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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1938
BIBLE THOUGHT
"THE BABE
wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger"
(fitte 2:12. >
* * ♦
Stand uncovered and look upon the little form in
tfle manger. All the experience of the past—sin
excepted—and all the hope for the future is con
centrated in Him. The world ignores Him. The
augels worship Him. A few receive Him. Yes, in
deed, "great is the mystery of godliness: God was
nuiifest in the flesh" (1 Tim. 3:16.)
"He died upon a cross of wood,
Yet made the hill on which it stood."
—Moody Monthly.
J. T. FAIN ....
C. M. OGLE...
HENRY ATKIN
Editor
.Managing Editor
City Editor
TELEPHONE 87
AWAITING THE NEW YEAR
Christmas comes and is gone; the record j
is made and recorded by the press andi
otherwise and, in this rapidly moving age
and country, the people move quickly on;
to try out other experiences and to con
front other problems of life. With the
passing of three days the New Year will
appear and reign for twelve months. Its
advent will be welcomed and celebrated
briefly and the population will then turn
to the serious business of living and labor
ing in the year 1939.
Hendersonville and the surrounding ter-j
litory does not "hole up" during the Win
ter to the extent which was the rule in
years past. Improved means of communis
cation, open roads throughout the cold sea
son, more open weather during the Winter
than was formerly the case, and the great
ly increased disposition and determination
,of the people of the nation to move around,
irre §ome*of the evident causes for the dis
appearance of the condition of Winter iso-1
inti^r. which formrr> enveloped all the
mountain section of North Carolina for
■several mrniths of the year.
' Now, people from other regions come,
apd go in the mountains throughout the
'Winter season, Hendersonville ente tains
visitors as in the Summer, although not in
,the great numbers seen here in the Sum
mer; and the activities of the population
are more noticeable and widespread than
iif the "horse and buggy days/' All of
\\Jiich naturally moves our resident popu
lation to activities which begin soon after
•the New Year is chalked up on the calen
dar. ,
Therefore, we may expect—certainly if
the open weather continues—the resump
tion of activities pointing to the coming
Spring and Summer—labor on the farms,
budding operations, planning for the next
■tourist season.
• This, of course, is a condition of the
community and the surrounding country
to be greatly desired and encouraged. No
community or section can attain the ma
terial development and prosperity which
will be found generally satisfactory by car
rying on business activities, even at a high
.pitch, for six months of the year, and
adopting groundhog methods of'living for
'six months of each twelve months. The
people must live twelve months in the year
iand there is no good reason in this age
why they should not be engaged in doing
something useful for themselves and their
fellow men during the entire year, with a
view to improving individual and general
conditions. There is little justification for
loafing at any time.
Hours of labor have been shortened to
such an extent and the burdens of labor
have been lightened in such degree, that
after one has labored all the hours allowed
by law, the average jnan will find he has
not had opportunity to injure himself by
engaging in hard work. There are yet, oi
course, many who work long hours and la
bor hard and diligently. This section oi
our citizenry is composed of those whc
keep business moving, all sorts of activities
at a high pitch, and ward off stagnatior
and worse conditions, perhaps, than ^nj
(we have faced in the past eight years. A1
honor to them.
To sum up, the object of this little mes
.sage to Times-News readers is to direct at
tention to conditions as they were, as the}
are, and to changes which are developing
prear by year; to voice the conviction tha
jthe changes which have been named ar<
chiefly for the betterment of individua
Jand community conditions; and to urgi
upon all our public spirited, progressive
citizens a few inspirational thoughts for
the New Year.
So, as 1939 approaches, let us be pre
pared in mind and heart, and in a spirit
of hopefulness, courage, and reisolve, face
the new year and move out into it with the
determination to make the best of this op
portunity to lire and labor as it comes to
each of us day by day. Let us throughout
the year, or the time which may be allot
ted to each of us, be up and doing, deeply
concerned with the duties, opportunities
and privileges of living and diligently en
deavoring to give a good account as men
and women who value life at its real worth,
and knowing we shall pass this way but
once, seek to improve even the minutes as
they pass.
.
NEWSPAPERS' OPINIONS j
: - '
CONSISTENT APPOINTMENT
I The relegation, or uplifting, of Mr. Hopkins- to
the cabinet is consistent with President Roosevelt's
policies insofar as they veer to "liberalism," radi
calism, the socialized state. As long as the presi
dent is turning in that direction, his compliment to
Mr. Hopkins is, from his point of view, commend-,
able.
Mr. Hopkins is a good Samaritan who, seeing a
man wounded in a ditch, would pull him out, bind •
his wounds, and pay his hotel bill at the nearest
inn. If he sees a million men wounded or other
wise suffering he would bandage their wounds, feed
and shelter them.
