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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14
COMPETITION BY GOVERNMENT

Government is competing with private business
in not less than 200 fields, says Sterling Z. Ed
munds, of the st. Louis bar in Nations Business.
This competition is destroying the taxpayer who
cannot absorb costs as government absorbs them
The process of narrowing the rights of private
property while expanding the federal activities
"discourages capital from entering new enterprises,
it intimidates those at the head of our business
institutions and whose every existence may depend
upon the whim of some federal bureaucrat. II
transfers thousands of citizens annually from the
private responsibility for earning living to the
spirtless comfort of public support.
'The intolerable burdens of excessive regulation
with their attendant moral evils of smuggling and
bootlegg.ng are the resultant economic ills which
all meddlesome paternal governments bring upon a
people, These evils are now for the first time being
inflicted in full vigor upon the American people,
many of them sugared with species of bribery to
make them less unpalatable."
Regulation in its place is all right, but regulation
which throttles is all wrong. There be too much
regulation as there can be too much taxation. An
industry can be regulated to death just as it can
be taxed to death. Government at this time is not
only competing in business but it is striving to
impose strangng taxes and strangling regulations.
When all is said and done, the mass of the people
is penalized.
Government enterprises do not go into bankrupt
cy when they lose money. They call upon the pub
lie treasury to foot the bills and the public treasury
collects all its funds from the pubic The greater
the amount government collects for it's enterprises
and activities, the less the public has after the tax
collector has come and gone. Competition by gov
eminent is supported by the taxpayers-Charles-
ton News and Courier.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14
THE COST OF GOVERNMENT

No matter what one may THINK OF Ihe
,,o1;+ios Of the late President Calvin Cool
idqe all competent and unprecedented, crit
icsrare agreed that he was an lntellgeh'
and patriotic American citizen. he pc
Ionged to solid American stock; his prlnci-
pies were chiefly the principles DelleEed III
bv the country's founders; and while ne
was old fashioned and out-of-date accord
ing, to the standards of present day radl-
Gals, the things in which he believed anu
which he was always ready to defend, are
those things which made this country
great. Away back in 1924, Calvin Coolidge
san this on the subject of the cost OF gov
erpment:
tThe expenses of the government reach every
body. Taxes take from everyone a. part OF ms
earnings, and force everyone to work for certain
part of his time for the government. t..
81 want the people of America to be able to work
leA for the government and more for themselves
81 want them to have the rewards of their own
industry
.aThat is the chief meaning of freedom
lOf course, it is perfectly clear that the
principles of Calvin Coolidge, in relation
to- the cost of government, were exactly
the opposite of the views which prevail to-
day in the national capital. Coolidge want
ed the people of this country to be able to
work less for the government and more for
themselves. The plan in operation now is
mbre and more work for the government
and less and less work for oneself, until,
finally, the citizen will arouse from his
daze to find that he is working all the
time for the government and the rewards
ofhiS industry, beyond enough to keep him
alive and able to work, are being confs-
Gated by his political masters and devoted
to,their maintenance and purposes.
I'VE still have faith enough in a majority
of Americans to believe that they still have
faith in old fashioned Americanism and to
believe that when they get chance to
take crack at Stalinism, Hitlerism and
MbsSolinism next November they are go,
ing to register verdict in favor of the
principle that our people should be able to
work less for the government and more fo,
themselves and be able to enjoy the re.
wards of their own industry.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14
WHY NEWSPAPERS ARE FIRST

IAN exchange, in few sentences, gives
several reasons why newspapers are al
ways in first place as advertising mediums.
HI Ere they are:
ibid you ever see man carrying a billboard
under his arm? No. Did you ever see handful
onia reading table? No. Did you ever see picture
of:the new hat you want come into the home via
radio? No. Did you ever see live newspaper
thrown into the wastebasket without being read ?
Nd"
The newspaper goes into the home or
place of business of the subscriber as ia
miliar friend. The subscriber and his FAM
lily, perhaps number of his friends, read
the paper because it contains NEWS and
ADVERTISING. Progressive citizens are
interested in both; and they pay their hard
cash for newspapers to get the NEWS and
to; get the news of business-ADYERT
MIC.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14
BEHIND TIE SCENES
I'M WASHINGTON
sY RoDNEYsDuTcHEk,

