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The Washington times., 1935-02-08
CLOSED BANKS
REPAY NEARLY
HALF LOANS
Commercial National Leading
With $2,223,400; North
east Heads Section

Loans to II closed Washing
ton banks amounting to $10,328,'
346 have been repaid to the ex
tent of $4,361,179 as Of December
81, 1884, Comptroller of the Cur
rency ]. F. T. O'Connor reported
today.
The repayment amounts ap
proXimately to AZ per cent. Mr.
O'Connor said. The total unpaid
balance and the RFC loans is So.
967 ,167, the Comptroller declared
Commercial Leads
The largest amount repaid was
given to the RFC by the CONNER
cial National Bank. This institu
ton had borrowed $3,327, 400 and
it has repaid $2,223,4OO.
Next in line is the Federal
American National Bank and
Trust Company, with a loan OF
$2,624,797 and a repayment OF
$474,108. The District National
Bank borrowed $812,287 and has
repaid $341,209.
Inc total borrowing of Wash,
ington's three national banks were
$6,769,484. AS of December 81
1884, they have repaid to the
RFC $3,038,717 and there remains
an unpaid balance of $3,73O,767.
Northeast on Top
In all the IA State chartered
banks and banks incorporated un,
der the laws of the District of Co.
lumbia, the Northeast Savings
Bank has made the largest repay.
ment to the RFC, a total of $3O4,.
$50 as of December 81, 1884, on
its borrowings of $494,93O.
The Seventh Streets Savings
had borrowed 1924 from the
Federal agency and has REIN.
burSed it to the extent of 1884.
8O7. The United States Savings
Bank had received $685. 900 from
the RFC and has repaid $189,OOO.
Borrowings from the RFC of
other local State chartered banks
and banks incorporated under
the laws of the District of Co.
lumbia and repayments are as
follows:
The Washington times., 1935-02-08
GERMANY

BERLIN, Feb. 8 G.NS).-Count
Kintomo Mushakoji, new Japa-
nese Ambassador to Germany,
presented his credentials to
Chancellor Hitler.
The Washington times., 1935-02-08

BE..LIN, Feb. 8 G.N.S)
Joachim Won Ribbentrop, Chancel.
lor Hitler'S personal envoy in
various international negotiations
and a prominent Nazi party
leader. narrowly escaped serious
injuries in an automobile col,
lision. Swerving so as to avoid
a cycliSt, he collided head-on
with another automobile coming
from the opposite direction near
the Tier-Garten. He escaped
with a shaking up.
The Washington times., 1935-02-08
JAPAN

TOKYO, Feb. 8 G.N.SO. O.-scrap-
ping of the Nine-PoWer Treaty
guaranteeing the "open door" in
China and China's withdrawal
from the League of Nations are
the keystones of Japan's Monroe
doctrine for Asia, it was declared
today.
Japan, it was stated, will spon.
sor Chinas severance of old links
with friendly powers in Europe
and the United States in favor of
China's entrance into a Far East
bloc with Japan and Manchukuo.
The Washington times., 1935-02-08

The RFC loans of the IA local
State-chartered banks totaled
$3,558,862, and their repayments
aggregate $1,322,462.
Of the II closed Washington
banks four have not received any
RFC loans and, consequently,
have made no repaymentS. These
are: The Continental Trust Com
pany, the Chevy Chase Savings
Bank, the Departmental Bank
and the Industrial Savings Bank.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-11-05
ALAUGHING STOCK

