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THE TIMES-NEWS
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1938
BIBLE THOUGHT
7. "NO ROOM FOR THEM
in the inn" (Matt. 2:7)
* • «► ♦
We mirht come still closer }»ome. We who pro
fess to believe in Jesus as our Lord and Saviour
might well look into our own HEARTS and LIVES
and inquire whether we have left much room for
Him. As we have been planning for the approach
ing Christmas season, has He been central in our
th'nlcin? and our planning? It is very strange that
many who profess His Name plan to celebrate His
birth in a way that is absolutely out of keeping
with His spirit. How is it with us?—Rev. Walter
L Llngle, D.D., in Christian Observer.
NAZIS BORROW U. S. GANGLAND
TECHNIQUE
(By BRUCE CATTON)
There is a reason for everything in this
world, and if you want to understand why
the Hitler government is cracking down so
hard on the Jews you might consider the
economic crisis that is developing so fast
in Germany.
During 1938, according to a recent Unit
ed Press dispatch, new loans amounting to
some $3,200,000,000 were floated, bring
ing the nation's total indebtedness up to
$20,000,000,000. This is almost entirely an
internal debt — money owed by the Ger
man government to the German people,
the government continues to operate at an
annual deficit estimated at $2,800,000,000,
the nation's prosperity depends on govern
ment orders, and it is an open question
yhether in the near future this will not
push the nation up to the edge of disas-,
trous inflation.
| Such figures make dry reading, but theyj
jjre the only background against which the
fecent pogroms can be understood.
For the essential fact about this wave of
anti-Jewish savagery is that it is a financial1
measure. The technique perfected by Ma-;
chine Gun Kelly and Ace Bailey is being,
tised cold-bloodedly by the German gov
ernment. A brief review of the facts will
make this perfectly clear.
First, there is the "fine" that is being
collected from Germany's Jews. The first
installment of this $400,000,000 is going
into the Reich's treasury now, and more
Will follow.
• Hand in hand with this goes the rest of
tjhe restrictive program by which the Jews
^re to be mulcted of their last pennies.
• All free professions are now closed to
Jews. By the end of the year the retail
frade will be closed to Jews. Jews must I
sell all their investments in industry and
»eal estate. They catinot get ordinary jobs
because, as Jews,, they cannot obtain the
needed labor passes.
The ultimate effect of this is tragically
obvious. German Jews are barred either
from earning a living or from making their
Capital work for them. They must live on
tiheir savings, and things are fixed so that
their savings will vanish rapidly. It has
Soon estimated that German Jews when
±c pogrom began owned property worth
£rom 12 to 20 billions of marks. All of this
us to be pumped into the leaky financial
basket of the Reich.
When it is gone, what happens? Then a
6erman Jew must either emigrate, receive
support from Jews abroad—or die. If he
emigrates, the government sees to it that
a species of ransom is first paid. If he gets
help from abroad, the money is simply
pumped into the -German trade stream.
Only if he dies does he cease to be a source
6f cash to his oppressors.
Reviewing all of this, one can see that
the whole scheme is nothing but & gigantic
rtioney-raising racket. The technique of
American gangdom has been made a fun
damental policy of a great nation. Those
precious lads whom we keep locked up in
Alcatraz apparently had the bad luck to
be born in the wrong country.
• "
* U! S. Treasury reports there was $51.96
iji circulation for every man, women and
qhild in November. We'll settle for the
f&l,
1 , t
A New York "sub-deb" has an escort of
G-men after her family received threaten
ing letters. There*s an idea for a flock of
those "debs" left on the shelf after their
Recent coming out .... get themselves
threatened,
I • - *
NEWSPAPERS' OPINIONS
I ' i i ii.
. . . GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN
On the day after the election, a Pennsylvanu
woman attended a bjidge; party. Present were f
number of Jewisli worjjgn. They were depressed b>
the election repult. As they saw It, the President
had been repudiated in part, and Mr. Roosevelt was
the friend of the Jewish people. In a rising world
tide of anti-Semitism, they were threatened with
the loss of their protector. '
The woman who told us of the experience had
disagreed strongly, but she could not And the right
words for her thought. She not only had changed
no mind, but she had left her hearers, she feared
with the suspicion that she, too, shared in some
part a prejudice against thdir race.
