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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-05
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
ANOTHER RECORD

The members of the 1888 General Assembly OF
North Carolina will not become famous or lhla-
nous, as the case may be, for just the one reason
that thew barnessed general sales tax on Tar
Heel people
Although that ought to be ignominy enough 70
satisfy the most avid seeker after questionable
honors there is another record which has been set
and that is that the House is nearing the htteen
hundred mark in the number of bills introduced
this session. Two years ago in the marathon SEES
sion when the legislature ground away for l4l
DAYS the record to that date set, and LAD
measures were presented for passage.
To Representative COffey, of Caldwell county,
persistent advocate of the sales tax in spite OF
general sentiment against such a levy throughout
Lenoir and most of his county, goes the palm Tor
having presented House Bill No LAG last Friday,
which set a new all-time record for the number
introduced Of course several bills have made
their appearance since that time and perhaps
GOOD many more will have found their way into
the legislative hopper before the present session
writes fms to its hectic heyday of political hara-
kiri.
The point is, as the Greensboro News notes,
there is nothing to be proud of in a record number
of bills presented in session pledged to economy,
and how!
The following excerpt of this comment of The
News is interesting:
Any number of factors may have entered into
the new high figure Much hates to believe
it. house members may not only cling to the idea,
but have it growing upon them, that county, state
national and world problems can be solved by
passing law. There are infinitely more problems
to be solved than ever before hence more laws are
if not actually passed. Inability of the
present general assembly, and therein the legsla-
tors may be acting like the most of Us, to make up
its mind may be a contributing factor. Instance
after instance might be cited where the house has
looked with favor upon measure today, repealed
it tomorrow, and then come back to its original or
q slightly altered position the next day.
How many of the measures proposed have ac-
tually been placed the books the Daily News
does not know. But surely, the total has been suf
ficient to make them more cluttered up than ever,
to cause a foundering citizenry to have still less
certainty as to when it is is not violating the
law. and to make the legal profession which has
far more than its quota in the assembly, more nee
essary and hence more lucrative.
All this too is beside the point that it costs the
taxpayers to have bills proposed put through GER
tain prelminaries and discussed; yet legislature
which is pledged to economy sets new mark. No
wonder establishment of this new record is not
heralded with paeans of acclaim and the brows of
those who established it wait in vain for bestowal
of laurel wreaths.-Hickory Record. /
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-05

lily Of FruitIand, have moved into
this community recently and will
make this their home.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. T. Conner
spent the weekend with the lat
ter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. b. i.
Conner.
The people Of this section have
rcorganized the Sunday school at
Mount Zion. A log church is be-
! ing built there, on May 8. Every
body is invited to attend the
working.
Miss Isabel Conner has return
ed home after spending some
time with her relatives IN South
Carolina.
Mrs. Mary Garrcn is i'll at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon
Laughter at Fletcher.
Curtis Connor's mother of
Marietta, S. c., was a visitor at
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. j. Connor'a
Sunday. .
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd French Of
this place, are visiting with Mr..
French's brother near Face Rock.
The latter is home now after an
absence of several years.
Chase Fox of Brush Creek, re-
Gently visited Mosey Conner.
Mrs. Dora Rhodes visited at the
home Of her mother. who IS Ill,
at Fletcher, on Monday.
Bonsey Connor and Porter Con-
ner attended a birthday dinner.
given a. the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Luther Wilson in honor OF
"Grandma" Wilson. She is now
in her S3rd year. A large crowd
was present and a splendid dim
ncr was served.
Mrs. J. +. Cox called on Miss
Isabel Conner Monday afternoon.
Herbert LYDIA of Dana, spent
Sunday night with MonSey Con-
nor.
Press Garrcn and Ben Whitak-
er Of Fruitland, were business
callers in this section during this.
week.
Napoleon BarnwcH Of Kylcs
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-05
BOYCOTT BEER DEALERS
tor Of The Observer:

To the Editor of The Observer:
While beer-drinkng parties here on May Day
were boisterousy celebrating, a group of earnest
citizens were meeting in West Raleigh to protect
themselves against what they conceived to be the
baneful effects of iegalized beer. They proposed
to put themselves definitely in line with the ma
tion-wide movement to resist the brewers in their
efforts to make beer part of the stock in trade
of every grocery store and filling station.
These citizens met for business and organized
for definite action The first aim will be to press
the 'sBuv Drv' movement in their community. A
committee was named to see the local grocers and
druggists and filling station men to encourage them
not to handle beer. This committee Immediately
went to work. They offered these dealers their
trade and their influence on condition that they
agreed not to handle the drink. They frankly told
those who proposed to handle it that they would
have to boycott them. The approach was IN the
spirit of good friends and neighbors. They assured
them that the boycott would be purely in self-de-
Tense, and in no sense vindctive. This was en-
phasized in the meeting of citizens Parents strong
" expressed their unwilngness to have their chill
dren enter stores or other places where beer Is
sold, believing the ideal Of total abstinence will
be undermined in children who daily witness the
purchase of beer under the protection of the law.
The parents declared also, that they wished them
selves to avoid the revolving sight And they pro
pose to tell their grocer and druggist that, if they
hand booze over their counters, they will feel COM
PEELED to go elsewhere to escape the sight. They
hope thus to encourage enough places to remain
dry to meet the demands of the "Buy Dry" move
ment And the committee was encouraged by their
visits Some places were found dry in sentiment
but in danger of yielding to the clamOr of few
booze lovers The offer of support by booze haters
will keep them dry.
The new organization will be known as the Will
mont Citizens club, with Mrs. Lillian Parker Wal
lace, of the Meredith College faculty, as chair
mans. L. Morgan in Charlotte Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-05
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w E---A WITH RODNEY DlIGBEB
WITH RODNEY -DQIGBEB

cations Tor discharge IRON ueDts
are granted in 99h per cent or
cases. Rarely is there any i'll
uuiry and seldom do creditors
receive anything from the assets.
During years of prosperity
it was reported, "many consrraers
pledged their future income in
order TO satisfy tastes and desires
beyond their financial! capacity.
Twenty-2ight per cent OF the
bankrupts were found 70 have
been extravagant. ThTs a man
earning $4,000 a year @as found
owing $4,000 for clothes. food
and rent purchased within a year,
q S1O0-s-montk man was support
ing q family OF four and buying
piano, furniture. refrigerator
NE automobile Rnd clothes for all
on the installment plan. aud q
man who earned $4,000 in ono
year spent over $4,000, OF
which $1,000 was on credit.
MORE than Is per cent OF
In bankrupts were those evadlng
Judgment debts-the second larS-
est group. Nearly 80 per cent OF
the group were persons who hae
nut their names on notes for
other persona aud most OF the
othsvs haa 6eea assessed for per-
sonsl injury or property damages
caused by automobile accidents
The next largest cause was the
avoidance OK liabilities on tore-
closed hcmes-13.5 per cent.
Domestic observation-disclosures
and alimony payments, illness,
medical and funeral expenses
we're responsible for IL per cent
Of the bankruptcies. And debts
incurred during various ventures
into business for about 5 per cent
more. ,,
Stock and real estate specula-
ton accounted for per cent.
TOO many merchants have fol-
lowed the policy of selling the
merchandise and getting the name
of the purchaser on their books,
how or when he is to pay Tor II
being a secondary matter.
With the whole machinery OF
modern business set to stimulate
sales, stheb tendency to overload
the consumer with credit Is "
most Aresistible.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-05
SOVIET LIVING
STANDARD Low
UndernOurishment Of NIL
lions Feature of New
Five-Year Plan
By EUGENE LYONS
ted Press Staff Correspondent