Not all advertising is desirable. Every knock
may be boost but time is When the truth is desc
lating just now newspapers at distance are max
ing merry about the proclamation by the governor
of South Carolina that he is looking to the militia
to put down an insurrection which hasn't occurred
and which isn't remotely threatened.
The quality of comment does South Carolina
harm but then South Carolina has been harmlns
itself for some years. No state In the Union mas
done as much to keep industry out of It, Blunder
has been piled on blunder. So many ridiculous
things have happened that South Carolinians ap-
pear to be apathetic.
The picture of an agent of the states highest
court being molested bp militia in time of piping
peace offends all Americans who believe in law and
order who believe in the constitutional guarantee
of a civil government enjoying precedence over a
military regime. Don't deceive yourself that this
picture is not being displayed in all parts Of the
country.
When a man becomes laughing stock, he is in
sorry plight. A state as laughing stock is IN the
same sad condition. 1t is idle to talk of South
Carolina as state which safeguards it's people and
it's Institutions its business and it's industry, when
the pathetic farce-comedy is being performed i'll
the states capital
1t is unthinkabe that any intelligent South Caro-
linian is approving condition which makes his
state jocks among the people of this country. 1t i:
unthinkabe that he approves of a tawdry burlesque
which will cost him much money 1t is an expensive
thing for South Carolina to be laughing stock
Charleston News and Courier.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINION
HOW MONEY HAS TALKED

In less than three years federal government
-, 1.-Two. .renc;es have extended volume of credit
oroo+er than the total loans and discounts OF the
renortine federal reserve member banks In 81 big
cities of the United States.
Tbo+ &c NOT all The total volume of this credit
extended by federal lending agencies approaches
the total combined loans Of all banks in the nation
having membership in the Federal Deposit lnsur-
ance Corporation. Except for group OF Eastern
savings banks we imagine the number of banks IN
the nation not members of the FDlC could be
counted on the fingers of two hands
Loans to farmers were the biggest single group
of these federal government loans according to a
compilation prepared by Administrative and Re-
search Corporation as of August 81, 1885. Farm
ers were reported benefciaries of 375 per cent OF
the major government lendings. rs,
Next came home owners with nearly 81 per cent
of the loans. After that is a diversity of loans
made by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
which would probably be considered as having gone
mostly to private financial institutions or corpora
lions of 25,5 per cent That leaves 6.2 per cent
for miscellaneous loans.
Months and months ago the News-Argus pointed
ont that the federal government, whether by deilo
crate intent of the present administration OF ho'
is no;n+ino toward becoming the money power IN
the nation. -,
If it continues its course the money power VIII
bs centralized as it never has been before, even IN
periods when single firm OF group Oh irnlS was
outstanding in the competition among pii'"''
American financial groups. Moreover this money
power centralized to degree unparalleled III 1ne
history of the nation, would be controlled by poll
ticians who would be spurred on to as well Us
checked from measures potentially dangerous 1or
the nation by desire for personal reelection or 1of
maintaining party in power.
The potentiality is here; we hope that as loans
to farmers, to home owners, and to corporations
are repaid federal extension of credit will decrease
rather than increase in the nation.-The Goldsboro
News-Argus.
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STRIP THE POLITICIAN

Governor Hoffman of New Jersey points out that
the nations editors hold responsibilities fully as
great as those in political office He urges the
press to fight the incompetent man in office and
the bad mistaken policies of government
The governors suggestion is sound. In short, it
means stripping the politician of his demagoguery
aid presenting him to the public for what he is
public parasite. Too often, however, the honeyed
words of the Pied Piper lead the people on to a
false Valhalla. And the press finds itself at the
short end in its battle to turn them back
Numerous civic leaders have been supported by
the press only to be defeated at the polls by the
political plunderer whose machine is creased with
llusory promises The public learns too late that
it has supported the wrong man.
Perhaps if the press, in addition to striving for
clean government during the few months preceding
election, maintained yearly constant crusade
throughout the year against the machine form of
ward politics it would near its goal of eliminating
this menace-Newsdom.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-11-05
GOD KNOWS

As I draw near to the sunset slope
Of the life that God gave to me,
I turn mine eyes to the years long
gone, .
And visions once more | see.
I wanted to work for. my Master
here, .r.
To Loyalty stand by His side;
I have failed so oft, and weak l
have been,
But my Lord, He knows that l
tried.
Careless sometimes | sadly admit,
And Alas! a coward too,
But never traitor, Oh my Lord,
have fought in the ranks for
you.
Through despair l stumbled on,
Believing in Christ, my guide;
l trust His promises made in love,
And my Lord, He knows that |
tried.
I have never known the worlds
applause, .
Nor climbed to the heights OF
fame; 49, .-... -:
I have done no great or splendid
thing .
To win a proud, noble name.
No grand success has ever been
mine,
I have no reason for pride,
But in all the tasks God gave to
He knows, He knows that l
tried.
Some day l shall reach that happy
place
Which He has prepared for me,
| shall find sweet peace on the
other side
Where the many mansions be.
I shall not quail when the sum-
mons comes,
I have naught to fear or to hide;
No perfect work have | to present.
But my Lord, He knows that l
tried.
Lila Ripley Barnwell.
Hendersonville, N. C.
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WHAT Ais US?

