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TELEPHONE 87~~
MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1937
B1BL£ THOUGHT
1. "WE ARE TROUBLED ON EVERY SIDE"
(2 Cor. 7:5)
• * •
Why should God havo to lead us thus and allow
the pressure to be so hard and constant? Well, in
th<- first plac«* it how* Hi.s all-sufficient strength
and grace much better than if we were exempt
from pressure and trial.
"The treasure is in earthen vessels, that the
excellency of the power may be of God and
not of us." (2 Cor. 4:7)
—Streams in the Desert.
(To be continued)
WAR BEFORE RECOVERY
Great Britain seems willing to stop its
economic recovery in order to put every
resource into the great defense program.
Sir Thomas Inskip, defense coordination
minister, suggests that normal industry
may have to stand still for three years
while national armament is perfected. The
steel planned for new buildings and for
remodeling old ones is all needed for arma
ment. Peaceful construction of all kinds
must be postponed. Aircraft concerns art
already so busy making war planes that
ffrm is no attempt to meet private de
mands.
Perhaps it is all necessary. But the fu
ture looks dark. If war comes and Britain's
tremendous preparations succeed in ward
ing off conquest, what then? Economic
exhaustion goes with military victory these
days as much as with defeat. And if 110
war comes, can modern weapons be con
verted into plowshares and pruning hooks
and machinery? Can the nation that puts
nearly all its resources for years into arma
ments and ail its thinking into war plans
turn easily to pick up the activities of civ
ilization where it dropped them?
DIVORCE COMPETITION
Another state, Idaho this time, proposes'
to go into the divorce business in a big
way. It hasn't been exactly what you
wvuld call hard to get a separation in that
state. It only took three months' residence.
But under a new law the waiting period
will be reduced to six weeks.
An ordinary business man may wonder
whether that will be any real advantage.
The turn-over will be more rapid, but di
vorce candidates from other states will be
in Idaho only half as long. With the vol
ume of traffic doubled, the courts and law
yers make twice as much money; but the
hotels, movie theaters, and so no, may be
no farther ahead.
It might pay better, instead of unmarry
ing people, for states to establish condi
tions so attractive for family life that mar
ried people would flock there to stay mar
ried and raise children and develop nat
ural resources.
AIRWAY SAFETY
Airplane designers today are concen
trating their efforts on comfort, safety and
quiet rather than additional speed. The
transport lines get passengers across the
continent or to any destination today as
fast as most occasions require. Days have
been cut from some trips, hours from
others. There may be further speed gains
in the future, but they are no longer very
important.
On the other hand, comfort, safety and
qufet, with special emphasis on safety, are
what the average passenger wants. They
are also what the transport lines and the
pi^ptorwant. With research bent to this
crl6^ rKe'prophecy of the chairman of the
board at .Korth American Aviation seems
reasonable. He says advancement in aero
nautical design will make it possible by
1939 to operate transport planes through
out the year witho.ut a single fatality.
Another neat, paternal thing that Euro
pean dictators do is to fix the radio receiv
ers so their people cant get foreign broad
casts.
Father Coughlin, who said he would not
do any more political broadcasting, is do
ing il^again because "we are very near a
political crisis." We always have been.
NEWSPAPERS' OPINIONS !
o —-O
PRESIDENT ABANDONS HIS FIRST
ARGUMENT
The simple truth is, of course, that there is a
(Treat measure of plausibility in the president's
argument as to the expediency and even the wis
dom of getting "new blood" on the supreme court
bench when and if at some time or other the bench
becomes overloaded with "old" blood.
The public that ia fair-minded and considerate
of the logic of a question will concede that the
president has a point there.
A supreme court bench composed altogether of
men as aged as those who now constitute the tri
bunal would, odt of the unavoidable nature of the
ca->e, tend to spend its mind upon things that have
to do with "the dead hand of the past" instead of
the living organisms and necessities of the present.
To say that is not to indulge in any form of
audacious criticism of the present members of the
court.
The same fact would hold, no matter who may
be its occupants if these happen to be as old as
the court's present constituents.
The president, we repeat, has had and has now
a plausible and impressive point there.
But this now does not appear to be his point at
all.
While he continued to make such references in
his second fireside chat, the major purpose of that
address was to inform the American people that he
wants to change the supreme court in order to set •
a court that will ratify his policies.
Of course, that had been charged against him
by opponents of the plan all along.
Hut the president now not only admits it, but hi
built the main body of this second speech around
that point—not the point at all that he majored at
the ouset.—Charlotte Observer.
