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THE TIMES-NEWS
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1938
RIBl F TMOUCHT
HAVE YOU TAKEN IT TO JESUS?
"Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth
for you" (1-Pet. 5:7)
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Have you taken it to Jesus;
Have you left your burden there—
Does He tenderly support you;
Have you rolfad <>n Him your care?
Oh, the sweet unfailing refuge
Of the Everlasting Arms;
In their loving clasp enfolded
Nothing worries or alarms!
(To be continued)
"farm relief pins a medal on
ABUNDANCE
(By BRUCE CATTON)
Secretary Wallace's "two price" scheme
for disposing of American farm surpluses
by subsidized cut-rate sales to the needy
may be wildly impractical, dangerously
socialistic, or just plain screwy, but there
is one thing to be said for it. It is the first
farm-relief measure which treats bumper
crops as a blessing rather than a curse.
So far we have tried to handle the farm
problem by assuming that the age-old goal
of agriculture—to make the earth yield as
bountifully as Divine Providence would al-i
low—was somehow wrong.
We have talked about over-production
of farm produce and about surpluses of
foodstuffs just as if every mortal in the
land were getting all he could eat of every j
desirable food, day in and day out; and to
follow a policy like that at a time TVhen (
some millions of people would be starving
if it were not for government help is a
certain way to get into confusion.
So we had, first of all, the outright de
struction of crops that were ready for the
market—the burning of wheat, the killing
oft pigs, and so on. All this amid scenes of
widespread want
Next we had acreage reduction, with the
federal government — which ftieanwhile
was provifing food for millions of its citi
zens—paying farmers to produce less and
less.
More recently we have had elaborate
schemes for drnr in? our surpluses on for
eign shores; and when you study that plan
for a minute, it appears to be the queerest
of all. For the net result of this would
simply be to make Americanlgrown food
stuffs available to foreign consumers at
bargain rates, and at the expense of the
American consumer and taxpayer. If any
one is going to benefit in that way*
shoudn't it be the American rather than
the foreigner?
Now this new rabbit sticks a tentative;
muzzle over the edge of the hat. We shall
probably get some six months of argument,
pro and con, before the exact shape of the
plan is clear. Meanwhile, it can at least
be said that the proposition does represent
a new and slightly more logical approach
to the problem.
For the underlying trouble with thetfe
other schemes is that they all operated on
the thesis that abundance is a disaster.
Far from giving us the answer to this gen
eration's baffling problem about want in
the midst of plenty, they accentuated that
problem. They represented a national re
fusal even to face the implications of the
a£e of plenty.
The new plan at least heads in the othef
direction. Difficulties in the way of put
ting it into effect probably Uvill be many.
He would be a dullard indeed who
couldn't think of at least half a dozen, just
offhand.
But lor the. fact that it does represent
an effort to make plenty mean plenty, we
may all be thankful. . ~
A n«* rash of rfots has broken out in
Jerusalem. The one bright note in the
situation is the fact that no bod v has pro
posed a four-power conference yet.
Philadelphia^ had an easy answer to
the garbage collectors' strike there and
they never used it—the hunger strike.
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Patents have been awarded for a new
gas mask that's built for comfort. When
they build them for style, the man'll know
he has become civilized. ,
| NEWSPAPERS' OPINIONS
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STOP THIEF!
.. •— ^ •
Twenty-one million families paid 74# million dol
lare last year to private power companies for Jiom<
lighting1 and juice for electric ice boxes, washinj
machines, ironers, and clocks. The average familj
power bill figures out to be $34.18 for an entir<
year, or less than 10 cents a day.
Lighting the house and running the househok
appliances costs the family about as much as beei
or coffee. It is a little more than the amount spenl
at movies. It is a good deal less than the cost ol
smokes.
| This little item, less than three per cent of the
budget of an average family, has been the subject
of a large amount of the effort of the Roosevelt
administration. Billions of dollare are being spent
by the government to create hydro electric power,
I and to finance its distribution by municipalities,
upon the pretext of helping the common man!
