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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16

the views of the voters have changed since
1888. ..-, '::',2'ss p. .@@.', ::
The l7-county act may be declared tn44
constitutional by the Supreme ,Cburt. 1f3jt
does not take that course and elections are
held in the seventeen counties, some ot
them will vote wet and some dry, in spite
of the fact that the vets endeaVofed to
pick seventeen that would certainly vote
wet. And that will not settle the Poqzfe lsi
sue in this State. Next year the opponents
of, the liquor business will see what can De
done about electing Legislature and what
that Legislature can do about passing laws
and having them enforced.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16

for anybody engaging in their
kind of business without paying
license. ! kept my news business
open day and night, seven days
a week, three hundred and sixty
five days a year, while was in
business. Rain and snow and long
hours mattered not to me. The
news boys do not show up on
rainy days, nor can you find
them at night, and during the
winter months they are absent
from the streets. If they arc 60
ing to engage in this business,
let's not give them sympathy, but
license. 1t is the merchant in the
news business who needs the
sympathy because he is in the
meanest business that man ever
went into. l heartily endorse my
friend Mac and hope that His
Honor, the Mayor, and the City
Commissioners will see fit to put
$40 license on news boys. This
would be small compared to all
the license, which amounts to
around $50 or $50, that news
stands have to pay. | would fur
ther like to see a heavy license
put on news stands because we
have too many of them, some of
them losing money on the stuff
for the sake of trying to attract
customers who don't come.
Thanking you for any space
you give me, l am
Sincerely yours,
BLAINE JACKSON.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY DtjTcHER

Although Walker was to refer
the projects to the approximately
so federal, agencies, divisions, and
sections destined'to do the actual
spending, that mob would be kept
from interfering with Hopkins,
Ickes, Tugwell, and the many other
busy bosses Of the actual work.re'
lief Job.
Already, just between AS
girls the. plan has begged
down. The lobbyists saw
through the plan at once. They
don't mind leaving their formal
applications with Walker, but
the same afternoon they're
around mt the baekdoOr--high-
preserving the agency which
would actually superintend the
project.
Walkers chief job will be t.
straighten out snarls and co;ordt
nate. And what a job that one II
going to be!
lVOU can expect some sensation
l. out of Senator Jim Couzens' III
yestigatiop of relief expenditures
For one thiag, they prob
ably will shed more light on the
CWA scandals. As eva drew
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

BY RODNEY DUlLIlEh
NEA Service Stpf Correspondent
XTASHINGTON-For a bunch OF
w fellows who have six or
even billion dollars to spend,
he numerous bosses Of the huge
yerk-relief program are sur
TisiRgly worried lot.
Most of them are still foggy
,bout It all. They're sparring
With a pack of problems which
ould he reeled off here for half a
iolumn if anyone wanted to be
ugubrious about it. (This is
90 nice a day.) The problems re-
,olvc themselves into the, cues
sopt "Will it work-and how?"
Insiders suspect that current
demonstration intentions of put
ing a zee, 900 folks at work by
.ueust are as oyer-optimistic as
General Johnson's belief that
xRA, would re-employ 100000
lmost immediately, and Admin
strator James Moffett's .sugges-
zion that the Federal Housing
Act meant jobs for 100000.
The only way it.ean be, done is
BY CWA methods, which means
primarily an effort to put relief
recipients ION !, payrolls = rather
ihaa at work.
! = r. h
EvERYBoDY hopes that other of
- the programs phases will work
cut better than the effort to make
Frank Walker a "fall guy" who
would keep a pork-hungry nation
off the neeks OF officials busy with
actual operation of the scheme.
The idea was that Walker, whose
devotion 10 Roosevelt leads him to
accept jobs of a thankless and hor'
rible nature, would, as head of the
division of applications and ihfor
nation, receive all project requests
and handle the horde of congress
men, governors. mayors. and other
\ 9sfsss - ssS,s5.s s..
"a lSxIA.l ks, y, Z Do "a lIEJ
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16


