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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28
HOWARD SCOTT, TECHN0CRACYS HIGH /. ..,,.,
PRIEST IS SYSTEMS biggest MYSTERY
Even His Fellow
Workers Know
But Little
of Him
By PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Writer

NEW YORK, Jan. 28.-lf there
lis anything about Technocracy
that is more puzzling than its
method, more battling than its
theory of energy determinants,"
or more fabulous than it's Utopian
dreams, it is Technocracy's own
high priset-Howard Scott.
The question as to just who is
Technocrat Howard Scott is being
asked throughout the country.
This reporter has been trying to
find out. Scott, himself will not
talk. He will not even pose for a
photograph. Diligent searching
of records, and inquiry among
persons who know Scott, therefore
afford the only sources of lnfor-
nation to date.
Records reveal that between
1918 and 1924 he was dismissed
from three different jobs. Later
ne was for a time manufacturer
of floor wax.
Persons who knew him best
knew him only as one of the many
louuacious habitues of the candle
lit gathering places of New York's
acknowledgements Village.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28
The Story of Stanford

ROMANCE danced along the SUM-
- set.shimmering waters on that
June day at Poughkeepsie as the
strong backs bent in rhythmic beat
and those Colorful galleys glided
along.
Theirs was the storied rivalry Of
the GIendons, Ebrights, Ten Eycks.
Courtneys and other Wanted
coaches. Not this year!
Then there was the day in 1915
when a handful of willful men
from Stanford appeared mysteri-
ously. There was no college fund
20 defray their expenses. How they
managed to cross the country never
has been told. They put their last
dimes on the line to pay the freight
on their shell and bummed their
way as best they could.
They had no coach, with mega
phone to shout instructions from
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28
TRUSTEES SALE

Whereas, default was made in
the payment of the indebtedness
secured by that deed in trust ex-
ecuted by J. S. Hyder to G. H.
Valentine, Trustee, dated IL jan
uary, 1928. recorded in Book
los. on page 244, Records of
Mortgages and Deeds in Trust for
Henderson County, on account of
which the power of sale therein
conferred, after due and proper
notice. has become absolute;
Now, therefore, the said Trus-
tee, will, by virtue of the power
of sale contained in said deed in
trust. at the request of the owner
and holder of said note, and in
order to satisfy said debt, sell, to
the highest bidder, for cash, at
public auction, at the Courthouse
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28
TRUSTEES RESALE

Whereas, default was made III
the payment of the indebtedness
secured by that Deed in Trust eX,,
ecuted by John D. Osborne and
wife, Ellen Osborne. to Med. Ray,
Trustee. dated 81 June, 1928. re-
corded in Book LOG, page lob,
Records of Deeds in Trust and
Mortgages for Henderson County,
on account of which the power of
sale therein conferred, after due
and proper notice, became abso-
lutte: and whereas, said Trustee
sold said land, in accordance with
the terms of the deed in trust, on
81 December, 1882, at the Court
house door in Hendersonville, N.
c.. at twelve o'clock noon, and
reported said sale to the Clerk SUI
perior Court, and within ten days
thereafter bid of ten per cent
was filed with the Clerk and an
order made by said Clerk direct
ing a resale of said property;
Now. therefore, the said Trus-
tee will, by virtue of the power
of sale contained in said deed in
trust, pursuant to order of the
Court, resell, to the highesC bid
der. for cash, at public auction,
at the Courthouse door in Hen
Jacksonville. N. c., on 80 January,
1888, at twelve o'clock noon, all
the property described in said
deed in trust. to-wit:
Adjoining lands formerly be-
longing to J. J. Osborne. r. w.
Allen and others and bounded as
follows:
BEGINNING at the mouth of a
ditch at a stake in Aliens line
and runs North 5 deg. 81 poles
with a ditch to a stake at the
forks of ditch; thence North Sc
deg. West 80 poles to an apple
tree; thence North sc 1-2 deg.
West 142 poles to a white oak /;
thence North 81 deg. West 80
poles to Taylor Osborne's line and
corner; thence South 55 poles to
stake in the Allen line; thence
South "a deg. East 70 poles to q
white oak; thence South SO deg.
East SO poles to a stake at or
near the road at Aliens corner;
thence South rs deg. East rs
| poles to a stake; thence North SO
deg. East 202 poles to the BE-
GINNING. containing 46 acres,
more or less.
This IA January, 1888.
| Med. RAY, Trustee,
By REDEEM & REDEEM,
| 1-14-Sat-2t ATTORNEYS.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28
Just Came to Row

