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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-11-28
Historic Spots
Being Developed
By c. c. Boys
Civil War and Revolution
airy Battlefields Being
Cleaned up

WASHINGTON. Nov. % CUP
Development and improvement Of
Americas most interesting his
torical spots is one of the conf
paratively unnoticed but never
theless important phases of the
work of the Civilian Conservation
Corps, Robert Fechner, CCC di-
rector, pointed out today.
Fechner drew attention to the
fact that some 100000 workers
are engaged in rehabilitating sew
eral of the famed battlefelds of
the Revolutionary and Civil wars
in the eastern section of the
country.
YORKTOWN AREA
Four camps are located in
the Yorktown, Va, area, where
George Washington led the Amer
lean troops into what proved to be
the deciding and final battle Of
the Revolution. in 1881. Two
camps are at Morristown, N. j.,
an area used by Washington's
troops every winter during the
hectic years from 1775 to 1881.
Four hundred men are at work
in the Gettysburg National Mill
tary Park in Pennsylvania, the
scene of Abraham Lincoln's i'm
mortal speech in 1868. while the
Chickamauga and Chattanooga
National Military Park in Georgia
and Tennessee, which commence
rates famed Civil war battles, has
some 900 additional men working
on it. Other groups of CCC work
ers are situated at Shiloh, Tenn,
Vicksburg. Miss. and Fredericks-
burg and Spotsylvania counties il
Virginia. all places we'll known to
those at all familiar with the his
tory of the United States.
The men are engaged in gen.
eral rehabilitation of the spots,
cleaning away fire hazards, re-
moving vegetation that hides
trenches. earthworks, gun en-
placements and other military
services, and in laying out con-
venient trails by which visitors
may easily find their way around
the entire battlefelds.
RESTORATION NOT PLANNED
The interior departments office
of national parks. buildings and
reservations. which has charge Of
the work. does not intend to even
attempt to make complete restora-
lions of the historic spots. Where
any old Notifications or other
landmarks still are standing, they
will be restored in certain de-
gree so that they az least will not
decay or rot. On the other hand,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-11-28
The Timcs-News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel


vsTEIGH, Nov. 2S.-The ele-
- ~. textbook commission and
E;st school textbook commit
,y-,,h held their first meeting
I, saturday since their organ
- meeting a week or two
o5o2.ed rules and regula-
Y. which indicate that they are
= - look out for the inter-
~ me school children and
- and not give so much con-
lion 70 the interests of the
Ea.lfrs. These rules indicate
.,ase two new textbook bod
/ =. not going to give the text.
I; rbiSherS an opportunity TO
1 : pressure" the members of
4 Commission and committee
1 aa. they are going to look
i,- the best interests of the
/ d: first.
ETse members of both the ele-
,-.ary textbook commission and
ne nigh school textbook COM
-.aa are determined that they
going 70 do their work with
hest interests Of the schools,
school children and the par
! gppermost in their minds,
with as littel assistance from
textbook people as possible"
-snber of the elementary text
|; commission said. eve are, of
,,ss. going to examine the
Is that are submitted by the
fishers. But these books are
"a submitted separately TO each
r5er of the commission and
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-11-28
ANGLER GOT DUCK
NOT TROUT ON LINE

GOLD BEACH. Ore, Nov. %.
(UP). - Eldred Colver, school
principal. caught a duck.
That wasn't SO important. The
main thing is that Colver was
fishing for cutthroat trout when
his line snagged the legs Of the
canYaSback
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-11-28
MAN TRAINS LIONS
FOR BOXING BOUTS

ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ. Nov.
2S.-(UP).-B. +. Wilson, ami
NAL trainer who taught tricks to
Leo, familiar movie trademark
lion, has five promising cubs uE-
der his tutelage at the zoo here,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-11-28
Have mercy on your stomach 80.
Cook with CRISCo-it digests quickly

