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The Washington times., 1933-04-24
HAMMOND SEES
SILVER NEED
CURRENCY

(FolIotDing is the first OF ttDo
interUietDS tDith John Hays Ham.
nond, Dorld famous economist
and mining engineer, on the
causes of going oft the gold
standard and the probable et-
jectS.J
PASADENA, CAL, April "a
(I.N.S.)-"The action Of the
United States in going off the
gold standard was inevitable"
Such was the assertion today
Of John Hays Hammond, engineer
and economist, and an authority
on gold and silver. He said:
"The reason for this great
economic change Is simple
there is not enough gold in one
world to satisfy the needs Of
our great industrial system un-
der present values.
METAL BASE NEEDED
eat the same time / do not
believe the world can get along
on a managed currency. We
have always had and need q
metallic base, but gold Is not
sufficient to meet our needs.
To bring back stability it Is Dos
sibIe that some form Of COM
promise may be adopted.
This may not necessarily
mean bi-metallism, but it will
almost certainly mean placing
silver again on a standard basis.
RECOMMENDATION Of silver on
the parity existing between gold
and silver for upwards Of 20 CEN
turies would very nearly double
the metallic basis Of currency
now limited to gold.
'There seems little question
that France, too, will be forced
70 follow our lead, and before
long the entire world will have
cut loose from the present gold
backing of its currency and be
ready to adjust the monetary
structure to meet modern de-
mandS.
1900 Years of Parity
""There is only about $11, ,OOO,.
100000 in gold available to back
currency. A further curtail-
ment in the metallic backing Of
currency came with the demon
AtizatiOn of silver in the 7O'S,
despite the fact that for 1000
years there had been q parity
between gold and silver as far
as its acceptability as currency
was concerned.
ut has been cOntended that
there has been ample credit
available for expanding indus
try. While this is true, con-
Servative induStrialiSts have not
taken advantage of this COndi.
tiOn, realizing they were mot
justified in obtaining bank
loans under prevailing low prices
of commodities which would
prevent profitable business.
'This hesitation on the part
Of the borrower would be re-
moved as the result of increaS-
ing price of commodities due to
going off the gold basis.
Silver, IL to 1
"Silver has been produced
over q long period in a relation
Of about IL to l with gold, and
the arguments for its rehabilita-
tiOn are not only historical, but
logical and in keeping with the
economic trend.
"Quite aside from the argu-
ments for silver, however, is the
important fact that going off the
gold standard at this time has
placed the United States in q
position to deal with the world
economic situation in such D
way that prosperity can be re-
stored"
The Washington times., 1933-04-24
w, c, T. U. SPEAKER

Miss Maude Aldrich, director of
motion pictures, National Board
of the w. c. T. u, will be guest
speaker at a meeting Of the Chevy
Chase branch Wednesday in the
Presbyterian Church,
The Washington times., 1933-04-24
"Y" CAMPAIGN OPENS

A spring roundup and drive in
which 400 new members will be
enrolled opened yesterday at the
Twelfth Street Branch Y. M c.
A., and will continue through
Nay & /
The Washington times., 1933-04-24
LODGE TO MEET

Hopeful Lodge No. 7, Order Of
Shepherds Of Bethlehem, will
meet tomorrow at 8 p. m, in Ma
sonic Temple, Fourteenth and .
SITS. s. E.
The Washington times., 1933-04-24
RULE
IS OPPOSED

Administrative officials in the
Federal service have protested to
President Roosevelt against the
rule, adopted by the holdover
Civil Service Commission, which
gives residents of a State pref.
erence for Federal civil service
jobs in that State.
It is pointed out that such
employees are working for the
nation, not for the State, and
that if confined to State lines,
selection would often have to be
made from a limited list that
would not include the best appli-
cantS.
Commissioner Jessie Dell rpon-
sored the rule. which was adopted
by a bare majority.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-21
KIDNAPPING THRIVES

