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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-14
By RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service STAFF Correspordent

WTASHINGTON.-When it wants
w to whoop things up, a govern
ment says it with music. The band
strikes up and a lot of fellows strut
off to war and get killed or re-elect
president or something.
Crowds. thrilled by the oompah-
Oompah and the blat-blat, think it's
swell.
But the trouble with the 5000
code al thOrity representatives
gathered here recently, was they
wouldn't get whooped.
Tie marine band blared its
Most seductive tunes. stars and
Stripes Forever" blended into
Happy Days Are Here Again"
Presumably Big Pad Wolf" was
supposed TO make everybody amia-
bic and the next was the Frank
lin DelanO Roosevelt March.
All this in the most patriotic
imaginable setting, the ID. A. RS
Constitution Hall, with its flags
and emblems. You might have
expected the hardcSt-bOilsd indus
trialiSt to get steamed up-fOr a
few minutes, anyway.
Then Roosevelt came on the
stage, talked OF higher wages.
shorter hours, the consumer. hui
manity before profits a,~l free
dom for labor to organize.
Occasional polite handicap
ring wasn't enough to interrupt
him. 1t the end, the New Deal
officials Oh the platform were be-
hind the !niCrophone and the
band, playing Star Spangled
Banner, below it. SO il may
have sounded like a demonstra-
ton over the radio. But actual
applause i'll the hall was frcrqing-
ly thin.,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-14
A HEROISM THAT PUTS LIFE
INTO HISTORY
(BY BRUCE CATION

History never gets really interesting uR-
til it gets down from its high stool, shuts
up its heavy ledgers, and starts telling us
about the little, unnoticed incidents that
high-light great occasions.
For these little things are what give the
great stories their true flavor. Among
them there is the case of the mysterious
monument on the battlefield of Antietam,
On this stretch of Maryland farmland
was fought one of the greatest battles OF
the Civil War. Lee, swinging back toward
Virginia after his first invasion of the
north in 1862, made a stand behind An
tietam creek and met the onset of Nc
Clellan.
The fight is recorded as Union victory,
but the northern army was mangted so
badly that, when Lee withdrew across the
Potomac, no pursuit was made.
At any rate. until a few years ago, the
battlefield was studded with more than
so monuments concentrating the deeds
of various commands All but one OF these
"a Confederate marker erected by the
state of Maryland-were Union monu-
mentS
Then, one day, stranger appeared III
the adjacent town of Sharpsburg, inquir-
ing where he could rent horse and wagon
To transport a stone to the battlefield. And
the next day there was found on the held
q new monument bearing a tablet winch
read:
..Nearrthis spot an abandoned Comed-
crate gun manned by second lieutenant
Of the Sixth Virginia infantry Mahone
brigade, and two infantry volunteers from
Anderson's Georgia brigade, was placed
in action Sept. II, 1862"
That's all! No one, to this day, knows
who put the marker there; no one knows
the names of the three southerners who
coming upon an abandoned field piece in
the tumult of a storm-swept field, swung
its muzzle toward the enemy and served it.
No one knows what happened to them,
or how their action weighed in the final
result, or whether the gun finally went
back to Virginia with Lee or was captured
by McClellan's men.
But the mysterious marker adds much
to the story of the battle. 1t makes the at
fair cease to be history-book tableau, for
the moment; the smoke cloud lifts and we
get glimpse of an unnoticed hit of hero
ism that lights up the whole action.
Stories like this make history real.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-14

rial feet in front Of me barring
my way, his bristles on end, his
eyes blazing, his fangs barred.
knew that if l faltered or seem
ed to hesitate, he would likely
lump me. SO | walked straight
to him and around him without
altering my pace. AS l reached
him, he iabbed his nose emphati-
cally against my hand which was
hanging at my side. | did not
withdraw my hand; had | done
so. he would have grabbed 1t.
There was no sign of any wag to
his tail.
As | walked on, still talking to
him in a conversational tone, he
took his place at my heels and
stalked menacingly behind me.
The appearance of the house
was not reassuring. 1t had the
look of a place where nobody was
at home. l assembled the step,
the dog close behind me. | went
to the front door and raped en-
phatically. The bulldog stood
close by, watching every move |
made. Nobody responded to my
rap. l raped again and again.
4 low growl Informed me that |
had raped enough. Without look
ing at the dog, said pleasantly:
"Well old fellow, | guess no.
body's at home, so I'll be going
/ turned and walked across the
veranda, down the steps, down
the walk toward the river, the
bulldog close at my heels; half
way to the river he stopped and
stood there watching me intently
he was still standing there watch
ing me when ! looked back at
him as my launch rounded a bend
in the river.
Had l made the slightest false
move. had | fastened my steps,
had l appeared nervous, had l
seemed uncertain. that bulldog
would have instantly attacked me.
And an unarmed man, in conflict
with a large vicious bulldog has
a dangerous adversary.
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Child Guidance
by
Frank Howard Richardson
M. D., F. A. c. P.
Black Mountain, N. c., and
Brooklyn. N. Y.
MUSIC LESSONS


