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THE RETURN OF THE MULE

Not for the past decade has the demand for
horses and mules on the farms of the South been
so great as it is at this time Thousands of farm
ers have been led to believe that they could get
along with fewer mules and some of them have
bought tractors to replace the mules. They thought
that the mule as plOw animal would be replaced
by the tractor just the buggy horse was re-
placed by the automobile, but it did not work out
that way in this section and most of the South.
The tractor was expensive and rarely lasted more
than four or five years on the farm.
The mule is the logical and economical power on
the farm for the preparation of the land and the
cultivation of the crop One mule dealer told us
few days ago that he mule last week that
he sold 27 years ago and that it was in good con-
dition and would probably make another crop o.
Most of the mules make from Is to 20 crops
and eat products grown on the farm all the time.
Will Rogers said few days ago that there would
be more money made with mules than with bonds
during the next few years. His advice was to buy
mule instead of bond. The farmer who buys
mules and grows hay and corn to feed them will be
making NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Times
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BEHIND THE SCENES
I'M WASHINGTON
9Y RODNEY BUTCHER.

situation will be psychologically
dangerous in any program insofar
as it's designed 10 build up re.
covery psychology. And that there's
no real hope of stimulation for
capital goods and construction un.
til prices can be brought nearer to
bargain levels which will make the
public want to buy.
The administration group in.
VOWED insists it's neither fair nor
practical 20 expect labor to make
the sacrifice without assurance first
that material supplies men will
help break the Jam.
1t says a few key men in the
materials industries could be per.
suaded to take a first step that
would bring prices down generally,
on the theory that lower unit costs
might mean prosperity foT all.
MO one knows whether Roosevelt
L car be persuaded to take this
relatively bold step. But pressure
for it has been growing steadily.
One of the administrations fore.
most economists has kept insisting
that if you could get all agencies
and labor groups contributing to
all stages of building houses each
to make certain reduction. huge
boost in activity would result.
He doesn't see why makers oil
steel, glass. tires. and so on can't
get together with automobile manu-
facturers. and sales agencies can't
get together on a lower price pro-
gram to increase production vol
ume.
Industrial history shows that big
ger volume and lower prices have
often increased profits as we'll as
employment.
Copyright. 1885, NEA Service, In"
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available they should know that the task
is simplifed and is going to be lighter
task and more certain of accomplishment
than it would be without government aid.
Close cooperation with all of these helpful
agencies and forces will be necessary,
however, as we'll as close application oy
each farmer to study of his own problems
and steady and earnest efforts in meeting
the requirements of production and mar
keting of his crops.
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LAND CONSERVATION AND
IMPROVEMENT

There is evidence that the proposed soil
improvement program for the county Will
enlist the interest and efforts of many pro-
gressive farmers. This was indicated by
the interest shown in the terracing demon
Stration at the county farm last Wednes-
day. Scores of farmers attended the DEM
onstration and it was easy to see that they
were deeply concerned about the problem
of erosion and ready to consider plans for
overcoming this menace and destroyer OF
farm values.
The soil improvement and conservation
program is one which, if it is to be effective
and profitable, must be adopted by our
farmers as a permanent program. 1t is a
system of farming and as such must be-
come the general rule for guidance of our
cultivators of the soil. The plan will ulti-
mately include the combating of erosion,
reforestation and the adaptation of pro-
duction plans to meet the needs and re-
sources of each farm.
1t is the intention in this county to base
this program on countrywide drainage
project which will be applied to the rivers
and smaller streams. AS swamp lands and
lands subject to overflow are reclaimed
and made safe for cultivation by drainage,
the less fertile lands can be reforested or
turned into pasture lands without loss OF
available cultivable area. 1t is possible by
this plan to increase the number of farms
in the county.
The entire program of conservation and
Improvement should add greatly to the
volume of production, the total value of
production, and the value of farms in Hen
derson county. This will not be accom-
plished in one or several years, but will be
realized when this program has been gen.
orally adopted and after it has been OPP
Grating long enough to produce results.
The increase in the value of farms alone
will afford ample compensation for the en-
pense incurred for drainage and other i'm
provements. The annual increase in farm
income should be, in a large measure
profits for the tillers of the SOIL
This program is sponsored by State and
tSNSA@A SO'CiALl1eutS through the eStaD-
llshed agricultural department work and
has the approval and cooperation of the
Tennessee Valley Authority in the fifteen
western North Carolina Tennessee Valley
counties. 1t will be directed in Henderson
county by County Agent G. D. White, who
will have the aid of an assistant EMPLOYED
and paid by IVA. The help of IVA and
the State and federal authorities will be
available in so far as possible; but it is a
program absolutely dependent for ultimate
results and success upon the farmers of
Henderson county.
No government agency or agent can cul-
tivate and develop the farm of Hender-
son county land owner. Every farmer must
do that for himself; but it should be of
the largest possible encouragement and as
sistance to every farmer to have the re-
sources of the State and nation, in some
measure, at his command and to know
that all these forces are cooperating to
help him make a success of his individual
farm enterprise.
Our farmers must adopt the plan, plan
their work and work their plan With all
OF the outside help that is going to be
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WOULD SCRAP
SECTION IA
Aristocrat Favors Enforce.
able Collective Bar
gaining Act
Bv JOHN R. BEAL
United Press Staff Correspondent


