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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-28
WHO OWES YOU A LIVING?

Millions of people are being educated in our
country today to believe that someone owes them a
living The laws of nature do not seem to recog-
nize this doctrine.
Just go out into primitive country and see who
owes who livng-you will soon find that your
existence depends your ingenuity and initiative.
Governments were organized to go nature one
better and make it little easier to live and to take
care of the helpless whom nature would otherwise
unceremoniously remove.
But today, millions of perfectly happy, able
bodied people are being taught to loaf at the ex-
pense of the savings of others, instead of to hustle
for themselves.
Such a system can endure only so long as there
are storedup savings to conscate then the inevita-
BILE laws of nature will prevail.
An epidemic of pests completely devours tree
or a field of grain and then the pests die Nature
does not owe them living.
The same thing happen to governments and
to the human beings who make the governments
if they eat up their capital to maintain idleness
they will eventually find that nature refuses To
hear their demands that someone owes them a
living"
This may not be notwithstanding philosophy,
but it is fact which honey-coated political cure
alls try to hde.-Gaffney Ledger
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-28
THE RACKETEER KING

One of the most pointed articles on the subject
of governmental waste to come TO our atten'io'i
lately declares that the high cost of government
has now become our greatest racketeer, making Al
Capone and others of his ilk look like plkers
It declares that 25 per cent of the annual ma
tional income is required to satisfy the demands
of this super-racketeer. In other words, one dollar
out of every four earned by the American people
goes to pay for the wild eXtravaganceS OF govern
ment, as compared with one dollar out OF every S7o
twenty years ago.
This staggering burden is not borne by any par
ticular class. Every man, woman and child IN the
nation must pay share of tribute to the ogre OF
governmental waste The money comes out of cap
ital, savings and payros. 1t results in decreased
earnings and increased cost of living for each OF
u.s. no matter how rich or poor. 1t is one of the
principal reasons why business and employment do
not improve.
An aroused public finally put Al Capone away.
Whenever the people get sufficiently exasperated
with greatest of all public enemes-the high cost
of governmental too, can be suppressed
All over this country the voters and taxpayers
are organizing to put stop to the encroachments
of this king of racketeers. Public officials who fail
to heed the growing demand for economy in gov
eminent are on the road to oblivion.-Monroe En-
quirer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-28
EQUALITY FOR OFFICE

One of the dubious heritages of Jacksonian de-
mocracy is the widespread conviction that all men
are equally eligible for public office
This idea has never been applied literally, but
we have come dangerously near to it at times. and
there is still tendency to choose to office men
who notable, not for their greatness of intellect
or thoroughness of preparation, but for their re-
semblance to the average man. All too often this
has given government by mediocre men, simply be-
it pleased the vanity of the electorate to feel
that their rulers were no better than they
Writing thoughtfully in the American Legion
Monthly, DR.. Will Durant suggests that democracy
should be REDEEMED not as the equal eligibility of
all to office but as the equal opportunity of all 70
make themselves fit for office "
For high office we should seek men wiser and
ADLER than average, and for lesser posts particular
ly administrative office, we should seek thoroughly
trained men for whom government is a profession
not merely an interlude in a busy life devoted to
private affairs.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-28
CAN'T RUN WITHOUT HER
By WICKES WAWBOLDT

ficient spoilers. and capable gram
marians. Their knowledge of the
meaning of words is very limited.
They can not turn out letter
perfect, Well-balanced communi-
cation.
The girl who makes herself a
high-grade stenographer has q
tremendous amount of work to do.
She must know her stuff-not
merely think she knows it. Ask
the average stenographer why she
puts a comma where she puts it,
and she can not tell you to save
her life. Ask her the function of
a semi-colon and she is stumped.
Stenography is a science which
embraces a number of deep, intri-
cate sciences. The stenographer
who would go to the top and get
the salary that goes with it, will
have to burn the midnight oil for
many year. And there is one
habit she must acquire until it be-
comes absolutely chronic with her
INC UlCIlOIldIS HAUL E'iS SiiouiN
know grammar and rhetoric for
wards and backwards. She must
cultivate and develop a flair for
accuracy and neatness; and she
must have speed in her work.
So far l have dealt merely with
the mechanical, the technical re-
ouirements of the high-grade
stenographer. She must under
stand her employers business,
and she must understand her en-
ployer. She must know how to
relieve him of little office worries
and bothers. She must remind
him of his engagements and OF the
things he has to do. She must
keep his papers in such order that
anything he wants can be found
instantly. She shouldn't have to
look all over the county for a
pencil and a note book when ne
wants to give q letter. She should
knew how to answer his telephone
and receive his callers il a way to
protect him from nuisanccs, yet to
make friends of everybody. She
should be able to sense the con-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-28
SUFFERING IN. GERMANY

