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Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07

First of two recitals by students
of Hazel Baker took place Tuesday
night in the studio. 665 He'll avenue
before a large and enthusiastic
audience of friends and relatives.
At this recital elementary stu.
dents were presented in an excel.
lently- played program which re.
Elected much credit on both teachers
and students.
Nice technique, good interpreta.
ton which signified both fine train.
ing and a nice understanding OF
their music, were characteristics OF
each performance.
Derwin Alexander assisted the
piano students, playing several
marimba selections to the delight OF
his listeners, sympathetic accom-
paniments being provided by j. B
Fisher.
The program opened with a two
piano number, "TommyS New
Drum" (PreSto), played by Betty
Jo Boals and Donna Jean Palmer
and continued with the following
solos: Priscilla on Sunday" tBil.
bro), Jean Bridenbaugh; Dublin
Town" CThompson) Richard Ellis;
"In the Swimming Pool" (Adler)
Wanda Horton: "Spooks" CEckstein)
Merle Horton; Playful Echoes
(GilberD, Darrell Hampton; Jolly
DarkieS" (Bechter). Kenneth Aud.
dell; "Noddlng Daisies" Johnson
Cherrie Hamilton; IN a Ricksha
CHopsCn), Virginia Palmer; Hip
pity Hop (BrownD, Betty Joe
Boals; ON the Alma tTyrolean
folk song), Donna Jean Palmer;
yellow Butterflies" Loeb. EvanS)
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Dance Thursday
In Imperial

IMPERIAL, June - mperiais
American Legion Auxiliary unit is
sponsoring graduation dance,
open to the public for Thursday
evening at 8 O'Clock in the Veter-
ans hall.
The high school graduates will
be guests of honor, a popular or
chestra will supply the music, and
refreshments will be served by the
unit. A small admission charge will
be made to cover expenses.
This dance, which will follow the
high school graduation exercises, is
a part of the units community
service actiVitis.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Postpone Dinner
One Night

Women's Civic Improvement club
has announced postponement OF
the chicken dinner from Thursday
to Friday, the penney carnival
however, taking place as scheduled
Thursday afternoon and evening
in the club hous, IA State. Var
ious committees have arranged in
teresting features for the carnival
which patrons of all ages will en-
joy.
The building will be air cooled
for the dinner Friday which will
be served from II am. to 2 pm.
and from 5-8 pm. with Mrs. Ma
Piles and Mrs. WeSSon in charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Edited by Anne Hardy Davis
Baker Students Presented in
Excellent Recital

Doris Bridenbaugh; THE Pixies
Goodnight Song" Brown, Hor.
tense Guilbault; "A Venetian TWi-
light James,, Willie Mae Keat.
ing; The Gallant Barkentine"
Kern, Barbara Small; Dance of
the MidgetS" (Cadman), Juanita
Jackson; "Danse Ante" (Dutton)
Marcia Mercereau; "Valse Elaine"
tRasbach), George Faye Yearley.
Certificates of merit from the
California Music Teachers asSocia-
ton we're awarded to Darrell
Hampton, Kenneth Aduddell Juan.
ita Jackson, Betty 10 Boals, Doris
Bridenbaugh, Jean Bridenbau9h,
Coralayne Simonds, Cherrie Hamil.
ton, first year students; TO Bar
bara Small. Donna Jean Palmer,
Virginia Palmer, Virginia Reed,
second year students; and to Willie
Mae Keating, fourth year student.
Mrs. Baker served refreshments
to her guests at the close Of the
recital.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Valley Musicians
In Fine Program

A delightful half hour of music
by those outstanding valley artists,
Charles Kershaw, pianist; Henry
Marcot, violinist; William F. North,
singer, and Eula Mae Holiday,
organist, preceded the ice cream
social sponsored by the young peo-
pie of the Presbyterian church
Tuesday night.
The program was an exceptional
one and featuring as it did such
splndid musicians, was thoroughly
enjoyed by those attending as were
the refreshments served later.
Sponsors OF the concert were for
tunate to secure the services OF
such talented artists as were those
who attended the concert.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Clubs
Society
schools Clubs
vi 1I1ICCCSI ~ w O111Cl1 Society
Calendar
WEDNESDAY

