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Evening star., 1940-04-23
Dorothy Dix Says 80
Dependability a Very Important
Quality in Every Husband

DEAR MISS DIx-What qualities
should girl look for in husband?
My ideal used to be a man who was
tall, slim, with dark hair and eyes
and romantic looking. I have out
grown that childish dream and am
not seeking a pretty boy as a hus-
band any more. But am wonder
ing what traits of character a man
should possess that would make him
a desirable husband? What do you
think? BETTY.
Answer-Well, I think that the
one quality, above all others, that a
girl should look for in the man to
who she is going to intrust her
life's happiness is dependability
Just plain, old-fashioned reliability
The thing in man that makes him
accept his responsibilities and stick
to his bargains. The something that
makes him trustworthy and that en-
ables his wife to go along and enjoy
marriage, instead of living on tenter
hooks, wondering where is my wan
dering boy tonight?
Don't marry man until he has
shown that he can stand on his own
feet. Don't marry weakling. Don't
marry dreamer. Don't marry q
near-genius who is always going to
set the world afire, but who has
never made enough money to buy
even a scuttle of coal.
This doesn't mean that you must
marry a rich man in order to be
happy through married. Quite the
contrary. No marriages are more
successful than those in which a
poor girl and boy marry and work
together. But it does mean that the
husband must have enough energy
and industry to provide for his fam
i1v
Evening star., 1940-04-23

Watch how a man spends his
money. That will give you a pretty
good line on whether. if you marry
him, you will have to get up in the
night and go through his pockets to
get the price of hair wave.
If a man has a paddock on his
pocketbook and haggles over every
cent that he spends, pass him up.
But equally undesirable is the
man who spends more than he can
afford, who is always in debt and
whose wife and children 60 shabby
and half starved while he heads the
subscription for testimonial dinners
and silver services for the boss.
Choose man for husband who
has a sense of humor. Pick out a
jolly man. one whose laugh is hung
on hairtrigger. There are many
things in marriage that are either
comedies or tragedies, according to
the way you take them.
Don't marry a critical man. He
will eat 1854 dinners without a word
OF praise and raise ructions because
the 365th isn't quite up to the mark.
Marry an entertaining man. One
who is a good talker. One who picks
up interesting bits of gossip and
retails them to you. One who will
talk to you about his hopes and
plans and business. Being bored to
death is such lingering and un-
pleasant wav fo die
And, above all, never, never, never
marry a man who Is mamma s
darling. He will never be anything
but spoiled baby If he lives to be q
hundred, and no matter what you
do you will never be able to give
satisfaction as wife because you
will never be the slave to him that
mother was.
DOROTHY DIX,
Evening star., 1940-04-23

little birth announcements can
serve as place cards. Fill them In
with the newborn graduates name,
sex, ETC., and use the date OF your
commencement exercises as the
birth date. If you'd like to add q
facetious touch, babies rattles from
the dime store, with "40s" pasted
or lettered on them in your class
colors, would make splendid favors.
These ideas, of course, can also
be used for any small private party
at which the guests will be mem
bers Of your schools graduating
class.
Looking for q spring enter
tainment idea? Try out PAN.
handlers Picnic" for . real out.
ing. Full details are yours for
5 cents In coin. Address us In
care Of The Evening Star.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Sleek New Foundations
Perfectly Adaptable
With Summer Wear
Attractive Closet Accessories
Fine Bridal Shower Presents:
Report on Fashion Displays
By HELEN VOGT

AT American astounding
every is to be found In fact visits
us that there possibilities fascinating
displays that could easily
that incidentally fine idea Why
browsing around? We quite that will
Devices well those designed
improve appearance
Into the latter category falls of the
hitting smooth liquid
there bones really
second skin delicate
uar feature this under other scany
costumes 1t will give the desired line with bulge discomfort
The notion departments contrary opinion
teresng things than pins needles and shoe aces instance
are dress shields permanently attached to
fuss bother sewing heldand frequent unde
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Roundup of Notion Counters Reveals Wealth Of Useful
Prom Time Is Just Ahead
And 1t Is None Too Soon
To Start Plans for It
Life Begins in Forty Theme
Honoring Years Graduates,
An Easv One to Carry Out

