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Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22
Schools
Churches
Two Sisters in
Recital Last
Friday Night

One of the most interesting OF
recent recitalS, both because it was
given by two sisters and because
of the fine quality of the program
itself, was that which took place
Friday night in the Kenah studios
when Oria Kenah presented Phyllis
and Judith Justman, daughters of
Mr.. and Mrs. C. S. Justman.
Phyllis is an eighth grade student
and Judith. sixth grader and
both have studied for four seasons
with Mrs. Kenah. The two sisters
play with real artistry and have
a genuine musicianship which made
their program all the more pleasing
to the large audience of friends
and relatives.
This program opened with a duet
by the sisters after which each was
heard in solo group which gave
her ample opportunity to show her
versatility and her style of playing
A second duet and a second group
of solo numbers for each young
performer completed the program
in which the compositions of Bach,
Schumann, Lieurance, Harris, Co.
dard, MacDowell, Lickner, Pessard,
Adams, Reinecke and Arthur Brown
were represented.
The two girls seem equally fam
1liar in the classic, the romantic
and the modern schools, and for
such young performers, gave a
highly creditable recital which af-
forded real pleasure to their audi
ence.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22
Golf Club Headquarters For
Smart Bridge Luncheon

HOLTVILLE, April 22:-Mrs. C.
P. Denny and her two daughters,
Mrs. Clark Butler of Holtville and
Mrs. Lewis Mitchell of BraWley,
presided at delightful bridge
luncheon Saturday at the Barbara
Worth golf club.
The club house presented a most
attractive picture with each quar-
tet table was covered with an or
CANDY cloth, centered with vase
filled with pansies. The cloths, in
the various pastel shades, the fig
urines on the mantel, filled with
larkSpur, and the roses on the
piano, created a charming spring.
like setting. Places were marked
with cards ornamented with sprays
of lilac, and the score pads and
the daintily wrapped packages were
all in the pastel shades.
Mrs. Farmer won the high score
prize; Mrs. Dale Cravath, the sec
ond; Mrs. Sam Webb Sr., the third;
Mrs. Bill Murray and Mrs. Frank
Cameron tied for the fourth place
and Mrs. E. v. Edwards received
the prize for sixth high score, the
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22
News Hens About
Valley Residents

Miss Marie Dearborn is recuper-
ating from an operation for appen-
dicitis performed Thursday at the
Ell Centro hospital and will be able
to see her friends after Monday.
Miss Dearborn is employed at the
Bank of America.
Mrs. Cali P. Harrison underwent
an operation Monday morning at
the Ell Centre hospital.
Mrs. Ed Pugh of San Diego is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. l.. j. Goree,
jr.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Asher have
returned from a weeks trip to San
Francisco.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Mason had
as their house guests this weekend
Mr.. Mason's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
H. B. Mason of Los Angeles and
Miss Sabra Mason.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. D. Hammett of
COZ Brighton avenue left Ell Centre
Sunday to spend the summer in
Ocean Beach.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22
A++endC. ST.
Convention

Members from BraWlcy Holtville
and Ell Centro attended the south
ern regional convention of the
California Scholarship society Fed
Grafton this weekend in Pomona.
Central high school was repre-
sented by Phyllis Purdy, Gene
Adams, James Moose, Marilea Han
sen and Miss Dorothy Wilson, ad-
visor.
Americas Position in a World
at War, with special emphasis on
the part scholarship might play in
rcmedying present problems, was
the subject for the general as
sembly and for the panel discus
sions. At the close of the program
the students were taken on in
spection tours of Pomona college
and enjoyed a dance in one of the
patiOS.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22
To oAt+end State
Convention

