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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-23
BIG WILLOW

BIG WILLOW, July 23.-NT
Marcia Higgins, who ha. ossI
attending summer school in Ans
vile, returned home Friday.
Miss Evelyn Higgins spent y
days the past week with y,
John Drake at her camp on'p
Willow road.
Beuiah B.Y.P.U. members e
| ioycd wiener roast Tue'N
night which was given in hon
Of the winning group for the u
quarter. Miss Lc0na Hugglns y
the captain of the winning. gro,
Everyone enjoyed the outing
Leon Cantrcli Of HenderS
vile, was in this commur
Thursday. =
Mrs. Emmcr Mccall Of B.
ward. visited at the home Of '
G.. Rcdden Sunday. D.,
S. c. Huggins, Clarence IN
den. Laxton Cantrcll and h@
Drake went to Big HunlrI'
camping trip THURSDAY r.1
A revival service Will ".;"
BeuIah church on the first " y.
day in AUGUST. The pas'o., Az, ~
Rev. Arnold Edney viii c ...i
the services. Everyone is 'T'"
70 attend these services.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-23
A SCRAP OF PAPER
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

, mysterious deaths of other chill
dren.
The man who gives society
evidence that he can not be
trusted with himself, should be
protected from himself. And So
ciety should be protected from
him.
There are persons who do
wrong who had rather do right,
vet find themselves swept out Of
control of themselves by some
strange, devilish force. Are they
crazy?-or are they subject to
seizure by demoniacal influences
or are the two one and the
same?
Are our minds receiving sets
that automatically pick UP this
Influence and that? Do some
minds automatically tune out the
wrong impulses-Qr most of them
OR the worst of them? And
can, all minds be. taught to tune
out bad impulses and to pick up
the good ones?
Be that as it may, it would
seem but simple wisdom for tAe
human family to arrange to have
a watchful, protecting eye kept
on the chap who has shown him
self unable to keep himself from
doing mischief.
Spiritual frailty is our great
est problem. Spiritual strength
is our greatest need. Churches
and many other agencies are con-
stantly working on the questions
of moral growth and spiritual
strength, and are helping ire
mendously.
But the ground to be covered
is the whole world, and every hu-
man being is separate problem.
To save the person from him
self, and to save society from the
person: is the great work of So
cietv that calls for knowledge,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-23
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON. - Current h OF,
w weather battles featuring spid.
,rs, snakes, tarantulas. and other
unpleasant forms of animal life are
ame stuff alongside the grinding
lest of strength between the ad.
ninistration and the utility hold.
ng companies which still goes on.
No one recalls any parallel for
his attempt to change the. fate of
major bill, gone into conference,
~ exposing the extraordinary tao.
lies Of the big power trust" lobby
which defeated Roosevelt in the
House when 1t persuaded a big
majority Of members to vote
against the so-called death sen.
!ence.
Seldom has a rising pitch of ex.
element here seemed more dra-
matte.
SENSATIONS continue while
pro administration conferees
aold off action until the evidence
. heard and has time to sink in.
Privately, power trust" foes are
predicting that the conferees-
perhaps after another vote by the
House-will eventually produce a
bill satisfactory to an administra-
Ion which insists on reducing hold.
ng companies to regulatable size,
II half the underground reports
Fou hear are correct, you haven't
heard anything yet. The billions
II dollars behind the holding com.
panies could command the highest
priced talent available.
WAS J. Bruce Kremer, former
" Democratic national committee.
man from Montana, lobbying for
Public Service of New jersey?
Was Arthur Mullen, former Demo.
cratic national committeeman from
Nebraska, working for Associated
Gas and Electric? Where was
Robert Jackson, that other prince
Of lobbyists who. with Kremer and
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A law of conduct is not worth
hoot unless it has the support
of the public.
We in this country have the
notion that all we have to do to
stop an evil practise is to pass a
law against it.
Somebody got the idea that if
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-23