The condition of the laboring class in the Third
Reich has become so serious that it is no longer
concealable. by the government. The rise in food
prices in the last two years amounts to three Or
four marks a week, $1.2O to S1.6O at the present
exchange rate, for an average family.
Deductions and so-caled voluntary" contrib,-
tions to the Nazi cause amount to Is or 20 nor
cent of their meager wages. Considering that Al
per cent of the German workers earn less than Is
marks (s725 and % per cent IS to 80 marks .
week, it is easily understood that the workers arc
not able to shoulder these heavy new burdens,
The Nazi Labor Front, official organ had tba
temerity to predict recently that if conditions con.
tnue to get worse, "a point which must be regard.
ed as highly dangerous will be reached.-Nash-
vile Banner.
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rapher out of work. Even during
the depression there have not
been enough high-grade stenog-
raphers to go around.
| have employed hundreds Of
stenographers and I have inter-
viewed and tried out thousands.
| should say that the percentage
of high-grade stenographers is
about one per cent. And why is
that? Probably because the aver
age stenographer does no realize
what constitutes a good stenog~
rapher. She thinks that the abll-
ity to take dictation and type it
makes her a good stenographer.
To paraphrase once-popular
song, she does not know how
much she has to know before she
knows how little she knows.
One fundamental difficulty with
stenographers is that they do not
have a sound educational founda-
ton. Girls and boys too, woefully
deficient in basic education take
a course in stenography and Won
der why they can not go places
with it.
The majority of stenographers
do not understand the science of
punctuation and the rules for
paragraphing. They are not pro-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-28
THE NEW DEAL
IN WASHIN CT ON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

sidy guarantee 10 cotton growers.
That would leave perhaps S45.'
900 900 to be spent for disposition
of surpluses-through export or di
version to relief channels. The big
argument now is as to whether
most or all of that sum will be
spent to finance dumping foodstuffS
abroad or whether most or all will
be used for relief purchases.
Present tendency in AAA is t.
feed the surplus food tn Americans
rather than foreigners, but man.
congressman and some farm group,
would prefer to see it dumped.
Privately. officials admit that ihr
amount of surplus foodstuffs to /:
distributed for relief this Writer
will depend on the extent to which
the unemployed shout for it AM
the pressure which farm groups
exert for purchases, once a no
dumping policy is announced.
TONS Of potatoes presumably VIII
l. be bought by FSRC. tits most
recent acquisitions are five million
pounds of butter and ten millior
pounds of dried skim milk
Believe it or not, the forthCom
ing reduction" program for spuds
is likely to result in lower prices
for potatoes than would the absence
of any program at all. AAA econ
omists have advised crnfidentiall!
that the effort to penalize overpro
duction probably will result ir
more production than they antici
pated.
The reason. For a long time pc
tato production has been running
in two.year cycles. After two years
of big production and low prices.
such as the last two years-potatc
growers ordinarily cut acreaes
drastically, whereupon potatoes BE-
come fewer and higher in price fos
couple of years, whereupon pc.
tato growers start planting BIC
crops again and so on.
Cartwright 1895. NEA Service. Incl
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-28

THE great state of Pennsylvania
i where valuable industries thrive
and great fortunes have been &C
cumulated, was given away in pay
ment of a debt, a little over 25C
years ago. That debt, amounting
to only $4,000, was owed by King
Charles II of England to Admiral
Penn, father of William Penn
founder of Pennsylvania.
In 1882 the United States issued
a stamp showing picture of this
humanitarian Quaker, on the 25Oth
. anniversary of the founding Of this
colony. He came from England in
1882 and laid out the city Of Phil
adelphia, after purchasing the land
from the Indians. In 1701, how
ever. he had to hurry back to Eng
land to prevent abrogation Of his
royal charter by Parliament. While
there he heard that his fortunes at
home had been depleted.
Word of dissension among his
followers in Pennsylvania, in ad
dition, caused him to offer his
rights to the colony in America for
sale at about 100000 Before the
sale could be completed, however,
he was stricken with paralysis
and died, in IT'S.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-28

