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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-28
How About 1928?


 What was obviously bothering MT. Burr is the reaction in Ala bama among the party serving" Democrats. The people back home" who heard the roastmas- ter's plea for understanding and sympathy, as one patriot to other patriots, without doubt know how many pinches of salt to take with his ItteranceS. They know his background and his personal if1- terests and just how purely 'pa- triotic" his opposition to the na- tional administration of the party to which he professes life long al- iegiance actually is. Outsiders may wonder whether the patriotic urge has anything to do with the crirnp which the Tennessee Valley Auth ority has put in the utility busi- ness in MT. Burr'g own state and those surrounding 1t. But no one could wonder If ex-Governor Smith had difficulty inasticating his dinner while he listened to the mouthings of the roastmaster, the ex-Federal Judge, and the Missis- sippi professor of business admin istration just now functioning at Lehigh University. Al has Q good memory and he must remember what the party serving" Demo- crats, who cheered him in Wash ington Saturday night, did to him when he was a candidate for the presidency. He knows, or should know, just how lightly party gar- ments were worn on that occasion, how enthusiastically they were dis carded, and how for the first time in history the solid CD South lost It's character of solidarity under pressure from the Women's Chris tan Temperance Union and at- tack by the sheeted battaliors of the Ku Klux Klan. If he has for- gotten he should refresh his meri- ory by reading over the election returns from way down South in Dixie for Nov. 1928.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-28
Test Y O U 2 Knowledge

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to last page for the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-28
The Doc Speaks

Dr. Carrothers confined himself to a defense of the duPont-0en- eral Motors United States Steel League which as Q faithful Brain Truster for that outfit was only doing his plain duty. The Doc pro- tested that the League was not op- posing all the measures of the Democratic administration but only those which are "unsound." Just what constituted unsound- ness the Lehigh professor failed to explain, but it is obvious that he meant anything of which his or ganization considered dangerous to the interests of its owners and members. He did make one state- ment worth remembering, al- though he failed to realize that in making 1t he was giving 6 true picture of the Leagues set-up, when he said, "Wolfish rainorities bent on extorting special privileges from @ supine government menace the future" It is true that na- tional governments in the past have been supine to the ex- tortion of special privilege by wolfish rninorities. None know 1t better than the members of the League. Perhaps some of the hatred for President Roosevelt which they now show on every occasion is due to the fact that he is trying to keep the wolfish mi- nority from the national door by other means than simply fighting 1t from @ horizontal position.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-28
Bad Mistake

Lest the difference in the price of admission be construed as an indication that the Leaguers are really democratic and the Demo- crats really 8 lot of snobs, it-should be kept in mind that the check MT. Raskob received was signed by the assistant-treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, not by the treasurer. You and I might not have felt any resent ment over such a frightful social snub but these big business and financial shots are super-sensi- tive lot. If the Democratic Ma tional Committee had been strictly on the job the Raskob check would have been signed by the entire committee membership, the office boy, and the first, second, and third scrubwoman. That would have compelled MT. Raskob for reasons of personal pride, to put his soiree into the fifty dollar set instead of giving him an out to let 1t lay in the flnif class.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-28

TO-DAYS COMMON ERROR Never say, T didn't dream of John doing anything 50
 rash"; say, "of Johns doing
 anything go rash"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-28
ReIlearse, Boys!

Roastmastcr Burr in the 0pen- ing shot of the evening predicted that, "Opprobrious words may lpe shouted from the house-tops. The sluices of Billingsgate may be fleft open" It would appear from the record of Saturday nights doings that the house tops of the Aimeri- can Liberty League are already thiclxly populated with opprobi0us word thrOwers and that from the speeches of the Doc and the Jedge the Eluices of Bosh as well as of Diliingsgate had been opened left and right.
 Al On Friday
 Ex-ooyernor Alfred 2 Smiths attack vi! es cons!asssa ea Friday In this column;
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sEss.
1T is NOT A HAND-OUT

