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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-10-12
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nF all famous men, Christopher
" Columbus has been pictured
on most stamps Of most countries.
All, except one, of these countries
are in the Western Hemisphere
Spain, the only one Of these
countries outside the Americas
has issued 35 stamps in Columbus
honor. The first country to re-
member the great diScoverer was
Chile, which issued Columbus
stamp in 1858. Since then Chile
has brought out nearly 100 diff
ferent stamps in honor of the en-
plorer These differences are in
values and dates of issue.
The United States has % Co.
lumbuS stamps, the first having
been issued in 1869. It was the
l5-cent value illustrating the
landing Of Columbus. The most
famous Columbus stamps of the
United States are the l6 that
make up the series issued in 1898,
in commemoration of the discov-
cry Of America. These portray
various events in the life of Co.
lumbuS.
Altogether, % countries have
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disadvantage in talking into mike III
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rather. sincere admiration for her
initiative and wisdom.
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned commu-
nications are published by The
Timcs-News. All letters must be
signed with the real name OF
the author. No communications
signed with n fictitious name
will be pX,lished.--EDiTOR.
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Paul gives a long list of things which. he says
can never separate us from the love OF CHRIST
from s. $500. And as you look at them yo"
realize that each one is calculated more and more
10 drive us to Jesus Christ, and to an entwned NE
in Him. There is no word there called self
Nothing can untwine that life of yours and NINE
from Christ but self.-William Dalgetty.
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issued a total
Of nearly 400
stamps in honor
of the man. The
S t a mp shown
here, issued by
Chile, is one OF
the earliest ever
produced.
NEA Service. Lnal
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BIBLE THOUGHT
OUR GREAT OPPONENT

who shall separate from the love of Christ!
Rom. S:35).
The Washington times., 1936-03-09
Education Broadcast

At 7:45 p. m. today the Interior
Departments Office of Education
will sponsor a radio broadcast
over a coast-to-coast NBC hook-up
describing the fate of the little
red Schoolhouse" in America, how
it is faring and how the depres-
sion affected it. The program, the
ninety-sixth of a series, is under
the general title Of Education in
the News
The Washington times., 1936-03-09
G. O. P. to Meet

LURAY, Va, March 9.-Dr.
John Locke, of Woodstock, presi.
dent of Young Republicans in Vir.
ginia, has called an executive
meeting in Luray for March 81 to
consider the question Of extensive
organization.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-21
Syndicalisn,

Bolivia has gone Syndicalist. Or if you prefer some other fancy term, you might say Cooperative or Totalitarian. Whatever the terminology, it means that the Bo- livian government, controlled by military power, has taken charge of the nations political and economic life.
 Every man or woman who participates in any way in the production and dis tribuition of wealth, which is to say, any, one who works for living, every employer and employe, must join a Syndicate" /" which is definite economic class or group. The Syndicates, of course, are controlled by the government. They are, in the fancy Bolivian phrase, "mechan- isms of the state as base for a functional constitution of public powers"
 Some of our own states were warning against Criminal SyndicaliSm" some years ago. But that brand of collectivism meant radicals" trying to run every thing. This Bolivian brand means con- servatives running everything more ruthlessly than Haywood and Mover ever advocated. Such things can and do happen after exhausing wars.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-21

he is still leading President Roosevelt, this time about 3 to 2.
 As we say predictions can be made by anybody who so desires, but we would hesitate to predict an election for any candidate on the basis of returns as fur nished to the press to date in the Literary Digest poll. If you asked for our com mert offhand we would say that by all the signs and portentS President Roose- welt is a stronger candidate as the day of election draws near. Of course that does not take into account what will be said and done in October, the height of the campaign, but it must also be remem- bered that the bulk of the campaigning to date has been purely republican and union party.
 Democrats have not really opened their fire yet and probably won't until we get into Octobef. Watch the Digest polls to- wards the middle of October for Signifi- canoe, if you actually do place confidence in this type of prediction. If you don't keep your ear to the ground and you'll note the rurnblings of discontent in g. o. D. circles, where even now all are not sat- isfied with the manner in which the cam paign is being conducted. As for the chief candidate of the g. o. p. he has not as yet really proved why he should be candl- date in word or action. Just because MT. Hearst and allies pushed him forward is no justifiable excuse for demanding the support of millions of American voters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-21
J. Joseph vs. J. Warren