WASHINGTON, April y. (UP).
Chairman Francis Biddle of the
national labor relations board,
bearer of name that connotes
wealth, leisure and Philadelphia
aristrocracy, urged congress yes
terday to scrap labor's famous
section IA mere paper
right enact an intellect
ually honest" collective bargain
ing law.
Blunt spoken labor leaders al
ready have appealed to congres-
sional committees for the Wag-
ner labor disputes bill, but yes
terdav it was a man with long.
artistic hands and finely chiseled
features who pleaded unemotiOn-
ally for strengthening of la
boris right to bargain collective
ly at the senate finance commit
tees NRA hearing.
Mere inclusion Of IA in the
proposed NRA extension legisla-
ton, he said, would be writing
the emptiness of law which we
know cannot be enforced said
Biddle.
"If congress believes in cOllcc-
vive bargaining and wishes to
prevent discrimination against
men for belonging to labor
unions, it should pass adequate
and appropriate legislation he
said.
The Wagner bill Biddle favors
would set up a labor disputes
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LAUGHING AT DEVILTRY

A woman who lives IN a city
that has suffered unspeakably at
the hands of political spoilsmen,
wrote a play burlesQuing what
had happened. She thought by
that means to drive an object les
son deeply into the minds of her
audience. But she failed COM
pletely in her purpose; for the
play was so cleverly funny that
when the audience left the thea
ter, they were still laughing at
the political crooks. Instead of
Indignation, the playwright had
aroused merriment.
Some things are ruined by ridi-
Guile. If you can make a man
who would be on his dignity, ap-
pear ridiculous, if you can cause
the public to take a man as joke
when he wants to be and should
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-12
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

NEA Service STAN correspondent
Observation-Disclosures Off
W. cial family as we'll as his con-
gressional majority has been split
by the issue of workrelief wages.
The president. before he made
up his mind for a low 'subsist-
ence" wage scale on federal prof.
ects under his $4.SS0,0 900, 900 pro-
gram, had to choose between a
formidable group of liberal Off
Gals backed by labor organiza-
lions and a strong conservative
group backed by business and
financial interests which in gen.
eral opposed the program itself.
Since the Senate tied the work.
relief bill in Snarl by voting for
the McCarran prevailing wage"
amendment. some members of TIE
former group have been urging
Roosevelt 20 make concessions.
One strong nucleus of advisers
mas urged that this is the time 10
demand a reduction in building
materials prices along With a cut
OF high wage rates in the build
ing trades, and put work-relief
wages high enough to leave no
substantial difference Between
those paid to public works labor
and those TO private work. labor.
THE idea is to stimulate produc.
ton. construction. ani employ
ment by breaking the trsgidity OF
monoIOlistic prices Of building ma
terialS along with rigid wage rates.
Which was one OF the original but
long since abandoned theories of
the Federal Housing Administra-
ton program.
Roosevelt has been Gold that a
"half slave and half Tree" labor
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be taken seriously, you have just
about undone him.
But if people are made to
laugh at iniquity, that strengthens
iniquity. If people can be induced
to laugh at a rascal, that strength
ems the rascal.
Good humor rarely imposes Sc
verify. Good humor is tolerant.
Whenever the world laughs with
amusement, it is indulgent.
Make fun Of a man who is do
ing things worth while and you
make it hard if not impossible for
him to proceed. Make fun Of a
man who is doing things repre-
hensible and you make it easier
for him to proceed.
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board, :ndcpenden, Of q,

