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tionally divorced from the Treaty OF Yer
sailleS. .
Here, at least, is a basis for discussion
II oives us the rough outlines of League
which would not be content to sit on the
safety valve, but which would actively
work to make the nations of the world
feel that they need not fight to get what
they must. have. -.
A League whose members, pledged IN
advance not to go to war, functioning reg
uIarIv to work out peaceful solutions OF
their troubles, would be League in which
naace-Iovers could have some confidence.
It is not the kind of League we have hao'
TO date. The old League existed to save the
snoils of war for the Allied victors, ana
that it fell apart when the crucial test came
is neither tragic nor especially surprising
A new one, concerned solely with inter-
national Justice and peace, would be the
sort of thing the war-sick people OF the
world have dreamed of.
II might even be the sort OF thing the
,oorIn of America would be willing TO
support.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-06-11
WPA IN POLITICS

The truth is that these local WPA machines III
orally reek with politics and the further truth IS
that Mr.. Hopkins, not being fool, knows II. Also
it is true that Mr.. Hopkins is primarily responsible
for this state of affairs and all this Pecksnlftlah
washing of his hands and pous rolling of his eyes
does not alter the fact He practically turned over
to Pendergast in Missouri, Gufey in Pennsylvania,
Neeley in West Virginia and Hague in New Jersey
the administration of relief in their states He ac-
cepted their recommendations for appointments
and recognized them as the party leaders IN their
states. He accepted recommendations which give
them control of their local WPA machinery
Under such circumstances, what does Mr.. Hop
kins expect? What does he expect when he puts
the Missouri organization in the hands of Tom PEN
dergast, or New Jersey in Frank Hague's? Sweet
ness and light? The business Of these men is poll
tics. They bosses of the hardest most practi-
cal and sordid type. The idea that they were not
going to squeeze the last ounce of political advan-
tage out Of their WPA control is joke. No one
! not fool would entertain it for moment, and
Mr.. Hopkins, as has been said is not fool.
| These violent denunciations from Mr.. Hopkins
| have become not only totally unconvincing but
| completely absurd At the very moment last week
| Mr. Hopkins was giving the Missouri WPA a clean
bill OF health politically and asserting that it is
the Republicans who are putting politics in relief
at that very moment a Democratic senator-young
Mr.. Rush Holt, of West Virginia-was reading into
the Record various letters and affidavits revealing
the extent to which the WPA in his state was being
used as political machine 1t is hardly possible
for Mr.. Hopkins to call Senator Holt, as ardent
New Dealer as there is paid agent of the Re-
publican committee"
The TACT is that Mr.. Hopkins seems to think the
people generally are boobs. The fact is that poll
ticS uoes -petihe"Ve the WPA machines and they
are oeing useo 10 promote Mr.. Rooseyet's re-elec-
tioh anu Strengthen the local Democratic organiza
S tions' onuer the system and set-up this was nat
ural and inevitable. The denials have become ridi
culous-and the situation scandalous -Franl Kon+
: in Charlotte Observer
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THIS IS A. WIDE FIELD FOR PROMPl
ACTION

Charlotte Observer takes notice OF the
fact that Chairman Waynlck OF the State
HIGHWAY Commission has broken long
and dense silence to make announcement
Of and promise Improvement of the sec
ondarv roads of the State.
This is news that will be welcomed
throughout the State. The people are not
unmindful of the difficulties confronted
and experienced by Chairman Waynlck
department during the past winter ana
Snrino. but after making due allowance
for the damage done to roads by record
braakinq cold weather, and also taking
into the calculation all that has oeen aohe
70 repair and rebuild the highway SYSTEM
the weight of public opinion seems 10 De
decidedly critical of the record made oy
the Highway Department.
The Times-News overlooks the oppor-
tunity to join in the criticism, but VIII say
that if Chairman Waynick and his depart
ment employees are looking for a, chance
to show what live, first class road depart
ment can do, the big opportunity IS mere
and now presented. There has been no
time in the history of North Carolina since
the road improvement movement was
started when there was greater need Tor
prompt and positive action.
The States system Of secondary roads
is in rotten condition and the people who
use them are crying for relief. If Chair
man Waypick wants to prove himself an
able highway executive and business man,
let him show what he can do before the
end of the year to improve the secondary
roads.
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arrests by G-men Of some Oh our
most dangerous criminals were
bloodless, lamblike affairs with
the outlaws so scared their ton
CUES clave to the roofs of their
mouths.
The whole secret of cutting
down crime is never to fail to get
the criminal and never to fail to
punish him. At any cost the Grim
|inal should invariably be tracked
down.
"Too expensive" you say.
No, it would be economy. Once
| it became generally recognized
that to commit a crime is to be
caught and punished, crime would
be reduced to a minimum. Crime
now costs our people sixteen bill
lion dollars year. Think of it!
We could afford to spend several
billion dollars a year to teach the
criminally inclined among us to
control their evil prOpensiticS.
That would be fine for us, but it
would be finer for the criminally
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-06-11
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER.

