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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01

Even now the place is hard to
reach. Years ago some hardy
pioneer moved into that country,
hauled rock, cleared land, hew-
ed logs, built fences and called
the place home. His problems
were practical, not theoretical
but he tackled them in charac-
teristic pioneer American fash
ion-by rolling up his sleeves and
going to work. Only ruins re-
main of his work, but he left
there a lesson for those who
should follow after. This coun-
try was built by people who
pushed out and hewed out places
for themselves in wilderness.
There is power line that cuts
through the heart of the forest.
It runs through the mountains
straight, as IAN arrow, up noun
tains and down valleys. 1t must
have, been a tremendous under
taking. and we were. informed
that it cost a million dollars to
construct the right of way. Re-
turning to Hendersonville by way
of the golf course we were casu-
ally informed by Pink Drake
that he ran levels on the Job.
Pink stated that at times it was
necessary for his rod men to
lower him over cliffs to carry
on his work.
Deer apparently have a great
deal of native brain power. In
the forest they scarcely paw anv
attention to people, but off the
government they raise head and
tan. and head for the forest con-
fines as soon as man approaches
The party was composed of
good sportsmen, but the best of
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01

munists. The best thing that could happen
for the peace and security OF, the world
would be war between Germany and
Russia or Japan and Russia. Either coun-
trv would give the Communist Bear first
class licking, that would cause the collapse
of Communist control of Russia and the
liberation of that people from slavery, and
the smashing of Communist power would
add immeasurably to the chances of world
wide peace.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01

The State Department of Education Of
Alabama announces that the public schools
in 20 of the States 81 counties will have
to be closed on or about February LIST.
There is no cash to pay the cost of keeping
these schools going. Conditions in North
Cardinals public school system are not
ideal, but are far better than in Alabama'S
system.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01

pressed his gratitude for what
Max had done for him."
What did I do? enquired
Max.
"You advised me to draw my
fifty-five thousand dollars out
of the Bank of the United
States" 49,
"Did II" queried Max. 81
don't remember a thing about
it."
ooh yes you did," asserted
the ex-depositor; and he remind
ed Max in detail of the CONVEX
sation. Max looked thoughtful.
The next day the eX-depositor
received bill from Max for five
thousand dollars for professional
services.
Meeting Max on the street
subsequently, the former depos-
tor greeted him with:
"This is a fine day, Max isn't
it," Then suddenly remember
ing the five-thousand-d / a r
charge, he lifted a warning hand
to head off Max's reply, and
said: ~.
Remember Max. I'm telling
you, not asking YOU"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
nv RODNEY BUTCHER
~. s.rYice Sam CorrcNpOndent

Is IooDlNhl ~
Ne. Service StaG Correspondent
WASHINGTON - The cocktail
w party, by-product of prohlDl'
ion. fourishes despite repeal.
In Washington, at least, most
asses and bachelors simply nave
nut on more steam. Even before
iiouor became legal here, they
cast off such few inhibitions as
remained and undertook to outdo
one another in the matter OF Drli-
liant gatherings, marvellous mix
lures and accompanying nibtles'
There's every reason to believe
that there'll be more rather than
fewer cocktail parties, now that
they're mentionable in the society
columns. p
Foreign diplomats still are
throwing the most popular shin
digs. however Senior Jose Manner
Lara. third secretary Of the Cuban
embassy. took over the Meridian
Mansions ballroom to serve mar
TINS and Scotch the other after
noon and his party broke all recent
gate.crashing records.
Lara invited 112 people, but
some of the most ambitious guz-
zling was done by 40 unlimited
guests,
FTER the Senate hearings on
IA the gold bill one remembers.
Owen D. Young, still handsome,
but paler and more tired than at
many previous appearances. Owen
always is invited here to testify
at big hearings, if only from force
If habit, though on such matters
as gold and prosperity more atten'
lion is paid to men like Professor
Warren, who made hens lay eggs
by electric light, and Father
Coughlin, the Detroit priest
Senator Carter Glass, whose nat
ural expression always makes
iou think he detects a loud ndor
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
OAK GROVE