What she had tried to say was that this is a
dangerously false point of viefr for the Jew. His
protection is not the friendship of President Roose
velt, nor that of any other man or group of men,
however well-intended, however powerful. Men
come and go. Men are moved by caprice, anger,
fear, caution, self-interest, political advantage and
every other emotion.
But the Jew has a protector in America. Every
other minority—racial, religious, political and so
cial—has the same protector. It is constant. It is
the Constitution of the United States. So long as
its Bill of Rights remains and the courts are not
prevented from enforcing it, the Jewish people
have an all-powerful friend.
The American doctrine of tolerance is grounded
in the first article of the Bill of Rights. It reads:
'Congress shall make no law respecting an estab
lishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exer
cise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or
of the press; or of the right of the people peace
ably to assemble and to petition the Government
for a redress of grievances."
As only the Congress can make Federal law, as
the same guaranties are carried in the state con
stitutions, it follows that no one else may lawfully
infringe this fundamental freedom. The Bill of
Rights goes on then to specify personal rights of
all of Us which no one may abridge while the Con
stitution stands.
Mr. Roosevelt has proved himself a true friend
of the Jewish people. He is as free of racial preju
dice as any man who ever occupied the White
House. In that, these Jewish women were right.
But Mr. Roosevelt has been intolerant in other
respects. Intolerance is intolerance; its victims
change, but the spirit endures. Release it in one
direction and it is released generally.
In capitalizing politically every grievance in
America, the New Deal has bred class hatreds and
suspicions. November's election really was a reas
surance to the Jew. Among the things which the
people declared against, was the New Deal's Hymn
of Hatred. Whatever fosters this spirit threatens
the Jewish minority, all minorities.
The President's assault on the Supreme Court
struck at the Jew. That was not his purpose, it is
true. Nothing he had in mind was remotely di
rected at them, though expediency did lead him to
appoint to the Supreme bench a politician who
once had pledged himself to the Ku Klux Klan,
whose three hatreds are the Catholic, the Negro
and the Jew. But whatever attacks the American
principle of carefully limited governmental powers
and the division of those powers between the Legis
lative, Executive and Judicial branches, weakens
the power of the courts to enforce the Bill of
Rights. Such Jewish leaders as Governor Lehqpan
and Felix Frankfurter understood this well, both
as Americans and as Jews, when they opposed the
packing of the court despite their close personal
and politfcal friendship for the President.
We should think the Jews, more than any other
people, would distrust personal power. From the
Pharoahs through Titus and Hadrian down to Adolf
Hitler, they have been persecuted by powerful
rulers. Where they have found refuge long, it has
been the refuge of law.
Christmas in America has become a profane as
well as a religious holiday—to use the word "pro
fane" in its original sense. What we call the
Christmas spirit has no strictly religious meaning
for many Americans. But all of us, Negro and
white man, Jew and Gentile, Protestant and Cath
olic, share in the observance and the spirit of the
day which commemorates: "For unto you is born
this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is
luist the Lord."
"Peace on earth, good will toward men," and
'Congress shall make no law . . are expressions
of the same Ideal, and the secular prohibition has
been better observed in this world than the divine
command.
We have fundamental rights. Our neighbors have
fundamental rights. We must enforce theirs. They
* respect ours. And not even the Government,
expression of us all, may deny them.
Law stops there, must stop there. Religion and
'hies talce up where law leaves off. These demand
that we not merely accept this creed as a legal fact.
We must believe it with all our hearts and act upon
it. Then there shall, in truth, be peace on earth,
good will toward men.—Saturday Evening Post.
ROPER AND HOPKINS
Critics say that Daniel Calhoun Roper, South
Carolina native who has just resigned as secretary
of commerce, was no star in the cabinet and that
in his record was little of constructive service.
