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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-23

lean form of gevernaent,,rI petit
ton the political parties TO pledge
themselves to abolish, the 'spoils
system in federal, state and local
government, and to establish the
merit principle of appointment
TO date hundreds of organiza-
tions, ranging from sewing circl-
es to legal associations, are assist
ing the league in various, phases
of the campaign. Many of them
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-23
.PLAN6RiVE0N'
OFFICE SPOILS.
National League Of Women
Voters to Appeal to
Both Parties
By K. w. MCDONALD
;teJ Press Staff Correspondent

! ST. LOUIS, Jan. p. LUP)-
! The National League of Women
Voters has inaugurated nation
wide campaign against the "spoils
system" in government, with the
slogan "Find the man for the
Job, not the job for the man.
The main objective, according
to Mrs. Ralph W. Hayer, St.
Louis, director of the campaign
is abolition of political patronage
in job-seeking. At present, she
declares, the federal government
is using two personnel systems:
! The Offending FORM" Mrs.
Thayer says, is the method thru
which most government employees
get their jobs. She outlined this
procedure, which she applied gen
orally:
A man joins a party organlza-
| ton. He sOlicits votes, then II his
party comes into power, ne may
,, get a job.
MERIT" PRINCIPLE
ADVOCATED
If the party man has worked
hard enough, Mrs. Thayer argues,
and has sufficient pull" he gets
a Job. The result, she believes. is
disastrous to public service. De-
filming this as the "spoils system.
the league seeks to replace it by
the merit" principle whereby
Jobs would be open to anyone
on a competitive basis.
The merit" system for certain
classes of positions, as proposed,
would require written examlna-
tions-recurring every two years;
for others, particularly important
ones, careful consideration of ex-
perience and training, In this
manner, civil service employees
may hold their positions as long
as they give efficient service. 1t Is
this form of personnel manage
ment for which the league is
waging it's campaign.
The national drive lis expected
to reach climax on Jan. 20
when the league will sponsor
nationwide broadcast of Demo-
cratic and Republican speakers.
Two days later, the ST. Louis
chapter will conduct ga Public
Protest Against Political Patron
age" meeting. Representatives of
both parties are scheduled to par
ticipate in a discussion of "spoils"
versus merit"
MILLION SIGNERS SOUGHT
By that time members hope to
have 100000 pledge cards sign
ed for presentation at party con-
ventions this summer. st. Louis
chapter alone expects to have co.
900 or more signatures. The card,
edged in red, white and blue,
bears the campaign slogan and
the pledge.
Believing that efficient public
service is essential to our Amer
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-23
FRENCH SEAPLANE
NOT TO FLY HOME

PENSACOLA, Fla, Jan. 23.--
UP)-The giant French seaplane
Lieut.. De Yaisseau, which over
turned and sank during a sudden
gale here last Wednesday, will be
loaded Saturday aboard the OIL
tanker President Herreuschmidt
from Port Arthur, Tex, and ia
ken back to France. Officers at
first believed the ship, which flew
to America, could be flown back
to France, but the damage pre-
vented the flight.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-23
FOREST FIRES Cit

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. u'p,
Favorable weather and ~
camps reduced CALIFORNIA; 10Y TO-:
forest fires, to low peaL 30;
10000 acres. The average Veal,
record is $4,000 acres. YN9IL!
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-23
BODY WASHES ASHORE

PENSACOLA, Fla, Jan. 23.--
CUP)@The body of an unidenti-
fed man was washed ashore on
st. Vincent's island, near Apa
iachicola yesterday.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-23
BAD YEAR SEEN BY Slim

OTTAWA, Ont. (UP)-C,,,
dian scientists, after carcf,Ta
studying the sun through Ioal
range telescopes, have concIN5
that 1886 will be a bad yoar !
farmers, radio and the heatb " =,
mankind. "
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-23

The farmers got seven billion
dollars for their crops this year,
not counting the crops they didn't
raise,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-23

We need television. 1t is % ..
noying to listen to comedian, a., ~:
wonder what the studio audior.a
is laughing about.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-23

are ;alioting time on their prog
ram to speakers, printing notices
in their publications and making
financial contributions. '.'
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-23
Botiy EaskTrayeler