The depression has not hit kidnapers. Their pro-
fession is thriving. Their overhead is small Their
profits are enormous. They are neither taxed on
tangibles nor intangibes and they need consider
book value for good will
The helpless mnions of the law and the distract
ed families unequal to the task of bottng from
society this venomous and filthy crime.
The legislature resorts to feeble gasps of fury
voting severe punishment. Like the famous mice
of Aesop there seems no way to bell the cat.
1t sounds strange to the law-abiding citizen the
citizen who never has contact with underworld pro-
cedure to hear how many kidnap suspects or kid
napers that are eventually caught have either been
apprehended before for crimes which should have
put them behind bars for a long stretch or have
been associated with criminals of known record for
some time before the theft occurs.
It's getting increasingly hard for the law-observ-
ing citizen to understand who so many ghouls with
records as o,g as your arm wandering about
as free as air It's getting very hard to understand
why murderers are constantly and consistently par
doneG-why cases of forgery, robbery, rape and
assault are just kindly asked to leave the state in
stead of put behind bars
The sooner the courts and governors cease to
regard prisons as reform schools or sentences as
punishment the recorded criminals will cease
to rage up and down the land, spreading desolaton
and machine gun bullets.
The sooner the courts and the governors realize
that prison sentences are simply in order to remove
criminals from general circulation, for no other
purpose than to protect society from their ravages
the sooner society will be properly protected.
We pay for police, We pay for courts. We pay
even for council and we pay for governors. Their
primary duty is to protect the law abiding ma
jority.
They have over the past fifteen years sowed the
wind of misplaced sympathy for criminals and SEN
timentalized over murderers. They are now reap
ing the whirlwind of savage depredations and OBJ
scenities.
kidnapping isn't often first offense.
The law and powers who should protect us have
spent too much time being big brother to potential
MISREPRESENTATION (Wyo) Press.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-21
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
GROUP FARMING

Farming communities tenanted by veterans of
the World war have been founded in several states.
Perhaps the nearest is Argonne Farms near Column
bus, Ca, which was born in the mind of Charles
J. Haden, of Atlanta, who set aside and subdivded
a 25OO-acre tract near Columbus for the use Of
veterans On each farm of approximately 100
acres family is located The veteran makes an
arrangement to purchase the farm on terms suit
able to him. moves in with his family and begins
work.
These men are not getting rich on their farms
but they are living without fear of starvation or
loss of jobs They have their jobs and their lands,
their cottages, their fruits and nuts and their
smokehouses and barns that hold food and feed
for them and their beasts. They no longer hunger
for the streets and entertainment and excitement
of the city.
Considering the work done at Argonne Farms
we cannot escape the thought that had a large
bloc of the money distributed by the Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corporation been used to finance vet
Grams and others in cities who caught in the
depression, that they might retire to their own
little tracts of land and start life anew more good
would have been accomplished than by the loan Of
that money to bankers trying to save the INSULT
properties. The funds might better have been APP
piled for establishing veterans communities than
in keeping jerk-water railroads out of receivers
hands.
David G.. Adams, of Spartanburg has proposed
the establishing of group of small farms in this
county where men whipped of fortune might go
with their families and make fight for indepen-
dence. The scheme appears to be practicable Per-
haps that is why it does not appeal to the financial
mind of congress, and the finance corporation
Spartanburg Herald.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-21
THOUGHTS OF
A FISHERMAN
By Ike Walton, Redivivuo

