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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18
BEHIND. THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

q tax on undivided corporation
srrpluses. but the way the bill
stands now each would hate to be
found dead with it.
Jimmy MOFFETT, the oil mil
~ lionaire who created much
comment Of one kind or another
during his career as head of the
Federal Housing Administration,
is a candidate for the "little cab
met"
His friends seek to obtain for
him the assistant secretaryShip OF
the navy left vacant by the death
of Henry Roosevelt. Most active
among those friends is White
House Secretary Marvin H. Nc
Intyre, whom Moffett entertains
frequently.
Current betting is against the
appointment. The navy is Roose-
velts pet and since the assistant
secretary will do most of the work,
because of Secretary Swanson's
illness, the president is expected
to choose carefully.
4
THREATENED strike in the an
L. thracite coal fields was averted
by an agreement less favorable to
miners than ordinarily would have
been expected. There was no i'm
mediate wage increase in the
agreement, although heretofore
the United Mine Workers always
insisted on boost for the an
thracite men when they had OBJ
tanned one for bituminouS miners
and earlier the bituminous oper-
ators had signed new agreement
for increases averaging 10 per
cent.
The miners won a seven-hour
day and five-day week for the
second of the two years covered
by the agreement, with subse-
quent adjustments in pay. But
there's no change in hours or basic
wage rate for the present.
Downright. 1886. NEA Service. Incl
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18
High School
Activities Are
Recorded
Bv Louise Orr and Travis Brown

By Louise Orr and Travis Brown
Robert Writ has been chosen
by the members of the senior boys
homeroom to represent the school
at the meeting of the Rotary club
next Wednesday, May 20.
We are glad to welcome back
our class president, Kittie Brown,
lee. She has returned to school
after brief illness.
ASSEMBLY PROGRAM: Rev.
l.. r. Wilds of the Presbyterian
church, took charge OF the devo-
tionaI. He gave Il short talk on
"Thcy Shall Possess Their Pos
sessions" This talk was thorough
ly enjoyed by all who had the
privilege of hearing it.
Miss Valentines junior history
class presented short play,
Scvcnty-Six in the auditorium.
This was a historical play which
was supposed to have taken place
shortly after the signing of the
Declaration of Independence. In
Il very CHlTl IdiiI'il- i''''hii'I ~ P'N
sentcd the arguments for and
against this document at that
time. The characters were as fol-
lows:
Ann Pcttigrew-Kay Keith.
Sir John Graham-Laurin Gard
ncr.
Ralph McOueen-Rob Johnson.
This play proved to he very in
tcrcsting and amusing from a ro-
mantle as well as from historical
viewpoint.
MAY FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES:
The May Day carnival was held
Thursday night in the city gym.
Many side shows including faculty
freaks, Hit n Miss, Go Fishing, La
Petite BurIesquc club, and shoot
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18

voted that scheming old political
ring back into power; so finally l
said to myself, "Well if you birds
are so fond of having bunch of
ringsters riding on your back, then
| am going to get up on your
backsand ride you too. SO | stop
ped fighting and went to riding.
"Some day." said Scroggs to
Boggs, "the public will get wise
to itself. Then it will buck you
back-riding politicians off into a
ditch and jump on you"
"Not in my lifetime" said
Boggs to Scroggs.
Pearhaps Boggs is right; then
again perhaps he isn't.
NOT so FUNNY
Recently congressman adj
dressing an audience sought to
tighten up his remarks by telling
this ancedote:
"The other day little boy and
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
>EA Service staff CorrespOndent

