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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
SCATTERING THE JOBS

President Green of the American Federation
Of Labor sees no end to the problem of unem-
ployment until jobs created and there IS de-
welcomed wider diffusion of workers. The 3O-hour
week has long been advocated by this labor leader.
That. of course. would be one way to get more
people to work -
If there is a given amount of employment in
the United States and it be arranged to divide
il ont among those who want 1t on profitable
basis of distribution to such workers, manltestly,
n big dent would be knocked into this problem
If # y admitted to be desirable, and vast num-
hers Of our people insist that this abbreviated
work period is even more than merely deslraple'
why not have 1t?
Well. for one thing, somebody must settle the
question, in the meantime of paying for it. Is the
pubIic which always pays the freight able to I'M
derwrite the cost of this decline in the worlds
work? ..'.
Or, if the public is not economically positioned
70 stand the cost can industry fish back into capt.
tai reserves ana take care of the expense?
There is an economic factor in all of these is
sues which will not be downed.
A shorter week with higher pay, or a shorter
week with no decline in the pay involves the out
law of more capital for less service and somebody
must discover and provide that capital.
IF placed upon industry industry will claim that
it, certainly is not financially able to foot the bill
and will therefore, begin at once to pass the cost
on to the consumer, as, for example, the cotton
mill industry just is trying to pass on the
added cost of the manufacture the $21-per-bale
processing tax and the higher NRA wages-and
finding in the experiment that the public has
begged down in its capacity to absorb the higher
priced goods.
And that will always be phase in hour-reduc-
ton to be considerable is not matter of merely
lifting the latch on the door or pressing an cleo
trio button-CharlOtte Observer! ., ..-'
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12
IMPOSSIBLE TASK"

This sensible discussion of an impossible task is
from The Herald and News, Newberry:
1--WE hope no one will interpret this article to be
- a sweeping denunciatiOn of the entire relief ad-
mnistration 1t is not intended as such. We have
{ good county relief administrators in South Caro-
lima. The Newberry administrator has probably
sdone his best at the impossible task-made so oy
the system itsef-of giving relief in fair and
satisfactory manner. Not all of the criticism lev
eed at relief officials has been deserved, because
they have been thwarted and harassed and badg-
cred and lied to by people seeking advantage who
should be above such things. The root of the
major evils is in Washington. The utmost South
Carolina could do in the way of contributions
and that isn't much-wOuld do hardly anything to
relieve the destitute those in actual want, because,
under the present system, sn'h a large percentage
of the money is doled out to the undeserving Nor
is this the worst feature; this, policy has instiled
- in large numbers the idea that the government will
y take care of them. What such a notion does to
q Initiative and ambition need not be pointed out
Never IN the history of the United States has i
spent hundreds of millions of dollars with anything
. comparable with the degree of reckessness that
has characterized federal relief" Legal and po-
htical considerations and restrictions made the
task of administering relief even approximately
just and uniform throughout the county out Of
the question.
Conditions in Newberry and in Detroit were
and are wholly sunlke-yet right has the United
States to tax the people of Newberry and Detroit
at the same rate in money and to distribute to
them at widely different rate. .a. ... go.
In the United States are hundreds of commun-
ties, however there exceptions, that in the last
five years have been no more in need of relief
than they have been in many earlier years-but
government has not denied some form pretense
of distribution to any community.
= Outside of the cities and industrial districts the
Nexterision of relief has seldom been an absolute
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12

"Since | was too young to PAL
ticipate in the Lords supper, the
bread and the wine went right by
me without even hesitating; that
did not seem exactly fair as had
a strong curiosity to sample the
contents Of the big goblet (there
was no individual communion ser
vice in those days. and to seize
upon fragments of the unleavened
bread. SO. added to the tedium Of
the situation was the feeling that
! was being left out in the cold.
Thus early there was set mp in
my consciousness an attitude of
WEAKNESS and indifference toward
the communion service, which |
was unable to shake off even af-
ter I became old enough to JOIN
the church and take part in the
communion ceremony.
"Many a time after | was
grown, sat in my pew while the
Lords supper was being served
and tried unSucccssfully to get in
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12
ENGLAND's, TRADE DISPUTES ACT

