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Evening star., 1936-02-16

. the rougher tactics of life while a soldier.
Thus prepared, he was alert for new adven-
ture, and embarked for Canada.
While celebrating his nineteenth birthday
looking for food in Winnipeg. he heard of
gentleman who offered any man $25 to wrestle
fifteen minutes with him. McLaglen earned
the money - and job with the travelling
wrestler
His first engagement was to wrestle an
entire football team. This was difficult, as
four members of the team were professional
wrestlers. But alas, they could not speak
English "a serious drawback for them, be-
cause the referee could not understand their
protests.
McLaglen knocked them all out accident
ally" by butting them with his head, which is
still as hard as any head in Hollywood.
McLaglen's fame spread through the wilds
of Canada. He became strong man" with
Evening star., 1936-02-16

I'm A poll conducted by New York critics
and leading cinema societies. The In
former" in which Victor McLaglen
IA starred, was voted the best picture of
1885.
Having played two previous excellent roles
in What Price Glory" and The Lost
PATROL - his salary had reached 5000
week. Being lavish spender, his expenses
kept pace with his earning power.
mo man can last forever he said to me.
Il knew I'd soon be seeing the shadows on the
sundown trail. When John Ford told me about
The Informer' =. Well, that's that - l owe
it all to Ford"
Ford, typical red-headed Irishman, has
long been one of the greatest directors in
Hollywood. There is an affinity between him
and McLaglen. He directed The Lost
picture"
1t was brave venture R.kO. made in
producing The Informer." Uncompromising
in situation, fierce as storm in undertaking
tragedy, it moved on to relentless end 1t
treated with sympathy man who had be-
trayed his friend. McLaglen did not play the
role; he was Gypo Nolan!
Six feet three and weighing 220 pounds,
sometime wanderer, wrestler, pugilist, soldier,
Victor McLaglen has at last become great
actor. In other screen roles he had gusto,
courage and the primitive lust for living. In
The Informer," he is as subtle as Shylock.
Those who know the pitiful history of Ireland
will see masterpiece in McLaglens charac-
terization. One might be tempted to say that
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-03
NEVER GET MAD"


"Never get mad is the philosophy of life All
hered to by Hilary Ewing Howse, mayor Of Nash
Vile, Tennessee Arriving at the 10th milepost or
life's highway, his honor, who has held the office
of mayor of Nashville for the past p years, tells
the press boys of that city in qualifying his brief
creed that it doesn't pay to get mad Officially.
and in explanation adds at makes you do things
you wouldn't otherwise do. 1t places you at dis
advantage with the other fellow. You can come
through almost any difficulty if you don't get mad.
Public office offers too many difficulties to lose
your temper"
That is sound reasoning and good common sense
the executive of that Tennessee city hands down An
individual holding high public office should real
ze that the public or any portion of it. is entitled
to hearings and access to his person to set forth
plea, complaint, argument issue. The individual!
the group or the public at large must come to head
quarters for headquarters isn't going to the source
of complaint. But so many officehoders lost sight
of the fact that it is the office and not their per-
sonality or presence which counts. The fact that
throughout his long successful mayoraty he adj
heres to his rule of faith must to a large measure
account for Mayor Howse wearing well in Office
Spartanburg Journal
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HendersonDi;le, Route 2

HENDERSONVILLE Route y
Feb. 3.-Miss Mary Walker of
, Asheville spent several days re-
Gently with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. O. L. Walker.
Mr.. James Jackson visited Mr..
NJ. s. Shipman Thursday.
Mrs. Grady Shipman and son,
Jack, visited Mrs. Shipman's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Station.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. W. Brown
were dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ray Lamb of Point Lookout
one day last week.
: Obed Taylor was recent caller
of D. D. Henderson.
/ The friends of Mrs. Lewis
Hoots will regret to learn that
she is still very i'll.
: Callers on Frances Swami last
Sunday were Ebert Corn, Law
renee eagle, and Mr.. Candy.
Ed Garren and daughter, Dor
othy, were recent visitors of Mr..
and Mrs. Ebert Corn.
Miss Evelyn Maxwell spent
Wednesday night with her sister,
Helen Maxwell.
| Buddy Shlpman was recent
caller on Lafayette Brown.
Cephus Brown of Cherokee, S.
| c., visited his uncle, w. w.
Brown, recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Walker
of Flat Rock recently visited their
little daughter, Betty Jean, who
is staying with her grandparents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Swami
! were dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. ". w. Brown last Sunday.
Miss Christine Brown has been
i'll and unable to attend school.
! w. w. Brown is ill.
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THREATENING THE SAFETY
OF OUR NATION