WASHINGTON - Don't strain
w any brain muscles trying to
understand the tax bill in its pres
ent form. The measure is virtu-
ally certain to be revamped eX-
tensively.
Meanwhile. it appears that the
administration has reached a new
low in its occasional fumbles with
legislation--not, however, without
active cooperation from some
members Of Congress.
A slightly ironical note in the
proceedings is the emergence of
Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Vir-
ginia as the pal of the "SmalP'
business man, in that he attacks
the tax bill passed by the House
as one which would let long list
of the biggest corporations off
with no taxation or very little.
Byrd has been an anti-New
Dealer and the Roosevelt forces
always have considered him the
reactionary type of politician who
would almost automatically asso-
ciate himself with the big corpo-
ration point of view.
Now, however, he takes the
same position privately held bv
most New Dealers who pretend to
understand the bill-that it dis
eliminates dangerously against
small corporations.
Any layman can see that tho
measure creates a new paradise
for lawyers, even if he can't toll
whether the bill is better or worse
since the House Ways and Means
committee operated on the orieinaI
proposals of Secretary Moreen.
thau and Treasury Counsel Her.
man Oliphant, the bills best-and
almost only-friends.
The number of loopholes in II ;s
anybody's guess. - ~ %
And don't blame it on Fe,;v
FFraankfurter, Rexford Tugwell, or
pa~ld Cushman Coyle. Each Of
'hose three brain-nusters favors
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18

Say" Said Scroggs to his
friend Boggs, ''what happened to
you? You used to be one of the
hardest fighters in this commun-
ity against that old political ring.
Then you quit fighting them and
took an appointment under them"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18
EUROPE is AIMING FOR WAR OF
MACHINES
CBy BRUCE CATION

The precarious grip which the dove OF
neace has on her perch in Europe these
davs can best be guaged by the fact that
people no longer are asking whether there
will be a European war; they are asking
when it is apt to start and what 1t Is gong
to be like when it does start. . .
Neither of these questions can be an
swered intelligently unless the profound
change that has come over military ideas
of strategy and tactics since the World war
be taken into consideration. .........
Germany has re-establiShed universal
military service, and has substantial body
of men under arms today; but because the
soldier nowadays is an entirely different
sort of human being from what he was IN
1914, this in itself does not mean that Ger
many is ready for war. ..... ..
More than ever before, the, soldier is be
coming an adjunct to the operation OF eX-
pensive and complicated machinery. Never
again, probably, will the world see any
thing resembling the mass movements OF
the World war.
The old-time infantryman with his rifle,
his bayonet, and his hand grenades is out
of date. The modern army is almost as
fully mechanical as the modern navy. And
until this mechanism is fully prepared, E0-
rope will not be ready to fight. ..
.. In the World war, for instance, the an
plane was primarily a scouting arm, To-
sday, it is looked upon as essentially strlk-
ing force. o..
When war begins, each nation can be
expected to try, with its air fleet, to para
lyze the great industrial and commercial
centerS of its enemy.
Mastery of air might easily mean the
gaining of an overwhelming military adj
vantage in the first fortnight of fighting.
Nor is that all. The tank. and the old
line cavalry troop have negotiated mar
riage, and from it is emerging a strange
hybrid-a mechanical force that can move
up to the fighting line at so miles an hour,
exercise the fre-power of whole brigade
of 1914 infantry, and oyerwhelm a rifle
and-machine gun line of the World war
type with ease.
During the World war;. the rival forces
of infantry were thrown together and left
to work out their own salvation, The tXpi-
cal soldier was still man who carried a
gun and did his work on foot. Airplanes,
tanks, artillery-all were adjuncts to the
infantrymen. 50
Is, In the future it will be different. The
typical soldier will be a highly trained
techuician; he is apt to be riding in an air.
plane, a truck, an armored car, or high
speed tank, Instead of fostering in mud,
dy trench, he will be forever on the move
All this means that nation must build
and maintain far more mechanical equip,
ment, per soldier, than ever before. II
must consult the factory, rather than the
barracks, before it goes to war, ., 8.
The next war" for which everyone is
waiting is not likely to begin until the fac
tories give the word; and it probably will
be won by the side. whose factories have
made the better preparations.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18

"Well, III tell
you," said Boggs
to Scroggs. GAS
you say | fought
the devilment of
that old political
ring for years
and | suddenly
walked up to the
fact that a big
majority Of the
V 0 t G l. S seemed
not to appreciate
what | was do
ing. They didn't
back me up. Year
after year they
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18
Wait
Minute,
Please
BY
Noah
Hollowell
MRS. LOUIS ALBEA thinks d.

