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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1938
BIBLE THOUGHT
"THE LORD SHALL PRESERVE . . .
thy soul" (Read Ps. 121)
* * * i
David Livingston and his father read this Psalm
together the morning Livingston started to Africa,
and many of us have read it in our time of strain
or of release. What would life be like if there
were for us no songs like this to sing as we live it!
"The Lord shall preserve thy going out and
thy coming in from this time forth and even
forevermore."—Survey.
WATCH MEXICO
As the nations of the western hemisphere
assemble at Lima, and through their rep
resentatives undertake to formulate and
adopt plans which may have far reaching
results in years to come, warning is being
sounded in this country that a policy of
wide-awake watchfulness on the part of
Uncle Sam, the big brother of the Ameri
can nations, will be the wise course for the
United States. Certain it is that some of
the countries south of the United States
are out for the purpose of getting the ad
vantage of big brother in these negotia
tions and whatever agreements may result.
It is not necessary to seek farther than our
next door neighbor to the south to locate
one such country.
Mexico, as a communist country and
government, will be found wily and per
sistent in spreading the poison of commun
ism at-Lima and in seeking for approval
and endorsement of communistic policies.
The greatest danger, perhaps, is to be
found in the effort which Mexican and
South American radicals will make to se
cure endorsement by the Lima convention
of certain basic principles of communistic
action in international relations.
The Texas Weekly, acquainted with
Mexico and Mexicans at close range and
armed with definite information as to con
ditions in that country and its international
policies, discusses at some length the great
problems which will squarely confront the
Lima meeting as soon as it is convened.
We quote some paragraphs which will aid
our readers in clarifying their thinking in
regard to the relations of this country and
Mexico:
According to a dispatch from Mexico City to
The New York Times the course at Lima which
the Cardenas government has decided upon "is not
pSblicly to attack the United States policies, nor
bring up the expropriation problem as such, but
't<y push through legislative measures that will
strengthen and implement the expropriation policy
'iff Latin America."
| *"On the thirteenth point of the Lima agenda,"
's$ys the Times dispatch, "which calls for 'codifica
tion of international law', it is Mexico's plan to
hive formally included in the most advantageous
and reinforced form the doctrine that 'the collec
• tion of pecuniary claims made by the citizens of
oge country against the government of another
country should never be made by force.' Articles
ir* this sense, presumably inspired by the foreign
office, have been appearing for the past week in
Mexican press.
w"In the second place it is President Lazaro Car
denas's own idea to obtain an agreement that for
eigners entering a country to live and do business
must become citizens of that country. Mexican
(jfficials feel that agreement on those points will
strengthen Mexico's position on expropriation, mak
ing it legally impossible for a foreign power to pro
tect its nationals' pecuniary interests abroad, and
eliminating the grounds for such notes as Secretary
of State Cordell Hull has written to Mexico.
» "While the Mexican ambassador at Washington.
Francisco Castillo Nejera, who will head the dele
tion, is more or less conservative, Mexico is send
ing in general a contingent of radicals to assist in
the promulgation of her policy at Lima. It is felt
Here that Latin American nations will line up be
hind the policies Mexico wants adopted, if only
fbr the resultant enhancement of their national
sovereignty, even though they entertain no imme
diate expropriation ideas."
What wilt happen at Lima remains to be seen.
^Ut ther.e is this to^e said about the proposals
which Mexico intends to support at the conference:
they could never be countenanced in international
l*w in relation to a government like that in Mex
ico, which makes expropriation synonyous with
confiscation, and seizes property without compen
sation, and even without any ability to pay, as a
national policy. The first of these two proposals is
not new in Latin American discussion. It is the
so-called Calvo Doctrine, as modified by Luis Maria
Drago. Carlos Calvo, a distinguished Argentine in
ternational lawyer, promulgated the doctrine that
parties having financial claims in a foreign coun
try, whether against individuals or against the gov
ernment, should seek to collect them through the
courts of that country, and not through the diplo
matic intervention of their own governments.