sented with the Roosevelt admin.
istration's blessing to the next Con.
gress.
Crowley, a genuine tighter
against graft IN ocean and alrmail
contracts and author Of the Farley
report which found most Of tire lat.
ter contracts subjec: 20 cancellation
on grounds Of frauG, hopes to write
something like the commandment,
Thou shalt not steal" into the
subsidy act.
Peacock and Johnson know just
what the ship operators and build.
ers wart, however and Crowley is
having a hard time. They repre-.
sent the merchant marine philoso.
ply under the influence Of which
Secretary Dan Roper has had such
phenomenal success in perpetual.
ing the slirly Skipping scandals of
previous administrations.
Behind them is the ship lobby
one of the most grasping and eff
fective. if not the most vicious.
ever known here.
THE lobby is still trying to get
Il into the bill a proviso that I'M
case subsidies specifically permit.
ted turn out to be mot enough"
for builders or operators, the new
merchant marine board may give
THE concern as much more as II
likes. r...
Under some proposed schemes
such large concerns as the Stand.
ard and Gulf Oil companies would
be subsidized with taxpayers mon.
ev to build tankers for themselves
The Postoff1ce Department has SO
often been scorned as the patron.
age agency or political pie counter
Of the government that its consist.
emf defense Of the public interest
In connection with the shin oner.
ators, now through Crowley, stands
lin vivid contrast to the record Of
the Commerce Department.
;. ironvripht 1885. NEA Service Inc,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14
VAGARlES OF JUSTICE

In superior court yesterday, Judge Wilson War.
lick sentenced a man whom the jury had convicted
of drunken driving to six months on the road Fur
thermore, he promised that others brought before
him for the same offense would receive the same
treatment. He explained:
81 am not attempting to make an example of this
man. 1t would be all the same if he were the son
of Governor Ehringhaus or anyone else" '
In the absence of a positive conviction that one
judge by bearing down on one particular crime can
do more than to make it unusually tough on those
unlucky enough to be brought before him, The
News is going to withhold any comment for while,
except to say that if the courts as whole would
like to reduce drunken driving to minimum, they
can do it. 49,.
| With but one judge up in arms, however, there
will be scramble to evade him and to appear be-
fore another less aroused. That would only add
another language to polyglot justice.LCharlotte
News. #..
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14

Huge as is this total, it does not include all
those who have benefited financially from the fec-
eral government. There are, for example, the 81
CSC. 1862 loans involving more than eight billions
financed by various government credit agencies
But the number receiving regular checks from the
government is 9,O47 1885, which is spectacularly
and almost incredibly large. And the number IS
not being decreased; it is being increased
Reflection upon these figures is calculated to
bring home the trend of the New Deal, as well as
the cost To many the former seems more menac-
ing than the latter. 1t means the building up of
gigantic federal bureaucracy and support out OF
the treasury of a vast proportion of the popuia-
ton, imposing crushing burden upon the taxpay-
ers In that situation are involved most of the real
dangers that can beset republic. That the Ne"
Dealers should prefer not to discuss the swelling
federal payroll is natural Their presidential lead-
err. now seeking reelection on his record, was
pledged not only to reduce both the size and cost
of the government but as strongly as any man IN
the country-before his electon-stressed the dan
gers of exactly the thing he has done pronounced
the cutting down of the governments size and the
narrowing of it's scope as of first Importance
Frank Kent in Charlotte Observer. ...
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14
PENROSE

