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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-24
1T SEEMS TO ME

wear ago this week prohibition went out and
free and unlimited booze came back. John Barley
corn came out of the dog house a respectable gen.
tleman. Even the ladies made curtsy and blew
kisses at him. From then on John was to be of
the upper ten, and prosperity would return. Taxes
would be down; booteggers and hidden dstilleries
would cease to operate: the gangster would turn
in his tools; kidnapping would be at an end, and
everybody would be happy.
Young men were to throw away their hip TASKS
young women would know the way home, and dad
would sober up and get job.
After year what have we? The bootegger has
moved from the back alley to the beer parOr; the
speakeaSy has taken respectable quarters in the
rear of the soft drink place. the little distler has
been frozen out by the big boys who produce the
bootlegger; young men and women drink openly
and without shame; the gangster has increased in
the land; kidnapping has become major industry
and if dad has sobered up and got job hold up
your hand
Of course not nearly all of the beer parlors are
bootegging joints. nor are half of the soft drink
places front for the speakeasy. If You have
been around you know the proportion.
The state is doing fairly good job with the
liquor stores. They are obeying the law, and sell
ing booze to all-comers, including young men ana
women, fathers and mothers and men who cans
pay the grocery bill. But they are we'll within the
law.
You will see more DRINKS on the street in day
than you saw in year during prohibition days
Automobile fatalities have increased in King coun
ty nearly % per cent. R. Justice in Seattle
Wash, Star.
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PUBLISH NAMES OF sIGNERs

In connection with the thought involved in the
pardon issue in South Carolina we pass on a COM
ment from the Spartanburg Herald relative to the
publication of names of people who sign petitions
for the release of convcts:
'That a practical suggestion advocated by
Federal Assistant Attorney General Jos. B. keenan,
at the national crime conference held in Washing
ton that the names of all persons sponsoring pa
roles as well as individuals who wrote letters 10
authorities to extend cemency to criminals serv-
ing court sentences should be made public.
"Others in attendance commended the suggeS-
ton. 1t is a move in the right direction As easy
it is to numerous signatures to such petit
tons as well as to get individuals to write impor-
tunate letters to governors and pardon boards in
behalf of criminals in servitude, there are many
men and women who would shrink from doing 30
were they certain their names would appear in
print in such role.
with public sentiment aroused as it should be
to the promiscuous and indiscriminate use and
abuse of the pardoning power and paroles eventu-
ally the petitions and communications on the sub
ject would be less confined to the interest
ed parties themselves and to those who are Grim
inally inclined have ties and connections to bind
themselves to crimnals-Rock Hill S. c., Herald
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NEWSPAPERS OPINION
WHEN WILL 1T END?

..Tbe other night when was coming down from
No,y York on the plane" said George Bales
s.there were thirteen other passengers. VI the
thirteen, five were working for the government
We don't know whether that percentage OF
travellers will hold good all the time, but when we
think of the hundreds of people we know employ
ed nv the government in various capacities, We
wonder if George Bales percentage Is very lar
wrong. >,
cone man was talking to another and couiu
not help but overhear what he had to say he was
talking across me, and they were discussing their
work.
"I can buy a hundred automobiles, or trucks
or spend money in the thousands of dollars with
lust the scratch of my pen' he said, but l cannot
buy a typewriter for my stenographer IN my OIL
fee If | want new typewriter it takes dozen
SIGNATURES and miles of red tape to buy machine
that costs possibly a few cents more than nun
bred dollars, but yet with my own signature | can
buy thousand automobiles or trucks worth
dollars each. Funny, amt it, "
But what George Bales merchant of An
derson and a very substantial taxpayer, is think
ing. is: When is America going to get back on a
sane and sensible basis? When are we gong TO
stop doing 500 worth of work to disguise doie
of SO to the individual workman?
And those things which worry George Bales are
the very ones which worry every other thinking
business man, and which present our real economic
problem. Many of US wonder how and when the
spending will stop.-Anderson Is. c. Record.
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satisfying as they're expected to be.
That fear, it should be added has nothing to do
with the amount of money the parents can spend
on gifts A 5O-cent parcel from the 5-and-1O, or
dolls hause made at home from an old orange
crate can send child into raptures
The childs anxiety goes farther than that. 1t is
more like first faint glimmering of that dreadful
suspicion Of the worlds inherent GOODNESS which
only adults really achieve
So, as we say, the youngster takes that first look
at the tree and the gifts with just the shadow of
lurking doubt. Then there comes into the eyes
that heart-twistng look of delight, of belief, Of
complete and unalloyed happiness. Life, for once,
is living up to its advance notices.
To watch that look, as the youngster unwraps
some long-wanted treasure or glmpses quite I'M
loOked-for surprise-to see a small human being
made thoroughly and unquestionably happy-is
pretty nearly the greatest privilege that Christmas
can bring US.
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DEAD AS THE "DODO"

