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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09
SNEAK BILLS

According to a Raleigh correspondent this Il
again the open season for "sneak bills.
For those who do not recognize the term, let 1t
be explained that 'sneak bilP is generally local
bill relating to only one county which contains
some provision which the introducer or introduces
do not want known until after the bill Is passed ana
as a result is usually rushed through and enacted
under suspension of the rules without beng sent
TO committee Since local bills when passed I'M
der suspension of the rules are rarely ever read
the members of the house senate usually ac-
cepting without question the statement of the IN
PRODUCER that "this is purely local bill and applies
only to my county, it is often possible to get bills
through in this manner that otherwise would never
get out of committee
It is estimated that Sneak bills of various sorts
have cost the counties cities and towns of the state
millions of dollars during the past ten or fifteen
years since it was by means of "sneak bills" IN the
past that many counties, cities and towns rushed
bills through the legislature authorizing huge bond
issues without vote of the people. The fact that
Buncombe county and the city of Asheville now
have bonded Indebtedness of more than S5O,OOO,-
900 can be traced to a number of bills "sneaked'
through the general assembly in years past under
suspension of the rules. In fact, the county gov
ernment and local government acts were finally
enacted into law in order to put the brakes on
legislation of this type. Yet some TO it still goes
Record.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09
ANOTHER MILL CALLS 1T A DAY

Notice posted bv cotton mill at Rock Hill, S.
c., to the effect that owing to the high cost Of
operation and of material for manufacture and
stringent markets, it has been forced to suspend
operations is further concrete evidence that con-
ditions in this industry are not as hope-inspring
as prejudiced factors would have the public believe.
Cotton manufacturers are beset in these days
with harassing problems That some of them are
able to solve them and to continue operations on
a basis of breaking even and, in some cases, of
making profits, is not to be construed that such
is universally the case.
In the heart of this industry The Gastonia Ga
zette is moved to inquire under the impulse of the
incident of this Rock Hill closing:
How many more such events must happen be-
fore the powers that be come to their senses and
realize that the NRA, the processing tar the high
er cost of manufacturing, and other things are
slowly strangling the cotton mill business? The
only reason the southern cotton manufacturing
business was able to prosper in the past was be-
cause the manufacturers were able to make yarn
at a lower cost than their northern competitors.
Put them on the same level and the southern mill
will have to go out of business"
Even in the face of these evidences of the strug-
gle which the cotton mills of the south are forced
to make, agitations continue as to labor problems
and in behalf of eliminating wage dfferentias be-
tween northern and southern branches of the in
custry, which only pile upon the manufac adj
dtlonal vexatiOns.-Charlotte Observer.
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THE TOWNSEND PLAN

The Townsend plan, 5000 month to everybody
sixty years of age is solemnly discussed by con-
gress which ought to be passing sound, reason
able, old-age pension now. The Townsend plan IS
interesting in many ways. BY taxation on every
on producer jobber wholesaler, re-
taller. manufacturer, buyer, it would practically
absorb all available money to turn it over to de-
serving or otherwise, persons aged sixty. 1t would
soon become necessary for some other Townsend
to organize $500 a month rian for all paupers.
There would soon be twice as many paupers as
there are people sixty years old.
Benjamin Franklin, supposed to have some
brains. would learn with surprise about that Town
send plan arranged to promote extravaganza and
waste, saying to each sixty-year-old person:
"You will get two hundred dollars every month,
and you must spend it Immediately, within the
month No. you may not save some of it to help
your grandson through college, or to provide for
your granddaughter in her next childbirth"
That plan to provide automatically for national
impoverishment substituting silly, senile spending
on a gigantic scale for old fashioned thrift, is &C
tually discussed by the Congress of the United
States and millions of Americans favor the idiocy.
No wonder we drift into depression and have
millions idle.
Angels above must smile sadly considering what
has been given to the American people, and what a
muddle they make of t-Arthur Brisbane.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09
THE JURY GAMBLE
By WlCKES WAMBOLDT.

