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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-24

must continue to grappe whether it likes it or not
is not the prohibition question, it is the liquor
question.
Several plans for liquor control have been adj
vanced as substitutes for the 18th Amendment.
But the amendment now submitted is not plan;
it is a confession of the lack of plan. 1t point
edly ignores proposals even of vets to retain to
congress authority to establish national dispen-
sarv or controlled monopoly of liquor manufacture.
It offers no attempt to formulate an improved
method of dealing with liquor; it merely dumps
the whole sorry mess back into the laps of the
states.
The repeal resolution as it was hurried through
the house stands in form calculated to please
best the private liquor interests Proposals to out
law the saloon or take the profit out of the liquor
trade were brushed aside in the senate, and no
consideration of amendments was permitted IN the
lower chamber. The resultant proposal is as close
to unqualified repeal the vets could hope would
be ratified The nation is obliged to choose between
retention of the 18th Amendment and going back
practically the whole distance to the intolerabe
conditions which gave rise to that amendment.
The only federal safeguard afforded in the
Blaine resolution is provision against Importation
Of LIQUOR into dry states. Yet this minimum con-
considers itself at all obligated by it, will involve
a bigger enforcement problem than has prohibition.
Repeal in this form would be plain invitation to
the private liquor trade to do its worst not only IN
exploitation of the drinker but also in domination
and corruption of state and local politics. For
though some states may try nonproft methods OF
liquor control, there others which would wei
come the brewer, distiller and bartender IN full
flower. And once liquor is legally made, advertised
and sold let any state be on its mettle that as
sumes, even with federal assistance, to set limits
to the profits of traffickers in drunkenness
In view of the crush em-off-their-feet' charac-
ter of the present repeal movement, and IN view
of tbe Grave difficulties left unsolved by the Blaine
resolution. it behooves the states to weigh careful
" their action and to refuse to be stampeded INTO
hasty ratification of measure that merely makes
forty-eght problems grow where one grew before
Christian Science Monitor.
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Erwin and Cooue1
Reynolds Choiic,
For Appointed

WASHINGTON, Feb. p I'm
Senator Robert z. PcynolJ', Irl
lnltcIy announced Tuosdar, ge''
he will recommend Marrn. 'p o.
win for district attorney ~ H.
western district Of Nor,b r. h'
lima and Mckee Cooper for Ca'''
shall Of that district. Eo,b .ai'
are of Ashcvillc. =" 'eN
Senator Reynolds yail 81
after careful considerable "2S
had decided TO rccommcra n Z
Erwin and Mr.. Cooper anu W.
nounce his decision this r,r J d. !
order to relieve the susncnsSs y j:
others of his friends who V 4. o'
candidates for these pos;,;' s'e
The senator said that rbcro o'' aE-
half Il dozen other friend, d. aIs
supporters whom he would ~!
10 recommend for the dis, ~.
attorneyship. '"Ei
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-24
UPWARD

UPWARD, Feb. 2A.-Mr. and
Mrs. Bunyon Hill had as their
dinner guests Sunday. MIR. and
Mrs. James Jackson, +. d. Wal
den and Richard Jackson.
A very large crowd attended
the funeral Of Babe McCraw at
the Jones cemetery OF this COM
munitv. His death came as 4
surprise to his friends.
Mrs. John Jackson and daugh-
ter called on Mrs. G. d. Jack
son Wednesday.
Lea Station, Giles Jackson
and Ben Jackson of Tracey
Grove section, called on Mr.. and
Mrs. John Jackson Tuesday eve
ming.
Rev. Mr.. Ballard filled his
regular appointment at the Up
ward Methodist church Sunday
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BEHIND THE SCENES IN
WASHING ON
ROlMEY DlIICAEk
With RODNEY pUICHEE

