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1919. Under this lease the company
agrees to equip and maintain the fac
tory, to pay taxes and Insurance.
charges on 1t and to employ such
homesteaders as are available at
wages set forth in the code for fair
competition in that industry. The
company will also maintain an eight
hour day and workmen's insurance
and compensation.
Homesteaders can also work in
the Mountaineer Craftsmens CO.
operative Association, which produces
metal and wood work. Later other
homesteaders expect to work in the
dairy farm, the stock farm. the poul-
try farm and the community services.
At present wages range from As to
80 cents an hour.
The Arthurdale Association viii
buy the settlement from the Govern
ment by installments over a 40-year
period, with interest at per cent.
In the same way individual residents
will make an agreement with the as
sociation to buy or rent their homes
over a 40-year period. Once the prop
erty Is taken over from the Federal
Government the Arthurdale Associ-
alton will take title to it and the
community probably will be organized
as an unincorported unit Of Preston
County, paying taxes and receiving
the services usual to normal COM
munity operation.
copyright. 1898. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. 1nc)
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BY WILLIAM C. McCLOY.

"IklkhhN1 VI TVAtSAoAs
Rural resettlements differ in many
respects from the other housing prof.
ects in which Uncle Sam has put his
money. Sometimes they are called
subsistence homestead towns" Be-
tween 1900 and 1900 projects Of this
type were suggested to the Resettle-
ment Administration by Governors,
municipalities and individual citizens.
Sixty-six are under construction and
Is are completed or nearing COM
pletion. The cost is estimated at Sat-
100000. the total acreage at 466,000,
and they are expected to provide for
$500 families.
AS self contained towns, rural re-
settlements hope to attract manu-
facturers who will build factories there
so that the inhabitants can combine
industrial work with small-scale
farming-a plan that originated some
years ago with Henry Ford. Some of
the settlers are industrial workers
garment workers or jobless miners.
Some are farmers whose farms have
been ruined by drought, erosion or
unscientiflc farming.
Two Towns in Active Order.
The two subsistence towns most
talked about, with varying and con-
Trajectory degrees of fervor, are
Hightstown. N. j., and Reedsville.
W. Va. Both are in active working
order. with families living in them.
In Hightstown, little girl, daughter
of Samuel Cohen, formerly of Brook
lyn and now potato farmer. is the
first child to be born in the colony.
Cohen has lived there two years. His
potatoes are said to be the best in
Monmouth County. Eight families
are now living in Hightstown, or
Jersey Homesteads," as it is known
officially Twenty-seven more are
moving there into houses just finished
When completed, the settlement is ex-
pected to house 200 families.
! OF the 1900 acres, originally COM
priSing eight farms, and bought by
Uncle Sam early in 1884 for about
100000. only one-third will be COW
cred by buildings. 1t took a year To
build the colony as it stands TODAY
The delay was due chiefly to the Diff
f1culty of finding a $4,000 house that
would stand up as long as the mort
gage held-that is. for 25 years. They
finally had to raise the first cost OF
the houses to $4,000 each.
Each homesteader contributes in
italy $500. From the revolving fund
thus amassed they will buy raw ma
terials. provide rental for a New York
City show room for the garments they
make in the factory that is part OF
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before the depression closed the
Disease Followed Poverty.
The miners homes were typical Of
rural slums-unpainted. unrepaired
shacks. Poverty and enforced idle
ness were followed by disease and
broken morale. At last, when the
whole country began to suffer from
depression, the Government turned
to aid these stranded families and
an effort was made to rehabilitate
them, socially and economically.
That effort Is the Reedsville prof.
ect-'the butt of so many well-fed and
well-housed wits. It was an expert
mental project and mistakes were
made at first, such as the purchase
of ready-built, "cut" houses for the
first so structures erected. The foun-
dations prepared for them proved in
adequate and Easements had to be
built.
The Government contends that the
