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Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-28
Special Scout
Activities Planned

Special scout activities in the
Imperial Valley were planned fol
Boy Scout Week, Feb to 13, ac-
cording to Hugh Wilcox. scout ex-
ecutive.
Complete plans for Scout Week
were scheduled to be worked out
at the annual meeting of scouters
Tuesday night in Brawley, Wilcox
said.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-28

be forced against his will to be-
long to any organization in order
to enjoy his right to earn an honest
daily wage by his work.
THE El Centre Chamber of Com
merce wants the shippers to know
at this time that it is supporting
the shippers 100 per cent in theiI
valiant fight against a closed shop
among the workers in their sheds.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-28
FARM ADVISORY
GROUP SELECTED

Six imperial Valley farm leaders
were selected Monday on an advls-
ory committee to counsel with the
Farm Security administration on
the planning and execution of the
agencys program in the county
Men selected by the FCA are, Mark
Rose. S. E. Robinson, Herbert Low
dermilk, George Luckey, George
Pulliam.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-28
Scanning I.v
News Horizon
SHOW PICTURES
TO FARM JEWELLERS

Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Strickler Of
Ell Centro this weekend showed
colored motion pictures to the coun-
ty farm dwellers. They took the
pictures on a trip through Imperial
Valley and along the Pacific coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-28
SUES FOR DIVORCE

Reynalda Arguilez Tuesday ask
ed the court to grant her divorce
from Eberardo Arguilez whom she
alleged she married in Yuma last
Nov. 2. She alleged that he was
cruel to her, threatened her, struck
and beat her, broke up the furni-
ture, and used intoxicating liquor
to excess. She said he made it neceS-
sary for her to leave him last Dec
6.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-28
NOTICE FILED
WITH COUNTY CLERK

Lester Edwin Jackson, 36. and
Mary Leonora Pyle, 80, Monday
filed notice of their intention to
marry. They gave their residence
as Watsonville and said they were
vegetable workers.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-28
WEATHER

Southern CalifOrnit: Partly cloudy
north portion, cloudy with occa-
sional sprinkles or light showers
central and southern portion Tues
day and Wednesday. Few mild
thunder-showers over and east OF
the mountains and central and
southern portion Tuesday afternoon
and night. Continued warm.
Record for "a hours ending at
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-28
PRISONER PLEADS GUILTY
To CHECK CHARGE

Jack Harness in superior court
Tuesday pleaded guilty to bao
check charge and asked Judge R.
d. McPherrin to grant him proba-
ton. The judge set the probation
hearing on Feb. 4.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-28
COUPLE PLANS
TO MARRY

A notice of their intention to
marry was filed in the county
clerks office Monday by Fortino
Higuera, II, Ell Centre farmer, and
Socarro Villelo, 81, also of FL Gen..
tro.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12
MISS ROBINSON


RUT THAT is NOT THE THEORY WHICH OUR PRESENT
AMERICAN STANDARD OF LIVING" is BUILT UNDER
OUR PRESENT STANDARD WHATEVER ITS IDEALISTIC
CONCEPTION WE ARE ALL SUPPOSED TO SIT PRETTY,
REGARDLESS OF OUR INDIVIDUAL EFFORTS OR QUAIL
FICATTONS. WE ALL FEEL THAT WE HAVE A RIGHT TO
POSSESS THE SAME PRIVILEGES THE SAME STREAM
LINED CADETS WHETHER WE'VE EARNED THEM OR
NOT.
KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES" Is NO LONGER A
TRICK PHRASE IT is A NATIONAL PInLOSOPIIY-IF WE
WERE REALLY HONEST WE WOULD PRINT IT ON OUR
SILVER DOLLARS INSTEAD OF I'm GOD WE TRUST"
This attitude is bad for all of II rinous
Youth Youngsters of Ia demanding
and perquises which their did
in their 4Os Feenyearold Jimmy dollar
in his life won't think of taking his girl
use taxi And 4immys girl outraged il
formal" three running
Sixteen-yearod AL clamors bitterly a his
parents "odashioned dopes" they him
Then having left school, both Jimmy AL together
IN of sefpiy because they find calling them
selves The Lost Generation although they daily
which their dads would have welcomed at their age.
WHY Dead End kids why Not because
W born vicious deficient elders
have poisoned and perverted them with vicious ideas snobbey
and selfshness.
All result of our false
Standard of Living We think entitled
not need to favors do simply because
contentmen and inspiration poorest peon
Well there's thing we'll all gratis. keep this
up much onger-and that S a shellackn!
pride goeth before a fall"
And Providence generally prodeh peel
who ripe for skid,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12
Wolf Child :. By Edwin G. Hill

