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The Washington times., 1935-02-22
Greatest Show On Earth
By John Snure, Jr.

chance to draft our own bills?
"And you say he doesn't want
us to get the bill and pass it
this afternoon? How consider
ate he is becoming"
Since it became necessary to
distribute around the Capitol
the ponderouS statues that
once occupied StatuGry Hall,
returning UiSitorS seem to haze
some difficulty in locating old
tGUoriteS.
Recently a woman who ap-
parently had not been in the
Capitol for some months ap-
preached Statuary Hall with a
group of friends. She said:
"NOw we enter the Chamber
of Horrors"
Stepping into the hall from
which most of the statues had
been removed she gasped:
"GOsh, most of them have
walked Off"
A schoolgirl in her teens
paused with companions before
the statue of George Washing
ton.
She sneered:
That's that SO-and-SO that
has been causing me all my
trouble in the quiz cOurSe!"
Strange are the requests from
iob-hunters that flood the offices
of members of Congress and
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~
other public
officials.
Arriving by
mail, by tele-
phone, t Ell e.
graph or oral
ly, they are a
r re aSSort-
ment of ap-
peals.
Representa-
tive Jennings
Ra n d o ! p h,
Democrat. of
w e S t Vir-
ginia, claims
to have re-
c We d the
The Washington times., 1935-02-22

tn gu G h a
W i Id e rness,
facing terrific
hardship and
danger, b a t.
tin g con-
stantly with
t h e heavier
handicap Of
it's own youth
ana ] 3 II y T.
a n ce; y e t
growing hard
and fit on
t h a t Strug.
gle.
And tn e n
another pic
The Washington times., 1935-02-22

Great Father of Your Coun-
try: We need your words; De
feel their force, as if you now
uttered them tUith lips OF flesh
and blood.-Dnniel Webster.
In the calendar of American
patiotiSm Washington's birth
day is a National holiday. It is
The Washington times., 1935-02-22

UdClOn DOaCs
Since h e
Senate voted
to reject the
League Court
protocol in
the face of
A d m iniStra-
ton pleas and
received ma
tion-Wide &C.
Cldl1Il 1Or 1S
action it has
begun to put
up its fists
and fight.
Latest plan
of the PreSi-
dent, to be
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OLD FAVORITES
HAIL Columbia

Hail. Columbia Joseph HOpkinsOn
Hail! Columbia happy land!
Hail! We heroes, heaven-born band,
Who fought and bed in freedoms cause
And when the storm of war was gone,
Enjoyed the peace your valor won; .'.''
Let independence be your boast,
Ever mindful what it cost,
Ever grateful for the prize,
Let its altar reach the skies ''''...
Sound sound the trump of fame!
Let Washingtons great name '''''''
Ring through the world with loud applause!
Let every cline to freedom dear
Listen with joyful ear;
With equal skill, with steady power
He governs in this fearful hour
Of horrid war, guides with ease
The happier time of honest peace
TReaders nvted to send to the editor their ssq-
gestons Of old favortes among the poems for reprntng
IN this spacel
The Washington times., 1935-02-22

a legal holi-
day in every
State in the
Union. 1t is a
legal holiday
in every ter
ritory a n d
possession of
the U n i t e d
States.
There was
a time when
the o b S e "
ance of the
a n n iversary
of the Father
of His Coun-
The Washington times., 1935-02-22

a stonishing
b o d i es, in
trigue t h e
W ri t er i'm
mensely. Over
40 years ago
he built his
first motor
cycle. " B u t
when he views
the 1885 ma
chimes, a n d
h a S it ex-
planned to him
which end is
supposed to
go first, he is
The Washington times., 1935-02-22
Sea Serpent Season
Open Early This Year

It's only February, but the serpent is open.
group of boys shovelng into sewer manhole in
New York spied lassoed and killed alligator which in
some mysterious fashion had North from Florida The
animal was eight feet long and weighed 1875 pounds.
Anybody any whales about?
The Washington times., 1935-02-22
Listen, World
By Elsie Robinson

How Sacred Are the Stars
and Stripes?
Washington's Birthday. I am
writing this beside his tomb.
Pictures come
The picture Of a young
nation slowly breaking its way
The Washington times., 1935-02-22

A constituent wrote:
81 am a steeple-jack and want
you to get me the job of paint
ing all Federal flag poleS!"
Copyright. 1885, The Washington Ttmes)
The Washington times., 1935-02-22