practical experience gained in build
ing low-cost houses at Reedsville will
make possible similar projects else
where at vastly reduced cost. The
total cost is estimated at 81 500. 900
by friends of the project, and at
$3.500,000 by its critics 1t is difi-
cult to estimate exactly. because so
many agencies have contributed labor
and materials. c. w. A., F. E. r. A.,
C. C. c. and w. P. A. all played their
part.
The Governments figure for the
highest priced homestead on the
Reedsville project is $5.570.86; the
lowest priced, s4,396.34. At present
l22 homes are finished, with 90 fami-
lies installed and 40 more are in
process of construction. Nine miles
of newly built roads run through the
colony. Each homestead includes a
four to six room house with bath
room, we'll with an electric pump,
septic tank to meet sanitation re-
quirements, a combination barn and
poultry house and an average Of 3.89
acres of land for gardening. The
University of Virginia has established
an experimental farm on the project
and an agricultural adviser is there
to teach the examiners the practical
technique of gardening.
Factory Completed.
A factory was completed last Oc-
tober and stands near freight spur
close to the project. This factory Is
owned by the cooperative Arthur
dale Association" of which each
homesteader is member. 1t has
leased the factory to the Electric
Vacuum Cleaner Co. of Cleveland
which has been in business since
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EXPERTS DISCUSS
ECONOMIC TREND
Briton Infers U. S. Strays
Into Gay Flower Beds,
in Talk to Scientists.
BY HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE,
Associated Press Science Editor.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, September 8.
The United States, by inference,
was described today as country
straying into strange and gaily col
ored economic f1owerbeds.
The description came from Dennis
Holme Robertson, University OF Camb-
ridge economist. who was one OF three
economists who spoke in the second
symposium on man, entitled Author
ity. and the Individual held at the
Harvard Tercentenary.
DIR. Wesley Clair Mitchell, Columbia
University, proposed deliberate and
systematic study of social problems"
to be directed by small and perpetual
planning board.
Douglas Berry COPELAND of Aus
tralia's University of Melbourne, said
that if the United States was to allow
native genius for rapid development
under individual enterprise to flourish
1t must build bridge between the
entrepreneur and some system OF all
thority over him.
In a section Of biology, Bernardo
Albert Houssay, M. D.. professor OF
physiology, University of Buenos Aires,
named the measurement of relative
elandular influences on diabetes as
necessary to progress toward a cure
for the disease. He identified the
glands concerned as the pencreatlc,
pituitary and suprarenal and, to a
lesser degree, the sex and thryoids.
Calling himself the thinker of
dangerous thoughts" Robertson said:
Some foreign governments which
made sound finance their prime OBJ
jective find themselves ever further
and further from their aim, like Alice
in the garden of live flowers. when she
tried so obstinately to reach the red
queen by walking toward her.
He spoke specifically of "a govern
ment which the laws of hospitality
forbid me to name. lengthening its
own journey perhaps by straying into
strange and gayly colored flower beds
but destined through turning
its back so firmly on the red queen,
in time once more to meet her face
to face"
He mentioned that relationships have
used some weapons of recovery" un-
used by other nations with apparent
effect but at cost in freedom which
seems too high to pay
Robertson said it seems clear that
after recession of trade has degen-
Grated into an ''orgy of destruction, 1t
is right and reasonable to use the
manifold powers of the state to
restore a normal level of activity"
DR.. Mitchell said survey of West
ern world economics since 1776 "sug-
gests that we are in for more rather
than for less government planning in
the calculable future.
1T will not be surprising" he COM
mented. "if investors In great indus
tries that are threatened with loss by
chronological progress organize cam
paigns for Government purchase and
operation"
A new fact in the mystery Of cos
mic rays was emphasized by DR.. Ar
thur H. Compton, University of Chi
cago Nobel Prize winner.
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Traffic Convictions
RECKLESS DRIVING.

