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suits, regardless of statutes. NO
matter how good an automobile
may be, a fool or demon at the
wheel will make it an engine OF
destruction.
There is not a state in this
union nor municipality in a
state that has not now laws suf-
ficient to preserve the rights of
it's citizens and the honesty Of its
government. Any trouble as to
the rights of such citizens and the
honesty of such governments lies
in the administration of the laws
by persons who are not fit to oc-
cupy administrative positions.
With all the capable, trustwor-
thy men and women to be found
in the United States it is strange
that the citizenry cannot manage
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BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
by RODNEY BUTCHER

IecJ; LdIIuUl IIiSISLS everything
in the New Deal can be had much
more cheaply, with less waste and
partisan politics, under hard
boiled business man."
On the labor question, however,
Landon diverged sharply from
the Roosevelt tactics. AS the New
York Times said, he made what
amounted to a declaration in
favor of the "open shop" His
statements as to labor sound rea-
sonable and fair to the average
citizen, but to most labor union
men they were very far from that.
The suggestions that workers
needn't join any union if they
didn't want to, that they had
perfect right to join company
unions, and should be free from
intimidation or coercion by fellow
employees or outside organizations,
were the exact opposite of bid
for labor support.
T. Il
THIS may have meant an accept
i ance by Manager John Hamil-
ton and Landon of the common
impression among political OBJ
servers that the bulk of labor is
going to vote for Roosevelt this
year ...'.
1t probably is easy to overesti-
mate labor voting strength, but
the old idea that labor's vote can't
be delivered" may also be a
dangerous one to depend upon. On
one hand it can be said that fewer
than 100000 workers are organ
lied in labor unions. On the
other, that there's also a strong
trend to Roosevelt among the I'M
organized
It probably is fair to say that If
Roosevelt has really caused the
campaign to take on certain as
meets of class struggle, Landon
hasn't been slow to recognize that,
and to stake his fortunes on the
other, right-wing side .'A.'
Copyright. 1885, NEA Service. incl
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BY RODNEY DUILr1rn

w
;NEA Service star Correspondent
V7ASHINGTON-It is still too
" early to tell whether Cover
Tor Landon's acceptance speech
has had any markedly favorable
or adverse effect on his election
prospects.
Neither group of politicians is
able to sense any ground swell
resulting from it and it is quite
possible that the effect either way
was nil. The polls will tend to
show that, at least more accurate
ly than anyone can now guess.
But that speech was vitality i'm
portant, if only for two things:
1T emphasized the fact that
/ chief Republican politicians
Leaders in both parties, for that
matter-believe this is a campaign
in which people will vote not for
Landon, but against Roosevelt
This is a basic tenet in their cam
paign strategy and the buildup
for Landon is that of an average,
common sense" man, rather than
q brilliant. breath-taking super
man.
Ss'-HTE I, ~ ..3ItF n r :. .
Oft showed that the. Landon
. appeal will be to the conserv-
!. alive middle Gass and, farmer
vote, with few compromises to
progressiveS or labor and no con-
spicuous gestures Of the type that
might ALLEVIATE the forces of in
dustry and wealth which are
largely behind the Landon candi-
dacy. .. ...- ... ......
There is no reason TO believe
that to be a political error, be-
cause there is plenty of evidence
that this is conservative coun-
try
7 IsTENING to the speech in
- Washington, one was often re-
minded of the many eastern writ
ers who have returned from To-
neka TO- report privately. in, eff
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What America needs more than railway extern
sion, western irrigation, low tariff Digger COT.
ton crop, and larger wheat crop is q, revival Oh
religion The kind that father and mother used TO
have religion that counted it good business TO
take time for family worship each morning rlgnt
in the middle of wheat harvest A religion that
prompted them to quit work a half hour earlier on
wednesday so that the whole family could get
ready to 90 to prayer meeting.-The Wall Street
I..I = p tit lJ4Aii1 awe. az .
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NO SUBSTITUTE FOR
CHARACTER

Constantly do well-meaning per-
sons hope to make laws take the
place of character. They feel that
if they can get such-and-such a
law passed it will correct such
and-such a condition. They feel
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BARNWELL