A TIGER, hunting along the
- fringes of a forest in India,
snatches a child from a native
village. Some how the great
brute drops its prey and the
little man-child crawls into a
wolf den. And there ii is adopted
by mother wolf and made one
of her cubs and grows up as a
wolf, understanding the Ian
guage of the birds and the
beasts, wise in all the ways OF
the jungle-a slayer of tigers, a
driver of the great wild bull. a
friend of the huge python.
forest creature with the wisdom
of the old gods-man, yet of the
creatures of the wild.
That is the story of Mowgli,
found in Rudyard kipling's
Jungle Books" which the late
George Russell said would be
one of the few remembered
pieces of English literature sur
viving five centuries from now.
This is pertinent to the news
because biologists and anthro-
biologists. hearing of another
such instance of a human baby
being reared by wild beasts and
growing up as one. have denied
that it is possible. But straight
to the support of Mr.. Kipling
and Mowgli and the inspector
general of the forests of India,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12

wooden coach figured Chicago railroad
thought the against
If it should
please persuaded
Robert Taylor to muache" is Detroit young
request.
asked Barbara question getting
She
"Is nothing sacred?"
VIE perfect bridegroom Memphis
He sent out engraved wedding announcements reading:
Frederick utter astonshment
at being accepted holy matrimony Incompatible
Evelyn Estes"
The Poles publish many underground newspapers secretly
culated Slogan these
not surrender. is a victory"
about called test babies
there such infants being born these days So Metro
Goodwin Mayer going again. will try
to bear this with patience But they make Madame X again
going complain bitterly Probably from the houseopS
HERBERT left
IA President he any to
"Give Bill Knuden hand said Jack. him
INIT"
Mr. Roosevelt hesitated in answering
You needn't worry chief" said Garner
In can't the presidency"
Mussoln left n Italy him.
He has started biting his finger nails Another thing that startled
called scientists and asked
If they couldn't do something about stopping epons of
Veuvus which serving guide British bombers when
raiding Naples.
Churchill cigars day. He smoking
up Churchill him
I cigars day My girl ordered
did, but bought larger cigars. Boy
sly
The Little Colonel in the greatest of motion pictures The Birth
Dixon, The Clansman" which
film based and also the title
old and working clerk Raleigh n c. THE Birth crossed
Sl500000 apparently didn't make Mr. Dixon rich
producer, overwhelmed
coin of the realm either
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12

who had encountered in the
jungle many wolf-reared chill
dren, came a distinguished mill
tary authority. Col. James L.
Sleeman. familiar with India.
who wrote this letter to the
London Times:
EMY grandfather, Mai Gen.
Sir William Sleeman. the
discoverer and supressor OF
Thuggee, was one OF the first
Europeans to bring such an In
stance TO light, the first of three
which came before his notice
and which were investigated by
him. In all, 1 think, some IL
well-authenticated cases have
been known: but I fancy that
the examination of these would
disclose that the children con-
cerned were taken away by
wolves after or toward the end
of their weaving period.
For example, one of Sir VIII
liam's cases concerned a boy of
3 years of age, taken by wolf
at Chupra In 184S. This boy had
Just recovered from a severe
scald on his left knee, while his
distraught mother had the
horror Of seeing him being con-
veyed away with his lolns in the
VOLTS mouth. This was In March
of 1843.
Tn February, 1849, almost six
years later, he was found run
ming with a wolf pack some 10
miles distant from where he had
been taken, being Identified by
his mother by the marks Of the
scald and those of teeth on his
Ioins; In addition there was q
third mark, too, with which her
son had been born.
THAT he had formerly known
something of speech was proved
by the fact that this unfortu-
nate child used to mutter some
thing, but could never be got to
articuIate any word distinctly.
In 1850, he escaped into the
Jungle and his subsequent fate Is
unknown"
Major-General Sleeman's
story, authenticated by him. is
so amazingly parallel to Kip
ling's story of Mowgli that il
seems almost certain Kipling
must have borrowed his fiction
from the facts of the child stolen
by the wolf of Chupra. Man has
been walking upright only few
hundred thousand years. Perhaps
we are closer to Our four-footed
brothers than we realize.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12
By SANFORD FARRELL

