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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-04
North Blue Ridge

NORTH BLUE RIDGE, July 4;
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond HUI ana
daughter, Bobby, attended preach
inc service at the Methodist
church in Hendersonville on
recent Sunday. After service they
were Joined by Miss Eula Coston
and Dan Williams and motored
out the Chimney Rock highway
to a nice cool place and enjoyed
a picnic dinner.
Mrs. Gibson Pace and daugh-
ter Mary, called to see Mrs
Belvin Hyder Thursday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. N. Allen, in
remembrance of fathers day,
June 18th, invited the children
for dinner. Those enjoying the
bounteous dinner were Mr.. and
Mrs. s. M. Cole and son, Benson.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. A. Allen and
children, Jimmie and Dixie, and
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Allen.
Mrs. Carl Burgess had as her
dinner guests last Sunday her
mother, Mrs. Wiley Taylor, and
brother, Robert, also Mrs. Alice
Reece of Bolyston.
The friends Of Mrs r. T. Pace
will regret to learn that she is
very i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Allen
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond
Hill Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Dock Case and children
of East HendersOnville, who have
been visiting Mrs. s. NJ. Cole
have returned to their home.
B. S. Justice and children,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-04

hole" little serpent man ca
claimed. The serpent's ours, You
see.
Wed hate to lose it. If some.
one should get it, it would spoil
our fun" Then to the other ser.
pcnt men he said, Come on, join
mel"
WHEN everyone was holding
W tight. wee Windy loudly cried
"All right! Start pulling!" Aud
the whole bunch did. They yanked
to beat the band.
oh. my" cried Quincy. "This is
tough. This piece Of rope is very
rough. If l pull any more, it Will
rip skin off Of my hand"
Just then there came 4 big sur,
prise. Before the bunch could
realize what happened they all
took 4 flop and Scouty shouted,
"Oh!
We've fallen for another trick,
and I must say that it was slick!
Whoever held the other end quite
suddenly let CO."
Copyright, 1888. NEA Service. Inc.l
(Thc TIMES meet the lasso mai
In the next Story.)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-04

Margie and Pierce. visited !;
daughter, Mrs. Z. A. Allen, H., ,"'
Monday.
The small son Of Mr.. and w..
R. T. Pace is recovering ricai>,
from a tonsil operation.
iClarence Hyder who has bs..
working at the mill in Spart,s
burg, S. c., has returned TO h,
home here. ~
Judge Gautie and family q,
Miami, Fla, have returned y,
their summer home here. "
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-04

An orange-and-yellow neektie will spur
ones courage, says a University of South
ern California psychologist. Yes, and if he
wears it on st. Patrick's day, he'll need it.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-04

high pitch in the spring of
.17SS that civil warfare broke out.
Sewers men were routed by the
Carolinians under Upton in a
hard-fOught skirmish. Upton
caused the arrest Of Sewer and
carried him in irons to Morgan
ton, N. c., to face trial on charges
of high treason. During his trial
Sewer was spirited away on a
horse by friends. He returned
to his home across the mountains
more popular than ever.
While still an outlaw Sewer
was elected to the North Carolina
senate. The assembly wisely,
though over the heated protesta-
lions of Upton, passed an act of
oblivion over the episode of
Franklin.
The western territory was
again coded to the federal govern
ment in 1890 and became known
as Territory South of the Ohio
until 1896. when the population
became sufficiently large to form
the State of Tennessee, absorbing
the lost state Of Franklin, and
electing John Sewer as it's first
governor. ...,, ...Gstt
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-04

Correct this sentence: 81 keep my health" said
the famous dietitian, "by eating the same kind of
hay prescribe for my patients"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-04
june REVENUE
MUCH REDUCED
That for State During the
Month Closed Far Less
Than June 1892
The Times-News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel

RALEIGH, July 4.-Although
collections of revenue for the
state general fund amounted to
only $670,748 in June as COM
pared with 81, 147,G02 in June,
1882, this does not materially
change the consistent gain in
revenue collections that has been
evident for several months, Com
missioner of Revenue A. j. Max
well said Saturday in announcing
the figures for June. The unusual
" large amount of revenue collect
ed in June a year ago was due TO
several Exceptional payments OF
income and inheritance taxes
which do not run with any consis-
tent regularity" Mr.. Maxwell
said. He pointed out that there
has been a continuing increase i'll
taxes collected from automobile
registrations and from the gaso-
line tax. Total collections for the
entire wear were $14, 503,499 as
compared with total Of $16,66l,-
83S year ago.
Collections Of revenue Tor the
highway fund, from gasoline and
automobile taxes and the sale OF
titles, amounted to $1,377, 492 in
June, as compared with 81, 1872
692 in June a year ago, the report
issued today shows. an increase OF
S177 800 Total highway fund
collections from all sources for
the fiscal year ending yesterday,
however, is still slightly below col
lections for last year, amounting
to $19,240,G99 as compared with
collections of $20,502,200 for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1882.
This is a difference of $1,261, sol,
of which $371,815 results from
the decrease in revenue from the
sale Of automobile licenses.
Total collections for the year
lust ended of $l4, SOB, 499, though
some 100000 less than collec-
lions for the preceding fiscal year,
were considerably larger than had
been anticipated year ago, Com
missioner Maxwell said, and indI-
cate steady gain in revenue dur
ing the past three or four months.
The fact that the revenue from
, the income tax this year amount
ed to S6,OO4,433 as compared
with $7,1J3,738 for the preced-
ing year. indicates a much small
er shrinkage in income taxes than
! had been expected. Collections
from the franchise tax this past
fiscal year were $6,128,317 as
compared with $6,6G9,903 the
preceding year. also indicating a
shrinkage of only about 100000
which is less than was expected.
License tax collections were ST.
87O,21O as compared with ST.
1856 the previous year. On
the whole, Commissioner Maxwell
! 80 ,,rattv ,roO coticfad
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-07-04

Animosity between Franklin
and North Carolina reached such
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-04
Seems Optimistic

The Literary Digest claim that 46 states will ratify the repeal of the 18th Amend ment seems bit optimistic to our way of thinking. That would be ten states more than are necessary to remove the prohibition amendment from the Constitution. We be- lieve that such action will be taken by the states. but it is hard for us to believe that some of the states that must necessarily be included in a list of 46 ratifying will vote this way. For example. the Digest claims that only Kansas and North Carolina are now dissenting in three polls taken by the magazine on the liquor question. They were in 1922, l930. and l932, the latter accompanying the presidential poll of the same year.
 Literary Digest polls. we must confess are proving more accurate of recent years than many of us thought they possibly could be. But when as dry state as Oklahoma is listed among those that will ratify the 18th Amendment repealer we must be convinced. It IS perfectly obvious that certain percentage of voters in every state would prefer to end prohibition right now. But that percentage would vary greatly, IuHHlIlS HlSu III tlle edSleIH dHu oOHne Weot- ern states. like California, but dropping in the Middle West and the South, where the drys hope to stage their best fights.
 However, Wisconsin will elect its dele gates to state convention on April and probably be the first state to go on record for or against the amendment. Strictly speaking it won't be vote for or against, but merely an election of delegates to a convention to be held on April 25, where the sentiment of the state will be registered by fifteen delegates. As Wisconsin is the home of Senator Blaine, father of repeal, it is fitting that it should take the first action on it. On the basis of this fact and others ma terializing in recent years it appears that Wisconsin will lead procession of states registering dsapproval with the dry laws. If this number reaches 46. we will be greatly surprised. If it doesn't reach 36, we will be just as much surprised, not to mention chagrined
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-04
Hours And Wages

A big chewing gum manufacturer, short ening the working hours of his employees, at the same time takes step usually omitted in such cases. He increases the hourly wages enough so that the workers will get as much for the short day as they have been getting for the long day. This is a very important principle-important to the wage-earners themselves, and important to business through the maintenance of buying power. Many advocates of shorter working time urge six hours day and five days week as if those figures alone would solve the unem- ployment problem and bring an industrial millennium. Of course they won't.
 Work has to be divided and paid for as best it can be in this present crisis. where the vital thing is to bring everybody through with as little hardship and injustice as possible. But the industrial and social ideal issnot less work for less pay. It is less work with as much or more pay. Only in this way can come prosperity in which all will share, and which will have chance of continuance because it is based on sound business and social principles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-04
A Book a Day
 by BRUCE CATION
A Fantastic
 Land Of Fun

Hard times may come and go, and the world may be shaken by wars and the rumors of wars; but the blithe nonsense of P. G. Wode- house seems to go on forever, sui fering no letdown in it's quality. "Mulliner Nights" is MT Wode- houses newest offering. In it MT Mulliner explains to his cronies at the AngleHs Rest the more insane adventures of his various relatives; and the result is book which con- tains an unusual number of laughs, even for a Wodehouse book.
 It tells, for instance, of Adrian Mulliner, who learned to smile to cure his dyspepsia, and found that it aided his work as a detec- tive beyond belief. It tells of Lance lot Mulliner, who became care taker to his uncle's cat and under the influence of that dignified and austere creature, became a new man. It tells of some other Mulli- ner, whose name escapes me at the moment, who signed up for a correspondence school course in agriculture in order to win the daughter of an enthusiastic gen. tleman-farmer, and who got, by mistake, the course is developing the will power-with fantastic re- suits for all concerned.
 All of these tales, of course, are developed on MT Warehouses usual formula. Yet somehow they don't seem stale or obvious. This world that MT Wodehouse creates is a special world, a world peopled by creatures who have an engag- ing and naive stupidity of a kind never seen on land or sea; and to his reviewer, at least, 1t is one of the funniest worlds ever imagined.
 "Mulliner Nights is published by Doubleday, Doran and Go and sells for $2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-04