they are true, you will answer
yes If they are not true, you
will answer mo- You will be I'M
der oath"
The client squirmed. He was a
man who leaned toward dong
right; he might lie in converse
ton. but he would not lie under
oath. Of you have seen as many
men lie glibly and brazenly under
oath as I have, you have profound
respect for man who won't lie
under oath.) In this case, the
man was being prosecuted by a
lady for certain indiscretions she
claimed he had committed.
"What if | don't take the stand
at all?" inquired the clint.
"You don't have to 90 on the
stand if you don't want to-" said
the lawyer, "but it will look bad
for you if you don't"
well decided the client,
"you go ahead and conduct the
case the best you can Without put
ting me on the stand and I'll take
the consequences"
The lawyer knew from that
statement his client vas guilty
and that the jury would know il.
He had no hope of getting his
man acquitted; but 10 and behold,
when the jury got the case and
retired, it came back II a few
minutes with a verdict of mot
guilty" Why was that? Goodness
knows. It bears out the time-hon-
ored maxim among lawyers: you
can never tell what a jury will
do"
Uncle Sam prohibits lotteries,
yet trial by jury is one Of the
biggest of CANDLES. Sometimes l
think it would be as well-it GER
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09
THE RESULTS OF ROAD MAINTEN-
ANCE FROM RALEIGH

The people of Henderson county-Wlth
the exception of those who contine their
peregrinations to the States paved high
wavs-are still laundering in the mud
humping over the bumps and chuggmg
through the mudholes. That statement IL
Iustrates the exact condition of the county
roads of the other 90 counties in the State,
as we have been solemnly assured from
Raleigh that more than six million dollars
will be required to repair the roads and
nut them in as good condition as they were
in Is months ago.
Also, in view of the fact that it is claimed
the State Highway Department has piled
I'D a surplus of ten or twelve million dol.
lars, the people want to know why repair
work on the roads has not been done all
along during the past year and half, as
/ it was needed,
l Of,course, the Highway Department lays
the blame on the Legislature that has
passed into history, and the present session
of that body probably does not feel the OBJ
legation to accept the responsibility or an
swer the Highway Department.
But it is certain that the people are do
ing some heavy thinking about this mat
ter, as they bog down in neglected roads,
or find it impossible to travel over them.
No doubt this thinking is being done by the
people of most of the counties. The Times
News can speak for the people of Hender-
son.
The people of this county say that the
State, deprived Henderson county OF It's
county road system, together with thou
sands of dollars worth of road machinery
and equipment, that the county roads
have been neglected until many miles OF
the system are practically impossible in
bad weather and it is almost impossible to
travel some of the roads in the best of
weather. If the county road system was
restored to county control, Henderson has
no road machinery and equipment, and no
money with which to buy equipment and
repair the roads.
So it seems that the State has the county
between the devil and the deep sea with
this road problem; and if the present pol
icy is continued for another year or two, d
large part of Henderson county will be
thrown back to wilderness conditions as
far as roads are involved.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09
EDNEYVHLE

FDNEYVULT Feb g-vrs
7 /. Hin and Itf;lr dorg6i.r
Jamie Lou and son Fav and
Howard Dalton yi:itoJ the farm.
er's brother. Pink Maxwell Of
Wadesboro. Ja., week,
Friends o. slrs. w. prcsslcy
will be glad TO know that she is
able TO he ND after having the
"fiu."
MRS. w : 1yla. ,irs. Whit
Ownbv's hide SON. Haucl. and
Miss Mable LYDIA spent the week
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
THINK ABOUT THIS

