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BEHIND TIE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

victory. It is pointed out.
CThe war cost US 100000 killed,
100000 wounded. and S22.625,000.,
900 directly. The postwar cost to
US has been estimated as high as
$500, GOO. 000. 00o.)
When the Morgan firm In Au.
gust. 1914, first asked the State
Department its attitude as to loans
to belligerents. Secretary Bryan at
once took the position that such
loans would be likely to get US in.
to war eventually as financial in.
terests here championed the cause
Of the debtor nations.
DUT our huge munitions sales
- had to be financed and soon
there was an informal agreement
between Acting Secretary Lansing
and Morg gan that Commercial
credits" were another matter.
The war supplies interests had
built up a 2k billion dollar favor.
able balance of trade. Withdrawal
of Allied gold to pay for 1t would
have bankrupted England and
France. If they couldn't find
means of paying US. it was argued,
they would have to stop buying
from US and there'd be economic
hell to pay here at home.
ITHE financial situation grew
- even more strained. however,
as private money-raising proved in.
adequate. Ambassador Page at
London 'was cabling frantic bleats
in the spring of 1917.
German. Submarines were playing
havoc. II we went to war. the
greatest help We could give Eng
land and France would be Il bic
government loan. Perhaps our go.
ing to war was 1.-THE only way In
which our present rpre-emiRehl
trade position can be maintained
land "a panic -averted." A world
I financial crash threatened
The &C m m rye Department
meanwhile. was privately taking
1.-The dollars-and-cents attitude tha
tgood -will1of the allies was likel.
10 be worth more than British re
strictions had cost as. This view
point won.
y tc9byrtght. 1895. NEA- Service. Inc
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-07
By RODNEY BUTCHER

ktOI4NA< ~ AAANAN
NEA Service stuff Correspondent
,VIASHNGTON-The long, de-
wv vfous road to war at last has
been mapped and charted.
A confidential report now be-
lore the committee shows for the
FIRST time the sequence of events
and overwhelming pressures
which swept the Wilson admins
.ration from its initial strict
neutrality" position and its "He
Kept US Out of War" campaign
slogan OF 1916 to a point where
American statesmen faced a
choice between war and domes-
tic panic accompanied by Euro
pean financial chaos.
.nUOTING from scores of secret
~ documents in State Depart
ment files, which are considered
too sensational for publication.
the report traces step by step the
memorable consequences which be-
gan to pile up when the first
boatloads of munitions and food
,str1fs left these shores for ports
of belligerent nations.
There were two parallel ruts
In this road. In brief.
1-American industrial, CONNER.
i cial. and financial interests
piled up huge structure OF pro-
duction. export, and debt. They
became ineXtricably bound by gold
and steel to the war fortunes of
the allies.
0-By arriving at a neutrality
policy which permitte d
Americans to sell billions of dol.
lars worth Of munitions. food.
Sums. and other materials &c
britain and France-and to lend
them the money to pay for it
anu at the same time permitting
england to violate our neutra
rights to the extent Of blockint
our commerce with neutrals Dor
aerins on Germany, we becam,
In effect partners to the "starva
ton blockade" OF Germany.
SECURITIES to the extent o
$2,OOO,0O0.00O as we'll a
American prosperity would hav
"HAn teoDardized by "a .Germal
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Then she added with evident
relish: "And l told one OF the
clerks about it the other day.
too" o., $50
ried her husband. What good dld
that do? Do you suppose ne got
himself in bad by going to Miss
Siightem and telling her about 1t:
Or do you suppose he got hlmseit
in worse by going to the head OF
the firm and telling him about
it,"
"Not much. That clerk has a
lob to hold. And it is rather hard
to hold a job when the rest OF
the force are down on you. And
the rest get down on you mighty.
soon, if they find you are carry
ing tales to the boss. Why didn't
YOU say what you had to say to
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TOURISTS ON WHEELS