-r The fight in the fifth congressional dis { trict this fall will be an all-Waterbury at- fair. Republican delegates to the con Vention, which was held Saturday noon In In this city, finally gave Attorney J. War; ren Upson, local republican town chair man, the honor of carrying the partys standard into battle. On the same day democratic delegates, meeting in Torring- ton, unanimously replaced their trust and confidence in the present incumbent, Rep. J. Joseph Smith, of this city by renomln- ating him.
 While the fight may thus seem to cen ter right here in Waterbury, it actually will be lost or won in that section of the district which is below or above this city. If there was any opposition to Congress- man Smith from Naugatuck or other val ley towns to the south of us 1t was not apparent at the convention. We feel very confident in saying that Rep. Smith Will have even more united democracy oe- hind him this trip than he had two years ago when he made the run for the tlrSC time and was pitted against the repuon55 can office-holder, E. w. Goss.
 The case for Attorney Upson, to our way of thinking, cannot be quite so good. He won the nomination fair and square, UAt HI 0O OOAAAS9 A1O AAA%J AAe"'S w - SO~ siderable extent injured his chances 1n Litchfield county, which any republican candidate in the fifth district must carry solid if he is going to counteract demo- cratic margins in the New Haven county end of the district And two years ago Congressman Smith showed good fol- lowing in many Litchfield county towns. He need only repeat this performance m November to be returned the winner.
 He goes into this battle with the knowledge and experience gained two years ago. That will stand him in good stead. He also goes into the fight equipped with the facts that became his through two years of congressional train- ing. That cannot be ignored Bolstered with these advantages to begin with, right now we would say that it is going to be difficult for Attorney Upson, or for that matter any g. o. p. candidate, to displace him. We feel sure that his record in the past two years is solid enough to warrant his return. Add to that the need of re- turning democratic legislators who are not swayed easily by forces inimical to good government and the issue is quite clearly confronting the fifth district. It resolves itself principally into reelecting Congressman J. Joseph Smith of Water bury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-21

The rumpus down in Bridgeport over the inclusion of three classics in the book world on high school reading lists has died down with objections to their inclu- sion being withdrawn by three Catholic members of the Board of Education, who did so when they were assured that no pupil was forced to read any of the books However, this brings to the foreground the fact that a good many people over look, there are books which various creeds find objectionable and ban among their membership Regardless of popular opin- ion and so-called expert criticism Cath olics or other religious bodies are entitled to make rules for their own members
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-21

In recent address the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, N. U. s. J. founder and head, stated that communism can be cured when the ills of modern capitalism are taken care of first. He said, "You can't fight it (communism) by the power of the press, the power of the radio or the power of money, unless you remove the causes that breed communism. And the chief causes of communism are the private coinage and regulation of money and pay-as-you-workism. ..." On this ground alone Father Coughlin could win far more supporters than he has in his ranks right now. That may sound like exag- geration, but it actually isn't There are thousands who are with Father Coughlin hand-and- glove when he talks about private coinage of money and the need of restoring this constitutional right to Congress From the very beginning he struck popular chord with this plat form and can still find plenty of support using it as his sole weapon of attack.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-21
LESS SPEED AND MORE BUSSES SUGGESTED AS
 ACCIDENT REMEDY

