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THE TIMES-NEWS Htn^rtorriti* N*w« Established (a 1894 Hender«onTi!1a Timet Established ia 1881 Published every afternoon except Sunday at 227 North Main Street, Hendersonville, N. C., by Tke Tuuee-News Co., Inc., Owner and Publisher. J. T. FAIN Editor C. M. uCLE Managing Editor HENRY ATKIN City Editor TELEPHONE 87 SUBSCRIPTION RATES by Tune a-New a Carrier, in Henderaonvilie, or elee where, per week 12c > Due to high postage rate*, the subscription price of The Times-News in zun«sa above No. 2 will be based on the cost of postage. Entered as second class matter at the poet office "to Hendersonville, N. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1938 BIBLE THOUGHT UU 1IES IN I ME HOME . . . huibditdt , . . children fathers . . . icitiiiii" (Co^i»3sians 3 18-25). * * ♦ Tlit tin tic: of Christians in their respective re- J iations aie sharply defined. Many get into dis grace who have their salvation by trtace. Dwell I upon what the Spirit says about each relationship.1 W ell done home duties will have God's "Well doh«?!" Krnest M. Waifsworth in S. S. Times. WHAT ARE A FEW HUNDRED MIL LIONS AMONG FRIENDS? Headers ol' this newspaper may have observed a communication published a few days ago. signed by a representative of TV A. This was written to take issue with c ertain statements previously made by The Times-News in regard to TV A And the power policies of the federal government. I his Times-News editorial was based on an article, "Power and Navigation Do Not Mix." written by Congressman Joseph J. Mansfield of Texas, who proclaims himself a supporter of TVA in his capacity as a representative from Texas in the Congress. In order that readers may have the whole story, this newspaper followed Mr. Henle's letter with Congressman Mansfield's arti cle. and we now say a few additional words for The Times-News. The Congressman's article is sufficient answer, we think, to the letter of the TVA representative. Hoth gentlemen talk in t*-ns and hundreds of millions—the money of the tax payers, of course—and may or mav not know what they are talking about in all the details, but what are a few hun dred millions among friends? Congress must supply the cash for TVA to spend. Perhaps Congress knows a little about what is being done with the money of the people, but not much we would sup pose, in view of what Congressman Mans field writes about Gilbertsville and other' dam projects. If Congress has the complete i story, as the Texas Congressman tells it. how can such projects be justified? If the TVAers know what they are do-1 ing. little of the information possessed by the public confirms this suspicion. We trust, however, our readers will not? overlook the fact that the article of Con-; gressinan Mansfield presents the same tig-1 uit-s and the same view of dam building and power development at Gilbertsville, and elsewhere in that general section, as that presented by this newspaper. The TVA representative denies certain statements made by The Times-News as to high and low dams. Perhaps this state-1 ment would have been more accurate if we had taken more time and space to go into details showing the difference be-j tween flood and navigation control dams and power dams. That was the main point' of the discussion. : It is not difficult to comprehend that a high darn will impound more water than a'low dam. The point is that low dams <•<}st far less money and can be successfully used for flood control and navigation un d*r a system designed for those purposes; aAd not for the generation of power. As Congressman Mansfield says, "Power and navigation do not mix." Neither do flood control and power mix. 'The reservoir behind a flood control dam should remain empty except in time ol| flood, in what other way can it be used t(J impound flood waters- If the reservoir is; full when the flood comes down the stream the additional water must pass over the dam. That is what creates a flood 01Y the lower reaches of a stream—simple failure to have empty flood control reser voirs and to hold back the water when the flood comes. •'On the other hand, the reservoir 01 u I power dam must remain full, or approxi mately full, at all times. Otherwise, there is not a sufficient head of water to operate the plant. Perhaps the best example of flood con :rol dams in the country is the series of earth dams in the Miami Valley in Ohio, constructed under the supervision of Dr. Arthur E. Morgan. This flood control in the Miami Valley is an unqualified success. The reservoirs are empty when the floods come down, they