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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-06-25

Promptness: The habit of get
fling there on time, so you can
waste an hour waiting for the
others.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-06-25

The records show that rural
SECTIONS have more crazy people
than cities, but maybe they are
inst easier to pick out.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-06-25
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
RESULTS
PIEDMONT LEAGUE

Asheville 81, Portsmouth 7
Wilmington 6, Richmond a
Norfolk Charlotte, rain.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-06-25
RESULTS SATURDAY
SCHEDULE FOR SATURDAY
June 29)

Saluda at Valley Hill.
Mills River at East Flat Rock.
1.-TWO games). ~
Gresp Eayer Mt ,Ralfour. -. =.
Fletcher at Fruitland,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-06-25

Don't let ridicule annoy you.
Smart people laughed at Noah,
Columbus, Fulton, and the Wright
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-06-25

I'M MOd Ian don't know bs' -:
thrill thrill between 'S Sunday "s had b
looge meeting and choir ~. EXCEPT
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-06-25

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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-06-25

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Evening star., 1935-03-31

Is q form of indulgence which we call
worship and Its field Of occupation
is largely restricted to the area of
the church itself. "You cannot mix
business with religion" Is an express
sion with which we are made familiar.
The implication Of this Is that our
profession of loyalty to Christ and
His teachings does not and cannot
affect our habits and practice In our
daily contacts with our fellows. It
Is this superficial and wholly mac
curate view that has brought our
religious profession into disrepute and
has made 1t unappealing 20 great
numbers Of people, especially the
youth. The severest condemnation
that Christ ever administered to the
people Of His day was because Of
this superficial or artificial expression
of religious belief. It was q form
of PhariSeeism, of an external display
Of righteousness that had nothing Of
worth or value. against which He
inveighed and that called forth His
oft-repeated condemnation. To make
clean the outside was q sham and
q deceit when within was all manner
of uncleanness.
The test of the value Of our re-
ligious profession both to ourselves
and the world about us Is determined
by the effect 1t has upon our daily
habits and practices. Well does
Emerson say: What you are speaks
so loud cannot hear what you say"
The whole, indeed the sole purpose, of
worship is not only to pay tribute to
Him whom we profess to serve, but to
gain strength the better to At us for
the practice Of His precepts in our
domestic, social and occupational life.
In fine, there are no areas Of life in
which our religious beliefs do not
find their proper field of occupation.
A profession of faith that does not
demonstrate its value in home, shop
and office, becomes the "opiate of the
people," and it is this superficial ex-
preston Of religious conviction that
our modern world sternly criticizes
and roundly condemns. Jesus con-
tends that the superstructure of char
acter is stabilized and secured by the
kind Of foundation on which it rests.
If that foundation Is His life and
teachings, then the inevitable evi-
dence must be disclosed in o stable,
Christian character that Is governed
in all its action by loyal adherance
to Him whom it purposes to serve
and obediently follow.
Why call We me. Lord, Lord, and
do not the things which I say?"
Evening star., 1935-03-31

to view the cherry blossoms the city
itself offers q rare treat. At present
it is somewhat in disarray, owing to
the unfinished state Of the great prof.
ect of public building construction.
But withal 1t is unique in its glory,
and even though the cherry trees were
not In bloom 1t would be, as always,
worth visiting.
Washington welcomes these visitors
and wishes them a happy day and
hopes that they will have so agreeable
an impression Of the Capital that
they will wish to return, perhaps next
year when the trees will be even finer
than they are today, and when Wash
ington will be more fully advanced
toward the ideal of the Capital
makers.
Evening star., 1935-03-31
Green Cirdles for American Cities
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

