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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
WHAT SAY COUNTRY FoIkz .

If sixty American cities cannot support othen,S
selves they mhst have ottside assistance or their
population will suffer. .
The only possible source of outside assistance
for the American city is the American countryside
anil yillage-Or mamma from Heaven,
Hence, federal relief for the cities means fed
eral taxation from the country. 49,. F.. ,....' -.
Re the American cities have enough of their own
n snpport themselves all they have to do is to
their own city people ... t., ......
Why look to the federal government unless it be
that il can tax country people to help cities, a
thing which they cannot themselves do -.
If an American city cannot live without assist
ance from the country people and the villages,
what is its right to live?
rhe sooner it breaks up and some Of it's people
90 to the country where they can dig for living
the better. , ... ., q u4. .ss,.! 49,.
The only way to obtain succor. for, the suffering
American city which it does not itself contribute is
RI tox the country people and the villagers.
Il tho cities can take care of themselves, they
can tax themselves. $3.50. f.2-.,. ., ,..-
The American cities have had federal relief
three or four years They are asking Tor II IN
thousands of millions of dollars again: -.
: The country people do not seem to be asking II
/ Do the country people, and the villagers wish TO
go on indefinitely contributing to the support Of
the cities, to Keeping them alive? They can do SO
if they wish. .,....,, t. &c..
1t seems to The News and Courier that the only
rational solution of the city problem is for some
of its people to go to the country and be country
people.
In South Carolina blackberries still grow in the
country. ......,. .... 49,, ...a...s
If that part of the city population that cannot
support itself in town shall scatter TO the country
and then it shall he demonstrated that as country
folk they will perish. the demonstration will BE
that the American people are incapable Of taking
care of themselves If that be true the sooner the
country shall know it the better. c.;s.. e. to-.
If it must starve to- death why conceal the fact
from Observation-Disclosures News and Courier.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19
POLITICS

In the heat of the impending prediction period
with it's inevitable Accomplishment of rabid parti-
sanship, distorted logic, mass appeal innuendo in
vective and downright SANDER, wont it be well
worthwhile to keep steadfastly mind that it is ou?
United States, our families homes and businesses
that are at stake? They are good and fine and
all we have, therefore too precious to be placed in
jeopardy by non-thinking OF cheaply influenced
use of the thing that controls their destiny--the
ballot. . ,.,., ~. DID,,
Might we not do better job of it if we. thought
out for ourselves the answers to the following ques-
tons along with the mess of stuff which will BIC
presented to us as "the issues Of this campaign"
.IshHt it better that what is right shall prevail
than the mere dominance of any political faction?
Should not government be the servant Of, the ma
ton and cost a proper servants wage and not be
political hierarchy of any brand whose levies en-
slave the citizenry present and future?
Isn't it fairer that we pay for our own folheS
and so tend to minimize them, and not attempt to
pass them to posterity in the guSt of the ,capi'
tailed costs of economic or social reconstruction
Isn't it best that we keep in mind that we are Il
nation with a heritage of "insides'' passed on to
as by q race of pioneers, and that We must expect
to assume the natural hazards of life and living, and
that we should oppose the efforts Of anybody's
politics to lure us into the support of dogmaS pui
porting to remove insure them and thus stifle
ambition and initiative and breed more Of the
stripe who believe that world owes them living
Can we afford the steadily mounting costs OF
government state and municipal, or is
there possibility of our finding, ourselves trying
as legend reports of the population OF the Scily
Islands, to support ourselves by doing each other
washing. 49,. ~.
This is our plea that your vote be. dictated by
your reason and not your projudices and that you
urge others to do likewise. ......s~
| And now you may call the. wagon, wen go quiet
| Iy.---A. A. c. Service Bulletin
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19
TIE NAH ELECTIONS


