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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-04
HIS OK GORED
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

"Mv dear Mr.. So-and-so," | OBJ
served improving an opportunity
for which | had waited for years,
"there you have brought right
home to you a large, concrete In
stance Of political incompetence,
or graft, or both" To which Mr.
So-and-so replied emphatically:
at amt nothin' else"
Not to change the subject, why
did not the grace of God referred
to by Mr.. So-and-so in the fourth
paragraph of this article be of
such force and character as to
have called the attention of Mr..
So-and-so and his associates to
the faulty way that roof was be-
ing built at the time of its con-
thus permitting imme-
diate and inexpensive correction
of The deficiency. Perhaps the
Almighty, who proverbially moves
in mysterious ways, his wonders
to perform. had in mind teach
ing Mr.. So-and-sO and other out
standing members of that church
a not-to-be- forgotten lesson in
good government that would line
them up as sure enough, vigorous
fighters in behalf of politics so
clean and wholesome as to make
politics respectable.
The human being is notorious
ly hard to wake up. Eyes he has,
but he sees not; ears, but he
hears not. Even though he makes
the motions, he is apt to be
asleep,-dead to what is going
on around him except to the eX-
tent Of employing 10 per cent of
his perception. Most persons are
from rs to 90 per cent in state
of torpor. 1t usually takes a stiff
Jolt to bring them out.
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munlty by po-
litical racketeers.
But on a Sun
day m o I n / n G
some time ago,
when | went to
Mr.. So-and-so
church to attend
worship, l found
the entire audi
forum filled with
scaffolding o +
great strength.
'FWhat in the
world Is t \ e
r .cLod Mr. So
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NEWSPAPER MAN DIES

81; PETERSBURG. Fla, May
4.-(UP).-Chester C. Platt, for
33 years editor of the Batavia
(N.Y.) times, died here yester-
day at the age of 76. He had
been i'll for two weeks with pneu-
monia. In 1913-14 Platt was pri-
vate secretary to Governor vii
liam Sulzer of New York. He is
survived by his widow and two
children.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-04

Ht an.. county had \
gents gents. enrolled ;3 in the Re' n
Y w Tfc5t, Meredith: n EeI5h summer I'M !, /
These students 4, Wake Nal. n
Justice u and Sue 'I b. \ !
! Hclm!,dcrsonyiIlc. nay 4
The school will Omen i
mer on June II, 'r =.
session ending july '5 5o \
hln &c, session .lu9 ~ ]
| The college will '' cosS,l
ct"L'o,, policy ( .. /
in defcrring paym tce'i !;
IL aIeS' mere will be \, ,
charge to any group d y !
this summer. the I orI ~ =
quired by the coll or,' :. z
entrance fee of $22 a y
week students and 81; y !
week students. ~ i
| =, Courses of instructio, ,
offered which lead to I'll d.
lor's and Masters 4 je y1
Ito all types Of yor mig :
teachers certificates '" v
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-04
URGES FRUIT LAW

ORLANDO, Fla, May Il. =
(UP). = Governor Dave y Sholtz
urged adoption of state law to
standardize handling of citrus
fruits in Florida in an address to
the Florida Horticultural society
in convention here Yesterday.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-05-04
WAKE FOREST WILL
HAVE SUMMER SCHOOL

WAKE FOREST, May A
check-up of the alumni files at
ilFake Forest college preliminary
to the celebration this month of
her Tooth birthday shows that
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Child Guidance
by
Frank Howard Richardson
M. D., F. A. c. P.
Black Mountain, N. Z, ana
Brooklyn, N. Y.
SCARLET FEVER


