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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-31
SECRETARY PERKINS TALKS ABOUT
THE SHOE BUSINESS

Many newspapers puDuSneu III .tne
South have taken notice of the fact that
Secretary of Labor Perkins seems to think
this is a country in which very few people
wear shoes. They quote Secretary Perkins
as saying, 1.-THE whole South is an un-
tapped market for shoes" This was pre-
coded by the statement by the Secretary
that Those of you who have lived all your
lives in communities where the wearing of
shoes is a commonplace have, perhaps,
forgotten how important and significant a
social contribution are shoes"
Who would have supposed that man
or woman of sufficient intelligence and
prominence to be selected for cabinet
position would be so ignorant of conditions
in the South as is implied by the state
ments of Secretary Perkins? Perhaps Sec
fetary Perkins visions large proportion
of our southern people going about their
daily tasks with bare feet. No doubt she
sees with the minds eye hosts of white and
black southerners, on the farms, on the
streets, on the railroads and street cars, in
their automobiles, going to business, going
to school, going to church, without shoes.
The fact is, of course, that Secretary
Perkins has only succeeded in making a
public display of her lack of information
about conditions in the South. The lady
simply is not acquainted with this section.
Perhaps she belongs to the class of people
who think that by far the larger part of
the United States lies on and around Man
haitian Island. Miss Perkins, however, has
been as far from New York as Washing
ton and Washington is situated in the
South, so the Secretary is now in a posi-
ton to learn something about this section
from personal contact and experience. Our
suggestion would be that she take advan-
tage of all opportunities to travel in the
South and to meet and get acquainted with
the shOd and unshod natives,
We doubt if Secretary Perkins came to
Hendersonville that she would find any
barefoot adults on our streets. The same
thing would be true in all southern towns
and cities, as far as our observation and
experience go. Of course there are thou
sands of barefoot children to be found in
the South in the Summer, and here and
there, perhaps, under certain conditions,
an adult may be found without Shoes but
it is a certainty that the people of the
South, children and adults, wear shoes
and, according to our information, sales of
shoes in this section compare favorably
with shoe sales in other parts of the Uni
ted States.
The Times-News confesses that its con-
fdenee in Secretary Perkins ability to act
as Industrial dictator of the country has
been rudely shaken by discovery of the
fact that her information about the shoe
trade is so limited and deformed.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-31
BY RODNEY DUlCllEl}
- NEt Service Writer

yVTASHINGTON. - The admins
w h.ation's securities bill may he
regarded as an effort to lock the
barn door in the wake of stolen
hOrse-but it certainly was large
horse.
The people have. been "mulcted''
CT so billion dollars by the invest
ment profession in the last 10
years. according TO Chairman
Fletcher OF the Senate banking and
currency committee.
Other estimate" p;aze kbs .ptal for
that period at a mere - ujIlions,
with the assertion that Investment
losses in this country were aver.
aging some 00,0O0,00O year
aven before the depression.
The determination of the admn-
istration and Congress to give the
INVESTOR new deal is cOmpIra-
bic TO the Willingness TO accept a
system of insuring bank deposits.
BY making it possible for investors
% know the facts about securities
and preventing fraud and misrcgre-
entatiOm, il is hoped to assure tGOSc
%ho have money that they ran in
rest with relative safety. lnnumcr-
bic potential investors, naturally
enough, are now somewhat timid.
FCrty-scvcn states have blue-sky
avs, but the investors lost Their
money just the same. Billions Of
dollars went for virtually worthless
securities which We're presented
with incomplete, careless or false
'laimS.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-31

