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Evening star., 1939-12-01
UNCLE RAYS CORNER
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Mr.. Bowie

Alexander the Great. as he is
known in history, obtained an easy
victory in Egypt. In fact, after the
capture Of one city near the border
he was welcomed by the Egyptians
Before the coming OF Alexander
Egypt had been a part Of the Per
sian empire. The people did not
like Persian rule, and seemed to
believe they would be better treated
by the young conqueror from the
north.
In the city of Memphis, he went
to temples and paid honor to Egyp-
tian gods. This added greatly to
the favor with which he was treated
in the land of long history.
While in Egypt Alexander laid out
a new city. He planned to have
it settled by Greeks, and expected
it to become great center of trade
for his empire. The city was des-
tined to live and grow under the
name of Alexandria," Today 1t is
Egypt's greatest seaport.
Leaving Egypt, Alexander took
his army northward. As a result
of the Battle of Arbela (of which
we spoke recently he became the
master OF the Persian empire
Without having to lay siege to it.
he entered the ancient city of Baby
lon.
BY this time, Alexander had come
- hAfeve that he vas fatAd In
CONQUER the world" He had little
Evening star., 1939-12-01
Alexander Founded Great Port

India was reached ut last, and
the border was crossed. The gen.
eral would have liked to conquer the
entire country, but his men COM
planned about the hardships. So he
founded a new city (aso called
Alexandria, and turned about to 70
back to Persia.
Once more he took up quarters
in Babylon, and this time deciSN
to make Babylon the capital of his
whole empire. It was q plan which
was not to last long. After . feast,
he became Ill and suffered from
fever. Eleven days later he died.
Alexander the Great spent onlv
80 years in the world. BY his skill
on the battlefield he built up a huge
empire, but the empire did not last.
After his death 1t was divided and
the parts were placed under the
power of several rulers. Before long
the empire was only a memory.
book.) '~1' 'sf"p-
II you want . free copy Of the
illustrated leadct, Mexico and Mex
leans" send me . Scent stamped
return envelope, In care q The
Evening Star.
Tomorrow: A Little Saturday Talk.
9l~.1. RaM
Evening star., 1939-12-01


may we'll mean the difference be-
tween a good score and bad one.
For instance, here is hand on
which Clsgett Bowie of Baltimore
secured top by means Of three
suit squeeze.
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Mr.. Bowie
Final contract: Three hearts.
West opened the king of spades
and, receiving the nine from his
partner, continued with the ace and
Jack, East trumping dummy's queen
and leading his fourth-best dia-
mond. Mr.. Bowie trumped and now
tricks by the simple expedient of
leading out all his trumps and
squeezing his opponents. With four
cards left, the situation was as fol-
lows
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The last trump was now led. West
could not discard a club since then
Mr.. Bowie would simply lead low
club to the king and finesse for
East's queen. Accordingly West
dropped the ace of diamonds. Mr..
Bowie now let the eight of spades
20 from dummy and East in turn
was squeezed, since he had either
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unguard the queen of clubs.
Yesterday you were David Bruce
Burnstone's partner and held:
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nAKx
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The bidding:
You. Maier. Burnstone. Jacoby.
"a Pass 80 Pass
"a Pass 3NT Pass
60
Answer-Your correct bid is four
clubs. Now if your partner can bid
four spades. you can try for a spade
slam. If he raises clubs, you can
try for q club slam. If he merely
bids four hearts, you can go to four
spades with safety.
Score 100 per cent for four clubs,
go per cent for four or five spades,
nothing for any other bid.
Question No. 3O5.
Oswald Jacoby is your partner to-
day and you hold:
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2Qxxx
nKQ10xx
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The bidding:
schenken. Jacoby. Maier. You.
Evening star., 1939-12-01

velope is inclosed with each communi-
cation addressed to The Four Aces,
care The Evening Star.
II you desire = pocket outline Of
The Four Aces system Of contract
bridge. send with your request to The
Four Aces. care The Evening star, .
stamped !3-cent>, seH-addressed. large
StSe envelope and you will receive an
outline without any charge
Evening star., 1939-12-01
Winning Contract
Rv THE -FOUR ACES.

