The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-13
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

Editor Times-NewS:
In your issue of June 27, 1882,
you loaded your editorial how
itzer to the muzzle, pulled the
lanyard and filled me so full of
prohibition slugs that l could not
be stuffed with bull rushes! The
detonation was so terrific that
the editor of the Western North
Carolina Tribune was rocked into
such ecstacies of delight that he
Immediately grabbed a dust pan
and a feather buster and raked
together enough of nonparell
type to wad a galley and he "cut
loose" with a salvo Of applause
that dried up his ink pot and
gave the Tribune a bad case Of
pernicious anaemia for six weeks
That was not quite a year ago.
Now, Mrs. Roosevelt is serving
beer in the White House, Al Ca
pone is out of a job and Bishop
Cannon has quit picking on the
pope long enough to rake his
memory for an explanation of
what he did with the money big
Business" Jamison turned over to
him to defeat the transparently
honest and gloriously courageous
AL Smith in the 1928 campaign.
"The thing that hath been, it is
that which shall be; and that
which shall be done and there Is
no new thing under the sun. Is
there anything whereof it may be
said see, this is new" it had
been already of old time which
was before u.s." He who is the
author Of that quotation has been
dead since OFT years before the
birth of Christ, but there are
many of US who do not believe
that his wisdom died with him.
Nearly 1400 years before that
declaration an old man with SOC
years to his credit, loaded his
family and a zoo on craft SOC
cubits long SO cubits wide and 81
cubits deep and floated about
over the face of the earth look
ing for place to rest his craft
become an husbandman and plant
a vineyard. He finally grounded
on Ararat in Armenia on the
I17th day of the seventh month
and forwith proceeded to become
an -husbandman and plant a vine
yard, If he ever planted anything
| else nobody ever heard of it.
Doubtless, however, his crop wgs
more diversified than that, but
that, was the only crop he seems
! to have thought worth while men
tioning as a thing to remember.
Now, if Solomon was correct
planting a vineyard was nothing
new; and if he was right there
we're -prohibitionists before ther
but they were all drowned. Witt
this knowledge well known to hin
Noah specialized in vineyards anC
when. his became productive he
saw that the output was COCO
land he, not having the. good adj
vice and counsel which st. Pau
gave to his dearest friend, Tim,
othy, to "take a little wine fol
thy stomach's sake and, thine of
ten infirmities," took on toe
much; but even so, the old man
lived ESQ years after that which
was doing pretty well considering
that he was living on what Judge
WEBB now calls poison! 81. &C.,
- John b. Rockefeller, who is
said to have donated 100000 to
the Anti-Saloon league which he
now confesses was mistake, is
reputed to be 90 years old and il
goat-gland treatment and diet
of Mahatma Ghandis goats milk
and zwieback and every Other
means that science offers can get
him up to 100 years of age
Noah will still have outlWed hin
$50 years! : ".
Martin. Luther, great leader OF
the, Protestant reformation, sol
EMMY declared that the man
"'who loves not wine, women and
song is fool his whole life long
and eff the wine is good, the
women pretty, and the song well
sung,"I agree with him one hun
bred per cent, Judge Webb's ter
thousand mad-dogs and fifteen
thousand rattlesnakes to the con.
trary notwithstanding!
,a Seven years ago l told you that