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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-16
RELIEF
NOTES
High Spots of Welfare Actiyi.
ties as Prepared BY Hender'
son County Emergency Relief
Administration. r...-s'. {.

With the heavy load OF a large
number Of families on relief re-
duced. the case workers are now
endeavoring to give more in
dividual and constructive helpful
service to those on relief. In
many instances where it is be-
lieved that the aid is not proper
~ administered, menus will De
prepared. and if necessary, the
food order will be budgeted.
The relief office will from. this
date insist on more balanced
foods and cleaner premises. and
individual attention TO the eX-
tent that more soap and other
cleansing aids will be applied 10
individuals. their apparel and
their homes.
Case workers report that they
have found in some instances an
appreciative response to some Of
their efforts and since soap wi.
be another item introduced into
relief work, more attractive per
sons and premises will be a re,
quirement in connection with the
dispensing of aids from the re-
lief office.
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THE PLAGUE OF LAWS
Ry WICKES WAMBOLDT.

T books; there are only certain laws
that should be enforced; there are
only certain laws that the people
will obey.
1t is rank foolishness to pass a
law that the public will not sup
port and that the police will not
enforce; yet such laws are con-
stantly being ground out; laws
that harm or hinder the few when
they are enforced. yet which are
of little or no benefit to the peo-
pie.
Our statute books are simply
| lousy with lousy laws. There is
no lawyer in any state that knows
the laws of his state. Those laws
are too complex and too compli-
Gated and too multitudinous to
know them. It is seldom if ever
| that you find a lawyer or anybody
else, who knows all the laws even
of his city, if that city be a large
one and old enough so that its
governing boards have had time to
pile up the laws through an in
diligence in their yearning to
make laws.
Experienced lawmakers are re-
! luctant to make laws. Thew scan
each proposed new law carefully.
Is it necessary? Can it be got
along without? Can and will it be
enforced, if adopted?
The experienced, intelligent
| lawmaker is more inclined to
clean up the statute books, clut-
cred with obsolete, impractical,
unenforced and unenforcible laws,
! that add still more to the confus-
ing. complicated collection.
But the worst thing about pass
ing laws that people will not or do
not obey is that by such means,
the people are taught to ignore
/ and to be Indifferent to law.
Perhaps one reason that we are
so VIGOROUSLY lawless is that we
realize the utter hopelessness of
! trying to become acquainted with
and to live up to the vast array
of regulations passed by our many
Legislative bodies, who have loved
to play at lawmaking.
And at that, not more than ten
per cent Of the bills thrown into
the hoppers Of our legislative ma
chimes ever become laws. Thank
God for the rejected 90 per cent.
There is always something to be
thankful for, if we will but look
| fnr. If
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HANDS OFF FOR THE GOVERNMENT

Ninety-two and ive-tenths per cent of five thou
sand editors of newspapers and farm journals an
swered mo" emphatically, when asked by the Ma
tiOnal Conference board, Does public opinion in
your community favor control of the management
of private business by government bureaus Of
fcials? ?"
Only 256 of them said Eyes," and smaller
number were doubtful
Questions regarding price fixing crop control,
government operation of power and banking, were
answered negatively in different proportions but
this probably fairly accurate cross section of pub
lie opinion was emphaticaly opposed to any de-
gree of government control Of what we have been
accustomed to look upon as private business
There is lot of parlor socialism in the United
States. There is good deal of intellectual COM
munism ' "
But the average, practical American is not only
opposed to collectvism by breeding and training,
but ne is unimpressed by the radical argument that
our competitive system is responsible for our So
cial and industrial evils that any sort of social
ism woul dcure it unless human nature was so
changed that the cure was no longer needed
Rock Hill Is. c. Herald.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINION
Isn AS SIMPLE AS THAT?