The best solution of the patronage evil as suggested by Alfred E. Smith in the current issue of his magazine. The New Outlook. is Abolish all positions not obviously necessary for the conduct of government. ." If only .ome party or political leader could do that what nation this would be. Think of the annual savings that would be represented in tax savings. Here's another good sugges- ton. Retain in the service. irrespective of party. all present officials of conspieu- ous ability and long service. -" Unfortu- nately that is principle to which few men. even outstanding ones. will subscribe. Yet it is our future salvation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-04
Here, There And Eueryuhere

department appropriation bill to provide for the admission of some 88,000 unemployed youths to the citizens military training camps, and for the immediate opening of the camps. The $22,00O,0O0 pro- posed for the financing of the plan would be expended to meet in large measure a particularly ur- gent need. The number of boys Ion the road" without employ ment and in danger of drifting into habitual .vagrancy or into actual crime has been estimated by care full students at between 100000 and 100000.
 It is 8 satisfaction to know that the proposal was accepted by the senate not only without division but without, apparently, any ad- verse comment "off the record" Senator Frazier of North Dakota. now has annually offered objtc- tion to the citizens military train ing camps, remarked simply, I'm glad to see this done," Senator La Follette's approval of the amend ment as the first measure of the session "dealing directly with hu- man suffering" reached the ker- nel of the matter.
 The only adverse criticism that seems at all likely to be heard is that the admission of the stray boys to the training camps may tend to promote spirit of mili- tarism among them. The danger, if 1t be a danger, is remote; far more remote than the danger, not to say certainty. that the present plight of the young nomads will foster spirit of lawlessness.
 Labor unions in Scotland arc fighting the new "unempIoyed clubs" movement.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-04
NEA Service Writer

Washington This is the last chance to wave farewell to MI Hoover. History has not yet de- termined his place, but many who have followed his career closely regard him as a high-grade pro- moter who has suffered most from the over-promotion of himself and his projects.
 There's a remarkable parallel between Hoover and both the pe- riod in which he rose to power and the course of his country dur ing that period. It was an era of over-promotion in which men pyramided values of securities and land, the amount of debts which are always based on future expectations and the hope of future profits to absurd heights. Mir Hoover was over-inflated along with everything else and he him. self played the part of super salesman for his proposals and his party to the last.
 His business career had been that of a mining promoter. He was sold to the country in 1928 as a great engineer, but eventu- ally 1t became more or less fash ionable to sheer at him as just an ex-promoter.
 Any fair review of his admin tration, however, must admit that Hoover made many valuable con- iah brightly now if the country hadn't been tobogganing to eco- homie hell. Rooms glorify pro- motors and washouts throw them into disrepute.
 Promotion by personal pub 1icity was never neglected during Hoover's years as food dictator and boss of relief for stricken peoples.
 The parallel becomes especially striking when you consider the present position of the Depart ment of Commerce, which Hoover operated, aggrandized and expand ed during eight years.
 Hoover built up and drama tized that department as a keen exploiter might turn a neglected, inexpensive patch of land into q gaudy subdevelopment or an abandoned mine into a site of ac- tivity and productive enterprise to his own glory and profit.
 Many employees in the depart ment now regard their $17,00O,- 900 building and the worlwide ramifications of the department as a shining example of overpromo- tion, even though everyone thought it was perfectly swell when there was @ commensurate amount of commerce. President Roosevelt will make Hoover's pet department the most conspicuous target in his program of pruning and reorgani- zation.
 Trade and commerce might have risen by billions in any event, but Hoover was constantly promoting 1t and himself rose on the wave. Now 1t appears that most of the individuals whom he established as trade promoters over the world will find their jobs abolished and Hoover's nu- merous friends and supporters occupying positions in the de- partment will be the first to get
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-04

