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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
lLL.ADVISED

| /, is our convction-and we haven't been given
10 grousng about it-that these United States OF
America went plumb for Franklin d. Roosevelt on
| November 8. Mark you, don't say they went
Democratic; for as we understand political line
ms the party of Grover Cleveland is even deader
than that of Abraham Lincoln. 10 .s.s
But conceding the overwhelming defeat OF per-
hans vast majority of those Who used to think
they knew what some of all this conduct of public
aFa!rs was about, we have not yet constituted our
ruling family as royalty and there is in the Amer
lean governmental set-up no provision for the sort
If thing we believe the English designate as a civil
list
Ergo when We see il stated in the public prints
tina, James Roosevelt has been appointed a heuten-
an, colonel of marines and right now Is detailed
20 attend his father on a goodwill trip to South
America at s404 month don't like 1t one whit
better than If the Congress should patent him as
earl Of Hyde Park or duke of Passamaquoddy ana
give him a monthly letter of credit 20 the United
States treasury.
For aught we know 10 the contrary young Roose-
Welt is a nice chap, worthy in all respects OF ms
high heritage; but do not think-nor do we
believe that you, gentle reader, think-that ne
rates lieutenant coonelcy in the marines. TINS
splendid division of the military service has been
aforetime. and perhaps is now being, used occa-
SionalIy TO confer titles on and put into uniforms
some who could never have made the grade by
way of West Point or Annapolis; but usually the
youngsters who are given such political appoint
ments are not advanced beyond the rank OF second
lieutenant and there is reason to believe that they
will stick around until some top sergeant has taught
them to keep their clean and to wash back OF
their military ears.
If the president wants to use one of his sons as
aide de camp or courier we have not the slightest
objection If ne appointed him to secretaryshlp
or made him a herald, legate or ambassador, we
should not interpose but while $404 month Is
no great amount of money it. represents in the
marines years of devotion to duty and, no doubt
in many instances lives constantly risked IN the
defense of country and the traditions of the corps
We don't mind admitting that the thought OF
lanes Roosevelt as lieutenant colonel of marines
sets our remaining teeth on edge. - Greensboro
News.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03
More Licenses To
Drive Revoked In
Drunken Driving

4 total of 7l7i state drivers
licenses have been revoked accord
ing 10 statistical data made pub
lie from Raleigh yesterday. The
latest group of revoked licenses
include II. all convicted of charges
Of drunken driving. To date, the
number of expired rcvocations to-
tails II.
Latest revocations include the
following:
Clayton F. Hanna, Wadesboro !;
Lee jenkins, ANNAPOLIS; e. l..
Dacenhart, Mt. Holly; Fred Cline,
Kannapolis: T. /. Cheek, Durham /:
Clarence G.. Scttlemyre, China
Grove; Harold Eugene Sechler.
Kannapolis; Thomas b. Ross, Mon
roe; Luther Archer, Coficld: Ray
mond Boykin, Clinton. r. II. Bry-
an, Winston-Salem: Ernest But
Ter, Clinton; Amos l.. Carter Gar
land; Edgar Coffey, Hickory;
Muncy b. Crumpier, Stedman !;
Howard Sustar, Charlotte, and AL
len Fasion, Clinton.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03
GRADUALLY WITHDRAWING

The consolidation of WPA districts in North
Carolina involving the complete elimination of
some and additions to the organizations of others,
is to be construed meaning that the Federal
government is gradually drawing out of this field
and reducing the operating costs of such a fuhc-
ton. enc e e. y .t1
Such may also be expected in the area of relief
generally over which Mr.. Hopkins prssdes and
which deals more directly with the economic neces-
sites of multitudes of the American people.
II Is, at any rate, to be hoped as well to be
believed that the situation is improving so rapidly
that the relief administration may soon be able
substantially to reduce its activities and that those
VIII oare able to gain their own livelihood will nc
longer have need to lean upon the federal bounty
Charlotte Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03
BEHIND TIE SCENES
IN TIE CAMPAIGN