There has been much said recently, especially
in the State Press, about the Virginia plan of legal
whiskey. Virginia legalzed liquor last summer.
Think about these facts from the Richmond News
Leader, january 8, 1885 issue:
Intoxicated persons to the number of Sis
were arrested by Richmond police last year, a
jump from 20O2, or "a per cent over the previous
years arrests, figures released by Police Chief p.
B. Jordan indicated today. A new high mark for
total arrests was set with 1856 persons being
taken into custody, increase of 1889 over 1888.
Drunken driving brought trouble to go Richmond
ers last year, Sc more than came to grief in the
preceding - months. Murders went up from p
to 81 and manslaughter cases increased from "a
to "A. The crime of being disorderly'-the charge
which may cover anything from splitting on the
sidewalk to melting riot-caused 5129 warrants
to be issued, raise of Gal over 1933."-Ruther-
fordton News
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09
BEHIND THE, SCENES
TlJ VVASEIIlQ (sjjI:ON
nv RODNEY pUTCr,EE--

layrd that action during a series
Of futile negotiations with SeCrc-
tary Perkins and others.
Meanwhile, Wolman, who had
said in April that his board had
no mower TO call elections, sud-
denly announced elections. A. F.
OF l.. leaders, caught off base, re-
pudiated them and told union
men not to vote.
The result, according to impair
tial insiders here, was the recent
huge majoriti;s of mo alIiliation'
ballots, as workers feared to
identify themselves as union men
by refusal to vote.
" !:
MEANWHILE NnRB carefully
I've set q precedent for interven-
ton in automobiles and steel by
taking jurisdiction in the Jen-
nings case, over protest of news
paper publishers mo insisted the
Newspaper Industrial Board had
the only jurisdiction.
Every inSider knew NLRB was
really cunning for the automobile
magnates and seeking to assert it
self as a supreme court on Ia.
Roosevelt, fully aware of that,
publicly told the board to lay Off
all cases from industries for which
speclal labor boards had been ere
ated, as in automobiles. and steel.
But only after Donald Richberg
had Falnly sought to get NLRB
voluntarily TO make similar
declaration of its own.
| FOR weeks the board had sought
an interview vita Roosevelt.
The presidents letter PROMPTLY
inspired the two designations
never announced, and prospect OF
a third. Assurances then began IN
pour into the NERB irom the
White House, Miss Perkins, Rich.
; berg, and even administration
leaders in Congress that board
members should stay to help Con.
Gress formulate strong labor dis.
putes legislation. ~
The irony of the success OF
these assurances lies in the fact
l that Roosevelt doesn't want an,
? new labor disputes legislation and
t probably will act to prevent it.
= Copyright. 1885. NEA Service, Inc. =
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

MA SclNice "h'4h W. '''e'S'-N-~''N
SyTASHNGTON.-An epidemic Of
" New rsal designations, threat
we'd or already submitted, has
stirred up the latest bacEstage
lwbbub here.
All the kings horses and all
he kings men have been used to
iccp the National Labor Rc!a-
ions Board froM walking out in
protest against it's own futility
md White House interference"
The common background is the
dispute between the automobile
industry end organized labor.
which dates back 20 the birth Of
MIRA and Section ia, NIRA's
collective bargaining clause. Here
is the inside histGry:
The powerful automobile and
steel men consistently nave re-
fused to have any truck with the
4. T. of l.. They have threatened
to abandon their NRA code unless
the administration continues 70
grant them large concessions III
their relations with labor.
TIME NLRH decided privately
Z last fall that enforcement o.
Section ia was non-eXistent II
the automobile and steel he!ds
despite the theoretical function
ing of Dr.. Leo Wolman's automo
bile board, specially appointed D.
Roosevelt in the auto strike SET
Element last spring and the sIse
board.
Unanimously, NLRB, unde
Chairman Francis Bidd,"' deeia
ei TO step into the automoDil
field and order its own electlon
TO determine whether auto "olh
crs wanted q labor union OF com
pany union to represent them l
collective bargaining. II Wa
ready to act last December
!
A TITO union leaders were READ
- to repui;ate the Wohs|
board and have no more TO q
with it. Such reputation was
preliminary requisite to III
NLRB intervention. But Prcsidcl
Eli Green of the 4. +. Of l.. d'
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09

wish no effort at biography Of myself made
Good friends might get up pretty good story,
but it would not be the whole truth. The tru'n u
a life usually lies deep down; we hardly Nno"
ourseKes-God only does. trust His mercy. Inc
shorter ones creed the better. Simply to Thy
cross | cling" is enough for me,-GeneraI 5 |'
Armstrong.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09

