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THE TIMES-NEWS
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13? 19^8'
BIBLE THOUGHT " :
THE WAY OF PEACE
The peace «f God, which fMWth all understand
ing, shall keep your heart* and minds through
Christ Jesus.—Phil. 4.7.
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The conditions of our enjoyment of peace are
beautifully stated: "Be careful for nothing" (this
is faith in God); '"but in everything by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving" (this is submission
to His will); "let your requests be made known
unto God" (this is communing with Him). "And
the peace of God . . . shaH keep your hearts."—
J. B. P., in Keswick Calendar.
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NEWSPAPERS' OPINIONS
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THE'HIGH COST OF WITCH-HUNTING
Every American worth his salt wants to see the
nation restored to the full vigor of economic health.
By every rating, business activity is the country's
first need.
Business men have their work eut out for them;
government has a job to do. Both must pull to
gether for better times.
Unfortunately, statesmanship too frequently
gives way to politics. When polities is played, poli
tics must be paid.
The frank politician will tell you that the was
to hold the "customers" is to keep an "issue" alive
and to have another ready in case the current one
becomes stale. A political issue involves the cor
rection of a condition supposed to be hurtful to the
greatest number of voters, the successful pleading
of one's remedy to bring him place and preferment.
Issues cover a wide field—for example, the cost of
a kilowatt, price parities, the sixty families, Wall
Street, wage bondage.
Politics feels it must continually hunt for new'
witches, must keep the cau'dron boiling. The last
witch of the desperate ruler, as every student of i
history knows, is a foreign "aggressor." with war
the remedy.
The productive powers of the people were never
so taxed as now in witch-hunting, witch-policing,
and witch-hanging. - 4
Politics submits today the biggest bill ever ren-1
dered the people of the United States. Itemized, it
covets so many alleged remedies of newly found
witchcraft that it constitutes a completely new con
cept of the federal authority. More than 100 new
boards, commissions, bureaus, authorities and cor
porations have been set up since the beginning of,
the depression and indicate, with th<e huge sums
the people have provided for implementing them,
the number of witches our restless m.edjeine-mak
fcrs have discovered.
The city of Washington has expanded simple
Vole of law-maker, arbiter and protector to a pro
tean character of indulgent father. The sovereign
people are its wards, to be protected against all
the ills that human flesh is heir to. Jts prescrip
tions for a myriad maladies run the gamut from
minor regulation of their affairs through supervi
sion, control, and out-and-out competition with
them. And the end is not yet. Despite the "de
plorable conditions" found so far in practically
yvery activity of American life, our valiant hunt
ers have a thousand witches in reserve ready to be
j|rotted out demanding more federal activities—
j^nd expense.
: Expense? Ah, there's a real enemy of the pub
lic, neither hobgoblin nor Halowe'en pumpkin!
The expense of policing the citizen i? a charge
^gainst his labor, although he seldom realizes it.
The witch doctors provide no free shows, no boun
ties, no subsidies, no services, no aids, no publica
tions, no guidance, no culture, without its price.
The price tag is hidden, but it is there. The bill
comes home directly and indirectly to every man,
woman and child whose lot is cast in this land.
As sure as death is the tax money to keep our
growing government personnel in the style to which
it is becoming accustomed—a style to which n,o
real citizen aspires and which none can afford.
This money represents work, "is paid for in the
sweat of every man wh° labors." It conges from
earnings which alone can provide 9 useful job to
the man out of work, and promotion in position
and pay to those now employed.
The levy upon this fund which represents sacri
fice and savings can be made for jobs to produce
electric toasters and automobiles or it can be made
for more and bigger witch-hunting. The decision is
with the millions of men and women who work and
earn and save. Will they stop dancing to political
swing music long enough to consider thaughtfyljy
and decide whether they want more of the material
conveniences and luxuries of life or more of the
extravagant hunting and policing that consumes
their hard-won substance in chasing political phan
tovfc? x * •
A country famed the world over for the solid
reality of its contributions to the well-being of
•mankind is incredibly out of character in tilting
with shadows. Broomsticks are out of fashion as
saddles for witches. They can be put to much bet
ter use in cleaning political attics of mental cob
webs.—Merle Thorpe in Nation's Business.
PROGRESS
Digging into an Indian burial mound in western
Kentucky, Mrs. Blanche B. King, an ethnologist,
has found the skeleton of a prehistoric man sur
rounded "by 625 large beads and five axes of solid
copper.