PENROSE, (Route y Dec. "A.
Word has been received in this
community of the passing OF
Lewis Bell of Tuxedo. Mr.. Bell
has quite a few relatives and
friends in this community, being
a brother of NJ. H. Bell here. Fun
eral services were conducted at
the residence by Rev. c. E. Blythe
Thursday, Dec. II, at one O'Clock.
Interment followed at 3 O'Clock
at Beulah cemetery.
Mrs. c. c.. Thornton Of kanuga
visited Mrs. J. W. Cantrell Tues
day.
Mrs. Guss Henson Of Tryon
visited relatives in this commUn-
ity Sunday.
A program and Christmas tree
has been planned for Beaulah
church to be held on Christmas
Eve.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Higgins o.
Hendersonville were guests Of
relatives in this community Sun
day.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14
STROLLING THROUGH LIFE
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

with a water system, good roads,
electricity, gas. telephones, and a
school.
AS to its population, Big Prairie
has, according to the report, 1900
odd citizens"
They certainly are odd. 1t
would help the nation immeasur-
ably if we had more citizens as
odd as those of Big Prairie.
A favorite trick Of local politi-
cal machines is to select and elect
men who stand we'll in the COM
munity, yet who can be controlled
or hoodwinked by the machine.
After these men are in office
they are Unanswered by the ma
chine into doing things Gotten in
nocently) which bring profit TO
the machine and its pets at the
expense of the regulations of
those public officials. When those
officials have become so discred-
tied that they can no longer be
used as cat's-paws by the machine,
then the machine or ring discards
them and puts up and elects q
new set of victims.
Thus "The Party"-or whatever
the machine or ring chooses to call
itself-gets the things it wants
and keeps itself clear of punish
ment and usually of responsibility
Many an honest man has been
DESTROYED, by permitting himself to
be used as tool of some political
gang which fooled him into belicv-
ing he had been chosen by the
gods for a position Of constructive
power and high honor.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14
4 From County
AT Wake Forest
Taking Prominent Part in
Campus Life

w AXE FORESI, Dec. IA
Four men from Henderson coun-
ty are included among the 1000
students enrolled this year at
Wake Forest College.
Three are from Hendersonville
and one is from East Flat Rock.
There are three freshmen and
one junior. All are taking work
leading to the Bachelors degree.
Hendersonville-C. r. Jergis. a
Junior, son of Mr.. and Mrs. c. F.
Jervis; n. W. Miller, freshman,
son of Mr.. and Mrs, N. W. Miller
J. S. Sinclair, freshman, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. W. B. Sinclair.
East Flat Rock-Eugene Phil
lips, a freshman, son of Rev. and
Mrs. n. B. Phillips.
Henderson county rfen are
taking a prominent part in cam
pus life at the Baptist institution.
n. w. Miller of Hendersonville
made a significant record as a
member of the freshman football
SQUAD. He made two touchdowns
in the game against Rocky Mount
High School.
During the past five years, the
administration of President Thur
man D. Kitchin, the enrolment
at Wake Forest Co llege has al.
most doubled, and the physical
plant has been materially eX-
banded.
BEGINNING in 1882 with the con-
struction of new medical build
ing, not month has passed when
some building project was not
under way. The college now
points with pride to over $500,
600 worth of new buildings, in
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14

No room for Mary and the Christ Child! Inc
inn-keeper missed marvellous 0Pp 49, R.be
night. He was not hostile to mary anu tba inn
He missed the opportunity simply U'N $50, M
was already full to overt1owlng ana ''s'e -
room left for them. Does that Suss'S t.
personal to you? Let US examine oui 80 ~ ~ ro+
and, see if they have left HIM pi"Ie -
Us reconstruct them and give nm 'ne UeS' 10
1t is the season when He should oe IN VIC n
of all our planning.-Rev walter l.. hiiis'e' - -
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
Ne, service stan Correspondent

