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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-20
Laundries and
Dry Cleaners to
Have Stamp Tax
The Timcs-NcwG Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel


RALEIGH, May 20-N ort h
Carolina has 4 stamp tax after
all, although many people still do
not know it, Commissioner Of
Revenue A. J. Maxwell pointed
out today.
This particular stamp tax ap-
plies only to laundries and dry
cleaning establishments and pro
vidcs that a state stamp tax OF
one cent shall be affixed to each
package of laundry or dry clean
inc amounting to 81 or a fraction
thereof in excess Of 81. The
stamps will be printed by the Re.
venue Department ad sold to the
laundrics and dry cleaners, to be
affixed to their packages.
Right now the department is
trying to work out suitable de.
sign for these stamps and several
sample designs are being prepared
by artists, Commissioner Maxwell
said. At present it is planned to
have the state capitol as the cen
trail motif on the stamps, since
next year is the centennial Of the
laying OF the capitol corner stone.
eve believe that the design for
these stamps should carry sketch
Of the capitol building, with the
dates 1884 and 1884, since the
corner stone was laid in 1884"
Commissioner Maxwell said. "How-
ever, we have not yet decided
upon any particular design
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-20
WAS ';y I =; S:;]E--.III1GTON,,,!l
WITH RODNEY DLTCREE
NTH ROQNEI-pUIAREE

been expected.
8. The patronage bosses OF
the Democratic party would like
to give out as many jobs to their
clamoring hordes as they can.
There's a definite attempt to
break down al least a part OF the
civil service system by which
federal employees have considered
themselves protected. About $780,
600 small jobs are not under civil
service in addition to the higher
pOsts-mOst Of which would go
to Democrats in any event. Those
Jobs have always been considered
safe" but their occupants are
worrying now. And there are sew
eral thousand more highly-paid
employees brought under civil SER
vice during the Hoover admlnlStra'
ton. Many Democrats favor taking
those job for their own folks, al
though such procedure if repeated
from administration to administra-
ton definitely would stop the prog
ress Of civil service.
4. Any emplOye of more than 80
years service may, under the IN
dependent offices bill passed by the
House, be retired at the discretion
of his department or bureau head
on an annuity running from S9OO
to $1,000 Il year. Some of the gov
ernment's most valuable employees
are now worrying over the posi-
bility that they may suddenly lose
their jobs and be reduced to
bare level of subsistence.
Federal employees have already
taken a Is per cent pay cut-a re.
duction which may be lessened
Whenever the president finds that
the cost of living has come within
Is per cent of its 1928 average.
Gle is required by Congress to in
vestigate and act on that point
every six months, which does give
the federal employe a protection
against inilation,)
Copyright. 1873 NEA Service. Incl
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-20
OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM BREAKS
DOWN
CBy BRUCE CATTON)

It. used TO be a joke when some uneX-
pected emergency forced a public school
Id close ahead of schedule. Today the
Joke has lost it's point. 1t has been repeat
ed altogether too many times.
The National Education Association has
figures to show that on April 1.-The most
recent date for which statistics are avail
abIe-nearly 100000 American school
children had been given holidays not
called for in the schedules.
More than 1900 schools have been closed
entirely. In nearly every city and town
the school teachers salaries have been cut,
the cuts ranging from 10 to 40 per cent.
In many other places the teachers haven't
been able to collect what is owed them.
And in innumerable places school sched-
ules have been shortened, certain classes
have been discontinued, teaching stats
have been reduced and special features
have been dropped.
What we have here, plainly, is an emer-
gency which fails to shock us only because
it has come upon us gradually.
1t is needless to point out that our whole
social and political setup rests on sound,
adequately, supported public school sys-
tenn. The fact speaks for itself. Trying to
run a democracy in large, heavily indus
trialized nation without giving every child
as much of an education as his mental
powers permit him to assimilate is worse
than trying to make bricks without straw.
1t is simply impossible.
Yet we are rapidly approaching the
point of complete collapse in our school
system. We can't much longer continue
to pare down our school services, pay off
our teachers with unsubstantial promises
and extend our holiday periods without
involving the whole nation in an extreme
ly serious predicament.
And it is not quite enough to keep our
fingers crossed and hope that the pending
business revival will solve all of our trou-
bles
The depression has not only cut down
the revenues of our school boards. 1t has
revealed profound faults in the whole sys-
TEN by which the schools are supported.
The schools have been at the mercy of the
p6htieians.@ Ineficiency, corruption and
the spOils system in city and state govern
ment are exacting terrible price.
To rehabilitate the schools We must,
eventually, rehabilitate all of the machin-
cry of local Self-government.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-20
BOWMAN'S BLUFF