ment IN the Madison Square Gar
den speech than in the platform.
excer' as the latter dealt with the
constitutional amendment issue.
Roosevelt promised continuance
of the fight TO improve working
conditions TO reduce hours
overlong TO increase wages
that spell starvation TO end
the labor of children to sup
port collective bargaining 10
wipe out sweatshops-"
II there is q question as 10 when
hours are "overlong" or wages on
the starvation level. organized
labor will seek to give the answer,
Wage, hour, and child labor legiS-
lation seems q certainty within the
next four years and even a like
hhood in the next Congress.
, But the hour and wage prob
lem is an involved one. and con-
stitutional complications arc al
most inevitable.
THE platform definitely prom
: : ised agriculture that the New
! Deal would continue 10 improve
the soil conservation and domestic
iallotmcnt program with payments.
TO farmers"
Roosevelt, going farther, prom
iSed 10 do "all in our power TOR
crop insurance, for n reduction OF
farm tenancy, and for stable
food supply for the nation"
The administration would seem
committed to large subsidized
housing program in the platform
assertion that "the government,
should steadily extend its housing
program toward the goal of ade-
quate housing to those forced
through economic necessities 10
live in unhealthy and slum con-
ditionS."
Roosevelt probably will support
the Wagner housing bill which
failed last session. e. ,..,.
! a,"nyright. 1886. NEA Service. Inc
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03
DIR. F. K. MeLARTY. DIREc

tor of evangelism Of the Western
North Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, late
PASTOR of Hendcrsonville, i &C.
lively at his new work. having jus.
closed a l0-days union series Of
revival services at the Hawthorne
Lane Methodist church Of Char
lotte and entered on series o.:
services at Belmont Park Mctho-
dist church. Or. McLarty was ap-
pointed 20 this work by the last
conference and expects 70 hold a
least - such meetings during thv
church year. DR.. McLarty wa
recognized as a strong man by
Hendersonville and well qualified
Tor the new work created by tho
conference.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03

which are being made in Britain
for distribution to school children
as souvenirs of King Edwards
coronation.
Peters grandmother brought
che of the mugs on a recent visit
to England and gave it to him.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03

INRESTRAINED was the cele'
~ bration among the Slavs of the
Baltic region when harvest came
for it was an order of their an.
Gent god, Svantoyit, that drink
and hilarity be unconfined Ir
his temple at Arizona on the Bal
tic island of Rugen stood the
image of this awesome god thai
had four heads and four necks
In his right hand he held q horr
filled with wine. and in the left
was o bow
On the harvest festival, the
temple priest, wearing long hair
and beard. swept out the temple
and. dared not breathe within it.
lest 1t be contaminated. Then. be-
fore the assembled peasants, he
inspected the horn II some of the
wine had disappeared. crop.
would be lean next year. If the
horn stillwaS full, the coming har-
vest would be heavy r
The priest then would drink
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03
PLANES CANNOT DESTROY GREAT
CITIES OVERNIGHT
(By BRUCE CATTONl

One thing the fighting in Spain ought to
accomplish is to debate the blown up
claims of those people who have been as
surfing US that airplanes will destroy whole
cities overnight in the next war.
No reader of the popular magazines or
the daily newspaper can have missed those
claims.
At their most modest, they tell how one
fleet of bomberS could reduce Paris, Lon
don, Berlin, or New York to wasteland
in one visit. In their more robust form they
90 on TO describe the gas bombs such
planes could drop; they picture a citywide
blanket of poison gas seeping up through
houses and office buildings until the entire
population has been killed.
Always it is lone fleet of bombers." De-
tails are supplied with convincing feryor.
A good bombing plane can carry at least
a ton of explosives; ton of the best eX-
plosives has such-and-such destructive
power. Multiply this power by 40. or 80,
or whatever number of planes you arbf-
trarily assign to your imaginary bombing
fleet, and you have the city destroyed in
one visit.
But somehow it doesn't seem to be work
ing out that way in the laboratory at Ma
drid
Those bombings have been destructive,
cruel, and desolating enough to have been
planned by the apocalyptic rider on the
pale horse, heaven knows. They have
caused enough pain, unvarnished human
misery to make the angels weep.
But they haven't destroyed Madrid in
one raid, or in two dozen raids; they
haven't come recognizably close to doing
half of the things which the outspoken
proponents of aerial warfare have said
bombinSs from the air would surely do.
The Spanish rebels do not, Of course
command air fleets so large and so mod
ern as the great military powers command
But the number of their planes is far from
contemplate. The machines are up-to,
date and are flown by skilled pilots; the
bombs they carry as as modern and as de-
structive as any in existence.
Added TO that is the notorious fact that
during the first of the bombings, the Ma
drid defenses against air attacks were al
most nonresident. II was several days be
fore the government could put any defend
ing planes at all into the air; to this da
the anti-aircraft batteries are manned b
unframed rnilitiamen.
The armen, in other words. praeticali
had carte blanche to go ahead and prov
that the air arm is as potent as they hav
been saying it is.
And Madrid Is not destroyed yet. 1t ma
suffered fearfully, but it is. still standin,
A fortnight of raids has been unable to d
what zone fleet q bombers" was suppose
to be capable of doing.
1t looks very much as if the airmen ma
been overstating their case.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03
FROM MISSOURI