Editor, The Times-News: !,
Our highways and motor travel
are moving at a pace that should
bring a greater revenue to our
mountains and mountain resorts
this year, and within the next
few years possibly than can be
realized by great many OF us.
Our cool summer temperature
in the mountains and scenic at
fractions with the floral beauty
of our national forests in ana ana
around the Great Smokes with
their MANY waterfalls amid the
forests furnish the tourists and
those seeking recreation with a
perfect setting for an ideal vaca-
ton. '
The establishment of the Great
Smoky Mountains National park
brings us close to the realization
of our rightful heritage. Ancient
peoples and the Angleo-Saxon IN
early pioneer days came to the
headwaters of the French Broad,
the Tennessee, the Tuckeseegee
and other rivers near the Blue
Ridge Divide and the Great
Smokes. 49,,
Estimates on tourist travel have
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TELL IT TO THE BOSS
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

the boss himself? Then it would
have done some good"
"Well, | am not going to do
it," was the wife's defiant re-
Spouse. l don't care how they fix
their old dresses. l am not going
to buy any more there anyway"
That is the way the proposition
generally works out. One goes
into a store, has a run-in with
some employe who has no interest
whatever in the business, except
the pay check Saturday night,
yanks oneself out of the front
door and vows never to go back.
And who suffers? 1t is the en-
ployer who suffers when you take
your trade away from him. And
the employer is generally eager to
please you and see that you get a
square deal.
Any man who has people work.
ing for him has problems on his
hands. And each employee means
a separate problem.
The hardest thing in the world
is to get people to do things the
way one wants them done. That
is why the head of an establish
ment. if he knows his business,
circulates through it at intervals.
But he can not be everywhere at
the same time.
Tell it to the boss if you have
a grievance, Tell him exactly
what is .on your mind and how
you feel about it. If he is the
right kind of boss, he will be glad
to- hear your, story. For it will
mean money in his pocket. You
are the very person he has been
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-07
LEFT-wINcERs PLUME THEIR PINIoNs

The left-wingers in Washington decide the time
has come for third political party in the nation
neither the Democrats nor the Republicans offering
them satisfaction or contentment in their creeds.
This is gang that will make plenty OF NOISE De-
tween and the election of 1886, but NOISE VIII
be about all they do make.
They have program of their own that VIII ap-
peal to the intelligent masses of this country 1t IS
program of utter destruction of the rigid rights
for which America has additionally stood and upon
which it was created in the first place.
The left-wngers represent mixture OF Euro
pean states of mind which are inherently antago-
nistic to the English conception of constitutional
liberty. They would make the supreme court de-
nying the citizen his rightfu place lin political or
economic society, the place of ascendency. and the
place of authority.
Western ,Progressives are doubtless in the lead
of this movement.
The Republicans from whom they split off are
shy of them and so are the conservative Democrats.
That's the reason they have gathered up the NAL
contents from other geographical sectors and from
other political societies and merged to make unity
sufficiently strong, they hope, to give offense to
the major parties.
Of course, the odds are against them America
has never taken much of fancy to third parties,
ize suehrwere directed by men who had conspicuous
abilities and often with program of at least meas
urable appeal-Charlotte Observer.
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head OF lne III
ting department
is simply impos-
sible. l never
bought a dress
there and had an
alteration made.
that it didn't
come home with
the hooks and
eyes half sewed
on. and all the
rest of the work
so poorly done |
had u d. i aver
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An irata woman said to her
husband the other day: 81 shall
never buy another dress from
Lide and Cheatem.
"'That Miss Slightem at the
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LETTERS TO
THE E'I)IIOR

NoTE-No unsigned com.
munications are pubtishsd ny
The Times.News. All letter;
must be signed with the real
name Of the author. No com
rmunicatiohs signed with a nc
'titioss name will be Pubiisheo'
EDITOR.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-07

