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Evening star., 1934-12-02

Barnes Degdn 10 WISH Hc uou oPchcu
with a diamond, but he heroically bid
bv L. C. Ray. Catholic World.
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E. S. Smith mad A. I. Hazeltine.
1915.
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NJ. Spencer. Harpers Magazine.
46:241-57, January, 1873.
+: History of the Three Great Festivals;
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Balkan Home Life, by L. M. J. Gar
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Vienna and the Viennese, by M. H.
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Vienna and the Austrians, by F. Troll
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F! Christmas in Canada, by j. Reade.
Magazine of American History.
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Denmark.
Sixteen months in the Danish Isles. by
Andrew Hamilton. v. 2, PIP. l89-2ol.
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The Old Town, by ]. A. Riis. pp
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Book of Days. ed. by Robert Cham
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A Middle English Nativity, by ]. Cor
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Finland Today, by George Renwick.
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March. 1909, by Rosalind Travers.
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Alec Tweedie. PIP. 1884. 1898.
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by B. Murphy Catholic World.
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Evening star., 1934-12-02

This hand will be used tomorrow
to illustrate a little problem in bid
ding. How would you handle it? Not
the way it was actually bid, hope.
tCopyright. l934J
Mr.. Sims will answer all inquiries on
contract that are addressed to this news
paper with self-addressed. stamped en-
velope.
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Pseudo Double Squeeze.

Pseudo Double Squeeze.
TINE team of Mrs. r. B. Fuller, DR..
Henry Vogel, Mitchell Barnes
and Barbara Collyer were
L runners-up in the Mixed
team-o -four event in the re-
cent American Bridge League tourna-
ment at Asbury Park. The hands for
the most part were uninteresting, but
here is a pseudo double squeeze that
Miss Collyer executed on the thir-
teenth board:
Evening star., 1934-12-02

Tomorrow's Hand.
Evening star., 1934-12-02

The bidding was a trifle out OF the
ordinary. Mr.. Barnes, sitting North,
bid one spade. and South responded
with two hearts. AT this point Mr..
Barnes began to wish he had opened
with a diamond, but he heroically bid
Evening star., 1934-12-02
UN|F|CAT|0N HELD
RECREATION NEED
Maximum Use of Land and
Other Resources Empha-
sized by Weir.

This is the first OF q series OF articles
on the report OF l.. II. Weir. expert OF
the National Recreation Association,
Uho has suggested tour plans for re-
organization OF the Districts recreation
Svstem,
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TUcWELL WILL RUN THE FARMERS

Senator Cotton Ed Smith of South
Carolina failed to stir up successful re-
volt in committee against the advancement
of Prof TugwelI to more important place
in the Department of Agriculture. Which
merely indicates to Senator Smith and the
country that something like an earthquake
will be required to shake the strangle-hold
the brain trusters" have on the govern
ment
Of course it is probable that Prof. Tug
we'll knows as much about agriculture as
the average United States -Senator-Ed
Smith claims to be the only dirt farmer
serving in that body-and he may know
as much about agriculture as anybody else
connected with the Department of Agri-
cultare-there' nothing in the record Of
the Department to indicate that farmers,
or men with practical knowledge of farm
ing, are running it.
If the farmers just cant get along with
out dictator, Tugwell no doubt viii serve
the purpose as we'll as another. He has all
the characteristics of a natural born
dictator Knowledge Of farming and the
needs of the farmers probably would spoil
a first class dictator.
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WHAT DO YOU THINK?
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

