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Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-31
Walker Believes Lawmakers Will Approve Budg
mperioI County
Legislator Back
Following Recess

Legislators will pare somewhat but eventually approve
the state budget proposed by Gov. Culber l.. Olson
terially it stands, Imperial Valleys Assemblyman Car
ence r. Walker predicted Tuesday
Judging from the sentiment among legislators at
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-31
LIGHTS STOLEN

Theft of a kodak and fog lights
from parked auto was reported
to police Tuesday by Charles Mon
tague, 737 Brighton avenue, El
Centro.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-31
Gambler. Publisher. @. O. ?.
Politician Mentioned i'm
Probe Into Pardon Sales

OAKLAND, Calf, Jan. 81 (UP)-Alameda county
grand jurors recessed for day today before pungng
again into their investigation of varied activities of Mark
Lee Megladdery while serving secretary to former
Governor Frank F. Merriam. Yesterdays testimony
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-31

Levi Dow, Maine game war
den, holds the white partridge
shot by a hunter north of Fort
Kent. The bird, considered by
authorities as the first of its
kind ever seen, will be placed
in the state house museum at
Augusta.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-31

When Farmer Albert Clark of
Russellville, KY, told REA Off
cials his Rhode Island Red hen
had stared at an electrical light
bulb so long that she laid a bulb
shaped egg, nobody believed
him. So he sent the egg to
Washington. Above Gretchen
MCGOWAN holds the proof,
right, beside an ordinary bulb.
The small end of the egg has a
circle of wrinkles resembling
grooves for screwing light bulb
into a socket.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-31
FIRE IN AUTO

FIRE IN AUTO
Firemen extinguished a blaze in
an automobile in the 600 block on
Main street Monday in Ell Centro.
Only slight damage was done.
Greenbelt cooperator., 1939-06-08
TRANSPORTATION COMl TEE SUGGESTS

At sparsely attended meeting Of the Citizens
Association June S. 1889, President Francis
Lastner announced the suspension Of all regular
meetings until the second week in September.
Mrs. Lois Fulmer reporting for the Welfare Com
mittee advised that IT is expected that rs to 100
garten in the fa IL the Council prepared
to give Miss colletti assistants to carry out her
program. MRS. Fu1mer further stated that the news
stories circulated in out Of town papers to the
number Of unemployed in Greenbe1t false as her
committee has been unable to find more than 10 to
Epersons unemployed at any given time.
The Transportation Committee repor ted on activ-
tiles in the field Of transpor tation.
1t is proposed to suspend the Greenbe lt-Berwyn
shuttle service and substi tte therefore
Of the East Riverdale bus line from Rainier.
tentative schedule is 26 round trips daily with
twelve minute headay during rush hours and hour
Greenbelt cooperator., 1939-06-08

"SATIoN WAGON co-oP SYSTEM
schedule at other t1mos Of the day With tho present
$500 pass. These changes projected for August
IS. 1889 thereabouts. This information has baen
conf irmed by letter from E. D. Merrill president
of cTc to the Transpor tion committee.
Allen Arness made report a projected COOP
erative transport tion system to be based the
Of wagons accommodating to 10 peeple each.
that this would strpass a bus service In economy
wit the Of 81. so weekly charge and volunteer
drivers.
report Of the work Of the Road Committee indi-
Gated that the widening Of Edmonston Road With its
consequent increased fa ctor Of safety tho result
Of the concerted efforts Of Prince Georges County
Citizens Associations and County con ssioners, fol-
lowing the lead Of the local road committee in cir
cu1ating a petition for this widening which
taken up by the organi zati and individuals
tioneds
Evening star., 1939-08-17
THIS AND THAT
Bv Charles E. Trdce1ueH.