Did YOU ever see q toad-frog
round a bee-gum? You know he
gets him a little corner under the
rock or the bench, and hangs
around to nab the bees when
they come near. The shy rascal
goes where the honey is, Just
like Uncle Joe Daniels advises
the legislature to look where the
money is.
The county courthouse is a
sort Of bee-gum. There is honey
and money there. There are also
toads around. The toads are not
like good old honest bu'lfrogs
that below and sing in their
ponds. The toads are discreatly
silently, like they have secrets to
keep, and folks to dodge, and sly
tricks to play. They Just lie in
wait for the bees. The bees,
busy, honest, intelligent, hard
working taxpayers, trying to
build up their homes and sweeten
The community, do not realize
the lurking enemy. They often
get caught. Sometimes they even
lose their homes.
# bull-frogs we're there, the
bees or their keepers would soon
find it out. The bullfrog is a
publicity agent for the commun-
ity. He boldly proclaims his own
presence and also let's it be
known when it's going to rain.
Publicity is the cure for court
house troubles. 1t would pay to
publish in a county paper every
week the minutes of every board;
the vochers issued, the taxes COL
lected from each taxpayer, the
warrants, arrests, fines, penal
ties. 1t won't hurt anybody, be-
cause it will catch everybody
once in a while, and it will stop
"a whole lot Of lies. Ii will let
the whole people know exactly
what is going on. 1t won't leave
it to a reporter who might be-
long to one party TO look Tor
only what might be ammunition
for his own use. 1t should pc
made official and a penalty i'm
posed for failure to make it full
and correct.
Woodrow Wilson once said
turn on the light in the dark
corner. Toads don't like light.
They will desert the bee-gum
that has q light in all corners.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-21
DO NOT PENALIZE TAXPAYERS

There is maze of local and statewide bills be-
ing offered to the general assembly 20 give relief
to delinquent taxpayers of this and former years.
Some of them bear earmarks of demagoguery on
the part of those who offer them, and many sound
good to some of the voters back home. But most
of the bills offered if passed, would be the rankest
kind of relief legislation, relieving the delinquent
at the expense of the greater majority who have
paid their taxes in full and have oftimes sacrificed
20 do it.
We are in favor of giving needed relief, and
some of the penalties unpaid taxes have been
high but on the other hand the majority class of
taxpayers meet their taxes and they ought not to
be penalzed if another man fails to pay his tax.
Property on which the tax is unpaid should bear
its part of the burden, even if it does amount to
added costs to redeem it. Certainly prompt tax
payers should not bear the double burden. They
need relief as badly as the other class.-B. Arp
Lowrance.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-21
Countess Tolstoy,;. 81
Is Attached to
Quiet Farm Life

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. I'll
(UP). Happy and contenteo
amid her cows and chickens on q
13-acre farm a lew miles from
here Countess Alexandra TolS-
TOW, daughter Of the famous Rus
sian writer, went about hel
work today SIS usual, though
"feelins happier than in LONG
time" at the thought that hel
impassioned plea to the League
of Nations might help the Rus
sian peoples cause. 49,,
For nearly a year the middle,
aged daughter Of Russia's most
militant novelist has lived quiet
" OH her Newton Square estate
her pre- scnce in this country un'
known to millions until she lift
ed her voice in protest against
"the torture Of 16O,OOO,OO0 OF
her countrymen.
FAR CRY -,
It is a far cry from the wind
Scared hills of Pennsylvania to
Yasnaya PoIyana - where the
worlds greatest dined with Toll
stoy and his daughter-but the
countess is satisfied with the
"simple life"
Did she like it here? But yes
And her hazel eyes lighted up al
the question-eyes that gave nc
hint of dark memories enduring
through the years following the
World war. the Russian reVolu'
ton and imprisonment in a Sow,
let jail.
This is so different from Rus
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-21
GREAD THE STORY, THEN COLOR THE PICTURE

enjoy this ride. IN Just 40
ment we will ind 4 place yo-i
think IS grand.
III tell the hopper va:a 70
drop. Outside the TC,tICg:
place we'll stop, aSa then 20.
will agree with. ne, tc2t Is !
real strange land"
1T wasn't very long un,i! tx
J. fddler's voice rang OIL, re-.
shrln. Drop dow. Drop DOM
brave hopper, to a spot We !a4:
not pass.
It's Just below lis, on ID
ground" And then they i3n1e.
safe and sound. The TIMES "e'
surprised to see = magHiI!A
glass. -,
The fiddler said, That is ID
door to Big Bug Land. and WIZ
is more, You TIMES must !aG
through it, if YOU want to see u
sights"
Then Scouty cried. Sure. We!
Jump through. That really IS a9
hard to do" And, when the? d'
the fiddler. cried, You're 70.
brave TinymiteS."
! Copyright, 1889, NEA Srr'!ce' lbs.
(Thc TIMES meet thr cll'S
con in tho newt S!nrT(
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-21
There is no substitute for
newspaper advertising.
BEHIND THE SCENES IN
WASHINGTON
With RODNEY QUICHEE