breakfast in bed again. Celeste
suggests we get into our
street buds as the party is
over and / sigh as she packs
up.
Then we all say good-by to
Mr.. Smith out in front, and
he says if we don't mind ac-
cepting gifts from a strange
man, he'll send all those new
buds we've been wearing
down TO the dance hall as
presents.
And then instead of SIS he
hands each of us two crisp
$50 bills and thanks us for
giving him a happy weekend.
Giving HIM a happy week
end.
Ben Laguna is like a clam
when we ask him who Mr..
Smith is and then three or
four months later he hands us
each a pair of tickets for the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12

premiere of Dreams Can
Come True at the Carthay
Circle.
He says we can have the
night off and tell our boy
friends to rent a tux or top
hat and tails as these are
real swell seats as a remem-
brance from Mr.. Smith. My
current throb is Pete Nc
Guinness and he looks real
sporty in a tux.
1t is great stuff to rub
shoulders with the movie stars
and to pick 'em out on that
magic carpet leading TO the
theater and in the lobby and
audience and i read in the
gossip columns the next morn
ing that everybody is there
except Bette Davis, who can't
hardly be dragged to her own
premieres, and Bing Crosby,
who's laid up with a cold.
JUST LIKE THEM
The picture tells about a
taxi dancer who wakes up
some morning to find she's
rich and has a fine house and
a lot of clothes and then l
begin to wonder. She plays
golf with a society dude and
drives the ball through the
Country Club window. just as
Marie admits she did when
playing with Mr.. Afford that
day.
She cracks her head with a
tennis racquet, all the same
as me, and falls on her stom-
ach diving in the water just
like Dot. The payoff comes
when l see Mr.. Smith on the
sidewalk after the show with
a lot of people pumping his
hand.
I stop a turnkey in the
uniform of a rear admiral and
/ say:
"WhO is that gentleman
over there 2"
He looks at me as if / was
the dumbest female that ever
walked down Vine.
That" he says coldly, sis
Mr.. Smith Bell"
81 get Is now" I say.
"You get what 30 asks
Pete. That's Bell, the direc-
tor of the picture"
1 say nothing. but / know
that we were "Mr. Smiths"
guests so he could get the
low-down of how taxi dancers
act in a spot like that. How
ever, 1 am burned up because
Norma Moore, the star of the
picture, plays tennis like a
dub, and l am no dub on the
courts even if / do crack my
head with the racquet.
THE END
TomorrOw's short story:
"Ogre of the Dude Ranch"
by Anthony Rud.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12
Daily Short Story

us our rooms and Celeste
turns out to be an exquisite
little number in a neat black
and white uniform and a cute
French accent.
My room is the size of a
badminton court, with the
biggest bed 1 ever saw ex-
cept in a picture about a
French Queen, and it has a
private bath all done in blue
and gold with towels to
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12
KIND OF SHEEPISH

Mr.. Afford and Marie come
back and he says she is one
grand golfer, like she always
claimed, but there is a
twinkle in his eyes as he tells
that to Mr.. Smith and Marie
looks kind of sheepish.
Celeste has laid out my
evening duds-when / say
mine, I mean the clothes l
find on the bed when l go up
to change. This is a gown of
mist blue, in case you're in
terested, that had taken at
least so yards to make.
1 have a pearl tiara to be
set on the blonde pompadour.
pearl bracelets on each wrist,
and blue satin slippers in
which the toes aren't cut out.
/ look at myself in the mirror
and l say. "Sally, you're just
too pretty for words"
Mr.. Smith and Mr.. Afford
are downstairs as we go
down. the other girls dolled
up beautifully, and there are
two other men there, Mr..
Hayward and Mr.. Grant.
1 draw Mr.. Hayward for a
partner and l find he's from
Stanford as we drive to Vic
tor Hugo's for dinner and a
large evening at most of the
swell joints in Hollywood.
Mr.. Smith knows a lot of
people. but they all call him
Smith," which 1 don't think
is respectful. / am thrilled to
pieces at Ciro's while I'm
dancing with him and he says,
Hello, Dottie," and it isn't
our Dot at all but Dorothy
Lamour.
We get-in- about 4 and I
sleep till noon and have
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12
DREAMS CAN COME TRUE

into a room paneled in what
! learn later is cypress that
the worms have been eating
on.
Standing in this room is Mr..
Smith in a tuxedo and white
pants with sharp crease in
them. He is 6 feet tall and
handsome and I'd say he's
about 40. He's smiling pleas
antly.
81 want to thank you
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12
DRINK COCKTAILS