For six consecutive years our
government has had an unbrOken
record of living beyond its means.
And the seventh year promises Il
deficit perhaps bigger than' any
previous year, with the bonus, the
farm subsidies and work relief
to be paid.
4 crowd Of spendcrs has con-
troll Of our Treasury and are
making merry with the money of
the people Of the United States.
What happens when an indI-
vidual or d government lives be-
yond its means for seven years?
The people Of Western North
Carolina know the answer. Every
other government in other times
which went regularly beyond its
income for this length of time
eventually went further and took
tail-spin into some serious fl
nancial grief. The United States
may be an exception, but eXcep-
lions are rare, and it will not be
an exception unless fearless men
rise up everywhere and demand
an end TO this spending-Federa-
ton News.
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MR.. HOEY'S LID-LIFTER

Clyde Hoey will deliver his lid-liftng speech IL
the Charlotte Court House on Thursday night, Feb
ruary 9Th. This will be an occasion that marks the
opening of his campaign for governor and at thai
time he will declare himself on several very vita
public questions.
/ For years Mr.. Hoey has been going about over
the state speaking in the interest of party, educa
ton and religion. He filled those engagements
because of his deep interest in things worth while
He will continue to respond to the calls long
he is physically able to go. Yet he never mikes
his personal ambition to be governor with
speeches that have to do with other subjects Since
it has been known that he would seek the chief eX-
ecutive's chair, he has filled many appointments
yet he has never mentioned his candidacy before
non-political gatherings This typifies the high
ethics of the Cleveland county offers for Gov
ernor.
Thousands of his friends will no doubt gather n
Charlotte to hear him lift the lid in campaign
that promises to be one of the cleanest and most
colorfu political races the state has ever had.
Somehow we believe the voters of the state ap
preciate the fact that Mr.. Hoey has held off ant
will confine the campaign to a few brief months
Cleveland Star.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINION
A FINE ENGLISH GENTLEMAN

They buried a fine old English gentlemen the
other day at Windsor. He loving husband, a
devoted father, patriotic citizen He enioved with
humility his allotment of happiness and bore with
npwhning fortitude his share of sorrow. He liv-
cd ont his DAYS and they buried him with his faith
ers.
Incidentally he was the King of England.
George may not be known to history as great
man He is known to his generation as a greatly
GOOD man. No fiery blusterer, no chest-thumping
broopart was this little man whom England bore
with sad heart to his grave in st. Georges chapel
Ti++Ia actual power was his, for though England
r,.Las q GREAT TODD over her kings and queens and
rrinces and prncesses she permits them little au-
tboritv. But great power was Georges they say.
ord beb;n5 the scenes he used his influence
which was all the power he had-for the good Of
ENGLAND and the Empire and for the cause of
world righteousness.
What was the most dramatic incident of the
manv Incidents of his death and burial? Queen
Mary with one attendant slipping from Sandring-
ham through the cold to the littlechapel to kneel
beside the body of King George. Was not that it?
Yes, but put it another way. sweet-faced old
English lady slipping away to be alole with the
husband with whom she had lived AZ years, to
"SSp
unrestricted and in secret at her loss. Not the
loss of the Queens crown for she never thought OF
that. Her husband had died. her friends and help
err and counsellor and lover through the long years
was gone.
The picture of that old lady weeping alone be-
side her dead husband-not the dead King George
of England-her George, her husband, went
straight to the heart of the world.
And of all the beautiful things penned by the
hands of Englishmen living or dead what is more
beautiful than the message Queen Mother Mary
wrote the other day to her beloved people, her
message of gratitude. although he will M
longer be at my side-and no words can tell how
shall miss him trust that with Gods help
NAV still be able to continue part at least of
the services which for AZ years of happy married
life we tried together to give to this great land and
empire.
Mary's crown as Queen of England passed with
the death of her King, but always she will be
queen of many hearts.-LeGette Blythe, in Char
lotte Observer.
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THE TWO SMITHS

