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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-03
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
RoosEVELT'S NEW ROLE

When Congress convenes this week, the greatest
conflict which President Roosevelt will face will
not be contest with the conservative forces DIS
represented by the business interests OF the coun
try but a struggle with the forces OF radlcallsm
running rampant among the representatives anu
senators elected by the people.
The electorate of America undoubtedly has be-
come more radical in its views of the functions OF
government than President Roosevelt.
This fact has become lately of recognition by
leading student and analysts of politics and gov
eminent and by the more conservative business In
terests of the country.
Those who for while were disposed to regard
Roosevelt as radical and to fear that he was NOV
ing too far and too rapidly toward the left seem
to have come around to the conclusion that he Is
less radical than the majority of the members Of
Congress and that he will need the support and
sympathetic cooperation of the conservative po-
litical and business influences of the country in
holding Congress to the middle of the road and
restraining it from taking reckless detours toward
the left.
This is not to say that the conservative business
interests of the country approve all of the New
Deal program. Far from it!
Some policies of the President and some phases
or ms program are bitterly opposed by powerful
business influences that regard them as subVerslVe
of some fundamental American ideals.
However, in view of the wild radicalism of many
members of the new Congress, some of whom are
known to have very large followings, it has been
widely accepted as fact that the President will
need the aid and backing of the more conservative
influences to hold Congress in check and prevent
legislation of far more radical nature than any
thing Mr. Roosevelt has proposed.
President Roosevelt's most perplexing problem
in dealing with the new Congress will be that of
holding it in check and preventing wild runaway
rather than leading or driving it toward the left.
His relation to the last Congress was that of
leader With the new Congress he must assume
the role of driver, not to urge the team forward
but to hold it in check with constantly tight
rein-Charlotte Observer
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A CATECHISM

What creates wages and salaries? Business and
industry.
What pays politicians and officeholders? Bust
ness and industry.
What pays the doles now handed out by the
government? Business and industry
What improves property that pays the taxes ?
Business and industry.
Where does permanent employment for the
masses originate? Through business and industry.
What is injured by government going into bust
ness? Private business and industry.
What will replace taxes destroyed by tax-ex-
empt government business competition with private
citizens? Higher taxes remaining private prop
erty.
Can everybody get job with the government
or benefit directly from some of the many doles ?
You answer that one.-Moorehead (Minn) News.
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NURSERY RHYME GONE MODERN

Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn, there's a
government agent counting your corn. Another
one lecturing the old red SOW, on the number of
find out what he can do next year with the old
meadow lot Mas the radio, hearing them tell
how under the "New DeaP' there amt no hell.
Aunt Name is in Washington dragging down pay
from the PDQ and the AAA. The hired man quit
when the work didn't please, got him a job trim
ming government trees. They'll be telling you
apon, if you don't take care, where you live,
what you wear How much you pay for
your pants, your shoes, so this is no time to be
taking snooze. Little Boy Blue may be buried
deep under red tape, but he's not asleep, yet
Monroe Enquirer.
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500 per month pension zz and
dropping the age limit to ooj 7
Very commendable, indeed. i !
agree, but when you study II
through. it only means half sthe
money nut into circulation ana
only half as many of the Idle Pu ,,
to work and you might say ohiy
half prosperity to all. Jo,rr
If YOU drop the amount doM Id
to SiO0 per month, you Wou lla
only get half as many peop.o
above the age of 60 who are ire
now receiving more than SloU
per month to step down, and you
would only get half those De pc
tween the age of So and oo
who are RECEIVING more thall
500 to come down, so in TINS
case YOU would not put any mole
people to work and only haiI
that money in circulation,
I am often asked if the Town
send plan is put into operation
what would become of those Dc
tween the ages OF 20 anu w. =
the Townsend bill is enacted INTO
law, bless your life, there would
be such an activity in all classes
of business throughout the Uni
ted States and around II mlllIon
| idle people put to work that
there would be a job for every
body, everywhere, and at living
wages, you would not be beg
cling for work-work would DC
begging for you.
The great Democratic party be-
| ing the party now in power has
the golden key in their hands TO
start this nation off to undeara
of prosperity. Will they unlock
the door?
When the Townsend plan be-
gins revolving nothing can stop
lit. 1t will go on forever, because
| it will be so popular with the
people and will be backed by a
Vast majority of all the voters OF
| this country that it never Will De
repealed, and the depression WIN
Its dark trailing cloud OF dls'
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LET THE GOVERNMENT DO 1T