OAK GROVE, Feb. 1.-Rev. J.
S. Holbert filled his regular APP
pointment here Sunday. A very
interesting sermon was delivered.
A Sunday school group meet
ing will be held here at 2:3O
p: M, Sunday, February II.
This group includes East Flat
Rock, Saluda, Mount Page, Oak
Grove, Friendship, Tryon Second.
Macedonia and Tryon First. NJ.
L. Walker, group leader, is ex-
pecting large gathering. Super
intendents, pastors and teachers
are cordially invited.
Miss Eunie Stepp spent Sun
day night with Miss Evelyn Stepp
of East Flat Rock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tanning Corn
of Hendersonville, spent Sunday
with Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Ben
nison.
The state has been doing some
nice work on the roads in this
community. 1t is greatly appre-
ciated.
Mitchell Surratt has completed
his house and moved into it re-
Gently.
Mrs, Alex Capps and daughter,
Mrs. J. NJ. Campfield called on
Mrs. T. H. NJ. Labor, Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. A. D. Hill has an apart
ment in East Flat Rock where
she holds a position with the
Chipman-La Cross Hosiery mills.
Mrs: A. A. Rice spent the past
week in Hendersonville with her
mother, Mrs. o. ". F. Blythe.
A number of Miss Lois PAGES
friends gave a surprise party at
her home here Saturday night.
Those in attendance were Misses
Willie McGuinn. Arlene Gibbs,
Minnie Campfield, Helen Kuy-
kendall, Myrtle and Edith Stepp
together with Messrs. Fred Ed
ney, RAYMOND McGuinn, Ossie
Orr. Clifton Nicholson, James
Gibbs, and Woodrow and Grady
Ward, A number of interesting
games and an old fashioned
candy pulling were enjoyed.
EVervone reported good time.
Miss Syble Tabor spent Sun
day night with Miss Minnie
Campfield of East Flat Rock.
There is no substitute fpr
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01

Joseph Stain, heap big boss of the
Communists of Russia and the world, gets
red in the face and RACES like wild bull
when ne discusses the alleged designs OF
other nations on the peace and security of
the Soviet. Stain is buffer, as Germany,
Japan and other powers will find when
they~come-to showdown with the Com
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
MR-IEWIs EXPLoDES A QUEER
- NOTION
(BY BRUCE CATION

The critical gentlemen who tell us "ii@'
hooks are worth reading seem 10 nave
hen mt on something resembling spot
nv Sinclair Lewis, Nobel prize winner.
Mr.. Lewis has just written new novel,
and in it he has reversed his field, to sing
the praises of the American business man.
He presents two characters, hotel man
and playwright, and makes every con-
trast between them favorable to the 1or-
mer. Rabbit is avenged. The hotel man
is an idealistic, Woodworking gentleman
who gives himself to his job because he
loves it and not because he wants to get
rich.
The playwright is loafer who is inter-
ested solely in the money and fame MS
writing win bring him.
By this contrast, Mr.. Lewis says bluntly
that the American business man often has
much more of the artistic spirit than the
artist himself.
Now this seems to have the critics run
ming around in circles. Their comments
have been varied, but mostly they agree
that Mr.. Lewis himself is, at bottom,
Rabbit; that. this latest effort is simply
pot-boiler, in which he has got down of
his artistic pedestal and has given way to
his old admiration for the successful
money-getter.
In other words, they have been very
busy explaining how a writer of Mr.. Lewis
The one thing that seems not to have oc-
Cured to them is that Mr.. Lewis thesis
might be quite correct.
There has grown up in American arts
tic circles in the last decade a queer and
illogical notion, to-wit: That even the most
mediocre and talentless of writing persons
is entitled. by the very nature of things,
to look down with contempt on the most
able and devoted of business men.
We have been assured that the man who
follows one of the arts, even if he does it
without skill and without spirit, is a more
admirabiesand valuable chap than the
man who puts in his icks in the marts of
trade.
All that Mr.. Lewis has done, in this new
novel of his, is to bestow a hearty razz-
berry on this queer notion and demon
strate that there is nothing in it.
A Shakespeare, to be sure, is worth
more to the race than a Rockefeller. But
does it follow that every fourth-rate scrib-
bier is basically finer and nobler chap
than the man who is out on the firing line
IN the world of business, working his heart
out on job whose rewards won't be any
where near commensurate with the effort
he puts forth?
The business man has been target for
the scribblers almost long enough. 1t is a
good thing to see Mr.. Lewis breaking a
lance in his behalf.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
STAIN TALKS WAR