THOSE Stanford boys Of 1915
L seemed to me to typify spirit
c. splendid craftsmanship. OF the
records, they didn't have a chance
Highly-trained eastern crews had
been so we'll prepared for the race
that the coXswains knew every
stroke in the mile.
What they knew about 'four-milc
racing, these stalwarts learned as
they went along. Their only system
was to keep up with the others and
pass them when the pinch came.
Passing the two-mile ilags they
were going strong. Over the
third mile they kept gaining on
the leaders. AS they pushed their
fragile she'll under the railroad
bridge, at the three-mile mark,
they had passed all the others but
Cornell.
In that last grueling mile. tho
raw youths from the Pacific
gained, beat after beat, on proud
Cornell. The tir:1g Ithaca crew
Just managed TO keep a shade in
front as the two shells darted
across the finish line.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28

door, in the City of Herds,..
vile. N. G.. on Saturday, II S'i
ruary, 1888, at twelve o,o JeS'
noon. all the property descrr;;Io c;
in said deed in trust, to-wit. ''0ea
Being all those lots, pjcco.
parcels of land located in tho 'I 70 "
of HendersonviHe, n. c., AND NY
ing fully described in a deed 4 g.. Dc
R. c.. Clark and others n tt'oia
Hyder by deed dated March u" ., )
1927, and recorded in Book NV NV
page 1862. Records of Deeds ~
Henderson County, to which tN
ord reference is hereby made sc,
further described as follows, an D.
ing lots Nos. 20 and 80 in Mo. DE- e.
land made by S. J. Justus fo r' q o
Hendersonville Land and ~ Te
provement Co., said plat recori ta,;
in Book &c, page 45l, Records , :,
Deeds for Henderson Count v =:
which record reference is bcr 10, !"
made.
Sale to be made subject :,
taxes and street assessment y \.
any.
This IL day January. 1892.
G. H. VALENTINE, Trustso
By REDEEM & REDDEN
1-14-Sat at. Attornor,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28
SCOTT AS FELLOW
"VILLAGERS" SAW HIM

There is a remarkably consis-
tent pattern to the legends. Of
the scores of Villagers who knew
Howard Scott and his expansive
discourses about himself and his
plans, most of them came to be-
lieve that:
He was born in Virginia and ed
ucated abroad. His father was
chief engineer in charge of con-
struction Of the Bagdad railroad.
Howard went to various technical
schools; had a Jesuit priest as a
private tutor; graduated from q
German university, and at an car
ly age held a responsible position
| in the German dye industry. Later
was in charge of a chemical plant
in Russia; went to Canada just be-
fore the outbreak of the war, and
there built two munitions plants,
and served as a chemical engineer
in the manufacture of explosives.
Available engineering ook
dealing with the Bagdad railroad
mention numerous engineers, but
do not mention anyone by the
, name of Scott. As to the German
university, Scott has admitted he
has no degrees. AS to the NUM-
tons plants, Canadian authorities
declare they never heard of him.
The first authentic record of
Scott in this country is contained
in the report of a government in
lvestigation into the building of
Nitrate Plant No. 2 at Muscle
Shoals. A Republican majority
report to the House mentions
Scott as one of many alleged in,
competents. 1t says:
%. This led to foremen be-
ing placed in charge of work OF
which they had no knowledge. TO
illustrate, a man by the name of
Howard Scott was foreman in a
part of the cement work. On one
occasion against the protest of
other experienced foremen, he
grouted a large crusher with fire
clay
DR.. Walter Lands, now chief
technician for the American Cyan
amid company, for which Scott
worked at Muscle Shoals in 1918,
remembers the incident. He ex-
plains that "grouting" is the i'm
bedding of anchor bolts which in
turn hold down the bed plates of
large machines. Since fire clay
looks like cement, he assumes that
SCOTS error must have been due
to ignorance. But had the mis-
take not been discovered, he de-
clares, the machines certainly
would have jumped off their foun-
dations.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28
WELL KNOWN IN BOHEMIAN
LEE OF NEW YORK

