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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10
BEHIND WILD PROPOSALS is PUBLIC
Discomfort
CBY BRUCE CATION

You can work up a healthy little night
mare for yourself, if that sort of diversion
interests you, by sitting down quietly and
imagining what would happen if, by some
freak of chance, all the wild and woolly
bills pending in congress should become
law.
Suppose, for instance, that the Towns
end old-age pension plan, the 3O-hour week
bill. the greenback-bonus bill, and meas
ure providing for widespread unemploy-
ment insurance financed by stiff payroll
tax should be passed and should be signed
by the President or passed over his veto.
Simply to mediate on the resultant tan
gle in governmental and industrial finance
is enough to make one start looking for
the nearest cyclone cellar.
Of course, there is no use in getting
steamed up about it, because, while one
of these measures may get through the
hopper, there simply isn't Chinaman's
chance that they all will.
But the important thing is to think of
what these various bills represent, and not
of what their chances for becoming law
may be.
Behind these measures there is great
body of public sentiment which may be
confused, misguided, and m w
thoughtless, but which nevertheless repre-
sents the making of great decision by
the American people.
This decision is, simply, that the diff
cult times of the last four years are alto
gether too difficult to be endured again
That is to say that the people generally
do not intend to put up with repetition
of that era of declining payrolls, declining
living standards, declining bank accounts,
and general, all-around hardship.
They may have only the foggiest of no.
tons how to prevent it, but they are deter.
mined to prevent it somehow; and the re-
suit is demand for legislation which may
be completely illogical, but which cannot
be defeated by mere argument.
Unless Congress and the administration
can agree on some program which gives g
fair promise of protecting the average MAJ
from the cruelties of hard times, the sen
timent which supports these measures vii
continue to gather strength.
That is the important thing to remem
Der. There is very little real chance tina
our government will adopt law, for in
stance, paying $200 a month to ever!
American over 60 years of age.
But unless the government understand:
why such a law is demanded, and doe
something about it, we may find ourselve:
passing much worse law than that a few
years hence. 60.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service STAFF Correspondent
~

WASHINGTON - Enemies OF
w economic security measures
are relying on a single hove
talking them to death.
Roosevelt's idea is to throw his
important legislative proposals to
Congress consecutively giving
Capitol Hill time to clean up each
one before it gets the next. This
process saves stalling, sidetrack-
ing, and mutilatfon--when it
works.
Most of the administration
crowd hopes unemployment insur-
ance can be rushed through rap
idly in that way. But conserva-
tives are secretly working to head
that issue into a maze of COM
mittee hearings and complicated
alternative proposals
They take their cue from the
business mems meeting at White
Sulphur Springs, which recon-
mended a national system" -
and a lot of time to consider it.
EVEN temporary delay would
- please the lobbyists. The Wag.
ner-Lewis unemployment insurance
scheme which Roosevelt and his
economic security committee has
adopted in principle, lets any state
set up its own job insurance sys.
TEN and consequently requires -ac,
tion by states. -:
Two-thirds of state legislatures
are meeting about now and~friends
of the Wagner-Lewis idea would
like to jam the measure through
this month, so those bodies Cali act
now
If passage is put off, they argue,
the system virtually will be de,
>ayed two years
WHILE Joe Byrns of Tennessee
Wv is getting acquainted with the
speakers gavcl, details are leaking
out which begin to indicate jusl
how he got his mitts on the thing
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10
THE CONGRESS