WEDNESDAY
City council, 1880, city hall
LO.O.F. No. 397, 4O8, 1880, Braw-
ley -.
Ice Breakers club, 1870, ice plant
Gibson recital, 7:45, $40 Main
Baker recital, 7:45, 665 Hell
Eagles, 8, 532 Main
Reid recital, 8, Barbara Worth
THURSDAY
McCabe- Eucalyptus, 10, III. T..
Osborne ranch
Rose Mesquite, 1890, Joe Seibert
home
Rotary club, Barbara Worth
20-30 club, I, 566 Brighton
Townsend club social, 1880, city
park
B.P.O.E. No. 1925, 8, Elks hall
RAM. No. 109, 1880, Masonic
temple
Dance, 8. Imperial Veterans hall
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Enrolment for
Bible School

Total enollment to date of $50
students is reported for the daily
vacation Bible school being con-
Quoted for two weeks at Washing
ton, Harding and Wilson schools
under the auspices of the city min
iSterial association. Harding and
Wilson reporting a total of 173
students registered. and Washing
ton, II.
Wednesdays attendance was:
Harding, ST; Wilson, "a; Washing
ton, IT,
Many volunteer offers of help
have been received from citizens
interested in the work of the school.
A full program of music, Bible study
and craft work is under way.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
W.C.T.U. Annual
Convention on
June |3

CALEXICO, June 7-According
to Mrs. c. W. Brcckman, county
W.C.TU. president, the annual
convention of the organization will
take place June 13 in FL Centre at
the First Baptist church.
First session will take place at
pm. in the church. At 6 pm. the
women of the church will serve a
chicken dinner which will be fol-
lowed by the evening program.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
Social Sponsored
Bv Townsend Club

Townsend club No. 2 is sponsor
ing an ice cream social for Thurs
Gay night instead OF the usual club
meeting. This social will take place
in the city park, in the 500 block,
at 7:30 o'clock.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-07
BRINGS "REFRESHMENT TIME"

Latest informal portrait of Singin'
Sam, veteran entertainer who
brings "RefreShment Time" to
radio listeners daily, Mondays
through Fridays, over Station
KXO at l1:l5 o'clock. (adv)
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21

lars worth of properties owned by
Americans. It shows further that
when she did this Uncle Sam turned
the other cheek which Mexico also
slapped as is revealed by the drop in
sales of American manufactured pro-
ducts in Mexican markets. Perhaps
no perfect political economic basis can
be worked out between nations. Ger
tainly if political protection is denied
economic protection will not exist.
Secretary of State Hull expressed
in his note to Mexico on August %,
1888 his conviction on this point when
he said: cit seems to the Government
of the United States contention alien
to the history, the spirit and the ideals
of democracy as practiced throughout
the independent life of all the ma
lions of this continent.
eff such a policy were to be gem
orally followed, what citizen of one.
republic making his living in any of
the other twenty republics of the
western hemisphere could have any
assurance from one day to the next
that he and his family would not be
evicted from their home and bereft
of all means of livelihood?
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21
CLOSE PLAY
By PUTNAM FENNELl JONES
From Asgsst CesmepoIifzsl