With pad and pencil it can soon be determined
that if the government provided free all of the
power now supplied by the utility companies, the
resulting saving in average household costs would
be less than would be brought about by a small cut
, in the cost of food. And don't forget that what is
! received from the government gratuitously, be it
'power or a franked speedh of a congressman, is
paid for directly or indirectly in taxes.
Agitators, without anything to prove it, always
| assume, that there is something in electric power
, which makes the supplying of it a public function.
But the right to engage in the other lines of busi
ness has not yet been used as an excuse for using
public moneys to ruin private business men.
The public ownership of power is a racket used
by politicians as an excuse for spending money and
by radicals for getting communism started. It has
no justification whatever as a means of combating
the high cost of living. If the new dealers really
want to reduce living costs of the average man,
they do not have to go to work on a $34 item. The
opportunity is in the tax bill which the average
man pays directly to the tax collector or indirectly
to the higher cost of things he buys. The Federal
government expenditures alone this year are equal
to $350 per family. In addition the Federal gov
ernment is offering an inducement to every city
and state to increase its expenditures and there
fore the amount that must be collected in taxes.
If the annual tax bill of the country were reduced
to where it was when Mr. Roosevelt took office,
the resulting annual saving in indirect and direct
taxes to the average American family would be six
times the cost of the annual electric bill.
The Roosevelt administration is a fellow who col
lects $350 for services of doubtful value, and gets
wildly excited about some other person's bill for
$34.18, for services which every one requires and
appreciates.—Chicago Tribune.
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
If you have an income of $150 a month you pay
an average of $242 a year, or thirteen and one
half cents of each dollar, in indirect taxes. Such
is the finding of a survey made by the Family Eco
nomics bureau of the Northwestern Life Insurance
company. Also, it was found, you pay an additional
five or six cents on each dollar in items too elusive
or too small individually to be traced down and
which lurk in the background.
Next year, the survey forecasts, you will pay
more.
Bear in mind these taxes are indirect, the kind
that is passed on to you in the pui'chase of retail
goods and services, and about which you are hardly
conscious. They <Jo not include realty taxes, social
security, income and other taxes which are classi
fied as direct.
There is small wonder then that the tax bill,
collected by local, state and federal governments,
is estimated to total $14,324,000,000 for year 1938,
and notice that the figure is in billions. That rep
resents an increase close to half-billion dollars
above 1937.
In fairness it should be said that the survey in
dicates that the federal collections this year are.
expected to. show little change in their combined
totals^ and thus {he expansion is. accounted for
chiefly through increases in state and local taxes.
Traceable and untraceable indirect, taxes thus
amount to about 19 cents on each dollar of the
income.of a worker on a salary of $150 per month,
$side from the direct taxes he must pay* Thus in
the indirect form of taxation alone that worker
must pay. nearly one-fifth of all he earns "into the
coffers of tax-collecting, agencies.
It is"something to think about.—Shelby Star.
TOO MUCH RED TAPE
Some business firms spend more time and money
in filling out government forms than they do in
keeping their own business books, and all firms
questioned agreed that the statistical reports now
demanded of them by the government form a tre-J
mendous burden.
That, in a nutshell, is the result of a survey con- 1
ducted by Forbes magazine.
In the past 10 years, the answers show, the num-J
ber of government reports the average company
has to file per year has increased 865 per cent, and
the cost of doing it has increased 440 per cent.
However worthy some of the new objectives of
the government, there can be ho justification for
heaping the burden of this great mass of red tape
upon the nation's big and little businesses.
The businesses suffer from it, of course, and that
means that the average working majp suffers from
it, too, for in the end the welfare of business and
of the worker go hand in hand and what hurts one
hurts the other.—Greenville Piedmont.
BUSINESS MAN NEEDED
• n
What we need in Washington at the head of the
nation today iir a«- honest business man, one who
has stirted from scratch and has proved himself a
success in his private affairs—and above all a man
who thiitks more of the welfare of his Country
than he does of power to dictate. Oh, for such a
man!—Albert Lea, Minn., Tribune.