"Run on home, Jane; Sues
sick, and can't play with you.
Don't YOU see the big sign on the
door.-SCARLET FEVER in big
letters? Tell your mother why
/ sent you home
ooh, mother knows all about 1t.
But she says she's got the preserl-
wing all finished, and fathers
gone away on a business trip; so
now's as good a time as any for
me to catch it and get 1t over
with. She wants me to play with
Suew Can actual occurrenceo
Whether or not there are any
diseases that every child must go
through with, scarlet fever is GER
tainly not one Of them. And while
it is probably true that. scarlet
fever is not uniformly so serious
nowadays as it once was, the fact
remains that it can be terribly
Gripping, even if not rapidly IA
tai. Ears, heart, kidneys are
peculiarly vulnerable to the
poison it generates.
We used to talk of "scarla-
tina" light form of scarlet
fever that was not dangerous.
Now we know that the apparent
ly light case may become serious
or fatal; and that it is every bit
as contagious as the maligant
one.
Beware of the child with a sore
throat, a slight so-called "stom-
ach rash" roughened catlike
tongue, a fever, and perhaps an
attack of vomiting. That's mighty
suspicious. If later on his palms
and soles show a slight peehng,
be sure you were dealing with a
case of scarlet fever.
Take no chances. Put that
child to bed, and call in the doc
tor.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
QUESTION: Dear Dr.. Richard
son: My little boy of six is very
fond of dolls. His father thinks
that if he had been allowed to.
play with dolls when he was a
little Younger, he would have
gotten over this girlish trait by
now; but we never allowed this,
as l hate boy that is sissy.
How would you GO about curing
him of this?
ANSWER: I'm afraid l shall
have to side with his father, and
urge you to let him get past this
stage of interest in dolls by liv-
ing it out, and getting it over
with. should not make too
sharp a distinction between in
terests appropriate for boy and
those more fitting for a svmpa-
thetic or overly critical listen
girl at these early age levels, if
| were you. Interest in dolls and
ability to cook are by no means
to be smiled at in boy; any
more than climbing trees and
PLAYING ball should disquality a
girl.
QUESTION: How can l keep
my 4-year-old daughter from an
swering back? Sometimes it
seems to me as though what she
says deserves to be listened to;
but my mother, who lives with
US, says she is pert, and should
be taught her place.
ANSWER: 1 am inclined to
think that you are a better Judge
OF the little girls responses than
your mother is. l SHOULD be in
chned to, encourage her to talk
out her thoughts, rather than to
try to bottle her up for fear of
what another might call pertness.
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Mr.. So-and-so is one of those
men who has persistently refused
to commit himself on the abuses
and misuses inflicted on his COM
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=, y .!TF. Y" M :, ~
F., When Tree people vote for revolution, they
don't lead it anywhere. They just hang on and
wonder where it's going.
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Don't worry. You couldn't persuade Americans
of one section to call those of another section
"comrade"
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4, That dying-calf look doesn't mean daughter is
sick. She has the radio tuned soft and low on q
crooner.
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; Having elected their congressman. all the peo-
pie need is lobbyist to go along and persuade
him.
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. FRIDAY, May,
Mrs. DougIf,'1
Expires At MI

LAUREL spRIvc,
May N - rPl 'NS> II
In DO. %, mo,ss WIS n
yesterday .St from ' a a.. a ael
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state s,S Of North C sy'yaa ]
most % years. H ia,olln' /!
t her bedside. The e.. fus s.., I
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Dear Mr.. Editor:
Through the columns of The
Times-News l desire to express
my appreciation of the splendid
service and the treatment of the
Patton Memorial hospital, that |
had some opportunity to observe
during the recent illness Of my
wife.
From matron and head nurse
and dieticiah to every single one
of the night and day nurses they
seemed to try to take the very
best care Of all the patients.
And with the force of able and
efficient Henderson county doc
tore all the people of the county
should patronize and aid this
moderate priced, and worthy in
stitution.
Very sincerely
T. l.. OSBORNE,
Mills River, N. c..
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Advertise il or IF you may
have to keep it, ,Jl.1.. CO.
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The sexes are sthl unequal in one way. You
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned COM
munications are published by
The Times-News. All letters
must be signed with the real
name of the author. No COM
munications signed with a fic-
titious name will be published.
EDITOR.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-24
DAILY SHORT STORY STRIKE WON
The Old Peoples Home Struck for Later Bedtime.
 and a Good Story Was the Result

fifty stopped, wrinlkled and feeble.
 but keen and peppys grandpae and
 grandmas. Every stage of pone-'
 scence was there, propped cnscaup4
 and crutches. At the head of the line with a flute was a six-fOof pa triarch, stoill straight as a giant oak. Presently with fine flourish he put the pipe to his lips. began play ing Yankee Doodle, and the old folks, stepping high and somewliat jerkily, marched across the lawn.
 It was the day of the monthly
 meeting of the board of directors, and they were all there sitting on
 the lawn enjoying the strike. The
 organizer of the strike, I Iearneds
 was Manfred Kurt-Afannfe. every.
 body called him. I managed to core
 ral Mamie for a few minutes talk
 They'd been preparing for the
 strike for weeks, he told me-
 bought blanks and filed f1fty-eight
 keys, made banners and painted signs. He seemed anxious that [ have the right slant on the strike. The old folk were proud of Sum- merville, he said. It was their home, and they had things just about as they wanted them-except for the g o'clock rule. They were serious about the strike, but de- termined to put 1t over in frfend~ ly and good-natured spirit. I got a big kick out of Mamie, the truck farmer turned strike organizer at
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-24