Federal agencies are today engaged in bringing
relief to farmers in more than a score of states
who have suffered severe loss as result of the
drouth. South Carolina is one of those states and
Anderson cophty is of the several counties in
the state where relief programs are underway.
But, there seems to be general misunderstand-
ing of the governments program along this line,
according to Col j. D. Fulp, who is in charge OF
applications for this form of relief
Here is very significant part of his statement:
There seems to be general misunderstanding
with regard to the drouth relief program in many
counties. ~
I'm the first place, it does not seem to be gen.
orally understood that person must be reduced
to relief status in order to receive help because
of the drouth. 1t would be quite impossible for
us to secure enough money from all sources to as
sist every one who has suffered crop damage be-
cause of the dry weather. No effort is being made
to reimburse any one for his loss but an effort is
being made to locate those persons who are actual
ly in need because of the drouth, those who are
unable to provide food or actual necessities for
their family and stock-Anderson IS. c. Record.
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j NEWSPAPERS, "; OPINIONS
TOO MUcHs"BowING AND scRAPrNG" TO
GROUPS

We hope, but hardly expect, the 1896 campaign
will be free from kowtowing to every organization
that springs up.
There has been too much of this group recogni-
ton in the past from both parties 1t is natural, OF
course that political leaders of all faiths would ap-
proach organized and unorganized blocs with what
ever promises seem attractive but the thing can be
and has been carried too far. r..,.
Writing from Washington, Red Buck Bryant, who
knows what he's talking about says: "Some day the
independent men and women of, the country will
stiffen their backs rise in their wrath, and vote
against mollycoddles and time-servers who take
their cues from this and that organization. They
are in the majority but do not usually exert them
selves"
We hope they're about ready to turn on their
wrath. We need no government by groups in the
United States and if we don't call halt to what
The Statesvile IN. c. Daily rightly calls "this
bowling and scraping" to every class which can
elect a president and name a secretary, we're 60
dng to get into serious trouble-Rock Hill Is. c.
Herald. ...s.-
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THE ARKANSAS CONFERENCE

Governor Futrell, of Arkansas, has proposed a
conference composed of representatives of all the
southern states to discuss the sharecropper prob
lem. His suggestion is timely and should meet the
approval of land owners as we'll as tenants.
: The tenant system of agriculture in the South
followed the Confederate and it has been little
less than curse for owners of land tenants and
the country as a whole. There are many efficient
tenants and many progressive land owners and
when the two get together there is a partial sou-
ton of the tenant problem. But a study of agri-
culture in the South shows that the lands have
suffered for lack of modern agricultural practice
from erosion and from the one or two crop system
That probably would not be the if tenants had
received encouragement to build up the lands they
rent.
There is no stimulant to progressive agriculture
hike the ownership of the land farms. That
statement may be challenged in certain quarters
but it will be endorsed by southern people who
have observed the increasing soil waste during the
present century.-Spartanburg Herald.
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SAND-BAGGING TACTICS

Some of South Cardinals newspapers appear
much concerned over the senatorial campaign now
being waged and are lending all of their eloquence
in behalf of Senator Byrnes who is seeking re-
election.
That is perfectly all right. Senator Byrnes has
been very influential man in Washington and ii
appears that he has served his party and his state
well.
But, when newspaper or an individual tells the
voters that they either vote for this candidate
or that, get out of the Democratic party, that
is going bit too far and savors of sandbagging
tactics
In this country a man has right to his own
opinion. He is at liberty to disagree with the
policies of this that administration, and at the
polls he also has a perfect right to express his
preference.-Anderson IS. c. Record
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BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

