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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25

Don't be pi.1er. There's always some nice
name for thief who gets a million.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25
BUCKET SHOPS
DODGE LAW, IS
EXPERT VIEW.
Shifting in Operation Style
Is Blamed for Their
ii.ae Existence a >ss

CHICAGO, Feb. 25-tUP).-
A shifting in the stylefof "bucket
shops" has enabled them to per-
sist despite efforts of the states
attorneys office and the lnves-
tors Protection Bureau, said Carl
H. Henrikson, assistant professor
of business finance at the Uni
versity of Chicago.
Many such offices still are open,
he declared. but by avoiding scan
dal and soliciting out-of-towis
customers, using tipster sheets,
special delivery letters, night
wires and long distance telephone
calls. they continue to operate.
"A decade or two ago the term
bucket shop was used to describe
brokerage house which accepted
customers orders to buy or sell
securities, or commodities, with
out actually making a purchase,
or sale. on the exchange" Profess
sor Hendriksotn said.
HIGH PRESSURE
SALESMANSHIP
Now, he declared, any extreme
ly high pressure direct salesman
ship in the distribution Of securi-
ties of doubtful value is meant.
Failure of defrauded victims to
nrosecute or file complaints,
leaves the authorities powerless,
Hendrikson said.
He described a modern bucket
shop with a room of four to 20
telephones, each equipped with
two receivers and all supervised
by one man. Careful talks are
prepared with half dozen ques-
tions so arranged as to draw i
series of affirmative answers and
leading up to proposal which is
l"yessed" almost without thinking.
TIPSTER SHEET3
Talks seldom run over five min
utes, but are carefully preceded
with the "tipster sheet" Suppos-
edly a financial paper, it generally
attacks Wall Street and makes its
Gown expert analysis of stocks
and conditions. Eventually the,
recipient of the tipster sheet is
informed of 'pool operation"
about to take place.
If the victims place an order, it,
generally is on a small margin
quickly confirmed. No actual pun
| chase is made. If the stock moves
upward he is advised to sell for
his profit and re-invest in another
1stock. generally worthless.
If the first buy goes down, the
victim is "sold OUT and the op-
orator pockets the money.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25

Snobs are people who make the wolf go around
to the back door.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25

Even disloyal husband needs wife. He feel
so respectable when he goes back to her.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25
..IJURRAY for Scouty," erie

90 UhR<t1 iOE oCouls, SifSp
~ the bunch Then Windy
said, Il have a hunch that we can
put the blaze out with some wa.
ter from that well"
The we'll he spoke Of was near
by. Said Copy, "Well, come on
let's try. We all can carry buckets
and we'll have to work pell NELL
One Tiny turned the crank
around, end hauled up water from
tie ground. fhe others all, rushed
back and forth as fast as they
could go.
! 1t was a thrilling sight to see
them throwing water hastily.
Soon Quincy said, We're doint
fine. The blaze is getting low
(Copyright. 1888, NEA Service, Inc.
{OId Lady Bug docs the Tinie
u good turn in the nexa .torf.l
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25

All the world is queer, but thee and me, dear,
and thee is technocrazy.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25
THE BRAZEN. SERPENT. st.
By w. F. HOLMES, M D.

By w. F. HOLMES, M. D. ,r,1,r.,.. -
"Apd Moses made serpent of and put upon pole
If SERPENT had bitten any man, behed the serpent Of @
he lived Numbers 219.
Thou chosen Israel of God, rejoice
In tones of triumph lift thy dying voice;
Gather thy hosts and let the pean rise
Tn mighty volume to the list ming Skies
The Lord thy God hath heard thy anguished groans
Tbv contrite pleadngs and thy pteous means;
II marcy He hath broke the fearful doom
That wrapped the world in griefs profounAest gloom
No more shall famine smite thy tol-worn band
Nor gloomy havoc raise his bloodstaned hand;
Then let thy sons beneath His chasnng rod
Row down in humble gratitude to God.
When e'er the serpent with envenomed fangs
Shall strike thy fesh-conVulsed with panps.
Turn thou where pledge of safety raised on high
The Serpent hangs-thou shalt
Then onward! Soon thy trials will be Ger
From Pisgahs height behold the Promised shore
Where joys await thy amid the flowers
That bloom in fertile Sanaans vine-clad bowers.
What though trackless desert lie before
And storms around thee howl and tempest roar;
Thy God will guide thy way-worn steps Alright
In piared cloud by day and fire by night.
Our people must forget they are expecting tho
ing President be the Joshua who shall lead them land
peace plenty and prosperity that there above and n
look for guidance and direction st
and encouragement Our Heavenly Father expects hep AMI
faith lust He required the stricken saele 70 lift f
eyes the symbol of the Brazen Serpent there
to test their faith and obedience.
In this enlightened do not perhaps require emblem M
need Saviours presence unseen but especially
times depression like the present when for hem
and peace and This poem that enclose for publication @
written many ago r the depths" renen
ssss's ''0'''"''O Ill . '0'N' MRS EVA HOLMES HALL
1915 Lyman
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25

