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Evening star., 1933-09-24

!: Secretary of the Treasury Woodiu
heads the group called into conference
for tonight by Mr.. Roosevelt. Others
understood to have been invited are the
heads Of the Federal Reserve Board.
the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton, the Bank Deposit Insurance Cor
poration, the Farm Credit Administra-
tion and Lewis Douglas, director Of
the budget.
The administration proposals Of last
week to lend up to 10 cents a pound
on cotton held by producers and to
purchase surpluses smothering numer-
Gus commodity prices are regarded by
MI. Roosevelt as forms of imitation.
Further Steps Indicated.
There have been indications he was
wiling to go further IN this price-lift-
ing direction If necessary, with the hope
IT would not be necessary to expand
the currency.
the banking structure has the full SUD-
port 1t requires to meet the credit de-
mands. He wants to be certain the
new deposit insurance provision, which
goes into effect January /, will not
work undue hardship On banks outside
the Federal Reserve System, which
must meet certain requirements of
Iquidity to be eligible.
He VIII call first upon local commuui-
ties to raise any necessary capital re-
CURED to bring on-member banks into
line for the deposit insurance. If the
communities cannot 60 all the Vay
the Government will purchase capital
STOCK In solvent banks to make them
eligible.
Walter Cummings. conservator of the
program to bring about the early re-
lease Of the locked-up deposits under
plan calling for Federal support.
Thomas Resumes Campaign.
Before leaving the Capital TUESDAY,
afternoon for a week in New York. tha
President wants to make certain the
vast credit and financial machine of
the Government Is fully co-ordinated to
support the industrial and agricultural
recovery campaigns.
Apart from the administrations
pr1ce-l1fting program, Senator Thomas,
Democrat, Oklahoma, resumed last
night his campaign for imitation In a
formal statement summing up the rea-
sons for his recent telegraphic poll of
Congress on that subject
Sentiment OF the country, as re-
hected through members of the Senate
and House." Thomas said, "is over
whelmingly in favor of immediate use
by President Roosevelt of some part of
the monetary powers to raise the price
level, which Congress delegated to him
through the Thomas amendment.
The country needs and wants I'm
mediate and rational imitation. MY mo-
tive in telegraphing members Of Con-
gress asking for an expression of their
views 0n Immediate I,ea ~ rattov,oI g., :
fation was to give the President the
benefit Of a definite survey Of public
opinion.
1T IS apparent that If the President
does not use his monetary powers, men,
bers Of Congress will be held account
able by their constituents"
Thomas said that Of the replies he
had received, 96 per cent of the House
members and more than Is per cent Of
the Senators ''are in favor Of the
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Evening star., 1933-09-24
Bets Left in Hat
Vanish With cred"
AS Friend Sleeps
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, September Esd
Nelson, lumberman, and an ac-
quaintance named Red" were
afraid they would be robbed
while asleep.
They argued about it and made
bet. Red" bet 500 they
would be robbed and Nelson wa
gered the same amount they
would not. Each put 500 in q
hat, climbed under the covers
and went to sleep.
Red left with the money dur
ing the night, Nelson told police.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
Bat Blow Kills Fan.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-. September %
@.-Struck in the head by the heavy
end of a broken base ball bat while
watching game at Galloway Wednes.
day afternoon, Thomas H. Long, 80. died
in hospital here last night. The bat
broke when q ball was struck.
Evening star., 1933-09-24
Is Initiation a Peril?
THE QUESTION OF TODAY

imitation help would 1t bring ruin?
S Is brought about? know?
which gives their
VIII daily
instalment beginning tomorrow
explanation banking Of then
imitation
Baker David Houston and
Avery
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Local showers this afternoon or night
and tomorrow; slightly warmer today;
gentle southerly winds. Temperatures
Highest 50, at pm. yesterday; lowest,
So, at 6 am. yesterday.
Full report on page ALA.
Evening star., 1933-09-24