lishment he received be suffici,
ent to deter them from running
a similar risk? Would Other
public officials of easy morals
needing very much few thou.
sand dollars. be willing to ia Ike
the chance of being found out
and, if found out, of spending
several days in Jail? Would they
consider such chance a rea-
sonable chance and worth run
ming?
Can we ever teach our public
officials to regard with solemn
sacredness the trust reposed in
them until we get into the prac-
tise of punishment severely and
relentiessly every public official
who violates his trust?
There is general feeling
that a crime committed against
his public is not so serious as
a crime committed against an
individual. Is not that reason
ing faulty? In reality, is not
an effense committed against the
people as whole by a public
servant far greater proportions
tely than an offense committed
against a person by person?
And did the public official in
question make restitution when
the bonding company made good
his defalcation? Was not the
city protected from loss only be-
cause it had had the foresight
and good sense to hire at it's own
expense. bonding company to
safeguard the taxpayers against
any shortages in the accounts
Of that public official? .".
The fact that the city got
back the money he took was due
to no effort of his.
What would you have done
had it been your responsibility
to decide the fate of that en-
bezzling official?
It is heartrending to hear the
wife and little children of =
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Child Guidance
by
Frank Howard Richardson
M. D.. F. A. c. P.
Black Mountain, NJ. c., and
Brooklyn, N. Y.
THE RADIO IN THE HOMES

As if there were not already
bones of contention enough, the
imp of perverseness looked about
until he found a never-failing
source of family discord-and
presented us with the radio! If
your family never fights over
the radio, and battles over who
should choose the evenings en-
tertainment. and how much Jazz
it should contain, then stop read,
ing this column and turn to the
hints on how to retain your
beauty after fifty-for your
family are all old folks, indeed.
1t requires some self-control,
some courtesy and considerable
real thought for the other fel-
lows pleasure. to. make one
good citizen, from the radio
standpoint. Leaving out Of con-
sideration those wretched fami-
lies that turn on the radio the
first thing in the morning at the
point on the dial that gives the
best reception, and leaves it
blaring till the last one to turn
it at night turns out the lights
and then turns off the radio,
tand there are such families, be-
lieve it or mott, an ordinary
group of people can best get
along without radio battles II
they will plan out in advance
who is to choose the program for
various desirable parts of the
day.
This should be discussed be-
forehand, in cool blood; not when
rival fingers are clutching at the
dial, if you would avoid radio
wrangling (there ought to be
such word anyway.9 There are
hours enough for all of us, if
we will but divide them fairly
and squarelY in, advance. ..
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
QUESTION: Dear DR.. Rich
ardson: What can | do about
my daughters posture? I have
asked the authorities at school
to do something about it; and
the gym instructor has prescrib-
ed a set Of corrective exercises
FLOR her. But she never takes
them; in fact. she says that all
the rest of the girls stand the
way she does. and. she doesn't
want to look different from the
rest. How can | make her stand
better?
ANSWER: There is not one
day in the world that know,
unless you can make her want
to, stand better-and at present
she DOESN'T Unless you can in
some way make her see how much
better girl looks who has good
pisture, she certainly isn't going
to make the effort to improve.
Some day I'll, tell YOU the story
OF how one of; the women's cob
leges attempts to build up a
mass sentiment in favor of bet
ter posture.
QUESTION Do people otter
get blood diseases as a result 0.
Vaccination?,
ANSWER: They never do. In
the old days. when person-to-
person vaccination was used,
TINS was possible. Today, when
the vaccine used is taken from
e9ws' 1t could not possibly take
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Editor, The Times-News:

Editor, The Times-News:
It seems shame that the
contemplate and cowardIy what
is it?". who has been scattering
'strichnine to kill harmless little
dogs cannot, in same measure,
feel the same as the little col
ored boy whom we asked if he
knew anything about the killing
of our dog; he said, ooh, couldn't
poison no dog. cause you know
dogs likes to live just same as
people does"
Of course dogs like to live.
and we wanted our little dog to
live, mainly because anybody with
any decency about him hates to
see any animal suffer, and be-
sides that, which is the chief
reason; except of course that
we loved her a lot and she was
a constant Joy with her dancing
and other tricks.
I think that the person who
did this, who put strichninc in
our yard or close by, is a con-
temptible, cowardly, abnormal
person with a cruel streak, or
else just plain yellow" and
am inclined to believe it is the
latter.
/ am sure that the person Il
give him the benefit of the
Doubt who did this knows that
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA service stan Correspondent