BARNWELL. July 3I-1
LYDIA and Red hlackwcn O.,
through this section Wc5r.,i'
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl RAJ
p. Reid.
Lowell Lcdbcttcr Of e.,
spent the past weekend NJ. /
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. V,Cr''
better. :
Misses Katherine I.yi, .
Olga Ledbetter were Supi., s
ner guests of Misses Pei !
Helen Freeman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Bro
children called at the Ia
Mr.. l.. A. Brown SUNDAY.
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WHY WAR, WHEN THERE'S WORK TIC
.n BE DONE?
CBy BRUCE CATTON)

by BRUCE CAI1ON)
One of the most revealing sidelights on
the civil war in Spain was dug up by an
American newspaper correspondent who
was trailing a retreating army across the
country. Stopping at little farm to get
drink. the correspondent asked the peasant
who lived there on which side he was.
The peasant said bluntly that he was on
neither side He only hoped that both SIDES
would get the fighting over with and go
home, so that he could go ahead with his
lob of getting the crops in; and he wound
I'D by wishing an eternity Of bad luck on
all generals and armies that insist on hold
ing battles on someone's farmland.
This peasant probably was woetully
undereducated person with no understand
ing of the great issues of the day, and
whichever dictatorship finally succeeds IN
fastening itself on Spain probably will
shoot him one of these days. But ne did
manage to voice humanity's age-old COM
plant against war-it gets in the way OF
the work that has to be done.
BE has had brothers on every battlefield
in all history, and they all got the worst OF
it When the drums began to beat. The
sto6d Belgian who farmed La Haye Sainte
on the plain by Waterloo, the Pennsyl-
vanian who owned the famous Peach Or
chard at Gettysburg, the Danish trawler
who hoped to take few fish from the
Skagerrack on that May afternoon in 1916
to these people, as to this Spanish peas
ant, armies and battles are an unmitigated
nuisance and the work of the world would
go forward lot faster if they were abol-
ished
And although it may be heresy to sug-
gest it, these people are probably quite
right. ..,....
Human civilization is strange growth
and we do not entirely understand how II
got started or how it does manage, in spite
of obstacles, to keep progressing; but it is
very clear that its base is the worker and
not the warrior, the man who produces ra'
Their than the man who destroys.
Civilization, that is, does not rest on a
base of armies and navies; it rests on the
backs of the men who work. with their
hands, in field or in shop, and it will last
just as long as they go on holding it up
They are greater procession, in the long
pages of history, than all the hordes OF
warriors that ever followed a drum.
They move without glory and without
battle flags, poets do not immortalize then
and the history books omit their names
But for unnumbered generations they have
gone on, tempering THE earth to mans hab
itation, making possible all the graces o.
living which lift man above the level of the
beasts.
The far-called armies melt away, ant
the winds carry off the crash of their bat
ties The plain man at the bottom is eter
nal and he has the world and all its hopes
in his keeping. He makes possible Shake
speare and Beethoven, the Tai Mahal ano
Rheims cathedral, and all the glory ant
marvel of which human effort is capable
And if, with all of this, he YEARLY ask
the fighting men to get the heck out of thu
way so that he can go on with his jobs
he asking too much?
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that if they can
but get such-and-
such a plan tado
S u c h a plan
adopted it will
annul such-and-
such a practice.
Those people for
get that charac-
ters m u S t j,en-
force laws and
apply plans. I'm
desirable charac-
tiers in positions
of trust and pow
er will produce
II n d e sirable re-
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pEpSON NEVER KNOWS
By Noah Hollowell

A PERSON NEVER KNOWS
when a hobby will be convertea
into a material asset. William ..
WiIlett is now riding one as a
means of livelihood: Several
years ago when he with with a
giant mineral industry IN the
wilds of India he killed some pig
game and preserved the hides ana =
picked up trophies of one KIND
and another, meanwhile learning
much of the habits and customs
of the inhabitants. on
Mr.. Willett has lately hiled a
number of engagements at col
leges. schools. camps and other
places. exhibiting articles from
India and lecturing on the people,
industry, etc. He will appear IN
an Oriental bazaar program at
the city high school auditorium
under the auspices of the Cham
Der of Commerce next MONDAY
night.
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extended everyone to attend these
services.
Miss Essie Levi has returned
home after a two weeks visit with
relatives in Asheville.
Miss Lois Pace of East Flat
Rock. visited Miss Mary Station
last Sunday afternoon.
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FRIDAY, JULY 8, :,