The rising wrath Of Congress
against presidential proposals
bids fair to rock the Admins
The Washington times., 1935-02-22
In the World of Science
In the Horseless Carriage DAYS
By Hiram Percy Maxim

The 1885 automobiles, with
their quiet, vibrationless engines,
their silent gears. and their
The Washington times., 1935-02-22

Articles by Mr.. Maxim appear
each Monday, Wednesday and
Friday. The subject of the next
one will be Dangerous Celestial
Wanderers"
The Washington times., 1935-02-22

Strange are the requests from
iob-hunters that flood the offices
of members of Congress and
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-14

by female radicals of the country; that it
was nurtured and lobbied before Congress
by them; that they bedeviled Congress
about the matter until the amendment was
sent to the State legislatures for action. It
was rejected by SO of the 48 States. 1t
was numbered with the dead cats" of ma
tional legislation, according to public opin-
ion. 1t was a dormant issue for several
years When the country went rabidly
radical two years ago, the sponsors of this
amendment thought they saw an inviting
opportunity to return to their assault on
the American home and the freedom CT
the American people, so they draggeC
forth the dead cat'' and galvanized
into national issue again, with some sue
cess, under the radical pressure of the day
new dealism, alleged reform and social
uplift, appeals to humanitarianism, and
all other artful wiles of the radicals.
The pity of the matter is that in the un-
settlement and upheaval of the times, the
sponsors of this, the most dangerous con-
stitutional amendment ever proposed 10
the American people, have been able to
line up in favor of the proposal many Of
the country's best people. But that is a
matter for future discussion, in which The
will, at least, undertake to
inform the readers of this newspaper OF
the history of this proposal and dissect it
for their information.
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CHILD LABOR LAW

We can not but agree with the Columbia State
in regard to the ratification of the 22nd amend
ment of the constitution, by which labor by all
persons below the age of Is years would be pro-
hblted. 1t further would vest the power and au-
thority for such prohibition or regulation of their
labor in another board in Washington.
The State says:
We are unaterably opposed to the ratification
OF this amendment 1t cannot be sustained in
fair argument We cannot comprehend how any
Southerner could consent to surrender to a board
in Washington the control of children and youth
of the country
This question, put to vote in this state would
not, we believe, be supported by 10 per cent Of
the people
There is not the faintest need for federal law
IN order to prevent improper labor by children in
South Carolina
In years past The State has published dozen
articles opposing this amendment. We do not re-
call serious attempt by South CaroIinian 10
meet the arguments against it.
II board in Washington have control of chill
dren and youths, why should parents or states
have any sayso as to schools or any other kindred
matter?
The last legislature was against this amend
ment, but 1T may be brought up again. It should
be definitely killed and buried-Anderson IS, CO.
Record.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINION
THIRTY HOUR WEEK NOT SOUND