Drago added to this doctrine that no public debt
should be collected by a sovereign American coun
try by force. But both Calvo and Drago had ia
mind governments which guarantee and respect
property rights under equitable laws. The doctrine
which they enunciated were in no sense intended
to apply to a government which, as a national pol
icy, justified the out-and-out confiscation of pri
vate capital, without compensation, on the solo
pretense that social welfare and national interest
j required it.
It is to be expected that Mexico will discover
that not all Latin American statesmen will be wil
. , « • • t r.-.. V, »'
ling to pull its chestnuts from the fire by support
ing its proposals. Practically all of the Latin Amer
ican countries stand in great need of American
capital, and it is certain that some of the delegates
at least will recognize this. In this connection, an
editorial in the New York Jaurnal of Commerce is
pertinent. It says: "A primary task before the
Lima conference, therefore ,is to see what can be
done about restoring the confidence of American
capital in Latin America as an attractive field for
i investment At least, the other countries of
Latin America should make clear that they regard
Mexico's action as very short-sighted and unfor
tunate,! and that there is no intention of following
j suit."
Regardless of what happens at Lima, however,
the course of the United States with respect to
Mexico henceforth must be clear and unequivocal.
Entirely aside from the material interests of in
vestors, the American government cannot coun
tenance the recognition of communist doctrines as
tenets of international law. That is what the party
\ in control of Mexico' is seeking to have us to do.
We must join the other great democracies of the
world in maintaining the integrity of private prop
erty and of private capital in international dealings.
I :
| NEWSPAPERS' OPINIONS j
I ! -
LET'S KEEP THE BRAKES IN GOOD ORDER
Wherever an attempt has been made to over
throw a social order, whether an American revolu
tion or a German putsch, the revolutionists follow
two lines of attack. One is to kindle hate against
those who symbolize the existing: order. .The other
is to enlist the physical force to get control.
We see illustrations wherever we look. In Rus
sia, Lenin fired the workers and si^Jdiers with dead
ly hate of aristocrats, land owners, and the. intelli
gentsia. In Italy, Mussolini fanned Italian emotions
to white heat by stigmatizing strikers and others of
his old friends in the labor unions as Communists
seeking to Russianize Italy. Hitler imbued the Ger
mans with loathing of the Jew as the personifica
tion of all evil.
We are changing our social system in the United
States, and by the same methods. Whether for
good or ill, there can be no mistaking the historic
technique of revolution.
Our hate campaign has been directed at business
and the business man. Seldom a day has passed or
an hour on the radio that the public has not been
exhorted to hate business. Bankers were "money
changers" to be driven from the temple; invest
ment bankers appropriated the widow's mite with
out conscience; the "power trust" was bleeding the
people white; commercial aviation was without mor
als; manufacturers were exploiters of child labor,
operators of sweat shops and labor tyrants; lumber,
oil and coal men were "barons"; stock and grain
exchanges were gambling houses; retailers were
gougers and chiselers; steel and chemical compa
nies, fomenters of war; railroads mismanaged; tele
phones, too much power for the public good; and
I the stage now set to complete the cycle by harass
ing insurance institutions. Lawyers, newspapers,
i every agency of free opinion which might counter
act the campaign of hate haye been abused.
Xo epithet Hitler could invent to describe the
Jews was more hate-arousing than those we ap
I plied to business men. Perhaps the high point was
reached when a federal administrator called them
"little men with rodent blood in their veins." Our
newest administrator was milder when he called the
employer who couldn't pay the fixed wage "inde
cent."
To harvest the sowing of hate and overturn the
established order, revolutionists must march with
muskets. Black shirts, brown shirts, secret orders,
storm-troopers, seizure of the army, their part we
all know. But we, being a wealthy nation, do it
differently—as Professor Tugwell said in an un
! guarded moment, by "subterfuge"—painlessly, but
i just as effectively. Our muskets are money.
| The head of PWA dues not march with armed
men into 124 municipalities to confiscate private
' power plants. He marches in «i*h $160,628,752.
Retail stores are not taken over by force as in
Russia; we establish competitive cooperatives wit'i
money that was appropriated "to relieve distress."
Banks do not yield up their buildings to armed
forces, they deliver their depositors' money to th*
! Secretary of the Treasury, and face competition in
119 great federal lending agencies.