ESAU WAS A MIGHTY HUNTER—BUT—
Emu of old came from the chase one day hungry
as a bear and tired as a dog. His brother Jacob
who was a thinker and who carried in his breast
'om^thing more than an ordinary hop saw his op
portunity. He seized onto it and bought Esau's
birthright for a mess of pottage. Esau sold out for
one square meal, and he had no one but himself to
blame for it. We still have Esaus a plenty in the
vorld. The United States is full of them. We also
ave many Jacobs. These Jacobs, many of them
ire in politics. They know their Esaus. They
enow they will sell out for a little financial benefit.
This nation has a great birthright. Every sovereign
citizen of this nation inherited from our forefa
thers the birthright of liberty and freedom. Since
the formation of tho republic there have been Ja
cobs who would if they could steal or cheat out of
this birthrieht. Some of them found us temporarily i
hungry in 192C», and 'he Jacobs have been cooking ,
their pottage and causing the sweet aroma to be
breathed by us in the hope that we would sell out
for a square meal. Many of us, like Esau of old,
have already fallen 'or it. If enough finally do,
then our freedom and our liberty and our cher
ished institutions will slip from our hands and we
shall ha%*e no one to blame but ourselves.—Mocks
villc Enterprise.
TEXTILE FIELD NEXT
New.-paper reports say John L. Lewis and his
Committee for Industrial Organization intend to
invade the- textile field next. In fact, Lewis is re
ported to have been invited to make the opening
speech of his proposed campaign at Greenville in
this state.
Just what reception textile workers of the South
will give Mr. Lewis can not be foretold. But there
is one thing certain. Experiences of Southern tex
tile employees with the United Textile Workers of
America, especially in South Carolina, have been
of such a nature as would caase anyone to be slow
in following the same leadership.
In the past three years South Carolina workers
have sent thousands of dollars in dues to the na
tional headquarters of the U. T. W.
What have the workers received in return?
Not a dime.
What has tho U. T. W. done for the workers
who lost their jobs at Greenwood, Lyman, Pelzer,
Union, and other places? Nothing.
What did the U. T. W. do for the Gaffney mem
bers who lost practically five months' work in two
strikes in a period of two years' time? Nothing.
The union never furnished a nickel to help those
people live during the time they were out of work.
Will South Carolina textile workers who know
these things to be so, allow themselves to be led
into more turmoil, strife and possible idleness to
increase the power of John L. Lewis and the men
who have been feeding on the dues of the U. T. W.
members?—Gaffney (S. C.) Ledger.
VICTIMS UNKNOWN
Wc wonder who in Mecklenburg or Gaston or in
the local textile territory will be killed in the forth
coming strikes so surely indicated in the announce
ments of the Committee for Industrial Organiza
tion. It » too much to hope that the C. I. O. will
not whip the textile industry into a foment in the
course of its organization. It is too much to hope
that North Carolinians and South Carolinians will
not be killed in the course of the disputes. They
always are.
There are still vivid memories of the killing of
Chief Aderholt of Gastonia, and of the inoffensive
Ella May Wiggins. And of the slaughter in Ma
rion. And of the fatality in Belmont. And of those
in Honea Path. These are fresh memories and
tome instantly to mind when the thought of a tex
tile strike arises. Bloodshed follows a Southern
textile strike almost as inevitably as night follows
day. So, rather fatalistically, we may watch for
the organization process to begin, and then the
strikes, and then the violence, and thon the funer
als.—Charlotte News.
A million hours of flying is equal to 165 million
engine miles or 3,300 trips around the world.
Americans are people who think an actress more
glamorous after she abandons the name Smith for
El Ropo.
A cigar company ought to make a pretty jfood
thing of it, what with royalties from actresses for
use of the name.
ContrMts to which to look forward: the Bamp
ton concert as a pretty dream, and tax paying time
as « nightmare. ,
There'll Have to he Some Kind of Control
NO
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LIGHT
LOOKING AT LIFE
.Bv WICKES WAMBOLDT _
SOUNDS SILLY TO ME
These persistent pronounce
ments that because our supreme
court splits five to four on a de
cision, that fact makes one man a
V/*ml>oldt
dictator on me
supreme court
bene h, might
sound impressive
if one did not |
stop running to
ward the wood'
Ions' enough to
see whether or
not there was
anything to run
from.
Of course when
a court divide -
five to four the
vote of one man
does decide the
question. liut suppose ine u
preme court had 15 members an.i
should divide eijrht to seven.