vention rules committee against
abrogation. He said he had never
heard of the caucus action, but it
is commonly assumed that he was
seeking personal support from the
south.
O'Connor'S friends also engi-
neered publication in an Atlanta
newspaper of an editorial saying
that the south mustn't be too
greedy and that the House leader
ship should 60 to a northerner.
They have since been circulating
copies widely.
One important aspect of the
speakerShip is that if Roosevelt
should be beaten, the House prob
ably would still be Democratic
and the speaker would be his par
tvs most highly-placed spokes'
man and leader.
TALK in the state of Washing
l. ton among left-Wing Demo-
Gratis about a vote to recall Sena-
tor Lew SchWellenbach arises
from another convention incident.
The Washington delegation cau-
cused, elected SchWellenbach to
the resolutions committee, and Or
dered him to fight in committee
for "a production-for-uSe plank
and the Townsend plan and, if
unsuccessful, to carry the fight to
the convention floor.
The caucus was held while the
senator was making radio
speech and he felt it had been
called at that time on purpose
So Schwellenbach told his po-
litical buddies to "go take. q
dive" and spent most of conven-
ton week at Atlantic City. He
wouldn't have minded battling for
a observation-disclosures plank, but
drew the line at embarrassing the
administration by hopeless floor
fight for the Townsend plan.
downright. 1895. NEA Service. Incl
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THE HEART-EATER-OUT
By WICKEy WAMBOLDT

thing he has done, any more than
he should keep on grinding a
knife after its edge has become
keen. Up to q certain stage the
grinding of a knife is necessary
and beneficial. Beyond that stage
it is not only unnecessary but
ruinous. Certain acids applied to
metals under certain conditions
produce a corrosive effect that IS
desirable, if the corrosion is too
long continued it becomes injuri-
Gus or destructive.
We should distinguish carefully
and intelligently between re-
morse and repentance. When we
find ourselves remorseful about
something we have done, we
should first decide whether or not
we ought to be remorseful. After
all. was the thing wrong? 1t is
quite possible, you know, to be
mistakenly remorseful-to be re-
nrbrseful when actually there is
nd occasion for remorse. But II
we decide we ought to be re-
morseful about an act and we
suffer'the pangs of contrition, we
should recognize the purpose Of
such pangs: Namely, to arouse us
to better behavior-to the deter
mination to do better hence
forth.
Once we are thoroughly re-
pentant, and the determination to
amend is adopted, remorse should
be resolutely thrust out Of the
picture.
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determination to maze ahlelluS II
possible and in any event to
amend ones life that the same
sin shall not be repeated,
Repentance, different from re-
morse, though it grows cot of re-
morse, has the effect Of reorgan-
izing and improving the repent
ant ones life. That is the purpose
and the use Of repentance. But
once repentance has come in, re-
morse should be put out. Once
repentance is a fact, remorse is
no longer beneficial but harmful.
Once repentance has begun to do
it's work, remorse should be per-
sistently pushed out of the mind,
for then it becomes destructive.
1t brings on melancholia, despair.
It retards OF even stops progress.
After a person has become
thoroughly repentant he should
not entertain remorse for the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-20
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service STUFF Correspondent

WASHINGTON-One OF the
" chief sideshows of the presi-
dental campaign, although many
of the most important movements
therein won't be visible on the
surface, is grim struggle for the
speakership of the next House of
Representatives.
Technically, at least, this is
contest for the Democratic floor
leadership. But politicians are fig
uring cold-bloodedly that the poor
health of Speaker William Bank
head of Alabama, former floor
leader who succeeded the late
Speaker Joseph w. ByrnS, will not
permit him to occupy the floor
leadership for very long.
The candidates are Congress-
man Sam Rayburn of Texas,
backed tacitly by the administra-
ton, and Congressman John J.
O'Connor, Tammany representa-
tive from New York.
Rayburn is chairman of the
House interstate commerce COM
mittee and O'Connor is chairman
Of the much more powerful rules
committee. g.
Rayburn is off to good start
through his appointment as chief
of the Democratic speakers bu-
, reau for the campaign. Hard
pressed Democrats in many states
will soon be beseeching him for
oratorical aid and he will make
many more friends in the House
before the campaign is over.
0'CoNNOR, meanwhile, has
" been stepping out boldly to-
ward his goal. After the New
York delegation in Philadelphia
had caucused and agreed to vote
for abrogation of the two-thirdS
rule as desired by Roosevelt,
O'Connor cast his vote in the con-
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UNO

