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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
A CHAIN HAS TWO ENDS

Because people grow thrifty during thin years
is no proof that they grow less gulble. The ne
nessity of watching the small expenditures appar-
emily induces disposition to lend an eager ear to
PROPOSALS which seem to promise a respite from
the ncke-suue azng attitude. Thus, when a glib
acquaintance offers to dispose Of fountain pen,
saw worth So and a book of coupons worth thou
sands (maybe). all for the ridiculously low price
of ST. many frugal spender, dreaming dreams OF
afuence sobery strips four dollars bills from the
carefully boarded roll and starts out to realize on
his investment.
If he has been drawn into the usual endless
chain sales scheme, his next step is to become
salesman and make not one but several pens-plus-
coupons sales. The first three sales net him moth
ing but for the fourth sale and all remaining sales
he is supposed to receive a 81 commission. Like
wise, the first three pens, hats, boxes of sox or
soap sold by those to whom he has made sales re-
turn commissioner and when. On the fourth
stage. granted that all goes according to schedule,
the new recruit to the chain-selling scheme should
receive something more than $50 as his cumula-
tive commissions on the sale of his fourth pen.
Should the chain remain unbroken as far as the
ninth link. reward of some $4,000 would accrue
to the primary saIesman-if, when, maybe, and
perhaps.
1t sounds alluring, and many find it irresistible,
only to discover that it is not so easy as they had
supposed to sell 50 article for 81, or having sold
it. to collect their commiSsions-and obviously
there must be saturation point which would
make the scheme in the long run and in common
parlance 'all wet"
Postal inspectors and agents of the department
of justice decided that the thrifty guibles needed
protection, and hence have been investigating the
selling scheme. They find that the endless-chaln
method of merchandising has been adopted by
some reputable firms, but that the field is overrun
with racketeers and fy-by-nights who silently fade
out of the picture when commission claims mount,
leaving statesmen crying for their commissions.
Investigators estimate that some 100000 indivdu-
ais have gone into the plan. But so far they have
not pointed out that broken link can destroy
each endless chain so far the individuals hopes
are concerned-Christian Science Monitor.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29
SOME FAMOUS DIAMONDS

The diamond is the birthstone of those born in
April according to modern usage, although the
ancients assigned the sapphire to this month. The
fact is that diamonds cut and polished as we know
them, were unknown prior to about 1476, when
this method of BRINGING out their beauty was dis
covered.
One of the most valuable diamonds il the world
is the Regent or Pitt stone, found in India by a
slave and sold to an English ship captain for a
small sum in T7O1. The following year it was
bought by Mr. Pitt, governor of Madras, for about
100000. Fifteen years later Pitt sold it to the
regent duke of Orleans for Louis " of France foc
$64S,OOO 1t subsequently adorned the ht of the
sword Of state worn by Napoleon I, and is now
preserved among the national jewels of France.
It's present value is estimated at than $4,000,
0OO
Among other diamonds of great value and inter
esting history are the Orlof, which was set in the
scepter of the Gar of Russia, having been pur-
chased by Count Oroff for the Empress Catherine
in 1772; the Koh-i-noor, which an East Indian leg
end declares was worn by native hero 5000
years ago. and which now belongs to the British
crown; and many lesser stones.
The largest diamond ever found was the Guilt
nan, discovered in South Africa in 1905, weighing
1924 carats, or than pound and quarter.
1t was presented to King Edward and cut up, being
now among the crown jewels in the Tower of Lon
don.
1t may be mentioned that the South African dia-
mond fields, which supply more than 50 per cent
of the worlds output discovered in 1886,
when a child picked up a stone weighing 81 carats,
which was sold in the rough for $2,5OO.-Ex-
change.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29
Third Of Families
In Henderson Co.
Destitute, Report