BOWMAN'S BLUFF, May 20.
and Mrs. Robert Wilson Wis
tied relatives and friends in Ashe-
Vile, Sunday.
NJ. H. Bell and z. c. Fletcher,
motored to GrcenviIle, S. c., re-
Gently to bring Mr.. Bells little
daughter, Modena home. She had
been taking treating in a hospital
there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dewey Hawkins,
and little son, Jimmie, spent Sat
urday night at Etowah, the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. r. Nicholson.
Miss Elwyn Hanks, who has
been attending school in Belmont,
is spending a few days with her
grandmother, Mrs. w. Fl. Blythe,
and other relatives enroute to her
home at Topton.
Harvey Bell, is spending the
summer in Greenville, S. c.. with
relatives.
Mrs. r. G. Mace, of Belmont,
was the week end guest Of her
mother, Mrs. W. II. Blythe, coming
up especially for Mothers Day.
Joe Blythe, Of Pelzer, S. c., Wis
tied relatives here Sunday.
Willard Merrill, of South Caro-
lima has been visiting John Gil
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-20
Henry Burke Is
Still Maintaining
He viii Resign
The Times-News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel

or waiter I1otel
RALEIGH, May 20.-Just back
from a vacation spent in Florida,
Henry Burke, unofficial Assistant
Director of the Budget, main
tains that he means what he says
when he says he is going to resign,
even if a good many here do not
believe that he will actually leave
the budget bureau, over which he
has presided with an iron rule for
some seven years.
"All good things must come to
an end some time, and this is one
time when / really mean to re-
sign" Burke said. 81 may get in
to something worse, but | doubt
it,"
Burke was probably referring
to the fire and birthstone that has
been heaped upon his head during
the past seven years by state de-
partment heads and employees, be-
cause Of the tigh hold he has
maintained upon the strings Of
the states money bags. For sew
eral years the expression has been
current that not even a profess
2ional ycgg, with a blow torch and
can Of nitroglycerine could get
a penny out of the budget bureau
lif Burke did not want him to get
it. Department heads could cry
quarts Of tears in pleading for
larger allotmentS and Burke would
remain unmoved. If allotmcntS
for postage stamps ran out, the
department heads would often
have to stop writing letters or let
them remain unmailed until the
first of the next month. unless
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-20
BIBLE THOUGHT
GODS WORD IN THE INAUGURATION

6. 1t Is remarkable that Mr.. Roosevelt's third
reference to the Scriptures should be direct quo
tation of the very passage which Mr.. Hoover chose
when he was inaugurated four years before, the
famous words Of solomon:
Where there is vision the people perish
5(Proverbs 2918).
In fact Mr. Roosevelt referred to at least two
Old Testament passages concerning vision, when
ne said Of the rulers of the exchange of man.
kinds goods that ''they have vision, and where
there IS no vision the people PERISH u SAM 81
and Mic. 3:6).-From Sunday School Times.
(To be continued)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-20
MAYOR WAS PUT TO ROUT

WALLACE, Idaho. - (UP).-
The mayor and the chief of po-
lice were put to rOut here the
other night when Mayor Emil
Pfster and Chief Of Police w. J.
Bailey were humbled before Jay
j. Ostrander. druggist. Ostran-
der broke up a three-handed
pinochIe game by drawing 1900
drumD in spades.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-20
FLOOD NARROWED CATTLE