: read my friend Macs letter
in The Times-News yesterday and
heartily agree with him in all that
he says. While l am engaged in
the contracting business and suf-
fer from out-of-town competition
of unskilled mechanics, / still feel
that | am in position to talk on
the news business, having been
engaged in that business for a
good many years.
Hendersonyille will support one
good news stand just like it did
when | was in the business. There
is only so much business here and
that's all. When in that business
| lost money during the winter
months, and my friend Mac tells
me that he does the same thing.
The same conditions exist now as
they did when / was in the bust
ness. In the summertime every
body opens up news stand and
all the boys get on the streets,
at the expense of the man in the
news business. If a good news
stand is vnOt allowed to exist in
Hendersonville, a situation will
arise as there is in other towns.
Everybody will have a little hand
full of publications and nobody
will carry complete line. hap
pen to know that Kings. News
Stand is reputed to be the most
complete in the South and out
of-town people remark about a
town this size having such a bust
ness. .... 10.
] never could understand and
can't understand yet how the pa
pers can sell to the news boys
cheaper than they can to an es-
tablished news business, But that
condition exists and has existed
ever since / cam remember. To
illustrate: The news stands of
Hendersonville pay 3 lie for a
daily paper that sells for SC. This
same paper can be bought by the
news boys for l lie. A Sunday
paper that sells for 12c, the mer-
chant being forced to pay the
penny sales tax, actually costs
the newspaper dealer Sc, while
the news boys who pay no sales
tax or license can buy the same
paper from 5 1-2 to &c. AS you
can readily see, the publishers
themselves make it unfair compe-
tition because they do not care
who makes the money as long as
they sell the papers. '.,. .
1t is one of the most selfish
businesses l ever knew. Our
newspaper merchants stay open
twelve months out of the year,
at a loss during certain number
OF these months, and ! heartily
agree that they should have some
protection from bunch of kids
who do not deserve the sympathy
mat they get, because when "a
man stops and thinks, some of
mem are sons of men who are
wei able to support them and
wac would not stand one minute
and tinaid. "a, . -,
but what are we to dos1 ask
those ~hoastand aghast at the
sMeeping power of evil. Do some
thing. Do anything: CT busy.
II lake a stand! Then You will be
SHOWN what to do and how to po,
: it IS wonderful how a comn,ete e
~ OBSCURE situation will clear nm
and the way will be, shown if, up
put work on the problem 'b,,avs,v
and, faithfully. We ara ins vay
whipped until We admit that -, ws
are whipped. We never fai, ale, ,r ~a
we =; admit that We have failed s ui''''
The church has such a Sa,vo,
Gus opportunity to pet th;s aia ao
try going right goyernn s nt"m
and every other way that ;t !. a.sy
make the angels weep to saa ni .ha
golden hours. slipping by unused saI
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16
THE LICENSE TAX PROBLEM

Referring TO the discussion started Oy
! Col. J. A. Mclaughlin, relating to the trou
bles of a tax-paying news-dealer who is
| forced to compete with street boys and
statesmen who pay no License or privilege
, taxes, it may be said that this brings TIC
public notice problem which is constant
source of trouble to municipalities and mu-
nicipal officials and one which it is difficult
to adjust.
Farmers, residents of Henderson county
or other counties or other States, who raise
the stuff they offer for sale, are not charged
a privilege tax by the city of Henderson
Vile In order to secure permit to sell
here they must make affidavit that the
products they propose to dispose of are
raised by them. Other persons selling in
neutrality-suspicious. of merchandise
or those who engage in selling anything
are subject to a peddler's license. This IL
cense is S25, for one day or year. How
ever, to avoid the payment of the peddler'5
license it is only necessary for the peddler
TO take orders for future delivery" of his
merchandise. Under the laws of the State
no license tax can be placed on future de-
liveries." ,...s....
, Anyone operating newsstand or SELL
f., ing papers and magazines at any place OF
business is subject to license tax, but no
tax is levied on street sales of newspapers
and magazines. That is the basis of the
protest made by Mr.. Mclaughlin.
1t is clear that there is only one way to
decrease, or stop, sales of merchandise by
peddlers, and that is to educate the people
of the town and trade territory to buy from
established, tax-paying dealers. Such edu-
cation can never be one hundred per cent.
successful Some people will continue to
buy from peddlers. The best that can be
hoped for is that large majority will give
first consideration in making purchases to
established resident dealers, who distribute
payrolls, pay taxes, contribute to the main
tenance of schools, churches and charitable
enterprises, and make prosperous towns
and rural sections possible by their liberal
cooperation with all other classes of citi-
zens.
AS to the problem of Col. Mclaughlin
| if this newspaper endorsed his views it
would probably be branded by the critics
as desiring to levy taxes on competing
newspapers and periodicals for the pur-
| pose of Gripping competition. In spite of
that possibility, however, we venture to
ask if it would not be fair and reasonable
to extend to news-dealers as much protec-
ton as possible in the same way that IL
cense tax protection is given other lines of
business?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16