United PreSs StaIl Correspondents
MOSCOW, May 5. (UP). -
Progressive lowering Of living
standards in the last year, chief
ly as a result of difficulties with
the "sOcialized" peasantry, is the
most apparent element in the
Soviet economic picture Of the
second five-year plan.
Sensational comparisons with
the famine of 1921, when mil
lions died, clearly are eXaggera-
tons, as all foreign observers
who witnessed that tragedy ana
are living here now can testify.
The present condition more cor
rectly can be described as un-
REIMBURSEMENT for many mil
lions, amounting in the worst re-
gions, such as Ukraine and North
Caucasus, to near-hungCr.
OFFICIAL. ADMISSION
The fact that the government
has undertaken to feed the peas
ant population in many districts,
especially in the Kuban and Don
Cossack areas, amounts. to an Of
ficial admission Of the seriousness
of the situation in those places.
Foreigners, who visited the at
fected regions recently brought
back drab reports. In some of
the villages the inhabitants are
without bread and they suhsiSt
exclusively on potatoes and other
substitutes. Livestock is being
slaughtered in those villages, to
the detriment Of the whole ma
tional supply Of animal products.
But it must remembered that
conditions are far from uniform
in the Soviets. At one extreme
are the half-starved Caucasian,
Ukrainian and Lower Nolga vii
lagos. At the other are relative
ly well-fed villages Of the Central
provinces, Western Siberia, Up
per Volga and other areas.
That food shortage is the most
pressing national problem, how
ever, is a self-evident fact. Even
in the capital ratiOns have been
reduced to a minimum.
FIGHT DIFFICULTIES
The brighter colors in an other
wise black picture are provided
by the vigor with which the rul,
ing Communist party is moving to
overcome the difficulties. On the
"Agrarian Front" the kremlin
has modified its best forces
against hostile conditions.
In the worst provinces commits
sions have been set up, with pow
er to "mobilize" unwilling labor
for sowing and harvesting. Re-
calcitrant villages are being pun"
ished en- masse, sometimes by eX-
lie to Far North. The death
penalty is being used msparingly.
But the Bolshevik regime does
not count casualties. Deliberate
Ily it is intensifying the class
struggle in every village. on
every collective far1p, the kulaks
being hunted out and punished
pitilessly.
In the midst Of such fierce
struggle, life in the Soviet Union
naturally is harsher than it has
been for some years.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-05

&9o.9S.
The man who knows the why
fore of this is Roger, style die
tator at the Fox studios. Roger
can make Il 25O-pound dairy maid
look like a pattern model and
likewise he can take a female hu-
man bcanpolc and create for her
a figure guaranteed to stop trat-
fic on any given corner.
"Mcn used to tap the feminine
objects Of their affections on the
head with a hammer and drag
them to their respective caves ny
the hair" explains Roger. "Thcn
to scheme in order to intrigue
and attract them.
"Hcr efforts soon were more
than mere attempts to amHaa
him becoming fantastic ways TO
make herself beautiful in order
that she might someday become
his, and he hers, in servltude.
Simple. isn't it?
"StyleS always cnanSe, ol
course. Women wear lots of
clothes, and again they wear next
to nothing, but always with a
view to afford the men a new
and refreshing feminine vista. 1t
nearly always works.
"You can readily see why near
l,y oil fashion DESIGNERS for the
movies are men. We know what
our fellow men will fall for"
Roger is now engaged in what
is known as a designers delight;
For cts Great to BE Alive"
Raul RouIicn's first English talk
lie, Roger has the task Of gown
ing practically every member OF
the cast. Rou}icn is the only
man in the show. The rest are
women-from mayors to street
sweeperS."
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: another cried. The little girl
have gone inside. wonder whal
will happen now Gea, how car
we find out?"
Il know" said Copy. Eve
will sneak mp to Il window. Then
we'll peek. / cannot ret until
| know what this is all about"
THEY got dom on their hands
and knees and reached the lit.
tie house with ease. I'm do the
Deeking," Scouty said. The rest
II you lay low"
Don't let the woman see your
face, unless you want TO leave this
place." said Quincy. 1T will spoil
the whole thing, if We have to
so" ..
Then Scouty heard the woman
say. I'm glad l founG. you girls
today. You see, am the wor!,
witch. | despise all sorts of PLAY.
"Yo'. both are going TO work
10" me and you'll be busy as can
be. III fine enough 20 Keep you
busy ali the live-long day"
Copyright, 1893, HEA Service. Inc.)
Quincy suggests Il way 10 help
the little girls In the next story
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-05

