davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1936-06-12
NEW HIGH REACHED.
BY GOLD RESERVES.
Addition of n Millions
Brings Monthly Total to
$1O,48O,0OO,OOO.
~ the AEsociated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
The weekly condition statement OF
Federal Reserve banks showed Amer
lean stocks of gold reached new high
levels under the inflow of French
gold.
A total of $71 ,0O0,00O landed on
American shores during the week,
bringing the total to $40, ,480, 900, 900,
an amount which exceeded last years
total by 81, 1,464 4,000,0
AS a result, member bank reserve
balances, aided also by other factors,
rose $l20,0o0,000 during the week to
a total of $3.50 900, 900, a sum esti-
mated to be about $2,95O,O00, 900 in
excess of legal requirements.
Money in circulation decreased
$16.000,000 during the week, while
Treasury cash and deposits with Re-
serve banks were retransferred to the
amount of $4,000, 900 to commercial
institutions during the week.
The condition statement said:
"The daily average volume of Fed
eral Reserve bank credit outstanding
the week ended June 10, as reported
Dy the Federal Reserve banks, was
$2,476, 100000, unchangd from the
preceding week and the correspond
ing week in 1885,
Changes in the amount Of reserve
bank credit outstanding and in re-
lated items during the week and the
year ended June 10, 1885, were re-
ported as follows:
(In millions Of dolIarsN
Evening star., 1936-06-12
NEW YORK BAR SILVER.

NEW YORK. June IL (R.--Bar sill
yer steady and unchanged at AN.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINION
THE HUNGRY BUREAUS

1t is chronic condition that the work of gov
eminent and state department, bureaus, commits
sons, boards and what not are "hampered for lack
of sufficient funds" according to their reports.
We wonder what would happen if each of these
Vulnerable taxspending agencies were given "suf-
ficient funds" according to the ideas of the
bureaucrats in charge of them. Our guess is that
half of the population would be on Federal, state
and local payrolls within year. One persons out
of every ten is on such payroll now.
One needs only to read one or two of the cur
rent bureau reports which clamor for more funds
TO get an idea of the crazy research fads which
sought to be promoted and extended. For example
the Woman's Bureau lists few of the "most inn
nortant" subjects which waiting world is dying
to have investigated, as follows:
' Surveys. studies and information concerning the
emnlovment of married women; employment N
nIants using poisonous substances; investigation
IF the necework system; study of posture while
sitting at work: study of women in professional
and semi-urofessona pursuits; the effect of fati-
one ON production and on the worker; and, of
conrse an elaborate preliminary investigation of
the best methods of making these Investigations.
These. p the bureau says are only few of the
great vital problems. Dozens of others should
have prompt attention if funds were available.
Then the results would be printed in great vol
umes perhaps, and that would be the end of theHa
Of course. Congressman might read them in or
der to get ideas for lot of new laws requiring
still more thousands of public officials and en-
ployees. .-..... =.
II seems that no bureaucrat ever investigates the
effect Of all this on the taxpayers pockethook--
Monroe Enquirer. ....... 49,.
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LUCK TO THEM ALL

Raleigh, Greensboro Concord and, perhaps, 9th
er centers are to vote this spring on school sup
plementation by local taxation.
Charlotte which has been through this fight
wishes all of its neighbors the best OF luck in this
energetic enterprise.
1t could give them valuable testimony as to the
difference that has been made in the schools since
local aid was made available.
The term has been heightened another grade
has been added, teachers are being paid more and
there has been a regular revival of community in
terest in the schools, among the major benefits.
No community like these that are now headed for
referendum on this question should linger longer
in valley of indecsion in regard to this vital step
The only way by which the popuous centers, or,
for that matter the smaller villages and even the
rural countryside, can ever hope to regain that
which has been lost out of the public school sys-
tenn is through local taxation.
North Carolina, as central supporting and con-
trolling unit, is prepared to furnish the minimum
but it is not now neither will the State later be in
position to carry the schools up to their maximum
level
This is the duty and the task of the local CON-
munities Observer. 49,.
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USELESS BUREAUS