The deer botfis. an aasect native
In North and South America and
parts of Europe, rs said to travel
s15 miles an hour.s asN
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-23

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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-23

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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-01-23
HURRAh..
! Murray!
ID
I've LOST 40 POUNDS

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Evening star., 1936-01-29
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO January 90 (P) UNITED
States Department Agriculture -hosS,
active: 10a15 cents lower than Tuesdays
average; top, 10.25. bulk. l10-250 pounds'
10 nOalO20: 260-3O0 pounds. largely,
q 9S5aI0I0: better grade. 14O-160 pounds.
9.75alO15; best sows. $50.
Cattle 1000 calves, 500. strictly
sood. choice and prime steers fully steady:
market moderately active on kinds SELL
ing at 1850 or II. 90 upward. choice
medium weights bid above l40o; best
yearlings around 1875; he!fer yearlines OF
1neyeny Steady to % lower; mostly steady
to weak heifers steady to % lower; mid
die grades off most; cows, steady bulls.
fully steady; very scarce at 7.25 down:
vealers 25 lower mostly II 90 down
Sheep. 5000; fat lambs in fairly broad
dem and. undertone strong to 23 higher
bidding upward TO 1850 freely on good to
choice offerings now held 1O75aS5 and
above: aged sheep. strong scattered ewes,
4 00a75 best held. 500 and above feed
ing lambs relatively scarce.
Oficial estimated receipts tomorrow:
Cattle. 5000; hogs. $4,000: sheep. 1900.
Evening star., 1936-01-29
Stock Averages
BY VICTOR EUBANK,
Associated Press Financial Writer

NEW YORK, January 29-Quiet
confidence was the keynote of stock
market trading today
Motor shares found many Wall
Street followers and advances in the
group spread in lesser degree to
many other sections of the list. The
early trend had been rather indecisive.
Oils. and number of utilities. rails
and farm equipments attracted buy
ing from time to time.
Chrysler advanced around points
and General Motors about a point
Graham Paige and Studebaker were
active and moderately better, Case
New York Central. Delaware g. Hud.
son, Standard Oil OF New Jersey
Douglas and United States Pipe gained
point CT more each Sperry, Deere,
Yellow Truck, American Telephone.
Radio and United Corps. lifted bit.
Grains were reactionary and cotton
mixed. The late tone was firm. Trans.
fers were around 2,500000 shares.
Evening star., 1936-01-29
Chicago Grain

BY the Associated Press.
Liverpool showing drop of nearly
2 cents a bushel and the Winnipeg
market weak, Chicago wheat prices
today receded a maximum of u
cents.
No wheat export business Of conse-
quence was announced at Winnipeg.
Domestic -four business remained
disappointing
Wheat closed heavy, .. to IL cents
under yesterdays finish; May, 99l9a
997.; ccEn Las off May 593ss
5934: oats unchanged to 3 lower, and
provisions varying from cents decline
to an equal advance
Evening star., 1936-01-29
New York Cotton
q hSsncIaind Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. January 29.-Cotton
was irregular today. with near months
relatively easy under liquidation at
tributed to uncertainty concerning the
disposition of Government financed
cotton.
There was buying of later months on
the reported progress of proposed farm
legislation.
May cotton was selling around HOP.
or points net lower, in the mid
afternoon market. while october, at
1040. was 7 points net higher.
Evening star., 1936-01-29
MUELLER BRASS NET SCARS.

NEW YORK, January 90 R.-
Mueller Brass Co.. Port Huron, Mich.
reports for fiscal year ended Novem-
ber 30 net profit of S404,738, after all
charges and taxes, equal to Sl.67 a
share or. common stock This COM
pares with s13l. 1913, or 20 cents .
common share in the preceding fiscal
wear,
Evening star., 1936-01-29
Jiyerpooi Quotations.

LIVERPOOL. January - iF'-Cotton.
Spot in fair demand, prices ) points lower:
quotations in pence: American strict eood
middlne. g.. good middllne, 64@. strict
middling go. middlIng. GA: strict low
middling. 594; low middling. .5.14: strict
eood ordinary. sd; gooo ordinary, "a.
Futures closed quiet and steady January,
594; March 500 May. 5.S4; July. o'UV
October, 5.51; December. o54.
Evening star., 1936-01-29

Bleachable cottonseed oil futures
closed easy. March. 1890; May. 10.29o;
July, 1027a1028; September, 1910.
Sales, 164 contracts, including 90
switches. Bid.
Evening star., 1936-01-29
$50 TONS OF LEAD SOLD.

