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A SURE WAY TO BUSINESS

To The Christian Science Monitor:
Since the change in business conditions ocuffeu
in the fall of 1929 I have crossed the country Oy
automobile, spending time of greater or less du-
ration in a great many cities and contracting per-
sonally large number of business organizations,
big and little, in widely diversified trades.
It has been my impression based upon that eX-
perience, that most merchants are looking too far
afield for a solution of their individual problems,
while neglecting opportunities which not only exist
within their own control but which, under general
economic conditions, have assumed great impor-
lance.
Nothing has happened to prevent store owners
and sales people from being kind and friendly to
those with whom they come in contact. 1t is my
experience, after years of study of such matters,
that nothing produces a favorable impression on
the part of customer as quickly as frendliness.
No individual on the payroll of business con-
can possibly advance unless the concern itself
is prosperous. In order to prosper, firm must of
necessity attract customers. 1t would SEEM there
fore that mutual purpose is being served when
ever sales person makes friends for the store b.
being kind and considerate and patient with the
customer or by sending the telephone a sweet,
"smily' voice. Yet in many cases the opposite ex-
perience awaits the prospective customer when he
comes in contact with the average business organ
ization.
| am convinced that the individual business
which, ceasing to seek outside remedies, instills
more friendness and helpful consideration into it's
own personnel, will find the end of the depression,
as far as it is concerned. The trial would cost
nothing at least. P. E. CHAMBERLAIN.
Los Angeles, Calf.
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ANOTHER SEED AND CROP LOAN

Tho appropriation of 90 million dollars for seed
and crop loans to be made through the federal de-
partment of agriculture has received the approval
Of the president. The department of agriculture
has had tremendous amount of experience IN
handling such loans in recent years The first OF
them were confined to those who had suffered from
foods or drought. Later they were made on the
basis of the need of the applicant rather than the
cause of his need. Undoubtedly much of the sur
plus cotton and wheat produced IN 1882 could De
traced directly to government aid.
That the department should be bending every
possible effort toward crop reduction on the one
hand and be required to make loans to increase
production on the other, is incongruous, IS the
opinion of the Kansas City Star. Fortunately the
secretary of agriculture is permitted to tormulare
rules to control the making of loans. 1t may be
POSSIBLE to require reduction IN acreage or the
mart of those who receive help. 1t may also De
possible to insist upon better balanced system OF
farming which would include the production Oh
food for the families as one of the requirements.
The theory back of these crop loans is that 1t
NAV be better to give assistance IN this form thaf
10 permit those who receive it to drift into the
cities, thus throwing still greater burden on chaf-
liable organizations.
Certainly the loans cannot be made on the Uhe-
orv that more food or more textiles are needed at
present. If they could be limited to those whose
need is attributable to causes over which they naa
no control and who, by temporary help could be
eestablished as sef-sustaining citizens, there could
be little objection. However, when any large group
Of citizens looks to the government for help when
ever they meet adversely it has a tendency to de-
stroy Independent effort.
The policy of providing seed and crop loans as
q general practice is one which cannot be APP
proved 1t has tendency to encourage the use OF
marginal and unproductive lands, and furnishes
unfair competition to those who are doing then
hest to meet the problems of production and prices
IF farm products-Monroe Enquirer.
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and every would-be public man? You say it.
Contrasting the much that has been done for
the farmer with the very little done for the labor
ING man, one would be entitled to expect threats
of revolt to come from the laborng man, who has
nothing save a dole between him and starvation,
rather than from the farmer, who still manages
to eat With some regularity. Further than that,
farmers with mortgages to pay invariably are land
owners. whereas the unemployed laboring man IS
likely to own nothing more than few ragged gar
ments and a little bit of furniture that he may
call his own mainly because it is worth nothing.
The only possession he ever had to mortgage was
his ability to earn, and that has been taken away
from him.
In the light of that contrast, it is more than
strange to notice that the open threats OF revolt
ton come not from those who have nothing anu
are most Greadfully up against it but from those
who have received more numerous governmental
favors than any other class 1t is the landed farm
er who threatens revolution, in proof OF which yon
nave only to read the newspapers
The moral? If there is one it is probably this:
The more you do for people the more they
want done-Charlotte News.
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INCENDIARISM