A cumbersome majority of either political party
in less turbulent times, but when the huge Demo-
cratic majority is composed of multitude OF in
tractable ninorities, fed by spirit of unrest pre-
vaiGng at home and bound by extravagant cam
paign promises, the danger to a nagenda devoted
solely to soundly conceived legislation becomes
more apparent 1t is obvious that the Presidents
popularity is the country's great bulwark of pro-
lection against these radical nostrums, and there
is satisfaction in the thought that, with the excep
ton of the bonus bill which can be expected to
cleaVe congress wide open early in its session, his
influence may be sufficiently strong to hold con-
gress together on the most important pieces of
legislation. But it would be both poor judgment
and poor grace for the people generally to rely
so much on the President that they relax their
vigilance. Problems of depression gradually
being superseded by problems of recovery. with
the result that temporary expedients must grad
ually be supplanted by permanent policies. 1t
should be needless to point out that this transi-
ton represents the crisis in the nations patient
progress toward recovery and it is this transition
with which the present congress must concern it
self. AT no time has it been more necessary for
Intelligent citizens to be vigiant to protect re-
covery gains, to resist radical thought, and to lend
their earnest support to a chief executive who IS
bearing an intOlerable burden,-Dale Miller in
Texas Weekly.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10

gains for the. sprinr OF rq..
1884 levels, rctailcr IN - q
lanta district were we
optimistic. pledicting w.. :
per cent. st. LOU n.. q
gain of !: 12.5 per cen, =, p
creases of 10 per cent o "a!
expected in the raagTI..1.
Cleveland, Richmond Cits.',
Minneapolis, Kan D.,. ".Ii
and San Francisco l,..,ri %
tricts.
Although trend a -
various lines were mo-. n..,
throughout the cowr. Jung
gainst were shown j.. ... <'
ems and wash goods. aa y
work and art goods. .r,,. Jig.
and neckwear and scarf ~.
vcy indicated. VIZ
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10
NOTE FOR FLORIDA

= SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10
lCUP)-The chamber Of commerce
has something else to publicizc.
On Christmas day, the butterflies
in Golden Gate park were the on
ly ones in any park in the United
States, according to Edwin p.
Van. Duzcc, Of the department OF
entomology, California Academy
Of Sciences.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10
PRAYING FOR CHRISTIANS

"For this cause bow my knees unto the Father
,f our Lord Jesus Christ" (Read Eph. 3:14-2D.
Pauls prayers were directed by the Spirit of
God. They are for Christians patterns for inter-
cessions They should be studied and copied oy
all who would make intercession for the Ghurca
according to the will of God, Paul prayed much
that fellow Christians might be strengthened IN
wardly by the Spirit, and be more completely mica
with Christ, and grounded in love- DO YOU!
Ernest NJ Wadsworth.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10
REMINDS YOU OF WHAT?

I. 1t is said that every person has
the characteristics in some degree
of some animal. A man may have
the agility Of the panther, the
bOldness of the lion. A woman
may have the gentleness Of the
dove, the grace of the gael.
If | were asked to name the
animal which the unethical politi-
cian typifics, l should say the rat,
for he is always burrowing, I'M
dermirinG, stealing, and a con-
slant fight must be kept up on
him to keep him from oyerrunning
the entire country.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10
Answers to Previous Questions

Answers to- Previous Questions
THE opera was the "Begpar's
I Opera" By John Gay which
had scored &c bic success in Eng.
land The first nails were cold
cut" by a. pair. of shears from an
old chest lock and then headed
in smiths wise Hot Springs
National Park was established by
Act of Congress II included 4G
hot springs in an area of IL
square miles
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10

professor arrive
at his deternina-
ton? Simplest
thing you know.
He sent a ques-
tionnaire to two
hundred lady sec
retaries.
Do you sit in
your employers
] a p ?" queried
the. professor.
"No indeed"
was the enphat-
- ,ng,NnnCn
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10
LETTERS 10
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned COM
munications are published by
The Times-News. All letters
must be signed with the real
name Of the author. No COM
munications signed with a fic-
tisious name will be published.
EDITOR.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10

Now comes college professor
who asserts that the percentage
of lap sitting secretaries has been
greatly exaggerated. How did the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10
COOPERATION

. Some mon who arc always
eager to do "what is right" insist
on the privilege themselves Of dc
Gning "what is right"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10
Somebody Has Blundered
By WICKES WAMBOLDT-

Otis has since been committed
to the institution for the feeble
minded in ChattahOochcc, Fla.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10