ChlneS military ol1lClalS III
Peiping told the United Press
that their figures showed at least
50,000,000 people under these Chi
nese-Soviet regimes.
Many are armed guerillas,
while in better organized Soviet
districts they maintain standing
army of 100000 men, the reports
indicated.
One of the major problems con-
fronting the central government
at Marking is the suppression OF
these Red army forces, particular
w in Kiangsi province, in the
south. General Kai-Shek, head
of the Marking armies, has spent
most of his time in the last two
years leading expeditions against
the Communists, but with little
success. ..
They retreat into the noun
tains when the government troops
appear, and when the latter de-
mart, claiming Communism stamp
ed out, the Red forces again
come down into the cities and
plains of Kiang-Si, Human and
neighboring provinces, and set up
their rule.
The left wing faction in the
Kuomintang. or peoples party, in
control at Marking has had more
sympathy with the Communists
than the right wing, led by Gen.
eral Chang, however.
Such men as Marshal Feng Yu-
Hsiang, the "Christian General"
now in Kalgan, to the northwest,
and Premier Ching-Wei are
among the left wing leaders who
look upon relations with Moscow
as preferable to any dealings
with Japan, or the other capital
list" powers. -,
Both Feng and Wang are bit
terly opposed politically to the
conservative branch OF the party
led by General Chang, and seek
his retirement. They are inclin-
ed to denounce him on the
grounds he "sold out" to the Jap
anese, and are prepared to de-
mand his resignation.
Marshal Feng already has re-
volted and seized control of Kali
gan, dispatches over the week
end related. -.
Some feel that possibly Gen
eral Chang turned to Japan as
the lesser of two evils-Japan
and Soviet Russia, and has
agreed to the truce on Tokio's
terms merely as a temporary deal
to halt any further turning. to
the left at Hankings
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-31
900 MISSISSIPPIANS
BACK ON FULL TIME

NATCHEZ, Miss, May 81
(UP3.-Nine hundred timber and
lumber mill workers who have
been working only part time for
the past year, will return to reg
ular employment June l at the
Fisher Lumber Corporation mills
at Wisner. Ferriday, and st. JOS
eph, La, and at the Vestal Lum-
Der Manufacturing Co.'s mill at
Clayton, La, it was announced.
Officials of the companies said
lumber shipments have increased
considerably the past week, most
of the lumber being exported to
foreign countries.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-31

There is no substitute for
advertising.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-31

additional mechanics, keep the
school BUSES in repair. The new
school law provides that the
school commission shall pay for
the repair work at cost.
These highway commission re-
pair shops are too widely scatter
ed to enable them to look after
anything like all the school equip
ment. however, and could do this
work only for the counties near
est to them. SO it will be neces-
sary for the school commission to
continue TO have much of the work
done in other shops.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-31
| DEAD, l DYING In
LOVE TRIANGLE DUEL

LEIPSIC, o., May 31.-(UP).
An enraged husband and the man
he accused Of stealing his wife's
love stood at 10 PAGES Sunday
night and fought q gun duel that
ended with the second man dead
and the husband dying.
Andrew Goldsberry, "a, the hus-
band, started the shooting. police
said, when he found David Greg
DRY, 81, in the house where his
cstranged wife was living.
There is no substitute for
newspaper advertising.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-31
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-31

Well, it certainly seems from the testi-
mony that Banker Charles E. Mitchell is
one of those fellows who owes a lot to his
wife 3.s
The Washington times., 1933-06-15
Placing the Workers
A Ray of Hope

Washington generally and Federal employees in particular
will rejoice at plans which being made to place employees
who dismissed from branch the service
in Ne many Government agencies which are being
formed.
The being followed by the Council of Personnel Ad
minration apparently with the backing of President Roos
ve will mitigate the suffering which had been feared and
which had greatly upset the Government service.
There every prospect that with agencies
about be created to handle the special work provided for
at the special session of Congress there will be little
reduction in the total number of Government employees in
Washington and in the field.
The fear has been that these agencies instead of
utilizing the services of trained and experienced employees
turned loose of the agencies about be abolished
curtailed would build up personnel the jobs being
dished out the patronage basis.
Apparently this is not the intent of the Administration
Judging by the efforts of the personnel council Civil
: Service Commission.
In these days when the underpad and under privileged
empoye the butt much nonsensica abuse
It is hearenng to find that effort being made
give him break.
contemplated to be made solely in the interest of the
workers.
They advantageous the as they are
it's employees.
The agencies will face many complicated difficult
problems They will require the services of and
who thoroughly qualified for their tasks and who
familiar with governmental methods of handling those prob
ems.
There is why with many such employees facing
dismissal the Government should outsiders to fill
the positions recently created
BY clearing dismissed furloughed employees through
central agency the needs of the Government will be best
served and the hardshp the employees will be curtailed
The Washington times., 1933-06-15
Budget Divorce
Mr.. Donovan Speaks Authoritatively