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Evening star., 1933-09-24

The Star Is delivered every evening and
Sunday morning to city and suburban
homes by The Stars exclusive carrier serv-
ice. Phone National 5000 to start delivery.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-16
DOMESTIC ALLOTMENT PLAN

The domestic allotment plan rs relief for ag-
riculture sound so simple on paper.
Take the hog raiser Under the new plan ne can
ship his hogs to market he now does to be sold
There he would receive the market price for his
hogs and piece of paper saying that the govern
ment of the United States owes him the difference
between the price ne has received for his hogs ana
a price which the secretary of agriculture IN ms
infinite wisdom considers fair.
This bounty, however, cannot be received unless
the hog raiser has reduced his production 20 per
cent and it is up to the secretary of agriculture to
determine whether or not each individual hog
raiser has reduced his production 20 per cent.
The government in turn would collect from the
packer an excise tax on pork which in theory would
be used to redeem this slip of paper.
The plan as at present presented to the congress
includes within its provision cotton, hogs, wheat,
rayon and silk.
1t is just possible as sheep and cattle are not
included in the allotment plan and the price OF
hog meat will automatically be raised so that the
packer can afford his exice tax, that the consumer
will turn to the cheap meats with the result that
all the hog raiser will get for his hogs will be
slip of paper redeemabe at discount from the
federal government.
The secretary OF agriculture IS Delhg requlreu ~
do job almost too great for any one man to ac-
complish. 1t will be up to him to determine from
day TO day the redeemable cash value OF the slips
of paper-to estimate whether the SOW on the
farm has produced 20 per cent fewer pigs in her
litter on every farm in the land and when the
smoke clears away, hams will cost too much for
the consumer to buy. Home rendered lard will re-
place commercial lards and hog meat will be re-
placed by succulent lamb chops at pauperizing
prices and T-bone steaks at a new low.
1t sounds impractical to us.-Sheridan (Wyo.)
Press.
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A TERRIBLE INDICTMENT
Press.

Out of the 232 gang murders committed in this
country in the last four years not single murder
er was brought to trial and all of the 232 murders
passed into history as unsolved crimes Public Ser
vice Magazine tells us.
The record stands as ga terrible indictment
against government. 1t is also a stern challenge to
government to perform better a task which BELONGS
exclusively to government before it assumes to
take over the duties and business of the citizen y
while righteous indignation is often minded to
take the law into its hands, good citizens mus:
stop short of that" the magazine says $50 long as
rival gangs of bloodthirsty outlaws can run their
murder totals up to 232 in four years with perfect
immunity why look around for any news jobs for
the government to do? 1t is high lime that author
tiles learn how to end these orgies of outawry.'
If gangs alone count for 232 murders, what must
be the total of all killings in the United States for
which few if any ever are punished? Authority
hasn't surrendered to violation of the laws in all
states but certainly in the nation as a whole our
record of outawry is appalling.
But what do few gang killings mean to persons
not in the immediate community where the men
are murdered? is often asked. And just as often
the answer has been given that so long as murder
ers are immune from punishment other criminals
and potential criminals will be encouraged.
The cost of law enforcement in America is by
far the greatest in any nation in the world yet
are the loudest howlers against the rising cost Of
government. No man can do more than estimate
how much of the taxpayers money is spent in
prosecution of murderers, embezzlers and the like
yet this tremendous expenditure goes on year after
year with not word of protest. But let political
candidate talk loudly of the money we are wasting
on public improvements and he can get an audi
ence within five minutes
Public Service Magazine is right when it says
that government could spend its time more profit
ably seeking out murderers instead of petty nag
ging at business concerns more often guilty OF
crimes of omission rather than commission.
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.RADIcALIsM' FROM THE R. F. C.
AN BRUCE CANTON

The Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tons proposal to have the government un-
. derwrite resumption of full 1927 industrial
production seems to prove once more that
it takes an ultra-conservative to make a
really radical suggestion.
That the gentlemen who head the R. f.
C. are solid conservatives is hardly open
to question. And that the plan they have
evolved is one of the most radical ever put
I'D to this nation is almost equally plain.
What. now, becomes of that time-hoh-
ored chant about keeping the government
out of business? When Uncle Sam guar
antees the industry of the whole nation
against loss, and stands to pocket per-
centage of any profits industry may make,
he is in business up to his neck, any way
you look at it.
And yet, for all the criticism that can
be raised against the plan, it is encourag-
|. ing to see it put forward.
At the very worst it is at least positive,
Indefinite scheme for coping with an into!-
cradle situation; and, as such, it comes
close to being a complete novelty.
Perhaps the oldest thing about the
whole depression has been the fact that
responsible leaders in government and in
dustry have advanced no comprehensive
program for setting things right. Such
proposals as have been made have been
sketchy and incomplete. We have been
urged to tackle the problems of the depres-
sion separately; almost every scheme sug-
gested has suffered because its author
seemed to be afraid of going too far and
startling someone a little.
Here, at any rate is something concrete
and far-reaching. 1t may be a good plan
or it may be terrifcally bad one; but it is
a plan, and it covers all of the ground.
Even if it never gets beyond the blueprint
stage it gives US a basis for discussion.
And it ought, for that very reason, to
help us stop drifting. We ought to realize
by this time that we cannot afford to sit
back and wait for things to right them
selves. If we don't like the R. F. C. plan,
we cannot escape the necessity of trying
to outline better one.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-16
'TWON'T Do ANY GOOD

In connection with the Home Loan bank at Win
ston-Salem, The News only yesterday had some
thing to say about the number of salaried officers
employed by this institution which, so far as public
announcement may be relied upon, has made only
one loan in the nearly three months it has been
open for business
Today it is announced that Mr. o. K. LaRoque
has resigned his position second vice-president
in charge of examiners of the fourth district bank
Which makes us feel sort of bad, for, unless he
became convinced that the bank had no future, o.
viously Mr.. LaRoque resigned because he felt that
everybody else felt the bank had too many high
salaried employees for the business it was doing.
Needless to say, however, Mr.. LaRoque is MAX
ing futile gesture. Our reputation for prophecy
is shaky, at BEST but should like to stake what
is left of it the prediction that the Fourth Home
Loan bank, in spite of having made only one pub
lcly-announced loan so far, will Immediately hire
someone to take the resigning vice-presdent-in-
charge-of-examners' place.-Charlotte News.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
TO BE OR NOT To BE

Editor of The Times: Would you permit me
space in your payer to say, that the air seems TO
be charged, at this time, with discussion about our
bonded indebtedness, which, think truly is for our
city and county question of to be or not to be-,
to exist as a prosperous community or not exist,
for it must be clear to most everybody that we can
not pay more than so million dollars indebtedness
with dollars which are worth now about three times
what they were when this debt was created
The writer believes that 'every cloud has a sill
yer ining,S1if we are able to see it,
1t seems that the silver lining to the dark cloud
of depression and almost despair, that hovers over
community and our homes, is unquestionably
found in a recent decision of our supreme court
in the case of F. NJ. Glenn, ct al, VS.. Board Of
County Commissioners, of Durham County, ct al,
North Carolina Supreme Court report vol. pol,
page 233. The opinion is written by Chief Justice
Stacy and quotes among other things Article z,
Section Z, of the Constitution of North Carolina
which is mo county, city, town or other municipal
corporation shall contract any debt pledge its faith
or loan its credit, nor shall any tax be levied or
collected by any officers of the same except for the
necessary expenses thereof, unless by a majority
vote of the qualified voters therein" this same de-
ciSion says, "The commissioners would have no
right to issue bonds without popular vote, unless
for necessary purposes, neither would the legisla
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ture have the power to authorize them to do So
wish to ask the citizens and taxpayers of our
city and county two questions: first, how much of
our bonded indebtedness has been voted on by the
people? Second, how much of our bonded indebt-
edness was for necessary expenses?
The decision above cited holds that what is a
necessary expense is question for the courts and
not for board of commissioners to pass on.
Why not look into the matter little and see II
about 25 or 40 million dollars of our alleged in
debtedness is not void and not collectible under
the Constitution of North Carolina and the Su-
preme Court decision here cited?
The same decision says, "The Constitution is the
protector of all the people 1t stands their shield
and buckler in fair weather and foul; and in pc
RODS of panic and depression it is to them as the
shadow of a great rock in weary land, shelter
in time of storm."-O. X. Bennett in The AshevilIe
Times.
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THE snowshoe made a dandy
l. sled and, as wee Scouty raced
ahead, the little Dummies hung on
tight, in fear that they might fall.
Were going round corner
now," cried Scouty, II will show
you how to crack the whip. Just
going straight is not much fun at
ALL"
One bunny cried, "We're salts
fed! In fact this is a dandy ride,
but if you swing us suddenly,
we'll topple in the sncw.
Gee, when you turn around
please take it easy so the shoe
won't break" Don't worry"
shouted Scouty. "It's a strong
shoe. Here we go!"
AND then he ierked the shoe
"a around. The Dummies Topped
out on the ground. To see them
tumble in the snow was quite a
funny sight.
The snow was soft as it could
be and they all hoped up mer-
rily. Just look at u.s." one bun
ny cried. 1.-THE snow has made us
white"
''I'll brush You off" kind
scouty cried "Then we'll continue
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-16
THOUGHTS OF
A FISHERMAN
By Ike Walton, Redivivuo

