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THE TIMES-NEWS H«nder*onTil!e News Established (a 1894 HeaderioarilU Time* Established be 1881 4 * Published every afternoon except Sunday *1 227 North Main Street, Hendexsonrille, N. C., by The Time*- News Co., Inc., Owner and Publisher. J. T. FAIN Editor C. M. OGLE Managing Editor HENRY ATK1N City Editor TELEPHONE 87 SUBSCRIPTION RATES My l imes New* Carrier, in Hendenonviile, or «Jt»* where, per week.. 12c Due to high postage rate*, the subscription price of The Times-News in zones above No. 2 will be based on the cost of postage. Entered as second claaa matter at the post office \n Hendersonville, N. C. TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1938 BIBLE TH'JUGHT WHAT THE CANON LEARNED "And yr shall tind rest unto yotif souls" (M&tt. 11 When aiiun Harford-Battersby of Keswick came back in 1S74 from the Oxford Conference, he was asked what he hud learned there that was new, and he replied, "1 learned the difference between a struggling and a reilinv faith."—W. H. Griffith Thomas. "Drop thy still dews of quitHiini, Till all our striving* ceatr; I »kt from our souls the strain and And let our ordered live* confess i he beauty of thy peace.*' THE "BISHOP OF KLANUCA" Yesterday there was placed in a grave in old Trinity churchyard in Columbia, S. C., the mortal remains of a distinguished Lie hop ol the Episcopal denomination who for more than ten years had been identi tied with Hendersonville and this section of North Carolina as the moving spirit and official head of the Kanuga conferences. JEhe sudden demise of the good "Bishop '«.t Kanuga" was a stunning blow to his 't hurcli and brethren and a great company of friends, among the latter b^ing a vast number of persons identified with other •denominations or no church denomination at all. Bishop Finlav's life did not extend to .the years granted to some men, but his Vntire life had been tilled with activity and .with the accomplishment of definite and worthy ends. His was a busy life; a life of energetic service for his denomination and for the cause of Christianity at large. His labors to develop the conference cen ter at Kanuga enlisted the most earnest efforts <>1 the last eleven years of his ca reer and the success which crowned his labors for Kanuga marked him as one of the outstanding leaders of his denomina tion. Eishop Finlav's friends in Henderson ville and throughout this section feel a personal loss in his death. There's a boy track star in California whose father was a great runner in his day. The lad's a sprinter off the old block. It would appear from the numerous mili tary displays accorded recent visitors to (iermany that the big thing over there these days is pomp-priming. Unclaimed merchandise at a recent post office sale included two grass skirts and a derby. It looks as it vaudeville is dead all right. Alter a little meditation on the Dies un Afnericanism inquiry a man can't help but suspect that Stalin is simply talking to himself when he addresses "fellow Com munists" in Russia. These being busy days in alliance-form ing circles in Europe, the proper form of leave-taking over there becomes "Pacts vobiscurn." Dutch government officials announce that no transatlantic flights will be pro moted by that coutry this year. Oh, they're just trying to attract attention. Today's Fairy Tale: Once there was a man who unexpectedly inherited a fortune and did not announce that he would keep right on at the old job. Switzerland should feel optimistic about its present race to complete new defense preparations-. - Remember the old saving: The race*belongs to the Swiss. Consider the sad case of the student who failed to achieve his ambition to be come a politician. His spelling was all right but he was weak on denunciation. Strikers at a Pittsburgh apartment are picketing in top hats and evening clothes. This is one case in which the management can't charge that the strikers didn't pre sent formal demands. f NEWSPAPERS' OPINIONS ; i NOTE—The Times-News today is pleased to be I able to give its readers an article Containing the salient points of an address delivered at Bonclark en last Friday by Julian S. Miller, editor of The i Charlotte Observer. We do this for the reason that the subject under discussion by Editor Miller dis closes and brings to public attention* and consid ■ elation one of the basic problems of the present day. In a later issue of this paper we hope to give space to a discussion of some of the points in this ' very able address.