"One final hint: The accumulation of
dust on the tops of books in an open
shelf can be largely prevented by merely
shaking turkey duster at them occa-
sionally, until such time as they can
be taken out and the shelf wiped with
a turpentine-wet cloth.
yours very sincerely, wv. Meg"
In following this librarians advice
be sure to get spirits of turpentine, not
the turpentine used in painting.
One is always hearing alarming
things; the latest, from a Navy gentle
man, is that it is dangerous to use ordi-
nary turpentine to take paint off the
hands.
This usage, he says, is forbidden by
the Navy, owing to the fact that many
OF their painters have reported with
bent wrists, as the result OF washing
their hands in turpentine.
So beware!
M xA
In using spirits of turpentine on books,
as suggested by Mr.. Meg, to remove mil
dew, unusually bad on account of the
humid summer, be sure to get spirits of
turpentine.
Then be sure to make the rag as dry
as possible, on first making experiments
with this method, and particularly if
trying it on favorite book.
No doubt the best way is to take some
volume for which one has no particular
regard-every book-lover has many of
these-and do a little experimenting
1t must not be forgotten that spirits
of turpentine is inflammable.
X
No doubt the best way, in dealing with
the mildew problem, is to be on guard,
at all times, and to catch the deposit
shortly after it arrives
1t will be SO thin then that all of it
may be wiped off with clean cloth or
facial tissue, without the use of any
liquid.
Our correspondents suggestion, to try
a preliminary dab on the inner side of
the cover, along the strip of cloth which
laps over, Is good one
So many different cloths and other
materials are used in book bindings to-
day that it is impossible to be sure, in
advance, whether particular coloring
will wash out or not
A trial will show in jiffy if the spirits
of turpentine, or very weak solution of
oxalic acid in water, is safe
Readers will be interested to know that
We have been taking our own medicine,
as it were, by keeping the first floor wide
open all day long.
Since adopting this plan. there has
been practically no mildew deposited or
books and record albums in two weeks
or longer, whereas before thin deposit
had to be wiped off at least once week,
especially on the backbones of volumes
which had paper dust covers.
Evening star., 1939-08-17

during the centuries known as "the dark
ages, yet it will be more emphatically
fulfilled as the people of this world de-
cline in their faith in spiritual values,
and place more dependence in their
own inventive genius and mere human
reasoning.
Thus your conclusions in the editorial
entitled The Big Parade" are correct
when you declare that ut is obvious that
a spiritual renaissance is needed, re-
birth of the soul is demanded to meet the
challenge of civilization falling apart"
Christ says that He will return with
power and great glory in the midst of
strife. He will come with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel and with the
trumpet of God to resurrect the dead
saints, while at the same time, He will
destroy the wickedness of the world He
would have all men to be saved, yet He
knows multitudes will follow their own
ways to destruction in preference to His
program that leads to eternal life. The
worldwide event of destruction, though
yet future, will come on the strength of
His prophecies, yet the Hand that in
tcrvenes in behalf of humanity is still
being offered to all to grasp and should
not each of us individually be preparing
to enter into His eternal kingdom which
will be established according to His plans
and not the devisings of faulty men?
OF course we should praise all efforts
of statesmen to bring peace on the earth,
yet men and women everywhere should
make their own individual plans as to
their future welfare and should accept
the Bible as their guide, which not only
teaches us to be good citizens in this life
but to prepare for that far greater and
everlasting citizenship in the life to come
WALTER L. BURGAN.
Takoma Park. Md.
August IA.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
ELEVENTH ST. Sc.

Dear Sir:
For a good many years, it is due to
say, your essays on birds and flowers
have held a special appeal to circle,
wider than many would suppose, of
nature-lovers and gunless hunters; into
whose goodly fellowship 1t was my for
tune to be born.
when quite young, also began COL
lecting desirable books on intriguing
subjects, and long ago found myself
custodian OF an overflowing private
library.
I'm caring for it. have hit upon
some technical expedients which, If
generally known, might save thousands
of precious volumes for other collec-
tors.
I'm dealing with the various molds,
gray, green, white, black-I learned to
dispense with watery moisture abso-
lutely; since it is in itself injurious to
both leaves and bindings; besides which,
wet paper provides an ideal germina-
tion ground for surviving spores or new
arrivals, even though the wet area may
pc as microscopic as themselves.
The addition of oxalic acid might
meet the second objection, but not the
first. Alcohol is too rapid solvent to
be managed.
"The best results thus far obtained
have been by the use of volatile hy-
drocarbon oil, spirits of turpentine be-
ing most effective.
1T is promptly fatal to silverscales
and other insects and their eggs, as
we'll as to molds.
"The method of application is to dip
soft flannel or other cloth into the
turpentine, then wiring it nearly dry;
hold the book in the left hand, press
ing the leaves tightly together, and
wipe the edges thoroughly all around
with the cloth; next, spread open the
side covers and examine them and the
back cover for traces of mold.
Leather bindings are cleaned and
renovated by a complete rub with the
turpentine-wet cloth; if they are crack
ing, apply neatsfoot oil in like manner.
Caution is necessary in the case of
richly colored cloth bindings and printed
titles. A preliminary test on the in
ner side of the cover will show whether
or not the color is soluble enough to
run or smear. Usually it will not do
so; indeed, most colored bindings are
distinctly frightened by a gentle rub
bing.
IF a book has become bent or warped,
the leaves should be turned to ascer-
tain if mold or dust has collected, espe-
cially next the back cover
prolonged pressure, either under a
weight. or in tightly jammed shelf,
will restore the warped book to its
proper shape
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Says Reason for Thanksgiving
Ignored by Roosevelt.