RECKLESS DRIVING.
Charles c. Evans, 726 Twentieth
street northeast, $25 or 80 days.
COLLIDING.
John A. Davies, no address, SIS.
FIRST OFFENSE SPEEDING.
Kirby D. Tucker, 1921 E street
northeast. SIS.
Roy Wells. 1914 Bennett place
northeast, SIS.
Raymond L. Hubbard, jr., 54o3 Car
olina place, SIS.
Woodrow W. Moore, Delaware, SIS.
Arnold Silverman. New York. s25.
Harry T. Kelly, Maryland, $35 (two
eases).
Tony Rich, Maryland, $40.
Theodore w. Merritt, 1902 Thirty
seventh street, $40.
Frank e. Diggs, 800 Ingraham street.
$40.
James r. Kubrock, Maryland. $40.
John ]. Thomas, 3512 Rittenhouse
street, $40.
Eleanore H. Sanders, Maryland, $40.
Walter H. Jacobs, 2422 Pennsyl-
vania avenue, $40.
Thomas Z. Norris, Maryland, SIS.
John W. Doldt. Maryland, SIS.
Roosevelt Richardson, 1919 Sixth
street, $25.
Harold L. Linden, 1921 Linden street
northeast, $40.
Edwin Isard, 4314 Georgia avenue,
$40.
Julian Suydam, 1904 Thirteenth
street, $40.
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Subsistence Homestead TOlUns
Under Construction Total 66
Is Completed or Nearly Fmished-Cost
Is $47,OOO,OOO and Acreage
Covered Is 10000.

the community and pay the Govern
ment factory rental Of 81 900 a year
for the first i've years. plus per-
centage of profits not yet determined.
They will also pay themselves union
wages. out of which they will buy their
homes in monthly installments Of not
more than $24 The factory building,
100 by 220 feet and 20 feet high. is
largely windows-the most modern
factory on the Eastern seaboard. Ten
garment workers are now employed
there.
Equipment Ultra Modern.
The Hightstown dwelling houses are
Of cinder concrete blocks, one story
high, with fiat roofs. Though small,
they are light, airy and convenient.
All equipment is ultra modern. The
fiat roofs are insulated against heat
and cold. conditioning makes
these houses IA degrees cooler than
the outside temperature in hot
weather. Five miles of main, two
reserve tank make up the water sup
ply system. The sewage system in
cludes five miles of tile sewer ducts and
a disposal plant. The only other one
In New Jersey up to the same standard
is at Princeton.
The Jersey homesteads' harvest this
season was 100000 pounds of po-
tatoes from 100 acres, 400 tons of to-
matoes from so acres, 400 bushels of
apples from 40 acres. 10 tons of hay
from "A acres, 1000 bushels Of wheat
from so acres The 800 men employed
daily on construction come mostly
from Jersey relief rolls. Rabbi Wise
and DR.. Albert Einstein are members
of Jersey Homesteads' Sponsoring
Committee.
The rural resettlement at Reeds
vile, w. Va, known officially as
"Arthurdale Community" stands
among gently rolling hills that be-
longed to Col. John Fairfax in Revo-
lutionary times. 1t has a total acre
age of 1.137 and is Just outside the
town of Reedsville, Preston County,
with a population of 345 in 1890.
The settlers here are coal miners
and their families-men formerly
employed in the nearby Scots Run
area. In the golden 20s. when most
parts of the county were enjoy
ing a glittering boom. this mining
section already knew depression. La
Dor saving machinery and the COM
petition of other fuels created a sur
plus of partially employed labor long
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thorities her husband. Earl, 80, dis
appeared Saturday with $50. in his
pocket after leaving downtown hotel
to make purchase at drug store
She said they we're stopping here en-
route from New York to California.
Barbara Kikar, II. of 2018 Portner
place, also has been missing since
Saturday.
Charles B. Butler asked police aid
in locating his wife. Beulah Bennett
Butler. He gave his residence as the
Chastleton Hotel.
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Calling All Cows.

BEND, Oreg. P).-Treed by bull,
Charles w. Silvis noticed Q number
of COWS, and with many q loud "Sook,
Bossy," attracted them near enough
to change the bulls anger to desire
for company. He lost an hour.
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POLICE CONTINUE HUNT
FOR 3 MISSING HERE

Earl Cunningham, EN- Route to
California, Disappeared
Saturday.
Police today renewed their search
for three missing persons, two of
whom disappeared Saturday.
Mrs. Betty Cunningham told au-
Evening star., 1936-09-08

The Federal housing programs
progress and its social signifcance
are discussed In series OF 10
articles. .of Which this is the eighth,
by a ueteran newspaper man ,Cho
travelled seperdl thousand miles to
inspect the housing projects in
many parts OF the United States.
Evening star., 1936-09-08
His Best Friend
Told Him

r was his wife and she told him the
truth. But she didn't say he had bad
breath" Instead. she said. my dear,
you need E-z Tablets" A hint to the
wise was sufhcient. Don't wait for
some one to tell you. II you feel slug
Kish, headachy, dizzy, or bilious. due
% constipation, you may be quite sure
your breath is telling others. Get .
package of E-z Tablets today. At I'll
eapd drug stores enly go. -
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e.S
THE ANGELUS

