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THE TIMES-NEWS Headersoaville News Established fa 18M Hendersonville Times Established la 1M1 Published every afternoon except Sunday at 227 North Main Street, Hendersonville, N. C., by Tk# Times-News Co., Inc., Owner and Publisher. J. T. FAIN Editor C. M. OGLE Managing Editor HENRY AT KIN City Editor TELEPHONE 87 SUBSCRIPTION RATES by limes-News Carrier, in Hendersonville, or ela»> where, per week 12c Due to high postage rates, the subscription price of The Times-News in sones above No. 2 will be based on the coat of postage. Entered as second class matter at the post office In Hendersonville, N. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 26. 1938 BIBLE THOUGHT" "UNFOLDED-LEGS "The work ^hereunto I have called them" (Al'ts $ * * Samuel Johnson paid a high, though unintended, compliment to John Wesley: "His conversation U good, but he is never at leisure. He always ha* to ifo at <* certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who love* to fold his leg* and have his talk out as 1 do." John Wesley's leg* were "unfolded" most of his ninety years. Hi had felt his Master's iia*uon for souls, and sought to save the lost.— From Free Churchman. LABOR CAN'T CRY 'STOP, THIEF!' AT CAPITAL (bv BKL'CE CATTON) There is no lack of statistics about the business depression, heaven knows. Every economist, statistician and would-be sooth aycr in the land has had a go at explain ing the depression in dollars-and-cents teiins, and there doesn't seem to be a great deal thai has been left unfigured. Vet you can still get a new angle on things, even at this date, if the right kind of figures are put together. An example is to be found in a recent bulletin from the Central National Bank of Cleveland. This bulletin examines the decline in na tional income during the first half of 1938 as compared with the first half of 1937, and the figures it presents are rather in structive. The income received by all residents of the United States in the first six months of 11)37 totaled $33,111,000,000; in the first >ix months of 1938 it came to $30,269,000, 000, a drop of rather less than $2,500,000, ouo. That decline—a percentage decrease ol only 7.5—apparently measures the dif leience between good times and bad times. Who took the biggest cut, in this de cline? Employe compensation—another way of saying wages and salaries—dropped $1, 927.000,000. Payments of dividends and interest dropped $387,000,000. Profits taken by owners of private concerns de clined by $177,000,000. Labor, obviously, took the biggest cut. But wait a minute. Further study of the figures shows that in the first half of 1938 employes got $5.33 for every dollar that was paid out in dividends and interest; and tt happens that that is the highest ratio yet recorded in this country. In 1937, for instance, the ratio was $4.84; in the boom year of 1939, it was $4.58. , All of which is simply another way of saying that although there was less money t<3 go around in the first six months of this year, labor got a bigger proportionate cut of it than ever before. And if that is true, then the man who tells labor that labor's iiicome is down because capital is taking too big a slice of the profits is simply talk ing through his hat. Capital's slice was proportionately larg est of all in 1929, when labor's income was at its peak; it was smallest in the first half of 1938, when labor's income was 'way down. Meditating over these figures, it is hard to avoid the hackneyed old conclusion that labor and capital have got to share the same fate. It" the total sum available for wages, dividends and interest is up. then both profit; if it is down, both lose. And meanwhile, labor is getting—in proportion to the money vailable—a big ger share than ever before. A dispatch from Buenos Aires says that Lily Pons won an unprecedented ovation at her farewell concert there. That's pret ty good for an opera singer's very first farewell concert. A boom has been reported in the buggy business, and Chicago's city fathers have cancelled an ordinance requiring bathing girls to wear bloomers. What do you sup pose Taft's chances are? There's a girl in Detroit whose boy friend lost control of his car and ran into three other automobiles after kissing her. There've been three offers from Holly wood already but she's holding out for a better one. I NEWSPAPERS' OPINIONS l GOVERNMENT BY BUREAUCRATS The charge against despotism by federal boards which Arthur