Ignored by Roosevelt.
To the Editor of The Star:
The hullabaloo raised by the Presi-
dents proposal to advance the ooserv-
ance of Thanksgiving once again empha-
sizes how all our holidays have been
commercialized. OF course, the mer-
chants desire the date moved from No.
vember 80 to November %. Then they
will have seven more shopping days be-
fore Christmas and an additional week
to get their table linens, silverware and
china out of the display windows and
install the Christmas gift exhibitions.
No wonder the selectmen of the town
of Plymouth are so befuddled. They
have corner of Thanksgiving, they
think. Pity the turkey raisers in Texas
who won't have time to market their
flocks. Shed a tear for the football grad
uate managers whose schedules are all
awry. Just think of the printers who
have already published next years cal
endars and almanacs. Is it any wonder
that the Governors of certain States
threaten not to "go along" and will insist
on States rights?
But have not heard a word of dissent
from the rector of my church or from
any other ecclesiastical source. And it
used to be that this holiday was one of
Thanksgiving and prayer! Why not have
another old-fashioned Thanksgiving?
August Is. JOHN P. COWAN.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Worms s-Eye View

The war maneuvers at Manassas
have hitherto been reported from the
standpoint of the officers. While the
news f1uctuates from day to day,
these gentlemen see to it that it is
never anything but good. If the
army of defense holds off the in
vaders, it shows that America is in
vincible, and woe betide the foe so
reckless as to tangle with the United
States. If the army of attack breaks
through and threatens Washington,
it proves that nothing can resist the
might of America, and heaven help
any nation rash enough to 60 to war
with us.
It should be realized, however, that
there is much more to a war than
merely winning it in prosaic fashion.
Regardless of which side history de-
clares the winner, it will be more or
less of flop if the participant misses
out on the numerous incidentals that
make war, or at least war reminis-
cences, so fascinating In illustra-
ton, let us imagine a postwar con-
ference between Privates Smith of
the attack and Jones of the defense.
Both agree, that the battle of
Manassas was, on the whole, quite
good They discuss the considerable
tactical skill shown by the enlisted
personnel of both sides in not allow
ing over-enthusiastic officers to lead
them too far away either from their
own mess kitchen or a convenient
enemy one that could be raided.
Smith profanely wonders if, say some
time in the next thousand years,
there will ever be an army cook or
mess sergeant able to prepare chow
fit for human consumption. Jones
denies this possibility, but does admit
getting his share of grub, such as it
was. Smith wakes melodic over the
charms of that cute little blond in
the lunchroom at Manassas, and
claims to have stolen her right from
under the gold leaves of the major.
Jones counters with tale of how his
lieutenant fell plunk into a ditch of
muddy water up to his neck, and
Smith trumps this one by realistic
description of his colonel's mixup
with a barbed wire fence. The high
light of the war is, fortunately,
shared in common. They will always
remember it as the one in which they
both saw a general fall off his horse
and break his journey.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Too Much Economy

