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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-02
Now co ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER KIN


Dorothy Osborn stopped hei
rar within q hundred yards Of the
hank and looked back. A crowd
was gathering, milling iuti!eiy
about the banks doors and peer
ing down the side street through
which the bandits had fled.
Firing the last cartridge IN his
pistol after the vague shape OF
IN. robbers car. the policemen
who had responded 20 the alarm
shouted an order 10 the crowd IN
general 10 call for reinforcements
from the station house, and then
looked wildly around for car TO
give chase.
A limousine was approaching
from the direction of the railroad
station and the officer jumped In
10 it's path, geSturing command
ingly.
McDougall. having met Mrs. Os-
horn At the door OF the store IN
which she had been shopping, had
lust escorted her TO her own car
when the commandeered limou-
sine rushed past, the policeman
winding Down the window OF the
door AZ his side and reaching in
his belt for more cartridges.
Lets go after them" cried
Dorothy eScitcG!y.
MIS-. Osborne surprised Nc
Dougall By asserting eagerly, and
they scrambled into the old car,
the artist vainiy warning them
that there were bandits and gun
play ahead.
"But | always liked 20 follow
the fire engines" Mrs. Osborn
said SIMPLY. ard appeared TO think
she had explained everything.
In the comunandcered car the
policeman was shouting directions
20 q uniformed chauffeur.
"StI aigh, down 20 Shore Road"
he yelled. They headed down
Hillvicw Avenue, so they got TO
come out on Shore Road. Keep
her rolling"
Someone leaned forward from
the cavernous depths Of the back
seat.
whats happened?"
The policeman had not even
been aware Of anyone else IN the
ear. Now ne glanced back.
blue blazesw he cried. 81
didn't know there was anybody
but the driver"
whats hapPened?" Philip Can
field repeated impatiently.
1.-The lady the policeman
began.
"Don't mind the lady" said
Marcia Garfield. Where's the
fire.
The policeman swore. "Tou got
20 get out" be cried. Il got 20
commander the car. but you got
20 get out. l'n chasing bank rob
beers"
Keep her rolling, Tommy"
Marcia vekO.d to the chauffeur.
Already The car had swung m
10 share Road. where IN" black
saISTa 81 The Sound were 4 con
trast,bY border 20 the snow-coNcT-
I'd iahf. quarter Of 4 mile
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-02

Large British cOnpanis
planning several new Otssl I
Dots bi. $500 pOS,men u
men travelled their route. il
land in TIE las, year.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-02
MORE CURRENT FOR FARMS

FORT WORTH Texas. lIP).
The Texas Electric Service com.
pany will construct $50 miles of
power lines in Tarant county TO
furnish electricity to 100 farm
homes. The decision was an
bounced after rural identification
administration at Washington had
earmarked $2s5,000 for the pm-
pose.
Evening star., 1936-01-18
Age of Permanent Paupers
And Racketeering SnObs

To the Editor Of The Star.
Within these recent years. certain for
merly prosperous women have been re-
verting for livelihood to Skills acquired
during their society practices in the days
OF affluence. The initiative and courage
exhibited by these women excites the
admiration of discerning people. BY way
of Illustration: One formerly wealthy So
ciety woman has established a service by
which she caters to the hostess who is
giving tea, luncheon, or q buffet
supper. Her reputation for being a
judge of good food was established dur
ing her own period Of splendid entertain
ing. Another woman, during earlier
years, acquired skill in the handling of
fine laces and brocadeS. Now, in order to
replenish her much-flattened pocketbook,
this woman repairs and creates dainty
accessories for the wardrobe or for inte-
rior decoration.
Among those who need either the Ca
tering for small functions or the work
upon fine fabrics are women who turn
their patronage toward some of the en-
terprising people just cited. Some of
the women who have the work to be done
do not miss an opportunity to talk in
semi-whispers about how much they
wish to help so-and-so," how many
women they are assisting" Yet when
the bill for the work is presented, Mrs
Philanthroplst chooses either to beat
down or to ignore the bill altogether.
On the one hand, if relief has cul-
tivated permanent growth of paupers,
on the other hand, are not conditions
producing crop of racketeering snobs?
BY one who knows, feels, deplores the
situation. L. B. BOWERS.
Evening star., 1936-01-18
Fire Escapes Should Be
On All Three-Storv Houses