We shake hands, all of us,
and then he tells the butler
to bring in some cocktails.
We talk about how nice the
weather is, and wasn't it hot
last October? And Mr.. Smith
says yes, it was too hot for
comfort.
Then the butler comes in
with a tray, and we drink
something pinkish that has
an edge to it, I'll say, for l
feel it all the way down.
We all go outdoors to a sort
of patio where there is a big
table heaped high with chow
turkey, chicken, and ham
sandwiches and potato salad
and sliced tomatoes.
There are platters of cold
duck, roast beef, salami, pork.
veal and bologna, and tall
glass pitchers of milk and a
big silver coffee pot and ice
cream and several kinds of
cake. There is enough grub
there to feed a battalion of
conscripts and we girls heave
into that business like women
at a bargain basement on a
WPA pay day.
"Just consider this your
hOme," Mr.. Smith says, land
please don't ask questions
about why I brought you here
for the weekend"
ASK FOR ANYTHING
And he says Mr.. Laguna
understands and if we want
to think he's Santa Claus
come to life it's okay by him
and if we need anything just
pick up the telephone in our
rooms and ask for it.
He says Celeste will show
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12

I WOULD pof thought Ben
L Laguna is crazy when he
calls four of us into his office
that night and says:
"Girls, I want you TO breeze
In here tomorrow night packed
UP for a weekend party"
Only Ben Laguna is about
the slickest article in Seventh
street, where he runs the Gold
Coast dance hall. and don't
go in for insanity even in
small doses.
1t is Dot Summer who says
with a smoker:
"Why, Benz"
And then he says:
Listen to me, Dot. This
all sounds serewy but IL amt
screwy at all. There's 25
bucks In IL for you. and It's
all yours. 1 don't want no cut.
you're going out to a swell
country place and have your
selves a time for a couple of
days. There amt nothing
phOny about II. / know the
guy that's tossing the party
and he's on the level"
Ben Laguna is one straight
shooter, or l wouldn't be
hoofing for him at a nickel a
dance. SO | figure well pick
up SIS apiece and at the
same time give our dogs a
rest. You don't know what it
is like Saturdays and Sun
days in a taxi dance hall. It's
simply awful on your feet.
BORROws CLOTHES
I never been on a,&house
party. but l do go to the
movies. / do the best with
what l got, and borrow some
buds from a couple of other
girls who have rooms where l
do at a $4 a week hotel on
Figueroa
l show UP at the Gold
Coast with a bag belonging
to the night clerk, and in il
are a couple of dresses. pa
jamas, a change of under
clothing. some Stacks and the
like, and my toothbrush,
comb and brush and the
makin's for that peaches and
cream complexion that goes
so well with my curly blond
hair.
find Dot, Maize and Marie
already dubbed up in Ben's
office and there is an Oriental
chap in chauffeur's uniform
thumbing through a picture
weekly. 1 forgot to say it is
8 o'clock and a Friday night.
We all pile into a limousine
about a half block long and
painted a rich maroon and we
sink back in the cushions as
the chauffeur tools the ship
into Wiltshire.
1 feel real grand as we
sweep majestically past the
Town House, Bulloch's, the
Wilshire-Derby and all the
fancy speciality shops and
heightened cafes stretching
all the way from Westlake
Park into Hollywood,
ALONG MAIN DRAG
1t is a bright moonlight
night as we drive along the
main drag of the San Fer
nando Valley and the ranches
of the big movie stars until
our pilot turns into a broad
driveway lined on both sides
with high palms and we come
to a stop in front of a house
about twice as big as Buck
ingham Palace. He opens the
door for us.
Ruggles of Red Gap meets
us at the door and a couple
of f1unkeys grab our card
board suitcases and the butler
then says:
Ladies, please come this
way, Mr.. Smith Is waiting
for you"
And he leads us a mile and
a quarter down the corridor
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12

young ladies for coming here"
he says. I'm Mr.. Smith," He
stretches out his hand. and l
grab it. being the nearest to
him. I'm Sally De Voe." /
say. pleased to meet you,
Mr.. Smith,"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12
On the Side
By E. v. During

There are gains for all our losses,
There bams for all pam
Bur chen youth. the dream, DEPARTS
II takes something from hearts
And N
He are and better
Under naHboods stener
Still feel that something
FoioWed youth ecith flying feet
Apd loU again.
Richard Henry Stoddard
AS has been observed Age of mind" Many people
happier their than they their Much
happier still Of 40 will deny several things which
aracL l.ccrrn llrclnr H. nad nf mSnnnn-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12
Elsie Robinson
Do Not Believe in Our Standard of Living