board, independent Of ar J,
government agencr MI /
power to settle !s,w "a
and enforce its deciJar = !
board may not force ~
but when called in By I. !
tracing parties, It's ls:5, \
subject to review nh : j
courts. The Bill .g "a
company unions Wild u s'r|
to be dominated tyar.,|
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take a good man like me all day
to figure out what they mean"
Softly, Judge, softly. The legis-
lature is not to be blamed for be-
ing drunk and for doing drunken,
absurd things. 1t is the people
that send to the state capital
the kind of birds who comprise
drunken, absurd legislatures, that
should be blamed.
Again it is repeated: "The peo-
pie get the kind of government
they deserve.
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looked at 1t; he
held it up an
other way and
looked at it; he
read it and re-
read it. Then he
exploded w i t h:
"What does the
durn thing mean,
anyway? It's a
pretty kettle of
fish when that
drunken sanhe-
drin Of jackasses
write acts that
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-12
HOMEMADE DYES
SHOWN AT EXHIBIT

KERRVILLE, Texas, April ~.
(UP).-Home-made dyes obtain
ed from native shrubs and roots,
were used here in a demonstra-
ton of homecraft ingenuity in
pioneer days.
Yellow was obtained from the
root Of the agarita plant, brown
from the pliable branches of wal
nut trees, and tan from pecan
bulls.
Fabrics, woven at the Oak
Woods ranch from mohair pro-
duced in Keer county were dyed
by Mrs. J. F. Rogers, who con-
Quoted the demonstration.
Mrs. Rogers said she planned
to obtain pink dye from the buck
eye, blue from the indigo plart.
and yellow from the bois dare.
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

NOTE--No unsigned COM
munieations are published by
The Times-News. All letters
must be signed with the real
name of che author. No COM
munications signed with a fic-
titicrs name will be published.
EDITOR.
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MY! N.Y.! JUDGE
By WICKES WAMBOLDT.

The other day a former judge,
now a practicing attorney, was
studying a law that had been
passed by the state legislature.
He held the thing UP one way and
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-12
THE GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS

1t looks like we are in the utility business wheth-
er we want to be not casually suggests Jesse H.
Jones, head of the Reconstruction Finance COrpo-
ration.
He was referring to taking ownership through
default of note of the Utilities Securities Corpo-
ration.
The RFC is the worlds largest bank.
1t now owns outright three insurance companies,
one real estate mortgage loan company one money
making railroad four million bales of cotton and
scores of national banks
The government is in some of these lines Of
business whether it wants to be or not as Mr. Jones
suggests, but it is in others because it wants
to be, which it shouldn't.-Julian S. Miller in The
Charlotte Observer
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WITH APOLOGIES
TO PATRICK

A suggested slogan Tor a CAM
paign to reduce motor vehicle ac-
cidents: "Give US safety or give
US DEATH"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-12

We always liked Babe Ruth because he really
had something. home run can't be press agent
ed over fence or cane-and-spatted onto score
board
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-12

We have often suspected that certain hunters 90
to Africa to hunt lions because they can't hit rab
bits.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-12

Getting rich is easy. Just hold on to vacant lot
and let other people build city around you.
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Yes, Ethel, we've nov !
that important stage Q. :.
confidence where 5..
thinks that everybody s''-
ting out Of the red.
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What puzzles us is how so-called Smart society
ever finds time to read enough to get smart
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Add serious dilemmas: "Gosh I'm due at tina
disarmament conference in ten minutes and m!
steel vest isn't back from the cleaners"
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Next to rich relatives and longest-lived creatures
are whales
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clos Angeles, Navy's One Re-
naming Dirigible, Slightly DAM
aged In Gale" Whenever a dir
igible fails to crack up completely
that's news.
Evening star., 1935-09-08