Incendiarism was responsible for large part Of
the 1881 fire loss in North Carolina. 1t was the
principal cause in fact. 1t was the principal cause
in a handful of other states, most of them IN the
South. We are indebted to the current issue OF
Safeguard America Against Fire for the intor-
nation.
Incendiarism was responsible for a fire loss Of
more than one and half million dollars in this
state year before last we gather.
The state can take pride in the fact nor
those other commonwealth in which firebugs ran
wild after depression had grpped them.
In times like these people should steel themselves
TO rise above adversely. But we seem to have leu
conditions get the best of us. Integrity IS badly
needed in the country now. There isn't enough OF
1.-THE Kinston Free Press.
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DICTATORSHIP WITH A STRING TO II
(By BRUCE CATTON)

That ominous little word, dictator, y
seems to have floated to the surface Of
American life pretty Obtrusively, lately.
We are told that Mr.. Roosevelt will be a
dictator if Congress grants him the extra
ordinary powers that have been suggested
and, according to the emotions which the
word arouses in our several breasts, we are
either sitting back and shivering or hug
ging ourselves in glee.
But we haven't really stopped to figure
out whether the word is really applicable.
A dictator, of course, is a head man
whose word goes; boss who doesn't have
to worry much about getting everybody
consent before he starts something; lead
err who can map out a program and put ii
into effect without delay.
Under that definition, Mr.. Roosevelt
clearly would be kind of dictator, under
the proposals advanced currently in Con-
gress.
But a dictator, as we ordinarily use the
word, is more than that. He is a chap who
can't be eaSed out Of his job without some
kind of violent uprising; man who will
hold office as long as he can possibly ar
range it, and who won't hesitate to use
troops to extend his term, if necessary; a
man whose powers suffer no check what
ever.
The powers suggested for Mr.. Roosevelt
would not come under that heading in the
slightest degree. Congress would still be
able to veto any act of his that was pal
pably out of line with the public good. His
extraordinary powers would end in def
mite time If the electorate disagreed with
him it could discard him as easily as it has
discarded other presidents.
In other words, this dictator" business
isn't so frightening as it might seem to be.
A dictator whose edictS can be vetoed, iii
emergency, and who can be recalled by
orderly processes of law, isn't Mussolini.
Sitting By while an ambitious man wilfully
seizes power is one thing; voluntarily dele
eating power to the celebrates popular
choice, for a sharply limited period, is
something entirely different.
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(READ THE STORY, THEN COLOR THE PICTURE

oRFY goodness shouted Scouty,
I'VE 1--WE are Just as clumsy go
AN be. We've ruined this fine ant
ill. Now, what are we going to
10? Z.
I'VE never should have landed
lere. Well have some trouble. HOW,
fear. We really ought to fix the
ant hill until it looks like new
A big ant then spoke up AVID
said, "A good idea! Go ahead. The
hill you messed up is my home.
Look! It's in ruins, now.
at won't take long to fix It
right. if you will work with all
your might. Just tell me that
you're willing end II! gladly show
Fou how
@GaF course we are" said Copy.
" You can rest assured that's
xhat We'll dc. Bring or scme little
shovels and We'll pile the sand up
!.::igh.
&c you we've played a real
mean trick. ReEcre we're through,
it will look slick. We always do q
real good job on anything we try"
"Oh, shovels will not be enough.
I'll run and get a lot Of stuff re-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-16
RARIEYCORN