Senator Byrd has moved ntelligently in asking
the Senate to appoint committee to investigate
and recommend economy measures and reorganiza-
ton within the field of the Federal government be-
cause he knows many hundreds of millions of dol
lars can be saved annually by the elimination OF
useless bureaus and overlapping agencies"
Such is the general belief. The multiplication
of bureaus in connection with governmental ad-
ministration has for years been the tendency of
political control.
The present leadership, due largely, Of course, to
the exgencies which it faced, has broken all rec
ords in this respect
Senator Byrd points out that there are 107,0C
Federal employees in Washington now, against
$4,000 at the beginning of the Roosevelt admins
tration. In the country as whole, exclusive OF
CCC boys and relief works, 100000 persons have
been added to the Federal pay roll since March
1888
Time is overdue to hit this evil devastating
blow.-Charlotte Observer.
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Wait!
q
Minute,
Please
By
Noah
Hollowell
THE MENTAL MACHINE

THE MENTAL MACHINE is
the newest creation that can smell
and detect much farther than
man. according to Luther Ship
man of the Grab Creek section OF
Henderson county.
Mr.. Shipman exhibited his IN
strument on street bench. He
saws it will find hidden treasures
and identify the owner by lead
ing him, Mr.. Shipman, to his
crave even though he has been
buried for several years. he saic
he had recently found gold com
that was made 100 years ago. tie
scented a man all the way to
Texas. He can take the scent OF
a man in an airplane and later
locate the man in a distant state.
He can locate a drowned person
in deep water. 1t beats blood
hounds for smelling and directing
one to the culprits. He tells how
he found DR.. J. G. Benefits guns.
These are the unusual claims
made by Mr.. Shipman.
The instrument weighs only a
few pounds. It can be carried
around in the hand. 1t looks like
a cross between the inside of a
radio and the contraptions used
in repairing one. A big part Of it
consists of nuts, bolts, dials and
batteries. Mr.. Shipman says he
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-04
GET READY 10 PRODUCE BIC CROPS

Prosperity in Western North Carolina in 1886
will depend on the crops raised by our farmers so
get ready to produce bumper crops. This will take
deep blowing, careful cultivation, hard work and
plenty of it. Do not be afraid of producing
in Western North Carolina. Our section never yet
has produced too much, but we have aften pro
duced too little.
On every farm in the mountains of North Caro-
lima prosperity for 1896 will depend on what hap
pens in the next few weeks, The next six weeks
will tell the story Don't be afraid to get up early
and stay up late. Keep working all the time and
when Sunday comes don't forget your Church and
Sunday School. Only the desire to work harder
and to be. of service can bring permanent pros
perity to farm and city alike. And the desire to
work harder and the desire to be of service are
the fruits of spiritual Observation-Disclosures
News.
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POINT LOOKOUT

POINT LOOKOUT, March 4.
Mr. Otis Laughter, also Mr.. and
Mrs. Ned West and son, Eddie,
were guests Of Mrs. V. c. Stepp
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Nix, also
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Williams,
were recent dinner guests of MI.
and Mrs. J. E. Williams. ....
Jeanette Hoots visited Mr.. Kim
! sey Stepp and family recently.
! Jimmie, infant son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Blye Stepp, has been on the
sick list, but is much improved.
Mr.. l.. A. Brown called on Mr..
John Brown and family Sunday.
Miss Mary Stepp is on the sick
list this week. All her friends
hope she will be much better
soon.
Mrs. Matt Melton and son,
Frank, and wife were guests of
Mrs. Melton's sister, Mrs. w. f.
Merrell, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Laughter
and children spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Gabriel Laughter.
MI. George and Harold Ham,
rick of Boiling Springs, also Leon
Hamrick Of Homestead, Fla, were
weekend guests of Mrs. V. C.
Stepp, also Mr.. and Mrs. j. l..
Freeman and children.
Miss Beatrice Nix spent Mon
day night at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. M. Presley.
Mrs. Blye Stepp and children
called on Mrs. H. C. Hoots Sun
day afternoon.
| Mrs. Harold Melton and chill
dren were Sunday guests of Mrs.
c. L. Nix.
Mr.. C. L. Nix, who has been in
Patton Memorial hospital fol
some time, is improving nicely.
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DOES NOT SIT WELL