A friend of mine from Copper
head Cove met me the other day
and asked me- :.
"Ike. where'd you get them big
words?"
"What big Words"
"Whv all that stuff in them
papers-you can't fool US. Some
saw your wife tells you, because
she used to teach school; some
saw you get 'em from that dandl-
fled young preacher; and some
from that fat lawyer Of yours
and split the fees for 'em with
him. Now we amt goin' to stand
for humbug; we know you can't
talk that way, and if you don't
come clear and give the credit
where it belongs, we are goin to
quit readin' the papers"-"All
right, Tom," l says. 'Tll tell you
what III do; I'll tell all my read
ers where I get 'em if you fel-
lows will keep it a strict secret;
Don't tell nobody that don't read
the papers; that's all" -,
So here goes. I hope you all
will be gentlemen and regard this
as strictly confidential, like La
val said to Senator Borah about
the debts.
have a friend. his name is
Sam-leastways he's a friend OF
mine some of the time, but he
acts like my worst enemy some
times too, specially if | make him
mad. We went to school togeth
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Cover Bill Held
Up Pending U. 5.
Dry Legislation
The Times-News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel


RALEIGH, Jan. Is. - While
there will be no committee report
on the Cover bill to repeal the
burlington bone-dry act until
after the congress Of the United
States does something about the
matter one way or another, a
majority of members OF the gen
erai assembly hold the belief that
anv "wet" measure, in order to
be considered seriously by the
assembly, could not go farther
than to conform with the bill
passed by congress.
The Cover bill would complete
~ destroy the provisions Of the
burlington act. and leave North
Carolina without any kind of pro-
hibition enforcement machinery
whatsoever. The opinion pre-
walls that a simple repeater, suc!l
as the Cover bill, will not be SUI
ficicnt and that extensive rewrlt1,
ing Of the burlington act would
be necessary if the state leglsla-
ture is to go no farther than con-
gress goes. :.
The house judiciary commit
tee No. l has agreed to sheive
the Cover bill until congress acts
on prohibition, and any other
prohibition reform measure THAT
should be introduced in the mean
time is likely to meet the same
delay. While there are a few
members of the assembly who
favor out-and-Out repeal, the
majority Of members who favor;
any reform at all learn toward
limiting the sale Of alcoholic
beverages only to light wines
and beer, and it is safe to pre-
dict that any modification legis-
lation is acted, it will not go be-
yOnd that.
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er.. | had the sense but he 90,
the marks, because never saw
the sense in X, Y. Z, and how
many cats were on the fence if
there were plus a mire in thu
cornfield and all that foolishnesS
those old bookworms write f.
show off to the boys. We'll
Sam kept on making marks ur
til he made the bosses think ba
had sense. and they gave him ali
sorts of fine jobs and left me n
my farm and fishing-pole. 81
Sam learned all the big words IN
the dictionary, but when he
wants mess of fish, he come,
by my house and asks me to lei
him 60 fishing with me; and then
he tells me all those big word,
and | go home and write EN- for
the papers, but I get 'em mixed
up with my own sometimes.
Someday I'll tell you mora
about Sam; he's a daisy. FeL
one of these don't-care-a-dam
for-nobody sort of fellows wbn
90 broke because they care 81
many darns for most everybody
He knows enough to have NOR
than Henry Ford if he could sci