Excavat6fs have just discovered- a prehistoric
tefnple near Glasgow. It might have been uncov
ered years ago, but nobody in those parts wanted
to dig down. ?
i An educator says that athletic coacheS are among
the country's best teachers. Thousands of students
| are among the best teachers every ye at, but it
doesn't seem to have any effect on a lot of them.
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LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WICKES WAMBOLDT
Wise is the person who knows
where he belongs, gets there, and
stays there.
Here is the case 6f a man and
Wamboldt
his wile who
were brought up
in the country
and whose chil
dren also were
brought up in
the country.
They'all liked the
counfry. They all
belonged in the
country. But the
man hit onto a
money - maki n g
scheme, moved
himself and his
family to a
city, and made a
milliqn dollars.
He inducted him
self into the business life of the
city, and his family and himself
into the social life of the city. But
those people were not suited to
such an environment. They were
not at ease, and those with whom
they associated were not at ease
with them. Finally/ after a serie^
of heartbreaking experiences, the
man lost everything he had ex-,
cept his old farm. Back to the
farm he and. his family went,
where they found again peace and
contentment. In one respect this
man was unusually fortunate —!
most persons who leave the farm
for the city do not keep then
farms so they will have them to
return to, should the city prove ,
disappointing.
However, some persons have no
more business on a farm than oth
ers have in a city.
HE FOUND HIS PLACE
One of the happiest men I know
is a well-to-do physician who gave
up a good practice in a large city
and moved to a rural section '
where there was no physician. The
people love him and he loves the
people. He has taken the whole
county under his wing. He makes
it his business to see to it that ev
ery one of his patients has prop
er care. If a trained nurse is
needed, he summons one from
the. city, and pays her himself. If I
the patient is able to reimburse I
him, well and good. That man is
really living. And his wife, a for
mer society gill, is as deeply in
terested in his work as he is.
LAUGHTER AND DEATH
Not long ago in a home which
had been visited by death, one
member of the family was rebuk
ed by another for laughing.
Spells of gaiety are not uncom
mon, nor out of place, in homes
of mourning. They have their
value. They relieve the tension.
Some years ago I was in a home
where the dearest member of the
family lay in her casket in the
living room. She had been the be
loved wife, or the mother, or the
sister, or the aunt of every per
• 1 II I II
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
__ ov DODNFY OUTCWFR ■
ISY RODNEY DUTCHER
A'EA Service Staff Correspondent
Yf7ASHINGTON.—In 1630 the
w PUgrim Fathers of the Massa
chusetts colony, faced with a la
bor shortage, passed a law pro
viding that "carpenters, joiners,
bricklayers, sawyers and thatcrw
ers shall not take above two shil
lings a day."
In 1938, on Oct. 24, in a period
of great unemployment, a federal
law will go into effect which sets
a minimum hourly wage rate of
25 cents and a maximum work
week of 44 hours, with time and
one-half for overtime.
The law is the Fair Labor
Standards Act.
Employers and employes still
are asking which workers are
covered and which are not. Aside
from certain exemptions made in
the law, the Wage and Hour Di
vision in general classifies those
covered as:
"1. Employes engpjed in pro
ducing, manufacturing, mining,
handling, transporting or in any
manner working on goods moving
in interstate commerce.
"2. Employes engaged in any
process or occupation necessary
to the production of suc'i goods.
/'3. Employes engaged in inter
state transportation, transmission
ar communication."
Further interpretation by the
division's general counsel says
that except for the stated exefnp-j
tions, "all the employes, in a place
Df employment where goods^
iliipped or sold, in interstate com
merce were produced, are includ- j
sd in the coverage ..."
Employes in manufacturing, j
processing or distributing plants, i
'a part of whose goods moves in |
:ommerce out of the state in
which the plant is located," are
covered. Employes of a plant
which received raw materials
from within the state and 'sells
?oods only within the state are
lot covered by the act.
