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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-12

500 p. m.-Wednesday-Pray-
er meeting.
Special music for the morning
service has been arranged as fol-
lows:
The Lord is My Shepherd
Ashford.
Vocal solo-Teach Me to Pray
-Jewitt-Mrs. Haygood Smith
Auitman, Ga.
Organist and director Miss Kate
Dotson. .. 49,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-12
Retired Major 'l.jI'i'::'.'' ::
7 Ends Life At Sea

p. NEW YORK, Sept. IL. (UP}-
Maj. Joseph McCourt, 43, retired,
of St. Petersburg, Fla, leaped
from. the u. S. liner President
Harding Sept. 6 and was drowned,
Capt. James E. Roberts said yes
terdayj when the ship locked. f
i Roberts said three people saw
Maj. McCourt jump from the liner
three miles out from Southamp-
ton. He said Mrs. McCourt told
him her husband attempted sui
eide a year ago and was despon-
dent from illness, result of shell
shock and gas during the war. +"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-12
DEATH is INSTANT

AZ. BAILEY, Ca. Sept. IL. (UP).
Marvin Collins was killed instant
ly near here yesterday when a
truck in which he was riding over
turned on the highway ten miles
southeast of here. g..
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-12
VALLEY HILL BAPTIST

VALLEY HILL BAPTIST &c.
The Friendly church.
Rev. j. P. Mason, pastor.
Sunday school 10 a. m. Delno
Mccall, superintendent.
Preaching services: First Sum-
day II a. m, and third Sunday
1880 p. m.
B.Y.P.U. at 7 p. m. every SUM-
day; Mrs. Delano Mccall, director.
Bible study every Wednesday
night at 1880 o'clock.
Visitors are given a cordial in
vitation to attend these services
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-12
CHURCH OF GOD

West Hendersonville.
J. H. Brooks, pastor.
Sunday school 10 a. m.
Preaching, II a. m. Sunday
night service, 1880 o'clock.
Wednesday night prayer meet
ing, 1880 O'Clock. .....
Friday, 7:30 p. M, young peo-
pies meeting.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-12
TRACEY GROVE

J. H. Brooks, pastor.
Services each second and fourth
Sunday evenings at 2:30 O'Clock.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-12

Bernard Barton, Quaker poet,
was born at Carlisle, Pa, in 1884.
He died in 1S49.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-12
GRACE LUTHERAN

Ri. 4. W. Ligpard. pastor.
Sunday scav0. g:s5 a. NJ; Mr..
f. Z. ka,zenmoyrr, Superin-
|,i-..
la-.ag worship. with sermon
|t4Coa and Holy Communion
| i. o'clock.
|A,agcSDa. service will be held
ae .au.ca at $50 in the after
+ Parents who have not had
F c1..iren baptized are urged
Lssel. them az this time.
(. --,cer league vii! meet at
1s Brotherhood viii. hold its
amber meeting Thursday
AZ o'clock, in the home Of
a1t NrS. Oscar Latt. Fourth
- West.
's Invite you TO worship with
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-12
Proper Light Protects Eyes

One school child in every five already
has impaired vision. At college age, two
in five are either wearing g asses or
should be. Eyestrain takes a heavy toll
in human energy and well-being. Sci
ence now tells, us that much OF this
appalling waste comes from improper
and insufficient light
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-12

Give Your Child This
SIGHTSEEING LAMP,
Here is good news for parents: This
entirely new scientifically designed
lamp is called the LES. Better Sight
lamp. Revolutionary in principle, this
new lamp gives six to Ten times as
much useful light as an ordinary lamp.
There is no gIare-because the bulb is
hidden in an opal glass bowl. The
shade has special inside finish to
reflect the maximum light. Its open
top adds the indirect light 50 neces-
sary in preventing eyestrain. Get your
child one. Sold at all better lamp stores
i'm table and floor models.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-12
DO YOU HAVE
! IN. A: CHILD
IN SCHOOL?

Your child in school is just beginning
to use his eyes for close, concentrated
seeing. If you fail to provide him with
good light for studying at home, he
may do his eyes permanent harm.
If your child seems backward - or
doesn't get ahead as rapidly as you
think he Should've fault may not lie
with him or his teacher. Poor light in
classroom or home study room has
accounted for many a Backward
scholar. .a>,.. n,.,. t.s... & ...
Evening star., 1936-01-23
Secondary Gifts.

