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1NUuScu AIIct L WcHty 1CdfSs
The audience in days afar
Said, Twinkle, twinkle, little star"
Now what is said as "wisecracks" tinkle
Is, Twinkle, twinkle, Rip Van Wrinkle"
Evening star., 1936-03-08

Don't spend as much time talkin'
bout yoh troubles" said Uncle Eben,
when you ought to be thinkin' bout
'em"
Evening star., 1936-03-08

ton created by the Senator is serving
to show how the system was working.
Senator Holt said, referring to the relief
administrator in his State: f..
IF man goes to get job from any
county, he must get q letter from the
named political boss in that county.
Right here on my desk have his (the
administrator own letter showing the
pay roll, noting the recommendations for
the various workers in each and every
county of the State of West Virginia.
In other words, it is not to give a person
relief, but to put few politicians into
the administration of an act that was
not meant for politicians"
X y ~
Much the same story of political con-
troll of relief jobs is coming from other
parts of the country.
When Mr.. Roosevelt asks for more
billions to continue this program the
storm is expected to break. To meet
the approaching storm, he is understood
to be giving thought to plan to set up
some sort of impartial board to decide
questions of policy, to investigate COM
plants and to take much of the present
personal element out of administration
of relief.
b From $4,000 to 100000 administrative
jobs of various kinds are involved in
work relief spending of billions. Those
: jobs are the answer to a politicians
prayer in a campaign year. They can
be the base of huge political machine.
But great danger also lies in use of those
jobs for political purposes if the public
makes up its mind that the system is
abused.
3, For that reason new administrative
precautions are expected. ...-..
3 The wonder is, however. that any one
seriously expects all forms Of politics to
Be kept out Of an expenditure as gigantic
as that for relief. Now that total jobs
Evening star., 1936-03-08

The. taxes test our utmost skill;
We hope in vain to hout 'em.
It's hard to pay 'em; harder still
To keep on worryin' bout em.
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MARYLAND and virginia.
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FEATHER IN THE NEW DEALS CAP

In his annual report to Congress, j. T. l. y Coi-
nor COMPTROLLER Of the currency and NOBODY yes
man. expresses great satisfaction with the cond-
ton of national banks. Between January /, 1854,
and October 81 last year. the period covered IN ire
controllers report only five national banks failed.
This contrasted most remarkably with the 43S ma
tional banks that suspended operations in 1888.
Furthermore deposits in the negligible number OF
banks that failed in the 22-month period were al"
most entirely covered by insurance
In the reestablishment of the countrys banking
system is to be found one Of the New Deals ndls-
putable accomplishments. To realize what condl-
tions had to be faced in that dreadful month Oil
March 1888 it is necessary only to read again the
Presidents talk to the country on his decision 10
suspend banking operations. How every bank IN
the country was closed and how, few days later
were permitted 70 reopen, the sound ones, that lS
having been reinforced in the meanwhile with new
lines of Federal Reserve credit and new money, Is
now only nightmarish recollection; but they were
tense times meissieurs, and under less mastery
handling they might have been catastrophe.
Now the comptroller is pleased to report that the
national banking system is in excellent shape his
recommendations are of no more than minor ma
ture and 1933s crisis gives way to 1883 security
Charlotte News
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THE SOUTH AND LYNCHINGS

