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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-23
by RODNEY BUTCHER

NEA Service stan Correspondent
WASHINGTON. - Ferdinand Pc.
w cora, the swarthy, bulldog.
aced Senate investigator OF Wall
Street. is the innocent investiga.
.or's friend in need.
AS often as the money
changers" advance on the capital,
Pecora is found manning the
breach, hurting back new ammu-
aition which no one knew he had.
It may be that Congress and
The administration need constant
reminders of what the financial
racketeers did to the country and
he investors while they had the
chance.
r Asst summer the Securities Act
II came under heavy attack.
Wall Street insisted it had ruined
The capital investment market and
that its teeth must be removed.
Pecora came to bat with the
Morgan disclosures and the rev.
slations of the amazing stock
manipulations of Ex-Chairman
Wiggin of the Chase National
Bank. That did a lot toward
keeping the securities law intact.
Recently the Fletcher-Rayburn
stock market regulation bill,
framed by Pecora, was intro
duced. Wall Street howled again
and advanced to the attack.
Everyone predicted notifications.
.
SUDDENLY the Pecora hearings
~ came to life again. Calling
Wall Street operators and ex-
change officials, Pecora turned the
famous alcohol stock pool scandal
inside out, proving that brokers
ard hig GENERATORS were as adept
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uganda if you will? Feeding tn

uganda if you will? Feeding the
people from day to day, month
to month, year to year, decade to
decade, speed, speed, speed! The
same statistics that tell of the
drunken driver tell us of the
speed accidents. Mechanical de-
fects cause but few accidents.
But carelessness; gross negllg-
ence, disregard of the rights OF
others, not on the part of drunk
ards, but on the part of the gen.
eral run of men. business men,
farmers, professional men, preach
ers, lawyers, everybody!
We are paying about six or
more hundred million dollars a
year, and until recently were
paying close to a billion year,
to the soldiers and their depend
ents of the World war. We in
debted ourselves to about 20 bill
lion on which we are paying in
terest in addition to the above in
order to win the war. We are
adding 10 billion more to our
debt, and no one knows how
much more We will have to add
yet, as a means of correcting the
evils arising out of the war. In
that war we lost $4,000 people.
| believe about $4,000 in actual
battle The war lasted about Is
months. We killed $4,000 peo-
pie in automobile accidents in
1882, and with about three
fourths of the vehicles on the
road in 1888 as there were in
1882 we killed 10000 people in
automobile accidents. We have
and are manning hundreds of
thousands a year. We are killing
people and manning them togeth-
er faster than we did in the
World war with all the pouring
out Of treasure, patriotism, religi-
Gus fervor, hatreds,. and all the
attendant knitting of socks, pray
er circles, invocations for vic
tory for one, and the annihila-
ton of the other, the enemy, and
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-23
A NITROUS UNDERTAKING

The fact that three army pilots lost their
lives in crashes while flying to alrmall
fields, preparatory to taking up their ne"
duties as mail pilots, is a bad omen, even
though they had not yet begun to fly the
regular mail routes; and every day since
the army flyers began carrying the mails
additional accidents have resulted. Death
flys with the army planes as they trans
port the mails. -....
1t does not mean, of course, that the
army flyers are less capable of carry
ing the mail than the regular civilian pilots
have beeIk
But it does serve as reminder that fly
ing the mail is a specialized and difficult
Job, requiring the utmost skill and the
most elaborate and accurate preparation
The civilian pilots have made truly re-
markable record on this job in the last half
dozen years No one doubts that the army
flyers are as brave, capable, and we'll
trained as any airnien in the country; but
in taking over the mail routes they are
stepping into a strange new field, filled
With dangers.
The whole country will wish them the
best of luck in their new venture.
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REACTIONS OF GOVERNMENT IN INDUSTRY