If he have not himself the wherewithal to do j
these things he is for electing,, and electing, a pow
er, a for«e, that will send armed men and take what
other men have so that he may bind the wounds!
and so forth.
In short, no man who has anything is safe from
Mr. Hopkins as long as Mr. Hopkins beholds wound
ed or suffering, because he is convinced that if
Dick, Tom and Harry, possessing citizens, will not:
of their own will be good Samaritans like himself,
they should be compelled to play that role by the
tax collectors.
How far Mr. Hopkins will go in this direction no
one knows, and he does not ask himself. He is con
cerned only with the spectacle of the man in the I
ditch, and he would tax and tax as long as the taxes
were collectible.
Forty millions and forty billions are all one to
Mr. Hopkins, and a trillion if it were in existence
he would take from those who have it as long as
some men were in the ditch.
There are other men who know that there is no
trillion of dollars and that the billions are rapidly
disappearing, who believe that unless the confiscat
ing and paralyzing methods now practiced against
the d ligent, hard-working, thrifty, prudent, som
of them ery able and most of them honest—bu'
all of them scoundrelly economic royalists and pay
or* of grocery bills—shall cease everybody will soon
ut in the ditch.
Ii that Mr. Hopkins is not concerned. Only the
poc< follow that he sees writhing and retching un
der his eyes interests him, and the conscriptpion,
by a draft law, of all persons solvent and worth
even a thousand dollars above their de'ts into com
panies and regiments of Good Samaritans sec ms to
h:m right and just. Presumably, obdurate or reluc
tant Good Samaritans should be cou>t ma.tlaled. 1
Therefore, the ideal idealist to realize the presi
dent's realistic idealism is Mr. Hopkins, and the
president is wise and consistent in honoring him
as long as his heart bleeds as Mr. Hopkins's heart
does.
In 1932 President Roosevelt was for reducing
government's expenses by at least 25 per cent.
In 1933 he was New Dealing with an emergency.
A few years later he was adopting the emergency
as a permanent institution.
The only way to deal politically with a perma
nent emergency of poverty and unemployment is
to ravage the fields and factories of the working
class while the fields and the factories shall last. I
At this time President Roosevelt and Mr. Harry
Hopkins are two hearts that beat as one.
The way to put all men in the ditch is to con
script them in companies and regiments, by a draft
law; then everyone will be a Good Samaritan, as
in Russia and Germany, and the problem of unem-|
j ployraent will be confined to those who refuse to
i work and who get shot in consequence.—Charles
ton News and Courier.
TIME WILL TELL
Well, if old Ironpants Hugh S. Johnson and Da
vid Lawrence think it's all right, maybe we are
wrong. These two are given to suspecting the
worst of the New Deal, but surprisingly enough
they more or less clapped hands at the prospective
| appointment of Harry Hopkins to Commerce, which
, came off yesterday. Their theory is that the con
| tact with business men and the actual comprehen
sion of their problems will be good for Parry and
be good for Business too, in that it will supply
what it has never had during this Administration—
' a representative in the councils who speaks the
New Deal's language and who has ready access to
the presidential ear.
Nevertheless, it is with considerable misgivings
that we stow our cynical expectations and hope for
the best. Not, to be sure, that we ever went so far
as to think that Harry Hopkins had horns, or that
he wasn't one of the most capable executives at the
New Deal's command. But he is, by nature and by
his whole training, a governmental executive. That
is, he is used to doing business hy the right of emi
nent domain, without competition. Not only that;
he has worked al! his life for some government or
, other without ever having been elected to a single
• office, hence has become, or shows signs .of having
become, impatient with tiresome democratic pro
cesses.
I But if there is actually going to be some sort of
ncc^rd between Business and the New Deal, it \*i!l
c me about more easily with Harry as Secretary of
' 1 mitice. At any rate, Business never gpt very
far by virtue of the representation of Harry s pre
decessor.—Charlotte News.
The United Kingdom has 6,000 women doctors in
, active practice.
One drink, loose tongue; two drinks loose puise
5' string;?; three drinks, loose morals.
LIFE DAY BY DAY
— J -
Bv W1CKES WAMBOI.nT
DO ANIMALS REASON? i
Some persons declare that ani-1
mals reason, while others denyl
they do and set about explaining |
awav what seem to be acts of
Wain bold*
reason on the'
part of animals.
But will f some
one explain away
these incidents: j
The otlaer eve- (
ninp aflcer my
wife had washed
and dried her
Persian cat, I
picked up the
animal arjd car
ried him into the
living robm to
shovt my mother
how beauttiful he
was in his( onew
white long woody
fur, with his gol
den eyes, his coral pink nose, ana
his ears showing, pink through the
short fur that covered them.
