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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-27
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WITH RODNEY pUIGHEB

nelgnDOrs 10 men VINO were seek
ing to bury or block the Legislation.
! The chief founder and moving
spirit of the league is Stephen
RaushenbuSh, director OF the state
Bureau OF Industrial RelatioGs.
It's chairman is Ralph Turner. a
university professor and another
effective crusader.
The league and other labor re-
form organizations III the second
largest manufacturing state won
their first fight. against Grunuy'
Mellon-Vare members OF the leSlS'
lature in the last session when they
pushed minimum wage law
through the House and forced rec
ord votes for the first time OF some
20 other progressive measures.
1--WE are in state of feudalism,"
says Director Raushenbush, who
was here TO testify for the 3O-hour'
week bill. "Sweatshop conditions
can be found in all parts Of the
state. Wages in some factories are
down to two and three dollars
week and even OH that basis EN-.
ployes are sometimes Tined LOT
poor work so that they receive b.
GO or 20 cents. y
PENNSYLVANIA wages are loves.
in any northern state west OF WIS
consin except New Hampshire,
which will have minimum wage
law. The other day we found a SILK
! mill worker on 60 hours of night
work a week earning from three 70
five dollars.
employers cheat their employees
by selling them fake stock or not
paying their wages. In one town
we found 300 persons. all OF whom
were owed back ages but none OF
whom would sue because they
feared they couldn't get jobs II
their factory ever opened again.
"The courts are largely closed to
such victims. They can't sue be-
icause they can't afford the constable
or other costs that are demanded.
Sometimes we find manufacturers
who have simply picked up their
luggage and moved away overnight
owing their workers large sums IN
| wages"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-27
WE LIVE TOO FAST IN THIS AGE OF
HURRY
(By BRUCE CATION

The problem that gets the most atten-
ton these days is the problem of ADJUST
ing our economic relationships with one
another so that all of US who really want
TO can get and keep remunerative job.
Behind it, temporarily forgotten, is an
other problem which is perhaps even more
acute in its demand for solution. 1t was
touched on the other day by Charles H.
Mayo of Rochester, Mimi, in an interview
at Memphis, Tenn.
life today" said DR.. Mayo, 'is too
tense The mind gives out years before
the body We find old people all around
US who have been dead for years and don't
know it. They don't think any more
their minds have died, although their
bodies live on"
Then the famous physician explained in
detail Just what he meant.
Think what has happened to us in S5
years." he said. sour life, once largely
agrarian, was paced to the horse. A man
could keep up his business in longhand.
Now it has speeded up. Tractors and
typewriterS-a man had to have a type
writer, then a stenographer, then lot Of
secretaries. And what happened? In 35
years the percentage of insanity doubled.
Men Outhved their minds.
Perhaps man is slowly adjusting him
self to this age, this speed. But it is slow
process. The tension has become almost
too great
DR.. Mayo is not the first medical man to
issue this warning. But our usual custom
is to stay about a generation behind our
medical advisors in matters of this kind,
and the killing pace of modern life has
not yet really begun to worry us. We have
wandered innocently into the midst of a
lot of whirring flywheelS, high-Speed CAD
gets and rapidly moving assembly lines,
and it has hardly occurred to US that all
of this is little more than we can stand.
1t is not only in the economic field that
we have progressed too fast for our own
good. The machine age has compelled us
to live our lives under conditions unlike
those faced by any other men in history.
Hand in hand, with our efforts to adjust
things so that over-production and unem-
ployment may be abolished there must be
a sincere attempt to slow down the tempo
of the individual life. 49,
As things are now We use ourselves up
at pitiless rate; as DR.. Mayo says, we die
long before we realize it.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-27
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