Club women of the valley are
making plans to attend the annual
convention of the California Fed
Grafton of Women's clubs in Fres-
no April 1925.
Mrs. George King of BraWley
president of the Imperial County
Federation of Womcn'S clubs. will
represent the county; Mrs. Don c.
PauluS. president elect. the Ten
Thousand club of Ell Centre: Mrs
Ernest Edwards. prcSident-elect of
the Holtvilic club; Mrs. f. f. Kel-
so, president elect of Calcxico with
Mrs R. l.. Glasby, state chairman
Of community welfare; Mrs Adolph
Binder. district representative on
the state credentials committee.
FRESNO. Cal, April %. CUP)-
Statewide members of the California
Federation of Womens club Mon
day planned to attend their 39tlI
annual conference which opens fol
a three day session in Fresno We'd
neSday.
Committee heads said today more
than 1000 women we're scheduled
to participate in the program.
Included in Tuesdays pre-con-
vention activities are closed meet
ings of the state board of trustees
the executive board, the revisions
and resolutions committees and the
Emeritus dinner Tuesday for past
state board members.
Gov. Culbert l.. Olson and State
Senate" Jerrold SeaWell of Rose.
vile are scheduled to address tht
conference Friday.
Mrs Thomas H. Richards o.
Chico, state president of the organ.
ization, and other state board mem
bers will be honored at a reception
Tuesday night.
A pageant, written and directed
by Mrs. Amer c. Stolp of MarySville
state chairman of music, will bl
presented at an annual convention
dinner Thursday night.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22

consolation award going to Mrs.
Hoke.
Guests were: Mesdames j. K.
Fahring, j. r. Snyder, L. r. JeS-
ser, C. McPhetridge, Sam webb
Sr., w. L. Huebner, Margaret Kirby
Myrl E. Parker, Milton Meeks, Will
liam A. Clarke, w. E. Beale, G.. B
England, Perry Hunt. E. v. Edwards
Forrest Ferguson, Walter Reynolds
Charles Williams, Ralph Marquand
r. Langley, r. N. Claiborne, Leroy
Davis, Bill Murray, Alvin Immel
Keith Nets, John Farmer, James
Mackie, jr., William Burke, j. T
Little, Tom Bailey. Lloyd Loudon
w. E. Whitacre, j. K. Mitchell
Frank Cameron. J. Keyes Mitchell
o. P. johnson, Sam Webb, jr., H
j. Raborg, Dale Cravath, C. A,
MagaW, Dorothy Head, Joe Nc
Queen, Harry Hoke, c. L. Shaw
Fred Heisner, Bill Mitchell Fred
Troost, Ted KeipSh, Bill Potts, Bill
Watson, L. c. Porter, Miss Mary
Beshara.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22
Lillian Turner New Head Of
Women's University Club

Miss Lillian Turner of Brawley
is the new president of Women's
University club, the Imperial Valley
branch of the American Associa-
tion of University Women. Miss
Turner was chosen to succeed Mrs.
L. M. Moore of Ell Centro at the
meeting Saturday noon in the Bar
bara Worth hotel.
Other officers are: Mrs. Moore,
first vice-president; Mrs. II. Lee
Landerman, second president
for Ell Centre; Mrs. Carmen Gibson,
second vice-preSident for Imperial;
Mrs. Jean Newbre, second vice.
president for Calexico; Miss Norma
Edgar, second vice-president for
Brawley; Mrs. Anna Kingsbury, sec
ond vice-president for Holtville;
Mrs. w. T. johnson of Ell Centro,
recording secretary; Mrs. Howard
Farnsworth of Ell Centre, cores
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22
SOCIAL CALENDAR