be outlawed) it should be treated
by the family of nations just rs
an individual outlaw is treated by
the nation whose safety he men,
aces or upsets. And it should be
just as unlawful and just as pun
ishable for any nation to give aid
and comfort to an outlaw nation
as it is for any individual citizen
to albeit and assist an individual
outlaw.
The days of savagery among
nations should be made to come
to an end. They should no more
be tolerated than savagery among
individual persons. The peace and
progress of the entire world de-
pend on the stamping out, with a
ruthless foot, inhuman conduct
wherever found.
The nation that murders and
steals is thief and a murderer
a disgrace to civilization and a
menace to mankind.
a.5f-hE-
Mussolini argues that because
certain nations did so and so
years ago, is sufficient reason for
Italy to do so and so today.
Is there to be no progress? Is
civilization to stand still OF to SO
backwards whenever to do so fits
into somebody's scheme of ag-
gression and avarice?
Some hundreds of years ago, to
be guilty of reading the Bible was
crime so great in England that
it was punishable by burning alive
at the stake. Would Mussolini
consider that frightful blunder
sufficient reason for burning BIZ
ble-readers to death in Italy to-
day?
The world has enough spiritual
humps to get over without turn
ing back to old humps.
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T Fl E N EW y e a L
IN WASHIN GTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

crowd mas writned in embarrass.
ment.
Phil LaFollette is commonly be.
lieved to have sold the idea to
Roosevelt. But it may have been
a pro-Roosevelt chCrchman or re.
ligious editor. Apparently neither
the White House secretariat nor
the Democratic National Commit.
tee folk knew anything about the
letter until it was too late.
CERTAIN wisps of information
~ indicate that the job Of prepar.
ing the letter and distributing il
was given to a commercial organi.
cation which had a large mailing
list Of clergymen. But the name
of the political nitwit who drafted
the letter probably won't be known
until Roosevelt is out of Office.
The White House Is considering
making public digest Of the an.
swers, figuring that since all the
on the stunt to date has
been unfavorable, the administra-
ton might as well have some favor.
able publicity if it can be he'd.
A CERTAIN high State Depart.
N ment official, travelling far
away. was awakened recently at 1
q m. and informed by telegram
that under a certain act of Con.
press the president had approved
his resignation"
About dawn, after night of
frantic checking with the telegram
company, he found the word should
have been designation" Mean.
while. however, he had been con.
soled by a telegraph operator, who
commented:
you shouldn't worry about that.
on,v a really big shot is fred by
the president"
tcopvrirht 1895. NEA servica. Inc,
II
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-11-05
DOESN'T LOOK POSSIBLE

For long time the government has been trying
to get into the light and power business. Merle
Thorpe, editor of Nations Business, the official
publication of the United States Chamber of Com
meree, points out that under private ownership
power and light rates are one-half as high they
were twenty years ago, while the tax rates six
times higher. In the opinion of Mr. Thorpe, it
would be better to let the power companies ruE
the government. He might also have mentioned the
fact that the big business which the govern
ment has a monopoly-the post office-at time
when every other business was lowering rates had
their frst-class rate increased fifty per cent.-The
Waynesville Mountaineer
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Editor The Times-News:
Most people throughout the Uni
ted States have heard something
about the Civilian Conservation
corps and the purpose for which
it vas created. So little is writ
ten ahous it, however, that a great
many have probably forgotten
that there was such a thing.
Nevertheless it does still exist and
is one OF the greatest and most
beneficial peace-time movements
ever conceived. Designed over
two years ago principally to coin
bat the depression and to give
jobs to unemployed young men 1t
has come to be great agency IL
building young lives and develop
ing Young men physically, men,
tally, morally and spiritually, and
is also a yer useful, factor in pre-
venting forest fires, preserving
end rebuilding the forests Of the
nation and in soil erosion work.
The purpose of this article is Ito
acquaint few readers, anyway,
with the type Of work and play
sponsored by the camps and, m
short, what the boys are DOING
The writer is now employed as
assistant to the educational ad-
visor at Camp NC-F7, Co: 4o7'
Hot Springs, N. c., which he be-
lieves is a representative, camp
and therefore eligible for use as
the subject of an article concern
inc the CCC in general. 1t is GER
tainlv one of the prettiest camps
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-11-05
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service STAFF Correspoudent