I talked with the patriarch of the flute, too. Was he a characterl
 Music was his hobby--homely
 music, handmade, self-made. even elf-taught. as he was. People need music" he, said, ''but they
 need shirt-tail music more than
 swallowtail music" Swell old cod ger, can see him happily twid-
 dining and footing his flute in his dotage. e
 Meanwhile, the strikers had been marching round and round the grounds and were lame and limp ing now. I looked at my watch. It was getting late. I realized that I must hurry back and get my story
 written (I'm always jittery with a dead line creeping up on mel. I l told Mamie I'd phone him later to
 find out the result of the strike and | left.
 By the time I got back to the of | fee had a honey of a story fixed
 almost word for word in my mind.
 wrote fast, and I pounded out over a thousand words instead of
 the allotted 500. After I'd finished
 all but the last paragraph, I called
 Mamie. He did not wait for me to
 ask questions, but shouted like .
 kid who'd just emerged victorious
 from a vacant-lot baseball battle.
 Strike won!'' .s
 As soon as the paper was off the press I grabbed a copy and went ] through it to find my story. It wasn't there! turned the pages
 over again-more slowly-a sick-
 ening fear seizing me. When I Rvrd et<H n t
 read it, for my eyes were full of
 scalding tears. Cut to the bone, .
 single paragraph under the title. | "Old People Resort to Strike''-
 that was all.
 I was sunk-it was the end for
 me-might as well put on my hat
 and walk. out. was on my way to
 my locker when Jig, the copy boy, yelled that the boss wanted to- see
 me. How ever got to MT Daviss desk don't know, for my legs sud-
 denly went limp as cooked spag-
 hetti. Pretty good stuff you wrote about that old peoples strike, Min. Nelson," he said without looking up from the copy he was blue- penciling fit to break somebody's heart. ''I'm making a Sunday fea- ture of your story-we'll get some pictures, and it's carry your sigma ture.''
 want to throw my arms around the boss neck and hug him, but I managed to stifie the impulse and behave like a-well, like . lady journalist registering satisfaction over the success of her story Strike Woni"
 Copyright, 1894, The Chicago Dally News, Inc.
 Tomorrow: old John MaEtzn'0 first four wives left him, but h1B sixty years didn't prevent him fru6n looking around for wife number five. The story is Bridal TxApv ny Dena Wilt. t.ss f F
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-24
Rv f,RACE JOHNsTON

If you know anything about the newspaper game, you'll under stand how I felt that morning when I got the assignment to go out to the Summerville Old Peo- ple's Home. I'd been working on the Herald only few weeks, try ing desperately to make good. Be- ing the last person taken on, got the tag ends in the way of as- signments which gave me slim chance to show what I could do. I knew I couldn't hang on very long unless I got a break.
 "The boss certainly hands me the dumb jobs," growled as I hurried off. with a home for feeble down and outs for a theme I can write a story about as thrill ing as a want ad column. Beauty contests, club women's harangues, pickle makers conventions-Pd like to cover a real story for once."
 All the way out on the train I fumed. But when got to the big entrance gate of Summerville l changed my tune.
 whats this?" says I. "Pickets? A strike?"
 Two pickets were patrolling the grounds just inside the gate. They smiled broadly as l approached. Each carried huge sign, one read ing, "Summerville strikes for free- dom," and the other, We're old enough to stay out late"
 
 asked one of the pickets, an old granddad who's seen at least eighty winters of life, what it was all about. It seems that the reSid- ents-inmates is a word verboten at Summerville, I learned-object- ed to what was known as the 3 O clock come-in hour. The spright- ly beaus and bellies might go step- ping out as they pleased, but, bless their souls, they resented being told they must be back at g.
 Morning after discussions of midnight tricks to avoid rousing the house had been frequent. Some thing had to be done about the g o'clock rule. Finally the, old folks got together and appointed com mittee to carry the matter to the board of directors. Three months passed and nothing was done.
 "So we decided to strike" said the picketing grandad. Were de- manding that the o'clock rule be abolished and that every guest be provided with a latch key"
 Bully for you" said, and nov ed on to find out more about the strike.
 Lined up on the green lawn bor- sdered with gay flowers were about
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-24
Answers to Previous Questions