The Watervile news in the Waterbury Democrat of "Wednesday contained an ln- teresting article on the history of the con- troversy between this city and the State Highway Department over the maintenance of what local people know as the lower Watervile road. There is now pending before the Legislature bill to place the road back in the trunk line system where it was originally. The concrete road was laid in 1915, the first one of its kind in this vicinity, macadam or some similar hard sur face being used up to that time. It can easily be seen that the road was one of the earliest by its extremely narrow width. lnci- dentally this narrowness has demanded ex- penditure of much money by the city in repairing the shoulders of the road which crumbled swiftly before increasing traffic along this valley route. It is interesting to learn that the lower Watervlle road was originally private property over which passersby established right of way that in time became a legal passway and road It was unfortunate that the city ever took over its maintenance from the state. It IS douby unfortunate today that the state won't con sder the fact that the city hasn't the funds to lay new route while the state has access to money that is being paid daily by motor ists driving over the route in question. We sincerely hope that the l933 Legislature will go on record as making Thomaston avenue a state road.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-04
The New Deal

Today ushers in new administration of our federal government. At noon today Franklin D. Roosevelt takes over the guid- ance of this nation. These are perilous times in which he is made captain of the ship of state, even more so than those four years ago when the nation carried on republican pow CT and republican principles under the stewardship of Herbert Hoover All the hope that was placed in Mir Hoover now rests on the shoulders of President Roosevelt. We certainly pray that he may be well equipped to bear them, for in these times only man of the strongest convictions and hrmest purpose can hope to carry us through to safety.
 A comparison of the outlook for the new president with that of four years ago IS indeed dismal. In 1929 we were still flush ed with material successes. The future was rosy, the past just memory. Then came the aftermath. Through it foundered the repub- hcan party as best as 1t could, unfortunate perhaps in some respects that it had relied on pretty catch phrases for national poicies fortunate that it could not hope to be con- tinued in power in the face of its blunderS. To President Roosevelt and the democratic party are entrusted the gigantic task of lead ing the nation back to normalcy. It can be done It should be done under this new leadership.
 In the next four years there will be some drastic changes in our government. That IS inevitable when one party returns to power after lapse of many years. We are in- clined to think that such an upheaval will be good for all of us. It will serve as warning to self-satsfed parties that after all this is democratic form of government We choose or discard our executives as we will, the accession of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the presidency is but typical example of the working of the will of the people. Their will has been done, it now remains for the honored head of the democratic party to reciprocate.
 We wish nothing but success for Presi- dent Roosevelt in the next four years. We trust that he will raise the party which he so nobly represents to new high level Party government is really on trial now. The future of the democratic party is in the hands of those leaders who are now as- sembed in Washington. We believe that restatement of those principles on which the party is founded will act as buffer be- tween the too modern conception of our federal government as public granaries to be footed by officialdom when and as often as 1t desires. Hail to the new presldentl Hail to the new democratic party that must come from his administration
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-04
So They Say

A good motto for the historian is that very nearly everything very nearly didn't happen. Guedalia, English histori-
 an and biographer.
 When the modern politician be- gins to talk of the spirit, rest as- sured he is evading the issue.
 Bennett Craig, dramatist. What I'm most worried about Is what in the world am I going to do with my Cruikshanks? I can't part with them.
 William H. Woodin. industrialist, collector of George Cruikshank's s sketches, upon appointment as secretary of the treasury.
 We don't any more have to live tip to anybody else's standards. |. If we really want to be inde- pendent, we can, without wonder ing what our neighbors will think.
 Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 
 A militant, fearless press is the one agency in America that can arouse and crystalize public senti- ment and is the one power that is irresistible when tolerance of evil conditions is bred in the conscience of the community. Federal Judge George E. 0. John
 son of Chicago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-04
Our Daily Washington Letter
Mir Hoover Retires From Office
the ax.
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

the aX.
 All previous records of overpro- motion were broken when Hoover started making promises for the Republican party in 1928 and the republicans began to make prom ises for Hoover. No salesman of the blue sky or soap bubbles ever more sorely disappointed investors than the prophet of chickens in every pot and cars in every garage. Later, without waiting to be inaug- urated, Hoover dashed to Latin America to promote good will - and a trade that has almost van- ished.
 The Farm Board and the Haw- ley-Smoot tariff were puffed up. The Wickersham Commission, which did much splendid work, was promoted as a solvent for prohibition only to be virtually repudiated by Hoover himself. The crash came and Hoover was found gallantly promoting confi- dence that wouldn't be promoted. He was ballyhooing as restora- tives measures which at best only kept the patient alive, offering a 25-year American plan" based on the production of more babies who would be consumers and selling the theory of distress relief by private giving - which now only con- tributes 10 per cent of current re- lief funds.
 The 1892 campaign found Salesman Hoover again over- promoting his party, frantically bawling it's wares as the only goods fit for use, while vilifying the goods of its competitors. But the public reacted like badly stung investor and Hoover, de- spite his many admirable quali- ties, was chased from the house.