course, be purchased BY the public.
much, doubtless, being condemned by
right Of eminent domain. But there
Is an additional plan for bearing the
expense Of acquiring and improving
the green belt. 1t is calculated that
the property owners on the outer edge
Of the belt would have the value of
their holdings advanced by from Il
to 16 years. AS city grows outward,
1t takes time to remove and improve
and raise to higher value each block
Of the progress. Here, In one prof.
ect, the advance of the width of the
belt would be accomplished in a stride.
Therefore, IN the light of the sud
denly increased values, the assess
ments on the outer edge property
could be raised or a special improve
ment tax levied on the property
owners. This would raise huge sum
in short order, the taxpayers imme-
diately receiving return not only
by finding themselves in a better
neighborhood but by finding their
property greatly enhanced in worth.
There Is scarcely city which
would not find that large sections Of
its green girdle were already pro-
vided by existing park systems. The
task would be greatly simplified by
merely connecting the sections in
order to create one continuous girdle.
Where streams flow through cities
they can often be included in the
| green belt plan. The same Is true
in measure of cemeteries.
Progress i'm National Capital.
For many years the National Capt.
tai has been working on such a plan.
With the cooperation, especially Of
Maryland, the suburbs of Washing
ton have undergone steady improve
ment. The task is far from finished,
but long strides have been made.
Congress created the National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commission
and the State of Maryland created
the Maryland-National Capital Park
and Planning Commission. This is
an especially interesting example of
cooperation Of more than one po-
litical division in carrying out the
green belt idea. Not many cities
would encounter the task Of bridging
jurisdictions. What is called the
Suburban Sanitary District was Gre
ated by Maryland. 1t is a broad belt
abutting on parts of three sides Of
the District of Columbia. The re-
mainder of the District border Is con-
stluted by the Potomac River, itself
providing an open space, with Vir-
ginia on the other shore.
This entire suburban belt Is not
parked. There are suburban resi-
Dental districts occupying much of
the territory, but it is all zoned and
a surprising area Of it actually is
parked, the Federal, District and
Maryland. as well as the Maryland
counties within the belt. contributing
to the cost. The Federal Government
Is carrying on, in cooperation with
the District government, an extern
sive scheme of slum and alley clear
ance within the National Capital
itself. The combination of these i'm
provements is steadily advancing not
only the civic beauty, but the health
standards Of the community.
AS part of such public works i'm
provements, everything must be done,
where there are rivers, to overcome
stream pollution from factory waste
and sewage, because polluted streams
would do much to Offset the advan-
tageS OF the municipal green girdle.
Evening star., 1935-03-31
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

Whether it be true or not. as has
been published" says The Star of
March %. 1885, that the President
and his private secretary recently
prL,:. n., found their desire
1uul4C UluuHus to take a Sunday
and Barriers stroll through the
public ground d S
south of the Executive incloSure
seriously interfered with and finally
thwarted entirely by encountering
locked gates on every hand, it is to
be hoped the powers that now be
will give orders for the immediate
removal of these unsightly and un-
necessary obstacles. They not only
serve no good purpose, either to the
eye or in fact, but they exist with
out lawful right Especially is this
true of the White Lot gates on
The original ofhcial plan of the city
calls for an open thoroughfare be-
tween those two streets south Of the
White House and formerly it was a
much Travelled roadway between the
eastern and western parts of the city.
A desire to extend the private grounds
Of the Executive Mansion led, how
ever, to changing its course from
nearly straight to a deeply curved
line. This action, followed by ma
terial distractions to travel on that
route, caused by the storage there of
building material for the new Treas
ury and State Departments, eventu-
ally led to its practical abandonment
as a thoroughfare. The result has
been serious depreciation in prop
erty values on both sides Of the
reservation. slow and triff1ing i'm
provements in the neighborhood and
the congregation of an undesirable
population in a once favorite locality.
1t does not appear that any formal
protests were made against this in
vasion of popular rights. or, II made,
that they were needed. Those in
charge for the time being. therefore
felt encouraged to 60 step farther
and set up the massive and costly
barricades now existing at the several
points, so that the public might at
will be excluded from the grounds
altogether.
Whether this was the purpose in
view, or whether the real object was
merely to provide temporary work and
afterward permanent places, as watch
men, etc, for an army of subordinateS
is not clear; but it is certain that the
money thus spent was wasted and,
as is believed. without warrant of
law. But whether the gates in Ques-
ton exist by proper authority or not,
they are not needed. That much is
self-evident. There is nothing in the
space thus incloSed to be stolen or
carried away by visitors, and further
more, there is no disposition to re-
move or destroy public property, as is
abundantly demonstrated by the daily
experience of all the small reservations
scattered throughout the city. many
of which have not even the semblance
Of a low fence about them for
protection.
There is no reason to suppose that
the whole stretch of park reaching
from Seventeenth street to the
Capitol grounds would not fare
equally well at the hands Of the
public. The grounds embraced therein
are not a royal or private park, in
any meaning of those terms. They
belong to the people, and the people
should at all times have free access
to them. Let all the gates accordingly
be kept open or. still better, let them
be removed altogether"
Evening star., 1935-03-31
RELIEF AND CONDUCT
BY THE RIGHT REV JAMES E. FREEMAN D. D. LIZ d, D. C. l.,
Bishop Of Washington.