With millions of people out of work and bust
ness conditions generally far from good it does
seem that reformers and dreamers would lay off
on some of their visionary schemes. But if any
thing they seem to be getting instead of
better. One of these schemes-that of thirty
hour week with forty-hour PAYS particularly
unsound. The scale of wages in this country is
based mainly upon the profits that employers
make. Good profits for the owners of business
mean regular jobs and good wages for employees.
A business that is losing money may continue to
pay wages out of its surplus if it has any, but
eventually it must earn some profit or go out of
business.
To say that a person should be paid for forty
hours work when he works only thirty hours is
either nonsense or downright dishonesty. The la
bOrer is worthy of his hire and ought to have It
but there is nc reason why he should be paid for
work that he has not done any more than there
is that a grocer should be allowed to sell twelve
ounces of sugar for pound If wages in this
country are too low, and they probably are in a
good many instances, they should be raised. At
the same time there must be some common sense
about the matter. AIRY business which pays out
more money than it takes in, and keeps it up long
enough viii certainly fail. The only exception to
this rule is any government, national state OF
municipal, and the only reason a government can
cd it is that it levy taxes to make up it's
losses.-Beaufort News
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not until we called, and J iTgur'
did we call. we had to go oom n Il
o oU o m knees. so to speak, ana
tnu baforn we were heard. 10
, Ueg pian,e them? l don't. no.
S 30 49, ri was the last to be built
because a few men feluseG .ho;,.
opportunity that passed by tiiett
door and now we are Delhg o.
f foo,i the grandest opportunity to
r ns,t "u.nndersonville on the map
and make for the farmer place
to sell their produce, and a le"
men say, no! LoJ
Not many years ago, we mad
another opportunity and passed it
% hu several cotton mill owners
ys2 to establish cotton mills
near Hendersonville and a few
men said, no! This is a tourist
town we don't want our visitors
ewes filled with the smoke from
a cotton mill. Now we done have
The cotton mills, and we don't
have many tourists either.
| hope the people of Hender-
sonville, Mills River, and sur
rounding territory, will be broad
minded enough to see the lure in
shining sparkling lake, and
reach out with the drag net and
haul in the tourists. Therefore
helping to make Hcndersonvllle
the finest lake resort town in the
south.
Respectfully,
MRS. RALPH EDNEI.
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to enc small space as in that mar
ket, and if you will watch, you
will see what looks like as much
produce carried back home, as
was i.ought there, why! The an
swer is simple, we do not have
the people here to consume the
surplus grown by the farmers of
county.
Now you say if we had those
bottoms drained there would still
be more land to grow more pro-
duce on. To be sure there would
be, but what's the use of growing
more produce, when we haven't
market for what we already have.
Mr.. Justice we have been listen
in" to preaching of this kind for
many years, we are tired Of hav-
ing people tell us how to grow
more stuff. What we need is
someone to tell lis how to find n
market for it, after we have
grown it.
Now this is my idea, every man
and woman of Hendersonville,
and Mills River, Fletcher and sur
rounding territory, put your
shoulder to the wheel, and help
put this project of building the
dam across. Why?
There's plenty OF land in Hen
derson county for sale, cheap, as
good as in Mills River bottoms
that is not covered in water every
time it rains. Let the people sell
out where they are, and buy 9TH
er farms, let those swampS be
covered by a lovely sparkling
lake, turn Hendersonville into a
beautiful mountain resort. sur
rounded by the waters Of the
sparkling lake, connected with the
Park-to-Park highway, then watch
people come in. You wont have
to carry back as much produce as
you brought to the market, we
will have the people to consume
it.
If there isn't something done
to help the farmer get market
for his produce, why go on clear
ing more land, growing more pro-
duce and no place to sell it?
Not many years ago certain
county commissioners went to Ra-
leigh and said to the road board
there, when Henderson county
wants any roads built they will
build them, when we need your
help down here we will call on
you. Did we get the roads? No
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ACETATE
Dear Brother Editor:

Dear Brother Editor:
This word came to my mind
at the recent meeting at Mills
River school house, and brought
many fond recollectiOns to my
mind. If you want anything
worthwhile you must agitatc.
In 1912 John A. Maxwell, John
T. Station and myself were elect
ed county commissioners Of Hen
derson county. At that time the
commissioners had the roads I'M
der their supervision. We ap-
pointed 2. /. Patton as road ST.
pervisor. Together we four began
to devise plans whereby we could
: better the conditions of the peo-
pie Of Henderson county. Press
was a great road man, so we con-
ceived the idea of draining the
swamp lands of Mud Creek using,
the sand to put on the roads, so
we ordered Press Patton to buy
dredge for this purpose. In due
time it arrived and was set up on
VAN i1NAiNy VIC lOdu ana went TO
work widening and building up
the road. We also had figured
out the expenses for a beginning.
We were going to make a charge
by the acre. The man that it
6enetltted most was to pay most.
We did not feel that the peopla
away from the swamp land should
drain the swamp land, though they
would benefit to some extent,
when so much agitation against
the county spending money this
way developed. Press Patton sold
the dredge for what we paid for
1t and this ended it. ON effort
was, you might say, a failure.
Colonel Pickens tried a project
on French Broad and failed. John
, Grant. congressman from this
district, introduced a bill ard
persuaded congress to send an en-
glneer down here. His report
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-14
NOT ABOVE CRITICISM

The Indiana Supreme Court upholds the free
dom OF the American press. Don NJ. Nixon editor
of the Wabash Plan-Deaer was cited for con-
tempt and sentenced to 10 days in Jail and a
hne of 500 by Circuit Judge Frank o. Switzer
when ne criticized the judge for appointing a GER
tain man bank receiver The supreme court re-
verses Judge Switzer on the ground that the court
matter had been fully adjudicated and that pub
Usher could not be summarily punished unless OBJ
structing justice-"Courts and Judges says the
decision, 'are not and should not be above crti-
cism."-Christian Science Monitor.
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Mr.. J. NJ. Justice,