MRS. LOUIS ALBEA thinks d.
M. Wells doesn't know iris habits.
Mr.. Wells said c. J.. Grey didn't
know his iris when he intimatcd
that the color Of its bloom had
changed from several varieties 10
one. Mrs. Albca had one kind
mostly and now has wide assert
ment through what she thinks has
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18

THREE years of enervating wal
D. with Bolivia, over a steaming
uninhabitablc jungle area callet
the Gran Chaco, had left Paraguay
weak and exhausted. A commits
sion of six neutral American
countries had met TO arrange
peace terms, when Col. Rafae
Franco, hero of the Chaco, led ar
army of rebellion against the lib
eral government of President Eu.
scbio Ayala. The war had cos
thousands of lives to gain much o:
the disputed Chaco territory, anc
Franco did not want to comprc'
mise now,
AS a result, Franco has become
president of Paraguay, and has de.
clared the first Fascist regime II
the western hemisphere. He ha!
suspended all political activity fol-
one year, and has placed the con.
troll of all industries under the
minister of the interior. The &C.
ton has left the peace conferees
in doubt over the outcome Of the
entire Chaco affair, although
France has promised a Gust
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18

Fashion, wise man said, is a form of; ugliness
so lntoerable that we have to change it every six
months
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18

To be serious is all well enough; to be solemn is
well nigh fatal Life is much too serious to be
taken solemnly
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18

IS "A debating society might tackle this: Resolved,
that there are more hypocrites in politics than in
church.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18

Correct this sentence: II know my wealth would
ruin my children" said the man, $50 shall leave
it to some charity"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18

Some people, said Samuel Butler, are equally
shock at hearing religion doubted, and at seeing it
practiced.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18

She has quit looking for romance when
she is willing to marry widower with
several children.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18

The hand of the brain trust is seen in the
new federal tax bill. At least, most officials
concerned find it so much. Greek.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18

There can be no revolution while s7oo sedan
can overtake $4,000 limousine and toot for gang
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18

Salvation is Free" but not the salvation
OF the agriculture of this country.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18

D G a c c w l t h
Bolivia.
At any rate,
the map shown
on the &C
C o m p anying
stamp, which
was issued in
1927, is des-
tined to be
C h a n 6 e d
somewhat.
A Cnr.,i,n Ina
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18

Gossip is the mother-in-law of invention.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-05-18

'convright. 1886. NEA Service. mc.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-25
We Should Do the Same

Last week we commented on the fact that many public improvements in our city were contributing to the better times that good many of us now seem to be enjoying. We did not intend that to mean that we are convinced that there IS no such thing as unemployment. Quite the contrary. But there is some evidence before us that industry in our midst is enjoying far better times than we had for the past few years. There are plant expansions and changes. The city IS materially changing.
 There should be an accompanying show of activity on the part of our citi- zens. Property owners may not have the money to make expensive changes in their holdings, but they have the ability and the initiative has been given them by the city's example to do things that will be of material benefit to themselves in the future. There are many sections of the town where development would move much faster if it weren't for many of the surroundings. In too many cases careless ness of property owners is to blame.
 Now is the time for a grand effort on the part of hundreds of land owners to do things that they have had in the backs of their minds for years Lots could be cleared of underbrush rocks, and above all refuse that thoughtless neighbors have dumped there. That should be compulsory even without our mentioning it. Wood land should be thinned out properly, leav- ing the best trees, removing the puny ones, the broken ones, etc. If there was a wholesale change like this in many sections of the city, we know that it would be an incentive to people to buy land and to build thereon fine homes. The city fathers are decking us up; why shouldn't the private citizens contribute where they can afford to do so?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-25
His Maiden Effort

