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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-01
FRIDAY, JANUARY /, 1887
CONCERNING THE UNFIT

A special faculty committee Of the
Georgia School of Technology has pre-
pared a report for President Roose-
velt, saying that "prolonging the lives
Of the weak and even physically unfit
is, in a very real sense, undermining
the physical well being of future gen
erations."
In a sense and in many instances,
this is true; especially in mental weak
nesses. Justice Holmes spoke for the
supreme court when he closed his ap-
proval Of the Virginia law to sterilize
notorious mental detectives with the
words: Three generations of imbe-
Giles are enough Mr. Justice Butler
dissented; but most Of the American
people agree.
But when this is applied to physical
weaknesses, we encounter at once a
rather daunting uncertainty. Quite a
number Of the worlds great men have
been of feeble physique in childhood.
His parents were agreeably surprised
when they brought Francis Marion
through babyhood, but it is not f.rec-
ord that CORVALLIS ever noticed this
weakness in Marion's later life. The
neighbors were quite certain that the
widow Newton would never raise that
sickly baby, Isaac. But she did; and he
died recognized as the greatest scien-
tist Of all time at the age Of 85.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-01
A POPULAR REFORM

The Social Security Board recently
announced that 2l,338,120 applications
had been made for security accounts.
Applications said the board ARE
still being received in large numbers,
and ii will be some time before the
total will be finally known"
When the social security act was
passed, it was estimated that it would
cover a total of about 26,000,000 work
ers. The applications already in when
the board made its announcement
amount to more than 80 per cent of the
estimated total. The real total is
fairly sure to run above the estimate.
Prophecy is notoriously risky oc-
cupation; but here IS a prediction on
which there is no risk whatsoever!
The party, the group, the political
leader who proposes to repeal the
social security act in any way save by
passing a better one is booked for the
ash heap.
Without doubt, the act needs amend
ment. 1t is too big an advance to be
taken at once without some mistakes
and confusions. If everything else
were right, it still would not be sat
isfactory to have social security linn
tied permanently to those covered by
the act now, and that implies new
acts or broadening amendments to
this one. But when all this is said,
the fact remains that the social secur-
ity act is one of the greatest forward
steps in social legislation that any
country ever took at one time.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-01
PETER VAN HORN WAS A FRIEND

With the tragic death Of Peter H.
Van Horn in an automobile accident
at Palm Beach, labor has lost real
friend who understood and sympathiz-
ed constructively and helpfully.
During the great textile strike Peter
Van Horn asked for the opportunity
to meet the strike committee. Head Of
the silk industry, he had never known
any of the strike leaders. BY himself
he walked in, sat down and proceeded
to talk without hostility and without
any of the air of suspicion that exist
ed then on all sides. From that time
on Peter Van Horn knew and worked
with labor men in many enterprises.
They trusted him and he trusted them.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-01
Report Big Gains
In Jobs, Payrolls

Washington, D. G. (ILNS)-Secre-
tary of Labor Perkins announced that
100000 more workers had jobs at
the end of November than in Novem-
ber, 1885. At the same time, she said
weekly payrolls in manufacturing and
non-manufacturing industries have
increased $5o,500,00o during the year.
Miss Perkins explained that part of
the increase was due to the pre-holi-
day retail trade She said that ap-
proximately $4,000 workers were re-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-01
7heCherry
Tv Where with our
roo Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro-
foundly, sometimes fippantly,
sometimes recklessly.

Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year-and while you say it a lot of
men are being shot in Spain, others
are being thrown into durance vile
by Hitler and Mussolini and the world
goes merrily on with its wars and
hates and conflicts.
Say Merry Christmas to the DUPONT
empire and see if it lessons the hate
for organized labor.
Or say it to U. S. Steel and see if it
lets down the bars to organizing work
Quit kidding.
Holiday greetings are for friends,
not for enemies whose enmity is in
herent in their being.
But holiday greetings are fine, just
the same. So are all kindly greetings.
Let US keep them up.
But don't expect Al Smith to wire
any to the president.
incidentally, the Birthday Ball for
the president is coming along right
on the heels of New Years.
Intervening, we shall have inaugur-
alton, with conservative old Cary 7.
Grayson inappropriately running the
show And we shall have congress in
session.
Nobody should make the mistake OF
thinking that the huge democratic
majority will be all liberal. That's
what labor has in mind when it talks
about 'realignment
There are plenty of hide-b bound
reactionaries in the democratic
picture, and labor will have to be-
labor them as hard as ever it had
to belabor the most reactionary
republican on the other side of the
house.
Divide them, not by the party la
bells they wear, but by the CLINT il
their eye when you discuss some nev
prospective legislative child.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-01
WHAT NEXT?

