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®br $xntFB-?*Ptn9 f Hendofseaville New* Established *» 15,4 Hendersonville Tbnae Established m 1M1 Published every afternoon e*e«pt Sunday at 227 North Mam etrnet. He»dewotrrvi4te, N. C.f by T e Timee-Netm Co., !dc., Owner and Pnblisher. TELEPHONE 87 _ J. T. FAIN C. M. OGLE_Managing Editor HENRY ATKIN--City Bdflor ~ SUBSCRIPTION RATES j By Tlmes-News Carrier, in Hendersonville, or «ls^ where, per week-Vit «e ! 3y Mall in Hendersonville, per year-™ Due to high postage rates, the subscription price of The Tlmee-News in Zones above No. 2 will De based on the cost of postage. __j Entered"as Second Class Matter at the Poet Ofl* in Hendersonville^ N. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1933 BIBLE THOUGHT GOD’S PROMISE TO CALEB FULFILLED “Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb.”—Josh. 14:14 (Read Jo«h. 14:6-15). a When God gives a man a promise, he keeps him alive to enjoy its fulfillment (v. 10). God keeps; his promises to the letter. Performance is God’s j part, but pleading is ours. One wonders what might have happened if Caleb had waited another ten years before pressing his claim. Let us not bi .-lack to plead the promises. “Give me this moun tain whereof the Lord spake.” For what are you pleading just now?—Ernest M. Wadsworth in Sun day School Times. MALLORCA PREFERS TO REMAIN ITSELF (By BRUCE CATTON) Theodore Pratt, the young American writer who was expelled recently from the Spanish island because the Mallorcans didn’t like some things he said about them in a magazine article, has returned to the United States complaining that Mallorca has lost its big chance to cinch a fat share of the world’s tourist trade, Mallorca is a pleasant little Mediterra nean island where folk live much as they did in the days of Columbus. During the depression American and English travel ers found it a pleasant place to stay, par ticularly so since its scale of prices was ab normally low. As Mr. Pratt remarks, the inland had “the greatest chance in her his tory to become a permanent wrorld tourist center.” However, the chance seems to have gone. The Mallorcans saw that all tourists were exceedingly rich, by Mallorcan stand ards, and prices began to go ’way up. Fur thermore, as Mr. Pratt points out, the Mal lorcans tried to deal with foreigners “with the customs, ways of thinking and stub born point of view of practically a medie val age.” As a result, the tourists are dis illusioned and the big rush is over. Now all of this wouldn’t be worth dis cussing at any length if it were not for the fact that Mr. Pratt’s complaint illustrates so perfectly a point of view that has be come all too common in the modern world. According to this point of view, an on rush of tourists is the highest blessing that any out-of-the-way and picturesque spot can desire. A way of life that has remained unchanged for centuries, and that has pro vided its simple people with real happi ness and contentment, may be destroyed in the process—but that is a minor matter. Let the dollars pour in and all is well, no matter how the existing framework of so ciety is twisted out of shape. This sort of thing has happened all over the globe. It has debased such an earthly paradise as Tahiti, it has rubbed the glam our off of Bali, it has helped to spoil Afri can deRert towns and Swiss mountain ham lets and American seaports and Asiatic trade capitals. It has ruined the lives of innumerable simple and trusting people. Now, at last, we find a spot which seems to be having the good fortune to escape from it. Mallorca, by chance or by design, is cold-shouldering the tourist trade. And there is a type of mind to which this seems nothing but blind stupidity and a vast misfortune! ll - - - — Sk | NEWSPAPERS’ OPINIONS | O - ■ -- ■ - ■ ■ - — ■- . i i RACING AT TRYON Among the communities of the North Carolina mountains Tryon is unique. We know of no other town that has residents who came from so many parts of the United States and Canada. They have built attractive homes in Tryon and have given it a standing few communities possess. Some time ago the people of Tryon and Polk county held an election and voted to encourage the establishing of a race track near the town. No doubt the thought of those favoring the proposal was that it would bring many visitors who would spend considerable sums of money daring the rac ing season. They seem to have lost sight of the probability that persons from Other states who came to Tryon to find rest, quiet, health and social advantages might prefer to live somewhere else if the town is to be overrun by people who frequent race tracks and make their livelihood by patroniz ing the betting ring.