II is asserted that there are ac-
tually more Indians in the United
States today than when Christie
pher Columbus discovered this
continent. That statement may be
true. yet before accepting it lit
orally, | should like to see the fig
ureg of the United States census
bureau on the Indian population
as counted in 1892.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03

position. Thereafter, the sue we
have decided on should be the
only side, unless a radical change
takes place or important new evil
dence is apparent. 1t is bad bust,
ness TO be wavering this way and
that. 1t is bad business TO be sway
ed this way and that. II is better
10 be on the wrong side OCCASION
ally than to be on no side or on
first one side and then the other.
Vascillation is injurious to the
character; it makes for habituaI
indecision and weakness.
We should not be hasty to make
decisions but having made them
we should be slow TO change
them. And we should not change
without good reason to change
not merely because someone else
argues differently; while he may
be Impressive he may be wrong.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03
SETH NJ. ViNING. EDITOR o.

the Tfyon Daily Bulletin, must &c
feeling the burden of SO many pup
lie calls and in advocacy of q cen
thai clearing house OF bureau says:
II believe Tryon business Glen
OF their families are called on 70
support more worthwhile activl-
ties than any town this size in the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03

ton + G q u ire :
thought 10 ar
rive at a deci-
sion: and deter
animation to hold
the decision once
arrived at.
Almost every
situation has its
good points and
its bad. When
we have a dcci-
sion to make We
should weigh the
points; then
m 4 X c up our
minds as TO Odl'
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03
By RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service stan Correspondent

WASHINGToN.-In all the
" heavy speculation as to what
he next four years Of Roosevelt
administration may bring forth,
you rarely hear anyone mention
The Democratic platform and its
promises of last June.
Everybody knows that no politi-
al party ever entirely lives up 10
its platform. Nevertheless, this
pDe caused quite a stir at the time
and it was the work Of the preSi-
dent and his friends, who have
been continued in power.
The platform may be- considered
ut least enough of a vague guide
10 justify looking at ii again, to
sort out such relatively concrete
promises as II contained and add
70 them such few similar promises
as Roosevelt made in campaign
speeches. =
One Of the most sensational
promises in the Democratic plat
form has generally been forgot
len: a. We viii act to secure
the consumer fair value, honest
sales, and a decreased spread be-
tween the price he pays and the
price the producer receives"
J, On the face of it, this appears
10 mean an attempted reform of
The distributive system which
would hit at waste, deceit, and
excessive profits. The administra-
lion is being urged to create a
government agency which would
Hdvise on federal policies, dis
seminate information, and con-
duct research in the interest of
consumers. -..
ORGANIZED pressure groups
are in better position to per-
suade the Democrats to make
good. Labor, for instance. This
roip finds much more nourish-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03
FIRST CORONATION
MUG BROUGHT TO
AMERICAN SUBJECT

MONTREAL, Dec. s. (UP). =
Peter Read, IL, has become the
proud owner of the first Corona
ton Mug" brought to Canada.
The mug, produced by a famous
Staffordshirc pottery works, is a
sample Of hundreds Of thousands
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03
WITH A GRAIN OF SALT

II is we'll to listen attcntively
10 what the wise boys have to
say, but not always well to take
their announcements too much
to heart. Remember, it was not
great many years ago that GER
tain aIl-knowing scientists conde-
scendingly declared that while
electricity was entertaining as a
toy and interesting a. a manlfes-
tation of energy, it could never
be put 70 any practical use.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03
EVIDENTLY

