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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1938
"" BIBLE THOUGHT
"THERE WAS NO ROOM
for them in the inn" (Matt. 2:7)
* * * *
STht ancient hotel-keeper may have been the first
o shunt Him aside. But unfortunately he has not
>eetl the last. At this Christinas season, in the year
pf our Lord 1938, theVe is still far too little room |
for Christ in our modern life. We call ourselves a
fhri stian nation, but far too often the phrase is a i
phrase only: in our modern society there is too
little room made for Christ's presence and teach- j
injr.—Albert Linn Lawson in "The War Cry."
I (To be continued)
|
I FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DEFICIT
MULTIPLIES
J The. federal treasury's deficit for the first j
live months of the present fiscal year, as
Announced by the treasury authorities, is
hi ore than ONE and A HALF BILLION
POLLARS.
» This deficit is two and one-halt' times the
size of the deficit for the corresponding
period of the previous fiscal year. The1
present estimate of the best opinion obtain
able is that the total deficit for the present
fiscal year will amount to more than FOUR
BJLLION DOLLARS.
•The present debt of the federal govern
ment. as admitted by the treasury authori
ties. is approximately FORTY BILLION
DOLLARS. Senator Bvrd of Virginia
stands ready to prove that the govern
ment's system of book-keeping makes the
jdebt appear to be several billion dollars
less than it actually is. As a matter of fact,
it is difficult to ascertain exactly what the
country's debt is. It is certainly not less
than the treasury admits in the published
figures of that department—it may be a
little matler of billions more than the sum
^he treasury acknowledges.
, The Wall Street Journal discusses this
problem in a way that may be somewhat
^lightening to our readers, and we quote
a few paragraphs from the Journal:
I In little more than a fortnight the new Congress
will be sitting. A few days later it will receive the
ludget message on which the President and several
if his fiscal advisers are now at work. The prepa
ttion of the budjfet for the ltMO fiscal year will
a task of extraordinary difficulty; so will be the
Action by which Congress transmutes its recom
mendations into authorized expenditures.
' Because, now more than ever before, the coun
try's chance of a successful transition from an
Economy of government support-spending to one of
fully active, self-supporting production depends
upon the quality of the budget. And until we ac
complish that transition the country is bound to
remain in a state of economic emergency, living
ypon its credit instead of earning its livinsr in cur
??nt production and employing a normal propor
<*n of its whole labor force in productive under
takings.
, No- one need suppose that the 1 i>40 budget will
^alance. But the fact that expenditures cannot be
brought within revenues immediately is no reason
)o abandon all theught of bringing the rate of
freasurv disbursements under rational control. It
js the direction that the country's fiscal manage
ment is to take in this winter's appropriations—'
the question whether the government moves toward
budget balance or farther away from it—that will
fveigh most heavily in determining whether the
business upturn in progress since the middle of the
year and now showing signs of "leveling off" i$ to
make further headway and to develop into a real
hnd lasting recovery.
oo far in the current fiscal year Treasury re- [
fceipt.s have fallen off by roughly 200 millions while
total expenditures have increased by roughly 700
millions. The deficit of moTe than a billion and a
half is two and a half times that of the correspond
ing period a year ago. For the entire fiscal year a
fk'ficit of four billions and perhaps considerably
more is in prospect, to compare with one of $1,
.*84,000,000 in the year ended last June. This year
the deficit will have returned to about the propor
tions of that of 1936, which included prepayment
pf the bulk of the veterans' adjusted compensation
jrertificates.
t For all too many reasons, this winter's budget
piaking is going to "be peculiarly difficult. Our sud
den Conviction of the necessity of enlarged meas
ures of national defense, the practical failure of
the latest legislation on the subject to relieve ag
riculture of its disabilities a*d the municipal ap
petite which has grown great on a long continued
dnt of grants-in-aid suggest only a few of the
gitea't pressures which win come to bear on Con
gv«&» to keep the Treasury spigot wide open—or
ionnect more spigots. The unemployed are still
With us. And finally, the very fact that private
Industry has made partial recovery this year from
the 1937 recession is offered as argument for con
tinued government spending, lest the reccnt gains
be blighted.
' But that defense of continuous national deficit
i inancing is as false as every other. If it were true
1hat a cessation of this large-scale spending were
iound to mean business recession, still would
have to make our way back to fiscal sanity or await
the final disaster. Today budget making means pre
paring to take the way back, whether We actually
arrive at budget balance one year or five years
hence.