Tho American Federation of Labor puts forward
tba tbirty-hour work week as panacea FOR lnduS-
trial ills in the United States. 1t is the only con-
str,,ctive remedy to relieve unemployment as
serts William Green president of the federation
and the convention in San Francisco votes uhanl-
mousy to direct all energies toward that goal.
One may rejoice in the degree by Whlch WORK
ing hyurs have been reduced during recent gen
erations He may sympathize with the Snare-the-
work movement as means of easing unempIoV-
ment He may believe that labor In general snouId
have a larger share in the proceeds OF industry.
And vet he NAV question whether the imposing
of flat thirty-hour week on all types OF wage
earning occupations, as proposed in the Iaoor-iA-
dorsed Black-Connery bill, would really help
Industries have almost as diverse indvidualitles
As persons What one may be ready for may De
utterly unsuitable to another. And apparently only
one industry. that of elevator construction, Will
admit even with reservations that it can afford the
fve-day week and six-hour day on the federation's
terms, namely no reduction of weekly wages.
This situation makes the declarations demand
yirtua1Iv one for an increase Of wage rates per
hour. Under these circumstances there is good
reason 10 believe that the success of its demands
would mean g. construction of industry and en-
pIovment rather than any added jobs for the job
less. The products of organized labor have to be
bought and paid for by the general pubIic-farm-
ers, unskiIled laborers, white-collar workers and
so forth, the greater portion of whom are unor-
ganized. If the output of the skilled and organ
lied trades is placed beyond the buying reach Of
the remainder of the community, then shorter
hours at fixed pay will spread not work but idle
ness.
Business men in many lines have had already
disillusionng experience with price-fxing and
production controls under the NRA codes. These
powers may be needed in emergencies or within
bounds, but can destroy markets when abused. In
many industries labor's new program now would
amount to a limitation Of production with Sc
rious price-fxing effect.
The thirty-hour week with forty or fifty hours
pay may make an attractive ralIying cry and
convenient bargaining point, but in practical ne
gotatiOns labor leaders will be better advised 70
seek the wage that will provide profitable and
permanent employment of the greatest number of
hands rather than merely the highest obtainable
rate per hour.-Christian Science Monitor
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four MORE AIR
firms APPEAL
u. S. Supreme Court Ac-
ton Not Affecting Other
Mail Litigation

WASHINGTON, Oct. Is. (UP).
Four air transport companies
last night asked the United States
court of appeals for review OF
their suit to force Postmaster
General James A. Farley to rein
state their air mail contracts,
broken in the regenar repudla-
ton of air mail contracts IN
February of this year.
The companies, acting togeth-
err in their fight for restoration
of the contracts. are Boeing Air
Transport, National Air trans,
port, Pacific Air transport and
Varney Air lines.
Their action took the form OF
an appeal from decision by the
District of Columbia supreme
court. The lower court, in its
original decision, ruled out the
case, which was against Farley
personally.
The present appeal claims y
errors in the lower courts ruling
and asks that the appellate trl-
bunal declare the first decision
void.
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beset with perpleXity. There was
no longer any reason for refusing
clothes-cleaning plants the right
to operate within the town limits.
But what about u.s." protested
the owners Of the two establish
ments that had FASTENED to movt
out of the town in compliance
with the law. What about US?
Where do we get off and where
do we come in? We shall be placed
at a disadvantage if you permit
competitors of ours to operate in
side the town limits.
The fewer the laws the better
for the people.
One trouble abous new city
city councils, new state legisla-
lures, new congresses is that they
are apt to be eager to pass laws.
It is a novelty toIa new legis-
lator to pass law which the peo-
pie must obey. Likely, he takes
office with a lot Of theories about
laws; he perhaps thinks that all
that is necessary to Bring Utopia
and prosperity from around the
corner is flock of new laws. SO
he, and more like him, sit up
nights thinking up new laws.
The average lawmaker may fail
not only to realize what may be
the far reaching effects Of the new
laws he advocates, but he is in
capable of knowing what will de-
velop. Furthermore, he fails to
understand that there are only
certain laws that should be on the
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co SLOW