Cheshire, Conn
 Sept. 19, 1886 Editor of the Democrat:
 Now that the smoke of excite ment over the dreadful bus accident on the Cheshire road Thursday night has subsided, and the mat ter can be looked at in cooler light, may I have this opportunity of suggesting what I think is the best remedy to avoid such catastro- phes in the future. Everyone can complain, blame and criticize this and that one for the awful fatal ity, but now is the time to ap- preach the matter in saner way.
 There is no doubt in the minds of almost everyone that SPEED was the real reason behind the unfor- tunate affair. We out here in Cheshire have been expecting it ever since the line opened. It was bound to come. No bus or any car, for that matter, could maintain the half hour schedule required by the Connecticut Company day in and day out without taking desperate chances when things went wrong. It was playing it too close to the middle, especially for buSSes. Even- tually the inevitable happened, too much speed spelt disaster for young ODonneu and his passen- gers. He was only trying to main- tain the schedule, but like the pitcher, went to the well once too often. The state law for speed now, think, is AS miles. Why do busses exceed it? That is for Commission CT Connor, of the motor vehicle de- partment, to decide.
 However, my remedy for the pre- vention of any similar occurrence on the Cheshire line or any other is to put on more busses, lengthen out the running time and inciden- tally give the drivers and public a better guarantee of safety. If the company does not, their charters should be revoked. And finally, il the powers that be will not revoke the charters, then let the public re- fuse to ride, or use some other safer means. Above all else, safety comes first, whether the companies make money or not. For whats a few paltry dollars added to the coffers of some public utility as compared with human lives? Moth. ing, absolutely nothing.
 PRO BONO PUBLICC
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-21
Cheerful Forecasts

Conservative economists, long doleful, are turning optimistic. Roger Babson, pioneer business forecaSter, observes that for the fourth time since he began study ing business curves 35 years ago, business has crossed the normal line. It is back to the average of 1925, '26 and '27. If the heavy industries and general building construction were active, business would be far above normal, approaching the 1929 highs.
 He says this will be the best year since 1929 for automobiles and steel. Many lines are equalling or surpassing the 1929 tops. among them retail trade, power production, cement and electrical appll- ances. He expects sharp advance in the price of real estate, commodities and stocks, wages and interest rates, with larger farm crops and greater railroad traffic.
 Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, another first rater in business analysis, is if possible still more cheerful. Pointing out the pro- gressive improvement in manufacturing, mining, construction, trade and tranSpor- tation, with agriculture the one notable exception, he declares: "The SteadinesS with which progress has been made this year is more important than the amount of the advance"
 Since 1882, until recently, the recovery has been very irregular, with encouraging spurts and disheartening reverses. But this year general business has improved for three consecutive quarters, and is now going strong in spite of politics.
 The political campaign, he remarks, seems to be having no important effect one way or the other on business activity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-21

and perhaps explains why so many of them patronize out of town courses where they can play IS holes for 50 cents on 8 course that is at least playable, and where one does not have to use the Eiffel Tower as a tee on the fairways. Damage to golf clubs which cost from g to $l6 each makes these preferred lies" imper- ative, and then, 8 bail must be hit straight = or else.
 Tees that would pass in & pinch for quoit pitchers and fairways that make the rocky road to Dublin a macadam highway by comparison. are all that Waterbury has to offer its golfers = at 70 cents a head. The greens, in all fairness, are excellent, but 8 complete waste when player has to blow his way through trees, rocks and concrete-like dirt to get to them. The rules of golf have had to be changed to play the course so that they are hardly recognizable, and you can imagine how genuine are the scores in the seventies and low eighties that have been posted up there, the players turning them in, in some instances, without bat ting an eyelash, and just as if they could be duplicated on any other course.
 Meriden, e city of 3s,o00 popula- ton, has a municipal golf course that is a credit to the Silver City, which many Waterburians, who play it, well know. And it costs 50 cents to play 1t. Speaking of White Elephants" the Isolation Hospital is g thriving success by comparison.
 (Signed)
 A. DUTTER.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-21
Selected Poem
SUNRISE OVER SILENT CITY
Bryce Canyonl