In his estimate of the number of people
still unemployed, did President Roosevelt
include General johnson?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10

The Republican party has outlined a 20
point program forrecovery, the main point
being the recovery of the Republican
party.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10

Huey Long announces he'll broadcast a
new cure for cancer. So many cancer
cures have proved false that we'd believe
in this one if it cured Huey.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10

Fam Is penalty for shining against our bodies,
and also warning that some evil needs correcting.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10

Don't be ashamed of the parents that are wear
ing shabby clothes for your sake
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10

The world, says a scientist, is slowly be-
ing depleted of its oxygen, but can't we
stave off disaster by muzzling some OF our
political windjammers?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10

We don't know the exact age of our race bu
it's old enough to know better
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10

The best things any man can have are the thing
any man can have.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10

"Bethlehem's manger Graded King" but II
was not born in it.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10
WHAT ABOUT THE FAMILY?

owe are going to have chicken
st our house for Christmas din
ner," said a man last month. 81
don't like turkey"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10

Neither mules nor men kick and pull at the
same time. ...,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10

Who invented the brccch
loading cannon
": What was the. first historical
society
Who built the first.ice yaCht7
Answers III next issue.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-10

Horse Shoe, n. c..
January 9, 1895.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-06
POLICE JUDGE IN
 NEW YORK PROVES MODERN SOLOMON
Freed Man Who Beat Up Wife'S LOver-Latter
 Was Given Penalty

Mount Holly, N. J., Feb G. (UP)-Police Recorder William A. Grady complimented himself to- day for having solved the domestic troubles of MT and Mrs Clifford Pew.
 Pew recently appeared before Grady on 8 charge of wife-beat- ing. At his hearing Pew ex- plained his wife had angered him by her friendship with Auguste Franke, 22-year-old orderly at Cooper hospital, in Camden, who was described as "a handsome lad of attractive personality" At that time, Grady advised Pew to refrain from hitting his wife, but rather to "take a few good pokes at the other man."
 Accordingly, Pew followed the recorders advice. He took his wife to visit her parents in Mount Holly and then went for a stroll. Returning he found that Franks had dropped in. Upon seeing him, Pew charges, Franke attacked him with a fence picket, where upon Pew, an exceedingly husky person, proceeded to do Franke up in grand style.
 To-day, at Franke's hearing on Pew's charge of assault, Recorder Grady complimented Pew on his handiwork, deciding Franke was no longer "a handsome lad. Then to make matters worse-for Franke Grady fined him $25 and sen- fenced him to six months in jail, suspended if Franke stays on his good behavior.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-06
HOUSE CLEANING
 OF AAA STARTED
Administrator Davis Is on "Left Wingers" in
 the Dept

Washington, Feb. 6.-(UP). - AAA Administrator Chester C. Da- wis purged his organization of "eft- -wingers" today and started what may be a general house. cleaning. In relieving officials whose ideas run counter to his, Davis let it be known he intends to be boss of the AAA. The shakeup was believed the beginning of q thoroughgoing reorganization. Chief victim was the 'left-wing" group headed by Jerome N. Frank, AAA general counsel. Franks duties were transferred to Seth Thomas, department of agriculture solicitor. Also affected by the reorganization were:
 1. Alger Miss, youthful attorney for the Nye munitions committee and assistant to Frank.
 2. Dr Frederic Howe, old-time crusading liberal and Ohio munic- ipal reformer, who is to be re- placed as consumers counsel.
 3. Gardner Jackson, assistant consumers counsel and admitted sympathizer with left-wing causes.
 Since Undersecretary of Agricul- ture Rexford G. Tugwell and Frank are good friends with close ly allied ideas. speculation was aroused as to Tugwelrs future but there was no indication of his be- ing involved.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-06
PRESIDENT HAS
 WRITTEN GREEN
Explains Why He Named
 s. Clay Williams Head of MIRA Board

