THE TIMES-NEWS i \ • ! i Hendersonville News Established in 1894 Hendersonville Times Established in 1881 Published every afternoon except Sunday at 22' North Main street, Hendersonville, N. C., by Thi Times-News Co., Inc., Owner and Publisher. J. T. FAIN Editoi C. M. OGLE Managing Editoi HENRY ATKIN City Editoj TELEPHONE 87 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Times-News Carrier, in Hendersonville, or else where, per week 12c Due to high postage rates, the subscription price of The Times-News in zones above No. 2 will be based on the cost of postage. Entered as second class matter at the post office in Hendersonville, N. C. MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1938 BIBLE THOUGHT 4. "NO ROOM FOR THEM in the inn" (Matt. 2:7) * . * \ f ; There is little room for Christ in too many of our SCHOOLS today. In several states the reading v>f the Bible is strictly forbidden in public schools. In the colleges the matter is even worse. Many boys and girls from good Christian homes are hav ing their. faith taken away by agnostic teachers. Even in sorue of the great theological seminaries ..there is more of ethics than of religion.—Albert Linn Lawson. (To be continued) A * ' ALFRED M. LANDON, A DEMOCRATIC SYMBOL (By BRUCE C ATT ON) The composition of the United States Relegation at the Lima conference bears eloquent testimony to the difference be tween democracy and dictatorship — and the lesson cannot be missed by delegates from the other New World nations. For if the head of the American delega tion is Cordell Hull, the Number Two man ;is Alfred M. Landon of Kansas. Mr. Lan don's presence on the delegation, and the •active p#rt he has taken in furthering the United'States program, are immensely sig nificant/ If one of the dictatorships were sending a full-dress delegation to an important in ternational conference, it is a certainty that the leader of the opposition (if any) would not have a place in it. Even the most active imagination can not, for instance, picture Soviet Russia sending out a delegation which included • Leon Trotsky, or Germany selecting a mis sion graced by the presence of—let. us say —Herr Schuschnigg of Austria. Trotsky is «*n exile and Schuschnigg is a prisoner, and both are rather lucky to be alive at all. So that the fundamental difference be tween a dictatorship and a democracy is .effectively underlined by Landon's pres ence at Lima. And it means a great deal more than a mere difference between the personal magnanimity of an American .President and a European dictator. It means that inefficient and wasteful de mocracy is somehow smart enough to use the brains and energy of people who hap pen to disagree with the party in power, while dictatorship is not. A dictatorship can use only those people who are 100 per cent in agreement with the boss. They may be gifted people—brilliatit, devoted, deeply patriotic, immensely industrious— vbut if they don't see things precisely as the head man sees them, or if they have ever % opposed him on any important policy, then ..they are completely useless. And when you stop to think about it, this epitomizes the gravest of all the many .objections to the totalitarian state. The progress that' human society has made to date has been a progress of co-op eration. Men have differed violently, down through the generations, but somehow .they have managed to pool their efforts •and harmonize their varying contributions *$o as to climb slowly but surely up the lad der o: civilizadjn. It is the only possible way in which that difficult ascent ever can be made. The idea of dictatorship is a denial of that fundamental element in progress. It would cut mankind off from the principal source of its strength. In order to mass force effectively for a momentary objec: -live, it sacrifices the only channel through which the race's vast fund of intelligence, brawn and good will can be utilized effi ciently. The presence at Lima of Mr. Landor * symbolizes one of the great reasons whj the free, democratic way of life is the hope .of the world. '• W V Four fellows arrested in Cleveland with '400 pair of loaded dice may be expectec ]to shoot their way out of jati. •' We could almost feel the charm ray* clear over here when those two personality fyoys Eden and Roosevelt got together. The pink glow on the new Jeffersoi nickel may be caused by the blushing o: the patriot in whose name so much ha: -been recently done. NEWSPAPERS' OPINIONS COURT CONTROL The recent effort of the Washington administra f tion to prain. control of the United States supreme 5 court has suggested to some thinking men there the desirability .*>f making the. judicial departments ; the government still further independent of the _ j executive. Under the present law, the supreme court is to a certain extent dependent upon the executive for ; the funds necessary to carry on. All federal courts must submit their budgets to the Department of Justice, where they are passed upon by the attorney general, a cabinet officer ap pointed by thev President. This may not give fhe executive any actual con , trol over the court, but at least it is a club. The ! court can appeal to congress for more funds only with the President's consent. The proposition now comes out of Washington— and it may get before congress in the coming ses sion—to make the federal courts financially inde pendent of the executive branch, and accountable | only to congress, by authorizing the chief justice to present the annual budget of all federal courts directly to congress. The theory under which the three arms of the i American government is set up is that the legisla tive, executive and judicial departments are dis tinct, independent and equal in authority in their separate provinces. The recent bitter battle in Washington, io keep the supreme court out from under the thumb of the chief executive, suggests that it may some time become essential to still further protect that court ; from any possible financial restriction from that source.