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^ Hendersonville News Established in 1894
Hendersonvilie Times Established in 1831
Published every afternoon except Sunday at 227
North Main Street, Hendersonville, N. C., by The
Times-News Co., Inc., Owner and Publisher.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1935
BIBLE THOUGHT
PRAYING FOR SINNERS
And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said,
Oh, this people have sinned a great sin . . . yet
now, if Thqu wilt forgive their sin—; (Read Ex.
32:30-35).
• * *
Moses confessed the sin of those for whom ho
made intercession. Thus did Christ pray for His
betrayers and murderers. The advocacy of Moses
for those sinning, and that of Christ for us should j s
constrain us to plead the cause of sinning men! 1
and women before His throne of grace.
Do others find in you a helper and intercessor?
—Ernest M. Wadsworth in Sunday School Times.
GREAT DEVELOPMENT PLAN PRO- j
POSED FOR HENDERSON AND
TRANSYLVANIA COUNTIES
The news columns of this newspaper
today carry a story relating to a move^
ment sponsored by our County Commis
sioners and other citizens in official posi
tion as well as some who are merely pri
vate citizens, which movement proposes a
large development program for the coun
ty. Transylvania county will be asked to
join Henderson in this movement, as it is
of equally vital importance to that county.
The news story gives the details of the
program on which the commissioners and
the committee have been working for sev
eral months, and in which they have en
listed the efforts of federal, State and
TVA officials. The Times-News is inform
ed that at least ten men in official station
with government and TVA agencies have
visited Hendersonville and conferred with
the local committee and surveyed the field.
This development plan is right in line
with the plan endorsed two years ago by
The Times-News, and this paper is still
heartily in favor of it. We believe it is
feasible and practical, and if adopted and
worked out in a thorough manner it would |
make of the Henderson and Transylvania'
area of Western North Carolina a highly
developed and most prosperous section of:
the State.
The plan is a drainage, reforestation
and general rehabilitation program.
It would relieve the valley lands of the
two counties from the certainty of peri-'
odical overflow of the streams of the area, j
It would reclaim swamp lands; perhaps.)
bringing under cultivation some lands j
which probably have never been culti-'
vated.
It would make possible improvement of,
all farming operations in the valleys of
the two counties, thus increasing produc-'
tion to the extent of one to two million
dollars, according to the estimates of
farmers and, farm experts.
It would take the very poor lands out
of cultivation for re-forestation purposes
and would remove the population of such
lands to better lands and better homes
than are now possessed by these residents.
It would build a ready market for the
valley land owners who, in some cases,
are said to desire to dispose of their hold
ings.
It would stimulate the industrial devel
opment of the two counties, also; and it
would create a vast amount of work for
common labor, mechanics and other work
ers, over a period of years; and at the end
of the program, the two counties would be
left intact, with all their, lands improved,
and highly developed and a dense popu
lation, living and laboring under n\ost fa
vorable conditions of progress and pros
perity.
The foregoing estimate is not based on
the dreams of real estate promoters and
speculators, or the idle thoughts of street
corner orators, but is based, or the thought
ful judgment of public officials and some
of the most practical business men of the
county. They believe that tips program
can, be put over and that the time has come
/I to do it.
1 We concur, in the view that the time for
.action has arrived and believe that results
can be obtained if the people of Hender
son and Transylvania counties get together
and push this program.
It is not the pet scheme of our officials
or of any man or set of men, but repre
sents the well considered efforts of a num
ber of our officials and citizens to do some
thing constructive for the upbuilding of
their county and section. It was inaugu
rated almost immediately after Mr.. C. A.
Bock, engineer of TVA, announced in July
of the past year that the Authority did not
expect to build the Bent Creek dam and
stated that citizens of the French Broad
and tributary valleys might proceed with
any development plans or any other plans
they, as individuals or communities, hatf
for the future upbuilding of this section.
NEWSPAPERS' OPINION
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o—1 —
THIS JAZZ AGE OF OURS
Maybe we old fellows are out of date and wrong
in our opinions, but it's hard for us to become
•econciled to the modern jazz way of doing things
—jazz spelling, jazz English, jazz music, jazz so
:ial life, jazz everything.