UTHELLO, Wash. (UP).-A
creek flood here this spring left
Oscar Daniclson's herd of cattle
marooned on an island in the
middle Of Crab Creek. The creek
receded. however, and with it,
fears that the herd would be sub
merged by the rising waters
which threatened the little strip
Of land.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-20

cleveland councilman introduces an or
dihance to make it illegal to steal base
ball equipment from teams that play IN
city parks.a Lots of people will agree that
it is about time stealing was made illegal
in, this country.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-20

and work their mouths all the
time. Please, MIR. Editor, allow
me TO say that | have travelled and
lived in several states and ! have
always found more considcrate
and gentlemanly people every
where else than ! did in Hender-
son county. We deaf people do
not ask sympathy, we ask only a
chance to make a living and run
our own business, the same as any
other man. We ask only justice
and fairness. | believe there was
some kind Of association Of deaf
people in Buncombc county. Ii
so / would like to get in commum-
cation with them and hope this
oDcn letter will benefit other deaf
people, also il might help some
others.
Very sincerely,
w. B. LAMB,
A Henderson County Deaf Man.
Saluda, Route !.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-20

! bert for a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. G. Fletcher,
and Sonny Boy visited at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Rance
Rhodes near Ucndersonvillc Sun
day afternoon.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-20

More than 100000 people in this coun-
try can neither read nor write, says the
National Advisory Committee on Illiteracy.
Might send them to Germany, where they
wouldn't be allowed to, anyway.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-20

CHILD DIED OF TETANUS
CORYDON, Ind, May 20 (UP)
Rex Maynard, % months old,
died of tctanus a week after he
fell on a marigold stub, which
broke off in his face.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-20

,Five-cent loaf of bread rises to six cents
on initiation prospects. Brother, can you
spare IL cents?"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-20

Chicago labor union gangsters operate
on the principle of all for one and gun
for all.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-20

Alas! The world also makes path to your door
if you give it better clap-trap.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-20

One cause of divorce is the fact that rules don't
seem to matter if your income doesn't depend on
public opinion.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-05-20
Very sincerely,

A Henderson County Deaf Man.
Saluda, Route !.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08
Regime of Hitler Called
Move to Save Capitalism

lie TO the Nazi dominion. Others
may have described better the per-
Sonalities and episodes involved but
no other book that I know of in
English has so satisfactorily dis
cuSsed the institutional changes in
volved.
Professor Hoover writes from a
first hand knowledge, having spent
the last year as a resident of Ger
many. She shows that Hitler's adj
vent was due to resentment of the
Germans over the war guilt lie and
the unfair Treaty of Versailles, to
the resulting instability of unpOpu-
larity of the republic which had
signed the Treaty of Versailles, and
to the splits and quarrels among the
Mexican Socialists.
He holds that Hit1erism is some
thing more than a movement for
treaty revision or a savage persecu-
ton of the Jews. In an economic
sense, it is the German new DEAF
through which a desperate effort
is being made to save German CAPT.
talism. While not in sympathy
with Hitlerisn, Professor Hoover
writes objectivity and shows that,
whether we like it or not, Hitler
and his group are likely to remain
in power for a long time to come.
Joseph Lewis, the we'll known free
thinker, has brought out pleasant
little volume contrasting pre-revo-
lutionary and post-revolutionary
Spain and laying much stress upon
the religious emancipation which
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08

One Of the orchids is said to pro-
duce 100000 seeds from the plant
considered as a whole.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08
Professor Hoover Describes
German New Deal
as Economic.
BY DIR. HARRY ELMER BARNES
Times Special Writer.

Recognition that the Hitler re-
gine in Germany is one Of the most
deplorable developments in the po-
litical and cultural history Of mod
ern times should not prevent one
from trying to understand how the
Nazis were able to rise to a position
of domination in contemporary
Germany.
BY understanding the movement,
we can come to learn what it feeds
upon. BY eliminating the wrongs to
Germany which have made possible
the Hitler atrocity, we may possibly
be able to undermine the new sys-
TEN.
Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor
of Foreign Affairs, has written per-
hapS the best brief introduction to
the rise of Hitler and the results of
his policies in Germany. For one
who wishes to get the present Ger
man situation in nutshell, this
volume may be heartily recon-
mended. Mr.. Armstrong; well known
anti-Germanism has been kept I'M
der commendable control.
1t should not be forgotten, how
ever, that Foreign Affairs. with Mr..
Armstrong as its editor, was one of
the most powerful influences in
America which kept alive the false
theories about German war guilt
and the Treaty of Versailles, that
were more responsible than any
other single element in producing
the Hitler uprising.
Professor Hoover. already we'll
known for his excellent book on
Soviet Russia, now gives us the
most satisfactory survey Of the
transition from the German repub-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08
JOHN FRIEDRICH
AGAIN Chief OF
STATE C. OF C.
Kokomo Manufacturer Is
Named to Serve Thirtieth
Term, as Head.

