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Evening star., 1935-03-17
Fifty Years Ago
In The Star

In the Star Of March 49, 1885 Is
a prediction regarding the apprecia-
yry1 ton Of the American
Washington public for the wash
Monument ington Monument.
d I'd c e d about
three weeks before. which has been
amply verified in the course of half
a century:
The final dedication Of the Wash
ington National Monument has given
TO the space-filling newspaper writer's
of the country a fresh opportunity to
celebrate themselves in their obServa-
tions on that structure. The majority
of the comments are flippant in tone
and unfavorable IN character, but
this was to have been expected, since
a large majority OF the sneelng
CriticaSters have never seen the Monu-
ment and are therefore not compe-
tent to Judge its effect. But at the
same time their comments show how
little. as rule. they really know
about the principles of architectural
art. 1t is easy to find fault in gen.
eral way-much easier than to point
out a specific objection, and still
easier than to furnish something bet
ter as a substitute for that which is
condemned. Most OF the long-range
critics therefore content themselves
with an off-hand dlsapproval Of the
form of the Monument. which they
pronounce ugly in itself and notable
only for its bigness. And Just here
is where they betray their ignorance
of the subject and the spirit in which
their objection is conceived.
1T is admitted by the artists and
architects of every land, as we'll as by
the competent writer's on art and
architecture, literally without eXcep-
ton, that the Egyptian obelisk is in
itself the very perfection of proportion
and symmetric harmony. Now the
Washington Monument is in form
simply the Egyptian obelisk, increased
in size from five to ten fold according
to the particular example chosen for
comparison. Nothing more; nothing
less. The fact that one is composed
of a single stone and the other con-
structed of many stones has nothing
to do with the principles involved IN
the structure or in its effect upon the
eye Of the beholder. The only differ
ence lies in the fact that one must
be inspected nearby. while the other
may be seen at close range or at
distance, as the observer may choose.
When it is successfully shown, there
fore. that an obelisk of one size is an
object of delight while that of another
size is only a subject of obloquy and
abuse, then and not until then Will
there be some weight in the common
so-called criticism Of the day on the
Monument as it stands.
Meantime The Star wishes to place
on record the prediction that the
simple and noble shaft as it now ap-
pears will have the unquallfied ap.
proval of posterity. 1t will grow in
favor as the years go by, and the best
Judgment Of the future will be that
it is alike worthy Of those who con-
ceived and constructed 1t and Of the
great parsonage whose fame and vir-
tues it was designed to commemorate.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

to our own conceitS and to regard
them as the infallible guides of our
daily habit and practice. Among these
spicuous in our life today. namely
self-ease, self-esteem and self-grati-
flcation. There are others, but these
are possibly the most evident. and
they exercise the largest influence
upor our modern ways of living.
Self-ease, the desire to have nothing
interfere with our complete freedom
Of action or to lay upon us any
restrictions, is common to most Of u.s.
If we have a diluted religious faith
or superficial conception as to
its relation to our daily conduct we
do not permit it to cause us any in
convenience or to lay upon us any
disciplines that are irksome or un-
acceptable. Our desire for complete
freedom makes us unresponsive to
anything that places limitations upon
us. We would be unfettered and un-
embarrassed by anything that dis
turbs our comfort or our assumed
right to live our lives according to
the dictates Of our own wills. We
pay unfailing tribute to the god Of
self-ease.
Again, an undue self-esteem occu-
pies an important place in our philos-
ophy. Our infallibility of Judgment
must never be questioned. 1t reserves
to itself the right to speak with finality
upon all matters that concern belief
and practice. 1t is a final court of
authority, and from its decisions there
10 no appeal. This form of self -idolatry
issues in kind of insularity of living,
denies social responsibility and refuses
to accept the ancient dictum that mo
man liveth unto himself 1t is in
dividualiSm carried to the nth degree.
Self-gratification normally follows
upon an excess Of self-ease and self
esteem. 1t implies unrestrained indul-
gence and utter abandonment OF ones
self to ways Of living irrespective of the
consequences they may entail on ones
self or others.
These are some Of the modern idols
we worship, and they bar the way to
the attainment Of those high things
of Christian character that are utterly
indispensable to our truest develop
ment and highest attainment.
Evening star., 1935-03-17
SimOn's Visit to Berlin
Is of Great Importance
BY A. G. GARDINER.