Whatever be the cause, the fact is that America
has just about lost that quality of darng-bold-
ness, if you please-which has lain deeply in the
background of its expansive development in the
past.
The asset has either been completely divorced
from the American attitude in these days, and
since the depression set in, it has been coat
ed with covering of fear, that it may as we'll be
non-existent.
The Federal Government is doing all the pic,
neering now.
Woodrow Wilson once said there was nothing
quite so unfriendly to national development as
for the federal authority to exercise all of the
spirit of the pioneer.
He should be living at this hour.-Julian S. Mil
Ter in Charlotte Observer.
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icouragement and gloom, will
|ish' in the bright sunlight :,
new day when prosperity, NJ,
happiness and joy will agais
ours and ours forever and
ever ~
God speed the day.
Statistics show that dpri,.
period, Of good times with c5 '
body working and plentr
money, business transactioh,
ceeded twelve hundred billion
lars per year in the United S.,
With the Townsend plan i,
Grafton, wit hthe great actjyi,
all classes of business, fvs
cent transaction or sales ,ay
put the. required amount bacL
| to the United States trcayTrr
cry 80 days to come out =,
over and over for all time to =.
and the government would
be required to start the pla,
at first with one billion and
hundred million, which is CEN.
ly within the capability Of
United States government u
money now is being put out r.
classes of charity and relief :,
(Which would be eliminated
the Townsend plan) such as
houses, Spanish American
Civil war veterans and tbei,
pendents, welfare work. etc
fund would help carry the Il
send plan.
If there ever has been an +
before the American peopIe a
than our Christian religion
God Almighty is in, it is
movement as there never
! been in the history of this G,
try a movement that mean,
much to suffering humanity,
all classes Of people and busi
as this Townsend plan. old
pension bill.
Bankers, merchants, manu-
turers, building and loan assc
Continued on page sikh
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WE MIGHT EMULATE ENGLAND IN
CHOOSING OUR JUDGES
CBY BRUCE CATION

New York's Seabury investigation is an
cient history now, and most OF us nave
forgotten the disgraeeful things which It
revealed about New York's courts of law.
But those revelations were valuable OBJ
iect lesson, and we forgot them Just q
little too fast for our own good.
Broadly speaking, they showed what
happens when the courts are thrust into
politics the attaining of Judge
ship, for instance, is made the subject OF
a political scramble, so that the man who
becomes a Judge must either campaign
like any other candidate for office or must
cultivate the good will of the politicians
who have the appointing power.
That is the way American judges are
put into office; and recent article III The
American Spectator points out that by
following this system we undermine our
own confidence in the Judiciary and staff
the bench with men who aren't always fit
for their jobs
The writer of this article, a New York
lawyer named Jerome ]. Licari, remarks
that England has found different way Of
selecting its judges.
''They must not only pass rigid exam
nations in all branches of the law" he
writes, "but they must also be scholars in
Latin, Greek, and mathematics, and in
most collegiate and university subjects,
They must be cultured gentlemen. When
they become candidates for the bench,
they must take fresh examinations in both
legal and academic subjects"
As result, says Mr.. Licari, an English
judgeship is legal career, not political
career 1t is attained by the best members
of the legal profession, not by the most
gifted politicians. Members of the bench
owe nothing to anyone; they are above in
fluence and above suspicion.
When an English lawyer aspires to the
bench, he takes examinations to the lowest
court. If he passes and is appointed, he
must serve definite length of time there
before he is eligible to promotion.
Thus, when he seeks promotion, he must
pass new examinations, and his judicial
record is carefully scanned.
To be sure, many very excellent men
brilliant, conscientious, and completely in
dependent-are to be found in our Ameri-
can courts. But so, alas, are many who
are none of these things.
Until we find some way of divorcing the
bench from politics, the average level o:
our courts will continue to be lower than
it should be-and We shall get, occasional
ly, scandals like those of the Seabury in.
vestigation. ....
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BEHIND TIE SCENES M
WASHINGTON