reverSaI by fixing up the VciStead
Act so it wouldn't apply to beer of
less than a given alcoholic content.
The chances are that this impor.
tant change will be preserved and
that before long we'll be having
beer instead of only a court de.
cision.
1t wasn't until after the House
had voted on repeal that adequate
consideration was given to the
question of ratification by state
conventions-a method to which
both major parties are pledged.
The drys have been boasting that
they could tie up the conventions
by court action indefinitely and re.
cent application of some of the
best legal minds TO the question of
congressional power in arranging
for such conventions certainly
hasn't been wasted.
THE more the country looked at
- the domestic allotment farm re.
lief bill the more skeptical or
scared a lot of people became This
measure undoubtedly will be enact.
ed in some form, but not as it
passed the Housewife peanuts
and rice covered by the plan and
one or two new wrinkles in the
administration provisions which
many students felt would rob the
scheme of its chances of success
When the bill does go through,
the crops affected will be restricted
10 wheat and cotton and provisions
Tor supervision will be simplifed
as much as possible. The leaders
will be all set to see to Tat.
Sad as the spectacle Of this last
lame duck session seems, the facts
cited may strengthen the general
hope for beneficial special session.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-21
b. OLD AGE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT
(By BRUCE CATION

Human beings have many fears. None
of them is more tragic or foolish than the
fear of old age.
There died in New York not long ago 4
veteran actress at the age of so. Few peo-
pie knew her real age, before her death ;
some thought she was 65, some thought
she was much younger She had a grown
daughter, but she never let anyone know
it she had left her husband and her
daughter, long ago, in order that no one
might find out how old she was.
Several years before her death she had
had to retire from the stage; but she tried
to keep up the fiction of youth to the very
last. She passed herself off as the pretty
young ingenue." After her retirement she
became even more determined to be youth
full. She even convinced herself. In her
last years she was not an old woman, N
her own eyes; she was a charming young
actress, flushed with triumphs, ready 10
rise to stardom 3new on her girlish beauty
and charm.
Her story is almost unbearably pathetic.
But it is unusual only in that this woman
went a little bit farther in her fear of old
age than most of us try to go.
We all share her fear, to q certain eX-
tent We fight the advancing years desper-
ately and futilely, and when wrinkles or
gray hairs or bodily weakness at last con-
vince us that we are on the downward
slope we feel very sorry for ourselves, and
contend that life has played us scurvy
trick.
And there is in all of this a subtle proof
that our scheme of living is out Of Joint
somewhere. Old age should be the crown
of life-the Indian summer of human eX-
istence, a time for peaceful contemplation
and reflection. 1t might be, if we prepared
for it.
Bat we don't. We force ourselves not to
think that we shall be old some day; and
when that some day comes, and we are
old, we feel that fate has cheated us most
UNANIMOUSLY.
Itneedn't be that way. We all know old
people who have escaped that mistake
people who accept age undisturbed, who
don't grope back in vain for the illusion of
lost youth, but who accept the quiet and
peace of advanced years as harbor for
which they have long been steering.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-21
Indian Medicine
Men Knew Cures
Records Show Efforts Not
All Confined to Charms

