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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-09-15
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
THE GOOD OLD DAYS"

Gee MCGEE of Anderson, S. c., doesn't think
times are hard at present as compared with those
of his bovhood DAYS He describes his early eXpe-
riences as follows:
Don't talk to me about hard times was born
eight miles from railroad, five miles from a
schoolhouse. nine miles from church. 885 miles
from New York, 200 yards from wash hole, and 10
feet from a cornfeld
Our nearest neighbors lived two miles away and
thew couldn't read or write. l never saw suit
of underwear until was II years old, and that
revelation didn't belong to anybody in our family.
The only books in the house were Bible and
catalog.
There were II members in our family, but, you
see. we had three rooms to live in, including Il
dining room which was also the kitchen. Every
body worked at our house. We thought everybody
else in the world had gravy and bread for break
fast liver and cracklin hoecake for dinner, butter
milk and corn pone for supper, cause that's what
we had.
Some of US wore brogan shoes occasionally IN
the wntertime. We had nice white shirts for sum-
mertime use. We slept on straw ticks, and pillows
were not thought of Or required. / didn't know
that money would rattle until was nearly grown.
Father got hold of two half-dOllars at the same
time, and let us hear them rattle Taxes were no
higher, but harder 70 pay.
We owned two kerosene lamps, neither of which
had chimney. Our house wasn't ceiled but two
of our rooms had lofts in them. We had glass
window in our company" room. Our incest piece
of furniture was homemade rocking chair. Our
beds were of the slot or tight-rope variety.
We went to school two three months in the
year, but not in bus. We attended church once
month, but not in a car; we used two-mule
wagon. We dressed up Sundays but not in silk:
! or satins.
We sopped our own molasses; we ate our own
meat; we considered rice a decacy for only the
preachers to eat we had heard of cheese, but neve
saw any; we knew of store-bought Clothes bu
never hoped to wear any; we got stick of cand!
and three raisns for Christmas and were happy
we loved ma and pa and were never hungry, en-
joyed going naked, didn't want much, expected
nothing. And that's why our so-called hard tlme
amt hard on
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BLANTYRE

BLANTYRE, Sept. 15.-Mrs.
Van Beck and family of Hender-
sonville, Mrs. Jerry Orr and fam
lily of Turkey Creek, and John
and Leo Moody of Etowah, We're
called to their mothers bedside
one day last week. Mrs. Moody
has been sick for several years.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Justus had
as their dinner guests last Sun
day, Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Orr of
Hendersonville, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ohio Scott and children of Glade
Creek, and Mr.. and Mrs. E'rl
Gray of Pleasant Grove.
Mrs. Virgil Duncan and dangh-
ter, Juanita, spent the weeB-end
on Little River with Mr.. and Mrs.
Luther Hamilton.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Morgan of
Hendersonville, were supper
guests of Mr.. and Mrs: 0. j..
Morgan Sunday night.
Correne and Cecil Duncan
were dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. V. Duncan Sunday.
Mrs. Lee Cash called on Mrs.
Lee Moody Sunday morning.
Rev. F. H. Holdin was a Sun.
day dinner guest of Mr.. and
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in this time when millions of the people OF
the country are becoming mentally and
morally flabby, if there is any real fibre
remaining in the people of this section OF
Western North Carolina.
Let us carry on with cheerfulness and
courage and the will to work. Let us be
willing to work long hOurs-if the codes
haven't got us-with only the certainty
that we are doing something useful and
helpful to spur us on.
The most encouraging prospects for the
sound development of this section that
have existed in years are facing Hender-
and Henderson and adjoining
counties NOW. Opportunities are await
ing action by our people. If we take ad-
vantage of them they will add immensely
to the development of this section in the
coming years.
If we can reap any profitable results
from NRA or any other government actlVl-
ties. let us accept and make the most OF
them; but it will be folly to depend OIL
these sources for everything we need to
make this section what it ought to be.
Most of the things that must be done will
have to be done by our own people, ana
those who come to live among us. Ihey
will have to be done without government
aid.
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TRACEY GROVE

