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®h? SlImPB-Npma Hender*oeviUe N«vr» Established in 1894 Hendersonville Times Established in 1881 Published every afternoon except Sunday at 22' j North Main Street, Hendersonville, N. C., by The Times-News Co., Inc., Owner and Publisher. TELEPHONE 87 J. T. FAIN Editor C. M. OGLE Managing Editor HENRY ATKIN City Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Times-News Carrier, in Hendersonville, or else where, per week 12c Due to high postage rates, the subscription price of The Times-News in Zones above No. 2 will bo based on the cost of postage. 2 I Entered as Second Class Matter at the Po^t Office in Hendersonville, N. C. SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1935 -o BIBLE THOUGHT o— "LOVE COVERETH" (Prov. 10:12) * * * • Are you tempted to uncover the shortcomings | of your fellows? And would you learn the victory over it? It lies here. The instant you are tempt- ! ed to uncover another's life remember how God in | •His grace has "covered" yours with the precious, blood of Jesus Christ. (Ps. 31:1).—McConkey. Forgive. O Lord, our severing ways, The rival altars that we raise, The wrangling tongues that mar Thy praise, Thy grace impart. —J. G. Whittier. i ~"THIS SLAUGHTER MUST STOP" The Asheville Citizen quotes the above caption as the slogan of the Carolina Mo tor club in its campaign for safety on the highways of North Carolina. The Citizen says: "The above sentence forms the slogan of the Carolina Motor club in its campaign to curb vio lent deaths on the highways of North Carolina. It is an effective watchword in seeking a solution to a problem that is steadily becoming graver. When fatalities mount as they have in recent months, there is obviously something radically •wrong somewhere. "The safety committee of the motor club sug gests a course of instruction in the secondary school curricula, endorse-: school boy safety pa trols, advocates a training school for school bus i drivers, and favors space on the shoulders of main highways in school areas for pedestrians. "It thinks >pecial training for traffic officers will be valuable, advocates a larger state highway patrol, wants a safety educational division of the Motor Vehicle Bureau, asks for enactment of a standard state-wide drivers' license law, seeks uni formity of traffic laws, highway markings and en forcement, favors enactment of a standard finan cial responsibility law, and proposes traffic sur veys with CWA funds. "A pamphlet issued by the motor club brings out the fact that in the past year there were 443 homicides in the state and 271 suicides. Autocides took 853 lives. In 19 months, 646 North Caro lina citizens were killed and died in the World war. In the same period, 1.404 lost their lives in auto, accidents. Deaths in rural areas from car acci dents are increasing. States with standard license laws are shown by charts to have reduced their mortality rates. Auto sales show an increase in' licensed states because people are not afraid to drive cars where to a lprge extent the careless and incompetent drivers are eliminated. "The highway death rate has become such a problem in the state that Governor Ehringhaus brought it to the attention of the legislature Thursday night. 'The mounting toll of accidents appalls us and chills our enthusiasm for the en terprise of increased transportation facilities,' he said. 'The governor expressed the belief slaughter, on the highways cannot be stopped by ordinary methods. He advocated a drivers' license law with' teeth in it. He said this should be accomplished by a constant, unrelenting and real enterprise to ward enforcing such a law." No problem that faces the present ses sion of the legislature is of more far-reach ing and grave importance than that of seeing if something can be done to reduce accidents and deaths on the roads of the | State. Other States have found by expe rience that rigid traffic laws and drivers' license regulations, while they do not work perfectly and eliminate all accidents and deaths on the highways, do greatly im prove conditions. North Carolina must do something along that line to reduce the! grave dangers of the roads in the present day traffic jam. Many citizens are loath to see any morej laws enacted in North Carolina. They would like to see about half of those now on the books repealed, as