To the Editor Of the Star:
I read in The Evening Star of the
recommendation Of Fire Inspector
Schrom to Commissioner HaZen to make
1t law compelling all rooming house
keepers to take out a license for run
ming the same, thereby having a rev.
enue to have more fire inspectors on
the job to make rooning houses safer
for the tenants lives. I heartily ap-
prove of this, but I think any landlord
with three-story property for rent
should be compelled to erect fire escape
on 1t even II man has a large enough
family to occupy all rooms for sleep
ing purposes above the first floor. Their
lives are as precious to them as if they
were all paying rent.
run rooming house and were my
staircase to be afire I don't know how
my tenants on the third floor could get
out, there being only the one way down
from that floor.
l live right in the locality where the
fatal fire occurred on January 1 and
there are three-Story houses all around
me with no fire escapes, and nearly all
rooming houses.
I am writing this hoping you will pub
ish it on your editorial page to interest
other landladies and other people, where
rents are high, and rooms in demand
and careless roomer may endanger
the lives OF other tenants, too, rooming
in the house by setting fire to mattresses
with a cigarette in bed or carelessly
throw alight into trash or a pile of
papers.
MRS. JOSEPHINE G. MULLETT.
Evening star., 1936-01-18

numbers Of the orange clover butterfly
and at the same time a decrease in the
population of common yellows who are
weaker and less active. Whenever the
two exist together, Mr.. Clark says, the
orange clovers fight and annoy the yel-
lows. driving them from their favorite
feeding places. Thus, he says, they are
causing a progressive diminution of the
weaker insects which may result even in
complete extinction in this locality. This
may be Of some economic Importance.
The yellow butterfly has never been a
pest, but the orange clover, when con-
centrated in great numbers, may be-
come very botherSome. Its caterpillarS
are known as alfalfa worms"
The same phenomenon, he says, has
taken place here before. Some years ago
a butterfly known as the ''checkered
white" was very common, IT was quite
destructive to cultivated cabbages Now
it is almost unknown. The reason for
its decline was the introduction of a
species known as the European white,
stronger and more active. 1t at once
started prosecuting its weaker relative
which could not Withstand the continual
persecution.
When the behavior of butterflies is
closely observed. Mr.. Clark finds, it not
only varies considerably from species to
species but even from individual to in
dividual. The creatures are found to
have personalities of their own. Among
them are found the rudimentS, at least,
Of the human vices and virtues exempi-
fed on an unconscious scale.
The supposedly peaceful, humdrum
butterfly community takes on a new in
terest and the insects are found actually
to be doing many things Of which they
have not been suspected before. even by
biologists. Much of the study of butter
flies has been morphological-the only
interest being to kill it and look at it un-
der microscope as soon as possible.
Mr.. Clark's has been a much more in
structive pastime in watching the living
creature
Evening star., 1936-01-18
"Alive and Well!"

Not in many months has there been
SUCH good tidingS as the radio flash
Ellsworth and Kenyon are both alive
and well" The news came from the
Royal Research Society ship Discovery
II, lying in the Bay of Whales, on the
edge OF the mysterious Antarctic conti-
nent, and signified the safety of Lincoln
Ellsworth and Herbert Hollick- Kenyon,
lost since November %. Millions of
hearts were relieved of anxiety for the
men themselves and for the mission OF
discovery upon which they had set out.
The question was as to whether the gain
was worth the hazard.
But now all doubts are set at rest. The
Ellsworth Kenyon fight across the South
Pole was success. Only a damaged
radio transmitter prevented prompt CON-
munication of report to that effect
Making allowance for the minor accl-
dent, the international public is justified
in deciding that exploration of the
Antarctic from the air is feasible, use
full and not too perilous department OF
science. 1t may be expected that other
expeditions of a similar nature will be
arranged, and that gradually the last
secrets of the frozen zones, both South
and North, will be read. The feats Ut
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Captain
Roald Amusden, Sir George wilkins and
General Umberto Mobile in heavier ana
lighter than air craft have demonstrated
Evening star., 1936-01-18
Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The Heavens Intervened.