The California Fruit Growers Ex-
change is testing a new XRay ma
chine built to determine the condi-
tion Of oranges before they are ship
ped At the rate Of 22,5oo oranges per
hour, the machine carries the fruit on
travelling belts before two microscopes
where operators examine the core of
the fruit A touch of lever discards
imperfect oranges while the others
are carried on to boxes.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-01

And do not forget Macaulay's sum
ming up: 1t is probable that OF the
100000 men gathered around Neer-
winden under half the standards of
western Europe, the two feeblest in
body were the hunchbacked dwarf who
urged forward the fiery onset Of
France, and the asthmatic skeleton
who covered England's slow retreat" +"
They were the Duke of Luxembourg
and William of Orange.
Promote health and vigor, by al
means. But we have not reached a
degree of knowledge that warrants US
in letting weakness die.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-01

One of his courageous acts was to
blast the United States Chamber of
Commerce as 'catspaw" organiza-
ton. He was an ardent supporter Of
Roosevelt. At the time of his death
he was engaged in formation of a
business organization to seek facts as
basis for informed opinion regard
ing governmental matters.
Because Of loyalty, fidelity and use
fulness, Peter Van Horn will be
missed.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-01

Harrisburg, Pa. (ILNS)-Governor
Earle has announced 40-hour week
for all state employees. The new sys-
tenn includes, besides the shortened
hours, Is days vacation and Is days
sick leave year, with pay; and time
off for overtime above the 40 hours.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-01

turned to employment in industry be-
tween October and November and that
weekly payrolls rose nearly $5.00O,OOO
during the month.
She reported that 100000 men
and women were now employed, ex-
Guiding public works, agriculture and
domestic service. If public works en-
ployes were included she said the total
employment figure would equal that
of 1929.
However, it is estimated by the
labor department that 100000 new
employables have entered the labor
market since the beginning of the
depression.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-01-01
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WISDOM

Be not overcome by evil, but over
come evil with good. ST. Paul.
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-16
IVA ATTACKS WRIT
TO BLOCK EXPANSION

CONVICTION, KY, April 10
(UP) - A three-way at q c k
against federal court injunction
preventing further expansion of
Twas power projects was made
before the United States circuit
court of appeals here today by
James l.. Fly, iva general coun-
sci.
The attack opened hearing
by the court OH the authority's
appeal from an injunction grant
ed 10 southern utility firms by
Federal Judge John j. Gore, Ten
nessee, which had halted iva eX-
pansion last December %.
Fly asked the court to overrule
the injunction because the suits
should have been brought in the
northern Alabama district in
stead Of the eastern Tennessee
district and because there is a
misjoinder of plaintiffs involved
in the suit.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-16
DRASTIC BILL
ON LYNCHLNC
CETSBY HOUSE
Southern Opposition Beat
Down in Fiery Sessions;
Party Lines Split
BORAH WILL FIGHT
MEASURE in SENATE