We smile as we think of the simple savage who
must have spent most of his lifetime accumulating
that store of copper from the distant mines near
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Lake Superior in order to have it. withdrawn from
use and buried with him. Our wisdom is so much
greater than his. What we have gathered from all
the world and buried under concrete and steel in
the Kentucky hills is $12,800,00Q,000 worth of
solid gold.—New York World-Telegram.
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THEY FEAR TRUTH
A German named Ludwig Maringer of Bonn has
just been decapitated in Berlin for espionage. One
charge against him was that of furnishing a for
eign reporter information essential to the Reich's
protection.
1" It may have been bona fide secrets of state which
Herr Malinger sold, or was accused of selling. On
the other hand it may easily hav$ been some par
I tide of news which the government gf the United
States in a similar case would voluntariy give the
press. „
Even in the blackest moments of the recent
European crisis the rank and file of Germany was
unaware o^f what was happening.
In the New York Times the famous Berlin cor
1 respondent. Frederick T. Birchall, relates a little
story in this connection which is both revealing and
sad.
All the British correspondents were preparing
, to catch the first train out of the Nazi capital when
, war seemed close.
At the station "a German woman and he* daugh
ter passed the group and gazed at the assembled
baggage with its labels from all over the world.
"The daughter plucked the mother's sleeve.
'Look, mother, the English are getting out,' she
said. 'It is war.'
"There was a horror-stricken glance by the
mother in response. Then she said:
| " 'Hush, my dear. Don't talk. Let's go home.' " I
j Don't talk. Don't think.
What dictates for people in a so-called civilized
era. Kept in ignorance of the course of events,
they may only hope and pray for peace and happi
ness.
Authoritarian rulers may deride the Bible and
its te«u:hings, but they are the first to recognize the
Holy Writ's observation that the truth will set one
(man or nation) free.
But perhaps they forget that truth crushed to
earth shall rise again—and crush those who first
crushed it.-—Greenville Piedmont.
MR. ROOSEVELT'S POPULARITY
It is possibly no exaggeration to say that with
out a disproportionate part of the relief vote, in
eluding nprthern negroes, Mr. Roosevelt's chance
of gaining another electoral victory would be slim
indeed, says the Springfield (Mass.) Union.
"Much of his popularity is among those who in
one way or another are beneficiaries of govern-!
meut largess, and Relief Administrator Hopkins j
knew what he was talking about when he said that
WPA is 90 per cent new deal.
"Add the fact that President Roosevelt and his
administration have shown no qualms about usir^
these vast funds to further their political ambition,
which is to perpetuate his regime, and it may ox
plain suggestions appearing in the People's Forum
that persons on relief should not be allowed to
vote."
Mr. Roosevelt's popularity is mainly among per
sons who in one way or another benefit from *he
extravagant spending he has espoused. 'If the
spending should be hailed abruptly, Mr. Rooseev'tls
political following would dwindle rapidly.
There is no question that ber^eficiaries of his
administration vote for continuance of policies
which imperil the wealth of the nation and imperil
the liberty of the people. It is unfortunate for the
morale of the country that so many persons look
to government for their support when government
should be looking to all its citizens for its support.
It'is profitless to remind that Mr. Roosevelt has
been spending notwithstanding his solemn promises
to the American people that he would insist upon
economy in the federaj government. Mr. Roose- j
velt's experiments have put upon the American
people a burden far greater than that imposed by j
the Hoover regime. It should not be forgotten that
Mr. Roosevelt bitterly denounced the Hoover re
gime for its extravagance.
Mr. Roosevelt's seeming popularity is main
tained at the expense of the people's morale. Not;
the business and industrial leaders, but the spend-1
ers of the people's funds, are the tyrants however
benevolent and protective they say they are.—
Charleston News and Couriei*.
YES, LIQUOR IS A PROBLEM
"The alcohol problem has become one of the
major perplexities of our civilization." This frank
statement prefaces an announcement by the Amer
ican Association for the Advancement of Science,
the most comprehensive organization devoted to
study of the natural sciences in the United States,
that it intends to make a "thorough, unbiased and
strictly scientific investigation of the problems re- j
lated to the control of alcoholic beverages."
The investigation is timely. Dissatisfaction with |
haphazard, inadequate liquor control and with rela
tively free exploitation of the liquor market is
gradually but perceptibly rising in the United
j States. The premises on which the A. A. A. S.
special council will proceed include the assumption
that national prohibition was not successful since
it did not wholly prevent the sale and use of alco
holic beverages. But another premise is that, "Re
peal has not been successful. Excesses and abuses
are evident to all." The A. A. A. S. announcement
points out: ""/»
Alcoholic beverages when used unwisely have
caused inefficiency, disease and "death. At least
two specific evils are recognize^ both by the wets
and the 'drys.' These are alcoholism and highway,
accidents due to the use of alcohol."