DRESIDENT LING COLIN set A aside the last Thursday in November for national observ- ance of Thanksgiving Day. The New Haven Telephone Company listed about 50 names in it's first telephone directory, only two years after Bell demonstrated his instrument successfully. Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe established the Massachusetts School for the Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth. which later became the Massa- chusetts School for the Feeble. Minded and now is the Walter E. Fernald Speech School.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-24
But It's True

It's just as true that in this modern day of hustle and hustle, very few people re- alize how much better they would feel if they drank quart of Vitamin ID" Milk every day-and start today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-07
State Film
Group Will
Meet Friday
Committees Chosen to
Serve at Annual
Session.

Mrs. David Ross, president of the
Indiana Indorsers of Photoplays,
and Mrs. Logan Hughes, general
chairman of the annual meeting to
be held Friday, April IS, at the
Claypool, anpounce the following
committees for the event:
Registration, Mrs. George Brat
ton, Mrs. Edna Sharp, Mrs. Edna
Potts and Miss Helen Daily; ushers,
Mrs. c. D. Power, chairman; Mes
danes H. G. Bertrand, Casper
Kempf, Earl Lee, Alec Goodwin,
George Connolly, Max Norris and
Charles Reed; literature, Mrs.
Charles Davidson, chairman; Mes
DANES Robert Drum, Sadie France,
A. P. Ellis, H. R. Grimes and Miss
Ada B. Sockwell; nominating, Mrs.
E. w. Springer, Mrs. Carl Day and
Mrs. B. j. Roberts, Fl. Wayne;
luncheon, Mrs. E. L. Burnett, chair
man; Mrs. Agatha Ward, Mrs.
Harry Gates and Mrs. A. j. Wrege.
Dining Room Aids
Hostesses for dining room: Mrs.
A. Fisher, chairman; Mesdames Lee
Waddell L. M. Fouts, L. M. Chris
tie, T. Paul Jackson, w. F. Glenn,
Edward Conklin, r. G. Dean, c. E.
Chatf1eld. j. G. Kelley, Leo Herner,
Harold Pug, L. M. Schmidt, A. M.
Walker, j. P. Wheat, A. H. Bre-
thauer, w. E. King, S. C. Keenan,
and John Compton; Misses Mary
Helen Borcherding and Helen Will
son; decorating, Mrs. w. F. Holmes,
chairman; Mesdames Wolf SuSs-
man, j. w. Vestel, w. G. Freund and
Howard Galley; Music, Mrs. Victor
Hinzie; information, Mrs. o. M
Richardson, chairman; Mesdames
Edward NevinS, Oscar Jones. w. c.
Harrell, Rufus o. Harrow and M
G. Scudder; pages, Mrs. Theodore
Petrauff, chairman; Mesdames j.
A. Salters, R. c. Snoddy, Robert
Mottern, Arthur Bender, E. B. Cra-
craft and Thomas Fegan.
Others to Serve
Hospitality Committee - Mrs.
vi AAOO1 IL, N1ld11 NGS-
danes Harry Tutewiler, Maud
Bruce, Anderson; Earl Peters, FIT.
Wayne; o. A. DeLoste, Gordon Mess,
Estela Beasant, Vincennes; w. H.
Hodgson, c. J. Finch, William Ell
lery, A. L. Atkins, E. M. Crawford,
Edward Ferger, Nettie New, G. w.
Besphaim, Walter Geisel, T. A. Bow
ser, John Friday and c. c. Jones.
Reception Committee-Mrs Issac
Born, chairman; Mesdames Carl
Taylor, A j. Huber, E. H. Niles, Har-
old Warren, j. M Thistlewaite, Ed
ward Hunt, Charles Sherman, Oak
ley White, G. H. Tomlinson, Cash
Graham, S. H. Thomas, Charles
Smith, John Cochran, Robert Ken
dell, James Sproule, Max Norris and
j. G. Barcus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-07
.Hoosier Day to
Be Observed by
Women S Group

"Hoosier Day will be the pro-
gram theme for a meeting of the
State Assembly Woman's Club
Wednesday at the Marott Luncheon
will be served at l.
Members will respond to roll call
with favorite quotations from Indi-
ana authors, and Mrs. U. S. Lesh
will review the Life of Albert j.
Beveridge," by Claude G.. Bowers.
Mrs. S. K. Ruick will play "On
the Banks of the Wabash and
Back Home Again in Indiana, y
and Mrs. Posey Kline will direct
group singing.
The luncheon committee includes
Mesdames o. U. Newman, j. c.
Buchanan, w. H. De Havern, w.
T. Quillin, Luke Duffey and Walter
j. Behmer.
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Soprano to
Be Heard at
Club Event
Wilhelmina Eberhart to
Be Featured in
Musicale.

