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Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-08
Valley Prepares
TO Welcome Road
Convention Group

BRAWLEY, March S.-All Imperial Valley prepared
today for the arrival Of dozens of delegates to the 1889
convention of the International Four States Highway
soeiation scheduled to convene here Friday.
Plans for official meetings and special entertainment
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-08
CaIexico's New $4,000 Gymnasium to
Be Dedicated Thursday with Ceremony
Sponsored by Parent-Teache Group

CALEAICO, March S.-Formal dedeatlon OF The new
$4,000 gymnasium at CaleXico Union High school will
take place Thursday night public ceremonies sponsored
by the CaleXco Parent Teacher association.
The program as announced by Mrs Travis Smith,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-08

Frank Hague, Jr.
Frank Hague, mayor Of Jersey
City, is said to have expressed great
pleasure at appointment of his son
Frank, Jr. (aboye) "a, as lay judge
TO court Of Errors and Appeals,
New Jerseys highest law tribunal.
Salary is $4,000 TO $4,000 year.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-08

For quick action use
POst-Fress Want Ads,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison Martin
were in Brawley on business Thurs
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-08

E. l.. Becker has recovered from
his cold which kept him in bed for
several days and it able to be at
his place of business again.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-08

Mrs. r. A Maynard of Odessa,
Texas, was a visitor at the home
of her nephew, j. II. Harris, last
week
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-08

Mrs. L. Z. Sinclair, Jr, is in
Blythe this week visiting her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. o. Wynegear.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-08

High grade. Preserves
screen, improves appear
once. Brushes on without
filing. Sove More Now!
OTHER PAINTS ON SALEl
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-08

MIR. and Mrs. w. w. Smith AND
David attended the horse races at
Palm Springs Sunday.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-08

Bright patterns that are
q joy 10 see :. soft as
down. Full size. 58x76 in,
with irinqed ends. (C4ll)
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-08

The Tuesday Sewing club met
at the home of Mrs. E. L. Becker
this week. Other members present
we're Mrs. w. j. Young, Mrs. Joe
Baxter, Mrs. John Smoot and Mrs.
Harrison Martin.
Evening star., 1939-12-19

Gus. The talents which he employed
in his miscellaneous writing were
impressionistic; his style was at once
brilliant and experimental; he was
adventurous in his treatment Of
those realities he disliked and in his
defense of the dreams which he en-
braced. But the windmills against
which he lifted his lance occasionally
were giants, the indignations in
which he poured out his wrath were
authentic, his sincerity was patent
in every word he penned, especially
in his later period he was a reformer
to be reckoned with, power of vast
influence in the world in which he
moved. His services to the American
Newspaper Guild may be cited to
prove his idealism and it's practical
effect.
Such man leaves his place per-
manently untitled when he departs.
Perhaps not much that Haywood
Broun said will be quoted in the
years to come. Yet he will be re-
membered for himself-a modern
Don Quixote whom folk called the
Good"
Evening star., 1939-12-19
Haywood Broun.

Haywood Broun was unique. Ma
ture never made another man quite
like him. His prejudices and his en-
thusiasms were expressions of a
richly individualistic soul. 1t should
be one of the glories of American
journalism that he rarely lacked for
opportunities to print whatever he
thought or felt. He was volatile,
provocative, dogmatic, inconsistent,
sometimes unreasonable, yet he was
popular to a degree which few men
can attain, not merely with multi
tude of readers, but, most notably,
with those whose work brought them
intimately in touch with him.
The explanation for the ease with
which he achieved success may be
found in the fact that he was
lovable character. None of his con-
temporaries could agree with him in
every particular, not many of them
could compromise with him when he
was on an intellectual rampage, but
he was so disarming that he won and
held the affection of even his bit
terest critics. He lived on emotional
capital, and his instincts were gener-
Evening star., 1939-12-19
Christmas Moqic