Washington, Feb 6.-CUP)-In a letter that began "Dear Bill", President Roosevelt has informed William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, of the reasons for the appointment of S. Clay Williams as head of the NRA board. The White House letter made public to-day was in reply to one written by Green and was dated December .21, 1884.
 The presidents letter:
 Dear Bill:
 'I think it is perhaps best that I should not reply officially to the resolution and action of the convention of the American Fed eration of Labor in regard to the appointment of Mir Clay Williams. There is no need for any contro- versy over the resolution or in re- gard to q number of inaccuracies of fact and conclusion in the reso- lution. "As you know, I appointed Clay Williams after real consider ation of all the public and private interests affected and on the basis of my personal knowledge of his qualifications. Since his appoint ment he has rendered Q devoted, impartial service which has fully justified his selection. think that as time goes on the federal tion will agree with me on all of this"
 Williams formerly was head of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco com pany, and it partly was on that ac- count the federation charged he was not sympathetic toward labor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-06
HALF. MILLION IS SOUGHT IN SUIT
 BY ELSIE DENNY
SOuthbury Woman Seeks
 Balm for Alienation of Her Husband

What is believed to be the larg- est damage suit ever filed in supe- rior court here was instituted to- day by Elsie Hinman Denny or Southbury who asks half million dollars in an alienation of affcc- ton action against the socially prominent Dorothy May White of Greenwich.
 The suit claims the plaintiff lost the love and affection of her hus- band, John Denny, prominently known horseman. through the "arts, blandishments and seduc- tions' of the defendant.
 The suit says the plaintiff and her husband lived happily at South bury for eight years up to and including the year 1884. In the summer of last year the de- fendant became acquainted with MT Denny and through various acts of blandishments, destroyed the plaintiffs happiness and home.
 Lost Husbands Love
 As a result, she claims she suf- fered great distress of mind and body and has lost her husband s love and affection. and has been neglected and abandoned.
 The suit is returnable to the Waterbury superior court in March. The beautiful estate of the defend- ant at Greenwich, said to be worth in excess of $100,000 was attached
 (Continued on Page 4.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-06
NEED LIQUOR AT
 SHIPBUILDING

Washington, Feb 6.-(UP)-A New York Shipbuilding company executive told the senate munitions committee to-day that wine and liquor were ''just as essential as steel" In the shipbuilding business" He was N. R. Parker, treasurer. He admitted that the government som etimes paid the bill for enter tainment on trial trips of vessels built by the company. Pressed by Senator Bennett Champ Clark, d.. Mo-. for an explanation, Par ker said:
 "Wines and liquors have more to do with the building of ships than the champagne bottle that Is cracked over the side. "On our trial trips we see to 1t that u five gallon demijohn of whiskey is placed beside the coal pits for the sweating, hard-working coai- shovellers. Its essential to the smooth running of the ship to keep the men in condition"
 Clark interrupted. '"The fact is that you hold a general jamboree with rich food and fine liouors for senators, congressman and high off, , ficials who are guests, and the government pays the bill" we never held a 'jamboree' on naval vessel" Parker said, adding that parties were held only on passen- ger ships. '''t'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-06
OVER EMBASSIES
 IN RUSSIA CUT

Washington, Feb. 6 -(UP)- The State Department announced today that the staff of the Ameri- can embassy in Moscow will be drastically reduced as result Of the failure of the United States agreement on debts and claims.
 Among the changes scheduled are:
 1. The American consulate gen. eral at Moscow will be abolished.
 2. The American acting naval attache, Capt. David R. Nimmer, will be withdrawn.
 3. The assistant military attache for air, Lieut.. Thomas White, will be withdrawn.
 Consul General George Ham, son is no expected to return to Moscow. He will be transferred elsewhere. Hanson is now in the United States on furlough.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-06
St. Mary's Hospital Makes Annual Report
Number of Patients Increased, Which Made Burden of
 Hospital Greater-E. Vincent Maloney, Publisher of Democrat, Succeeds Late Martin Scully

