The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-11-05
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
THE HEARf AND, SOUL OF IT

The necessaries of life are food warmth (cloth-
| ing), shelter, and little doctorng now and then'
Everything else is luxury. Lady Evangelne SIN
cerely believes pearl necklace necessary she
is living to herself. So is young Mr. Jacky Sport,
the well known "whte collar lad" when ne tells
himself that he has got to have car
You hear "uplifters" prating about the shame
of men being out of employment and hungry IN
this land of marvellous wealth and resources, OF
scarcity amid plenty" 1t is shame-but only
for those who are unable to work, the SICK the
decrepit, the physically o. mentally handicapped.
They deserve Christian charity -, ,.,. e.. ,...
In the crowded countries, Europe, parts OF lndia,
China where the pressure of population is tremen-
dous, something is to be said for the problem OF
the unemployed In those countries population is
from $50 to 700 the square mile. In the onted
States it is 45-in South Carolina 81. This state
could have four times its present population ana
still would be settled one-thrd as densely as are
England, Holland, Belgium.
Most of the unemployed Americans are in the
great cities and industrial districts The horror tht
appals them is the notion of lowly work-the work
of one-horse farmer in Orangeburg or Florence
Out of Philadelphia or New York could come to
South Carolina 100000 abe-boded men ana easily
get food clothing shelter for themselves and their
families They are not interested in food, clothing,
shelter, They crave the "higher things of life"
Read any radical or "labor' magazine pub
lished in great city and you will read argument
that an actor or writer, husky fellow, who is not
good enough to get job as actor and cannot write
stuff that he can sell, should be hired by govern
ment. That means that you boys on the farms
should work and pay taxes on everything you buy
so that those city fellows may not soil their dainty
hands. r.,-
Some of these days you hardhanded and HARD
working South Carolinians will find out that the
real political issue in this country is whether or net
YOU shall toll to support the unemployed IN the
cities. y. ..
To save the cities is the heart and soul OF TINS
"New Deal" The idle in them cannot be fed ana
clothed unless you country people feed and clothe
them One-seventh of the population OF New YORK.
more than million people, have been ldle Iour
wears and longer. They could not stay IN New
York if you did not support them there ltheir !oos
are gone forever) and they will not get out OF New
York as long as you ado support them IL thes
should leave, it might bankrupt the town one
seventh of the houses and offices would be vacated
The rich would be indeed "soaked"-for they own
the houses and the mortgages on them
The resentment against hard work with hafd
hands is common here In South Cafoliha' we hi0
an educated young Journalist and ne proves
misft. 1T Just isn't in him to do newspaper work.
so we fire him, tell him goodbye. He, too, Is
husky fellow and ought to be at work on farm
or toting bricks. Those are honorable calhngs
However, he is out of a job and it is government
business to give him one. ,....... .,
Government agrees and gives it to him; gives II
to thousands of him and of her-and you loot the
bills YOU powboys. You South Carohnians' nine
in ten of you, are working for men and women
who think themselves too nice to work with you
and it is probably all right with you because one
of them is your cousin or your wife's brother.
The only problem of the unemployed IN TINS
broad and thinly settled land is the problem OF
those who won't employ themselves. Co.,. ..
The more people government employs the more
people will be forever on the job Of keeping IN
office the political job gvers. ....s =.
You will wake up some day to the fact that the
heart and soul of the New Deal is to fool and BRIDE
the country people to toll and sweat for the sup
port of the people in the cities who are too nice to
'"pull a bell cord over mule" You may wake up
too late-Charleston News and Courier.