| Donald Drake attended the hon
coming at the home 0. Nr. an
Mrs. X. H. kuykcndall on Jg,
4.
r. II. KuykeEdall and 50,
Claud of Charlotte. Archie Evy,
kendall Of rGastonia, and W.
Norma Chapman and two Hl-
children of Sachman, s. c. vet.
cd Mr.. and Mrs. George iEi
more, recently.
Harold Patterson puchassl
new truck last week.
Mrs. Ella Patterson "pe-E
weekend with her mo.2 N
Greenvillc, S. G.
Miss Alley Patterson GO.fN'
vile, visited her moth, Yrs
Ella Patterson, reccntl".
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we could have a
law requiring all
lobbyists at our
North Carolina
| e g i sla ture to
register and de-
clare what they
were there for,
the iniquities of
lobbying would
disappear. S o
the aw was
passed. And it
has had about,as
much effect as
would a . law re-
r,,;rinr chickens
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-23
RELIGIOUS RIOTS CLOAK GRAVE
DECEPTIONS
NV BRUCE CATTONl

It is like turning the pages of history
back for quarter of century to read OF
the anti-Jewish riots in Berlin.
To be sure, outbreaks of anti-Semltisrl
in Germany are no new thing, these days.
Perhaps we ought to be case-hardened to
them by now. And yet there is something
appallingly reminiscent of Czarist Russia
at It's worst in these accounts of uniformed
bands of Nazis roaming the streets, beat
ing men and women, spreading terror and
chanting bloodthirsty slogans.
S The worst thing about an outbreak OF
this kind is not its brutality. That is some
thing which this imperfectly civilized hu-
man race of ours never entirely succeeds
in huelling. We are born to trouble as the
sparks fly upward, and getting poked on
the nose now and then by our brother man
is tlst one of those things that go with hui
man existence. $685.. ,-... ..
What makes performance of this kind
especially dismaying is the fact that it rep
resents a case of self-deception. In order
to rouse yourself to the point where you
want to go about the streets beating pe0-
pie whose religion or race is not like your
own, you have to persuade yourself to be-
heve something which obviously is not 80
to wit, that the mere presence of these
people in the same community with your
self is somehow a threat to your we'll
being. . g.. ......,.. -...
Nor is that all. While you are giving
way to this delusion, you may depend on it
that off in the background, unseen, some
one is getting away with something that he
wouldn't get away with It if you were keep
ing your eyes open. :s &C.,. ....
The pogroms of the old Czarist govern
ment remain the classic example of this
sort of thing. T.,
Under the Cars, the people of Russia
suffered so many glaring injustices that the
danger of revolution was always present.
But whenever public sentiment got too
dangerous, the government would trot out
the old Jewish bogeymen. Riots would be
fomented, horrible waves of violence
would sweep through ghettos, and in the
Olood-lust OF the pogrom the people would
forget how the ruling class was victimizing
the entire country. ,is
That is the sort of thing these anti-Semi-
tic riots in Germany call to mind. By Civ
ing way to them, the people of Germany
are binding their eyes to more important
issues. They are enabling their government
to flim-flam them on matters of vital CON
Germ. ,.
There is one more point In the long
course of human history one rule seems tt
hold, good; government which rules by
terror perishes, sooner or later, in the same
way. A government which foments pog
roms and mass brutality is running up q
dreadful bill which someone; some day
will have to pay.
y +. q. .
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to register before they went in
to your garden to scratch up
your seeds and eat your vege-
tables.
What we need is the adoption
in our own hearts and heads OF
fundamental spiritual laws.
No legislature has ever made
men. moral.
= +
HE WISHES HE, HADN'T
1t now transpires that a man
who has confessed he murdered
an 11-year-old. girl, was three
times previously committed to an
institution for mental cases for
having molested small girls. In
other words, the murderer of
that 11-year-old child had given
society plenty of warning as to
what he might be expected to do.
Furthermore, he is now suspect
ed of being responsible for the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-23

/ blooming Borah for President reads head
tiine in 19S5-recalling headlines of 1881, 1927
l1g33 and other years.-Chicago Daily News
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-23