you thlS spring
in your fight
against these po-
litical croo k 5.
When l came
here some years
a G o, l didn't
know the situa-
ton, but | want
ed to get on the
side of good gov
eminent. Natur-
ally, | believed
m v S u n d a y
school tea C h e L
would steer me
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16
Youth Leaders
OF Pacific VIII
Confer In july

MANILA, P. l., May 10. Alp)
Eleven countries, bordering he
Pacific, will be rcprevnsdhu
international confera4 Of yovA
leaders to be held here in luIy,
under the auspices Of the Pacific
League of Youth.
Working out details Of the Goa.
ference is Attorney Theodore 7.
Evangelista, president Of the FlL
pino Youth Party and chairman Of
the controlling council Of The Pa,
cific League Of Youth.
Evangelist was elected chair.
man during the conference 10
Shanghai in 1884. He went 70
Washington as secretary to Sen.
ate President Manuel Quezo,
when the latter headed The mi!
sion which carried the draft d
the Philippine constitution to th
president.
Preparations, in the absence 0
Evangelista, are in the hands o
Melchor P. Aquino, who head
the Filipino Youth committee OIL
external relations.
Questions of Vita importan,!c'
to Pacific countries will be dis
cussed during the conference
However. since the discussion WI
be purely academic, no resOluto a
condemning or approving the con q
duct of any nation bordering 's
Pacific will be passed. .
Each of the II countries Is
be represented here BY ten deS
gates.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned COM
munic ations are published by
The Times.News. All letter:
must be signed with the real
name Of the author. No com
munieations signed with . tic.
titioEs name will be pablishsd.
EDITOR.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16
s2.POUND Cat" CAUGHT

HUNTSVILLE, Ala, May 16,
UP)-A catfish weighing 80
pounds was sliced into steaks and
sold to housewives here recently.
Caught in the Tennessee river
near Whitesburg, the size of the
"cat" brought open-mouthed ex-
pressions of wonderment to
Huntsville citizens.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16

For g money prize offered by Mussolini,
i4 4.4*li Italians were married in one day.
When the Duce plays Cupid; lit seems, Gu
pid plays the deuce.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16

A man | never met before
walked up to me the other day
and said: "I'm South Georgia
Democrat and I'm going to help
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16

Correct this sentence: 81 have so, much
coincidence in my own market predictions, :"
said the financial writer, that I've decided
to start specializing myself"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16

A new system of transmission eliminate
static and tube noises from the radio. And
crooners are deprived of their last alibi
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16

"Amarieanism; Reading each day of the
millions half starving in Europe; feeling
greatly abused he can no longer afford to
play golf
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16

At the rate the dime heiress is spending
her money, Miss Hutton might do worse
than start studying this chain letter thing.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16

We don't mind those American naval
games in the Pacific as long as Japan
doesn't challenge the winner.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16

Every star in the Pleiades group has its
own independent motion, says science ar
ticle. Must be burlesque outfit.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16

The universal philosophy: "oh, What a
fine world this would be- ifsaa other men
were JUST like me-"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-16

The Germans beat the WON yis
making synthetic substitutes. L u
what they made a kaiser out ol.
The Washington times., 1935-04-08