One of the comm0neSt of the
minor home tragedies that cause
such unnecessary wrangling, Isl
summed up in the words: "My
child won't practice" Perhaps she
likes music; doesn't want to stop
her lessons; likes to play on the
piano, but hates to practice, and
will not do so without continual
nagging. Shall she stop her music?
Just why do parents want their
children to study music? Is it to
inflict them upon friends who pre-
fer the radio? Is it to make pro-
fessional musicians of them? "No"
answers every parent, when the
question is put fairy and square
~. l want her to love and appre-
ciate music; to be able to play and
sing for her own pleasure: and
to have the culture that comes
from familiarity with good mu-
sic"
Yet the mother who forces a
daughter to practice, is doing her
best to make her hate music, in
stead of loving it. The psycholO-
gist can make test animal love
the sound of bell, if he "condi-
tions" him to it by feeding or car
ressing him every time he rings it..
Or he can make him hate the
sound. if he does something un-
pleasant to him at the same sig
nal. Similarly, the unpleasant as
sociatiOns of forced practising,
condition many child against en-
ioyment Of all forms of music for
the rest of life.
Modern music teachers know
many ways of making children en-
JOY piano lessons. If your child
dislikes playing, in spite Of these
aids, better drop the lessons, for
a time at least. Music made
against ones will is a contradic-
ton in terms; it is not music at
all.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
QUESTION: Dear DR.. Richard
son: My little boy continues day
after day and week after week
to try very hard to do the things
I have been trying my best to
teach him not to do. Isn't it dis
couraging?
ANSWER. Did you ever think
how difficult it is to learn not to
do something: and how we all hate
that miserable negative? Why not
change your emphasis, and instead
of thinking of things to teach
him not to do, put your mind to
creating interesting things that
you can teach him to do. 1t is
not only much easier-it Is fan
sounder psychology, which is just
another way Of saying that it is
common sense.
QUESTION: Ny 144year-old
boy just plays with younger boys,
and takes no interest in worth
| while things. He is an only child;
! and our hearts are set upon his
/ growing up and going into his IA
theirs business, and being credit
to us. How can we wake him up?
ANSWER: The best way l know
would be to let him know that
you did not care a bit in the world
whether he went into his fathers
business or not. | cannot imagine
anything that would kill my inter
est in life quicker than to know
that | was fated to follow a line
that | did not like. No matter how
much my family wanted me to do
it, | could not feign an interest
| did not feel. Neither can your
boy. Let him know that he is To
be allowed really to choose his
own profession, or vocation: and
see if your problem is not solved,
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STOLE BAD CHECKS

HARRISBURG, Pa. (Upl I
The loot OF robbers who hoL =
nito the office of Barney GoIa.
berg, junk dealer, consisted of
two checks dated 1928 which bSd
been returned by the bank mar[
ed insufficient funds"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-14

IA French scientist says those sea mon
STEERS washed up on the shore of France are
nothing but sharks. They might have been
among those that inhabited the stock ex-
changes up to 1929.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-14

vi lIIO q u as
bitten each year
by dogs.
A dog lover
suggests that the
way to keep from
being bitten is
for the person
who enters a
yard W h e L e
there is a dog to
impress the dog
with the persons
right to be there.
"But.' an ed
itor rises to in
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-14
There is no substitute for
newspaper advertising.
BEHIND THE SCENES IN
WAS ElIN1GTON!

ROOSEVELT looked tired--1
~ won't say ;agg2rd. His facial
gestures Che keeps hands on the
table to support himself) lacked
zeSt. 1.-TWO nights earlier the
movie of his inauguration had
been shown at a large banquet
and someone said he looked ten
years older today. Ray Moley
anG Assistant Secretary of Com.
merge john Dickinson disputed
that. but White House secret
service man and several others
agreed. Everyone however, in.
sist3 he's in good health.)
Few things ever stirred your
correspondents emotions more
than the spectacle of Roosevelt
leaving the platform after his big
speech.
THE Labor and Consumer Adj
Vlsory Board performances at
the main show went Sour. Per.
kins and Green made good labor
speeches. Chairman Leo VOL.
man of LAB, regarded as a labor
representative by no one but him.
self and General Johnson. boast.
ed OF labOr's victories.
Other LAB members hastered
to whisper that he spoke only for
himself. 49,. Hundreds fed as
Chairman Mary Rumsey of CAp
rose TO speak for the consumer
Hundreds more leaped as she in.
troduced Vice Chairman Frank
Graham. president OF North Caro-.
lima University.
Graham drove away so MANY
more before he finished that the
SesSion-ending CAB consumer
movie. prepared by Mrs. Jock
played to an almost
empty house. The movie wasn't
50 hot. either.
Copyright, 1881. NEA Service, Incl
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-14