You don't need to take the JOY out OF eat
ing in order to protect your digestion.
You can gladly say Eyes" to wholesome
Crisco pies and crispy Crisco-fried foods
Yes, they can be good for you-because
Crisco is The digcstible regetoble shortening
that doesn't over-burden your stomach.
Most every day something is fried in
your house. Is it grease-soaked and hard
to digest-or is it brown and crispy the
way Crisco-fried foods are? Crisco can
be heated higacr-so it seals food quickly
in toasty brown-which prevents fat from
soaking into the food. That's why Crisco-
fried foods digest quickly!
But let your common sense tell you.
Look 1T Crisco-See how it piles up like
thick country cream on spoon! Taste
its sweetness. Why, there's nothing like
Crisco, because Crisco is made from di-
gestible vegetable oils by its own secret
process!
When you buy Crisco, look for the
familiar blue-and-white label. Crisco's
vacuum-sealed can is health-protection
to you.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-11-28
LIFE HISTORY TOLD ON BILL

DALLAS. Tex. (UP).-A COLI
densed life history was found
written on the edge of a bill by
a bank cashier here. The legend
read: This is the last of $780,
900 fortune spent on wine, wom-
en- and song. | am now in jail
awaiting execution for murder"
The Washington times., 1933-02-24
ECUADOR ENVOY.
iON TIMES HOUR

Ecuador, the first South Amer
lean nation to proclaim her in
dependence from Spain, was dis
cussed last night by Senor Don
Gonzalo Zaldumbide, minister
from Ecuador, in The Weekly
Times Radio Treat over Station
VOL.
The diplomat traced the history
of his nation back to the days of
the eighteenth century when
French scientists came to the ma
ton of Quito to measure the arc
of the meridian at the equator.
And because this nation Of
Quito is on the equator, Senor
Zaldumbide explained, its name
was changed. only the capital city
retaining the ancient name,
Quito.
1t was in 1909, that the first
break with Spain was made and
put down by Royalist troops
rushed from Lima. But the desire
for freedom was instilled in the
people, and 20 years later this
freedom was achieved.
Although the nation lies on the
equator, the climate is mild. the
diplomat said. due largely to the
altitude of most of the country.
Starting at the seacoast, there
Is a gradual rise through tropical
country with luXuriant vegetation
until the capital, Quito, is reached
amid snow-covered mountains.
Despite the break with Spain,
the country has been largely in
fluenced by Spanish tradition and
e1lltl1re
The Washington times., 1933-02-24
SIX DOMINATE TOWN

STRATFORD, Conn. QN.S0
This town appears to have adopt
ed the number &C." During No.
vemb :, last year, records dis.
closed, there we're six births, six
marriages, and six deaths.
The Washington times., 1933-02-24
POLAND PLANS BARTER

WARSAW.-Poland and Yugo-
slavia are planning a system of
Barter" involving exports of
sugarbeet seeds, metal goods and
timber from Poland in exchange
for YugoSlaVian products.
The Washington times., 1933-02-24
BARTER-PAID FINE

MUSKOGEE, Okla. UNSD,
The barter plan reached the
Muskogee courts when a defend
ant, fined $13 on a liquor charge,
paid his debt with oats, corn and
smoked hams.
The Washington times., 1933-02-24
SUES HOSPITAL

NEW YORK. Q.NS0-Claim-
ing his right leg was amputated
without his consent, John F.
Shannon has started suit for
$4,000 against a hospital.
The Washington times., 1933-02-24
DONATES HAIRcUTS

PHILADELPHIA. (IN.s0-An
increasing number Of long.haired
children got on the nerves Of
Magistrate James Campbell. He
paid for haircuts for 1853 chill
dren.
The Washington times., 1933-02-24
KIRBY PAGE SPEAKS

Kirby Page, editor Of The World
Tomorrow, was the speaker yes
terday at the Howard University
religious services held in Rankin
Memorial Chapel.
The Washington times., 1933-02-24
SEEN THESE YET?