T. Vanderbilt made at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association can bear constant repetition, says the New York Sun. "Those who established the American form of democracy, with its division of executive from leg islative and of both from judicial power, would shudder at the distortion of their framework under the blows of bureaucrats in the last five years. "The strong drift to government by boards and j commissions began some years before the New Deal appeared, of course; but under no previous tendency toward despotism have the abuses of such a dangerous system multiplied so rapidly. The dif , ferenee between government by elected officials I and their legitimate appointees vested with speci fic powers, and government by despotic agencies such as the Labor Relations Board, the SEC, the AAA and others, lies often in subtle legalistic forms. But in the ultimate safety of the citizenry the difference, is as great as between black and j white. "Whethtir an agency be called a board, an au thority or an administration, it may combine, as Mr. Vanderbilt said, executive, legislative and ju dicial powers, operate under its own rules, and oppress individuals no less than business enter prises, following a pattern of autocracy utterly . foreign to the American ideal of a balance of powers.'' Thus expanded and expanding bureaucracy has been developed notwithstanding assurances that the Roosevelt administration would abolish many boards, bureaus and commissions on the ground that they were un-American. Mr. Roosevelt is on record in bitter opposition to the Hoover bu reaucracy. He decorticated Mr. Hoover for foist ing his battalions of bureaucrats on the American | people. At bottom, a great bureaucracy is a formidable political machine. It matters not whether the bu reaucrat belongs to Mr. Hopkins's WPA, Mr. Ickes's WPA, Mr. Wallace's AAA, or to an agency of the regular establishment, he is expected to vot« right and to use his influence in behalf of the i administration. The Sun is right in saying that charges of des potism by federal boards can staid constant repe tition, for it is only through constant repetition that the American people can be aroused to the stripping of their liberty which is going forward. [ An ordinary citizen has no chance in a dispute with a federal bureaucrat. The bureaucrat is al ways right! The bureaucrat brooks no opposition. I —Charleston News and Courier. LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER You have perhaps known just a few cases where I children became so disgusted with the behavior of their parents that they decided to improve the j lives of the old'man and tht* old lady, but it's the exception and not the rule. Carol Dare, in The State, tells the following interesting story and makes some appropriate comment: This is a story .without names, but nevertheless a true one. Three attractive young mothers while watching; their small children in swimming were ! trying to justify their drinking to an out-of-town I guest. This is what they said: "We are drinking a lot I of liquor so that our own children will be so dis ! gusted with us that they will never drink them | selves." I Now I might go sarcastic and say, "How noble, how unselfish, how thoughtful!" However, if I say | what I really, think it will be, "Poor silly, foolish deluded women." They neither know their own j frailties or their child psychology. It is a poor parent indeed, and certainly a most ! unworthy one, that does not know that it is on a parent's example that a child builds the principles that must chart its course through life. Parents ' know without my telling them that it is to their 1 parents that small children look for guidance, and | if you do no know that children are the biggest , imitators on aerth—well, you are not very ob servant. No, it is no use using your children as an excuse for doing the things that you want to do, and if you think for one minute that people do not sec through such a camouflage then you are due for a rude awakening. Three mothers, if I know anything about the be havior of children, are in for a lot of heart break. 1 But who am I to preach a sermon?