Dr. James E. Shepherd, president Of the, North
Carolina College for Negroes, at Durham, takes
a sound view of the lynching problem in the South
and suggests the most plausible solution of 1t. n
a letter addressed to the governors of Southern
states he wrote:
81 deplore crime. stand fully for the majesty
of the law. Crime should be punished to the 1uii-
est extent of the law, whether committed by nc
gro or any other man. The courts should, in every
way, be supreme. The courts are in every way
dominated and controlled by members OF the. wnite
race With this fact premise there can never
be any excuse for lynching. s
''We desire that our new neighbors and friends
enforce the law and if our Southern governors
will take astand against lynching and protect pri-
sopers at any cast this dreadful evil will soon be
eradicated from American life and there will be no
need of federal ant-ynching law on the statute
books" ." r.
DR.. SHEPPARD takes issue with the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Colored People ana
with those leaders at Washington who declared FOR
national anti-lynchng law At the same time he
issues challenge to the white people of the South
and especially to all in authority which, if accepted,
will as he says make federal law unnecessary.
The courts of the South should decide the guilt
sor innocence of all men acused of crime 1t is not
for the mob to decide and it is not for the mob to
pretend to administer justice The prevalence Of
lynch law in Southern states is disgrace to their
citizenship. When all officials whose duty it is to
enforce the law and protect those accused of crime
until the courts have acted upon their cases, live
iup to the full provisions of the oath they take upon
assuming office, lynching will disappear from the
PSouth.-Spartanburg Herald .'
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NEWSPAPERS OPINION
GOVERNMENT IS COLLECTING

The latest reckoning is that the average cost of
government to each family in the United States is
$50 month. Some of this goes to the support OF
tbe sl5,7S9 federal employees, not counting the
army the navy, the marine corps, the courts, the
CONGRESS nor the Civilian Conservation Corps The
,o,r Deal has increased the federal employees by
2l1,07S. :
These statistics disclose the Democratic platform
adonted in Chicago in 1882 as scrap of paper.
Tho Democratic administration was pledged to re-
dpca federal expenditures 1t was pledged to cut
down the number of persons on the federal rolls
IrSta.d of decreasing it has increased costs and 1t
is collecting. -.
Ont If the average famly's income each month
Government is consuming $50 which foots $500
,eor That looks somewhat high, but it Is COM
,o,otivelv low to what it must be soon. Debts may
40 rostnoned but they must be paid in the end
I'D o., repudiated You and must do the pay
imp and do it through the nose
IL the average person understood that govern
mani WAS taking SD much from him there would De
Recommending protest but your servants IN the
o,narass IN Washington have undertaken to keen
,o,,T ;nd;roct fax payments out of your sight.
rba, haIeve YOU are as the ostrich is said to BE-;
YOU shove your head into the SANDS ana thiiiN you
cannot be seen Something like that.
The south must pay it's proportionate share in
fpn but the South has not been receiving It's pro-
portionate share of the abecedarian outpourings'
1t is the old political game OF hoodwihNihg 'heSe
tributary provinces which are the Southern states,
The average American family is consumer ana
consumers foot the tax bills High taxes 'so3S
the poor. Charleston News and Courier.
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WE. MUST WORK

! It is known fact, learned by observing evolu-
,tion, that a member the body not used gradually
disappears. The wisdom teeth once had their func-
tons, but our ways of eating made them unneces-
sary. Now dentists say, the wisdom teeth defini-
tely are the way out They are buried deep III
the gums of older people and sometimes are nom
existent in children. If we don't use self reli
ance, it may fade out and be no more. When we
run to the government with every trouble, we are
RELOCATING oursef to: the background and asking
somebody else to shoulder our trouble.
by the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread"
does not refer to actual sweat alone. 1t means
worry, trouble and thought But the fact that the
sentence ends with a promise that we shall eat, if
we sweat, is encouraging. The statement does not
say by the sweat of somebody else's brow, but our
own brow. .
The governments collective brow is not our own
throw. MeekleHburg Times A Nh
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These Things Are True
By WICKES W4MBOLDT