WASHINGTON, April lG. -
(UP)-in one of the most fiery
sessions in years the house last
night beat down stubborn south
ern opposition and passed the
drastic Gavagan anti lynching
bill, the first such measure to OBJ
tain approval in Is years. All at
temptS to cmasculatc it with
amendments were defeated.
The vote of PIG to ll9 was an
nounccd after seven hours of de
bate.
Increased pressure for passage
was put on after the blow-torch
lynching of two negroes IN Mis-
SiSSippi. Representative Arthur w.
Mitchell, d., ILL.,, the only negro
member of congress, took up the
cudgel yesterday, shouting from
the house well that "thiS is the
voice of 4 representative of that
race which has suffered most at
the hands of the mob"
Mitchell'S own bill was side
tracked last week for the Gava-
gan measure, sponsored by Rep
resentative Joseph A. Gavagan,
d., n. Y, but Mitchell said he
would support it because any
anti-Iynching legislation was bet
ter than none.
Representative Hatton w. Sum
nerS, d., Tex, slight, bald chair
man Of the house Judiciary COM
mittec. led the southern opposi-
ton to what he termed "pcstifcr-
GUS interference of the north III
4 problem he said the states al
ready are solving.
Leave us alone and tend to
something you know something
about" Summers shouted, waving
clenched fists at the Republican
side of the house. He argued pas
Sionately for more than 40 min
uteS. The members rose Sponta-
neously in prolonged applause rs
he sat down.
"This is the most far-rcaching
legislation proposed in century"
he said. "You will give the fed
eral government the power to put
your state governor in Jail if he
doesn't call out the militia to
prevent u lynching.
There will come day when
the establishment of that princi-
pie will come to curse and plague
all of you
Summers said the demand for 4
federal anti-lynching law resulted
from IAN acute attack of federal
tits in this Countrywide people
have a notion that if anything is
wrong, Uncle Sam will fix it up"
Representative James w. Wads-
worth, R., n. y, the only former
senator now serving in the house,
joined the southern opposition.
charging that invasion Of state
rights by a federal anti-lynching
law would reverse the whole
philosophy underlying American
democracy"
The bill would require federal
prosecution of the mob members
if the state failed to act within
30 days. 1t also calls for five-year
prison terms and $4,000 fines for
state, county or city officers con-
victed of failure or neglect to
protect their prisoners, with %
year terms for officers who con-
spirit with a mob.
The bill is expected to encoun-
ter a rocker road in the senate
where southern Democrats are
prepared to oppose it as an inva-
Continued on page six)
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-16
u. s. ACTION ON REVIVAL OF
ECONOMIC FARLEY SOUGHT
Belgian Premier to Visit
Roosevelt in, June on
This Mission

WASHINGTON, April lG. 49,
A disclosure that Belgian Premi-
er Paul Van iceland will confer
with President Roosevelt in June
aroused speculation in diplomatic
circles today that the United
States might participate ut an
early date in moves to revive the
World Economic conference.
President Roosevelt and Secre-
tary Of State Hull recently dis
claimed any intention to initiate
such a conference.
Van iceland. however, was
asked by British and French au-
thorities to investigate the posi-
bility of general conference.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-16
BODIES IN Way
OF FIGHTERS IN
PARDO SECTOR
Rebels Celebrate With
Wine Failure Of Loyals'
Offensive
FIGHTING IN OTHER
SECTORS CONTINUES

MADRID, April l6.-(UP)-A
truce between loyalist and nation
alist forces in Ell Pardo sector,
just north Of Madrid, today was
put into effect to enable both sides
to bury their dead before continu-
ing the battle.
II was the first truce requested
during the war.
The nationalist commander asked
the loyalists for q truce when the
bodies became so numerous they
interfered with fighting. The re-
quest was granted. Immediately
rebel stretchers were busy remoy-
ing bodies within the range Of 10y
alist guns.
Fighting in other sectors about
the capital continued. Loyalists
beat back attempts to relieve TO-
600 nationalists isolated i'm Uni
versity City.
Attacking rebels today failed in
a desperate attempt to relieve be-
tween 5000 and 10000 of their
comrades trapped in the shambles
Of University City. They Were
thrown back by loyalists after 4
bitter engagement lasting an hour
and half.
The attackers moved from the
Casa de Campo, once beautiful
park on the western outskirts NJ
the city, into the Ell Pardo sector
and attempted to cross the Man
zanares river near Valdemarin.
After laying down an intensive
artillery barrage the rebels, pre-
ceded by tanks, opened their drive
either to contact their besieged
comrades in University City or
distract the loyalists from the
other sector.
Despite heavy insurgent artil.
lery fire the loyalists, armed with
destructive anti-tank guns, were
waiting at the first line trenches.
They blew one tank off its cater
pillar track and forced four others
to withdraw.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-16
May Soon End
COURTHEARINC.
Vote on Procedure Seen
Saturday; Few Sup
port McCarran Idea