MIKE DEVNE was a ball.
wi players umpire. He was fair
and he was stubborn, but the men
respected him and he had fewer
arguments than any other umpire.
AT least he had up to now. He
could hardly believe that it was Eric
Tilton who would give him trouble
Eric whom he'd practically
raised and taught baseball after JEFF
Tilton, the boys father and Mikes
battery mate with the old Giants.
had been killed in q hunting acci-
dent. Eric, who was Mikes own som
in-law, married to Mary Devine, the
apple Of her fathers eye. But that's
the way it was. Eric resented every
adverse decision. but then Eric
wasn't himself.
Eric was a sensation his first year
and publicity lowered about him. He
got to be celebrity and that's hard
for such young man to take on an
even keel. The cafe society crowd
and the big-money boys began to
rush him and he began to be away
from home more and more.
It was in the double-header
against Pittsburgh that things came
to q head. Mike called three strikes
on Eric and Eric wasn't willing to
accept Mikes diagnosis. The fans
roared their derision because Eric
was the most popular player with
the stands. but Mike stuck to his
guns. Eric was out.
Mike suffered then, but he suf.
fered more later on in the game.
When Eric was playing third base
and a Pittsburgh player. running to
third, was out by q mile. until Eric
dropped the ball. Mike really knew
about misery. for only two people
in the ball park knew that Eric had
dropped the ball and they were Mike
and Eric. Everybody else there could
see that the man was out because
they hadn't seen that other thing.
Mike said the Pittsburgh player was
safe. The stands screamed and Law.
son, the manager. came down on
Mike like q wolf on the fold, de-
handing an explanation.
Eric stepped up calmly and made
his announcement.
81 dropped the bali. lawson" he
said. 81 dropped it"
Then Mike knew that he had won.
indeed-more than Q ball game,
more than q decision. He had won
q man. He had won Eric back to the
right way Of doing business and he
wasn't wrong.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21
breath even, they express approval OF
economic internationaIism.

breath even, they express approval of
economic internationaIism.
WARS" they say, "are one thing.
So are political beliefs and practices,
Let the people of Germany be nazis,
of Italy fascist, of Russia communis-
tic, and of Mexico a combination of
the worst quality of all three of these
PHILOSOPHERS if they wish. And let
them fight over it, if they want to.
That's their business. But whether
they fight or not, we want to do a
little business with them"
This is all very well on the face
of it but any business dealings we
have with any such nations will be
conducted by American citizens eth
er as individuals or acting as corpora
tions. Inevitably these American citi-
zens will be gyped by the outlaw ma
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21

tions. What will Uncle Sam do when
they are gyped? Will he take it ly-
ing down or will be demand protec-
ton for his nationals as provided by
the principles of international law?
The United Saskatchewan rela-
tions today provide a perfect illus
tration of the unworkability of the
political-isolationist economc-interna-
tonalist combination. On March 18,
1888 the government of Mexico ex-
propriated American-owned oil prop
critics. AS political isolationists the
United States Government has made
no formal official protest. AS eco
nomic internationalists business peo-
pie of the United States who sold
products to Mexico along with the
owners of the oil properties have suf-
fered great losses. According to a
Department of Commerce report "fhe
drop in United States exports to
Mexico amounted to 80 per cent of the
total decline in Mexico's imports from
all countries"
The record further shows that Next
CO without legal or ethical right con-
fiscated hundreds of millions of dol
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21

not merely an exciting book but a
deeply moving book.
Yes, it's different from anything
you have ever read: the people have
different customs, different interests;
they are compelled to fight vast forces
for their livelihood, and something of
the ice and stone and soaring wind
seems to become a part of them and a
part of the book. I recommend FL
lott Merrick's "Frost and Fire" as my
own choice among July books" So
writes Mr.. Frances Ludlow.
The two adult books that will be
close rivals for top honors in non
fiction are: "Not Peace but Sword,
by Vincent Sheehan and "Let the Re-
cord Speak,, by Dorothy Thompson.
The first of these is Book-of-the-
Month Club selection; the second is
by a woman who is in a fair way to
becoming the best known political
commentator in the United States
if she isn't already. Sheehan's book
is more personal, more dramatic; Dor
othy Thompson's books is more fact
ual.
Eduard Benes has put into book
form his lectures as Democracy To-
day and Tomorrow" The Pressure
Boys, by Kenneth Crawford looks like
a potential best seller. It is more dra-
matte and revealing than $50 Ameri-
can Families" Watch it.
Two travel books stand out; North
ern Lights, by Desmond Holdridge
and "Cannibal Caravan, by Charles
"Cannibal" Miller. The first is an en-
pertaining story of man against ma
ture; the second is an account of wild
adventures among the savages of
Dutch New Guinea. Both are illus
trated.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21
FIRST INFANTRY WINS
NITHE RIFLE MATCH

