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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06
Up and AID

Making this nation too efficient
has certain drawbacks. '.
y The higher the efficiency re-
aurements, the more trouble we
human beings have to qualify. A
Chicago employer whose business
calls for workers with the intelli-
gence of ten-year-old children has
had difficulty IN finding siX-tnou-
sand persons with that much
sense.
Probably we were more con-
tented in those days which de-
manded of us no more brains than
enough to swing an axe, WELD a
hoe, manipulate a skillet over an
open fire, capture our needs of
fish and game, and perform other
simple work in q simple existence.
The more completely in our
system of living, the more per-
plexity to ourselves. The more
demands we make on life, the
more demands life makes on US.
Yet, be it realized, Coontent,
ment is not the handmaiden of
Progress. 1t is Discomfort, with its
driving impulses, that rouses us to
clumb laboriously and painfully
up and up.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06
A REAL RACKET

The Townsend Plan organization (the plan that
calls for the payment of two hundred dollars each
month to all persons sixty years of age) IS be-
leved to be receiving an average of one hundred
thousand dollars monthly from deluded persons
who think the plan can be put through.
This estimate may be too high but 1t IS 1ac'
that the so-ealled organization has an abundance
of money coming from some source ana II IS pay
ing attractive salaries to those who hold the officeS
in the organization.
1t is most pathetic Greenwood lndex-Journay'
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06
LESSONS OF EXPERIENCE OFTEN
PAINFUL ONES
By BRUCE CATION


One of the things that keep life from
flowing along gaily like babbling brook
in a mountain meadow is the unfortunate
fact that most of us can't seem to learn
anything without first taking good smack
on the jaw. ..
We,do learn, in time, but usually not un-
til somebody has wiped up the floor with
us. It's not for nothing that our language
contains an old saying about sadder and
WiSerg' @-.s.
Consider, for instance, the famous Gran
Chaco War in South America, final
obseGuies for which are now being per-
formed by diplomats around council
table
Here, we were assured, was war wnlch
flowed directly out Of the lneradlcaOle
springs of pugnaeity in the human breast,
The people of Bolivia and the people OF
Paraguay wanted the war, insisted on IT,
refused to consider any compromise that
might have avoided it. OR so, at least, we
all were given to understand. .,
This fight finally ended in more or less
Of a draw, when the spectators climbed in
to the ring and stopped it. Negotiations
for the return of prisoners recently were
concluded, and long lines of emaciated,
war-weary veterans tramped through the
streets of the Bolivian and Paraguayan
capitals. ..i' ; s, ...s
And here is the! surprising thing. The
populace of the two capitals received their
returning heroes in stony silence.
The war, in other words, was not popu-
lar with the man in the street, after all.
He had no cheers for his army when 1t
came back home ~ ~.s> 80 1''.
He had cheered himself out in advance:
now, apparently, all he wants is to forget
the whole business and go ahead with the
ordinary routine of peace time life.
How come, then, that there was so much
popular clamor for the war in the first
place? 500 '.n
A recent news dispatch from Buenos
Aires explains it. The politicians IN the
government of Paraguay and Bolivia had
used the Gran Chaco dispute as stalking
horse for years
Whenever tAe9electorate in either coun-
try got restless this dispute would be trot-
ted out, the voter would be assured ehat
only by war would hiszeountry's ills be set
tled-and so, at last, an utterly synthetic
passion for war was created. "a
The people Iof Paraguay and Bolivia
know better, now, They know that the
Chaco problem can be settled lar better
across the council table than ON the field of
battle. They know that the idea of war
was a gold brick from the start; fed up
with military glory, they went peace.
So, at last, they have learned something.
But how tragic it is that men can learn
only from tragic experience! If the Boil
vians and Paraguayans could have known
four years ago what they know now 100.-
900 young men of the two countries would
still be alive. t:.~A''s '..-..
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06
PERIOD BONDS

The Chester, S. c., News says thae III looo
Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, issued 'Vo
thousand dollars in period bonds for the purpose
Of ASSISTING in building railroads. The county &C
ccuntant of that county has been doing some fig
urng and finds that the bonds cannot be called
before 1850 and that by the time they are paid, if
Maid IN 1850 the bonds will have cost the taxpay-
ers of Mecklenburg county s1,74Oooo, or about six
times the original issue" ,&
Allow bond issue to run long enough all the
MONEY in the world would not iquidate it.-Mol,-
roe Enquirer
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06
A MASTERPIECE