WAsHTNGToN - Unlike mos
w Republican national chair
men, Henry Prather Fletcher
will eventually quit his new JOB
with his own personal tail feath'
ers virtually intact.
He Is clever, intelligent, suave,
and affable-an improvement in all
those respects over his recent pred.
scessors He never makes enemies
and has "a genius for making
friends IA the right places.
His political experience has been
chiefly in International politics. He
vas successful diplomat for
nearly 80 years-successful enough
Ia Indicate the possibility that he
will have some luck in harmonic
Ing the liberal wing of his party
with the conservative element of
which he is part.
THE Hooverite- Couservative wing
= Of the G., o. P. had so MANY
worse possibilities to choose from
in Chicago that the party seems
eligible for congratulations = as
Stunning it is to follow the political
tenets of Senator David A. Reed
Of Pennsylvania, Fletcher's close
friend, who had much to do with
his selection.
n Through all his services abroad
Fletcher kept close and friendly
contacts with PeahSylyania's NO.
iitical bosses. More than IS wears
ago, he was successfully using bis
influence with powerful Matt onav
who persuaded Theodore Roose,
~ to let Fletcher into the Snan.
lsh-Almericah wars Rough Ride,,s
roosevelt later put him into the
diplomatic service and Fletcher he.
came a close friepN of Boss Roles
GisnrQQse, He was minister TO C,hils
gRen Democrats Wen the 1912 cleo.
non, and was the one American
envoy who didn't submit his rasis.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINION
WHEN BUREAuCRATs SWARM

Illustrating what he says we are fast coming to,
Government by Men, instead of government
by laws, Mark Sullivan writing in the New York
Herald Tribune thus eptomizes the cotton control
plan, put into the federal statutes by the Bank
head act: ''l|@E,.If. $3.50. j.
"A quota is assigned to each state. Within each
state quota is asnigned to each county. Within
each countyis quota assigned to each farm. The
quota for the individual farmer must be fixed by
a local agent of AAA. This agent has discretion
to make fine distnctions-about the quantity of
cotton previously raised, the portion of the farm
previously devoted to cotton-innumerable and III
trieate distinctions which the AAA agent can make
in fixing the quantity of cotton farmer may
false. To the farmer this agent will represent
government by men. The farmer will be at the
mercy of the bias or within, the good judgment or
the bad judgment of the agent who fixes the quota
Each agent will be township Tugwel Any viola
ton by a farmer of regulation made by the sec
rotary of agriculture is punishable by six months
in Jail. ..-'.'
"The plan does not apply only to cotton, for
three million farmers are now under contracts by
which the AAA fixes the crop that each may raise,
and to enforce these contracts government inspec-
tors will make periodic visits with authority, each
to make decisions within his discretion or beyond
IT, and the agricultural administration is seeking
further extension of its powers, the grant of which
would require employment of still govern
nfent agents.
snow it may be said that if the farmers want
that sort of thing they entitled to have It, just
as If industry and business want something similar
as they are getting it Under NRA codes, they are
entitled to have it. But, what if, after While
they find they do not want it and are moved to be
rid of it? How they going to unload the bu-
reaucracy which they will have taken upon their
backs 1t is in the creation of an army of govern
ment agents, rooted in authority, that the worst
evil of this RECOMMENDATION system is to be found
When farmers and business men shall have surren-
dered their initiative and become subject to the
control of closely organized and numerous body
of men clothed with little brief authority they
will not easily rid themselves of the oppression.
1t is the invafable experience of bureaucratic gov
eminent that It deteriorates into a system of IN
efficiency and sloth and that the swarm of govern
mental agents infests and depletes the energies Of
the people and ultimately brings them to economic
ruin& >5&r the United States we are feeling
the ssti 6I %etfof such swarm and each new
az anc q RI created Immediately begins to ere
ate 81 0z3 5Rm. charleston Is. c. Evening
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BEHIND TIE SCENES IN
WASHINGTON