NEW YORK, January 20 R.-The
st. Joseph Lead Co. reports that $50
tons Of pig lead from Southeast Mis-
souri, mines were sold yesterday at
$4.35 per 100 pounds st. Louis. 4
Evening star., 1936-01-29

h6USOm SCICCtUH TEdlSOu
Washington bankers are much
pleased with the nomination of Ronald
Ransom by President Roosevelt to be-
come a member of the Federal Reserve
Board. The Atlanta banker has many
friends among financiers in the Capt.
tai. He has served on some of the
most important committees of the
American Bankers Association and is
one of the best-known bankers in the
South, also considered one of the
ablest men in banking.
The remodeled branch Office of the
American Security &, Trust Co. a.
Eighth and H streets northeast was
formally opened to the public today,
many patrons and business men in
that section of the city visiting the
greatly enlarged offices The bank vii!
be open until O'Clock tonight and TO-
morrow night for evening inspection.
The program for the Midwinter
trust conference, to be held February
ii, IL and 13, under the auspices OF
the trust division, American Bank
ers' Association, at the Waldorf AS
toria Hotel, New York City, will cover
public relations, new business activi-
ties, broad questions of policy and
operating questions, including new
developments in connection with trust
department supervision. Informal dis
cussion will be emphasized, the after
noon sessions February II and IL
being devoted to informal round
table discussion under qualified lead
ership. A number of trust officers
in washington banks are planning
to attend the sessions. The pro.
gram will include many able speakers
Today's Trading on Exchange.
Washington Railway g. Electric Il
opened trading on the Washington
Stock Exchange today, selling at 106
washington Gas SIS. 1858, moved al
lot: Potomac Electric Power IS solo
at 1O8 and Anacostia g. Potomac Rail-
road IS at 1924.
Capital Traction stock opened al
1914 and dropped to 13. on turnover
of IS shares. Washington Railway &
Electric preferred came out at l09
The asked price on Mergenthalei
Linotype was boosted to 49 today with
A offered. No sales. The stock sold
in Boston yesterday at 4S, another
new peak.
Evening star., 1936-01-29
Chicago Cash Market.

Cash wheat. No 2. mixed, 1.l2;
corn. No. 4. mixed, 56i2 No. 4. yellow
57a5734, oats. No. 3, white, 0l4a3li
sample grade. 2li2a24l2; no rye; soy
beans. No. ., yellow. 84a84 ,, nominal;
barley. actual sales, 6Oa80; nominal
feed, 30a36: mailing 54a85, timothy
seed. 3.l5a3 20 hundredweight; clover
seed. l2.0Oal7.50 hundredWeight.
Evening star., 1936-01-29
was 7 points net higher,
COttOnSeed Oil.

Nominal.
Evening star., 1936-01-29
Liverpool Grain Prices.
RaItimore Quoiations.

BALTIMORE January % tP.-Wheat' =
No. >. red Winter earlicky spot. DO
nestle 1,0017, January, l.0Ole.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-09

Senator Robert M LaFollette Jr.. says the Wisconsin drought relief program has saved the states dairy industry.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-09

Virginia officials say industrial employment in that state in August gained 20 per cent over the 1885 period
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-09
"Spittingest"
 Champ Found
Farmer, Battling in High Wind, Takes Title at
 Virginia Fair

| FISHERSVILLE, Va, Oct g. - Jasper Davis, bronzed and robust Fishersville farmer, successfully bat tied high wind here to win the title of "spittingest" man in South River district.
 Taking generous "chaw" from his hip-pocket plug, Davis scored bulls eye at 12 feet inches to lead the field by full inch.
 Bill Barton, who prefers the to- bacco twist, expectorated nightly but lacked accuracy beyond 12 feet IS inches.
 The wind was too much for Jake Kiblinger, another veteran, whose best efforts were far short of the leaders. He claimed third place with a measured range of feet g inches.
 Prim maids and housewives dis creetly retired to the fancy work departments of the Fishersville Community Fair, while the contest ants warmed up for their battle for one of the most cherished titles in the district.
 A crowd of admiring men and boys-backs to the wind-looked on, but the champion received little acclaim from the housewives. They said the contestants were less &C., curate at home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-09
Lagoon 'LoW-Way' May Facilitate
 Chicago Traffic