House and among other big New
Dealers.
1t was commonly supposed thai
Mrs. Rumsey would win out.
=
WHETHER there will be any.
w one who can now supply the
inside pressure which Mrs. Rum.
sey had or whether the consumer
will be relegated to his old "for.
gotten man" status and the Thorp
plan discarded is a large question.
It's important-if you're inter-
ested in your status as con-
sumner Very largely through Mrs.
Rumsey's efforts and those of the
men she brought here to fight the
consumers battle. NRA has ex-
perienced a large change of heart
and is setting its face against
such consumer-soaking devices as
price-fiXing and production con.
troll by code
NRA finally realized that when
competition is restricted by gov
eminent. that government must
do something to safeguard the
consumer
Although Mrs. Rumsey's politi-
cal influence did a lot for the
consumer her success in person
ally recruiting brilliant econo-
mists for the New Deal was quite
as spectacular
WHEN Mrs Rumsey went after
" man. refusals to come to
work here were in vain She
would telephone him in the mid
die of the night-running up
( huge long distance bills at her
personal expense make his friends
poster him with kilograms. and
eventually wear him down
Few realized how effective she
was Daughter of E. II Harri-
man. she was a prominent social
leader and philanthropist. her in
! terest in people as consumers deep
and genuine
tCopyright 1884 NEA Service Inc,
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SWINGING MORAL DUMBBELLS
By WICKES WAMBOLDT.

furniture and that, Strengthening
this rug and that. She has trunks
full Of things she can never live
to wear out, yet she spends hours
darning something or other for
herself that is not worth darning.
She fills her life with useless triv-
;alities. She reads little, gets out
little.
That woman should exercise
her spiritual self by forcing her
self TO take some active part in
a larger way in the affairs Of life,
in other persons affairs. And
she can do that, as there are no
demands on her time. She has no
home to make for anybody but
|FRrself, no clothes to mend for
but herself. She is yield
$50 Ito the temptation to live her
}< for herself.
|56}fost persons have greater
IS tations to wrestle with than
MI woman has. All of us, if we
zsg analyze ourselves, can pick
baour weaknesses. When we
S1nlbat our weaknesses, we are
<,.txing moral setting-up exercises.
ff you know your weaknesses,
atA you do not need anybody to
<<Glyou what 10 do about moral
ekfting-up exercises. If you think
I<53 have no weaknesses, then you
lie one of the greatest weak
EIk sses of Standardization.
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EST SUIT LASTS Sc YEARS

n NORTH ARLINGTON, Mass.
Z. Bates believes
That he holds a record of owning
the oldest wearable suit in this
section of the country. He has
worn the same suit to social func-
tons in which he was married Sc
years ago.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-03
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service STAFF Correspondent