—Editor Times-News. CHRISTIANITY'S CRITICAL CHALLENGE * The tall and vast minds of Christiendom are in timating. if not actually, in some occasional cases, asserting that Christianity's most critical day is immediately ahead. They have abundant reason for such prediction ; and possibility. It is aside the point to try to take hard-and-fast i facts and present-day conditions and fitting them into the symbols of prophecy to prove the point. Nor need one measure such possibilities on the t basis of the worm-wide wreck that has occurred in the moral standards of the human race nor in the pestilences of passion which everywhere rage on every front nor in any of the visible and spec tacular departures of society from proper religious attitudes and conduct. These are distressing and terrifying. One who studiously looks out upon human society today has a reason for furrows of fear on his face and deep anxieties in his heart. It's a mirror that makes for melancholy, an un ending panorama of the lusts and lecheries of men. of governments snarling and growling and gnash ing their teeth in the faces of one another, of fierce international angers and hates, of appalling crime and degeneracy—a world of social muck and de filement and pollution and extravaganzas of all manner of evil. It may be for all We know or can learn from | the written epics of all the ages of ail the evils of j men that Sin has never been more spectacular nor | | streamlined, not even in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah or Tyre and Sidon than at this hour. But it is not for this, as horrible and challenging as this may be and ought to be, that the hosts of Christian i ighteousness and truth have reason for new fears. After all, for whatever comfort it may be, there! are no new immoralities. Neither before nor since the corrupt King of England offered the half of his kingdom to whosoever would invent for him a new sin has a new sin been discovered. Evil today is the evil with which man first was I born only it has more speed, more alluring blan ! dishments, more defiance, more effrontery and ' more theatrics. Christianity's threat today arises not so much from immoral conduct as from unmoral concepts. It's the whole philosophy of life which The Gali lean came to propose and to expound which is coming under the deadly fire of new conceptions and philosophies. There is spiritual poison in the political potions that are being poured down the throats of the free peoples of the earth today, even of our own people if so it be that they are drinking of this cup. Men of Christ dare not stand mute and immo | bile when they see democracy on tne run. For may we not agree that insofar as the human j content is concerned democracy and Christianity are interchangeable terms. Democracy is nothing , but the political name for the ideals in social rela tionships which Christianity brought into the world ! as a religion. At any rate, we certainly can unueuiy assent that the birth of democracy is coincident to the birth of Christianity and that many of the more important moral and religious principles of Chris j tianity flower out in democracy. f So it must be that any social or political concept i that collides with the concept of democracy collides I also with the concept of Christianity and, if left unchecked and unresisted will leave human society I not only without its common liberties but without j its Christian faith. That explains why Russia, when it enthroned I the State, dethroned Christianity and held a mock ; funeral of God in a processional through the streets of Moscow. Russia could not keep God as sovereign I when it made government its god. That explains, also, why Germany silenced the voice of its Christian evangelists, closed the doors of their Christian churches, shackled their feet and 1 silenced their tongues. The religion of Christ has always been compelled to decrease in proportion as i the religion of the State has increased. Look where you will in ancient history of this morning's newspaper and you will find that in every case in which the State is deified, the deity of Christ is denatured and denied. Churchmen of the Christian order of society and • of an ancient faith should be alive to this subtle ; and sinister device that is moving out today from the pagan minds of social reformers and lustful | politicians. Against their