Sometimes in the search for econ
omy in municipal administration, the
drive for financial savings thwarts
fundamental purposes of a public
service. This appears to be the case
with the National Training School
for Girls, the much investigated in
stitution for the confinement, medi-
cal care and supposed moral rehabil-
itation of delinquent girls.
The present superintendent of the
school, in her recent annual report,
declares that because of reduced
funds and restrictions placed on use
of appropriations, the staff had to
be cut to point that will make it
dangerous to operate, difficult to
give Well-earned leave Ito the staff
and impossible to continue to carry
on the necessary training and re-
habilitation measures for our wards"
Even making allowances for her
possibly excessive concern, the indict-
ment is serious for she reports that
such essential functions as education
and parole work must be curtailed.
These are highly essential in such an
institution.
The recent history of the school
should be considered. At one time
the annual cost ran up to some
$1,000 a year per girl. Members of
Congress were appalled,. Thereafter,
the appropriation slicing began.
Under a change of administration
and policies, the per capita cost was
reduced from some $1,000 in 1888 to
S787 in the past fiscal year. But in
the face of such change, appropri-
ations for the present fiscal year were
not only reduced, but also included a
bar against per capita cost of more
than $500 on the average. Whether
$500 was too little or too much was
left. apparently, for experience to
show
The District does not want this
institution to become merely sort
of Jail, no more than it wishes it to
be the expensive finishing school"
which some members of Congress, in
a spirit of derision, called it.
AS to the future, there still is dis
cussion as to whether the present
plant should be abandoned, the
school moved to some outlying loca-
ton, and what it's program should be.
Certainly, extravaganza is to be con-
demned but rules and restrictions
can be made entirely too severe. It
would seem that the Welfare Board
and the Commissioners need little
more elbow room in their planning
and administration.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Current Evils Held
FOretOld in Bible
To the Editor of The Star

To the Editor of The Star:
Every once in a while new voice
is heard suggesting some plan or another
for the accomplishment of world peace,
the latest being lengthy quotation from
Bahia 'u'llah, said to have been prophet
in Persia, as included In a letter by
Allen B. Mcdaniel, which recently ap-
peared in The Star.
There is no doubt but that every sober
thinking, intelligent, law-abiding man
and woman on this earth who possesses
the slightest compassion in his or her soul
Graves peace in the family, neighbor-
hood community, State or nation in
which he or she lives, and also Graves it
among the nations of the world.
Christ, whom millions admit is still
the greatest of all world teachers and
who says that He came from God and
that He and His Father are one, spoke
several different lines of prophecy that
deal with present-day events in the
earth, which men everywhere would do
well to give heed unto. The fact that
there is a great spiritual declension is
QuluC lllulCdl1fC VI tilc COIlulIlOllS GlldI
would prevail in our day, as prophesied
by Christ in the question He asked,
when the son of man cometh, shall
he find faith on the earth?" Several of
Christ's most significant prophecies con-
cerning present happenings are recorded
in Matthew "a and have either been full
filled or are in the process of fulfillment.
In verse "a He gave the warning that
There shall arise false Christs and false
prophets, and shall show great signs
and wonders: in so much that, if it were
possible, they shall deceive the very
elect" Thus we must watch for de-
ceivers, and the best way to do so is
to know our Bibles.
Christ prophesied that there would be
wars and rumors of wars" and while
such conflicts have happened through
the centuries surely the world has had
its baptism of blood through the cruelest
methods of warfare during the last
quarter Ola century and we are now
having more such instances in different
sections of the Far East. We have the
prophecy that darkness shall cover the
earth, and gross darkness the people"
and while this was partially fulfilled
Evening star., 1939-08-17
Enforcing Sufety