The cotton situation illustrates the fact that
when government begins the regulation of indus
try, the limits to which it may have to go In order
to accomplish any desired result may prove to be
Unexpectedly extensive. The government began by
paying the farmers to pillow up percentage OF
their cotton acreage with the aim of reducing the
crop so as to raise the price. ... .. ..
The cotton was plowed up; but the farmer then
had more time to give to his remaining crop, and
so a larger yield per acre would be raised, even If
he had net put in more Fertilizer etc. per acre OF
the reduced area 49, o.
Now it appears that the possibility of defeating
of the reduction of the crop by means of cutting
the acreage has grown almost into a certainty
Therefore unless the government imposes pro-
hbitve tax, or something of the sort, on the gin
ming of more than certain number of bales by
each farmer, the crop this year will be SO much
larger per than previously that the reduction
of acreage will fail of its purpose
We are not quarreling with this socialistic regT-
lation of industry-at least not just now. We
freely admit that the whole socialistic machinery
that the American people have so suddenly adopt
ed is repelant to our ideas. We much prefer the
freedom in which our forefathers have lived. But
Just now we are merely calling attention to the
fact that the road along which governmental con-
troll of industry moves is that can easily lead
whittier the American people at first would not
have wished to go.-Newberry Is, c. Observer.
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all the deeds and lasting hatreds
engendered, attending the one,
and the passing casual concern
of the body polite with respect
to the other! Indeed, the mills
of the gods grind out curious
things! | have read of the sacrl.
fices to Moloch, to Buddha; OF
the sacrifices to the gods OF the
Peruvians, the Aztecs; of the
wells for the babies of China, OF
the appalling sacrifices in human
lives to the gods and superstl-
tions of men. l can make eX-
cuses for most of these through
the ignorance of men and the
times. But the sacrifices we Of
fer today to our own Moloch, our
god of speed-and-don't -give-a-
damn are to me the greatest chal-
lenge to our social order. 1t
would seem in our times we near
ly approach the superstition of
the times surrounding the Bloody
Goddess of Kali.
While the press is vehemently
calling attention to the leak in
the slaves, we have left the bung
hole open, and no one has stop
per. If Christianity is not able
to Undue us with a spirit of re-
volt against this new made God
our ours, this false God. let us
offer a prayer that light may
be sent into this darkness, and
that by it we may be led out of
this stygian cave, where mems
souls have shrivelled and thy light
has ceased to shine.
JOHN EWBANK.
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BEHIND THE SCENES IN
WMSELNGIQl

at making a sucker or HE.,
as in the boom days.
A FTER these many norh
"A MIRA, the staff Of the Nsis
Labor Board decided i ~
have an exact definition d n
lective bargaining" So nery
went to the Oxford ditiar (
collective" was easy. Then I
found the other word meant y
Cling"
WALTER ". WATERS, hEil
w 10000 followers when he &
manded the Bonus Eypeditia.|
Force here in 1892, has been "
a good job in one Of the new !
eral agency Offices in Virginia
isn't in the Civilian COnssTTlsi
Corps, where many former 70
bers and some leaders Of The vi
army have Joined up
DELIEF Administrators III,
IL Hopkins was having 4 ~
conference and he was asked y
thing about a plan to retlIn =
tain lands to distressed lndiS
"Well," he replied, allf y
thought, 1--WE might give Maail'
back to them
THE Republican .., Sa'ios' ~ !. !
l. mittee still is waiting "
nations reaction to is @I y,
pamphleted blast at C"A =. }.
cited scandals and demanas =. !.
donment. Apparently 'has ;. !.
any such reaction. The losI !.
ton is that the commute, r.., !
merely being dumb since nee a .sEs
already had exposed anu ~ I.
admitted the graft and ES Ss'
has promised to terminate y s.., ~: !.
Downright. 1884. NEA 'e''"
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CUTTING OFF WoRE,,,

BREVARD. Feb. %. lS,.a
Work of cutting 90 worE ..r'i !
the CWA and other feds,. !,
in Pennsylvania county rs,
gun Wednesday Afternoon ],
local administration folLr,.
visit by Miss Pearl We,re
trict supervisor here WEI
The roll will be cut 70 "
cording to instruction, ~
by w. A. Wilson, admir-.
for this county.
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THIS ACTUALLY M,