=" +BEANSZDwarf 20 seed Valen-
tine, Burpee Stringless, Tennes-
see Greenpod; pole-seed Ken
lucky Wonder, Greenback, Nc
Caslin.
BETS - see Blood Turnip,
Crosby's Egyptian, Eclipse, De-
troit Dark Red.
BROCCOLI-seed in garden.
CABBAGE-set plants: Charles
ton Wakefield, Early Jersey
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.QES1DES beginning the silver
= Jubilee of King Georges &C.
..ession 20 the throne, May &
marks the 95th anniversary of the
ISSUANCE of the first prepaid post
,ge stamp, the famous Penny
Black" of Great Britain. On that
lay, in 1910, a crude black stamp
showing the portrait of Queen
Victoria YVES sold for postage in
England.
: Not until fS45 did postage
stamps appear in the United
/, States, and these were only OF To-
! ,al2origin. 1t was two years later
that, the federal government be.
gan issuing United States postage.
The Penny Black" is one OF
. The most popular items among
stamp collectors because OF ITS
historic value. Many varieties in
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personality: The mysterieas something that en-
aoies you to get what you want without .working
for it.
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! various colors ami
their shades have.
appeared, all with /
.theshead ofeQueenf
Victoria, and their
} prices. range ,all,I
he way from a fews
cents to several.
hundred dollars,
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Still, man seems pretty decent when you thin
OF the things he can't do until he gets drunk.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-07

Couldn't you get along well or better if the
government quit doing anything? WE'LL other PEG
pie are equally smart
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-07

A hon tanner says yon can't calm a cat by look
ing in her eyes. Sometimes you can by saying the
are beautiful
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-07

.Aigri really means it is swell when she paze.
IN awe at the Grand Canyon and says: "Bov nsr
pectly putridp ,'O" per
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anxious to met. of course if he
isn't that sort of man, then that
is place where you do not want
to trade. But give the boss a
chance. That is only fair. a.. !,
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Pennsylvania state police announce tnaF
hitchhikers will be jailed or fined. mother
words, thumbs down on thumbs up.
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Statesmen are. burdened with many prob
lens, most of which wouldn't exist II tnere
were no statesmen.
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copyright, 1895. NEA Service. Incl
NEXT: What winged horse Is
tcgarded as the symbol of poetry?
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SECURITIES to the extent of
- $2,0OO,0O0.0OO as we'll as
American prosperity would have
"Hen ieoDardized by a German
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-10-25
AND YOU PAY THE BILLS

Few people, said Frank Kent in one of his in
forming articles in The News and Courier appre-
ciate the magnitude Of the New Deals publicity
machine. Literally hundreds of young men are
engaged in regularly putting out to the public
printed matter designed to popuarize the New
Deal agencies, dscredit their critics and confouni
their opponents. This is a natural and proper
function of the publicity directors paid out of the
party funds, but it is the first time wholesale
propaganda, aimed at the perpetuation of an ad-
ministration in power, has been paid out of the
public treasury and the propagandists put on the
public payrols"
If The News and Courier were to devote its
columns to all the available matter emanatng from
the New Deal, it's readers would go without local
and general news, for there would be no space re.
naming. Government denounces other propagan-
dists, but its own supposed to be above suspi-
cion. Government lashes out at those who take
issue with these political propagandists. Govern
ment would have newspapers publish it's flood Of
colored news at the expense of the publishers The
public is without any idea of the volume of adver-
Using for which government does not paw. But
government pays, and pays well, the persons who
supply this free advertising Charleston News and
Courier.
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WHERE TO START

When the term share cropper is mentioned these
days the proper caper in order to establish oneself
as one who knows all about this dreary world is to
pull long face and say eyes, the poor things. y
The share cropper is about to be smothered over
with all the surplus sentimentalty. Still, let's not
question that something should be done to amelio-
rate the tenants plight.
Something has been done. Congress has been
called upon to pass laws. The FERA and the CCC
and the Bankhead tenant bill and powerful lot C
other national machinery has been called into play,
including bright and shining scheme for rehabili-
tation.
In Mecklenburg county, according to the census
taken this year, there 2,310 tenants and 1925
troopers. The number has remained practically ur-
changed for five years. Just how many of these are
on the verge of starvation, just how many be-.
ing oppressed and held in virtual slavery by Meek,
lenburg county landlords are details which have not
yet been reported. If the tenant situation is bad
it is painted, then Mecklenburg surely could sci
example by staging campaign for the liberia
ton of tenants and troopers here among the home
folks Why be general about it? 1t couldn't BE
that all the ballyhoo about the troopers is partly
ballyhoo, could it?-Charlotte News.
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FRANCE ADDS
SUBM ARMIES
TO BIG FLEET
Will Rival Japan for Su'
premacy of This Type
Craft by 1886