John E. Friedrich, Kokomo manu-
facturer, today began serving his
thirteenth year as president OF the
Indiana State Chamber Of Com
merce, following election at the an
nual meeting yesterday.
Other officers reelected were G..
B. Tuthill, Elkhart, vice-president;
William H. Arnett, managing di-
rector, and R. B. Coapstick, traffic
manager.
Directors named are Clyde Strait,
Hartford City; Samuel Schlosser,
Plymouth; A. NJ. GlosSbrenner, In
dianapolis; S. G. Norman, Jasper;
l.. A. Elmer, Vincennes; F. M. Sayre,
Michigan City: G. H. Reeves,
Columbus; w. A. Rawles, Blooming
ton; G. M. Johnson, South Bend;
Gilbert H. Bose, Evansville; w. Rex
Bell, Terre Haute, and Morse Dell
Plain, Hammond
In a resolution the group agreed
to cooperate with other organiza-
lions in writing a new sales and in
come tax law to be presented to the
next session of the legislature.
Another resolution was adopted
favoring consolidation of townships
to effect governmental economy.
1t was voted to re-establish the
chambers research department lin
order to give unbiased, actual facts
as to the cost of state and local
governments"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08
Farm Life
Exposition Visitors Hope
to Live in Country.
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Dec. ga little house
in the country, a COW, chickens and
a few acres of good earth appears
to be the ambition of majority of
city jewellers visiting at the Inter
national Live Stock Exposition.
A poll revealed five out of every
seven visitors questioned hoped to
leave the city some time for small
farm. Middle-aged men appeared
most interested in farm life, City
women generally were rather cold
toward it.
Farmers and their wives, however,
were unanimous in expressing salts
faction with their lot. They have
no desire for the tall buildings and
bright lights as a place to live.
The lure of the farm for city folk
has resulted in record attendance at
the thirty-fourth annual live stock
exposition. Attendance during the
first five days exceeded 100000, a
new record.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08

the revolution has brought about.
There is no greater contrast be-
tween the German and Spanish
revolutions than that involved in
the medieval bigotry of Hitler as
set over against the liberalism, toll
erance and enlightenment of the
present rulers of Spain in the realm
of religion and the intellect.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08
nited Press

BIZ nited Press
WASHINGTON. Dec. s.-The
writing Of this story is in Basic Eng
lish, the new language Of $50 words,
which has the approval Of many
leaders in education.
If it sounds clumsy in the writ
ing, that is because Of the scarcity
Of words in the language. Basic
English uses many words to tell the
same idea that old languages tell in
one word.
Professor c. K. Ogden Of London
is the inventor Of the language. He
is Of the belief that it will be in
use soon in all countries Of the
earth.
Nine. Maxim LitivinOff, the WOm-
an the Soviet cOmmisar is married
to, is in approval Of the language.
H. G. Wells, the British story teller,
is in approval. Many other leading
men are in approval.
Six Kinds of Words
They are in the belief that basic
English will help unite the earth
and keep its nations out Of war.
The language is simple. 1t is put
together of six kinds of words:
Operators, natural substances,
necessary names, common things,
collectives and qualifiers.
Operators are words like come
get. give, keep, let, make, put and be
Natural substances are words like
air. blood, butter, chalk, coal, cop
per, cork and cotton.
Necessary names are words like
act. addition, adjustment, agree
ment, amount and animal.
Common things are words like
angle, arch, arm, baby, bag, ball and
basket
CoIectives are words like ap,
proval, behavior, brass, bread, care,
clothe and comfort.
Qualifiers are words like able,
angry, awake, black, boiling, bright
and broken.
Tells General Ideas
The language IS TO tell general
ideas. It is not to tell specific things
and so has TO be used to describe
foods dor instance) in this way:
A white root that makes the eyes
water. (onion).
A green plant food with a round
heart. (cabbage)
A sweet red root, used as food.
(beet.)
A green-yellow berry with hair
on the skin. (gooseberry)
A cake rolled thin and cooked two
times. (cracker.)
The language is lacking in grace.
1t is easy to learn. Professor Ogden,
Nine. Litvinoff. Wells and they who
think the same way are of the be-
lief that its lack of grace is not
so important as its ease Of learning
and that it is useful now to the
earth. IN a few years, they are of
the belief that it will be more use
full.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08
House Is Broken Into