That might be, and we are not disposed to argue
the point, but in defense of "Uncle Dan" we insist
that recognition be given to the fact that his record
certainly is devoid of destructive service.
He didn't do a great deal pertiaps but he didn't
do any damage.
Washington reports indicate that the President
plans to replace him with Harry L. Hopkins, a man
i of scant experience in commerce, whose business is
and has been giving other peoples' money away.
He would be more active than Secretary Roper
has been but we would hesitate to guarantee that
he would be as safe—Greenville Piedmont.
An orator is a person who cftn inflate a platitude
till you think it's an epigram.
Fasfcist ethics: If an insane boy shoots a minor
official, it is cowardly; if mobs beat and maim help
less old men, it is patriotism.
Useless information department: 18 per cent of
the British people think the war debt to the United
States should be paid in full, according to a recent
1 poll. '
1939 Political Show
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LIFE DAY BY DAY
<?» iwrm WAMtoim
KEEP RECORD STRAIGHT
Some time ago a nationally
known newspaper man and radio
commentator published a state
ment in which be accused the fed
Wamboldt
eral government
of refusing to
accept a propo-1
sition from a
Florida sugar
nianufactu ring'
concern to put
the equivalent
of 100,000 per- j
sons to work
within ten years
if allowed to in- i
crease its sugar,
output.
Wishing to get;
the government's1
side1 of the fore-1
going matwi* I
wrote the United I
States department 01 agncuauic |
and asked for information. The
reply I received — which went
lengthily into details—contained
this statement that I found par
ticularly interesting:
"The so-called Florida plan was
never officially presented to the
department of agriculture. The
department's only knowledge of
the proposal is confined to news
paper articles and a copy of a t
press statement which said that a 1
Florida producer had discussed
the plan at the White House."
So, after all, the federal gov-1
ernment did not say "No" to a'
proposition from a Florida sugar
concern to give employment *to
100,000 persons, since no such
proposition was ever made.
Evidently the nationally promi
nent newspaper man and radio
commentator went off at half
cock. It is easy to do that sort of.
thing if one is not careful to get
the facts! Somebody will say he
has heard that so and so is the
case; another will say he believes
so and so to be the case; a third
will assert so and so is'the case;
a fourth will declare vehemently
that he knows positively, beyond I
the possibility of a doubt, that so
and so is absolutely the case; and
that it is the doggonedest, all
firedest, outrageousest thing ever
done.
But—had a sugar producing
company in Florida or anywhere
else offered to put more men to
work if permitted to produce
more sugar, the federal govern
ment would have declined the
offer for reasons seemingly fair
enough if one digs into the why
and the wherefore.
The United States can consume
only so much sugar. There are
certain sugar producing areas
which the United States is duty
bound to protect and patronize—
principally, the Virgin islands,
the Philippine islands, Puerto Ri
co, Hawaii, Cuba, and the cane
sugar and the beet sugar areas in
the United States. In order to
give each of these areas a break,
our congress passed a sugar act
allowing to each what was con
sidered to be its fair share, of our
sugar trade. To allow any one of
those areas to distribute in this
c.ountry more than its allotted
share of sugar would upset the
balance.
True, the suger producers in
the United States do not make
nearly all the sugar the United
States consumes; they could make
and sell more in this country if
permitted to do so; but that would
work a hardship on the other su
gar producing areas to which our
country is obligated. For in
stance, it would destroy Cuba
were we to buy from her only
what sugar we could not produce
in the continental United States
and in our insular possessions. No
fair-minded American would want
that done.
MISSISSIPPI BLAZE
CLARKSDALE, Miss., Dec. 22.
(UP). — Damage caused by the
most disastrous fire which has oc
curred here in the past 25 years
was estimated last night at more
than $250,000.
• JOHN T. FLYNN
pi awn.' «•
\KA Srrvlrf Sliiff JnrrrKiiondrnt
APPARENTLY so$e perple arc
sold on the ide$ of the new
trick bookkeeping which the
President is playing with in order
to abolish the deficit. Readers
write to defend the plan. But they
overlook a most important factor.