We are told that people must learn how to do
hings by actually doing them, which is true, but
vhy not actually do enough things while in school
o learn how to hold a job when a boy or girl
eaves school! For instance, typing, stenography,
>tc., are valuable courses and should be given
tudents, but how long is a boy or girl going to
lold a job, no matter how well such student can
lo stenographic work or typing, if he or she can
lot spell! A poorly constructed, badly spelled and
vrongly punctuated letter is not .likely t$ ipett I
vith favor when presented before the eyes of the I
lictator.
And then, there is a school of thought that
would permit boys and girls to do as they please
at home and in school. When they want to work,
let 'em work, and if they take a notion to play,
then play is the stuff. That's a nice theory and
would probably work were it not for the fact that
"men are prone to sin as the sparks are to fly
upward," and discipline is the only influence that
can and will direct a child's life to the right chan
nel. That's what parents and teachers are for—to
train up children in the way they should go—be
cause they usually want to go in the wrong di
rection.
In the opinion of an old-time, out-of-date fellow
like the editor of The Home, our schools need to
do more work on the fundamentals—reading and
writing and arithmetic, including spelling—because
every one knows that it is impossible to build a
house that will stand unless a solid foundation is
laid, and entirely too many of, our modernly-edu
cated people do not have this solid foundation.
However, we do not agree with another school
of thought that our modern schools are not worth
while, not even thai, they are inferior to the old
time school. They are in many respects far su
perior to the schools of yesterday, but with mod
ern improvements in our educational system we
should not neglect the fundamental principles of
education. The danger is in leaving off the good
that the old school presented for the other good
things that modern educators have discovered. We
ought to combine the good in both systems and
leave off the bad in both.—Marshville Home.
BROUGHT SHAME TO HIS PA
"Well, that's the last time I'm going to be seen
in a courtroom on a charge arising through my
use of a car. Mv father has enough troubles with
out being bothered by mine."
It was young Franklin Roosevelt, sort of the
President, talking, whrn he paid a fine of $10 and
costs in the court at Orange, Conn., having plead
ed guilty to speeeding and running under a red
light. Incidentally, the judge told the young man
that $10 was the minimum fine.
this was his third arrest in Connecticut for
traffic violations. While the last case was pending
he ran into another car in Pennsylvania and in
jured a man. He had been arrested two or three
times in Massachusetts, also in Rhode Island and
probably other states, for fast or reckless driving.
Last March he reported to Boston police that his
car had struck a woman and he carried her to the
hospital. A damage suit for $25,000 is now pend
ing on that count.
In short, this Roosevelt boy had been helling
around the country in his car, the same as mil
lions of other youngsters, and had demonstrated
his utter unfitness to be trusted with a motor ve
hicle. His conduct was putting his father to open
shame. He has at last come to, or been brought
to, that realization, judging by his remarks at Or
ange. It took quite a spell lor him to get the un
derstanding that the misconduct of the son of the
President was an embarrassment to his daddy, who
is trying to govern the country and was put to
shame by his own offspring as unable to govern
his own household. Whether a session with his pa
or ma or both helped the youngster to an under
standing is only a guess, but that, considering the
record of a year or more, was long past due. It
should be said, however, that so far as appears
no leniency w^s asked for the youngster by his
folks.—Statcsville Daily.
How fine if the 40-hour week could apply to
tired mothers.
Never a wrong that paid, nor one that didn't
promise to pay. >
A record of most any Vnarried life would l>e
called m scrap-book.
When we make trouble for others we always
save out some for ourselves.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. A cross
word a day keeps love away.
Half of us are unhappy because we can't have
the things that make the other hi\lf miserable.
Any man in the world learns to believe anything
in the world if he wants, to badly enough. Never
an exception. » .
AH! THINGS ARE IMPROVING
SAY,
C0ULQ '<OL> Sf^\R6
fifteen cemts?
DON'T DEFACE IDEALS
By WICKES WAMBOLDT
The practice that certain writ-;
ers have of cliprgin/j into the«»his
tories of ureat men and women. j
unearthing their faults, their
weaknesses, a n u
parading these
defccts, empha
s i z ing the m,
magnifying them,
is all very inter
esting but where ;
docs it get us?
Sometime ago,
after a leading j
minister of the
Gospel had done ,
something that!
was just too bad, •
WAMBOLDT a writer sam:
"Well, that proves that ministers,
too, are merely human."
Of course ministers are human.