it is certain that number of existing laws are useless and worthless and are not enforced. But some thing must be done about traffic conditions on the highways of North Carolina, and the only course that promises any relief is more rigid traffic regulations and a rigid ly enforced drivers' license law. Brewers of the country are campaign ing for the five-cent glass of beer, now that the late Vice-President Marshall isn't here to disconcert them. The mayor of Marblehead, O., has held that office for 31 years, and probably will keep on holding it until the town decides to grow up. NEWSPAPERS7 OPINION TVA DAM EXCITEMENT AGAIN UNWARRANTED Xo need for our people to again become wrought up over Walter Smith's big French Broad dam. As we see it, the Tennessee Valley Authority has made no move to start the dam, and has author ized no one to speak for it in the matter of when, where, or if ever there will be a dam on the up per French Broad. Plenty of people in Transylvania and Henderson county would like to see the dam built—a dam so high that it would practically cover the French Broad valley from above Rosman to Bent Creek in Buncombe county. These folk have plenty of ar gument on their side of the question. Then there are others, just as plentiful, who aver that the whole thing is a vast dream that will never materialize, and should not by reason of the fact that it would encroach upon the rights of the people in the valley—take away their homes and means of livelihood without giving fair re turns in money for damages incurred. The Valley Authority "pays plenty" for lands taken over, asserts one group—the Valley Au thority "pays nothing" for lands tak^n over, as serts the opposing faction. And so it is with other advantages and disadvantages that go with the dam, if and when there should be such thing. Advice of this newspaper is—don't wait on Uncle Sam to pile something into our laps, fpr there are already too many millions of people waiting en the same thing, but rather, get out and get. And DON'T GET EXCITED.—Brevard News. SUBMARGINAL LAND It is announced in Washington.that the $25,000, 000 public works funds allotted for retirement of arid land has started to work. Buying is underway in the Dakotas, Montana, the Southeast, and Fai; West. The exact locations will be kept secret in order to prevent speculation by land companies. Harry L. Hopkins, relief administrator, is quot ed as saying, ".We might as well use the land for some really social purpose, and give the people who have been struggling with it a chance to get a'ong on decent farms.'' Such a movement as this is a wholesome exam ple of valid federal aid. To those who fear that individual initiative is lessened by outside assis :ance, it is encouraging to know that approximate ly two-thirds of the "migrating" families have nade their own plans for resettling. The government is planning to purchase about 1.000,000 acres in the immediate future. The ! 'new pioneers" who leave the farms where life j las been a hard, unequal struggle for mere sub- ! ustence will be assisted by work in the newly cre sted public forests and parks until their farms are started. The nation needs fewer acres in cultivation; :t needs parks and forests. Several million citizens deserve a better chance. The social order will : benefit by the retiring from cultivation of sub-! marginal lands.—Christian Science Monitor. COLLEGE EDUCATION President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale has made a valuable contribution to the current discussion 1 concerning the advisability of trying: to make "col lege men" out of unsuitable material. It would naturally be Supposed that the head of j a great university would stress the importance of ? college education regardless, but it is an en couraging sign that leading educators are coming to realize that for the vast majority of young peopl ethe four years required by a college course is largely a waste of time, money and effort. We quote Dr. Hadley in part: "People engaged in public instruction are i.i clined to go too far in thinking that everyone should be encouraged to purpose his schooling to the furthest possible degree. They lament what seems to them the highly inadequate proportion of elementary school children who go to the high schools and of hi<rh school pupils who proceed to college; and they glory in any increase in the.