Former director, Hugh Johnson, says that the
NRA is as dead as the "dodo." In an interview
given out from New York on December 10, Gen
eral Johnson stated that the NRA has ceased 10
operate. In the interview he did not make plain
his reason for believing that the NRA is dead
proposition, but he did intimate that too many
people are trying to run it. When asked whether
or not ne would offer suggestions to the MIRA Of
fcials, he remarked, THAT just the trouble
Too many people were trying to tell me what 20
do" Presumably, the General who ought to know
more about the present status of the NRA than
nayone else, has very little confidence in its sue
cess as an instrument to bring back prosperity
In this connection it is significant that the new
director, Clay Williams, of Winston-Salem, does
not seem further interested in holding his posi-
ton. Is he convinced also that the NRA is as dead
as the o"?-Mocksville Enquirer.
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DERHAPS the incest thing about Christmas i
L that it gives us, more the priceless OPP
portunity of watching human being experience
of the very rarest Of all thrillsthe discovery
of a reality which lives up to all expectations.
That, of course, is what happens when you
watch youngster taking his first peek at the tree
and the presents on Christmas morning. The light
that shines on the childs face at that moment Is
a glowing bit of proof that, once in while, at
least, life can live up to its fair promises.
Life doesn't do that very often once you leave
childhood. And although child has especial
reason to surmse that painful fact, those delight
full weeks just before Christmas are always tingcd
with just faint shade of doubt.
There will be fine gifts, of course, and lots Of
fun, and all that-but the heart of childhood is
pretty cautious. In the back of the youngsters
mind there is always that unspoken fear that may
be- this year, things won't turn out to be quite
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SANTA CLAUS AND TIE
CHILDREN

Santa Claus wears suit of red,
A fur-trimmcd hat upon his head,
As he goes riding in his sled,
Long after the children go to bed.
He is very good old man
He treats the children the best he
can;
He takes them things on Christ
mas night
Over which he does not want
them to fight
Most of the children have good
cheer,
But many poor little children fear
That Santa won't bring them any
thing this year
So it is our place to make them
happy here.
He goes to the homes very late,
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HOLLYWOOD
FILM SHOP
By ALEXANDER KAHN
United Press Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. "a. (UP)
Fifty years a clown, with his face
painted in the tragic smile of the
traditional Pagliacci, Eddie de
Coma still can make the kids
laugh so hard you can hear 'em
three blocks off"
Eddie, veteran of the "big
top" was discovered today on the
"Ruggles of Red Gap" set at
Paramount, where he has a part
in a carnival scene. He used to be
one of the worlds greatest aero
batic clowns. He opened in the old
New York Hippodrome, and Co
ney Islands Luna Park
"But they've forgotten me
now" he said sadly. Nobody re-
members Eddie de Coma but the
old timers. They say Pm too old
to go back to the circus. Why, |
can still do anything the rest Of
them can. | can still make 'em
laugh"
And to show that his 81 years
have not robbed him of his old
time agility, Eddie did a hand
stand and some cartwheels.
"They reported | was dead 4
few years ago." he recited with a
grin. "Somc of my friends told
me they even said prayers for me.
They hadn't forgotten. And when
Ringing Brothers came to town a
few months ago, l saw Mrs.
Charles Ringling. She threw her
arms around my neck and kissed
me. She hadn't forgotten either.
"But | guess my circus days
really are over. I've bought a
house in Hollywood and I've set
tlad down with nv ScraD book and
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SANTA CLAUS

