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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-18
PERSONAL
PARAGRAPHS

Miss Elizabeth Hunter, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Georgia X. Hunter of
225 Sixth avenue west, freshman
at Brenau college, will arrive De-
cember 10, to spend the Christ
mas holidays, returning to Bre-
nau January l. She is member
of Alpha Delta Pi national social
sorority, and Tau Sigma, national
honorary dance sorority.
Mrs. R. A. Fairless, who has
been the guest of her sister, Mrs.
R. B. Hammes has gone to Hous-
ton, Texas, with her brother, Mr..
j. V. Martin, who was here for a
brief stay.
Miss May Goodrich, who is at
tending st. Faiths in New York
City, will arrive the latter part of
the week to spend the holidays
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
]. V. Goodrich, at the Williams
house.
Miss nellie Jones will come
from Atlanta, Ga, on Friday
night and spend several days with
her mother, Mrs. Almonte E.
Jones.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Langdon
Hanna, of Greenville, S. c., will
have as their holiday guests the
formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Perry Hanna, of Brookfeld, Mo.
Mrs. Joseph V. Goodrich has
returned home after a visit to her
niece, Mrs. D. Hidden Ramsey, in
Asheville.
Mr.. Jack Walton, who is now
living in Saluda after being at
Marshall for several years, was in
the city yesterday.
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.2S EXECUTED
BY RUSSIANS
This Number Brings Deaths
to 1913 Following Kirov's
Assassination

MOSCOW, Dec. 10. (UP)-An
official communique last night
announced that % white guard
"terrorists" had been executed at
Kiev on December Is. The %
were among 81 arrested Decem-
Der 10. The others, including a
woman, were held for further
questioning.
The verdict finding the white
guards guilty of terrorism said the
majority of them crossed the
frontier from Poland or Rouman-
ia, carrying hand grenades and re-
volvers. They chad orders to
carry out terrorist acts in the
Ukrakinian republic"
The mass executions followed
the assassination of Sergei Marc
novick Kirov. of the palitical bur-
eau of Leningrad.
| The % executions at Nev
brought the total shot to 103 since
the Kirov assassination. The
sentences were passed by the mill
tary collegium of the supreme
court.
The woman held for further in
quiry is Anna Ivanova Skrip Koz-
lovski.
L., 81
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-18
TWO MEN ARE BOUND
TO RECORDERS COURT

Constable Jerry Orr this morn
ing reported the arrest of o. D.
Duval on Saturday night on a
charge of possession of liquor for
the purpose of sale, and the ar
rest last night of Robert Suttles
on a charge of receiving stolen
property knowing it to have been
stolen.
Both men are under 5000 bond
for appearance in county record
er's court.
Use THE WANT ADS
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-18
Talmadge Assails
Vote On Control

ATLANTA, Dec. 1S.-(UP):-
Governor Eugene Talmadge today
charged that number OF ne
groes who didn't own an acre
of land, pillow or axe" with vot-
ing for the Bankhead cotton con-
troll act Friday. ,
Talmadge attacked the a IA
cent per pound processing tax
placed in cotton saying that was
the reason he voted against the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-18
RICHARDSON.
FUNERAL Held
Mrs. Dennis Richardson
Laid to Rest in Oakdale
Cemetery Here

Funeral services for Mrs. Den
mis- Richardson, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. L. E. Rackley. of Hen
Jacksonville, were being held from
the First Baptist church this aft
ernoon at 2 o'clock, with the pas
tor, Rev. Broadus E. Jones, off
ciating. Burial was to follow in
Oakdale cemetery.
Pallbearers were Donald Will
kie, Charles Corpening, William
Reese, Louis Albea, John Drake,
and Singleton Drake.
Mrs. Richardson died at her
home in Columbia on Sunday.
The remains were sent here yes
terday afternoon from Columbia.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-18

Among the young girls were
Ruth Stepp. Lula MacLofflin,
Helen Howell, Margaret Brook
shire, and the two young hos
tesses. Among the young boys
were: Field Ledford, Brooks Will
liams, Grady Edney, Stanley Car
son, Bob Johnson, Joe Holbert,
Louis Reynolds. James Gesser,
Walter Brothers, Bobby Williams.
Jimmy Williams and Hestlev
Gibbs. A nice time was had by
all.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-18
LUCY LANEY CLUBS
SINGING POSTPONED