GRE4NI> bth', OCL' 20 'ouP''
one of the best unions in the de-
partment. .,
In the hundred per cent goal
the Ford Intermediates arc lead
ing with 16 "hundrcd per cent
members. Plans will be made and
discussed to increase the number
in every union at the business
meeting tonight.
Each union has been assigned Il
program in the general assembly
period. The first two Of these VIII
be the Carey Union, under the
leadership of Mrs. Malcolm How
ell and Mrs. David Mashburn, on
November 10. Following this union
on November "a the Lucy Virgil
union, with Miss Ethelene Merre.!
as president and Mrs. 3. E. Jones
as sponsor, will present q pro-
gram to the department.
A few changes in LEADERSHIP
have been made recently. MIS-
Myrtle Bennett has been trans
ferred to the Ford lntcrmedia .
union from the Jud52n Juniors.
II. B. Drake took Miss Denn,t, s
place with The Juniors.
Roy Bennett, Sr., is now assist,
ing in the Yates Intermediate
union.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-28
RY RODNEY BUTCHER
Nrh Service Staff Correspondent

NEt Service staff COrreSpondent
WASHINGTON The old ques-
w ton whether it's 4 good
idea to dump, destroy. or sup
press "surpluses" of food while
millions of people are on the edge
Of starvation is again an issue in
New Deal councils.
There has been some compro-
mise in Roosevelt's previous firm
determination to abolish the Fed
eral Surplus Relief Corporation,
which has bought tens of thou
sands of tons of foodstuffs in the
last two years for distribution to
families on relief
The FSRC will be transferred
from Harry Hopkins soon-to-
vanish FERA to the AAA and
federal purchases for the needy
won't be abandoned-at least not
entirely.
The president, however, still has
TIE theory that wages OF the work
relief program and the turning of
direct relief back to the states yir-
tually end the necessity or desir.
ability of free food for the unem.
ployed. And that is violently dis.
put~l within both the agricultural
ard relief organizations.
1t is contended that WPA wages
usually won't provide adequate
diets for families, especially in
face Of rising prices, that the pro
gram of ending direct federal re-
lief is only crawling, and that
there will still be plenty of sur
pluses which should be bought from,
. farmers to maintain prices. ~
'HE issue comes TO a head
through an amendment in which
Congress- recently appropriated 81
per cent Of customs revenues f.
aid in calculating the AAA pro
gram. h-0
More than half that amount
'eems destined for paving the sub
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q Appropriation W
pay stenograph-
ers, declaring
that they could
not get the kind
of stenographers
that they wanted
and needed from
the relief rolls.
There are few
vocations where
there is as much
room at the top
as there is in
S t e n o 6 + Apply.
Rarely is t h e
r;rc+ nlocc ctanoo-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-28
INTERESTS THREATENED, BRITAIN
PROTESTS
(By BRUCE CATTON)