Congress and the President can make all neces
i sary provision for the national defense and still
reduce the total annual expense account. A begin
ning on control of the spending mania so resolute
as to convince every observer of the fixed intention
back of it would of itself react powerfully on enter
I prise, on the disposition of the owners of capital to
put it to work, on the fiscal practices of; our thou
sands of sub-governments—on this whole defeatist
philosophy with which men's minds and spirits are
being deadened by all these little preachers of the
j individual's hopless dependence on a political prov
idence which has no real existence.
NEWSPAPERS' OPINIONS
II r-»* J
TOMORROWS TAXES
No longer can the American citizen look abroad
at the heavy tax burden borne by the European
citizen and with a sigh of relief thank providence
that he is not cursed with an equally heavy burden.
The shoe is on the other foot. Actual cost of gov
ernment in this country now challenges that of
Great Britain.
According to figures compiled by the United
States Chamber of Commerce, "American taxes in
1937 were 47 per cent more than in 1923 and 22
per cent more than in 1928.
"British per capita taxes, on the contrary, were
5 per cent less in 1937 than in 1928 and only about
5 per cent more than in 1923."
Actual per capita taxes collected in this country
about equal the per capita tax in Britain. But,
Britain has steadfastly clung to a balanced budget,
or very close to one, while since 1930 this country
has squandered itself into the red to the tune of
$24,000,000,000! In other words, there are $24,
000,000,000 of deferred taxes hanging over the
head of American citizens which eventually must
be paid. Otherwise, every man, woman and child in
the country will suffer the intolerable hardship of
national bankruptcy.
The public purse string must be drawn against
the irresponsible actions of demagogic politicians,
or the American dollar will sooner or later become
nothing but a worthless souvenir. Investments,
jobs, opportunities, "cash" savings — all will be
wiped out.—Shelby Star.
NEGROES IN SOUTHERN COLLEGES?
The decision of the United States supreme court
that the University of Missouri must admit a ngero
to its law school in the absence of a state-supported
school for negroes within the state's borders has
the effect of a command to the University of South
Carolina to admit negroes to its professional de
partments. A negro has applied for admission to its
law school.
The states of the South may adopt one of several
courses in respect of this issue.
They may admit negroes to their white institu
tions, giving up the fight for racial separation.
They may establish separate professional schools
for negroes.
They may withdraw state aid to professional
schools. That would be to abolish schools of law,
pharmacy, teaching, medicine, engineering. (Jour
nalism as taught in the Southern universities is an
undergraduate study and may scarcely be called
professional.)
The state universities with the tacit consent of
the public may pretend compliance with the su
preme court's decision and evade and nullify it by
subterfuges and by resort to ways that would make
the lives of negroes unendurable within the insti
tutions. This would not be without precedent, and
for a long time it might relieve the situation from
the white man's point of view. It is not a pleasant
or decent thing to think of, but it would be the
natural result of the devious, uncertain, unfrank
and dishonest policy of the United States toward
its negro question the last hundred years. Con
tinually hypocrisy has forced the South upon oc
casion to be ruffian or rascal.
Were the law school alone involved, the problem
could be ealily disposed of in South Carolina. No
state-supported law school is needed or is desirable.
The South Carolina law school has long been more
a hatchery of politicians than lawyers, and the
value of it to the commonwealth is matter of grave
doubt, to put the case in polite terms.
increecr, tnat m* ssaie snouhl support profes
sional schools or* "higher education" is not to be
taken for granted. The pioneer days when their
support was expedient have departed. Privately
supported and therefore relatively independent in
stitutions have multiplied. Wofford would not be
compelled by the court's decision to admit negroes
nor would Oglethorpe, Belmont, Sewanee, Furman
o* Duke. The new modes of travel have placed
these institutions closer to South Carolina than
Greenville was to Columbia a quarter century ago.
In general the court's decision will increase the
interest of southern people in their privately sup
ported colleges, among which are their church col
leges. The movement by governments, federal and
state, to break down racial barriers cannot, must
not, escape observation. The Republican and Dem
ocratic partUs are appealing to the negro voters
and are endeavoring to force the" ballot upon the
southern negroes. To this effort in national poli
tics signs of willingness to capitulate are unmis
takable, though not yet plainly visible, in some
southern state institutions. Virtually all of them
are mendicants for federal appropriations, and if
their directors are not entirely stupid they must
know that they cannot eat the bread without sing
ing the song.