—Spartanburg Herald. WHEN ECONOMY HITS The new state sf.iiool law demands that a school bus transport all pupils who live as far as two miles distant from the nearest school house. The implication i« that such buses are forbidden to haul children who live within that distance of their school. And upon this inference the state school commission is proceeding in drawing its rules and regulations. School buses will not be supposed to stop for children accessible by these two miles to the schools they attend. And from one end of North Carolina to the other howls of rebellion will reverberate. The peo ple are not going to like such an order and, chances are, it will be generously if not uniformly violated. Where a school truck is passing along a highway with children walking to school, no matter whether two miles near or closer, and such truck is not al ready loaded, nine times out of ten the driver going to pick these children up, rule or no rule. It is human nature and such disregard of this rul ing, unhappilj, will be supported in public senti ment, even though it should not be. All of which is another way of remarking that the people want economy in North Carolina, econ omy in every branch of government, economy in their school administration, economy even in bus transportation, but they prefer it at the expense of the other fellow. When their own interests are involved, when their own children, in this specific instance are in volved, they rebel against a promulgation of rules like this which deprive them of riding in a com fortable bus to their school during wet, snowy, cold and rough weather. - The Mecklenburg county board of education, endeavoring so to arrange its transportation sys tem to comply with the state’s requirements, ran clearly afoul of such sentiment at its Monday meeting. There were not only outright protests, but a general feeling among principals, school commit teemen and board members, that while the rule for economy in bus transportation was an essential element in the money-saving scheme of school ad ministration, it would meet at once with the hos tility of the people, displayed in such practical form as to make it impossible to control the issue. What the state school commission is trying to do is to eliminate bus transportation costs where they admit of elimination. That board has only $16,000,000 to expend all over the state to operate all the schools for all of eight months for each of the next two years. Last year it cost the state more than $2,100,000 to haul children to school for six months and if the same ratio of expenditure is set up for eight i months, the cost would approach $3,000,000, and to that extent the amount available for other edu cational purposes would be fatally reduced. The people in whose interest this sentimentally unwise clause was put into the school bill must co operate thoroughly in fulfilling the requirements | for economy, otherwise, the whole program will be upset and vitiated, and the schools of the state made to suffer in other vitally important depart ; ments of their operation.—Charlotte Observer. FORGOTTEN, NOT BOYCOTTED This is General Johnson’s idea of dealing with those who refuse or fail to align themselves with the NRA. . He would not enjoin the patriotic people of this country to arm themselves with boycotts and pro ceed into their market activities with a view of hostile demonstrations against those individuals and firms which have not affiliated, but he does advise his countrymen to pass the slackers up, to forget them, ignore them, not to do business with them. In essence, therefore, the boycott will be em ployed, silently, passively but effectually, if his counsel is followed. And, of course, sentimentally, this attitude may be defensible, but only, if then, when a thoroughly discriminating judgment is acted upon. Not all who have not displayed the sign of the Blue Eagle merit public obloquy and contempt. Some are innocent and undeserving of even the mildest manner of Criticism for the very good rea son that they are not positioned to enter into this program. They have their own peculiar circum stances to consult and these, out of the very na- j ture of their oases, prevent many individuals and some corporations from enlisting with open, loyalty with the legions who are marching under the new captaincy. As Mark Sullivan points out in his analysis of the matter, overzealousness on the part of local committees may be carried to excesses in their attempts to coerce the businesses of their respec tive communities into the NBA. He fears the lapse of this admiration into what Carlyle once called “a government of busybodies,” the worst of all gov ernments and one that in the end defeats the pur pose that may virtuously be in mind. This is clearly to be avoided by local communi ties in which such zeal will more l-'kely -display itself, and by whom the administration’s whole plan may be brought into ineffectiveness not only, but actually into disrepute by an unwise handling of this delicate question.