CHERBOURG, France, Oct. %.
| (UP)-France's policy of main
tanning the lead it already has es-
tablished among navies of the
world in submarines was advanc-
ed another stage last week when
the 2,000-ton submersible Beve-
tiers was launched here.
This vessel, when completed,
will bring Frances total subma-
rine fleet to the impressive figure
of Is, this including the small
coastal submarine, JunCn. which
took the water few weeks ago.
With the steady increase in
Frances submarine flotiIlaa, the
ministry of the navy becomes in
crcaslneiy opposed to all movce
by other naval powers to restrict
or abolish undersca craft as part
of the navies of the nations. The
French admiralty not only is en-
barkcd upon program Of main
tanning its undcrsea craft strength
but CT increasing it.
During the next IL months,
submarine construction will 60
i Loi y, VA al 10: Ct HCe'.uy PACE "'l'E'
tS ~ rne 'i't H., VIE" IRE washington
end Of 1886, it will have The for
snhn,orir Co'''i ~ W, r,G ;,i I'l' III
in tonno~o tn W. thn "f I, ,or"nn
STRENGTH bu+ If is boTov w. + '' tho
French submarine fIoct viii oI,f
class tho Janancso j., ,,r, 49, o"'
u. S. TO RANK TTIRD
The figures for Submarine tor
naoo Of +bo nor.o,s - 49,.
viii the TTnitpG procS 60 1o H,I,v U lax.
Jaran 20 ~ 49, io.n ~
France 77o7G tow.
United States is S00 fonc
Great Britain 52191 TONS
Italy .. A6,437 tona
In REFUSING TO abandon tho
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NEWSPAPERS OPINION
HOKUS-POKUS

Undoubtedly the most unctuOus of the New Deal
departments is the AAA-that agency which seems
TO the more thoughtful critics of the Roosevelt
noIicies the most radical departure from American
fr5amentals and at the same time the most eco
or,coTv unsound of all the administration activi-
ties.
Started as an emergency measure 1t appears the
thing in which the more potent of the presidential
advisors are most deeply interested and which they
are determined to rivet upon permanently. In
il hokus-pokus is so mixed with holiness that it IS
impossible to tell which predominates. An example
is presented in the so-called "referendums," by
which the farmers supposed themselves to set
tie by ballot the AAA policies. One of these refec-
endums for the corn-hog producers is to be held
next Saturday.
From the AAA publicity on this subject the I'M
preston is gained that without guidance or pres
sure the farmers weigh the question propoundcd
and vote their sentiments free from any form OF
persuasion or influence. Theoretically all the AAA
does is provide facilities for registering the decision
and later, carry it out The farmers themselves
formulate the policies and the AAA is but the IN
,trument for the execution of their will. Such is
The theory but it is falacious one. The facts arc
different The fact is that these "referendums" or
elections" are farccal in the extreme Their r.
suit is inevitably known in advance. The program
IS complete long before the farmers vote upon IT,
elections are conducted it would be miraculous
if the decision were other than as desired by the
AAA-Frank Kent in Charlotte Observer.
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THE sPoRTsMANsHIP OF FOOTBALL

The craftsmanship of football is one of the ma
jor elements of the game that gives its glamour
When that goes out when it is traduced, the
sport degenerates into more of brutal clashing
of mere muscle and Drawn
The zest and eagerness of the performers in
sort of super-exhileration which spurs them on
while under the influence of play, often leads them
to hew to the bone, let the chips thereof fall where
they may.
1t is not to be expected that football should be
an innocent, unoffending pastme like ping-pong or
that the players should touch each other gently
and with gloves in the heat of gruelling grinl
of a game.
But it is significant nevertheless, that in the
North Carolina State-Georgia event the other day,
two of the formers satellites were put out of the
festivities in the early innings on account of in
juries they suffered in the collisions of the game
Rather a coincidence, it seems that the very men
State was relying upon for victory turned out to
be, also the two men that the Georgia attack soon
put out of its way
Sometimes you have to get in between the lines
to get the best readng-Julian Miller in Charlotte
Observer.
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEN Service Stan Corrc>pOndrnt