-e proportions. They seem to forget that the class room is not the only means of education; that a youth may get more intellectual and moral train ing from practical work that he likes, than from formal lessons that he loathes." Now, this does not mean to depreciate in the least the value of higher education to those who by intellect, temperament and inclination are ca pable of acquiring it and putting it to practical use. It simply means that unless a young person | has the native ability to work with his brains, ho had better be taught to work with his hands.— Monroe Enquirer. FIFTH OF INCOME FOR TAXES The American people are now paying $9,500. 000,000 every year in taxes. That is what it costs them to keep their various governments in finan cial fuel. It's a fifth of everything that is earned in a year in the United States, which means that for. every five dollars represented in the national in come, one of them must po to some public treas ury somewhere. The ratio is outlandishly too high. Some waste occurs along the line, of course, but that's not the major reason for this extrava gant cost of government. Mainly, it rests with the people who lie awake nights trying to 'hink up some new form of public service they need and ,can get if the pqlitical wires are working.—Char lotte Observer. Loss of temper is loss of sense. United we boost, divided we bust. By immodesty girls tempt the boys to tempt them. All kill themselves long before the "appointed time." Usage makes thing respectable whether right or wrong. Face powder may catch a man, but it takes baking powder to hold him. The teen age has less judgment, more tempta tion, and less self-control. 'YOU GO BACK TO WORK, TOO' CRIMINAL REFUGEES _ By WICKES WAMBOLDT— If a man is ffoingr to load a criminal life, it will help him to escape punishment if he can be an established member of one of WAMBOLDT those oui nne iu cal machines which are set up and operated for patronage, con tracts, and other special benefits for the machine and itsfriends. Suppose R e d Gussinji', a mem ber of such 8 machine, c o (li mits a crime. I+ his offense is not so outrageous tnai it can uc ignored, the police will likely not trouble him. for the police prob ably belong to the machine. How ever, if Gus.sing does come up be fore a machine police judge, he will be treated as tenderly as pos sible. A fine, a sentence, sus pended, works out very well; or Gussing is let out on bond and nobody hears anything morel about the matter. It is amazing how often the papers in such: matters get "lost." Suppose Gussing's jaw iviola- j tion is so serious that he Is a sujpji ject for a higher court. Perhaps then a managed grand jury fails; to indict him. Or if it does in dict him, and he is brought to trial, machine court officials se lect a machine jury which knows exactly what to do to help one of j the boys out of a jam. But; should public wrath be so hijrh ] that punishment of the culprit is demanded, the machine shrugs it> shoulders, gives Gussing ;i sen tence, and as soon a< nublic in dignation has cooled off, get him pardoned or paroled. There are two reasons why the old line political machine protects its members from the law: It wants to hold its organization in tact and to make its members feel the need of the organi:-itio i. Another reason for this sticking together is that most of the mem bers of the machine know some thing on one another. ! ■« *.-tiy uoggies, is you Doys let I ma' g6 to the pen, 1 am going to take some of you with me," i< not an infrequent comment made by ~ political machine member who finds himself in danger of l being cracked down on by the i law. l'olitical machines which har bor, abet and protect criminals, are responsible as much as any thintr else, for the impudence of American criminals, and for tho:i amazing number and activity. The old line, local political machine i«= often a criminal refuge. It has contract:, with criminals. It gets campaign fnnds, through having in the proceeds of crime. Local political machines operating out of one or the other or both of the major political parties, are direct ly responsible for the evils of our terrible municipal governments for which this nation i; interna tionally disgraced. There is no legitimate reason why a.iy na tional political party should al lowed to reach inio any commun ity and take charge of