A lawyer was defending a eli
cnt whom he believed to be guilty
not that the client had admit
ted his guilt to his lawyer-he
had stoutly maintained his inno-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09
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 nc
titious name will be published.
EDITOR.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09
AS 1T LOOKS IN ITS ORIGINS

DR., Townsend wonders why people are so reluc-
tant to jump at his Utopan scheme to have the
government give everybody in this country over 60
years of age 5000 month
Any child of 10 years of age can understand
that, ne remarks
And so it cam
And to insist that the federal government pass
law which would thus distribute annually S24,-
OOO,OOO,OOO of all the $4S, 900 100000 which all
OF the American people, by their united individual
and corporate effort earn from field and factory
and every pursuit of occupation, looks also not
only as if child of 10 might be able to understand
it, but that child of two might have originated it.
Charlotte Observer
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cenCe; but there
was something in
his look in his
eye and in the
tone Of mis- voice
that made his
lawyer doubt ha
sincerity.
When the time
came for the case
to be tried, the
lawyer said 20 his
client:
an nu I am
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09

tions Of official authority.
A government will be As GOOD
as the moral backbone Of #. c,i.
aenry. Let's remember that.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09

THE "rpe olive is in color when picked T.
placed ferment for weeks then S
Following this it is exposed atoe
The combination and the sodium hydoXide I've e
is canned
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09

Az y
us have shared. The people of
our ration responded to the pres
idents birthday ball to raise
money for that noble cause 10
stamp out the plague of infantile
paralysis with out much urging,
surely they have the courage to
write a congressman or senator
to help the ex-service man, it
will only cost q few cents, and
will be doing that which is right
the passing of this bill for i'm
mediate payment Of these certifi-
Gates. The paying of these GER
tificates will help business, indus
thy, commerce and all.
Respectfully,
Robert II. Delvechio,
Box 226
Hendersonville, n. C
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09

| Your children are influenced more by your life
than by your lectures
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tainly would be simpler and
cheaper-if litigants would toss q
coin and abide by the result
I can tolerate the jury gamble
in which each side has chance;
but ! cannot tolerate the hand
picked jury. That is no lottery
if you happen to be on the other
side-for in a lottery you have a
chance.
There is more hand-pickinG Of
iuries than IS generally imagined.
Take Il case against member or
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09

Bathing beauties remind one of Mother HUB
bards cupboard.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09

1t requires two worlds to give some a
fair deal.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09

Happiness consists not in having much, but in
wanting little.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09

No two persons alike. After making each, the
pattern was thrown away a.,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09
BIBLE THOUGHT
A SOLDIERS TESTIMONY

A SOLDIERS TESTIMONY
can have Sinped and come short of the glory
of God"
God be merciful to sinner
luke 1928; Luke 1879
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09

The world was made in seven days. You see,
the job wasn't held up because some group of
voters raised howl.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09
Leader in Drama