By KAY CALDWELL AND ALDEN HARRISON
which
Gone With the Wind theme this spring. she going to be the busiest
ghost that clanked chain.
good idea must be-5oooo high
committees wong
other reprduced
building pillars white cardboard material
used picket fence and artificial flowers rewn about
profusion.
furniture placed the
of the
platform
blue false ceiling pnkled
will a
the old
But perhaps the Gone With the Wind" theme
looking
honong the seniors who about be launched into the co
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Bread Rings

Crispness and smoothness contrast
in serving of bread rings with
smooth creamed ham or eggs. The
rings are made out of bread slices
that have been cut with a scalloped
or plain round cookie cutter brushed
with melted butter and toasted. A
doughnut cutter forms an attractive
toast-round for the top Of each in
dividual serving.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Ny Neiqhbor Soys:

Want to help keep your
Strawberries plump and red
when they are cooked? Add a
teaspoon Of vinegar to each 2
cups of berries. But remember,
prolonged cooking will destroy
color, flavor and texture Of
berries whatever you do.
Add diced celery to your next
dish Of macaroni and cheese.
A third of a cup of celery will
be enough for three cups of
macaroni and cheese.
English mullins may be made
into clever cases for creameo
| foods. Scoop out the centers of
the mullins. Fill the cases with
creamed mixture. Then bake
them 10 minutes in a moderate
oven.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
BY BARBARA BELL.

Simple. smart, slenderizing, this
dress is practically must for your
wardrobes from now on. Gathers
beneath the shoulder yoke, tailored
notched collar (Which can be &C
cented with it's double in white, if
you hke) and slim-hipped, paneled
skirt make it supremely becoming
to the woman who has size to con-
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Garnish for Soups

A lemon garnish for soups. That's
new idea, but good one. Float a
slice Of lemon on each bowl the next
time you serve bouillon or consomme.
Decorative and good, too, on bean
or lentil soup and such cream soups
as tomato, asparagus. spinach or
green pea. Lemon is especially good
with iced Of jellied consomine.
Evening star., 1940-04-23

You can't table h these reproductions old china
ideal lend charm and interest simple oc The ay patterned
miniature dishes nersbd h gcoored kne
form eely that and different Created
Evening star., 1940-04-23
WASHINGTON DRANK
BERKELEY SPRINGS
MINERAL WATER

Known fer zoo years to be beneficial for
Arthritis, Diabetes, certain Skin Diseases
and Rheumatism.
Bottled Only 1t Berkeley Spring, VI. Va.
Phone Wisconsin 1892
Evening star., 1940-04-23

Here's a real bargain! Manhat-
tan's Hand-Finished Laundry
Service is Washington's best
buy in fine washing and ironing
at the regular price Of $1.59 for
8 pounds. And now, simply by
having the clothes collected
Thursdays or Fridays, you can
get this same completely perfect
service for $1.44 for 9 pounds.
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Phone Your Order Now
Well Do the Rest

Just call Dupont I'LL and tell
US to collect your bundle
either Thursday or Friday, -
you prefer. You'll get back the
cleanest and most beautifully
ironed wash you've ever seen,
1T the lowest price ever-9 lbs.
for only $1.44. Phone now!
Evening star., 1940-04-23
Absolutely Complete
Even Mems Shirts
Hand FINISHED

It's q marvellous service! Mems
shirts, women's dresses, chil.
dren's clothes, all hand-inished
-starched if desired. Wearing
apparel mended, buttons re.
placed, socks neatly darned.
All flatwork lightly starched,
mended when needed, and care
fully ironed. Table linens and
other special pieces sized to give
proper body. Bath towels fluff
dried and folded. In short, Man
haitian does everuthiu0l
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-16
SETTLE DOWN IN THE
POLICE DEPARTMENT

