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Evening star., 1939-01-12
Miss Virginia Gaines
Wed to MIR. Gushing

The marriage of Miss Virginia
King Gaines, daughter of the late
DR.. and Mrs Laurence Yancey
Gaines of Florence, S. c., to Mr..
. Ernest r. Gushing, son of Mrs.
Ernest w. Cushing and the late
Maj. Cushing of Arlington, took
place January 2, in Fredericksburg,
Va.
After February l. Mr.. and Mrs.
Gushing will be at home at 4625
Thirty-seventh street, Golf Club
Manor in Arlington.
Evening star., 1939-01-12
Residential
Social
Notes
Mrs. Harrison
And Daughter
To Entertain

Mrs. Russell B. Harrison and her
daughter, Mrs. M. Harrison Will
liams, have issued cards for cock
tail party Saturday afternoon from
4 to 7 o'clock in their apartment
in the Dresden.
Mrs. Jones, widow Of Mr.. James
Emlyn Jones. has returned from a
brief visit in Youngstown, Ohio,
where Mr.. Jones was financial
director some years ago.
Mrs. Richard Redwood Richard
son, jr., formerly Miss Ruth Emlyn
Jones, who was with her mother
here, has joined Mr.. Richardson in
their Norfolk home.
DR.. John Clark Patterson has re-
turned to his house on 18th street
from Peru where he went to attend
the Pan-American Conference in
Lima.
Mrs. Edward D. Rhodes returned
yesterday to Philadelphia after Wis
ltlng her brother and sister-in-laW,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ Cathcart, jr., and
her father, Mr.. j. NJ Cathcart for
the first week of the year. Mrs.
Rhodes was accompanied by her two
small daughters, Arlene and Maxine
Rhodes and Miss Audrey Morton of
Philadelphia. Mrs. Rhodes formerly
was Miss Mary Pomeroy Cathcart of
Washington and Tampa, Fla. She
was active in dramatic work in
Washington and during her stay
here was a guest at several parties,
among them the reception to the
Florida delegation in Congress given
by the Florida State Society Satur-
day evening. She was accompanied
by Miss Morton
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry G. Culver,
OF Paris, were guests of honor last
evening at small dinner party
given by Lady Bradford Leslie in
her apartment at Hotel Twenty
Four Hundred. Other guests were
Mrs. Nugent Failon, Mrs. George
c. Thorpe, Mrs. William Powell, Col.
Frank Morrow. Mrs. Edwin Penni-
man, Mr.. Lewis Lotus Moneyway.
Mr.. and Mrs. Culver are spending
the week in Washington and will
return to their apartment in New
York to be there until April when
they will sail for their Paris home.
Mr.. Culver is known in the art
world for his models of ships, some
of which are in the Academy
Museum in Annapolis.
Mr. Eugenio de Hostos, Yale STU
dent and grandson of the late
Eugenio Maria de Hostos, famous
educator, writer and sociologist of
Puerto Rico whose bust was un-
yelled last evening at the Pan
American Union. was the guest O.;
Continued on Page B-4D
Evening star., 1939-01-12
Invited to See Film

Members of Congress and their
wives will be guests at a special
showing of Jean Renoir's prize
winning photoplay, Grand IL
lusion," at the Belasco Theater to-
morrow evening.
Members of Congress who are ex-
pected to attend include: Senators
Guy M. Gillette, Burton K Wheeler,
Charles o. Andrews. Claude Pepper
Allen Ellender, Ebert Thomas,
Ernest Lundeen, Pat Harrison and
Charles Tobey, and Representatives
Hamilton Fish, Edith Nourse Rogers,
w. F. Norrell, Robert Allen, Ben
Jensen. John Kee. Thomas E Mar
tin, Mathew j. Merritt and Joseph
L. Pfeifer.
Evening star., 1939-01-12
Board Will Meet

The Board of Managers of the
Florence Crittenton Home will meet
tomorrow at II am. at the home,
4759 Reservoir road NV, with Mrs.
F. G. Mitchell, president, presiding.
Luncheon will be served by the
girls. Profits from these luncheons
60 into the girls reserve fund.
Evening star., 1939-01-12