Many individuals, 1t seems, are DOS
sessed Of secondary gifts which con-
tribute in . notable degree to the busi-
ness and pleasure Of living. Thomas
Jefferson, for example, was equipped
with = number Of talents which had
little to do with the main occupations
or purposes Of his career as . statesman
and yet were unquestionably involved
In the development Of his personality
and character. Music. he said, was the
"favorite passion" Of his soul. he played
the violin. sometimes practicing three
hours day. Likewise. he was fascinated
by architecture and several buildings of
his design still are standing to witness
for his Imagination and skill. Also,
according to Phillips Russell, he was de-
voted to mathematics, and was forever
counting. Weighing, measuring" He
wrote voluminously and well, invented
certain useful devices" studied theology
and made occasional ventures into other
complicated fields Of knowledge and
speculation.
His famous contemporary, Benjamin
Franklin, obviously was similarly influ-
enced by relatively unimportant interests
He was. Is al the world knows. IN emil
Evening star., 1936-01-23
STARS, MEN AND ATOMS
Notebook of Science Progress in Field,
Laboratory and Study.
Tu0MIc p HENRY
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

During the World War on the walls Of
division headquarters were maps OF the
Western front on which pins Of differ
ent colors represented the locations and
relative strengths of allied and enemy
forces.
Each day the pins would be redistrib-
uted. as the battle and reserve lines were
altered by the fortunes Of war. The
commanding general. looking at this
map, always would have clear, up-to-
the-minute picture.
The fundamental data has just been
assembled for a similar map Of far
greater war terrain than the Western
front-the worldwide battlefield OF
mans struggle against the death-deal-
ing hosts of the invisible bacteria and
viruses. It is the result Of q worldwide
survey of the prevalence and distribu-
ton of some of the most dreaded human
diseases undertaken for the National
Research Council under the direction OF
DR.. Earl B. Mckinley, dean Of the George
Washington University Medical School.
This study, the results Of which have
just been made public In George Wash.
ington University publication. repre-
sents an effort to determine the present
strongholds of the so-called tropical
diseases classification which includes
many scourges of temperate climates.
Some Of them. it shows, are retreating.
some quiescent, and some launching new
ofTensives. Their strongholds are pro-
visionally located.
Man today, DR.. Mckinley stresses,
probably has very incomplete and in
adequate picture Of the disease problems
with which he must cope in the future.
Scientific medicine" he says, may
reach heights undreamed Of by any Of
us. Only a few years ago we recognized
only four types of pneumococct-the or
ganiSms responsible for pneumonia
now we believe we have at least 80 and
there may still be others around the
corner. The same Is true Of the menin.
gococci. In the virus field we speak with
much assurance of the virus of poll
omyelitis, or smallpox, Of yellow fever,
etc., but it is possible that we may have
to adopt the plural In speaking Of these
agents Of disease in the years to come.
We know Of many agents, such as bac-
terra, to which we assign little or no
significance insofar as disease is con-
cerned. Some of these agents may occa-
sionally become pathogenic.
Zone might imagine a whole little
world Of ultramicroscopic viruses of these
varieties which. at present, we are un-
able to demonstrate. When, however.
will nature change one of these little
agents from friend to enemy? We re-
turn to nature as mans greatest friend
and enemy She IS . paradox, but she
places before us new and interesting
problems to challenge US"
4
Although they apparently are most
prevalent in the tropics, DR.. Mckinley
stresses, the tropical disease group con-
stitute an ever-present danger to the
temperate zones. Every now and then
ono Of them breaks out Of its supposed
ly natural habitat and causes Wide.
spread devastation.
Says DR.. Mckinley: "1n the great ex-
panses Of the warm countries there dwell
Evening star., 1936-01-23