A musicale featuring Wilhelmina
Eberhart, Chicago, soprano, will en-
terrain members of the Womans
Department Club Wednesday at the
general session. Charles Lurvey Will
accompany Mrs. Eberhart. to be in
troduced by Mrs. R. o. McAlexan-
der, president.
A business meeting will begin at
p. Mrs. LeonidaS F. Smith is host
ess chairman for the social hour.
following the program. She will be
assisted by the hospitality commit
tee. Mrs. Harold o. Warren and
Mrs James Preston Smith will
pour.
The Book-a- Month group, Spon-
sored by the literature drama de-
partment, will meet at 1890 on
Wednesday, when Mrs. George A.
Van Dyke will review Grover
Cleveland" A buffet luncheon will
be served at 1890, in charge of Mrs.
A. G. Barbour and members Of the
ways and means committee. Host
esses will be Mrs. A. F. Wickes and
Mrs. Edward l.. PedlOW. Mrs. FRANK
Downs will receive reservations for
the luncheon.
The board of directors will meet
at the clubhouse at 10 Monday
morning.
Auxiliary to the Public Health
Nursing Association will meet with
Mrs. Robert L. Moorhead, Brook
vile road, for luncheon, at 1890
Tuesday.
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realize his latent power, so it will
take many a decade for women to
understand their conom C
strength. And the richer they are,
the less likely will they be to give
a thought to it.
The peasant wife who tolls in
the open fields is far more apt to
make demands upon her govern
ment than any lady whose money
comes as mama from Wall Street.
The rich do not alter economic
conditions. 1t is the poor who do
that, the poor who have grown
desperate. 1t is a great pity, to
be sure, but reforms are almost
never created by those who hold
the purse strings.
The women who will remake
America in the end will be those
who have nothing to spend, the
toilerS, the sufferers, the miserable
ones, those masses of intelligent
INDECENT who, by and by, may cry
with such a loud voice that the
ears of the rich will be opened and
their eyes be made to see.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-07
Church Women
of S tate and
City to Meet

Spring meeting of the Indian
apolis Council of Federated Church
Women will be held Friday at the
Third Christian church, Seven
tenth street and Broadway.
The Rev. Robert Hall, chaplain of
the Indiana state prison, will talk
on "A City Within a City"
DR.. A. E. Cory, former missionary
to China, will talk on THE Con-
slant Adventure" at the afternoon
session. The meeting will open at
GAS and close at 3. Mrs. j. F. Nor
rison is general chairman.
The State Federation of Church
Women in session Thursday will
Join the city federation in the SEES
sion. Mrs. George A. Van Dyke is
state chairman.
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4 WOn1anS ViezUbOint
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUS,

IN her new book, Women and
l. Wealth." Mary Sydney Branch
gives figures which suggest that
we may be drifting toward a
matriarchy since women now hold
the purse strings of America. The
facts marshalled should appear
formidable to the poor gentlemen
but they probably do not. The
men know that so long as they
make the money it doesn't matter
much who spends it.
Those who create the national
wealth hold the national destiny
within their hands. Whatever may
be said of Woman's spending pow
er, the chances are she will take
but slight interest in economic
affairs until she has become the
maker of money-until she earns
approximately as much as man.
She is the beneficiary of estates,
life insurance and legacies. But
all these riches are a gift. She has
not planned, struggled, sweated
for them. Therefore their i'm
portance in her eyes is lessened.
Those who use unearned wealth
generally are wastrels-and vast
relS are seldom concerned about
the state of the nation.
1t is true that women could re-
make America and the world, if
they but realized their power.
They could eliminate sweatshops,
SlumS and human servitude. They
could do all sorts of splendid
things with their concentrated
wealth.
But it is doubtful whether they
will ever do so. Just as it takes
the common man long ages to