A train the vote of one man would
determine the decision. Would
that one man still he a dicta'ov'
Suppose a city of fifty thousand
voters were votinjj on a matter
and \vh«*n the ballots wen* all in
it was found that one side had a
majority of just one vote. What
would that mean? Would it mciin
a one-man dictatorship?
An accepted rule of the de
mocracy is that the majority shall
rule. If that is not a tfood rule
let us do something about it—let
us stipulate, for instance, how
la ore the majority must be—two
to-one or three-to-one or what.
Hut until we do so we cannot ac
cuse somebody of dictatorship
whenever there is a majoiity of
one.
Another question I beg leave to
rise to ask: When tho supreme |
court divides five to four on a |
question—thus con>titutin(f a so
called "dictatorship" by one per- j
>on—which one of tho five just- j
ices is the dictator?
.Another point: My own belief!
i« that when you find capable hon
est men divided ais nearly as pos-!
•ible on a question you can put it j
down that one side is just about
r.s riirht a-- the other and that it
does not make much difference
which way the decision goes.
When our supreme court justice
ajjreo one-hundred percent on a
matter, then 1 am convinced there
i* 'ittle or nothing to be said on
the other side. 1 Itit when it di
vides five to four. I have the feel
ing that the weights are about
evenly balanced and ihr.f one po
sition is about as pood as the
other.
QUIET DETERMINATION
Quiet determination is one of
the great factors of uower. The
person who is quietly determined
to accomplish a certain result is a
person to reckon with.
The person who is excitable and
hv terical, who flies into passions
and vehemently asserts this and
asserts that, may be impressive;
he may even bo alarming: but ac
tually he is not as formidable as
[the one who is quietly determined,
for such a one is more than likely
I to tret ^hat he procs after.
I The greatest dt eds have been
: accomplished by those who have
| been quietly determined; for not
only do >uch persons keep their
evs on the main chance, but they
I do not waste their time or their
vitnlity in useless explosions; they
THE NEW DEAL
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY DUTCHES ..
rtv hodnky dutchkk
\i:a Nfrvlrr XtnfT <orrr»pondcnt
IV/ASHINCTON.—An unusually
high proportion of the mail
caching Capitol Hill these days
jouldn't dccorously be printed.
Partisans for or against Roose
irclt's judiciary reform plan arc
worked up in many cases beyond
their capacity to control their
emotions. Sometimes they become
abusive, profane, or even threat
ening in communications to mem
bers of Congress who do not agree
>vith them.
Senator James P. Pope of Idaho
received a particularly nasty one
the other day from a New Jersey
man, who excoriated him at length
oecause the writer didn't like
Pope's radio speech on the court
plan. After several pages of
vitriolic commcnt. the writer con
cluded:
"Please, Senator, excuse the
pencil."
* « •
DRIVATELY, leaders of the C. I.
r O., recently gathered here,
sverc willing to concede that di
vided counsels within the steel in
dustry had been a considerable
factor in the success of their nego
tiations with the U. S. Steel Co.
and subsidiaries.
Once, they explained, the late
E. H. Gary of the steel corpora
tion, was the industry's one big
voice. When he spoke, all con
troversy ceased.
But new men have begun to
speak up. They include Eugene
Grace of Bethlehem Steel, Tom
Girdler of Republic Steel, and
Ernest Weir of National Steel.
These men assumed leadership in
the industry and at times gave
the appearance of tails w.-gging a
dog- Some bitterness over this
situation developed in the uorer
reaches of the U. S. Stee> Corp.,
kQAUfa Ui Uxe industry ^ «'bj£
I steel." ine men wno cor.troi
J:;leel believed that their corporn
| tion would be the target for alJ
j forms of attack in case of a major
; steel strike.
Furthermore, big steel is under
! stood to believe that real wage
; schedules enforced by union pres
sure might help stabilize the in
: dustry.
Independent steel companies
one is told, knew nothing aboul
the progress of negotiations be
tween John L. Lewis and Chair
man Myron Taylor of U. S. Steel
except what they could get through
undercover work. They wouldn't
believe what they heard until
President Eenjamin Fairless, of U
S. Steel's Carnegie-Illinois Corp.,
and Chairman Philip Murray of
the steel workers' organizing com
mittee, actually went into confer
j ence together. Then the indepen
dents released their announce
i ments for a 40-hour week and in
creases in wages.
* *« *
"JVEXT time your spouse groan*
"" and asks where on earth all
| the money goes, you can replj
that you know where at least
some of it goes.