fill up and hold back the flood waters. If this system was generat-, ing power, and the reservoirs had to be kept full of water to run power plants, what would become of the excess water ini time of floods? It is for these reasons that intelligent and unprejudiced citizens who study the subject, usually conclude that TVA's talk about flood control and river navigation is hokum—at least, it is concrete and practi-l cal only for TVA's hidden purposes and to the extent that a large part of the cost of power development can be charged to flood control and navigation, thereby re ducing the capital investment in power generation, and giving TV A advantage over privately owned power companies, as they cannot charge oft a large part of their investments to flood control and naviga tion projects. The TV A representative also claims treat gains in the development of river navigation in the past few years, and cites imposing figures. The Times-News seeks! information from one who must have it and will ask two questions: What proportion of the increase of river' traffic is due to the hauling of government materials, or government subsidizing of river transportation? In other words, how much traffic have TV A and other govern ment agencies thrown on the rivers for the i express purpose of making this showing? Another question the gentleman may answer: What is the annual cost to the tax payers of the United States of federal subsidizing of river traffic? The Times-News will be pleased to set aside space tor Mr. Henle in which to an swer these questions. ( NEWSPAPERS' OPINIONS l THE CHURCH AND COMMUNISM Perhaps too few Americans are alarmed over the spread of the insidious and destructive philoso phy of communism. Perhaps, especially, the Christian churches are paying too little attention to the uprising of this political vagary which to many of its disciples is made over into a competitive religious faith. William E. Dodd, former ambassador to Ger many, in a recent, statement to the Associated Press, says that the Nazis are spending $30,000, 0(H) for propaganda in the United States this year. Stanley High, in the Saturday evening Post of July says that the communists have ten daily newspapers in America, besides numbers of week lies and monthlies, and literally thousands of pam phlets, in which they are spreading their propa ganda. These two statements alone reveal the great in roads being made by atheism and other influences destructive to our faith and freedom of worship. It is not enough to dismiss the matter with the thought that America is too well fortified in intel ligence and good citizenship to be endangered bv this evil. Certainly, it is not enough complacently to re mark that organized religion, the church, as it is now formulated and operated, will take care of the situation by simply going along on its sched uled lines, and giving no special concern or atten tion to this militant enemy of the religion it ve hicles. 11' the church was what it ought to be in its membership, if those who belong to the Christian order lived and wrought in keeping with their pro fessions and petensions, it would be different. In that event, the field' which communism comes in to occupy would b.' immunized against its ap proach. And if the Church of Cod in America had in its membership all the people of this country, there would be no reason for alarm. But neither of these conditions have been met. Churchmen generally live far below the level of their announced faith. Their pieties are far below their proclamations. And approximately G.r>,000,000 people of all ages in this country have 110 church affiliation and are, therefore, trying to get along without any religious teaching. So long as both of these unhappy facts are to be faced, anything can happen in America in the way ol conquest by alien and atheistic group*:.—Char lotte Observer. WHY BE SO MODEST? To the prospective candidates for the national legislature of the future, the success of the Cali fornian, Mr. Downey, who dfeated Senator Mc Adoo, should be fertile to imagination. If Mr. Downey's political philosophy that the government should pay everybody who is not em ployed, or not an employer, 530 every week, is ac ceptable, why stop where he stops and be so modest about this business of having the government sup port everybody? Would it not be a good idea, for instance, for the candidates of the future to run on a platform proposing that the government lay a $10 bill on1 every table every morning of the year, and if $J0 is not enough, make it $100. There's no sense in being sensible with senseless ness.