President Roosevelt's fattering tribute to Eng
land included a reference to the good relations
there between capital and labor. He asked the
rhetorical question: SIS it not fact that relations
between capital and labor the basis of cOllec-
tive bargaining are much, further, advanced in
Great Britain than in the United States?"
One evidence of that advance, which the Presi-
dent omitted to mention, is the Grades Disputes
and Trade Unions Act, 1927" This statute de-
cared that any strike is Illegal if it "(l) has any
object other than or in addition to the furthel-
ance of trade disputes within the trade or industry
in which the strikers engaged; (2) is strike
designed calculated to the government,
either directly or BIZ inflicting hardship upon the
community" . 49,.
1t will be seen at once that this act makes bo,h
general strike and a sympathetic strike illegal.
1t provides that any person violating the act shall
be liable summary conviction to fine not ex-
ceeding ten pounds, to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding three months, or on conviction on
Indictment to Imprisonment for trem not ex-
ceeding two years"
This Trades Disputes Act was so responsive to
British public opinion that not even the Labor
Government venured to repeal it.. But it is alto
gether probable that President Roosevelt had not
this legislation in mind when he alluded to the
Things done in England with which we have yet to
catch up!-New York Times
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12
OPPOSITION
ATTACKS NRA
Charge New Deal Agencies
in Deadly Competition
With Business
z POLICIES BELIEVED
KEY TO PROSPERITY

WASHINGTON, Oct. II. (UP).
New deal recovery agencies have
placed the government in deadly
competition" with every private
enterprise, the Republican party
charged in a sweeping attack on
NRA, AAA. IVA and PWA.
"No wonder business and in
dustry are afraid to go ahead"
IL statement from the senatorial
and congressional campaign com
mittee said. "Any manufacturer
may wake up any morning to
find the government his active
competitor. Any merchant any
day may learn of the government
establishing competitor next
door, selling goods made by
government factory on the in
stallment plan"
The secretary of .agriculture's
power over farmers under the
AAA was called "ezaristie. - I'll,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12
THE LORDS SUPPER
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

terested in it. ] would look at the
matter from first one angle and
then another in an cndcavor to
become quickcned to its value and
appreciative Of its significance.
Nut somehow or other | could OBJ
tain no satisfactory reaction from
myself. ! simply could not get out
Of the Lords supper what other
persons seemed to get out Of it.
It was nothing to me but a period
of boredom.
"Then one day as | sat in my
pew with fragment Of the bread
between my thumb and finger,
while the rest of the congregation
was being waited on, this thought
flashed over me: Suppose the per
son dearest to you in this world
were giving up his or her life for
YOU and should leave this last
message: Don't forget me; I am
glad | can make this sacrifice for
you, but please do not forget me.
That you may think of me, | ask
that you do this for me when I
am gone: Every time you eat
bread, think Of my body which
was destroyed for you; every time
you drink, think OF my blood
which was spilled for you. Do that
in remembrance Of me-"
"Then | asked myself: Does
not this communion ceremony in
which you are now taking part,
commemorate in reality situa-
ton such as your mind has just
picturcd?'
"For the first time in my life. =
said the man, y partook of the
bread and the wine with emotion.
| understood what the Lords sup
per actually meant. | felt the
thrill and the glow of placing my
self in tune with eternal, infinite
forces"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12
LAND CALLS FOR DEVELOPMENT