Ann.
a case was being ' triai
of the lawyers was s,,n .rIed:
argument by reading f Erotu9
volume a supreme cop n,Tn a
As the trial judge listcn'.Sq ec
of incredulity spread .J''F a., a
face. '"u ova J
LET me see that doci.;
said, and he held ont IST i.
the book from which u" H. nag:
was reading. The lawyer ers i, n
ly closed the book and a. b.h 's
to the judge with: "'nfs|
&c. mHere it is, your boro,,
There was no such '0t :,
court decision in that boo l'f /
lawyer had been fak $roh \
word he had been rc a,js 2
was a Leading member Of 4. 4
the father of an acousir i, a
mine. N"'''aAsl
The legal profession !, i
peculiar profession that - ~ "a
lawyer is very careful, Ill., ias|
of ethics and equity bs ~
distorted and twisted ~
only idea of justice is 70 y" :,
case, right or wrong, " nv. ~ /
of methods. Actually ', =
should practice law until !, 4
developed and fixed IN H. !
strong inflexible charactc,' !
tegrity.
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SOUGHT LICENSE REFUND

WENATCHEE, Wash. (UP)-
County Auditor E. M. Gillette re-
ceived a letter from a woman
wanting to know if she could get
her money back from a marriage
license purchased but never used.
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned COM
nunications are published by
The Times-News. All letters
must be signed with the real
name of the author. No COM
munications signed with a tic-
titious name will be published.
EDITOR.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-23

The size of your gift depends on the spirit that
prompts it. and on the amount you have left.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-23

Eddie Cantor's crude, rlsque
Jokes about his wife and matrl-
monial relations offend some men
who respect and love their wives
and who honor matrimony. Some
of Eddie's remarks about other
mems wives actually merit a SOCK
on the jaw.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-23

If a fish were asked to- give MS
conception of heaven and he had
sense enough to do it, ne PROB
ablv would picture a place with
plenty of water for him TO SWIM
in, with plenty of minnows FOL
him to eat; and with all fisher;
men and other enemies banlsheo
to the hot place.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-23

Hush, little High Chair, don't you cry; you'll b.
an antique by and by.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-23

Al CapoHe 10
writing his auto
biography with a
federal pen in a
federal pen.
1t doesn't take
so long to obey
the law and wait
for the lights to
change and the
traffic to stop
before crossing
the street as to
get patched up
in q hospital.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-23

The honeymoon is over When she serves hi
hot tongue and cold shoulder.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-23

What will be our hope in the great ana terrl'ie
dav of the Lord? ("that event toward Wnicn all
creation moves.'O
Sin brings down the judgment of God, de cam
not mass over it lightly there must be Satis1actior'
II has been made by Jesus Christ on the Cross. he
is our only hope of escape.
"Wbo.oesyvsr shall call upor the name of the Lord
shall be saved" (Rona. 1919, re- ..sr...-
y Rev. R. F. Campbell, D. D.
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Women live longer than ihen-they're bound to
have the last word
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T. is cheaper and better'to keep
we'll than to get well. ,

reader AYERS: at is said that
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-23

Recent floods have wiped out
food supplies in British Guiana
And the Chinese as usual are
starving. There is something
wrong with the way we human
beings are managing this world
when one nation plows under and
cuts down farm products in order
to prevent an. over-supply, while
at the same time other nations
and races are perishing for want
of those same things.
If you would like to know where
the tune of that new song hit,
"Good Night, Little Girl of My
Dreams" came from, you are re-
farrod Tn an old ballad called: GA
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USE THE WANT ADS
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A STRING OF CHINKApINS
By WICKES ,WAMBOLDT
Spanish Cavalier &"

DPaIIIoII NdVdIler." \
1t is interesting the IT,.
are are borrowed without so way \
"by your leave" ~ 20 mo
maryland, Ny Man,, me q
taken IA, bodily from an o yI,ln !,
Christmas carol, wbiI G'a Gss
know, america" is Sr. a
tune of God Save the be'S e. n
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!, great and very terrible; and who can abide II!
joel Oil.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21