WASHINGTON = Perhaps no
W such group of nationally
known, colorful characters has ever
been involved in labor dispute as
those men and women now Gil
gagged in the war against sweat
shops which has been to the fore
in Washington and has its chief
localized battle-ground ii Penn
SylYania.
President Roosevelt, Mrs. Roose-
welt and Secretary of Labor Per-
kins have all participated and Mrs.
Clifford Pinchot, wife of the gov
ernor, recently dramatized the
struggle by parading on a picket
line.
Important political implications
enter the picture because the Iegls'
lature which refuses to pass mln-
imum wage and maximum hour
laws is dominated by Andrew Mel
on, Joe Grundy and Bill Ware. 1t
was Senator Dave Reed, their man
in Congress, who led the opposition
10 the Black 30-hour-week bill in
Washington fact which will be
used against him in his reelection
campaign next year.
The sweatshop has come to be
recognized by everyone, including
Roosevelt, as a serious national
problem. The reason is that sweat
shop wages in industry force down
wages and purchasing power gen
orally when a majority of manufac'
turers are forced to meet unscrupu'
lous competition.
The Pennsylvania Security
League-which already has 10000
members and is organized on the
theory that economic security is
the ore thing people need today
more than anything else-is the
spearhead in the strong statewide
agitation for a special session OF
the legislature for the passage OF
wage, hour and old age pension
laws.
During the last session they
picketed the houses of state. sena
tors. calling attention of all the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-27
North Blue Ridge

NORTH BLUE RIDGE, May
27..-Mr. and Mrs. w. T. Willis
had as their dinner guests on
Mothers day, Mr.. and Mrs. Mar
vim Willis, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. r.
Willis and children of Winston
Salem, also Mr.. and Mrs. Knox
Hyder.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Allen, Mrs.
C. N. Allen and Benson Cole at
tended the commencement eXer-
cises at Fruitland Institute last
Thursday night.
Miss Alice Tennille, who has
been spending some time with
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Cole, has re-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-27
THOUGHTS OF
A FISHERMAN
By Ike Walton, Redivivus

Sallie's going to quit teaching
school. She used to get a hum
dred dollars a month and then
they cut her down TO eighty-flve
and now to sixty. She could get
along very well on that and pay
me thirty for board and the rest
for club-dues and books, etc, but
has been doing some ciphering.
She says she endorsed a note for
the chairman Of the committee
and he went broke and she had
to pay that. Then the party
asked her for q ten per cent con-
tribution and she paid that. Then
a member of her committee Dor
roWed a couple of hundred to
send his girl to college and could
not pay it back, and now the girl
wants the school. Then another
member Of the committee Dor
rowed her car and got in a wreck
and it cost her hundred to fix
it. up. Sallie ciphers that she can
make me pay board and do bet
ter. Besides, she says she can
cut off the roots Of weeds, but
she can't eradicate ignorance that
easily. Then also she says a calf
will love her if she is good to it,
but a lot of kids will just take
all her kindness as if she did it
to hold her job. She snapped
her claim against the bank TO me
for two acres Of land and two
hundred pulIcts and a load Of
corn and she's going into bust
ness.
l guess Sallie got jealous of
my fishing. You see ] can get
up at four-thirty and do all my
Framework by noon, and have all
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-27
Tuxedo Juniors
To Hear Lewis
Special Service Set for
Sunday, 8 P. M.

A special service will be held
at Tuxedo Baptist church Sunday
night. May % at 8 o'clock, for
the Junior Order, by the pastor,
Rev. NJ. l.. Lewis.
Every member Of the Green
River council is especially asked
to be present, and any other Jun
iors in the county who wish to
attend.
Special music will be given by
the Junior Order Male quartet.
The public is cordially invited to
attend this service.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-27
Defoe as Press Agent

Defoe, author of Robinson Cruz
Soc" who died more than 200 years
ago, had the press-agent spirit wor-
thy Of any modern, as witness the
story of his being called in to boom
the sales of a book titled "COnsOla-
lions Against the Fears OF Death"
Defoe wrote up a story of q depart
Ell spirit coming back TO earth to
recommend out Of her sure knOwl-
edge Of the subject the truth and
verify of the hOok-and the book
sOld.-DetrOit News.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-27
turned to her home in Greenville,

turned to her home in Greenville,
S. G.
Mrs. Curtis Blythe, who has
been i'll, is reported better.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. johnny
King, a daughter, who will bear
the name Viola.
Miss Minnie Boone, who is
staying with Mr.. and Mrs. w. T.
Willis, spent last weekend at her
home in Rutherfordton.
Mr.. Boyce Cole, of Spartan
burg, S. c., is spending several
days with his brother, S. NJ. Cole.
Mrs. f. A. Allen and children,
Jimmie and Dixie, called to see
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Pace last
Saturday evening.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-27