—Marshville Home.. WITHOUT TRIMMINGS Shelby's own Clyde R. Hoey, governor of North ■ Carolina, has the unusual faculty—perhaps gift is the better word—of stripping a situation of its trimmings and revealing bare facts. That gift was in evidence in his address at ■ Charlotte Saturday when he pointed out that low standards of living conditions are by no means peculiar to the South. He finds that a substantial portion of the population of this nation live undei low standards and that the South has been magni fied in this respect. The governor has just com pleted a trip through New England and of that } he said: "I have never seen in North Carolina as many people who are ill-housed, ill-fed and ill i clothed as I saw in the North." The per capita wealth of the South i? low cer tainty and should be raised as rapidly as possible. But it mftist be remembered that the per capita cost of living in the fortunate South also is low as compared with more populous centers of the North and East. In plain language a dollar goes further in the purchase of the necessities of life [ in the South. Because there is a slight advantage i in th^ per capita wealth of the North and East does not-mean that those sections are more for tunate for the difference is taken up in the pur chase of >the identical necessities that may be ob tained at a lower figure in the South. Stripped of its fancy trimmings and seen in its true form then the phrase "ill-fed, ill-housed, ill j clothed" may be applied with like accuracy in this nation north, south, east and west. It was applied directly to the South and thereby focused atten tion upon conditions, which without question, should be remedied. But to picture the South alone assail area of squalor and peopled by the under nourished is unfair. It is a general ailment in this nation. It is not localized to the South.—Shelby Star. ' ' i5«n t {i ,tt Party Lines THOU'IH THE PRESIDENTIAL PURGE SEEKS TO SMOTHER AND SUBMCROF politicians who Diverge im point of view, c'^ C V> AM ADMlNlSTRATfON URGE TO ASSAIL, ASSAULT AMD SCOURCF ITS CONGRESSIOMaL IMSURG (ENTS ISN'T MFW. LIFE DAY BY DAY . By W1CKES WAMBOLDT _ Seemingly England is more so licitous of the welfare of her dogs than of her human beings. A for eign human beintr can enter Eng Wamboldt Jam! and roam about to his hea v t's content if he has the proper papers, a n (1 shows no sign of having a contagious d i s order; but a for eign dog enter ing E n g land must go i n t o quarantine f o r six months to make sure he has nothing • in his system w h i e h might endanger the life, • health C »**-.• 1 > c- V\ iliifiv iWIU na|-/pi nc v a 0.,. You couldn't find anything fun nier than that in a joke book! Actually, England would be safer to place the human being in quarantine for six months and turn the dog loose. And that probably would be done if tourist dogs spent as much money as tourist humans and if tourist hu mans spent no more money than tourist dogs. WORK Almost invariably there is something spiritually wrong with the person who won't work. He does not feel like working, so he 1 does not work. If poor, he had rather drift around and pick up what he can—like a fly. Probably comparatively few 1 persons feel like working; cer tainly very few feel like working every day. When you see a per son sticking to his task day after day, you are looking at one who, part of the time, or much of it, 1 or all of it, drives himself to work with a cat-o'-nine-tails. A I person with a certain something I missing from his soul will not do that. Some person^ feel sick every j time they think of work, and of course when they feel rick they | can't work. If only th.' folk who I like to work were the ones to work, there would not he much work done. It takes character to work. But character alone is not enough—there must also be the necessity. Without the necessity to work, how many persons even with reasonable self-respect, do you think would work? When you see a person who does not have to work and who does not like to work, yet who does work because he thinks he should work, there you see a sturdy character. Any doctrine which encourages people not to Work is harmful to character. THE GOOD OLD DAYS When you hear a person ex pressing a longing for the good old days, say to him, "Tear out iyour plumbing, stop up your sewer, pull out yuor telephone, cut off your lights, rip out your heating system, close your movies, junk your mechanical refrigera tor, your gas or electric range, your gas or electric water heater, your vacuum cleaner, your auto matic stoker, your washing ma chine. your automobile; throw your radio out the back door and tear up ninety-nine percent of your paved roads. If you are will ! ing to do those things, then you are sincere about wanting the good old days!" FAMILY FINGERPRINTED OAKLAND, Cal. (UP)—Four generations of one family were j fingerprinted at the same time I when Baby Norma Giampoli, age j3 1-2 years; her mother, 28; her J grandmother, 47, and her great | grandmother, 06, voluntarily pre 1 scnted themselves to insure their S future identification. Increase in the demand for wo-1 men workers has been greater in j offices than in other occupations. BEHIND THE SCENES IN WASHINGTON I BY RODNEY DUTCHER BY RODNEY DUTCHEK ska- r«r\i«-r .stun t orrrNpontlrn t yj^TASHINGTON.