The plan is to kee$> the govern
ment books in such a way that all
expenditures for th^ current op
eration of the government would
be put down as expenditures, but
all expenditures made to increase
the plant of the country would be
called investment and not ex
penditure.
In the same way it is said if the
government puts out money on
its plant in such a way as to in
crease the earning power of the
country, then the money thus
spent should be called investment
and not expenditure.
In looking this over, the citizen
should be careful to keep in mind
the difference between the gov
ernment and the country. They
are not the same. The country in
cludes all the people. The gov
ernment is merely One public
agency set up to serve all the
people in certain very limited
areas. Everything that belongs to
the government belongs to the
people. But everything that be
longs to the people does not be
long to the government.
If we were to keep a set of
books on the business affairs of
the people as a whole, the asset
side would include all the wealth;
the liability side would include the
total obligations. The income
side would include the total in-1
come ana so on. Bui v.: ,cn v<
are keeping books on the govern
ment the asset side includes onl.\
what the government owns and
the liability side only what the
government owes. The income ol
government is what the govern
ment takes in; its expenditure}
what it pays out.
It is like a great public cor
poration organized to perform
certain important services for all
the people. It has only one source
of revenue—taxes and penalties.
However, the government may go
into business. It may build a
power plant and sell power. It
may build and operate a railroad.
In that case it has a profit as part
of its income. It may lend money,
as it does in the R. F. C., and
then it has interest as its income.
Now when a government lends
money and the loan is appraised,
as sound it is entitlod to put that
down as- an investment. The in
terest will -come to the govern
ment. The government can use it
any way it wishes.
But when the government per
forms some service for its citi
zens—as for instance when it
helps farmers to improve their
land—the improvement in the
land belongs to the farmers, not
the. government.
Of course the improvement in
the farmers' land may enable the
farmer to make more money and
thus enable the government to ex
tract more taxes from him. It is
assumed and it is a fair assump
tion that all government expendi
tures as a whole add to the value
of the land and the taxable poten
tialities of the population,
(i'uiivritrlii. is»a*. XI-:A S«-rvi«-f.' Inc.)
> —
Wait a Minute
By NOAH HOLLOWELL
I
THE WINTER SOLSTICE: I
enjoy astronomical studies from
the east window of my observa
tory (the kitchen). It is there
that I am most impressed with
the earth's declination, her hab
its of turning; away from the sun
in winter and thereto in summer.
The winter solstice was reach
ed yesterday—the period when
j we refer to the sun as standing
still—the shortest day, and when
i the earth reverses and begins to
! incline toward instead of from
| the sun.
THE ECLIPTIC: My back win-J
dow observations teach me some
thing of the ecliptic. In midsum
mer the sun rises toward the j
northeast and it slips around a
neighbor's house and moves on
and on until it reaches a point I
a little south of what is said to •
be Tryon peak. There I imagine
myself looking at the eai-th's eclip
tic as the earth spins around and
turns from the sun in winter and
toward it in summer. ,
DOW IT'S DONE; The layman
j knows little of these things. He
knows something is taking place ,
but must look to the astronomers
to make it plain. We get this;
from an encyclopedia about the I
solstice:
"The inclination of the earth's
equator to the ecliptic or plane
of its annual motion about the;
sun is the cause that the latter is
during half the year on the north
ern polar side of the equator, the |
; other half on the southern, caus
ing the vicissitudes of summer i
and winter to the respective hem- j
ispheres. The two points at which
this apparent northern or south
ern motion, ceases are the sum
mer and winter solstices. At these
periods the day is the longest or
shortest, according as the earth is
in the summer or winter solstice." |
Simple, isn't it!
THE NEXT STEP: And when
you think you have a somewhat;
i faint idea of what it is all about
the astronomers will take you in
to space and tell you how the
earth makes a revolution every
24 hours and completes its circle
around the sun in a year. Then
they leap into space and tell you
that the sun also has its poles and
equator and that it revolves
around something else for thou- j
sands of years before it completes
the circular revolution.