LONDON. March 16.-Sir John
Simon's forthcoming visit to Berlin is
an event of the first Importance. In
pre-war days no foreign minister ever
left the purlieus of Downing Street.
Diplomacy was carried on through the
medium Of the resident ambassadors,
and in the long period during which
Sir Edward Grey was foreign secre-
tary, he only left the country once,
and then not for high Official pur-
pose.
But since the war the methods Of
diplomatic intercourse have entirely
changed, and direct personal contact
between the principals has become
the normal custom.
Two facts are responsible for the
change. The immensity and urgency
of events after the war required almost
ceasless conferences among the heads
of the respective governments and the
establishment of the League of Ma
tons made 1t incumbent upon them to
meet periodically at Geneva. The re-
suit is that exchanges Of visits between
the principals Of governments, espe-
Evening star., 1935-03-17
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Substituted Identity.

substituted Identity.
Said the cannibal king, "As best I can
I strive to eat my fellow man,
And by this simple means you'll see
Their qualities transferred to me-"
Said his minister, Should you devour
The foes who fall beneath your pow'r
Twill bring you indigestion sure,
Which medicine men can scarcely
cure.
so let me prescribe method neat
For substitution all complete.
Let taxes be by them disbursed,
Eat what they eat, but eat it first"
Evening star., 1935-03-17

Communist Strachey objected to
having a collection taken for him in
Detroit. 1t may have occurred to him
that passing the hat has become
too prominent an incident Of cere-
monials supposed to be consecrated to
unselfish ideals.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

When he was through with his
modest fortune, the late Justice Oliver
Wendell Holmes returned it to the
Government under whose protection
it was accumulated. His example
suggests means Of averting much
proftless litigation.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

Economists are compelled to admit
that the brain trust blend of logic
and logarithms is Of less conse-
quence in molding opinion than the
simple practice of making change
over the grocers counter.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

Judge Ben Lindsay continues TO
deliver opinions from Los Angeles dis
cussing problems Of personal romance.
His files would be even more revealing
than the pink slips that go with in
come tax returns.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

Charges of plotting in any police
force are confusing. Discovery and
punishment Of plotters are popularity
supposed to be the especial function
of the police themselves.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

out the world, Government officials
state, only 219,000000 bushels had
been shipped up to the end of 1884.
With Russia and the Dsnubian wheat
growing countries reported planning
to abandon exports, and this country
facing a shortage, the remainder of
the world requirements must come
from Canada, Argentina and Aus
tralia.
(copyright 1850
Evening star., 1935-03-17
Improved Commerce.


"You will find a nice comfortable
studio for your session with the micro
phone" said the radio announcer.
Thanks said Senator Sorghum.
This is an improvement on the old
days when, if I had patent medicine
to peddle, I had to use an open hack
and a gasoline torch"
Jud Tunkins says he'd like to go to
the Legislature if relief funds could
piece out the pay so as to meet the
cost of living.
Evening star., 1935-03-17

Underworld operators violate so
many laws at once that it is not
always easy to devise formal system
for their pursuit.
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Patient Listener

FatIent LISTENER
When there is trouble in the clan
Somebody has to be
Instructed in a proper plan
To teach referee.
There must be someone standing by
When others misbehave
To view them with a patient sigh
And murmur LET 'em ravel"
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nisguise Doffed.

mo breach of promise suits shall
thrive,
And now the gay Lothario gloats.
Those who against his purse connive
Are racketeers in petticoats.
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Profit Motive.

you are deeply interested in art?"
"Yes," answered Mr.. Dustin Stax.
"Show me any piece Of commercial
paper that's as good an investment as
a duly signed painting by an old
master"
Evening star., 1935-03-17

Some men," said Uncle Eben, has
to work terrible hard in order to look
like dey Is actually doin' sumpin' wuf
while"
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Evening star., 1935-03-17

In the Star Of March l3, 1885. Is
a prediction regarding the spprecia-
rin7 OF tho
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-06-05
JEFFERsoN'S GREAT DREAM

The more closely you can scan the trend OF al
fairs in the United States over the past century,
the more you must be of the opinion that the pres
ent era is the forerunner of great transition In
our scheme of government. This nation was found
ed and Thomas jefferson visoned it as such, on
the theory that the average man would own his
own land, and also that majority of the popula-
ton would remain in agricultural centers.
But this dream of Jetfersons has not material
led; most people work for others, and they do
not depend upon their own land for sustenance.
The result is that we now have generation Of
voters, the majority of whom are products of city
industry; they do not know the feel of an AK as
il clears farm land in forest; they do not thrill
to the turn of furrow as they SOW crops; they
have no recollection of the beat of wind and rain
and snow and seet upon their bodies as winter
tried to drive them from the conquest of Natures
elemental environment.
The net result of all this reveals a majority of
American citizens unable to appreciate the price
less heritage of free selfgoverning privileges; the
resulting citizen apathy and disinterest therefore
leave the way of government open to the dema-
gogue the predatory and mercenary politician; and
unless human beings REFORM you can figure out for
yourself how and when some form of state piracy
and dictatorship will eventually become sovereign
in America-Thomasville News and Times.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-06-05
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
OUR COURAGE. HAVE WE LOST IT?