Adolf HiterS dramatic move as dispatches
from Berlin describe it, in dssolvng the richstag
and calling new elections ITO prove to the world
that the German people stand Back. Of him in his
defiance of LOcarno,' would be merely ludicrous If
it was not such pathetic demohsti alton of Germ
ma subjugaton to a mad dictator, and the absolute
meainglessness of the ballot in German, political
affairs '.'. .
The whole world knows and Germany Knows that
a Nazi election means nothing at ALL except that
Hitler still has his clutch on the nations throat
The result of the election is predetermined, and
if Hitler and his Nazi supporters think the world
does not fully realize this, it rs merely because of
their self-centered and egotistical obtuseness.
OF course the elections will show the German
people stand back of Hitler That is result al
ready. provided for There Would be no election
if the Nazis had any slightest idea they would not
be able to put across that approval n.y.
A Nazi election in Germany is Just One more
demonstration that the people are we'll s1bdued
When they attempt to revolt BY way of the bal
lot box; there win be more elections Rock Hill
(S.C.D Herald. ''t< - 70 80.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19
Wait
Minute,
Please
By
Noah
Hollowell

MRS. R. L. HUNT is having a
sun parlor l8 by SO feet, one
story. added to the south end Of
Hunthurst, where it will be bath
ed in sunlight from sunrise until
sunset. In summer, when guests
are not seeking sun parlors the
addition will be converted into a
bedroom, sleeping porch effect,
with private bath.
Mrs. Hunt says a board home
must be kept up-to-date IKE other
things ar the prospective guests
will pass on without giving their
patronage.
Mrs. Hunt is one of the few
ladies who have made a success
Of entertaining guests the year
around. If an addition to- her dim
ing room, more private baths or
sun parlor is required to en-
tertain paying guests in the high
er bracket she caters to thGEl.
Five years with the Chamber
of Commerce convinced me that
more private baths. were the
great need on our innkeepers. Of
course the guests will beef around
about higher prices but the fact
that a house can advertise that it
has private baths and hot and cold
running water in the bed rooms
automatically lifts place out OF
the low paying class of boarding
houses. which seem to emphasize
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19
THE GROUNDING. AND THE
WEATHER

The most CiScredited weather prophet
of all time in this section of the country IS
the grounding. In fact, no prophet OF any
order has ever been written down as such
a complete failure in the prognostlcatin9
business as the 1856 groundhog.
Since the grounding made his pfedlc-
ton of a short and mild Winter and an early
Spring, back in the early days of Febru-
ary, Western North Carolina has been coV-
cred with snow drifts, frozen stiff with
low temperatures and whipped to trazZle
by record-breaking billiards..
1t is true that similar weather records
have been made throughout the country III
the same space of time, thus proving that
the American grounding family probably
has lost its wisdom and cunning in, the
demonstrating line ). but that has little eff
feet in tempering the blow sustained by
the inhabitants of Western North Carolina
on discovering that our mountain ground
hogs have utterly failed US at critical
time. ..--.-s.., .. ...
No doubt many years will pass before
the grounding is restored to his position OF
confidence among those citizens who fol
low the weather records and the Sayings
of the weather prophets, including the
groandhogs and the experts of the weather
bureau-in fact, it may be that this sea
sons upsets have diseredited the hog to
such an extent that his Old-time reputation
and glory may never return. ~ ..<.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
by RODNEY BUTCHER

housing: advocates assert us q
much better means of redistribution
than the dole and usually advance
these reasons why the federal gov.
eminent should go in for housing
in a big way;
1. It's the most economical, ef.
ficfent lOng-range method Of reduc.
ing unemployment and stimulating
the building and other heavy in.
dustries. ...
2. 1t opens a huge new field for
investment of private funds in pro.
ductive enterprise.
3. 1t can effect large savings for
communities through reduction in
crime and disease.
A.: 1t would avert the continu-
ing and increasing housing short
age which affects everybody and
makes us all miserable by causing
increases in rents to the gouging
point
THE last point is significant. The
l. financial real estate interests,
including banks and insurance
companies, have good reason to op.
nose public housing programs. If
renters are made to pay 80 per
cent of their incomes for rent in.
stead of an average 20 per cent,
the pleasant benefits to such groups
are, obvious. ...h s.
|, The more acute a housing short.
age the more rent you can gel
from an old shack or a slum tene.
ment,
Those groups appear to have
been represented in the presidents
galaxy of housing advisers. I'm.
nortant among the advisers are
treasury heads. Peter Grimm-the
New York real estate man--Allie
Freed Of New York's Paramount
Taxi firm. and Chairman Jesse
Jones of RFC. ,... .-a..... o..
these and others paraded to
Wagner and seem to have got the
worthy senator. not to say the
nraoident as well, all mixed up.
rpconvGisht. 1896, NEA serEiDe. Inc,l
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19
ZIRCONIA