—Charlotte Observer. Excavators near Salem, Ore., were puzzled to find that part of a tree below the ground had wrapped itself around a bottle. Probably at one time it had contained root beer. News arrives of a windstorm that blew down a camper's tent and made off skywards with a guitar. To the strains of "1 Like Mounting Music"? A man in Paris bit a dog the other day, and was immediately whisked off to a mental institution. Which suggests that the whole truth of the matter is simply that if a man bite? a dog. he's nuts. One Family Out of Every Twelve — rwv«iW.-iP) LIFE DAY BY DAY By WICKES WAMBOLDT The person who pays for what he buys is reasonably safe pro vided he is careful not to buy blue sky. Whether a boom breaks Wamboldt or not or a de pression comes or not, he has what he bought. He may have paid too much for it, but he has it. But the person who buys real estate or stocks or bonds on a down pay ment expecting some fortunate break to e(table him to complete payment, or to sell before he has to pay, i* probably sunk it" minus taKC* a wrong iuin. FUN BEING FOOLED In one corner of an envelope 1 received from China were tin words "Private and Personally." The communication enclosed—a sales letter—contained various funny language errors which I felt were deliberately made for effect. Since 1 should have en joyed the missive more had I thought the blunders genuine, 1 got to reflecting that it is not al ways good to be too cagey. As Diatriond Jim Brady once said. "There is u lot of fun in being u sucker if vou can afford it." FIND WHERE YOU FIT "Papa," asked a boy, "what is meant by a round peg in a square hole?" "Well, sun. said papa, "it's this way! Bees are quick to sting some persons, but they won't sting oth ers. If bees don't like you, don't you no into the bee business, for them you'd be a round peg in a square hole. THE SUN GODDESS Christian missionaries and their converts in Korea are greatly dis turbed by the imperial edict that all subjects of Japan must ob serve shrine obeisance. Through out Japanese territory are shrines erected jointly to the sun god dess and various members of Ja-| panese royalty supposed to have descended from said goddess. At these shrines all persons in the grip of Japan must make a ges ture of respect and submission. That order has brought dismay to the Christian missionaries and their converts. One man commenting on the foregoing situation said, "Person ally 1 cannot see anything about that to excite one. It seems to me were 1 so unfortunate as to be subject tii the rule of Japan, with a Japanese snicker-nee suspended over my head, 1 could kiss the foot of a heat hern idol and at the same time sav to myself, 'You goggle-eyed old so-and-so! You don't mean a tiling to me!" then, in my heart, offer up a prayer to liny own God: for after all. as a innii thinkelh in hi- heart, so is BEHIND THE SCENES IN WASHINGTON BY RODNEY DUTOHFR BY RODNEY DUTCIIER M-: V .stuff Corrn»|Mnideni WASHINGTON.— Amateur ref erees who take it upon them selves to decide such matters are handing down a curbstone opinion that the reputation of Secretary Harold L. Ickes as a name-caller has suffered severely in competi tion with Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. For a brief period they awarded "Honest Harold" a few points for tlieer nerve in challenging that old master of vituperation and in vective, and (he more enthusiastic backers of the PWA-Interior De partment emperor were even will ing to hot that their hero would crash through with epithets to make the Virginia tongue-lashei scream. Hut now Ickes loses even those credits-for-bravcry because he de nies he ever did call the senator a "political hypocrite." A reporl that those two words were the ones he had applied to Glass wa: what started it all. CO the scoreboard finally credits ^ Glass with one "confirmed blackguard," one "wanton false hood" and one "mean and imperti nent," all plastered on Harold. And fckes, following the press conference at which so much was expected of him, is on record onl> with such mild comment as as sertions that the senator's "bac temper outpaced his wit" and thai Glass had "one of his unseeml> fits of rage." Anyone who knows Ickes is inclined to suspect his manager and occasional coach, om F. Roosevelt, told him to take i< . easy. i "No senator," Ickes was report , ed to have said in the version seer . by Glass, "comes oftener and with more insistence for PWA grants than this same Senator Glass." No official version seems to ex ist. Ic kes admits he referred tc | men in Congress who votei •gsuust feiiel