WISDOM understanding, patience
and for discipline, which, though
loving mercy, does not fail to do
Justice.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-23

France may call an American dancers nudity
art but it doesn't approve the naked truth about
those war debts.-Indianapols Star. 1''''-"'
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-23

What you see in the beak of
the white dove isn't an olive
branch. It's a scrap of Versailles
Treaty.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-23

If the G-men get much better they will have 70
go on the radio as an advertisement of scrap TO-
Ebaeeo or some kindred necessity Toledo Blade.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-23

Son of China,s president found bride
in an Ohio fve-and-ten cent store. Isn't it
awful how these fye-and-ten heiresses in
sist on marrying foreigners?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-23

I Now. that it's unconstitutional to- con-
denim land for slun clearance, we can still
take visitors to see the sights of our big
cities.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-23

An English trance medium says he has been in
touch lately with the shade of Disraeli. What's he
doing now-playing George Arliss Atlanta Con-
stitution.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-23

ITO the late Lawrence of Arabia
= Ell Ourens, as the Arabs called
him, King Emir Feisal Of Irat
owes his throne. The two had be
come fast friends, when they Joined
the tribes of the desert to defeat
the Turks in Mesopotamia and. 81
weaken the hold of the Contra
Powers in the East.
For this effort, Lawrence, be
lieving that he had the sanction OF
the allied powers, had. promised
Feisal kingship over the conquered
territory. But the Treaty of Yer
sailles ignored the promise ant
caused Lawrence to repudiate al
the honors bestowed upon him ant
retire to private life. "a
In 1927, however, England per
mitted a national vote on this is
sue, and Feisal became king BY
approval of Sc per cent of his PEG
pie. That year appeared the first
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-23

Yoo, hoo, Mr.. Hoover-a street in Maiden, Mass
is reported to be covered with grass.-The Detroit
News
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-23

{ Pr0fs Einsteih has announced a new theory of
space and matter, but the nine or ten of us who
understood relatively are not going to be lured
away by this latest whimsy. We're standing pat
ST. Louis Dispatch
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-23
WHERE IS THE CHURCH?

Where is the church in the present social and
economic crisis? loudly inquiries militant re-
former.
Well wherever it is, it ought to be where it was
pitched at the beginning, right in the thick of the
fight for social Justice and for such political and
economic reforms will serve the highest interest
of the greatest number.
1t is not the function of the church to take it's
tools around and construct political and economic
societies but is its business to to it that those
who do undertake this job are. guided by Christian
concept and prompted by spiritual impulses.
Christian democracy insists upon the fair chance
and the square, if not, the New Deal The Gospel
condemns those alike who sefshy exploit and those
who, relaxing in the shade, are eternally crying,
Gimme"
The church has clear mandate in these hours.
IT'S no time for it to retreat to becoud its col
Eors-Julian S. Miller in Charlotte Observer.
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New York banks are trying,to sell insult
collateral they held on. loans, The jurors
who freed Samuel insult may be good pros
nacts .e-zssxsssa5.ss
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-23

WILLIAM PENN inherited debt from his father for
600 pounds II qudated the debt by giving
land grant in America. subsequently became
Pennsylvania meaning "Penns Woods in honor OF tie
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-07-23

stamps portraylns
the new King Of
Iraq. In 1882, up
on change of the
country's coinage
a new set of King
Feisal stamps was
issued, one being
shown here.
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NEXT: siWhat Greet explorer
was deridfhafia IS IN 6si6eta1iS
fools gold"? "a
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Copyright. 1885. NEA Service. Inc.l
Evening star., 1935-11-17

introduction she whispers, TRY to make
them think am just too busy not afraid"
She hates passports and is incapable of ham
ding her own business affairs The very
thought of money transaction sends her
into dther; and she will walk up and down
in front of shop ten times before venturing
in to buy even so simple thing as picture
frame
Last winter she saw no good reason for
making herself uncomfortable and leaving
home just at the Christmas season when she,
Evening star., 1935-11-17