Let the record be kept straight
50 that when it is all over there
will be no need of an abb. There
are many Smiths in our country
It is a great group of American
citizens and if all Of that name
could be induced to support any
political party it would be the fly
ing squadron that might lead the
way to victory.
Just at present two members
of the Smith group are being Tea
tured bv the press dispatches. At
this time both are CHECK by
iowl' in their opposition to the
Democratic administration. One
comes from the sidewalks Of New
York while the other halls from
the bayous of Louisiana. One IS
Gerald X. and the other Alfred
E. One rose to fame as the striker
for the late Huey Long, and now
is lined up with Governor TAI
madge against the New Deal. Inc
others latest claim to fame was
his speech at the American Lib
erty League dinner in Washing
ton a few nights ago.
Though they have iiXed their
eyes on the same objective, Meth
er Smith would be willing to have
his name mistaken for that Of
the other. Both are of the earth,
earthly but otherwise they ave
quite unlike. Keep the record
straight. 1t was Alfred E. Smith
who thrilled all hearers at the du
Pont dinner in Washington. 1t
was Gerald X. Smith who, an
echo Of Huey Long, is now chief
cook and bottle washer for the
budding Eugene Talmadge. -
Spartanburg Herald.
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A MODERATE MAN

Last night millions of Ameli-
cans may have had a radio intro
duction to their next president.
Certainly many Of those who
heard Governor Landon make his
formal political bow tC the nation
must have been pleasantly I'M
pressed by the man whom circum-
stances and his own character
have conspired to fashion into one
of the most available" Of Repub-
lican candidates. Many must even
have felt that this unSpectacular,
economizing, but non-reactionary
Kansan more nearly matches the
present mood-wisa or unWise-
of America than any man likely
to enter the election.
Whereas most of the AERIAL
bombardment from the political
camps lately has merely laid
down a smoke screen or blown up
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-03
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
xEA Service STAFF Correspondent

NEA Service Stah SoErcSnOnSeat
WASHINGTON. The American
w Liberty Leagues dinner, star
ring Al Smith, has started a per-
picking argument among the po-
iitically minded element here which
only time will decide.
Is the league an asset or liza
.bilitv in the effort to defeat
Roosevelt this year? Or is it
merely a negligible factor, giving
Jouett Shouse a good job and
some wealthy men some fun
spending their money?
Never before have the actual
chief owners and managers of the
nations industrial and financial
wealth publicly banded in such
fashion to fight openly at the side
of their lawyers and other repre-.
sentatives in national political
campaign.
In the past they have generally
been content to stay in the back
BTOuHu anu pay the DlllS.
THE question debated here is
l. whether the average voter who
knows that 40 or so billion dollars
Of wealth was represented at the
recent banquet will feel that this
effort BODIES him good or whether
ne will insenctively distrust it.
League speakers all stressed the
Importance Of their program to the
common man, and Smith went espe-
cially heavy on it from the time he
announced himself as speaking for
The great rank and file OF the
american people, to which / be.
long"
League chiefs think the prestigc
and wealth of its directors and
packers will go far toward licking
Roosevelt and that the attitude Of
the nations big employers is bound
70 affect emDloye votes.
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FUNNY THING, LIFE
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