The one great need is rest. How IS 1t to be
found2s By reception alone-"I will give you rest
from the hands pierced on Calvary's tree. Not
till we come shall we be able to overcome. The
overcoming follows the eoming.-Bishop Taylor
Smith in Keswiek Calendar.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25

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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25
BIBLE THOUGHT
REST FOR THE WEARY

"come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest" (Matt. ll;ZS).
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-25

"And Moses made serpent of brass and put it upon pole
M e,nent had bitten any man, when he behed the serpent Of
he liyed."-Numbers pig.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-06
A Years Of "Hard Reading"

A career with few equals ended in New York city this week when William James Keim, 65, retired from Uncle Sans postal service in that city. Rules of the depart ment prevent him continuing his work, although he is in good health and perfectly able to continue his novel and at the same time arduous duties MT Keim was with out a peer in his particular line. In fact, so we'll versed was he in it that we are surprised that he was not called to Wash ington for similar purposes. Years ago his particular forte was termed a blind reader" today it's hard reader in postal circles.
 A hard reader" is simply clerk who spends all his time in deciphering ilegible. scrawled, and misspelt names and addresses on matter sent through the mails. It's a profession today, where it was perhaps pastime 20 years ago when Mir Kem was assigned to the work. If you can tell what alabn wulscon' on letter means, you are quite capable of filling Mr Keim's shoes. He figured that out to mean 'Allaben, Ulster county, and he was found to be right when the missive was forwarded there. That's typical example of how Mir Keim has spent the last 20 years. Sounds interesting, doesn't it. It is. but it's hard work, too.
 What street would you take 'Hrsi'' to mean? Mir Keim discovered with little patience that it was Christie Street. "Koln- spen puddan kony' was translated as Cold Spring. Putnam County. while "vetrpat ain Brzk" was found to be Featherbed Lane, the Bronx. Last, but not least, some mis- guided individual in the world wrote Sears, Roebuck as ''cerow -buk" and Mir Keim dis covered 1t. That mans wonder! We presume there are several others in his class, but without the 20 years experience. Per sonally we think that Mir Keim should have been transferred long time ago to Uncle Sans intelligence department where cryp- tograms in the form of code messages occupy experts time
 However, there's still hope for this vet eran postal employe. He's going to run for Congress now that his civil service days are over. If he ever gets down to Washing ton, he will have the hardest puzzle he ever had to solve.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-06
Art Has Its Chance

Art is to have chance in St Louis at least. Ten philanthropists of that city have become patrons of young artist who has turned from house painting to pictures. They are absorbing his unsold paintings and financing him for seven months. He will go ahead as inspiration moves him. and make pictures to please himself instead of trying to suit prospective buyers. His idea is that if his work satisfies his own requirements, it will probably please others. There is something in such philosophy when the artist really has talent.
 This super-house- painter certainly has something. One picture he proposes to paint is described as aiming to depict the timelessness of things and their victory over ephemeral man." which is quite an order. There will be in the picture a fossilized fish, fragment of Grecian cornice, sea shell and crystal ball. In the ball will be reflected the images of skyscraper and a man tumbing headlong into space. Inter- esting - but it sounds queer and cluttered. Won't the artist have trouble with his com position9 Or isn't artistic unity necessary any more9 The world will await this masterpiece curousy but calmly. It has stood lot lately, and as much from paint CTS as from anybody.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-06

alike by the League Covenant and the peace treaties signed by our government. The minor wars now wsging in South America are made possible by arms and munitions shipped there from this and other countries whose governments have tried to act as peacemakers.
 Every time a government tries to act with logical directness and sincerity in such matters, it meets strenuous objections from its own arms producers. Private enterprise naturally tries to look out for its own in- terests and such interests have always been regarded as legitimate; but conflicts of pri- vate and public policy cannot continue in- definitely. No government alone can meet this issue; but given the necessary authority. any government might do so by joint action with other governments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-06
Farm "Vermin''

Some old-fashioned farmers and hunters are fabbergasted by the introduction in the Ohio Legislature with good chance of passage, of a bill granting protection to nearly all the species of hawks and owls found in the state. The good old tradition is that all such birds of prey are 'vermln," and that it is a public service to extermn- ate them.
 The facts, attested almost universally by naturalists and farm experts. is that with very few exceptions these birds are deStroyers of real vermln and friends of the farmer Even the so-caled chicken hawk" is set down as farm bencfactor, because 1t does more good by eating destructive rodents and insects than it docs harm by killing chickens. careful observer has estimated that of IA particular species of hawks and owls, an average pair will have value of $75 year to the farmer. Evidently it IS time to call off any pest hunts still planned
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-06
THE HOUsATONIC IN FICTION
(Hartford Courant)