as house mother, was giving parties for her
family and friends. She had promised, how
eve, so Hr. Johansen finally got her onto
the boat.
The Johansens have robust family life in
Norway. Hr. Johansen was widower with
four grown children. Mime. Flagstad has
fifteen-year-old daughter by former mar
riage. They like to stay at home and have
their children around them. They like, too,
to 60 off alone on hunting trips. Nine. Flag
stad picks berries while her husband shoots
Evening star., 1935-11-17

birds; and they live for days on meat balls
and mushrooms, which, she says, are the
only things she can cook. She likes best, how
ever, to be at their summer home at Kristian-
sund on the North Sea, where she can swim
and eat all the fish pudding with lobster
sauce she wants, and take care of her rock
garden herself.
In winter the Johansens, the opera season
permitting, do good deal of ski -joring. And
Flagstads favorite way of learning an operatic
role is to take business trip with her hus-
band. She sits on the back seat, Wagnerian
score open on her knees, singing softly while
he whirls along at fifty miles an hour over the
zig-zagging Norwegian roads. She still, by
the way, has Norwegian dressmaker make
all her clothes.
A little bewildered at first by it's clatter
and confusion, Nine. Flagstad soon became
fond of New York. She finds Americans very
jolly and admres the well-peserved, smart
women. What she really likes to watch, how
ever, are chauffems and policemen quarreling
and laughing in the streets. No one can make
her believe though that Americans accomplish
more than Norwegians, for all the scurrying
they do.
She was greatly relieved to find when she
got to New York that she could see the sky;
her notion had been that the buildings we're
so high that one would have to lie fiat on the
sidewalk to catch glimpse of blue sitting
through far overhead. And she was particu-
larly relieved to discover so much fresh fruit
at hand. Norwegians have the idea, she says,
that because in the advertisements in Amer
ican magazines everything is packed in
boxes. there is nothing to eat across the ocean
but timed and dried food. She is not ready,
however, to trust Providence too far from the
Atlantic seaboard. When she went to Detroit
for her General Motors broadcast last spring
she stuffed her suitcase with apples and
oranges just to be on the safe side. And not
for long time did she get over the fear,
probably engendered by some childhood
recollection of the American Indian, that she
would have to appear on the concert platform
adorned with feathers and ribbons. In fact,
SO deeply is the Indian legend engraved on
her imagination, that when she went West
this fall on her concert and opera tour her
cisco would think of her Isolde" but how
many tribes of Indians she would meet
crossing the plains.
For all her fame as singer, as builder
of a fantastic and amusing prima donna
legend Nine Flagstad is complete failure
She has great serenity and poise and no tenn
perament. Her nerves are steel, coated with
velvet. On opening nights. highstrung singers
are apt to rush to her and say LET me take
Continued on page 1O
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princess laundering goddess
~ ERHAPs never before has the phenom-
enon of dual personality artist
and woman - been more sharply
dramatized than it is in Kristen
F1agstad. who, since her debut at the Metro
politan last winter, has been acclaimed as
the worlds greatest Wagnerian soprano
As an artist she is a towering being remote
and possessed by visions as are all supreme
artists. On the stage she can become a
veritable and glamorous princess; a thunder
ing goddess. beautiful. majestic. unearthly.
She has superb musicianship an effortless
method, an exceptional memory. Her inter-
pretation of Wagners immortal heroines has
a scope and fire which would have satisfied
the master himself. Completely unknown out
side of Norway until year and half ago,
Kristen F1agstad has built up one of the
important musical legends of our time
At the heart of that legend. however, is
shy, simply dressed woman - in private life
Mrs. Henry Johansen, of Oslo, Norway -
her ash-bonde hair parted in the middle her
candid grey eyes looking out like child's in
friendliness and amazement at world which
suddenly finds her notable. Utterly without
further ambition for her singing. two years
ago she had planned to give up opera except
perhaps for appearing once year at Bay
reuth. She wanted, she explains, ito dis
continue and become private person. But
now" she adds. II have no choice am torn
along"
1t is certain that she would never have
gotten to America if her husband, with whom
she is romantically and beautifully in love,
had not brought her She is afraid of strangers,
although she does not want anyone to know
it. When she excuses herself for declining an
Evening star., 1935-11-17