goat, and is allowed to gaze on
the skinny bones of the bathing
beauty with an expression like
Jezebels and an eye like Poti-
phar's wife's and all that. I'd
rather look at my nanny goats
kids gambolling in the clover
meadow, and see the cardinal on
the fence post, and hear the
thrush singing in the crab apple
thicket. and get my art that way.
Good Lord, do those magazine
fellows take Us for lot of rustic
fools? r =. :,
One Of the worst offenders rs:
the cigarette ads. They try to
fix up a girl to look smart and
"chic" and succeed only in making
her common and vulgar. | some.
times wonder who the fellows are
who get up those ads. They must
be a queer lot. Their ideas Of
what is attractive must be based
on some of the art practiced by
the Benamfula and the Kopa-
KanawaS. The insipid and silly
grins on the faces Of the whang-
doodle models would make an
orang-outang indignant if he
thought they were trying to claim
kin with him. | suspect a lot of
smokers buy their tobacco from
somebody else because they get
tired Of those idiOtic ads. know
a man who does. He said he
would not smoke cigarettes that
made man look as much like Il
Sinking ape as those advertise
mcnts did.
The magazine people might do
the public 2 service if they would
teach the ad-writcrs how to show
the public their wares without in
sulting the taste Of everybody
who must see those pictures; and
especially do it now before the
/ beer advertisers get started with
some more rotor the beer
crowd must sooner or later com
pete with cigarettes as well az
nearly everything else.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-05
SHALL THE FIRE RECORD STAND?

The record of Henderson county fire
losses for the past few years is record
that is disgraceful. Is Henderson county
going to continue that record into the fu-
ture? Or do we propose to have a house
leaning-iiterally and figuratiVely? We
should have a concerted effort among all
good citizens to put an end to incendiary
fires; and then we should have an intelli-
gently directed and honest countrywide Ell
fort to reduce fire losses that result from
carelessnesS and other preventable causes
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-05
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NrA Service Writer
VTASHINGTON-Why 90 pco-
w pie 80 broke?

VTASHINGTON-Why 90 pco-
W pie so broke?
Uncle Sam knows most OF the
answers, after a careful study OF
the bankruptcies OF numerous
salaried and wagc-earning indi-
viduals.
Optimism--that's the chief rca-
son. Most OF the bankruptcies
studied were traced to eXtrava-
sgance-often at the behest OF a
high pressure buy now and pay
later" salesman, endorsement Oh
notes for friends or relatives VINO
failed 10 make good, avoidance OF
liabilities on foreclosed mortgages
that couldn't be carried, and
speculatiOu in stocks or real es-
tate.
Less than five per cent OF the
e66 consumer bankrupts covered
Inv the survey were regarded as
primarily dishonest" by the ex-
merits of the Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce and
Yale University's institute OF hu-
man relations and law school.
However, the latter believe that
"the number Of eXtrayagant, dis-
honest. incapable or speculative
debtors securing bankruptcy dis
oborges is in excess of the num-
her of unfortunate debtors woo
deservedly receive freedom iroih
their debts"
ONLY IS per cent of the cases
" were laid to decreased IN
ooua although the fact that the
svryey covered the eight months
ended June, 1881, suggests that
unemployment and wage cuts may
he a heavier factor in current con-
SINNER bankruptcies.
Debts can be discharged so
easily through bankruptcy that
t%erS has been big increase IN
these actions among wage earn
ors-414 per cent between l9zo
and 1880. In 1929 more than
s25 600, 100000 in retail sales
wore made on credit, upwards oil
$4,000, 100000 OF It on the IN
staIlment plan.
creditors rarely oppose con-
sumer BANKRUPTCIES and the appn-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-05
BIBLE THOUGHT
SEVEN LINKS IN A WONDROUS CHAIN

SEVEN LINKS IN A WONDROUS CHAIN
CRUCIFIED TOGETHER with ChriSt.-Gal. 2:2O.
QUICKENED TOGETHER with Christ-Col. 2:13.
RAISED TOGETHER with Christ-Eph.. go
SEATED TOGETHER with Christ in Heavenly
places.-Eph. 26.
SUFFERERS TOGETHER with Ohrist.-Rom. SIT
HEIRS TOGETHER with Christ.-Rom 8:17.
GLORIFIED TOGETHER with Christ-Rom. SIT.
The first and second are seen at the cross and
grave of Christ.
The third to the sixth form our present privilege.
The seventh has its scene in the glory.
From Suggestions for Bible Study by D. L.
Moody.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-05
HOLLYWOOD
FILM SHOP
Bv ALANSoN EDWARDS
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, May 5.-(UP).
If stone age gentlemen hadn't
started high hating their women
folk. there probably would be no
room today for the army of Hol-
lywood artisans who turn out
clothes creations for movie stars.
It's long dinosaur leap from
Neanderthal caves to Hollywood
cuties but il explains why women
pass up potatoes for lettuce in
order, to melt themselves into u
$500 model marked ~dowr to
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-05