UNO, Aug. 20.-Miss Kathleen
Whitaker, who is employed at
Asheville was the overnight guest
of her father, Mr.. j. B. Whitaker,
Friday.
Mr.. Roy Ross had the misfor-
tune to suffer a broken shoulder
recently.
Miss Edna Corn, who has been
visiting Mrs. J. P. Corn, has re-
turned home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Whitaker
and children, Paul, Jr., and Ra-
chel of Ohio spent few days
with Mr.. J. L. Whitaker last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Griffin and
son, Bobby Dean, were dinner
guests Of Mrs. J. D. Williams Sun
day. ,
Mrs. D. R. Dry and children Of
Charlotte called on Mrs. jim
Drake recently.
Mr.. Frank Whitaker, Jr., of
Union, s. c.. has been spending
a few da;s with Garland Whita-
ker.
Friends are glad to welcome
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Holbert into
this community.
Mr.. Bill Roberts, who. is in the
.CCC camp at Salisbury, spent the
weekend with his sister, Mrs. w.
E. Lanning.
Mr.. Joe Holbert of BalfOur
called on Mr.. and Mrs. Claude
Holbert recently.
Miss Francis Drake of Spartan
burg, S. c., is visiting Mrs. j. L.
Jackson.
Miss Nora Love called on Kath-
leen Whitaker Saturday.
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Many a person is eating out his
heart with remorse. That is not
as it should be. Remorse is not
intended to eat out the heart.
Every feature of our world
physical, mental, spiritual-has its
definite use and it's skillful pur-
pose if we could or would but real
ize it.
Remorse, distressful as it is, has
it's highly constructive uses. Re-
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KILLED BY AUTO

COLUMBIA, S. c.. Aug. 90
UP)-Mary Kathryn McCreary,
u. of Blaney, S. c., was killed
in an automobile accident at
Blythewood, near mere, last night.
She is survived by her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. C. W. McCreary Of
Blaney. and one sister.
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PARENTS, NOT POVERTY, PERMIT
CHILD CRIME
(By BRUCE CATTON)

When YOU think of juvenile delinquency,
YOU almost inevitably think of slums ana
poverty. The child from poor family
doesn't have the chances that the child
from more solvent family has; he has to
play in the streets, economic pressure
warps his budding personality, and drift
toward crime is more or less natural for
him.
That is the accepted theory. 1t is sur
prising to learn from competent author
ity that it just isn't so.
Dr. Sophia NJ. Robinson recently made
study of Juvenile delinquency for the Re
search Bureau of the Welfare Council of
New York City. Amazingly enough, she
discovered that in one year as manyHchll-
dren from families with incomes of $50 a
week or more as from families with in
come of S25 week or less were on proba-
ton as dehnquents. i
In sample year, 1880, the New York
children's court put on probation 1860 chill
dren from families with incomes of $50 a
week or more - and 1858 children from
families with incomes of S25 week or less.
Between the S25 and $50 levels similar
proportion held good.
Now this, as Dr. Robson points out, does
not mean that poverty is a healthy social
condition. But it does seem to mean, in
disputably, that poverty is not the decisive
factor in causing delinquent behavior. 1t
often enough may give child the final
push; but it cannot, by itself, be blamed
as primary cause.
Dr. Robison's disclosure may compel us
to revise our thinking about the whole
problem of delinquency, and it probably
will be very good thing for us. For-like
all other Inortals--we are lazy, we hate to
make any involved mental effort if we can
avoid it, and above all things we do not
like to find ourselves guilty of anything.
When the Juvenile delinquency figures
go on mounting, year after year, the east
est way out is to blame them on poverty
and then forget them. 49,. .-'.- .. 30
We might have known that it wasn't as
simple as that. If a nations children Ego
wrong" in ever-increasing numbers, it
means that there is something wrong with
the nations parents. They are failing to
do. their jobs properly, somehow. -. e. o.
If the poverty excuse it taken away
from US, we may take the trouble to find
out just how and where we are failing.
When you stop to think about it, we al
ways have hunted fer excuses. Long ago
we were blaming dime novels. At one time
good people blamed the theatre. More re.
Gently we have been blaming the movies
It's about time that we began blaming our.
selves. ., '.. 80.
For this world, row and always, is pre-
cisely what we ourselves make it. We car
rernold it in any shape We desire-if we
will just begin with ourselves. =.
The road to better social Order vry
much like charity. 1t begins at ho. IS
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morse IS a persls-
tent G n a W i n g
pain Of the mind
occasioned by a
sense of guilt.
The first purpose
of remorse in the
divine scheme of
things is to awak-
en- and quicken
the conscience to
the realization of
some sin one has
committed. The
second purpose of
remorseS is to
bring a b GU t a
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-20
KILL BEER BAN