7aveuty gears she had sung opera in N(,1oay and
retirement juu ahead Then fame suddenly fund her.
1S?v, hailed as the ovorlFs greatest soprano,
rstn agnad remains SHY, simple housewife still bea0ide>e1
BY her sOf in c4m91ca
by RUTH WOODBURY. SEDGWICK
Montana labor news., 1935-06-20
CAUSE OF POVERTY

what makes poverty" Why, ages since,
strong men of this world reached out their
hands and captured the earth, and they owned
it and the poor were their slaves they took what
poor was left. Down to present time this state
has continued; the powerful have taken all coal
and all iron that Nature has stored up in the
earth; they have taken the great forests and
appropriated these to themselves.
They have taken the shores of our rivers and
the shores of our lakes and the shores of our
seas. They have all the means of production
and distribution. They have the great highways
of commerce, and the great mass of mankind, the
poor, the despoiled, have nothing to do but to
sell their labor and their lives to anyone who
buys.
They clutch at each others Threats for a poor
chance to live. They don't own the earth. They
W no share of the coal that is beneath the
earth.
The steel trust owns all the ore and the poor
have none; they own no interests in the forests
or in the land. All they can do is to look for a
job and take such pay as the employer, the mon
opolist sees fit to give.
There never has been but one way to abolish
poverty in this old world of ours, and l don't
speak of my opinions alone, but I speak the
opinion Of every political economist who has ever
cared for the working man; every one of them.
You can't make the poor man rich unless you
abolish the monopoly Of the earth that is now
in the hands of a few
Until you organize society and industry SO that
the poorest child just born on the earth shall
have the same heritage as the richest who comes
upon the earth in the same way, until all have
a common heritage and a like right, until that
time comes there will be the rich and there will
be the poor.
Have you looked back at the history OF work
ingmen2 If you do you will find that one hun
dred and fifty years ago in England and all over
continental Europe he was a slave. He was
bought and sold with the land. He wore one
garment, if you would call it a garment. His
food was of the c~oarsest. He had no luxuries.
But gradually the light began to dawn in the
minds of the toilers, and they organized them
selves into guilds and trade unions, and they met
Montana labor news., 1935-06-20
MACHINES A CHANGES

The doctrine of historical materialism bases
every action and every historical event upon an
economic foundation. All of the super-structure
of society, namely religion, government, politics,
education, etc, must change in conformity with
the economic Inducements In the past the
changes brought about through chronological
agencies, have not been as noticeable as they are
at present. 1t is true that human beings who
derive a benefit through the absence of change
try to resist these forces. The millionnaires and
the giant corporations are perfectly satisfied
with existing institutions. The heads of these
organizations revel in luxury, and so condemn
the broader visioned individuals who foresee the
inevitability Of changes and the memorable work.
ing out of the economic forces, in these changes,
as radicals and distructionists. At this very
moment there is a classical illustration Of this
theory of historical materialism in actual opera
tion. A quotation from a national writer on cur
rent events states the matter very clearly. This
authority may be familiar with this doctrine or
he may not. The quotation is this "The Con
%stitution partly would put forward a theory that
the Constitution is being strained by the New
Deal when, as a matter of fact, that Constitu-
ton is being strained by the progress of the
nation In other words, to follow the line of
our argument, the economic forces previously
referred to, are pressing up against the present
structure of the Government and either the Gov
eminent will modify that structure to more
nearly harmonic with those forces or it will be
swept out of existence. The quotation is in re-
ference to the action Of the Supreme Court in
suspending the NRA. When it is clearly evident
that the vast majority of the people of the
United States feel that the National Recovery
Act should be a part Of the organic law Of the
nation. These economic forces may be compar-
ed to a river being blocked by a dam. The
water will find an outlet somewhere either over
the wall or around the wall, or it will tear down
the whole wall.