With definite evidence in the rec
ords of injuries and deaths to indi-
cate that the city's campaign for
traffic safety is bringing results, the
Police Department has instituted a
new campaign to make the streets
still less hazardous.
The report for the first fifteen days
of August show two pedestrians have
been killed, one-third the number
in the same period year ago. The
total number of deaths from auto
mobile accidents so far this year is
fifty-four, five less than were record
ed up to this time last year. The
number of accidents not involving
fatalities in which pedestrians fig
ured is some two hundred fewer than
at this date in 1893.
The new campaign ordered by the
chief of the Traffic Bureau is de-
signed, in the main, to assist pedes-
trians endeavoring to cooperate for
their own safety. Special attention
is to be paid to motorists stopping
on crosswalks while waiting for
lights to change, those ignoring
walkers right of way in making
turns, those making illegal U-turns,
and those parking in commercial
loading spaces or commercial vehicles
unnecessarily parked double.
There is always danger in special
drives ordered against certain types
of violations. Many individuals are
apt to watch the specific rules being
enforced and take chances on ignor-
ing others which are just as vital to
safety. Some policemen, likewise,
intent upon carrying out the orders
of their superiors, occasionally are
prone to overlook one violation in
their zeal to discover another. These
cases, of course, are comparatively
isolated, but occur with sufficient fire.
quency to bring protests. In the en-
forcing of pedestrian regulations this
fact has brought many complaints
from individual citizens, complaints
which are only partially justified in
view of the actual facts.
In inaugurating the pedestrian
rules a special and concentrated
effort has been necessary in recent
months because of the educational
factors involved: To thousands of
citizens the matter of those afoot
obeying control signals is an entirely
new concept. To many others it has
represented regimentation. In order
to make the rules effective certain
policemen have been ordered specifi-
cally to guard against these viola
Evening star., 1939-08-17

tions at designated danger points.
If they have not always enforced all
the other regulations while engaged
in this work the factor OF human
limitations may be blamed.
Sporadic campaigns to obtain en-
forcement Of specific regulations are
valuable in calling attention to rules
which are necessary to safety, but
which might be overlooked through
too lenient an attitude. They are to
be condemned if the individual
officers neglect at the same time to
enforce other laws just as vital to
the community's well-being.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
JObless Widow Objects
To Working Wives.


To the Editor of The Star:
I am one Of great number of people
who are seeking financial security. All
I ask is one hundred dollars a month, SO
that I may maintain decent standards
OF living for my four children. All
about me are those who have cars, good
clothes, vacations at the beach 1 know
OF many instances where both the hus-
band and wife are employed in the Gov
ernment, and the combined income used
to maintain one child, car, or a dog.
There is no doubt about my being able
to fill a position satisfactorily. I have
done that for number of years. And
have all the energy and capacity for
getting things done that I had before
marriage, plus the incentive of the alb
solute need for employment
I have written numerous letters of ap-
plication and interviewed several per-
sonnet officers since the death of my
husband several months ago. have OBJ
tanned letters from friends who know of
my good work as stenographer and
teacher here in the District, and from
friends in the State where my husband
and voted.
Jest the other day I talked with
woman who told me that she was
divorced, and had remarked She has
no children. She told me also that she
was getting seventy dollars a month
alimony and that her present husband
is employed in the Government. She
said that she had obtained position in
one of the departments of the Govern
ment not under Civil Service-one Of
the departments, incidentally, where my
Evening star., 1939-08-17

unknown, but this is the first time
the principle has been followed on
such a large scale.
The upshot likely will be that the
warning oil powers will see the light
and restore prices to the previous
level. Quotations dropped as much
as thirty-two cents a barrel when the
price cutting started, and the CO.
operating States seek return to the
one-dollar basis.
Evening star., 1939-08-17
The Oil Shutdown

There may be a cloud over the
legality of the shutdown in the
Southwestern oil fields, but there is
little doubt of the efficacy of the ex-
treme measures taken by State gov
ernments there in halting production
to meet a threat to the petroleum
price structure.
More than half of the country's
output already has been choked off,
and the stoppage probably will be
extended unless the price cutting
which provoked it is corrected, as the
situation is one in which the States
appear to be free to follow their own
inclinations. Petroleum officials of
the Interior Department believe there
is a question involved as to how far
production may be regulated by a
State to control prices, but the Fed
eral Government is without jurisdic-
ton in that issue.
Significantly, the shutdown follows
a meeting of the Interstate Oil Com
pact Commission which functions
under the interstate compact that
Congress recently extended for two
more years. This pact, first set up in
1885, was designed purely as a con-
servation measure by the signatory
oil-producing States, specifically ex-
Guiding united action "to limit the
production of oil or gas for the pur-
pose of stabilizing or fixing the price" !"
It is rather evident, however, that the
restriction was honored more in the
breach than in the observance in this
particular Instance, despite the an
nouncement from the commission
that each State would handle its
own particular problem in its partic-
ular way" Shutdowns have not been