Increase in the number of pa- tients and consequent increase in the financial burden of St Mary's hospital are listed by Mother NJ. Sacred Heart, superintendent of the institution, in a report read yesterday at the annual meeting of the St Mary's Hospital Corpora ton. Most Rev Maurice F. Me- Auliffe, bishop of Hartford, pre- sided at the yearly session, during which E. Vincent Maloney. pulp fisher of the Waterbury Democrat, was named a member of the hos p.tal corporation to succeed the late Martin Scully.
 The annual report shows that only 27 1-2 per cent of the hospi- tal's patients during 1884 paid their entire bills, that 2 1-2 per cent received fully free service, while 64 per cent paid less than the per diem rate. Increase in pa tients during the year totalled 12G. During 1894. 7,5S0 patients were given 6S,72O days of care, thus giv- ing an average of 18S patients per day.
 Bishop McAuliffe was renamed president of the board of directors. Other officers include: Rev William O'Shea of St Margaret's, vice pres ident: Rev Thomas Mulcahy, who was named to fill the post left va cant by the recent transfer from this city of Rev Edward Brennan.
 Staff appointments included the choice of pr T. r. O'Donnell as as- sistant surgeon and member of the staff, Dr Jacques Green as pedi- atrist; pr James J. Hennessey as consulting physician on bronchial cases: Df J. S. Staneslow as assist. ant neurologist.
 fropfin,1ed m PaYa 2l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-06
COL LINDBERCH
 FLIGHT IGNORED

Cincinnati, Feb. 6.-(UP).-Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's flight to Paris will be celebrated annually by the chiming of the carillon at Mariemont, a suburb, as the result of a request in the will of Miss Isabella Hopkins, philanthropist and donor of the carillon. who died Sunday on her S7th birthday.
 Miss Hopkins, the sister of Mrs Emery, founder of Mariemont. left $500 a year for the expense of op- erating the carillon. Her will ex- plained:
 My desire is that the youth of the village may have patriotism in culcated by music played on the bells on all national holidays, and also on the anniversary date of the flight of Charles Lindbergh from New York to Paris in May, 1927. should also like to have hymns played every Sunday of the year. and a curfew every night at 9 o. clock"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-06
DEATH OF CLUB BARTENDER HAS
 NEW SENSATION
Confession of Widow May Implicate Her in the.
 Killing

Chicago, Feb G.-UP) -Rela- tions of flaxen- haired Mrs Melba Straub with other women to-day engrossed Investigators into the murder of her bartender husband in the fashionable Saddle and Cycle club while they fought a writ Of habeas corpus to free the comely 34-year old widow. States at torneys planned to question again to-day three women with whom Mrs Straub spent Saturday evening and the early part of Sunday morn, ing. Among them was Miss FL len (Billy) Edlin, whom Mrs Strauh frankly admitted was 'the dominant influence in my life."
 Investigators said that in the widows confession they found "the first inkling of a possible motive for her husbands slaying.
 Straub, who mysteriously main tained costly and luxurious!y furnished apartment on moderate salaries as bartender and a part time collector of delinquent bills, was found shot to death early Sunday morning in a basement closet of the exclusive club.
 Mrs Straub and club watch man, Gus Schwartz, 54, were to- gether when they came upon the bullet riddled body after a search of the deserted building. They have disagreed since that hour on virtually every detail of their search and, subsequent incidents. including the time, their route through the building and their ac- tions.
 Both are held as material wit. nesses.
 Amorous letters which passed between Mrs Straub and Miss Ed lin were found in the widows apartment.
 With a "lie detector" strapped to her arm, Mrs Straub admitted defiantly that "I'm crazy about Billy.
 Police working on multitude of other mystery angles of the mur> der again questioned prominent group of young socialites who let a gaysparty at the club after a. m. Sunday.
 pr Harry Hoffman, psychiatrist for the county court, questioned the widow last night and said he found her "perfectiy sane."
 Chief Justice Denis E. Sullivan of criminal court will hear a re- quest for q writ of habeas corpus to release her to-day.