Poole of Travilah, Md, to Mr.. David
Rand Lee Of Silver Spring, Md, Sun
day morning, September /, at Hyatts-
vile. The ceremony took place in
the First Methodist Church Of Hyatts-
vile, the Rev. George @. Oliver, pas
tor Of the church, of1iciating.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Lee are well
known in Montgomery County. The
bride is graduate of Rockville High
School and has made her home in the
county for a number Of years, coming
here from Forestvlle, Va.
Mr.. Lee Is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Lee of Spencerville, Md, who
are former residents of North Wood
side, Nd. He Is q graduate of the
Takoma-Silver Spring High School
and at present Is on the editorial stafi
Of the Washington Herald. He is
also an active member of the Silver
Spring Volunteer Fire Department.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee are making their
home in the Park Lane Apartments
in Washington.
Word has been received here of the
wedding of Miss Catherine E. Long,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Long
of Lima, Ohio, and Mr.. Nelson H.
Bailey Of Takoma Park, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Bailey Of Rileyville,
Va, which took place in the Seventh
day Adventist Church in Lima Sun
day evening, September 1, the Rev.
Frank H. Robbins officiating.
Her only attendant was her sister
Mrs. Earl B. Eastman, and her niece
little Patricia Ann, the flower girl.
The best man was Mr.. William Alb
bott, cousin of the bridegroom, from
Takoma Park. The ushers were Mr.
Clarence Long and Mr.. Wendle Long
brothers Of the bride, and Mr.. Robert
Eastman, her nephew.
After the ceremony a reception was
held at the home of the brides par
ents Tor relatives and close friends
Out-of town guests included Mrs. C.
]. beavers and Miss Nina Hamilton
from Takoma Park and Mrs. r. Rich
ardson and Miss Harriet Richard
son of Mount Vernon, Ohio.
Later Mr.. and Mrs. Bailey went te
Virginia, where they were guests o1
Mr.. Bailey's parents. They will be
at home after September 10 at their
apartment at 425 Flower avenue, Ia.
koma Park.
Simply arranged was the wedding
last Sunday evening at the home ol
Mrs. Mabel Thomas Shryock, Lees
burg, Va, when Mrs. Shryock became
the bride of Mr.. David Farnie Of East
Orange. N. j.
The bride was dressed in travelling
costume Of navy blue with white &C.
cessories, and wore spray Of talismar
rosebuds and gypsophelia. The cere-
mony was performed by Elder H. H
Leffets of the Old School Baptist
Church. Those at the ceremony were
Mrs. H. K. Barrett and Mr.. Henry
P. Thomas Of Alexandria, Mr.. and
Mrs. r. S. Sewers of Aldie, Mr.. and
Mrs John Thomas and son Of Lenah
Mr.. and Mrs. Claudius T. Hixson, Mrs
w. H. Smith and Mrs. H. H. Lefferts
all Of Leesburg. Mr. and Mrs. Far
ME will reside in East Orange, N. j
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Horwit of Pat
chogue, Long Island, announce the
marriage of their daughter Dorothy tc
Mr.. Nathan Abramson. son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Abramson Of 45l7 New
Hampshire avenue, this city, on Sep
tember l at Patchogue, Long Island.
Mr.. Abramson, a graduate Of George
Washington University, was formerly
Evening star., 1935-09-08

Mrs. Walton Grifhth was her sisters
matron Of honor, and Mr.. David
Lindsay, brother Of the bridegroom,
was best man. After the ceremony
Mr.. and Mrs. Lindsay left by automo-
bile for a trip through New England
and Canada and upon their return
will live at 485 Seminole street,
Oradell, N. j.
Announcement has been made Of
the marriage of Miss Anita Frasier
Of Purcellville and Upperville to M.
John w. Baniel of Evergreen Mills,
this county. The marriage was per-
formed August 20 in Baltimore. with
the Rev. l.. H. Baughman Of Mount
Vernon Methodist Church performing
the ceremony.
Miss Frasier is the daughter Of the
late Henry Frasier and Mrs. Frasier
of Loudoun County, and Mr.. Daniel
Is the son of John o. Daniel. former
member Of the Virginia House Of
Delegates from Loudoun, and Is q
prominent farmer Of Evergreen Mills.
Evening star., 1935-09-08
CalifOrnians to
Celebrate Statehood