Where dark pines break against the
silent hill,
Snow-ladcn boughs that whisper to the
night,
Move spangled with frost-nligrees Of
light
Above, the golden moon CLEANS clear and
chill
A fragrant spruce, soon proudly to fulfill
An envied place-star-deck In age-old
rite
From virgin slopes, deep carpeted in
white,
Leans by an opened door with snow
tracked sill.
Wrapped deep in reverent hush, while
small heads dream,
Rose flushed and beautiful now comes
the dawn,
AS though all heaven had flung her gates
ajar,
And through the shadowed window sets
agleam
Each twis, till every tinseled gift takes on
The bright, eternal magic Of the Star.
IVY IlNDSLEY.
Evening star., 1939-12-19
The Labor Heurino

Although the Smith Committee
investigation of the National Labor
Relations Board is still in it's first
week, the practices of some of the
boards officials and employees which
have been brought to light are more
than sufficient to demonstrate the
need for this inquiry.
In a Radio Forum address last
night, Representative Smith of Vir-
ginia, chairman of the House
committee conducting the probe,
outlined the scope of the inves-
tigation, indicating that his group
will deal primarily with defects
in the law and the need for certain
amendments. He did not offer any
detailed comment on the question of
the Labor Boards personnel, but the
evidence so far presented makes it
clear that this phase Of the inquiry
will assume equal Importance with
proposed amendments when the
House begins consideration of the
committees report.
Critics of the results which have
followed application of the Labor
Act to American industry often have
divided into two schools, one group
asserting that imperfections must
be cured by amendment of the law
itself, while others have claimed Just
as insistently that the act in it's pres
ent form would be satisfactory if
impartially and intelligently admin
iStered.
1t is becoming increasingly clear,
however, that neither of these con-
tentions is wholly correct. On the
basis of material obtained from the
Labor Boards own files, the Smith
committee already has shown that
changes in personnel will be neces-
sary if the board is ever to function
satisfactorily as the uasi-judicial
agency it was intended to be. And
Chairman Smith, in his address last
night, revealed that there is a large
and growing demand for revision of
the act itself so that the powers and
duties of the board and it's staff,
regardless of personnel changes
which may be made, will be more
clearly defined.
Obviously the recommendations
which the Smith committee will
make after completing it's hearings
will have profound effect on the
future economic welfare of the
country, and it is to be hoped that
the members will continue to deal
in facts, refusing to permit the hear
ing to be used as sounding board
for rumors and prejudices, of what
ever complexion.
Evening star., 1939-12-19
Praises Natures Children"
As Scrapbook Material.
20 the Editor Of I'll

For several years it has been my inten-
tion to write letter of appreciation rela-
tive to the series of articles headed ma
lures Children" appearing in The Star.
We have persistently saved these ar
ticles from their beginning in 1881, and
are classifying and entering them in
seven large, loose-leaf scrapbooks, en-
titled as follows: Animals Birds"
"Trees," Plants" Insects" Snakes"
and Fish and Water Life" In the
beginning the collection was intended
only as source of school information for
our young daughter, but as the collection
grows with the years, we have all become
interested in it, and many times it has
been used to clear up surprising things
we have noticed on picnic or walk in
the woods. We have missed but few
of the articles for we do not discontinue
delivery of The Star even when absent
from Washington. At the completion of
the series we intend to index the books
for convenience.
The articles are 50 very interesting to
read and the accompanying sketches so
attractive, we hope to be saving "Na-
lures Children" clippings for many more
years. MRS. o. r. MANN.
December 13,
Evening star., 1939-12-19
Uninformed Urged to Study
Race Qualifications.

To the Editor OF The Star:
Mr.. Walter B. Wheeler, writing In The
Star of December 7, urges civil rights for
Negro citizens. ,s
I am in favor of such rights being
extended to these fellow Americans on
one condition-namely:
That all other citizens who believe
Negroes to be undeserving of these basic
democratic rights shall carefully examine
the unbiased and hidden records of the
achievements of the Negroes past and
present attainments, and shall, in light
OF heretofore unknown facts, resolve
that Negroes are entitled to civil rights
and all other blessings of our democracy
guaranteed by the Constitution of the
United States.
To put it plainly, the Negro is too little
known as an individual with kindred
ideals, a capacity for and willingness to
advance commerce, industry, the sciences
and the arts in his native America.
Fortunately for those Of us who have
bothered to examine the records, we
know our citizens of color have the ability
to contribute much to the total we'll
being Of America. Rather than sabotage
such a wealth of human possibilities
through the denial of economic oppor-
tunities and civil rights, we would do
we'll to recognize and encourage every
wholesome growth stemming from what
would be democratic way of life
DUTTON FERGUSON,
December l3.
Evening star., 1939-12-19
U. S. Employees