Federal Judge James A. Lowell, of Mas
sachusetts, told jury that when witness
wipes his hands it is almost a certain indi-
cation that he is lying. Well, every man
should come into court with clean hands.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-27

Alcohol can be made from petroleum
cheaper than from corn, asserts DIR. Gus
tav Egloff, famed research chemist. May
be in the future the expression Getting
well oiled" will really mean what it says.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-27
Childish Guidance

Parents must remember that no
rule of thumb can be laid down for
guiding their children. Let your
child meet new situations and try
out his own methods; interfere as
little as possible, especially in the
beginning. but be on hand either to
take the kceneSt edge off failure or
to add not too complacent thrill to
sucCess.-Parent'S Magazine.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-27

Oratory at S55 a page cost the taxpay-
ers $1,000 for recent issue of the Con-
gressional Record. Now will those who
have accused congressman of being dumb
please apologize?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-27

U. S. Treasury warns everybody to be
on the lookout for new counterfeit S20
bills For long time, we've been on the
lookout for a good one.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-27

Al Capone plays third-base on the At
lanta penitentiary baseball team and en-
Joys the noisy roofing of the fans, says a
reIeasedaeonvict. Well, Al always did like
the racket.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-27

There was no crying over split milk in
the recent Wisconsin milk strike, except
when sheriff's deputies threw the tear gas.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-27

The man with brand new car must be
patient. Maybe by the time he gets the
third scratch on it his wife will let him
take It for a fishing trip.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-27

-Four Powers Agree on Ten Years
Peace'-headline Why not extend it to
100 years and then celebrate real Gen.
fury Of Progress?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-27
my grace i. .uffieien. for thee" e Cor. 1920

Perplexing providences if taken Gods will
for will lose all their disturbing features. Con-
tentment and resignation major spiritual tri-
umphS. Gods grace is ALL SUFFICIENT to en-
ableivariops tried, and the weakest Christians
to use trials stepping stones to the victories Of
faith If we TRUST, fear will flee. If we FEAR,
trust will become weakened" Ernest NJ. WadS-
worth. Be-.
will TRUST and not be afrad.-lsa. 1872.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-08-31
THE RADIO MONOPOLY
Labor, Washington, D. CO.

Despite the warnings of Progress
sives in and out of Congress, few
big radio companies have secured a
monopoly of the air. This fact was
emphasized by E. H. Harris, chair
man of the radio committee of the
American Newspaper Publishers AS
sociation in a recent address before
the National Editorial Association.
How can We have freedom of
speech over the radio as long as the
holders of these exclusive privileges
are sole judges of what can and what
cannot be broadcast" Mr.. Harris
asked. And he added:
Foreign governments have found
the solution in government owner
ship, or government control, and it is
possible that we also may be COM
PEELED to adopt this policy before the
radio actually is used in the public
interest, convenience and necessity {"
We have been experimenting with
government control for years only to
discover that the Radio Trust owns
the regulatory agencies. There is
only one Solution-gOvernme owner
ship and operation of a national
broadcasting system supplying ade-
quate programs.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-08-31
WARNINGS AND MORE WARNINGS