If your memory is good enough to reach
back three years, you can get pretty TAR
idea why Mussolini is going ahead in Eth
opia in defiance of the League OF Nations.
You san also get good line on the SINGER
ity. II otherwise, of the great powers
which are holding their hands aloft in pl-
Gus horror over his actions.
Three years ago the Japanese set out to
help themselves to Manchuria. Like Eth
opia, Manchuria was potentially rich
land held by an extremely weak people.
According to all the old rules of the game,
it would belong to the first nation that had
the nerve and the strength to walk IN anu
take possession 0f it. The Japanese elect
ed to be that nation.
1t is instructive to note what happened
thereafter.
The American government launched 3
series of sharp protests. The seizure OF
Manchuria (afterward renamed Manchou-
kyC) was in violation of sundry treaties. 1t
was also a palpable case of aggression by
a strong nation upon a weak one; and
since Japan had been a member Of the
League of National since the leagues
foundation, the case was promptly referred
to Geneva.
Where, in those far-off days, were those
English statesmen who have been talking
so loudly of late about the need of cOllec-
tive resistance to unprovoked acts of ag-
erosion? Did they move heaven and earth
to obtain league boycott of Japan? Did
they advance right to the edge of war TO
put pressure on Toxic to give up it's I'M
dertaking?
If your memory of those days is any good
at all, you do not need to be told that they
did not. The one nation to make forceful
protest was the United States, which was
not even league member; and the altru-
istic English, far from backing us up, left
us wa yOut on limb with our protests, SO
that the Japanese concentrated upon us all
the resentment they felt at foreign disap
prOval of their program.
The thing to remember is that the Japa-
nese adventure in Manchuria was almost
an exact parallel to the Italian adventure
in Ethiopia. If Italy merits rebuke and
collective resistance by the league, so die
Japan. Why should the British be so cor
scientious about league obligations in the
present case when they cared not fig fo1
them in the former one
The answer to that one is easy. Japan
act was not threat to the interests of thu
British empire; Italy's is. Manchuria i
surrounded by China, Siberia and the din
regions of Mongolia; Ethiopia, by Egypt
the Sudan and Kenya colony. England
loses nothing by Japan's conquest; she ma,
lose much by Mussolini's.
All this is worth keeping in mind. If tn
present situation grows more serious, Euro
pean publicists will presently tell us that
is our sacred duty to aid the league If w
remember the Manchurian case, we sha]
be able to take that news with the prope
amount of salt.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-28

One of the departments of the
federal government, undertaking
project to give work to persons
on relief, insisted on having an
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-28

A 437-pound White Plains, N. Y, wo-
man demands ahmony. That's one alimony
suit in which the plaintiff really needs sup:
port.
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facts valuable to him and to tie
them I'D for him when they tele-
phone or call, and see that he con-
meets with them - though she
chase him down on the golf
course.
That is the kind of stenographer
who is more priceless than rubies.
The man who has one like that
feels he can't run his business
without her-and he can't. 1t will
nav any stenographcr handsomely
to take any amount of time need
ed to mike herself a high-grade
stenographer.
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Pennsylvania lunch stand proprietors
charged with adulterating hamburger. But
how did anybne ever find out?s
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-28
B. 7. u. SESSION
SET TONIGHT
October Business Meeting
and Fun Period Are
Arranged

The regular monthly B. T. U.
business meeting and fun period
of the B. T. U. department of the
First Baptist church will be held
tonight in the junior Sunday
school department at 1880 o'clock.
Leaders and officers will make
plans for each union for the month
of November. An effort is being
made to enlist every officer in the
entire department to attend.
During the last month many CT
the B. Y. P. US have advanced III
efficiency. Each union has in
creased it's membership and set a
goal to be standard. The <. l..
Bomar senior union is now going
through a period of change and
has found itself in a position to be
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Heads
n. ". District OF
State Teachers
Northwestern Group Meet
ing Holds Gathering
al Greensboro

GREENSBORO, Oct. 28-Supt.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-08-13
E. M. GODDARD OUT OF CAME
 COM MISSION
Terhunne Announces Res ignation of Former As-
 sistant- Selfridge in

Resignation of E. M. Goddard Supervisor of the Wardens of the Alaska Game Commission, and ap- pointment of William R. Selfridge who recently resigned as Chairman of the Commission, to succeed him as game warden for the Ketchikan district, was announced yesterday in Ketchikan by H. W. Terhune, Exec utive Officer of the Commission who is enroute to Juneau on the Brown Bear.
 MT. Goddard, who has been with the Commission since it's organiza- tion in 1925, will enter private busi- ness, perhaps becoming associated with stile Alaska Sportsman, an outdoor magazine published at Ket- chikar, it is reported. Before being transferred December 29 to Ket- chikan, Goddard was located here, being especially well known and &C., tive in civic affairs.
 Selfridge, who quit as Game Com mission Chairman last week, took over the warden's duties yesterday and Goddard stepped out at the same time.
 Earl N Dinner of Petersburg is taking Selfridge's place as game commissioner in the First Division
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-08-13
KANSAS TOUR PARTY or 64
 ON ALEUTlAN
Senator Capper Group, Two Others Noted
 on Vessel Here