Leadership Training course, 7:l5,
First Baptist church.
Public schools program, 7:45,
Rose school.
Console concert, 7:45, Methodist
social hall.
Cactus Gavel club, 6:15, Califor-
mia hotel.
El Centre lodge No. 384, +. and
AM, 1880, Masonic temple.
Scout Troop 10, 1880. Scout hut.
Scout Troop 81, 1880, Heber.
Carpenters union, 1880, Labor
temple.
TUESDAY
Warren meeting, 10, court house.
Shrine social club, IL, 5. {. Black
man home.
W.C.T.U., 2, Nazarene church.
st. Pauls guild, 2, 1014 Euclid.
Leadership training course, 7:l5,
First Baptist church.
Public schools programs, 1880,
Douglass, Washington, McKin-
ley ana Harding SchOOiS.
Public school program, 1880, Mclo-
land school.
American Legion, 8, Veterans hall.
Business Women, 1880, Barbara
Worth.
Scout Troop No. Is, 1880, Scout
hut.
Scout Troop No. ", 1880, East
side Scout hut.
Scout Troop 80, 1880, McCabc.
Scout Troop No. 81, 1880, Hebcr.
Central Labor council, 1880, Labor
temple.
Jobs Daughters, 1870, Masonic
temple.
LacOnian club, 6:l5, California
hotel
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22
Attends Choir
Reunion

Mrs. Arno c. Yaeckcl had a
particularly pleasant reunion Friday
when all the present and past mem
bers of the choir of the Los An
geles First Congregational church
met for dinner and program. part
OF Which was presented by the
choir alumni and part by the pres
ent choir members. Greetings from
former choir and church members
were received among them being
one from DR.. Lloyd Douglas, for
mer pastor of the church.
Mis-. Walter B. Havekorst and
her mother, Mrs. H. Bostian, ac-
companied Mrs. Yaeckel to Los
Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22

ponding secretary; Miss Winifred
Rogers of Brawley, treasurer.
Mrs. w s. Kong of e Centre
was speaker for the day and was
head in a fascinating discussion
on the customs of China.
Mrs. Arthur NJ. Bell, the clubs
newest bride and the former Gladys
veteran, was presented with q
corsage.
Plans are underway for a break
fast on May 25 with the graduating
women students of Brawley and
Central junior colleges as guests
of honor.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22
Bank Of America
Dance Saturday

Bank of America employees from
the Brawley. Ell Centre and Calexico
branches and their guests enjoyed
delightful dance Saturday night
at the Del Rio club. BraWley.
At midnight a delicious supper
was served, Mrs. j. r. Thomson of
BraWley being in charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22
How To Hold Loose
FALSE TEETH
More Firmly in Place

Does your dental plate annoy
and bothehr you by rocking and
wabbling when you cat, talk or
laugh? Just sprinkle a little FAS-
TEETH, the alkaline non-a cid)
dcnturc powder. Oh your plate. This
pleasant powder holds false teeth
more firmly in place. No gooey,
oily, pasty taste or feeling Mildly
alkaline FASTEETH doesn't ;our
or cause nausea. Also checks gum
soreness due TO chatting of loose
plate or TO excessive acid mouth
Get FASTEETH at any drug store
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22

E. L. Allen and Duar,e Stafford.
Mrs. P. n. Van Slyck, Mrs. P. M
Mercer, Mrs Warren E. Sage and
Mrs. Ruth Teeple Reid assisted the
hostesSes, each presiding at one OF
the luncheon tables.
In spring whose social season
has been distinctive with the unus-
ually large number of delightful
parties, this particular bridge lun-
cheon will stand out as one of the
incest of the year.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22
Former Resident
Has Baby Boy

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wondra
jr., of Wctorville have a baby boy
Philip Charles, born Friday morn
ing in a San Bernardino hospital
weighing eight pounds, 1919 ounces
Mrs. Wondra is the former Agnes
Pennington, daughter of Mrs. Reg
inc Pennington of Ell Centre, Mrs
Pennington spent the weekend in
San Bernardino.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22
Leave for East

Mrs. Robert Elliott and her little
daughter. Judith, left Friday night
for Pittsburgh, Penn, to join Mr..
Elliott who is playing baseball with
the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Elliotts
will return to the valley to spend
the winter at the conclusion of the
season.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22
Readers Round
Table Par+y

Readers Round Table of the Ten
Thousand club has issued invita-
tionS for its annual meeting honor
ing Mrs. A. B. Hanson, chairman,
and scheduled for May 6, at 1890
noon in the Barbara Worth coun-
try club.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22
Two Boys Born
AtHospi+al