Of course you are human. Of
course you are human. Of course
all the great men and the great,
women were human, flr are hu
man. Every person who comes to
this earth is human and is sub-!
ject to the temptations of human
life. Perhaps we misrhtr say that;
the reason human beings are here
is that they arc human.
But is a human being to be
judged by his faults, his weak
nesses, by what he fails to ac-!
complish; or is he to be graded
by his virtues, by his accomplish
ments? Is it a good thing, after
a person has done a good deed or
made a good fight, to say of him.
"Yes, but he was ill-tempered?")
Perhaps the critic himself is ill- j
'tempered, too, and in addition to \
that has never done anything!
worthwhile.
If a man has climbed a hkrh,
difficult mountain peak, and has
planted a standard there, are you
going to think about his achieve
ment, or of the fact that he fell
down a certain number of times
during the climb? If a man builds
a shining light house on a danger
ous reef, are you going to think
of what he did for mankind or
about the talk that he got soused
every now and then while striving
for, his objective?
IVIcn and women who do worth
while things in this world, do
them in spite of their weaknesses.
It Is for that they should have
credit.
Persons who have shown us
that great things can be done by
weak mortals, deserve our appro
val of their accomplishments.
There is no perfect person in this
world. There is no person that
doej.jnot do wrong. One may be
jnjpqrffct in one direction, anoth
er iiyperfect in another direction.
Yet what is the sense in mulling
over a man's imperfections? Why
dig up the human frailties of
George Washington and Abraham
Lincoln and of other shining
lights? Why not put in our time
contemplating their victories? If
we wish to ponder frailties, there
are ,sonie much closer home we
can dwell upon.
We can take comfort from the
human weaknesses of great per
sons; their frailties prove that
they' are in our class. They are
not separate and apart from us,
so high up that we can never have
any hope ol' doing as well a.; they
did. They are frail and weak in
some of their ways, just as we
are frail and weak in some of
ours. Fine business! That encour
ages us. They arc not gods and
> -———
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
• 3Y RODNEY DUTCHFR
BY RODNEY DUTCHEU. j.
\KA Srrvicr t'orre»i»oisdent
W7ASHLNCJTON. — The treasury
*' continues to bo conservative,
in spite of everything.
Secretary Henry Morgenthau
was asked what he considered the
outstanding thing in his' annual
report.
"'I'm told it's the dullest report |
ever written in the treasury," he i
replied. "But it isn't my fault. I
had something in there to bright
en it up and the fellows around
here insisted on taking it out."
Of course, he was asked what
had been deleted.
"Well," said Morgenthau, "I
said that if business didn't get i
any Worse next year, it might get
better. 15ut they thought that
statement was too reckless."
s o *
QUITE a few veterans of the
pre-New Deal era remembered
"Pension Bill" Ashbrook of Ohio,
who entered the House in 11)06,;
served 14 years, and was recently
re-elected to his old seat alter 14
years" away from here.
Bill Ashbrook liked to be called I
"Pension Bill," because he had in
troduced more pension bills than
anybody else, although that wasn't
much help to him in the 1020
Harding landslide'. '
What astonished his -old
friends as he walked into the j
House on opening day, how- !
ever, was t lie fact that "i'en
tdoit Bill" was very far from be
ing alone.
He was 5-1 years old when"
lie left the House and quite
childless. But. now, trailing
along behind him, were live of
his own bo,\s and girls, rang
ing from 12 to D years. They all
sat in the back row.
"Pension Bill" wasn't the only
one to bring in the children, but
it was about that time folks out
side beard Head Doorkeeper Joe
Sinnott loudly ordering: "No myre
•^"'3—— kid? on. this
rpHE1 boys on Capitol Hill are a..
proud ot tho speedy new ele
vators— a bit modernistic, they
are _u- w h i c h were installed
throughout tlyj Capitol and its
office buildings between sessions.
Though some of the new con
gressmen suspect graft.
The illuminated lloor indica
tors inside and outside the cart
say SB, B, F, 0, which means
Sub-basement, Basement, Floor
and Gallery.
Congressman .John O'Connor
saw tlie "Sll" symbol and
grunted:
"That Sol Bloom
yets his name everywhere!"
This was a pardonable error,
as Congressman Bloom is still one
of the Hill's outstanding limelight
grabbers. On the opening day one
noticed him, much of th»: time,
sitting ingratiatingly on the ros
trum at the feet of Speaker Joe
Byrns, whom he was engaging in
conversation.