. The most beautiful and DIM
fed announcement of an APP
preaching death l ever heard was
the one issued by the physicians
of the dying King George of Eng
land-"The life of the King is
moving peacefully toward its
close"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06
GREEN RIVER

GREEN RIVER. Feb. f-M
and Mrs. Lonas Upton haya ., y
to Greenville, s. c., for tho ~ =!
ter. WI
Mr.. and Mrs. George Freen,
have returned home from vi 6ri<
where they visited relatives '''
Mrs. Haskell Osteen silent T.,
day night with her sister T II
Bertha Z. Ledbctter. vbo -;
spending the winter in Hcri.,
sonville.
Miss Julia Vernon is lc,r,
soon for a visit to rclatirp,
Bessemer City.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06
H00PERS CREEK

Rev. W. Huntley will f I'G' g.
pointment at Hoonor'D' Lilj a.
church Sunday, Feb. 3. a, ~, l,s'
m. ~ go ,
Francis Barnwcll and YIN b..
die, who have been IN !" RE
days, are both some bc,,o.> v'e.;
Mr.. and Mrs. Mae. Tor,,
of Montana are visit;r.n "> =
Florence Garren. M
Mr.. and Mrs. II. II. Co..
spent Sunday night at G n HS3 T.
Killop's. d. NJ
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06

ent is, "We are overpopulated.
We must have more territory.
Either we expand or we expire"
And perhaps that is one of the
best arguments advanced yet for
birth control. ..
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06
The Pinch Hitter

cd. The exact definition Of pinch
hitter is a person sent in during
an emergency or a pinch to do
lsome particular job better than
the one whose place he takes can
do it.
.i When one announced that he is
pinch-hitting on program for
somebody, he is likely to cause
those in the know to smile with
amusement.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06
Overcrowded

Nations used
to go to war for
any reason at all
or no reason at
all. But that time
has passed.
N 0 w, thanks
to improved hu-
man til gu 9: h t,
when the ruling.
element of a ma
ton wants a. wan,
it must have an
excuse. 81. o.,
T h e favored
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06

Editor, The Times-News: ,'s."
Will you please allow me a lit
tie space in your valuable paper?
l notice in your paper of January
10 an article, ''Wait a Minute
Please" referring to II or 10
years ago, saying that we did not
have the conveniences we now
have, the automobile, the radio,
want to tell Mr.. "Wait Min
ute" that everybody hasn't got
an automobile or a radio yet, that
everybody has not been sitting in
the relief office with his hand in
the U. S. treasury. Twelve or Is
years ago we could haul a load
of wood to the Hendersonville de-
pot and get So for it. Now l get
$3.50 when l can sell it. We could
get 81 per cord for firewood eight
Il feet long. Now we can get $3.50
once in a while. Twelve or Is
years ago we could pay 20 cents
or 80 cents per hour for work
for the wood business. Now the
same men are working on the re-
lief for $1.1O per day, some days
standing in the snow, mud and
water, shoe deep, 80 days before
this was written. Some of the
men were almost barefooted.
, So, if you will ."Wait a Min
ute," you will see that everybody
is not enjoying what Mr.. "Wait a
Minute" is talking about.
: You can fool all Of the people
part of the time and part of the
people all of the time, but you
can't fool all the people all the
time.
! When | see men standing in
mud and water and throwing mud
10 feet high, I know they are not
enjoying many luxuries.
JAMES L. WARD.
Hendersonville, Route /. r':$@.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06
HERE AND THERE
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

learned enough to have the Red
Gross insignia taken off the roofs
Of hospital units in Ethiopia so
the Mussolinians could not spot
them and bomb them.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06

"Frankie and Johnnie will be reviv-
ed" The .effeetof his speech on the pres
ident and Gamer sevdently exceeded uAl
Smiths fondest expectations.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06

The vitamin recently discovered was
christened ''H'', since it was not until few
days later that the Supreme Court made
"AAA" available.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06

In 60 years British COluns
grew from $4,000 populatioy ,
a province of 100000 resider,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06

ffhei SUGGESTED. '~puur- ~:
fwas.the reply. Came ' 4St Rhg.s,
"folfow them; they sell f'f !. a9sa
cents a bag. Yon csn an Il for n
kids but you can thosa =. jail d,
abetting, knowing ib,. 'l1lHs an,
was stolen. ' Ire ca,
All this in broad 6,,.,;
Presley had kent = v ,.'at VI
the county's car Of cooI 4
the NIGHT. Wal tuh
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06