The Heavens Intervened.
My grandfather's clock, as it stood on
the shelf,
Would threaten to stop now and then.
Each one in the family would busy
himself
To get the clock going again.
1t licked and it tocked as the minutes
unlocked
The atoms that make up the year,
But it stopped; and We all were exceed
ingly shocked
And existence seemed empty of cheer.
The neighbors with care undertook to
repair
The timepiece we cherished so dear.
The blacksmith, the plumber and others
were there,
But the trouble they couldn't make
clear.
But up in the sky, where the stars circle
by,
The time was told plainly indeed.
When machinery chooses its aid to deny
The Heavens respond to our need.
Evening star., 1936-01-18

the practicability of such an approach.
Mr.. Ellsworth, like Admiral Byrd, has
looked down upon both ends OF the earth
from the skies.
Yet caution is needed. Memory of the
courageous but ill-advised amateurs who
vainly essay ed to fly the Atlantic and
the Pacific still remains to warn those
who, without sufficient skill or expert
ence, may wish to attempt tasks beyond
their power to accomplish. The public
admires bravery with little regard for
pragmatic purpose, but it also deplores
taking chances" unwisely. In the case
of Mr.. Ellsworth and Mr. Hollick-Kenyon
pleasure over their victory is enhanced
by confidence that it marks a gain for
knowledge, a worthy addition to human
ity's comprehension of the universe
which is its home.
Evening star., 1936-01-18
Danger to Youth in Movie
Distortions of Morality
70 the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
If we were to undertake serious criti-
cism of some movies as they move, it
would be directed against their un.
naturalnesS, their inf1delity to the funda-
mental impulses and Interchangeable Sc.
ouences of real life and the false educa-
ton of audiences resulting therefrom.
Too often rascality and crime are re-
warded with happiness after a super
fetal and obviously impossible repentance
in the last act. The convict turns into
q hero, the libertine becomes moral
model, the vampire acquires amazing
virtue, the wicked husband or wife has
q sanity finish.
Such things do not often happen in
life. They occur 50 frequently in the
movies that young men and girls are in
danger of receiving and adopting wholly
false ideas of human relations with ire
vocable and ineScapable moral laws.
Many utterly bad things are often con-
doned on the screen; the natural progress
of character, good or bad, is too often
perverted. The result, so far as imma-
ture minds are concerned, can be only
q distorted and untrue conception Of
the values of life and conduct. It Is to
correct this trend that criticism should
be directed, in my opinion.
WALLACE KIMBAIL.
Evening star., 1936-01-18

examination Of this mountain of mate
rial. with view to the destruction Of all
that is not conceivably of value, and the
storage in suitable place, not within
the working quarters Of the administers
tive forces, Of such papers, books and
records as might possibly be Of future
service.
Every housekeeper knows the disad-
vantage of keeping unusable materials.
They choke the closets, the cellars and
the attics-if there are any such nova
days. The Spring housecleaning," which
annually occurs. results in the discarding
of all these odds and ends, with the
good result Of freeing space and Of les
sening risk of fire. The Government
should have such thorough clearance.
The problem Of the safe, permanent
keeping Of all that remains, not Of cur
rent use, would not be difficult of solu-
tion. A great storage place-or group
Of them-could be cheaply constructed,
not necessarily in the center of the city.
The Government Is business, going
concern, and 1t should be equipped with
business-like system Of record keeping
and file storage, which 1t now lacks.
Happily. the Archives Building, designed
for the historic materials that must be
preserved, solves part of the problem.
The already existing warehouse solves
another part But the greatest problem
OF all is that of the accumulation of
materials that have passed the point of
current or even infrequent consultation
and that should be separated into two
classes, that which may possibly be val
liable some day, which should be stored,
and the assuredly useless, which should
be destroyed.
Evening star., 1936-01-18
Money for Farmers While
Poor of Cities Go Hungry