» * »
ANOTHER New York congress
man, however, wasn't having
any too happy a time on the open
ing day. Sam Dickstein, chairman
of the committee appointed to in
vestigate Nazi activities, which
has been promoting another "red
scare" instead, was writing a
threp-page letter to the commis
sioner of police in his home town
of New York.
Sam urged that no further pa
rade. permits be granted to Com
munists. Because, he said, all
such parades lately had a way of
winding up at his house.
It seems that the Communists
had been demanding a chance to
testify • about themselves before
the committee. When Dickstein
refused, they had started building
platforms opposite his home and
yelling their testimony across the
street. '
Copyright. 193.5, NE&g^pvIC?,. Inc.)
LETTERS TO
i THE EDITOR
NOTE—No unsigned com
munications are published by
The Times-News. All letters
must be signed with the real
name of the author. No com
munications signed with a fic
titious name will be publiihed.
—EDITOR.
THE SEVENTH AVENUE
RAILROAD CROSSING
E<?itor. The Times-News:
Shortly after the undersigned
came to Ilendersonville, about six
years a<ro, he was asked to speak
to our Rotary club on Community
Projects that the club should un
dertake. One of the projects that
lie brought to the club's attention
was the matter of the Seventh
avenue railroad crossing. He told
the club: "People will be killed
there. Pi. is just a matter of when
and how many." Since that time,
at least five people have been
killed at that crossing.
Once more the undersigned
would, through your columns, be
come *a foreteller by saying that
we are not through killing people
at that crossing unless we change
the crossing or put gates there.
Let's not allow this year to roll
around without doing something
, about that crossing!
The highway crossings on
Eighth at Church and at Main are
two other good death traps. The
Boy Scouts rendered fine service
by serving as traffic officers at
these points and protecting the
; lives of many school children.
I Could not this service be restor
ed?
I am not writing in the spirit of
! "Let George do it." I am willing
j to help in these as well as in any
; other vital community undertak
i ings.
I With best wishes, I am,
Sincerely,
JAMES P. BURKE.
i
Editor Times-News:
! T am not on the inside of the
dam rituation. I don't know what
the government aims to do with
. reference to the French Rrond
project. What I do know i:*> th;?:
If the dam is not to be built a
! drainage and a soil erosion proj
ect is very desirable.
Rev. J. M. . Justice in his very
| timely article a few days ago
! states that there are 200,000
acres of land in Henderson coun
ty. One hundred thousand acres
ar? not profitable as farm lands
because of hills and mountains'.
Twenty thousand, he states, suf
fer from poor drainage and over
! flows. Now I would like to raise
jthi:; question: How many of the
reYnaininqr 80,000 arc suffering
from soil erosion?
It seems to me that a very
practical project and one that
would have permanent value
would be a drainage and soil ero
sion project that would o^nhrace
all of the Frcnch Broad basin
that lies in Henderson county- If
other adjoining counties wished
to co-operate the scope of the
project could be enlarged.
Under this project all the bot
tom lands would be drained and
much of our most productive soil
goddesses, but men and women
like us. If they ean go places,
then we can go places- if they can
move upward in spite of their
handicaps, then we can move up
ward in spite of our handicaps.
What nonsense to spend valu
able time writing and reading of
the evils of men and women who
have done great things! It would
be far better to familiarize our
selves with the pro°rress they have
made, with the fine deeds they
have done. Such contemplation
mifjht inspire us to follow their
example. If they could make
headway in spite of their human
defects, we can make headway .in
spite of our human defects.
We need to. p,et the habit of
hero worship and of heroine wor
ship. That principle encourages
and inspires more persons to be
heroes and heroines; it encour
i ages and inspires ourselves, too
would be brought into use. One
acre of water-s-'onked bottom land,
reclaimed, would be worth
oral acres of unproductive hnl-.
side land. , ,
But illtt is just the bottom end
of the story. Let the project in
clude the prevention of soil ero
sion from one edge of the riencli;
Broad basin to the other. I hat
means that every farm m the
basin would be listed. Gullies
would be located and stopped.
Terraces would be built and a
system of crop rotation would be
worked out to the end that soil
erosion miphn be greatly reduccd.4
The feder; 1 governmtftit, ^evi
dently looks with favor upon such
projects. Two river basins in
South Carolina are beincr terrac
ed and the work is being done b."
the CCC boys.