nearly all-pC "oTfur.
That prerOgative is added to his
veto power, which has been vastly
developed since the early days; to
his right to remove all appOintivc
officials, confirmed by the courts
few ycaT" ago; TO his almost I'M
variable ability to bring about his
own reorganization and to the null.
tiplicity of enormous problems af.
lcCilng all citizens which auLOmat-
ically swells the Importance of his
office.
YOU'RE likely to stand IN aw.
at the power that will he
Roosevclt'S when you also remem-
Der his huge congressional major.
ities-and his power to control
them with patrOnage-plus the fact
that he enters office at a time whom
nearly everyone is hating Congress.
The more Congress is 6scredited
the stronger becomes the position
OF tho executive.
Incidentally, the current disgust
with Congress has been enhanced
by rather than born Of the depres.
sion period. One recalls that in the
Coolidge administration, Vice Pres.
ldent Dawes and Governor Lowden
Of Illinois. among others, were
warning against a breakdown of
popular, parliamentary government
and the approach of dictatorship.
Wartime powers Of president
are almost complete, under the Con.
stitution, and even in peacetime he
EAR do about as he pleases with the
Army and Navy. Presidents have
'alled out federal troops time and
lgain-for the Whisky rebellion,
he Civil War long before Congress
acted, the Pullman strike, the pro-
cction Of Panamanian independ.
nee and the eviction of the bonus
|rmy from Washinglor
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-24
By Rodney BUTCHER
MA Service Writer

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. will
" not give Mr.. Roosevelt full
di;tatorial powers, bit its delega-
ton Of legislative functions will
combine With other factors to
sivc him far mC-c pOwC. than
any other president has had in
time Of peace.
Even if he is OIL permitted to
abolish federal bureaus and cut
expenses up to a stipulated per-
Centage, the power of the cxecu-
tive will be taking its longest
jump IN history Of gradual, con-
slant expansion. Presidents have
been Selling or being delegated
added powers from the beginning,
and long ago il was possible to
say that they had more power
than almost any European mon
arch.
Now Congress has come to the
point where it actually admits
there are certain fields ~ Which
it can't do the business entrusted
to it by the Constitution. One
such h5!l is that of government
reorganization, although the pri-
mary complicating factor there is
that no two persons agree on how
tie government should be reor-
.ganSzed, and it's necessary to give
the job to one man and trust his
judgment. The principal other !
field is that Of expenses for vel !
Grams. which congressman dare
not vote because they fear the !
veterans wrath.
A PRESIDENT who Is permit
ted TO abolish government ac-
uyities and jobs TO his hearts
content, subject only to a repudi-
alton by q party representation ir
congress Of which he probably
will be in full control. becomes
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
AND OUR SCHOOLS


To the Editor:
On February 9th, an editorial
appeared in one Of our leading
Western North Carolina daily
newspapers entitled, Cigarette
CONSUMPTION" In that editorial
the statement was made that &C
cordinp to the "Wall Street
Journal 100000, 100000 worth
of "ready-made" cigarettes were
manufactured in the United
States last year. Also, that this
industry was more nearly ode
preston proof" than any other.
The papers have been carry
ing articles stating in a general
way that the State of North Car
DINA is financially unable to
provide sufficient funds to main
tain the present efficiency of
our state supported schools and
colleges.
I am suggesting that our rep
resentatives from Henderson
county prepare and introduce a
bill in the state Legislature that
will increase the tax on tobacco,
this money to go to the support
of public education in our state
(this tax to be paid by the con-
sumers of tobacco).
| have talked with a number
of people about this, and with
out exception, they have favor
ed it. Many of these people use
tobacco, but said they were will
mo for this increase in its cost,
in view of the fact that tobacco
is not a necessity.
| use some tobacco myself,
(but did not form the habit I'M
til rs years Of age) and | am
willing to pay this increase in
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-24

What a charming tete-a-tete it would be
if some hostess should bring together the
consular attache who quizzed Einstein on
pacifsm, the examiner who asked the Cit
zenship applicant if he belived in technoc-
racy, and the customs inspector who
thought photos of the Vatican frescoes
were obscene!
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LOCAL. BOY ON WAKE
FOREST HONOR ROLL