Dc2r Sir:
] have Just finished reading
your letter in The Timcs-News,
concerning. the proposed lowering
Of Buck Shoals. I'm sure. Mr..
Justice, yoWr motive ana ideas
arc well meant. You have asked
for answers to your letter by the
citizon3 Of Henderson county.
Your idea, as | see it, is to
blast out Buck Shoals and widen
the creek aud lower it. Do you
Mr.. Justice, that it would
take millions Of dollars to carry
on this work, and still it would
not drain those DOGGY swamps.
To be Slre it would furnish
jobs for the unemployed, but Why
pay out a lot Of money when it
would not make bad matters any
better.
| am in complete sympathy
with the people who live in the
bottoms of Mills River, ! know
how they feel about losing their
homes and of course Mr. White
can see a great future for HIM
self, naturally he has to look out
for his own interests, as we'll as
the surrounding community. He
has done Z great deal for Mills
River, naturally he as well as the
owners Of the property, would
not want to see their efforts
conlc to naught.
But that's not what Pm driving
at, the government is doing what
they think is best for our inter
csts. This is an opportunity that
we are passing up that I'm afraid
we will regret later.
Have you ever been in the curb
market in Hendersonvillc Mr..
Justice? If not l would advise
you to go, especially in the sum-
mer, / never saw as much pro-
duce and vegetables crowded in
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Rightly RiIed, Governor
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

to thc existence Of the Atlanta
curb market is that liquor IS be-
ing brought in from the noun
ta,ns and sold there; under that
criticism, much of the city of At
lenta could be abolished, includ-
ing most of its leading hotels.
Selfish special interests, and
public officials that cooperate
with selfish special interests in eX-
plotting the people and depriving
the people Of their constitutional
rights, fall within the category Of
Public Enemy Number One and
should be dealt with accordingly.
More power TO Governor Tai
Made n his fight Tor the curb
market. Every community should
have . fourishin@ curb market
where farmers ere encouraged to
bring their products and citizens
encouraged to buy them.
It IS rs important for public
health that fresh fruits and vege-
tables be cheap and plentiful! a.
that watcr be so.
Instead Of trying to cut the life
out Of oren air markets, local
governing boards should encour-
age these institutions. They should
make it easy, interesting and
agreeable for farmers and con-
sumcrs to get together at some
convenient, central place and eX-
change the crops of the former
for tho cash Of the latter. Trade
reciprocity should be set up with
ether localities and with other
states.
Send your fruits and vegeta-
blcs to our open air market and
We will send our fruits and vcge-
tables to yours"
Atlanta and Fulton county,
! Georgia, that means youl
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IVA
HARDNESS VERSUS ACTION

DAMAGE VERSUS DRAINAGE
So much dam agitatiOn-why?
We have been damned and we have
been drained, until erosion has
lust about set in, so ler's al get
in the stream and flood Of the
IVA, as an aid to rapid naviga-
ton, in releasing our share Of the
imrounded money. BY draining
it into our debated pockets, and
flood out our $30,000,0O0 before
rigor mOrtiS sets in.
We have been damned and
drained long enough. There IS no
81 per cent to this: Add 3 per
cent: We all need cash 100 per
cent, so let's stop the dam drain
age; and drain the dam stoppage,
by opening up the flood gates to
our 100000, 900 until it looks like
''thirtv cents Fall into this gil
gantic flood of money, everybody.
Let's dam the drainage ard drain
the damage, and let's urge all the
IVA to Immediately give us re-
lief, by either stopping the drain
age or daming the stoppage.
Personally, l don't mind look
ing like "thirty cents" if we can
get our dam "thirty million dol
lars" used, by turning it into
showers of blessings. instead OF
floods of damage, somehow, some
way, dam quick.
Yes, l may be the "thirty mil
lion dam agitator," who like most
of US, hasn't got 80 cents, and
perhaps, not any sense at ali
Let's all try to get ccnt-sabIc
Dam me-it-him-Or Us, if We
are not drained.
WALTER Il. SMITH
p. S.-Where is the Quick-sand!
Speed up; get rid Of the bull
rushcS.
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DOG is FIRE ALARM

CANYONVILLE, Ore. (UP)-
While G. c. Wolfe was visiting
neighbors, his house caught fire.
His dog lcapcd through q window
of the burning structure, ran 10
the neighbours home, and led
them back to the blaze.
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned COM
munications are published by
The Times-News. All letters
must be signed with the real
name of the author. No COM
munications signed with fic-
titious name will be published.
EDITOR.
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Governor Eugene TalmadGe OF
Georgia is properly rcsentful that
city and county officials are at
tempting to abolish Atlanta's curb
market.
Curb markets are always fought
bitterly by special interests which
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-14
l9l NAMES ARR
ON HONOR R
Continued from r,.