—Charlotte Observer. HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS He who picks up a newspaper these days, glances from page to page and tosses it aside with the re mark, “There’s no news in the paper today,” is turning his back on some of the most sensational history ever pat on record. We are living in a revolutionary age. Changes are being made almost hourly that affect the rank and file of the population. The news of the day may have a direct bearing on your job, your in come, your taxes, your hopes and your future. Failure to keep abreast of the times may prove costly In dollars and cents, not to mention the loss of satisfaction that comes in losing touch with the march of events. These are stirring days and the man who docs nbt take a dnily newspaper, or who fails to read the one he does take, is not keeping “his eyes on the paths being followed to a radically different fu ture. The news of today will hold a big place in the histories written in the days to come.—The An derson (S. C.) Mail. t)ora fears that inflation will cheapen the dollar, [so she’s rushing out How to change all hers into dimes. CUBAN EXPORTS ARE PICKING UP 800 Barrels OR SUGAR, go BARRELS OF r^ACHADO FOLLOWERS fcf The Code Interpretations for Guidance of Employers and Employes By NOAH HOLLOWELL Chairman of National Recov ery Executive Committee of Hendersonville How are small business con cerns that cannot pay their help $12 or $13 a week or the man ager more than $35 a week go ing to obtain the blue eagle or! keep in the good graces of public ( sentiment which may demand the( display of the eagle? In other v/ords, is a small business to be put out of business because it is small and unprofitable where all the help, even the manager, is employed? Very little if any permanent relief can be offered. Provision has been made for stores which! have tempoprary problems to, overcome to obtain the' eagle temporarily while the case is be ing reviewed by Washington au thorities. The local NRA executive com mittee will have a sub-committee to deal with these problems. This committee will be announced by. General A. V. Edwards this week. The procedure is as fol^ lows: Sign the president’s re-employ ment agreement. Mail it to the district office of the department of commerce. If you find its provisions are mostly impossible then prepare a petition to the NRA, asking for a stay or post ponement of those provisions which produce an unavoidable hardship*. Submit this petition to the local committee provided for that purpose. If this com mittee will officially accept the petition and vouch for the facts contained therein, add the fol lowing to the face of the certi ficate: “Except for those interim (temporary) provisions regarding wages and hours which have been approved by the Hender sonville NRA executive commit tee.” Then the postmaster will authorize you to use the NRA blue eagle.” This procedure may take some time and is of course subject to reversal when the petition is re viewed by the NRA in Washing ton. The petitioner agrees to abide by the NRA ruling. Business men who for years have done things in certain ways will be quick to say that the code cannot be complied with. Per haps not on the same old basis of business. Before pressure be comes too strong I would suggest that small business men who are confronted with this problem give it deep, concentrated thought immediately before being called on by a committee to do so because the committee will not perhaps be able to offer any helpful suggestions. Their ad vice will be of an off-hand na ture and not calculated tc be very constructive and yet some times such advice furnishes food for thought. Perhaps the busi ness needs better caliber behind it in the way of a manager. If so there is now law against em ploying more efficient help when you are compelled to pay certain wages. A store may have too many employes not worth $12 or $13 and perhaps never will be. A business man is not supposed to follow sentiment too far in this direction when it comes to saving the life of his business. Perhaps the store is losing money on bad accounts. These could be eliminated and let the em ployes get the profits instead of the dead beats. Probably you have a relative or good friend of the family managing your busi ness and he or she doesn’t have the capacity to produce more business and through greater volume be able to earn higher wages. Probably some verv faith ful but not highly qualified em ploye could be given a subordi nate position, not reducing his wages, and more and better qualified help be introduced to help pull the business out of the LETTERS TO [ THE EDITOR Times News, Dear Editor: I heartily agree with Mr. Pace that it is not right to make school