Thrty-two and cight-tenths
per cent of the people of Hender.
son county are destitute, accord
ing to figures released yesterday
from the governors relief office
at Raleigh.
This percentage is arrived 1T
on the basis of five persons to
each family receiving aid. On this
calculation, there were 1850
needy persons in this county.
The percentage for Henderson
county is slightly above the gen
cral average for the entire state,
which is Approximately 25 per
cent, according to the figures.
Clay county showed the largest
percentage with 63.6 per cent Of
It's people destitute. Stanly coun-
ty showed the lowest percentage
with only Ga per cent of its pop
ulation destitute.
The percentage for Henderson
county is above that of most
neighboring counties. Transyl-
vania had 20.2 per cent. Haywood
28.S per cent, Polk 36.8 per cent,
Rutherford 81 per cent, Mellow
ell 22.2 per cent, and BuncOmbe
1872 per cent.
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tREAD THE STORY, THEN COLOR THE PICTURED

the sky. lie whirled around Il
couple times, then landed on his
feet.
Instead Of being scared, said
he, "That was as clever as could
be. The beasts attempt to fool
me with trick met with defeat
GONE new excitement then be-
~ gan. Up to the bunch Il
monkey ran. Look! He's .
clown" yelled Copy, and 4 fun
ny one. at that"
The monk then turned some
fine hand-springs and diG some
other funny things. The TIMES
clapped, and then ;he monk
bowed low and tipped his hat.
Another monkey then ran out.
With two balloons he dashed
about and popped each Of the
TIMES, which he thought was
gate a Joke.
Wee Windy shortly ducked his
mead. I'll put an end to this"
!.e said. And then he pinched the
big balloons until both Of them
bro':e.
(Copyrighs. 1893, NEA Service, Incl
(Thc Y;nioS sail away from
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29

THE monkey on the small ira
2peze did many clever tricks
with ease, and then he dropped
down TO the ground and seam
pered cut OF sight.
The TIMES heard wee Quincy
roar, "Hey, come back and per-
form some more" Then Scouty
said, law, let him go! Hes
,,orked with ali his might.
ITO me, there isn't any doubt
that monkeys, too, get all tired
out. If you want more tricks
done, why don't you hop up on the
Lar?
Lets see you swing and flop
around. I'll bet you'll topple 10
the ground. Come on, nov, little
smarty, let's see just how good
YOU are"
GALL right" snapped Quincy.
"A Il am game. Ii something
happens, you're to blame for put
ting me up TO this stunt" lie
then leaped in the air.
Nov, hold on to the bar real
tight and everything will be ell
right" said Windy. Then the tall
giraircS did something quite I'M
fair.
They jerked the trapeze way up
ligh ana frnr moor Dune t'ward
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29

Ala, is here spending q few
weeks with his mother and bro
ther, John Chapman.
Capt. B. T. Egerton Of Lake
ToXaway, who spent the winter
months in Florida, returned last
week and spent the weekend
with the Bradley family here.
Hans and Fritz McITell spent
Sunday with relatives and friends
at Fletcher.
John Corn who has been sick
FOR long time is not showing
any Improvement, friends will re-
greet to learn.
John Chapman's chicken roost
was disturbed Saturday night but
wou!d-bc maraudcrs did not get
ito take any Of the chickens.
Miss Adelaid Broyles and Miss
Willie May Hcffner attended Sun
day school at the Camp Ground
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29
EUROPE FREE
SPENDER FOR
uganda
Nine Governments Provide
Millions to Create For
eign Impressions
By WALLACE CARROLL
United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, April 29.-UP).-
Nine governments Of Europe, eX-
Guiding Soviet Russia, are spend
ing 6O2,000,000 francs this year
on propaganda to put over theit
own theories and policies on the
native populations and other ma
tons. North and South America
are the particular battlefelds Of
these propagandists, and it is to
swing American opinion and mould
it favorably to foreign govern
mental policies that these millions
are spent.
The French government is au-
thority for these figures, when
show that Germany and Italy are
the widest spenderS for propa-
ganda, with France and Britain
as runners-up. These statistics
are contained in the French for
eign office 1888 budget report to
the chamber Of deputies, Just
made public.
HOW THEY STAND
The tabulation as set out in
this official document shows the
following sums spent, directly and
indirectly, for propaganda:
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29
BEHIND TIE SCENES IN
ASEIINI(7TO,lN,N,!
Will RODNEY UJChEB