Continued on Page B-4.)
Evening star., 1939-01-12
Miss Stevenson Guest

Representative and Mrs. James
Fitzpatrick OF New York have as
their guest at the Hotel Roosevelt
their neice, Miss Winifred NJ. Stew
enson from New York Mrs. FitZ-
patrick and Miss Stevenson will
leave for Florida tomorrow for
months vacation
Evening star., 1939-01-12
Envoy and Wife Hosts

The Minister of Hungary and
Nine. Pelenyi entert ined at dinner
last night when their ranking guests
were the Argentine Ambassador and
Nine. Espil and Senator and Mrs
Peter Goelet Gerry.
Evening star., 1939-01-12
YOun9s in Florida

Mr.. and Mrs. r. D. Young. ac-
companied by their children. R. D.
Young, jr., and Joe Young, have
arrived at the Inn. Ponte Vedra
Beach, Fla, for a weeks stay.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-23
NO EXCUSE
FOR STRIKES
lOrange Daily News


Why can't we do in all industry, what
is being done in the railroads? Five or
six months ago the railroad managers
announced there would be a cut in wages
of ID per cent. The railroad unions
promptly came back with the statement
that if wages were cut, the workers
would walk out.
In any other industry, such a situation
would have resulted Immediately in a
general strike, tieing up of the industry
involved. riots, disorders, probably blood
shed
But not in the railroads, thanks to the
Railway Labor Act. Strikes are prohib-
tied until after mediation has been tried.
And while the parties concerned are not
compelled to accept the result of such
mediation, a period is established, inn
mediately following the verdict, during
which no interference with the operation
of trains is allowed.
To date this period has been devoted
and always SucceSsfully-to arOusng
the support of public opinion, behind the
decision of the fact-finding board.
In this particular case the presidents
board. decided against the railroads and
in favor of the railroad workers. The
railroads naturally don't like the deci-
sion. The railroad unions do. But there
is every reason to believe, the former,
will acquiesce, in the verdict before the
time limit expires and the wage slash
will be abandoned.
Thus common sense and reason will
replace force and violence, and ma
tional catastrophe will be ayoided-for
a general railroad strike would not only
injure the railroad workers, the railroad
management, but more than either travel
ing and shipping public, lie: the people
of the United States, and its business.
Why can't we be as sensible as this in
other lines of business? Railroads, it's
true, represent Big Business and are
public utility, but the principle is the
same.
Obviously what has been done in rail
roads so successfully, can be done in
industry as whole-if we just have
the will and good sense to set about it.
The Railroad Labor act, unlike the Wag-
ner act, shows the way. What earthly
excuse is there for not following it?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-23
illegal ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF pJBLIC WORK

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN
that a resolution of intention being
Resolution No. 7l9, was on the IL
day of January, 1899, adopted and
passed wherein it was proposed that
o certain street and certain alley
therein referred to and hereinafter
described be vacated and entirely
closed up. Said street and alley is
described as follows:
Vine Street, extending from Sew
enth Street to Eight Street and that
alley, 10 feet wide, in Block SO,
Addition No. One to Ell Centre, ex-
tending from Seventh Street to
Eight Street.
Said resolution of intention is
hereby referred to for further par
ticulars.
FURTHER NOTICE is HEREBY
GIVEN that any person interested
objecting to the said closing of the
said street and alley may make
written objections to the same with
in ten days after the expiration of
the time of the publication of this
notice and such objection or objec-
tions will be given a hearing by
the City Council as provided by
law.
PHILIP w. KNIGHTS,
Street Superintendent of
The City of III Centre.
J, 1929 incl
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-23
WE'VE COME A LONG WAY
in TWENTY YEARS

Twenty years ago last Saturday I'm
perial Valley residents for the first time
voted to approve an All American canal
contract. 1t was not the last time they
would vote on the same kind of proposal,
but it marked the beginning Of an era.
We are near the end of it now, and the be-
ginning of another
1t sounds trite to say that lot has
happened in 20 years. Imperial Valley
itself, however, gives glowing life to the
words.
Not only have we the All American
canal, almost ready for service, but we
have Boulder Dam, we have greater acre
age, greater stability and more knowl-
edge of how to meet our problems.
In the next 20 years, with these bless
ings, we should build an empire second
to none in agriculture and business. We
have all the ingredients. We need now
only the inspiration Of human effort to
put them TO work. Asd, taking the past
as our yardstick, we shall put them to
work.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-23
CHILE TAKES UP
PAWN TICKETS
[ (AIameda Times-Star(