Thousands of Uncle Sans en-
ployes have reason to be encouraged
by news that two important meas
ures for improvement of the civil
service will be put forward for early
consideration in the session of Con-
gress convening January 3.
While Chairman BuloW of the Sen
ate Civil Service Committee is seek
ing hearings on his bill to grant
small pay increases to those in. the
lower brackets of the Classification
Act, Chairman Ramspeck of the
House committee will be awaiting
the first opportunity to obtain
House vote on his measure to bring
into the civil service the large per-
centage of employees still outside the
merit system.
Both bills deserve prompt con-
sideration, and it is we'll that the
respective House and Senate COM
mittee chairmen have called atten-
ton to them now, for, as the session
progresses, these questions could
easily be overshadowed by more
urgent problems.
In the House special rule already
has been granted to give the Ram
speck bill the right of way on the
floor as soon as the leadership is
ready to present it. This should be
done before legislative business be-
gins to pile up.
Opinions differ as to whether en-
ployes appointed outside of civil
service should be brought in on a
non-competitive or competitive ex-
animation basis, and some opposi-
ton to the competitive provision
in the bill is expected. There can be
no sound argument, however, in favor
of continuing indefinitely to divide
Federal personnel into two large
classes, one covered by, the other
outside Of, civil service Recent re-
ports place the number still outside
civil service at about 25O,OOO, princi-
pally in new agencies.
The present occupants of these
positions, however, are not to blame
for the existence of the dual setup.
Since the Government had an estab-
lished merit system, the proper
course would have been to fill these
positions from the civil service reg
listers as they were created. But
Congress itself made the mistake Of
repeatedly authorizing selection Of
personnel for new agencies without
Evening star., 1939-12-19

6hakespeare's day, has been recorded
by two companies in recent years.
Yet when he forgot the melodic line
enough to write his Symphony in F" he
forged work whose sincerity is dubious
He had better stuck to old fashioned
melody.
Many listener, especially to modern
phonograph discs on modern machine,
would be better off If he did the same
There is nothing in music which takes
the place Of melody, yet so much has
sophistication taken the place of COM
mon sense in this art that many persons
have come to feel that to admit that
they like simple tune is to somehow
cause others to feel that they do not
understand" music at all.
Consider rhythm, another genuine
element, as we of the west have come to
know music.
great many persons somehow be-
heve that to have an unabashed ap-
probation of rhythm makes them out
lowbrows in this art.
from the truth.
Much of the music with movement
causes an instant desire on the part of
the nearer to wag hand or nod the
head.
Some melodies are head waggers, some
demanding a back-and forward move
ment OF that masterpiece of the ages
others causing sideway wag.
Some music seems to make the listener
want to move his shoulders.
Others-and by no means vulgar
music tthe truth is there is no vulgar
muslc)-cause Wiggling of the torso
These are natural responses to rhyth-
mlcal music, either popular or of SYM
phonic proportions, the size of the COM
position makes no difference.
The listener may not indulge in any
OF these or other movements, but he
would like to.
The young "jitterbug," without in
hlbltions, and not at all self conscious
God bless hinl-does not mind how
much he stomps, throws his arms
around, or wags his head.
X +
II we keep in mind, as listeners the
sheer magic of melody, the genuine
georgeousness of good tune, we will
save ourselves from the outright silli-
ness of believing that music must be
elaborate
1t may be elaborate, that is as far
as we will care to go.
Then again, it may be as simple as
lullaby and still be great, or at least
good, music
A symphony may be likened to a
Shakespeare play, good fox trot tune
to some dainty little lyric which all the
world has agreed to love.
Each has its place, and helps make
up the great world and art of music
whose horizon is vast and appealing
Turing to musing and mystery all true
lovers.
Evening star., 1939-12-19
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trdce1pell.