expect to hear, depart form me.
You knew better, but you deli
berately refused to do better"
To have clothing, food and
shelter is necessary in this exist
Dcncc,, short as it is. Those who
disregard such things are missing
the mark, while those who make
material possessions and material
expressions the big thing in life
are also missing the mark.
The men who are grabbing,
grabbing-aS most of them are
ar eShowing about as much real
sense as a sitting hen which has
all the eggs she needs, but which
steals Fifteen more from another
hen. Not only do the stolen eggs
do her no good, but they prevent
her from getting a good hatch
from. her own eggs.
Politicians who sell the public
down the river and business men
who eonspire with politician to
sell the public down the river are
just so many iackasSes; the" are
not. only crooked but silly, for
not only are they harming others
but themselves. they are like
the greedy dog which eats up his
own pan Of grits and gravy and
that OF another. He makes HIM
self sick with ovcreating and the
other doc sick with want of eat
ing. Dogs are not supposed to
have better sense, but men are.
The thing for us to do in this
world is to keep our eyes on the
main chance--and that main
chance is the place we make for
ourselves in the hereafter while
we are here.
We arc merely passing through
this existence. We go through two
doors, the cntrance-When we are
born-and the cXit-When we
die. The way we behave our
selves while we are gcing from
one door to the other will deter
mine our position in the world to
come.
Some Of US got so sidetracked
as we move from one door to the
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BEHIND THE SCENES
I'M WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY DUTcHER

gram for this year will come far
from the effect Of crop curtailment.
Winter and spring wheat, accord.
ing TO latest estimates, will be
grown on about 61,000,000 acres
this wear as compared with 10000.
900 last year! Unless spring wheat
planters change their minds to a
large degree, acreage will be about
. million more than the tive.year
average which AAA was cutting
down. With normal weather, wheat
prices will be lower.
T Corn acreage is expected to be.
nm 6 or Z per cent and cotton eX-
narts here are guessing on a Is
ner cent increase in that crop. CTS
= AGAINST the law to collect figures
on planting intentions for cotton
: since the government report for
I:442G indicated a tremendous sur.
lnns and hit the market hard. Sen
ator Cotton Ed" Smith and some
tother senators pushed through a
ilaw forbidding the Bureau Of Agri.
cultural Economics from making
any more cotton forecasts.)
IPEPuBLICANs are planning an.
LIN extra.special effort to regain
Host strength in the House of Rep,
rasentatives. They face the un.
/ nleasant and practically unprece,
denied possibility, in case they
! aloct 4 president this year. of
Republican chief executive and a
Congress heavily Democratic in
both houses.
]. The party must win lis Demo
cratic seats and hold those it now
bas to Get a bare House majority
/ No marty has ever made such a
cloonun and about the best the
.IC O P. hopes for is to make a
Hir dent in the opposition's ma
Y ioritv this year, with the idea OF
,.stinlsl,illg, the job in 1898.
Son a ffsSt, 1896. NEA Service. Inc.
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Unquestionably we are mere 10
gain experience and spiritual
growth. There are certain ma
terial laws we must observe to
promote spiritual growth: Since
we are in a physical world we are
obliged to employ means largely
to express ourselves.
Our unwavering purpose should
be to use this physical life as
means to constructive end--as
a means of acquiring such spirit
ual development as we shall need
to merit our going into Il better
world than this one. .
1t is ridiculous that a person
should think he can slip along
through this existence double
crossing everybody, cowardly IN
all matters that viii not get him
a dollar, then as soon as his faith
less breath has left his faithless
body except to near an all-WlSe,
all-seeing, all-powerful Deity say,
."Well done, thou good and faith
full servant" Rather should he.
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NI,A s.rYIee Stnff Correspondent