Miss Frances Jackson, 942 Maple
street, reported to police that her
home was broken into last night and
wearing apparel valued at $50 and
SIS in cash were stolen. She said she
had been out of the house only a
short time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08
PHILADELPHIA BUYS
N. Y. EVENING POST
J. David Stern Declines To Discuss
Terms.

J. David Stern Declines To Discuss
Terms.
By United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 81. David
Stern, publisher of the Philadelphia
Record and the Camden. N. j.. Cour-
Ter and Post, prepared today to as
sumo active editorial direction Of his
latest newspaper acquisition, the
New York Evening Post, oldest Met
ropolitan daily.
Purchase of the Post from the
Curtis-Martin Newspapers, INC, was
announced by Stern last night.
While terms were not announced
Stern said that he had acquired all
of the 10000 shares of common
stock in the company. The pur-
chase included the Evening Post
building. Stern said the post would
be politically independent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08
DILLINCER GANG
REPORTED SEEM;
SEARCH FUTILE
Police Squads SCour North
Side for Alleged Mob
Members.

Several squads Of police last night
vainly searched for two coupes in
which it was reported members Of
the Dllinger mob had been seen.
The cars first were reported seen
in the vicinity of College avenue
and Sixty-third street, and later
near Fifty.fourth and Meridian
streets.
William Winnefeld 5O72 Sangster
avenue, drug store messenger. told
officers he saw the two cars stop
and two men, shabbily dressed,
whom he recognized as two of the
escaped convictS. walk to the other
car for a brief conversation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08
BASIC ENGLISH
new LANGUAGE
OF $50 WORDS
Sounds Clumsy in Writing,
but It's Easy to Learn:
Just Try 1t.

Basic English" has Isaped into prom
inenoe in this country since Commissar
Maxim Litvinoh used it in a trans
Atlantic telephone with his wife. It's
a Language" consisting OF root words
about s50-of the complex English tonEuel
It's designed as sort Of easy medium
Of conversation for all nationalities.
Here's a story about Basic English writ
ten in Basic English.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-08-18
NOTICE OF SALE

Under and by virtue Of the power
conferred upon me in a certain deed
Of trust executed to me by Lizzie
Durham and husband, D. w. Durham,
dated April 13, 1882, and registered
in the office Of the Register Of Deeds
of Orange County in Book 85, at Page
287, to secure certain indebtedness
therein described and default having
been made in the payment OF the said
indebtedness and having been request
ed to do so by the holder of the note
evidencing the said Indebtedness, |
will offer for sale at public auction, to
the highest bidder for cash, at the
Post Office Door in Chapel Hill, N. c.,
at twelve o'clock M, on
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1888,
the following described tract Of land,
to-wit:
All that certain lot, tract or parcel
of land, lying and being on the North
side of Cameron Avenue and on the
West side Of Kenan Street in the
town Of Chapel Hill, N. c., Begin
ming at stake in the North line OF
Cameron Avenue, which point is es-
tablished by measuring North 68 de-
grees 30 minutes East 62.7 feet from
the Northeastern intersection Of Cam
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1933-08-18
Marine Corps Enlistments

The Marine Corps recruiting
station in Savannah, Ga, will
have vacancies for graduates OF
colleges and high school during
August and September, accord
ing to an announcement by Lieu
tenant Colonel A. B. Drum, offic-
er in charge.
Men accepted will be transfer
red to Paris Island, S. c., for a
few weeks intensive training
before being assigned to some
school, ship, or Marine barracks
for duty.
"The Marine Corps offers
many educational advantages
both scholastic and scenic" says
Colonel Drum. "Some men are
selected for aviation, radio, and
clerical work upon completion OF
preliminary instructions. Some
are assigned to ships and sta.
tions in the United States, anc
a few to foreign lands"
Application blanks will be
mailed upon request.