Dear old Santa, | wonder where
you are
| heard you were away in the
North Pole, away so far;
But then | can't think how you
give something to everyone,
And finish it before the rising of
the sun
| know you can't do it so quickly,
Stopping at every house, and the
snow so thick.
But then ] don't very much care.
Because | set something every
year;
| just can't get it out Of my fool
iSh head
How YOU can come and get in my
house while I'm in bed;
Last year ! sent my letter only a
day before the time for you,
And my things came just like a
dream coming true.
But, Santa, come again-not so
sly this time,
80 | can see who you arc and the
toys so fine;
Fill my stockings full to the brim,
But don't forget poor Sally and
jim;
You know how bad I've behaved,
But please give me the toys I've
so long craved;
SO goodby, Santa-I'll see you
soon,
On Christmas night at the rising
Of the moon.
Written by JEAN LYDIA,
Fifth grade, Dana school.s
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CHRISTMAS REVIEWS OUR FAITH

The preeminent holiday of the year has
come again. In our country Christmas IS
more generally and more generously ceIe-
brated than any other holiday. This state
ment applies, we think. with particular ap-
propriatenesS in the South, where Christ
mas observance attains larger proportions
than all other holiday seasons combined
Our southern people dearly love Christ
mas and all the formal observance and
celebration and gift giving and the home
cOmings and viSitingS and other customs
which distinguish the Christmas season
for the population of our section Of the
country. s
fd2spefaaps, in no other section Of the
S1ua<rF Is CHRISTMAS so devOutly celebrat-
ed as in the South, for this is, forsootE,
the Bible belt" Our people accept and
believe in the Bible story of Christmas,
the birth of the Messiah, and the spiritual
implications and meanings of that far off
event, as they believe it applies today to
the hopes and aspirations and problems
and affairs and interests of men, for time
and eternity.
The people of the South are religious,
and are not ashamed of their faith, even
in the sound of the laughter and criticism
of a jeering and gliding generation of I'M
believers.
So, we celebrate Christmas in the South,
very much in the old-fashioned way, the
way of our fathers and mothers; and we
get from the observance and the celebra-
ton much of merriment, of joy and genu-
inc pleasure, and of inspiration and uplitt
things that are unseen, as we exchange
greetings and gifts and kind words and
friendly hand-clasps.
Christmas is the time, also, when our
faith in human friendships is renewed
when We realize over and over as the sea
son Ireturns, that friendship is enduring
that we frail, laundering, cropping mortals
are Forever linked by our nature to pow
er that is eternal, that implants and in
grains in us a divine spark that causes us
to talue the true friendships of life be-
yOn9 the value of its material blessings.
The most inspiring and encouraging
andl genuinely satisfying experience that
comes to many of us at Christmas time is
the experience of receiving a card-notil-
ing more than simple card-from friends
far and near, the meaning of which is that
Friendship is lasting, that it lives, friends
have not forgotten us, and in the hurry o.
life,' facing its difficulties and problems
and bending, perhaps, under it's burdens
they have paused at this time to send the
Christmas message which all recipients, n,
matter what its wording or message, are
able to interpret in the language of friend
ship, appreciation and enduring affection
Thank God the Father and the Divine
Master of Men for Christmas and its les
sons and teachings of higher and better
things and the eternal hopes it holds on
to the human family; and for the blessed
Friendships of our fellow wayfarers upol
the journey of life!
Crime experts in Washington advocat,
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News Print And
Rayon Are Made
From Slash Pine