NEA Service sum SorreSpoh"eh'
WTASHINGTON.-'I suppose this
w new program is a subterfuge,"
remarked an AAA official privately.
.But the nice thing about it is that
It's a subterfuge which deceives'
nobody"
He might have added that the
soil. conservation program, as a sub
terfuge, probably won't work. 1t is
an excellent device for transferring
funds from taxpayers to farmers
and its ultimate potentialities as a
conservation measure are very
great. But the men in charge OF
It become increasingly doubtful
whether it can be used to control
agricultural production.
In two or three years, insiders
on the farm program now suspects
they will once more be CONFRONTED
with the same old problem with
which they started in, 1898 huge
SURPRISES OF agricultural crops
which are bound to force down
prices and farm incomes.
And then. it is unofficially rea'
soned, the federal government will
again have to embark on a pro
gram for control of agricultural
production. The agrarians In the
administration seem to think that's
inevitable as long as the industrial
system operates on scarcity poll
cies.
The Supreme Court? Well, these
predictions are more or less predi
Gated on the idea that Roosevelt
will be reelected and have tht
chance within two or three year!
to appoint a couple of new justices
So,
CURPLUsES presumably won
~ accumulate SO rapidly as the!
used to, since the soil program
can be used as partial deterrent
;.But it a1ealg tss plaina that eth,
.Quick makeshift= Sersioh OF tile tt {
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FLOOD AND DEPRESSION HAVE
LIKE PROBLEMS ..
BY BRUCE CATION

As if the administrations relief program
didn't produce enough headaches already
widespread floods have added some AGO.
900 men and women to the list OF unem-
ployed. ..
Much of this unemployment doubtless
will be temporary. AS the waters go DOVE
and harassed factory managers get the
mud wiped off the. gears and the stray hen
coops fished out of the production hines,
most of these 100000 will be going back
to work. o.. ...
But for abe moment an already bad un-
employment situation has been made a
great deal worse, and the victims OF the
flood can line up with those OF the depress-
sion.
Now you can argue that both sets OF IN
employed are on absolutely the same foot
ing; that both were detached from their
jobs by overwhelming natural forces which
organized society has no chance OF hold
ing in check. .
Theye isf't. a great deal that can be done
about a flood, for instance. When the
snow lies banked deep in the mountains,
piled up id huge drifts along every water
shed, waiting to be touched off by the
spring rains so that every little creek be-
comes a miniature MissisSippi-when that
happens, there is going to be a Hood
somewhere, and about all we can do is to
hold our breath, get some rowboats ready
and hope that things won't be too bad.
Similarly, the creeping paralysis of an
Industrial depression seems to be SOME
thing that we don't know how to check. We
can see it coming, just as, We can see the
flood coming. Things begin to pile up
around the headwaters of our industrial!
system-goods are produced little faster
than We can digest them, prices rise out OF
all proportion to earnings, productive cap
acity is banked up beyond the capacity OF
our ordinary channels to accommodate 1t.
And then, presently, we have a. depres-
sion Like. the flood, it finds US utterly
unable to erect an effective barrier. It IN
undates thriving industries, produces the
same sort of, stagnation brought on by hlgn
waters, and washes men BY the thousands
out of their jobs and their homes:
When a flood strikes, we. never doubt
that it is the duty of society as a whole &c
care for the victims and to do everything
that may be done to get the wheels turn,
ing normally again. And we are begin
ming to learn that, the same thing is true
with regard to depression. But we had
to take fearful beating to learn it.
The parallel goes ever farther. Our en-
gineers tell ussthat We could do much, on g
long-range program, to, prevent floods
by erosion control, by reforestation, by the
construction of dams and reservoirs, and So
on. Isn't the same true of depressions?
Can't We, by the proper preparations in
advance, keep them from being the uneon
trOlled curse theNaare now :.
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lie was chriStened Ulysses 81
son Grant. but he became
popularity known after the O
War as unconditional SurTs,sI
Grant, Il title he earned VIE
his campaign Oh the relIsj
River in 1852, he demanded I
complete surrender Of Gs.s
Buckner at Fort DOnelsCn.
p But more memorable was Grr|
; gracious gesture at Appvzll}
Courthouse, Va, when he s.,
pGsite the defeated Gen. Ro5st
Lee, saw his bejewelled sword, .
added the note to the terms Ga
render that all sidearmS Nigh.
retained. ''.''
. - . Grapt tried TO retain his .
in others, when he became ID
dent in 1865. and fell victim ls'
-: intrigues of his political i'ia
AS d result, his administH
was marked by one Of the mos
grant. financial scandals and -
in" United States history. H
heavily in debt after bis "a
meii; land received full peHs@
general until his death at The
of 'G$. u
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PUT ON BOTH