1t is always unfortunate when a police
department becomes the subject Of 4 po-
litical controversy, no matter what the
reason or who is to blame. In the case of
Ell Centro's police squabble, it is we'll
nigh impossible to fix the blame upon any
one person or group for starting the row;
it sort of "iust grew, like Topsy
1t is to be hoped that the department
will be allowed now to settle down to the
business of law enforcement. 1t is not
good for such department when the
men are not sure where the axe will fall
next, regardless of merit. 1t is not good
for the department when its chief is kept
constantly worried about things other
than his job of keeping the peace.
This is not to say that the chief should
be without supervision. He should def
nitely answer to the council. Whether he
does so through the commissioner or in
person is matter of internal operation,
to be decided by the council. Nor should
it be taken to mean that every policeman
should be assured he has a job for life.
Just as in private employment, he should
know that the job is his only so long as
he does it we'll and honestly.
But political considerations, the mach
nations of ambitious outsiders who want
a job, or insiders who want promotion,
should not be allowed, for they are bound
to detract from the efficiency of the or
ganization.
If changes must be made for the good
of the organization, they should be made
without references to personalities or
politics.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-16
WHAT CAN CITIES
DO ABOUT IT?
(CMistian Science MOnitOr)

While metropolitan Boston continues
to grow, the central area of the city shows
a declining population and deteriorating
physical aspect. Why are there so many
vacancy" signs in downtown office
buildings, and what can Boston do about
it? What are the implications of the fact
that business properties have been sold,
during the last few years, for prices as
low as one-fourth to one-half of their al
ready reduced assessed valuations?
These are vital questions for Boston.
They are local evidence of a nationwide
phenomenon. the decentralization of
American cities. The trend challenges
municipalities to make basic readjust-
mentS.
A survey launched by the Urban Land
Institute, an affiliate of the National As
sociation of Real Estate Boards, to find
out the causes of and remedies for this
trend in sixteen cities of the United
States, is therefore timely. 1t should
throw light locally on the complex ques-
tion of reaSSessment of business proper
ties, to bring taxes more nearly into line
with income. 1t should add meaning, for
instance, to the Boston Mayors Confer
ence on Traffic, which is evolving revo-
lutionary program of traffic relief; for
certainly traffic congestion is part of the
Boston problem, and probably this is so
elsewhere.
Decentralization of cities is something
about which comparatively little of con
elusive nature is known Further study
of the question, in the light of practical
possibilities is a step toward orderly re-
adjustment and intelligent city planning.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-16

tiles the government wants, but
they want to be protected against
any chance of loss. Further, they
do not want to Just go ahead and
build the plants, and then take q
chance on the governments deal
ing justly with them in allowing
them to take the money back again.
They want a guarantee in advance.
The government has WaVered be-
tween making such a guarantee,
and another plan. That is: let the
government itself put up the money
for the added plants and then own
them. Should the need for them
pass, then the government will be
holding the bagful of useless plants.
not the manufacturers The tax
payer would simply foot the bill as
part of all the other expenses of
getting prepared for war.
One or the other of these plans.
or some combination of both. ought
to be adopted very soon. There are
ugly rumors that important work
is being held up between the in
sistence of industrialists on complete
protection in advance, and the
governments delay in deciding on
a policy of whether to give it or
not. and in what way.
The decision has been put up TO
Congress, for incorporation in war;
tax legislation. Further delay N
a policy in regard to This
will be definitely injurious to the
defense program.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-16
WHY NOT GIVE VOLUNTARY
ENLISTMENT A CHANCE?

BY the time this appears in print the
senate may have decided upon the con-
scrption bill amendment which would
delay the military draft until Jan. l, 1941,
in order to determine if voluntary enlist
ment can provide the proper number of
men for the army. But, regardless how
the senate decides, it sounds like good
amendment to us.
1t would be different if we needed an
army of million men right away-AND
HAD THE EQUIPMENT FOR THEM.
But actually, there would be no delay in
attaining preparedness, because even
though we had the army of a million be-
fore 1941, we could not furnish them with
the equipment needed to train them prop
erly.
Also, it would be different if voluntary
enlistment had fallen short of the quota
set for it by the army. 1t has not-con-
trary to general belief. The enlistment
quota, even at the former lower rate of
pay for army men. is more than filled
right now And all that without any real,
intensive campaign by the army to OBJ
tain enlistments. Official records at
Washington, in fact, show that enlist
ments can provide the number of men
needed Conseription must follow, Of
course if voluntary enlistment fails. But
give it a chance to fail or succeed. Don't
condemn it before it has a chance, just
because public sentiment is more recep-
tive now than ever before to a conscrip-
tion law.
The army has only to reach forth its
hand to use all the devices of modern ad-
vertising and propaganda III order to in
crease voluntary enlistments. The Presi-
dent has only to make a public request
in order to swell these enlistments by
thousands. Billboards, newspaper adver-
tising, radio-ali are available for such
an enlistment drive as the nation has
never before seen.
Why not try it?
Conscription should be last ditch eff
fort. and we have not reached the last
ditch yet
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-16
A TIMELY WARNING
(WaU Street JOurnaI)