why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and
do not the things which I say?" This
was the searching question that Jesus
asked Of His disciples after setting
before them certain principles that
should govern them in their habit
and practice. He had laid before
them certain definite rules that were
indispensable to right conduct, among
them: "As We would that men should
do to you, do ye also to them likewise, "
Judge not, and we shall not be
judged" "Give and it shall be given
unto you; for with the same
measure that ye mete withal it shall
be measured to you again." He also
reminded them that "A good tree
bringeth not forth corrupt fruit;
neither doth a corrupt tree bring
forth good fruit. For every tree is
known by his own fruit" These
fundamental rules Of conduct for the
Christian disciple, along with many
others, He urged, bringing His weighty
admonitions to close with the words /:
why call we me, Lord, Lord, and
do not the things which I say?" He
follows this by saying to His disciples:
''Whosoever cometh to me and heareth
my sayings and doeth them, I will
shew you to whom he Is like: He Is
like man which built an house, and
digged deep. and laid the foundation
on a rock, and when the flood arose,
the stream beat vehemently upon that
house, and could not shake it, for 1t
was founded upon rock. But he that
heareth, and doeth not, Is like man
that without foundation built an
house upon the earth; against which
the stream did beat yehemently, and
Immediately it fell; and the ruin Of
that house was great
Jesus definitely states that the test
Of discipleship Is not in profession but
in practice. He insists that to build
Christian character the regulation Of
life by His standards is indispensable.
To make practice square with profess
sion is not an easy thing; it Is hard
and costly, but the Master demands
nothing less. On another occasion
He said: IF any man will come after
Me, let him deny himself and take
up his cross daily and follow Me-"
Much, too much, of our religious
habit is profession, the acknowledge
ment in some form of words, creed,
expressive of our allegiance to the
person and teachings of Christ. Fre-
quently we are admonished that re-
ligion Is a thing apart from the
practical concerns of life itself; it
Evening star., 1935-03-31
The Lure of the Blossoms.

Today Washington is the scene of a
great gathering of people. They have
come and throughout the day will
continue to come by the thousands,
some from long distances. The oc-
casion for their journey to the Capt.
tai is not official, not ceremonial. The
cherry blossoms in Potomac Park
have brought them.
Annually, for a long period, this
spectacle has drawn large numbers.
And it is worth while coming to view.
Nowhere else in this part of the world,
nowhere else indeed anywhere, Is there
such a scene. In Japan, where these
trees were cultivated and from which
they came. there are many displays
of great beauty, and the people there,
to whom the blossoms have a specific
meaning beyond their loveliness, make
pilgrimages, and in some places en-
gage in festivals and rites. Here the
cherry trees, alien in origin, separated
from their native settings, are simply
objects Of beauty when their buds open
in flower.
The setting Of the trees is unique.
Those that bloom first are planted
around body of water that adds to
their attractiveness by the reflections,
with glimpses Of splendid buildings
to betoken the national character Of
the city. The giant obelisk erected
in memory Of the beloved first Presi-
dent dominates the scene, and through
the trees appears the memorial to
another President for whom the
American people have a deep and
abiding affection.
70 those who come to Warrington
Evening star., 1935-03-31
Four Years After.