The chief of the Communists of the world, Sta
lin of Russia, was evidently feeling his oats few
days ago.
He got up on stump and shouted to Europe
and Asia note of warning "not to poke their
shouts into the Soviet potato patch"
Which was the equivalent of calling Germany
and Japan swine-for those are the governments
he was talking about
Whether he scents aggressive attitudes on the
part of these two countries is merely being dra-
matte to hear them handicap him is not important
for the moment.
What is of consequence, however is that he is
liking to become an incendiary of war himself by
this manner of braggadocio.-C Charlotte Observer.
Age for wisdom, youth for enthusiasm and exc
cution.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
,eEaNNiO T4E. SCENES ~ a'as'A'p..' %w
'''S,,;TZASE4In|l'x.''Gi.-.Nl|l|)NH

nearby - :. Senator In,
Byrnes of South Carolina. rea, ."!
the committee table Say
Buckley OF Ohio, pickn. u
teeth s. Sitting three f.. "'
row, hut not together p,, D."
dressed, hatless Mrs. Henry W.
genthau. whose excitemen, b.s ."
creased almost daily as hc, [, "
band successfully has become i,..
of FCA, acting Treasury >enro,.
secretary in fact, and FINAL, :,
prospective custodian Of q SOD
100000 sterilization lunf
borrower of 100000 unp " ~.
Jouett Shouse. daughter Of pr,'
A. Filene, Boston merchant ;n, 49,
red dress. Ex-senator Bob n'
of oklahoma, who still Gi.rr,.
authorship Of the Fcdc.l Re-.
Act with Glass.
J h@.J.Es'.. .
7 OCAL authorities though,
II would be just swell! Ia h,,
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson On III,
District OF Columbia noro.
control board. She said n,
wasn't interested.
She still gets around ia .n,l
affairs rs musicalc>, WI.,a
memorial dinners, and pa,h.
ings Of the National Women,
Democratic Club.
CENATORS get away with rn.
~ der in the social rauRD, hon,
A generals wife gave dinpnr ;,
other night for $50 people in b,r-.
of Secretary Of War ami Mls n,,
The party was due TO soQg, >,
S Is, but two senators were Is,a
The fiuStered hostess asked ,n
most prominent senator pr.ssn,
what to do, He told her to se,,
her guests and let them learn vi,
had been delaying the food
But she waited ill the iva
senators arrived-at Q p. NJ
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES

Shortly before the bank of the
United States failed, a heavy de-
positor in that bank who had
heard disqieting rumors called
up close friend of his, a law
yer, who was identified with the
bank, and said:
"Say, Max, I've got fifty-five
thousand dollars on deposit in
the Bank of the United States.
Should l draw it OUT"
Max hemmed and hawed and
talked all around the subject for
awhile; then friendship got the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01

upper hand and
he blurted out:
"Blankety blank
it, yes"
Thus tipped
off, the deposi-
tor drew out his
f i f ty-five thou
sand dollars a
day before the
3 a n k Of the
United States
cracked up. La
ter, meeting his
friend Max, on
the street, t h e
axdopOcitOr az
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01

United States senators, a scientist re-
vealS, have brains that average two ounces
heavier than those of representatives. That
must be the weight of the additional re-
sponsibilities the senators hold.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01

According to the warden of New York :
prison, the gangsters running it maintained
order better than he could Which should
qualify them for the highest political jobs,
when, as and if Tammany ever gets back.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01

. j.'My spirit shall not always strive with man.
Gen. .6:S.
On the banks of the Niagara river, where Inc
raan;ds begin to swell and swirl most desperately
urepayatorv to their final plunge, is a slgnoOat'
which hears this startling inscription, Past ke-
Jemption Point" The one who gets into tnoSe
balng rapids and passes that point cannot retrace
his way or be rescued"
4 ~
,"Seek We the Lord while He may be found; All
-, Him while He is near elsa. $3.50.
. -Peloubet's Notes.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01

U. S. Weather Bureau warns us that
white lightning is more hazardous than
the brilliant red flashes-especially when
the white stuff comes in bottle.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01