bill* and then tuev (o got all the money they could ' out of relief administrators. But 1 he gives no clear indication of | what he said about Glass. And so (although the secretary's rooters , declare no dice on the ground that Glass picked up an imaginary ball j and ran down to the goalposts [when there had been no kickofT. I few are disposed to pull at the 1 senator's laurels*. • I INDKR the loosely-drawn rules ! J of. the game as interpreted in i gossip circles around Washington, ! it would bo necessary to penalize j S<iiator Glass several yards if I I ekes were to prove Glass really i had persistently pestored him for PWA grants. Even in Washing ton you can't run up a very high score by calling a man a liar if j he proves he isn't But Lckes, de I nying he ever said any such tiling, naturally isn't trying to prove that Glass has been bawling for PWA funds all these years. The inference is that there isn't any such proof Somebody has been getting a lot of PWA money for Virginia. If it isn't Glass—and he denies any repeated, insistent demands—it must be someone else Possibly Senator Harry Byrd, who hates the New Deal at least as much as Glass does. Virginia had received $111,000, 000 of PWA allotments—loans and grants— up to Aug. 1. Compare that with the two states of most ! comparable population. Oklahoma I received $61,135,480 in allottments land Kentucky only $48,013,453. Those are official PWA figures. When you recall that Kentucky and Oklahoma were two states j where the New Deal was trying 'hard to renominate New Deal I senators—Barkley and Thomas— /and that the New Deal is as sour .on Glass and Byrd as they on it, i you can't help feci that there's I something here which doesn't .'quite meet the eye. Possibly Glass ''and lekos will shed some light in I ■ their next passage-at-tongues. '■ tOi'i nKlit, ivjb, NLia service Inc.) he; iin<] no bunch of barbarians can control the thinking in a man's heart. Religious ritual, even in our own land, means nothing unless the heart is in it. | Very good; but the person just quoted has overlooked the impor tance of example. The early Christian martyrs did not suffer death to preserve their own faith, but to testify to it. Should you see a person kissing a heathern idol's foot, you would not think any more of his religion than you do of the religion of the profess ed Christian who helps steal an election and corrupt a govern ment. Wait a Minute By NOAH HOLkOWELL WASN'T CRAZY: Mrs. Maude Martin Dulaney, public reader, radio artist and instructor in memory work and expression, said she had a student who was net ting along: in years ami registered for a study course to satisfy her self lliat slit' wasn't exactly crazy. Her memory was not click ing; she thought of her increasing years and came to the conclusion that she was losing' her mind alto gether. Mrs. hulaney assigned some memory work, beginning- with about two lines, and in a few days her new pupil had memoriz ed two full pages of printwl mat ter and was able to rattle it off like a child. She discontinued the course ininuliately, having- satis lied herself that she had the faculty to memorize things and that she had not lost her mind. Isn't it true that the majority of us have faculties that don't function efficiently just because we let them grow into disuse? Think of the uneasiness of su specting that one had lost even one grove or corner of the mind. We like to possess things we don't use. OLD MAIL SERVICE: Henry C. Hyder reminisced as hi sat on a Main street green bench and re called that just now ">) years ago when a lad of 1"> years he moved in from the Ridge to carry mail under a contract awarded his fa ther, J. P. Hyder. He carried the mail from Hendersonville to Dana. DeWitt, Kdneyville and Bat Cave for six years and drew down the magnificent sum of 7f> cents a day, then regarded as big pay. That was a good day's work for a lad and the old nag, but how far would a person carry the mail now for 75 cents? WATCH CALIFORNIA GROW: I have for many years had a de sire to visit California. The prob lem has just about been solved, xcept I haven't worked out the final details of how best apply the first week's income of $30 on the cost of transportation. The bus will take me £here and bring me back for about $35 but since I will not be concerned about the return part of my ticket we may strike a bargain whereby the'll give me a pass out there for the prospect of my first week's old age pension of $30, and that on Thursday. Farewell! Watch California grow! EGGS BY AIR WASHINGTON (UP)—A com mercial airliner passed through here recently