thoroughly justifiable. Their con-
sciences do not trouble them a
bit.
"Thcy go to church regularly
and sing and pray loudly, make
fine speeches on citizenship and
al! that kind of thing, with appar-
entity never a squeak from the
inner voice.
"What do I do about it? |
don't do anything about it; |
have to live and I have to make i
living for my family. If l OBJ
icctcl to some of their reprchen-
siblc practices they would smash
NE. am obliged to play along
with them; aud that is the terrible
thing about it. II is terrible for
any young man, because after a
while he will become used to it
ard think nothing about it. Ana
believe it is al right.
at is merely another appiica-
tior of that immortal verse,
Vice IS a monster of so fright
ful mien,
As to be hated needs but to De
seen:
Set seen too oft, familiar with
her face,
W. first endure, then pity, then
embrace"
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BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

IN the other hand, administra
- ton politicians generally sighed
with relief after Smith finished his
speech and opined that if that was
the best the opposition could do.
we've got EN-"
They pointed to the banquet
galaxy, which included Winthrop
Aldrich, Of Chase National Bank:
Colby NJ. Chester, Of General
Foods; John w. Davis, of the Nor,
gan interests; President Robert V.
Fleming, Of the American Bankers.
Association; Chief Lobbyist Gads
den, of lie power companies; two
Of the Guggenheims; Andrew Mel
Ions handy man, David A. Reed;
Ernest T. Weir and other militant
foes of organized labor; and al
least 20 members of the du Pont
family.
The New. Dealers promised wide
distribution of copies of Senator
Schwellenbach's speech attackine
income tax operations of Pierre du
Pont and John Raskob and flayine
those who control the league. They
decided, in short, that the league
and its tactics will be big help il
re-electing Roosevelt.
i s. -
WOULD-BE analysts of political
" trends would like to know
whether the tag OF socialism
which Al pinned on the New Dea
is moth-eaten DOGGY in the popu
lar mind or whether il is still a.
effective rs 1t was in 1928, wher
Hoover said Smiths position or
power was "GOciGiism."
TIE Gre2:ion debated here now
is whoihe" the fact That Al was
saying it made il a politically eIec
tive speech.
In other verbs, whether Al re
tains anything like his old popular
following.
! Copyright. 1886. NEA Service. Inc.
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principle of genuine cooperation
we do not know. If we can get
the hest of fellow being he is
our meat. Yet we are living un-
der a form Of government whose
whole success depends on honest,
sincere cooperation.
Before we can go places in this
nation, we are going to have to
learn what is meant by cO-cpera-
ton. If the churches, the day
schools and the Sunday schools
would set about teaching true
cooperation, they could well af-
ford to drop enough of anything
else they are teaching, to teach it.
Trying to run this nation with
out wholehearted cooperation is
like trying to run an automobile
with sand in its gears and bear
ingS,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-03
WHAT TAXPAYERS GET, THEY
GETIN THE NECK
Bv BRUCE CATION

Whenever the mills of the gods start
grinding, down in Washington, the mno-
ment little citizen who does the buying and
paws the bills for the nation starts looking
for cyclone cellar, if he is wise. Judging
from recent dispatches, now is the time Tor
him to take up that quest.
For it seems to be a popularity OF our
government that it can lend a ready car 10
anyone who comes down demanding some
thing. but gets singularly deaf when the
man who has to give something lifts his
voice.
The ordinary citizen-the ultimate con-
sumner, the good old taxpayer, the man VINO
BUYS what the farmer raises and the indus
trialist manufactures, and who KICKS
through with the taxes that keep the coun-
try going-has one function above all 9TH
ers. That is to get it in the neck.
He is the originator of the grin-and-bear-
if phrase. He has to take it and he has to
like it, for no one in Washington ever both
ers to WELD sword and buckler in his be-
half.
Is there a soldiers bonus bill in the off
ing? Then rush it through with whoop !!
The bill can be handed to the ultimate con-
sumner, and he lost his voice away back
when the ark was a-building, so ne won't
say anything.
Is there new farm plan to be devised?
Then fix one that has no brake at all on the
up-take, so that farmer, distributor, ana
professor can all get theirs. The house
wife at the grocery store will foot the bill
cheerfully-or, at any rate, silently, which
is all that counts.
Must the processing taxes of the old AAA
be refunded? Go ahead and refund Them
and never mind if the people to whom you
refund them managed to pass them right
on to the consumer at the time they were
collected. The consumer isn't organized
he supports neither leagues nor Hobbies.
Besides, who ever heard of giving a
sucker an even break?
Now those brief paragraphs actually do
tell the story of the way such things are
worked down in Washington.
There is ample protection there for any
group that is in shape to demand it. Ii the
farmers are in bad straits, they can geV
something done about it. If the ex-soldlerS
need attention, it will be given them.
If the great middlemen of the food trade
are in fix, Washington will remedy it. If
organized labor or organized industry need
something, it has an excellent chance OF
getting it.
The one person who can never conceiv-
ably get any help out of his government is
the same consumer and taxpayer.
1t would be refreshing to see just one adj
ministration make the protection of this
man the chief plank in its platform. But
which of us expects to live long enough to
see any such sight as that?
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A WORKER SPEAKS