The South Carolina Public Service authority has
applied to PWA for the sum of $35,971 ,91O in
federal funds to develop the Santee- Cooper power
project, public enterprise similar in scope to
the Tennessee Valley program Of this sum $685.
6S2,766 is a loan and $9,3Ss 144 an outright gift.
gigantic hydro-eleetric and waterway isplanned
which has been heralded as capable of transform
ing coastal Carolina into an industrial center and
lowering of electrical rates throughout that sec
ton. 90" . ..' -.....-s. s '..
To say the least, it would be well for South
Carolina to go slow in this great scheme 1t is
highly chimerical and probably one Of the biggest
! pieces Of folly ever seen IN this day Of multiplied
foolish schemes 39Unon Times.
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BEHIND TIE SCENES m
ASHIIklGTON]

| control provisions in codes whose
erect was to make the consumer
pay through the nose.
Consumers are represented on the
new National Industrial Recovery
Board, appointed to administer
NRA, by DR.. Walton Hamilton of
the CAB. The CAB also has equal
representation with the Industrial
I and Labor advisory boards on the
important NRA Advisory Council.
put strong representations are
~ being made to President Roose-
welt and Assistant President" Don
aid Richberg for an independent
consumer voice in government
which can be heard in the admin.
fstration councils whenever it an.
pears that the consumers are
threatened by raw deal.
Under this proposal, the con-
sumner would be elevated to a status
in New Deal councils to which his
friends feelhe is entitled. Protests
against MIRA and AAA policies
codes, or marketing agreements
which unfairly affected the con.
sumers pocketbook and purchasing
power might then be presented eff
fectively, whereas they now can ba
promptly squelched.
'nR. WILLARD THORP, head of
- the National Emergency Coun.
ellis consumer division, is one of
the chief proponents of'the change
Thorp is leaving NEG temporarily
to become special assistant to the
NRA Advisory Council.
He isn't expected to return Ia
the NEG unit, whose chief lob has
been to organize county consumer
councils over the country, unless it
is permitted to function in liaison
with the MIRA and AAA consumer
groups and actually represent the
consumer in an important way y
;copSriEht. lss4 NEA Service, Inc,
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WE RETURN THE COMPLIMENT

Secretary John 10y of the Henderson
County Fair Association. says that one Of
the chief factors in the success of the Fair
this year was the help given by The Times
News.
With due appreciation of the kind
words of the Secretary, The Times-News
is pleased to say that it is certain much Of
the success Of the enterprise was due to
the untiring efforts of Secretary 10y, who
is thoroughly versed in the Fair business
and the amusement game.
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OTHER CASES ARE NOT
AFFECTED BY RULING

WASHINGTON, Oct. is. (CP)
] Transcontinental and Western
/ Air, Inc. once the holder OF
some Of the fastest governmenta
air mail contracts, yesterday fail
ed to win the support Of the SUI
preme court in its fight to regain
the subsidies rescinded in Febru.
airy by Postmaster General James
Farley.
Without opinion, the court re-
fused to consider the company,
appeal from the New York fed.
eral court ruling that it could
not sue Farley for an injunction
because such a suit was in sub
stance against the government.
Since the court applied its de-
cision only to the injunction suit
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A mayor writes me that the
governing board Of his municipal
ity, feeling that materials used in
cleaning garments are explosive,
therefore dangerous, passed a law
that no clothes cleaning establish
ments could be operated inside Of
the town limits.
Two obedient clothes-cleaning
establishments Immediately pro-
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THE HENDERSON COUNTY FAIR