To this day his closest associa-
| ties have no idea where he came
from. or how much he knows, OF
great deal of what he did before
his lanky figure doomed on the
lTechnocratic horizon. Although
his name is now known round the
world and Technocracy is being
discussed in every town, village
and hamlet of this country, no
community has yet risen to claim
Scott as its own.
For twelve years Howard Scott
was a familiar figure in the vii
LACE and talked, to everybody who
would listen, of the day when en-
gineers would lead the nation to
a new scientific social order.
Greenwich Villagers thought of
him either as a fanatic with an
obsession or a genius with a VI
sion.
Possibly he dreamed, back in
those days when people who were
not interested in impending cat
aclysms Stunned his table in cheap
restaurants, that some day he
would be the speaker and the
guest of honor at dinners on Park
Avenue, as he now has been, and
that friends who occasionally lis
tened with skeptical tolerance to
his tales of past great deeds, some
time would consider him a great
scientist.
Scott now says that Technoc-
racy is bigger than himself, or any
individual, and that he must not
distract public attention from the
main issue. This reticence is
markededly at variance with his
earlier flair for what might be
termed exhibitionism. For in his
Greenwich Village days Scott
built up legends about himself,
and allowed them to carry over,
unchecked, into the present year.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28
NWilliam BrauGher

q launch as the.' stroked their she'll
up and down ne Hudson. Their
equipment, besides the shell, was
eight sets of trunks and al awful
lot of nerve. The river currents
meant nothing to them. They had
never participated in four-mila
races.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28
Fletcher Hears
Bible Lecture

FLETCHER, Jan. 28.-Robert
Thurber, world traveller and edi-
tor, of Nashville, Tenn, spoke at
the Fletcher high school on We'd
nesday evening at 1880 O'Clock
before a large audience. His sub
ject was "Up to The Minute Full
fillment of Bible Prophecy"
The lecture was arranged under
the auspices of the people at
Mountain Sanitarium.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28
What! No Rowing?

GRASS materiaiism, or shall We
~ call it dour de-emphasis, has
swept the slim racing shells from
the river. Poughkeepsie will be
lust another Hudson harbor June
IS. The broad-backed, mighty
muscled heroes of other years,
shooting their slim shells along
under the great bridge, will not
be there.
You may remember the scream
that went up concerning football
overemphasiS for several years
before the 1892 grid season. Talk
of professionalism and proselyt-
ing, huge gates, and all that.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28
Still in the Race!

THE Stanford boys didn't know
the race was over. Increasing
the number of strokes to the mill
ute, they kept on gaining speed
after the four miles were done.
while a Cornell crew dropped and
sagged over the oars.
They might have driven tina.
little boat right up to Pier 0, New
York City, if motor launch
hadn't raced out and headed them
off.
To get back home they had 20
sell their shell, but that paid the
fare of only a few of the gallant
band. The others remained in
Poughkeepsie washing dishes un-
til they could nurse enough coin
together to make the trip.
Great stories have been real al
| Old PoughkeeDsie.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28
Crooners' Insriration

A Nebraska paper wonders where
the croonerS and winners got "the
idea" Intensive study Of the COW
deprived of her offspring, no doubt.
Minneapolis Journal.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28
BEARCATS BEAT
BILTMORE HIGH
Take Friday Nights Game
by 29-14 Score

BILTMORE, Jan. 2S.-The Hen
Jacksonville Bearcats defeated the
Biltmore High team here last
night by a 20 to IA score.
The two teams were tied at II
to II az the end of the first half,
but the BearcatS finished in a
burst of speed. scoring Is points
in the two final periods and hold
ing the local team to one field goal
and one free shot. BiltmOre's
only field goal in the second half
came with about two minutes left
to play.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28

Substitutes: HenderSonville -
Whitesides, Miller. LYDIA, Few.
BiltmorC-Goens, Moody. Bright
(D, Woody. Referee: LanninG
(State).
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28
Evil for Good

WELL, it seems we had q de-
w preston. Last year the old
football gate just wasn't what she
used to be. Admission prices
we're reduced IN many quarters.
but the fans stayed away IN
foCkS.
Here is the result. Old Man
River will bear no colorful bur-
den as he rolls past Poughkeepsie
in an otherwise perfect June. The
last pure college sport has been
martyred because the game they
branded unclean has not earned
enough dirty money to maintain
rowing in the style to which 1t
lad become accustomed. A couple
a we'll, wells,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28

