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Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-25
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Crowd Theuter at
Cooking School
Large Audience Sees Latest Trends in
Culinary Effort; Children Cared for
In Nursery at Barbara Worth Hotel

Delicious flaky pastry and crunchy pudding -.
Cake mracuously light and fluffy :.
Flank steak fillets SO temptingly Drowned
All these and many "hot off the grddle'
Wednesday afternoon before admiring audience Of
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-25
Attorney Explains Why Ham.Eggs Act
Will Throw Imperial Valley Cities
Into Bankruptcy Through Warrants

m a OF attempting
forecast Thursday Imperial Valley,
Nov a discussion
plans effect
BY LOGAN JENKINS
Imperial Valleys city governments would hold
out for short length of time but inevitably go bankrupt
under 30-Thursday regime
Such the prediction of D. B. Roberts, Holtvile city
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-25
Senator EdLuW
Appointed Deputy
To u. S. ATTORNEY
Imperial County Delegate to State
Senate Wins Federal Position; Special
Election Necessary to Fill Position

State Senator Edward H. Law of Ell Centre was ap-
pointed assistant United States attorney Wednesday,
Announcement of the appointment made by United
States Attorney Benjamin Harrison of Los Angeles
and John M Gaut Los Angeles attorney were appointed
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-25
Germans Ask Russians to
Free American Freighter
'Nazis Negotiate for Release ofVesseI
Taken to Russian Port as War Prize;
U.S.in Dark on Whereabouts of Crew

BERLIN, Oct. 25 (UP) K Germany negotiated with
Russia today for release of the American reghter
City Flint and its of Al officers and 1t had
been indicated in Washington that the United States would
request release of the vessel Although the regher
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-25

Butter: Los Angeles 32c; but
terfat, Imperial Valley fob. ranch.
grade A, i2c' manufacturing milk
34e; route gathered cream 30isc.
L. A. hays u. $. No. l S16.-sf7;
U. S. No. 2. leafy s14-S14.50; U. 5. No
2. s13-S13.50: Mpls. cash flax SLIT.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
TWO DIARIES
By the Right Rev James E. Freeman D. d. ILL., d. D. c. L.,
Bishop OF WdshinQton.

will help you" To renew . lost conf
dence, to restore again that trust and
repose that fortify life against the hap
penings Of the future, is like underwrit-
ing 1t, giving it courage to face the
events, the fortunes and misfortunes Of
unknown days. Certainly nothing Is so
urgently needed as this today. We have
experimental with every plan and device
that human genius can fashion; we have
through our cunning created mechanisms
and agencies that we thought were sufi-
clent to guarantee us against misfor-
tunes and disasters. The excelling skill
OF man has served to provide our mod
ern world with everything needed for its
satisfaction, its security and peace. It
was this conception of mans sufnciency
that made him less conscious Of the need
OF God in all human concerns. While
we have still retained pious fragments
suggestive OF our reverence, and have
maintained churches as symbols of an
articulate religious faith, we were quite
confident that 1t was the sustaining hand
OF man that would determine and shape
our future.
We have had rude awakening from
this conceit these recent years. The
tragic events in many places, the revival
OF old forms of bigotry and intolerance,
the severed ties of racial and interna-
tional good will, these together with the
breakdown of material values, have not
only sobered us, they have bewildered
and frightened us. This very condition
Is compelling us to turn to the one un-
failing source Of power and security
namely, to God.
AS a people we can make no better re-
solve as we cross the threshold of this
new year than this, that we will in our
family, our social and our industrial life,
give God His rightful place. We will
accept His promise, Il the Lord thy God
will hold thy right hand, saying unto
thee, Fear not, will help thee" and
accepting it We will face the future conf
IDENTIFY. hopefully, yes, and reverently.
May it be Happy New Year because we
enter it with reaf1rmation of trust in
God and the determination to be obe-
dent to His will.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Job Racket Ended