SSINING N. Y. QN.SO.
Sing Sing guards are sporting
new gold badges, replacing the
outmodeled openwork insignia
formerly worn
Evening star., 1933-10-22

Canton and faille crepes
all silk quality. A host
of stunning shades for
all sorts Of Fall fashions!
The Indianapolis times., 1933-11-27
SILVER is NOT ENOUGH

THE silver question once more figures
- prominently in public discussion. Not a
few predict its speedy reconciliation They
expect it to come as an item in broad in
hationist program.
At the world economic conference in Lon
don, some Of the major siIver-p producing
countries and those who are large users of
silver drew up tentative agreement to con-
troll silver production and sales between 1884
and 1888. The President of the United States
may possibly, of his own volition, suggest the
reconciliation of silver There is bound to
be a vigorous drive for reconciliation when
congress assemblies in January.
1t frequently has been contended that silver
played large part in bringing on the de-
preston Of 1929, and that daring silver pol
icy today would do much to put the world on
its feet. There is little ground for either Of
these arguments.
In the first place. the frequent contention
Of the silver enthusiasts that half the world
depends on silver" is very misleading The
only silver standard countries in the world
today are China and Hong Kong, though
other ASiatic countries and a number of
Latin-American states use silver rather
widely.
Those who contend that the low price of
silver since 1880 has been a potent cause of
the depression forget that in 1925 and 1929
the price Of silver was relatively high The
depression was caused by those factors which
were operative before 1929 and not by ele-
ments which have only appeared since Oc-
tober. 1929
Likewise, those who see vast significance
in the fall Of silver from 5s.5 cents an ounce
in 1928 to 2S2 cents In 1882 overlook the fact
that other commodities declined as well as
silver. Therefore. when in 1882 an ounce Of
silver was worth only 2s.2 cents in gold, it was
worth 43.5 cents in other commodities In
other words, its real value declined by only 26
per cent.
The price Of rubber declined so per cent,
copper 81 per cent and cotton 6S per cent in
terms Of gold. SO even the decline of silver in
terms of gold-some 50 per cent-was less Sc
we're than that of many other basic American
commodities. 1t is. thus hard to see how silver
played any large part in either producing or
prolonging the depression
Nor would any policy adopted with respect
70 silver be Of sufficient Importance 70 give
The Indianapolis times., 1933-11-27
GOLD EXTREMISTS

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS monetary pol
L icy appears radical to some But actually
1t constitutes conservative force. 1t acts as
a buffer against probable printing press in
fation by congress if the moderate Roosevelt
gold-trading policy fails to work
Those who are viewing with greatest alarm
and those who are most active in trying to
break down the Presidents policy, apparently
fail to sense the real situation. They fail to
see that extreme currency initiation probably
can not be prevented by any other process
than policy between now and the convening
of congress which will so improve conditions
as to take the wind out of the sails of the
printing press advocates.
Critics of the President talk as though he
were operating in protected academic groves
far from the hard realities of the nations
worse depression and the mass discomfort
caused by suffering. They talk in awed tones
of the gold standard as though it had pro-
duced lasting prosperity.
Is If the bankers and orthodox economists
are right. how does it happen that their pre-
7cious gold system helped to drag us down to
Suppression and helped to keep us there dur
sing almost four years? It was not the Roose-
svelt monetary policy that brought us low.
1T was not the Roosevelt monetary policy that
broke the banks. threw millions of unemployed
workers on the streets, bankrupted agriculture,
and destroyed American confidence and hope.
All that happened under the system to which
they now wish us to return as thing Of per-
fection.
President Roosevelt is trying to avoid two
extremes. One, the extreme of gold slavery
which doubled the value of the March, 1888.
dollar in terms Of 1926 purchasing power.
which prevented debtors from paying their
debts and which depressed prices to disastrous
levels. The other extreme is uncontrolled in
hation Of the printing press type. While the
critics are calling the President names for his
restrained efforts to relate the dollar to a
real sound money level. they ignore the fact
that continued dehation would almost in
evitably swing the country to support of the
printing press panacea-
The President should be getting the sup
port rather than the opposition of those who
fear extreme imitation.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-11-27
KNOXVILLE WINS