Almost one-half of the 259 round trip passengers aboard the steamer Aleutian on her present voyage from Seattle are connected with one Of three cruise parties.
 The largest tour party aboard is headed by Roy R. Moore, resident of Topeka, Kans. This party in cludes GA Kansas farmers It was organized by Senator Arthur Cap per, veteran political leader in Kansas and publisher of the To- peka Daily Capital.
 Another large party is headed by E. J. Smith, Battle Creek, Mich, and is under the auspices Of the Burlington Tours. There are IA dle-westerners in the group.
 A third tourist group is small party from California. Miss Julia Hyde, agent for the Pacific Steam ship Company at Santa Ana, Cal, is the organizer and guide for the expedition. Other members of the party include: Tessie Childers, San ta Ana; Ruth Hood. Haltville; Mrs Sara Haddon, Santa Ana; and Helen Jeffrey, Irvine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-08-13
WILLIAMS BACK
 FROM INSPECTION,
 SOUTHEAST ROADS


 M. D. Williams, District Engi- neer for the Bureau of Public Roads, returned on the Aleutian from an inspection trip to various Southeast Alaska points and reports the work is progressing in good shape. At Skagway, Sitka and Ket- chikan he looked over maintenance work and at -Wrangell inspected the clearing operations and construction of the eight-mile extension of the Wrangell highway, which is being done by Custard, Meadows and Oja, contractors.
 At Petersburg two construction jobs are underway on contracts awarded to Wright and Stock. The first a three-mile stretch, will be completed in week or 10 days and the other job is well under way and probably will be finished in the late fall. Mir. Williams said,
 The District Enkihe&1 is. plan ming Ion making 2 trip to- Seattle next week. M 1 Ds-f Y"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-08-13
.D|MOND NAMED : l. vICE-PRES|DENT
 NRH CONGRESS
Recognition of His Interest Is Rewarded by
 Appointment

WASHINGTON, Aug. Especial CoSe 1pondence) < In recognition of his consistent interest in the sub ject of rivers and harbors, Alaska Delegate Dimond has been appoint ed Vice President for the Territory of Alaska of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress.
 In the General Rivers and liar bors Bill now before Congress, the Delegate has had the following AL aska projects included in those items that are eligible for immedi- ate prosecution of work on enact 6ment of the bill;
 Wrangell Harbor. Wrangell Mar rows, Dry Pass, Stikine River, Ko- diak Harbor, Petersburg Harbor Egegik River, Cordova Harbor, Sew aid Harbor, Nome Harbor, and Sit. ka Harbor.
 The bill also includes the follow ing items for which House Joinl Resolutions were introduced au. thorizing preliminary surveys witt a view toward the Improvement ol irrespective harbors: s4 ! Bethel Ha1bor, Douglas Harbor Haines Harbor, Rake Harbor, Met. lakatla Harbor, Ship Canal acros, Prince of Wales Island. Sitka Har, Dor, Unalasxa Harbor. Valdez liar, bor Skagway Harbor and Home Harbor.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-08-13
ALASKA VISITS
 HERE BRIEFLY
 FROM WESTWARD
Steamer Brings B Pas sengers, Takes Five
 on South Run

Berthing at Pacific Coast Dock at 10 o'clock last night from the Westward shortly after the Aleu- tian had come alongside the same wharf from Seattle. the steamer Alaska brought 13 passengers to the city. Five southbound pas sengers left on her when she cleared port at midnight for Se- attle.
 The inbound list:
 From the Westward-Mrs. N. Lester Troast, Lester Troast, Jr., Richard Troast, c. Troast, Ethel Klem, Fern Dysart, Dora Dysart, J. c. Lennon, E. A. Rasmuson, J. w. Gucker, Jackie Quicker, o. Tibo.
 The outbound list:
 For Seattle-Albert Vile, Jack Emel, John Emel.
 For Ketchikan-D. M. Bothwell, Bob McComb.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-08-13
COREY FORD TO ARRIVE IN CITY THURSDAY NIGHT
Well Known Writer Says He'll Be Here on Prince
 Rupert This Week

Corey Ford, well known writer and fishing addict, will arrive in Juneau Thursday night on the Prince Rupert, according to a tele- gram received by Frank Dufresne, Assistant Executive Officer of the Alaska Game Commission today from Jasper Lodge, Alberta. Ford said he had changed his plans and would be in Juneau Thursday night.
 Ford, who was here year ago, is making a special study of wild animal and bird life at the in stance of several outdoor publica- tions with the aim of writing sev- eral articles on the national out look.
 Several fishing expeditions are being planned by Dufresne for the widely known visitor.