A vicious racket has been wiped
out with the sentencing in st. Louis
of twenty-eight persons who were
convicted or pleaded mo contest" to
indictments based on the operation
of so-called civil service corre-
spondence school which held out the
lure of Federal employment to those
completing it's course.
For twenty = two months the
"school" had prospered at the ex-
pense of those least able to bear the
loss-the jobless. Testimony at the
trial, which ended a few days ago,
showed that approximately 10000
persons had enrolled for the Gin
struction" that was to cost about
eighty dollars. That it finally was
broken up is due to the vigorous
cooperation of the Civil Service
Commission and the Postal Inspec-
ton Service.
The commission repeatedly has
Evening star., 1939-01-01

On this first day Of the New Year I
see upon my desk two diaries, the first
one contains the record Of the events,
happenings and incidents OF the past
year. 1t is the completed record Of
whole year of life. It's story is written
with flnality. 1t cannot be changed or
altered. AS scan its pages I find my
self somewhat bewildered by the variety
and diversity Of the incidents 1t records
and as file it away for future reference
I am made to wonder what part it will
play in the ultimate summing up Of the
record Of life.
Near at hand is the open diary Of
new year with pages blank, save for those
hours and days that have already been
mortgaged. How common a practice it
Is to live in the future! This new diary
makes me reflective. It has about 1t an
element OF mystery, and at the head Of
each page stands a conspicuous interro-
CATION mark. 1t seems to ask the ques-
ton, and 1t Is pertinent and pressing
one: What kind OF q year will these
pages record?"
Every New Year Day is bound to make
us reflective and more particularly so If
it indicates that the years have been
many. Every man and woman standing
on the threshold Of this New Year must
be impressed by the confusions and un-
certainties Of life. We are looking out
upon different kind OF world, world
that is full of interrogations, with weighty
problems to be solved. 1t is doubtless
true that many are moved by fears and
misgivings, and in such a state of mind
they are casting about for some word of
hope and assurance.
There is such a word that seems pecu-
liarly pertinent and that has in it the
note OF assurance that the world sorely
needs. 1t is the word spoken to an an
cient people in the day OF their con-
fusion. 1t is recorded in the prophecy Of
Isaiah: II the Lord Thy God will hold thy
right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not.
will help thee"
1t is like a father speaking to his
frightened child and saying: Put your
hand in mine and have no fear, for I
Evening star., 1939-01-01
ChumberIuin's Trip

The nature of the agenda for
Prime Minister Chamberlain's visit
to Premier Mussolini this month be-
comes more definitely revealed as
the date for his departure from
England approaches.
Although Britain's peripatetic gov
ernment head is not travelling this
time, as he did last September, in
haste to ward off imminent peril of
war, the significance of his journey
and subsequent talks with the Ital-
ian chief are nonetheless great.
He goes now, as he did to Berchtes-
gaden, Godesberg and Munich, in an
effort to fortify his appeasement
policies. He needs concrete results at
Rome. What will he get?
He goes more to give than to
receive. In dealing with II Duce,
whose appetite is prodigious, he must
be prepared to give in substance and
receive in promises.
To the fore as he prepares for his
trip with Foreign Minister Viscount
Halifax is the question Of territorial
readjustment between Italy and
France in Africa, arising out Of the
1915 London treaty by which Italy
was induced to take the side OF the
allies, and out of the much older
dispute over the rights of Italians
resident In Tunisia.
Mr.. Chamberlain hardly expects to
escape the role Of mediator between
Paris and Rome, as much as he
dislikes the prospect, for the North
and East African status quo between
the two Latin powers is bound up
with the Anglo-Italian Easter agree
ment, which went into effect No
vember IS. England inevitably be-
comes a party to any settlement
which may result and may be ex-
pected to have a deliberate hand
in its achievement, but at a price.
Spain, of course, will provide the
basis for portion Of the conversa-
ton at the Palazzo Venezia, chiefly
in regard to the prospects of victory
for Generalissimo Francisco Franco,
and England will be asked to give
belligerent rights to the Spanish in
surgents. Perhaps II Duce will agree
to withdraw more eighteen-month
veterans from Spain.
Mussolini will not be the only host
to the British Prime Minister. Pope
Plus will receive Mr.. Chamberlain
and Viscount Halifax in q meeting
symbolizing the defensive character
Evening star., 1939-01-01