What is the cause for crime IN
creased?
What makes a man worse than d
beast?
What makes a father raging
mad?
What makes the mother and
children sad?
What makes poor women all for"
lorn?
It is the stuff called barleycorn.
What makes mems hearts as hard
as stone?
What makes poor widows weep
What makes poor children cry
for bread?
What makes them wish that they
were dead?
Or wish that they were never
born?
1t is that stuff called barleycorn.
What makes poor wives so pale
and cold?
What makes them die before
they are old?
What fills the children's hearts
with fears?
What fills their weeping eyes
with tears?
What makes some dig ASstfe
they are born? ~ = -
1t is that stuff called barleycorn.
What makes men sell their bah
les shoes =
To get the money to buy their
booze?
What fills OUR jails with rogues
and rakes?
What fills mems boots with
squirmirg snakes? ,
What fills our hearts with shame
and scorn?
That wretched stuff called bar
leycorn.
What makes father beat his
child?
And curse and swear as if he's
wild?
What makes him hate his loving
wife?
And in his anger take her life?
And fill our homes with hearts
that mourn?
1t is that stuff called barleycorn.
lob, how can man with common
Endeavor through a false pre-
tense
To Justify his wicked greed
For money drawn from souls that
bleed
And cat his bread each night
and morn
That's bought with bloody bar
leycorn?
J. B. THAYER.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-16
WEEKLY SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
Jesus Teaching by Parables-- The
Growth Of the Kingdom
By HIGHT {. MOORE

Golden Text--The earth shall
be full Of the knowledge of the
Lord, as the waters cover the
sea. Isaiah l1:9.
The sermon Of Jesus on "Ihc
PARALLELS by he Sea- which open
ed with the story Of the sOwer
tour last lesson continued in a
presentation of the growth of
the Kingdom as set forth in the
revealing candle, the multiply
ing seed, the developing mustard
and other unrecOrded parallels
.of progress.
The multiplying seed pictures
the growth Of the Kingdom
through termination. How my
sterious is life. We may know
something Of its processes, ascer~
tain its limitations and supply its
conditions, but after all how in
'comprehensible a thing is life it.
self. The seed is cast into the
ground. The s0wer sleeps and
rises night and day as he goes
about his toll. But silently,
steadily, successfully. the seed
springs up and grows. he knows
not how. And after the mysteri-
Gus termination follow the yari-
Gus stages of development from
the first edge Of color in the
blade to the ripe corn in the car.
And when the stage Of maturity
has been reached then comes the
harvest and the erstwhilo sower
puts forth the sickle and gath.
ers in the golden grain. SO is
the Kingdom of God in its SOW
ing, its termination. its develop
mcnt, and its fruition.
THE KINGDOM IN
PROCLAMATION
The enlightening parable. as
given further ard frequently by
the Lord, pictured the Kingdom
in proclamation. To the limit
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-16

Of the peoples capacity Jesus
used the parable to convey and
impart the truth. To his dis
ciples when they were alone he
explained fully the meaning of
the parallels spoken to the peo-
pie at large. In his great ser
mon in parallels reported fully
in Matthew 10, he presented the
Kingdom in germ by the parable
of the Sewer; in struggle by the
Tares; in development by the
Mustard; in transformation by
the Leaven; in privilege by the
Treasure; III appreciation by the
Pearl; and in outcome by the
Net. In this one discourse,
therefore, we have the manifes-
tation Of the Kingdom from its
establishment in the hearts Of
men to its consunmation.
GROW
o. Grow in knowledge. "a
candle" Keep the lamp on the
lampstand. Receive the light !;
ENJOY II: magnify IL; transmit IL.
GU Grow by Doing. "On a
candlestock." Exercise is essen
tial to efficiency. Development
in good deeds is development in
deed. Be good; do good; and
thus become better.
(3l Grow by Hearing. "Take
heed what we hear" Ear-Gate
and Eye-Gatc are highways into
the mind. Therefore hear; hear
only what is good; hear it in the
best way.
(4) Grow by Having. "He
that hath. to him shall be given"
To him that hath shall be given.
But be sure that you possess
your possessions, that they are
worth having.
81 Grow by Sharing. "Wjth
what measure we mete." The
measure which we fill for 9TH
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-16
BEHIND THE SCENES IN
WAS EIIlNGTONl
WILL RODNEY DUIChEB