Editor Askov American:
We wish to thank a certain writer
for calling the attention of the pub
lie to our Benevolent Societies and
to Chapter 241 Session Laws of Min
nesota, 1888. Chapter 241 H. F. No.
1914 was approved April 18th, 1888.
Now let us see what the Law has
to say, quote Section %, Chapter 241:
Within six (6) months after the pas
sage of this Act any association or
Corporation doing business in this
State and paying benefits by means of
assessments upon it's members or vol
untary contributions, by its members
desiring to continue in operation shall
come under the provisions of this act
by complying with the following;
then follows a statement of the condi-
tions to be met by the associations or
corporation.
The Pine County Benevolent Society
together with many other associations
of Reputable" men and women are
proceeding in a reputable and orderly
way to conform to all the provisions
of that act.
The high character of the members
of the Pine County Benevolent So
ciety, Pine County, Mimi, and the ex-
perience and integrity of it's organ
izers as evidenced by the many county
organizations they have built with
several thousand of enthusiastic and
loyal members, speaks for itself.
We do not believe in using dis
reputable methods in organizing IRE
putable" people. ALI Benevolent as
sociations could not be inspected and
approved or disapproved by the In
surance Department in a day, so the
Law provided six (6) months time in
which to do the work.
With best wishes for the success Of
all reputable associations in their eff
fort to serve the public.
ERWIN L. NELSON,
Secretary-treasurer.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-08-31
AT LEAST SHOWS COURAGE

President Martinez Mera's second
refusal to resign as the head of the
Ecuador government has caused con-
gress there to go into three-day
adjournment, and at the same time
send a commission to him again to
demand his resignation on the
grounds that the peace of the coun-
try required such action.
The president replied that 'the feel
ing of the country has manifested
itself in favor of the government"
and that unrest in Quito has resulted
from congress passionate and blind
desire to destroy the executive"
1t appears that the old saying, "Un-
easy lies the head that wears a
crown" is very true when it comes
to the spirit prevailing in many of the
smaller countries these days. At any
rate the Ecuador president is show
ing some degree of determination and
possibly a stabilizing power for his
country in his direct affrontal to the
government. His courage should make
him a good president if it is used
right.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-08-31
RING in CLASSES

The beginning of a new week will
be occupied with the ringing Of school
bells calling children from their va
cation play and teachers from their
vacations. A brighter school year is
hoped for than the last was. The
delinquent tax situation causing many
schools to run behind in their pay
ments to keep going has made the
task of conducting public schools dur
ing the past two or three years very
difficult. While in many cases the
prospects are brighter for the coming
year. it is disappointing to see some
schools in very poor circumstances.
In any event the management Of
school affairs calls for straightfor-
ward and honest curtailment of spend
ing until the present crisis is past.
We owe it to the children to keep
the school in good condition but
school boards must be on guard over
the finances if they desire to keep
their districts in the swim
Welcome children and teachers
alike and may your duties be mu-
tually beneficial.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-08-31

ent system, forces the choice Of these
groups up on the president.
Then, in turn, the 'spoils system
judges, appointed for life to the
bench, reward their political patrons.
perhaps the business or political
friends of the senators by appoint
ment to receivership.
81 wish to say to the Minnesota
State Bar Association that, were l the
appointing power, l would give more
weight to the recommendations Of
your Bar Association in the appoint
ment of federal judges, than 1 would
to the political influence of any sem
atOr."
Senator Shipstead is right. Ap-
pointment of federal judges should
be matter of fitness, determined by
recommendation of the best legal
minds of state, rather than a mere
distribution of political plums. Under
the existing system, the wonder is
that we have such high-class men &C.
cupying federal benches. 1t would
be just as easy to place the other kind
there.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-08-31
TRUCKER VS.. LOCAL MERCHANT
AND TAXPAYER
(Eveleth Clarionl

One of the most prevalent evils that
is growing and increasing by leaps
and bounds is the trucking of mer-
chandise into the rural communities
from the big cities in competition
with local enterprises. The trucking
concerns who bring in bread, bakery
goods, meats, fish, sausages and vege-
tables may be a convenience in some
respects to some people, but such
competition to local enterprises is
slowly strangling the business OF the
community. The truck concerns leave
nothing in the town except a bad
smell of burned gasoline as their
trucks pull out after unloading their
merchandise. They pay no taxes ana
do nothing to build up the rural town.
On the contrary, they are tearing
down its commercial structure.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-08-31
CHECKING THE RECKLESS
madison Independent Press)