There is ample evidence in the records
to prove that farming and trucking IN
Henderson county can be made profitable.
The experience of Henderson county FARM
ers and the records of production and mar
keting some of them have made prove the
case. Low prices for products cannot en-
tirely eliminate the profit Of the farmer or
trucker who thoroughly understands pro-
duction and marketing, who grows the
maximum amount of products on his Sol',
who works earnestly and intelligently to
make a success of his business.
1t is a fact, recognized as such by the
leading citizens of this town and section,
that the most inviting and promising op-
portunities known at the present time in
this region are the opportunities for sue
cess in general farming and trucking.
There are citizens of the county who are
making a success this season in producing
every crop that will grow in this region.
They are succeeding with production and
with marketing. The net result is profits
on the crops produced, regardless of the
difficulties encountered.
This region invites successful farmers
and truckers of less favored sections TO
consider its advantages. There is room
for more residents on the land. More land
can be cultivated; bigger and better crops
can be produced. The outstanding OppOr-
tunities for cultivatOrS of the. soil are in
the growing of truck and fruit crops.
When all the advantages Of this section
are considered and weighed, we believe
prospective citizens will find that it offers
great and entirely satisfactory opportuni-
ties for cultivators of the soil. And now is
the time to go on the land. Prices of farm
lands will not be lower. Lands are going
to sell for higher prices in future years.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12
SECOND WORLD
VAR FORECAST
Publicist Says z Powers
Want War, Cannot Win
It After 1885

NEW YORK, Oct. 12.-(UlO.
A new world war will be started
by next summer, it is asserted by
Johannes Steel, German publicist,
many OF whose predictions Of in
tcrnational developments in re-
cent months have proved correct.
Steel, tall, blonde man Of less
than 80. is said to be an cX-diplo-
mat. He attracted wide attention
because of his accurate forecasts,
published in the New York Eve
ming Post. Yesterday, in a book
called "Thc Second World War;"
he asserted with confidence that
another big war will be raging
next summer.
Germany and Japan, he believes,
arc the two countries which want
war, and they cannot afford "to
wait longer than the summer Of
| 1895 if they expect to win"
; Japan must invade Soviet ter
ritory," Steel writes, Gin order to
safeguard her economic hcgemony
! IN the faT East.
"Hcr only hope to do so sue
: cessfully is in the beginning Of
/ 1888, first. because the attention
Of the whole world will at that
time he focused on the Saar. Aus
tria and Hitler, and Japanese ag-
gressiOn will be Obscured by the
magnitude Of the events in Eu-
rope; second, because the Japa-
nesc general staff guarantees a
victory at that time, since it be-
licvcs that Soviet Russia will not
be ready for another year or two
to defend her eastern borders sue
cessfully.
"The German invasion of the
Saar will take place in January,
1885. Germany cannot pay for
the Saar mines, as she is supposed
to do under the provisions Of the
Treaty OF Versailles, and France
will insist upon payment.
"The French general staff is
convinced that France can beat
Germany militarily if the fight be-
gins before 1886. While the
French system Of alliances will
hold good until 1895, the Little
Entente will have broken up into
its component engagements by
1886. France can win a war only
with the help Of the Little En-
tentc. No responsible French
statesman dares ieopardize the fu-
tWe of France by missing the one
and only opportunity to re-estab-
fish French hegemony in Europe
namely, well-timed war"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12

NpA was referred to as a per-
fect tvpe of federal bureaucracy
and the committee charged that
EVA and PWA are preparing to
wreck many industries.
The Republican attack called
attention to a Democratic plat
form plank which pledged the
removal Of government from ali
fields of private enterprise"
1.-TWO years later" the state
.ment said, "finds the Roosevelt
administration engaged in every
conceivable kind Of business, COM
peting with privately owned
transportation lines, the coal min
ing industry, manufacturing in
dustries, public utilities. construc-
ton, contracting, wholesale and
retailing"
Senator Daniel c. Hastings, CO.
chairman of the campaign com
mittee took to task Senator NJ.
M. Logan. d.. Nv, "for quoting
from the declaration Of indepcrd-
cnce while referring TO the con-
stitution."
There is great confusion in
the new deal,' Hastings remark
ed.
Logan was quoted as saying
the cry Of liberty is "oftcn the
first refuge Of Scoundrcls.
George H." Hastings said,
chad the same viewpoint
The Delaware senator particu-
larlN attacked legislation dele
eating to the ocrctary Of agricuI-
turc the power to impose taxes
on food professors and to MIRA
heads. "who hack code authori-
ties in their lcvics of taxes on
industry"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12
FINISH REFINANCING