1t was announced this morning
that the Lucy Laney Glee club en-
tertainment which was to have
been given tonight at the Sunday
school auditiroum of the Presby-
terrain church has been postponed
indefinitely.
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None are bored if you talk
about them instead Of yourself.
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h.. c. R. McManaway
Society Editor
eS Before II Noon
pyTERIAN AUXILIARY

|. Voman'S Auxiliary of the
|...sr;an church met yeSter-
| .,arrcon in the Sunday
/ auditorium with the presi-
Trs. J Adger Smyth, in the
The call to worship was
|, :oftly by Mrs. H. Vincent
/ VINO used a medley of
r. carols and closed with
~ which was sung by an
N. choir. After the usual
1 nv The president and the
/ PRAYER in unison all joined
In o Little Town of
hem.
[ s. L. Woodward gave
/ ssrotions on The Three
Mem applying their charac-
r. 10 our own lives. Mrs.
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Smyth then spoke on fruit bear
ing Christians followed with the
singing of Joy to the World.
Mrs. E. R. Sutherland, secre-
tary of ministerial relief, took
charge of the literary program
on the topic for this special oc-
casion. She introduced Miss
Douschka Sweets, art teacher at
FasSifern and daughter of DIR.
H. H. Sweets, the assembly's sec
Rotary of ministerial relief, who
gave some interesting and heart
thrilling points regarding the
work. She also read a touching
letter from her father concerning
these cases and closed with a
beautiful story about Christmas
giving in Russia.
Afterward the eight circle
chairmen filed up to the altar,
which were decorated in green
and white, holding cathedral tap
erS in silver holders. As each
lighted her candle she deposited
her circles offering, "The Joy
Gift" for aged and infirm min
listers and the needy families of
those whose labors have ceased.
Mrs. N. Holberg gave the prayer
of dedication of this offering.
After singing Come All Ye Faith
full the meeting closed with the
Mizpah benediction.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-18
JOINT HOSTESSES
GIVE PARTY HERE

Miss Lucille Brothers and Miss
Mary Howard gave a delightful
party Friday night at the home
of Lucille Brothers on First ave-
nue. west. Games were played
and refreshments were served.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-18
SEWERS TO
TAKE TRIPS

DR.. and Mrs. Joseph R. Sewer
motored to Greenville, S. c., to-
day where he was to deliver the
Christmas message to the Rotary
club at a meeting held at the
Poinsett hotel. Mrs. Sewer will
remain with her daughter, Mrs.
E. Langdon Hanna, who is giving
a charming tea in her home to-
morrow. When Fassifern has
closed for the holidays DIR. Sewer
will return to Greenville for Mrs.
Sewer and they will go to Dallas,
Texas, to spend the holidays with
their son, John Sewer, who has
been there since about November
l. He has a good position with
large milling concern.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-18
BAPTIST BUSINESS
WOMENS CIRCLE MEETING

The BuSine S Women's circle of
the First Baptist church met last
evening at the home of Mrs. Eff
fie Huffman. Mrs. j. C. Ged-
dings presided when routine bust
ness matters were taken up, as
well as receiving the contribution
to the Lottie Moon special offer
ing. Miss Matte Sue French con-
Quoted the devotional exercises
on the topic, Around the World
at Christmas, being assisted by
Mrs. w. A. Howard, Mrs. Ged-
dings and Miss Lillian Clouse.
The hoStesses, acting with Mrs.
Geddings and Miss Lillian Clouse.
They served a chicken salad
course, cookies and hot chocolate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-21

Of mate and the distractions we
set up against getting rid of one.
You can marry anybody you
please Not the slightest effort or
thought or intelligent foresight is
insisted upon by the state for get
ting into matrimony, but getting
out again is another thing. 1t
forces you to all sorts of undig-
nif1ed stratagems, into every kind
Of questionable deception.
Lying and perjury, which are so
frowned upon by courts in other
cases, are actually encouraged,
even enforced in some states, when
one seeks a divorce. ones reasons
for getting married are taken for
granted. One is in love. Why,
then, when one is out of love,
finally and definitely, must the
public be expected to take a hand
in the business?
We often make the reasons for
legal separation the subject of
newspaper headlines and in so do
ing exceed the limits of good
breeding and good sense. The
state could do far more effective
work if it took more of an inter-
est in why We get married and
less in why we get divorced. And
this would not deprive the movie
stars of any Of their publicity
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That's why they made US eat
soldiers.
spinach.