W e, as American citizens, would fight an over
turn to the Fascist state by armed troops, yet, we
have complacently viewed the march which has
taken us three-quarters of the way down the road
; to Fascism. Washington today controls and allo
cates most of our working capital; it fixes wages,
1 fixes hours, and prices, and is in 250 different lines
! of business. Washington is moving surely into
state capitalism that marks the totalitarian coun
I tries of Europe.
Those who deplore the changes taking place in
our American system of free enterprise shou'ei
continue to help dispel the hate against business,
should join the movement to show that business is
( beneficent, not malevolent, that "What helps bus;
ness helps you," and, second, move to deprive the
i revolutionists of their muskets by demanding tax
reduction and that expropriation of savings through
federal borrowings be stopped.
Recent events show that democracy can appiy
the brakes, but there must be no let-down in keep
ing the brakes in good working order.—Merle
Thorpe in Nation's Business.
; *
Producing an average of more than 100,000 in
: struments annually the United States is the world's
largest manufacturer of pianos.
In England, a law makes it illegal to take home
ice cream in cardboard containers on Sunday, but
j you can take it home in edible containers, or cones.
Honey does not have to be digested when taken
into the human body; that function takes place in
' the body of the bee.
Calendar for December
WELL, WELL
movimct
START TMlNKlMG" WHAT
LIFE DAY BY DAY
ByWICKES WAMBOLDT _
I It was pitiful to hear Mr. Cham
j berlain in a recent international
broadcast atemptin<? to justify
| what he called the Munich "agree
ment" as fine in
ternatio n a 1 d i
plomdcy and ad
mirable interna
tional p o 1 i c y.
Had Mr. Cham
berlain admitted
with becoming
humiliation that
England and
F r a "n c e were
compelled to do
what they did ut
Munich because
they were in isb
position to <^
pose the superior
military lur cks
Wamboldt of Germany and
Italy, and declared that England
and France would never get j
caught that way again, there
would be sympathy for the repre
sentatives who were brudgeoned
into complete surrender at Mu
nich. Undoubtedly, through lack
of preparedness, England and
France were forced to submit to
the arrogant demands of Hitler;
but why not deplore it, instead of
attempting to dress up the sicken
ing situation to make it look pret
ty. One could almost hear the
grin on Hitler's face when Mr.
Chamberlain asserted that no one
lost a cause or won a victory at
Munich.
WHY DOES GOD PERMIT?
"Why," asks a woman, "does
God permit Hitler to do the
things he does?"
Throughout the ages God has
permitted—yes, and used—even
the devil in the testing and the
disciplining of mankind. Un
h
doubtedly God can control all
forces; yet certain adverse influ
ences seem to be allowed or di
rected to operate in this sphere we
call Earth, for the reason that
human beings seem to need cer
tain experiences in the develop
ment of their souls. Sometimes
people must have terrifically hard
knocks to knock sense into them;
we are not only ignorant but wo
are willful about refusing to
learn.
MIRACLE WORKERS
The voters are forever seeking
a miracle worker who will take
over their pressing problems and
sofve them. The voters try first
one office seeker and then anoth
er'in the hope of finding the ma
gician they want. Almost anyone
who can convincingly promise
enough marvels, can get elected
to office. And as soon as a great
promiser has failed to do the im
possible, the people are eager to
elect someone else who promises
to do the impossible.
The people cannot understand
that perfection is impossible; and
that if they want better condi
tions, they themselves must do
their part to bring about better
conditions. There must be hon
esty, thrift, and industry among
the people themselves before
those principles can be injected
into government. There can nev
er be rewards collectively until
the people merit rewards indi
vidually.
One reason that men elected to
public office do not discharge
their duties with a higher sense of
moral responsibility is that too of
ten the voters who put those men
in ofTice do not do so from a hi^li
sense of moral responsibility, but
for the gratification of prejudices, j
• JOHN T. FLYNN
BY JOHN T. FLYNN
VEA Service Staff Correspondent
IVTEW YORK.—A report from
^ Washington is thit the Social
Security Advisory Council is go
ing to recommend that the United
States share in the old-age pen
sion tax. '
At present the employer pays 1
per cent, the employe 1 per cent.