dents Of the United States. not to men
tion John Randolph. Robert Treat
Paine, Charles Carroll, Nathaniel Bacon,
Wendell Phillips. william Ellery Chan
ming. Roger Brooke Taney, Daniel G.
Gilman, Francis Parkman. Edward
Everett, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James
smithson, Robert f. Lee, Richard H.
Dana, ]. p. Morgan and John D.
Rockefeller.
The explanation is simple enough.
David Starr Jordan stated 1t In the
words: "The daughter Of king marries
a nobleman; one Of her descendants takes
a squire or younger son: a daughter Of
the squire marries Q yoeman, whose
children are thus Of kingly descent. .
Every New England farmer Of Puritan
lineage may boast of as much Of the
germ plasm of William. Alfred or
Charlemagne as any royal household
IN Europe; reversedly, plebeian blood
may be mingled with the 'bluest,' usu-
ally to the betterment Of BOTH" In
terms Of mathematics, DR.. Jordan added:
Each individual has had two parents.
four grandparents. eight great-grand-
parents, and so back endlessly in geo.
metrical progression. Each child
Of this generation has twice as many
ancestors as either parent-that is. $685.
769,022 in ALL"
King Edward VIII, therefore, has a
place in the greatest" and the hum
blest" family In common with every
other individual alive, he Is a member
of the universal brotherhood of man.
Evening star., 1936-01-23

about 1.600,000.000 people. These are
poor people for the most part, rich only
in the inheritance Of fertile soils and
an equable climate. These peoples pos
sess very little in the way of manufac-
tured goods. They do not own decent
homes. They have no modern water
supplies or sewage disposal systems.
They have little clothing and little to
eat. They need nearly everything re-
garded as necessities among more favor
ed people. but they have little funds
with which to purchase. Their earning
power is very low because working con-
ditions are poor and haphazard If they
exist at all. because many of them harbor
parasites, are victims of undernutrition
or malnutrition, and are unable to give
much labor in return for material re-
ward.
Some of the problems of disease in
these countries are Of vast importance
tc us, since their entrance into other
areas of the world would not only be a
health catastrophe but a huge economic
tragedy to the people. Already problems
of q tropical nature have faced us in
some of the large cities of the world" "
In 1929, DR. Mckinley reveals, nego-
tiationS were well advanced Tor $40 OOO,-
600 foundation for the study Of tropical
diseases, endowed by an American phi
lanthropist These plans failed to mate
rialize, because of the depression, but re-
suited in the preliminary survey UNDER
taken by the National Research Council
under DR.. McKinleys direction.
In assembling his data DR.. Mckinley
called upon health officers and other
medical authorities of Is American states
as well as those Of most Of the tropical
countries of the world. No conclusions,
he stresses, have been drawn from the
data, although it brings to light many
points of interest regarding thu present
prevalence of disease to students Of trop-
ical medicine
In all DR.. Mckinley has assembled dis
tribution data on 80 diseases usually re-
garded as predominantly tropical. as well
as on 80 maladies more frequently &sso-
ciated with temperate climates.
Evening star., 1936-01-23
A Rhyme at Twilight
By
Gertrude Brooke Hamilton
Illumined Clay.

Illumined Clay.
The thing that love has made Is more
than mortal,
Though shaped in earthly clay beneath
your fingers.
Clay frail enough by your hand to be
shattered
While in the making earthliness still
fingers.
Mold it with care If you would value
Heaven;
Plastic within your grasp, free 1t Of leaven.
You who have fused it with potent
power
Cherish and guard 1t thru its kindling
hour.
Nor doubt its immortality in embers:
Nor fear consuming passion In its
flaming.
Thru the transcendent crucible Of fire
You will have nodded art beyond all
blaming
The clay, made rare enough to please
the sages,
BY you illumined will survive the ages;
And will to your enraptured senses
render
The thing that love has made In fiery
spleudpr.
Evening star., 1936-01-23