Here's q famous painting-"The
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stitchery. You've no idea what a
charming picture will result as
you stitch away in wool or rope
silk, but you're assured q speedy
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So send for your pattern today and
get started on this fascinating
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Pattern 1919 contains O transfer
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NawOraandie

Keep that date for dinner wear.
ing q lovely navy organdie over
navy satin. Large stars Of
diamante are embroidered on tho
overdress, which has pulled
sleeves and buttons down the
front Of the bodice. The skirt has
q generous sweep.
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Hand-Knitted

Neat and nice little suits Of
hand-knitted yarns are going fast
at the exclusive shops. A charm
ing model is in tomato red wool,
hand-knitted in q close bird'S-eye
pattern. The jacket is short
sleeved with navy blue tricot edg-
ingS to match the blouse
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Herewith IL tie solution - yes
trd&y's puzzle.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-10-08
WE MUST NOT TINKER NOW

Major General Johnson Hagood, U. S. A.. re-
tired. was one of the speakers in Constitution
Day gathering in the Chicago stadium.
And General Hagood said pertinent thing re-
garding The need of conservatism and moderation
in the matter of changing the Constitution, in the
interest of national stability and safety.
II is dangerous to make haste in changing the
basic law of the nation, General Hagood thinks.
And we believe he is most emphaticaLy right.
For, as the general said: "The constitution per-
mits man sufficient latitude to meet his current
needs. Beyond that he should not go without ma
ture elaboration"
There would be very great risk in attempting
to make any serious change in the Constitution at
the present time for reasons which General Hagood
tersey expressed ....
1--WE are suffering" he said, from the tension
of the depression and the great political upheava
that followed it. We cannot trust ourselves at this
time to tinker with the charter of our liberties.
If We are wise we will hold fast to what we have
and bend our best efforts to making it more secure
Rock Hill IS. CT Herald. >...'
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-10-08
DRUNKEN DRIVERS

The problem of what to do with the drunken
driver is one which beSets the judges of our courts,
according to the Chester Reporter. The fact that
the man is not habtually criminal, and that gen
orally he is a pretty good sort of fellow, with a
Job and family, either of which he might possibly
lose if sentenced to Jail for thirty days or more
has caused many judge to be lenient in suspend
mig the term of imprisonment.
For this reason. says the Reporter, paroles and
suspended sentences are handed out pretty gencr-
ously to the intoxicated driver. In most cities it
is the policy to give him good scare and then let
him 60.
1t can be argued that such policy is a great
mistake. The drunken driver and his family may
suffer unduly if the letter of the law is followed
but society as a whole suffers unduly if DRINKS
drive cars. After all, no one compels any man to
get stiff and then sit behind steering wheel. And
the man who does so is as great menace, for the
moment as maniac with meat ax-Anderson
IS c. Record.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-10-08
HERO WORSHIP

Three twisted personalities dominate Germany,
declares Joe Williams, sports writer who has re-
turned to this country after attending the Olymp-
les in Berlin. Most neutral critics, he reports, seem
to agree that Hitler. the chancellor, is fanatic
Won Goering, the minister of war, a victim of the
war, and Goebbes, minister for national enlight-
eminent and propaganda" neurotic.
Naturally he places major emphasis on Hitler
for whom he accounts by popularity of the Ger
man people, namely, the fact that they are con.
firmed hero-worshippers. They are not satisfied
unless they are "heng" somebody. Says the sports
writer. "They like to be led. They are nuts about
pomp and pegeantry. They have been weaned on
swords, salutes and symbols. The Hitler technique
offers an outlet for all these emotions
Whatever the future of Germany and no matter
how well the German people are pleased with their
master, the days of hero worship gone with the
thinking people of the world There are no super
men. The German people are on spree Even,
tuallv they will sober up and find that their Idol
has feet of slay.--Raleigh News and Observer
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-10-08
THE GREATEST OF THESE