WAKE FOREST, Feb. 2i.~-
First-semcstcr honor roll at Wake
Forest college, released by Reg
istrar Grady Patterson, contains
the name of S. NJ. Justice of
Hendersonvillc, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. w. Justice. In order to
make the honor roll students
scholastic average must be as
good as 90 per cent.
Mr.. Justice is a senior in the
school Of liberal arts. lie IS
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-24

The silent seasons of life are not noperatiVe'
The winter is the mother of spring; the nlght Is
the fountain of the physical forces OF the DAY.
And the greatest things in our spiritual hVes come
out of our waiting hours, when the soul learns TO
be silent unto Cod while He shapes and mouldS US
for future actvites.-Selected.
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IREAD THE STORY, THEN COLOR T;T~ PICltREI

"Why don't YOU lads all m"
with nc. There ar" = 70. "
things to see. III gladly saos
you round this place. i "!'I@
take US long
The cricket cop then ShoNlra
Say! That is a good plan I1
today. Just follow Ms l@',
Bug and nothing will 20 "FoHs'
A ND chen the funny rrIch'l '"'
IL quite suddenly began 10 nov
I'll see you later, lads, II @I4
Have all the fun you can.
"You soc, ] have som" WORK "
do. The Lady Bug will care j"
You. She'll think Of more ~
element than you lads could ~"
PLAN" ,
It. wasn't very long uh'iI "
Tinymites all got thrill. Al W
granddaddy longlcg5 rushed Up "
them, with a shout. g.,
Hey, Lady Bug, your HON.
ablazr. I've RIM 80 lar, III u
daZc. You'd better Fl" right hOr
and try 10 put the big blaze Ou''
Copyright, 1888, NEA Service '''
(Thc Ti0ics help fCht me "'
In the next story }
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taxes. D.
What. do you think Of Il
suggestion? " '&a
.. JOSEPH J. MURRAY
Hendcrsonvilln \" ,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-24
TECHNOCRAT CLUE FORMER

HUNTINGTON, Ind. ZIP,
a Technocrat club has been =.
ganized here and the mcm n VI
ship is increasing rapidIv '' ,
chapter of the new thcorr !.
read each week when the ma \
bcrs meet at the public Iibrsrr. :
If radio fans think anytF;,|
that sounds silly is humor II
they would enjoy Il hook-up VA
the senate.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-24

The two newly elected direc-
tors Of the Chamber Of Com
merce Thos. II. Franks and f.. Il.
Sutherland, have accepted office
and Mr.. Franks has alrcady per-
formed first service for the or
Canization. Both have seen ScrV-
ice as directors in former years.
Tours and Detours," Il publ
cation familiar to motorists, IS
asking for forthcoming Hcnder-
sonville events of more than To-
cal importance in order that they
NAV be sketched on the map of
this publication. We have listed
the proposed opening Of the Hen
Jacksonville Golf and Country
club on July 4. Dates Of any
other events would be appreciate
cd by that publication.
Mapmskers working at long
thorized to acquire around the
prison camps, much can be done
to tighten the states burden Of
maintaining its prisoners.
Indications are that opposition
to the bill in the house viii be
negligible. Governor Ehringhau&
is understood to look with favor
upon the plan. and consensus of
opinion among house members IN
dicates that d majority Of them
agree with him that the measure
will effect substantial saving.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-24
BIBLE THOUGHT
SILENCE

will hear what God the Lord will speak
Ps S5:S.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-28

This knowledge inspired almost every act in our
national history and gave significance to every
turn Of events
AS long as the Job was unfinished, people could
overlook the mperfections of the present by keeping
their eyes on the future.
But now the continent has been settled and de-
veloped about completely as it needs to be. The
great job that unified and inspired the nation is
fnished-and because don't know what the
next job is going to be We are at loose end and
our troubles look very big to
The visiting Englshman had another word to
add to all of this. Sooner or later, he said, the
American people will find new destiny and follow
it through and in the end, he predicted, they will
become "the greatest race the world has even seen
Now that, to be sure, is very kind and very
forting. And while we have never been famous for
our national modesty, it is good thing for to be
told something like that just now.
For the first part of the Englishmans comment
is indisputably true, and it is precisely the thing
which makes the depression SO hard to bear.
Because of it we have moments in which we
wonder if the end Of the world is not just about at
hand Everything, we tell ourselves, is finished.
The old days are done for and no new day is going
to dawn.
The country is going to perdtion in high
wheeled hack and there is nothing we do about
it except crouch the mourners' bench and bay at
the moon.
If we could once make ourselves realize that
the biggest jobs are yet to come and the greatest
days are yet to dawn might slough off some of
pessimism
The great depression isn't the end Of things; it is
only an incident. Our real destiny is ahead of us,
not behind
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-28
IN March % a group of dis