Addressing the New York Society of
Security Analysts, Mr.. William J. Casey
of the Research Institute of America
pointed out that there was a danger that
the scheme of taxes now proposed to meet
the defense emergency might in the fu-
ture be fastened permanently upon the
people in connection with schemes for
extension of government control of the
country's economic life He particularly
warned against the possibility of the ''in-
vested capital heSe being converted into
an absolute earnings ceiling above
which government would take all earn
ings on the plea of Social needs.
This danger is by no means visionary.
There is an inevitable tendency for taxes
originally laid in an emergency" to be-
come permanent. Those who desire to
transform our economy into a planned
economy" will naturally desire to lay
hands upon revenues wherever they can
be found and in doing so to convert
special defense emergency" into con-
tinuous social emergency. They will
argue that if the country can find money
for one it can find money for the other
ergo. There will always be found ''use"
for money which it has been found pos
sible to raise from the taxpayer especially
when the politicians natural appetite for
spending it is coupled with social theories
such as that of economic planning.
The most unfortunate thing in connec-
ito with war emergency'-a defense
program is essentially of the same order
is its disruption of liberties, economic
and political, the restoration of which
when the emergency has passed is always
difficult. In throwing ourselves whole
heartedy as we must into our immediate
task we must look ahead also to the res
toration of reasonably normal" condi-
tions lest we find that the emergency
measures have by then become strictly
normal requirements.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-16
No. 3117

IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE AND GUARDIANSHIP OF
RAMON SANCHEZ. AN INCOM-
PETENT PERSON.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO EN-
CUMBER REAL PROPERTY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Mariana Guizar as guardian of
Ramon Sanchez. incompetent, has
filed his verified petition praying
for an order authorizing cucumber
ing the real property hereinafter
described by giving a deed of trust
thereon and that Friday the 23rd
day of August, 1910, at II o'clock
A. M in the Superior Court of the
State of California, in and for the
county of Imperial. in Department
I. thereof, has been fixed as the
time and place for hearing said
petition when and where any per-
sons interested in said estate may
appear and object to granting said
petition.
Reference is hereby made to said
petition for further particulars as
to the terms and conditions of the
proposed encumbrance.
Said real property is situated in
the City of Ell Centro, County of
Imperial, State of California, and
particularly described as:
Lot of Block 18 of the Town
site of Ell Centre, according to
Map No. 953, on file in the
Office of the County Recorder
of San Diego County
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk and Clerk of said
Superior Court.
BY Maxine Console,
Deputy
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-16
Paul Harrison S Notes
On Hollywood S Foibles and Fads

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 16-Trav-
clog: From Borneo, Siam, Tibet
Manchukuo and way points, Del
Goodman has returned to tell his
company, 20th-FoX, how movies are
doing in the vast and troubled
Orient.
They're doing all right, at least
in attendance. Profits are small,
credits are partly frozen, distribu-
tion is difficult and slow, and
censorship is rigid and ever chang
ing. But Goodman, who has been
managing film company affairs in
the Far East for over 18 years.
seems to have developed an Oriental
like patience while retaining his
American zest for adventure. For
instance. he finds encouragement
in the fact that the Chinese gov
ernments westward move has led
to the opening of movie markets
in huge areas of the interior.
In Chunking, while bomb blasts
thunder through the valley, film
fans sit enthralled by the half
ullbCi StOOl ioNClluuIGo VI lyIOllC
Power. With the Burma road clos
ed, pictures must be sent to the
interior by air at the almost pro-
hibitive cost of $135. Taxes. and
distribution costs are high; and
admissions prices so low, Goodman
says, that there are some regions
from which Hollywood get an act
ual profit-even on its biggest pro-
ductions-of less than $150 per
thousand customers.
I wrote an interview with Good
man when he made a flying trip
to Hollywood last year, and he
says clippings of the story followed
him around the Orient for six
months afterward. They reached
him in the Philippines and Bali, at
Shanghai, in do-China, and even
up near the Khyber Pass to At
ghanistan.
In covering the enormous terri
tory. the movie-man flies whenever
nossible. Ship travel in the Far
East isn't much fun these days:
vessels carry cattle and coolie and
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-16
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
M. A. No. O53O83
District Land Office
Los Angeles, California