earring 918 pounds of eggs from Louisville, Ky., to Newark, N. J. The eggs were used in a serum experiment. Airline officails reported the eggs num bered (5,120—and not an omelette showed in a planeload. Brevard Dahlia Show Will Be Held Saturday Numerous Prizes Include Cup for Most Perfect Grown in County i ^BRKVAKL), Sept. !». (Special). J | Brevard's annual dahlia .show, sponsored by the Transylvania Dahlia club, will be held Saturday at the NVA hut. The show will be open to the public aC noon and continue until 10 o'clock in the evening. The classification is divided in to three sections, with a total of '17 classes to be included in the | exhibits. Section 1 is open t<> all exhibitors; section 2, seedlings, i open to all; section .*» is open to Transylvania growers only. A first and second prize will be | awarded in each of the 14 classes of section 3, and prizes varying in value will be awarded in all of th»- other classes. A unique feature of the show, and one which it is expected will create the strongest competition, is a guessing conteNt. The pei>on 'guessing nearest to the correct number of petals in the dahlia ad judged the largest and most per I feet, grown in Transylvania coun ty, will be given a prize of a bulb of the same variety of dahlia. The person living in Transyl vania county who exhibits the | largest and most perfect dahlia will be awarded a silver clip with the winner's name engraved thereon. The winner of the cup for three successive years will be 1 nwwe petHmnent offrn-r of it. Dr. G. /}. Lynch, president of the club, won this distinction last year. Mr .and Mrs. (J. Latta Clement of >the fltic-Nar nurseries, liilt more, will act as judges, in which caiitMCy they have served here the- past two years: Oiy, 1j. I!. Lynch of the Tran sylvania Dahlia club, anil M rs. Marcus Williuins i." general chair man of the dahlia show. Fulk To Address Safety Council In Balfour Session Major Arthur Fulk, director of the highway safety division of the state depart merit of revenue, will be the principal speaker at a meet ing oT the Western North Caro lina Safety Council at the Balfoui school on Tuesday. S^pt. 17J. Approximately ?00 people from various industrial plants of Wes tern North Carolina are expected to attend the meeting. K. A. Smyth, ''rd, of Balfour .Mills. i< chairman of the council. Safety contest awards will made '»> II. K. Cory of the lieacon Mills, Swannanou. INDIAN CHIEF TENOR BOISK. Ida. (LP i.—Chief kiu tus Tecumsah, youthful head of the Wenaichee Indians, is declar ed to be the only Indian lyric tenor in the United States. He sings at church services here, ami also makes religious addresses. A law in Seattle, Wash., re quires two rat trap*, baited twice a week, in every house. I ■ THIS CURIOUS WORLD OREEN /WONK£>5, OF AFRICA, have: &LUE-BLACK AND YELLOW FUR./ THEV ON cy LOOK <SR£3EN. LAVA STREAMS SELDOM MOVE DOWN A MOUNTAINSIDE. FASTER THAN TM/O m/lbs PJZA2. HOL/GL, THERE GOES T THE NOON ( whistle/now ) I CAN C3E.T ) 1 OLD ' OF THE \ ^-7 rain/ J\ r-// WHAT'S WRONG O with this picture: { r.opp. i53e bv uzt srsvicr \uc i ANSWER: Rainbow;; can occur only in the morning «ir ail-moon . . . never at midday . . . for the ; un must be rather low in order lo .set the .vtfur this phenomenon. Sunlight enters the felling raindrops, is reflected, then totally dull', c ltd . . . and each rtfiac tion sepaiates its spectral colors. COAT OF ARMS I : * HORIZONTAL 1 Pictured is the coat of arms of . 5 is the capital of this republic. 11 Burden. 12 Fungus from which punk is made. 13 Encircled. 14 To place in line. 15 Ore launder. 17 Rubber tree. 18 Southeast. 19 Inlet. 21 Spain. 23 Auricle. 26 Worships. 28 Juniper. ?0 By way of. 32 Keno 34 Killing malady. 35 Fabric. 17 To harvest. 38 Thing. 39 Bronze. JO Fiber knots. Answer to Previous Piuzle 12 Circular wall. 13 Tupelo tree. 1G Kind of barley. 18 Bone. iy Kind of screen. 52 Therefore. '4 54 Tablet. f 55 Stir. I 56 Stream ob struction. 53 It is the island of the W. Indies. * 59 It has.a lorgc —•— trade. VERTICAL 1 Machine part. 2 To combine. 3 To inter. 4 Figure of a star. ;5 Laughter cs' sound. 6 Turkish title. 7 Appraiser. 8 Seed covering. 9 Baseball teams. :0 Expert ilyer. IC Its president is Fedt-rico • Laredo -—f. 18 Its most im portant crop. 20 Sirk. 22 Supports. 23 Prosaic. 24 Compass point 25 Genus of birds. 26 Biblical killer. 27 Pillar of etone >9 Foretokens. )1 Within. 43 Dress Coat r-nds. 35 College official 36 Bill of fare. 39 Apart. 11 Hidden. 44 Scoria. 15 Soft mass. 17 Fruit. 48 To lubricate. 50 To devour. 51 Child. 53 Hops kiln. 54 Pair. 57 Musical note.