of the fight to substitute recognition
Of moral principles for the rule of
force.
The head of the government which
maintains the Church of England,
with many millions of communicates
throughout the world, will discuss
with the supreme pontiff of the
Roman Catholic Church, which
counts is communicates in hundreds
of millions, means for resisting the
onslaught Of paganism.
The journey and its meetings with
two great world leaders inspire new
hope that 1899 will bring some
alienation of the tension and near
warfare which marked the year just
expired.
Evening star., 1939-01-01

warned the public that no school
has a right to promise a civil service
appointment upon completion of a
course OF study, and that no "civil
service school" has any official con-
nection, but these warnings, as is evi-
dent, fail of their purpose. In that
situation, prosecution is the only
answer, and it is gratifying when
this is carried through to a success
full conclusion.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
A Permanent P. W. A.?

It was with evident satisfaction
and justifiable pride that Admins
traitor Ickes reported to President
Roosevelt that the latest public works
program, involving expenditure of
more than one billion and a half
dollars, has been completely trans
formed into contracts within the
deadline which was passed last
night. The consummation Of such
a task in six months is an admins
trative achievement that would have
been regarded as almost impossible a
few years ago. It is proof that Mr..
1ckes has built up an organization
that has treated Government spend
ing as an exact science, and to the
taxpayer this is important because
it means increased efficiency and re-
duced waste.
Completion of the 1898 phase Of
P. w. A. activities naturally revives
speculation as to the future Of this
outstanding New Deal recovery
agency. Already there has been agi-
tation in some congressional quarters
for permanent P. w. A., and 1t has
been rumored that Mr.. Roosevelt is
inclined to support such a proposal.
The movement for continuing the
Public Works Administration as an
integral part of the Federal machine
contrasts sharply with the rising de-
mand for reform If not abolishment
of that radically different spending
agency, the Works Progress Admin
istration.
Public works projects to bring about
unemployment and business stimula-
tion generally are not New Deal in
ventions. They long have been recog-
nized as legitimate governmental
measures in times Of economic de-
preston. Having had them before
this administration, it is logical to
believe the country will find them
useful in the future. Since emer-
gency public works have become so
firmly established in the Federal
realm, it might not be a bad idea
to keep permanently in the depart
mental setup the nucleus, at least,
Of such an experienced, smoothly
functioning organization as Admin
istrator 1ckes has developed after
many difficulties. Its talents could
be used to good advantage in several
fields when times are prosperous
and, like the military services, 1t
would be prepared to swing into
action at a moments notice when
emergencies arise. The proposal
surely merits serious consideration.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Year 1899

The New Year is at hand, and it will be
The old year duplicated. We shall hear
OF prosecutions, tragedy and fear:
In headlines of the papers we shall sea
Reports of war and wars barbarity.
Is 1t surprising, then, If we appear
To feel that all which we now hold
so dear
Seems forfeited in worldwide anarchv2
We know so little of the fortitude
Which prompts a hundred million men
each day
TO DO the honest and the decent thing.
Mere kindliness and simple rectitude
Seem lost in crimes iniquitous display.
Tnere are few headlines for the hearts
that singl
H. p. sTODDARD.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
New Year

