The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-11-02
FIR. ISFICHTINC
TO SAVE LIFE
and PROPERTY
c. 0. Rulings, District So
Gcitor, Gives Views of
National Administration
SPEAKS in BEHALF
OF CAMPAIGN HERE

Declaring that on March 3,
1888. war had been declared,
differing from ordinary war in
that it was war declared to save
life and property, while other wars
were declared for the purpose of
taking life and destroying prop
erty, Solicitor Clarence o. Rid
ings, of Rutherfordton, last night
delivered an address to an audi
ence of between $50 and 800 peo-
pie at the county court house.
81 am for the man who is try
ing to do something" Mr.. Rulings
declared. 81 am fro Franklin D.
Roosevelt because he is trying to
do something and is succeeding,
and | am for the Democratic par
ty, which in this crisis is trying to
do something, and which has al
ways tried to do something for
the great mass of the people,"
Mr.. Rulings was speaking here
under the auspices of the Hender-
son county young Democratic club.
He prefaced his remarks by de-
claring that he felt at home in
Henderson county where he spent
four years of his life in study at
Fruitland Institute.
He pointed out that he had been
in politics, working for the Demo-
cratic party. most of his life, and
that his first work for the party
was done before he had reached
the age to vote. He declared that
he was more than pleased to come
here as the guest of the young
Democratic organization, and that
he was glad to see the young
Democratic organization here TAX
ing such an active part in the af-
fairs of the party and of the coun-
ty, state and nation. The young
Democrats of today will be the
leaders of the party tomorrow, he
declared.
"But," he declared, T would
give word of advice to the young
Democrats" He urged that they
plant their feet squarely on their
principals, not be swayed by COM
ing and going movements, but
stick to their fundamental princi-
pals of truth and right.
Briefly he reviewed the work
of the Democratic party and adj
ministration in North Carolina in
an "unbroken chain" from 1900,
beginning with the great work of
Governor Aycock, the father of
the great state school system, and
continuing down to the present.
He spoke of the great state high
way system, and dwelt particular
ly on the work of the state sup
ported Orthopaedic hospital at
Gastonia. 81 am glad" he said,
"that North Carolina is willing to
pay little tax in order that these
crippled children of the state
might be enabled to walk and run
and play as normal children"
He pictured the administration
of Woodrow Wilson telling of his
efforts to perfect the League of
Nations as a road to permanent
world peace, and declaring that
this great movement was blocked
by a Republican congress.
He dwelt on the so-called pros
perity of the administrations of
Coolidge and Hoover, ending, in
the great depressions which finally
came in the Hoover administra-
ton. He pictured the situation in
the latter months of Hoover's ad-
ministration with prices falling,
homes and farms being lost
through foreclosure, and banks
failing at the rate of about so a
week; and he contrasted this con-
dition with the situation at present
after the recovery measures had
been undertaken by the present
Democratic administration. He
Continued on page six.