The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-12-19

Wilson.
Civilization IS race between
Education and Disaster. Mon
.aigne.
"Civi.izacion IS a contract be-
tween The great dead, the living
and the unborn. - f 1 m o n d
Burke.
"Truth wears no mask, seeks
no favors. bows at no shrine and
asks no applause. Lowell.
He who fears no truth need
have no fear OF any lie. "-Brann.
Fourteen years ago this coming
January the 18th amendment
came into being. | deplored It
.hen and fought for its repeal or
modification from that day until
it was repealed. As Joint owner
of The Times from 1920 10 1924
I kept the flame OF repeal burn
ing in the editorial column OF the
paper when il was regarded as a
silly bit of futility. In June,
1923, the Literary Digest took a
poll Of the Democratic cnarmen,
national, state and county ana IN
its issue Of June 80, 1928, l was
written up in that weekly as the
only Democratic chairman any
where in Dixie who was standing
with al" Smith on the liquor
question. After You took over
The Times and consolidated II
with The News as The Times
News, l stated in your paper
that there IS nothing more GER
tain in life. death and the vast
forever than the complete repud-
iation Of prohibition in this coun-
try"-.hat if it was not repudlat-
ed in the course Of tine, all his
tor. all great works on govern
ment and civil liberty and every
result of experience were all I'M
true. That was such a Joke that
Senator Sheppard, father of the
amendment, said that to repeal It
was Just about as possible as It
would be for a humming bird to
fly TO the polar star with the
Washington monument tied to its
aail. Well, the amendment IS
dead and gone in the nation and
il will be killed and abandoned
in North Carolina. Judge Webb,
Clyde Hoev and Cam Morrison to
the contrary Notwithstanding and
If l could forecast other events
with the certainty that attends
this issue | would make jeremiah
look like a fourth-rate prophet
before you write 1910 on your
date lines.
In 1922. when the Fordney-Mc-
Cumber tariff bill was enacted
and in every biennial election
since then l have pointed out in
your paper that every work on
political economy that has world
wide recognition as having great
weight and authority, decried
tariffs which were designed to
impede The natural flow of trade
a. making for the destruction Of
agriculture and, upon the princi-
pies set forth by these authori-
ties. | predicted that the farming
industry in this country would
be ruined by that bill and when
this ruin had been accomplished
we would all be involved in the
common ruin. but the industrial
freebooters and pirates who
dominated the government from
Harding to Roosevelt said that
the principles governing the pro-
duction and distribution, sale and
exchange. barter and trade, as
enumerated in these monumental
works were obsolete and that I'M
der modern conditions We had to
have this form Of graft in behalf
of the few as against the needs
Of the many in order TO keep up
our standard Of LIVING. Well, our
standard Of living now is hardly
up TO the menu in the poor
houses Of the nation, while those
who are responsible for this con-
ditiOn say that no one knows
what is the matter with Us or
what brought on the disease. The
truth Of the matter is that the
world is starving behind trade
barriers in a commercial warfare
tina. We provoked and which has
become a siege that no country
is now willing to lift for fear Of
inundauion when the tariff dykes
are cut.
Secretary Wallace told the
farmers of the west the exact
truth the other day when he de-
clared that we either had to i'm
port one billion dollars worth Of
foreign goods, per annum, in this
country or abandon 10 million
acres of farm land now under
cultivation.
The foregoing is simply leading
up to this: l heard a group OF
gentlemen berating the presI-
dents program for relief from
the present devastating economi-
cal collapse and dogmatically pre-
scribing an infallible way out.
What struck me was the fact
that these gentlemen did not
seem to realize that we have
closed an era and that a new
sociology is in process of birth,
that the old order has passed ami
gone to stay gone. What the new
order will be no one knows. but
again, there is nothing more Ger
tain in life. death and the vast
forever than the fact that Sys-
TEN of economics that DEGREES
that millions of people are with
out food because there is too
much bread and meat, hog and
hominy: all but naked because
, there is too much cotton, wool.
silk. hemp and rayon to make
clothes from; homeless because
there is too much lumber. brick,
stone. lime and cement to build