The whole world today is an
armed camp, into which the
dropping of the slightest spark
is apt to mark another Sarajevo
the immediate excuse for the
outbreak OF the Second World
War. Every nation of the world
Is armed to the teeth, and as
rapidly as possible is increasing
its ornaments for the purpose of
extending or maintaining its i'm
perialistic sway in foreign mar
kets.
Almost twce as much is now
being spent on ornaments as
was spent in the years leading
up to the First World War; and
almost l million more men are
under arms than in 1918. The
danger spots of the world are
three: The orient, the Saar basin
and the Balkan peninsula.
In the orient the ruthless arm
of Japanese Imperialism, increas-
ing in geometric proportion to
the rapid impoverishment of the
Japanese workers, is daily becom-
ing more of a threat to the
peaceful development of the So
Wet Union. With their eyes on
the increasing material achieve
ments of Soviet Russia and So
Wet China, with their starving
farmers and city workers at their
backs-becoming desperate, the
Japanese war lords are frantically
considering plunging into war as
a way QUITO preserve profits.
Nazis Threaten Saar
The Saar basin, rich in miner
ais, is considered by Hitler as
the one thing that could con-
tinue the expansion of German
industry and preserve his regime
from a -proletarian revolution.
The question of whether it will
be returned to Germany, to
! France, or kept under the control
of the League of Nations, will be
decided in January. With the
great increase of Nazi propagan-
da, intimidation, and destruction
of human life that have accom-
panied the Nails mad bid for
votes, outbreak of war has
threatened between France and
Germany. Last week, as a pledge
of peace, France agreed to let
Germany take the lead If she paid
for it. This left the courageous
anti-Nazi fighters of the Saar
in the lurch, throwing the door
open to increased Nazi terror,
The League of Nations has sent
an international armed force to
preserve peace until the vote
has been decided. So the danger
of war has been lessened for the
/ moment. But the NaZi terror may
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
A Rank and File VS..
A Bureaucratic Union

In certain AFL local near here the bust
ness agent gets $40 a week, fights against a
raise. In another the secretary gets $50 week
and has on the payroll two assistants at 50 day.
In one every expenditure, every bill, is read
to the local and voted on by the men, In the
other, hundreds disappear. There has been no
accounting for years. A member asked at a re-
cent meeting what had become of several hum
dred dollars borrowed by the local from the ma
tional treasury The secretary rushed from the
platform shouting Take off your glasses you
The men of one fought valantly through
recent great strike struggle, came out with
flying colors with definite gains. The members
of the other were victims of lockout, during
which they were hamstrung by the locals lead
ership, by international officers, and went back
with serious defeats.
One local is controlled by the rank and file
the other by bureaucratic machine.
What sort is yours?
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
No Other Paper Will
Print Workers News

Scene: committee of Roslyn miners De-
PENDANTS, soon up for trial on faxed riot"
charges.
Puzzle: Publicity on the case.
Suggestion: Articles in the Voice of Action
special bundle, sell them all around the mine
region.
Objection: The Voice of Action made a
mistake in an article about the situation up
here. To hell with the Voice of Action.
Suggestion: The Seattle Times? Ridiculous
The P-I? They'll never print our side of it. The
Star? A joke.
The Washington State Labor News? We've
tried them before. The local paper Ellens-
burg? Owned by the coal operators.
Solution: The Voice of Action may not be
perfect but it's workers paper. The only
working class paper in the Northwest 1t
alone win print the truth of our case.
Wen write special articles, order a special
bundle to sell in this county. The labor press
is our most powerful defense weapon
And thousand copies of this very paper
are being sold to miners, to farmers to busin-
ess men in the Roslyn-Cle Elum mine fields, on
the eve of the trials.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
Smash Dickst.e.in's
Anti>Red Law

The latest bit of Legislation proposed for
passage at the next session of Congress Is the
Dickstein anti-Communist bill This vicious
measure, which is an open Reputation Of consti-
tutiOnal rights OF free speech and free press,
makes it crime for anyone to belong to the
Communist Party.
The u. S. Chamber Of Commerce, an or
ganixed body of labor hating big business men,
and the reactionary officialdom of veteran.
groups, pushing this bill vigorously.
Why do these millionaire bankers and in
dustrialists, and their lackeys in Congress- con
centrate their fire on the Communist Party?
They know that if they can root out the
Communist Party, the fight for higher relief
and unemployment Insurance. both of which
would take huge sums out of their unwieldy
money pouches, can be easily defeated.
They know that with the Communist Party
out OF the way they can carry on their program
of wage-cuts and speed-up without serious op-
position
They also know that their war plans will 60
along more smoothly with the Communist Par
ty off the scene.
The bosses try to screen these real reasons
for making the Communist Party illegal by
hypocritical babble about preserving the con-
stitution" and Safeguarding American insti-
buttons" but no intelligent worker will fail to
see through this flimsy explanation.
All workers must be quick to realize that
the Dickstein nti-Communist law is directed
at the whole working class not just the Com
munist Party. This attack on militant workers,
if successful, will be followed by general drive
on the living standards of all American workers,
and an attempt to smash every labor organ
ization.
Here, as in Germany, fascism rises under the
slogan, Drive out the Redsl" The first and
fiercest attacks are always against the Com
munists But let every trade unionist remember
Hitler Germany, where the suppression of the
Communist Party was followed in few weeks
by the destruction of all trade unions
- ,Workersl Act quickly, individually and
through your organizations. Squash this anti
working class law now
Send resolutions to your senators and con-
gressmen, demanding not only that they vote
against the Dickstein bill, but that they fight
1t on the floors of Congress.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
world in.O minutes

