The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-11-10
BACK TO BUSINESS AND HARD WORK

In Il
The election is over, the votes nave oeeh
counted, the results declared, and ABOUT.
the only thing that remains for many
among us to do is to go to work. Back 10
Work and Business is slogan that ought
to be adopted by everybody. OF course,
fair proportion of the people were work
ing before the election and they did not
permit politics to stop them or interfere
with work or business. Others who may
have been working in the past dropped
work for politics for several weeks before
the election. Then there is certain num-
Der of residents of this town and section
who were relieved" of work by govern
ment bounty; and, of course, there are
others who have been on the list OF honest
unemployed, because they could not get
work or get into business.
The best policy for all classes now is to
adopt the slogan, Back to Work and Back
to Business, as the guiding principle OF
their lives.
From this time on relief will probably
not be so freely dispensed as in the past.
If that is the case, some Of the chronic
leaners on government support may be
forced to go to work or suffer unpleasant
consequences. 1t is true that millions are
expecting, in addition to 'relief," govern
ment handouts of various kinds-pensions,
bonuses, initiation, government loans and
every other conceivable form of paternal-
istic and SOcialistic financial aid-but all
of these proposals are going to start big
fights in Congress and the country at
large, and the question of if and when
these spendings of the money of the tax
payers will begin, if ever, is problematical.
The wise citizen will not try to get some
thing for nothing or become a ward of
the Federal or State government, but will
stick to the good, old American policy Of
hard work. ass
After all the future of the country de-
ponds on the people who work and who
are engaged in business. The drones, loaf
ers and parasites are great burden on
the workers, but they have never made
any contribution to the development and
upbuilding of the country and never will.
The burdens of the workers and the
business of the country are going to be the
heaviest ever endured by the people of
any country in the history of the world;
but they will have to be accepted and car
rled, If the country is to be saved from
bankruptcy and restored to normal pros
perity. If the country is saved the work
ers will save it-save it in spite of the
crowd with wheels in their heads, the
dreamers, eXperimenters, as we'll as those
who are mean and selfish, and the violent
radicals who are out to tear down the eX-
listing order in this country.
Back to Business and Hard Work! If
that is not the way out of our present diff
hculties this newspaper does not know the
way. We say this in spite of the existing
unemployment problem and the fact that
the largest and most multitudinous diff
culties ever known now confront business.
1t is absolutely certain that the country
cannot lift itself by it's own bootstraps
that public spending will not restore pros
perity and that government giving will not
do it. The only thing that will restore nor.
NAL conditions in the country is genuine
revival of private enterprise, a back to
Hard Work and Business movement.
To restore prosperity to private enter.
prise, the federal government must get out
of business; MUST cease to compete with
and cut the throats of its own citizens in
business. A long and hard fight on thi