masses and Dave Reed warns that
the chief sufferers will be the
working people and those of mod.
crate means, whose wages and
the value of whose savings will
be reduced.
THE momeltous press confer
l. ence at which President RoOse-
welt announced the formal retire
ment of America from the gold
standard began with some good
natured presidential wisecracking
with a correspondent in the front
row about the cold which con-
fined The executive to his study
in the White House proper.
It ended as the correspondent
shouted back: well, take good
care OF yourself!"
ELMER THOMAS of Oklahoma,
IL the tall, white-haired, best
dressed senator. has come into
his own as brilliantly as anyone
in this. administration.
Summoned to the White House,
he was consulted by the presi-
dent and given the privilege OF
helping frame and introducing
the presidential imitation program.
Just few months ago 1t
was the fashion here to be very
tired OF Senator Thomas, who was
always making long, serious and
fervent speeches for imitation. he
was Senator Huey Longs CO.
worker in the spectacular fill
buster of last January and his
battle. cry was "Refation-or
So he was very widely regard
ed as a demagogue unworthy OF
attention. me
ironic factor in his present posi-
ton is that the administration
program con aims provisions
which go far beyond anything
Thomas ever NbToposeds or ~
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29

der the Enabling Act and its seiz-
uTe Of administrative control, the
renaissance obviously already has
taken place.
Even prior to the actual as
sumption Of power, however, Hit
Ter carefully avoided promising Il
24-hOUr economic revival. He
asked for four years time, the
exact period covered subsequent
ly by the Enabling Act. Having
prepared the German mentality
by means Of ceaseless propaganda,
to accept the technique which ne
proposed, he set out to discard
what he and his advisers deemed
contemplate and outworn from
earlier postwar regimes. The
non-Nazi half of the German ma
ton. and the entire gu side world,
awaits the commencement Of re-
construction with interest, if not
concern.
NAZIS MAJOR PLANK
The action against the Jews is
he nearest approach 10 the rcaIi-
zation o. a major plank in their
platform that the NaZis can point
10. II can hardly be overlooked,
however, that their triple cam
paign Of suppression against the
Communists, the Socialists, AMI
the Jews, will brig the NaZis
fresh economic and social prob
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29
pEuIND TAE SCENES IN
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

WASHlNGToN The Democratic
w imitation program has brought
forth u reminder that We still haVG
a two-Darty system.
YoT may remember that the
chief Republican contentich used
to be that the Democrats de-
strOyed prosperity and were dis
astrCuS in Il crisis, while the
Democrats Countered with the ar
gG-iant that the Republicans
were the ones who would run us
into the mud. That still seems
10 be it.
Unless Republican leaders are
proved correct in their charge
that the administration imitation
policy will cause more misery
than was experienced under Pres
ident Hoover, or unless the gen.
eral Roosevelt program fails to
check the depression, the once
powerful old G. o. p. will be at a
disadvantage in the 1884 and
1896 elections.
- +
THE familiarity between the
i Republican party and the own
ers of great wealth is demon
gtrated again as that famous trio
Of ultra-conservative millionaire
politicians-:ormer Secretary of
the Treasury andrew w. Mellon,
former Secretary of the Treasury
Ogden Mills and Senator David A.
Reed of Observation-Disclosures
leadership OF the anti-infatiGn
fight.
The lineup reminds you Of the
great Bryan silver fight of 1896,
when Mark Hanna raised millions
to defeat the imitation heresy. In
those days the G. o. P. politicians
sold the workmen of the east on
'the full dinner pail" Today,
with a similar soliaitude. they
tearfully plead the cause of the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29

affairs and finances and propa-
ganda experts from the various
French government departments.
Their chief would become men,
Der Of the cabinet as under-sec-
rotary for propaganda attached TO
the ministry Of foreign affairs.
PROPAGANDA AFFAIRS
The report states the various
measures taken by the present
minister of foreig naffairS, Jo-
seph Paul-BoncoW, to bring about
an intelligent reorganization OF
the propaganda service. Stressing
urgency of the need Of prOpa-
ganda meeting the anti-French
sentiment in the United States,
the report says:
"As concerns America, thor
ough inquiry was made among
French personalities recently re-
turned from America, American
personalities and a great many
American Journalists resident
here
"ThcSe conversations permitted
us to draw up a general plan to
serve as the base for an effort TO
be started in the near future, both
by the development of the press
services at the Quai dOrsay and
bv the collaboration Of an Amer
can news agency associated with
the Havas Agency"
ESPECIAL FUNDS"
In explaining the credits of 49,
100000 francs, Especial funds for
French information abroad" con-
tanned in chapter 40 of the for
eign affairs budget, this report
pictures the efforts Of the French
government to organize the distrl-
button Of French news by Il gov
eminent agency to newspapers OF
foreign countries.
The report states that during
1881 and 1882, the governmeEt
program was completed so far as
it concerns the gathering OF world
news in Paris, its preparation
here and eventual diffusion TO
South America, North Africa and
the Far East.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29
AMERICAS NEWEST WAR VESSEL
(By BRUCE CATION