Probably has intimate and thorough knowledge
Of the District finances and their relationship Federal
finances has Daniel J. Donovan veteran auditor and
budget officer of the District Government.
Therefore, when Mr. Donovan speaks this problem he
"speaks from the book
In letter Chairman Mary Norton of the House
sons why in his opinion it would be we'll divorce District
After outlining the existing system, through which the
condition of Federal finances made the yardck for the
local budget Mr.. Donovan writes
~ N is submitted that this system is wEch in most
respects does violence principles of public
administration and is productive of confusion deter
mining and making provision for the financial needs of
the tWO Governments and stating the accounts
in lVhich financial condition and operations
may be clearly knOwn.
"There are feW changes affecting the Government
Of the District of Columbia that of greater i'm
Portance than that Of the correction of this condition
by giving to that Government its distinct system
of financial administration in whch its financial
operations kept wholy distinct from those of the
National Government"
Members Of Congress- who have listened to the testimony
Of Mr. Donovan the various District appropriation bills
that he does not bndy seek selfish advantage
for the District in its relations to the Federal Government
His discussions always based upon facts and figures
and his contentious separation of the local and national
budgets are based upon the soundest of facts.
BY following the suggestion which is supported by MIR.
Donovan and which is urged by many of leading citizens
congress would be taking long step toward improving
lat1ons between citizens and Capitol Hill.
1t would be giving us greater degree Of local autonomy
without sacrificing the control the District which, by
tne constitution is specifically placed in Congress.
The Washington times., 1933-06-15

the foulest suspicion.
Once I thought that I felt
this way because I was a nat
ural sinner, and, as such, hos
tile to all saints. Now I realize
that my hostility perfect
Goodness has a much more re-
spectacle basis.
I HATE EN- BECAUSE
THEY'RE FAKES.
They're pretending to be
something they're not.
They are claiming halos just
because they Stay Put; never
break laws; never start any,
thing. But that's not a sign
of goodness. To the contrary,
it's a proof of a most vicious
form of badness.
THERE ARE TWO WAYS
OF BEING BAD.
ONE IS TO DO SOMETHING.
THE OTHER IS TO DO
NOTHING.
DOING NOTHING CAN
BLOCK THE WHEELS OF
PROGRESS QUITE AS
VICIOUSLY AS RAISING 81
VARIETIES OF CAIN.
A decision NOT to do is as
real a decision and deliberate a
choice as a decision TO DO
and leaves as definite a mark
on your and the other fellows
life.
THERE ISN'T A HAIRS
DIFFERENCE IN VICIOUS
NESS BETWEEN THE COW
ARD WHO DOES NOTHING
AND THE CRIMINAL WHO
STARTS SOMETHING.
Really Good People do some
thing with their goodness. They
break lawS-old. silly, bad laws
which need to be broken. They
start Something-nohle revolu-
tions, splendid crusades. They
make experiments, take risks,
lead forlorn causes-as Christ
did, and His martyred disciples,
and all the brave bewildered
souls who have followed their
glorious, bloody trail.
Which, of course, means that,
in the eyes Of athe world, a
really good person, makes all
kinds of a fool of Siimself, and
suffers the consequences.
so IF YOU MEET A PRO
The Washington times., 1933-06-15
Honor at Stake

BY the terms of this legisla.
ton, should it be accepted, all
relationship between the United
States and the Philippines
would be ended 10 or IL years
hence in a way that would in
lure economically the Philippine
people, wound their sensibilities
and precipitate serious unrest in
the Islands.
For the United States to aban-
don the Philippine Islands to
their fate, destroy their chance
to develop economic independ-
ence and leave them defenseless
and alone would not make for
peace in the Far East. 1t would
discredit the prestige of the
United States throughout that
region, and no American farmer,
sugar planter, rope manufac'
turer or wage Garner would bene-
fit to the extent of a single
dollar.
Both General Aguinaldo and
Senate President Quezon are
we'll aware of the circumstances
under which this dishonest Phil
ippine bill became a law. Its
main provisions were drafted
by a sinister coalition of special
interests.
This coalition was made up OF
American investors in Cuban
sugar properties, American in
vestors in domestic sugar prop
ties, the sugar oligarchy OF
Honolulu, which rules Hawaii,
combination of New England,
Missouri and other cordage COM
panies, and some labor organi'
cations on the Pacific Coast.
Instead of giving immediate
independence to the Philippines
on honorable terms, it offers in
dependence 10 or IL years hence
OH terms that dishonor the
United States and deal knock
out blow to the economic life
of the Philippine people.
Copyright, 1888. The washington Times)
The Washington times., 1933-06-15
A Hard Task