mischief-making philosophy, the J the cause of Christ has bared its breast since the day that Jesus himself dared imperial Rome to battle for the allegiance of the world. Against his challenge Savonarola thundered t from the pulpit in Florence and Calvin at Geneva and Luther nailing his immortal theses to the ca thedral door at Witt en burg. We marvel that the American pulpit has been so soft spoken in the pressure of this monster that clearly seems to be threatening an invasion of our liberties and of our faith, call it by whatsoever name you please. t Equally we marvel that citizens, of the ^>tate who profess first loyalties to their Christian citizen ship are unterrified, even often unimpressed, by the obvious evidences of this onrushing menace and challenge to the heritages of their religion. THE MORE" ABUNDANT LIFE Is this the more abundant life? Wheat No. 1, 41c to 66c, (very little No. 1 wheat in Day county), I Rye 25c, Oats 12c. Living costs at the highest 1 peak in years. Federal officials looking for new j tax sources. Government over 30 billions in the (red. -We know it was "planned that way"—but isn't it time to put a stop to that sort of planning? —Webster (S. D.) Reporter and Farmer. Attention, Committee on Un-American Activities! A cup of copree A FRENCH . Dictionary" 'At i-fi / f/tfP rt£SSM AMERICAN RESTAURANT PROPRIETORS WHO 0ESTOW FOREIGN TITLES ON HAMBURGERS AMP TURNIPS PEOPLE WHO THINK TH/VT A CULTIVATED eNCLlSH ACCENT IS PREFERABLE TO CLEAR ENUNCIATION. THE TIPPING" PROBLEM REALLY DESERVES THE STOPV OF A SPECIAL committee 1 f.G UNNECESSARY OSf Or ROMAN NUMERALS Patriots* who would ctive us ^ SuROPtAN TYPE OF EXAGGEKATfcP NATIONALISM LIFE DAY BY DAY By WICKES WAMBOLDT _ Recently I heard a preacher pray that all nations that believe in war and practice war be cast down. That would be strong med icine; but it is a going 10 i a k e I strong medicine u to end the dis I e a s e of war I which has infect 9 ed so many na 9 tions. The Pas 1 t e u i' treatment 9 for mad-dog: bite 9 i« strenuous and painful, but it is the only known preventive of hy drop h o b i a. It I m a y take the casting- down of an warime nu Wamboldt tions to end war. Suppose all the warlike nations were cast down—what would be left? Only the democratic nations. Think about that. It. is only the democracies that do not believe in war and would end war. And if that isn't the biggest argument for the democracy, where could you find a better one? That one reason alone justifies supremacy of the democracy. THE SOUTH WOULD SECEDE In the eighteen-sixties the south seceded from the union because in its interpretation of the constitu tion it felt it had the right to do so. If the communists or the fas cists should gain control of the government of the United States, the south would again secede and fight to live under that same con stitution from which it once fought to withdraw. The south is foundational^ committed to the principles of democracy with that fervor with which the south stands by anything in which it devoutly ' believes. No matter where the rest of the country may go, the south will remain a democracy. There will be no effective infil tration into the south of foreign propaganda for communism and fascism. The south may be—as Presi dent Roosevelt says it is — the nation's No. 1 economic problem, but it is also the nation's No. 1 stronghold of democracy. STILL CHEAPER IN AMERICA According to a news item, Gyp sy brides in Serbia are selling this year at prices ranging from $.'{.(>() to $6.40. In the United States parents give away brides—and in some instances pay huge sums to pen niless titled foreigners to take them. ENTERTAINING—BUT— You have met the person who feels that first of all he must be entertaining. Whatever he says must catch and hold attention no matter how reckless he must be with the truth. And to raise a laugh he will embarrass or insult his best friend. Of course it is fine to be enter taining; but one can pay too much for almost anything. To lose one's reputation for veracity and one's friends is too much to pay for be ing entertaining. SCORES BIGAMY LAXITY SAN FRANCISCO. (UP)—Be cause of so many cases of bigamy resulting from marriages before divorce decrees become final, big amy, as a crime, just doesn't seem to county any more, according to Superior Judge E. P. Morgan, who had such a case before him. "No one seems to be arrested anymore for bigamy," he said. "I've called attention to several similar in stances before, but nothing came of it." THRIFTY SALVATIONISTS TORONTO, Ont. — (UP) — A sewing machine and a seal coat were left to the Salvation Army here in the wills of two women. The sewing: machine was put into active service and the fur coat was sold and the money was used to purchase clothing more suit able for needy people. BEHIND THE SCENES IN WASHINGTON RV PODNEY DUTCHFR BY KOUNfc* DUTCHKK .M; V S«*r\lc«; .Stsirt C«»rros|iontloiit \Y/ASHINGTON.