To the Editor Of The Star:
don't understand what the Govern
ment means by wanting us to keep on
paying high prices for meat, cotton and
other farm products SO as to give money
to the farmers. They ought to give some-
thing to us for change. thought, now
that this A. A. A. foolishness was done
away with, prices would come down so we
might get enough to eat again. but 1t
looks like they are going to make some
more funny laws to take its place. It
seems to be nothing but greed in taking
all our money in such high prices. Why
should we have to half-Starve ourselves
and do without meat so the selfish farm
ers can have plenty of money? Isn't
there anybody in the Government any
more who cares enough to give Us poor
people q break? Is this what they call
the leveling-off process?
SARAH McNAILY.
Evening star., 1936-01-18
Susan B. Anthony as
An American Heroine
To the Editor of the Star.

To the Editor of the Star:
In Sundays issue of The Star writer
In a signed article referred to Susan B.
Anthony as "this pioneer woman In the
cause Of suffrage" Having read and re-
read the three large volumes in the
biography written by Ida Hustled Harper,
''The Life and Work Of Susan q. An
thony," two Of which were written IN
Miss Anthony's home while she was yet
living, kindly grant me space to enlarge
upon the general conception Of this great
national character as only leader in the
suffrage cause or even an emancipator
Of women.
Keeping in mind the interrelatedness
and interdependence Of mems and wom-
ems interest, was it possible to emanci-
pate women without also freeing men?
Rheta Childe Dorr in her biography,
Susan B. Anthony, the Woman Who
Changed the Mind Of a Nation" an
swered this question squarely: "It is to
men as well as women that I have wanted
TO present Susan B. Anthony, for men
also owe her great and lasting debt.
In the weak and helpless, dependent
women of her youth Susan saw some
thing more than mere chattelS Of men.
She saw burden that had to be lifted
from the shoulders Of men" Using an
other simile, women unattached to hus-
bands were economic millStones about
the necks of their male relatives. She
therefore made double contributions to
her country when she struck of the
shackles of involuntary female parasite
ism by teaching women to despise de-
pendence, thus freeing both sexes indi-
vidually and collectively for the great
task of Nation building. Expansion in
American life was unprecedented in the
latter half of the nineteenth century, the
period in which she lived and labored.
Business, industry, commercial felt
the touch Of liberated thought. Coura-
geous men and women, side by side,
pushed out into the open spaces. Ridic-
llous social restrictions disappeared grad
ually from women's lives, their higher
education became the concern Of the
Nation, latent capabilities were released.
Women Of vision and initiative struck
their stride beside men to the extent
that men would let them. 1t has been
so ever since.
Miss Anthony's influence on the home
life Of the Nation is simply but effectively
expressed in the opening paragraph of a
biographical sketch written by Amanda
Mathews Chase, a Western educator:
Susan B.. Anthony is an American hero
Inc. This country is better place for
women because she lived. That makes
it better place for men. also. and for
children. Whatever helps one part of the
family to live its best must benefit the
entire family"
Susan B. Anthony's vision of true
democracy embraced freedom, liberty
and justice to every human being-man,
woman and child. Higher than this we
cannot see; farther we cannot go.
ROSE ARNOLD POWELL.
Evening star., 1936-01-18
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES 3. TRAcEwELL.