IlRCONIA, Mar. sl9.-B. Y. T..
IT,. Of Green River BAPTIST church
held business meeting, Sunday
night, March 6 at which time the
following were elected: L. *.
Pace, president: Frances L. All
drcws, vice president; Janet Pace,
secl etary; Leta Levi, correspond
ing secretary: Mrs, Fred Bedding
field treasurer; Ru t h Station,
chorister; Janet Pace, pianist;
Christine Andrews, Bible reader, 5
teacher. Group captain, No. J.,
Fred Beddingficld; group Capt.
No. 2, Fannie Levi; Social COM
mittee, Leta Levi; Frances An
drews, VIM. Levi, Paul Bayne,
Mrs. Fred Beddingfeld. ..
Mrs. L. X. Pace and children,
Margaret and Ross, and Mrs. Rob
ert Bayne and son, b. f., visited
Mrs. Leland Pace, last Monday al
ternoOn.
Mrs. Flora Ward and daughter,
Irene, Mrs. J. ID. Morgan visited
Mrs. Pearlic Caps, Saturday al
tcTnoun.
Misses Myrtle and Janet Pace
visited Mrs. Fred EcddingGield,
Sunday. .-r .n.a..., l.s. ... ..
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Rhodes Of
Barker Heights, were the supper
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Leland
Pace. last Thursday.
Those calling at the home OF?
Mr.. and Mrs. w. +. Pace. Sunday
were: Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Capps, Of
Mt. Home; Mrs. Rosa Queen,
Rev. c. l.. Whitmorc, r. Fl. Levi
and Mrs. Vivian Pace and chill
dren. ...
Mrs. Levi Beddingficld's guests
Sunday afternoon we're: Mrs.
Maude Ward, Dorothy Hudson,
Nora Levi and Claude Levi; Miss
cs Christine and Grace Andrews,
and IrcnC Levi.
Mrs. Leland Pace and children,
Janctt and Glen, visited her sis
ter. Mrs. w. l.. Station, Saturday
afternoon.
a number from here attended
the play Little Women given
ut Flat Rock, last Friday night.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19
BY RODNEY BUTCHER =
NEA Service staff Correspondent


WJASHINGTON-The best thing
w you can say about the New
Deal housing policy-or the lack
IF, it's that the situation hard
y can get messier than it is. &C.,
Senator Bob Wagner Of New
York, who realizes tat New
York has bad slums and that it
would be nice to install the poor
in pretty apartments. has been
leading the fight" for public
housing for a year. Fbrtnightly
he has made vigorous speeches
and since January he has been on
he verge Of introducing till for
great housing program.
No one has seen the Wagner
dill yet; however, and perhaps no
one will. The senator wants ad-
ninistration support and the ad-
ministration is divided. vague.
and clopdy-minded.
A BACKGROUND, sketch of the
problem may help you under,
stand the current jam:
A growing housing shortage finds
he building industry. constructing
homes, which only Is per cent of
families can afford. About 70 per
cent Of city wage earners have an.
lual incomes below $500, with a
medium of $3.50.
Practically everyone agrees that
dwellings, should be. provided for
the $500 TO. $500 income group.
The only attempt at that now be.
Ing made, is through few subsi-
died and Observation-Disclosures.
ton projects OF the Resettlement
Administration and the PWA Hous.
ing Diyision, which hope TO show
what can be done to reach groups
between $500 and $500.
A NY kind of public housing pro.
: : gram means redistribution of
tncome--through diversion of tax
funds to rent subsidies. Public
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19