children, especially small! ones, walk to school from a dis- j tance of two miles, or even one: mile in all kinds of weather j when the bus only half loaded passes so near their homes. That! law' is wrong! Hut on the other hand I want to remind Mr. Pace; that the (three high salaried school official jackasses) as he ■ chose to call the school officials,! together with the superintend-j ents, teachers and bus drivers, did not make the new school law. Neither did they put on the eco-1 nomy program that so lowered; efficiency of our schools, I want • to remind Mr. Pace that the state legislature, a bunch of politi cians, who now run the educa tional system in the state are re hole. Perhaps a littlo more capital invested in new lines of merchandise would bring increas ed business to the store. This sometimes tides business hjuses over a very dull easonal period. Sometimes an advertising cam paign will help. At times there] may be some ratholes in the busi ness. Your business may bo too much of a philanthropy—feeding clerks and poor, slow paying cus tomers without a profit to the owners. You may know your own shortcomings without enough courage to change them. The eagle might help you. We are now in the midst of an era when business may have to strike out along new lines. It sometimes takes something like a blue eagle to make a man jump out of his old ruts. Readjust ments are rapidly taking place. The NRA doesn’t expect a man to do the impossible or to make him suffer unduly by rea son of unavoidable hardships; hence the provision for a petition as outlined above, hut this is no loophole for those with incompe tent business methods to crawl through. sponsible for the present state of; affairs. Our people themselves are to blame. Those so in favor of cutting the teachers last year did not realize that the children would suffer too. I rode 12 miles a day last winter on a' school bus, we stopped at inter-; vals all along the way to nick up chlidren out of the rain, sleet, and snow, hot or cold, we crowd-j ed them two deep into over-1 crowded wo^n-out busses, with worn-out engines and bad tires, i I have even known busse.^ (out in this county) to go to school every day for a month or longer without brakes. The principal and teachers were unable to rem edy this fact, the superintendents could not help it, the state legis-, lature had tied their hands by an inadequate appropriation ofi school funds. This year the ap propriation is smaller compared to the lengthened term. It is evident the legislature elected by the people* and supposed to be representative of the people car ried out the will of the majority in cutting the schools. It is not surprising the school officials, in face of the present laws are. handicapped. "i'oor economy is worse ma’n no economy at all.” It seems to 1 me that the child’s comfort and, education should come first. Why] economize at the expense of the child? I can’t imagine a realj “honest - to - goodness” teacher wanting the children to have to take the dangers of the highways1 unless the teacher wants to bring; home to the parents the condi tions of their schools as a result1 of their neglect to stand by the schools. See that in the future the schools get a fair deal from the politicians we elect and send to Raleigh. Sincerely yours, l. v. McDonald. EARTHQUAKE RINGS BELLS IN MEXICO MEXICO CITY, Auk.'18. (CP) —An earthquake so strong it was reported to have rang the church bells in the suburb of Txnlnan rocked Mexico City early Wed nesday. The quake centered near the capital, according to seismo graphs. No damage was reported. BEHIND THE SCENES IN WASHINGTON _miHJJQDN EmilCHEB BY RODNEY DUTCHER ME A Servlet* Writer WASHINGTON. Aug. 00.— ** Watch for some hot develop I merits in connection with enforce i mcnt of the president's blanket j code. NRA officials are gravely con 1 corned by piles of telegrams from i cities throughout the country, de manding help or advice in cases arising from violations or refusals to sign up. Many of these arc from chambers of commerce or local drive officials. The man who signed up, short ened hours, raised low wages and hired new employes in good faith emits a sad plaint as his competi tor—a non-signer—faces him with ruinous competition made possible by lower costs. * * * i AN example of the sort of thing I that can happen is reported from Maryland. A large, nation ally known canning firm Is oper ating under the code. Alongside !t is another corporation which is i paying its workers 10 cents an tliour. The tomato canning sea son will soon be over, leaving the first company operating at a dis advantage for the next year. After tire first rush of code ac ceptances came another rush of in quiries from employers who had no surplus with which to tide them over the extra costs in the immedi ate future. Apparently they