TRACEY GROVE, Sept. 10
Mr.. and Mrs. Plato Julius had as
their dinner guests Sunday, Mr..
and Mrs Clarence Pace and chill
dren. Kathleen and Virginia, Mrs
Susan Pace and Miss Rogers.
Mr.. Allard Case and family
have moved to their new home IN
this community.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Capps visit
ed Mr.. Bill Holbert, who is very
sick at his home on Big Hungry.
Rev. and Mrs. L. A. Harvey,
Misses Viola and Agnes HoOts
spent the weekend in West Ashc-
vile and attended the W.Y.P.S.
convention.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Blythe were
dinnea guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edgar Duncan Of New Hope, last
Sunday. In the afternoon they all
motored to Gambler and visited
the Rev, Clyde Long and family.
This community was saddened
Sunday by news of the death of
Aunt Mandy Brock. Several from
here attended the funeral services
in Hendersonville Monday. Aunt
Mandy" had a host of friends in
this community who are grieved
at her death.
Miss Leona Capps visited rela-
tives and friends in Green River,
Sunday.
Quite a few from here attend,
ed the Paris Mountain camp meet,
ing in Greenvillc, S. c., Sunday.
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MOUNT MORIAH

MOUNT MORIAH, Sept. Is.
Mrs. Robert Penland and chill
dren. Miss Macy and Bill Pen
land and Mrs. Powell and Jack
Penland spent the weekend with
Mr.. and Mrs. Clanny Laughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. d. Brown and
children spent Sunday with
friends at BOSNIAN.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whit Ownsby
are the happy parents Of a young
son, born September 10.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Hill were
callers at Mr.. and Mrs. Berry
daughters Sunday.
Scion Kerr, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Palmer Kerr, has been i'll
for some time but is some i'm
proved. His friends are wishing
for him speedy recovery.
Mrs. J. D. Brown, Mrs. Mark
Brown, and Mrs. Sidney Justice
also Grady Brown were callers to
Spartanburg, S. c., because of
the serious illness Of their bro
Their, Pearson Nix.
T. A. Cathey spent the week
end with relatives at Bethel.
A township singing will be
held at the Edneyville high
school on Sunday, Sept. II, from
2 to 4 p. m. The EdneyVille
folks are very anxious that all
good singers bear this in mind
and meet with them.
Mrs. Arthur Allison has been
called to the bedside of her moth
er, who was seriously i'll.
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BEHIND THE SCENES IN
WAS EIllGTON
VIII RODNEY pUICHER

E'UUk men, emerging from the
night White House conference
of MIRA officials, operators and
miners on the coal code, gave diff
fering confidential versions Of
what had happened.
The one who is normally the
most honest simply answered:
"Oh, hell"
But it can be revealed that
Roosevelt had announced he
wouldn't sign any more codes con-
tanning the mild open shop" res
ervation in which employers in
sisted OH hiring and firing en-
plOycs on merit" basis-suc5 as
the automobile industry had Oh.
tanned.
Jesse STRAUS, ambassador 10
y France, is returning to this
country for minor operation"
A New York department store
owner, hearing the. news, wise
cracked maliciously:
Yeah, the NRA is goirg to re.
move his six per cent"
A BIOLOGISTS for the delay in ex.
L = ecution of the public works
program, stressing the necessity Of
avoiding graft and waste, complain
that the country mad: the admin.
istration's job difficult tE trying to
put lot of things over on It
There were many socially de.
sirable and economically feasible
projects presented" says one pub
lie works official, which turned
out, on investigation, to be already
financed for years ahead. Some
were paid for up to 1914, which
meant 10 years before our money
woul6 create new employment"
DOWNRIGHT 1879. NEA Service. 1nc.h
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1.-The Code
interpretations for Guidance
of Employers and Employees
By NOAH HOLLOWELL
Chairman of National Recov-
cry Executive Committee
of Hendersonville