WTASHINGTON.-A wers to
w Roosevelt's famous letter TO
clerygymen have been coming in at
the rate of several hundred a week
and the majority of them are SYM
pathetic or favorable toward the
administration.
Just the same, there's no one in
the administration who wouldn't
like to live life all over again. in
solar as that better is concerned.
Most Of the smarties here who
make a business of figuring out
public reactions believe me net
effect of the stunt, for better or
worse to have been negligible.
On the credit side, the White
House believes It has proved Roose.
Welt to have the support of ma
1orlty OF ministers. Inside whispers.
enere say more than 80 per, cent
OF the thousands of replies either
say nice things about the admins.
tration or are "sympathetically con-
structive."
SENDlNG out the letter asking
ministers for their advice and
adm effect giving them unnaid
Jobs in tie New Deal-was a clever
political move. even if Won assnme
it was conceived in humility and
SIN, eFew doD A digest of
the answers will be valuable tn
Roosevelt. 'i0 "
But most if not all the WINNINGS
were "sped away when the letter
was revealed to be a paranbraseN'
verbatim in certain paragranbs~of
a missive from Gov. Phil IaroI
ette to the ministers of Wisconsin,
And that tended to make tho
White House look ridiculous. not 20
say insincere. Even if no oro.t
'arm was done. the White HOUSE
lnt S FHE Ca.
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OF plenty, peace, progress anu JOY.
What fools we Americans arc
that we do not become unitedG
George Washington wisely
warned this nation against entan-
Cling alliances-but he said moth
ing against cooperative alliances.
Hearty cooperation is the key
note for the safety, prosperity
and happiness of the nations. 1t
is the only way the job can ever
be done. All this hanging back
and pulling away, all this greedy,
selfish scheming on the part of
each nation to get something for
itself over every other nation, will
keep the world in a turmoil Of bit
terness and misery-as it always
has done.
We shall suffer, and we should
suffer, for our miserable little
smallness and shortsightednesS un-
til the lambastings of Providence
drive us to bigger, broader, deep
err, better thinking and acting.
When a nation by it's unsocial
conduct becomes an outlaw among
nations (and such nation should
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-11-05
WE SHOULD TAKE MORE INTEREST
IN STATE
(By BRUCE CATION