Probably courtesy or diplomacy
requires that occasionally we al
low some foreigner who speaks
such broken English we cannot
understand a word he says. 10
talk over the radio.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03
WHAT BUSINESS FIELD |
By Noah Hollovell

not crowded in Hendersonville? In
other words, what line Of bushes
affords the greatest prospectus 10.
new developments?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03

the wine, anc
after refllins
a n d replacing
the horn. gaiety
would begin
Eand il was con-
sidered q re.
ligious act tc
get drunk
/ p oil an d, ir
1929, issued 6
stamp on which
this ancient
'Slav god is pic.
tured.
EA Service Inc J
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03
THIS AND THAT
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

better condition would be to have
parties which would not do things
that ought TO be exposed.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03

If girl could make up her face as
quickly as her mind, her boy friend would
not have to wait so long for her to be ready
TO cd places. ,,,,. -
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03

The number of Texas farms in
creased from 495,4S9 in 1890 to
Sol, 0l7 in 1885.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03

Seizure Of liquor still in Cleveland, o.
florist shop suggests a new version Oh the
old songD'Moonshine and Roses"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03
POT AND KETTLE

at is fine thing to have two
parties." writes a reader, $50 they
can expose each other"
That condition does, Of course,
have it's advantages. But far
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03

All the world loves fat man, If ne an
swers to the name of Claus.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03

All European nations except Finland, prefer
keeping their money % keeping their obligations.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03
HOW MANY SIDES2

HOW MANY SIDES?
How many sides has a case?
Just one-the right side.
But how is one TO know which
is the right side? An, that Ques-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-03
BIBLE THOUGHT
HE THAT WATERETH

shall be ~atered also himself" prov. ll;aS)'
And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, ~he
he prayed for his friends" Cob a2:lo).
"SometimeS-ah. little do we know
How oft we have prevailed
Through Gods rememhrancers alone
When our own strength has failed
o faithful hidden hearts that plead
For OTHERS, night and day,
May living streams from founts above
Refresh you as you pray"
Adelaide Pollard.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-06-08
TOBACCO CROP CUT
HALF, SCHAUB SAYS
Loss to Weed and Cotton
Growers Estimated AL
ready at $5O,OOO,OOO
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
Tn The Sir Walter Hotel,

Raleigh, June 6-The tobacco and
cotton crops in North Carolina have
already been cut in half by the dry
weather. with the result that if plenty
of rain is forthcoming from now on
the farmers of the State have already
lost between $5O,OOO,OOO and $75OOO,-
900, Dean 1. o. Schaub, of the School
of Agriculture at State College, said
today. While the light showers of the
past week have been a great help,
they were not general enough or of
sufficient duration to be of great help
to the farmers, Schaub said.
"Although both TOBACCO and cotton
should be planted early in May, there
are thousands of farmers who have
not yet been able to plant either"
Dean Schaub said. "And many who
have planted tobacco will have to re-
set most of it if and when enough
rain comes to provide enough mois-
ture. The same thing is also true of
many cotton farmers, especially in the
eastern part of the State. In the old
tobacco belt west of Raleigh, there is
still time to set out tobacco and make
a good crop. 1t is still not too late
late to plant cotton in Piedmont and
western countess But in the eastern
section it is already far past planting
time for both tobacco and cotton. So
the outlook is decidedly discouraging
for more than half a crop of either
cotton or Tobacco"
The only encouraging aspect of the
situation is that the farmers will pro-
badly receive better prices for the
tobacco and cotton they are able to
raise, due to the fact that the crop
will be short and production light,
(Confinuod IN Dooo Tl~x,oN
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-06-08
Coal Miners
COOnStrike
OverFrance
Walk Out After Mil
lion Other Workers
Win Complete Vic
tory There

Paris. June 8.-(AP)-Coal miners
in northern France, NUM-. ering $780,
900. called a general strike today a
few hours after 100000 other work
ers had won a complete victory in the
folded arms" refusal to work.
Workers in Paris building trades
also began a walk-out to enforce the
five-point agreement which ended the
14-day strike after Premier Leon
Blum's new deal government inter-
coded for organized labor.
The coal miners who declared they
would rather strike and starve than
work and starve," occupied pits and
offices in the northern fields. In some
places mining officials were held pri-
Continued on Page Five)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-06-08
Talk of Vandenberg For
Nomination Persists, How
ever, in Event of
Deadlock
LANDON OPPONENTS
RELYING ON BORAH
Await His Coming and
Statement Expected from
Him; All Sides Continue
To Express Confidence of
Outcome; Conve nti ION
Opens at II a. m. Tuesday