II the bells Of the New Year could
ring out the false, ring in the true"
what a miracle of human Joy would
follow! The list of evils which the
world needs to be freed from Is not
long. Many circumstances conduce
to happiness in this earth. All that
Is wanted is intelligence to discrimi-
nate between things good and
things essentially bad. The masses
OF the people everywhere are led
astray against their will. It is an
axiom Of history that wars and
revolutions rarely are made by the
multitudes. Rather, they are the
creation Of ambitious leaders who
gamble with fate for the extension
OF their powers and win or lose by
accidental chance. Endowed with a
natural instinct for caution, plain
men and women ask little but
peace-and are denied through scant
fault of their own.
Perhaps there Is no more wicked
libel against the race than that
which attributes to democracy the
faults, the errors, the mistakes of
captains and Of kings Suppose it
were possible to submit to any
average soul on this first day of 1899
the question: Shall fellowship and
tolerance prevail? The answer would
be: Yes, please God! Even in lands
afflicted with tyrants the conscience
OF the folk distrusts and fears appeal
to arms, deplores greed and strife, is
moved to hope for righteousness and
equity at home and abroad. Par
ticularly now, after quarter CEN
tury of conflict, there is popular
realization OF the futility of force,
Humanity Is ready for another, a
more just, a more tolerant and
merciful policy than any militant
dictatorship ever has brought forth,
vaster victories for the commonweal
than any legion ever has marched to
win.
And the new dynamic so pro-
foundly required is available. Call
it by whatever name one will it
exists in the natural impulse of each
uncoerced community. 1t is sum-
married in religion in the Golden
Rule, epitomized in philosophy in the
principles OF the Magma Charta, the
Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution of the United States.
The problem is how to make it effec-
tive in practice. At New Year the
opportunity is provided for reaflrm-
ing the ancient truth that the re-
sponsibility is individual. No single
spirit can reform the universe, vet
the humblest person may contribute
OF himself toward the end desired.
If the twelve months now BEGIN
ming are to be a period Of honorable
progress, reasonable prosperity and
serenity, it will be because the people
have labored for these blessings
bravely and unselflshly.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Reciprocity in Fair Play

Much benefit to Congress and to
the local community would flow from
mutual adoption of a policy of
RECIPROCITY in Fair Play" some of
the terms of which are suggested in
editorial correspondence appearing
elsewhere in today's Star.
From Congress Washington can
ask for deeper and more sympathetic
understanding of the problems of
this most misunderstood community,
lacking the normal means for self
expression and self-determination
which are taken for granted else
where in America. From the Wash
ington community Congress can ask
greater patience, less fault-finding
and deeper appreciation of the
heavy national obligations and re-
sponsibilities which rest on the
members.
The Washington community should
be careful to guard against develop
ment of that state of mind which,
through disappointment and the lack
of effective power for remedy, con-
ceives Congress as tyrannical and
ignorant in what sometimes seems to
be studied Indifference to vital
needs of the local community. Con-
gresS, with equal care, should refuse
to accept the picture of the Washing
tonian as greedy, tax-dodging and
unappreciative mendicant, never con-
tent with anything short of fault
finding, and with no interests beyond
selfish interests.
For, on the one hand, the Wash
ington community is unusually
patriotic, civic-minded, generous and
intelligent. 1t is jealousy proud of
the Capital, enthusiastically pledged
to it's development, quick in apprecia-
ton of help but even quicker in the
resentment of slurs and misstate-
ments. Congress, on the other hand,
is composed Of unusually intelligent
and able men, chosen by discrim-
mating voters who select them as
representatives.
Congress and the Washington COM
munity should live together in the
spirit which comes from appreciation
of each other. They are bound by
peculiarly close ties. Congress is the
National, State and local legislature
for Washington. Washington is the
voteless constituency of the Congress.
They have common and unusually
fine objective in the development of
the Capital City as the inspiration
and pride of the Nation. And neither
can go far in the attainment of that
objective without the help and en-
couragement Of the other-for both
have definite and inescapable obliga-
tions to fulfill.
The greatest men in Congress and
in other positions of high influence
in Government have been champions
of Washington. Others have left
their marks, and their memories, on
the local community. But the really
"big men" in public life, men who are
remembered for their accomplish
ment, are those who have worked
with, not against, the aspirations of
Washingtonians and of all patriotic
Americans for a great Capital City.
A policy of recrimination, fault-fnd-
ing, buck-passing, leads to stagnation
in Capital development and leaves
only bitterness and hard feeling. A
policy of RECIPROCITY in Fair Play
offers all that the term implies in
constructive, progressive develop
ment.
Evening star., 1939-01-01

II President Roosevelt is deter
mined to do something about the
health situation in the District, the
way is comparatively easy. He can
tell a complaisant Congress to quit
kicking in with about ten per cent of
local expenses and come across with
the forty per cent specified by unre-
pealed law.
Evening star., 1939-01-01