The federal trade commission
has found and reported, by direc
| tion of Congress, that:
When you buy a loaf of bread,
the retailer, on an average, gets
j about 19 per cent of what you
pay, the bakeries 56 per cent,
I flour millers 7 per cent, farmers
13 per cent, and other middlemen
and transportation agencies 5 per
cent.
As to beef, the finding is that
wholesale and retail distributors
receive a gross margin equal to
42 per cent, the meat packing
companies get 13 per cent, the
farmeis 40 per cent, and trans
portation agencies and other han
'dlers 5 per cent.
I ifouyriuht. 1931. N&A Service. Inc.)
conserve themselves and focus
their energies where they will do
the most Rood.
Hut the person who would cm
ploy quiet determination though
not naturally constituted that
way. will have to put in much
work acquiring the lmhit of quiet
determination—a habit foreign to
most persons.
Une should not confuse quiet
determination w i t h obstinacy.
There is just as much difference
between the two as between the
spirit of a mule and the spirit of
Abraham Lincoln.
Wait a Minute
3y Noah Hollowell
THE OTHER SIDE
Civic Treatment of Suncfay School
Lesson for March 14. John i
16:5-7; 17:14-26
I
The* more earnestly I sought the
civic aplication of this lesson the •
more deeply I became impressed,
with the Hendersonville life of
Mi low VV. Strong.
THERE IS A PARALLEL LINE
of thought when you consider the
devotions of his life and those of
Christ, though actuated by differ
ent motives.
Study the deep, abiding and al
together unselfish interest of Mr..
Strong in this community after he
located here as the place of live
and die among the many places
on the mainland and on the isles
of the sea where he had exercised
temporary choices. He is an out
standing example of a man who
gave himself to the community,
working for what he thought its
betterment. Longer than his
strength would warrant, he fol
lowed an intensive service for the
community until his physician in
sisted for the sake of his own life
that he lay down his work.
THF. DISCIPLES LAMENTED
the going of Jesus; wc deplored
the illness of Mr. Strong and
painfully missed his liberal serv
ice to the community. Jesus said
about himself that it was "ex
pedient" for the disciples that his
work end. "It bears together for
your good," some one has inter
preted. So it was in the retire
ment of Mr. Strong.
AS ONE WHO LABORED
I along with Mr. Strong I would not
1 in any sense disparage his work.
As secretary of the Chamber of
Commerce during his first year as
president. I am in a position to
know how he unselfishly threw
himself into the work, and yet is
it not better for a community that
no one man shoulder the most of
its civic burdens. It is tempting
ly easy to make a "sugar daddy"
out of some liberal-minded soul
and ride him for time and serv
ices. We are prone '"to ride a
free horse to death."
MR. STRONG CAME TO US
when our civic spirt was at the
zero point. The spirit of men was
so low it seemed that there was
little worth working for in a civic
way. We longed for a santa claus.
We needed some one like Mr.
Strong to revive our spirits; to set
for us fine examples of unselfish
ness and to preach unity and one
ness of spirit. He was a leading
spirit in helping to restore the
Chamber of Commerce; in build
ing Rotary more solidly and in
completing the golf course after
work thereon had been suspended
for years. With little to encour
JAP POLICING
REFORM BEGUN
TOKYO. March 15.—(UP)
campaign to reform t be Japanese
police system has been started
:inil officers wen* tinder instruc
tions today to quit using tortuiv
methods and to adopt better man
ners in dealing with the public.
A pledge to eradicate police
brutality wa* made by the Hay
ashi cabinet after a 70 year-old
member of the Diet, who .-aid tha*
he himself had been jailed an«i
torturned, had argued eloquently
for greater emphasis on personal
rights in Japar..
At the dame time the police de
partment of Tokyo issued a hand
book instructing it* officers to be
more courteous to citizen^ and
telling them phrases t be substi
tuted for the vulgar expressions
sometimes used.
Summoning of policemen and
questions as to the language em
ployed showed that tlie customary
method of stopping a toxical)
driver was the Japanese equiva
lent of "Iley, sto*p, you big fool!"
"Wait a moment, plea e." woul l
age and much to discourage, he
pushed forward with untiring zeal.
IF HENDERSONVILLE HAD
been given the great responsibil
ity of finding a man and fxng h -
period of service and the nature
thereof to its bust advantage the
wisest of us could not have se
lected better than what Mr.
Strong gave out of hi." own voli
tion and love for a community
which he selected ns the plate to
spend his last days.
be n better
pamphlet •
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