back of a Hcndcrsorvir,, : 3
warning: "Don'l gc. "'a /
catch you hear" "a'r
Did this indicate a .,.,..
it would be danger. "r.''9sK
son to loiter arounG t5o ~: ,.
after shutdown o. was :, "a q
that it was time to finish IT a a !.
and quit work hof,rn, H. 1
around those premises '''t1,
Perhaps the ar,f.,
place a comma after t II,
"you' and speak inlnr!a,''nne =.
admonishly about ci.b"r. ''D'i
OF lettering after sn,:., "cta
Donald Keith nav 4" -,
add some enIighJr.rnn. "0.s
his name printed biz l, ",SG '
what used to be the kom ,"'l:
wholesale busincss OF ,bn S % o
now occupied by t1c ne Ae'
Cash Wholesale company V'e7
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'pretations he has placed on our
platform?
What the convention did is his
tory.
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GREEK culture had stood young
- Simeon, son of the Bulgal
King Boris, in good stead, and so
when he assembled the throne Of
Bulgaria in 1893, he brought Greek
learning to the Slavs. He ever
helped translate Greek writing:
Tor the benefit of his people.
But Simeon went further. in ar
effort II increase the power anc
prestige of Bulgaria. He fought
back the Greeks. He chased the
savage Magyars across the Dan.
ube. And he extended Bulgal
territory to the greatest limits in
T. history.
not content with military su.
premacy, Simeon freed the Bulgal
church from Greek dominance
and set himself up as Scar Of
The Bulgars and Autocrat of the
Romans .(Greeks)." Bulgar power
was at It's highest when Simeon
lied in 927, but his son Peter
could not carry on his policies
::lStead, he sought peace with the
creeks, revolt spread, and the
empire Simeon had built began to
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-31

A LAD WHO HAD MORE
time than artistic skill or ortho-
graphic art crudely smeared IN
lamp black in bold letters on the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-31

The Brazilian mint is n,
silver coins worth thirty ca~,,
nickel coins worth is ccyr ,
CT made before.
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There is never close inquiry as to price
by the man who intends to say: Charge
it."i - . .@.a...-...... ...s .... i .a
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Buyers pay both wages and taxes.

Politicians rely more on cupidity than
principle.
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WE DISLIKE, AS

to pause long enough T. MI
good, slow and much roeJ.i7
take time to fail l,i>grch ,' 2
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Years ago when revival was going on In the es-
tablished church in England, Lord Melbourne, then
prime minister is said to have stamped out of his
church in hot anger, saying, THINGS HAVE
COME TO A PRETTY PASS WHEN RELIGION
IS MADE TO INVADE A MANS PRIVATE
ITFEp,-From Adult Bible Class Monthly.
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crumble.
A profile o.
the great Gar
Simeon ap.
pears on one
of the stamps
of Bulgaria,
issued in 1925
to commence
rate the mil
'leBary Of his
reign We s3
A SersvloAs Innai
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THE sun sets the British Empire, but Uncle sam n
be confetti with about six months out of each year OF c
sunshine When the suns northern decnaoE exceeds N "
grees, between the dates given above portion V
States territory is bahed in sunlight
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49, 80 ..e-.r reign. - stJiS
'coDyristit lsss go. "a ssrylesa lae.,.
Evening star., 1936-08-03
MARKETS ARE CLOSED.

NEW YORK, August P.-All
foreign financial and commodity mar
kets were closed today for the August
banking holiday. The Toronto Stock
Exchange also was closed.
Evening star., 1936-08-03

Laclede Gas Light Co.-Preferred
share earnings, IL months ended June
80, were $4.09.
Evening star., 1936-08-03
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO. August 3. LR, UNITED States
Department Of Agriculture) HOGS, 49,
600, including 5000 direct: mostly steady
Eifh Sith FTiday's average: extreme top. iI;s5;
300 pounds. 10.35a11 90; most sows.
S.75a9 40: best lishtweights. 9.85.
weak to S5, mostly IS lower; light heifer
and mixed yearlings about steady. fairly
active; liberal run fat steers here. but
oulk OF crop comprises grassy offerings
crop mostly stock steers, stock heifers and
lower; stock steers ruling about so under
steeks Tsek ago srt At S9aa950 mostly s,d best fed
heifers sold up 70 9,25. however, these
and indications fairly liberal carryover as
run is largest in three years; bulls 10-1
lower at 575 down. and vealers Is on
at so down.
lambs weak to .25 lower; excepting CHOICE
natives going to city butchers at 1918:
bulk to. packers. 9.75a10.25: low grade
throwouts. :50a7 90; around u pounds.
WASHINGTON Rangers 100. sorted 25 per
cent. fat ewes steady: bulk. 2.50a3.25:
few lishtweights, $50.
Evening star., 1936-08-03
new YORK SCORES
FINANCE RECOVERY
Outstanding Progress Made
as City Tax Receipts
Continue to Soar.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.