David Bruce Burnstone. Merwin d.
maier, Oswald Jacoby and Howard
6chenken worlds leading team-of-
four, inventors of the system that has
beaten every other system in exist
enCe)
Evening star., 1939-12-01
Squeezing an Overtrick

In duplicate play one overtrick
may we'll mean the difference be-
tween a good score and a bad one.
For instance, here is a hand on
which Clagett Bowie of Baltimore
secured top by means OF three
suit squeeze.
Evening star., 1939-12-01

IA Dbl. Pass (O
What do you bid? (Answer tomor-
row.
(Released by the Bell Syndicate. Inc)
The -Four Aces VIII be pleased 70
stamped (3-cenD, self-addreSsed en-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25
TASTE IN ADJUSTMENTS
CHANGES IN AMERICA

From the two poles of the world fair
business-San Francisco and New York,
arise laments that can be heard the
breadth of the land, laments by conces-
sionaires over the deplorable lack Of in
terest shown by paying customers IN the
time honored amusement devices that
line the gay-ways.
The only so-called attractions getting
much play on either midway are the eX-
hibitions of nudity made so notorious
by Sally Rand and her feathers. And
it isn't the nudity that attracts visitors
TO these exhibitions-it's publicity. The
customers don't go back the second time.
The semi-nudists, however, have per-
fected a publicity machine that will turn
the turnstiles often enough to show
profit Not SO the other concessionaires,
who operate various adaptations of ferris
wheels, shoot-the-chutes, weight guess
ing, penny peeping machines, and the
rest of the hoary fraternity of sideshow
contraptions.
!. The thing that makes the concession
aires weep loudest is not the fact that
there aren't enough visitors to the fairs.
1t is the fact that the visitors spend most
of their time in the industrial and scien-
tific exhibits and very little of it in the
SO-cdlleu dIHuSelHtII StCClOllS.
3 With all. due consideration for the
hurt feelings of the concession opera
tors-and for their pocketbooks-the sit
uation seems to indicate very healthy
state in the minds of Americans who
visit, the fairs.
. Their outlook ON life evidently has
advanced to such an extent that they're
no longer able to get lot of amusement
out of swinging a hammer at platform
and thereby ringing bell. For amuse-
ment these days, the average American
demands something that will exercise
his mind as well as his muscles. He
wants something he can think about and
puzzle about. He wants instruction, even
though he wants it with a sugar coating.
Those who provide amusements en-
tirely aside from the fairs-the moving
picture people, the theaterS, the maga-
zines and others = can learn a lesson
here There is definite change in the
amusement tastes of Americans. Those
who succeed in amusement enterprises
must take cognizance of it, and the SOON
er the better.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25
ANOTHER
BRILLIANT IDEA
{ Riverside Press)

Now comes Harry Hopkins, secretary
of commerce. with a brilliant idea TO
win the confidence of business men and
at the same time set up still another
bureau to spend tax money.
This time it is an embassy to busi-
ness" His idea is to establish an highly
qualified staff to assist business and to
appraise the larger problems that affect
the commerce and industry of the coun-
try"
Its job would be to contact industry
and persuade the hard headed business
men to expand their plants and go after
increased business. The new bureau
would not police the activities of capital,
it is said.
There is no doubt but that the staff
would become very, very busy, and re-
quire more and more employees to carry
on the important work of telling busi-
ness men just how to conduct their
business.
The smaller business men, who are
the taxpayers and citizens for whom the
department of commerce is supposed to
be working, have yet to see any appre-
ciable results from the extensive burau-
cracy which has been established in
Washington.
Instead of adding new staff members
and additional salaries to the already
burdensome tax load, some honest and
sincere move by Secretary Hopkins to
cut the cost of his department would be
appreciated by business
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25
A NEW TUNE BUT
THE SAME OLD WORDS

Arizona's latest attempt to obtain a
larger share of Colorado river water
than that allotted her under the Santa
Fe Compact is set to an entirely new
tune, but the song is the same. 1t boils
down to: California is unfair; Arizona
deserves more water
1t is hard in this latest instance to
find any logical reason for the Arizona
charge that California is playing dog in
the manger, because California already
has established her right to the share
of water she needs. California, in refus-
ing to ratify Arizona's substitute for the
compact, is not merely protecting her
own rights, She is, honorably and hon
estly, protecting the rights of two CO.
signers of the Santa Fe document (Which
Arizona steadfastly has refused to sign).
Utah and New Mexico have rights
under the compact which are absolutely
ignored by the Arizona plan. In other
words, if the Arizona plan were adopted,
Utah and New Mexico would be in the
position of having absolutely no recog
nized right to water from the Colorado
There is little to recommend the Ari-
zona plan, except to Arizonans. Certain
ly California cannot be expected to turn
traitor to the two states which supported
her in the compact, and to herself as
well, just because Arizona wishes it.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25
Willis Thornton
Says:

Prominent Americans who are
drafted to make college baccalau-
reate and commencement actresses
year after year would find it inter-
esting to dig through musty files
and compare their speeches for the
last 10 years with those made in
1899.
A survey OF newspaper accounts
Of at least so current dissertations
leaves no doubt that the speakers
no longer ramble on for hours
(while perspiration flows beneath
a thousand caps and gowns about
the great opportunity in life that
is just outside the field house door
Nor do they paint a dark pic.
ture of gloom and despair which
challenges the metal of the stout
est hearted.
The 1899 style baccalaureats and
commencement speaker takes off
his gloves after the second para
graph and chooses to go the rest
of the route with a little bare
fisted. hand hand encounter with
the realities of life, no punches
pulled
OF course, there are still q few
old style orators who stress the i'm
portance OF honesty, ambition,
energy, willingneSs-to-wo indus.
try, etc, etc, in the great game
which you are entering today" But
just look at these excerpts selected
at random from this years
sheeches:
IF we are TO avoid regimenta-
ton, We must exert active effort
to order our own scheme Of life" "
The question that remains to be
answered in your time is: How
far can legislation 60 and still
register a gain for all the people. +"
The present danger to demo.
cracy lies in the possibility that we
ourselves viii discredit the demo-
cratic system, or permit it to be-
come atrophied through lack of
use"
The foundation on which these
desirable structures (high stan
dards of livingJ can be supported
is an efficient and profitable pro.
duction of things people need and
are willing TO pay for"
An abandonment of co-ordinated
thinking paves the way for fas-
cism and revolution"
Yes, those are words spoken TO
1899 college graduates by leaders in
business, government and the
church. Times do change, don't
they?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25

JOOASoos
But this was not all. Her hus-
band was a chronic invalid, and
was confined to his bed. The eve
ring that she brought back the
news she had lost her job, she had
to go to the kitchen and cook his
dinner and take it to his bed.
She started in to look for job.
Each morning she would arrange
her husband as comfortably as she
could, and then start on her job.
hunting rounds. But there was no
lob in the kind OF work she had
been doing
Her next step was to try TO utilize
what she knew second best. When
she was younger she had written
for the newspapers. AT last she
found it! She would support her
self by writing for the newspapers.
She got up a very careful letter
and set it TO the state papers telling
of her past experiences, and asking
for a job. Nothing happened. The
newspapers had staff writer's, and
did not want somebody living in an
other part OF the state writing for
them by mail.
Now what should she do? She
decided to start q business OF her
own and To operate it from heI
homei
A newspaper clipping bureau!
Specializing in Missouri papers
There are 800 newspapers in Mis-
souri,. Never in the world could
she afford to subscribe to them
So she wrote the editors that she
was starting a clipping bureau and
that he would probably like to have
her clip his paper; that she would
90 this if he would send it to her
The editors liked the idea and put
her on the mailing list. AT last she
had a start!
The next thing was to get Gus
toners. She wrote letters. and
made callS-launched a selling CAM
paign. zone of her customers is
Governor Lloyd c. Stark of Mis-
souri, She decided to give the
very best possible service; not only
that. but to give daily service. In
no time at all her business began
tc climb. She made enough money
for her husband to have a neces-
sary operation. The operation was
successful, and he is now helping
her with her work.
And there she is today, at the
address I gave you. making a sue
cess of a job she created for herself
If you lose your job and are tiec
down by circumstances, looi
around and see if you can't start {
business of your own. I told yot
about Mrs. Nellie Speer of New
York, who did that very thing b.
making pies. And I told you abou
Mrs. Snyder who did it in Chicago
by making candy.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25
Famous Sayings
Bruce Cation in Washington
Dissects the News