<EA Service sum Correspondent
VJASHINGTON-The cracks at
w Japan taken the same day by
Sir Samuel Hoare, British torelgn
secretary. and Secretary of State
Cordell Hull may be taken as an
other example of the close collabo-
ration between the two nations IN
current International politics
But II wasn't by accident that
Hoare's warning to the Japanese
preceded Hull's by several hours,
Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Hull
have never forgotten how in the
Hoover administration. Secretary
Of State Stimson stuck his neck
out while automatically jumping
On Japan for her Chinese aggres-
sion-and was left holding the
bag by a British government from
which he had every reason to ex-
pect support.
So when British Ambassador
Donald. Lindsey hot-footed down to
Inc State Department to discuss
Japanese promotion of the seces,
sion movement in North China, the
conversation resolved itself. into
something like You first, my dear
Gaston" and you first. nv dear
AlphOnse."
Sir Ronald asked what Hull
thought about Il, Hull asked wha,
Sir Ronald thought about it.
Eventually Hull planted The
Idea that this country, wouldn't
boiler first or even simultaneously
but would follow up quickly i
Britain would unleash the frs
blast. Which was what happened
INTO almost daily secret huddle
go Shipping Board Directo
James c. Peacock, Assistant Secre
tary of Commerce John johnson
and Postofflce Department Solicito
Karl A. Crowley
They are trying to work out
> ship subsidy bill which can be ORE
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14

GLIDING, besides the medical school
structure, a new administration
building, athletic stadium, gymn-
nasium, and students union.
This recent development at
Wake Forest, North Cardinals
senior Baptist institution and the
oldest and largest Baptist college
for men in the United States, was
made possible largely by its 49,
900 alumni whose contributions
have paid for all of the new plant,
except $4,000; and donations
are still coming in.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14

limb from which she hoped1"to
reach the bird, the bird would
hop complacentlyi to another
twig which represented complete
safety. Finally the cat gave up
and climbed down out Of the tree
plainly disgruntled. The bird
chirped, "tweet, tweet," which
sounded suspicicusly like cha
ha," and flew away.
Recently judge fined a lawyer
and made HIM apologize for cali
ing another lawyer a liar.
You were perfectly right, Judge.
If lawyers are allowed to lose
their tempers and spill what they
know about one another, the judi
cial system will be in worse re-
pute than it is now.
According to a news story, the
town of Big Prairie, Ohio, has no
depression-and never has had
any. Only one of its citizens is on
government relief-and he doesn't
want to work anyhow-and never
did.
The town has no city govern
ment to support, yet it is blessed
q should say, further blessed)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14
II l|II,E A NIX d. !: ].

TOURISTS to the Hawaiian Is
L lands, the South Seas. and Al
RIGA are amused by the agility witt
which natives race up and down
The tall palm trees, to collect thell
fruits. But it's just like walking
TO the climbers.
Resting back on a broad leather
band that runs around his body
and the tree trunk, the climber
throws the trunk end upward tt
the highest frond he can reach ane
Jerks himself aloft. The fronds
that iut out Of the trunk are Sc
cure footholds, and on these M
actually walks. and even runs, uI
to the treetop. Coconuts,i dates
and other fruits grow high on va
rious types of palms In the world
and Arab date collectors and coco
nut gatherers of southern India
and the South Seas go about theii
IL
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14
Do birds have a sense of hui
NOR. The following incident might
indicate they have:

The other day
members of my
f a m i ! Y were
watching a cat
trying to catch
a bird in a tree.
Instead of flying
away as the cat
drew near, the
bird merely hop
ped to a twig too
small to support
the weight o f
the C a t a n d
perched t h e I e
placidly, When
the cat would
a,,o-,1 70 nnDtbaS
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14

w o r X IN III
same way.
On the staml
Of Dahomey, 6
French colon,
in western Al
RIGA, the NATIVE
is shown climb
ing an oil palm
French r o 6 {
and B e 6 | al
Congo have sim
liar stamps.
-rA cn..,;nn Inc
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14
SMACK MOVIE" IN PARIS

PARIS. (UP).-The latest lux
ury cinema to strike Paris is the
new Snack Movie. Film fans pay
an entrance fee of 35 cents,
which includes seeing picture
and eating a free snack. During
the film the ushers pass plates Of
sandwiches and French pastry.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
ON THE FEDERAL PAYRoLLS