The walls that hail the abolition of NRA assume
that the American people can no longer live With
out the guiding hand of government that has with
in the past two years converted the American peo-
pie into a set of spiritual (and millions of them
into actual materially dependents to degree that
would have been resented by their fathers as an
insult The American people will not be ruined oy
the ending of NRA Perhaps the end has come
none too soon to save them from sinking hopeiessiy
into the spirit of dependents on paternahstic
government r",.
The agricultural adjustment administration may
in the autumn go the way of the NRA. 1t behooves
the American farmer, the American merchant the
American manufacturers, to remember that until
two years ago he lived as free without hav-
ing government handouts to support him, or gov
eminent leading strings to guide him.
The American people have recovered from dis
asters before this. They recover from this one
without the powers that the government has sought
to exercise. The process may be painful but
again. it may have certain beneficial effects which
the paternalistic method necessarily lacks.
Whatever the course, and whatever the future,
one thing we must not lose, and that is our cour-
age.-Newberry s. c. Observer
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SHAWS CREEK:

SHAWS CREEK, june D. -
Miss Gladys Blythe, who has been
in college at Cullowhee, has re-
turned home with her frlend'
Miss Anna Boyd, to spend a lew
DAYS visit with. her. -.
Mrs. Moore and family from
Lenora, have returned home aft
err visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Charlie Johnson. r =,
Eugene Powell has rsturned
from college and left Tuesday
for Florida to spend several
weeks. pr, - ,:i!ii s,.s 81.
The Bible class at the Camp
Ground was postponed last Sun
day night On account Of the rain.
MIR. and Mrs. James Smith
from West Virginia, have, joined
their little daughter here who
has spent several weeks with her
GRANDMOTHER, Mrs. Merrell, and
NAV spend few weeks in our
community.
Misses Pauline and Geneva
Garren from Hendersonville,
spent Sunday with friends here.
Mrs. Hathcock from Hender-
sonville, spent Friday with her
daughter, Mrs. j. C. Hefner.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-06-05
AIITTLE ADVICE

Sincerthe National Recovery Act has been held
unconstitutional it is quite probable that the AAA,
FERA, MIRA, FDIC and numerous other alphabet
projects soon will go into the discard Also the al
most five billion dollars may never be spent upon
the lazy, shiftless and unemployed.
Then, where do we go from here? For the past
several years l have been advocating that about
the best place for unemployed persons who have
families, is to get back on the farm, from which
many of them came. At least livin may be wrest-
ed from Mother Earth.
Then, too, if l may be allowed to prophecy, cot
ton cannot continue to be sold at IL cents pound
Our government cannot peg the price at more than
it is worth. This also applies to wheat livestock, or
any other commodity. In the end that old law of
Supply and Demand has never been abrogated.
1 can give better advice to my farmer friends
than to make your farms selfsustaining as far as
possible. Do not come to town and complain about
the high price of meat and -four. No man ever
complains about the price of commodity when
he has something to sell that has been produced
on his farm.-Eugene Ashcraft in Monroe En-
quirer
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HENDERSONvILLE, N. c.

. HENDERSONVILLE, N. {.
This way and that way-up hill
and down:
Lies a beautiful place, called
Hendersonville
It's spot God created for all
lovers of his =.
The scenery to enjoy, of noun
tains, vale and rill.
It's cool morning breezes are
waited to you
As the birds melodies rise,
from the heavenly dew.
In yonder woods, by the wayside
of a trickling brook
Are the yellow azaleas, rose
rhododendrons, laurel so
pink, o look!
Dogwoods too, their whiteness
unfold, all in a wink
Joyfully grow, among their
colorful sisters by
While with envy, the big oaks,
and pines on them spy.
The fragrance of the woods
they breathe,
While thankfully, not their
shelter would leave.
Bidding farewell to their neigh
boring naples, elms, cot
tonwoods.
Who move to the city, it's
streets to supply
Shelter and Beauty, teaching the
towns-folks to exemplify.
In their heaven; they think of
each porch in the city
near:
Of the lovely roses, irises,
flowers from each home,
is reared.
The lawns all green-the houses
called home
Where lonliness, fears to roam.
In a nutshell-if you will
It's "Home, sweet home," in
Hendersonville.
LILLIAN GOODRICH.
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BEHIND THE; SCENES
I'M WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