The supreme courj's decision menaces southern
state supported institutions of every kind—unless
the southern white people are ready to surrendei
j the practice of race separation. The masses do not
know it, but a few of their political leaders would
deliver them into the hand of the negroes rather
than give up their miserable little jobs. Chailes
ton News and Courier.
Despite all arguments and figures, the hard fact
remains that the farmer gets less money than he
got before he was "saved."
The word "forecast" is a noun *hen accented on
the first syllable, and a verb, whewthc last syllable,
, is stressed.
England's St. James' Palace was discarded many
years ago and court now is held in Buckingham
'pafttce.
All Right—Don't Say We Didn't Warn You
H f If.
X^r'1
LIFE DAY BY DAY
. By WICKES WAMBOLDT
"I don't know how you feel I
about it," said our butcher to me
the other day, "but I think too
few persons are running this gov
ernment."
Our butcner
puts his finger
directly on what
ails our democ
racy — too few
persons are tak
ing an interest
in it; the let
George-do-it at
titude has sur
rend e r e d the
management of
our governmen
tal affairs to po
litical rings and
chines, which ex
ploit us just as
Wamboldt far as they think
they can go without causing an
explosion. Every now and then a
ring or a machine guesses wrong
—goes too far in its mismanage
ment and plundering. The voters
blow up, "kick the rascals out;"
then settle back again into a
state of indifference «until anoth
er state of intolerable misman
agement and plundering devel
ops.
Too few people are interesting
themselves in the success of our
potentially splendid democracy.
A democracy, to succeed, must
be every citizen's business. You
have heard it said that every
body's business is nobody's busi
ness. That is because everybody
passes the buck to everybody else.
If everybody would take a real
interest in what is everybody's
business, THEN everybody's bus
iness would be everybody's busi
ness.
We in America have a glorious
opportunity to be free; to live;
and to pursue happiness within
the bounds of reason. If we are
not fit for such blessings, or will
not maker ourselves»fit, then we
shall lose them—just as other
peoples have lost blessings lor
which they were not fit, or would
not make themselves lit.
Have we got what it takes?
Can we spare a little time to give
sincere patriotic attention to the
affairs of our government? Will
we correct the dangerous fault
pointed out by the butcher—that
of having too few people running
our government?
Governmental power corrupts
unless it is wisely guarded, as the
founders of this government well |
knew. And Absolute Power cor-1
rupts absolutely.
And don't you believe that
what you don't know doesn't hurt
you!
H£ DIDN'T LIKE ANDREW
Andrew Jackson hotel, sir?"
inquired a taxi driver, as two pas
sengers climbed into his car at
the railway station.
''I don't want to go to a hotel
or anything else named after An
drew Jackson!" answered one of
the passengers.
Some persons do not endorse
the praise sometimes given An
drew Jackson. As president of the
United States, lie, as much, if not
mare than any other person, belli
ed to corrupt our politics. Jack
son was the father of the iniquit
ous spoils system, which has per
sisted since his days in the presi
dency; and which has done much
to make our politics abominable.
Jackson had some fine traits; but
political integrity was not one of
them. |
CHINA CALLS ON INVENTOR
PASADENA, Cal. (UP)—At
the personal solicitation of Ma
dame Chiang Kai-shek, Dr. C. Y.
Meng, young Chinese graduate
student of the California Insti
tute of Technology and who there
invented the smallest radio tube
in the world, has been engaged to
construct short-wave stations for
the use of the Chinese armies.
• JOHN T. FLYNN
by JOHN T. FLYNN
*RA Srrvlrr SH.IT L«rrri»«»drnt
•T*HE prologue to the swelling
I theme of the monopoly inves
tigation has served at least one
good purpose. It has helped to
show what at least some of the
monopoly investigators have in
their minds.
Most important in h.s inspect,
though least helpful of the tiiree
performances, was the dissertation
by Mr. Willard Thorp, from the
Commerce Department.
Mr. Thorpe put chief emphasis
on the fact that there is, outside
the aluminum industry, no real
monopoly in the United States.
What he meant was that in no in
dustry save aluminum did an:;
sin^e corporation er(joy a com
plete monopoly.
Oi course it was not necessary
to have Mr. Thorp spend six
months in research to tell us that.