The Government announces 1t in
tends to unfold, overhaul and set
in order" its work-relief program.
When a man does that with his
wardrobe he often salvages an unex-
pected amount of currency. May it
be so in this case.
Evening star., 1939-01-01

A scientific analysis of dreams dis
closes that mems are seldom "col-
ored," whereas women describe en-
chanting fantasies of red, green, blue
and purple. 1t is probably after one
of these that "she" selects those
Christmas gift neckties.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
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Physicists of the Bureau of Stand
ards declare no one really knows ex-
actly how long an inch is. Least of
all, apparently, trout fishermen.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Shooting Stors
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Even Tenor of His Way.

Even leNOF Oh his way
Only done the bes' he could
Never saved fortune great:
Never got so wise an good
That folks stopped to contemplate
His superior state of mind.
Wasn't overbig nor strong;
Jes' spoke cheerylike an kind,
An KEEP journeying along.
But his pathway seemed to lie
Where lifes fairest blossoms grow.
Envy sort O passed him by;
Twouldn't be much use, you know,
To be jealous of man
That was so we'll understood:
Followin' out no selfish plan;
DOM jes' the bes' he could.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
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Not Sagacious.

Not Sagaci0us.
"Why do you fear to become a re-
former?"
Because" answered Senator Sor-
ghum, "the way of reformer is easy
only so long as he is telling people what
when 1t is time to apologize for not CIV
ing 1t to them"
If you must be quick at repartee," "
said Hi Ho, the sage Of Chinatown, "se-
lect friends that are slow to anger"
Evening star., 1939-01-01
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Hopeful.

HOpeIuI.
$50 you have been jilted," said the
friend.
"Yes," answered the somewhat senti-
mental youth.
II suppose you are resigned to fate?"
II am, but I can't help hoping that
fate won't accept my resignation"
Evening star., 1939-01-01

Sparing the Rod.
What kind of work does your son
Josh excel in?"
II dunno" answered Farmer Corntos-
sci, "but I'm sure it's something he has
never had chance to try yet"
Evening star., 1939-01-01

The Promise.
Full well I know that somewhere dwell
The violet and the blushing rose,
Though vanished from the field and dell
Now bleak and touched by many SHOWS.
And vanished joys, full well I know,
That make the present day seem vain,
Like blossoms hid beneath the snow
May in times passing, smile again.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
Says Uncle Eben-

Says Uncle Eben-
Some folks keep a-kickin'
Bout dis OIL world day by day,
An de flaws dey keep a-pickin'
sholy ILLS me wiz dismay.
Evening star., 1939-01-01
A Fleeting Glimpse.

F1eetIHg OHmpSe.
He talked necessarily of art,
But most admired the graceful skill
With which engravers can impart
True meaning to dollar bill.
Evening star., 1939-01-01

numDer OF LQlnGS.
Workers thus will be expected to be-
come reconciled to some check on the
use Of their strike weapon. They will
need, If reconciliation Is to bring about
the adjustments that assure recovery, to
exercise restraint in asking for hourly
wage increases at the first sign OF in
creased production. A wave of wage de-
mands and of strikes in 1887 did much
to upset the business improvement then
under way. Organized labor, too, will
need to permit the Government to train
large numbers of young people in special
skills to supplement the dwindling ranks
of the Nations skilled workers.
When it comes to finance, the Govern
ment,s planners feel that reconciliation
IS highly important and relatively easy.
Bankers, insurance company officials
are investment bankers, according to
this view, will have to accept the fact
that Government credit will henceforth
supplement private credit whenever that
supplementing is necessary to create
work for individuals not employed by
private industry and whenever there are
jobs that need to be done but that private
interests are not willing to do.
Agriculture must become reconciled to
the loss OF large part of its vital for
eign markets for cotton and wheat. This
means, in turn, that the corn belt will
have to become reconciled to the fact
that the South must shift mere Of its
land into corn and into pasture for de-
velopment of the livestock industry. Ag-
riculture as whole is to be compelled
to become reconciled to more and more
overall Government direction.
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