After all the reports of weather condi-
lions throughout the country. are in, it will
probably be found, as usual, that the noun,
tain country of North Carolina is favor.
ed section. This section has seen, rough
weather this Wnter-the blow and SNOW
this week was certainly as rough as it was
unusual for this Section--but the inconVen,
fence and damage and property loss sus,
tanned here is small in comparison with
the records made elsewhere Throughout
the country-not to mention loss Of life
elsewhere, which is the most tragic OF. al
the disasters of this notwithstanding VIM
ter. ... --..s ..,.. .. . .,; ::
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19
CONCERNING STATE RIGHTS

~
: | am strongly in favor Of pre-
serving state rights, but for the
sole purpose Of protecting the
peoples rights by making it i'm
possible for the. states to CONG
under the autocratic rule of amy
national dictator. But neither do
| wish to see the people OF state
or a locality come uQder the
crushing fist Of u state Or local
dictator--and that is what hap
pens when state political rings
and local political rings steal elec-
tions, as they SO often do. 49,"
Here | think is the distinction
we should make in considering
state rights: We should not per
NIT the national government TO
reach into the states in any way
that, could place the states within
the power Of a dictatOrial federal
element. But we should permit
.and require the national govern
ment to enter the states in any
way to protect the citizens of
the states from unholy domina-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19

NEW YORK CITY, in the early
" summer OF 1885. saw; the ar
tival of what was the worlds finc
est ocean liner-the Normandie,
After only one year of uncontest-
I'd supremacy on the high seas,
This great French liner faces the
challenge of England's champion,
he Queen Mary r., -
But as it rides the seas, the
Normandie remains a marvel OF
size and comfort. Built at cost
If $50, 100000, the huge ship is
100 long and too wide to pass
through the Panama or the Suez
canal 1t is half again as large
IS Germany's crack liner, the
Bremen. and a single round trip
across the Atlantic is said to cost
S25O,000. r-
The gigantic size of the Nor
mandie can be realized from the
TACT that spacious play and
Punch and-Judy room fills the
1eck space within one of its two
dummy tunnels, while the other
is occupied by a smoking room
and cafe.
For the liners inaugural trip,
France issued the special STAMP
shown here.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19
ANOTHER JOB FOR THEM
There is another strious crime

against IHe pun
lie which / wish
could, by nation
al law, be turn
ed over to the
Omen and to the
jurisdiction 0 /
the Fed era .
courts. | refer to
state and local
election frauds
Of course al
argument against
such an i d e a
would be that il
would VIC ] u t e
state rights. But
let lis see. 80.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19
ENCOURAGING NEWS

The American Scotland Yard
the G-Men) having gotten the
kidnapping crime in hand, are
quietly taking on the big rackets,
the gambling schemes and the
vice rings.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19

Fifty years from now the oldest in:
habitants" will have the Winter of 1885
as subject of legendary reeitals and ii
will be first class. subject. 1t is doubtful
if the past fifty years have; equalled the
record of this season at any time, and {t'
beat it the weather operations of the fu'
ture Will have to be on an abnormal scale
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19
NEWSPAPER ADVANTAGES ,

I Seems, good to have daily newspapers. resuming
somewhat Of their.former regular. appearance. That
daily touch with the outside world was missed
Listening through the usual grist, of radio programs
for news over the air IS tiresoie and }dshearten-
ing business. But the good old newspaper
ley it down and pick it up where you left off
and not miss thing bookings Register, '
e The brain trusts brains must be in good cond
tion, for they have not been used N&s'A~s>'
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19

Exiled ex-President Machado tells Us
that he left Europe to visit a warmer land
But his Cuban opponents needn't cheer; he
meant Bermuda. 49,. .-r.-,-.- ..-r
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19

The West Virginia girl who laughed for
aweek might have been cured earlier had
her physicians thought to dial in the radio
comedian d. 80. - ..-.... ....,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19

Home. Owners Loan Corporation may
foreelo$e on 100000 homes, The organi-
cation may yet be known as the Lone Home
Owner Corporation. 49,.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19

The course of the ship of state for the
past three years has resembled nothing as
much as the Hopping of a beheaded hen.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19

In tearing up the Versailles and Locarno
treaties, Reiehsfuehrer Hitler suggests a
new pact. For convenience, this Q n e
might be perforated :, 70. =
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19