The Church of Latter Day Saints, better known
as the Mormon church, has announced that none
Of it's members are now on relief as result OF d
drive started six months ago with fiat declaration
against any pay without work for its $4,000 men,
bers.
The Mormons leased land, provided the needy
with farm tools and implements, set them to tiling
the SOIL Women's groups made bedding and cloth
ing. To finance the plan church members con-
tributed There was no WPA, no FERA; in short,
no government aid. Yet the Mormons solved their
problem.
The Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian breth-
rem of old North Carolina may disapprove of dog
NAUTICAL differences between their creeds and that
of the Mormons but if by their works we arc to
know them the Mormons are admissible to fellow
Ship.-Charlotte News.
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Newspapers OPINIONS
PREMISES AND PRINCIPLES

! These are underlying premises and principles oil
the New Deal: =
/ The resources of the United States are not SUI
6cient to sustain all of the ablepoded men ana
women in them. ". ,'. ..
A. large part of the American population, men
IL non,sr are too weak, inefficient, incapable 70
obtain employment and sustain themselves BY sns'r
lwn sxertions 1t is therefore the obligation OF the
capable the employed, to support them 's sa0"''-
Ting to taxation for their sake
The weak and incapable, however should De al
lowed to vote, to hold the balance OF power IN
elections Of the congress and president SO 'aa'
iney NAV compel the capable and employed to pay
taxes for their support
The ladies and gentlemen who live IN clHes'
where. rents are high when. they have no jobs
should be permitted 70 remain in'the cities ana
,ho bard.hsndedr men and women, the "rustics
and "rubesp should be taxed to save them from
inconvenience, from soiling their shirts and rough
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-10-08

MORE IMAM 4OU years ago Ia
N nous Dutch scholar proposed
for world peace what only recent
Iy was attempted with sorry re-
sults-thc League of Nations and
the World Court.
The man was Desiderius Eras-
mus, great humanist, teacher and
philosopher.
Monks would buy his. picture
merely for the pleasure of splitting
upon it, and he was placed upon
the Catholic Church's Index of
Prohibited Authors" because he
dared to criticize the church.
Erasmus was born at Rotterdam
in 1867. Educated in the schools
Of Holland, and trained by travel
through England and Europe, he
became one Of the most widely
read scholars of his time. He was
a moderniSt, progressive think
err, and a profound Latin and
Gptek scholar. In his later years
he retired to Basel, Switzerland,
where he wrote much of his great
works. He died there in 1886, at
the age Of 60.
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DON'T FAIL TO ANSWER THIS CALL

The Chamber of Commerce is reorgan-
.izing and retinancing for another twelve
months and brief campaign to increase
the membership is to be made. 1t Is the
hope of the directors that this will secure
additional funds for the work of the or
SANITATION. 1t is we'll known, locally, that
the Chamber of Commerce has never been
adequately financed. There has never
been a time when the organization could
not have used additional cash with proft
to the community and county. However,
the depression" years have witnessed 10y
al and determined support of the Chamber
of Commerce by number of citizens and
the record made in this period is some
thing for the community and county to be
proud of and affords the soundest possible
encouragement for the future.
Every citizen of the town and county
who can possibly do so should support the
Chamber of Commerce; and the fact is
that many citizens who are deluding them
selves with the thought that they are not
financially able to give this support, could
do something if they would resolve to get
behind the organization. The annual dues
are reasonable and do not impose a bur-
den on anyone.
The campaign planned by the directors
will be for new members and additional
memberships from present members. The
response should be such as is merited by
the record made by the organization for
the past several years. This record is well
known in Hendersonville and the surround
ing country. 1t has been a substantial con-
.tribution to the rebuilding of business in
this city and section. More and better pro-
motion is possible through the Chamber of
Commerce and this can be attained by a
ilarger membership and larger cash in
come, especially larger fund for adver-
Using Hendersonville and this territory in
lother sections of the United States.
The work of the Chamber of Commerce
for the past twelve months has been
stamped with success. This record can un-
uuestionably be maintained and in larger
and more successful way, if the community
and section shows greater interest and al
lords larger financial support for the or
ganization.
Our citizens should prepare to meet the
Chamber of Commerce membership work
ers with friendly encouragement and above
all, with substantial pledges of cash for the
work of next year. . -..--.~..... ....--.-