Beginning Oct. 24, 1939, the
statutory work week will be
12 hours and after the second year
I of the act, Only 40 hours. Thi
minimum hourly wage rate will b(
raised from 25 to 30 cents, a yeai
from now, and will be pushed t<
40 cents on Oct. 24, 1945.
Due to meager funds, less thar
half the division's 12 regional of
fices will be opened this fall.
Employes may bring suit foi
unpaid minimum wages or unpaic
overtime, and employers violating
wage and hour requirements art
liable for such sums plus an equal
amount to cover damages, courl
costs and attorney fees.
It will be unlawful to ship oi
sell in interstate commerce anj
goods produced where a persor
was employed in violation of the
wage or hour sections, to violate
the wage or hour sections, to dis
criminate against any complaining
employe, to fail to keep the re
quired records or to falsify an>
required record.
Penalties are a fine up to $10,
000 and imprisonment for up tc
six months, the latter for seconc
offenders only.
Specifically exempted from both
wage and jhour provisions are ag
ricultural workers, seamen, em
ployes of airplanes, street car, mo
tor bus, interurban railways anc
of weekly or semi-weekly news
papers of less than 3000 circula
tion; persons in bona fide execu
tive, professional or local retailing
capacity * or outside salesmen; em
ployes of any retail or service es
tablishment, most of whose selling
or servicing is in interstate com
merce; those engaged in fishing <
and the fishing industry; persons
employed in the .area of produc
tion to handle, prepare or can ag
ricultural dairy or horticultural
products for market.
Employes of railway, motor bus
and truck carriers regulated by
the I. C. C. are exempt from the
hour rules, as are workers in the
first processing of milk or cream
into dairy products, in ginning and
compressing cotton, the processing j
of cotton seed and the processing
of agricultural products intc 1
sugar or syrup. 1
(C tpyrlEht. 1938. NEA Service. Inc.l
son present. Yet at each meal the
family followed their custom of
making the occasion one of mer
riment. They meant no disrespect
to the one who had passed on.
They were merely carrying; on.
Sometimes unless a joke is crack
ed, a person will crack.
GOOD OLD HUMOR
On one occasion I stepped into
the lobby of a hotel from a three
day meeting where I was trying,
under difficulties, to get a certain
resolution adopted which I knew
to be important to the success of
a financial campaign I was direct
ing. A friend of mine, seated in
the lobby, gave me a glance, got
up, walked over to me and poked
me in the chest with a forefinger.
"You are worrying about this
thing," he said. "Let down. I am
going to tell you a story and make
you laug^i." He did. "And I laugh
ed. And felt better. Incidentally,
the thing I wanted done, was
done. 1 had worried for nothing.
Wait a Minute
By NOAH HOLLOWELL
WANTS MUSEUM: Mrs. Has
kell Osteen of Tuxedo is inter
ested in the progress of tfie move
ment for a permanent local mu
seum. Jshe has some heirlooms to
which she attaches much senti
ment, the drinking glass of her
grandmother, Mrs. John Haydock,
which is 100 years old, and a log
cabin salt set of her Grandfather
Haydock, which is more than 125
years old.
REVEALS CHARACTER: R. E.
(Bob) Lyda of the Fruitland
Edneyville sector, sitting as a
grand juror, heard the evidence
of boys and remarked after they
left the room: "I would certainly
hate to see those boys sent to a
chaingang. There's no hope for
them once they are sent there." |
Mr. Lyda has spent part of sev
eral years as guard and overseer
of prison camps, mostly in Vir- j
Eiinia, and he says it is no place
to make great men out of way
ward youths.
WANTS COMMUNITY TAG: i
C. B. Coward thinks Henderson- '
fille should develop a special au- I
tomobile community tag with a .
price so low most cars would car- j
ry it and attractive enough to be
an advertisement for our apples, :
3ur mountains or some other lo- j
:al asset.
Florida motorists have highly i
developed the idea of advertising
:heir communities with individ- I
ualized tags.