There is no substitute fpr
newspaper advertising.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01

Age for wisdom, youth for enthusiasm and exc
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-01
BIBLE THOUGHT

] PAST REDEMPTION POINT"
i..Mv .n;,;. shall not always strive with man.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-28
EALCONRY FOUGHT
 BY PIGEON UNITS
Fanciers Fear Birds May Be Driven From Air;
 War Declared

Washington (UP)--Falconry has become so popular in the British Isles that pigeon fanciers fear their birds may be driven from the air. the National Geographic So- ciety reported.
 Falconry is the sport in which a falcon is taught to take off from a trainers arm. attack it's prey, and then return at it's trainers com mand.
 In recent years. the society said, falcons have been sweeping down on pigeons in flight. Fearing com plete destruction of their birds. fanciers have declared war on the hunting methods of pre-shotgun days.
 Falconry was popular 2,0O0 years before. the Christian era, when hunting game with falcons. Stone East and Egypt indicated the sport was followed in those regions at the same time.
 Japanese, Indians, and Persians trained falcons as early as the Seventh Century. B. c. With ex- pansiOn of the Roman Empire, the pastime spread through Europe. It did not, however. gain a foothold in Britain. until about HOO years ago. It then became the sport of kings"
 British falconers were ranked according to the kind of birds they owned. The finest birds belonged to the nobility.
 Falcon training. it was pointed out, Is tedious procedure requir- ing great skill and patience.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-28
NEBRASKA TAX
 CHANGES LOOM
[ Legislature to Be Asked
 for RevisiOns New Years Day

] Lincoln, Neb tUP) Revision of the tax basis upon which levies are drawn for support of the Nebraska public school system probably will be asked of the state legislature which convenes here New Years day. s.s
 Leaders of the states education al system have served notice they plan to lead an intensive move ment to augment school revenues. cut to the bone during lean depres- sion years. Their drive, it was in dicated. probably will take the form of revision of the tax basis.
 Asserting that 99 per cent of the cost of supporting Nebraska schools falls on the shoulders of property holders. Homer ". An .derson, superintendent of Omaha schools. warned recent meeting of the Nebraska State Teachers Association that serious develop ments may be in store for educa- tion in this state.
 Anderson declared that the bur
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-28

Collections of micro-organisms which Col. Charles A. Lindbergh made on his flight through the Arctic areas in the summer of 1888, Lave confirmed previous wagk in the U. $. department of agriculture which indicated that pathological organisms such as those causing plant diseases may be carried long distances--even from continent to continent-by ais currents.
 Fred c. Meier of the depart ment has been studying air-borne organisms for sveeral years-par- ticularly those that drive north1 ward over the plains each year to spread rust in the wheat fields. MT Meier interested Colonel Lindbergh in making this contribution to the scientific work of the department, and together they worked out new and improved apparatus for talk
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-28
Arctic Spores Show
 Spread Of Diseases
Lindbergh Collection Confirms Agricuturans Work on
 Plants-Air Currents Carry AfflictiOns

ing samples of the micro-fiora of the Arctic air.
 Colonel Lindbergh devised sport trap which he called "the skyhook", a light, strong con- trivance, easy to operate, and well adapted to protecting the sterile glass slides from contamination ex- cept for the time they were ex- posed. Mir Meier prepared the slides and has examined and pho- tographed them. He credits Colo nel Lindbergh with careful and painstaking work and says that "Colonel Lindbergh's knowledge of pure-culutre technic made him thoroughly aware of the necessity of developing a trap that could be used with minimum danger of er- TOT resulting from contact with dust in the cocpit."
 In his flights between the American mainland and Denmark, by way of Greenland and Iceland, Colonel Lindbergh exposed 26 slides and returned them with field notes and free-hand maps indicat- ing exactly where and for how long, and under what conditions each slide had been exposed. MT Meier has taken care of the pres ervation of the slides and has ex- amined and photographed repre- sentative sections. He has been able to identify t1ca genus and in some cases the special of many of the objects trapped in the petro- leum jelly which covered the slides. More complete identifica- tions will in many cases have to await the assistance of botanists familiar with the characteristics which identify various kinds of pollen, and of scientific workers who +are specialists in different groups of fungi. mosses, lichens., On one slide, exposed far, north of the Arctic Circle. MT Meier was able to discover under the micro scope more than 4e different types of objects in a space five centimet- CTS square. This was on a slide exposed 5000 feet above sea level along the northeastern coast of Greenland.
 MT Meier and other department of agriculture workers, assisted by army, navy, and coast guard flyers, have done considerable aerial work ! in trapping spores and other mi o-organisms, but this has been over land and in places where 1t was to be expected that the catch would be abundant. This LiIid- bergh collection says Meier, lis the first of Its kind to give con crete evidence of the part played by air currents in the distribution of fungi between northern lands" He points out the possibility that a single living sport which is transferred by the air currents and dropped in spot favorable for re- production might create q center for rapid spread of infection.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-28
CONNECTICUT TO
 GET $l,222,735