Col. Zach Miller, famous proprie-
tor of the 101 Ranch and its Wild
West show, is in another Mix-up,
this time with Tom Mix, movie
cowboy. Colonel Miller is suing
Mix at Erie, Pa, for $4,000,
which he claims due him because
of Toms alleged failure to appear
as an attraction with the wild
west show. This latest picture Of
Colonel Miller was made in court
at Erie,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28

Mrs. Lillian Holley, above, whose
husband, Sheriff Roy Holley. was
killed in a gun battle near Gary,
Ind, has been appointed his sue
cessor and has taken up her new
duties,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28

Atlantic Greyhound Lines
Skyland Stages Division
COAST TO COAST
BORDER TO BORDER
Comfort-Safety-Economy
A few of our rates from
HENDERSONVILLE, N. c.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28

There is no substitute for
newspaper advertising.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-28

FOUNDED GROUP THAT
FATHERED TECHNocRAcY
The incident attracted wide !
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-03
Tells of Spy Facts and Steel Mill Sbeed>Ub
Without Solid Base In Decisive Industries
Party Cannot Lead Struggles of Workers

IT time that the entire
basis the decisive elements of
Party revolutionary struggles
free them from the influence
oise which still among working
class however favorable the
idle chatter talk about working
miners metal and steel workers. railroad
textile workers 1t is idle chatter about the leading role
Party without establishing contacts with the decisive strata the
mo5zng these workers winning them
about the defense of the Soviet Union and struggle against mpea
war nothing but empty phrases unless systematic work carried
in the war industry plants and in the ports talk struggle against
social fascim nothing but the struggle
from day the big factories the
among the unemployed 1t nothing but
about building the and the revolutionary
out doing this the important bodies the
tories the important industrial sections
necessity of cadres without developing them
sections workers.
THE working class will be in position fulfil
decisive in the struggle against finance capital
OF all toing only is headed
closely bound up with the decisive strata of the workers
communist Party with weak and inadequay
SANITATION in the big factories and the decisive sections
industrial workers. Communist
whose entire agitation and propaganda whose entire daily
winning mobng winning
OF the factories Communist
trade union work does not build highways
workers cannot lay claim policy capable making
OF the working class within the shortest possible time
FROM THE LETTER
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-03
Stage and Screen
Going Gay Opens At
M0rOScO Theatre Tonight

Going Gay" a farce by Donald
Blackwell and William Miles, authors
of 80 Pine Street." seen here last
season, will be presented by the Shu-
berts at the Morosco Theatre this
evening. The chief players are That's
Lawton, Charles Halton, Edith King,
Rita Vale and Walter Kingsford.
Tommy" a comedy by Howard
Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson, last
shown here in 1927, will be revived by
Wee and Leventhal this evening at
the Forrest Theatre. The cast is
headed by Charles Eaton, Alan
Bunce, Seth Arnold, Made Reade
and Harlan Briggs.
Paul MUM, who played the lead
ing role in "Counsellor-At- last
season, will appear under the man
agement of A. H. Woods this fall in
1.-THE Red Cat" new play by Ru-
dolph Lothar and Hans Adler. The
adaptation has been made by Jessie
Ernst. Mum has been occupied Of
late in motion picture work.
Ray Henderson and Arch Selwyn
are planning the production of a
new musical show, Mother of Pearl"
a continental farce with music, which
has been success in Europe. Hen
derson will write new score for the
piece. A. P. Herbert has adapted the
book, which has an original score by
Oscar Straus.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-03

granted only with the consent of the
workers elected committees and that
such extra hours should be averaged
over a period in such a way that
emergency workers shall not exceed
the maximum set for other workers.
With regard to speed-up it is obvi-
GUS that the workers themselves are
the best judges when speed-up is
taking place to an injurious degree
and their elected committees should
have power to prevent such speed-up.
Wages and Hours
The code sets up minimum week.
ly wage of $40 week on the basis
OF a 40-hour week. This is the nom
inal wage. Actually from 81 to 81
should be deducted from this to al
low for the extra expenses of shift
workers and men on hot work, who
use up clothesswith exceptional rapid
ity and whose housekeeping expenses
are usually high under the shift sys-
tenn. The higher expense of pur-
chasing at the company commissary
which has been forced on many steel
workers, especially during the last
year, must also be taken into account.
A wage of less than $40 week is a
pauper wage.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-03
Labor Research Gives
Conditions Of Steel
Trust Wage Slaves