When success filled the pockets of the writers and artists who have made Greenwich Village famous, 1t has been we'll known that they moved to cleaner, and sunnier homes, to penthouses above Wash ington Square or to farmhouses in Connecticut. It was a natural and wise exodus for these sons and daughters of Main street who had been enriched by the freedom and sophistication of the citys little Bohemia and were now pale and bored. The movement has brought a new American scene before the reading public-the Housatonic Valley.
 This expedition to the north northeast is not a novelty, since the artists who created the Curricr and Ives prints, now so popular, also sought this pleasant part of rural New England for the inspi- ration of many of their views of fam life, especially those with jutting hills and winding streams, as well as the oxen and barn and l architecture so characteristic of the valley. The artists preceded the novelists, but it is the novelists who now have succeeded in intro- ducing the American public from Hollywood to Tampa and Duluth to this part of Litchfeld county. American Beauty" Edna Fer ber's sketch of the return of a Connecticut Yankee to his ances- tral home not far from Kent where the Poles had taken the land and were rearing q new type of American in the old white farm
 houses, was the first notable ex- ample. It was very widely read
 both in magazine and book form. and then 1t was made into mo-
 ton picture and reached still
 greater numbers. In the last few
 weeks, two other .'best sellers
 have chosen the same scene. NSin- clair Lewis sends the heroine o1
 "Ann Vickerss to the Housatonic
 Valley for her college education
 where he places such an institu.
 tion for female instruction as the
 Middle West may know, but does
 not ring true to New England's educational standards. He finds l for her there. however, just such
 a cabin on just such . hill. oyer-
 looking just such a pleasant val ] ley as Is typical of the valley
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-06
We Meet a Crisis

The only thing this country has to fear is fear itself-unjustified terror which par alyzes effort ' So spoke President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his inaugural ad- dress Saturday. It was doubtless remark in- serted in the prepared speech at the last mo- ment and referring of course to the troubled financial conditions on which we now gaze. It is the best interest of the country and to every bank depoStor that moratorium be declared. We regard our banks as the real foundation of the financial structure of the nation. If we permit them to be weakened by continued withdrawals we would lay our- selves open to far worse conditions than those through which we have already passed.
 Into this crisis the Roosevelt administra- ton has been plunged, not without warning but certainly without preparation. We can't recall any president who hastened from the platform upon which he became chief ex- ecutive of this nation to private consul tation from which shortly came the most extraordinary peace time proclamation that this nation has ever read. If ever there was test of new administration this is 1t. We are glad to note that President Roosevelt has acted with dispatch. We know that his conduct in the face of conditions should go far to alleviate all fears. He has displayed an admirable knowledge of the turn of af- fairs and an ability to cope with them.
 Can we do any more than rally to his support! He has asked us not to hoard. He has placed an embargo on exports of gold from the country. He has prohibited the earmarking of American gold by foreign nations. To do this it was necessary to invoke wartime measure. Inasmuch as the bank holiday will continue right through Thursday, Congress, called in special ses sion at noon Thursday, will probably have received message dealing in part or whole with banking legislation before the na- tion's financial centers open for business. We trust that the president will attack not tie bankers themselves, but the system under which they labor.
 Here is golden opportunity for the democratic party. But it proved itself ca pablo of great things during the admnls tration of Woodrow Wilson when the fed eral reserve act was passed and our bank system aioed Now another democrat IS in the White House and face to face with more acute situation than faced the nation in 1913. twenty years ago. On the basis of what President Roosevelt said in his ring ing inaugural address and his quick demand for bank holiday we feel sure that when he asks Congress to clear up the banking situation in the United States he will not rest with the mere asking but will secure action and that destined to accomplish what all are asking for. in short a return to normalcy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-06
Our Daily Washington Letter
Largest Gift Tax Is Paid in U. s.
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