Some one has said that only ignorant
persons think music must be elaborate.
There always has been big place
In the world Of music for the simple
tune.
It is shame that some music lovers
do not find their own horizons as wide.
Greatest of the great composers knew
the value of the simple melodic line.
This has been demonstrated in many
symphonies, concertos and cantatas, as
we'll as in score of light works really
nothing more than slightly elaborated
folk tunes
1t has been proved anew during the
past few years by the lifting" of melo-
dies from great musical scores, and the
Transforming of them, usually with
rather inane words added, into dance
tunes.
There comes, then, another queer
twist in our musical mentalities:
Hundreds of young people, who by no
means would welcome the melodies in
their usual form, are only too glad to
love them when they can dance to
them!
1t is easy to see, therefore, that the
musical mentality is odd, to say the
least.
Some real thinking is demanded, If
the average music lover wants to keep
his sanity.
He must not be intolerant, or he will
miss too much good. He will do what
Beethoven was not willing to do, that
is. sneer at good tune.
He must not close his ears, and thence
his mind, to the thousand and one simple
but ncne the less fine song patterns
which are nothing more than the A
B c of music.
How could the alphabet get along
without A, and c.?
Somebody has written q book without
the letter "E' in 1t, but no doubt it would
be much better book with that good
letter present.
Simple song is the very foundation Of
the art of modern music.
1t is only when modern music forgets
this that it becomes so atonal that one
may doubt if even the composer knew
exactly what he was doing
Probably as good an example of this
sad lack as may be found is in the Sym
phony in F. turned out several years
ago by Vaughan Williams
In it he attempted to initiate the
modern music" which some others have
done better. William Walton, for ex-
ample. Waltons only symphony stands
up much better. 1t has lift" to it
which the Williams opus lacks utterly
The joker lies in the fact that no man
knows or appreciates the value of folk
tunes more than Vaughan Williams.
He has Instrumental and arranged
hundreds of the English folk songs, One
Of these, the famous "Greensleeves" Of
Evening star., 1939-12-19

regard to civil service. And, while
the pending bill allows non-com-
petitive test, it provides that any who
Go not pass must be separated from
the ser1ice after six months.
What Congress should do is to
make the merit system as nearly uni
versal as possible, and then adhere to
1t in any future additions to govern
mental machinery.
The Bulow pay bill has a longer
road to travel, since 1t is still in COM
mittee, but this makes early hearings
more desirable. It seeks to make
$1,000 the minimum for full-time
employment. In the custodial and
subprofessional groups it would bring
the entrance rates up from $1,000
and $1,000 to $1,000, with small in
creaseS for the other salary steps in
these grades.
The Salary Classification Act Of
1928 consists of six or seven salary
steps in each grade, and the original
theory of the law was that with the
passing years employees would move
gradually up these steps. If this
theory had worked out in practice
the Bulow bill might not be so i'm
portant today. But two things have
happened to keep those at the
bottom from moving up the steps.
First OF all, the promotions can
be made only when funds are
available, and the actual appropria-
tlons, generally, have made possible
only limited degree of advance
ment. But even if ample funds had
been available through the years,
Congress took action shortly after
the passage of the original act to
put the brakes" on stepups within
grades.
This was accomplished by the So
called average clause" written into
annual departmental appropriation
bills, designed to hold the average of
the salaries paid in a given grade
10 the average compensation rate of
the grade. The existence of these
practical limitations on periodic
advancement justify better entrance
rates, especially in the low brackets
covered by the Bulow bill.
Evening star., 1939-12-19