The plan is to have the employer,
the employe and the United States
government each pay one-third of
;he tax, the tax, however, to re
main the same as now.
This sounds like a great conces
sion—a liberalization of the old
i age tax system. But like all the
proposals as well as arrange
ments of the federal government
with reference to old-age pension
1 finance this has all the earmarks
| pf a tricky plan. On its face it
sounds quite generous. In fact it
is a plan to divert attention from
a most vicious tax.
Every authority on old age pen
sions is agreed that the tax im
posed by the government should
be large enough to pay the cost
pf old age pensions and no larger.
A tax of one-half per cent on
j worker and a half per cent on
employer would produce far more
than enough for many years. If
i such a tax were levied for five
years and then raised to 1 per cent
each for five years more, this
would soon run into quite a few
billions more than necessary to
pay all the old age benefits for the
next ten years and leave a big
reserve. Instead the Jax is fixed
at 1 per cent each on employer
and employe for three years. Then
>t will be raised to \xk per cent
on each for three years and then
to 2 per cent each for three years,
increasing each three years until
it is 3 per cent each. •
The tax now is 1 per cent each
and it will be at this rate during
1939 when it will rise to l1^ per
cent each. Under this plan the
government has collected over 700
million dollars more thao it has
spent. By the end of 1939 it will
have collected over a billion and a
half more than it will have spent.
By the end of 1942 it will have
collected nearly four billion more
than it will have spent. These
four billions are supposed to be
part of a "reserve." But this is
a Pickwickian 'reserve composed
of phantom dollars, since the gov
ernment is spending all this monej
on ordinary government expensej
as fast as it is collected.
There has been grave criticism
of all this and a demand for the
abolition of this fake reserve ac
count. To meet that now tht so
called advisory council is going tc
recommend that the governmenl
share in one-third the tax. That
of course, is ridiculous. What the
government should do is to put ar
end to the present oppressive tax
on payrolls ajd employers anc
adopt a tax which will Le suffi
cient to meet the costs of old age
pensions. Then the governmenl
can raise taxes any way it wishes
to pay the ordinary expenses ol
the government, instead of pre
tending to be accumulating a big
reserve which it is not accumu
lating and cannot accumulate and
using that artifice to tax payrolls
to meet government expenses
This year the government will
collect half a billion dollars by
means of this payroll tax. Next
year it will collect around $600,
000,000. The government could cut
that tax in half—even more—and
still have enough to build a big re
serve.
fCot>yri£ht. 1938. NEA Service. Inc.)
or with th<; hope of selfish person
al benefit. Wo shall never have i
splendid government until the
voters who elect our officials an
motivated by splendid purpose.
Wait a Minute
By NOAH HOLLOWELL
| COLD NOTES: With eaYs Blood
red, eyes running1 and nose threat
ening to drip, A. F. Coleman says
it becomes mighty, mighty mo
notonous for some city chap to
hail him with this: "How's the
weather out in the country?" . . .
Engineer Henry Ransom taking it
bravely with head stuck far out
the cab to watch the signals of the
brakeman for shifting the locomo
tive back and forth.
SONG OF JOY: The Transyl
vania Times carols a paean over
the opening of highway No. 284
from the Boylston road to the top
of the mountain at Wagon Road
gap in the Pisgah National Forest,
with stone surface all the way.
The road is now open to traffic.
Contract for the surfacing has
been let and work is expected to
start early in spring.
This stretch of highway doesn't
mean much to Transylvania as an
ingress and egress for its own
people but from the standpoint of
tourist travel, it will become high
ly significant, forming a direct
route from Greenville through
Brevard, Pisgah National Forest
and into the Smokies.
WELCOME SANTA: We mu.t
step out and greet Santa Claus as
he makes his debut tonight. Dec
orations will give him a Christ
masy atmosphere and he. will be
engaged in window shopping pre
paratory to doing the big boy's
stuff a little later. Let's go and
see Santa tonight. He will make
his next appearance Saturday,
when the school children will
scrutinize the Old Man.