HAVRE, Mont, Feb. q. (UP).
Not all remedies used by Indian
medicine men were mere super
stitiOus charms, records of early
explorers in Montana disclose.
Pulverized buttons from the
rattles Of rattlesnakes and the
castoreum of animals were used
to deaden pain Of women in
childbirth. The effect obtained
was similar to that now secured
through use Of ergot.
Twigs Of chockecherry bushes
were stripped of their bark, boil
ed, and the resulting black tea
given for stomach disorders.
Captain Clark Of the Lewis and
Clark expedition in 1904 record
ed that he was relieved Of an at
tack Of dysentery by drinking
the tea.
Poultices of elm, or Indian
meal, were used by members of
the expedition to heal boils, and
good results were obtained.
Roots and leaves of fireweed
were used as a sedative by the
Sheepeater and other Indian
tribes. Tea made from juniper
tree roots was used to cure
coughs. For indigestion wild pep
permint, cattail roots and leaves,
and the bark Of the red willow
were taken.
Many of the medicine men
were proficient in designing
splints and setting broken or
fractured bones, old-timers re-
call.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-21

sia," She said, indiqatirc
sweep, of her?ihand rSo sS
fields stretching AVA 'g At
house. $50 different g., Iron
STA today. In Russ, IRON
not raise food to cat We c,
The government worIJ Or
food, tell Us how much =, take
have, and then fail 10 o wy n
much" ~ give
The countess brougb, 90.
tie out Of Russia when hen , Il
lowed her famous fatEn, SIZE 81;
lie in 1910. On the waIll INTO %
farmhouse are a few '' o. o,
g graphs, one Of which SHOW. t
Tolstoy seated at a desI' "o"S
other the gateway cr2r, %hf
1asnaya Polyana, which "a aAe'
national shrine. g. Nc
But the hectic panorsn,
stretches between Ya.no ana
ana and the little 4mcr G%" |,
"a panorama Of violence ,ra'' i
shed and topping thron,ooo o.
etched indelibly upon ~, J''e' =
OF this woman with fl" !
streaked hair. '"c
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-21

THE great, big hopper iioated
L 'rorad and then it swooped
down to the ground. II need a
stronger push" it said, ito travel
very far.
Pm weak at pushing, now and
then. I've just come down to try
again. Now, kindly don't BE
frightened, lads. Just stay right
where you are"
"Oh. mly," said ScOutT, "wG're
all right. Don't worry. We will
all sit tight. It's very comfy on
your back and this is heaps OF
fun.
please, this time, hop up DER
the trees. I'll bet you can do that
with ease" "All right" replied
the honyer. "Tis no sooner said
than done"
ONE. Tiny shortly shouted, "Oh,
~ the trees, right now, are fac
below. That was the best jump
you have made. Where are we
going now?'
ADesher cried, "What do NC
care? Where'er it is, We'll soon
he there. l know we're safe and
sound, because the flddlGE told ME
So"
"Of course you're SAFE" the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-21
5Y RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

yY7ASHINGTON.--A rather pro1i-
w gious effort, possible only to
one grimly bent on spreading
sweetness and light. is necessary in
order to evoke a pleasant thought
concerning the work of Congress
in the present session.
But if you regard the session as
a rehearsal it is possible to per-
ceive some good in it.. Congress has
done a splendid job of demonstrate
ing to Mr.. Roosevelt and the next
Congress how easy it is to get all
gummed up while trying to produce
legislation adequate for current
complicated and vital problems.
Starving persons and farmers about
to be eviCted probably won't appre-
ciate this, but the trials and err
rors of the short session seem to
assure quicker and more intelli-
gent action by the special session.
Congress has been hearing from
the country as it never did before
and some important legislation
has failed in this session simply
because features of it came to seem
unwise, unavoidable or unpopular.
-
10Th the beer bill and the re-
~ peal resolution are examples.
1t seems likely that they will now
be made bomb-proof by comparison
with the original House bills.
There's no sense passing a beer
bill ii the supreme court is going
to declare it unconstitutional and
when one was passed as a tax
measure plenty Of doubt was left
rs to its constitutionality The
senator's mangled the beer pro-
nosal otherwise. but they figured
out how to avoid supreme court
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-21

If there's anything in that old saying
about "shirt-sleeves to shirt-sleeves in three
generations" our children are going to
have to enjoy prosperity as best they can
with their coats on.