The demotion or firing of General Hagood by the
war department does not bode well for the admin
istration. When man can not express his, opln-
ion about the existing order of things, without
bringing down on his head the iron heel of his boss,
things have to pretty pass This action will
lose Mr.. Roosevelt many votes in the fall, yet these
rabid administration partisans see red when some
one dares criticize some of their policies Mr.
Roosevelt has had some fine ideas about bringing
the country out of the depression, but some of his
underlings have queered things for him. He is now
doing what he ought to have done long time
ago, viz: calling into conference leading business
men of the country, like Owen D. Young, and 9th
ers. If he had had the advice of men like him in
stead of listening to folks like Tugwell, Perkins
and Frankfurter, people might have had differ
ent feeling toward the New Deal-Gastonia Gaz
cite.
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BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
by RODNEY BUTCHER

leauerS OF Iarm Observation-Disclosures
Guiding some who might be per-
fectly willing to create artificial
and unprecedented scarcities to
boost prices high - would be able
to block attempts to enact it into
legislation.
DR. Calvin B. Hoover, as consum.
ers' counsel for AAA, first espoused
the principle and the fight foT it
was continued by his successor.
Donald E. Montgomery.
Secretary Wallace himself came
out for it last year and an attempt
was made to get it into last SEES.
sion's AAA amendments - unsuc.
cessfully, thanks to farm leaders.
president ED O'NEAL of the
L American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton attacked the Wagner amend
ment on the eve Of the Senate vote
and Translate senators supported
him almost unanimously.
But the administrations desire
for consumer protection was rein
forced by growing realization that
successive defeats Of the Wagner
and Mccormack amendments might
he bad political medicine and
could be used as effective Republi
can propaganda in cities.
Thanks to AAA and the drouth
retail food prices have advanced 2;
ner cent since 1893 and although
farmers are better off, many city
consumers have felt the pinch and
reacted bitterly
The Mccormack amendment also
contains a provision reminiscent OF
the old AAA parity price goal
which was inserted to square
things with the farmers.
This directs the secretary. as
! ronidlv as he deems practicable
and in the public interest, to re
establish at the 1904 level the
tito between the purchasing power
nf the average income per person
w farms to the purchasing power
~ the average income per person
! in the non-farm population.
DOWNRIGHT. 1896. SEA serrire. Inc.
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by RODNEY DUICHER
xEA Service STAFF Correspondent