When do you expect the Com
pIiance Board" that you described
Yesterday to begin tunctioning?
The early part of the coming
week.
What will it do and what au-
thority will it have?
The board will receive COM
plants. make Investigations, con-
fer with those against whom COM
plants may be made and conclll-
ate matters if possible. If it can't
bring about compliance with the
code the board will make recon-
mcndations to national NltA Off
cials who will have federal au-
thoritv remove the eagle.
Then what?
Perhaps six months imprison-
mcnt or $500 fine or a business
destroyed by public sentiment.
Do YOU expect many local COM
plants against members Of the
NRA?
No. NRA authorities report
that 70 per cent of complaints
made thus far have been based on
lack of information by busy
bodies who complained rather
than investigated to get the truth
Have you heard about the gov
ernment's decision to inspect pr,
vate homes and take all canned
goods in excess of so quarts?
Yes, | understand that this IN
formation has been spread by a
house to house saleswoman IN
Henders6nville. l have also read
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

WA9HINGToN-Dr, Clyde l..
" King has been under more
fire than any other two admins
trdtIon officials.
King has been making milk
agreements for the larger cities.
He IS chief of the dairy section
of the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration.
The essence of the complaints
against him is hat he gives the
milk charlottesville middlemen
"A big wide spread which in
cludes tidy profit margin at the
expense of farmers on one end and
consumers on the other.
King is a short, ford, gray
haired man of serious mien.
He carries a cane. He mas been an
authority on dairy problems and
milk marketing for many years
and has been professor of econom-
les and political science at Penn.
sylvania and other universities.
Under Governor Clifford Pinchot
he was successfully secretary of
state, budget director, secretary of
revenue and chairman of the Pub
lie Utility Commission in Pennsyl-
Vania.
He makes no apologies for the
milk agreements; his attitude
seems to be take them or leave
them" Privately, he contends there
is no way to learn milk distribu-
ton costs without getting at the
milk company books. which can
only be done by AAA agreements
which promise sterilization and
control instead Of cnt-throat COM
petition.
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COTTON LOST BY FIRE

RALEIGH, Sept. 15.-ApproX-
imately 400 bales of cotton were
destroyed when a barn in which
it was stored burned at Gale
donia prison farm Wednesday,
the prison division of the state
highway and public works COM
mission has been advised. The
cotton was insured for $4,000.
Chief Prison Supervisor J. p.
Roach and Chester o. Bell of the
auditing division, have gone to
the Caledonia farm to investigate
in an effort to ascertain if the
fire was Of incendiary origin.
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Phone RATES
ARE PROBLEM
State Corporation Unit Is
Still Considering New
Schedule
The Times-Ncws Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel

RALEIGH, Sept. 15.-The state
corporation commission is still
wrestling with the problem of
telephone charges and rates and
so far there is no indication
when it will be able to decide
anything further, Utilities Com
missioner Stanley WinbOrne said
yesterday. No agreement has yet
been reached with the telephone
companies with rtgard to CHARGES
for moving telephone sets on the
premises or with regard to base
rate charges.
Individual members Of the
commission have been of the
opinion for some time that the
uniform charge of $3.50 for NOV
ing telephone sets from one To-
cation to another in residences
or offices should be lowered to
not more than 81. But the tele-
phone companies are fighting
this reduction very vigorously,
maintaining that the average
cost of these installations on the
premises is 1912. Indications
are, however, that the commits
sion is still of the opinion that
this charge should be reduced
from $3.50 to 81 and that an
order will shortly be issued to
that effect, in spite of the COM
plants of the telephone compan-
les. The commission has already
ordered a reduction in the re-
connection charge, for re-connect-
ing sets already in position in
residences and offices, from So
to 81. effective September l.
The reduction in the charge
for monophones or hand-set tele-
phones. formerly so cents a
month, to rs cents month, as re-
Gently ordered by the commits
sion, goes into effect Septembe"
| also and will be shown in the
bills for September service. The
reduction in the charges for .eX-
ira length telephone cords will
also be effective as of Septem-
Der l.
The most difficult question be-
fore the commission in connec-
ton with the telephone compan-
les, is that of rates and rate base
areas, Commissioner Winb0rne
said. The Southern Bell Iele-
phone company and the High
Point Telephone company arc
the only ones so far that have
submitted itemized inventories,
upon which their rates areas are
based. These inventories are
voluminous and will require many
weeks of study on the part OF
the commission before it cap ar
rive at conclusion.
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SHOULD NOT LEAN TOO HEAVILY