nent diplomat, Z distinguished ornament
Of foreign courts, philosopher and
prophet. Coincidentally. he was q
printer, writer and peddler Of penny
pamphlets, q postmaster and q manu.
facturer Of stoves and lightning rods.
Nothing was too small for his notice
and his approach to even the least sig
niflcant subjects was one Of active curl
osity and enthusiasm. Toward the close
Of his earthly pilgrimage he sat down
to the task Of advising young men about
marriage! And the earnestness and
powerful conviction with which he
tackled the task were of . piece with
the devotion and idealism with which he
had participated in the founding Of 4
Nation.
Goethe, perhaps, was over-supplied
with ability to do all manner Of things;
and the same observation probably might
be made with equal justice Of Da Vinci.
Both attempted to master multitude Of
different arts and sciences: both achieved
success In more respects than could have
been expected. Michelangelo, Raphael
and Cellini were lacks of all trades"
and reasonably victorious in each of
their endeavors to win superlative dis
tinction. De Gassicourt, friend Of
Napoleon, was chemist, lawyer. an
administrator and an author Of books
on science, travel, philosophy and his
tory, as we'll as popular playwright.
while Faidherbe, his countryman. was a
soldier, q governor, an engineer. a
gecgrapher, an archeologist and q
philologist. The list of the auxiliary
accomplishments of Sir Henry Thompson,
English surgeon, included painting,
astronomy, ceramics, literature and the
giving Of famous dinners.
But doubtless what is to be desired is
best exemplified in the instances of
Spinoza and Thoreau. The one earned
his bread by grinding optical lenses, the
other by making lead pencils. Both thus
were emancipated for the labor of trying
to read the riddle of the universe.
Evening star., 1936-01-23
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

same in the restaurant business. One
morning every chair will be taken for
breakfast at certain time. The next.
for no apparent reason, half the seats
will be vacant.
Meticulous souls who take the same
bus every morning at the same time,
know how a cloudy morning will hold
back many regular passengers who sleep
just little longer than usual.
Another sensible rule which many per-
SONS are finding good for the minds and
bodies, and not very hard on their
pocketbooks, Is to get of badly crowded
bus, wait for the next one, and pay
another fare.
What! Two fares for one ride?"
That is about the size Of it, and II
that strikes any one as high crime and
misdemeanor, we can only advise them
not to do 1t, then.
There are some persons, however, who,
having boarded a bus which was not
overcrowded, find in a few blocks it Is
too tammed for their personal comfort.
Knowing that they should have waited
for the bus behind the bus before" they
do not hesitate to get of at the next
block, and pay another fare when bus
fit for q human to ride In watts up to
the stop.
Another good rule, company to the
contrary, is to stay as near the front
door as possible.
Evidently great many people have
discovered this trick. judging from the
constant admonitions of the driver to
move back, please, there is plenty Of
room in the rear"
There never is plenty of room. of
course. but the drivers idea Is trans
parent.
Occasionally a passenger feels as If
he would love to call out. There is no
room there, young man, and you know
it."
If he ever says anything, this, rather,
Is what he should say:
young fellow, there is more air here,
and intend to stay"
Especially in cold weather, the door,
open for few seconds only, permits the
entrance OF a great quantity of fresh
air.
No matter how much one may feel
that the fresh air theory is overdone In
average practice, there can be little ques-
ton that much fresh air is essential
when large numbers OF persons are
crowded together in very limited space.
\ 4
up front" is best. but not only because
the air is better. but because there is
likely to be more room there. too.
Passengers do tend to 60 to the rear,
simply because they are squeezed there,
and this almost always leaves little
more room in front.
1t is expedient to keep ones face
turned as much as possible from the face
of the nearest stranger, because one
never can be sure when he is going to
sneeze.
The more crowded the bus. of course,
the more sure he is to ker-choo.
Always keep in mind the possibility of
some one stepping on your toes, or poking
bundle or brief case into your eye.
A little forethought in regard to these
matters will do a great deal toward
making bus riding better.
The questions of the very fat person,
who takes up three -fourths Of the seat,
and how to manage to keep an entire
seat for ones self, in all except the most
crowded vehicles. must go over until
another time.
Evening star., 1936-01-23