The priced possession in every Latin
American family is the sewing machine
even those in remote sections counting
this article among their limited effects
1t seems that the pinch of poverty has
resulted in many cases in the securing
Of loans in pawn shops by putting up
the machine as collateral. This has
worked real hardship, so great that
the government down in Chile has recog-
niZed it and to relieve the situation has
appropriated 100000 pesos about
100000 in American money-to redeem
these machines and other necessary ar
ticles pawned. More than 5000 were re-
leased in Santiago alone and nearly as
many in the provinces
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-23
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is hereby given by John
B. McNeece, executor of the estate
of James r. McNeece, deceased to
the creditors or all persons having
claims against the said deceased, to
exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers, within six months after
the first publication of this notice,
to the said executor at 2l2 Rehkopf
Building, Ell Centro, California, the
place selected for the transaction
of all business of said estate, or to
file them within six months after
the first publication of this notice,
in the office of the Clerk of the
Superior Court of the State of Cali
fornia, County of Imperial.
Dated this 26th day of Novem-
ber, 1898.
JOHN B. McNEECE,
Executor
Clarence B. Smith, Attorney for
Executor,
J, lG % 30
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-23
PAPER HANGERS AS A
PUBLIC NUISANCE

There is scarcely merchant who has
MT at one time muttered exceedingly
rude things about the customer whose
check for sums anywhere from five to
hundred or more dollars has come back
from the bank with a matter of fact
notation recording its wOrthlesSness. Yet
the merchant himself must share with
the courts the blame for prevalence of
bad checks.
The merchant is too liable to accept
checks from strangers, and the courts
are too liable to look upon forgery or
other bad check offenSes as of minor
importance.
Out of thousands of bad check arrests
in California, state prisons IN 1886 re-
ceived only $50 offenders, while S22 were
i'm prison i'm 1887 for issuing bad checks,
and 9S7 in 1898.
Few days pass at the Imperial county
sheriffs office without at least one COM
plant from a merchant about a bad
check. About half the nOtations on the
sheriff's office teletype from other coun-
ties deal with bad checks. A large por-
tion of the time of sheriff's officers and
courts is taken up with check cases.
In each instance the man or woman
who passes the bad check is guilty of
felony, and can be sent to the peniten-
tlary. Few, however, are sent there.
Sometimes the merchants refuse to pro-
secute after restitution has been made.
Sometimes the courts impose ridiculous
ly lenient terms.
Leniency is desirable, perhaps, in the
case of first offenders, when the often
der has been sufficiently impressed with
the gravity of his offense and the prob
able results of another crime. Leniency
is inexcusable in the case of profession
al" forgers, whose trails through life
are strewn with bad checks.
We know of one such professional"
who was sentenced by California court
to less than a month in a county Jail
for issuing a check on bank in which
he had no account. His fingerprint rec
ord revealed that he had been arrested
in Los Angeles, Nebraska, Wyoming,
Colorado and Oregon at various times.
And it is good bet that he will be ar
rested again some other place. His quick
release from jail merely hastened the
time when he will get into another jail.
Three factors must be used to over
come the large amount of bad check
cases in our courts. l. Greater severity
by the courts. 2. Closer scrutiny by mer-
chants of all checks. 3. Acceptance by
the public of the fact that merchant
is merely protecting himself, not insult
ing his customer, when he makes sure
check is good before he cashes it.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-23
An Economists S
Viewpoint
By John T. Flynn