The committee at the outset well points out that
the gathering of reliable factuf,! information and
education for individual self-control are potential
ly more important and effective than possibly hasty
legal moves. As beating on .this Individual c°nduct
two or three facts are obvious* Ofie is th^t if there
were no alcoholic beverages or no addiction to
them there would be no liqupr problem. Another,
no one denies the injurious effects of excessive use
of alcohol. On the other h*nd abstinence never
injured anyone or created a social problem. Chris
tian Science Monitor.
gimmie germs
Looks like there'd be no tbird term for Roose
velt unless he comes o^t ip fjW>r of pensions for
everybody a la Townsend or something. The voters
have the gfmmies and wfll hot be thwarted. And
, Roosevelt inoculated them with, the germs that
cause the gynmies.-r—Fairmont sentinel.
Seasonal Predictions
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LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WICKES WAMBOLDT
At the end of the first year as
a member of the United States
senate, John Quincy Adams, son
of our second president, John
Adams, wrote
1 rom wasning
;.ton to his own
son:
"The country
is so totally giv
■< eXl up to the spir
itVpf party that
not to follow
blindfold the one
or Ae other is
an inexplica b 1 e
offense.
"The; worst of
these parties has
the popular toy
rent' fn its favor
and u.sfti an its
Wamboldt triumph<with all
the unprincipled furv^pf a fac
tion; while the other gpfs&es its
teeth and is waiting wjth all the
impatience of r0vengjjrjpfor the
time when its titfn imX come to
oppress and punish bu£tne people's
favor. Between b^th,7l see the im
possibility of pursuing the dic
tates of my own conscience with
out sacrificing eveijy prospect, not
merely of advancement, but even
of retaining that, character and
reputation I have enjoyed.
"Yet my choice is made; and
if I cannot hope to give satisfac
tion to my country, I am at least
determined to have the approba
tion of my own reflections."
Today the political situation is
more wholesome. Today men in
public service often oppose their
party when they think the party
wrong. Even the present presi
dent of the United States has said
that we should be surprised could
we know how many times he had
voted for candidates on the other
side.
Unquestionably the power of
party is waning and the power 01
individual integrity is strengthen
ing. Today men can and do take
stands independent of party for
what they believe to be right and
are not destroyed by party ven
geance.
If you compare the politics Off
a hundred and twenty-five years
ago with the politics of today, you
will see that' we have made prog
ress wholesomely. True, the 's^me
iniquitous things are done today
that wer£ done a hundred and
twenty-five years ago; but not so
openly* nor so extensively, nor so
effectively; and whenever done
ihey Are more courageously and
Ividely condemned.
Yes, we are making steady
headway toward decency in gov
ernment. So take heart and be of
ftiood cheer, you who believe in
and1'long for honesty in govern
ment, and keep up the good fight.
ANESTHETIC KILLS
FORMER GRID PLAYER
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, BOSTON, Oct. 13. (UP).1—In
juries suffered as a football spec
tator proved fatal yesterday for
Irving Lipman, 24, a former Uni
versity. of Miami player.
i. Lipman was watching a sandlot
game Sunday when a player crash
ed against him, breaking his leg.
He died under a mild anesthetic
while doctors were setting the leg
at a hospital.
YANKEE LINGUISTIC ATLAS
PROVIDENCE, R. I. (UP).—
The first section of a three-vol
ume Linguistic Atlas of New Eng
land, containing hundreds of
onaps showing varied pronuncia
tion of common words and dif
ferent expressions for similar
Ideas, is expected to be published
!in December at Brown university.
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BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
.'I RV QODNFY DUTOMFR
—Jim Farley, in
,T the opinion of competent ob
servers and many of his friends,
has eliminated himself from seri
ous consideration as a presidential
possibility in 1940.
He missed the boat when he
failed to ask for the Democratic
nomination for governor of New
York, which he could have had
easily. His decision was deliber
ate, for he had pondered long and
many politicians weren't sure un
til Governor Lehman had actually
said he would run again that Far
ley wouldn't be chosen the party
nominee to oppose .Republican
District Attorney Thomas E.
Dewey.
lp^ARLEY knows how things go in
rvr»l I ♦ * /\o T> i. •
A politics. Parties make presi
dential nominees out of governors,
senators and even cabinet mem
bers. But they don't choose post
masters-genera), fellows associated
in the popular mihd with the more
sordid phases of Dolitirs
other day when he had his first in
'eight months. He hadnt wanted to
be on the spot during the pri
i maries.