poets are III no sense anatncma
TO the ordinary conservative.
There's neither Il reactionary or
a radical on the list, though The
slate is sure to draw some CHEERS
from each extreme. On the eth
er hand, there's none among the
eight whose appointment wonld
carry great appeal to Wall Street
or the biggest Of Big Business.
Three statesmen-Glass, Hull
and Walsh. Hull, father Of the
income tax and possessed of a
prodigious knowledge of tariffs,
economies and world trade, is one
whom thousands of thoughtful
Democrats have wished could Ee
president. II we are to enter debt
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS agreements
with other nations, as Roosevelt
desires, Hull is an ideal man fo1
state.
GLASS has been the logicci
~ treasury secretary from the
beginning. At the age of IS he
remains the Democratic party's
greatest authority on banking and
currency. He gave the country
its federal reserve act.
Walsh, in the oil scandals ana
against the public utility and
aluminium interests, has shown
his fearleSSness in the face of vast
corporate wealth without losing
prestige as a constitutional law
yer OF sound principles. Past at.
torney generals have been accused
of failing to act against trusts"
in the public interest. Miss Per-
kins has devoted herself consist
emily to social progress and the
welfare Of wage earners.
Cutting, a vigorous Republic.
an, progressive, also is q wealthy
aristocrat to whom chief Objec-
ton probably would arise among
partisans in Roosevelts own
party.
Farley is apprenticeship
politician popular throughout the
party. Strauss would be yGe fast
secretary Of commerce 60 be
picked from the tens of thousands
OF American retail merchants.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-16
By RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer

WTASHINGTON-The latest, up
w to-date shipments from the
mammoth Warm Springs dope
factory, sent north just before the
president-elect began his vacation,
indicate that Mr.. Roosevelt is
going to jump. his first big official
hurdle amid a chorus of huZzahs
which will be qualified by few if
any groans of disapproyal.
The correspondents, after
months of trial and error, prob
ably now are hitting close to the
maSk in predicting the makeup
Of the next cabinet. II so, Roose-
welt is not only picking himself a
cabinet with which neither the
conservatives nor the liberals in
his party can find fault-a feat
heretofore regarded as virtually
impossible. He will also have q
cabinet distinguished for the
recognized ability and past
achievement of its members. And
even the Republicans will have
trouble finding targets in it fol-
prompt attack.
The slate now most common
ly agreed upon picks Senator Cor,
dell Hull Of Tennessee for seCre,
tary OF state, Senator Garter
Glass of Virginia for treasury
Senator Thomas J. Walsh OF
Montana for attorney general
Miss Frances Perkins OF New
York for labor, Henry Wallace OF
Iowa for agriculture, Jesse
Strauss of New York for com.
mcrce, James A. Farley of New
York for postmaster general and
Senator Bronson Cutting of New
Mexico for interior. Relatively
speaking, it doesn't make much
difference who becomes secretary
OF war and secretary of the navy
OUCH a cabinet as the one out
~ lined might be considered al
most impeccable. Those member.
regarded as conservatives ar,
men highly regarded by mos
progressives and the liberal pros
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Flag Collections

There IS a partial exhibit of diff
ferent United States flags since
June 4, 17T7, in the Arts and In
dustries building of the United
States National Museum in Wash
ingtOn, d. c. The United States
Navy department also has a valu-
able collection, but the flags in this
one antedaSa rather than follow the
year III.
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piled the ant. Just wan I'd:
here. 1t will not take me lG::'
The TIMES waited for a viii
Then each one broke out inaE(I
The ant dragged wood and l!l
mers. Ny, it surely was real stu:
"FIRsT,' build seotold >'''I
L the hill and from il We d
quickly fill in ali the sand u
spread around" the little al, tri-I
cried.
"All right. get busy" Sco.1
reared. Here, someone help Z
lift this board. Well make Y
scaifold safe b. putting IAi1
down, side by side
1t waS a funny sight 20 Sc: .
whole bunch Tcrki2s merrill 4
scafrold soon vas ~ 'hS CT tt /
sand was piled up high. i va
very long until the ant cried,
work on the hill. II we pulH
much higher, it will bump into
sky
(Copyrigf.. 1913. EnA SeFVs' !"
(ScOuty meets a fiddler d"
The next story
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Title Too Common

