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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-19
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

NEA Service Stan Correspondent
VTASHINGTON.-The three big
w schools for lobbyists whose
diplomas command the most re-
spect are:
The government service.
The Democratic party.
The Republican party.
Lobbying, politics, patronage
and the practice of law here
are all closely intertwined. Emhrvo
lobbyists, prepared for their iobs
at taxpayer expense on the federal
payroll-in Congress or the eyecu.
tive branch, pour out of the fod.
eral service into private office
buildings, to, sell their prestige and
influence by ,practicing before the
government of which they were re.
Gently a part. Their efforts seldom
work to the advantage of taxpavers
and consumers.
With every change of poIitica,
control, new batch of politicgl
iawyer-lobbyists sets up shop, NJ.
tional committeeman march into
town, establish claw Offices and
begin to charge all the traffic viii
pear to represent anyone who T.
AFTER anything. Law partners ~
senator's and other officials coma
70 town with like purpose
s.
r you ever counted sheen in on
attempt to fall asleep, Won. can
envisage the rate at which Rnroa,'
OIL Internal Revenue attornevs"
from general counsels on dow
Jump from the government into
tax practice here. '1'0
Consider the celebrated local ,aw
arm OF Covington, Burling, RnbIee
acheson and Shorb, which nrocticos
before all federal law courts do
partments and commissions Itv
MEMBERS able lawyers, doubtless
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BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

EDITORS NOTE: This is the
second of q special series of
stories telling cTdctly hOlo lob
bieS aCork and aVhdt part they
play IN the government at Wash
inqtOn.
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HARDLY a SECRET

A, sentenarian says that his secret of longevity
is eating onions. But it must have been difficult to
keep aeeret.-Punch. -
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scspgrtghs ICES. NEA Service. Inca
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-19

Presumably a Thrift Week
would be too old-fashioned for
these times.
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NEXT: Democratic lobbyists
and Republican lobbyists. S.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-16
Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN-

A much as has been done about pimpes and
"A backheads, it has been pointed out that COM
petey satisfactory treatment has not yet been de-
veoped.
True, the use of X-ray has helped in controlling
many cases which previously could not be corrected
But there still which fail to respond to
any of the methods now used. One reason is that
not yet certain just what is the cause
of acne, as this skin trouble is called.
The pimple begins as backhead. 1t is the gen.
eral opinion that the blackhead begins by sort
of mechanical blocking of tiny duct or hole from
which a secretion ordinarily would come for pur-
poses of oiling the skin and keeping it moist.
Sometimes due to external irritation such as
comes from oil, wax or paraf1n, the pmples form
promptly without blackheads AS soon as the black
head forms, however there is needed only small
amount Of irritation and infection for the pmple
to follow.
because some people develop pimples and others
ID do not, various suggestions have been made
to the cause Some investigators convinced
that the glands by their activity make the differ
ence; others certain that food is primarily re-
sponsibe, and particularly overindugence in sugar.
Among recent methods Of treatment for acne
ultraviolet rays, Wtamins and vaccines. few
doctors have found the ultraviolet rays useful but
the majority of opinion indicates that its usefulness
is very limited.
Other observers have reported that fairly large
doses of vitamin we're helpful in acne, but at
tempts to confirm these opinion have failed.
A GREAT many physicians have used vaccnes
Z \ made from germs associated with but the
ma iority of evidence fails to support any real USE
fulness IN this method in most cases
The X-ray seems to be really dependable agent
and is apparently able to good result in
many as 80 per cent Of cases treated over period
of from three to four months. The X-ray however,
is powerful and should not be used by any except
experienced physicians
Every now recognizes that aneTnia, constipa-
ton other intestinal disturbances solld be prop
erly treated one of the first steps in taking
Of acne. If there are any special sensitivties to
various substances, these should be brought under
controR
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Putfing Prejudice Aside