George t. Trsmble. So years, Elmer
gsncy Hospital.
Eugene Montgomery, 81 years, 81.
Elizabeths Hospital.
William A. Trigger. SO years. 476O Wis
consin Ave. N. w.
Eugene T. Dickinson, 20 years, 1883
Connecticut Ave. N. W.
Emma P. vickery, AZ years, 201 Doug
las st. N. E.
Walter s. Johnson, ~ years. Walter
Reed Hospital.
Paul E. seeley, II years. SlbIey Hos
pital.
Charles z. EIler, 81 years. Thirty-sixth
and Garrison Streets Northwest.
Thomas Lansburgh, 10 years, George
town Hospital.
Infant to Nick and Letitia BerteIinL,
IL days, Garfield Hospital.
Alicia f. Williams, "a years, 1898 st.
Northwest
David L Turner, 90 years. 1925 ThIr-
teenth st. N. w.
william w. Washington, SIS years
1927 Eleventh st. N. w.
Matilda Warrick, 81 years, Gallinser
Hospital.
Matte cofield, 4s years. Gallinger Hos
pital.
George Forest. a. years. Gallinger Hos.
Herbert Bellows. 80 years. 1850 Wi.
consin Ave. N w.
Irving McKinnon. SO years. 1901
Eighth st. N. W.
iona Thompson. 70 years. callinSer
Louis Meredith. 70 years tuberculosis
Hospital.
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
COL. MARK BROOKE

Funeral services for Colonel
Mark Brooke, U. S. A., retired,
former assistant to the District
Engineer Commissioner and later
a member of the General Staff
here, will be held at the Fort
Myer Chapel tomorrow afternoon
at 3 o'clock followed by burial in
Arlington.
Colonel Brooke, who died Sat
urday morning at Walter Reed
Hospital, had lived at the Ken
nedy-Warren apartments since
1892. He was a member Of an
old Philadelphia family, the first
American Brooke having received
a grant from William Penn in
1899. He belonged to the Loyal
Legion, the Military Order OF the
World War, the Society Of Amer
lean Military Engineers and the
Sons of the American Revolution.
He was also a member Of the
Army and Navy Club and the
Chevy Chase Club.
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
Three Minute
Relief From
| Your Headache

, When you have one Of those vio-
lent, nerve-racking headaches, from
inorganic causes. you can get sooth.
ing relief in three minutes with ''B.
c." q reliable, pleasant-to-take rem.
edy. "B. c." is prepared by a reg
istered pharmacist. compounded on a
different principle from most relief.
giving agencies in that it contains
several ingredients. so blended and
proportional as to accomplish in a
few minutes what we believe no one
drug formula can do in so short a
time. "B. c." should also be used
for the relief Of muscular aches and
pains, common colds and neuralgia:
for reducing fever and quieting a
distressed nervous system without
opiates. narcotics or such habit form.
ing drugs. Get "B. c." in Toe and
Csc packages, wherever drugs are
sold.
The Washington times., 1935-04-08

Funeral services were being ar.
ranged today for Warren Delano
Robbins, United States Minister
to Canada, and first cousin Of
the President, and first cousin Of
in NV York after an illness of
one week. He was 40 years old.
Veteran of the United States
diplomatic service, Mr.. Robbins,
was well known in washington,
having spent many years here
as Chief of the Division Of Pro-
tocol of the State Department.
Death was due to pneumonia,
which he contracted while visit
ing his son.in-law and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander c.
Forbes, in New York.
President Informed
President Roosevelt, aboard the
yacht Nournahal off San Saliva
dor Island, has kept in constant
touch with his secretary for news
of Minister Robbins condition. It
has not been determined whether
he will return for the funeral IN
New York tomorrow.
Mrs. Roosevelt, however, VIII Q
has been visiting in New York, is
expected to remain for the serv'
ices, which will be private.
Mrs. Robbins, the former Irene
de Bruyn, of the Argentine, was
at his bedside. He married her
while serving in ministerial posts
in South American capitals.
The minister also Is survived
by three children, Mrs. Forbes,
Warren Delano Robbins, jr., and
Edward H. Robbins.
Born in Brooklyn, N. Y, on Sep.
TENDER 8, 1885, Mr.. Robbins fol
lowed his family tradition and at.
tended Harvard University, being
graduated in the class Of 1908,
four years after his cousin, Frank
lin Delano Roosevelt.
Upon graduation he entered the
diplomatic service and much of
his career was spent in South
American and European countries.
He was assigned early in his ca
reer as secretary to the Ministers
at Portugal and in the Argentine.
In 1911 he went to Paris to serve
as third secretary Of the embassy
there.
War Adviser
Later he was sent to the Lega-
ton at Guatemala to act as Sec
ond secretary. During the World
War, Mr.. Robbins was brought to
Washington to advise in the State
Department in the division Of
Latin affairs.
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
Dry Agent Arrest
To Be Investigated