Congress, in state of pious
indignation at the proposed rellei
appropriations, enforces cut. 1t
will do well to ponder the poten-
tialities of this situation.
Roosevelt asked for $875, 900.
That is S290,0O0,OOO a month for
three months. Perhaps that much
Ought not to be voted. Maybe
Congress- ought to start an econo-
my drive. But it ought to be
aware of the consequence of such
economy.
1t is unfortunate that govern
ment spending is necessary to keep
business afloat But it has been
necessary. And it is difficult TO
see how the present rate of indus
trial activity can be maintained
unless the government spends at
least as much as in the last three
months. If payments for recovery
and relief are cut, the inevitable
result will be a drop in business
activity. Indeed there is some
ground for suppOsing that even II
relief expenditures are maintained
there may be drop.
Now if the relief cut should be
followed by a recession, the newt
able effect will be to furnish the
President with about the only ar
gument he can use. Whereas, II the
full 1915, 100000 was voted and d
slump ensued he would have no
defense.
The chief point of all this IS
to repeat the warning 1 offered
when public expenditures were
being tapered off in 1896 and early
1897. That warning is that while,
perhaps, public expenditures ought
to be reduced, the Congress can
not do merely that 1t must &C
company its action by other sup
Elementary and necessary meas
ures.
The normal support of cur eco
nomic system is investment. Ii
outright spending is stopped, then
we must have a resumption OF
either private or public investment.
Congress must address Itself to the
problem of stimulating private in
vestment in the first place and
public investment to the extent
that private investment refuses to
become active.
1t must be prepared TO see a de-
cline in prices and in wage scales.
And it must recognize that this IS
the inevitable effect cf government
economy without private invest
ment.
is playing a strong hand in all OF
isp laying strong hand in all OF
this. This is natural. But the
politicians against the president
must now determine whether they
are to so manage the situation that
they. instead of the president, are
to take the responsibility for what
happens after cut has been made.
The president himself clearly as
sumed responsibility for the spend
ing cut in 1886 But now Congress
proposes to do the cutting. Can 1t
be Congress has been manenYer-
ed into this position.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-23
Legal Advertisement
LEGAL NOTICE

Registered school orders, bearing
the numbers and drawn on the sew
eral school district funds listed, are
called for payment and will be ap-
proved upon presentation at the of
flee of the County Superintendent
of Schools. They are as follows:
Brawley Union High. Salary, 35-44
Imperial Valley Union High,
Salary, "a
Andrade, Salary l
Fort Yuma, Salary, 3, 4
Holtville, Salary, l, 5
Westside Union, Salary, l.
F.. L. HITEMAN,
County Supt. of Schools.
j. % %
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-23

streets. MADE inquiries, BOJ ltlJcIS
of introduction. Always the same
answer No work!
One day. after tramping the
streets and returning fatigued, he
picked up a book by Lyell called,
principles of Geology. He didn't
know a thing in the world about
geology but his mind was open to
new ideas and suggestions. He be-
came so fascinated that in spite Of
his fatigue. he read all night. His
mind was fired by a chapter about
the then new theory Of evolution.
He determined to know more. He
borrowed every book he could find
on the subject He began to cX-
pertinent
He kept looking for work, but
he wasn't unhappy. for he had
found something that thrilled him
more than anything else had eyer
done dc began to write on the
subject. His name was Herbert
Spenccri
Burning with enthusiams. he
wrote book called, First Prin-
ciples.' Il has come to be consid-
cred one Of the great books of the
world of that day
Filled with the desire to reduce
all knowledge TO harmonious and
related general principles, ne start
ed in on the gigantic task-this
man who hadn't known what to do
when he lost his Job. He finally
found a small job. which paid a low
salary, but it left him time to 90 on
with what became his life work. He
wrote other books. all masterpieces.
Many Of MS books are still con-
sidered classics. He wrote a book
let entitled. The Philosophy Of
Style'-a booklet that has influ-
enced the style Of almost every
author in America.
He was 50 busy working on the
thing he had discovered when he
was jobless that he worked night
and day. He said. q have 50 much
to do and so few years in which
to do it"
N44A iAlABlitS - 4at9A al " LIlE DIT
mingham and London Railway for
firing Herbert Spencer because they
started him on a road that landed
him among the immortals.
He lived to be 80 years old. but
he never stopped working in all
that time on the wonderful oppor-
tunity that he discovered when he
lost his job
If you have lost your job. why
don't you do what he did? Look
around you, find something else
that will interest YOU and throw
your pent-up energies into that. Tt
will clear your thinking. free your
mind of worry, and make Of YOU
more interesting and desirable as
sociate. which in turn NAV be the
cause Of your locating that desired
job.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-23
Photographs