Two boys we're born recently at
the Ell Centro hospitals:
To Mr.. and Mrs. John Rinny,
seven pound Y ounce boy on April
10;
To Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Byrd of
Brawley, on April 81, boy, six
pounds, 5M ounces.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22

World Wide Guild girls of the
First Baptist church are to be the
guests of the Caiexico guild at a
sand hill party Tuesday night,
meeting at the Ell Centro church
at $50 pm. and going from there
to CaleXico.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22

Jobs Daughters are to have an
important business meeting Tues
day night at 730 o'clock in the
Masonic temple.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22
csntsh ssn@il OF Interest to Women soeissy s@ss
Clubs
Society
Announcements
Of Meetings

st. PauI's Guild is to meet Tues
day at 2 pm. at the home of Mrs.
George L. Winright, 1914 Euclid
avenue.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22
Ranch Resu|tsin
Refrigerator Firm
For Centro

A ranch turned into a rcfri-
geratOr!
Well, not exactly, but that's
part of the story behind the
Shelburne Refrigerator COM
pany at 1247 Main street in Ell
Centre, operated by r. A. Shell
burne formerly of Taft, Calf.
For IA years Shelburne own
ed a ranch near Ell Centre and
a year ago he decided to sec
what the country was like. He
stayed, and the refrigerator
business is the result!
Shelburne handles Kelvin
atOr products, both commercial
and domestic, and a complete
line Of electrical products and
air conditioning plants. He has
the KelvinatOr diStributOrship
for both Imperial and Yuma
counties.
A complete service depart
ment with all work and mater
ials guaranteed is maintained
at the Shelburne plant.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-04-22
Davis District
Agent in Valley
For0ccidentd|

Earle G. Davis, insurance
broker, has been in the life in
Surance business since Jan. l,
1890, and Is district agent in
Imperial county for the Oc-
cidental Life Insurance Co.
Associated with him in repre-
senting the Occidental are
Fred Miller and Oscar L. Hill.
Occidental at the close of
1889 had $49O,142,709 of in
Surance in force, which repre-
sents an increase of 225 per
cent in the past ten years, a
figure probably exceeded by no
other American company. Its
income in 1899 Of Sl8,29O,673
was in excess of disbursements
by $5,776,911. The company's
total assets increased 1917 per
cent in the past year.
Davis is the only insurance
broker in the valley writing life
insurance exclusively.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-13
HnI. Mnnrnp UrnttPrI
Editor and Publisher
1901 1884
PICKETS

Picketing of the Lincoln Jim Crow
Law School by white Missourians is
action of great significance. 1t shows
that young Americans are beginning
to understand and condemn race pre-
JUDGE as fostering disunity and re-
tarding democratic progress
Reactionary old fogeys still domi-
nate to too great extent American
opinion and decision in attempts to
inaugurate harmony among groups of
diverse racial origin and of varying
religious beliefs. They are too old
and too stepped in racial and religious
intolerance to present any hope of
reformation. A million funerals-of
course resulting from natural deaths
of the antiquated bigots-would be
the greatest boon to backward areas
of the country.
Meanwhile the hard task of combat
ting reactionary sentiment and
spreading the gospel and practice of
human brotherhood must be continued
by the type of young people who
paraded before the segregated school
in st. Louis.
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LYNCHING AND LAW

The South always opposes anti
lynching legislation, the North and
West favors it. Why does the South
oppose it? Nobody knows. There is
a reasonable belief that Southern
political leaders want to maintain pos
sibilities of the lynch hysteria because
the disunity which it creates between
colored and white Southerners is of
great political and economic useful
ness.
A supreme test of civilization is re-
spect for law In Southern communi-
ties there is less respect for law than
in the West and in the North
No student of southern customs will
deny that this is so. In all backward
areas the law is only obeyed if it can
not be circumvented. The mob is its
own protection in the case of collec-
tive murder; for lynchings go on I'M
punished in the South. A federal
anti-lynching law would be backed by
all the power of the United States
government. Lynchers therefore fear
such a law because some of them
would get caught and pay the pen
atty for their crime.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-13
THE SOCIAL HORIZON