nut if I undertook to argue the case of coumnists
ID writing men against the income tax would
be guilty Of prejudice. 1 not honestly say thaC
the share of the burden which they have been asking
IL carry or even the share they may be asked 10
carry IN the most extreme srtaxes suggested, Is an
unfair one What's the matter with the principle
of soak the successful? Why should the walters be
asked to hand the check to the losers?
In addition to remembering that there isn't any
such thing as a popular tax American citizens might
as we'll make up their minds that anybody VINO
talks about rigid governmental economy is trying
to fool them. Even if Herbert Hoover came PACK
into power he couldn't take the attitude that relle1
should be left to the tender mercies OF private
charity.
Nor IS there any sense in pretending that un-
employment is merely temporary emergency NO
kind Of legislation or shift in economic tides is
going to take up more than fraction OF those Ior
whom Jobs don't exist Put IN the WaSteoaSKet rlgnC
awav any notion that large numbers of people couo
get work if they only wanted 1t. Perhaps certain
people now on relief could scare up openings LOT
themselves if they scurried around. but IN doing
so they would merely displace Others and the COM
nunty in general would be no better on
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Picking and Choosing

no not think it is a harmful thing that unem-
ployed people should look with suspicion on JOBS
which are too arduouS too poorly PAID KuleS
which seek to compel people to work for wages pelow
a reasonable scale will literally bring about coohe
Standard of living and depreSS the scale all up and
down the line The A. T. of L. is logical In hghtlng
for the prevailing craft wage. Any other system VIII
destroy the very foundation OF organized LABOR III
America -,
People of moderate incomes grumble because they
can't get servants work for board and lodging ana
song They say that if it were not for rehet COOKS
and maids could be had for 50 week OF leSs. iIO
,,robabv IS tr1e but these same people of moderate
means are likely to find that their own salaries are
no longer as good as moderate once pay cuts begin
in any industry whatsoever.
There is nothing so contagious wage reduction.
rr,lese vo., work TO keep the other fellows pay up
Won will find that the scissors of reduction are amply
long enough and sharp enough to snip your own
check as we'll
Copyright. 1885. BY United Feature SYNDICATE me-
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Longtime abundance

TNHEY became great travellers, too, not only in
Il their own land, but in Europe where the Amer
lean dollar bought hatful of the local exchange
and the hotel registers and the steamship passenger
lists would show any who took the trouble to
examine them that these tourists not members
of some SMALL select and parasitic minority but the
common man and family.
do not ascribe this abundant life to Mr. Hard
ing or Mr. Coolidge, to the party of Penrose
Daugherty and Albert E. Fall but merely recall the
abundance existed for a long time, perhaps by mere
coincidence, and suggest that another spell of the
same starting now would rebound to the fame and
glory of the party in power.
copyright. 1885 BY United Feature Syndicate Incl
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Today S Science
= BY DAVID DIETZ.