NEW YORK, August 3-The credit
Of the city Of New York has under
gone remarkable rehabilitation since
the financial difficulties Of the city
In 1888. Not only Is the current fiscal
position Of the city sound, but the
long-term debt structure is favorable.
The vital factors behind this resto-
ration Of credit standing have been
decrease Of So per cent in the volume
OF tax anticipation debt and a marked
improvement in tax collections during
the past two and half years. Striking
testimony Of this recovery is noted IN
an analysis Of the city Of New York
by r. w. Pressprich g. Co., which cites
in particular the figures which reveal
the drastic reduction in the floating
Indebtedness of the city since 1888
and the fall in interest rates on this
declining Indebtedness.
THE major contributing cause 20
this significant improvement" the
analysis states, "is the favorable record
Of tax collections in 1884 and 1885.
which have been sustained during
1886"
For example, it is pointed out, COL
lections for the first half of the 1886
levy to June 80, 1886, amounted to
8289 per cent Of the half levy, COM
pared with current collections in 1885
for comparable period Of 1859 per
cent. Advance payments on the Sec
ond half of 1886 levy amounted on
June 80. 1886, to 1928 per cent, while
advance payments for similar time
in 1885 were l424 per cent.
This betterment Is also emphasized
by comparison Of the 1886 figures with
those Of June 30. 1884, when the coll
lections of the first half of the 1884
levy were TOTS per cent and the ad-
vance payments on the second half
of the levy we're 1909 per cent.
"Betterment in the city's finances
has been so marked" continues the
analysis, that the banking institu-
tions which lend money upon revenue
bills and revenue notes under the re-
volving credit agreement of October
1888. several times have reduced the
interest rate which is charged on this
paper, these reductions rejecting
closely on the outstanding progress
that has been made by the city
Due to the better tax collections the
city has retired prior to maturity on
July /. 1887, all of the s51.156,0o0
revenue notes issued July /, 1884.
Evening star., 1936-08-03
INSURANCE STOCKS

NEW YORK. August 3 fPl.-New Yorl
Security Dealers Association;
Evening star., 1936-08-03

quarterly or semi-annual payment An
nual rate-rot including extras. ! Accu
mulated dividends. Paid this year
b Paid last year. d Companies reporte(
Evening star., 1936-08-03
GOODRICH OFFERS
PLAN TO HOLDERS
Proposal Drafted to Meet
$10,300,780 Arrears on
Preferred Stocks.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August "Details Of q
plan for readjustment Of the capital
stock OF the B. F. Goodrich Co., maker
of tires and rubber goods, with its main
plant at Akron, Ohio, were submitted
to shareholders today in a letter
signed by J. D. Tew. the president, and
David M. Goodrich, chairman.
The plan was drafted TO meet $lo,-
300, ,780 in dividend arrears on preferred
stock and to remove an annual retire.
ment provision in the senior stock. II
calls for creation of a new class of IS
preferred stock and exchange Of the
existing 81 preferred into the new
senior stock and common shares.
Earnings Mount.
At the same time the company esti-
mated its consolidated profits for ths
first six months at approximately So
$50, 900 compared with net earnings OF
81 ,553, ,040 in the first half of 1885.
After allowance for preferred dividend
the half-year estimate was equivalent
to sl40 on the common against IS
cents for the 1885 period.
The capital plan, recently approved
by directors, will be presented to stock
holders for vote at special meeting
set for September in New York.
Holders of 294,308 shares of the 81
preferred are offered IA shares Of tbs
new IS stock and one-han Of share
of common.
The company pointed out its earned
surplus at the end Of last year
could be paid and preferred stock re-
tired under present capitalization only
from the surplus, and that its growing
business and higher costs for mate
rials and labor necessitated increased
working capital,
s35 Share Unpaid.
As OF July i, the letter notes, un-
paid dividends on the preferred
amounted to s35 a share The COM
pany also was in arrears 59.400
shares under the provision for annual
retirement out Of surplus profits Of
per cent of the preferred stock.
Under the plan dividends would DO
started on the new preferred Septem-
Der 30, provided mo untoward con-
tingencies occur"
1t would leave outstanding 4l2,031
shares of the IS preferred and 1,3l4,-
296 shares Of common, including 147,.
154 to be issued in exchange for the
81 stock and 11,o4l in the company'S
treasury.
A provision would permit directors
to pay dividends on the new senior
shares over a two-year period in ad-
ditional preferred stock, in cash or
partly in each.
The letter says the company has
been advised the plan would not make
shareholders liable to taxes under the
new Federal revenue act, which seeks
to increase the flow of earnings into
hands Of shareholders in the higher
income tax brackets.
Evening star., 1936-08-03
U. S. Apple Trade
Fears Plan to Lift
Tariff in Britain
Special Dispatch to The Star.