The Henderson County Fair was sue
cess in every way, but notably from the
financial standpoint. 1t is said that the
exhibition held last week was the first Far
in the history of the county to score
financial success. All bills and premiums
have been paid and the Fair Association
has cash surplus In addition to the sue
cessful financing of the Fair, it is said that
the amusement features pleased the pub
lie and that the showing made by county
farmers was especially good in view Oh
the fact that they had but few weeks in
which to prepare exhibits.
Henderson county now has legally in
eorporated Fair Association, the stock
Holders being business men and farmers
of the town and county, and this is guar
antee that there will be a Fair next year.
This certainly will encourage the farmers
b make advance preparations for prOduc-
tion for showing at the Fair. This year the
farmers had only few weeks notice that
the Fair was to be conducted. There was
no special effort for production for exhibit
zion and the time for assembling exhibits
from regular farm production was too
short The showing made under these
handicaps was most impressive and ell
couraging to the Fair management.
President Kelly believes that Polk and
states that ne has been surprised and de-
lighted to discover the real agricultural
possibilities of Henderson county and this
section, and says he is confident that the
farm exhibits at local Fair can be made
to match the biggest and best shown at
any Fair in the State.
President Kelly eblieves that Polk and
Pennsylvania counties may be induced to
unite with Henderson in holding a Fair
here, and that should make it one of the
leading Fairs in the State. Another sug-
gestion that has been made is that the
Fair be developed into Western North
Carolina Fair. Perhaps that would be an
undertaking too large and expensive for
local enterprise, but the tri-county Fair
can be established and made success.
The time to begin to plan and prepare
for the 1885 Fair is now; and the Fair AS
sociation urges the people of the county to
bear this in mind. The Association will
take the steps necessary to have Fair
grounds ready for use next year and ex-
hibitors will find conditions much more fa-
vorable than was the case this year. Co.
operation of the Association and all the
people of the county is necessary to make
the exhibition the largest possible success
Members of the Association and interest,
ed citizens of the county believe that there
is going to be the largest measure of CO.
operation and effort ever devoted to the
building of Fair in the county.
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ceeded to com,
ply with the new
law by setting up
expensive. we'll
equipped plants
outside Of the
municipal boun-
diaries.
Then, non-eX-
plosive cleaning
fluids were in
troduced into the
cleaning indus
try. And the
town council was
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in New York, its action has no
bearing on the future Of the act
tions pending in the District os
Columbia supreme court to force
Farley to restore the contracts.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-16
FIRST NAP IN RELIEF MADE
| 1877, BY EDWIN E. HOWELL.

Answers to Previous Questions
/ EFF RSON served from
q March 4, 1901, to March 3.
1909. BY the new Homestead
Law, free land grants Of 100
acres were given to settlers who
had to reside three years on
their property. Howell'S first
relief map was of the Island
OF San Domingo. In 1875 he
made a relief map Of the Grant
Canyon as part of the govern.
ment exhibit at Philadelphia.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-10-16
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

NEA Service STAFF Correspondent
WA SHIN TON-Some day
" soon, the administration will
have to decide whether to taks
the consumer into the New DeaI
councils or to continue trying to
kid him along.
Rising food prices may help
speed the decision.
The consumer was recognized
at the outset when a Consumers
Advisory Board was established in
the NRA and Consumers Coun-
sci appointed in the AAA. Both
organizations have fought nObly
and the consumer-the fellow
who pays the meat bills and the
coal bills-has been represented
here by honest, able groups.
But these two agencies contin-
ue to function as mere branches
of NRA and AAA, controlled by
two eCoyery administrations
which have been busily engaged
ldlSlHS lllO HIOOI Va
r, There have been cases of CEN
sorship and suppression from
higher up when the consumer in
terest clashed with price-fixing
policies or the interest of the mid
dleman. .'
NOW that food prices are rising
~ rapidly, consumer organizations
outside the government are bngin.
ming to complain that the AAA con.
sumter protection organization-as
they once complained of the CAR
is open to. suspicion as an sAAA
propaganda arm whose chief fnnc.
ton is to persuade the public that
nobody Should be disturbed because
II costs a lot more TO eat. -
Meanwhile, the consumers inter.
est is setting a lovely break from,
Inc MIRA witch has turned it's face
against phi, e-fxing and production
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WHOMQo FIR5To
IN. AMERICA :
BY Joseph Nathan Kane
Author OF Famous First Facts"

When did Chinese immi.
grants first arrive?
Who was the first professor
of plastic surgery?
What university was first to
open a mines school?
Answers in next issue.
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"Full Feeling"
After Meals