CHICAGO, Oct. g. = A highway "low-way" is offered as a solution to Chicago's traffic problem.
 It entails the draining of Lin- coin Park lagoon and the building of a high speed roadway on it's soggy bed. Engineers say it is the most practical suggestion yet made to unsnarl traffic.
 The lagoon, which resembles a canal, parallels the outer drive along the lake shore, north of the loop business area, for two miles.
 Drives COngested
 The outer drive is scarcely able to take care of rush hour traffic now and with completion of new bridge across the head of the Chi cago River, traffic from several sources will converge in the park.
 The only other roads through the park that might be utilized are what Otto K. Jelinek, Traffic En- gineer for the Chicago Park Dis trict, calls horse and buggy drives of the twisting variety, beautiful but not practical.
 Jelinek and other engineers figure the proposed submerged highway could be made into a thing of beau ty-for $4,50O,00O. They would erect arched over-passes of the Venetian type for pedestrians, and would landscape the sloping sides.
 Beauty in the Highway
 They argue that the lagoon isn't used much any more anyway, and that it would be just as beautiful as sunken highway as stagnant pool.
 Jelinek would make the lagoon a three way drive = two one-way sections for high speed traffic, and a third for motorists in no hurry. The present outer drive would be maintained for sightseers.
 Jelinek doesn't know where funds to finance the improvement may be obtained. I'm just an engineer" he explains.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-09
Scientists Use Submarine
 to Study Earthquakes

ODESSA, U.S.S.R., Oct. g. = A gravimetric survey of the Black Sea to determine the cause of earth quakes in the Crimea has been completed by seismologists using a submarine as their base of opera tions.
 Underwater measurements proved, the scientist said, that there is a connection between the mountain ranges of the Crimea, the Caucasus and Rumania.
 Cn its last trip the submarine was at sea nine days and submerged 40 times, to a depth of 100 feet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-09
Church Is
 Found to Have No Foundation

LONDON, October 9.-Craftsmen of nine centuries ago have left a puzzle for modern architects here, with the revelation that the mas sive Norman structure of St. AL bans Cathedral, in Hertfordshire, has no foundation at all.
 Nothing but wet clay and chalk support the lofty arches and huge buttresses of the north transept, it was disclosed when trenches were dug at the base of the walls in an attempt to find the source of water flowing into the church.
 The walls have stood since the twelfth century. with no signs of cracking.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-09

ating a new "no-man's land"
 Douglas recited that municipal bondholders committees had an op- portunity to collect excessive fees, supervised by nobody, could trade in the securities under their control, operating with the benefit of inside Knowledge, and perhaps, if repre- sent a minority interest, could hold up a debt settlement program to the great disadvantage of the ma- jority holders and the community.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-09
Shorts Shorter
 Is Short Ruling
Girls and Professor at High School Both Win
 Points

C--T-AGO. Oct 9. A rule "a limit the shortness of shorts worn by the girls at Oak Park High School made the shorts shorter soday.
 It's long story.
 Last year, Principal M. R. Me Daniel explained, there was no limit on the length of the shorts the girls wore on the school athletic field. The legs were tucked in at the ends with elastic bands.
 The girls complained the bands slipped down too far.
 One man complained some girls pushed the bands up too far.
 This year, Principal McDaniel decreed all shorts must be no shorter than within two inches of the knee cap.
 The girls protested this would make the shorts longer.
 McDaniel demurred.
 "The truth of the matter" he declared, "is that this years shorts are really shorter"
 Then some of the girls complain ed because they were measured for their shorts with ruler.
 The principal made short shrift of this.
 All he wanted he said, was the tape measures assurance of shorts neither longer nor shorter than the shorts the rule shortened.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-09
MOTHERS GET
 SlIDDEE JOLT
Decide l. Is Almost Time
 "Thev flmbed Down Of Pedestal''