GREAT BRITAIN soon will hav,
~ set of new stamps. with tn,
accession of Edward VIII 20 til,
throne. But this series will not b,
the first to illustrate the feature.
Of the new king.
Newfoundland. as early as 1899
issued a series of stamps on one
of which Edward, then a striplIns
prince, was portrayed. Later, a.
Prince of Wales, his picture an
peared three more times on new
Newfoundland stamps. ~
Canada showed the present king,
portrait first In 1882, in the issn
concentrating the conference OF
Great Britain and its dominions in
Ottawa. and again in the Sirve,
Jubilee series of 1885. But only
he reigning kings head appeared
IN the !2-cent, stamps, since these
we're in most common use.
p Now Great Britain for the frs,
line will issue new King Edward
tamp, probably for all denomina
ions as 1t did previously when
Few ruler succeeded to the throne.
7anada andt Newfoundland, too,
nay produce a new 2-cent King
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06

HEARD AND SEEN in passing
Bob Presley standing guard or
Waterman over car of coal being
unloaded for county schools. "see
yonder," he pointed, showing me
two negro boys that jumped from
a coal car and ran while | passed,
walking down railroad tracks. As
l passed on the boys returned to
the car, filed their sacks and NOV
ed on down the tracks: Look
yonder," he was pointing to four
colored boys who only a few min
utes before had departed with
sacks full of coal. They were re-
turning for more. "And yonder. B."
This time he was pointing to .
negress and boy with sacks who
had made their way to the unpro-
tected car of coal. Write it up"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06

Edward stamp.
T h e. S t a m r
S II o W n here is
Canada's s. cent
value of the Sill.
yer Jubilee series.
showing the por
trait Of the new
king. 49,.
NEA Service. Ine.},
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned COM
munications are published by
The Times-News. All letters
must be signed with the real
name Of the author. No COM
munications signed with fic.
tisiccs name will be published.
EDITOR
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06
He Meant Fire"

A radio news commentator told
the wide world the other day of a
certain destructive "far" which,
he said, had threatened the entire
business districe of a certain city,
and had nearly taken the lives OF
several "farmun."
That commentator was not the
| fol- 'gn born radio announcer who
recently was awarded a gold
medal for radio diction.
Just a Suggestion
1t would seem by this time that
Red Cross authorities would have
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06
Wait.
q
Minute,
Please
BY
Noah
Hollowell

OBSERVED in Passing: WASH
Brooks playing the role OF Chlc
Sales, the specialist, with his one
two-and three-holers for the
WPA. Mighty busy man hhoihg
those needing sanitary privies. and
willing to buy materials, supervl5..
inc digging of pits, erection OF
privies on the ground or seGre-
gated at lumber plant. Mr;;
Brooks job reminds me of one OF
nv last ERA duties-inspection
trip to Rutherford county to learn
why, how, and when and where
a COW fell into one of these Gov
eminent privy pits and broke hel
neck.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06

80 go tne,gF1lh stlup
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-02-06

- sl0 -. - 80 &C,
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-31
Governor and Budget Com
mission Will Not Ask Full
Amount Teachers
Are After
THAT WOULD CALL
FOR NINE MILLION
Twenty Percent Pay Boost
Would Hike Appropria-
ton 100000, if Other
Demands Were Met Also;
Analysis Made of School
Appropriations
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
" - e.. RASK ERVHT

Raleigh, Dec. 31.-An increase of
$3,O00,O00 a year in the appropriation
for the public schools for each of the
next two school years will be recon-
mended by Governor ]. G. B. Ehring-
haus and the Advisory Budget Com
mission when they submit their re-
port and recommendations to the 1887
General Assembly when it convenes
Tuesday, January s. according to re-
liable information obtained here today
This means that the governor and
Advisory Burget Commission will ask
that the new legislature appropriate
a minimum of $23,0O0,000 a year for
the operation of the public schools for
the next two years, since the school
appropriation this year is $21 100000.
This increase of 100000 will pro-
vide a five percent salary increase for
all teachers, whill will take $4,000 900
of the amount, and leave $1OOO,OOO
for new school buses and other need
ed increases. 1t makes no provision,
however, for many of the things be-
ing asked for by the teachers, such
as teachers retirement insurance,
sick leave with pay, a reduction in the
teaching load nor for adult school
bus drivers or steel school bus bodies.
1t is still 100000 short of the ST.
100000 a year asked for the public
schools by State Superintendent Clyde
r. Erwin and which would be neces-
sary to provide a 20 per cent increase
in salaries and a slight reduction in
the teaching load. The appropriation
of $4,000, 900 expected to be recon-
v,ooOdod &c nm 000 short of the S30-
100000 a year which would be neces-
sary to provide all of the things the
superintendent and teachers are ask
ing for.
Partial Grants.
If nothing more than five percent
increase in teachers salaries is pro-
Continued on Page Five.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-31
Full Denials
OfLindbergh
Find" Made
Report of Locating
$2l,650 Gold Back
Cache; w ere No
"GOld" Bills