Bryan Untiedt on Tuesday last
made a momentary temperance in
the news. The fourth anniversary oi
his debut brought him out again
Reporters, remembering one Of the
best stories of the recent past, had
the genius to look him up at his
fathers farm near Denver. They
found him older, almost a man; and
they made photographs of him in his
working clothes-a tall, gangline
youth, plainly commonplace and un-
assuming.
But no change accomplished by
time or circumstance ever will alter
boy of Bryan's type. He may ma
ture, his mind may expand with in
creasing experience. his soul may
grow under the influence of toll, sue
cess or failure. Yet there can be no
fundamental metamorphosis in his
character or temperament. 1t hap
pens that he has what simple folk
wise in their own peculiar fashion,
call the right stuff" in him.
Only recognition Of that fact car
explain the celebrity he attained ir
1881 when he saved the lives of q
group of school children trapped in q
blizzard and, by way of reward, was
invited to the Nations Capital as the
guest of President Hoover. The thins
he did was an expression of the person
he was and is-it was elemental, nat.
ural, instructive. and for those reason.
genuine and sincere. because Bryan
innately possesses those qualities.
1t follows that the occasional pessi.
mist might discover a medicine fol
doubts and skepticisms in recalling his
case. He symbolizes the human values
upon which America was built. Fate
may assign him to oblivion; he may
go through the remainder Of his life
unnoticed and unacclaimed. But ths
mysterious spiritual power which made
him hero, yet left him unspoiled, will
remain personal asset as 1t is a ma.
tional force-an endowment of un.
| selfish love which proyidentiallv HI
shares with millions Of his country.
men, old and young, humble and great
Evening star., 1935-03-31

Hundreds Of millions Of dollars have
been poured out through the Federal
Public Works Administration and by
the States and are yet to be poured
out in the creation of lasting i'm
provements as a part of the compre-
hensive national program to create
employment and restore national
prosperity. The fact that the source
Of so much Of the money is Federal
makes planning on a huge scale more
practicable than in ordinary times
and improves the opportunities to
provide the best direction.
One of the plans which has met
with approval has been that for the
creation Of belts of green open spaces
around the cities Of America. The
| advantages of such q scheme are
many, and 1t Is expected that city
planners, in cooperation with the
Federal planners, will go far toward
beautifying the municipalities Of the
United States and improving them in
other respects.
Foreigners visiting America are
almost invariably impressed by the
squalid approaches to some of the
most famous cities in the land. The
centers may be beautiful once the
visitor fully arrives but, in order to
arrive, SO many dismal and dispirit-
ing suburbs have to be traversed that
the visitor Is under the necessity of
overcoming an adverse first impress
sion. There are many reasons for
the appearance Of so many American
suburbs. Most of the cities have
grown with a rapidity utterly un-
known in older lands. As wealth
has accumulated, the heart of the
city has been cleaned up and beau
titled. This increases values and,
thereby raises rents. There Is always
a centrifugal force throwing poorer
elements outward.
Park Space Ventilates City.
The green girdle Of open parkland
around city has the effect of pro-
ducing q pleasant strip. making a de-
hghtfu approach to the city proper.
But 1t also has the effect of raising
the quality of the nearer suburbs on
the outer side of the belt. Slum clear
ance movements are forward in most
cities and where it has not been prac-
ticable quickly to eradicate slums,
whether urban or suburban, many of
them can be, by zoning ordinances,
confined to specified areas. The re-
suit Is the approach to a city is first
through a pleasing residential section
and thence across a ree-dotteed belt
OF open green space. 1t may be COM
| pared to beautiful entrance to a
house.
But there are other considerations.
| Specialists have reported that the
growth Of automobile traffic has re-
suited in a constant filling of the
atmosphere with the reek Of gaso-
line fumes. Where a belt Of fac
tories, placed hit or miss, surrounds a
| city there is an encompasing nim-
bus Of smoke which imprisons the
automobile fumes and adds to them.
The open green girdle ventilates the
city by admitting fresh currents Of
air. The green belt has the effect of
opening a window in a smoke-filled
room. Merely as a health measure,
the green belt Is recommended by ex-
perts.
The city Of London is working on
such a plan now, the London County
Council, the adjacent county boroughs
and the London Regional Plan
ming Committee cooperating on the
scheme. The property would, Of
Evening star., 1935-03-31

the power Of the Senate to make that
increase and to insist upon Its reten-
ton. That would represent fair deal
to the District. The Senators have
expressed themselves repeatedly in
favor OF fair deal for the District.
Evening star., 1935-03-31
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
War Goddess.