Chill, gloomy, rainy January days are
likely to be depressing days to all those
who are not interested in the great
outdoors.
It has become the custom, In recent
years, to think of the outdoors only in
connection with sport. but there is. a
great prior consideration.
It is that Of Nature, as thing in itself.
Since this entity includes all Of us, we
may be said to be interested In Nature
study If we consider that most engaging,
most curious. most perplexing Of crea-
lures, man.
Yet it has been the custom for 50
long to consider man as apart from
creation, standing in a peculiar relation
to the Creator, that there is little hope
or necessity for changing that.
When one speaks Of Nature. in general
one means everything else except man
since man sits In judgment on every
thing else.
The Nature which the city man, in
particular. has at his command, for
observation and study. includes the
weather, animal life and plant life, and
all non-life.
These great departments offer him a
lifetime Of interest, provided his inter-
est Is inherent.
1t may be possible for any one, by
taking thought, to become what might
properly be called semi-interested, in
weather and the life around us, but If
1t does not come naturally, as it were,
because Of the bent of the person in
volved, II is at best a mild diversion, of
which one becomes ashamed in public,
and at worst bore.
Those who are interested primarily in
politics. for instance, seldom admit their
liking for the things Of Nature, except
as adjuncts of politics.
They are keen on vast agricultural
projects, because these have something
to do with their life's love. They peer
into great dams, and want to know all
about reforestation, and the like, mostly
because these things are Nature in
politics.
The average man or woman Is not so.
Whatever may be the merits or de-
merits Of the great average person" in
regard to this matter he may be put
in one of two classes.
Either Nature interests him, as such,
or it does not.
1t is as simple as that.
The test is equally simple: If rainy
day is interesting to you, be sure that
it is Nature which interests you, nothing
else. Otherwise, a chill, rainy day. espe-
cially at this time of year, is simply
a bore, nothing else
Hence we believe that the rainy day
is the real test, one which many persons
meet triumphantly, but one which many
others fail miserably.
The fine thing about it is that it costs
absolutely nothing, yet gives a real thrill
20 those who pass" and no penalty to
those who do not. 1t was interesting
70 note news dispatch recently of a
school which was trying out" a system
Of no grades. but all pupils permitted to
make such progress as they can.
This is more natural method since
it is Natures method. Nature does not,
except in stories, brand the crook and
the bookworm, the mentally lazy and the
intellectually vigorous. Often it is i'm
possible to tell" what person is simply
by looking at him, although. Of course,
many have pretended they could. If
Evening star., 1936-01-18

they could pretend 1t vigorously enough,
they could induce some one to believe
in their system"
The hopeful thing Is that 1t Is possible
to work Up an interest in Nature, in
many cases where it did not exist before.
This comes about because many per-
sons, especially city people, have never
had the opportunity to find out what
they really like In this respect.
Many man. and especially woman,
discovers q real love for gardening, al
though q trowel may never have been
In hand before.
1t Is the same with animals, including
squirrels and rabbits, with growing
plants Of all kinds, with wild birds, with
trees, shrubs, the thousand and one
things of life which exist everywhere.
No fence corner is too bare, no vacant
lot too overgrown, for real interest. if
one knows what to look for, what to
be interested in.
Every one has noticed persons, older
as well as young, who found nothing
at all in the most wonderful art dis
plays, in great music, or the best books.
Ignorance Is too harsh a word.
They are not ignorant, but simply
have not had the training to put them
selves in the proper relation to these
great things.
They stand in front of the greatest
architectural wonders, honestly not re-
garding them as any better than the
town hall back home.
They lack the knowledge which would
enable them to see the difference.
y y
No one is fair to himself, therefore. who
stubbornly refuses to admit an interest
in all the teeming life of Nature. And
all that is not alive, too, but somehow life
seems more natural than non-life.
A little unbending. perhaps. may be
necessary, for such persons to put them
selves into the role of simple learner.
This much is essential.
There is no getting anywhere in Ma
ture observation with prejudices.
One had better leave 1t alone, unless
one is a genius, and most are not, of
course.
Think of one Of the most famous bits
Of Nature observation. that of Newton
and the falling apple.
He was not trying hard to wrest
secret from the universal mother, but,
as we recall the story. was simply asleep
or was it musing, when the apple plopped
him on the head.
And people have been saying ever
since, What goes up, must come down."
+
The best way to begin to observe
is to begin.
This action will remove a mass Of
prejudices. and help the observer over
come feeling OF shyneSS, and a serious
misjudgment.
The latter. as commonly held, is that
Nature study. as done by amateurs, is
mostly for nuts" not serious people,
that somehow it is slightly childish.
something to be apologized for, not
taken seriously.
Such a person will be amazed. once
he becomes honestly interested in any
one little corner Of Nature, to find out
how many very serious, fine persons are
interested IN the same.
Whole new avenues Of human relation
ships will open to him, if he wants to
avail himself of them, but if he does not,
1t will make no difference, as long as he
realizes that life is something more than
praise and self-congratulation.