Trenton, N. j., Dec. 31.-(AP)-A
report of $21, $50 gold back" cache
of Lindbergh ransom money had been
found and that he was ready to tell
all" about reputed new developments
in the case, brought terse mo COM
ment" from Governor Harold Hoff-
man today. Other official sources
made denials.
Through a press aide, the governor
said he would neither affirm nor deny
the report published by the Philadel-
phia Record, and would hold no press
conferences on the case during the
day.
Somebody's just had shot in the
arm" was the way State Police SUI
perintendent Colonel Mark Kimber-
ling referred to the reports.
There's nothing to this latest
thing" he added, describing the Lind
bergh case as "quiet."
Discussing the gold back cache
of bills, the Record said were "be-
lieved to be Lindbergh ransom
money" informed sources pointed out
the $4,000 Lindbergh ransom con-
tanned not single gold back bill.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-31
Pope Is Now More
Comfortable, After
Taking Sedatives

Vatican City, Dec. 81 (AP)-
Pope Plus, his pain in his left
leg duIIed by sedatives, rested
easier today as 16 cardinals and
10000 laymen prayed for his re-
covery at the church of st. John
Lateran.
The holy father slept more
peacefully last night, repeatedly,
than since serious illness from
circulatory CONGESTION forced him
to bed more than three weeks ago.
He awOke to hear mass outside
his bedroom and was declared suf
ficiently refreshed to begin draft
ing his New Years greeting to
the world.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-31
CHINA IN TURMOIL
SINCE ABOUT 1912
Looked on Then as Revolu-
ton, But Has Been in
Progress Ever Since
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COIumniSt

Washington, Dec. 31.-Back in 1912
a disturbance started in China which
generally was referred to as a re-
volution.
A considerable number of American
newspapermen Travelled across the
Pacific to report the affair. 1 remem-
Der it very well, for l was one of the
crowd We thought that that parti-
cular assignment would keep us in
the Orient six months or year. Our
idea was that a revolution speedily
revoluted or was licked.
Well, that rumps is going Oh yet.
Generalissimo Chang Kai-Shek
captivity by Marshal Chang Hsueh-
LANG has been one of it's recent man.
ifestations, but plenty of other IN
cidents have preceded it. Plenty more
will follow, It'll a safe bet.
SLOW MOTION
Few of us journalists of the first
flight to the Far East tried to linger
for the finish of the rookus we had
iourneyed abroad to cover"
From time to time we were recalled
to attend to one thing or another OF
more immediate occidental import
Continued on Page Two.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-31
FEROCIOUS DOGS LOOSED
Spanish Coastal
Batteries Open On
Fascist Warships

st. Jean de Luz, France, Dec.
-(AP)-Insurgent Spanish war
ships repeatedly have appeared
enmasse off Santander this MORN
ing, drawing sharp fire from gov
eminent coastal batteries.
They appeared Off-shore after
the Basque government of near
by BilbO ignored threats of Ger
man warships and had CURLY
closed the negotiations for the re-
lease of the captured cargo of the
Nazi freighter Palos.
Spanish authorities tersely &C
nOwledged a. German ultimatum
rom the cruiser KOenigsberg to
free the cargo outright and plan
ned to present further develop
ments to the non-intervention
committee in London.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-31