—As 'they used to say back in the days of Rameses II, life is funny. Dr. Willard L. Thorp, economist, s qualified to appreciate the fact. Thorp was • recruited in earliest New Deal days to be director of :he Bureau of Foreign and Domes tic Commerce. As an Amherst1 professor, he had made best use of his vote by registering as a* 1 Republican. £ Theodore Bilbo, since known in Mississippi as "Pastemaster Gen eral" because he was then clip ping and pasting newspaper items for AAA at $6000 a year, learned of this skeleton in the Tnorp close! apd charged in his sena torial campaign -against Senator 1 Hubert Stephens that Stephens I was the type of poltroon who supported Republicans for office while many ,£00d. Mississippians went plumless. Stephens, as chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, an swered this foul slur by block ing Thorp's confirmation and forc ing him out. He was aided in this by patronages minded, minor officials of Thorp's bureau, in stalled by Secretary Roper. These officials lobbied desperately against the director. <> . .T)iorp was given other impor tant New Deal posts. Bilbo beat j Stephens anyway and Stephens, after a bnet lame-duck term as an HFC director, Decame a Welli ngton lawyer-lobbyist. You must know all this to ap preciate such humor as there may be in the fact that Thorp lately has been reorganizing the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com merce. The last leader of the bu reau's political gang which helped cut Thorp's throat four years ago is out now—after a period in which the bureau fell apart from inefficiency and lack of leadership. More bureau shakeups are immi nent. *' The real secretary of com merce now is Assistant Secretary Richard C. Patterson, Jr., recently executive vice president of the National Broadcasting Company. Roper took a long summer vaca tion. He left Patterson with the worst-run department in Wash ington and the job of doing some thing about the bureau. Then on to Patterson was piled the department's assigned part ir. the so-called monopoly investiga tion. Just before NRA was busted Thorp had been chairman of it* important Advisory Council. A D. Whiteside, a member of thf NRA administrative board anc president of the famous New York firm eft Dun & Bradstreet was pulling out to return to his business and persuaded Thorp tc become his firm's director of eco nomic research as well as editoi of Dun's Review, Thorp left t< accept a salary far in excess o anything paid by the government I (Copyright. 1934 NL'A Service, luc Wait a Minute By NOAH HOLLOWEU. THE LONG COMERS: Mrs. Leonard M. Hesterly nominates Mrs. F. R. Genovar for an unique place anions the "long-comers." Airs. Genovar of Jacksonville made her first visit in 11)00 and, al though now 87 years old, came each summer and spent the ma jority of these with the Hesterly family, coming1 early ami staying well into the fall and winter. She didn't miss a summer, but couldn't make the trip this year due tu | poor health. For many summers! her sons, Frank and Alvin, spent the time with Mrs. Genovar in | Hendersonville. Here's another that will be hard to equal: Major Isaac B. Brown of Charleston, S. C., of 829 Flem ing street, Hendersonville, says:1 "I have been in Hendersonville every summer since 1902 and missed only 1902 since 189G. This I gives me 41 years out of 42 and1 Mrs. Biown and my daughter: have been here with me each sum-; mer since 1902. We are usually here two to four months." Major Brown has been so reg-1 ular and has been so actively iden- | tified with oum community life we j had come to look upon him as one of the home folk. He was one of the pioneers in camp life, having established the Laurel Park Camp for Boys many years ago. If mem ory does not trick us, he was la ter on the faculty of Blue Ridge School for Boys. Who can. offer something bet ter than these two families in the way of long, regular, unbroken records? Write a card or tele phone 789-J or 87. LIVING NATURALLY: What percent of our visitors behave naturally when they visit us? Some drive recklessly. Do they do that at home? Some get tipsy, but they are exceptions/ Do they do that at home? Some attend Sun day school and church regularly. They most likely do that at home. Do some who attend regularly at home express their faithfulness and loyalty when away from home? There are some that you see at every church service. Upon their arrival in the community they appear at some place of wor ship. They take on no new bad habits and leave off no good hab its when they come to see us. They are the salt of the earth. ~ SHAWS CREEK ] 0 0 SHAWS CREEK, Aug. 26.