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H'ENDERSONVILLE, N. C., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1934
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
F. R. POWER SPEECH SEEN AS CHALLENGE
A — /r a
iOR UNREST
llHES IN 3
El INDUSTRIES
Lfiident Has Big Task
Ijjead to "Team up" La
V tor, Trade, Industry
InnlnzK is
I5TILL GOAL OF GREEN
BtARTHI'S F. DeGREVE
luted Pre»* Staff Correspondent
1934. United Press)
WASHING TON. Nov. 19 (UP)
.ear the surface
'Kx: in t-of the nation's
os—steel, auto
ar i ' ::i<i:ne—a* organized
iC: leaders reported a definite
business senti
.ir tho New Deal,
y-j -r :..v -urvey of business
r the ir. Federation of
j: r public 24 hours
iV " : States Chamber
fr-• \ had taken the in
a:.v.- .1 iotormined effort to
r: :he support of business, in-'
jjtrv ar.. agriculture behind
-eveit's recovery
r~i"'
>■ : • optimistic tenor of
" ..Ports to the United
:he steel, build
jf, r: automobile industries
il- • ••••••• that the adminis
sr- - have to conquer
Ten! hurdles before President
wsevelt realize his hopes of
, team composed of
i: asiness and gov
tz*:: work r.? smoothly in the
' ' a r d recover y.
Tie Federation's report noted
pr:r- :r. rr Auction of soft coal,
K- cifctric power, textiles and
n liin? construction. These
■ss. it was stated, were due
*\r r ir part ta assurance by
« adr.ir.i<:rat:on to business
sr. ar: iarkers that recovery
i3 precede reform.
Business executives responaen
hit a definite effort to improve
■siness sentiment and thus en
pwe increased business activ
ate survey stated. The labor i
ifs declined to forecast how |
these efforts will succeed In I
milting business generally.
A number of heartening recov-1
It facts were cited by the report, j
|u: deposits have increased at'
unprecedented rate and now j
29.7 per cent above March,
buying power of workers
farmers is higher than it was
tfo time last year; department
? sales in October were 11 per
t above last vear; sales in 18
store organizations were
i 3ifher.
The business world is in a bet
position to go ahead at this
J than it was at the same pe
r. 1933,'' the survey noted,
men coirld finance a
i»r production increase by
■in? on their accounts, with
7 "le recourse to loans—an
strong position."
■ Usor warned, however, that
were 10,951.000 persons
f- r-'-hout work in industry in
Pf^'ber. The survey mentioned
pw-y a "nationwide plan to in
** production with the help
_JMera' euarantees" which the
Fjknt and his aides were con
pRcg in event private initia
*iH is unable to lift business]
of the depression.
*°re ominous was the informa
nt President Wiliam Green
:he American Federation of
_ B under pressure from
P**rs in the steel and automo
industries. The United Press
that trade unionists in
P .automobile plants are de
the resignation of the la
cations board for the indus
£eaded by Dr. Leo Wolman.
boar-! was named by Pres
Roosevelt to adjust disputes
P»een workers and the employ
Efhen the White House was
In to prevent a strike in
ni'^try. I'nion employes are
if'm* xv'"at they describe as
■^ure of the board to make
in ca?es vjtja tQ organ
abor - cause.
;*• workers are demanding
' ^reen fulfill the promise of
r^P-oyes election which he
e ear:ier in the year to pre
strike in this industry.
Pj.d.or department officials pri
>• Pxpres< fears of discord in
r nrl indu*try as the hous
■ri>j,ro?rarn moves forward and
R" ,COn^ruction increases.
.. e clashes is expect
COrT10 in •Sew York where
tne..C0'"',r*ctors have announc
P W combat any demands
Pr t^r ?u''ding trades workars
f s"orter work week and
r •I«;»Creas® recently obtained
C?*1 employes.
t inn unrest, too, in the tex
fktF"V' ^n'on leaders have
iHt,' textile labor relations
*11 ° Possible strikes in 200
*&.r. • fif alle*ed discrimination
. osf workers who parti
hlkour ? recent nation-wide
(Coi»r 'e*ders still hope
'Unt«nuod on page four)
KNOCKS FOR KNOX
Rare are photographs of Geoffrey George Knox, chairman of the
League of Nations Commission governing the Saar territory. Here
you see him (above)—in a picture just arrived in America—seated
at his desk in his official residence (inset) in Saarbruecken, capital
of the troubled region. His activities have led to verbal attacks by
the Hitlerites.