Californians in Washington will
take part in the Annual Pilgrimage to
the Washington Cathedral today from
Q to 4 o'clock as tribute to the
California State flag to be featured
In the Bethlehem Chapel, with Mr..
Edwin N. Lewis conducting the pill
grimage. Californians are asked to
meet at the Cathedral south-side steps
ut 2:45 o'clock for the professional
entrance to Bethlehem Chapel
September 9 is "California's "Ad-
mission Day" when the annual picnic
supper will be held at the joaquin
Miller Cabin in Rock Creek Park, the
National Memorial to California's
pioneer poet laureate Party groups
are to provide their own picnic sup
per. Blue buses will leave at and
$50 o'clock back Of the Commerce
Department on Fifteenth street north
west, leaving the picnic grounds at 8
O'Clock for the return trip.
All Californians in Washington are
invited to honor the State flag at
the Washington Cathedral on Sunday
and to observe CALIFORNIA; entrance
into the Union as a State tomorrow.
Mrs. Gertrude Scott is the secretary
treasurer and has additional informa-
ton II desired.
Evening star., 1935-09-08

design engineer Of the public buildings
and public parks, and is now assistant
chief engineer on the construction Of
the United States Marine Hospital at
Stapleton, Staten Island. They will
make their home at New Brighton,
Staten Island.
Those attending the wedding from
Washington were Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
uel Abramson, father and mother of
the bridegroom: Miss Dorothy Abram-
son, a sister, and Mrs. Bertha Raffell,
also a sister, with her two sons, Sidney
and Leonard Raffell.
In the presence of only members OF
their families, Miss Gertrude Wolfe
daughter Of Mrs. Russell Watkins OF
Potomac, Md, and Mr.. Edward Lee
Hahn, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert G
Hahn, also Of Potomac, were married
Saturday afternoon. August 81, in the
home Of the brides mother. Rev. j
Lloyd Black, pastor Of the Rockville
Christian Church, officiating.
The brides only attendant was he,
half sister, Miss Mildred Watkins, and
Mr.. Carl Hahn, brother of the bride.
groom, was best man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hahn are making
their home, at Potomac.
A recent marriage of interest to
many Washingtonians is that of Miss
Mae Pomeroy White, daughter oi
Mrs. Jennie Pomeroy and the late
Franklin L. White Of Washington, to
Mr.. Robert Henderson Lindsay, son
of Mrs. Jessie Lindsay Of Scotland
and Oradell, N. j., August 81, IL
Montclair, N. j.
The bride is a granddaughter oi
the late DR.. Willis B. and Fanny @
Pomeroy, who were prominent ir
religious and social circles in Wash
ington, and who were among the
oldest inhabitants"
For the past several years Mrs
Lindsay made her home in Mont
clair, N. j., with her mother, and hel
brother-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs Walton H. Grifith, of 10 Bruins
wick road.
The wedding was a quiet one. with
only the immediate families and 6
few intimate friends in attendance
Evening star., 1935-09-08

Collins, Colo. The wedding will take
place Saturday, october 5. in the
Church of st. Francis de Sales.
Miss Brennan is graduate Of
Notre Dame Academy and Trinity
College and Mr.. Monninger is a
graduate of st. Johns College and
Georgetown University and is now
living in Washington
Mr.. and Mrs. E. o. Roberts of
Somerset, Md, will entertain at
tea this afternoon to announce the
engagement Of their daughter Martha
to Mr.. Oscar c. Pogge of Washing
ton.
Miss Roberts Is well known in
Montgomery County for her work
with the Montgomery Players, having
appeared several times in prominent
roles in plays given by this group.
Mr.. Pogge is a former resident of
West Point, Ohio.
The wedding will take place in Oc-
tober.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson w. Jarvis Of
Tenafly, N. j., announce the engage
ment of their daughter Elinor ToW1e
to Mr.. John H. Fletcher Calver, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur w. Calver of
Newton Centre, Mass, and Washing
ton. Miss Jarvis is a graduate OF
Wellesley College. Mr.. Calver was
graduated from Dartmouth College
and Boston University, School of Law
and Is engaged In the practice Of law
in Boston, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles K. Leffel of
Washington and Ohio announce the
engagement of their daughter, A.
Elizabeth, to Mr. Melvin L. Handy,
son of Mrs. Mellice E. Cornish of
this city. The wedding will take
place in December.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alphonso Eastwood
Parker announce the engagement Of
their daughter, Miss Elisabeth Hen
derson Parker, to Mr.. John Bernard
Diamond, Sd, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Herbert Lawrence Diamond of Cath
ersburg, Md The wedding will take
place in October at the Columbia
Country Club.