His press conferences are re
markably frank. Most of what he
i says is "off the record." More than
any other public official he trusts
newspaper correspondents to re
i spect confidences. They do. The
big published story after his re
cent conference was his promise,
speaking for tne Democratic Na
tional Committee of which he is
chairman, to support all Demo
cratic nominees. But the capital's
top-flight correspondents gathered
a lot of "background" about Jim's
views and his inside information
on political events and prospects.
Jim sits under a life-size
painting of Benjamin Franklin.
Both men wear brown and have
high foreheads. There resemblance
ends. . . . Five fountain pens rear
before Farley. Two hold green
ink, three black. "No red ink
here!" Farley insists. ... He
likes to reply to questions with
pleasant wise-cracks, get a laugh
and then start answering "But
seriously—." . . . Did he know
people already were calling the
truck which may carry a million
dollar Post Office stamp exhibit
around the country "Farley's
Phaeton"? *iP^a!ly?'» asked Jim.
"Well, just so long as they men
tion my name!" . . . "Can you
hold those 27 seats in Pennsyl
vania?" "I don't know, I haven't
talked with Joe Guffey lately."
And to several questions "Lord
Jim" answered: "I never attempr
to speak for anyone else but my
self and the Democratic Nation*
.Committee. I won't discuss whi
the President is likely to do."
fEA Service. Inc.)
V
Wait a Minute
By NOAH HOLLOWELL
TEACHING ADVERTISI N G:
Gordon Garlington, formerly enr 1
gaged in the newspaper and job
printing- business in Henderson
ville, although recently retired
from the newspaper calling and
now in the insurance business in
Knoxville, is teaching newspaper
I advertising to a night class of
| about a score of pupils, twice a
week. |
. It's an old saying that a person j
can't wash off printer's ink once!
he gets his hands into it, meaning
that he or she, only in rare in
stances, ever gives up the work
altogether.
WOULD-BE EDITORS: Many, |
many persons away down in their |
hearts would like to be newspaper <
editorialists. Too many such i
dreams are not realized because
they are impractical. The aver
age weekly can't afford an editor
to write editorials only. He must
have a reputation for such work
or be outstanding in some other
line before a paper that is able to
pay him for full time will employ
him. Others fall by the wayside,
more or less.
The best way for the average
person to bring his dreams into
fruition is to operate his own j
newspaper and editorialize to his ;
heart's content if the old wolf
doesn't growl too heavily at the
door and destroy his inspiration.
THE SORDID SIDE: You don't
have to sit around the courthouse
long to see much of the sordid side
of life, and yet some people seem
to enjoy sitting there and waxing
fat on court proceedings through
out the day and the'week.
D. L. JENKINS NEW
HEAD OF BREVARD
COMMERCE GROUP
BREVARD, Oct. 13. (Special)
Donald L. Jenkins, young Bre
vard business man, will take over
the presidency of Brevard Cham
ber of Commerce at the Novem
ber business meeting of the or
ganization, succeeding Dr. C. L.
Newland, who has served for two
years.
Balloting for directors was con
ducted by mail, with majority of
the 112 members sending in their
"tickets." Other officers named
are Ralph H. Ramsey, Jr., vice
president; C. M. Douglas, general j
secretary; J. H. Tinsley, treasur-1
er; Mrs. Ralnh R. Fisher, office j
secretary and manager.
Directors include J." M. Allison,
Mrs. Harry J. Bradley, W. W.
Croushorn, Mayor A. H. Harris,
Jerry Jerome, Alex Kizer, Ashe
Maciie, Mrs. 'Carl McCrary, Jud
son McCrary, Dr. C. L. Newland,
0. H. 0*r, J. H. Pi«kjelsimer, R.
H. Plumper, .HarrV Sfcllers, Miss
Annie Shipman,, fphii W. Smith,
S. E. Varner, George - Wheeler,
Mrs. J. C. Wike, Mrs. R. H. Zach
ary.
Maximum temperature—73 de
grees. Minimum—45 degrees.
Mean—59 degrees.
Day's range—28 degrees. ,
Normal mean temperature for
October—56.4 degrees.
No i-ainfall to date.
Normal rainfall—4.36 inches.
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SHAWS CREEK, Oct. 13.
Mr. and Mrs. C .N. Caily of Hen
dersonville visited friends in this
section Thursday night.
Mr. and Mrs Joe Plemmons
of Hoopers Creek spent Sunday
evening here with the latter's
mother, Mrs. R. A. Keith.
There are yet several cases of
measles in the community.