N-rrp1A and microscopic organisms living in
ID the soil supply growing plants with on 10 ~ per
cent of their nitrogen DR.. Frank l. Allison ol tiIe
L ( DEPARTMENT of Agriculture has tound. 1heSe
organisn1s obtain their nitrogen from the atmosphere
an6 convert it into forms which the growing plants
can .,,. -.
chief among these nitrogen-fXers. DR.. Allison has
-a-sntv found is blue-green alga. unicelular or
ore-celled plant known to scientists IS nostoc
The individual plants. microscopic in size. cling
together forming long chains, ana Whel eloueH "a
them are present form large patches visible 10 the
l;naided eve II can frequently be seen as green
scIIn, on ponds or on the surface of moist soils.
Nostoc has long been known as an mhaoltant OF
the soil but it is only recently that Dr. Allison has
demonstrated its importance as nitrogen hXer.
I'VE has found that nostoc requires no energy but
II mat of sunlight and no nitrogen source other
than the atmosphere IN order to grow rapidly ms
governments by DR. Allison and S. r. Hoover have
demonstrated accounts for the Importance OF noStoc
II will grow in soils Of such low fertility that higher
plants can hardly get a foothold in them III time
they enrich the soil sufficiently to pave the way lcr
the higher plants. ~
The nitrogen fixing bacteria not so self
sufficient as nostoc These bacteria require the pres
ence of decompoSing plant materials to furnish them
with food. Therefore. the soil becomes oepleteo
these bacteria become less in number
As their number decreases. the amount OF nitro
gen which they can capture decreases, and thus
vicious circle is created.
But nostoc not only continues to fix nitrogen but
II
the same process employed by the higher plants
namely photoSyntheSis. II abSorbs the water from
the soil and the carbon dioXide from the air and
with the aid Of sunlight turns them into carbohy-
drateS. that is sugars and starches.
ORDINARILY nostoc functions near the surface
~ OF the soil where il get sunlight. If plowed
under IL either goes into resting stage or if suf
Gent humus is present fixes nitrogen in the dark in
essentially the same manner the nitrogen-hx
bacteria.
The nitrogen fixing bacteria consists Of two types
One type grows in nodules upon the roots of such
legumnous plants alfalfa. clover peas. beans and
the like. These bacteria obtain their energy supply
from the plants upon whose roots they grow.
The other type is a free-lving one which occurs
in the soil Chief among this type is the known
azotobacter These bacaeria get their energy from
the organic matter in the soil
DR.. Allison and his associates are now engaged in
experiments with all three types OF nirogen-hxers in
an attempt to learn more about the underlying
chemical reactions $
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of young Bob La Toilette, they
bounced upon his lower income
tax plan. Not dreaming that high
inheritance taxes would be
eliminated, he had played directly
into their hands.
They needed S86,OOO,O00. Young
BobS AK schedule just about
filled the hole. So Mr.. Gerry
and his cohorts voted the rates
recommended by Senator La Fol-
lette and passed out the word that
this was the handiwork of the
great champion Of the people.
Two days later they found they
had launched boomerang. Pub
lie indignation was so great that
they hastily voted the La Toilette
rates out of the bill.
DEATH may play no favorites,
IL but in politics there are
different rules.
Last winter wealthy Warren
Delano Robbins, Minister to
Canada, and close cousin of the
President, died in a New York
hospital after a brief illness.
Within few weeks Congress had
rushed through a bill granting
$4,000 to his widow, already we'll
cared for.
In April, 1881, Leopold S. Rob-
erts, a rural mail carrier, was
shot to death near Wilmington,
N. c. He was delivering mail in
his official car when an ambuScade
of prohibition agents on the trail
of rum-runners opened fire and
killed him. A bill was introduced
to give his family $500, but that
was the last heard of it.
A year later another bill was
introduced. Again it gathered dust.
Finally. Josiah Bailey. senior Sem
ator from North Carolina, man
aged to force the measure through
the Senate.
The other day. four years after
the murder of the postal employe,
the House took action. 1t passed
the bill-after slashing it to
$4,000.
Copyright, 1898. By United Feature
(syndicate. Incl
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Robinson now swing on rusty hinges. In fact, it is
now possible 10 say Joe Robinson, of Arkansas, the
Democratic leader Of the Senate, and even IN that
length OF time nothing happens. NeVertheleSS'
wish 10 state that I'm not hOlerng. The most ever
SAID 10 the income tax man was, Buddy, could you
spare an extenSion2"
With any luck mean to settle up the June quar-
ter this week. or the very first thing next week at
tho latest once or twice myself and the auditors
have not seen entirely eye to eve in the matter Oh
entertainment" The exemption has been shot back
at me by the government with the implied criticism,
we doubt that you were as entertaining as all that
Il think the Federal men do not appreciate the fact
that there is many a news source who doesn't reaIy
begin to open up until well after the fourth round
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Other new homes which will be
listed among the show places of
indianapolis include one at $3.50
Washington blvd; a $4,000 home
at 1921 N. Meridian-st; another
valued at $4,000 at SIG w. Hamp-
ton-dr, and a $1,000 home being
built at 1912 Totem-la.
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paid income taxes they would take
more interest in how the money
was spent.
At no time, however, did he ad-
vocate elimination or decrease of
the proposed heavier taxes on
wealth.
But there developed III commit
tee a violent drive against the
House bill provision for a heavy
inheritance tax. This aroused
the resentment of Old Guard Re-
publicans and Democrats alike.
T EADER of the opposition was
IL Peter Goelet Gerry, descend
ant of Elbridge Gerry, signer
of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence and the man who first
evolved the system of cutting up
electoral districts for the benefit
Of one political party-or gerry
Wandering"
Peter Gerry, who inherited the
wealth Of his prosperous ances-
tors, and shares the wealth Of his
wife, Edith Stuyvesant Wander
bilt, was elected to the Senate
from Rhode Island in the RooSe-
welt landslide. Since then he has
been vigorously anti-Roosevelt.
He threw all his strength against
the high inheritance tax. And
when the vote finally was taken,
the committee secretly lined up
as follows:
Against the Tax I'D
Eight Demonstrating, Utah;
George, Ga; Walsh, Mass; Gore,
Okla; Bailey, N. c.; Byrd, Va;
Lonergan. Conn. Gerry, R. I.
Three Republicans-Metcalf. r.
l.; Hastings, Del; Reyes, N. H.
For the Tax 49,
Six Democrats-Harrison, Miss;
Barley, KY; Connally, Tex;
Costigan, Colo; Black, Ala; CUT
fey. Pa.
Two Republicans-La Toilette,
Wis; Capper, Kan.
HAVING licked the inheritance
Il i tax by an II to 8 vote, Old
Guard members had to do some
thing to replace the revenue they
had eliminated.
So. much to the CONSERVATION
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And HOlU They Drank