WASHINGTON, Oct. ~. (uP).
The federal government success
fully completed last night its Oc-
tober refinancing program with
the exchange of S1,020,O00.OOO
of its maturing 81, 250,000,O0O in
fourth Liberty loan 4 Ia per
cent bonds into lower intereS!
bearing obligations.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12
EDITORS AND PRESENT TRENDS

Editors of America, poled; the question by
the National Industrial Conference Board, are
overwhelmingly against having the government in
private business.
These editors are not only presenting their in
dividual convictions this issue but they are I'M
doubtedy feflecting the prevailing judgment of
the American people. t-
And so long as sach opinions hold such domi-
nant sway, the minority that Would insist upon
that order of political life by which the govern
ment is given authority, supervision, control and
in some cases, ownership of private enterprise
will never get to first base.-Charlotte Observer
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12
BY WILLIS THORNTON
NEA SeryIcc star Correspondent

-
WASHINGTON. - All your HE
" you've probably heard about
government red tape. Did you ever
see red tape. unwinding? Well. l
did.
The Veterans Bureau is just
completing the unwinding and
throwing away Of 200 miles Of real,
authentic, tangible government red
tape. - ,r.- ...'
1t had inherited from the old
Pension Office the dusty document
files that record the cases Of sol
diers Of post.Civil War days. Down
in a dungeon-like cellar, three
floors below the street, the records
lay.
The folded documents, those re-
lating to each case tied neatly to-
gether with red tape about a half
inch wide (the SAME kind you see
on documents in lawyers offices),
stood upright in deep, narrow, gal
vanized iron trays with a handle
on the front to slide them in and
out of their shelving.
The Veterans Bureau, which
now contains records on some 49,
100000, individuals, is crowded
for space. So last March, Chief
Clerk w. C. Black started 237
emergency employees to taking
these red tapebound packets of
the table-tops, for the tin tray
sorting them, and re-fling them
in modern fiat filing system.
AS the red tape, often faded and
rotten, was snapped on each pack
age, a cascade. Of dust spread on
the tahle-tips, for the tin tray
files we-c open at the top and
not duet. proof. Three hundred
and sixty thousand of these
packets have been uEwrapped and
transferred to $500 filing cases,
the 200 miles of red tape going
into the wastebaskets.
OF course, that's only the cases.
actively drawing benefits
ThnucaDdc ne Tin tr,,, a..
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12

Said a man: II was born Il min
ister's son and brought up in the
church, yet as far back as l can
remember, the church services
itked me. / was never able TO adj
Just myself tremendously to them
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12

Having an active
body and an ac-
tive mind, | pre-
ferred to be out
somewhere doing
something | h Il t
clicked with my
make = up, rather
than to listen to
that of which |
understood little,
and to be per
fcctly frank Tor
which | cared
less.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12
BIBLE THOUGHT
AN AUTHORITATIVE CRITIC

No prophecy ever came by the will OF man; but
mon smoke from God, being moved by the Holy
Spirit Pet. 1:21 (R.VO
The strongest witness to the Canon OF the OE'
Testament is our Lord Jesus Christ. There Is no
question but that the Old Testament of His day Is
the Old Testament of the present. To Hum tha'
was the Sacred Scriptures-nO more no less.
An Old Testament that sufficiently authen-
tic for our Lord ought to be for us
DR. James ". Gray.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12

Price-fxing should work, but Alas! when you
rob Peter to pay Paul, you must tax Paul to feed
Peter
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12