The ethics of the profession of
doctor or dentist compels them to
give their discoveries free to the
world-the only profession in which
this is true.
Gliders are not a modern inven-
ton. The Aztec Indians used them
for gliding down Mexican noun
tain heights 1000 years ago. The
wings were made of stork feathers
and the gliders wore goggles, ac-
cording to pictures carved on stone
which have been discovered
Believe it or not, women are 60
ing in for blue-red lipstick. One
manufacturer calls his shade Black
Cherry.
The World war was eight times
larger than all the other recorded
wars combined.
1t was in January 1899, that a
treaty Of peace was ratified be-
tween Massachusetts and the Saga
more5 of the Maine Indians.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-23
Bruce Cation Says
- Business Men Have Writer'S Cramp

for flexibility, speed ana cllleieh-
cy. -.
It is difficult, however, to see any
socialistic system Tor any tolaA-
tartan SYSTEM can help peinS
largely centralized. The sheer IN
ability of any central clearing pon1C
to funnel through itself the nass
of decisions necessary to the cay 5
work of a great country is one OF
the most valid objections to So
cialism.
But TO have the disadvantages oi
Capitalization without the other
advantages claimed for socialism,
is folly Every scrap of this red
tape that can possibly be shipped
away without sacrificing objectlveS
that have properly found a place
in the central government, ought
to be sheared off without delay.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-23
TOday's Horoscope

Fortune smiles this year on you
if you nave this date for your birth,
day. Your year will be delightful
and successful, so make hay while
the sun shines. For the child born
today talent and success awaits. He
or she will be musical or artistic
and will experience good fortune for
the greater part Of his or her life
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-23
Famous Sayings

To read that the United States
is attempting to simplify systems
under which individuals and bus
mess concerns had to render 1885,
100000 returns and reports to the
federal government last year brings
a mixed reaction.
First, there is faint pleasure
that something is being done about
it. And second there is chagrn
that we have allowed ourselves to
be overwhelmed in such mass OF
bookkeeping.
Many a business man can tell
you these days of special clerks
hired and of the increasing amount
of time of regular employees and
himself devoted to answering ques-
tionnaires. filling out reports, and
mailing both to Washington. 1t is
a serious handicap to the conduct
of business.
Many times Americans have
laughted at the methods OF the
German dictatorship wherein 60 to
80 forms have to be filled out to
consummate an ordinary business
transaction. Many times they have
laughed at Russian Communist red
tape which so ensnarls executives
that they do not make the slight
est administrative move without
an endless correspondence with
Moscow.
Are we getting ourselves in the
same boat? If there is any chance
of it, we'd better get out quickly
while there is still time.
One of the outstanding advan-
tages which a system of free en-
terprise has over any kind of So
cialistic setup is the lack of CEN
tralized control, the ability Of in
dividual managers and executives
to make decisions, right or wrong,
on the spot without clearing them
through d central point. With all
the faults of free enterprise, this
advantage is a real one. 1t makes
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-23
GRAB BAG
One-Minute Test

l. On what sort of plant does the
peanut grow?
2. Is there any clause in the con-
stitution of the United States pro-
hibiting members Of any religion
FROM becoming president?
3. Who was the most famous bird
Of recent history?
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-23
One Minute Test Answers

/. Il Vlnc.
2. No, the constitution distinctly
says no religious test shall ever be
required as a qualification to any
office or public trust under the
United States
3. a carrier pigeon named Cher
Ami which is credited with saving
the Lost Battalion in the World
War.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-23
Words of Wisdom

Men call fretting a minor fauIt-
a foible and not a Vice.-But there
is no vice except drunkenness which
can SO utterly destroy the peace
and happiness CT a home.-Helen
Hunt.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-23

had been an en-
gineer on the
Birmingham and
London Railway.
in England, and
then on c day
was told that his
services We're no
longer needed. 1t
was a shock. Let
Outl Firedi
He W a 5 26
years old. He
W liked t h c
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-23
DALE:
CARNEGIE

Do you know someone who has
lost his job? Is he puttering around
not knowing what to do?
Well, let me tell you what one
man did when he lost MS job He
Imperial Valley press., 1939-01-23
Hints on EtiuuctIc

1t IS not in very good taste TO
send a printed card Of coincidence
to friend who has suffered be-
rcaVemcnt. A personal note. no
matter how short, is preferable.