FINER MEASUREMENTS: Ben ,
Blackwell, \^ho left the Shipman j
Motor company last summer as
automobile salesman to engage in
the produce business, is back on
:he old job. He said his hobby,
ine measurements by the Johan
sen system to the millionth part J
)f an inch, just wouldn't work |
.vhere beans, apples, potatoes and |
tomatoes called for bushel mea- j
surements—heaped up high and I
racked in for good measure, so
le's back with the motor com
pany.
HOLE HALVED IN ONE
LONDOft. (UP)—A hole was j
lalved in one on the Honor Oak
ind Forest Hill Golf club's course
)y R. J. Derwent a Brockley den
;ist, and J. Rankin, dental stu
lent at Guy's hospital. Two years
igo a similar feat was accom
plished.
Moslem 'Shadow
Government' Set
Up In Palestine
V
Correspondent Finds Par
allel to the Sinn Fein
of Ireland
♦ ZTvi
(A United Press corresponded
who succeeded in reaching
stronghold of the Aram rettei
army in Northern Palestine 'qr*'
scri|u*» in tjie following dispatchi
thtf$£ganization of the rebellite
on the pattern of the Sinn Fefe
"shadow government" set up yfj
j Dublin during the Irish 'revolt.-7-.
J Editor's 7iote, United Press ass6
:eiation.)
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1 Copyright 1938 by United Presf* ;
BETHLEHEM, Oct. 18. (UPk
A visit to the mountain stronghrau
of the Arab army in Palestine, tl^
first ever made by a foi'eifjn
i journalist, has revealed a Moslem
"shadow government," similar zp
that established in Ireland in 1!)16
in the Sinn Fein against Britilh
i rule.
The Arab rebels have divided
the Holy Land into four military
and administrative districts and
British military authorities, deter
mined to stamp out the increasing
bloodshed, have posted rewards to
talling $ll,2.r>0 for the six most
important Arab leaders.
Within the past few weeks the
J organization of the revolt has ex
tended to the establishment of
trained fighting units, intelligence j
j services, saboteurs, courts that j
! impose death sentences on Arab 1
I "betrayers" and pension schemes '
for the famili. ,
fijrhtinp. .
Leader \of aH thi»
Rah^n .^v.r V j
who KOnie '■
tionahst and i
hiu&<k*iMn-ehiei'
bands cii^aiji,,
widespread fi^rhriirv.
Although Ik' , .
of the revolt. .V >' V' '••
sponsbile to . ; _
uuartcr? :n . •
ttkmascus
fcM>lis?a direi, >
With a prie< 1
^Abdul Rahi 4
Vrau on 1 1
"The Biiti h. 1
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meet the corn
Arab steed e; ■ i I. ■
S)m H. M. F«
commisisoner «.t \u ,
>Razek i> in eh . ■ i
district.
Yussef Ahdn;:; ■!:>*. \>v
volt in the Ha ■ ; \ ,J
regions, with ■ ..
out for him; Aim
.ic^ hunted und< ' "12.'nrl
handles the J a a di--^
Abdul Ivader !l
the late kazen l'«>ha fc:
and cousin of 'V.Uq
Mufti, command • •
and Beershfba <: t:ict>
The Arabs rev..:
r' !1a'y !cj
calling: itself th- •>.. -
government," has started q
in jrall mail cap- -r< <i in raj
postoffices and n :;ii •• ....
THIS CURIOUS WORLD
r^guson
Mt'SKRATS
ARE NOT £475
and. although
theVCuDSEj
RESEMSlj
BEAVERS,
THHv ARg
allied
to
/MEADCs/
M/ca.u
And m&$,
FURS ARE
SOLD AS/VKQSi
GABB/T, HUC&jy
SEAL, ETC,
UP*£.
OF THE AVERSE.
MILK bottle:
IS
3S 772//^S" 77y£T f
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BEFORE! BBN6 BROKfcN.
COPR. 1938 BY NEA SERVICE. INC.
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