NEW YORK CITY, Friday, Jan.
12-The long and much anticipated
Beaux Arts Ball is taking place to-
night at the Casino Renaissance in
New York City. AS is annually the
case, the New Englanders are the gra-
cious hosts and are welcoming exactly
one thousand guests. Mr.. Howard
Cooper as president, will be stationed
in the centre of the entrance foyer and
with his several shifts of aides will
greet each guest individually. The
balconies, boxes and lodges are all
gaily decorated and the names of each
participating New Highlander decor
ates the box or lodge assigned to him.
1t is in each of these inches that the
cordiality of each host or hostess will
be displayed and in some cases dainty
midnight supper arrangements have
been made; while in others delicacies
of lighter brand will be served by
men in white.
The dance floor, in all its spacious
grandeur, will be the scene at mid
night of the famous grand march led
by the president and his selected part
ner. Only members of the club will
at first participate in the march, but,
as the last member passes the review
ing stand, all other guests will fall in
line and the magnificent phalanx of
costumed dancers and promenaders
will form a solid rank which at the
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Z OKINC AROUND
and BEYOND
DJ
FRANK R. CROSSWAITH

THE EVIL OF race prejudice and
its DEMONSTRATING segregation,
etc, continues to be the absorbing
question among enlightened citizens of
both colors and who possess a civilized
outlook and concern for democracy.
Among such citizens, Mr.. Alfred Baker
Lewis, State Secretary of the Social
list Party of New England and an off
Ger of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
stands out like a beacon light in a
moonless night. His reaction to the
evil of race prejudice is again briefly
expressed in the following letter which
he recently sent to the Editor of a
Massachusetts paper.
"In trying to explain lynching,
and the race prejudice and discri-
mination of which it is the most
brutal form, many persons have
claimed that it is rooted in the eco
nomic and class antagonism between
farm tenants, sharecroppers, or in
dustrial workers on the one hand,
and the landlords and employers who
seek to profit from their labor on
the other. The argument is that
attempts are made "to keep the Col
ored people in their place" because
Colored people are an important
source of cheap labor, and it is adj
vantageous for the owning class to
keep them either from rising as a
class or rising as individuals out of
the class that furnishes labor
cheaply for the owners of industry
and plantations.
"This argument gains great force
from the figures on lynching which
were just released at the end of the
year by Tuskegee Institute. Three
persons were lynched in 1889, fig
ure, incidentally, which is a great
tribute to the work of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, for as many as 200
people have been lynched in a single
year sometime before the National
Association was launched. One of
these three lynched in 1889 was a
white man, lynched because he
killed a former employer as the
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-13
JUVENILE O.E.S.
INSTALLATIONS

The Bessie H. Armes Circle, No. 1,
Juvenile of the Order of Eastern Star
met Saturday, January 6, in Smith
Hall, Masonic Temple Building. The
following candidates were initiated:
Misses Shirley Hogan, Jean Simpkins
and Mary and Juanita Riley-The
following duly elected officers for 1910
were installed by Senior Guardian,
Mrs. Josephine Johnson, assisted by
the Grand Organizer, Mrs. Julia D.
Noble as Marshall. Junior Matron,
Miss Thelma Walker; Junior Associ-
ate Matron, Miss Mildred johnson;
Junior Conductress, Miss Eleanor
Jumper; Chaplain, Miss Marion Do
gan; Treasurer, Miss Cloe Walker;
Secretary, Miss Marie Lynch; Assist
ant Secretary, Miss Emily Hogan;
Junior Inner and Outer Guards,
Misses Josephine Johnson and Lii
liam Walker. Following installation
a bountious collation. was served by
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-13