MRS, E. MILLER
GIVEN BURIAL
Rites Held Here For Moth
er of Norman Miller,
Who Died in Florida
Six stewards of the First M.
E. church served as pallbearers
Saturday afternoon for the fun
eral of Mrs. Elmira Miller, atje
80, widow of \V. S. Miller, who
died Thursday at the home of a
daughter, Mrs. A. D. Brown, in
Daytona Beach, Fla., after a
long illness. The services were
held in the First M. E. church,
with a large congregation at
tending and the Rev. Claude H.
Moser, pastor, in charge. Burial
followed in Oakdale cemetery.
N. W. Miller, Hendersonville
business man, who had gone to
Florida upon receipt of news of
his mother's death; Mr. and
Mrs. Brown and their daughter,
Mrs. Ralph Jones and her son,
Ralph, Jr.. accompanied the body
to Hendersonville where Mrs. Mil
ler had spent 3 years of her long
and useful life. Other children
present for the funeral were C
E. Miller and Fred Miller, both
of New Castle, Po. Other chil
dren surviving are Mrs. Hugh
McCreary and J. VV. Miller, also
of Pennsylvania. The husband
and father, belovedly known as
"Dad" Miller, died here si\'
years ago.
The pallbearers at the funeral
were J. D. Pullen, M. D. Coburn,
L. R. Geiger, 7. C. Byers, A. L.
Gurley and Roy Johnson.
Willard Mack of
Film Fame Dead
I
HOLLYWOOD. Nov. 19. (UP) J
Willard Mack, 61, actor, author'
and film director died at his Bev- i
erly Hills home today after a sud
den heart attack. As director,
Mack filmed the first all-talkie
melodrama, "The Voice of the
City."
JUNIORS^WILT HEAR i
PAST N.C. COUNCILOR!
Announcement was made today
of a meeting of the Jr. O. U. A.
M. council of extra interest to lo
cal members in view of the fact
that Past State Councilor B. C.
Siske, of Pleasant Garden, will be
a visiting speaker. Mr. Siske is a
traveling representative of a
school textbook publishing con
cern. In addition to his address,
degree work will be put on and
refreshments will be served.
The meeting will be held at the
Knights of Pythias hall and will
be convened at 7:30 o'clock.
LEAPS TO HER DEATH
CHICAGO, Nov. 19.—(UP).—
Mrs. Theresa Naughton Ryan, 65,
wife of a police sergeant jumped
to her death from an 18th floor
window of the Stevens hotel here
today. It was the third such case
here in a week.
SCHALL HITS
PENSION PLAN
Hails That And Insurance
As Meritorious, But Not
by Federal Aid
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov.
19.— (UP).—Federal administra
tion proposals for old age pen
sions and job insurance legisla
tion today drew the fire of Sen
ator Thomas D. Schall, caustic
critic of President Roosevelt.
In a letter addressed to the
President, Senator Schall said
that any plan to have the federal
treasury finance such legislation
was doomed to failure, however
praiseworthy the purpose.
"Any plan to take monies to
pay old age pensions and job in
surance from the federal treasury
. . . will never work and we as
loyal Americans want a plan that •
will succeed in ending poverty i
and misery," Sen. Schall wrote, i
'Both," he continued, referring
to the pension and insurance
plans, "are meritorious and every
thinking person joinr> with you in
your desire for thoir successful
incorporation into federal law.
"Under the proper conditions
both may be accomplished and at
the same time an era of business
prosperity can be created second
to none in the history of our
i country."
1 The money, however, he said,
must come from profits produced
by labor, manufacfacture and ag
riculture. He proposed the stop
page of importation of foreign
products in competition with
American goods to "strengthen
the position of industry and ag
riculture."
Fruitland Names
Honor Students
22 on Institute Roll For
First Quarter
Honor students for the first
quarter at Fruitland Institute
were announced today by Princi
pal A .B. Murphree, as follows:
First honor roll: Mary Grant
Sims and Elizabeth Case, Hender
sonville, route 1.