WASHINGTON, Apr. 16. (UP)
Sen. Pat McCarran, D., New, who
yesterday offered a new compro-
mise in the fight over President
RooSevelts judiciary reorganiza-
ton program, providing for two
supreme court justices. received q
prompt rundown for his plan by
administration senator's.
McCarran, a member Of the sem
ate judiciary committee and usual
ly a strong administration support
er. introduced an amendment to
the presidents bill to provide a
high court of II members without
any stipulations regarding age or
1t was welcomed by many ION
the fence" senators but such ad-
ministration stalwarts as Senator
James F. Byrnes, D., S. c., and
Senator M. M. Nicely, D., w. Va,
flatly opposed 1t. Similarly the
compromise failed to win any re-
spouse among the more militant
foes of the presidents bill, who
oppose any increase whatever in
the court membership.
The judiciary committee yes
terday continued hearings with
two members of the American Bar
association opposing the bill as
morally" unconstitutional.
Sylvester Smith of Phillipsburg,
N. j., chairman of special ABA
committee, and Paul F. Hannah,
secretary of the Junior Bar con-
ference presented the results of q
poll Of 7O,4s6 lawyers showing
that bar sentiment was four to
one against court enlargement.
The committee will continue
public hearings the rest of this
week and expects to vote Satur-
day in secret session on whether
to conclude them.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-16
DEATH TAKES
J. NJ. MAXWELL
Rites Saturday for Late a.
Year-0ld Clear Creek
Road Resident

J. NJ. Maxwell, 81, wcll-known
Henderson county resident, died
this morning at his home on the
Clear Creek road after an illness
of about Il week.
Funeral services will be held on
Saturday afternoon at 30 from
the Stepp funeral home, and
burial will follow in the Liberty
cemetery.
Mr.. Maxwell is survived by his
widow, formerly Miss Addie Col
Inns; three brothers, Jonathan and
Daniel Maxwell, of California, and
William Maxwell, of Brevard; one
sister, Mrs. s. A. Edney, of Edney-
vile, and eight children, George,
w. p, J. H., and S. Maxwell, Of
Hendersonville, Mrs. NJ. T. Free
man, Mrs. &. T. Orr, of Hender-
sonville, Mrs. Arthur Stroup, of
Newport News, Va. and Mrs.
Gene Orr, of Louisville, KY.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-16
MANY LEADERS.
TO ATTEND OR.
Send AGENTS.
American Labor Front Re-
ported More Quiet Than
In Weeks
SYMPATHETIC MOTOR
STRIKE LESS LIKELY

WASHINGTON, Apr. Is. CUP
Successful opening of the first of
a series of conferences called by
Secretary of Labor Frances Perk-
inS 10 establish Industrial peace
under the Wagner-COnnery Act
appeared assured today after the
labor secretary announced that 10
Of 81 business. union and public
spirited leaders already have &C
ccptcd her invitation.
The initial session Is to begin
at 10 4. m. on Tuesday. Among
those who have assured Miss Pcrk-
ms that they will participate are:
Walter c. Teagle. president OF
Standard Oil of New Jersey; w.
AvcriI Hartman. chairman of the
board of the Union Pacific Rail-
way; Clarence Wooley. president
of the American Radiator CO..
and Charles O'Ncill. head of the
Pennsylvania Coal Producers aSso-
citation.
Two outstanding induStriaiStS
-Myron c. Taylor, chairman OF
the board of L. =. Steel Corp,
and George A. Fuller. head of the
Fuller Construction Conform
ed Miss Perkins that they would
send SubOrdinatcs to represent
them. Harper Siblcy, president of
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States. has indicated infor-
mally that ne will attend the con
ference, and the National Assocla-
ton of Manufacturers will be rep
resented.
Neither CLOS John l.. Lewis
nor the American Federation OF
Labor'S William Green formally
had acknowledged their invitation
last night but their participation
virtually is assured. Other lead
crs of the rival labor organiza-
tons have Significd their willing
ness tn cooperate with Miss Pork
ms.
The approaching conference
shared Importance with the relief
felt by administration officials, aS
dispatches from Detroit indicated
Continued on page three
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-16
BAR TO CURB.
LAY PRACTICES
Moves to Halt Drawing Of
Legal Papers by Men
Not Qualified