When I started back I toward
the bedroom with the catl he evi
denced a desire to remail in the
living room. But I tuctt6d him
securely in the crook of my arm
and carried him off. Whan I got
to the door and reached lfor the j
latch, the cat quickly leanjed for-'
ward and seized the cuff of my
coat, one paw on top, the other
underneath, and pulled my hand
close to him. When I attempted
to withdraw my hand, he reached
down and took my thumb in his
teeth, gently, but firmly enough
to hold it. Just to sete what the
cat would do, I made Repeated ef
forts to release my hand and lift
the latch, but he, just as> persist
ently, hung on.
We had another Persian cat—
killed by an automobile—that
would rap on any door'she wished
open. Once, when tiffte was of
essence, she stood on, her hind
legs in front of a French door,
seized it with her paws, and shook
it so vigorously the noise was
heard all over the house. Another
of her tricks was to shake that
same door until someone opened
it; then run and hide, like a child
playing pranks with a doorbell.
One evening when I stepped into
the kitchen in the dark, she jump
ed to the sill of the window from
the back porch and rapped sharp
ly several times in quick succes
sion on the pane with her claws—
as a person might do with his
finger nails. The effect \vas posi
tively uncanny. Anna, our maid,
entered the living room one noon
accompanied by this Persian,
which ran up to my wife, stopped
in front of her and gazed intently
into her face. "She wants to know
if she can have her meat now,"
explained Anna. "Yes," replied
my wife. Instantly the cat turned
and made for the kitchen, follow
-^1 by Anna.
ON THE JOB
The other morning when I an
swered the telephone, a pleasant
voice said: "This is the So & So
Telegraph company. Last year
you sent a telegram of birthday
greetings to Doctor Campbell;
and we were wondering if you
did not wish to send one this
year. Today is Doctor Campbell's
birthday." I sent the suggested
message and appreciated the re
minder.
And as I left the telephone I
thought, "Every summer I fill my
coal bin for the winter, but never
has anyone called to solicit my
order. Always I have to shop
around and get analyses and
prices; then place my order thru
my own effort. No dealer calls
me to solicit my order for $75
worth of coal. Yet this great tele
graph company thinks enough of
getting an order for a twenty
ceiit local telegram to have a
clerk telephone ma and solicit it."
No wonder these big corpora
tions get the business. They are
on their toes!
British health statistics show
that men have more accidents
than women, but women have
more operations than men.
• JOHN T. FLYNN
by JOHN T. FLYNN
NBA Service Staff Correspondent
W7-HEN Col. William Donovan o£
New York was assistant at
torney general in the Coolidge
administration, he had a bright
idea for reorganizing the Federal
Trade Commission and the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
His plan was to divide the
functions of each commission in
to regulatory and judicial.
He proposed the Federal Trade
Commission, ior instance, should
have no power to institute pro-,
ceedings against business enter
prises; that the power to do that
should be lodged with an officer
of some sort who would act as
part of the executive branch of
the government.
The commission would be a
mere tribunal which would hear
the case and render a decision. He
also proposed the same procedure
with reference to the utility reg-'
ulatory commissions. I
The plan was hailed with great
satisfaction by the utilities, the
railroads and industrial corpora
tions which do not like regulation
and are always happy at any pro
posal which tends to cripple it.
And this of course would cripple
it. It is sufficiently slow and
sluggish now, but if the regulatory
x>dies were turned into more judi
cial tribunals we could be pre
pared to see regu^tion woUnd up
in even more red tape than at
present
All this has been more or less
forgotten. But it is interesting to
hear that the New Deal, which is
supposed to be such an enemy of
business, is actually talking about
proposing for the I. C. C. and th«
F. T. C., a scheme which had it?
birth in the extreme reactionary
administration of President Cool
idge,
New Deal experts are said to b«
working on the plan to reduce the
I. C. C. and the F. T. C. to tht
status of judicial tribunals and tc
move the initiating power and th«
investigational power over intc
some executive department.
When this was proposed by
Colonel Donovan it was opposed a;
a reactionary scheme to please tht
utilities.
When it is trotted out by thf
New Deal, it will have the ban
ners of liberalism flying over it
it will be called radical or liberal
or progressive and all the liberals
who held up their hands in horroi
at Colonel Donovan's suggestior
will throw their hats in the air for
it under Roosevelt.
Those who oppose this old Dono- j
van-Coolidge scheme will be called
tories.