Answer to Previous Puzzle IS lie wrote -
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-02-09

controls the court hRRaanfl Men
called for jury serv aust be
called by somebody. are
selected by q sheriff q 81 ther
official who IS ring-d bt{4 he
can easily pick men y ring
controlled. or can pic Rn1 gh 10
cause a mistrial. Agai kgain
a case will encounterS 1Tnany
mistrials that everybod ~ get
discouraged and drop. II Ehich is
what the schemers work. ~
Sometimes a. Judge - ling
that politics is working t92s hard
in his county to permit fair
trial, will order iurs 4rosn an
other county. There agains there
can be money bu3iSaeessTH the
sheriff of the other county is zap
proachable." somebodyS from the
political ring "sces" the Sheriff
and he selects jury material that
will be "kind" to his friends.
Justice too often is on the side
of the keenest, most powerful ras-
Gals. The winning of case
against q member or a friend Of
an entrenched political gang calls
for great care, Intelligent action
and hard work in merely obtain
ing an untainted jury. And some
times that can't he done.
How arc We 20 stop this evil
practice Of jury buying and jury
stacking? BY making it our bust
ness eycrlastingIy to see TO it that
sincere. riridiy honest men are in
variably placed in all public pos
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-20
kL|CK LOSES
To CANzONE.R|
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20. UP)
Tony nzoneri lightweight
champion, easily defeated frankie
Klick of San Francisco last night
in the fourth and most decisive of
their series of meetings.
Canzoneri was credited with five
rounds and five were scored as
even. The little New Orleans Ital-
ian swarmed all over the western
boy who was considered his most
dangerous challenger.
Klick had but one Weapon-a
straight jab to the face. Canzoneri
shook it off and slid under it to
rake the challenger's body with a
yolley of blows that left red
splotches on the fairer- skinned
fighter.
In the tenth, we'll ahead and
throwing caution to the winds, the
champion tried desperately for a
knockout. Klick had enough left
to stall him off and his defensive
efforts won him a big hand from
home town fans.
The title was not at stake, as
Klick came in at 1876 pounds and
Canzoneri, without any poundage
restriction in his contract, built
himself up to 1876 pounds. In three
previous matches Canzoneri scored
Imperial Valley press., 1935-08-20
VAUGHAN MAY
MAKE RECORD
FOR BATTING
Pittsburgh Shortstop Has High
est Mark For Either League
AT Present Time
BY HENRY SUPER
lited Press Staff Correspondent

United Press staff Correspondent
NEW YORK. Aug. 20. - Floyc
"ArlSys Vaughn. stocky Pittsburgh
Pirate shortstop. may become thC
third National league slugger in 81
years to hit better than 400 in ono
season.
Vaughn. 23-year-old Arkansas
youth playing his fourth season in
the majors. has hovered around
400 ever since the current campaign
started At his present clip he
seems a cinch to join Bill Terry of
the New York Giants and Rogers
Hornsby, manager Of the st. Louis
Browns, as the only National
leaguers to surpass 400.
Vaughan now is batting .407, SO
percentage points better than his
nearest rival, Joe Medwick of the
st. Louis Cardinals. and far and
away better than any other player
in either league. He has made l53
hits in 376 times at bat and driven
in 70 runs.
At his present rate. Vaughan
may turn in the second highest Ma
tional batting average in 81 years.
Terry hit .40l five years ago; Horns
by, then With the Cardinals,
cracked .4ol in 1922, hit his peak in
1924 with 424 and dropped to .403
in I925-hiS last as 400 hitter.
Vaughan's batting spree was halt
ed temporarily yesterday. The Pi-
rates were idle because they had
played their game with Brooklyn
on a former date. Only two Ma
tional league games were played,
with the leading New York Giants
increasing their margin over the
idle St. Louis Cardinals to three
games with a l0-inning. 4-3 victory
over Cincinnati. The Chicago Cubs
went into a virtual tie with the
Cardinals by defeating Philadelphia
2-l. Both are three games behind
the Giants but the Cards have a
seven point percentage advantage.
In the American league Detroit
had its first place margin cut to
seven games as it lost, Us, to the
New York Yankees.
Cleveland tied Chicago for fourth
place by defeating Washington,
lis. while the White Sox divided a
double header with Philadelphia,
winning the opener, 7-2, and los
ing the second game. S-4. The
Boston-St. Louis game was rained
out.