handler. At one season of the year
a greater proportion of the area S
total production will be sold as
fluid milk than at another season.
Consequently, farmers and nan
oilers alike tend to be at the mercy
of unpredictable and often ineqult-
able price shifts. What the milk
marketing act does, in effect, Is per
nit them to get together with the
secretary of agriculture, work out
basic prices for both fluid and
pocessed milk, and then guarantee
that all producers in that area Will
get those prices.
Thus, the farmer benefits through
a fixed minimum price. The han
dler benefits through a stable mar
ket in which free competition foI
milk has been eliminated.
But those two things fixed
minimum prices and the elimina-
ton of competition-were precise
ly the goals which the Chicago
people were striving for and which
the antitrust division took them
into court for. Says the antitrust
division, in brief:
Fixing things for the producer
and the distributor is all very well
but how about the consumer
Who protects him? The tendency
of these agreements is to raise the
retail price. Consumer prices il
Chicago fell about two cents {
quart after we started our actor
there"
Broadly speaking, there are two
ways to try TO restore prosperity
TO an industy-by maintaining {,
stable, relatively high price level
or by driving prices down anC
looking for improvement through
increased demand.
The New Deal is trying botl
ways. Just to make the expert.
ment interesting, it is trying then
both in the same industry.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25

WASHINGTON.-As an example
of the way the New Deal can keep
its right hand from knowing what
its left hand is doing, consider the
milk situation.
With one hand-the Department
of Agriculture-the government is
trying to promote price-fixing and
end "cut throat competition" in
the milk industry.
With the other the antitrust
division of the Department of JUS
tice-the government is trying to
kill price fixing and restore COM
petition in the milk industry.
The Supreme Court the other
day gave the Department of Agri-
culture a green light by okaying
the federal milk marketing act
which makes legal the very per-
formances which the antitrust divi.
sion proceeds against.
Meanwhile, there are pending, in
Chicago antitrust indictments
against a set of milk producers
handlers, labor leaders and health
officials for doing just the sort OF
thing which the milk marketing
act calls for.
Just to make the merry chain
complete when the milk mar
keting act was being fought in the
Boston courts, the government
lawyer assigned to defend it-ano
thus to defend price fixing and the
ending of competition in milk
was chap from the antitrust divi-
sion who previously had been spend
ing his time assailing price fixing
and the ending OF competition il
milk.
The basic trouble. OF course, il
that the business of supplying {
big city with its milk is an i'm.
mensely complicated economic prob
lem.
A surplus OF fluid milk in any
given area is inevitable. The sur.
plus gets proceSsed-into butter, ict
cream cheese, or What-not-anC
brings lower price than the fluit
milk.
One handler will be able to pu
a greater proportion OF the mill
he buys from the farmer into tht
fluid milk market than anothe
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25
OVER THERE AND
OVER HERE
(OroVille Mercury-R -Register)

(OroVille Mercury -Register)
Accustomed to Old World intrigue
with its national boundaries Of maginot
lines and anti-aircraft defenses, King
George of England was impressed during
his recent visit with the evidences of
peace he found existing along the United
States-C Canadian border
In the New World he did not find eX-
pensive Notifications along the line sep
arating the two countries. AS matter
of fact he found no need for such de-
fenses on the part of either nation and
in this is a lesson that the whole world
could follow, particularly Europe.
1t is ridiculous that in this so-called
enlightened age, peoples are force to
spend billions to protect" themselvs
against their fellow man.
Commenting on whot he saw in North
America, King George said:
From the Atlantic to the Pacific, and
from the tropics to the Arctic lies large
part of the earth where there is no pos
sibility of war between neighbors, whose
people are wholly dedicated to the pur-
suits of peace; pattern for all men of
how civilized nations should live togeth-
er. 1t is good to know that such region
exists, for what man can do once he can
do again"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25
(Lindsay Gazette)

An experienced auto driver who is on
the road much of the time remarked that
the worst speed violators are boys in
their teens with nothing to do and no
place in particular to go. Even in short
distances they will run the motor at full
speed and then rub the rubber off the
tires by brakes. Young men need to be
gainfully employed. Government schools,
churches, ETC., all have a problem here.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25
Safnriav,s Hornscope