NASHVILLE, Aenn.. Dec. "a.
DE-. Charles II. Hcrty, Savannah,
Ga., chemist, who perfected pro-
cc&Sors for manufacturing news
print and rayon from slash pine,
will be the featured speaker at
the first annual meeting of the
Southeastern States Industrial
council at Chattanooga, Dec. %,
President John E. Edgcrton an
nounceS.
The councils ~ directors and
officials will hold a banquet on
the night preceding the meeting
at which southern industrial opin-
ion will be sounded and a 1885
program formulated.
Other speakers include r. F.
Vaughn. Louisville attorney. who
will discuss "Border State" and
j. f. Ames, president of the
With all the presents he can take:
He takes many 4 pair of skates.
Also many oranges, candies and
cake.
Santa takes TO Mary a doll and a
ball,
Also a doll carriage and a mouse
that squalls;
Jack got watch and a jumping
jack
That could jump up and down and
fall.
Ralph got some story books.
Also some big fishing hooks;
He got a little bright green truck
And some little yellow chickens
that can cluck.
On Christmas morn, when every
one aWakeS.
Upon the ground are large snow
flakes
Then the children 90 out to play,
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Many others come following,
Hay, Hay!'
Everyone should thank Santa
Claus for being so kind
But | suppose he would be hard
to fnd,
Because he's gone away up to the
North Pole,
Where he and his wife are the
only souls.
Written by FRANCES PACE,
Grade five, age 10.
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Salem (Ala.) Manufacturing Co.,
Wage Differentials."
Edgerton said leading issues to
be considered were the national
recovery administrations future
and "what can and should be
done to protect the free cultiva-
tlon and manufacture of the
South's chief product-cotton?"
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let's see how much you weigh.
MANDY did so. The scales
creaked and groaned while the
physician scrutinized the scale
beam. 1.-TWO hundred and ten
pounds" he announced. "The
trouble with you, Mandy, is that
you are eating too much. You
are too fat. You've got TO take
off about 60 pounds. I'll make
out a diet for you
The physician sat down and
scrubbed. Here you are" he
said. "NOw you eat these things
that | have written down here,
and come back and see me in
two weeks"
Two weeks later Mandy a"ain
anneared at her physicians office.
"Wcll," said the doctor, "Get
on the scales and let's see what
your diet has done for YOU Good
graciousw he CALCULATED, as the
beam balanced at 215. "YOu'v2
gained five pounds. Have you
been following that diet | gave
you?"
"Yas sah," replied Mandy en-
phatically.
"Have you been eatin" that
food that was on this list" per-
sisted the doctor.
"Yas sab" answered Mandy
stoutly.
: Haven't YOU been eating any
thing except what was on that
list"
''No sab" declared Mandy,
nothing 'ceptin' nah regular
meals,
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The physician
a pplie d h i S
S t e t hoscOpe to
Mandy's ample
bosom.
your heart is
all right" he de-
clared comfort
ingly. He sur
veyed her gener-
Gus proportions.
"You look over
weight. Step on
those scales and
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WAS HE. JOKING?

Good morning, Mr.. Sooner.
How is your wife,"
"Shc is all right, I reckon" re-
piled Mr.. Sooner. "Why?"
81 heard she had been hurt in
an automobile accident"
as that so?" responded Mr..
Sooner. II hadn't heard of it,
but | have been too busy the past
few days to read the papers,
Come to think of it, | do recall
that she hasn't seemed exactly
like herself lately"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-24

If, as General Johnson is reported to
have said, the NRA is as dead as dodo,
the fuss going on now must be over who'll
have the eagle for stuffing.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-24

Crime experts in Washington advocate
"a national school to fight crime, which
wouldn't be necessary if we used our pres
ent school systems properly.
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BIBLE THOUGHT
THE ANGELS MESSAGE

"Usto you is born this day in the city OF law
Saviour. which is Christ the Lord LUKE zhl'
The Prince of all the world has come;
And we will make for Him a room
To welcome Him; deep in our hearts
We do beseech Him that He ne'er departs
But stays with us for aye our gifts OF love
70 Him who left His throne above
Pc bring us peace and JOY complete
Tbdav. we Law at His dear feet"
A. f. L.
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ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE
By WICKES WAMBOLDT-

Mandy went to sec her physi-
clan: "Ah thinKa an got haht
trouble she said in a troubled
voice.
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If Texas man really has developed turkey
with two necks, as some papers say, it won't be
useful. No family has two old Dads.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-12-24

Mlddle-age is that indefinite period when you
think you need more exercise because you need
more rest.
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WHAT ABOUT HIM?

\ man complaining that his
wife was untidy, said: "Why the
other night, | went into the
kitchen and the sink was so full
of dirty dishes, couldn't even
find a place to spit in it."
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MESSAGES TO
SANTA CLAUS
Hendersonville, N. c,

Hendersonville, n. C.
December %, 1884
Dear Santa Claus.
| want stream-line electric
train and pair of boots. Then
| want watch, and that is all. l
have been a good boy.
Your friend,
GRADY JONES, JR.
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1T is STILL. OUR WORLD

We may not have as much to
live on as before, but we have ex-
actlv as much TO live for.
Evening star., 1934-07-28