nation. He said he was a career
diplomat and had earned his post.
Wilson agreed. Instead of los.
ing his lob after the G.. o. P. land.
slide OF 1920. Fletcher was found
cumming around with Harding
soon after election.
Harding made him undersecre.
tary Of state. Later he became the
State Departments ace in Latin
America, ambassador to Italy, and
friend of Hoover.
THE new chairman was always a
= conspicuousiy able diplomat,
polished and practical rather than
ideahstic. When he was later
chairman Of the tariff commission,
few protected industries suffered.
But he became fed up on that job.
He is active. athletic, wealthy,
and popular He never achieved
his ambition to be a senator, but
he can be expected to realize his
hope of becoming ambassador to
London if he ever gets Republi-
can president elected.
If Reed is reelected this year,
Fletcher will he in position to
maueuver him toward Republican
nomination in 1885. That probably
is strongly in several heads.
THE fleet protects the nation, but
who is to protect the fieet2 Up
speaks. the Consumer Council of
Newport. R. l., one of those oper.
atfug under the National Emer.
gency Council, and reports. here
that it WON'T stand for gobs being
gouged by merchants and others
when the fleet returns to Newport
soon for the first time in three
years
Gouslng gobs is an old Newport
custom, the council says, and
mouths are watering in anticipa.
hoa Present plan is to appoint /.
few officers and enlisted men to the
council itself.
"copyright. 1884. NEA Service. Inc,
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had bonded the emOeZZnnG OIL
cial protected the municipality
from loss.
The foregoing case undoubted-
ly raises perplexities in the mind
of anyone who desires to show
mercy and at the same time do
justice.
Probably as the judge said, the
embezzling official was not at
heart criminal. But here is
something to think about: An
excuse he gave when on the wit
ness stand in his own behalf was
that others had done what he had
done and had gotten away with
1T.
Undoubtedly this man, 50 far
as he is concerned, won't try
anything Of that sort again.
Likely he has been punished suf-
ficiently to have taught his a
lesson
But how about others who
may be tempted as was that pub
lie Official? Would the pun
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Sometime ago a. man convict
ed of embezzling a considerable
sum from municipality was sen
fenced to the penitentiary. A.
ter being held in Jail for a few
days, he was liberated on a sus-
pended sentence when the bond
ing company that had furnished
his surety bond, paid the city
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DAM PROJECT is ROLLING ALONG

Old Man French Broad don't Say notfnln,
but just keeps roilin' along; and the IVA
does not say much more than the river, but
there is a revival of discussion of that dam
project" throughout this section since the
announcement that aerial surveys and
ground surveys Of the French Broad Valley
are being made in Buncombe, Henderson
and TrafisyfvaHia counties.
. There Is little to indicate that the views
of the people of Henderson county in ref
terenee TO this project have changed in the
past year. The Times-News hears as much
tainfavorable continent as was voiced at any
time in the past However, it seems that
the proposition may COME to the show
down" stage before many months pass,
and then we shah see what we shall see.
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Women voters of Hendersonville had a
large part in defeating the movement for
the asO4cailed open sunday" Much Of the
campaigning against the proposal was
done by women, and on election day they
did much Of the ELECTION work and voting
against the movement. However, the woii-
en- were not an aligned on that side Of the
issue A number of Women voted for the
'open Sunday :
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|xuTELY UNSATISFACTORY