Money alone won't make family upper class.
The world must have time to forget how they
got; it. . IS .
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BelilND TIE SCENES M
WAS HZlNlGTONJ

| active cases remain, with their rcd
tape about them, because it's fig
ured that it's hardly worth the
time to unwrap and re-file them.
One result Of all this is that
many Washington housewives will
have new window boxes. Re-
filing made the ancient tin cases
useless. But though narrower
than the usual window box,
they're really excellent for flower
pots. and the bureau sold them
for just that, thus getting some
small by-product return on the
job.
Don't get the idea that these
millions of files in the cavernoLa
depths beneath the Veterans Blu
reau are all the soldier files. The
bureau has $4,000 feet of widows
records in one detached ware
house and so, 900 feet of Simii;:
bureau records in another. To slY
nothing Of the Revolutionary ana
War OF 1872 records, which are at
the Navy Department.
Many of these documents have
already been flat-filed, because
their condition demanded it
there arc commissions OF which
His Majesty George III" etc. IS
crossed out and The Common
wealth of NJ a sac huse t S"
scratched in with a pen-that's
the vintage Of those records. Some
Of them may be transferred to
the Archives building when that's
finished.
SPEAkING of rcd tape, the In
dian Bureau just unravelcd
some itself. For SO years Indian
agencies have been making out a
complete new roll Of all Indians
every year. Thus an Indian 80
years old has been reported 80
times.
Just this year somebody had
the happy thought that. if THE
agencies merely reported tho
births and deaths each year, These
could quickly be checked against
a permanent list at Washing.on
thus giving just as good a record
and eliminating work that has
been calculated to have wasted
the equivalent of the time of one
;stenographer working seven hour,
a day for S53 years.
aCo"yriGht. 1884. NEA Service, hcI
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12

During the absence OF KOI-
ncy butcher on vacation, the
daily Washington Letter is
being written by Willis
Thornton.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12

necessity, no more necessity than it has been
for decades-Charleston News and Courier.
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Blessed is the nobody who has nothing. The
government isn't forever nagging at him. -.
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0F course, that's only the cases
- actively drawing benefits.
Thousands of tin-tray files of in
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-12
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-27

Leslie Gould u e AOp11lCAAIo'
The steady selling of the rails
stocks of the last few days lifted
on publication of January earn.
ings reports, which showed net 300
per cent and more above a year
ago. Carrier shares trended up as
a result but gains were slight.
Motors on the other hand con-
tinues under pressure as result
of the Toledo labor difficulties.
Chrysler and General Motors
were freely offered on bulges but
support was apparent on reac.
tons.
News Aids Steels
Steels were aided by the new
rise in the industry's operations.
Communication shares were I'M
settled and lower.
Building stocks depressed by
selling of Johns Manville which
drove it down a point to a new
low for the year.
Utility stocks were steadier.
Textiles were better.
Food stocks ran into a furry
of selling concentrating princi'
pally in general foods, which
dropped a point.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-27

(aS Optional stock cash (b) Partly
stock ana in stock tc Paid in 1879 ~ on
(g) No regular latest
rs payable ml Special (n) 81 in stock Lww)
With warrantG (xw) without warrants ~ Gx'divid"nd
divideSdS published through regular dividend period.
Quarterly survey by National Association Of
Credit Men shows q sharp improvement in credit
and slight gains in collection conditions through
out Latn-Amertca.
Flax millers of New Zealand. alarmed by prep
arationS for shipment Of 100000 New Zealand
flax plants to Japan, request their government
to act to prevent export either Of plants or Of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-27

days IN success
sion since last
Friday.
This, how
ever, failed to
revive any bull
ish enthusiasm
and the list dis
played an ir'
regular trend in
the dullest trad.
ing in several
weeks.
Neither COM
m o d i ties nor
bonds provided
any stimulating
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-27
extra Dividend.
FORD BUILDING MILLS

The Ford Motor Company has
awarded a contract for the con-
struction Of a blooming mill, a
continuous sheet mill and a cold
rolling mill at its River Rouge
plant to the United Engineering
q Foundry Company.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-27
Parity Neared
By Dollar

NEW YORK, Feb. 81 H.N.S)
Under the unremitting pres
sure from the United States
sterilization fund the dollar
neared parity today touching
59.72 cents in terms of the
French franc and compared
with the parity Of 59.O6 cents.
British pounds sterling lost IL
Of a cent at $685.. The table:
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that he can
hardly find out
about W h re
he's going. He's
been out Of
the city on
business nd
came back just
to see h a t
there was no
hitch in the
flow Of their
new high-pow-
cred beer, which
becomes legal
for distribution
purposes when
the stric t