— Miss Ethel Blythe, who is study ing to be a trained nurse at At lanta, Gn., is at her home for a two weeks' vacation. Gole Cable and Fred Smith of Afills River visited the former's brother, Lloyd Cable, Sunday. Richard Pettit of Rosman vis ited his duaghter, Mrs. Arnold Williams, Sunday. Misses Charlotte and Salome Clayton spent one night last week with Miss Helen Wilson at Eto wah. Miss May Clayton is visiting relatives in Asheville this week. Miss Ruby Keifh is spending a few weeks with her sister, Mrs. Joe Plemmons, at Hoopers Creek. . James Clayton of Flat Rock vis ited at his home here one day last week. Mr. and Mrs. Kail Wilson of Miami, Fla., are now at their sum mer home here. Japan's biggest selling cigarette at present is known as Golden Eat. • .... LETTERS TO THE EDITOR NOTE—No unsigned commu nications are published by The Times-News. All letters must be ' signed with the real name of the author. No communications aignted with a fictitious name will be published.—EDITOR. A CONSTRUCTIVE! SUGGES TION FOR HENDERSONVILLE Editor, The Times-News: Who builds a bettor mousetrap or a better city than his neigh bors, the world will find you out. and will make a beaten path to your door. That is a rather liber-1 al translation of Emerson's fa- I mous sentiment. It is recognized by all thinking I people that. "In the beginning. (Jod created the heavens and the > earth." No chance about it. not a mere mappenstance, l>ut a plan, a creation, a divine system. Cities are built by planning. Why not then have a planning committee for Hendersonville and Henderson county'.' This commit tee to meet once each month or more « ften if desired. Its duties and accomplishments would not all be material wealth, j Ideas would be at a premium. Hut ideas without action would not | count for so much. How should this committee he made up? Merely as a suggestion,1 I would have the personnel like this: Mayor A. \. Kdwards. chair • man; the manager of the Farmers' Market, secretary; the editor of The Times-\'ews, the executive j secretary of the Chamber of. Commerce, the president of Wo lien's Federated cLubs, publicity. Then I would, have, county su perintendent and city superin tendent of schools aided by lady teacher from the grades, educa tion. There should be a committee on transportation and roads, or.e on civic beauty and sanitation, oni on traffic rules (safety first). I would have one member from Rotarians, one from Kiwanis, otic to represent the churches. I would have County Agent White, or Bennett, and one Master Farmer of Henderson county and young Hooper, the 4-H lad who beat the world on corn yield, one to rep resent the tourist hotels and one on how to make our city attrac tive and inviting to strangers. If you vet 'em once, they're bound to come again. Hut they will not come twice if they are not want ed, and they won't stay if we ilo not show tin* spirit of good fel lowship. J. W. JOHNSON. ST. PAUL'S 0 (j ST. PAUL'S, Aug. 2<i.--A cenu tery cleaning will be held at St Paul's. Edneyville, Monday, Aug !>. Relatives are asked to be present and bring necessary tools with which to work. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ropei of Hendersonville, have rented Mrs. Molly Taylor's home in thi commu nity. Mr. ami Mrs. Vollie Rhodes and children of Balfour, visited Mr. and Mis. (Jay J.yda Sunday. The many friends of Mrs. Jason L. Owncsby are sorry to learn of her serious illness. Gay l.yda spent Wednesday night with Mr. and Mrs. Dan l.yda of Balfour. THIS CURIOUS WORLD a - - • "■ •• ■ • BATS, WHEN IN PLIGHT, A.RE BEUEVED TO AVOID HEAR!KJ<3 THE of the: beat OF= THEIR. OWN WINGS THROWN EvACK FROM j THE OBSTACLE (/< TO THEM. OOPft 1931 BY Nl * Si RVICI INC [\ fMO PR£SID£NT Cc" THE U.S. EVER. REGAINED THAT CFFICE AFTER. LOSi IT. B1GU70R VJRCM3 ? 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