 (Nellie B. Mace in the Christian Science Monitor) Dawn broods over you, Silent City, blending Your various colors softly. You are dreaming, Dreaming of beauty in timeless quietude Gently unhurried, as 6 mother moves To waken her household, the sun sends banners Of mauve and white and gold, lighting the grooves And gargoyles of crimson towers and walls. Pale monuments, carved as in remembrance Of noble ones slowly are turned to rose Tn the mounting light Temples spires and halls Wait as for worshipers-but will they come? Sunrise beauty, silence: still the city sleeps. Will 1t awake? No chimes from temple towers, No laden caravans within your marts, Nor merchants to covet your jasper and gold DO not wakenl Your tmeless carving starts With the winds and summer rains. Dream, dream
 on,
 As you have dreamed in countless ages, midst Your pink and alabaster walls.
 Nothing stirs but humming-bird on blue flower, Gossamer, shimmering on the tEwny grass, And aspens trembling in the morning hour.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-21
MUNICIPAL GOLF COURSE TEES COMPARED TO QUOT BOXES
 Waterbury, Conn,
 September 20, 1886.
,or nf 'TI,e nenocrat.

Editor of The Democrat:
 The following, to my mind, con- stitutes a legitimate complaint rela- tive to our hardly commendable mu- nicipal golf course on East Noun tain, pretty generally known by players who have Ntried it at least once as "the rock pile". For a city of 100000 people the golf grounds might have been built by Q gok-hall corporation. for it seems that Gene Sarazen or any other living ex- ponent of the great game, would have his hands and clubs full trying to play l8 holes on the rock-bedded course without losing ct least two balls, which, you may know, cost from 26 to 76 cents each. That situ- ation, plus Q 70 cent greens fec, over a course that Is called playable for golf, only because someone was overweight with optimism, makes is Q pretty expensive proposition for the folks who like to play the game
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-21

lace from Maine to California, fall into two groups. They are:
 1-If LandOn is elected, there
 will be a revolution within 4S
 hours.
 2-If Roosevelt is reelected, there
 will be . revolution within
 two days. If people could just get my name straight, I think might enter the Presidential race and avert all that bloodshed.
 Pyle Superlatives
 They say newspapermen meet such interesting people. That's right, I guess.
 THE GRANDEST MAN I have met in my travelling is Walter A. Folger, of Medford, Ore. Mir. Fol- ger is 78 now. He retired at 51, fixed up his family with annui- ties, and has spent the last 27 years just knocking around the world by himself. He has been every place you can think of. He always goes on freighters. He hopes he'll be buried at sea.
 THE MOST DRAMATIC THING I ever saw was in New Brunswick, Canada, when we drove into 8 little town just as a forest fire swept in. We saw the first house catch and blaze and fall. The despair and panic in the eyes of people was almost un- bearable.
 THE MOST PEACEFUL I have ever felt was one morning, just outside of Panama, when I was up and on deck at 3:30, and sat watching the red ball of sun inch up over the still watery horizon. You could actually see it move.
 THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NAT URAL SIGHT I have ever seen is Lake Louise, in Canada.
 THE MADDEST I have ever been was sitting up all night writ ing this column while Pearson & Allen take a vacation. So long. Sc you in Pickens, w. Va.
 Copyright, 19s6, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-21