Saturdays Horoscope
If your birthday is on this date'
suppress any tendencies to be eS'
travagant. Otherwise you will pros
per through the year, gaining much
through enterprise and initiative
The year favors happy courtShlp
and marriage. The child born To-
day will be blessed with a we'll
balanced temperament and happy
disposition. He or she Will also DC
clever, original, intuitive and re-
fined. He will also be popular and
lucky.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25

of Missouri.
She was direc-
tor of the Chill
dren's Bureau of
the State Board
of Charities. She
had been in her
Job ten years
and expected to
remain with it in.
definitely. Then
there W as a
change in pol
itics. She was
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25
Editorials and Comment
SUNDAY JUNE 25, 1889
Grab Bag

Minute Test a
|. In what book in the Bible
are the Ten Commandments foundP
2. What date is commemorated
in some of the southern states as
Memorial Day? ##.......,..
3. What is the name OF the sash
worn by Japanese?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25
Dale
Carnegie

This ia the story of what one
woman did when she lost her job.
Her name is Mrs. May Stafford
Hilburn, $40 East High st, JEFF
ferson City. in my old home state
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25
(Porterville Recorder)

Mrs. Max Baer, Livermore-"Im glad
Max lost to Nova. The talk that he quit
to Louis hurt him so that he had to vim
dicate himself. Now he as done so; and
he'll quit fighting"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25

there.
The man at the next desk says
women shouldn't get so thrilled
over their toeless, heelless shoes.
He SAYS his sox have been IN that
condition for years.
The June honeymoon Is over
when he refuses to eat more than
six of her first batch of biscuits.
Junior will stop stepping on bugs
as soon as he reads this: Termites
are gnawing away the foundations
of a California school.
We Just happened to think that
the only other creatures, besides
certain frail humans, which hiss
are geese and snakes
European scientist claims to have
invented a machine which creates
any kind of weather. Hey-weVe
got enough weather now!
It's cinch that if the PRESIDENT
al bee doesn't ever buzz in your
bonnet you can't get stung.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25
Horoscope for Sunday

The person whose birthday is on
this date must use all the resources
and tact at his or her command
to surmount q difficult year Trou-
BILE with parent, caused by en-
emies or other relatives, is indicated
and also business difficulties. The
child born today will be artistic
and refined. but a born "worrier'
and somewhat unreliable and lack.
ing in stick o-itiveness.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25
THOUGHTS for the Day

But God said unto me- Thou shalt not build an house
for my name because thou hast been man of war,
and has shed blood Chronicles 2s:S.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25
Hints on Etiquette

When a widow remarries it IS
customary for her to invite her
first husbands relatives to the
wedding and if they come, to show
them especial courtesy and honor
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25
Words of Wisdom

Words of Wisdom
A wonderful discovery - psyche
analysis. Makes quite simple peo-
pie feel they're complex.-S. N
Behrmam
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25

On the beaches it's smart TO
wear ''nautch girl" anklets with
tiny bells that peal when their
WearerS move.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25
You re Telling Me-

A silver spoon in the mouth does
Mt necessarily indicate good luck.
Many a fish has died with one
there.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25

One Minute Test Answers
|. Exodus.
.. April &c
g. Obi.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-25

"A neW subscription is one OBJ
tanned from a person who has not
taken either one of these newspa-
pers during the past 30 days!
See your friends or relatives
and get them to subscribe to
either the Post or Press, or if
they already take one of these
papers, persuade them to pay
1926 in advance for 6 months
renewal.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04

of the Los Angeles staff which was
ordered in Washington because the
AT of L complained that the CIO
dominated the National Labor Re-
lations board staff in Los An
Geles.
Five field men from the same
office were transferred to service
elsewhere and as yet undisclosed
requirements ordered into the field
Howard was one OF the leaders
under DR.. Towne Nylander when
he was head of the Los Angeles
office.
1t was Howard who was arrested,
convicted, and fined for disturb
ing the peace at the Gotfried Pack
ing shed in Holtville during a
controversy over wages. M. A
Gotfried, shed owner, Edna o.
Meara, his secretary, and Frank
Ferrone, his buyer, signed a COM
plant charging Howard with tear
ing an Associated Farmers 'Declar-
alton of Law and Order" from a
shed door, and using loud, obscene
and abusive language in the pres
ence of a woman.