—Rock Hill (S. C.) Herald. . j A CHANGE IN SENTIMENT j Farmers of North Carolina last Saturday dis played a change of sentiment with respect to crop 1 control. So far as the voters of this, state were concerned, they failed to cast a two-thirds vote in favor of con trol of either cotton or tobacco. And yet, ten: months ago, both of these proposals carried by an o erwhelming majority. We don't know what effect the abandonment of tobacco control is going to have upon prices. Nev-J tretheless, we are glad that Saturday's vote turned out as it did. You've heard the old saying about selling one's birthright for a mess of pottage. You've also heard that it does not profit a man if he gains the entire world and, in the process of doing so, loses his own soul. We feel that it is exactly the same with respect to this business of crop control. An American citi zen's individual rights should come first, last and all the time. Regardless of what he may gain finan cially, he is bound to be the loser every time he surrenders one of these rights. We are glad to see that the farmers are begin ning to realize this fact, and we attribute to this (realization the change in sentiment that was mani I fested in last Saturday's voting.—State Magazine. PULLING THE WOOL OVER OUR OWN EYES | One reason it is increasingly difficult everywhere ' to keep taxes down is tfecause taxes are hidden. The people who pay them have the wool pulled over their eyes. i They pay, and don't suspect it. But they do pay! If alt taxes had to be paid directly, and there was no such thing as indirect tax, the government I of this country would not,be costing anything like the billions now being spent for public services. And for the reason that the enormity of the tax bill would produce a general objection to waste and to the extension of political power into so many fields where the individual formerly functioed on an individual basis and under his own power. But so long as the case is as it is now, and the taxes which most of us pay for provernmental up keep are hidden from us, we simply keep on fool ishly taing it for granted that a few who pay the , income taxes, the inheritance taxes, the business taxes, are footing the whole political bill. What a fallacy and delusion! Actually whether he earns $1,000 or $100,000 a' year, he pays the same taxes on a package of ciga-1 rettes 6r a gallon of gas, to take only two common-' place examples. We are all consumers and in the final analysis, i all consumers pay taxes. According to the National Consumers' Tax Com mission, 63 per cent of the 14 billion dollars paid in taxes last year were indirect taxes—hidden taxes —hidden from the consumers who paid them.— I Charlotte Observer. BETTER SHOULDERS A North Carolinian writing to The Winston-Sa lem Journal praises South Carolina's plan of mak tu- highway? safer by building three-foot surface treated shoulders-on each side. Describing a trip in a hard rain here, he said: ''In South Carolina some fool driver could have pushed mo off the pavement and I stili would have , been safe, but in North Carolina my wife would ! have been a widow, as in most cases there was a i six-inch drop into red mud." The surface-treated shoulders, comparatively in expensive, have proved a good investment in con venience as well as in the matter of prime impor tance, safety, and we hope the highway department , will continue to build them until every state road j shall be so equipped.—Greenville Piedmont. Tory. Any man who has made a lot of money and lesents any effort to take it away from him. ■ • ' ) ■ -» ' Why do teacher: fail? Well, you never can train a dog till you express your ideas in terms that a dog s mind can understand. Five thousand years of civilization, and we 'still despise the man who seems to possess none of the tough qualities of a wild beast. 'I — Yes, you mu.*t love your neighbor. .But the only ' neighbor of the three tested was the decent Sama itan who was' easy to love. 11 — It may sound cranky, but at times we can't help wishing the little girlie, would bring back that ye!- j low "basket. , ' ' Free people must have freedom of speech. But one who tries to overthrow the government by1 * force is a criminal, and words are as criminal is any other weapon if equally effective. J White House Mail, . > ^ * • Brussels ternationul inc-'U-: t' hud ' narrowly avi i u iii cor.r. with a vaiie' ■ t:.-- J s.els Foreign P I The dispat •. • ...M correspondent ■ withdra:: i. tiuxj a Germ an-J e^ m German. The Germsm au;bas>ador ( said to have a'^ • • 'I tin The e«"»mmiu< • chare*-. ^ News Chionicl« ■ • :1 the sititt'-r ■ » 1 '.air. ;I using Get man. 1 ' 1 he >isl Rumanian, l* i• • • .iraOLk3H ITSSrSTEV OF AERIAL ROOTS,' CAN SROW iNTO AN f e/stt/ke: rOf^EST/ , MUSTARD C3AS WAS DISCOVERED BEFORE THE V/*ORjL.O WAR.. 4 IS DECEMBER TWEWr. 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