Second honor roll: Edgar Her
ring, Jacksonville, Fla.; Edgar
Sinclair, Enoree, S. C.; Donald
Bunce, Fort Myers, Fla.; Barbara
Bennett, Jacksonville, Fla.; Emma
Sue Grey, Etowah; Marian Sprin
kle, Canton; Lewis Shelton, Jef
ferson City, Tenn.; Wayne Dietz,
Belmont; Lowell Griffin, Hender
sonville, route 1; Horace Lanning,
Hendersonville, route 1; Ruth
| Harper, Hendersonville route 1;
i Ethel Hamilton, Etowah, Agnes
I Rogers, .Hendersonville, route t;
I Margarete Spillerss, Spartanburg,
IS. C.; W. M. Hamilton, Etowah;
' Lily Sumner, Hendersonville, R.
F. I). 1; Fern Pittillo, Henderson
ville route 1; Helen Merrill, Hen
| dersonville, route 1; Ruth Mer
, rill, Hendersonville, route 1; Iris
'Melton, Hendersonville, route 1.
MOUNTAINEERS
HELP TO BREAK
LIQUOR RING
Virginians Tell Jury What
May Develop Into
State Scandal
HARRISONBURG, Va., Nov.
19. — (UP).—Virginia mountain
eers emerged from the hills today
to help United States treasury
agents expose the nation's biggest
moonshine whisky ring as the
grand jury reconvened to hear
more than a hundred individual
stories of liquor industry, involv
ing official corruption that has
marketed millions of gallons of
liquor in adjacent states.
The grand jury is expected fo
report by Christmas.
Authorities predicted the find
ings would cause a major Virginia
political scandal. It is understood
that evidence already gathered by
the government indicates that the
ring-leaders have reaped large;
profits for the last six years while i
holding illiterate mountain distil-'
lers in bondage.
The center of the industry is
said to be Franklin county, which
was cited in the Wickersham re
port of 1931 as the nation's worst
county for illicit distilling.
Summer Home Of
Joe Freeman Is
Destroyed By Fire
A fire this morning about 10:30
completely destroyed a summer
home owned by Joe Freeman, lo
cated in Rhodes Park Drive, just
outside the city limits.
The loss was placed at about
$500 by Mr. Freeman and was
not covered by insurance. The
fire started from trash burning in
the yard and the house burned in
a few minutes. The fire depart
ment answered the call, but the
house was practically destroyed
before the department reached
the scene.
Fire Department's
Range Is Limited
Chief Explains"Why Work
Confined to City
Chief Otis Powers this morning
made a statement explaining the
position of the city fire depart
ment relative to the fighting of
fires outside the city limits.
Chief Powers stated that he and
the department were always glad
to be of assistance in cases of
fires outside the city, but that
there were certain limitations on
the department's activities outside
the city.
The city, Chief Powers said, is
forced by insurance regulations
to keep on hand a certain amount
of fire fighting equipment. When
any of this equipment, which at
present is just up to regulations,
is taken from the city to fight a
fire outside the city limits, it
leaves the city without the neces
sary and required protection dur
ing that time.
Inspections are made and this
is one item aiways checked up on,
! he said, so that the city cannot
make it a habit to fifrht fires out
side the city limits, in spite of the
fact that the department would
gladly give its services at any
time.
SAYS TEXTILE
EXPORTS FALL
Less Than Tenth Former
Bulk; Administration
"Underlings" Blamed
WOONSOCKET, R. I.. Nov.
19. (UP)—The textile industry
in the United States will be de
stroyed unless Japanese compe
tition is met through trade agree
ments with Central and South
American countries, Congressman
Hamilton Fish Jr., of New York,
warned yesterday.
Speaking in this hotbed of re
cent textile-strike riots, Fish
charged that "underlings" in the
state department were ruining
the textile industry through at
tempts to put their free-trade
theories into practice, and that
President Roosevelt is unaware
of the state of affairs.
Export trade had decreased in
value from more than $100,000,
000 to "not even a tenth of
that" and jobs of 35.000 textile
workers are in danger Fish said.
OPEN SUPERIOR!
TERM IN CITY
Judge Warlick Is Presiding
Over Civil Court Ses
sion Here
The November term of superior
court of Henderson county con
vened this morning- with Judge
Wilson Warlick, of Newton, pre
siding. The court will be in ses
sio nfor two weeks and will hear
civil actions.
The court calendar was called
and a number of judgments are
U> be prepared and certified in
^jrder to clear cases from the doc
ket. A number of continuances
were also granted.
The court granted two uncon
tested divorces this morning.