Even in the case of monopoly
by agreement we have had few
cases of 100 per cent monopoly—
lhat is, monopoly of every feature
of the industry. There have been
cases where every producer in the
industry has been found in an
agreement. No one will dout>t this
is monopoly * But usually the
agreements have covered only
certain features of the industry.;
Perhaps it has been limited to a
division of territory, or to produc- j
'ion quotas, or to prices or to
>atents or to other competitive
unctions. It was none the less a
monopoly because it did not ex
end its monopoly effects to every
phase of its activity
Following this Mr. Thorp com
pletely revealed his mind. He said
! the Sherman anti-trust law had
been the chief cause of combina
; lions in this country Because in
dependent industrialists could not
get together and make monopolis
tic agreements under the law.
they united into single corpora
tions within the law.
Of course to say that has been
the chief cause of combinations is
to ignore the whole history of cor
porate development. Thcr<* have
been such cases. Rut it is in
credible that a man who has
taught economics in a first-class
college can make so cgregrious a
misstatement of history. The proc
ess of combination had proceeded
to the most dangerous and de
structive lengths before the anti
trust law was passed.
Since that time the enormous
advantages of combination in
the corporate form for financing
purposes, to evade all sorts of
laws, to hide earnings, to exploit
the public through stock issues,
etc., was all the incentive to com
bination that was needed.
Mr. Thorp has been loaned to •
the government gratis by the Wall
Street firm of Dun \ Bradstreet.
What, he believes is that indepen
dent enterprises ought to be al
lowed to get together and make
agreements without the hindrance
of the anti-trust laws. That is
what business wants. That is what
Mr. Thorp is working for and
toward. He represents that group
which will move heaven and earth
to revive the old NRA agreements.
He has a right to such views and
to work for them. But he ought
not to be "inside" the government
working from within as a repre
sentative of the government.
< fVinvrlp-VI#*# MPI4 Sarvlco Tn»» \
Wait a Minute
Ey NOAH HOLLOWELL
TONIGHT: Thit is the night
when Representative-elcct \.. L.
Burgin and Senator-elect B. L.
Prince faco the firing squad of
teachers, who will open fire with
the profession's demands of leg-1
islators.
BRIGHTEN UP COUNTRY
SIDE: How many paint brushes
would you guess are sold in Hen-1
dersonvillc in a year? There arc
perhaps nine houses handling
brushes. Emil Latt says he was i
looking over some paint brush
data of the Hendersonville Sup
ply and Coal company which re-1
vealed that this firm alone has I
sold 1.200 brushes since last May.
That evidently means that this]
has been a good year with local I
painters and paint merchants.
.
LONGEST NAME: Which firm
in Hendersonville has the longest
name? This column is betting on
Smyth's Radiator Repair Service
and Auto Steam Laundry, which
is twice as long as the shortest
advertisement and firm name in
the classified columns. This adv.
reads: "Corn Wanted—Farmers
Federation."
MORE SIDE WALKS: The
WPA crew is laying cement side
walks on both sides of Church
street between Sixth and Seventh
avenues. Cement sidewalks are
mighty cheap to be • spurned as
they are with WPA aid.
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
NOTE—No unsigned commu«
nicationa are published by The
Times-News. All letters must be
signed with the real name of
the author. No communications
signed with a fictitious name
will be published.—EDITOR.
Editor, The Times-News:
I wish to join with you in say
ing- that all county offices should
be for a term of four years. Un
der our present set up it seems
to me wholly unwise to require
the commissioners and tax collec
tor to run for office each two
years when the other officials are
elected for a four-year term. The
present commissioners and tax
collector are men of high stand
ing and ability and regardless of
their political faith I must say,
in fairness to them and the large
majority which they received in
the last election, that there is no
good reason why these officers
should not serve for four years.
Our senator and representative
should, in my opinion, have the
proper law enacted to make all
county offices elective each four
years.
JOHN W. DRAKE.
SET KANUGA ROAD
TABERNACLE SERVICE
A special service will be hold
at the People's Tabernacle on the
Kanuga road Friday night. The
East Flat Rock community prayef
hand will conduct this service,
which will begin at 7:30 o'clock.
The public is invited to attend
and the pastor, Rev. Sherman
Patterson, promises good singing
and testimonies, and speaking.
Fish Oil Vitarrfin
A Said To Cure
Night Blindness
By WILLIAM TYREE
United Press Staff Correspondent
TUCSON, Ariz., Dcc. 15. (UP)
A new use has been found here
I for cod liver oil—drink it and
you can see at night like a cat.