SPAIN-A recent cable to the
Daily Worker discloses that the
neutrality-suspicious. trade unions
containing over one million work
ers, have Joined the united front
of the Socialists and Communists.
1t was this groups delayed ac-
tions, probably more than any
thing else, that prevented the
recent Spanish revolution from
achieving success.
FRANCE Red mayors have
been elected In 165 towns of
France; in 156 of these places, 100
per cent of the councillors are
also Communists.
MExICO-In this classic land
of labor takers, where every polit-
ical party has the word "revolu-
tionary" in its title in order to
catch the votes of the masses,
peasants till the land from sun
till sun for daily wage of some
eight cents plus liquor to drink.
Sleeping quarters are on cold,
bare floors. The death rate Of
children caused by undernour-
ishment is extremely heavy. This
explains partly why a group Of
starving Mexican workers in Tex
as recently sent 81 in pennies to
aid in the Daily Worker drive.
They know what it's all about.
AUSTRIA - Vice Chancellor
Starhemberg admitted in an in
terview last week that all at
tempts at winning over the work.
ers was useless. He declared: "All
attempts at persuading the Marx
list workers are useless, for the
workers do not believe us, but
despise us. maintain that we can
never win the Marxist workers,
politically, for u.s."
JAMAICA Negro road con-
struction workers on this Carib-
bean island recently went on
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
Workers Cores.

I
Editor, Voice of Action:
1 wish to give your readers the
correct information regarding the
Fiery Cross placed in front of a
widow woman's dooryard the
night of July % during the alb
sence of her family at 1902 So.
Gold St., Centralia. 1 will ex-
plain why it was a fire hazard
and why it was not a fire haz-
ard.
The cross, a crude semblance
of a crucefix, with six or seven
condensed milk cans stuffed with
kerosene soaked burlap, was
driven into the ground near the
house, garden, high tension wire
pole, and near a patch of dry
grass. With flames rising a foot
high from each can and burning
all night, was it hazard?
The fact being definitely
known and established in the
minds OF the citizens of Lewis
County that law enforcement Of
ficers placed this cross in the
widow woman's d0oryard and the
other two crosses in front of the
homes of union men belonging
to the same union as the woman's
son, and that these same officers
patrolled this cross to see that
the City Fire Department stand
ing by did not need to be called,
therefore the crosses did not
constitute a fire hazard. These
same cross bearers had a hand
in the arrest of the four defend
ants at Chehalis on a trumped
up charge Of riot.
1t lie time law enforcement
officers refrained from placing
fire hazards and the Khan allowed
the courts to draw their own
complaints and not place their
menaces above law
and order.
An Ardent Reader.
Dear Editor:
1 am particularly pleased with
the plan Of your Olympia cores
pondent concerning the intro
duction of Lyceum course.
In addition I would suggest
that speakers be contaced who
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
Where UCL Meets

Here's where Seattle Unem-
ployed Citizens League locals
inject:
Interplay, 18th and Wheeler,
Monday.
Fairview, Cascade school, Tues
day.
Downtown, Wash. and Occi-
dental, Thursday.
Auditorium, Warren Avenue
school, Monday.
Capitol Hill, PIT. Minor school
Monday.
Crown Hill, 102nd and Green
[ wood, Monday.
'Renton, Renton Labor Tenn
pie, Saturday.
Ballard, 5203 Ballard Avenue,
Wednesday.
Hillman, 1922 Rainier Avenue,
Tuesday.
Georgetown, Portable school,
Monday.
South Park, 701 Cloverdale.
Green Lake, Green Lake Meth
odist Church, Friday.
21st Ave. 10 plus 8 Club, 206
2lst Ave-, Friday.