Washington, Dec 2S.-lUP)- Federal Emergency Relief Admin istrator Harry l.. Hopkins yester- day. allotted $l36.791.26S to states to care for about 19,0O0.000 per- sons in January.
 He also announced today that total federal. state and local emer- gency relief costs for November totalcd $175,7S9.742, an increase of i2.1 per cent over October.
 The November relief rolls in- cluded 4.11T.735 families compared to 4,051.493 families in October.
 January allotments by states:
 Connecticut. $1.222.735; Maine. $739.9O0; Massachusetts. $5,63i.- 675; New Hampshire. $30S.21O: Vermont. $211.210; Rhode Island. $355.256. iI
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-28

den on property holders was too great and that the system is threatening collapse of the school financial structure. He advocated revision of the tax basis for aug mented school revenues. declared that schools already have "suf- fered approximately 56 per cent of the tax reduction made in the last two years"
 Resolutions passed by the teach CTS promised that legislators would be asked to revise the tax basis for removal of existing inequalities
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-28
PREPARED TO
 BURY VICTIMS

Powellton. w. Va. Dec. s. (P)--Bereaved relatives today pre- pared ot Ubury i4 miners and two trnlnmen who wero killed yester- day when the locomotive Of a work train exploded and wrecked q coach in which { chminers were en route to work.
 The death toll was raised Co ia died ln Coal Valley hospital. -Four others were not expected tp sur
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-28
Wni Harris Guest
 Of "Tir,e" Editor

William Al. Harris, EZRA and Mutual Aid director, will be the guest of Robert John son, one of the editors of "Timc," national publication. at Mir Johns0n's home In South NOrwalk today. Mir Harris will discuss the Mutual Aid plan of relief. It is assumed that the publiCa- ton Is interested in Q story on the Waterbury relief method, the editors having offered to come to Waterbury for an interview or to pay Mir Harris expenses to New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-28
BIOLOGICAL SURVEY
 SOLD SKINS

: Boise. Idaho. (UP).-Fur buyers from east and west coasts attend ed sale of nearly thousand "skins" here Dec. 21. The sale was conducted by the Biological Sur vey and included hides from bob cats. coyotes, cougars. badgers and skunks. They represent the catch of veteran trappefs operating in southwestern Idaho under super vision of the Biological Survey.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-28

sAhchaeologists are exploring the Lake Victoria region of Africa for the oldest traces of man.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-28

TWO FIRES QUELLED
 Two ash box fires were quelled by firemen this afternoon. One was at 444 South Main street, the other at SIS North Main street. Little damage was done in either blaze.
Evening star., 1934-02-25
from Mckinley Through
Hoover One Man Handled
AUHe President :SMcoming
Letters, but Under Roose-
veh Wh0 Has Been Getting
1S,000a Day. He Requires
Sixteen assistants.

hope Of relief turned to his leadership. 1t Is
no wonder that they feel that they can write
to him as they would to friend.
Politicians great political craft in this
relationship that Franklin Roosevelt has estab-
lshed with the people who voted him into
office-and with lot who did not.
1t is But it Is more than that. Political
craft cannot create charm of personality People
are as sensitive to sincerity high-bred
horses or dogs.
The secret is that Franklin Rooevelt likes
people, all of them. The Soviet commissar
talking with him in his study and the derehct
listening to his voice from platform feel that
charm. which is compounded of earnest good
will and high intelligence.
The mailbags show the response.
Every President has a minority Of crank
correspondents people who have