horse meat are required by law
20 display a golden horses head
over the doorway of their shops.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07

Henry VIII Of England, he Of
the many wives, liked TO play
tennis.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07

During the last 18 years over
10000 political spies have been
caught and convicted in Europe.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-12-07

Ireland is laying plans to float a
navy. Just can't stand the idea of
not getting into a scrap.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-10-28
Return OF Sam Brown
To Help Shaw Eleven

RALEIGH, N c., Oct. 27.-The
return Of Tom Brown, tackle, to
practice sessions after two weeks
layoff with broken finger, was
the occasion for a general rise In
enthusiasm on the Shaw university
football team as the Bears began
preparations last Monday for their
game with the hard-charging
Johnson s Smith university team
Saturday, October %.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-10-28
Jones Drops
Close Bout
At Fairview

Fairview Gardens was again the
scene Of bristling leather pushing
Friday evening. Johnny Camach,
Flint l80 FOUNDER, and Haliro Men
doza opened the exciting fire.
In the main bout Of the evening
Joey Miehielove, 148 pounds, and
Johnny Jones, weighing l47 pounds
of Toledo, Ohio, clashed. Jones,
leading with a margin Of sharp
rights to the head and left hooks to
the body was slowed down by
Miehielove's terrific body attacks.
Miehielove who is known to be one
of the most aggressive welter-
weights in Michigan, copied the
l0-round decision with much pun
lshment
The Mendoza-Camach curtain
raiser was stopped after the first
round in which Mendoza received
bad cut on his upper inside lip.
Mendoza whose weight was 40
pounds was shaking his antagonist
viciously with hard rights and lefts
to the head when this occurred.
Henry Gikes, white OF Flint
| knocked out David Reed Of Inkstei
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-10-28

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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-10-28

in the first heat Both boys weighed
1871 pounds
Bill Starkrell l48 pound from
Flint won a six-round decision
over Harry Lasky, 145 pounds Of
Dearborn.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-10-28
J. LuncefOrd
Draws 1000
At S. A. Ball

The entire city went 10 hear
Jimmie Lunceford Monday night at
the Graystone ballroom.
More than $500 happy dancers
jammed the spacious place and two
thirds jumped until something after
2:3O am. 1t was Lunceford night
and he and his orchestra clicked in
solid groove for such time will
be talked about for years to come.
It was another studio attraction
promotion by Stutz Anderson and
Andrew Snead and the evening was
all previous press announcements
said it would be.
Sweet, soothing and a lot Of
swing kept the jitterbugs moving
every second the band played. In
fact the jitterbugs colored the at
fair with such a spirit of rejoicing,
that band leaders and other people
who are praying for the fail Of
plugging may just as well save
their breath.
Four thousand jitterbugs can't be
wrong. Four thousand people who
hoped and skipped Lunceford's
melodies declaring an answer to
every one who asked the morning
after-Lunceford was tops.
There were lovely ladies, pretty
.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-10-28

Left; According to these scenes
taken at Sans Bowling Alley
Tuesday night, Motor City went
ten-pin mad. The first picture
shows group of bowlers and
spectators watching an interest
ing game. Enjoying the cEys
newest sporting fad are; seated on
the first row, from left to right,
Mrs. Lula Sauls, Mrs. Hazel Ly-
man, Mrs. Lena GaSkill. Mrs.
Villa Fields, Roy Hillyed, Jimmie
Jones and others. Center: Mrs.
Jerry Wells, captain of Porter
Girls bowling team, displaying a
bit of form in the game played
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-10-28

Mr.. Mack Ivey a forerunner in the
business of entertaining Detroit's
dance and show lovers, has and is
still giving Detroiters the best
there is to be offered in night
clubs. Owner of the Cozy Corner
for many years, Mr.. Ivey has done
much in supplying Dctroiters with
good shows of outstanding per-
formers. a kind of entertainment
that is demanded by his patrons
which is Characteristic of the Cozy
Corner.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1939-10-28

Harry "Popa Dee Johnson buy
ing Harold Smith, former mid
western amateur Welterweight
champion, was like a torch set to
a barn of straw this week, when
Smiths manager filed claims on
the Michigan welterwei ght title.
Popa Dee, popular in the Mid
west for the making Of outstanding
boxers, yelled louder than from
here 10 New York and back to
Hamtramck when he heard that the
Evening star., 1939-02-23
Composers, Arts Club
Members to Attend
Ballet

Members of the Washington Com
posers' Club and of the Arts CLUB
will attend the Fridays and Sat-
urdays at Nine" performances of
the Washington National Ballet to-
morrow and Saturday at the King
Smith Playhouse. An entirely mod
ern version of the fairy tale, mot
Quite Cinderella" will have as an
item of further interest the appear
ance in the leading role of Miss Lisa
Gardiner, director Of the Fridays
and Saturdays at Nine" series.
Among those who have reserva-
tions for Friday are It. Col. and
Mrs. Howard C. Davidson. Comdr.
and Mrs. Atherton Macondray, Mr.
and Mrs. C. Powell Minnigerode,
Mr.. and Mrs. Chandler Morse and
Mr.. Charles Edward Russell.
Also Mr.. and Mrs. James c. Rog-
ers, Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. SWope, Mr..
and Mrs. Harold N. Marsh, Mr.. and
Mrs. Dean Acheson, Mrs. E. r..
Finkenstaedt, Mrs. Ben S. Fisher
and Miss Cecil Lester Jones.
Reservations are still open for
Saturday night at the ballet Office,
17O8 S street, and from Mrs. Wood
lief Thomas and Mrs. E. R. Wilson.
Evening star., 1939-02-23
Misses Formal Gowns
Reduced

Includes silk marquisette, rayon crepe, taffeta,
MORE, net lace, velvet, black, white wine, violet,
red, blue, brown, green; sizes 10 to 20.
Misses Dinner Evening Originally 95 to $3e 9
Now S7.75
Misses Dinner, Evening Gowns Were s25 Now-S2. so
rs Misses Dinner Evening Gowns Originally $29 to
Now $3.50
Misses Dinner Evening Gowns. Originally s3995, $40
Wedding Gowns, white rayon satn white rayon moire
size H. Were $685. $35 S19 so
Misses Evening Jackets, wool angora, rabbit, rayon
crepe, velvet, cotton velveteen; black, white red
blue violet sizes IL to 49,
4-Originally $10.95 to sl6s5. Now-s2s 81 s5
4-Originally $13.s5 to s25 Now-------s IS
4@Orisinally $19S5 to SIS. 1915
S-Orsinally SIS, $685. Now $14 50
Misses evening wraps, full length; wool, rayon
velvet. Black, wine, fuchsia, royal purple royal
Dlue some ermine- trimmed. Sizes IL to 20.
9-Were $l695 to $25 S12 50
4-Were $2795 $2995. 1875
WAS S2S.S5 $22
Twas $685. $26
MISSES FoRMAL RooM, THIRD FLOOR