In the feuds Of days gone by
families fought families until
sometimes all the men folk were
wiped out. One night, a snowy
Christmas Eve, two nurses
started for Possum Bend. It took
three hours to make the journey
in the gulch along He'll fer Sar-
tin Greek. They came to the
rocky slope known as Devils
Jump. They led their horses
up the slippery trail to the log
cabin. The single room was
dimly lighted by a little coal
oil lamp and a small fire on the
hearth. The walls were covered
with pictures torn from maga-
zines. A couple of neighbor
women were there boiling water
in a huge kettle.
Sally, the mother-to-be, who
was known as "the seWinest and
workinest woman on the creek"
had been undergoing her agony
for three long hours. A little
after midnight there was born
the first Christmas baby on He'll
for Sartin.
When told that she had an
eight-pound daughter, Sally
studied the child: IT reckon, .
she said, she's a perty right
young 'un". They talked about
name for her baby. One nurse
suggested Noel Mary, and Sally
was greatly pleased. So after
Merry Christmas and a cup OF
good hot coffee, the nurses
mounted their horses and rode
on down the mountain. The
storm had cleared and a moon
shone down upon the snowy hill
sides. "A lovely world for Sally's
Noel Mary.
(Copyright. 1888. King Features
Syndicate, lnc.)
The Washington times., 1933-06-15
SHORT JOURNEYS
BY Temple Manning -

Of the Reformation when much
monastic property was con-
fiScated.
Sulgrave Manor is a fine old
stone house Of moderate size
and excellent design. One IS
impressed with its noble Tudor
doorway surmounted by the
family coat of arms. The
Manor House has been splen-
didly restored.
Another place associated with
the Washingtons is Little Bring
ton, near the town of North
ampton. The son Of Laurence
Washington sold Sulgrave and
bought a house in Little Bring
ton. This was Robert, who,
however, was taken back to Sui
grave for burial. His son, Lau-
renee, passed his life in the
Little Brington house, an url-
assuming place of moderate
size.
Half a mile distant from Little
Brington is Great Brington, the
latter, curiously enough. smaller
than Little Brington. This viii
lage also possesses many me-
MORALS Of the Washingtons.
Especially is this so of the vii
lage church, which, incidentally,
is much more imposing edi-
flee than Sulgrave.
The Washington times., 1933-06-15
Human Side of the News
Heroines of the Modern Frontier
,Bu EdWin C.. Hill.

serve 800 square miles in the
seven counties of Leslie, Perry,
Clay, Bell, Harlan, Knox and
Ousley, the feud country. Near
ly 5000 people, most Of them
women and children, are in
their care. None but the ablest
women, carefully trained, are
employed in the Frontier Nurs-
ing Service, so often are they
thrown on their own resources
when it may mean life or
death.
There isn't an hour Of the
day when thrilling battle isn't
being waged against disease
and death by these devoted
nurses. A quick summons
comes to the directing center at
Wendover or to the hospital at
Hyden. In 10 minutes the
nurse is on her way, a-horse-
back, along the winding trails.
leading ever upward along the
cliffs and through the laurel.
She wears heavy sheepskin coat,
boots and breeches. She car
ries a 40-pound saddlebag and
a layette.
The Washington times., 1933-06-15