bumper, and I was therefore unable to
move my car Not knowing how to reach
the owner of either car, I was compelled
to call up the fifth precinct, and was
advised that a scout car would be sent
over to assist me. The car duly came
with two policemen One got out Of the
car and asked for my key, saying he
would move my car for me. After
racing the motor of my almost new car
ana pumping the car in rear several
times and finally getting my rear wheel
on the curb, he was ready to pull my
car out, but in order to do so, it was
necessary for him to drag my fender
against the bumper of the car in front,
which resulted in a broad and deep
scratch on the paint.
When asked the officer if he intended
to give the Minnesota car a ticket for
parking too close to the fire hydrant, and
too close to the car in rear OF him, he
said NO. and when I questioned him
further, he said it was necessary to give
some leeway on Capitol Hill, that if he
would give ticket, it would be quashed
without any difficulty, even though the
car did not bear a Congressional plate,
and is probably owned by clerk in one
OF the Minnesota Offices. There was also
car parked in the section marked off
in white Is feet from the intersection and
I called the officers attention to this
this car carried Virginia license plates.
then asked the officer if he didn't think
these cars should at least have a warn
ing put on them and he said he most
certainly did, but he had no tickets with
him.
In view of the officers statement to me,
asked him If it would be all right for
me to park my car the same distance
from the hydrant (two feet) the next
time wanted to park, and he said he
would not advise me to do So.
If this is not clear case of discrimi-
nation, want to know what is. I was
parked in accordance with the law. and
have to pay for painting part of my
fender, just because some discourteous
person is too lazy to find a proper place
to park his car I might add that the
Federal Government maintains a large
parking lot just around the corner for
the use of members of Congress and their
clerks, but 1t is usually empty while
members and their clerks park against
fire hydrants and right next to inter-
sections of streets and between signs
put up by the Metropolitan Police.
December IA. HELEN CAMPBELL.
Evening star., 1939-12-19
Asks Kind Consideration
For Store Employees.
% the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
To many, the spirit of Christmas is a
sweet and fine thing, and yet to others,
the army behind counters, it means
just nerve-racking upheaval of added
heavy duties and responsibilities. To
them, Christmas is veritable night
mare, largely due to the ridiculous die
tum that "the customer is always
right" which causes the customer to
forget at times the equally true saying,
do unto others as you would have them
do unto you" In our downtown stores,
milling crowds thoughtlessly give Santa
Claus family, the clerks, much rough
handling. With prayerful note in our
voices, let us remember that they are
human, and would like, If possible, to
think Of Christmas as a pleasant and
beautiful season. A. BENNETT.
December II.
Evening star., 1939-12-19
Brituins Great Air Plans

II there were ever any doubt about
the British Empires determination
to fight Hitlerism to a finish, it is
removed by the signing at Ottawa
during the past few hours of what is
probably the most momentous de-
tense document in Britain's imperial
history Its immediate purpose is to
unite the daughter nations of the
commonwealth on which the sun
never sets-primarily, Canada, Aus
tralia and New Zealand-with the
mother country for the purpose of
outmatching Germany in the air on
a scale intended to render impotent
the Nazis' most exhaustive efforts
toward supremacy, or even parity in
that sphere of warfare.
Were 1t not for the circumstance
that conflict between the Dominion
OF Canada and the United States is
unthinkable, qualms might arise
in this country over plans to create
just across our northern border an
aviation industry which may some
day outstrip our own in productive
capacity. Until Britain's war neces-
stiles required her to expand her
plant to a point said now to be level
with, if not to exceed, that of Ger
many, the United States potential
aircraft output rated as the greatest
in the world.
The British Commemorative plans,
under the Ottawa agreement, look to
developments which may easily make
Canada the seat of the outstanding
aviation industry in existence. Once
upon time there was talk of facili-
ties capable of turning out 25,0OO
trained pilots year. That some
what fantastic goal has apparently
been Scrapped in favor of more prac-
ticable figures. But stress will be
laid on the training feature, for
which three-year program to
cost $600,000,000 has been laid
down. Prime Minister Mackenzie
King announces that Canada will
supply the facilities, more than half
the money and the bulk of the per-
sonnel. The scheme also compre-
hends sixty new flying fields in the
Dominion, expansion of twenty ex-
isting airdromes and sixty-seven
training schools of all types. Pupils
will come from Great Britain. New
foundland and other British domin-
ions and colonies, but Canadians will
predominate-aS, unknown to the
world, they did in Britain's World
War Royal Air Force, whose per-
sonnet was forty per cent Canadian.
The Dominion's remoteness from
the European war theater, of course,
makes Canada an ideal aviation
center for Britain. That material
and highly strategic advantage, vital
as it is and disheartening to the en-
pire's enemy, as it must be, is second
in importance to the greater political
significance which attaches to the
Ottawa aircraft pact "Once more"
the four commonwealth govern
ments affirm in it, "the world has
| stirring proof of the manner in
which the nations comprising the
British Empire are determined to
cooperate with one another and
with their allies, to insure that the
great causes for which they are con-
tending shall prevail"