will have to be granted temporary ex cuse. ftecent tendency has been to placo campaign responsibility for decisions on local agencies. But more “heat’’ is sure to be turned on fron Washington. J ANK thing every administration I - official agrees upon: | The plain people of the country are still solidly behind Roosevelt : and may be counted upon to sup port him in any venture lie is like ly to undertake. That’s important because nearly everyone expects further measures | of government control. Washing ton may find itself in serious con flict with powerful segments of t finance and industry. The facts behind the end of the coal strike in Fayette County, I’a., as privately reported here, bear out the inference from hundreds of thousands of letters and telegrams to Washington that the president retains unprecedented popularity The miners who returned to work after NR A Labor Advisor Ed McGrady appealed to them in Roosevelt’s name weren’t inter ested in the national mediation set-up or the members of its board. They put their trust in Roosevelt alone, believing he was their best possible bet. The U. S. Steel-owned Frick Co. had spread word that it wouldn’t come under any NR A coal code. The miners told McGrady they knew Roosevelt would compel the company to come in. * * * JT seelns quite worthy of note that the first conference on hogs called by the Agricultural Adjust ment Administration was held in' the Palm Room of the Hotel Wil lard. Representatives of producers, m a r k e t ing agencies, processors, wholesalers and butchers were there. They brought no hogs. /CV.nvrlaht. 1832. NEA Service, luc. • - I OF CHINA SEEN . Dr. Hugh Shih Believes j Restoration of Manchus to End Jap Dream % BANFF, Alta, Aug. 18. (UP). _Collapse of the Japanese dream of domination in China is fore shadowed if ..Japan forc es Henry Pu Hi, puppet ruler of Manchuria, to ascend the dragon throne, Dr. Hu Shih, one of the foremost philosophers of his nation told the United Press last night. Dr. Hu, leader of the Chinese delegation to the Institute of Pacific relations, declared there was no present basis for resump tion of formal and friendly rela tions between the two Oriental nations. Modification of Japan’s militant attitude must come before per manent peace in the Orient is es tablished. said the Chinese leader. He characterized .Japan’s aggres sion in Manchuria and Shanghai as the greatest possible stimulus toward unification of the long war-torn China. Noted as an oustanding critic of the Klomintang, dominant Chinese government agenev, Dr. Hu praised the strengthening of the Nanking government in the hast 18 months. “Signing of truces with Japan to end warfare at Shanghai and in North China,” said the philosopher whose convictions are so highly regarded in his homeland that no government has dared stifle them” is one of the most courageous acts a government might take. “The dispute with Japan has unified ( >1 Now we are , , . ■ >e? ^ effective lishment of ;(■, . ^ Nanking ^uV, China ig ■ temporary d-f " “No e. China a-ain. , . , ‘ ; the Japan- >e Manchuria w : North China extension o** ••• • High pr tude in the and for the of Nation Chinese. Ti“Th<- i>t«- ,-ate. Lcapru pen* pul)li« • pected.” 1 of SI ’ non-recn; set up thi historic aterai ■ Dr. Hu China . zation. He j called South ( • r ntuntsni. 1 ne crying n<- . the rhin.-f n-na, I that foreign f >•/»., i ■ •’ 1.' 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The force of the water through the siphon propels the animal tn the opposite direction to that in which the sinhon is nninied HORIZONTAL 1 Who is the man in the picture? 12 Hodge podge. 13 Moon goddess. 14 On top of. 1G Racetrack circuits. 17 Mistake. 15 Drone bee (variant). 19 Some. 20 Modern. 22 Nimbuses. 26 Entrance doors. JO The dwellers in Emerald Isle. 11 Powerful nature demons. !2 Social class. 13 Completed. !4 True olive shrub. 17 Indefinite period of time. \9 Second note in scale. :9 The pictured man was one of the United Answer to rrevlons rnr/ic States’ promi nent -? 47 Preposition. 4S Linguist stock. 50 Snapping beetles. 52 Artistic quality 53 Old-womanish. 51 Establish ments where dogs are bred. 55 One leg on each side. VERTICAL 1 The wing part of a seed. 2 Frostbite. 3 Dower. 4 Paradise. 5 Capable of endurance. 6 Olla. 7 Immediately. S To feel solicitude. 0 Sorrowful. 10 Indian. 11 Neither. 12 The pictured man was nicknamed -when he fought the ltritish in the army? 15 He later served 2*" of the CM States! 19 Whitish gnl 21 Weekly stipend. 22 Constellate 21 Soft silky cotton fair* 2', Ilnp- kill 27 Lair of a boast. 2< To invest. 20 Net k start 27, To depart. ;:d To (if oratt 37 In a stated activity. 3S propelled with oars. 11 Crafted. 43 Any of various htPl hammers 4.11’pon. 44 S cond nett in the fait Kx< lamatu* enrto* ; • A " " 4f. (\mnettio*' birth. M prophe^