WASHINGTON - Congress and
w the administration have re-
oudiated the theory that scarcity
81 food is essential or desirable
N a program to provide fair I'M
.omes for farmers
That's the important meaning Of
The so-called consumer protection"
amendment to the new farm relief
,eil conservation legislation.
Best available studies have
shown that even in prosperous
1929 about Is per cent of city FAM
lilies couldn't afford diet adequate
Tor health and that national con.
sumption of food was about 40 per
cent below the amount which
would be required for a universal
moderate" diet.
The consumer amendment" will
not improve that state of affairs.
But it guarantees that the farm adj
ministration, in the reduction of
crop SURPRISES incident to it's new
soil program, will not reduce food
supplies below the normal level of
consumption. The original legisla.
ton carried no standards for such
guarantee.
TWO urban members OF Congress,
L Senator Robert Wagner of New
York and Representative John w
Mccormack of Boston. led the fight
for the amendment. Wagner ina
troduced one into the Senate which
was defeated by a 2 to vote and
1t was evident that many senators
didn't know what it was all about.
The Mccormack amendment sub
-sequently received endorsement of
the administration and of Chair
man Marvin Jones of the House
Agriculture Committee. 1t passed
House and Senate conferees on the
bill subsequently agreed to re.
tain It, =
The principle established by the
amendment is no new one, but
until now II has anpeared that the
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was not an electrician =
specialist and the idea " y
him while coon huntinf" g SaR L
ed something better t i. Eng
dog to show him where a' n q o
were hanging out. TS. N" q,
picked up the scent a" az MAD
track. He then found ', 4, Cd
He has been improrirc' me @,
fecting the machine f"s and !
but has obtained no NJ. FIX d
1t is difficult for 4 'Tj s,
pick up the PRINCIPLES laying aE
ton but the machine v.o y. ol1s
thing like this, accorS %O.~ %,
Shipman: | steal Nayor + . !
car. The mayor enpano ~, I I;aNa
man to find ne or n. VI. y
Shipman has a sprri.I S1t
which he manufactures 0aa
pick up the scent Of y ,r 'aat !
wards. This scent is ,i ''Ec!
car. The machine is rb, D % +.
tuned, diaIcd and adin S"~'s
like a compass pUintig,, NV 81
north pole, points 10 rbS 10
bile. Mr.. Shipman Follow" AUG y
dictator which will follow a "a
regardless of distance u. Dt I:
man says il leads ia ti' Y
object like blood hounds :
criminal or the diyipinn
hidden treasures. Il"
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A GAY and carefree young blade
n of Assist. Italy, more than zoe
rears ago. dreamed he saw a cross
IN each of many suits of armor
md was told that these were in
tended for him. Immediately. thi.
young man gave up his fast life
donated all his possessions to the
Church. and changed clothes will
/ beggar
Giovanni Bernardone. renamed
francesca because his father wa:
partial to Frenchmen, then devot
ed his entire life to the poor. es
pecially the leprous, and to thu
Church. He gathered aims to re
pair a ruined chapel and organized
an order of Lesser Brothers," Of
"Friars Minor" which became tn,
famous Order Of Franciscans ant
spread quickly throughout Europe
The friars were pledged to poverty
chastity. and obedience; and be
came expert in theology.
Beyond that, st. Francis. as theil
leader. who was canonized after hi:
death in 1926, insisted on poyert,
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JAPAN SEES LAST ACT or
DYING MILITARISM
By BRUCE CATION

In the assassination of five liberal states
men, Japan's militarists seemto have made
an assault on democratic government in a
way which the most up-to-date dictators OF
Europe could hardly have improved on
But for all the fact that liberal states
men lie dead, with military fire-eaters
pluming themselves on the patriotic glory
of their assassinations, this frustrated up
heaval in Japan looks more like the last
act of an old drama than the first act of e
new one. .'.'"'.'.
The uniformed gangsters who sought
power over the bodies of the opposition
were not riding a mounting tide which was
sweeping the country with irreslstible
force. The tide that carried them along
was ebbing, not rising; their dramatic coup
d'etat looked to the past rather than to the
future. .
Because our own relations with the Jap
anese government present certain points
of strain, any change of regimes in Toxic
will be bound to affect us. 1t is therefore
a good thing for US to try to understand
just what has happened.
Blood-thirsty militarism certainly is
nothing new for Japan. For unnumber-
ed generations the military caste there
has been supreme, answerable only to the
emperor. The state has existed to serve its
soldiers; the army, in very real sense, has
. been the nation.
fka yInf
aneSe have been experimenting with par
liamentary government. The experiment
was never very suecessful; the shadow or
the past always slanted across it, and the
militarists never consented to change that
would make their group simply one among
many groups. '
What touched off this most recent eX-
plOsion seems to have been the fact that
the mass of the Japanese people had be-
gun to insist on having the military Clique
whitfield down to its proper size. The anti
mihtarist party won majority IN the last
parliamentary election; furthermore, q
sort of farmer-labor combine with defini-
tely radical tendencies actually won ~
seats.
The army group replied to this in the
only way open to it-with the sword. But
by so doing it did not start-Japan off on a
new path; it tried to restore it to an old
one. And in that fact lies a measure OF
hope. s,fs
For it is pretty clear that the main cur
rent of Japanese sentiment is running the
'Other way. The plain people of the land
are beginning to suspect that the glories of
a victorious army and great navy pat
precious little butter on their bread =
They would like to see less attention
paid to the army and more attention paid
to the worker, the farmer, and the business
man. Y ).
1t is possible that the coup d'etat is the
last stand of the old order. 1t may make
the immediate future exceedingly difficult
but it may also mean that the end of
Japan's policy of uncomprornising militar-
ism is nearer than the rest of the world has
dared to hope. ,.-.< d.
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HISTORY REvERSES ITSELF