Who are the real friends of the working MAI
I'll tell you who his real friends are! They are his
fellow working men such as Henry Ford, A. P.
Sloan William Knudsen, Walter Chrysler, Macau-
ley Nash, Chapin-the men who have found work
for him; the men who, year after year, risked
everything they had to keep the plants going, keep
up their payrolls.
These are the real friends of the working men;
the men who have had the courage to risk their
money in industry, to buy machines and to MAIN
tain plants for men to have work
Surely the real friend of the working man Is not
the politician who puts every cent he has into tax
exempt bonds and then screams from the mousse
tops at everybody else who is trying to get some
thing done-Excerpt from the Address OF Fred M
Zeder at the annual banquet of the Society OF Auto
motive Engineers.
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A YOUNG MANS LAMENT

Recently a young business man
said confidertially to a friend,
"The influence which q young
man must come under in this city
are awfully harmful.
at is my experience that nine
ty per cent of our business and
professional men and our pOliti-
clans are fundamentally dishon-
est in their financial dealings 50
far as they dare to be.
"The worst part of it is they
do not consider it wrong to be dis
honest. They habitually resort
to practices which are manifestly
crooked, hut which they feel are
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DEALS OLD AND NEW
Press Comment On National Politics And Issue,

the dust Of abandoned
there was about iii. ",
sense Of looking ahead. ne .s'
the situation Of today an ~~
sis of what is pgar.....,.
fair. Personaiitie, and .
tons were refrr.niru'r
The analysis OF issue: MI. @.'.
profound or eXci,in. d.,.~....
larger grasp Of s1fa... ''s
many expected from q r,,
a rather short c%pc..... ...
state gOvcrnmer..-Ca,:.....
ence Monitor.
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Now they say ill.,. .s....,
will lay no new r.@o. m.- ~ x,
November. The uew g.5 ..~
some taxes must be levied
government needs The
sorely needs i now. T, ,' .'o,
the new taxes until .f.r. 81
is cowardly and saar.s-, Wv. W. :.
How can the people uvs, Be-.
ernment that TO win 80,
thus would deceive ra.u1 .
can they trust q -yvr~ar...,,
wont face the my,.,e-r-..
ton News and Courier.
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ZEPCOMEA

ZIRCONIA. Route One, Feb.
3.-Mrs. William Pace and fam
lily visited Ms. Lum Pace recent
ly.
Hiss Frances Andrews was q
dinner guest of Miss Janette Pace
Sunday, January 26.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Station are
spending several days with Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Reddingfeld.
Mrs. Julia Beddingfeld visited
her son, Fred BeddingfelG, Sun
day. January 26.
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In the forego-
ing staten G n t
you $ e e hat
ails the United
States. Il is that
same spirit of
grab th2t boost
ed in difficulty,
which is directly
responsible for
virtually all of
the misery the
people Of { h i $
nation suffer.
The hunanistic
spirit is lacking
among us. l ne