The Henderson County Bar as
ISOLATION has appointed COM
mittee to investigate activities Of
persons said to be engaging in
legal practices without having law
licenses.
Action Of the bar was taken at
q meeting this week, and the COM
mittee is composed of Fred Toms,
A. B. Shepherd, and Richard Al
britton.
Members of the committee
pointed out that there are certain
people who undertake to make
out certain legal papers and &C.
cept fees for doing this work.
These people are not only prohib-
tied from accepting fees for this
work bv law, but are usually not
sufficiently familiar with the law
to properly draw such legal pa
pers, one member Of the commit
tee pointed out.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-16
Story Hitler Is infatuated With
Pola Negri, Movie Star, Results In
Seizure OF Z Polish Newspapers

WARSAW, April 16. (UP).-
A sensational story that Adoii
Hitler has become so infatuated
with Pola Negri, movie actress
that he sent agents into Poland 10
obtain proof Of her Aryan anees-
try, resulted last night in con1ls-
cation of two Polish newspapers
The government seized all cop
les of the Warsaw newspaper
Kurjer Codzieny, and the News
paper Polonia, published at hato-
vice on the German frontier:
Both newspapers had rePriGnteu
an article from sensational sun
day Referee of London OF Aprii
10, linking the names Of Der rue
hrer and the exotic Pola. -,
The article, it was expialneu !,
was a reflection upon the dignity
of head of foreign state, H.
Polish authorities saia they
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-16
Mrs. Roosevelt
Regrets Inability
Visit This City
Was Invited to See McCabe
Home rendered for
Roosevelt Vacation

Regrets that she was unable to
make a longer stop in Henderson
vile, and the statement that she
can make no plans for her huS-
band are contained in 4 letter
written by Mrs. Franklin ID. RooSe-
welt in response TO an invitation
to visit this city and to inspect
the Gordon McCabe estate in Flat
Rock TO which the president has
been invited for his summer vaca-
tion.
The letter was received by Wal
ter b. Smith, who had talked with
Mrs. Roosevelt over the telephone
when she was at Gatlinburg early
this week. From the Great Smoky
Mountains. Mrs. Roosevelt went to
ASheville for the night, and then
passed through HenderSonville
Wednesday on her way to Charles
ton.
81 am sorry that | can make no
plans for my husband, and that
my plans were such that could
make only short stops, but | do
appreciate the kind invitation
very much" Mrs. Roosevelt wrote.
Mr.. Smith said the presidents
wife and her travling companion,
Miss Hickok, will be guests in
Charleston of Mayor Brunette
Maybank through whom the invi-
tation TO the president to make
use of the McCabe estate was ex-
tended. He added that Senator
La Toilette of Wisconsin, Chair
man E. j. Mcmillan Of the nation
al Democratic senatorial commit
tee, and Senator Richard Russell
of Georgia, a brother of w. b.
Russell of HenderSonville, were
among the prominent members of
congress who promised him in
Washington recently that they
will visit Western North Carolina,
and that Marvin II. Mcintyre, the
presidents executive secretary,
end Mrs. Mcintyre "were shopping
about for a home in this section"
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knew nothing of any romance be-
tween the two, or the reported
dispatch of Na2i investigators to
check up on Miss Negri's anees-
try.
They insisted, however, that she
was not Jewish and that the
Chalupiec family-her real name
is hpolonia Chalupiec-is pure
Aryan."
The actress, who recently COM
pleted role in Alderman film,
Madame Vovary," was said to be
at Cap Ferrat, France, on holiday.
The reprinted Sunday Referee
dispatch said that Hitler, often
seen in Miss Negri's company dur
ing recent weeks, burst into tears
and shouted, "the slanderers!
when, romantic rumors of their
friendship reached him.