.-A~-Y r v. Ocs. Q Mothers attending 9 Parent Education h. s.itute here agreed that it's about time they climbed down off the pedestal in dealing with their chill dren after hearing the story of a 16-year-old girl who kwas the un- willing recipient of a boys kiss.
 The question of parent-child CO., fidences came up after Miss Flora Lee Sherman, Parent Education di- rector for the Albany Public Schools, told the story
 The girl blushed painfully, Miss Sherman said, and then asked for advice on what she should do when she was kissed unwillingly She added that she couldn't ask her mother because her mother didn't know that boys kissed her at all.
 Describing the incident as a tragedy" Miss Sherman put the solution up to the mothers.
 One offered the information that she had been partly successful in winning her boys confidence by telling them slightly naughty" stories. This, she said, paved the way for them to confess their own indiscretions.
 While it might not work in all cases, Miss Sherman said, the sys- tenn had the merit of removing the pedestal upon which parents are apt to climb"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-09
GOOD WILL IN
 WORLD TRADE

OTTAWA, Oct. 9-Premier w. l.. Mackenzie King, speaking of re- noyal of the embargo against So- viet Russian goods, says that this acton means more to Canada than the value of the trade involved. It means, he said, the mending of the only breach in this country's friend ship with the rest of the world. Such action is timely and fortui- tous coming on the eve of the con- ference in Geneva.
 We are,' said the Prime Min ister, in the position of having good will. There is no country with which we are not on the friendliest terms"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-09
Just Friendly Game,
 Two Filipinos Dead

MANILA, Oct. g. = The Igorots of the Philippines play rough.
 In fact they get so rought at times that their play takes a toll of life and many cracked skulls.
 Recently, two Bentoc tribes de- cided to adjourn to a dry river bed and indulge in friendly game-the throwing of good sized rocks at each other. While the game was at it's height members of both tribes be- came unruly. Before the constabu- lary men in the mountains got con- trol Of the situation two of the tribesmen were dead and a number injured.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-09

THREE SUBJECTS UNAFFECTED
 Largely unaffected by any of this legislation are bondholders protec- tive committees and investment trusts. Supreme Court action last spring also invalidated that part of the National Bankruptcy Act per- mitting municipalities to use the law in composing their own debts. These three subjects are the present con- cern of the Commission.
 Best bet is that the type of legis- lation to be sought to cover all three cases is that contained in the 1883 Securities Act requiring disclosure of ali purposes, personnel and back ground of persons or corporations involved in any bondholders projec- tive committee, investment trust or municipal bankruptcy program.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-09
NEW "NO-MAN'S LANDv

The Supreme Court decision, Will liam O. Douglas, a member of the Commission, told the American Bar Association in Boston, left neither Federal nor State government a voice in municipal debt affairs, cre-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-09
Cotton Proves to Be
 Life-Saver for Brazil

$40 PAULO, Brazil, Oct. g. = Coffee, which once accounted for 70 per cent of Brazils export trade, was only 52 per cent in 1885, said morning newspaper here. The survey emphasized cotton's role in saving the export trade from col. lapse.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-09
More Authority
 Being Sought by
 S.E. Commission
Further Legislation at Next Congress Now Seems
 Certain

WASHINGTON, Oct. g. Each year for four years the Securities and Exchange Commission has re- ceived from Congress new super visory authority over the securities business-and next session seems certain to find it back for more
 In 1883 was enacted the measure requiring Federal registration of all securities to the issued, with a state ment of the nature of the security and the use to which proceeds will be used. This is intended to give the investor a picture of what he is buying.
 Control over trading on stock ex- changes came in 1884. The utility holding company act, giving wide authority to the commission in deal ing with utility organization, was enacted in 1885. The past Congress extended the Commissions control over trading in unlisted securities.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-09

Residents and non- residents paid $146.275 to hunt, fish and trap in South Dakota during the 1886 fis- cal year compared with $109,925 in 1885.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-10-09
Bulb
 Used 16 Years

DECATUR, Ala, October g. = An electric light bulb has been in con- tinuous use 16 years in the home of Mrs. w. R. Campbell.