They were words of wisdom which Congressman
Carl E. Mapes said in a speech the other day. when
he warned us mot to lean too heavily upon the
NRA.
1t should have the undivided support of the peo-
pie of the United States, he said, but we should
not expect too much of it.
That is likely to be one of our troubles-that we
expect the program to be self-startng and auto
matic-to do the job without any support or action
on our part
ut may be a good thing, and still not be a
panacea," said Congressman Mapes.
panacea, according to our understanding of
the term, is medicine which cures all diseases.
If we have any idea the NRA is going to do
that all by itself, we are going to be grievously
disappointed. eve" will have to do good deal in
the way of helping the medicine effect the cure
or there will be no cure.
ut seems to me-" and these are further words
of wisdom by the congressman, chat there has
been too much of tendency in the last few years
on the part of a great many people and institu-
tions to look to the government for relief and lean
on it too much. There is danger that as nation,
we blame the government for our misfortunes
when the trouble may be largely with ourselves"
Rock Hill (S c. Herald
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Mrs. Charles Ncsbitt.

Mrs. Charles Ncsbitt.
Rev. and Mrs. G.. +. Holdings
worth and family were Sunday
guests of Mrs. A. w. Davis.
Rev. Holden turned the Sun
day morning service over to Rev.
Hollingsworth who preached a
splendid sermon.
Rev. Hutchinson of Etowah,
preached after the b. Y. p. u.
Sunday night. He praised the
local union very highly and this
was much appreciated.
Homer Mckenna and daughter,
Helen, of Etowah, attended
church here unday night.
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w. q. w. CIRCLE MEETS

The Woodman circle will hold
its regular monthly meeting Fri
day night at w. O. W. hall. All
members are asked by the Off
GERS to be present.
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The cost of sending daughter to college is any
SUM you figure it will be, plus $48O.S5.
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A colyumist for the love-orn says girl will say
Eyes when she has lost her job. But she hasn't so
much opportunity to say it.
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Then, too, you can tell hick town by the fact
that cows move over when you yell "Forep
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-09-15

You don't need a passing grade to get Ph. D.
You just write book that fits the prejudces of
your examiners
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Advertise it or YOU .
have to keep it. :
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CRANES PECK COST EYE
JONESBORO, Ark. (UP).--
Picked in the eye by a wounded
crane that his brother had shot,
Bernis Smith, 1G, lost the sight
of the optic.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-09-15

IN the town of Waiuku the Hawaiian lSlahu III We, .
several schools that than hundred !'"'S n5
which Californians early days sent hcr .
educated 1t was here that manual training Was ""
world
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BIBLE THOUGHT
,rcrrc nr MAJ

who went about doing good" (Aets lo:3S)'
As we have opportunity let US do good unto al
men," (GaL 6l0).
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HORIZONTAL
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Evening star., 1933-05-20
The Fading Cause of Fusion.