Mary P. Ramsey was granted an
absolute divorce from Clyde T.
Ramsey, and Mabel S. Miller was
granted a limited divorce from
Steve L. Miller.
Continuances of cases were as
follows: T. C. Gentry vs. Mrs.
Emily Fitzgerald; Jennie Fox vs.
W. H. Oates; Mrs. Callie Owens
vs. Southern Fire Insurance Co.;
Virginia McClellan vs. Dr. Jos. R.
Sevier; W. A. and Ethel S. Leon
ard vs. Southern Public Utilities
Co.; Winston McClellan vs. Dr.
Jos. R. Sevier.
!
A. C. Smith Home,
Damaged By Fire
A fire yesterday morning about
9:30 o'clock did considerable dam
age to the residence of A. C.
Smith, in Druid Hills. The exact
damage was not given this morn
ing, and consisted prircipally to
the roof.
The fire started under the roof
and was seen from the highway
by a man from Hot Springs, whose
name was not learned. The man
from Hot Springs drove to the
house immediately and, being a
member of the fire department in
his home town, assisted in fight
ing the fire. |
A crowd of neighbors assembled
and most of the furniture on the
lower floor was removed while the
fire was fought with a garden hose
until the fire department arrived
as the blaze was practically ex
tinguished.
The damage was covered by in-,
surance. j
Federal Administration Of Relief
Compares Favorably To Red Cross;
Cost In Some States Abnormally High
(Copyright 1934, United Press)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19. (UP)
—Costs of administering relief
under the federal emergency re
lief administration compare fav
orably with similar expenses un
der the Red Cross, a United Press
survey showed last night, but in
individual states the slice taken
out of the relief dollar is abnor
mally high.
Arkansas is a notable example
of the latter. The cost averaged
24.7 per cent for the period of
May to September, inclusive.
The FERA lists its own admin
istrative costs at 11.3 cents out
of every relief dollar. The Red
Cross, reporting on three great
disasters—the 1930-31 drought,
the 1928 hurricane, and the 1927
Mississippi flood—lists administra
tive expenses of 7.66 per cent,
4.44 per cent and 5.43 per cent
respectively.
The Red Cross, however, had
the advantage in each case of a
large personnel of trained physi
cians, nurses, family workers and
others who donated their services
free of charge. During the drought
many shipments of food frequent
ly wpre carried free of charge.
This makes the Red Cross fig
ures compare favorably with those
of the FERA, whose personnel is
paid. FERA, however, claims to
have no breakdown of its 11.3 per
cent figure showing percentages
in individual states.
In individual states, according
to United Press dispatches, in
stances have croppni up where
the cost of administering the re
lief was greater than the money
distributed.
In Sterling County, Texas, it
was discovered recently that it
cost $628 to administer $125 worth
of relief. Following discovery of
this instance; however, a determ
ined campaign was conducted to
reduce the cost with the result
that the figure for the state as a
whole now is estimated at 11.7
per cent.
It was instances such as the
(Continued on page four)
NEGRO ADMITS
HE MURDERED
1 WHITE GIRLS
Virginia Black Spirited to
Unnamed Jail; Posse
men Find Both Bodies
ROANOKE, Nov, 19. (UP) j
Philip Jones, 25. neero laborer to- j
day confessed he killed Alice and j
Ellen Hill, sisters, near Clifton !
Forge last night. Questioned af
ter his removal from Clifton
Forge, ones told officers he club
bed the girls to death with a shot
gun butt.
Jones was charged with murder
and immediately removed to an
unnamed jail to prevent mob vio
lence.
' CLIFTON FORGE, Va., Nov.
10. (UP).—The mutilated bodies
of Alice B. Hill, 13, and her sis
ter, Ellen, 6, were found today in
a ravine by a searching party.
The heads of both the girls had |
been crushed by a blunt instru
ment. Alice had been trussed
with a rope. 1
Coroner Louis A. Houff said
Alice had been criminally as
saulted.
Philip Jones and wife, John
Pryor and Arthur Smith, negroes,
were arrested and removed lo
Roanoke for safekeeping. Feeling
is high over the crime and offi
cers said they feared mob action.
The bodies of the two girls
were found after an all night
search, which began when the
Kirls were missed from their home
Sunday night.
Their father, E. R. Hill, a pa-:
per hanger, said that the girls had ;
received a telephone call Sunday,
asking them to go to Scott farm, !
nearby. It is operated by negro
tenants.