WINCHESTER, Va, August s.
Commercial apple growers read with
knitted brows today trade letters from
English connections in which 1t was
stated that the National Farmers
Union of England, at producers con-
ference in London, had asked that the
tariff on American apples brought
into British ports be raised to 7
shillings sixpence per 100 pounds
from the present rate Of 4 shillings
sixpence.
Shippers here said the effect would
be to raise the tariff on barrel OF
apples from about $3.50 to around
$3.50, and that with about an addi-
tional dollar for expenses incident to
handling and selling the price would
be well nigh prohibitive.
England now takes about IS pei
cent of the American crop. From a
to so per cent Of the Virginia crop
usually is exported to British markets,
and the Virginia growers would, In
event of such I tariff increase. prob
ably suffer more keenly than those OF
any other State.
Evening star., 1936-08-03
Dividend Boosted
By International
Nickel Directors
F. the Associated Press.

.
NEW YORK. August 3.-Directors
of International Nickel Co. of Canada
boosted the dividend today to 35 cents
quarterly on the common stock.
In the preceding quarter dividend
of 80 cents was paid and six months
ago a 25-cent payment was ordered.
The latest quarterly rate is the
highest since the merger with Mond
Nickel Co, and the organization of
the present concern late in 1928.
In August. 1885, the rate was in
creased from Is cents to 20 cents
quarterly. In August. 1884, the pay
ment was lifted from 10 cents to Is
cents per three-month period.
Today's dividend is payable Septem-
ber 80 to stock of record August 81.
Evening star., 1936-08-03
T. w. A. SETS RECORD.

NEW YORK, August R.-Trans-
continental g. Western Air, Inc, in
June carried, roughly, $1,000 pounds Of
express, a new high, compared with
23.475 pounds in May and 1870 in
June, 1885. For the six months ended
June 80. the company carried lS7,52s
pounds against lo4.24s In the 1885
period.
Evening star., 1936-08-03
Washington Exchange
SALES.

Capital Traction 5s-$l 900 at 921s
$1,000 at 92l2.
Washington Gas SIS 1s60-s5oo at 121.
Potomac Electric Sc pfd-5 at l1l12.
Potomac Electric 5I2eo pfd-5 at 112
Washington Gas Light-10 at 80ls.
Washington Rwy. & Elec. pfd.-lo at
Ill, S at Ill.
AFTER CALL.
Anacostia & Potomac R. r. 5s-s1 900
at 79, $1,000 at 70.
Washington Gas IS 1861 500 at
l211s.
Washington Rwy. e. Elec 4s-s5,000
at 106.
Washington Gas IS B-$500 at 100.
Washington Rwy. g. Elec. pfd.-5 at
1lo12.
Mergenthaler Linotype at Al.
Evening star., 1936-08-03
CURB LIST TAKES
UNEVEN COURSE
Gains of Fractions to Point
Are Offset by Losses of
Same Size.
Bv the Associated Press.

Bv the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 3.-Stocks
drifted irregularly in the curb market
today.
Up fractions to around a point were
American Gas & Electric, Gulf Oil,
Pan-American Airways, United Gas
and Wayne Pump.
Newmont Mining slumped more than
2 points, while fractions to a point or
so were yielded by Atlantic & Pacific,
Aluminium Co. of America, Pantepec
Oil, Commonwealth Edison and Elec-
trio Bond & Share.
Evening star., 1936-08-03
DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED
FOREIGN MARKETS.

va iled in the Bourse today with rentes IN
better demand Electric and nterna-
'ioITHSNh oITHSNh0N-The stock exchange here
and The Cotton and corn markeu in Av'
srnooi were closed today. bank hoaoas'
Evening star., 1936-08-03
FEDERAL LAND BANKS

NEW YORK. August P.-Federai
Land Bank bonds:
Quotations as OF . o'clock)
Evening star., 1936-08-03
NEW YORK CURB MARKET

Stocks and Sales
Dividend Rate. Add 90. High. Low. Close.
Ital Superpwr(A). III III ~
Jersey Cent P & L
51h pf- l5os % 80 s2N
Jersey Cent p g. L
pf (6)----. sos s5 94h 95
Jersey Central
P&L(O- 220s lo3lf 101 1881
JonoS ct ,auph Sf1 SOOa A23< Al AZ
Evening star., 1936-08-03
Bid and Asked Prices.
BONDS.
STOCKS.

Amer Tel & Tel. t9)------ 113 -
CAPITAL Transit Co.. II 1d'4
N & w Steamboat To- sa -
Pot Elec Pow. sc .pfd. (6)- III .7-
Pot El. P. 5i2rc pf. $500 1111s 1f4s
Wash. Gas 1t. Co. t3.60(-- 80 81
Wash Ry & FL. Co. (36l-- 500 --
Wash nv & Fl MD (5) 1l0i7 111L