"A one-armed bank employe in North
Carolina is accused of forging hundreds OF
dollars worth of checks. Think what he
might have done with two armsl
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-14

San alphabet of 40 letters has been sug-
gssted in England. Wen need it soon, il
any more initiated bureaus are created in
Washington. fss5ssgss.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-14
'HOWDY, MR.. BULLDOG
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

4 recent news story tells how
many collectors and delivery men
of certain local firms have been
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-14

A lamb born in Michigan has four ears,
eight legs, and two tails. Probably the
young of one of those elusive sea monsters.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-14

Americanism Bristing with righteous wralh
when Japan steals from China; still -robblng the
Indians who were robbed of their native land.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-14

The question is, does congress investigate crook
ed things. or is everything crooked that congress
investigates?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-14

Blessed are the poor. The more things you can
afford the more things you have to dust.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-14

There is one very precious word here; 1T does
not say "If any man repent, we have an Advocate
with the Father; but eff any man SIM. If you
are conscious that you had tumble, do not forget
that you have got an Advocate. If you are con-
scious that you have been tripped up and betrayed
do not forget that still He is interested in YOU
William Lincoln
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-14

The sunny side of marriage is the out
side.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-14

Plymouth, Dodge. Hud,o, =.
TerrsPlane cars now on di,oI,''
LYERLYS AUTO EXCHAyC,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-14

There is no substih,,.
newspaper ADVERTISING
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-03-14
BIBLE THOUGHT
DIR ADVOCATE

IF any man sin we have an Advocate with the
Father. Jesus Christ the Righteous.-l John 2.l.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31

be regarded as an organ Of the
League and be served by it; let it
be most closely connected together;
let the League of Nations be I'M
changed and fully retain its pre-
negatives.
Il fully conceive the difficulty of
establishing a new international or
ganization completely detached from
the League, competing with it. I do
not suggest tbs in the least. But
the very converting of an interna-
tional conference of disarmament
shows the insufficiency of the scope
of the League for such great task
as disarmament.
my proposal suggests even great
err tasks-the permanent defense of
peace, I see no other alternative.
The Soviet government, not without
pride, used the measures of security
carried out in the past years as the
result of It's initiative, particularly
in parts of Eastern Europe where it
is interested most. By means Of
pacts defining aggression, and by
means of non-aggression pacts and
their extension to the maximum
terms, the Soviet government and
it's neighbors strengthened the feel
ing of security among them. 1t has
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31

diplomats at the conference are
forced to stammer their embarrasS-
ment at Litvinoff'S proposals. Sir
John Simon, British Secretary of
Foreign Affairs, in response to Lit
vinoff's exposure of the failure of
disarmament, could only say that
British imperialism had agreed that
German fascism should be allowed
to rearm on limited base in eX-
change for Hitler's concession that
there shall be no disarmament of
the heavily armed powers for the
first five years of a proposal ten
year convention.
That the imperialist governments
want the masses quickly to forget
Litvinoff's proposal is crassly adj
mitted by the Geneva correspon-
dent to the Herald-Tribune.
THE reaction to M. Litvinoff' S
proposals." he writes, "for a per-
manent conference was typified by
the coldness of the American del
egation and the remark of British
delegate, speaking only for himself,
that LitvinofT's speech will be for
gotten in four days
While the warmaking imperial
list powers may hope that the
working class forgets the Soviet
Unions peace proposals and ac-
lions, the Communist Parties
throughout the world will continue
to bring them to the attention of
the toiling population to show how
only the revolutionary way can
lead to prevention of the imper-
ialist wars by the action of the
toiling masses themselves in the
imperialist countries.
The whole foundation of the
Soviet Unions peace policy and
actions rests on the revolutionary
foundation of MarxiSnn- Leninism
AS Comrade A. LunacnarsHy Sc
clearly pointed out in The So
VETS Fight for Disarmament"
"The u. S. S. r. with its
theology, the Marxist-Leninist
outlook, makes no attempt to
hide the fact that it is a mill
tant organization, but the war
which is of its very essence
takes other forms. 1t is the war
of classes, as the result of which
toiling humanity must shatter
its chains. The best road to VIC
tory in this war is the enormous
peace construction which the
great workers State is develop
ing throughout all its length and
breadth. I h c creative | a Dor
which has led to the economic
uplift of the land OF workers and
peasants is carrying on from
victory to victory over crisis-suf-
fering, disintegrating, rotting
capitalism. 1t is that, conse-
quentIy, which enables the So
Wet government insistently and
boldly to defend the cause of
peace"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
BRO Bidjan's Autonomy