Gole Cable and Fred Smith of
^ills River visited friends in ^his
section one night last week,. (
Several from here are attend
ing Calvary Haptist church at
Hendersonville each Sunday.
EDNEYV1LLE °|
EDNEYVIlLE, Oct. 12—Mrs.
Will Lusk and son of Rumsford
Coye recently visited the former's
daughter, Mrs. J. J. Carver, of this
place.
Mis. Maude Stepp and Mrs.
Sam Searcey of Pilot View visited
Mrs. Mollii* Green last week.
Miss Lyda Mae Justus was the
dinner guest of Miss Carrie Mae
Hyatt Sunday.
Mr. unci Mrs. Claude Laughter
of Biltmore visited Mr. and Mrs.
Rome laughter Saturday.
Mr. Glover Justus of Tracey
Grove was the dinner guest oi*
Claude Edney Sunday.
Mrs. W. H. Wells is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. John Miller, in
Virginia.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Justus were
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Mack Rogers Sunday.
Johnnie Hyatt of Asheville vis
ited his parents here over the
-Luther Rhode? of \ \>,
the^ovyrnight, guest ,,f gj
Sf.I Hyatt nu .
imp tq*A.sh<fcilk :.*• l
1VD. and Sir*. S.,iu Steu
Fruit)aiul wen* li .,u :h
^uwaeccntly.
'MIDDLE FORK
0 middle FOHK '"^7.3
church heiv enj..\,r lllt. ,
Ridge valley - ir ^ ^ ,„nVt;
Sunday afttrrmwh,r
largely attendee.
Mis* Lois l'i Mr. J
Pryor spent Sv' , 1
their parent:*, .»is. M> ■
Pryor.
Mr. and .Mi>. .1 l| ,
ley visited tlu'i. .Mil
Hill, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ik,
Candler spent
with their uncli . fl
and Mrs. Luth<■. ^
Miss Dorothj I
WiUerd Freenu
night with tin-: . ^1
Huntley.
Mrs. N. J. Ilui tlc, -ji,u»
week with her .\|r
Freeman, of Ka.*t M...
Mr. Berkley i'i>>. L.
went an opera ,
Home, i.s now ■. !,. .
Rev. WilHs-.m H • : , ^
were .supper ^
A. Pryor Sunday ii;uk
Mr. and M;>. I! II. (i i
oirt visited Mr. t 1
Ownby Sunday.
Mr. and Mi>. II. M. Byri
Graniteviilc. ( . • .
night in their -
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will of the gods in a mirror If a mirror was brckm. it v.- in
terpreted as an effort on the part of the Rods to pivvir.i the »t.
son from seeing some unpleasant happening in the fi)tj»if
FAMOUS JURIST
HORIZONTAL
1, 7 A former
President of
the United
States.
11 Mountain
nymph
12 Gen as of
swans.
13 Subsists.
14 Self.
16 Measure of
area.
17 Brains.
19 Bone.
20 Questions.
22 Type measure.
23 Heap.
25 South
Carolina.
26 Robin.
28 Ancient local
deity.
31 Malediction.
32 Norse god.
34 Creed.
35 Part of
Roman month.
37 Egg-shaped.
39 Northwest.
41 To cry as a
cat.
43 Circle part*
44 Master of
Laws.
Answer to Previous Puzile
cTwTa
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MAP OF
RlAlSiEl
inElNj
IaimieI
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45 Reverence.
47 Redacts.
fc> Before.
52 Exclamation
of disgust.
53 The windpipe.
55 Wing partx>f
a seed.
57 Oat grass.
59 Rumanian
coins.
60 He was also
—justice of
the U. S.
Supreme
Court.
62 He started
out as a law
(.pi.).
63 Dogma.
VERTICAL
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2 Pertaining to
the iris.
3 For fear that
4 Musical note.
5 Fish.
€ European elk.
7 Forward.
8 Sound of
sorrow.
9 Eating tools.
10 Transpose.
15 Yellow metal.
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only —,c
uttiin thef
highest U.i
posts.
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20 Gr<cd.
21 He taujhii
Ijw—•
24 Goddess d
peace.
26 Flour to*
27PJursi
29 Acidity.
30 Command*
32 You and s*
33 Btfiold
36 Pitcher
33 Flower
cental
40 To relin?"3
42 Hat.
44 Affray.
46 To sok
48 Vi!,cX- u
49 Dcrr.ou#"
word.
51 Shower
52 Dict<,r'1*
53 Safior.
54 To p^r'cr*
56 Abaft.
58 Negate
61 pronoun