—World tension over Germany's immediate intention;? in Czechoslovakia will increase in the next few weeks. This tart and the fear in Wash ington and other capitals that tension will lead to explosion lie oehind the speeches; in which Secretary Hull denounced "inter-1 national' lawlessness"- and Presi dent Roosevelt emphasized Ameri ca's concern over other nations' "Wanton brutality." Although about a million Ger mans have been called out for maneuvers, the U. S. government has no inside information on Hit ler's plans—and it.is doubted here that Hitler himself knows iust what he will do. Reports of xlifFerences between Hitler and his army generals are considered authentic. The gen erals don't believe Germany is sufficiently stoked for a European war and they advise against in vasion of Czechoslovakia. But they also advised against the Aus trian adventure. Diplomatic and military officials in Washington suspect Hitler won't attack. The Hull and Roose velt speeches were designed to notify the world that American sympathy—and perhaps more— would be-i singed against Germany in case net- aggression provoKea a war. Expert opinion holds that risk ing war with all other major European powers plus moral op position from the United States is too big a gamble for a rational man to take. Yet all U. S. offi cials are not convinced Hitler ia rational. « ' c * Tentative TIP: The British American re<.:piocal trade treaty is likely to be concluded within a month, much sooner than has been expected. Few differ ences remain. The British want the agreement soon because it will open up credit facilities valuable in war and per haps will have some psychological or moral effect on Germany. The U. S. government is glad to give such an impression of Anglo American friendship, and the British agreement, much more far-reaching than any other, will cap a series of trade treaties dear to Secretary Hull's heart. The British proved hard-boiled bargainers. Recently, however, they have discarded an illusion that the Roosevelt administration wanted to get the treaty signed before November's election, and have seemed more impressed with its political advantages to them selves. i (Copyright. 1914 nej service > Wait a Minute By NOAH HOLLOWELL THE LONG-COMERS: It seem ed for a while that Major Isaac B. Brown had knocked this feature cold by stepping away out ahead of others in years of local sum mer residence, having missed but one year since 189G. But those in terested in this feature are deter mined to lengthen the record. Mrs. F. W. Ewbank reports a local summer residence of 51 years without a break for Miss Addie Scheper. Miss Scheper's sister, Mrs. William Hill, of Wash ington. D. C., began her summer career here at the same time but she has missed a few summers. Their parents fell in love with Hendersonville climate over half a century ago when it was a mere village and there were lots of wide open spaces. They bought on the corner of Fourth and Buncombe and Miss Scheper, beginning as a child, has made Hendersonville regularly for 51 summers. Who can beat this with a rec ord of unbroken summers or visits, though irregular, over a longer period? CREDULITY TAXED: No, this isn't a new tangible they have discovered to place on the tax , books, but L. T. Dermid, politi cian-merchant-farmer, is talking about that condition of mind I which doesn't (|uestion anything that the ears pick up when it i comes to counting the bushels of ( corn on an acre. When you talk of more than 100 bushels to the j acre his belief is taxed to the ex tent that it is about ready for the customary delinquent advertised list and foreclosure. I think he would be willing to serve as a dis- ' interested member, though some what dubious, of a committee to ; help measure acres and yields j when the boys get up over 100 ' bushels to the acre in the corn j contest this year. j GREAT FRIEND PASSES: Hendersonville lost a great friend and Episcopalians a great leader in the passing? of Bishop Kirktnan i G. Finlay. The Kanuga assembly J grounds are a fitting memorial to his faithful labors, where he died in harness. WOODPECKER'S TAPS SAID TO BE HEALTH RESTORER FOR TREES STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Aug. j 30. (UP).