This is one of the reasons it is
so difficult to follow the course oi
liberal Wid conservative policy and
why no one can trust a label on a
political scheme any more than on
a bottle of bootleg liquor
Regulation has had a pretty
sorry career in this country If its
record has been bad it is because
the executive department has in
terfered for political or business
or even worse reasons.
If the regulatory bodies are
made mere judicial bodies- -just a
collection of hair-splitting and
dozing old gentlemen in robes—it I
means the end of regulation.
(CoDyrlfrbt. 1938. NEA Servio*. tn<v . 1
Wait a Minute
By NOAH HOLLOWELL 1
. I
i WIDE CONTACTS:' The Farm
ers Federation has become a far
reaching organization. It is dis
tributing dividends to 3,500 stock
holders in eleven counties in
which it has 17 warehouses. It is
planning" to organize tho 18th in
Lenoir.
THE PRICE OF DOGS: The
Waynesville Mountaineer conveys
the distressing information that
livestock to the value of approxi
mately $2,500 has been killed be-,
cause of having been bitten by
dogs with rabies and that some
thing like $2,000 has been spent
for vaccine to treat 100 people.
There's the higher cost of dread
and alarm as to the otttodme 'of <
men, women and children under
treatment. The feeling must be
severe and taxing to the utmost.
That's the awful price we pay ■
for roving dogs.
ADJUSTMENTS: It was re
I markable how quickly the atmos
phere of Santa Claus disappeared
from show windows, and even
from the stores in many instances
i yesterday morning. There's a lot
of fanfare and tinsel that doesn't,
weigh for much after Santa's
show cards are dumped into the
garbage wagon.
At any rate, the world is pret
ty well stocked up on hose, cos
metics and neckties. And they are
not so bad in themselves.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
SCIENTISTS' TOPIC
"Christian Science" was the
subject of the lesson-sermon in
all Christian Science churches and ,
societies on Sunday.
The golden text was from Isa-:
iah 9:2: "The people that walked ;
in darkness have seen a great
light: they that dwell in the land
of the shadow of death, upon
L.hem hath the light shined."
Among the citations which
comprised the lesson-sermon was
the following from the Bible: "I
have yet many things to say un
to you, but ye cannot bear them
now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit
of Truth, is come, he will guide
you into all truth; for he shall
not speak of himself; but whatso
ever he shall hear, that shall he
speak; and he will shew you
things to come. He shall glorify
me: for he shall receive of mine,
and shall shew it unto you"
(John 16:12-14).
The lesson-sermon also includ
ed the following passage from the
Christian Science textbook, "Sci
ence and Health with Key to the
Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy:
"Our Master said, 'But the Com
forter . . . shall teach you all
thing's.' When the Science of
Christianity appears, it will lead
vou into all truth. Those, who
are willing to leave their nets or i
to cast thorn on the right side for I
Truth, have the opportunity now,1
as aforetime, to learn and to
practice Christian healing. The
Scriptures cbntair. it. The spir
itual import of the Word imparts
■ his power" (page 271). '
CO.EDS LIVE MORE CHEAPLY
SAN JOSE, Cal. (UP).—A[
campus survey here reveals that
co-eds can live on $15 a month,
while the lowest sum on which
male students can get by is $28.
The latter explain the difference
hv reason of the fact that co-eds
<>o not have to finance dates and
can get most of their cigarettes'
by chiseling off the men.
This Is a Rather Interesting Case, Doctor "
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THE EDITOR
NOTE—No unsigned commu
nications are published by The
Times-News. All letters must be
•igned with the real name of(
the author. No communications
signed with a fictitious name*,
w^ll be published.—EDITOR. j
GOD'S BURNING BUSH.
BUSHES AFLAME
WITH GOD
Editor, Thq Time^Ncws;.
The Burning Bush Moses Saw,
and the Burning Bushes We See.
For the Burning Bush Moses saw,
read the. third chapter of Exodus;
Mark 12:2G; Luke 20:37; Act's
7:35. The Hebrew word in "the*
Exodus passage is "sen-ah," and
is correctly translated "bramble."
This Hebrew word occurs only in
ithe passages referring to Jeho
vah's appearance to Moses—Exo
dus 3:2,4; Deut. 33:10. The
Sept. renders this "Batos" in that
Greek translation of the Hebrew
text; and the Greek word "Batos"
is likewise correctly translated
"bramble." And "Batos" is the
Greek word used in all the New
Testament references given here.
An illustration of the meaning of
[the Greek word "Batos" is given
us in Luke 6:44; here it is cor
rectly translated "bramble bush."