Three teams from the First Infan'
try ran one, two, three in the Ameri.
can Legion Walters Team Match
Company E, from Elkton, won the
match with a score of 331. Members
of the team were 1t. George r. Ash
Pvt. Willard H. Clifford, Sgt. William
T. Warburton. and Sgt. John G.
Rhoades.
Company "a" of Frederick was Sec
ond, two points behind the winners.
Members of this team were Cpl. Floyd
E. Kreh, 1t. James E. Bartgis, Jr.,
Sgt. Alton E. Shaft, and Sgt. Francis
Van Fossen.
Company cps, from Hyattsville,
was in third place with score Of 300.
Members of the "F" Company were
Pvt. S. E. Cleveland, Pvt. Edmund
J. Barker, 1t. VIM. L. Spicknall and
Pvt. Joseph Kuntz.
Men of the First Regiment showed
well in a number of other matches.
With more than 100 of the best marks
men in the State competing in the
Adjutant Generals Match, End 1t.
John C. Golden, Co. "G", Cumberland,
finished third with score of 81. This
was only one point behind the win
ming score of 90.
In the same match 1t. Spiclznall, of
Hyattsville, finished fifth with a 80,
Cpl. Phillip D. Lines, Co "I'', Sails
bury was up among the leaders with
an 80, and Sgt. Allen r. Kinsey, Co,
GAP, Frederick, shot an 88.
In the Governors Team Match,
Company ga" from Frederick, finish
ed second, ten points behind the win
ners. Members of the Company GAP
team that piled up total of BAL points
were Sgt. Henry J. Mask, 1t. James
E. Bartgis, Jr., Cpl. Lewis G. Kinsey
and Sgt. Allen R. Kinsey.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21
INTERESTING BOOK REVIEW

The Editor of The Retail Booksell-
er in his monthly review of the books
which seems to him to be the best of
the lot has this to say "The dark horse
for July is frost and Fire.. It is
by an author who has never had out
standing sales, but we believe it is a
potential best seller nevertheless.
Here is a book that is different from
anything you have ever read before.
When you begin it, you may be alarm
ed by the difference, but don't stop
reading or you will miss a vital ex-
perience and glimpse into another
world. Frost and Fire" is a story
of Labrador. Its chief character is
Jan Mckenzie, son of Scotch trap
per and Kosiah, an Eskimo woman.
JAMS father dares to fight against
the injustice which keeps the trappers
in debt to the trade-and dies. frost
and Fire" is really the story of JAMS
heartbreaking struggle against the
same system.
Here are exciting stories of appall-
ing trips to an ice-bound wilderness,
of almost superhuman fortitude.
There is JAMS trip down the river
with badly hurt comrade, and his
second, infinitely more difficult trip,
alone, with his arm broken. There
is the season spent in the desolate
North of continued subkero tempera-
lures, with Luce, his young wife, and
their newly born baby. And for sheer
drama I suggest you try the tale of
JAMS story if it were set off by itself.
Yet there is great deal more to
this book than adventure and hard
ship; it deals with social and eco
nomic problem as all-important to
Labrador as the problem of the drift
ing worker is to California as told
in Grapes of Wrath" so wildly. It is
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21
GREAT WANT
in MIDST OF
MUCH PLENTY