Since 30 many people ride on buses, It
might seem that some thought could be
given to the matter by the individual, 20
that all might ride more comfortably.
It is commonplace, however, that most
people Just scramble on, and scramble OH,
without bothering at all about learning
how to ride.
There Is q right way and wrong
way to ride buses, just a. there Is q
right and wrong way to cross streets.
Modern traffic has given rise to special
problems, and these do not end at the
bus door.
Many Of them just begin there.
Our efficient new health officer, the
Commissioners, the utilities commission
officers Of bus companies - these will
work upon problems Of ventilation, and
50 on.
1t is up to the individual rider to make
his own riding conditions, as far as pos
sible.
BY taking little thought in this mat
ter he may help himself, to some extent
at least.
A primary rule-of which too many
persons have thought, alas-is to take
an earlier bus than would otherwise be
necessary.
This was a grand rule until too many
persons happened to think Of it.
It still remains a good one, despite
abuses. Even at the worst the crowdine
a. such times is scarcely up to the
standard Of the real rush hours.
Another basic rule is to refuse to be
stampeded into taking the very first bus
that comes along.
Anxiety to get downtown or back home
need not 60 to this extent.
In rush periods, especially, there are
more busses than an irate patron might
think.
If he or she will wait few minutes
probably there will be another vehicle
along with less people in it.
The sheep instinct in humanity is very
we'll displayed in this respect. Even when
a crowd Of wculd-be passengers sees one
bus following closely behind another
every single person will crowd onto the
first bus.
Recently we have seen some very spec
tacular specimens of this overcrowding
the first bus leaving the second almost
empty.
Even when those struggling to get on
the vehicle in the lead can see plainly
that the second is almost empty they
will insist on taking it. anyway.
A charitable Interpretation Of this is
that many persons are near-sighted. and
cannot see whether the second bus Is
marked for the same destination as the
first.
One may doubt whether 1t is that.
however. Mostly it is simply desire
to get home, and to get there as quickly
as possible.
Every one has a right to stand, Of
course, to be jammed up in sardine
fashion. but the process is scarcely en-
joyable and not strictly sanitary.
A better way is to wait for bus which
is not overcrowded
This presumes that such will arrive.
It is based on the knowledge that such
overloads and underloads are part of
the traffic management of the present.
If the companies could wipe out these
discrepancies they would be only too
glad to do so. but humanity is an un-
guessable quality. There is no figuring
on what human beings will do. 1t is the
Evening star., 1936-01-23
Member AZ the ~ ooclated Press.
The Only Right Decision.

The Board of Education is to be COM
mended for its decision yesterday to pro-
ceed with its legislative outline OF five
year school program despite the so-called
"gas rule" laid down by the Budget
Bureau. Lawyer members of the board
were convinced, in the first place. that
such action would not violate the Budget
Bureau edict against favoring or oppos-
ing legislation in opposition to the Budget
Bureau or the National Emergency Coun-
Gil. But to have given even tacit recog-
milton to a theory that the Budget
Bureau can muzzle the Board OF Educa-
ton to the extent Of preventing its con-
slant agitation in public for what 1t
conceives to be the best interests OF
the public schools in the District would
have been a serious and possibly fatal
mistake.
What the board proposes to do now is
to prepare, on the basis of reports OF
school needs submitted by DR.. Ballou
and after discussion with citizens, an
OutllllC III lCSlo1dGAVC LII Va ~ AAvS IVA
school program. The question decided
yesterday was broadly. whether the
board should ask the Budget Bureaus
permission first Fortunately the board
voted to go ahead, with the full knowl-
edge that in due course its five-year
program would automatically come before
the Budget Bureau for approval or dis
approval.
While the improperly Of having Gov
ernment officials agitate legislation in
Congress contrary to the wishes OF the
President is readily understood. it is
nothing less than fantastic to assume
thai the Budget Bureau would seek to
prevent full and free discussion between
the Board of Education and citizens OF
school needs or seek to deprive the board
of its responsibilities in establishing
school policy and submitting recon-
mendations for school betterment. Such
an attitude by the Budget Bureau would
relegate the Board of Education to
position of innocuous impotence, and
any member of a board who submitted
willingly to such dictation would be
wasting his time by remaining member
of the board, as far as useful service
to the citizens of the District is con-
cerned.
The Board of Education represents
the local taxpayers in policy -making and
in the submission of recommendations
tor school betterment. To apply gag
to the board would be to gag District
citizens to the extent of denying to them
the rights OF free speech and petition,
two of the few privileges OF local citi-
zens which hitherto have been regarded
rs guaranteed in the Constitution.