I quote the following from a
critical encyclopedia before me:'
"Figurative. The bush burning
and not consumed, which Moses
saw near Mount Horeb, represent
ed our earthly nature united to
the Son of God, inflamed with the
fire of divine punishment, and yet
not consumed. W -mm,,,,.
refreshed; and rho «J
r la the jpf(!,of EmuT' *
ai% the chlirch in ,'h V**1
jjorseagtion and dwtiv , 1
r • • * -. - an<j
and vc
not yT the least li.mred, becau»
oT'tne good will and favor of U
that (Uvelt, i. v., app. :>,ed in 'tU
huM\" Exodus \cts
35; Deut. 33:16
Thii botanical nann- '\\ri,...
Kilotica." "Only
jng hush, tho il 1 of A
Arabian peninsula. \b vmi> \
Egypt, akin to the . tl.ih ah
senna." The solv >y. 4'A
must be removed, .1
of Mpses might ;■
of God at tin- fool ■
inK /bush. It hui .< -ui,. jj,
day thai. aEve
with Go»l; all ki -•«! il0j.
ground; and every k,-a on i
God's ground ha:- ■ {
say to the man lii e Mom.- wi
will turn aside ar.d 11-u: i\,, j;
The Burning Bum. i> \[d
blessink'-^iUed Chi :.u
This bush stands on ,y UlOU0(1
is aflame with thai; ai... *:u ^
its message t<- thoui„, Wiil 4
as Moses <h 'on; ut
Arabian desert. ^ia: ,u\> heard
its message oi e
long since; all in • fair tin
are just now h. .ins'
nity to hear an
giving message. ' !e*
RE V . \\. A. \ Uumax
PET CROW CiOhS TO SCH'ioi
MOUNT VER OX v L
(UP).—MR y hi ,
but Leona Thoin.i . ;,u ... , ,•
has a pet crow that i\.,['•! Ul'}
school every day. Th, ^
ally porches on wit ,v - u
fire escape of th
wa.ts until Leona •. lcai| *
go home. * u
I '
THIS CURIOUS WORLD
■ i ■
VP
jr CAPVB ARA, M
OF SO. AMERICA, f,/ M
WORCjDS largest rodent,
REACHES <4-FEET IN LENGTH,
k '
ON£ DfAM^mER
OF AN /VOR.V
BILUARD BALL.
IN SUMMER.,
BUT THE DIAMETER.
ALOfSkS THE NERVE
CENTER REMAINS
UNJIFORM.
/^v
•SNAfCeS
'□ LAV BS£>S/
□ BRINcS FORTH
LIVINGS YOUNG/
CHECK WH/CH
fc—. i i ■*
ANSWER: Some snakes lay eggs, and others bring forth their |
young alive. Bull snakes are egg-layers, while rattlers bring forth
wriggling babies. .
A KING'S SON
HORIZONTAL
1 Pctured son
of the late
King of
England.
10 Blackbird.
11 Strained to
stiffness.
12 To diminish
14 To shrink.
15 Wale on the
skin.
17 Lawyer's
charge.
19 Burmese.
20 Coal pit.
22 Uncooked.
24 God of war.
26 Italian river.
28 Form of "a."
29 Eccentric
wheel.
32 Graduated
series of
boxes.
34 Clan pole.
37 Festival.
18 Play on words
10 Stream
obstruction.
11 To offer.
12 South
Carolina.
(4 Morass.
16 Merriment.
Answer to Previous Puzzle
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cb M aIBL A D'LIE||C U E P,
tPaIRiE'AisBoIPJL'E
<j|M
SITlAlRiHL^
p
47 Note in scale.
48 Eye.
50 Declined tp
accept
53 Chicken.
54 Back.
56 Sun
personified.
57 Epilepsy
symptom.
, 58 To leak.
60 Measure.
61 Above.
62 He is a
younger
brother of the
present —.
63 He will be .
the next
governor —
of Australia.
VERTICAL
1 Any flatfish.
2 Unexpectedl:
3 Air toy.
4 Old
Testament.
5 Not many.
6 Cutting tool.
7 Domestic
slave.
8 Mere
fastidious.
9 Pedal digit.
13 Tree.
J 6 Point.
18 Oat bear J
19 He belonf0{
the House o!
2i Form ot
23 Dutch
measure
25 Snake
29 Vulgar *
30Monndm>s
31 His v-l{e
princess
0{ Greece.
33 Shor*Jf force
35 Allege^ 5
36 Type ^ea5ur
37 Cotton
* m3cVnne.
3S NcUher
41 UnoPene°
flower*
r. 43 Set ol
opinio*®*
45 To obum
46 Marsh
%cSi V
Sw#*
53 Balker
55 Inlet.
57 Farewell
59 P&ir
6lUpon