the gifts should be considered to have been made in 1917, when there wasn't any gift tax, or in 1925. The Bureau of Internal Revenue had ruled that gift was completed whenever the power to revoke it was relinquished. It now held that the donative transfer hadn't been made in 1917, when the funds passed into the hands of trustee, but in 1925 when they were made irrevocable. So Gug- genheim was taxed on their 1925 value and notified of deficiency.
 Guggenheim appealed to the board of tax appeals. His lawyers argued that the 1924 law provided for tax on donative transfers and not on completion of gifts, and the 1917 transwers was not covered by that statute. This was legalistic theory as distinguished from what lawyers call economic meaning realistic-heory. The Tax Appeals board upheld he government. But tn U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the board, adopting the legal theory and holding that the transfer was made in 1917 when title passed to the trustee.
 Assistant A torney General Youngquist appeared for the bureau before the supreme court, arguing that the property hadn't really been given until 1925. Elihu Root, Jr., represented Gug- genheim.
 The supreme court held that a gift is completed-that is, made when the donor relinquished dom inion over his property. Thus tri- umphed the realistic theory over the legalistic theory, 8 triumph which lawyers say means great deal because it indicates the court wants Uncle Sam to get what's coming to him despite bubbles. The two most conservative justices. Sutherland and Butler, dissented.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-06
Rainey Won't Reign

Although Representative Henry T. Rain ey of Illinois was elected Speaker of the House by the democrats last week he will not exercise the same power that Vice. president John N. Garner did in his brief occupancy of that office. The Garner pro- gram of one-man control is to be busted. according to the new Speaker. And for the first time in its history the democratic party will create a steering committee to act with the Speaker in laying out programs and policies to be adopted in dealing with leg islation. It sounds like good idea Certain ly it cannot be any worse than those of the last few years
 We have seen republican triumvirate in the House crumple and break before the forces of discontent and indivlduasm. We have seen the Garner method of one-man control fail to meet the occasion. Certainly the new scheme can't be any worse. The chances are it will work where the others didn't. At least it will give the democratic party more force and unanlmty of purpose in pushing through legislation that 1t favorS. And certainly we need that today.
 The selection of Rep Rainey for the Speakership is good one. No one can deny that. The Illinois legislator should be able to handle any situation in the House. He is a good parliamentarian. He is well liked by his colleagues. He should even be able to handle the difficult situation of over hun dred new members in the House camorlng for more recognition than that to which they are entitled. It is this menace that the democratic steering committee may over come. These new members are already or ganizing to present their demands as bloc. The success of the democratic maneuver may depend upon the way in which it will break up this coalition and put the new corners in the ranks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-06
NEA Service Writer

NEA Service Writer
 Washington-Mr Murray Gug- geningheim one of the very wealthy Guggenheim brothers, has just given the treasury his check for $3,449,85O in payment of a gift tax after Q long court fight.
 The incident might well have at- tracted more attention because it was the largest gift tax this gov ernment ever collected and beca use the supreme court decision which ended the long fight Guggenheim had made against paying 1t indi- cated a benevolent rather than an anti-pathetic attitude toward laws which congress may pass to "soak the rich"
 The scene in the office of the U. s. Treasurer was no less than impressive when that $3,449,850 check was handed over. MT Will liam Dugan, the internal revenue collector from New York, was there to receive payment. MT Prew Sa- voy, the young attorney from the general counse's office of the Bureau of Internal Revenue who handled the case and won the gov dlI lIldL lIOhcys WdS LhClCj wearing a pleasant smile.
 There were two representatives of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York to deliver the check and receive the 36O0 $1,000 Liberty bonds which MT Gaggenheim had posted as security during the liti- gation. Roger Arundel, member of the Board of Tax Appeals, was &< ,h hl,, assisted by Secretary Bertus D. urer's office had been the deposi- tory for the bonds, so it had to have representative, too. And there were three armed guards from the bank who carried the se- one was there except MT Guggen- helm.
 Back in 1917 MT Guggenheim had established trusts funds for 900, 900 each, reserving the right to revoke them at any time. In 1924 congress inacted a gift tax. This later after urgent pleas by Secre. tary of the Treasury Mellon, but there's another gift tax now under the 1892 revenue act, designed to prevent people from evading the estate taX.) In 1925. while the 1924 gift tax was still in effect and il was feared that it might be made even more stringent, MT Guggen. helm relinquished his right to re. yoke the trusts.
 Well, the question was whether
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-06
SHALL STATE GO INTO
 GAMBLING?
(Hartford Timesl

The perennial horseracing bill is before the general assembly. Tho purpose Is to legalize horse race betting and the usual arguments will be offered as to the amount of money the state might derive as it's share of the proceeds of such gambling.
 In these days of difficult budget balancing any new source of rev enue seems more than ordinarily important. That ought not to ap- ply, however. to any fancied finan- cial advantage the state might gain from going into partnership in the business of ace tack ganl- bling.
 Legalized betting and the con- struction of race tracks near the New York border would introduce an element into Connertisut life which is not to be desired. It would put an easy means of gam- bling before men and women for whom it would be disastrous.
 The proposal is not better this year than 1t ever has been. Con- necticut cannot afford to legalize race track gambling, much less to go into partnership with the gam blers.