The Minnesota Safety Council is
starting war on drivers of cars with
defective brakes. This is a splendid
move and should have been done a
long time since. There are two or
three other safety moves that should
be made before it is too Late. One OF
them is a curb on speeding. We. know
that the new automobiles have oceans
of speed" we know that the cylinders
are packed with power" we know
that they can take corners at a high
rate of speed, but we don't know how
to bring back the life of a person who
has been killed as result of one OF
these demonstrations. We have waged
a bitter fight against the driving of
cars by youngsters who can barely
see through the steering wheel. We
will continue to bring this fact before
the public until this violation of the
law is discontinued. And while we are
on the subject of safety, let's remem-
Der the fellow who is so darned impOr-
tant that he doesn't have to stop be-
fore driving onto a through street.
Any one of these infractiOnS of the
law is more important than checking
up on the other fellow whose auto
mobile still carries last years license
plates.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-08-31
A BOOMERANG

Many methods of sales production
and promotion are tried and put over
to good advantage. The trait for in
augurating new and novel ideas in
business is to be commended, but
some times an idea is hit upon that
is not given sufficient thought before
it is adopted.
Just recently well known national
weekly publication sent out a letter
to local man with the following in
ducement on it:
"Your son has been so highly rec
commended that l am anxious to find
out first whether you care to have
him become one of our Junior Sales
men before | write to other boys.
Il need a boy of your sons ability
in your neighborhood right now. A
friend of yours who has been a reader
of ---- for long time told me
about your boy. He thinks he is the
most suitable boy he knows to become
the local member of our Junior Sales
force"
The argument sounded good and
would possibly get just what the pro-
mOter was after in many instances
but not in this case, for the man
whom the letter was sent to had only
a daughter. This, needless to say,
was wasted sales effort for it was dis
gushing to the recipient because he
saw at once the whole thing was a
misrepresentation and misrepresent-
alton is not soon forgotten by one.
Nor should it be. The promoters sole
thought was to get business and he
was so anxious that he apparently
didn't even stop to consider that he
might be sending a boys letter to a
sOnleSs father.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-08-31
SPANISH JUSTICE
(St. Paul Daily NewS)

1t must have made an American
a little bit melancholy to read the
other day that Don Juan March Or
dinas, the richest man in all Spain,
has just completed year in Jail.
This wealthy Spaniard, it develops,
was a deputy to the cortes, and he
was accused of bribing Gen. Primo de
Rivera, former dictator, to obtain the
Moroccan tobacco monopoly in 1926;
and all of his millions couldn't keep
him out of jail.
Spain seems to have a different
method of dealing with such folk than
we have. In the United States, when
some wealthy man brides high gov
eminent official, we do lot of talk
ing about it, and we even make the
wealthy gentleman come into court
but we don't ordinarily even come
close too sending him to prison. 1t
might be worth our while to find out
how Spain does it.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-08-31
THE DRIVE AGAINST CRIME
Duluth Herald)

Through the press and over the air
the movement to check and repress
the criminal operations of professional
lawbreakers grows. 1t has become d
common belief that, unless the power
Of the underworld is broken, its nab
tines will wreck social and economic
life.
The generous public, for a long
time, has reposed in the 'beliet that
lawbreaking could be put down in the
old way, by courts and prisons, 50
carried ON that convicts would realize
that the public desired the welfare OF
criminal unfOrtunates and indeed was
willing to charge to society at large
a good share of the odium of evil.
1t seems, however, that no amount
of sympathy, no amount OF relaxation
of punishment, has been enough to
soften the professional criminal heart.
The more kindness these get the more
they want. They think any conces-
sions made to them are born OF fear.
They have no heart nor conscience.
They wish to ply their trade. which Is
any sort of crime. They figure that
society owes them living, and they
are utterly sordid.
Senator Royal S. Copeland of New
York, is the chairman of a senate sub
committee which is Investigating
racketeering and kindred evils. This
body has taken the evidence OF
theorists and of those practically ex-
perienced. There is unanimlty that
crime must take back seat, that its
sinister character must be understood,
and that, stripped of DISCUSSES. it
must stand in the open for what it is.
Edward P. Mulrooney, former police
commissioner of New York City and
now chairman of the New York state
beverage control board, favors an is