NORMAN CHILD
DIED TODAY
Funeral Services Will Be
at Enon Tuesday A.M.
The 11-year-old daughter of'
Mr. and Mrs. Will Norman, of j
Hebron street, died this morning
about 2 o'clock.
Funeral services will be held to
morrow morning at 11 o'clock at
Enon.
The child is survived by her j
parents and a younger brother j
and sister.
Presbyterian Men
Meet Tuesday Eve
The monthly meeting of tho
Men of the Presbyterian church
is scheduled for 7 o'clock Tuesday
evening, in the church house on ;
Seventh avenue east, according lo,
announcement by Prof. F. M. I
Waters, president of the organ
ization.
As usual, the men will enjoy a
supper served by ladies of tho;
church at 7 o'clock, and this will
be followed by a program on
church work. The subject for dis
cussion will be "The Layman's
Responsibility to His Church."
The subject will be discussed by |
several members of the organize-'
tion.
THREE ARE BURNED TO
DEATH IN COLLISION
———
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 19.
(UP)—Three persons were burn
ed to death, two more critically
burned, and another injured,
when two automobiles crashed
and burned on the outskirts of
New Orleans late Saturday.
Trapped in one of the blazing
cars. Martha Landry, 18, of
Lutcher, La., and Myrtel Verte
aud, 18, of Gonzales, La., were
incinerated. Harold F. Bowman,
also 18 of Lutcher, was so seri
ously burned that he died within
a few hours.
Miss Mabel Hebert and Edgar
Vernon, both of Lutcher, were
critically burned about the body,
and Van Rome, Grammercy, La.,
was cut and slightly burned.
COSTON IMPROVING
J. C. Coston was confined to
his home today following an ad
ditional operation he underwent
last week-end in Greenville, S C.
He was feeling much better to
day, but said that he did not be
lieve he would be able to be at
his office before Wednesday or
Thursday of this week.
MARKET IS STEADY
NEW YORK, Nov. 19. (UP) —
Utilities were easy and rails were
I steady on today's stick market.
Waves Hatchet
of Carrie Nation
Another Kansas woman, Mrs. May
Frazee, above, has snatched up
the hatchet from where the mili
tant Carrie Nation laid it down
and is heading a brigade of fifty
women pledged to keep the state
dry, using hatchets on illegal bars
if necessary, following the recent
prohibition election victory. Mrs.
Frazee is head of the Arkansas
City W. C. T. U.
BIG INDUSTRIAL
PARLEY IS SETi
DECEMBER 5TH
Would Draft "Constructive
Recommendations" For
Recovery
NEW YORK, Nov. 19. (UP).—
New proof that financial leaders
of the nation have determined on
full co-operation with President
Roosevelt to speed national recov
ery was seen last night in an
nouncement of the National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers that 50
leading industrialists have issued j!
a call for manufacturers to meet,!
in New York December 5 and 6 j!
to draft "constructive recommen-r
dations" for recovery to be pre-^
sented the administration before j
the new congress is convened.
The announcement describes |j
the meeting as Congress of Amer- x
ican Industry which will formu-1,
late industry's "recommendations
for the road to recovery." Speak-1,
ers will include Donald R. Rich-1 ]
berg, Professor Raymond Moley, .
former No. 1 "brain truster," Pro-1
fessor Neal Carothers of Lehigh
university and former Governor
Walter J. Kohler, Wisconsin man
ufacturer.
"Industry has before it at this j
time a duty of imposing propor- ■
tions that must be met squarely,"
the announcement of the conven
tion committee said. "Recovery
problems confront the country.
They demand the best thought
and help of all the people. Elect
ed officials who invite assistance
are entitled to the full assistance
of industry in working out a !
sound basis of co-operation which j
will restore economic stability.
"The major question is not '1
what has been done in the past
but what new steps are necessary
to bring recovery. What in the
future should be the relation of j
government to business?"
Industrialists signing the "invi-|
tation" which was sent all manu- j
facturers of the nation, included
C. L. Barbo, president of the Na
tional Association of Manufac
turers and chairman of the con-'
vention committee; Alfred P.