first strains of Beautiful Blue Dan
ube," in swing time, will break up into
floating couples of dazzling loneliness,
as they waltz around the old historic
casino floor and start the ball all over
again.
Speaking of costumes, you really
should be there; but just foreword
will serve to whet your artistic appe-
tite and stir your sense of the aesthe-
tically beautiful. There are to be: a
red Indian Princess, a Rhumba couple,
lots of colonial lords and ladies,
couple or so of cherubs, innumerable
bottle babies, a policeman, monk
college professor, a Turkish dancer,
an Elizabeth, the Queen, with her two
youthful princesses, a Duchess OF
Windsor and her Duke, A Lady Astor,
Lord Chamberlain, and, yes, dear
old Mr.. Ghandi; also the Jack OF Dla-
monds and the Ace of Hearts King
Tut, a Japanese tea girl, Madame
DuBarry, an Elinor Roosevelt, an
Archbishop of Canterbury, a South
American coffee magnate, an Eskimo,
a Carrie Chapman Gait and WV
CA. secretary.
This is only a superficial preylew OF
the brilliant scene which will have
come and seen and conquered ere this
horizon of time and space and clrcum-
stance has reached your eye.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-13

result of an alteration. The mon
had been tried and convicted and son
fenced to life imprisonment. Init bo
was lynched none the less. ObvionsIv
prejudice, merely because of tba
difference in color, could not have
been the case here. The reason was
because the employers associates
felt that when mere worker
killed his boss he had not been
dealt with harshly enough when ba
was simply condemned to life i'm.
prisonment.
Gone of the Colored victims was
a saw mill "hand," lynched because
he had gotten into a quarrel with his
foreman and had dared to punch his
immediate boss. In none of the
cases was there any allegation of
sex crime, which ought to explode
completely the hoary old argument
that lynching is a penalty for crimi-
nal ack."-Alfred Baker Lewis,
INTO THE BASKET of rose scented
thoughts expressed above by my life
long friend and Comrade Alfred Baker
Lewis, I toss these three stanzas an
pearing in the current issue of Justice
official organ of the I.L.G.W.U. and
composed by Max Press, one of labor's
most esteemed poets:-
YOUNG OF HEART"
By Max Press
They who laugh in the face of the rain
and thunder,
And never let the shining dream 90
under,
Shall have the Earth and all it holds
of wonder.
They who go on and on despairing
never,
Whose faith falters not, who from hope
do not sever,
Shall bring to the world a light for
ever.
There shall be moments when the feet
shall stumble and tire,
But there shall come out Of darkness
a cleansing fire
And in the end there shall be all of the
hearts desire.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1940-01-13
RRtFnt EAttnrtal
ALL GODS CHILDREN

A good many things need to be said
these days that would have seemed
too obvious for words few years ago.
One is that you can have democracy
or you can have racial and religious
intolerance, but that you cannot have
both at the same time in the same
place. To exactly the extent that in
tolerance gains power in the United
States or any other country democracy
loses power. Dwelling upon these
truths in his first address since his
nomination to the Supreme Court,
Attorney General Murphy added that
the purveyors of hatred, the provo
kers of division and strife, the swag-
gering apostles of force and violence"
are methodically and with premedita-
ton laboring to bring to the United
States the same conditions of group
hatred that have destroyed the peace
of Europe.
The fate of an assailed minority
may be tragic. 1t commands a sym
pathy which can be practically applied
to the relief of Europe's multitude of
refugees. Yet the fate of majority
which allows minority-any minor
ity-to be abused, or which defends
such abuse, or which refuses to give
aid, is more tragic still. For there is
no such thing as solid majority in a
democratic country. Once the princi-
pie of discrimination is allowed, the
majority can be attacked piecemeal-
one group today, another tomorrow,
a third the day after tomorrow, all
religion, all humanitarianism, all lib
erty next week.
Tolerance isn't wishy-washy senti-
ment. Either we admit that we are
"all Gods children" and behave ac-
cordingly, or we shall find ourselves
taking orders from rulers a good deal
lower than God.-New York Times.