—If a woodpecker per sists in pecking at shade trees— i Jet it. j The drum of a woodpecker on-j a tree is as sweet to the ears of expert tree surgeons as the drum- j mingof Gepa Krupa is to the j/t-^ ter-bugs. The reason Every time the hard-billed birds lunch on trees they help preserve them, says Dr. J. Logan Bennett, director of the wildlife j research unit at Pennsylvania State college. "Each hole they drill," he ex plains, "means the birds have lo cated the larvae of a destructive woodboring insect. With their heavy bills they get many insects other birds cannot reach." Instead of hoping that Mr. Woodpecker chokes on a good sized splinter, let him feast in peace on your trees for he is one of America's "greatest forest con servationists," Dr. Benuet be-' lieves. HASTY WEDDINGS ARE OFTEN HAPPY ONES, INVESTIGATOR'S VIEW _EL_PASO, Tex. (UPI.—Despite unconventional beginnings, mar riages-in-haste turn out as hap pily and successfully as society approved marital unions, Roy 1). Chitwood, district attorney's in vestigator who has played Cupid in many a delayed ceremony, re ports. • "Such weddings result in happy children and happy parents i alike," he said. It is one of Chitwood's duties to investigate and make recommen dations in cases of seduction) brought to the district attorney's office. Most of the complaints are made by younj>- women who are , expectant mothers. Sometimes parents complain because their daughters are too young to marry without permission. FOUR OF FIVE RECONCILED Four out of five of the hesitat ing grooms are contented after they have become reconciled to the situation, Chitwood said. If such cases are prosecuted and the defendant is convicted, he is subject to a penitentiary sentence. Under these conditions, Chitwood finds that little argu ment is needed usually for the man in the case to decide that marriage is the best solution. "1 simply talk with the boy— for in most cases the man is usually little mor than a grown boy—and convince him that the i moral thing to do is to many the | girl. Sometimes he objects until | we prepare a seduction coin plaint, hut seldom after that." Texas law prohibits a man who marrie? under these circumstances fjom .<ft)taiqing a divorce for three years, and then only for good and sufficient cause. NOTES GROWTH OF LOVE "Four out of five of these mar riages eventually are successful and that is about as good a record as those established in conven tional weddings," Chitwood said. "1 have the couples report to me periodically, and most of the time the groom falls in love with the girl, and often the first child is only the beginning of a fine, big family." Justice of the Peace- CV M. Wil-. char, Jr.> who officiates at many of Chitwood's martial promotion*,' supported the investigator's-; con* tentions. "Last year I married exactly 100 couples, and about 40 per cent of these were of the uncon ventional variety." Wilchar said.' "1 have talked to brides and grooms months after they were married and they apparently were as happy as if their wedding had been more conventional. CHEWING GUM BAIT SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.— (UP)—The "fish story" season has arrived here, too. Jack Breck enridge, veteran lumberman, re ports he ran out of bait while fishing in the Sault ship canal so he put a piece of chewing gum on his hook—and hauled out a 4 1-^ pound whitefish. Out of an estimated $4,000, 000,000 being spent by motorists this summer, approximately $75, 000,000 will he paid to the tax collector*!. THIS CURIOUS WORLD By William Ferguson UNDfR THE. c/tv or NEW YORK LIES one: of the: WORLD'S G/cyv&sT GOf>/=>EJZ DEPOSITS ... BUT THE COPPER WAS PLACED THERE. BV AAAN, IN THE FORM OF CABLES AND WIRES. HENS' &5GS ARE LISTED COMMER£IALLV UNDER ABOUT THtRrry -\ C5&40J2S. IS A r-AiR. OF TWINS 0 T \AO OR FOUR FELONS / COPR. 1938 BY fcCA SERVICE. INC ANSWER: "Twin," as a singular noun, means "one o! two brought forth at n birth," "Twins" is defined as "two young brought forth at one birth." Then a pair of twins should mean four offspring, but it dots not. By popular usage, twins and a pair of twins mean the same . , . merely two individuals. 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