Another eminent New Yorker has
declined to enter the race for the
mayoralty next Fall. Samuel Seabury,
counsel of the Legislative Investigating
Committee that turned up so many
scandalous conditions under Tammany
rule in the big town-and Incidentally
turned Mayor Walker out Of office-has
followed the former acting mayor, Jo-
seph v. Mckee, and the former Cover
nor, Alfred E. Smith, in refusing to
head q fusion ticket. Judge Seabury's
statement has greatly disappointed
those who are seeking to oust Tam
many from the municipal management,
as he was regarded as the best qualified
of available men to unite the anti
machine electorate He put his de-
clination on the ground that he had
previously declared during the investi-
cation that he would not be a candi-
date for mayor and also that he be-
lieves that he can be of greater service
in the effort to rid the city of Tam
many Halls domination If he is not
interested as a candidate in the out
come of the election
While efforts will be made to induce
Judge Seabury to reconsider his de-
cision, it Is not likely that they will
succeed. The anti-Tammany cause is
undoubtedly handicapped by these three
refusals Of highly qualified men to ac-
cept the nomination. The outstanding
figure in the fusion picture now is for
mer Representative La Guardia, who is,
however. somewhat at odds with his
own Republican organization. He has
already run for the mayoralty, as
Republican, and has been defeated
That fact handicaps him considerably,
especially as he is now engaged in
bitter fight against certain of the lead
ers of the Republican party in the city,
who, he declares, have been rewarded
by Tammany for their support Of the
regular Democratic ticket in 1929. He
asserts that the nomination of q fu-
sionist candidate for mayor this year
by the regular Republican organiza-
ton would be fatal to the cause.
In these circumstances the outlook
for a successful drive against Tammany
this year would not seem to be particu-
larly bright BY November the scam
dals of the Walker administration will
have been more or less forgotten. Walker
himself will be quite out Of the pic
ture. Tammany has regained its wind,
after the serious deflation caused by
the Seabury inquiry and the virtual
custer of the mayor. The Tiger has a
way of recovery, especially when there
is desrth Of fusion material. as at
present.
Evening star., 1933-05-20
High Lights ON the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

For peace, after all else has been
analyZed and weighed, is unmiStakably
the crying need of the world today, and
it may be attained only in adherence
to, and practice of, moral law between
nations as well as between individuals.
Now religion is the only force that,
SO far as we know. the history of the
world has been able to provide sane
tions for that moral law. Present-day
Russia is making an attempt at moral
control without religion, and from all
accounts seems to be making hopeless
mess Of it. Lack Of vital religious sane
ton for morals has, in the West, led
to the present revolt Of youth against
moral standards. 1t is the problem OF
religion, then, to make possible moral
basis adequate to the coming brother
hood of internationalism.
The present madness of nationalism
must pass as it Is moving contrary to
the general stream of human advance
ment. War also must sooner or later
be banished for its stupidity as means
as settling international affairs is as
evident as that of personal combat in
With the progress of mechanical con-
troll of nature we must inevitably be
drawn even more closely to each other
as one human family.
Therefore, there must be some moral
sanction for international relations en-
bodied in an institution OF an authority
as unquestioned as that OF the law
courts settling the differences between
individuals. The present spectacle OF
Japan and the League of Nations shows
how imperative that is.
But how is religion to furnish that
moral sanction? The lecturer plays
with the idea. often suggested. of a
League of Religions, parallel with the
League of Nations. to which all the re-
ligions shall contribute what spiritual
value they have This, of course, as
Sumes that there Is no ultimate truth
or final word of authority possessed by
any one religion, proposition that
every Christian will Immediately reject,
and 1t forgets that there are certain
religions of the world which, though
professed by millions of people and
providing q very strong social unity, are
spiritually bankrupt. Nationalities may
join in a league to provide some COM
mon clearing house for their mutual
difficulties and protect their mutual in
terests, but surely the moral sanction
for internationalism could only be some
bne religion with such an authoritative
pronouncement on ultimate moral and
spiritual values that it would be uni
versally recognized by all humanity. A
League of Religions is pure phantasy.
1t is not a new idea. Theosophy has
tried it, and Behaism has tried 1t. and
in the endeavor to make some COM
posite picture of the contributions Of
different religions have produced but
pure stupidity.
Mr.. Bentwich has painted the picture
for us of the relation of religion to in
ternationalism, and has set us the
problem. 1t Is ours to answer it for
the future welfare Of our common hui
manity.