At least that is the result of
experiments of Dr. Margaret
Cammak Smith, nutrition chemist
of the University of Arizona, ift
attempting to cure "night blind
ness," a peculiar condition thrit
develops in the eye from a lack
of regeneration og "pigment pur
ple," a vitamin A substance.
The blindness can be corrected
in children by use of cod liver
oil, Dr. Smith said.
Conducting a test of 127 un
1 dernourished children here for
10 weeks and many others during
the past year, Dr. Smith said she
had successfully corrected night
blindness by daily doses of the
oil.
The test also had its reverbera
tions in the laboratories which
furnished the cod liver oil, Dr.
Smith reported. The children lik
ed the natural kind better than
the highly refined, odorless type
which has been developed at the
laboratory.
Dr. Smith started out to prove
whether a lack of vitamin A in
Mexican families of the low wage
bracket was reflected in the chil
j dren's vision, growth, susceptihil
i ity to disease, especially of the
; respiratory tract, and breaks in
health, such as tuberculosis.
The answer to all these ques
: tions Was "yes," Dr. Smith said.
Despite its importance, the ex
; perimcnt was very simple to per
foiw. 131, Smith, wit, ■ t,
tometer at i €
in a dark r«. • ■
ual purpl •" : i. ...
pted in I he eye. Tru.-n b '
Ji^ht was l! 4
eyes "for thr<■«■
child was i! ' a i
for the !\ v \
ual purple :u • i>.. ,-a,
generation v. i
Dr. Smith f
took over the
per cent hail a ■ maj
per cent . ■
and 57 pei < ~j
Weight appa : r. • .;l
do with it, a
were underwv:
After the ...
liver oil. an-i • J
I Two-third • <•!' • , . M
mal night vi A
third had impi . '1
In a ;vuv<i i • ■ J
cod liver oil. I*
improvement ws - n< ted.
DR. SAXMANNHO®.
FROM HIS VISIT Ejj|
Dr. George Sax: aim ha.
turned from . L.-,
Pa., where he wa< : • J
his parents, h ■ ,.n
been injured ii . .'
dents. Both :a> • '
and Dr. Saxmann
be fully recovered ... an
date.
TAKE OIL BATH
NEWBUIN POI . J
Thomas (I. Medic ; '
was seeing ihinu
ant flew throujrl
of his welding shun
into a barrel !
oil. MeGlew -:vscu« lj> J
turned it ovei to ' • 1
den. • M
ThiS CURIOUS WORLD
ATT ON1E1TIAAEL, IT WAS CONSiO?^
SUtCJOAL. TO SI FFP NEAR A VE'iV
tree;/ I IN] 13^7, /X AAAJM
SERARDE DISPROVED THE THEORv8>
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vou'u.
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v do SHIPS
GO CLEAR TO THE
SOTTOM
of the: OCH>n' '/
WHENJ THEY SINK J
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most directly below the place where it sank . . un < it en
counters sub-ocean currents.
FOOTBALL COACH
HORIZONTAL
1,6 A former
outstanding
football coach
10 Jewel.
11 Collection of
facts.
i 12 Agreeable
odor.
| ,J3To put on a
short
allowance.
16 Noise.
17 Toward.
18 Golf device.
19 Go on
(music).
20 To tolerate.
21 Extremity.
23 Doctor.
24 Mistake.
25 Test.
| 27 Networks.
28 Blaze.
29 Pulpit block.
32 To bej ate.
34 Neuter
pronoun.
| 36 Smooth.
37 Cautious.
38 Stree t
Answer to Previous Puz/lc
39 Turf.
41 His teams
were popular
with
crowds.
43 Supped.
44 Great lake.
46 False gods.
47 On the bed.
48 Spiritualist
meeting.
50 Measure.
52 His college,
Dame.
53 Thing.
54 He is still
as a
super coach.
VERTICAL
2 Water wheel
3 On.
4 Cap.
5 Works out in
detail.
6 List of
officers.
7 Automobile.
8 To make a
swcauf.
9 Titled
12 To print
publicity
14 Conc-.-h.*: ei
15 He — 3
vcr.-atlo j
yyicn o'
football play.
20 Gridiron.
22 To waste
time.
24 G ree'ri letter.
2d Youth.
30 Grotesque.
: ■ u*>':u5t
32 Guzzles.
33 Reason.
;>.> JIuman :ru*
3'. Cubic rr.et®
40 T<> est
sparingly*
42 To avail.
.j;j To foment
43 Organ ot
hearing.
47 Title of
r,-pcct.
49 \>i
51 Grain.