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Ihedford's BLACK.DR,rcn
Purely Vegetable Laratjy.A '
CHILDREN LIKE TIE SYprs,
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. -, down UNDER HIS SHADOW with great
5.I;yht and His fruit sweet to my taste
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Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-03-03

lssakShsS 49, .asssese.sa-
evening of last week by Como Temple
Glee club. Candy and fruit were also
distributed to the inmates.
Miss Mildred Brooks of New York
city, accompanied the body of her sis
ter, the late Miss Juanita Brooks, TIC
St. Anthony Ave., here for interment
arriving on Thursday.
Mr.. James Slemmons Of West
Maryland St., was host to the Diplo-
mat Social club Tuesday evening.
Dainty refreshments were served at
the close of the business session.
Mrs. John Kendall (nee Evadne
Bradshaw of Hot Springs, Arkansas,
accompanied by her little son, arrived
1ere Monday to visit her mother, Mrs
Kate Bradshaw, 566 West Central
Ave. En- route here Mrs. Kendall
listed relatives in Chicago.
Miss Dorothy Durham of st. Adams
st., entertained the A. A. A. club Sat
rday evening, and also celebrated her
ixteenth birthday. A huge birthday
axe and other refreshments were
erved by the hostess.
Miss Florence Ward, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Ward of Univer-
sity Ave, underwent an appended
tony Saturday morning, at the
Northern Pacific hospital, and is
progressing favorably.
The Women's Auxiliary of the St.
Paul Urban League met Thursday
evening at the home of Mrs. Birdie
High of st. Anthony Ave.
Theodore Roosevelt Relief Corps
entertained at an elaborate luncheon
Monday at the home of Mrs. Edith
Pettit Williams of Edmund st. Among
,he guests were several officers of the
state department. A short program
was rendered during the afternoon.
Railroad men are urged to give
their support to John S. Findlan, an
employee of the Great Northern rail-
road since 1908, who, as a member OF
the Welfare Board, is responsible for
numerous reforms and has given lib
orally of his time and effort to see
that none of st. Paul's $4,000 needy
would be hungry or cold.
Mrs. M. Turrentine, TIC Jewett
Place, has been unable to use her
right hand for the past two weeks.
She injured it in an electric wringer.
She was saved from more serious
injury by the quick action of her son,
Clyde B. Turrentine.
Mr.. John H. Haygood of Peoples
Fuel Co. is convalescing after an i'll
ness of about six weeks. He is rest
ing at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
B. Brunette, 627 Lyndale Ave. N.
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1934-03-03
PERSONALITIES
By Nellie D0dson

Because I didn't pound out the col
umn last week, I have quite a bit to
make up this week. There are three
letters which 1 have to dispose of be-
fore I do anything else.
The first comes from St. Paul, and
asks my advice on "heart" problem
(Of all thingsD 1t reads as follows
Dear Personalities:
am so mad I could chew leather!
/ like a boy that I have known for
over two years, and up until the
Christmas holidays we never had any
serious fights. He met girl during
the holidays, and she is enc OF those
girls who put on lot of baby talk
and innocent stuff. She really is not
so innocent, in fact, she is plenty fast,
but he thinks that she is perfect. Both
my sister and / have tried to tell him
that she is just putting on an act and
making a dummy out of him, but he
gets mad every time we even men,
ton it, and now he doesn't call up at
all any more. What makes me so
mad is the fact that every time she
sees me she makes some remark which
she knows I will overhear. What I
would like to know is, is there any
way that I can prove to him what she
really is? She is about three years
older than I am, and I am still in
my last year of high school, so 1
guess he considers me just a baby
now. When you answer in your col
umn, please don't print my name or
initials.
Well, we'll, well. After gathering
my wits to recover from the shock of
having someone come to me for ad-
vice, I would say that in my opinion
there is very little you can do.
never could understand how males,
who pride themselves on being just
the smartest things on earth, are
sometimes so appallingly dumb when
it comes to judging women! Your
boy friend, at present, believes that
this girl is the sweetest, most limo
cent child that ever lived, and accord
ing to your own words, is absolutely
ga-ga over her. He won't listen to
you if you try and tell him that she
is taking, and personally, think you
made mistake to try and convince
him on that point. She won't be able
to fool hi-, forever. and sooner or
later chn &c -o'-~ ~ cl;, and show
her t~,o ~c'o-e. " ehe IS SMART
she'll he able TO hold him for even a
few months Init the truth is bound
TO dawn on him some tirne! Mean
while shout all that won can do is
sit tight ard wait. Or even better,
20 out with other boys you know,
30 that II won't look as it you're pin
ir~ swsv For him behind closed doors.
He'll probably prick up his ears and
6la . MkIs antSce b As sees Sbu i