Trust Co. here Of s37,S77 was George
Baby Face" Nelson, Americas public
enemy No. /, was being checked today
by fngerprfnt experts in the Justice
Department in washington
Two Federal agents from ,Indianap-
oils photographed fingerprints on the
bandit car, recovered miles south Of
Henderson yesterday. and other finger
prints on . diagram Of the bank,
found after the robbery. The photo
graphs were sent to Washington for
study.
Bank employees. who were forced to
stand with their faces TO the wall
while the bank was looted Thursday,
said one Of the bandits closely. re-
sembled Nelson's photographs.
The automobile used BY the robbers
belonged to John r. Fox of Chicago.
II was stolen from him in a hold-up
near Lexington. KY, July le. Lex
ington police said Fox believed Nell
Evening star., 1934-07-28
-FOUR ARE JAILED
IN z ABDUCT|ONS
Ex.CompaniOn Of Lon Cha
ney, Kidnapped With Bride
July 10, Is Free.
NJ the Associated Press-

ny the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, July 2s.-Three
men and the wife Of one were arrested
here last night by police, sheriff s
deputies and district attorneys In
yestigatorB an the asserted kldnapers
OF John Jesi1ke, former companion oi
the late Lon CLANCY, and his bride Of
three weeks.
FIRST revelation Of the alleged kid
naping came with the arrests. Ati-
ti1orfties said the couple were kid
napeo July 1e.
Those held. officers said, gave the
names Of Floyd Briton and his wife
IDA: Cyril Russell and Jerry Llamou-
roux. They we're booked on suspicion
OF kidnapping. robbery and criminal at
tack. Two other women are sought
rs suspects. officers said.
Given S25.oOe in VIII
Jeshke makeup man and chauffeur
for ChAney. received $25 900 in the
win Of Mrs. Chaney, who followed her
husband In death
Jesnke and his bride were married
four weeks ago. authorities said, and
went to spend their honeymoon in
cabin at Bis Pines, mountain resort
270 miles from here.
They went to the resort on July Is,
they told officers, and that night two
men and a woman came to their door,
demanding a $500 ring he had re-
ceived from Mrs. Chaney.
Jeshke said he explained he had
disposed Of the ring. The kidnapers
then trussed Jeshke and his bride with
rope and next day they started for
Los Angeles, authorities said
In Hollywood they forced Jeshke TO
cash a check for $40.
Promised 10 Deliver $50.
Then they drove to a secluded
canyon road in the Hollywood hills,
where first Jeshke was pushed out OF
the machine and later Mrs. Jeshke
was released. Jeshke said he nrst
was forced 10 promise 10 deliver an
additional $50 cash to representative
OF the hdnapers under pain Of death.
Thursday, authorities revealed,
Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz was advised
by friend of the Jeshke's of the kid
MAPPING.
The sheriff Immediately got in touch
with Jesfke at his residence and the
kidnap victim gave authorities the
details.
He revealed he was TO meet man
In downtown Los Angeles last night
with the $50.
Authorities sent a squad of officers
to the designated intersection With
Jeshke and when Floyd Briton ap-
peared he was placed under arrest.
The other arrests followed.
Evening star., 1934-07-28
FIVE FOOD CHAINS
FORM BUYING UNIT
Total of 14,640 Stores Interested
in New Distributing
Agency.

ny the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 2s.--The New
York Times says one Of the largest
grocery chain group buying organiza-
tions in the country, involving fiv'e
big corporate chains and three SUBJ
sidiarieS, is In the process Of organ
ization.
In addition to the stores operated
by the subsidiaries. the chains con-
troll a total of 1880 units for which
the buying organization could func-
ton.
The Times says the stores involved
are reported to be the Kroger Gro
Gerry a. Baking Co., Cincinnati, with
4.4l4 units; Safeway Stores, Inc,
with 3,289 units; First National
Stores, SupssaeTviIle, Mass. with 2.756
units; American Stores Co., Phila-
delphia, with 2,s52 units, and the
National Tea Co. with 1929 units.
In addition, the paper says, the
McMarr Sanitary Grocery Stores, the
Pay and Take II Stores and 81 Rose
Bakeries, all subsidiaries of Safeway.
are believed interested. The buying
organization is understood to be the
Food Distributors Association, with
headquarters in New York. c. H.
Riddell, a representative of the
organization, declined to discuss it's
plans.