U NOxVILLE stood today as the first large
IN city to take advantage of the concrete
benefits of the Roosevelt administrations new
deal in power in the Tennessee river valley.
Proving its desire to cooperate with the
President and the Tennessee valley authority
he helped to create, Knoxville has approved by
a two-to-one vote large bond issue, the pro-
ceeds of which will be used TO construct nlu-
nicipal power distribution system. Its domestic
consumers. its commercial and industrial con-
~samers. will buy IVA power generated at
: Muscle Shoals at rates far below those charged
by private interests.
Application Of the new deals power yard
stick to Knoxville eventually should benefit
consumers IN other cities where rates are too
high
The Indianapolis times., 1933-11-27
FATHER AND SON

N/HAT has happened to the House of
Dollar illustrates the change that has
come over the spirit of American industry.
The founder OF this great Pacific shipping
concern was the late Robert Dollar. hero of
Peter Kynes' "Cappy Ricks" This Dollar
went to work as camp cooks helper at the
age of II, learned to "fgger' on birch bark
with nail, pioneered in timber, launched
tiny steamer to trade with China and died
multimillionaire master Of fifty ships. He
never asked or gave quarter to government
R. Stanley Dollar, his son and successor,
sits before the senate investigating committee
He is surrounded by lawyers, experts and as
sistants. The story Senator Hugo Black draws
from his is not romantic Yes, he had bought
from the United States shipping board. for
$550,00O each seven vessels that the boards
secretary estimated were worth $75000O. He
charged his own concern a commission of
$192500 with 6 per cent interest on deferred
payments To spread the risk of round
the-world steamer service he formed a syn
dicate Of favored Pacific coast capitalists. The
risk netted them $4,000 900, plus big slices of
A stock although they had not put up O.
penny. The company collects a big dole from
the government in mail subsidies.
The present merchant marine law was
passed, SO it was said, to restore the glory
once won by American clipper ships. Thus far
it has succeeded only in creating a new group
OF American coupon clippers
The Indianapolis times., 1933-11-27
MONDAY. NOV. 27. 1888.
CHRISTMAS IS NEAR
A sCRIPPs-HOwARD NEWSPAPER

CHRISTMAs is much closer than most
- people realize. Ordinarily one does not
think much about preparations for the worlds
greatest holiday until after Thanksgiving, but
this year the calendar is playing tricks.
Thanksgiving is later than it has been in a
decade.
Today is the time to begin getting ready
for Christmas. Indianapolis stores have been
ready with their holiday gift stocks for more
than a week. The postofice already has sent
out warnings that the Christmas shopping
season must begin Immediately if mails are
to reach distant points in time
This Christmas should be the happiest
since the depression began. Every one feels
that the turning point in the economic situa-
tion has been reached. The NRA has in
creased employment and raised minimum
wages. Marion county is putting men to work
at real jobs. Stockings will be hung on
Christmas eve in homes which have not
known the holiday spirit in long time.
Best Of all, however, is the spirit Of fellow
ship and goodwill which adversely has spread
through the nation. Folks have learned
that they must help one another.
Those who have are willing to share with
those who have not. Even though there is
more money in circulation this year there are
still hundreds Of children in Indianapolis who
must be helped through the winter. Tomorrow
The Times begins its annual "Clothe-a-child"
campaign. Even during the worst of the de-
preston the city responded generously to this
appeal
SO, as you begin your Christmas shopping
this week, remember there are still little
bodies which will be cold unless you help
The Indianapolis times., 1933-11-27
|M.E.Tracy Says:

WE try to make ourselves believe that crime
w is largely due to social pressure, that most
thieves and murderers would not be what they
are unless forced to it by unjust treatment, that
in many instances they act on impulses such as
might move you or me in the same direction,
and that nothing much is required to change
the picture except revised system
This idea comes about as a natural by
product of the philosophy of collectivisnn. For
the time being we are sold on the notion that
to the same extent as individuals are unfit to
exercise the privileges of free government, they
should not be held accountable for their short
conlings. Crime prevention now is regarded
chiefly as a matter of mass regulation.
In nine cases out of ten, when We run up
against a recalcitrant minority our first thought
is to correct the fault by imposing restraints on
the normal and amenable majority. Thus we
sought to cure drunkenness by writing prohibi-
ton into our Constitution, and thus we are
seeking to end cut-throat competition by sub
jecting the whole country to codes.
HOWEVER effective such doctrine may be
l. l. in economic affairs, it does not seem to
work very we'll socially No one recognizes this
with greater frankneSs than those whom we
generally look up as political extremists,
In Russia, for instance, where individualism
is at a low ebb economically, the state deals
very harshly with personal offenses. There is
hardly a government on earth which holds the
individual so strictly accountable for the per-
formance of his duty or which Furnishes him
with such severity if he fails.
Russians have kept clearly in mind the abb
surdity of trying to eliminate the factor of per-
sonal responsibility. They refuse to hold society
accountable for acts and offenseS for which the
person is obviously to blame Far as they have
gone in the substitution of collective for in
dividual management, they have not undertaken
to make men good by traffic lights and social
service.
They still admit that average human beings
are capable of knowing the difference between
right and wrong, and that penal code, rigidly
enforced, helps to remind them Of what is right.
WTHEN you read such cases as the kidnap-
w ing and murder of young Hart in Cali
fornla, you can not help believing that the
Russians are right.
nails to concoct their diabolical scheme? Thev
go Lack Of food was not the motive Even if
they had started out to blackmail a neighbor,
the offenSe would have been inexcusable. But
when they included murder for the sake of con-
venience and that. too, of young man who
had never done them any harm, and whom
they scarcely knew, the devilshness of their
attitude becomes apparent. So, too, does the
necessity Of swift. ruthless punishment.
The auuring character OF such thoughts as
led these two criminals aStray is rooted in the
fact that many have gotten away with it. Popu-
larize the idea that kidnapping is much more
likely TO lead to the electric chair than easy
money, and the crime soon viii disappear.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-11-27

the world a great economic boost. Not even
China and Hong Kong would be aided greatly
by reconciliation or by the increased price
Of silver.
A country's purchasing power Is not meas
ured by the world value Of its medium OF
exchange Actually. China imports much
more silver than she exports. She is the larg-
est silver purchasing nation In the world and
pays for this silver through her exports. Any
marked rise in the price Of silver would op-
crate to China's disadvantage as large I'M
porter of silver and would thus counteract
other advantages which might inhere in an
advance in silver prices.
No great benefits would come from in
creasing the volume Of money In the United
States as the result Of remonetizIng silver.
There is more gold in this country today
available for monetary use than there was
in 1929 Likewise, there seems to be no great
need for more silver dollars At the begin-
ming of September, 1933 there were some
540000,000 coined silver dollars in this country.
but only 100000 were in circulation outside
the treasury. and most Of these 100000
were calmly IeSILlB IN Cne LllIS OF the banks.
What we need is not more money but q
rapid circulation Of such money as we have.
The problem is not so much the volume as
the velocity of money.
Those who would gain by the remonetiza-
ton Of silver or by any other policy designed
to increase the price of silver would be the
silver-producing countries, particularly Mex
ico the United States and Canada. which turn
out some IS per cent Of the mined silver of
the world.
American capital controls some sc per cent
OF the mined output of silver in the world
and some 73 per cent of the refinery product
OF silver. Yet, in the United States, silver
production is not relatively matter of great
importance. Even in the very prosperous year.
1929 the silver we produced was worth much
less than our peanut crop or our salmon
catch.
Only the gold pirates and those who have
been scared by them want to deny to the sill
yer interests just treatment by the present
administration. But it will get us nowhere
TO base the cause of silver upon pretensions
and promises which border upon the prepos-
ferrous.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-11-27
: A Woman Viewpoint F.:

IF any faith can be placed in the
L propaganda of militarism, Europe
should be facing a long period Of
security and peace. We can look
forward to decades Of good will,
amity and trust.
Now, wait minute-you don't
have to tell me that sounds rather
silly in view Of existing alarming
situations. It is silly. But the folly
is not mine. 1t emanates from the
peculiar reasoning Of generals and
armament makers, who always have
told us, you remember, that the ma
ton desiring peace should prepare
for war in a big way.
Right now, all Of US seem to be
following the advice. According to
the newspapers, guns, airplanes,
bombs, submarines, tanks, cannons
and shells are being manufactured