any war in the family of nations, We are all one family no matter if some defective reasoning tries to prove we are not concerned in the affairs of the old world. If we had intervened before the commence ment of the World war, if we had given Germany to understand we would oppose any nation that first started the war, it is fair to assume there would have been no World war.
 Today we have no Theodore Roosevelt or his vision. Today statesmen are totally blind to the part that fate has allotted to us to preserve peace in the entire world. We have no policy in fact. but think that because George Wash- ington advised to beware foreign entanglements, that such advice is good today.
 The world today is a different world. We must consider that and act accordingly. Our weight for or against war, can preserve or cause devasting war. None of our pres- ent statesmen realize that. They will when it is too late. We can save Europe and the destruction of its historic cities and people, but 1t will not be done by after dinner speeches apd a policy of aloofness. Leave the old world to its contemp- lated suicide, and suicide it will, unless we make 8 change about face in our foreign policy. We are the only power in the world today that is listened to. We are the only hope of the people of Europe, who are crying to us to save the world, and how do we answer?
 War tomorrow in Europe would mean the destruction of the ancient cities of London, Paris, Berlin, and tens of thousands of women and children in England, France, Ger many and Russia. It would mean the destruction of ancient Rome and its relics of the dark ages its places, the sacred precincts that shelter the heart of the Catholic religion all over the world. Nothing would escape the bombs from the air of the savage enemy airmen whose mission would be destruction of everything in the enemy land. We do not, cannot realize now the horrors of such war, to which the World war was 8 nightmare. We sit back and what are we doing to prevent such a horrible confla- ! grafton, whose shadow looms daily upon the horizon of tomorrow?
 Sad to say, we have no statesmen who realize the portent of what is coming. Even the horrors of Spain do not affect us 8 great deal. be- cause they are too far removed. It needs no clairvoyant vision tc see that we are sleeping on a vol cano. The eruption may be any time. It is still time for us to act to avert it. But 1t will need the massacre of 8 few of our sailors and loss of ships to stir our statesmen into activity. Or will we let the world know that we are ready to take the offensive against any nation that attempts to disturb the peace of the world, or sit back and read about 1t in the news papers? IRON QUILL.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-21

A. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, February 19, 1911, of English, French and Dutch descent. Her real name was Estelle Merle O'Brien Thomp- son.
 o. Which states are included in the Census Bureau classification of West North Central and West South Central?
 A. West North Central: Minne- sota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kan sas. West South Central: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. o. What is the origin of the ex- pression OK?
 A. The use is said to have orig mated with the old John Jacob As | tor whose OK, which stood for "all correct" meant that a business note was satisfactory. Another author ity ascribes the origin to President Andrew Jackson, 8 notoriously bad speller. It is said that he endorsed his papers OK. under the mistak- en notion that all correct was spelled "oll korrect." If you want . copy of our book let FORTUNE TELLING, write The Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1O12 Thirteenth St., North west, Washington, D. c. Enclose ID cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-21
POLICY OF ISOLATION WILL SPEED UP WORLD
 DESTRUCTION
Waterbury, Conn, Sept. 20, 1886.

VbvSA SAAJb OVAAAAs1
 Sept. 20, 1886.
 Editor, Waterbury Democrat:-
 Our foreign policy lacks vision. understanding, foresight and is to Q European, hard to understand be- cause of it's failure to take into consideration what absolute neu- trality would mean to us in case of European war. Even the heads of the veteran organizations show the same lamentable lack of thought in such an event, taking, no doubt, their cue from old conditions as they existed in the World war.
 Let it be said that war in Europe today would mean consequences we do not realize. A war to a finish between the great governments overseas would as pointed out in Berlin recently by Charles Lind bergh, mean the destruction of the old world, and wreck damage that it would take all of a hundred years to salvage. In fact one might say. it would envisage the near total destruction of civilization in Europe, and with all the markets in which we sell our products. All nations, today are linked by economic fac- tors which affects each and every one. Distance as in the old days, or the Atlantic does not protect us from @ share of a world confia- grafton. In the lest analysis the part we took in the World war was to preserve civilization. let alone the bogey of saving the world for democracy. It was to save the world from almost utter eclipse, or rather civilization.
 Theodore Roosevelt interposed in the Russia China war, and brought it to e close by his person. al effect. He knew the effect of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-21
It's Your Guess

The Literary Digest presidential poll zor the third successive week is capable e{ giving encouragement to the two major political parties and by the same token 1cant encouragement to the union party sAEdidate and NUSJ-supported congress- man, William ]. Lemke. While Governor Aif M. Landon Of Kansas is not showing any such margins Of superiority as he dId In ihe first two releases on the poll,