HOW MANY people are there
who have been to England with
out making the journey to the
Washington country? I'm afraid
that there are many for I have
met countless travellers who are
familiar with London, have
played the courses at Deal, st.
Andrews and Sandwich, have
seen the finish of the Derby
and the Grand National, yet
have never found it worth
while to visit Sulgrave Manor,
the ancestral home of the
washington family. Apart
from its associations, the places
identified with the Washing
tons are so beautiful that they
would be worth a visit for them
selves alone.
Originally the washington
family came from somewhere
in County Durham, then they
went on to Lancashire. In Tu-
dor times the family made an
other migration, this time into
Northamptonshire. Most histo-
rians take up the family his
tory with Laurence Washington,
who, aided by various connec-
tions through marriage, became
a wealthy wool merchant in
Northampton. He acquired the
Manor of SulgraVe at the time
The Washington times., 1933-06-15

Manila will be the scene this
summer of a Philippine "con-
ference" far more important to
the future of the United States
than is the settlement Of any
question or all of the questions
on the agenda of the World
Economic conf erence just
opened by King George at Lon
don.
At the Philippine conference
the question to be decided is
whether the Philippine legisla-
ture shall accept or reject the
unfair terms upon which the
last Congress offered political
independence to the Philippine
people 10 years hence at the
price of inevitable economic de-
struction in the meantime.
The conference in Manila will
take place between the two
houses of the Insular legislature
which begins it's annual session
in Manila on July IT.
The Washington times., 1933-06-15

The work that Is being done
today in the mountains OF
Eastern Kentucky by the From
tier Nursing Service is as fine
and as unselfish a piece Of true
American endeavor as I have
ever heard about. "A quaint
and interesting place those east
Kentucky mountains. "A land
almost without roads-without
transportation.
A land where the lineal de-
scendants of Elizabethan Eng
lishmen and English W o m n
speak the language Of Shake
speare. A land Of arrested
civilization. A land where the
women know the meaning OF
suffering. There are no hos
pitals over large areas. Few
doctors can make living be-
cause of the bitter poverty OF
the people.
Mrs. Mary Breckenridge, her
self Kentucky-born, knew what
those women of the East Ken
lucky Mountains of Red Bird
and Flat Greek and Hell fer Sar-
tain and Beech Fork were en-
during in agony whenever they
brought children into the world.
Mary Breckenridge, a fine-look-
ing woman Of middle age, with
a strong, appealing, sensitive
face. She resolved that some
thing had to be done for those
hewers of wood and tillers OF
the fields of East Kentucky, the
mountain-Women.
She knew what went on when
young mothers of ID and old
mothers of. 20 came to their
hour. Lives hung in the bal
ance. The old granny women
brewed a tea they made from
SCOT. They recited holy spells
or laid an AK edge up, on the
bed. They called in quack doc
tors. She knew the hills. No
body hurries in the hills.
The Washington times., 1933-06-15
Seeks Square Deal

Leading the opposition to the
acceptance of this legislation
are Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo and
Senator Manuel Quezon. The
one has just been reelected Tor
the fifteenth successive year
president of the Philippine Vet
erans' Association, the other is
president of the Philippine sen.
ate. These two leaders 1--we laid
aside their political differences
to unite their efforts in behalf
of a square deal for their peo-
pie.
They are opposing this legis-
lative proposal upon the ground
that it "is not an independence
bill at ALL" but only "a tariff
bill" directed against Philippine
products.
"The element of independ-
ence," they say, "is merely a
sugar coating in order to i'm
pose unfair conditions upon the
Philippines"
Advocating acceptance Of the
measure are the members of
the Philippine independence
Mission who were in Washing
ton during the session of the
Seventy-second CON gresS at
which this measure became a
law. They are led by Senator
Serge Osmena and Speaker
Roxas of the lower house of the
Philippine legislature. They
urge acceptance upon the
ground that the opportunity to
frame a constitution a year
hence can be utilized to compel
changes in the unfair terms
The Washington times., 1933-06-15
On Their Own

But gone from this primitive
land is much of the vigor and
hope of their forefatherS who
followed Daniel Boone over the
Cumberland Trace. Most OF
the mountain mothers go 81
lently through their long agony
of bringing life into the world
and too many died.
So Mary Breckenridge organ
lied that wonderful body
known as the Frontier Nursing
Service, which sends trained
public health nurses along the
laurel trails and into the heart
of the mountains, and provides
a doctor service and blessed
alternatives of pain, and teaches
the people all those things they
need to know.
There are 80 nurses, a medical
director, an 18-bed hospital q
Hyden, on Horse creek, and
other services as well. They