Tacoma, Wash, Dec. 81 (AP)-An-
parent restoration of confidence with
in the family of Charles Mattson gave
rise to speculation today contact had
been made with his bearded abductor
and assurances received the 1O-year-
old lad was safe.
A household visitor reported a new
spirit of confidence throughout the
household of DR.. w. w. Mattson,
father of the missing boy.
Mrs. Mattson, reported Tuesday to
be near a breakdown, slept soundly
through the night, the visitor said,
after mingling with friends most of
Wednesday. Muriel, Charles sister,
seemed likewise to have recovered
from the shock of the kidnapping she
witnessed, the visitor said.
Early today DR.. Mattson denied
making any statements about ransom
negotiations. Informed he had been
quoted that no contact with the kid
naper had been established, Dr. Matt
son said:
"Any such reports are untrue.
have made no statements. I have
nothing. to say now"
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-31
SKY is LALMIT IN BRITAIN
AND OTHER TREATY POWERS
GRv Tho AS

(By The Associated Press)
London-Great Britain stood ready
TO build up its sea strength without
limit as soon as the only checks on
naval armament-the 1922 Washing
ton treaty and the 1880 London treaty
expire at midnight tonight. On
January 1, keels will be laid for two
35,OOO-ton capital ships to join the
worlds greatest tonnage.
Rome-Italy, Great Britain's rival
for supremacy in the Mediterranean,
was expected to use it's freedom to
bring it's strength near Great Britain's
heavyweight standard.
Paris-France. entering the race
with a $572,OOO,OO0 program to sup
plement normal naval expenditures,
has authorized heavy battleship build
ing to match German re-armament.
Berlin-German Shipyards already
are working overtime to give the
Continued o. Page Two)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-31
Farm Buying
PowerHighest
For II Years

College Station, Raleigh, Dec. 81
The buying power of American far
mers is now greater than at any other
time during the past IL years.
That is the conclusion drawn 10y
the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural
economics in a report sent the N. c.
State College Agricultural Extension
Service.
There have been years in this pc
Rod when farm incomes was higher
the report said, but farmers also had
to pay more for things they bought
and their buying power was not as
great as it is now.
Although the average buying power
of all farmers in the nation is at a
high peak for the 17-year period, the
Continued on Page Two.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-31
KidnaperBeleued
T0HQUe Contacted
Family OfMattson
Indian Is Jailed
In SmOak Murder

Wilmington, Dec. 81 (AP) -
Big Chief Kester Oxendine, Indian
medicine man, projected himself
into the SmOak poison murder
case, and was projected to jail to-
day.
The chief called on Mrs. Bertha
Stuart, alleged victim of Edgar
Smoak, held for killing his daugh-
ter, and offered to cure her for
$25. She is still suffering from the
effects of poison she says SmOak,
who held insurance on her life,
gave her as an indigestion cure.
Judge A. A. Lennon held the In
dian under $1,000 bond for inves-
tigatiOn.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-31
WITH NJ LID Off, SKY
IS LIMIT IN GREAT
BUILDING PROGRAM
1922 Washington Treaty
and London Pact of 1890
Will Expire at Mid
night Tonight
MUSSOLIlNI ANXIOUS
TO MATCH BRITAIN
France Adds $572,OOO,O 900
to Normal Naval Expendi-
France Adds $572,OOO,O 600
to Normal Naval Expendi-
lures; German Shipyards
Working Overtime; Bri-
tain To Start Two Huge
Capital Ships

London, Dec. 31.--(AP)-Great
Britain will announce next month
a new program of rebuilding her
Hong Kong and other PaEGfic
naval bases, Informed sources. said
today, on the eve of expiration of
d 15-year-attempt to restrict naval
tonnage by treaty.
Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden will make the announce
ment to Commons soon after it
convenes January 10, these sour
ceS said.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-12-31
Showdown Appears Certain
Between New Union
Movement and Auto
Industry
CAMPAIGN is AIMED
AT GENERAL MOTORS
Small Plants May Operate
Little Longer Because Of
Supplies on Hand; Chew
rolet Body Plants Affect
ed by Some Strikes Al
ready Called

Detroit, Mich, Dec. 81. (AP)-The
increasing number of strikes against
units of the General Motors Corpora
ton, observers said today, might lead
to tie-up of the entire automotive
industry except the Ford Motor Com
pany.
eff the General Motors tie-up be
comes effective by Monday said AL
fred Ward, president of Wards Auto
motive Reports, cit will mean the
whole industry will be faced with the
same proposition, with the exception
of Ford. The smaller companies may
work for short time longer, because
of existing supplies
cit looks as if it will be a show
down between the committee for in
Continued on Page Three)