ON March % group OF dis
OtinguiShed scientists, educators
and leaders of the electrical in
dustry will gather at the MaSSa-
chusetts Institute of Technology
in Cambridge, Mass, to celebrate
the Both birthday Of DR.. Elihu
Thompson.
DR.. Thomson is the only living
member of the quartet of great
electrical pioneers whose in
ventive genius launched the mod
ern electrical industry and the
General Electric Company, the
worlds largest electrical company.
The other three we're James j.
Wood of FIT. Wayne, Ind, who
died in 1928; Charles F. Brush
of Cleveland, who died in 1929,
and Thomas A. Edison, who died
in 1881.
DR.. Thomson, now the dean of
General Electric scientists, still is
engaged actively in research,
heading an important laboratory
at West Lynn, Mass.
Although the electrical industry
frequently is thought of as start
ing with Edison's inventions of the
incandescent lamp, it really had
it's beginnings with the invention
of the arc lamp and the work
necessary to develop suitable dy-
namos and wiring systems for
keeping the arc lamps going.
DR.. Thomson remembers the
first announcement of the incan-
descent lamp from EdiSon's labo-
ratory, and tells how he and the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-28
BETRAYAL OR DEFEAT?

Senator Borah's assertion to a New England
manufacturer that congress could not confer ex-
traordinary powers on the President without the
cowardly betrayal of its constitutional obligations
is probably perfectly true About the only trouble
is that that cowardly betrayal seems to have taken
place already.
That it should be congress job to make a sweep
ing change in governmental organization and dras-
tic cuts in governmental expenditures goes without
saying. But congress has had ample time in which
to do it, and it has demonstrated pretty clearly that
the job is just naturally beyond it.
The one certain thing is that the job has got to
be done and it has got to be done right If congress
can't do it-and do it speedily-it do nothing
less than give the President free hand at it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-28
THE WAGNER BILL

The enemy depression, in four short years, has
carved out of economic America one-ffth of its
population. These 25OOOOOO jobless and their de-
pendents form our own America Irredenta, the
redeemed homeland.
They are economic expatriates They trade and
barter among themselves They add nothing to the
national wealth. Few even pay taxes Many suffer
hunger.
Not only do they drag down the national living
standard but they cost in annual tribute, billion
dollars year for the barest relief to keep soul and
body together. They are, for the time lost to the
republic in every economic sense.
The banks could lend Of their ample credit, but
they fear and sit on their money bags while
business investors lack confidence The governments
state and national must take the lead there will
be no lead To restore buying power to the masses,
there seems to be no quick way except through
tensive public works.
The Wagner BILL now through the senate and be-
fore the house. is not perfect instrument. But it
will thaw out at least $2OOOOOOOOO of r. F. c. credit
for immediate public works loans to states.
1t will replenish the hunger relief fund by $780,
100000. 1t will set aside s15OO00OO for state grants
to care for the million wandering and boys
now being made into tramps and worse.
This latter provision is more economical sounder
and more constructive than the absurd substitutes
passed by the senate the Couzens amendment
which would turn only fraction of these tran
sients into army camps at cost of $22OOO0OO year
There is plenty of public work to do City slums
can be wiped out and 100000 homes" unfit
for human habitation can be RACED and rebuilt Idle
land and sub-margnal farms be put to work
growing trees.
Schools can be modernized and fireproofed Grade
crossings can be eliminated, highways widened
bridges built electric projects installed scores of
projects in the Identification and modernization OF
America undertaken instead Of later.
I'VE may as we'll determine right here and now
that we are going to wage relentless war until We
abolish involuntary idleneSs surely We abolished
involuntary servtude" said Senator Wagner.
The house should not adjourn without passing
the Wagner bill and President Hoover should sign it
as one of his acts in public office. That would
clear the way for the larger Roosevelt projects, in
the Tennessee valley and elsewhere, in national
planning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-28