Considerable boOtlegging of gasoline re-
ported in Pennsylvania. Bootleggers are
probably selling it as whisky with nobody
the wiser e,, ~ ->ss.NN sSA9,NSAN4N
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-05

Camera expert says movie actresses are
really not as thin as camera triekery makes
them look. But are they as dumb?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-05
CHESTNUT GROVE

CHESTNUT GROVE, May 3
The Rev. Mr.. Mckinney and IAN
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-05
THOUGHTS OF
A FISHERMAN
By Ike Walton, Redivivue

The pictures in the magazine
ads give me the creeps. | wonder
if the nimcOmpooD artists think
they sell anything that way.
Probably the artist splits his pay
with the advertising agent, and
he gives the publicity man a
rake off, and the publisher as
sures the advertiser that the aes-
thetic value Of his ad was a sub
iect Of admiring comment by all
the readers of the Ninny's GaZ-
cite. and the poor soap manufac-
turer never studied Michael An
gelo and all art is Just art to him
and so the reader gets to be the
Creek, was in this section on
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Common
of Hoopers Creek, were dinner
guests at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. b. =. Common on Sunday.
Misses Fay Freeman and Ruby
and Francis Norris were callers
in this section Monday afternoon.
Miss Isabel Common, Porter and
Fred Conner attended preaching
at Hoopcrs' Creek Sunday night.
Mir. Frisby, the agricultural in
structor at Edneyville school paid
a visit to Mr.. Porter Common re-
Gently.
Farmers in this section arc get
ting along nicely with their work.
Hubert Collins Of Liberty was
4 visitor in this section Saturday.
Raleigh Williams of Henderson
vile, recently visited his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Williams in
this ncighborhood.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-07

DISTRICT OF WATERBURY,, IS.
Probate Court, June 9Th A. d.
ESTATE OF Byron L. Morse. late
of Waterbury. in said District. de-
ceased: Upon the application of
the Thomaston Savings Bank by
Henry E. Stoughton, Treasurer,
praying that letters of administra-
ton may be granted on said Estate
--as per application on file more
fully appears. 1t is
ORDRED, That said application
be heard and determined at the
Probate Office in Waterbury. in
June A. d. 1888 at 9 o'clock in the
forenoon (Standard time). and that
notice be given Of the tendency Of
said application, and the time and
place of hearing thereon, by pub
fishing the same one time in some
newspaper having a circulation in
said District, also by leaving with
or by mailing in registered letters.
postage prepaid from Waterbury. a
copy of this order to all parties in
terested and residing without the
Probate District of Waterbury, on
or before the 7th day Of June 1888.
Attest:
JOHN J. HOWARD.
Clerk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-06-07
WilbyAnd Crosby Meet Today
WIN FOR WILDCATS
WILL MAKE THEM
VALLEY CHAMPS
Contest Set for 5 P. M
Berardi and Farley OPP
posing Pitchers

Once again, a wildly high school
team Is framed in the open door
OF a championship, this time, the
Naugatuck Valley league baseball
title which they can win this aft
ernoon by defeating their city
rivals, Crosby, for the second time
this season. A win for Wildly will
turn the trick, loss Will allow
the Naugatuck team to squeeze
into the play-off picture as it has
done before.
Good Season
With seven games won OF nine
played to date, the boys handled by
Jimmy Lee have nothing to do but
repeat over Crosby, which, by the
way, will be no cinch on the basis
Of their last clash, which wound
up rs In Wilby's favor after a
bang-up ball game featured by
plenty of hitting.
The outstanding pitchers Of both
teams, will Of course, take the
hill for their teams: frankie Ber-
ardi for Wildly and Ned Farley for
Crosby, unless one Of the coaches
pulls a last minute surprise, which
is not at all likely, as neither of
them can afford to gamble with
their chances to win.
Heavy Hitters
It will be up to Farley to hold
Rossi, McAvoy and Crichton in
check, for the Wildly trio has been
doing right well with the willow
all season long. Then Freddy
Jacovino Is more than apt to come
through at any time. For Crosby,
Coach Billy Schofield will depend
on Farley, Malonowki and Wilmot
to connect safely with few of
Berardi's offerings.
With the game scheduled for
late afternoon, a large crowd is an
ticipated and prospects for plenty
Of good fielding and hitting are
bright, with the advent Of ideal
baseball weather. Bill Stanton and
Harold Hadley will probably off,
ciate.