naAppsi Sc stepped on some toes of infuer.-
1t va xaasnnced for NRA last week that price
fixing (sg to be SO modified that most of it
would out the window
PlsfH4&E& who earn little money. men run
ming snail businesses, housewives who had seen
prices of some things practically double in a few
months looked upon the announcement as reason
for hope of better things.
But .'
Only day or two was necessary it didn't take
long.
Over the weekend General Johnson announced
that his previous announcement concerned codes
yet to be niade-which are acknowledged to affect
only small industries which in their total doht
take UP much space in the national picture-and
that any changes in price fixing methods in all the
main Industries with codes would be done very
slowly
and with the consent of the industries coded.
Whereupoh, very promptly, sp6kesneh for in
dustry after coded industry announced that prices
and price fixing are going to stay just as they
They're going to continue to gang up to get the
high dollar out Of THE consumer, they announce in
effect, and anything General Johnson says about
etoPPHs Gi@ e'ttS VI prize hAiHS II SOliB u Ue
some other industry -'''r ~
Add two and two together.
You get total surming-up opinion of what
happened that leaves very bad taste in the ordi-
nary Persons mouth.
General Johnson would have done well to study
a bit what the automobile industry is doing.
The industry is recognized to be just about rs
wideawaks and up-to- s55minute III its knowledge
Of what gets the public to buy as any in the
try.
The automobile industry, although trade-in-Val-
ues on used cars are Apparently going to continue
to be fixed, is cutting prices on its cars. tits
putting out iowsr-priced models without some of
the fancier gadgets of motor and body. It is sell
ing cars for lower prices because It is good bust
ness. - - -
Apparently it is going to take some buying
strikes BY the public u convince some other lines
of business-sfiid General Johnson-that ar-tight
profteerfng prce-ixing set up under some
codes is absolutely unsatisfactory to the American
people-Goldsboro News-Argus.
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The contractors engaged in paving Hem
Jacksonville streets have just cause for COM
plant against the weather bureau, which
has been predicting and supplying rain
every day since this work was started.
When The work on Main street was COM
menced # was promised that it would be
finished by July lst. so The Tinres-News
was informed; but if that promise is bro
Ken The outcome can be blamed on the
Weather. This section has seldom seen a
period of wet weather to equal that of the
past two weeks.
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Iile amount ne
had embezzled.
The trial Judge
said the case had
given him much
worry. He felt
that the convict
ed man was not
at heart a GRIM
insl; furt h e r
more he. cOnsid-
cred that resttu-
ton had been
made when the
( h q +
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE Il

these, these words are ~.
b5t ad e. as those / w ~ps La
in person s"s O' ig.. Of ie..s !;
him. u.s. no" | :ss,t (
Now will the re,4.. I
t tinr this scene in r's T. '..as:
bcr "A: A little dog is o' :. ~,
m mel s,d n!0d legs, jug, : S S.:::s
Gi e. an hour .'II; ster p
Is out in the sun T''', Taa:
and a. ,s as any dog .' VII. !, \. zig i
IT. sGd mali an hour later q. ;. IL
. ana mistress come c'~ :, .a' "a
I Ilme to find the ii.,j = NJ
! yard. her head Gr ,,,a N tie /
'n t.;l eyes, glazing, s = TAX
rioly until she do, 'stl
please PIE some half VT, W.T., ~
XII! something. '' e';l.
NJ
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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.
mupieations signed with a fic.
titious name will be published.
EDITOR.
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sentenced man sob and cry out
w anguish, bat it is also heart
rending to hear the anguish sohs
and cries of thousands of women
and children and grown men
too, who have lost their homes
their, investments. and everyth;np
through the fafthlesshess Of nmb,
nc officials and of other kinds
OF officials who had the respoh-
stettty guarding the people,
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Learn to Swim" is the advice offered
by an exchange. PROBABLY win be c esaid
cred timely advice for TINS section BY tire
tTyA.' w. '
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Reading When Riding

european scientists have deter
mined that while travelling on top
OF a street ear the speed of reading
Is L per cent less than when not
IN motion, and that On top of omnl.
buses 1t Is 80 per cent 'ywer