Mrs. Walter Liggett, wife of
the Minneapolis publisher who
was assassinated for telling
things on politicians, declares she
must flee from Minneapolis to
keep the gang that killed her hus-
band from Staying her children.
Mrs. Liggett might join the
LinGberghs in England.
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LOST WHISTLE FoIyD

MONTREAL. UUP) - :
three years ago. when bo =,
boy of 1, Philippe Po,,i.
"lost" a toy whistle. po, ,,
while treating him for ", W
doctors found it lodged IN NJ
chest. "
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England could
profitably a n d
humanely. establ-
ish a refuge 81
sanctuary f o l
t&andit- bedeviled
Americans.
Several hundr-
ed years ago con-
ditions were so
CAD in England
that some of our
ancestors .Uchose
to take CHARGES
with the wilder
ness and the In
dians on t hi S
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MATTERS OF CONSIDERATION
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

sympathy with Mussolini is out
of luck. Fascist young men stalk
about, leaning backwards, their
chins stuck out arrogantly, def
antly, in imitation of Mussolini.
The loveable Italian people
have thouGhtlessly and unfortun-
atciy allowed themselves to get
into the relentless grip Of a ruth
less, tyrannical power. What their
end will be they are asking each
other in whispered anxiety.
Does the United States want
anything like that? God forbid!
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NO DICTATOR FOR US

Reports from Italy say that
gladness has left the faces of the
once happy Italians and that song
has died on their lips. They look
careworn, distressed, sun S y.
They speak guardedly and look
about furtively. There is Fas-
cist spy in every block in Italy
Anyone suspected of not being in
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JOY REIGNS UNREFINED

At this writing Mussolini is do
ing an ecstatic war dance because
Italian arms have won sweep
ing victory over Ethiopia arms
less.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-04
COLDS FREE

1t is all right to hire a taxi,
but it is not so good to have a
cold thrown in by taXicab driv-
er who has one.
Taxicab drivers who have colds,
and who cough and sneeze care
lessly in their closel cars while
transporting passengers, spray
those passengers with throat and
nose germs, thus exposing them
to disease and possible death.
Taxicab drivers with colds
should take pains always to cough
and sneeze in their handkerchiefs.
And taXicab passengers should
be Just as considerate.
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A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE

"Say," said KnoXvilleian to a
friend, "you should have seen
those Norris Dam people throw
ing up their hats and shouting in
deright when they heard the Su-
prcme Court decision on the
IVA" -
Replied the friend, Public
utility interests don't call them
those Norris Dam people.
"What do they call them?" in
'6uired the Knoxvilleian.
, Explained the friend, "They
transpose the second and third
words in the phrase, those Norris
Dam pcOnie.'"
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WYATT A MINUTE" H..
on DR.. Benefits story '9
"smeller," as he calls +, "
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-04

Japan shipped over 9O.OM
Ions of beer to the United 8,
in 1885.
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When the government undertakes to
support everybody, who will support the
government?
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as their leading
virtue, and fol
t Ii is he wa!
known as "E
Poverello."
The s t a M !
shown here il
one of a set is
sued by Italy il
1925 commend,
rating the sew
enth centennia.
Of the saint,
death. 49,,
-,
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continent. Now conditions have
become so bad on this continent
that some of our citizens are
seeking safety in England. =
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BIBLE THOUGHT

SAFETY OF THE BELIEVER
TITDDEN-"In a cliff of the rock"-(Ex 80 20
Crock of Ages
Cleft for me
Let me hide myself
IN THEE
HIDDEN-"Under His Wings-(PS. "I;4.'
Il will trust in thee
Covert of Thy wings"-(Ps, 6l:4)
HIDDFN-"In His hand"-(lsa. 49,
Neither shall any pluck them .,.o.
out of my hand" (John 1O:2S.) %.
HIDDEN-"With Christ in GoH'-(Col. S:S)
'Thou art my hiding place; Thou
shalt preserve me from trouble
ops. 32:1T3 -}
"a. C. L. The Messenger PuoheatlonS'