Then when the bottom lands
have been drained and the slopes
have been terraced the county
would be ready then for the next
practical project, which would be
rural electrification. Fifty years
from now people will wonder why
civilization was >:o Ions* in getting
electricity into rural homes.
Finally il not the big dam
then give us drainage, soil ero
sion projects and rural electric
ity.
VICTOR RECTOR.
PARROT VALET
NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 11. (UP)
Because the United States has
prohibited the landing of parrots
at its ports, a customs guard was
detailed to stand guard over a
"polly" aboard 'the Norwegian
boat, Sneland I, while it unloaded
sugar here.
Don't blame the new liquor, Old
Timer. It doesn't give you that
happy feeling, but neither does
Christmas. , ,
iss mm
GJETS W%
Dcn^ FaLrbm vie*.-,
Questioning or Uyr^
Action
. LOS AXC u.vr.
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:Holly.\voo(l" wa - .1:1:1 .
later yesterday who
ford obtained :» \*
divorce from D«>ii>rl:\ ,u„
Sr
In a quiet, three-- .
ceedinir thut \v:\ t (
most before shv l;n« ^
slight blonde con.plas ^
the stamp of failuiv "ii jj|
wood's one-time '>•..
riape."
1 The decree was u: • i> «i 0-;
ground of mental ci 1J
sequence of Kairbatil: ' |.rotn
ed absences from <'ali : u.
! "NOTHING TO SAY,"
FAIRBANKS DECLAR c
ST. MORITZ. Swiizu
11.—(UP).—"I have
say." That was
i could jtrct from 1 »«.nvl:i< j-a
banks, Sr., late last ni-!it, v,},
they told him Mary I'irkfnrd I
divorced him in l.os AniMi-/
The United Press j»ot 1 j
'out of bed at th«- I'al:. • I , ,
this winter resent t<
news.
Americanism: .More an.1 |,HJ
[{equipped hospitals i1 • !
land; hipriuw matern:!y . ,4.
in hospitals than in tin- ^
backwoods.
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This Curious World 7JJ1;:
IF THE
KEPT THE SAME
SIDE ALWAYS
TOWARD THE
SUN, HAD NO
MOON, AND
HAD ITS POLAR
AXIS PERPEN
DICULAR TO ITS
ORBIT, WE
WOULD HAVE NO
DAYS, MONTHS,
OR SEASONS/
WE WOULD BE
UNCONSCIOUS
OF THE
PASSING OF
TIME.
o 1935 BY NEA SERVICE. IfiC
ALU WCQfaS
DO NOT CRAV./L/
SPAN - WOtiMS PROS&
IN A SERIES OF LCOPlW
STRJDES, BECAUSE
=7 their. MIDDLE.
5E.CTIOrNS nnVt,
• HI —
THE axis of the earth is inclined about 23 ^ degree-. Th«
/act. that the earth rotate.* upon this inclined axi.-s oncc in 21
hours gives us our days. The earth's trjp around the sun fiva
us our years. Tlie moon circling about us givis uj our month"
God of Old
HORIZONTAL
1 Who Is the god
in the picture'
5 His story ir»
a r?yth.
10 Shoot ot a
■ plant.
11 Part o£ a
church.
12 Box.
14 Apiaceous
plant.
15 Scarlet.
16 Beret.
17 You and Tne.
18 Company,
19 Sound ot
inquiry.
SI You.
22 Four-wheeled
vehicle.
24 Valued.
26 Female horse.
27 Female sheep.
29 Ovule.
HI Hair on a
horse's neck.
32 American aloe.
34 To mend.
36 Fcrm of "bo."
37 Science prac
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titioners. i
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40 Postscript, c
41 Hysteria.
43 Before Christ;
44 Golf device.
45 Before. «
46 Prophet.
48 Deportments.
50 Trap.
52 This divinity
had charge of
tho to
heaven.
53 For defying
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. to support
i. fohfc .
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o Burden,
' Social in3cct.
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7 Narrative
poeiia. •«
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9 Gcard.
13 Funerc;
I
oration.
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20 To
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| 23 To nvr.ify.
I 24 To venerate
'25 Costly.
2C God of war.
' 28 Australian
hones.
30 To thr; »■.
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a book of —'
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first veitobM
of tbo
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