IN SATURDAY, June 2, New York
Oworkers will gather in Madison Square
Garden to celebrate the historic decree
which recently transformed the area of
Biro-Bidjan, in the Far Eastern territory
of the U.S.S,R., into an autonomous Jew
ish region
This will be an occasion for celebra-
ton not only on the part of members of Icor, the
Friends of the Soviet Union and other organiza-
tions and groups specifically interested in Soviet
advance All anti-fascists who look with hatred
upon the Nazi persecution of the Jews should join
in this event. And all those who here in America
fight for Negro rights and liberation, for the free
dom of all the oppressed national minorties in the
United States should gather at the Garden in mass
to demonstrate to the world their own determine
ton to achieve in this country what has been won
in the Soviet Union.
Now particularly when the bosses try to separate
Negro and white workers in the great tidal wave
of strikes throughout the land when despite this
the black and white workers ARE uniting in strug-
gle is it necessary to prove that we realize the
Notwithstanding significance of the status of
Bro Bidjan
All out to Madison Square Garden on Saturday!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31
Soviet Peace PIanSHu Boss War MOUes

armament proposals were rejected,
and in their place huge war-con-
struction programs we're adopted.
In his speech at the conclusion of
his disarmament proposal speech in
1882 Litvinoff forecast this devel-
opment, saying;
Before the session began I ex-
pressed the conviction that it would
not make single step forward, I
was a little mistaken, the result was
otherwise despite even my septic
ism, the session has taken quite
number of steps-but Backward"
Fascism and War
Still more. With the rise of fas-
cism in Germany, and the sggres-
sively intensified war moves of
Japan against the Soviet Union
and China, the danger of an armed
conflict is a matter of the planned,
conscious, immediate objective of
these capitalist powers. 1t is this
danger that the Soviet Union. by its
peace policy, seeks to hamper and
to thwart.
Among the practical measures
proposed by Litvinoff for peace,
very much to the chagrin of the i'm
perialistS who writhe to see their
war program so clearly and openly
exposed to the masses, we're the fol-
lowing: Transforming the disarma-
ment conference into a permanent
body to provide security for states
in the defense of the general peace
BY security" Litvinoff points out,
he means something quite different
than what the imperialists regard
as security" Just as the Soviet
Union has in mind an entirely diff
ferent idea of disarmament from
that of the capitalist powers. He
propose practical military
measures for the defense of peace
in the present admitted critical war
situation.
Il propose to convert the con-
ference declared Litvinoff, into
permanent, periodically convened
peace conference for averting the
danger of war and its heavy con-
sequences"
This the imperialist powers do not
want, as they do not wish to be
hampered by an open conference
which would daily give the posi-
bility of exposing their war manue-
vers.
Lastly, Litvinoff showed that be-
hind the peace proposals of the
Soviet Union was the growing
might of the dictatorship Of the
proletariat, backed by rapidly adj
vancing socialist construction.
THE Soviet Union" he concluded,
brings with it the enormous moral
force of the ever-mightily growing
10000, 000-strong state, which has
definitely turned itself away from
the fact of military annexation, and
which during the course of the six
teen years of its existence has given
proof of its sincere love for peace
No wonder the leading imperialist
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thought out new forms of pacts and
declarations, which I hope will be
widely accepted in the future-pacts
and declarations of powerful states
guaranteeing the independence of
weaker states situated between or
near them.
ut is not always that the Soviet
government has succeeded in its en-
terprises, not always has it found an
echo in those states it addressed it
self to, but even in such cases, the
Soviet proposal served the cause of
peace as they aided to distinguish
those regions where violation of
peace could be expected.
"The Soviet Government is ready
to offer its might into larger meas
ures for the defense of general
peace. And its cooperation, this or
other international enterprise, in
this or other international organiza-
ton, and brings with it the enor-
nous moral force of the ever might
lily growing, one hundred and sew
enty million strong state which has
definitely torn itself away from the
fact of military annexation, and
which during the course of the six
teen years Of its existence, has given
ample proofs of its sincere love of
peace
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-31

organ affording the maximum de-
Tense of security of all states in the
defense of general peace.
Il propose to convert the confer
ence, in other words, into a perma-
nent, periodically convened peace
conference, for averting the danger
Of war and its heavy consequences.
ut must elaborate and extend the
perfection of its methods for the
consolidation of security and give
timely signal for the further danger
of war and answer all calls for aid
to threaten its states, and render
the latter timely and adequate as
sistance with moral, economic, fl
nancial or otherwise"
A Separate Body
Litvinoff further dwelt upon the
fact that it could be said that the
League of Nations was obliged to
serve this capacity. The League of
Nations has too many tasks. 1t is
too much bound up by its status to
approach it and arrive at a decision.
Too much reglemented, while the
tribune of the conference could be
made to be more accessible, more
free, more attentive to the needs Of
the moment.
Let the conference continue to