IF I we're a school teacher and
Il my salary had been cut to
meet the ideas of civic economy
propounded by the big bankers
of New York city, I would be a
little sore as I read the testimony
given before the senate investi-
eating committee. I'm sore, any,
how.
1t seems to me that the only
thing some Of our great financial
institutions overlooked during the
years of the boom was the in
stallation of a roulette wheel for
the convenience of depositorS.
And, of course, it would have been
a wheel with four zeros.
Of course, I have no intention
of disturbing anybody's faith in
the solvency Of certain great
trustees of the public funds. Far
from it! In the light of certain
revelations Of banking methods
hereabouts which recently have
been spread on the records, I see
no reason why any New York
banker should ever go broke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-28
Questions and
Answers

O-Give the exact time when
the Titanic sank, and what was
the cause?
A-The vessel struck an iceberg
about 500 miles south of New
foundland, on Sunday, April IA,
1912, at 10:45 p. M, New York
time, and sank two hours and
forty minutes later.
Q-Can one obtain copyright
on an invention?
A-Inventions are protected by
patents, not copyrights.
Q-Give the address of the gen.
eral headquarters Of the Saliva
ton Army.
A-12O West Fourteenth street,
New York City.
GLOW many drug stores are
there in the United States?
A-Approximately $4,000,
Q-Where was the Garden of
Eden IOcaLeQE
A-According to the Biblical
tradition, it was located in the
Tigris and EuphrateS river region,
now known as Mesopotamia, or
Iraq.
Q-When was Leningrad called
st. Petersburg and Petrograd?
A-Shortly after the outbreak
of the world war in 1914, the
name st. Petersburg was changed
to Petrograd, and in March, 1924.
it became Leningrad, in honor Of
Nikolai Lenin.
Q-How long does it take the
moon and the earth to go around
the sun?
A-The moon. being a satellite
of the earth, and revolving around
and accompanying it in its orbit
around the sun, requires the same
time to go around the sun as the
earth requires-one year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-28
Did Not Ask for 1t

Ut was not the gentlemen of
l. Wall Street who urged a sem
atorial investigation into the
ways of big finance. 1t is not,
with few exceptions, the bank
ers who today are urging needed
legislation to prevent the repeti-
ton of incidents which seem
Startling" to so many of us.
I have yet to hear a single cap
tain of industry or finance VINO
has come forward to say, "Per-
haps that million dollar bonus
which 1 received was a shade too
high, and I'd like to pay some Of
it back"
To be sure, the employees who
bought bank stocks at the top on
margin still are having payments
taken out of their salary, but not
all the directors have been any
thing like as severely pressed.
Some of the great men may
point to the fact that on paper
they have taken great losses from
the top of the 1929 boom, but they
fail to emphasize the fact That
some of the money which flowed
to them during that year and the
two which preceded it hardly
represented rewards for what you
might call desperate effort.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-28
Alternating Current

WTHEN the General Electric
w Company was formed. both
Edison and DR.. Thomson were Of
fered positions upon the board of
directors.
Thomson declined at once, pre-
ferring to remain at the head Of
a research laboratory.
AT that time he was interested
particularly in development of tie
alternating current and the trans
mission Of the alternating current
over long distances, the same sub
Ject which later held the attention
Of Charles P. Steinmetz
Edison's lamp and Thomson's
idea to make use of alternating
current account for the great
growth Of the electrical industry
in this country.
Edison accepted a position upon
the original board of the G. E.
company and served until 1901.
But his interests always were in
his laboratory rather than in his
business affairs.
Brush, until his death, lived in
Cleveland. His interest gradually
changed from applied science to
theoretical science and at the time
OF his death he was working on
experiments which he hoped
would diSprove the Einstein
theory.