spinach.
In fact something has to be done about
our sartorial appearance as soldiers For what
employer who had a secret. almost-expressed,
warming for his curly-headed secretary is
going to get romantic about her when he sees
her in dim tan khaki? No, if women are going
TO fight they should look to their uniforms
ANY woman knows that she can do better
lob of Staying her enemies when she looks
attractive.
Women fought shoulder TO shoulder =. . or
an inch or two lower for we still average
shorter statures e.. with men in Vienna. They
shoudered arms and learned what war is all
about.
Those who profess to know are taking this
step as indicative of the fate that awaits the
women of the rest of the world the next time
that somebody steals seventeen miles of some
body elses land or kills nice grand duke.
We are being told that we asked for equal
ity and if we expect to share the plums we can
sit at the table on prune days, too. Well
maybel e.
If a woman wants to put on uniform, and
get all cross and worn out aiming at people
whom she hasn't much chance of hitting,
that's all right. More bullets to her gun! But
if woman doesn't, try to make her!
But in case chivalry and high heels pass
out together, and equality and the military
gesture join hands, let's do it attractively.
Let's insist on powder puffs and lipstick for
our kit bags. There are all sort of cleansing
creams and softening lotions that we must
take along, too. Trenches are vile places.
woman must look to the surface view. Oh,
yes, don't forget hair brush! The one hun
dred strokes a night are most important in
preserving that freight luster that men
dreamed about when only men fought bat
you have a favorite soap by all means take it
with you.
AS for the bearing of arms don't let
that worry you There will be some tall,
strong man who will just love to carry two
guns and show you how many of the enemy
he can shoot if you just tell him how strong
he is. He'll double, nay triple, the number of
scalps that dangle at his f1gurative belt In
fact, on second thought it might be a good
thing for women to go to war if they would
go as women. They could be inspiration.
STILL some arrangement would have to be
made for the children and food supplies, and
hearth fires. 1t would be difficult to teach
Johnny and Mary their ABC's while the guns
were booming. Considering everything, maybe
it would be better just to not have any more
wars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-21
WHERE ROYALTY REMAINS

HUMAN habits are hard to change, espe-
IL cially the little, unimportant ones. This
fact occasionally causes difficulties for ar
dent revolutionaries who hope to reform the
race.
Consider, for instance, the efforts of the
Russian Communists to abolish royalty from
the decks of playing cards Some time ago
the party leaders reflected that such anti
proletarian figures as kings and queens should
have no place on cards used by members of
proletarian state.
So they designed new decks, using priests.
rabbis and nuns in place of the familiar
king queen and jack-the idea, of course. be-
ing to cast further ridicule on religious in
stitutions.
But a current dispatch from Moscow re-
ports that this noble effort is failing. The
Russians are used to the old kind of PLAYING
cards, and they will have no other
Communism ended real-lfe royalty. but it
seems unable to do much with the kind that
exists on pasteboard
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-21
ANSWERS the MiSguided'

some defense, is it so terribly
wrong for a man like Senator
Robinson to defend them? Re-
member every single statesman CD
in congress uses some similar
method to obtain votes for re-elec-
ton.
Now, about the editor, Mr..
Powell. 1t is the belief Of most
people that the series you wrote
in support of the economy league
stand against the expenditures for
veteran relief gained you your
present position. Granted it was
perhaps an unjust assignment for
you and did not indicate your per-
sonal feelings, it was the means
principally of getting the N, E. l..
program adopted. If the Scripps-
Howard papers we're sincerely
written when they stated they did
not favor a reduction in pensions
for service connection and battle
casualties, they would, after in
vestigation, cite specific cases
where the economy bill caused not
only severe suffering but left a
dark brown taste in the public
mouth.
True you published the legion
program, but, if you we're to pub
lish new series of articles as
strongly written and as well sup
piled with facts as the one that
climaXed the passage Of the
abominable and unfair economy
bill, it might correct some of the
wrong perpetrated in the name of
economy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-21
NEED STERILIZING