DO not believe in the American Standard of Living. do
not believe in uniform and universal luxury and license
1 do not believe that any of old young rich
or poor is entitled The Trimmings until have
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12

match and a dressing room all
my own.
But what really knocks me
for a loop is when Celeste
bounces in with a peach-col-
ored nightgown and negligee
to match, to say nothing of a
pair of snappy jade satin
mules.
The next morning I have
breakfast in bed for the first
time in my life. Celeste brings
me coffee and asks what else
1 want, and l tell her to
shoot the works.
The works, it develops. is
nothing less than grapefruit
ringed around by ice in a sill
yer bowl. an omelette with
little pig sausageS on the side.
and some hashed-brown spuds.
hot biscuits and honey and a
couple of fluffy pancakes with
maple syrup.
DOES RIGHT WELL
For a gal who weighs only
103 pounds in the altogether,
l do right we'll by this.
We drift downstairs and
find Mr.. Smith in the library
and pretty soon we get into
our bathing suits and go for a
swim in a greenfield pool
that must of cost a million
bucks, more or less.
Dot has been Dragging all
the time about her fancy div
ing but she lands fiat on her
stomach first time she tries
it.
Lunch is a fancy set-up of
salads and cold meats, and
then a nice looking young
man named Mr.. Afford shows
up and takes Marie out to the
golf links.
Mr.. Smith suggests a set Of
tennis after we've rested, and
up in my room what's wait
ing for me but that darling
Celeste with a short crisp
white skirt that 1 tie on over
a white play suit. yellow sox
and a yellow snood that
wear over my head.
/ always play a pretty
hard and fast game and I'll
say l give Mr.. Smith plenty
of exercise, but l see he isn't
trying to pin my ears back
and lets me walk away with a
couple of games a set.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12

"vNOMEN do practically all the retail
w buying" says business item. "Only
item men buy more OF Is hardware. Women
even buy the most neckties for men,"
Gentlemen, this gets under my skin
have been pushed too far. =. l am going to
step up in class immediately. l mean l will
cease being mouse and become a man
from this date on. l am going right out and
buy myself half dozen neckties. may
even buy myself shirt.
when naming the race horses you ex-
pect TO get" writes a PittSburgher, don't
forget the rules do not permit the use of
more than IL letters In the name of a
horse"
Is that so? How about that race horse
named Hey Diddle Diddle? Note
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12

IERE pleasant little game that viii give you message
day 1t numerical puzzle designed to spell out
your fortune Count letters your
Of letters subtract the number IL less than
add result your key number upper
hand Of the rectange and check
numbers left TO right Then read the the letters under
the checked figures give you 3-fz
w william J. pirfevtsd
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12

No'"eu ticih anu piONcH VIC hioW AOW W
use them.
To the contrary. I believe that this
notion we should all live soft, safe lives
with protected pay rolls is the most
pernicious doctrine that ever penetrated
this United States, and is responsible fnr
nine-tenths of our laziness. graft, degeneracs !
disloyalty and crime.
am strong for any individual who is
fighting for a square deal in his business
or personal life. 1 believe we should all
have chance 10 make the most of our
selves-a chance to live the most abundant
life possible within our own natural tastes
and talents And I do not believe any
thing or anybody should be allowed to
stand in our way. That was the idea of
our honest, Woodworking forefathers That
was the theory on which this democratic
nation was built.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12
THE END

THE END
Tomorrow's short story:
"Ogre of the Dude Ranch"
by Anthony Rud.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-12

can rightly come under the head of Some
thing sweet that followed youth with flying
feet and will never come again. "-EVD)
The Sauk Centre herald., 1941-09-11
ORE BOATS HURRY TO
BEAT WINTER, LOCAL
REPORT

Great Lakes freighters, largest
ones Of which are "deadheading'
back from the east to facilitate
fast loading, are trying to beat the
winter in scurrying effort to get
Minnesota ore to eastern smelters,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. Robinson re-
ported this week after they had
returned Saturday from Duluth.
They talked with their son, Ken
meth, now aboard the Robert B.
Wallace, third largest boat in the
Wilson line, who got twenty min
utes to chat with his parents. It
was the first time he'd been off
the boat in a month. He told
them their last run from Ohio to
Duluth-a usual ten day span-had
been pared to 6A days. Tons of
ore are being moved from Duluth
and the ore traffic has preference.
The boats, he told them, are COM
ing back from the east empty to
save unloading time. Working
long overtime hours, as are all
hands in the traffic now, Kenneth
intimated that the fast pace would
probably continue unabated until
the freezeup. Mr.. and Mrs. Rob
inson had spent the week visiting
with their son, DR.. and Mrs. J. F.
Robinson.