different recipes as to what could
be done about Humpty-Dumpty.
MO wonder. The supreme court
~ has often reversed itself. but it
has seldom achieved a more re.
markable performance of providing
announcement in one paragraph
and encouragement in another.
It was downright fantastic to
hear, as your correspondent did,
the amazing number of private
New Deal interpretations Of just
what the court meant in its inter.
probation of the Constitutions
commerce clause and just what
could be done under that interpre.
tation.
And when any two brain.trusters
managed to agree on those points.
they promptly broke into violent
argument as to how far they should
go in future legislation for psyche
logical effect or on the bet that
the court would be liberalized in
the next year or so and be much
more amiable after the New Dea.
stopped delegating vast gobs Of
power
DUT 1t was pitiable. to reaiize
10 that they. the New Dealers
had failed to provide themselves
with a path of retreat or any al
tentative in case the Supreme Cour'
should do exactly what it did 1he
sick chicken" case just left In its
wake a lot of chickens with theii
heads cut off.
Donald Richferg had offered &c
stake his legal reputation on ms
belief that the court would uphoio
NRAS on the Scheehter case.
! Il don't know anyone here, II
fact. who imagined the opinion
would be so sweeping.
But the responsibility for the
tflouHderfng and Topping which fol
lowed the verdict seems to resi-
| with Richberg and Roosevelt.
} (cobvrisht 1885. NEA Service, Ine,S
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force. That person makes you
think of an expensive, hlgh-poW-
cred car. You know he is thor
oughbred.
You see a man attempt an un-
dertaking and go at it with all
sorts of enthusiasm and a lot OF
fuss. But the further he goes, the
slower he goes, till at length he
stops with a final chug. He can
not make the grade. e."
Right past this man goes some
other fellow who takes the same
grade with comparative case. He
has more power or is better tuned
up.
You see a man reducing his eff
ficiency by overeating. He is feed
ing his motor too rich a mixture.
Then there is the anemic, under
fed chap. His mixture is too lean.
Some fellow goes at an enter
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-06-05
THE CHURCH GROWS

To those who believe firmly that in spiritual and
moral progress lies the lasting solution for the ills
that beset humanity, the growth of the church In
America viii come as reassuring information
recent survey shows that the churches Of
America are growing faster than the population,
and this in the so-called material age.
DR.. Herman C. Weber conducted census of
church growth in memberships. He found that the
number of persons in this country who have church
membership is 81, 100000.
That in itself is an amazing fact and splendid
augury for the spiritual health of the nation. 1t
is about half of all the people of the United States
young and old. 1t comes at time when there is
much opinion among the uniformed that the
church is decadent
The growth which the churches realize in year
just concluded was more than 2 per cent: the
growth in the population was; O. So per cent.
Amy nation which can make and maintain a
church membership gain such as this is safe and
sane Fundamentally in spite of all the political,
philosophical religious and economic theories and
isms that are constantly prospected upon the peo-
pie. 1t is singularly safe against such lather as
that dished up by the Longs and the Coughlins-
The Houston Post
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-06-05
HUMAN AUTOS
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

Have you ever noticed how hu-
man beings resemble automo-
biles? Here will come some fussy,
bustling little person with his hat
knocked in, do9ging in and out
among the pedestrians, getting in
to everybody's way, stepping on
everybody's feet and everlasting
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-06-05
EXPOSITION TO RECALL ROMANTIC
NORTHWEST
(By BRUCE CATION

Looking ahead a small matter OF eleven
wears the people of the Pacific Northwest
are already preparing for big centennial
exposition in 1916 to celebrate the acqulsl-
ton by the federal union of Oregon terri
tory.
If you like expositions-as most of us do
almost any excuse is good enough to JUS
tify holding one. The excuse in this case,
however, seems especially good, for it cele-
brates one of the most romantic and I'M
portant phases of our entire history
marks, also, significant event in interna'
tional relations.
Consider the second point first.
Oregon territory-comprising the pres
ept states of Washington, Oregon, and
Idaho-was part of vast stretch OF land
which was in dispute between the United
States and England for many years.
The Louisiana purchase left the NORTH
west boundaries of the country in a fog
The United States claimed everything up
to Alaska; Britain claimed everything
down to Mexico-whose northern bounda-
ries then was the upper end of California.
You can still read in your school books
about the "54-4O or Fight" slogan of the
fre-eaters of those days. The way was
open for war; indeed, war was at that time
just about the only recognized way of set
Ting an argument of that kind.
But there was no war. Instead, there
was PEACEFUL compromise, with each ma,
tion taking less than it felt entitled to
and this compromise, more than any other
one thing, cemented the theory that no dis
pute could arise along the Canadian boun
Diary which could not be settled peacefully
So much for that The purely romantic
and picturesque aspects of the anniversary
make it equally worth celebrating.
1t was in 1S43 that the first great wager
train plodded it's way to Oregon. The frs
white women had taken up residence il
the territory seven years earlier; in 1S4s
the first American government was formal
ly organized there.
And then began that great epic of pic.
neering achievement which made the
homely covered wagon an emblem of lusty
youth and high daring, and which by it
steady pushing back of the frontier saved
America from the pressure of Eurepe's in
dustrial problems and made it possible fo,
the concept of CLASHES society to endur.
to our own day.
All in all, the story of the Oregon trai
IS one OF the greatest in our history. If an!
chapter in the American story is wortl
celebrating with a centennial exposition, i
is this.