TINE little milonares ranged in size from $4,000
i a wear in the smaller industrial cities to $4,000
in New York Chicago and other places of great size
Some of the houses had swimming pools, and
thousands of them had bars in which the little mil
lonares and their guests could get drunk in the
true baronial manner.
Such the demand for the abundant life and
such the abundance from which to provide it that
presently there were almost 5000 golf courses of one
kind and another scattered over the country and
sprig of parsley couldn't find room to grow within
Is miles of any City Hall in the land.
There is significance in the growth of golf be-
cause it had been the exclusive game of the rich
dude for many years, and its sudden spread adj
mitted hundreds of thousands of people to a realm
from which they had been barred before Great
clubhouses built, including shocking
architectural monstrosties; people who had
been waited on before began to experience servants.
and the appetite for caviar became democratic
toward the end of the of wonderful nonsense an
imitation caviar was being sold in small dabS in the
five-and-tens
The abundance was to be observed in the styles
and customs of the people
Where previously sports costumes, male and fe-
male, had been the regalia of the Newport rich and
the Palm Beach rich alone, now the manufacturers
began to provide the regmentas of ease and ee-
CANT informalty for the common man, him and his
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BY HELEN LINDSAY
Times staff Writer

COLD statistics indicate that
~ the good old Midwestern
pride in homes which gave In
dianapolis the slogan: Indian
apolis, City of Homes" has become
active again.
Indianapolis building depart
ment figures show that there was
an increase of S539,S23 in the
valuation of building operations
during the first six months of the
current year.
Home construction. beaten down
by the depression, has become &C
tive and on the boulevards and
streets in all sections of the city,
splendid new homes are under
construction.
These new dwellings will take
their places alongside the spacious
mansions which in days of former
grandeur housed families which
have made Hoosier history-the
Meredith Nicholson home, the
Harrington abode and the houses
of the Careys. the Frenzels, the
Fortunes and the Holidays.
THE year 1888 was the most
Il inactive for home construc-
ton. official records show. In that
year only S203,125 in home per-
mits were issued. covering 4S new
homes. In 1926 building opera
tions we're appraised at S6,089, 035.
In 1894. only 81 home permits
were issued. During the first six
months of 1885. home permits
numbered 1856 and bore ap-
praised values Of SLABS, 766.
Statistics compiled by architects
reveal that 5000 new homes should
be built in Indianapolis each year
for a number Of years to catch up
with the former status Of the city.
Among the new homes now
under construction is a French
provincial home being built by
H. L. Simons at Hamrton-dr and
Sunset-av. for Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward F. Gallahue. 1888 E. Wash
ington-st.
The house is being constructed
of stone aShlar. and all rooms are
gum paneled. In the living room
is large sandstone fireplace. The
house will include one of the most
modern social rooms in the city.
The cost is estimated at S17.500.
y
A MOTHER home is being built
IA at Sis N. Meridian-st, for
Dr.. and Mrs. ]. F. Rigg. by CIR.
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EuZnough
BY
WESIBROOk PEGLER