it: and he never sells it becauw
he gives it away. That's how
get those big words. He ius
gives them to me for a few baa
and a sucker OR two. But he get,
his thinking from your Uncle Ike
and Just dresses it up in them
jaw-breaking words.
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with the ride. Well race back to
the Tinymites, where can take
a rest"
The trip back really seemed
quite short. One bunny said,
We've had real sport. We've
been on lots of rides but our fine
snowshoe ride was best"
THEN old man Freely said, II
l. think I'll try and find a skat.
ing rink. I have a lot Of skates
You Tinymites can join right in"
"a frozen stream is right near.
by" said Copy. That's the spot
We'll Cry. Gee, when we lads be.
gin to skate, III bet twill make
you grim"
In no time Freely proved that
he was just as clever as could be.
He cut big circles in the irG and
then cried, Here's a trick"
He quickly skated round ana
round until the happy Tinic:
found their name was printed on
the ice. Wee Quincy cried, "Thats
slick"
Copyright, 1893. NEA Service. Incl
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what he expected when he
bought? Will he not want to fight
shy of all bonds. What, then, will
the state and national govern
ments do? Now. don't you think
both of US are in "mickle" of a
fix? Don't you think we both
stand to lose more under your
plan than mine? II agree to take
two per cent interest on my bonds
and give you any reasonable time
you need from time to time until
business comes back. and Of
course if business does not come
back we are all in the same boat
anyway"
| do not know whether or not
I have brought out any thought
you have not already chunk" |
have just touched upon some Of
the problems involved. Ny own
belief is that we should work to-
wards a small interest charge, not
exceeding two per cent, or let the
law of supply and demand work
its course. But I would not seek
to repudiate. If we could grid
ourselves as we should and use a
right sharp axe in current eXpen-
ditures, insist upon two per cent
and time we would probably be
following the better course. We
can not pay the interest and ma
turtles under the present set-up
and if the pound Of flesh is de-
manded. taxpayers strike would
be preferable, but when you say
TAXPAYERS STRIKE you are
talking serious talk.
JOHN EWBANK.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-16
NEW ORDINANCE ENACTED

LAS VEGAS, New. - (UPl -
Rooming house operators here,
trod with care these days due to
recently enacted "rOomlng
hause" ordinance which holds the
landlord equally guilty with. wo-
men for happenings in the house.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-16
FIRST CASUALTY IN 3 YEARS

FIKS CASUAL IN 5 TEARS
TWIN FALLS, Idaho.-UPl
The first automobile casualty in
three years, lacking one day, o..
Cured in Twin Falls with Ii,
death of James w. Shaw, on Dee
81, 1882. Shaw was killed by A
truck driven by Walter DoSs %
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The word Influence" occurs only once in the
entire Bible, when the Lord asks Job, "Canst thou
hind the sweet Influences of Pleiades? Dob $3.50
Stars then have sweet influences but they cannot
save sinners. True evangelism has something bet
ter than influence to offer 1t tells sinners that they
are lost and that there is a Sayiour.-Seleeted
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BIBLE THOUGHT
TpTrE EVANGELISM

9TH. ,opI that snneth, it shall die ZEE. 1920,
.'BeI;eve on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall
be saved" (Acts $3.50
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