The general notion these days of d free
land is one in which the rulers are free TO
do as they please. .,, ~ ~.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-03-19
BIBLE THOUGHT
FOUR VERBS

a know Whom Have BELIEVED, and am
PERSUADED that He is abls 10 keep that which
| have COMMITTED unto Him against that
day."-Q Timothy l:l2O
r.. :. 4 go. 49, = :. -.- -
Notice the f,ur yergs,-kn0~, believe per'uAd,
ed committed. You believe, you are persuaded Oh
the truth of God, you commit yourself to God and
you thus come TO know God =. -s.-..a. p, p.
." Sc " pr A. T. Person.
Evening star., 1936-12-11
Natures Children
Killer Whale or Grampus (Orca orca)

ON q cold and frosty morning. Every
5 or 10 minutes, the whale comes up
for air. It can 60 longer, If necessary.
AS a traveller, the whale can make
from to IL knots an hour, depend
ing on what Is on its mind. When
whales are well aware of the fact
that their human brother Is WELD
ing q harpoon, they can speed up
considerably.
In spite Of the size OF the whale,
1t Is not possibly for it to swallow
very large fish. Most Of them are very
fond Of crustaceans, which are caught
by the fisherman as it goes through
the water with open mouth, the sieve
in the whales mouth acting as a
strainer. The killer Is an enemy of
the tuna and preys on the white
whale.
The killer whale Is fearsome BAN
dit among its brethren. 1t has the
terrible habit Of tearing out the
tongue Of its frightened victim.
Whales are important to us, as they
are the source Of whale oil, whale
bone, spermaceti and other products.
The meat Is highly priced by the
Japanese.
The greatest length recorded for
the grampus is 80 feet. It is black in
color, has high back fin and roams
wide and free.
(copyri:ht. 1861
Evening star., 1936-12-11

eies. They are 20 feet or more long,
and by the time they are ready to
celebrate their first birthday, will be
nearly so feet in length, and still
nursing their mother. On the second
birthday, one will have q new brother
or sister. But by that time it is q
husky, self-sufacient child, quite able
to take care Of itself.
Like most animals, the whales have
q definite location they can call home,
and each family apparently remains
In this location all the time, except
at the time Of honeymooning and
when the babies are born. II for
some reason these small groups have
met with disease or disaster, neighbors
or relatives do not replace them In
their home range.
No one Is willing to state definitely
how old q whale lives to be. There
are some that have identifying marks
upon them that can be authenticated,
and in some instances the whales age
would be 20 years or over. 1t Is be-
ieved they live to be much older than
this, but we do not know.
THAR she blows" Is sight to see,
and Is in reality the whale breathing.
The nostrils are found high up on the
head and close together. They are
separate Except the sperm whale)
and permit the animal to breathe
with but q small portion Of the head
exposed. The spout is the moisture
from the highly heated breath. It
condenses when it comes in contact
with the cool air, much as ours does
Evening star., 1936-12-11

DON'T WONDER. l KNOW EA-
sACTLY HOW YOU FEEL" SAID
HONKER.
big Moose had stepped out into the
moonlight only to be shot and killed.
Now I never hear Mrs. Flathorns'
call that I am not suspicious" Flat
horns had concluded.
IT don't wonder. I know exactly
how you feel" said Honker. "Of
course I knew that you are hunted
by these two-legged creatures, but I
didn't know that you ever had to
watch for treachery. I thought we
Geese and our cousins, the Ducks,
were the only ones who had TO watch
out for that. No hunter in fur or
feathers would do such things; only
these two-legged hunters called men.
It's a wonder you are alive. It's q
wonder I'm alive myself when think
Of it, or Mrs. Honker either. We
learned our lesson q long time ago."
when was it?" Flathorns asked.
"When we were young. Before I
was leader of a flock" replied Honker.
I'VE had raised our first family, had
Mrs. Honker and I, and we were proud
of those children. With US they
Joined q flock led by an old gander
who had many times made the trip to
the Sunny South in the Autumn and
back again in the Spring. He was a
wise old bird, was that gander, or he
never could have made the many
trips he had made. So we all felt
safe under his leadership. Yes, sir, we
did 50.