WAsHINGToN-The death of
" Mrs. Mary H Rumsey meant
more than the loss of vivid. at
ractive personality.
In the New Deal. Mrs. Rumsey
was the consumers most influen-
tial friend at court. She had a
way of getting what she went
after and her record Of victories
Tor the consumer. compared bet
Ter than favorably. in proportion,
70 those of indusuialists and la
Dor leaders who were backed by
strong organizations-of which
she had none.
She was so vital and effective
that, after she was smashed in a
tall from a horse. everybody here
said confidently: Nothing can
kill her"
Now the group of consumer
representatives in the government
Is wondering what will become of
a recent gradual trend toward es-
tablishing a place here for the
consumer alongside industry and
labor. Mrs. Rumsey, more than
anyone else, was engineering that
trend.
-.
BEFORE the National Emer-
~ gency Council is a proposal
for a strong, independent con-
sumer unit in the alphabetical
set-up which would vigorously
represent the interests of con-
Sumers in New Deal councils.
1t would coordinate the work
OF the MIRA Consumers Advisory
Board and the AAA Consumers
Counsel and give consumers a
voice which wouldn't be hushed
by the NRA or AAA censorship.
Mrs. Rumsey. as chairman of
the CAB and a member of the
NEG, was pushing that program.
1t was a lone battle. but she had
great influence at the White
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important thing is to recogU
them and get busy with themN
Every temptation is a settE
up exercise and temptations
so many and varied that mob
lacks them.
Right here, l can imagine a q
tain woman | know saying.ll
don't have any temptations. u I
my life in a perfectly orderly, M
ner." ,'rLE
That woman does live her
in a perfectly orderly manner
she yields constantly to a tenS2
ton, and in that yielding, 81
neglecting q spiritual settiny
exercise which would keep
better self from becoming
and flabby and would max ne
firm and sturdy. E
That particular woman
flicted with selfishness. ST.
not realize it. But it sWa
constantly. She has money HI
to keep her comfortably
rest of her life. She has d y
home, and she lives, as she wo
say. an even, orderly life.
But her life is wrapped up
herself. She puts in nearly all
time doing things for herself. s
is a widow and she is chl!di'
From morning till night she iS
ing this little thing and that hi
thing to make her own life ord
! ly in a material way. She Is c
stantly working on garments
herself, rubbing up this piece
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned com
munications are published ny
The Times-News. All letters
must be signed with the real
name of the author. No com
munications signed with a nc
titious name will be published.
EDITOR.
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LAYS TWO-IN-ONE EGG

SEATTLE (UP)-A "two-in-
one" egg was the product of a
white Leghorn hen owned by Mrs
ne. Palmer Biakely. Inside an
unusually large shell, together
with a normal white and yolk,
,was a small egg, with hard shell.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-03

Last year we imported from Japan 100000 cans
of rotten tuna fish, but government agents caught
it in time 1t isn't necessary to import poor fish.
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Recently a young fellow asked
a preacher to give him some NOR
al setting-up exercises. I h a t
Young fellow wanted some spirit
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udl OK I L = . = .
which would de-
velop his moral
fiber as physical
exercises develop
the'physical mus
cles.
Life is full Of
moral setting-up
exercises. They
are thrust at US
from every side.
1t is impossible
to get a Wy
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-03

Thirty nations ratified the Argentine
anti-war pact, to the boom of cannon in
the Gran Chaco and the beat of machines
in the munitions factories.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-03

Americanism: Working and scheming with the
sole purpose of getting all you can for yourself
saying, Look what l have done for this COM
munity''
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China's deficit being only S16,600,000,
how can it become member of the great
family of nations where deficits are in bill
lions and debts are in arrears?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-03

A canary given as Christmas gift to 6
man in Nebraska turned out to be yel-
Iow-painted sparrow, after he heard the
bird sing, cheap, cheap"
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Remarkably honest Finland! She pays her war
debt installments and thus is enabled to borrow
more at lower rate and save enough to pay the
instaments.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-03

A boy ran away from his home in New
York to become rabbi, rather than get
caught under the NRA code.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-03

Every girl can test her man-appeal, Just drive
out on the highway and have a p1ncture and
stand there.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-03

A modern girl had fellow who We thoughtful,
considerable and unselfsh, and theh, Alas! she
woke up.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-03

In every litter there is one little fellow who
gets pushed away and stays lean He turns out
to be radical.
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BIBLE THOUGHT