Continued from Tag. fiji,
.McFarlan, Jack Sma. F..
tiers, Daniel Wadt..' Sen. y,
Mary Justus, Viva r.. %
Forsythc. Robert D.F
Brown, Nick Clan. r. %
Miller, Lewis Smy .. D..
nett, Philip Thibad.r ".
len Hill, Guy Dixon. N.,,i.l. +,
Der, Julian Lummu.. D.r.'',.
son, Jennings Hca1r;rt ~ n,
Ainsley, Olive just..a. n. ...
ders, Betty Atkin.
Katherine Core Tvl -,
lass, Lila Garrcn. r..
Elizabeth Lewis, w.. y.
Myra Morris, A.... v.I'
Nancy Noble, Mn. n... ,
Louise Todd. Ellen a....n !
crime CLANCY, Wilma y
Anna Williams, Emma Io.,g
lass, Helen Howell. Dora mn.
Margaret IlammonI .Jaa,1
King, Myrtle Naxw.n. Irn't
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THE SO-CALLED CHILD LABOR
AMENDMENT


sion of the proposed so-called child labor
amendment by pointing out that boys ana
girls Is years of age are not children
That is true. A majority of this country
young people at that age are young men
and women, and yet under this amend
ment, up to that age, they would be treaS-
ed as children, denied the right to work,
to plan their own careers, to shape their
own lives; and the same can be said Of
the control of parents over their children,
as under this amendment Congress would
have the power to delegate all control OF
the millions of children and young people
of this country to bureau in Washington,
which would in turn be controlled by the
radicals of the country.
We hope none of the good people who
are readers of The Times-News will be-
come angry as they read the foregoing
paragraph, as this newspaper proposes to
prove it's statements before concluding the
discussion of this amendment; but before
going on with the discussion we want to
call attention to an editorial which was
copied in The sTimes-NewS several days
ago. This editorial was from the Woman's
Home Companion, and was supposed to be
an appeal to the women of the country
from a high class magazine, on humani-
tartan and social uplift grounds, for their
support of the ratification of this amend
ment.
This Home Companion editorial is hard
ly fair sample, it is true, of the amend
ment propaganda with which the country
is being flooded 1t is much worse than
most of the stuff, except that which enc
mates from radical sources. In fact The
Companion stuff reads like the mouthings
of a deep red soap box shouter for Com
muniSm.
We hope our readers will turn to this
newspaper of last Wednesday and read
that editorial in the light of what is being
said here.
For example, in the concluding para
graph of this editorial, this unqualified
statement is made: "The opposition, in
spired by selfish interests, is utterly with
out conscience. It's attacks have been lies.
It's methods have been devious"
The entire article is on par with these
statements. The millions of good citizens
of this country-ministers educators, pro-
fessional and business men, and the vast
/. body of country people of the United
States, who oppose the adoption of this
nefarious proposal, are all Jumped to-
gether by the Womans Home Companion
as being without conscience, utterly sell
fish, and liars.
By such statements and such methods as
these has it been sought throughout the
whole history of this amendment to get il
4 into the federal constitution. The reason
] is that is was spawned in Communism and
its chief hackers throughout its career,
until very recent period, have been the
various hues and brands of rabid radicals
of the country.
The Times-NewS makes here certain un-
qualified statements in regard to the child
labor amendment, which will be support,
eded with the proof in later articles
merely for the purpose of giving the truth
: to readers of this newspaper:
We charge that the so-called child la
Dor amendment was conceived and orig
inally prepared for submission to Congress
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-14

Huey isn't original. When the
Turks owed the American money
lenders TOO much, they arranged
2 massacre to divide the wealth.
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Never believe thing true when money says it
Better drinking at a bar than in the home.
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There is no modern Jesse James. He didn't
have to fire so bullets from spray to get his
man.