DRESSURE on Roosevelt from
l. his advisers to ask Congress
for authority to appoint additional
justices or to start the war for a
constitutional amendment has in
creased enormously.
The president is being told that
the fve-man majority has given
him marvellous opportunity by
its creation of ali obvious no
mans land for Social-economic
legislation.
If weight of advice is the de-
4ermining factor, Roosevelt will
try to increase the size of the
court next winter, barring deaths
or retiremcnts. He might wait
until the court killed the Wagner
Labor and Social Security acts,
now considered doomed.
A couple of years ago, talk Of
packing the court" was some-
what dampened by reports that
the liberal justices might resign
if the idea were carried out. But
now those justices are declaring
publicly in effect that the ma
jority justices are guided by 'per-
sonal economic predictions"
! ROBERTS bears the brunt OF
- much of the criticism, since he
held in the Nebbia decision that
New York could regulate milk
prices, but now says the liberty
of women and children to work
for starvation wages can't be de-
MED.
The unsavory nature of the case
before the court probably will
also be cited in future attacks. II
I.began as the appeal of a Brook
Ign laundry owner who had beer
indicted for forgery on charges
that he falsified the records as tc
wages paid.
The action of five S20,0G0-a.
year judges holding that laun-
dresses mustn't be paid Sl2.4(
weekly minimum is also oratorica'
smeat for demagogS. 49,. 3
! ntnrright. 1896. NEA Serrier. inr.i
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
JUNE AND WAR DEBTS

1,oo baino among other things the month OF nom
o,+ an the Allied war debt to the unlteo
c+o+os i also the month of rumors about now the
! aob+ finally will be settled Senator j. hamilton
nov. tells reporters that plan is IN the OH
-. g. ,,,roant from Britain, France and Italy III
goods and services.
| I.,o,1d movements in kind prove feasible? Inc
oo,,,+,r will DELAY its Judgment on that until more
"details are supplied In the meantime, the history
of navment in kind as applied to the German re-
noraiton hill is worth brief reviewing.
The neace treaty required Germany to deliver
to the Allies ships, railway equipment, nNeSCC'N
and other movable property and also to build ships
for the Allies.
Immediately after the war, when there was
shortage of all sorts of goods, the Germans uet''
orod 70 Allied countries substantial quantities Of
such property.
Then depression in world shipping caused can
collation. of the ship consignment by Germany. Id
Dor and industrial interests in France soon protest
ed that it would be better to let them supply Ma
terias and work in reconstruction, receiving cash
from the Germans The Dawes Plan reduced pay
ments in kind on downward curve, and stlll there
was unwillingness to receive German payments OH
large scale
The plan finally resolved itself into accepting
from Germany limited quantities of selected goods
after the pattern of ordinary commerce among the
nations affected
1t may be possible to follow the PREPARATION eX-
ample in the war debt problem. If general reVNai
of world foreign trade accompanies the expert
ment, we may be able to receive without hardship
to ourselves or our debtors certain goods and some
cash every year. And, if the revival Of world traoe
is on its way, it may not be at all to the point to
remember that the German reparation is still I'M
paid in full.-Asheville Times
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Wait
q
Minute,
Please
By
Noah
Hollowell
COMMENT YESTERDAY ON