Sloan, president of the General
Motors Corporation; L. T. Weir,
chairman of the National Steel
Corporation; Lamont DuPont of
the DuPont interests; President
T .M. Girdler of Republic Steel;
President George Houston of the
Baldwin Locomotive Wks.; Chair
man of the Board C. B. Ames of
the Texas Co.; Vice-President Au
gust Busch of Anheuser Bush;
President Alvan of Packard Mo
tor Car Co.; President G. F. Swift
of Swift & Co., and others.
"Coming as the administration
is presenting revised formulas for
restoring economic balance and
just before the new congress con
venes," the announcement said,
"the Congress of American Indus
try presents the opportunity for
a cross section of the manufac
turing viewpoint upon present
day problems."
The announcement described
the impending sessions as "one of
the most momentous meetings of
industrialists in history."
Observers saw in the congress
a continuation of the trend to
wards co-operation between busi
ness leaders and the President
(Continued on page four)
EARLY ACTION
BY U. S. NOT
ANTICIPATED
Declares Government Can
Show Industry Lessons
In Operation
presidenTat WARM
SPRINGS TO DEC. 5
WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Nov.
19.—(UP).—President Roosevelt
settled back today in his little
White House awaiting reaction to
fiis new creed of community op
eration of power utilities.
Close administration officials re
Miss., speech as carrying a chal
*arded the President's Tupleo,
enge to private industry rath*"
han early direct action.
The speech was interpreted as
neaning private companies must
iither "play ball" in providing
iheap power, or else.
President Roosevelt arrived last
light to stay until December 5.
WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Nov.
19. (UP)—President Roosevelt
irrived here late last night from
Mississippi and Alabama. After
i welcome at the station by a
rroup of admirers, he motored to
he little white house atop Pin-J
Mountain.
He will remain here until Dc
ember 5.
ABOARD ROOSEVELT SPE
CIAL. En Route to Warm Spr
ngs, Ga., Nov. 19. (UP)—Pies
dent Roosevelt thrust back at op
losition to federal power project<
n the Tennessee Valley Sunday
n two speeches in which ho
orecast public ownership of
lower utilities on a national
cope;
"What you are doing here," h',
old residents of Tupeio, Miss.,
s going to be copied in everv
tate in the union before we aic
hrough."
Speaking from the rear plat
orm of his train at Birmingham,
Ua., he said.
"I am aware that a few of
rour citizenry are leaving no
tone unturned to block and
larass and delay this great na
ional program. I am confident,
lowever, that these obstruction
sts, few in number, in compan
ion with the whole population,
lo not reflect the views of the
iverwhelming majority."
"I know, too, that the over
whelming majority of your buai
lessmen big and little, arc in
learty accord with the great
indertaking of regional planning
iow being carried forward."
Mr. Roosevelt made his first
peech after driving first to a
lomesteading project on tho out
skirts of Tupelo. There ne saw
25 houses erected with fedeia!
runds and trim in comparison to
he usual southern rural dwelling.
Mrs. Roosevelt left the auto
nobile at the project and in
spected one of the homes, that,
occupied by James Barron t»nd
family
After a two-hour visit it Tupe
lo in which he conversed with
Senator Pat Harrison, chairman
)f the senate finance committee,
the president headed for Warm
Springs, Ga., where he will re
main until December 4.
He was greeted along tho route
by thousands of persons who
flocked in the railroad stations
)f every city and town passed
through. At Birmingham he ap
peared on the rear platform of
his car to deliver the *cconl
speech of the day.
"I know something of tin
many difficulties under which
you have been laboring in re
cent years" he said. "I Well
understand the problems of the
heavy industries, such as iron,
steel and coal—industries upon
which you so largely dep?nd.
They are matters of the keenest
concern to the whole administra
tion.
"The great program of public
works now in full swing calls for
vast quantities of the iron and
steel and other capital goods
which this area produces.
"Definite improvement has al
ready made its appearance' a.< i»
has in the coal industry. The
success of the NRA Coal Code
appears not only in the m«»rt or
derly mining of coal but al«o in
the more steady employment and
the bigger pay envelopes of the
thousands of miners who were In
sor straits before the government
acted."
"Rugged individualism" re
ceived the praise of President
Roosevelt. But it was a left
handed compliment, designed as
a thrust at opposition to govern
ment power projects in the Tenn
essee Valley.
"This is not regimentation",
he said, ''it is community rugged
individualism.
"It is not the kind of rugged
individualism that' allows art in
dividual to do this, that or any
other thing that will hurt his
neighbor. He is forbidden to do
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