June I, lS4U
Notice is hereby given that The
Tycrete Chemical Corporation, by
Louis A. Tyce. president, of Chula
Vista. California, has made appli-
cation for patent to the White
Crystal No. placer mining claim.
embracing Ela SEA NEA Sec. 16
and White Crystal No. 2 placer
mining claim. embracing SWA NWA
NWA Sec. Is; SEANEA NEA Sec.
16 all in T. II S., R. 9 E. SBM
containing 40 acres, in the FL Cen
tro Mining District, Imperial Coun-
ty, California. There are no ad-
joining or conflicting claims. The
location notices are recorded In
Book 359, page 148 and Book 1853,
page 1876, and amended notices are
recorded in Book AGO page 488,
Book AGO. page 489. and Book ADJ,
page 563, official records of 1mper-
ial County, California.
PAUL B. WITMER,
Register.
(J11-A20 incl)
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-16
Willis Thorntons Editorial On:
Who Shall Take These Risks

The government has been deep in
a Hamlet-like soliloquy since May
on the question of who is to take
the risk Of loss when industrial
plants build additions for war pur-
poses which might become worthless
if the need for them passed. TO
amortlze or not TO amortize.
It is time the question is decided.
All this soliloquizing is tending to
hold up the defense problem.
Here is the matter at issue. You
own a gadget factory. The govern
ment wants you TO make Widgets
Tor national defense. It will cost
you S10000,000 to build and equip
Widget plant. flne. You have the
money.
But suppose, after you have
plunked S10000,00O into the widget
plant, the war danger passes, and
the government wants no more
widgets. Your widget plant, after
say, two years, becomes worthless.
You are out s10.000,000
So industrialists want the gov
ernment To allow them to keep,
say, S2000,000 of their war profits
each for five years, exempt from
war taxes. At she end of five years
they will have earned back the SI0,-
10000 they have put into the
plant. That is amortization" and
that is what all the shooting is
about.
In short manufacturers are will
ng TO build any extra plant facil-
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-16
BY GERRY DICK
EA Service Staff Correspondent

NEA service Sta1f correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-There
will be fireworks if the National
Defense Commission recommends
postponement of the governments
antitrust suit against % major oil
companies.
Some liberals in Congress who
feel the administration is becoming
to conciliatory" to big business
promise a congressional investiga-
ton if the case is buried.
And Thurman Arnold-balked for
the first time since he became chief
of the Justice Department. anti
trust division-may have to be fired
10 eliminate interference with the
production of war essentials" Ar
mold will go down fighting, even if
he has to fight the administration.
The administration may put
pressure on Arnold to POSTPONE the
suit or to suspend antitrust laws
In that event Arnold will likely
wind up on the outside. Such a
happening would be embarrassing
all the way around to the New Deal
in this election year.
The suit was ready several days
ago but it wasn't filed Instead
there was a polite exchange of notes
between Attorney General Jackson
and the Defense Commission. Now
the case is being held uD temDOr-
arily. at least until the commission
informs itself of the effect of such
action on the defense program.
It was to be the antitrust suit
Of the century. and this delay has
made a lot of people sore.
Antitrust division lawyers deny
the suit would disorganize petro-
leum production and distribution
now, point out that 10 months at
least would be required to bring
the case to court.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-16
Did You Know?

Mud Wasps make curious mud
nests resembling the pipes of PAN
The big trees of the Pacific coast
region are known to have grown
to an age of three or four thousand
years.
Denmark has 1926 miles of rail-
ways within its confines.
Parrots have been known to
reach the age of rs years.
All snakes are descendants of
lizards.
Water would not boil at an alti-
tude of 20 miles above sea level.
The General Sherman" tree in
Sequoia National Park is 272.4 feet
tall.
The white ant of tropical coun-
tries produces more than $4,000
eggs a day during its Matching sea-
SOn