NEN Service STAN Correspondent
WTASHINGTON. - Until recently
w the New Deal had been accused
of everything except alienation of
affections. Now it's being sued for
that.
The charge arises in the suit OF
an Oklahoma utility company to
vent PWA from carving
through 100000 allotment to
Hominy, Okla, for municipal
electric power plant. The supreme
court will have to decide.
Attorney Dean Acheson. former
undersecretary of the treasury. who
was let out when he became unsvm-
pathetic, left no doubt in his an.
pearance before the District of Co.
lumbia federal court that he
sought to picture the utility COM
pany as a fond, loyal husband,
the municipality an erring wife.
and PWA as free-Spending good
time-Charlie who had purloined
the lady away.
The utility and the town had
dwelt in happy contractual rela.
tlonship, the lawyer said, and al.
though the franchise was but on =
day-to-day basis, PWA had run
tured a contractual relationship
This argument, aimed at federaI
aid for power plants, is a precedent
and about Is other utilities have
been around to Acheson's firm
lately with the same plea.
THE good judgment of the scores
- of congressman taking off on
that Junket to the Philippines is
indicated in this excerpt from q
letter received by Your corresnond.
ent from congressman in a west
ern state:
My dear constituents attack mo
by the flank. the right and left
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T HE N EW DE Il
IN WASHINGTON
by RODNEY BUTCHER

they swarm in through the win.
dows: they come in through the
cracks in the walls; they pursue
me in my sleep and they get in bed
with me at night. But, like Gar.
gantua, l am brave and l shall do
battle. and go forward to the end"
Meaning that the pressure, espe.
cially for jobs, never lets up.
The Civil Service Commission
will have examinations for 500
new postal jobs created by the 40.
hour.wcek law for postal employees.
It estimates it will have perhaps
965, 900 applications for those posi-.
tions.
DEXFORD GUY TUGWELL, I'm.
IL dersecretary of agriculture-re.
settlement administrator, lately
in Mexico, stopped off in Texas and
met many Texans. Arriving late
at night in San Antonio, he was
met by his friend, Congressman
Maury Maverick, and insisted he
wanted to see the Alamo at once.
Returning TO Tugwell's hotel
from the Alamo, they met in the
lobby of former Gov. Jim Fergu.
son. husband of the famous MA"
Il am for the AAA and the Dem.
ocratic administration and Won
folks are all right" Ferguson told
him.
Tuswell thanked him very, sin.
cerely for those kind words.
eyes" added Jim, 81 got nv
EAAA check this morning"
IOLD university mates of Gov. ALI
~ Landon of Kansas, possible Re.
nublican presidential candidate, re,
mort that he used to be nicknamed
"Fox" Landon. They also report
that he doesn't let them call him
that any more.
Downright. 1895. NEA Service. Incl
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1t would be good idea for
our radio speakers to get togeth-
er on the pronunciation Of that
Russian city Moscow. Some of
them call it "Mus-kow"; others
say "Muss-ko": while "Muss-kOw"
and 'Moss-ko" are also heard.
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form pronunciation. At the pres
ent time persons from some sec
tions actually can not understand
persons from other sections. Per-
haps you heard a Virginia youth
say over the radio a few weeks
ago that the folks sup Moth"
talked so funny he could not I'M
derstand them. And if you ask
the folks up North, they will tell
you that the folks down South
talk so funny they can't under
stand them.
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Editor, The Times-Ncws:
want to say a few words IN
praise for your paper IN regard
to the text of scripture we get
daily.
1t is so appropriate for your
readers to have Gods word placed
before them daily. | can say |
have never read any newspaper
that excels yours. also enjoy
the beautiful poems and appreci-
ate your impartiality.
Wishing you success in every
way and many more subscribers.
Respectfully,
MRS. A. c. SMITH.
HcndersonViHe, Route 2.
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The New IN
ternational Web
S t er Dictionary
informs us that
we should pro-
nounce an o s.
COW" this way:
Moss" ("o'' as
in not) "ko"
("c" as in go),
accent on "Mos''.
There is one
thing that radio
will eventually do
for us in this
country; it will
give us q uni