Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-25

Yet some of the young people in
our armed forces would be hard TO
stop either from riding or dismount-
ing. Witness the young soldier out
in India who took his sweetheart,
/ the neighboring Red Cross girl, out
] fer a moon lit buggy ride ia jeep.
/ They went into the jungle; she drove
/ the jeep to within one hundred yards
! of a yellow and black striped tiger
weighing seven hundred pounds.
/ Then she calmly stopped, and he
leveled his rifle at the tiger, took
careful aim and one shot. They got
some natives TO help them drag the
tiger into the jeep and they brought
him back to camp.
Still. il is one thing TO ride tiger
and another TO ride after him. In
all probability that moonlit ride will
end in matrimony. The necessary
qualities were 50 plainly displayed.
Charlie Chan is good TO read, good
for anybody. The more tired the
mind, the better he is, if there is
any such thing as tired mind.
Plenty of people complain of their
tired minds who just simply have
worn themselves out pulling and
hauling against the natural and
necessary obstacles of life. One can
work himself TO death but only by
working at cross purposes with him
self and his circumstances. There is
no such thing, really as Ove'-wOrk,
but only wrong ways of working
One of the best ways to vary
ones work is by reading high class
mystery stories. Granted, there are
not many but the few that are high
class aro generally very high class
in ali important ways. At the re-
quest of our President, a few years
ago, some publisher made list OF
the best crime stories and sent them
all to the President. The list was
published but it is Objectionable
whether it did any of the rest of us
much coed because we had already
read ali OF them long before.
Mr.. James Dunn, who formerly
lived in Brawley, now holds the pos
ition of chief ticket agent IN the
mex: to the largest railroad center
in America, which means the next to
the largest in the world, at Kansas
City, Missouri. He is better known
affectionately by his thousands oil
good friends as Jimmy Dunn" Jim
nv would rather talk Imperial Val
lev and the City of Brawley than to
Mt
world. At one time he owned a
ranch in the Valley and sold it;
and now il seems this is the sorriest
thing he is of. Apparently, ne would
give his eye teeth to get that ranch
back and to come back and live in
Brawley. You only have to start him
out and he will discourse el0quentiy
and endlessly abCIt Brawley, its
streets. its sidewalks. its palm trees,
its parks. II is likely that at this
moment he would rather be on the
porch of the Planters Hotel or IN
its patio than any other spot on
earth.
Jimmy Dunn promises that he's
coming back about the middle OF
January just to have good look at
Brawley. If sc, the whole city ought
to 90 fishing for him and try to
hook him so tight he can never
get away because he's citizen
worth having, grand guy, a stout
fella. If Brawley has Alexander's
Ragtime band, ii ought to trOt it
out on his arrival, at any rate the
best band in the town" There's
good one at the barber shop in the
Planters Hotel and anybody can
hear it most any time. If no other
band is handy, Jimmy Dunn would
be just boy to appreciate that
barber shop band from the Planters
hotel.
Where does the word BraWley
come from? A comparatively new
| conner, who tries to write this daily
column, would be grateful for i'll
! formation as to the origin of this
name. II isn't akin to the blarney
which comes from the Irish blarney
stone because SO far as we have
| been able to observe, there is only
plain and honest speaking among
the citizens of Brawley. Neither, on
the other hand, does it have any
connection with the root word
"brawl," because in several visits
one has not been able TO observe
the slightest sign of brawl going
on within its confines.
What a beautiful co-incident tina!
in this Incompatible valley there
should be two cities of relatively
the same size only IA miles apart,
and not a sign of a feud. Thee may
be little one, or the makings Of
one, hidden away in some corner
but it is not observable to passing
newcomer. What chance for yigOr-
Gus rivalry and competition without
envy, jealousy, or anything that dis