and run that,-community's locr.l govern ment. t The citizens of every locality should tak» . charge of and run tkefix own local government. If '(Stiziens want honesty and decency in local government, they ran ob tain such a ''esult by gettir.y to gether regardless of party affilia tions and setting up a strong or ganization that will take over the municipal government through se lecting suitable candidates and petting them elected; then stand ing bv them and guiding them after they are elected. The national municipal league of Ne-.v York City h doing praise worthy work in spreading the gos;and the method.; of whole some municipal government. JCE SURPLUS LAWRENCE. Mas?.— (UP) — The ERA job supply hero greater than t-lio d-mand. Local Administrator Cornelius J. Casey leport?;! he received only 370 ap plications for 300 jobs. BEHIND THE SCENES W WASHINGTON V" . . . BY RODNEY DITCHER | NBA Service Staff Corrf*;ionUeiit W7ASHINGT0N—E a r 1 y budget " balancing officially became a joke on the morning of Jan. 5. It was in President Roosevelt's now office, where the president was carefully explaining his new budget to a hundred correspond-| cats, as a school teacher might Sive an arithmetic lesson. He was flanked ^y young Budget Director Dart U°U and. more importantly, by' Secretary| ' Henry Mcrgenthcu, who is the; real budget boss now, in ca:>o you hadn't heard. Roosevelt wise-cracked that i chey'cl tried to-get tho budget so! simple that even lie cJuld under stand it and you'd probably haw enjoyed being there, just to soe : the way everybody tossed tha bil lions around the room. Very blithely, the president said: "We will havo to borrow J only $3,788,000,000 next year." The only trouble was that , there are drafts in • this many windowed office anc1 one fears thai Mr. Roosevelt v.11 soon again: 6e developing a bad cold. * * * r AST year ho had said wc should plan to havo a definito ly balanced budget by the fiscal year 1935-3G and now he was esT Uinating a 1935-36 gross deficit of $4,528,000,000. .Some of the boys seemed a bit1 disturbed about that. "A>*c you now looking forward to a balanced budget at the end of some other year?" one ques tioned. "I hope so," came the answer with a merry laugh. "Hope springs eternal!" Ho insisted what he had said last year about balancing the budget this year was merely ex pression of "a very pious hope." HINALLY, you began to get the *■ point that this gay and grin ling president was really laugh X'g at the bankers and business nen who keep telling him to bal mco that budget. 1.x effect, ho ft'as telling tteni:- "Balance it i'ourse'ves." He meant that private industry :ould cut the'deficit by providing "or employment and rnado the joint that the budget really was being balanced—except for tho lour billion dollars hs wa:its ap propriated for relief work in 1933-30. The budget was so arranged as lo throw tho challenge smack In the face ct' the loudest advocatca ur budget balancing. The only {;aie he get serious about it was when a correspon dent persisted in wanting to know whether there wasn't any figure above which F. I). It. felt the na tional debt couldn't safely go. "I'll ask you a question," he replied. "If, in 1937, we find five million people starving, what would you do? Would you let them starve? Well, that's the anj swer." « * * SUCH inferential admissions that "the depression isn't ever yet coincided with a repudiation of the hard-dying theory that recov ery is to come by some early boom in the heavy or capital goods in dustries. That theory has been a persistent favor 1 to with r,*any now dealers. But you may be viire Roose velt isn't cherishing it any more. He has come to realize that, there will Lo no demand for new sky scrapers, high-class hotels, new, fashionable apartment houses, new storage warehouses and things like that as long as those built in the 1927-28-29 period are only half filled. 1 'Convrisrht. 1925. NEA Sorvico Inc.) , LETTERS TO 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 .n fic titious name will be published. —EDITOR. Editor. Tho Times-News, Mr. J. T. Fain, Hendcr. onville, N. C. j Dear* Mr. Fain: Ten or fifteen vears i o. when | % I Mr. Coolidge was president and j , the government v."