Among the things that no fond mother
ever told her snub-nosed young son IS:
"And if you work hard and be a good boy,
you may grow up to be a member of the
state legislature"
The state government in most of Amer
lea, in other words, works under a cloud.
There still is certain glory to being gov
ernor, perhaps, but the ordinary American
would be hard put if he had to name, from
memory, as many as three other high state
officials, or six members of his legislature.
Yet the state government touches the
life of the average citizen quite as closely
as does the federal government, with
which he is far more familiar 1t affects
his taxes even more directly.
1t has the power to alter the conditions
under which he works or does business.
With the county governments, it is at his
elbow every day of the year.
The point of all this is that direct and
simple road to cheaper and better govern
ment is wide open for the people of Amer
lea, if they will only take the trouble to
find it. By bringing state and county gov
ernments up to date, by taking an interest
in them and insisting on efficient, intelli-
gent administration, they can save them
selves untold millions.
Here is an illustration. A committee of
business experts headed by Col. G. o. Sher-
rill, former city manager of Cincinnati, re-
Gently made a survey of the Ohio state
government to see if it could be run more
cheaply. A glance at few of their rec
concentrations is anlightening.
In the administration of the state sales
tax alone, for example, Ohio could save
S57S,000 a year. 1t could save S750,00e
more by more intelligent purchasing sys-
tenn in its highway department 1t could
save another $166,OO0 by adjusting the
warehouse and trucking contracts of it's
liquor department. ...
Altogether, simply by running the state
government in the way business organ
ization would be run, the experts figure
the state could save $13,OOO,OO0 a year.
This, be it noted, does not call for aban-
donment of any state activity; nor does it
even touch the county government, po-
litical form which is as out of date today
as the one-hoss shay
The moral is obvious. We have aban-
doned our state governments to the politi-
clans, and then we have gone off and for
gotten who the politicians are. AS result,
We are paying right through the nose.
five want lower taxes, we have only to
bring our state and county governments up,
to date, take an Intelligent and unsleeping
interest in the way they are operated, and
insist on getting full value for our money.
That issue is quite as pressing as the
more talked-about issue of reducing ex-
penditures of the federal government.
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Actually, the United States is
not united. It's peace, progress,
prosperity and happiness are be-
ing constantly interfered with,
halted, prevented and menaced by
various groups, cliques, blocs, or
CARNATIONS, striving for special
selfish benefits for themselves at
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the expense OF
everybody else.
These groups are
in reality more
h a + m f u ! a n d
more dangerous
to the welfare Of
this nation than
all our foreign
foes put togeth,.
err.
If the United
States can ever
become united
as it should and
easily could be-
it will be a land
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a PARK than a camp Al,
ed across the road ir1s
famed 'Ho, Socing: q
block from the tn
Springs, highway. "a nd
There are abou; rs
present in the camp, II
by Lieut.. AcCarer As glTl
Lieut.. Aolr.s. as res, Gid
athletic officer; S::gt
Mickey, as seE.oF camp I'D
and a p"o.cc. slR@ia:e'ss1
forest work. The rg.acip.. |
ings in camp beside, tie io1|
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LETTERS TO
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-
ti.iccs name will be published.
EDITOR
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WAsHINGTON'S COUSIN 81

DOUSMAN, Wis. (UP)-Mrs.
Robert 3. Clark, who recently
celebrated her 9th birthday. is
George Washington's second cou-
sin. Despite her age, Mrs. Clark
still reads without glasses and has
a keen sense of humOr.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-11-05

Now that Greece has reverted to mon
archy, patriotic American restaurateurs
may begin serving their potatoes la King
George.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-11-05

THE great Queen Victoria of Eng.
land has a modern counterpart
In the lovable Queen Wilhelinina of
Holland Fer 45 years, this femi.
nire ruler 0f the Ouch has beer
Ter peoples inspiration, bidding
fair to equal, if not surpass, the
record of Victoria's 64-year reign.
Although Wilhelmina assembled
the throne in 1890, at the age of
10. she did not begin actual rule
until she became of age, in 1895.
But even under the regency of the
late Queen Emma, her mother,
Wilhelmina began tc win the love
and admiration of her people. Hell
hobby is painting landscapes.
Just as Queen Victoria became
the most pictured woman on
stamps, so also Is Wilhelmina run.
ming her a close second. At least
II different portraits of her appear
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Well it has been fairly good year, and we do
hope that Mr.. J. P. Morgan made enough to pay
little income tax this time.
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Selassie rejects American volunteers who can't
speak Amheric. They did pretty well, though, with
no French except Encore vim rouge"
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Prince of Wales now collecting planes,
instead OF ponies. 1t wiz require bit of
patience to substitute the three-point for
the sheQlder-blade landing.
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Statistics reveal the peak of auto acct
dents always occur in the fall. Maybe,
then, the name should be changed to leap.
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on stamps of
Holland, and its
d e p e ndencies.
One is shown
here, on one of
a set issued In
1928, on the sill.
yer jubilee OF
Gu e e n Wilhel.
mina's reign
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COPYRIGHT 1895. NEA Service. Incl
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of plenty, peace, progress and JOY.
What fools we Americans are
that we do not become united!