In the United States the title
Honorable" is used loosely. being
given by courtesy to almost anyone
who holds or has held important
public office. 1t is especially be-
slowed on members of congress, gov
ernOrs, state legislators, judges of
higher courts and high federal Off
Gals.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-16
The Incalculcble Chinese

The Chinese are to all other peo-
pies an incalculable nation. Again
and again throughout their history,
in the midst of crushing, and some
times by no means creditable de-
feats, they have suddenly turned
upon their opponents and fought
with astonishing courage and per-
tinacity.-The Press, Hong Kong.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
AFTER AESOP

what's it that has occupied more square footage
of governmental consideration than any other sim
gle thing Relief for the farmer
+, Who is it whose prosperity is agreed to be fun
damental and most desirable? The farmer.
Who has had five more agencies set up in
business for the sole purpose of financing his op-
creations? The farmer.
, Who can make borry when it doesn't rain
'enough as we'll as when it rains too much? The
farmer.
Who is first in the heart of every public man
! 80 e.. & =. 10y Z. - =.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-16
First Piano

The first pianoforte was made by
CristOfori of Italy and exhibited
in 100. At almost the same time
piano was exhibited in Paris and
similar instrument was claimed
to have been constructed by the Ger
man, Schreeter.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-16

The Massachusetts, legislature is consid-
ering a bill to prohibit nonresidents from
digging ishworms without permit How
ever, no obstacle will be caised to giving
fishermen the same old dirty digs.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-16

If President Hoover's name is banded
around rather roughly after he leaves Of
flee, it will be his own fault. He has auto
graphed medicine balls for his cabinet
members.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-16
.'THOUGHTS0F'
A FISHERMAN
Bv Ike Walton, RedivivuS

When two such eminent mold
ers of opinion as Brothers Fain
and Latham look at big sub
iect like Franklin's. dream at diff
ferent angles, the matter ought
to be investigated. Brother La
than urges Asheville to get busy
and be ready for another boom
if Franklin puts his Tennessee
valley vision across. Brother
Fain does not like booms, espe-
cially government made ones.
Brother Latham says we must do
some watchful waiting awhile to
see how it must be done; Bro
Their Fain seems to be more i'm
pressed by the need of watching
Uncle Sam when he, starts to
spending money than by the wis
dom OF waiting on him.
Well, both of these counsellers
are on the right track. II Frank
lin can manage that idea so as to
enable the power people as vel
as the public to get a fair Share
Of the business, and if he car
cut out the possible graft and
ers will be filled for us. Shar-
ing is saving.
CO. Grow by Sowing. GAS il
a man should cast seed in the
ground" How germinant, re-
sourceful and multiplying is tho
seed of truth! Scatter it and
succeed. Sow and grow.
(7) Grow by Bearing. "Thl
full corn in the ear Alas
good seed may go seemingly tc
waste. The whole planting pro
cess converges upon the harvest
Grow, then, in view Of the gran
ary.
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New impetus for the ''share the work.
movement-and from the most startling
source! Roosevelt intends to make use Of
the vice president.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-16

Remember that not your MERIT but your
MISERY was the magnet that drew Jesus down
from the skies. Remember that the fact that you
are lost, and that nobody can save you but Christ
is the one thing that attracts Jesus to to be
YOUR Saviour-Dr. A T. Pierson.
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BIBLE THOUGHT
MISERY NOT MERIT

The Son Of Man is come to seek and to save
that which was lost. (Luke 19:10).
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-23

advance, it seems established that
the farmer will receive 33 per cent
more dollars for what he produces
in 1893 than he received last year.
Finally" he exclaimed, II repeat
what I have said on many occasions,
that since last March the definite
policy of the government has been
to restore commodity price levels.
The object has been the attainment
of such level as will enable agri-
culture and industry once more to
give work to the unemployed.
ut has been to make possible the
payment of public and private debts
more nearly at the price level at
which they were incurred. 1t has
been gradually to restore balance
in the price structure so that farm
ers may exchange their products for
the products of industry on fairer
exchange basis.
1T has been and is also the pur-
pose to prevent prices from rising
beyond the point necessary to attain
these ends. The permanent welfare
and security of every class of our
people ultimately depends on our
attainment of these purposes"