Nothing that a government can do Is
ever much more impressive than the
launching of great warship.
The accounts written by people who
saw the new u. S. cruiser New Orleans put
into the water at the Brooklyn navy yard
recently all agree on that point. Pacifist
and militarist alike confessed to thrill CT
excitement at the. mere sight of the great
ship. Beauty and strength, grace and grim
menace, combined in one black hull-such
an occasion expresses the might and maj
esty of nation as few things can.
Considered purely as a spectacle, the
launching of a warship is one of the most
striking affairs any government can put
on.
And such a spectacle, too, is apt to lead
a thoughtful man to muse on the uses of a
navy, and the odd fate that attends most
warships. For the years of peace are long
err nowadays than the years of war, and
when a new warShip takes the water the
chances are many to one that she will live
out her career and eventually go to the
SCEapneap WITHOUT once Injecting q snip u
her own class in actual battle.
Indeed, one writer who saw the New
Orleans launched pointed out that in all
our history no American line-Of-battle ship
has ever matched blows with a foreign
battleship. In the war of 1912 it was the
cruisers and gunboats that saw action; in
the Civil War the fighting was largely
with gunbOats and shore forts; in the Span
ish War the few American battleships that
let off their guns let them off against cruiS-
ers; in the World War the American war
ships had nothing but summarizes to fight.
But the queer part of it all is that this
does not in the least mean that building
these great warships is waste of time. a
navy that seldom fights can be quite as
useful as one that fights all the time. 1t is
a form of insurance; its mere existence
prevents fights that might occur if it were
small and weak.
The New Orleans may never fight. Even
the least pacifstic of citizens probably
hopes she never will. But she will serve
the purpose for which we built her ever
if she doesn't. Simply because she exists,
and is afloat and ready, she helps to de-
fend us.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29
BIBLE THOUGHT

OONIHAINDO 10
l. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of
your mouth. (Eph. 1920.
2. Laying aside all evil speakings. Il Pet.
2D.
8 The Word that l shall speak unto thee, that
thou shalt speak. CNum. 22:35).
4. Talk of all His wondrous works. FPS 1852.
5. Tell .. how great things the Lord hath dOue
for thee. Mark $40
6. Speak My Word faithfully. DER. 23:28).
7. Speak every man truth with his neighbour
(Eph. 4:25).
Let the words of my mouth be acceptable
in Thy sight o Lord, my strength and my Re-
deemer Cps. 1919.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29

Nine hundred persons attended a regu-
lar prayer meeting service in the First Bap-
fist church in Spartanburg on recent
Wednesday evening. Which fact supplies
evidence that the entire population of
Spartanburg was not at that time furnish
ing patronage to the beer parlors.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29
SHAWS CREEK

SHAWS CREEK. April %
Mr.. and Mrs. r. ]. Briggs have
returned from Tennessee where
they spent a few days visiting
relatives.
Win Chapman of birmingham,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29

French arrest many workers and tour
lists near the border Notifications, says a
news story Well, Europe may take hope.
The spy industry seems to be picking up,
at least.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29

A good share of the U. S. Senate seems
to want to change the administration S
theme song from Happy Days Are Here
Again" to "Silver Threads Among the
Cold"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29

Poets should work $50 hours a week,
says Edwin Markham. The idea being, We
suppose, that when the rest of us get the
thirty-hour week someone will read the
poetry.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29
last Sunday.

last Sunday.
4 series Of meetings is being
held at the Methodist Episcopal
church at Horse Shoe. 1t began
last Monday night and is being
conducted by the pastor Rev.
Edwards and Rev. Joe Mason.
Miss Hazel Williams is spend
ing a few weeks in Brevard.
The Merrell family have recent
w purchased q horse and wagon.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29