HITHERTO
s'Hitherto hath the Lord helped us" II SAM 7:12)
l. "When our soul is much discouraged
By the roughness of the way,
And the Gross we have to carry
Seemeth heavier every day,
When some cloud that overshadows'
Hides our Fathers face from view,
Oh! it's well then to remember
He hath blessed US hitherto"
ITO be continued)
The Washington times., 1935-01-09

the Senate chamber just across
the hall.
The governor also pointed to
the overdraft allowed certain
counties of $726,OOO.
He told the legislators they must
provide $7,200.OOO by February
for relief funds to meet Federal
demands of State aid.
Recommends Board
The governor also recommended
appointment of board, or indi-
Vidual to pass upon the necessity
Of capital expenditures of State
agencies. They would be given
authority to prevent the eXpendi-
ture if not found necessary.
He urged women of the State be
given equal rights in all branches
of government, particularly in
being allowed to serve on juries.
He expressed the view perma-
nent registration and the inStalla-
ton of voting machines would ef-
feet a considerable saving in time
and money to the voters and tax
payers of the State.
He reaffirmed his views capital
should be allowed to expand
freely.
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WOODEN c j n 8
FAIL CONV|CTS

30 S TON, Jan. 9 G.N.SD.
Using wooden pistols a la Dill
finger, and resorting to iron pipes
in Slugging two guards on the
head, when the pistol ruse failed,
four long-term convictS at Charles
town State prison made an unsuc-
QeSSful attempt to get outside the
high granite walls today after
climbing through a skylight to the
roof and reaching the prison yard
by means of ropes.
All were recaptured-two. at
first reported to have successfully
scaled the walls, behind a bale Of
clothing in the prison laundry.
The other two were captured atop
the wall behind sentry post.
The prisoners:
William Baker, 10, of Spring
field, serving 18 to 20 years for as
Gault with intent to kill.
Lawrence Boldway, 26, of Ware
house Point. Conn. serving 18 to
20 years for assault and battery
and armed robbery.
Joseph w. LeveSque, So, of New
port, R. l.. serving Is to 20 years.
Thaddeus ZarZewski. 20. of Wor-
cester, a lifer. convicted Of second
degree murder.
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MAY BAN
NAVAL RACE
PRINCESS ENGALTTCHEFF

From the dictionary Of diplo-
matte verbiage, the United States
today hoped to borrow a few
words to save the cause of naval
disarmament without sacrificing
any American interests.
This country is willing to aban-
don the use of the phrase ratio
system" as the basis for naval
disarmament in the future and
adopt any new formula, such as
equality of rights" that may save
Japan's face at home and permit
her delegates to enter an agree
ment providing it does not disturb
the principle of equality of Sc
curity," that is, security for each
naval power as outlined under
existing naval treaties.
This, it was learned, was the
meaning behind Ambassador Nor
man H. Davis indication that the
United States would be pre-
pared to grant Japan the right,
in principle, to naval parity pro-
viding Tokyo agreed not to ex-
ercise that right.
In short, this country is willing
to let Japan say it has the
right to build a navy as power
full as the American fleet provid-
ing Japan also agrees at the
same time to refrain from act
ually taking advantage of that
right.
To Western minds, this pre-
tense in international affairs
may seem ridiculous, but those in
close touch with Oriental diplom-
acy call attention to the i'm
portance which the Orient places
on prestige"
For this reason, Mr.. Davis per-
sonally believes there is a posi-
bility of getting the Japanese to
agree to some such arrangement.
But this optimistic view is not
generally shared in other quart
erS.
The Washington times., 1935-01-09
SPEER SLAY|NG
PROBEFA|LS

GREENFIELD, Mass. Jan.
1.N.SD Possible solution of the
mysterious shotgun Staying Of DR..
Elliott Speer, young headmaster of
Mt. Hermon School for Boys, at
Northfield on September IA, faded
today.
Associate Justice Timothy M.
Hayes, who presided at the in
quest, announced that the murder
was committed by a person or
persons unknown.
The decision of Judge Hayes,
made after reading many thou
sand words of testimony, follows:
"After a thorough study Of
all evidence find that Elliott
Speer died as the result Of five
sIugs entering his right arm and
right side of chest while he was
in the library of his home on Mt.
HermOn campus at Gill, Mass;
that these Slugs were from q
cartridge or shell held by q per-
son standing about 19 feet dis
tant from a window in the north
wall of the library; the name Of
that person is unknown to me-"