According to news reports from Wash- ington Senator Francis T. Maloney oI Meriden delivered his maiden speech in the U. s. Senate last week. It came at an opportune moment, just one week after he made successful appearance at the state convention of the democratic party in New Haven. It also was dellV- cred in his characteristic punchy style. He advocated the complete ostracism of "pork" from the omnibus flood control bill then under consideration. And the bill when it did pass the Senate was minus pork" said to be the first such to do so.
 Senator Maloney is member of the commerce committee which drew up the bill. In his remarks on the floor Senator Moloney said, "The Connecticut river project in this bill provides for construc-- ton of only ten storage reservoirs ana we need 39 as contemplated in long range survey by the War Department. But the Army engineers have recom- mended construction of only ten at this time and we of the Connecticut valley are going along with this recommendation in order to get the project started. -"
 Another part of the bill, which has been frequently discussed locally, meaning by that in this state, is the assessment of states for certain costs. Under the bill that the Senate finally passed states and towns "shall pay land and damage costs of projects" Incidentally we believe that Senator Maloney's remarks and his stand on the measure are quite in line with those of General Sanford H. Wad- hams, director of our State Water Com- mission, and man who is pretty well qualified to speak on the problem of flood control as it affects this state.
 We sincerely trust that in succeeding appearances on the floor Senator Maloney will continue to speak as eloquently and successfully as he did in his first. 1nci- dentally it should be said of the junior senator from Connecticut that his maiden effort came before those of many sena- tors who have been in the Senate many more years than he has.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-25
Eating Olives

Scanning a "question-and-answer' column, for the human interest invaria- bly, found there, we come upon this old timer: Should olives be eaten with the fingers or fork?" The answer is, "With the fingers" And an answer like that is always reassuring.
 It indicates that there is still some naturalness left in a world so super civilized Gin superficial wayS) that it i1- Sists on doing countless things in an Crl- natural and inefficient way. Table serv- ice and etiquette, on the whole are not practical and sensible. Eating has be- come a conventional art, interposing as many artificialities and impedfments as possible between mans food and his stomach.
 Wherefore it's relief to know that something which goes into the mouth can actually be handled with the bare fingers, without mourning social ostra- cism. Just one little question, though, before we quit Does the rule hold when the olive is at the bottom of a cocktail glass? In such case is the olive eaten or drunk? We wouldn't know.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-25
Original TOOCM Names Revision of Many Modern Ones, If Adopted in Connecticut, Would Make State an
 Indian Sign-Post.
NEW BRITAIN HERALD

Middletown would become Matta- beseck.
 stratford would become stratford- le-Bow.
 Brandford would become Brent- ford.
 Lyme would become Lyme Regis.
 Pomfret would become Pontefract.
 Pennington would become Tunxis. The list would be much longer than this if all Connecticut munici. palities whose names are based on old Indian or English words were to begin campaigns of sentiment to have their names changed to the original and were to win the cam paigns.
 It is being done elsewhere. One notable example has just occurred.
 For 60 years the people of Sauk Center, Minn., argued for change in the spelling of the towns name. They wanted 1t Sauk Centre. It looked more digniflG was more in keeping with the or -inal spelling. Center, they probably claimed, was an unwholesome Americanism.
 The official custodian of the spellings of places on the map is the Federal postal department. As the FederalS say, 50 the mapmakers engrave {; and 50 1t goes down in the official guides. Almost every body following the spelling adopted by the Washington department.
 It took 9 years in this case to induce the postal department to consent to the new spelling. Prob ably the officials got tired of the argument; or perhaps there is a possibility of carrying the town for tn democratic party this time.
 Pittsburgh used to be spelled Pittsburg: Wilkes Barre used to leave out the hyphen. Dozens of other cities have been struggling unsuccessfully for years to change their spelling. Those that have suc- ceded seem to be in the minority
 sauk Centre is a famous town. It is the original of Sinclair Lewis Main Street." At first inclined to be irritated, the town changed its minds and put Up Q plaque in honor of It's famous son.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-25
A Book a Day
See Hearst Striving to Make a Splash"
By BRUCE CATION