What shall l put on?" asked a
woman of her husband and her
sister, discussing an approaching
social affair. ...
"Put on the whole. armor Of
Truth, my dear" suggested her
husband.
"Well, you had better put
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Editor, The Times-News: -. =,
: Since reading the article IN
your paper of the oath issue writ
ten by, Mr.. Pryor in regard to the
extravagant use of our tax money
the Scripture says there is g TING
for. all things-a time to speak
and time to refrain from speak,
ing-and it does seem to me that
the time has now come l0r Tn"
people to speak out or this coun-
try will go into bankruptcy thru
extortiate taxes being ground OUT
of the people by the federal, stale
and county governments.
Now in regard to the section %
road from Uno to Liberty church.
At the time this work was being
done the elder Mr.. Ward had the
oversight Of part of the see
ton from Fruitland out to LIB
ertv and while he was having
those shoulders built on each side
of the road / asked them if they
did not know that while they were
building up the road with loose
dirt and building those shoulders,
not leaving any way for the wa
ter TO draing off in the side ditch
that the first rain that came the
water would start at the top OF
the hills following the road and
blowing deeper and deeper unit!
it got to the foot Of the hill. But
Mr.. Ward said that was what h
was. ordered to do. Now the most
Of the work that was done on tins
section was done on those shout
ders and throwing up the loose
diit TO grade up the rOadbed and
soon began tho rain, washing the
road away. Then when the stat"
highway men came they had to
drag those shoulders into the road
TO fill. up the gulleyS caused by |
the rain. Now when the ALLEGATION
OF the federal money was sent to !
this county it was intended TO
give the unemployed nearest the
road to be worked but instead the
parties who handled this money
seemed to have some pets mp III !
the Blue Ridge township and they
gave them the work here on this
road. There was but Il few got
any work to do on this section
that lived in this section.
This road runs through Gear
Creek township and it as. well as
Hoopers Creek and Mills River
arc Democratic, so lhey
don't pet us to get our vote. y
Now in regard to the people OF ?
Hoopers Creek: Mr.. Pryor IS right :
when he says il would be dong :
the people some good and great !
favor if they would start at the
airport and straightcn out all the
curves ana build up the Mills Gap
road on by the way Of Fiultland
IN TO the Mis- Cap or the Polk
county line. Now it is an evident
TACT that more than hail the
money that was spent on the Ono
and FruitIand road was thrown
away and they stopped the work
before they got to Liberty church. :.
It seems they had one pet out
here somewhere and since the II
state men have come back on !
his section they have got from I
Jno to Fruitland and quit, lcav-
NJ from Fruitland to Liberty un- +.
finished and needing three new !
=
bridges. ). }. SUMNER
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FLOWING PROFITABLE

MARYSNILLE, Calf. (UP).-
Last July J. r. Brown obtained a
loan Of 5000 from the Farm
Credit Administration. He settled
$40, worth of bills and lost the
rest. Starting his spring blowing
recently, Brown plowed up his
wallet containing the $50 intact.
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FROM DOOR
TC DOOR

II h e persons
who getrthe most
out Of this world
are those ~ no
maintain a sen
sible balance be-
tween . MATERIAL
ty and spiritual
ity.
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s o m G I hlng on
over it," advised
her sister, cor
you'll be arrest
ed.
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To escape heat prostration, says Day.
ton physician, eat salt He didn't reveal
how much to, take, but a grain for every
campaign statement should suffice.
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A Smithsonian authority says age makes
the nose longer, the mouth broader; but
since life is, short there may never be a
rival for Dunsnte or.JeeE E: Brown. s>e g
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Most peoples discretion should be. in
good order, because it is used so little.