Cleveland. June 8.-(AP)-Support-
ers of Governor ALI M. Landon, of
Kansas. typed their bandwagon tune
for the arriving main body of Repub-
lican delegates today, while the di-
vided but resourceful, opposition still
explored means to head him off.
AS the delegates piled into the city,
captains Of the conflicting factions al
ready on hand differed over how the
new recruits would line up.
Between breaths, the Kansas dele
gates exchanged II told you So
gances over the news that SO of New
York's 90 delegates had declared for
Landon. Conspicuous among the dis
senters from any bandwagon" drive
was Senator Vandenberg, of Michigan.
Talk Of Vandenberg as possibility
for the presidential nomination, in
the event of deadlock, persisted,
noticeably among some seemingly in
terested in further deadlocks
Forces Directing to Governor Ian
don looked eagerly to the arrival to-
day Of Senator Borah, of Idaho.
Borah was expected to have state
ment on reaching here.
All sides continued to express con-
fidence. Many of the rank and file
were admittedly I-ewildered as they
awaited the opening gavel raps at IL
a m. eastern standard time, tomor-
.ow.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-06-08
Rev. Aubert Smith, of Lib
erty, New State Presi-
dent of Church Or
ganization
BANQUET TONIGHT
WILL BE FEATURE
Will Be Followed by Motion
Picture Play in M. P.
Church; DR.. J. M. Culbreth
breaches Convention Ser
mon Sunday Morning; At
tendance Is Large

New officers for the coming veal
were elected by the North Carolina
Christian Endeavor Union Sunday
afternoon at the organizations annual
convention here and were installed al
the night service, by George Wilson
of Atlanta, southern secretary of the
Union.
Rev. Aubert Smith, of Liberty, was
elected president. Other officers were:
president, Rev. Kendall Shoff-
ner, pastor of Calvary Reformed
Church, Thomasville; recording sec
retary, Miss Helen Dyer, Winston
Salem; corresponding secretary, Miss
Vera Smith, High Point; treasurer,
Carl Jones, Jr., Greensboro; past pre-
sident, Mrs. Ida G.. Lambert, High
Point; senior young peoples superin-
tendent, Miss Elizabeth Mcclellan,
Newell intermediate superintendent,
Miss Alma Taylor, Greensboro junior
superintendent, Miss Hattie Mae Gov
ington, Wadesboro; publicity superin-
tendent, Roy P. Barber, Greensboro
mailing superintendent, Mrs. Roy P.
Barber, Greensboro; advisory board,
Rev. Luther r. Medlin, Henderson;
Rev. J. L. Levans, Lexington; Rev.
Ralph Bassett. Winston-Salem.
The convention tonight will have it's
annual banquet in the basebent of the
First Methodist Protestant church,
which is host to the convention, start
ing at o'clock. The pastor, Rev. l..
R. Medlin, will be POSTMASTER. The
convention song will open the prog
ram, followed with the invocation by
Rev. S. E. Madren, pastor of the Con-
gregational Christian church of Hen
derson; then a toast to State officers
by Miss Nancy Parham, of Hender-
son. The response will be by Mrs. Ida
Lambert, of High Point, State presi-
dent; Guests will be presented, and
Miss Vera Smith of High Point, will
lead in a musical program, followed
by reading by Rev. N. G. Berthea,
of Greensboro. A dramatic skit, "Pea-
nuts" will Ike presented, closing with
the old song, "Auld Lang Syne."
Following the banquet a motion pic
ture will be presented, portraying in
eight reels of beautiful hand-painted
photography a story of the life Of
Christ 1t is entitled "Son of Man."
and accompanied by a lecture thro-
ughout by DR.. E. E. Morrison, of
Hillsdale, Michigan. The play was two
years in the making, and was taken
in Judea and surrounding parts of
Palestine A silver offering will be
taken This part of the program, as
all others, will be in the Methodist
Protestant church, and will begin at
7:3O o'clock Included during the even
ing also will be electrically trans
scribed music by John Mccormick,
Homer Rodeheaver and Gypsy Smith,
CONTINUED on Faye Three.)