Here are the comparative figures OIL 1ne Hui''"'
of narsons receiving government pay checKS:
March, 1888 a,e ECO
I~,or 1929 observation-disclosures 5,245,oo9
Decenipei' 100 commencement 7,55sR28
Deeeiioei' ooE 9O47, 1856
December, 1885 -----------,-- ~ -';.l.
Tbese figures as the United States News points
ont on a yearly basis, mean that the government
disnanses s5,3s7, 1864 to 9,047956 persons
Thew mean that nearly one-fourth as many persons
are on the federal payroll voted in the last ma
tional election They mean that more persons re-
ceve federal pay than the total of those employed
in manufacturing and nearly as many as the totai
Of those employed in agriculture.
The 9.O47 1856 persons who receive federal cheeks
are separated as follows:
WPA and PWA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 'o'ooo
,AA pavments ,430, 600
Emn,oves 796,297
,Iotorors, Aid 100000
COO $4,000
r+,,dort Aid 100000
u;I;+orr - 2S1 ,654
-;,il Ponsions $4,000
legislative and Jrd;ci.1 1905
n, eO47956 |
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14

Rich New Workers can buy Southern mansions,
but you can't cali garden "gyahden" unless you
are born that way.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14

The boss of the family is one who can
ddmost to make the others miserable when
crPssed.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14

Pity the Chinese statesman. If he won't sell out
the Japs get him. If ne does sell out, a patrics
shoots him.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14

If you wonder how a refugee looks, examine
book returned by borrowing friend
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14

Yes, what this country needs is fear
less Press. But a lion can be fearless with
out spending its time swapping at every
bokiN.fs!scAE -...- - --.--
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14

Moderns are so smart that they believe nothing
without proof unless it is called scientific. ,,-,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14

Short history of a celebrity:
Hard work; arrival; fame, swell
head; big talk; fall; obscurity
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-14

'cnnvrlrht. 1895. NEA Service. Inc.l
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-26
DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK :?
 Edson R. Waite

Today is the day of competition. Nome must compete with other cities and the only way hope to gain through successful cooperation.
 After much disjonted efforts the part of business many cities order has been brought out of chaos by cooperation.
 Difficulties have been smoothed out, obstacles over and they getting the business of their trade territory by cooperating and going after it.
 Cooperation is essential part in city building for which there is no substitute.
 What the average city needs is cooperation.
 They cant have increased business without increased cooperation.
 An advertisement of the Willard Hotel in Washington, G. says it the political spotlight home of celebrities the axis of the coorul happenings in the worlds most entful city Some hotel
 If you will stop and think for minute, you will real ze that this newspaper is Nomes best friend
 Cities whose merchants do not believe in cooperating often wake up to find out that other cities getting much business they should get
The Nome daily nugget., 1935-01-26
ANTI-wAR PROFIT LEGISLATION

With both President Roosevelt and the United States senate moving energeticay to put crip in the manner private citizens make money out of war; this government is at finding intelligent way of meeting the exservlce mans demand for bonus.
 The bonus has been fought over congress since the war Time after time presidents and secretaries of the treasury mentioned all sorts of good why the bonus should not could not would not be paid; but all this palavar has had very little effect.
 Away off in the background seldom mentioned by any one but never for forgotten by the exservice who wanted the bonus oomed the vast bulk of industrial profits. 8
 1t was all very well to tell the former soldier that by manding bonus he put his patriotism cash basis all very we'll say that unfair to the rest of the count ry give prior claim the federal treasury simp y because he had been drafted into the army the veteran had only think of those profits to feel completely just flied in his attitude.
 Mediate on some of those profit figures briefly. We had for instance 181 individuals receiving net incomes of $1 100000 year We had industrial concerns netting profits which ranged all the to 362 percent their invested capital
 We had long list of companies making 50, 70 and 100 percent profits in single year
 If those things have been sticking in the war veterans all these years it wonder Is it extraordinary that he unmpressed the accusation that he being cenary in asking thousand so in cash for himself
 In strict logic, the bonus demand may be unjustied; built up against this background 1t is the most natural thing in the world
 It has taken long, long time to realize that there is shocking injustice in drafting nano face death and wounds while permitting the stayahome to make money beyond the dreams of avarice.
 Not until have written into law ronclad system for eliminating such gortesque profits shall be in position say "No to the bonus seeker without getting horse taught in return.-Exchange
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