COMMENT YESTERDAY ON
the receipt Of q car Eoad Of lead
ripe for plumbing purposes by the
King Hardware company as the
first to arrive here SINCE 1926, &C
cordine to n. b. Gibbs Of the
Southern railway freight depot,
led 20 the statement that plumbing
moderniZation had not kept pace
with other building lines. j.. W..
Mcintyre recently commented on
the fact that home owners de-
mandcd the most modern IL In"
way of electrical fixtures, house
conveniences, furniture, electric
and gas stoves and refrigeration
hut were contentcd with plumb
ing equipment so long as it would
convey water and not leak, the
Simplest kind Of plumbing used %
or more years ago. New homes
are demanding more up-to-datc
equipment but old ones, when
modernizcd, retain their OLD
plumbing fixtures. =
The reason, you would ask next
The plumbers need high-cla%s
craftsmanship. Every line of buSl,
ness that is making any progress
has its new gadgets and its new
wrinkles to put across and Is en-
ploying supcr-salesmanship to DO
it, with the goods to display to
prospective customers.
TIE depression hit the plumb
eks mightv hard. They have moi
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-06-11
LEAGUE MAY BE SAVED FOR
WORLD PEACE
(By BRUCE CATTON)

Looking at the dark skies overseas, it IS
exceedingly easy to say that the League
of Nations has failed abjectly.
Nothing could be more foolish, however,
than to say that because the League has
failed it must continue to fail; to assume
that, because it is not at present organized
so as to Danish war from the world, it
never can be so organized.
We built the League in an hour OF great
terror The World War had dragged its
bloody way to it's last corpse, and we were
intentionally aware that little bit more
of it might have done for everything that
we value in our civilization. So we erected
the League as fence to keep out this
dreadful menace.
Now the fence has been broken down.
If mankind has half the sense it is sup
posed to have, something will be done to
redesign this League so that next time II
may not fail. And the best service any
friend of peace can render now is to dis
cuss ways and means of making the League
effective.
A good starting point for such discussion
is to be found in bulletin recently sem
out by the League of Nations Association
in New York. s." s
This group offers four major proposals
They are:
That the League accept the Kellogt
treaty as the fundamental principle of it
existence;
That it call regular international confer
ences at which nations which feel that the
labor under unjust treaties, lack sources Q
raw materials, or suffer from any other il
ternational injustice, could get redress i
peaceful manner;
That the burden of military sanctions b
made regional matter;
That tAssLeagus covenant be uneola
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-06-11
BY. RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service STAFF Correspondent

WASHINGKaN-If anyone were
" to imagine such an undignified
pectacle as the u. S. Supreme
Court sticking its neck out" 1t
would have. to be admitted that
something like a yard and g half
# that section of the courts
anatomy is now exposed.
The 5 to 4 decision against New
York's minimum wage law for
women ind children has piled up
ammunition for those who propose
% change a system III which the
word Of one man can determine
The nation'c economic future.
BY ruling that neither the fed
eral government nor the separate
states can act against such evils
as the sweatshop and the right Of
industrial exploitation, the
Roberts OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Observation-Disclosures majority has
labbergasted even some of the
most vigorous supporters Of the
theory that this majority is a
precious bulwark against social,
labor, and other reform legisla-
ton passed by Congress.
= & Il
WITHOUT Offering much but
" cause for worry to the con-
servctives, the opinion aids the
New Dealers in sevsral ways.
For instance, this wasn't in any
sense a New Deal case. So-callet
T New Deal legislation had beer
Knocked down by the majority
usually in alleged defense of the
exclusive right of states to legis,
late in such fields.
New York and Is other state.
had passed what they considered
essential minimum wage laws. TIKI
court majority, in killing them
has added FEASIBILITY to the New
Dealers contention that it isn't 81
much concerned with Interpreting
the Constitution as with preserv.
ing reactionary front on al
occasions when human rights,
clash with ."riahts of property.n,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-06-11

