The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-08-11
NEWSPAPERS l OPINIONS
THE STRANGE SCENE


This is from Charming Pollock's article in Ameri
can Mercury:
"Mr. Roosevelt's fundamental thesis, apparently
is that there no honest men except politicians,
and no men capable of running their own business
except those who, having failed at it, have landed
in Washington H.. Inherent in almost every utter
ance and theory and activity of the New Deal is
the effort to crafty recrudescent demand that
no man shall be, do, or have more than all men
When you tell the people who have achieved what
we have achieved that they mustn't go on achieving
it-when we tell Babe Ruth that he mustn't bat
any harder than the bush-leaguers and Jim Brad
dock that he mustn't hit any harder than l can,
and both of them that they must proceed under
rules designed to regulate athletics in home OF
cripples, then-whoever does however, wherever
the pennant is lost and the count is up You can
and should tell Jim Braddock not to hit in the
clnches. You can and should enact laws to restrain
the dishonest and the predatory. You can and
should urge the backward to effect ethics and
greater efficiency. But when labor union or a
legislature, for whatever reason, orders that no
more than so many bricks shall be laid in a day,
that employers shall choose not thesbest typesetter,
but the one who has been longest out of job,
week and all at the same wages, and that no man
shall cultivate more than so many acres, or raise
more thap so many pigs or potatoes, and that you
and shall pay him, not for what he does, but for
what he does not do then that union legislature
is reducing US to our lowest common denomination
of laziness, thriftlessness, and incompetence"
In South Carolina most people will agree with
what Mr.. Pollock has said, but most people will
probably repudiate it on election day. In South
Carolina are thousands who down in their hearts
are aware that the New Deal is road to public
and private ruin, but they receiving immediate
benefits in cash. they have cousin or sister
in-law who has government job, and who other
wise might call on them, and this that good fell
low is up for election.
In the United States war is beginning between
hosts who if not too lazy to work at all, are re-
solved not to work except where they wish and on
their own terms. Nearly all of them are in cities
and industrial states. In South Carolina We have
incompetents, plenty of them, but they are not
belligerents, as they are in the crowded centers.
Yet we have before us the strange scene in South
Carolina of its substantial citizenry most of them
home-owners and landowners, small capitalists,
following cheap demagogues into alliance with the
mobs that surge into the state houses in Trenton
and Harrisburg to overawe legislatures
The mob in Harrisburg demands 100000, 900.
Sufficiently encouraged, this same Pennsylvania
mob may invade Columbia South Carolina.
Do you South Carolinians imagine that the kind
of government you have in Washington would pro-
tect you from an army of 100000 ''hunger march
ers" from Pennsylvania? Your government has no
sympathy with men who own their homes and pay
their bills.-Charleston News and Courier.