DANVILLE, Va, April 8
Especially Thomas j. Young,
jr., Of Lynchburg, head of the
alcohol tax unit Of the Treasury
Department, has been assigned
the task of making a full inves.
tigation of the recent failing at
Chatham Of H. B. Hook, an
agent attached to that office, by
Trial Magistrate Charles r.
Warren.
Judge Warren ordered the
agent to jail for three hours
following a dispute on the
streets of Chatham, relative to
procedure on the question Of
Selling a liquor car.
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
WILL PAY
70 PER CENT

Continued from Local PGse)
ingly "slow" with the result a
dividend appears to be remote.
The bank still owes its depositors
about $226,283.
There will be no additional
dividends at the Bank Of Bright
wood for at least six months, it
was authoritatively learned. This
bank owes 1927, 306. It borrowed
$4,000 from the RFC and still
owes that corporation approx
mately $1,000.
It was stated officially that
there will be no dividend at the
North Capitol Savings Bank for
"at least another year." The
character of the assets is "slow."
The bank still owes its depSsitors
about 100000. The Industrial
Savings Bank has a deposit
liability Of approximately $400 900.
The Departmental Bank now owes
about 5000, 900, and the condition
Of the assets held by the institu-
ton warrant the official forecast
Of substantial payments of this
sum.
Assets Liquid
Assets held by the Woodbridge
Langdon Savings and Commercial
Bank are considerably more liquid
than those held by other defunct
banks here. This bank owes ap-
proximately $165,000, and the
chances of a major portion of
this sum being ultimately re-
turned to the depoSitor appear
good.
It is officially predicted that
the ultimate loss to be borne by
depositors in the United States
Savings Bank will be around
100000. This prediction is based
on the poor quality of the assets,
a good number of which are per-
sonal unsecured notes. The bank
still owes approximately 5000, 900.
The Washington times., 1935-04-08
TIMES CONTEST
ENTRIES URGED.
WRITE NOW

Don't delay, write as many let
tiers as you wish, and send them
in promptly.
That is today's advice for con-
testants in The Washington Times
Marriage Clause" letter contest.
which has for prizes six two-person
season passes to the National
Theater Players program, open
ing April 20, and ten dual passes
to the opening performance.
The contest, inaugurated at the
suggestion Of Miss Esther Penn,
secretary of the American FEEDER
alton of Government Employees,
with prizes presented through
courtesy Of Stephen E. Cochran,
manager Of the National Theater,
will close at midnight, April II,
nine days from today.
Noted Women Judges
The contest is based on the
question whether section 213 Of the
economy act, which allows Gov
eminent departments to dis
charge employees who have a
husband or wife also in the serv-
ice, should be abolished. The best
letters, which may either praise
or disapprove the measure, will
be chosen by a panel Of dis
irgulshed women judges selected
by Miss Penn.
The organization official in
tends preparing all submitted let
tiers after the contest, into a
memorial, to be presented to
interested members of Congress,
including Senator Hattie E. Cara.
way, Mrs. Florence Kahn, Mrs.
Mary E. Norton. Mrs. Edith
Nourse Rogers, Mrs. Virginia E.
JenckeS, Mrs. Isabella Greenway
anI Mrs. Caroline O'Day.
The only rule Of the contest Is
thai letters must be postmarked
before midnight Of the seven
tenth. Anyone may compete,
and the earlier a letter arrives
the more time a contestant will
have to submit an additional, i'm
proved entry for consideration by
the judges. Style Of the missive
will not weigh as heavily as the
thought contained, whether for
or against section 213.
Pen Names Advised
Every author of the 16 winning
letters will witness, with a friend,
the openin-; National Theater
Players performance, Accent on
Youth" which will star Nancy
Sheridan and Roy Roberts. There
after the six best letters will give
their writer's two seats for the re-
mainder of the Players spring
season.
Authors may request that their
names be omitted from published
letters, and in that case, it was
decided today, a number will be
substituted for the signature, so
that winters may remain anony-
nous if they so choose. A "pen
name" is advisable in case anony-
nifty is desired. The winning list
will be published in. The Times
April 26 and q.
Letters should be addressed to
Esther Penn, secretary, American
Federation Of Government EN-
ployeS, care Of The Washington
Times, Washington, D. c.