The French Official fepof!
points out that the actual rropa-
ganda spending are in excess Of
those figures, for almost every
government has at the disposition
of its foreign office secret
funds" of some millions for which
there is never any accounting
These totals do not include, either,
the expenditures abroad Of the
British Intelligence Service.
The French report laments that
France has fallen behind both
Germany and Italy in the etfl-
cheney of her propaganda service
and the report blames this failure
for The wave Of anti-trench SEN
timent which swept across the
United States after the French
parliament refused to pay the
Dec. Is annuity on the war debts.
For this year, France is spend
ing on propaganda. according TO
tbs official report, the following
sums:
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29
Propaganda total 71,226,225

Propaganda total 7l,226,225
Citing the cartoons of Ameri-
can newspapers, which bitterly
pictured French "bad faith, bro
ken pledges, disrespect, resent
ment and default on war debt
the movement of American wom-
en- to refuse to buy French goods,
the cancellation of ocean travel
tickets on French steamers and
the wave of anti-French talk,
which swept the United States,
the government document stresses
the need for haste in propaganda.
Citing the example of Germany,
which now has a ministry for
propaganda, the foreign office re
port urges the creation of a SUI
preme council for propaganda for
France. to draft a definite pro-
gram. r.. .
This supreme council would be
composed of certain professors of
various French faculties, parlia-
mentarians from the chamber
and senate committees on foreign
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29
GERMAN RENAISSANCE

The Nazis, through years Of
campaigning, promised a German
renaissance. In domestic politics,
with the reuSscrtion Of a spirit
of intense nationalism. combined
with the granting Of unprecedent-
ed powers to the government un-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-29
Revolution In
Germany Fails
OF It's Purpose

BERLIN, April 29.-UP).-
Germany's national revolution,
bold, spectacular, resistless, sery-
ed 10 bring the Hitlcritcs only to
the threshold of what they have
sworn to achieve.
Ultra-nationalist Germans. ex-
hilarated and inspired by the
Nazi success, failed to perceive
that the political turnover simply
was the means to an end, and not
the end itself.
A soberar and more logical
point of view is beginning to man
fest itself; the hope Of miracles
has been tempered by the ines
capable realization that the world
still is fioundcring in economic
chaos; the realization that victory
may be celebrated by parades, bat
not translated overnight into
farms of bread
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-07
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For walls and woodwork. In
colors and white. Washable.
Special for Saturday only at
this low price.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-08-25
PIMAS RAISE ALFALFA
CROP OF HIGH QUALITY

Sacaton, Aug, 49, More
than l 900 tons of alfalfa hay
have been baled in the Casa
Blanca district of the Pima In
dian reservation this year, ac-
cording to reports by agency
officials.
The Pimas, long known as an
agricultural people, under the
guidance of the government
officials, have been building up
the farm industry on the reser-
vation, since the Coolidge dam
a assured them of water sup
ply. Alfalfa has been a new
crop this year with most of the
Indians, as much of their land
was turned to cotton the first
season it was cleared.
The hay is said to be the
highest quality by those who
have inspected it.
The Coolidge examiner., 1933-08-25
n. R. S. OFFICE
IN COOLIDGE

The following Committee will
have charge of the National
Unemployment Service for Pinal
county: Mayor James M. Saw
telle of Casa Grande, chairman;
other members are E. Ander-
son, Casa Grande; Dirk Lay,
Slcaton; John D. Goree, Cool
ldge; Tom Fullbright, Florence,
Paul McGinnell and James Her.
ron, Superior.
Gertrude L. Sweet will have
charge of the registration in
the Coolidge district. Her office
is at the B. G. Lettering Land
Office, where those desiring to
register, can do so between the
hours of 9 a. m. and IL noon.
The expenditure of approx
mately $35O,OOO.OO on the roads
in the county will be the chief
source of employment supervis-
ed by the committee during the
next several months. according
to the chairman. Surfacing of
the east half of the Casa Gran
de-Gila Bend road and construc-
tion of the over pass con-
stitute the main items in this
expenditure, and it is hoped
that this work will be under
way in the next month or six
weeks.
Although there is no pros
pect of employment through
the National Unemployment
Service within a month or
six weeks, the work of register
ing those who need and desire
employment on the roads
began Monday. Names al
ready registered with the local
welfare hoard will also be put
on file in the Unemployment
force.