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 90.
(UP)-Citizens of Birmingham
yesterday voted more than ten to
one to discard the city's 21-year-
old ordinance which prohibited
the sale Of beer.
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BIBLE THOUGHT
SHARING THE GOSPEL
I'VE =. . impaired unto you the Gospel OF Cod
q Thess lilo

We who have part in the Gospel are responsible
for imparting the Gospel. Failure to administer
this sacred trust is more tragic than any otner tna
can be named. Take the Great COMMISSION
Matt. 2S:19-2O) seriously. Publish everywhere
the saving message. Millions await the Gospei Oh
salvation. There is work for each and all. COD
SPEED US! THE TINE is SHORT.--Ernest NJ
WadSworth. u.s. &. fH'
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IN his boyhood Franz Joseph
Haydn enjoyed listening to the
ok melodies. of the Croatian
peasants in the little Austrian viii
age of Rohrau. In later years,
his great composer incorporated
:hese melodies in his music.
Born. in 1882, son of a wheel
wright, Haydn was choir boy
until his voice broke. But he con-
lnued his musical studies. In 1851
he came under the wing of the
great Prince Esterhazy, patron OF
music, and began a prodigious pro-
AUCTION of musical compositions
symphonies, operas, masses
string quartets, piano sonatas
eoncertos for various instruments
and others.
In two trips to London, between
1870 and 1895, Haydn composed
MS IL great London" symphonies
and on his return to Vienna, in
1895, he create d his twc
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-20

Oriental birds nest soup costs $50 a
pound, which explains why most Ameri-
cans do not have yen for it.
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Pueblos Cole, beggars have raised their
pleas from a nickel for cup of coffee"
to "a dime for leaf of bread" bat it's a
bargain; they already have the crust, -
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-20

Belfast, Ireland, is interested in surveys which
would unite Ireland to Scotland by tube.
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A movie, based on the life of Tod Sloan, famous
Jockey, is in production.
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important or.
atorios, t h c
&c r e a t ion"
and the "Sea-
sons" He died
in 1909. aged
II. His pic
ture appears
on a stamp
which Austria
issued in 1922
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Mining in Colombia is showing a marked in
crease this year.
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The National Temperance Legion, organized at
Lawrence, Kas, plans national campaign, to lad
Fertise America into sobrety." 5 80
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dip RFNCHES GIVE THE

OUR BENCHES -,
business district a striking per
sonality. We quote from the Di ia
You Happen To See" feature IN
the Charleston News ana Courier I.
Mrs. Henry Mencken Suggesting
that benches be placed in King
street as they are IN henderson '',i =
ville's main street, so that people
can sit down and enjoy Watching
the passing throngs.
Our benches are worth mil
lion dollars. A few more shade
trees along Main, where trees
have died, would be worth about
million more.
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Stone structures believed to be 1000 years old
have been found by an Australian government of
fetal on the island of Kiriwiaa off the Australian
,eoast ~s T -
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PRESTON WOOLLEY, TIL E


Shell operator Of the filling sta
ton on North Main, furnishes I'M
pressive evidence of how attrac-
tive a filling station can be made
with flowers. Mr.. Woolley has or
namented a whole block with
wide assortment Of flowers. The
cannas, a beautiful variety, stand
out most dignifiedly.
The Purcell pep station on
South Main illustrates how at
tractive a station can be made
with permanent shrubbery.
IF SOME TOURIST COM
plains that Hendersonville doesn't
have sufficient entertainment, as
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Argentina has a potato shortage.