War Goddess.
Bellona, goddess of the spear
That knows no brother
(Nor do your sisters, we must fear.
Know one another).
You are perhaps more bold than wise,
You are no charmer
When, more than silken garb, you prize
Cast iron armor.
Bellona, when your task Is done
OF fear promoting,
Perhaps you'll tolerate q pun
Midst frivolous quoting.
We cherish still romantic dreams
They may prove phony,
When modernized, your title seems
Like plain "Balony."
Philosopher, but No Mathematician.
do you still.respect the maxims of
old Ben franklin"
Not literally" said Senator Sorg-
hum, when he said a penny saved,
is a penny earned he did not figure
accurately on variations that may
arise in basic valuation of currency"
Jud Tunkins says he has gotten
discouraged. It's no use nowadays
to keep on sayin' things unless you
can afford radio time.
Evening star., 1935-03-31
Britain Is Bothered
by Currency Muddle
BY. A. G. GARDINER,

BY. A. u. GARDINER.
LONDON, March 3o.-There Is one
clear lesson to be drawn from the
recent slump in the pound. While
this has now been checked by the
downward movement of the gold-bloc
currencies, the rapid fluctuations and
uncertainty continue in the exchanges
and there can be no real security
until some basis of stability is reached.
In a sense the recent flight from
sterling hit the continent harder than
it hit the English public. And this
for a very obvious reason. This coun-
try Is by far the largest buyer in the
worlds markets and has a dominating
influence in fixing the world price OF
commodities. Commodity prices in
London, therefore, did not reflect the
depreciation of sterling, while on the
continent that depreciation confronted
buyers with a serious defiation In
price levels.
In France, moreover, the fall in
sterling constituted another blow to
commerce and especially to the al
ready seriously impoverished tourist
traffic.
The causes of the flight from stsr-
ling were variously diagnosed. Mainly
1t was due to the hurried withdrawal
on heavy scale of foreign -owned bal
ances. This withdrawal was at
tributed, first, to the disclosure OF
certain financial operations for rais-
ing the prices of commodities like
pepper, peanuts and tin, and, Sec
ondly, to political alarms, foreshadow-
ing an early election and the prob
able return of q Labor government
with highly predatory program.
n y Il
But there was also an internal rea-
son for the decline of sterling. Its
weakness was largely due to the
difficulties which great business con-
Germs engaged in worldwide opera
tions encounter in carrying out their
transactions on a fluctuating ex-
change. To overcome these Difficult
ties, these traders tend to convert
their resources from sterling into gold
as the only means of protecting them
selves against the vagaries of paper
currencies.
There Is an increasing volume OF
criticism Of the government policy OF
maintaining the detachment of sterl-
ing from gold. It is pursued in the
interests of the export trade, but it Is
argued that what is gained on the
swings is lost on the roundabouts. II
we can export more cheaply, we are
compelled to buy more dearly; and
since we are the greatest Of importing
nations It is more than questionable
whether British trade gains on bal
ance, even directly.
X X II
The critics Of the government ask
how long the economic recovery of the
world is to be delayed while the gold
bloc and sterling bloc are maneuver-
ing for positions which land every
body deeper and deeper in the bog,
and while the dollar and the pound
are engaged In q struggle to nail
each other down to a given parity.
The moral they draw from the cur
rency muddle is the urgency Of an
immediate understanding between the
dollar and the pound and the sum-
moning of q world economic confer
ence which will put the exchanges On
an even keel and nberate world COM
merce from the fetters, controls and
restrictions that have reduced 1t by
half its volume and under the con-
tinuance of which every country will
be reduced to bankruptcy.
(Copyrisht. 1889
Evening star., 1935-03-31

been made in Congress to send out
trade delegations to recapture our for
eign markets, and this idea Is meet
ing with growing approval on the
part Of private business. Department
Of Commerce representatives through
out the world have been instructed to
examine anew the possibilities for in
creasing not only our export, but our
import trade.
(oopyright. le3E.y ..
Evening star., 1935-03-31

Names make news" the introduce
ton of new names for old territories
does not prevent some of the war news
from sounding familiar to the point
of monotony.