There never was more fascinat- ing subject for biographers than William Randolph Hearst, and they apparently are beginning to awaken to that fact. The best study of the man to date is now available in Hearst: Lord of San Simeon" by Oliver Carlson and Ernest Suther- land Bates (Viking: $3).
 These authors see Hearst as the classic example of 8 man strug- gling to convince himself that he is as fine Q fellow as he would like to believe. From first to last, they suggest, his career has followed this motivation; not principle, not even a lust for money or power, but simply Q blind desire to make great splash, to be in the lime- light to be 8 bigger frog than any ther frog in the puddle.
 And so, from this viewpoint, they subject his incredible career to a painstakingly thorough ex- animation.
 He has failed, they conclude, in every field but one. His news papers, they assert, have ceased to be newspapers and have become propaganda organs. His repeated ventures into politics have blown up in his face. His early attempt to be spokesman for the under-privi- legged has petered out into dreary espousal of fascism.
 But he has made money. He has, they believe. amassed the sec- ond largest fortune in America. He lives like an oriental potentate. And that. they hold, is ell that his career of infinite possibilities has left him-a luxurious old age poisoned by the terror of death.
 The authors have not dealt gently with Hearst, as you may have gathered: but they have written . book which you, as an American eager Co know what makes your country tick, can hardly afford to mins.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-25
Snakes Wanted

Detroit is startled by a request of Mrs. L. c. Hughes-Hallett, wife of the British consul, made to the city police. People have been calling up the police and ask ing them to come and kill snakes, which are out enjoying the spring weather. Mrs. Hughes-Hallett thinks the snakes have a right to bask in the sun, and even to crawl around the garden. Moreover, she likes them. She says they make interest," ing pets. And she says she will take care of the snakes herself if the police, or the citizens who want to get rid of them, will send them to her.
 That is, all except the rattlers Not that she objects to them herself, but her hus- band doesn't like to have them around the house. The lady's attitude is unusual, but not so crazy as many people may think. Snakes are seldom harmful, and are useful in gardens. They are beautiful and graceful, too, in their way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-25
Foolish Talk About Canada

Representative William I. Sirovich of New York has a curious remedy for ur- employment in the United States. The other day he introduced in Congress resolution calling for special committee to investigate the "practicability' of union between Canada and the United States. Such union, he believes, would open new areas for colonization, form the greatest English speaking nation in the world and solve the long-enduring prob lem of the unemployment of labor"
 The proposal, at this stage in the his- tory of the two countries, shows ignor- ance of the temperament of each of them. Canada is a self-governing democracy quite as much as the United States. Its ties with the British Empire are chiefly
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-25

Although plainly labeled Helpful Hint for the Democrat" we really won- der if that correction in Friday after noon's Waterbury American is to be accepted in the spirit offered. Somehow or other we received the impression that spirit of sarcasm pervaded the entire one paragraph of the editorial, which was the Americans own. The fault - we referred in small article on the late A. Mitchell Palmer as representative from Kentucky. As matter of fact what these straying fingers meant to strike off the keyboard of fairly reliable Remington was Keystone State". However we pro- duced "state of Kentucky" and the tears of such labor will, we presume, never completely wash away the chortles of glee of contemporary who just dotes on such Americana in the local press. If we could be assured the hint was really help full, we'd accept in the spirit offered
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-25

Nothing quite so upset the national administration, we'll wager, as the an- nouncement last week by Governor Her bert H. Lehman of New York that he would not run again. Not even the ad- verse decisions of the Supreme Court on New Deal legislation could have produced more consternation. Governor Lehman undoubtedly could be elected to his office again. His presence at the head of the ticket in New York would lend tremend- ous lot of influence to the national ticket. And therell be tremendous load of in- fluence brought to bear upon him in an effort to have him reconsider.