At any rate, the days are grow
ing longer.
1920 TRUCK MODEL
OPERATED 100 MILES
i
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 22.-^
(UP)—Ernest Vescovi, grocer,'
has just come into possession of
a 1920 model truck ..which, has.
been run only 100 miles. .. j
Vescovi bought the truck from
Frank Glazer, who purchased it
new to use on fishing expeditions, j
But after a couple of trips, the j
sportsman put the machine in a
garage, where it stayed 18 years, j
YELLS "FIRE," ROBS HOTEL j
PAINESVILLE, O. (UP)— An j
intentional false alarm was given
by a man who rushed into the
Cowles hotel yelling "Fire!" and
caused hotel employe Mrs. Lee
Shepard to make a hasty exit.
The man made the same kind of
exit—only in the opposite direC-1
tion, with the contents of the 1
cash register.
r LETTERS TO
!! THE EDITOR
NOTE—No unsigned commu*
nications are published by The
Times-New*. All letters must be
signed with the real name of
the author. No communications
•igned with a fictitious name
will be published.—EDITOR.
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.,
December 19, 1938.
The Times-News,
Hendersonville, N. C.
Dear Editor:
Have read with more than pass
ing interest a front page story in
The Times-News of December 14,
under the heading, "City Asked
to Take Steps for Widening of
Caswell and Crab Creek Streets."
According to my way of think
ing, this is one of the best moves |
that the city of Hendersonville
can take for that particular sec
tion, of the city. The bottle neck!
thru this section is a menace to |
life, limb and property and espe-1
cially so to the youngsters who
walk to and from school and have
to use the narrow thorough-fare
several times each day. Then
there are many elderly pedes
trians, who have to use this lane
of travel going and coming from
town.
The writer has a little home
just beyond the city limits on
Crab Creek road and spent sev
eral months there this past sum
mer and fall. Had to make many
trips to and from town each day,
and on several occasions, saw
many narrow escapes, particular
ly thru the bottle neck section of
this road. i
From my point of view, the
Kanuga road is one of the finest
sections in any direction out of
Hendersonville. It is a known
fact that many people have the
for Jiomi- ,ite f ;• J
ifcncd i,nd I J
iff wit fj
qVsPa. aj/ ::u •*. ,h{,H.W
***f b,.,, $
were ah0U! the mV l
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temPt on 1UV 7 a f*
gratitude t„ !k, t0 <*&,
tempting (';';c »ho I
thing i<„- th,
community ..,0
aid espec . , 0
is in keeping -*ith''Un^
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I heard tho |M ;l
>g,
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Ion,! ""'tflH)i,1
In a manger fa). av
i here a darling babv u
And its mother .ar»' '•
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1 he bells tell ubout t'r
That guarded • ,
afar; «tf>
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Made a man^:'f CrJ**
The shepherd.. ,vaU:,.(i ,
found ' "*■»!
A babe in a manner «<
sound; -*|
Mary and Jo,.-, i. ahl0. j
Tending to th< ahv
care.
As they were w.^u^
king ^]
They heard the hells tU.
sing— '
How glad they w(.!t. ,u
cam c
To worship th, now {„,*.»■
—Uy Cieorgit Ltt ^
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JAPANESE ROYA'.TV
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the „<ipanese
ernueror.
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13 N-<ive.
14 71at round
plate.
lis To slay.
17 Public
storehouse.
18 Too.
19 Island.
20 Rhythm.
21 Wild cherry.
22 Bashful.
2< Part of foot.
25 Wrathful.
29 Scandinavian
legend.
32 Light brown.
30 Duet.
34 Moccasin,
35 To deeru.
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53 Bitter herb.
54 Seed covering
55 Engine.
56 Gaseous
element.
57 Her husband,
Emperor
58 She married
him when, he
was ——
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VERTICAL
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discord.
2 Flour factory
3 Most pallid.
4 Foe.
5 To suffeit
6 To mention.
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.ft -ViSiwnt.
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