! inclined.
However, before we can haV"
widespread local crime reduction,
we must get rid of dishonest and
inefficient local and state law en-
forcement officers, including such
Judges and district attorneys as
fall in that category. And we must
eliminate the predatory pOliti-
clans who elect and appoint the
dishonest and inefficient law en-
fOrcement officers - and whose
partnership with criminals makes
criminals feel bold and safe. Then
and only then shall we redeem
ourselves from the disgraceful
reputation Of being the most law
less of civilized nations.
Did you notice that when the
G.-men arrested one of our most
notorious criminals recently, they
found him hobnobbing with Il
sheriff and his deputies. The
sheriff said he did not know who
the criminal was; yet 4 picture Of
the criminal was posted in the
sheriff's office. The criminal told
the Omen he had paid plenty
for protection.
. UNQUESTIONABLY TRUE
Said a man to me recently, "As
YOU know, | have been a member
of our state legislature and ! can
/ tell you that it is impossible to
get any bill through that body if
| it has the opposition of the big
special interests
And isn't that a pretty dish to
set before the people Of democ-
Iracy
I KIDNAPERS PREFERRED
One difference between kid
napcrs and predatory politicians
is that the latter never release
their victims and never cease col
lecting tribute.
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HenderSOnVille, n. I.
June 8, 1886
Editor, The Times-News:
People stand by and watch pol
itics and even go so far as to
think that they are so clean that
they can be brought into our
churches without harming any OF
the spiritually-minded Christians.
But the Holy Word tells us in
Isaiah 1858 that, "Thou wilt keep
him in perfect peace whose mind
! is STAYED on thee: because he
trusteth in Thee" How can a
spiritually-minded. true hearted,
whole Christian keep his
mind stayed on Christ, and be IN
the churches where politics and
worldly amusements are brought
| into the house Of God, for the
pleasure of its members.
Going back to the Scripture
surely we must trust in Him-Wc
should put all our trust IN HIM:
For we cannot trust the so-called
politicians of today. And not only
! should we put our trust in Him,
but we should keep our minds
stayed on Him.
| am thinking of a church in
one Of our southern cities which
throws open the evening services
to the politicians, who come III
and make their speeches and per-
suade the public to vote their
wav: and, too, they bring their
worldly subjects in and contain
mate the minds Of those who are
the real true Christians with these
subjects. l call it making the
house of God q house of mer-
chandise. We remember the words
of Jesus when He spoke the
words as recorded in John 2:16,
when He said, "Take these things
hence; make not my Father
house an house of merchandise. ="
What did He do as He uttered
these words? He drove the money
changers out. What the churches
of today need is someone who by
the grace and help of God AL
mighty will drive the politicians
and money-changers out of the
churches. Nav God raise up more
people to follow Him, and to
stand by the true Word of God.
In our own fair city there is a
municipal organization that was
set aside for public use, and an
unknown donor Of certain sum,
placing it in responsible hands for
| improvements on the organiZa-
ton, and later, on they come out
with an announcement of those
wishing to use the the municipal
organization must pay a certain
amount per year to use this mu-
nicipal property.
The question comes to us, Will
there be better times seen in this
world again? Some people seem
to think that we are aoing to see
better times, but Christ told us
when we see these things come to
pass to "Look up, for your Re-
demption draweth nigh"
| do not think that we will see
times any better until Christ
makes His appearance, and the
Millennial Reign of Christ will be
set up, and those who have been
redeemed by the precious blood
Of the Lamb will be privileged to
reign with Him. Thank God, there
won't be anyg political schemes or
any so-called politicians there. !
And this shall be when He shall
be crowned King of Kings and
Lord Of Lords.
take this opportunity to thank
you for the. opportunityfto express
these few thoughts and also to
wish you and yoarA@iiews staff
Gods richest blessings and God
speed. Your friend,
LESTER GIBBS.
Hendersonville.
It's easy to determine those. be-
A Al s.1Hs,. tFphhtr
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cold blood local
officers of the
law who attempt
to arrest them.
But have you
n 0 t i C e d how
cha ry criminals
have become Of
shooting Omen?
T h c important
lesson has percO-
lated into their
craniums that to
shoot a Oman is
about the same
as to commit sui
eide. The recent
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-06-11

They were sent to arrest Jesus out ne
them, and they went back empty-hauueu
Such is the historical setting OF the w0roS' r,',;
teen hundred years, and more, nave III" nv,
conrse since these temple Orderlies came o"' n
omptv-handed, and gave as their reason Tor '"eil
dereIiction in duty, that Jesus spoke as no man
had ever spoken, and the thing they then Sa'o L
+.r,o +odav.-G. Campbell Morgan, D. d.
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Inc man Who has ever stepped on banana
peehng can Smpathize with the fellow trying to
control careening automobile,
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{ FILTERS To
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned COM
munications are published by
The Times-News. All letters
must be signed with the real
name of the author. No COM
munications signed with a fic-
tis;c.s name will be published.
EDITOR
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-06-11

Marriage will some day be enrolled amoro tho
p ' says woman writer. Judging from
me sne -; % times some women marry, they are
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SOMETHING TO CONSIDER
Rv WICKES WAMB0LDT

One of the most frightful prac-
tees of American criminals is the
readiness and the complaccncy
with which they shoot down in
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-06-11

It's easy to determine those. be-
longing to, the nit-wit class. They
trystp out-argue you. ~" #
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