All of us are searching for ian
answer to the yet unsolved puzzle of
the widespread want prevailing in a
land of teeming plenty" as the Cor
nell Law Quarterly phrases it. And
the Quarterly observes that it is not
inconceivable that the answer might
be provided by 1.-The removal of the
present prohibitory bans on those com
mercial ventures which have made the
greatest strides in solving the prob
lens of distribution"
It is certainly reasonable to argue
that steady reductions in the cost at
which goods of all kinds are sold to
the consumer, must inevitably result
in greater consumption-with its cor
rollaries of a rising standard of living
for all, increased industrial expansion,
more opportunity for investor and
worker, and stimulated productive en-
7ployment. That has always been
true in the past. Progress made in
farm and factory has resulted in a.
mazing cuts in the cost of many COM
modities, both in the luxury and nee
essity classifications. And similar
progress in the machinery of distri-
button has been vital factor in help
ing pass these savings on to the con-
sumner.
A alrge number of states prevent
open, honest competition, by the i'm
position of socalled fair trade acts
which permit the manufacturer of
many articles to stipulate the mini
mum price at which they may be sold,
and thus prevent the low-cost store
from cutting prices below the level of
the high-cost, wasteful store. Some
states levy punitive taxes against GER
tain kinds of retail outlets, thus hold
ing prices at artifically high levels
Other states use other means-but all
come to the same thing in the end
All boost the cost of living, penalize
the efficient merchant, and hold down
consumption.
There is any amount of evidence In
support of the view that the public al
large would favor elimination of these
structures on fair competition. More
and more of these laws have beer
beaten, both in voters referendums
mad in legislative sessions, in recen,
years. Most of the existing laws
were placed on the books some years
ago, and since then public opinion has
had a chance to change. They SHOULD
be repealed-so that retail business
may do still more to pass on "teem
ing plenty" to all.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21
new LODGE
OF ELKS NAMES
N. M. YOUNG

Mr.. Norris M. Young is the presid-
ing officer of the newly organized
Lodge of Elks, which was instituted
in Pocomoke on June 20, of this year
Although the charter has not yet been
received from the headquarters in
Chicago, application has been made,
has been approved, and will be re-
ceived shortly.
Mr.. Young is business man of this
city, is about 45, and is at the head
of the old lumber milling industry,
long established under the name OF
Young and Son. He has the distin-
guished honor of being chosen as the
first president of the first Lodge OF
Elks to be organized here. POGO
moke has had within it's borders sew
eral members of the Fraternity, but
they have been affiliated with the
body in Crisfield.
The local lodge opened up with AZ
members, thus forming a part of that
great army of 100000 purely Ameri-
can membership. The Elks are not
represented in any foreign country
and will not accept into its lists any
alien until he is naturalized. The
order stands for pure American citi-
zenship, is loyal to the flag, and out
spoken against all attempts against
American Democracy.
The Elks, besides, are intensely in
terested in civic improvement; they
are charitable in their expenditures
and they believe in sane and sound
enjoyments of life. They emphasize
good will and fellowship, and their
meetings are full of. good cheer and
relaxation from the many perplexing
problems of the every day existence.
At present, the lodge is meeting in
quarters in the Peninsula Building,
but these are only temporary, and it
is planned to have a temple of their
own. They meet every second and
fourth Thursdays, and, judging from
the very encouraging start made, the
lodge bids fair to develop into one of
the most flourishing in this section.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21

later flames threatened them. A
neighbor several hundred feet dis
tant heard their cries and sum-
moned help. Only this fortunate
circumstance prevented their be-
ing grilled alive.
Fractured shoulders, ribs, and
eye injuries are part of their hos
pital records. Loss of time and re-
sultant injury to business helped
pile up the total cost of too mach
haste.
A SAFE DRIVER ADAPTS
HIS SPEED TO TRAFFIC
AND ROAD CONDITIONS. TO
DO OTHER WISE rs TO
COURT DISASTER!
This Is one Of q series Of actual hap
penings from the accident files Of the
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company; Il
is published here in an effort to help
prevent highway accidents.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-07-21

This mass of scattered wreck
age was a modern automobile,
only a short time before the pic
ture was taken. It was not de-
stroyed by a railroad locomotive,
as the ruins might suggest.
SPEED, aided by FIRE, did the
trick.
Two statesmen were riding in
this car at high noon on a spring
day. One of them maintains that
he warned the man at the steer
ing wheel a few minutes before
the accident that he was going
too fast. In this case the back
seat driver proved to be right!
The road was being repaired; a
depressed culvert caused the car
TO swerve. It struck soft shoul-
der at the side of the road and
turned over, trapping the two
men underneath it. A moment