*1* ■><? | 1 udget nnd having a balance oi a . bi'lion dollars every year r:;:1"! . | when times were pood and when j everybody had a job who wan! "II a 'job, when the public thought that times were always pomp- to j be good; when farmer;' go< good i pay for their products, labor \vu ; well paid for their services and the government had twenty mil lion people less on the relief roll, , the State of North Carolina pays-1 ed a lav.-, taxing the automobile . owncrr six cent;; a gallon for the gasoline and about fifteen to J twenty dollars,a year fp.r license I tags for tile privilege of driving ' their cars on the road? oi North j , Carolina. Since that time conditions have ; 'changed; our citizens' earning j ' power has been reduced by fifty ' j or a hundred per cent and many i of our citizen?, have no earning power at all, jobs are .icarce, times are hard (notwithstanding some I v' v distinguished po'itician • will tell us the depression ir. r.vev.) | The fset of it is tho depression never hit them for they uvvrlly have fat salaries derived from tha taxpav • Nevertheless it is better to tell the i Mih and.not try to kid our < Ives into believing that time.; are •yood. During Qe four or live !; <' depression, the individual ! ha- had Lo retrench and the poor v had to suffer; many have hsd to : i't down on their-food and the [ ;i;?c -itics of life, and yet the ;! . '.aiure at Raleigh, these past i • has done nothing to re ' duce these ta^es and the aut :mo i >•»!»• .'jiciv have Had to continue to nay from two t.o five times as i. 'i ruto iic-nse fees and more ga o'inc tax thr».n otho" dates, •opie of which have discovered (that ihe dopr-vion is on and pco | pie .no poor. I 1. . I L'I ILVllHJJJ LJ I.U.C Ulitl • the- ;s r.oino movement on to r^et : the wi'.l, ou;r?.fi'eous Jan repealed ! end ;• M( v one enacted, redu'-i !ieen:».* ' by fifty or scvcnty Tne per cent. ,*'py I : i:££(:•» thpj if u1! of the I'ii'i : i Mc owners and truck own | e w..: 11 Ink:* t/ii-j mult r to ! h-'P.rt and ' l ite a lctlvv to your ! i eprt J.: tative at Rnleiffh, o;- if some public-minjdccjl citizen would diav; up a petition and have this signed by th* thousands of auto mobile owners and delivered to your representative. th" it :ir.la-! turo would he compelled to deliv er the citizens of North Carolina from tMs unjust harden wl'ch 'V an awful burden, c specially to i those who hd\ta Knap, worn-out r.aj-'i and trucks not worth ion to twenty-five dollars and w! i u.-.o the i oads very litt'e and cannot afford and are not abl<> > p.iv the sevenijjen dollars which they are asked io pay and have to ivy or stay off the roads, or ha arrested, a- so many of them were on Jan uary 1st. >»e hope that nuhl'r> .*■>?"1 .i be made to function in such .. .,a.v that this injustice; w.li be remedied at this region of the legislature. J. S. SARGENT, SR. 107TH BIRTHDAY COLUMBIA. Mo. (UP).—"Un do Joe" Goslin, mgro, central Missouri's oldest nip.n vocontly | celebrated his 107th birthday. The | Boone county house in which j "Uncle Joe" was born during the ' rdministration of PveVidrnt John ! Quir.cy Adgms stiil stand;?. Nature evens things. If you ' work hard enough, you can af ford the greatest specialists by I the time you break down. Even Winter Show "Shy" in Stales Wjhere Water Stil! Needed By HILLIER KRFlGHCAUM-j U."iietl P.*c3s Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. ! 2. (UP) Even the winter snow are pity ing: truant to most <ir the drought itato;; of the midwe/t, the U. 9 weather bureau report-. In a bulletin of weather condi tions during December, precipita tion of alJ midwestern state- was reported below normal e.vcewt Minnesota where lieavy snows qjft* more than two feet ii som" t-ma muniiit.s broutrhf Iho flu'ui-" 'io : 1.8 per f-nt of normal. \ Those states where the s'lh !>u r.ed crop, to evisp durir.f? the frrowin# i.it/ntn.s and where cattle died in fields for lack of t^; • • •»•• age and water are not peti'n-f their normal snowfall. Fairkr heavy fall rains aided some «rf' these Joci'litivfi hut if the iv< ; 'it li'-iht snow fall continu -s i' \ear farmers will >-i:nrt It * "TO.'ing season with water supplier a^nin sadly deplete;'. Oklahoma and JCan/a-* v'to Jh? worst suflV'rciw i»,ceiv': than half (heir normal December snow fall r rain. Towa )-•• u'ed exactly .'(/ [km* cent the b"i?l':-.':i showed. North and South Dakota, In diana, Ohio, Kentucky ?nd Ten nessee all received less than two thuds oi' the noi ;v.a! 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