Very shortly after John Meldon,
secretary of the Steel and Metal
Workers Industrial Union offered
to produce evidence at the steel
code hearing in Washington of a
vast spy system in the mills against
the workers. the hearings were
quickly adjourned. In this way,
General johnson sought to prevent
the facts of the conditions of the
steel workers from being presented.
In series of articles, based ON
material prepared for the hearing
by the Labor Research Association
the Daily Worker will give the facts.
The following is the first INSTALL
ment.-EDITOR.
The U. S. Steel Corp. maintains
in all its subsidiaries an elaborate
system Of spying on the workers in
its employ in order to prevent their
joining any organization which might
work for higher wages.
The office of the head spy of the
Carnegie Steel Co., Mr.. Charles III.
Tuttle, is located in the same build
ing as the other main offices of that
company in Pittsburgh. Workers have
been fired for organization and black
listed thereafter over period of
years as direct result of this spy
systems operation. The other prin-
cipal companies producing steel also
employ spies with the purpose CT i'm
peding organization moves among
their employees.
Speed-Up
Article 4, Section 3 of the Code
presented by the employers exempts
from the provisions on hours "those
employed in emergency work" and,
in effect, practically everybody else
that the employers see fit to exempt
1t sets up maximum of 40 hours
per week at an average over any six
months period, and provides that
even this maximum" shall be en-
forced only insofar as practicable
and so long as employees qualified for
the work required shall be available
in the respective localities where such
work shall be required and having
due regard for the varying demands
of the consuming and processing in
dustries for the respective products. I"
This is obviously no limitation at all,
The question Of what would con-
stitute an appropriate maximum of
hours is discussed elsewhere. The
union wishes to stress at this point
first that those employed by the So
called emergency work constitute a
very large and important section of
the working force and there is no
reason why these workers should be
exempted from the maximum hour
provisions except in very small min
ority of cases. Much so-called emer-
gency work can be anticipated and a
staff kept on hand Of an adequate
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-03
$40 Wage Is Cut By 81
To So for Hot Work
Special Clothes

The union contends that there is
no valid reason for continuing the
wage differentials as between the
different districts, and urges the es-
Enlistment of basic minimum for
the whole country. The present sys-
tenn of setting wages for the South
at roughly 60 per cent OF the wage
level of the Middle West, constitutes
an outrageous discrimination against
Negro workers. The union stands for
equal pay for equal work, and for
no discrimination Of any sort against
Negroes In hiring, firing, or promo
ton.
Actual earnings before the crisis
for unskilled laborers probably
amounted In the highest paid plants
to less than $50 week, unless one
assumes the plant worked days q
week, when account Is taken Of nor
NAL unemployment" statistics Of
the American Iron and Steel Insti-
tute indicate that from 1923 to 1890
that is before the crisis-unemploy-
ment must have amounted on the
average to at least rs per cent. This
includes unemployment due to part
time work, as well as total unem-
ployment. From this figure would
have to be deducted from 81 to 81
for the reason stated above.
Setting a maximum number of
hours per week would mean little to
the steel workers unless minimum
number Of hours was also set. The
union contends that with the exist
ing overdevelopment of plants in the
United States, and under present
conditions Of export, and taking into
consideration also the relative con-
traction Of domestic markets, an
average production Of more than 6t
per cent Of capacity Is not to be ex-
pected for some years to come. The
union demands guaranteed minimum
weekly earnings Of 80, based on q
six-hour day and 5-day week, all
hourly and tonnage rates to be raised
in the same proportion as the in
crease in the common labor rate
Each worker should receive guar
antee Of 40 weeks work per year. II
he receives less than this amount Of
work, the difference should be made
up out of an unemployment insur.
ance fund the cost to be paid equally
by the company and the federal gov
eminent. The code should embody
provisions looking toward this end.
A minimum yearly wage Of $500 pei
worker is admittedly low. But it will
appear still lower II prices rise faster
than wages. Provision should be con.
tanned In the code for raising wages
automatically a. the. cost Of living
rises.
Time and half should be paid TO,
all overtime.