DROBABLY it was only natural that the
sterilization of mental detectives should
be forced on public attention these DAVIS nv
Germany nation which has turned its hack
formally on democracy.
That is to say, that there is more or less
of parallel between the theory that the or
binary man has not the intelligence to gov.
ern himself properly and the theory that So
ciety must, in self-protection. deny to those at
the very bottom of the heap the right to re-
produce their kind
Both rest on a basic distrust of the mass
OF mankind, in that both assume that society
as a whole will be much better off if it puts
all its affairs uncomplainingly into the hands
of chosen few at the top.
An intelligent comment on this attitude
was made not long ago by DR.. W. D. TAFT. pro-
fessor of psychology at McGin university.
Montreal. DR.. TAFT remarked that society's
worst ills come from the things that are done
not by the mental detectives, but by those
who are smarter than their fellows
And he slyly suggests that, if we are to
sterilize any one, it we'll might be the smart
boys rather than the congenital dumbbells.
Child labor, sweatShops, religious, proliti-
cal and racial persecution, stock manipula-
ton. bank delinquencies, graft at the expense
Of the country intrigues of high-grade muir
der, war and its horrors, are not caused by the
morons but by the intelligent" he asserts.
In my opinion, the greatest menace to civ
ilization really is the man who is just a little
bit smarter than the rest"
Now here is a thought worth bordering
Whatever one may say about the weaknesses
which democracy has displayed in these
troublous postwar years, the outstanding fact
is simply that it is leadership itself which has
failed
The ills from which the world suffers today
didn't arise because the great mass of people
had been blind and stupid They grew be-
cause the leaders muffed their opportunities,
failed in vision, and listened too attentively
to the claims of self-interest
Protecting ourselves against the mentally
subnormal is relatively a simple proposition.
The big job is to find some way of keeping tab
on what the smart boys are doing.
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I achoHy di8approUe of what you sag and oOiu
defend to the death your right to sag it-VoHaire

I department, that rations will cost
from 20 to 25 per cent more in the
coming fiscal year seginning july
/. He cited increases of 9 per cent
in dairy products during the last
four months Other increases we're
30 per cent in grains, Is per cent
in fruit and vegetables, 30 per cent
in clothing, 81 per cent in cotton
goods, as per cent in knit goods, so
per cent in WoOlens and WorstedS,
SO per cent in sugar. Lard, cheese,
condensed milk, coffee and numer-
GUS other articles were said to have
advanced considerably.
Recently, Brigadier General
Hines, testifying for the veterans
administration, cited advances of 90
per cent in flour and $50 per cent in
coal and fuel oil as indicating in
crease in cost to government pur-
chasing agencies Of at least IS per
cent during the coming fiscal year.
This is in direct conflict with the
findings Of the bureau of labor sta
tistics-Which failed to discover any
increase in prices in a survey con-
Quoted for the purpose of ascer-
tanning the cost of living for gov
eminent employees. It was this re-
port which prevented the President,
under the mandatory features Of the
economy act, from restoring any
part of the Is per cent wage redIc-
ton now being suffered by govern
ment employees and returnable only
upon increases in living costs.
The report Of the bureau of labor
statistics, as contrasted with that Of
the two establishments mentioned,
places the government in the I'M
comfortable position of demanding
more money when it has to buy
supplies while denying a return of
normal wages to its own employees
who must purchase the same ar
ticleS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-21
WEDNESDAY, rrn a1 1aaa
FAIR ENOUGH, GENERAL!