IT would embarrass me to be caught in the act of
i longing for the good old days of Warren G..
Harding and Calvin college. but mention of the
more abundant life which Mr.. Roosevelt bespeakS for
the forgotten man of this country recalls to mind
period of such opulence and luxury can hardly
be equaled in modern history. OF course, 1t was
a case of chicken today and feathers tomorrow but
the chicken good while it lasted, and Mr.. RooSe-
welt will have done we'll if at the end of his reign
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Federman. It's valuation is ST.
600
An English home is being built
at $3.50 N. Pennsylvania for Mr..
and Mrs. Leonard A. Solomon,
4701 N. Pennsylvania. Cost of
building is estimated at $4,000.
An attractive feature will be the
tinted walls and ceilings.
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he has managed 70 re-eStabllSh the
conditions of life which existed up
TO the time that the country found
itself fresh out of chicken.
1t will serve as an Illustration
to point out that up to Mr. Hard
ing'S time there were about 1000
golf courses in the country and that
the new country club set was
rather snobbish group. mainly en-
ployers and executives. who we're
initiating the old aristocratic coun-
try club set which first imported
golf from Scotland. After the war
there was a rapid multiplication of
little millionaires and great exc
dus TO the suburbs of all the cities
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The Custom Changed

NTHERE formerly the forgotten man had done
w his domestic drinking in quick sly nibbles
down the cellar and had kept his pint hidden in the
coal bin the wood pile there now appeared in
the store and in the American home the cocktail
outfit and, in many cases, a handy who moved
the lawn and drove the car and, putting on a white
jacket became butler. passing among the gay
ladies and gents with big churn full of bootleg gin
and orange juice in one hand and tray of deviled
eggs, anchovieS and kindred refined denominations in
the other.
Meanwhile under the guidance Of John McEntee
Bowman, Canadian who had first seen New York
between the gunsight ears of a jass-mule attached
to baggage dray of which he the driver there
began to arise chains of hotels done in a splendor
which made Buckingham Palace look like Hogan's
flop on a cold night in the panic of OF.
Indicted into the luxury of these regal hives,
where the customer was always right and the bell
hops called the humblest tourist mister" the cit-
zens had further experience of an abundance the
like of which they had imagined that none but
Vanderbits and Whitneys could ever know.
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Haywood BR0CN

L WONDER just what sort Of tax everybody would
ike and enjoy. Indeed. I've never heard of such
tax. And so when the air is rent with the screams
Of those who shout that the thrifty being soaked
or that the successful being swatted the time has
come TO ask that the salt cellar be passed around
so We can all help ourselves to grain.
There is no form Of income tax which is going to
be universally popular. We might well make
up our minds to that. I am not maintaining that
every last schedule in the House proposals. and still
less in regard to those Of the Senate, the best
possible arrangement which could be devised.
For instance as man whose income Is earned
don't quibbel with no part Of it coming from
stocks and bonds and the cunt from royal
ties 1 could wish a little easemcrt. might point
out that my nimbe fingers and my brain this is
Just for the purpose of argument constitute a sort
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
BIZ Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

VXTASHNGTON. 1910 those the
w ceedng of the Committee broadened
the $500 brackets the
fomances of the present session.
To Bob La Toilette they razyqu nightmare He
had consistently hammered
the
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=
ought TO be allowed TO write OF
something for depreciation.
At a certain age a columnist be-
gins to realize that old man biology
is keeping company with the wolf
outside the door. The invested
capital which he Carries under his
hat IS beginning to wear out. To
put it in the kindest way possible,
he isn't getting any better.
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where promoters plowed up old truck farms and
dahia plantations put in streets. sewers and lights
and constructed houses by the thousand
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He Intends to Pay

THOSE cells within the cOrtex
i from which bright ideas once
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A MOTHER home is being built
IA at Sis N. Meridian-st, for
Dr.. and Mrs. ]. F. Rigg. by CIR.