Hendersonville, Route 4 |
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HENDERSONVILLE, Route 4,
Nov. 20.—Folks in this commun
ity are beginning to talk and plan
for Christmas. A good program
and tree are to be arranged for
the church.
Mr. and Mrs. S. Ford and chil
dren also Mrs. Guss Henson of
Tryon, visited relatives in this
community Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs.#H. L. F. Drake
were dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Jimmie Cantrell Sunday.
Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Blythe and
children and Mr. and Mrs. Weldon
Blythe visited Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Gilliam of Edneyville Sunday.
Miss Emma Cantrell of Tryon,
spent the week-end with her mo
ther, Mrs. W. P. Cantrell.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Drake spent
Sunday with the latter's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Sam On* of Pisgah
Forest.
Quite a few people in this com
munity are butchering fine hogs.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cantrell
visited relatives in this commun
ity Thanksgiving.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Huggins
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Huggins of Hendersonville.
Voting methods among the an
cients included showing hands,
striking weapons upon shields,
and taking positions to the right
or left of a line.
NEW CHINA ENVOY '
MUST GIVE SPEECH
HITLER WOULD HEAR
BERLIN, Nov. 29.—(UP) —
Chen Chioh, Chinese ambassador
designate to Germany, has been
in Berlin three weeks but has
been unable to obtain an appoint
ment to .present his credentials ^
; Chancellor Adolf Hitler becau&
i of the refusal of the German for
; eign office* to approve his' pro
j posed remarks when he assumes
' his ambassadorship, the United
1 Press learned last nijrht.
There is no question of Hitler's
! refusal to receive Chen, it was
i said, but the foreign office does
reserve the right to demand that
the text of his address when he
exchanges greetings with Hitler
"conform to German standards,"
NEW AIRLINE LINKS
CANADIANS CLOSER
MONTHKAL, Nov. 2<>. (UP).
The Trans-Canada Air Lines' new
Montreal-Vancouver air express
service is resulting in closer busi
ness relations between Eastern
and Western Canada and in the
development of new commercial
markets, a survey discloses.
Goods (hat once took several
days to cross the country are now
being; flown from coast to coast in
25 hours, and the fast service is
expanding tlie exchange of prod
1 ucts, particularly those that are
i perishable, between the east and
■ west. t
The principal shipments east
| ward at present are delicate flow
ers from British Columbia, such as
] gardenias, which formerly were
imported from the |v» j**
Ojfi, 'firm ... " «t*
dialers declare tl
gig fwwers from LnL°f,bl>'.
■aa art much |owu T, . 1 }«%.
from ti, l, t ,lsr'!^rt.
an Hit has clos< U y ••
fWUPes of supph
f-o# emergency. ' l!- <
It is expected tiu •
holly will be bc.,,,L-;
Columbia by
Christmas season. ' !in* thi
Meanwhile, uv
are regularly ,
fashions in m.-> \ (
clothing, newspj
mats, films and i.,\, ,.(.V <
one occasion a
sters from the Mi
LOCKED IN BOOTH
DIDN'T KNOW W'HERt
FORT WORTH. . .
(UP).—7Roy J<
truck driver, spe
easy hour. He
ery to make a tvit-i-litn..- ^all ■-»"!
was locked insiik
closed for the ni^l, .
After a few mil. i,H-diiall0.
Jones called iti<* iltpir
ment. The police
where Jones was ami nti^
could he. The call linully
traced back through 'tu- u-!v|,r ,.,
exchange and tin y •i>.
notified .
WPA FORCE FISHES
CANYON LAKK. .-.it/.. <rp,_
Add to WPA jobs: ii.-hinjj. \m.
na Works Progress :uiminiatrati;.
employes have caught *12 tiui> ^
carp in special traj . and
have been distributed to n.
cipients by the Fm-i;.' .Sm-pla
Commodity corpoi'a: .>
THiS CURIOUS WORLD ByWilliam
Ferguson
©AG DAD,
CALIFORNIA,
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INCHES OF
RAIN
FROM IQ09
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INCLUSIVE.
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tion. A telescope proved the calculations to be correct.
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