= EEERAL JOHNSON invites the country
~ to the first roundup in Washington next
week for hard riding of the NRA and all its
work. He wants criticism. He will get it.
And. on that basis, ne promises to make any
reasonable revisions in the codes covering 500
industries at the technical hearings which are
to follow the public free-for-a1.
1t is novel idea. No other governmental
agency has ever quite equaled this gesture
And it strikes US as very effective lust because
it is more than gesture. It is sincere No
man would be fool enough 70 invite such criti-
cism in such forum if he we're lnsinCerely
trying to trick the public. For obviously an
official open forum of this kind not be
kept in a straitjacket.
We are among those who have been critical
at times of the general and the NFA But we
have not been disturbed deeply largely because
the NRA was operating frankly as an expert
ment in which the general and others openly
admitted their mistakes and tried to learn
by experience. That is the only method by
which NRA or any other form of national
planning possibly can succeed.
So the general says again: There are
things in some codes that ought not to be
there and things are out of some code' that
ought to be there. Some Of the codes co not
gee with other codes and there are many dis
crepancies mistakes and outright blunoers to
be corrected"
He wants now With the advice Of the pub
lie. to correct those plumbers. with this as the
NRA goal:
1T is to see that industry does not horn
swagge labor; that labor does not bullyrag
industry that neither separately. nor both in
concert shall exploit the consuming public"
AS long as that is the goal, and as long as
the administration moves toward the goal
by the intelligent trial-and-error method. the
MIRA will hold the overwhelming public sup
port which it has earned TO date.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-21
THE ANTI-LYNCHING BILL

7. EFT the states do it, is the cry of opponents
A. of the anti-lynching bill now under con-
gressional hearings. The answer is that the
states either can not or will not protect cti-
zens from lynch mobs. This is not a matter
of argument or opinion. 1t is fact-a brutal
fact established by unhindered lynchings in
every year of our national history.
The fundamental reason for the existence
of an American government and Constitution
is the protection of the rights of citizens The
right to life is basic Any government which
deliberately fails to protect that right mas sac
rifced its excuse for being.
This issue is neither sectional nor racial
In one of the worst recent cases the state was
California and the victims were white. OF the
5O5S known lynchings since 1882. whites have
been the victims 1850 times. Ninety-foT
women have been iynched.
Rape is not the customary cause of lynch
ing The record shows that only II per cent
of the victims were accused of that crime by
the Iynchers themSelves-and many of that II
per cent were innocent.
Regarding the recent Tuscaloosa case, the
investigator of the Southern Commission for
the Study of Lynching reported "One of the
four mob victims undoubtedly was innocent.
two others probably so. and the fourth pos
sibly so"
In that case as so often happens, local
officials did not try to protect the victims and
did not try to punish the culprits OF course,
in the San Jose case Governor Rolph publicly
encouraged lynching. on the other hand,
when Governor Richie sent Maryland state
troops to arrest alleged lynchers the mob drove
out the troops
These are the type Of hard facts behind
the statement of President Roosevelt that
lynching is one of the crimes which have
threatened our security" And the President
added:
These violations Of ethics and these viola
tons Of law call on the strong arm of govern
ment for their immediate suppression; they
also call on the country for an aroused public
opinion"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-21

BY an Ex-service Man.
1t is a pleasure to answer a few
misguided individuals who, from
time to time, use this medium for
taking a healthy swing at vet
Grams and their (veteran de-
tenders.
w. E. Lemon, in recent issue
Of The Times, should thank his
God that he is not disabled be-
cause of his service for his coun-
try.
Senator Robinson is perhaps
looking for eX-Service mems votes,
but what politician isn't? He is
at least consistent in his stand,
and when it was not popular to
talk against Hoover, he was doing
his bit to oppose what was the
then popular stand against de-
Tenders of our country.
I do not agree with Senator
Robinson on his liquor views, but,
again, in them he is consistent,
and, at least, we can foretell his
actions Cor votes because he
takes the same attitude he took
during his campaign.
This w. E. Lemon is not dis
abled, and no one is asking a
compensation or pension for him,
and he pays no income tax of any
kind, nor does he in any manner
known to the writer contribute
to the upkeep of veterans or any
other legitimate expense of our
country. Therefore, his wailing
is out of order.
Since the men who were dis
abled in service are entitled to
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in hospitals in France doing all
kinds of mental tasks to keep from
going back to their outfits where
they might have to return to the
front.
Please note that I am not hold
ing these few isolated cases against
the men who went across, and I
do not want you to blame the le-
gion for what some of the mem
bers might do. Both organiza-
tons fall short of perfection, but
both are doing a lot of good and
they should pull together.
Now you want to know why the
Governor and his secretary attend
the conventions and the meetings
of the American Legion. suppose
it is because they are both mem
bers in good standing and as such
it is their privilege, and if it does