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rally late this afternoon. Martin
said the union now had 100000
members in the auto industry.
The oespectacled union presi-
dent also issued a bitter attack
on William Green, A. F. of L.
president, who had said the
strike settlement made by the
c. I. o. and the auto union was
a defeat for labor. Martin de-
clared:
"The settlement was one of
the most remarkable victories of
the labor movement. He
(Green) is the modern Judas
IscariOt of the labor movement"
Green's A. F.. Of L. has SuS-
pended C. I. o. unions.
Return of 100000 G. M. work
ers to the plants will bring the
total pay roll to approximately
215,O0O, and within the next II
days it was expected to reach
235, 900. About 115,000 had been
kept on the job even though auto
production in G. M. had been
brought to virtual Standstill by
the strikes.
Guardsmen Leaving
Meanwhile, national guard troops
at Flint, which became the focal
city in the dispute as sit-down
strikes led to riots and disorders,
were being demobilized. One
thousand were 20 leave tonight
and marching orders for $500
others were expected Monday.
A big labor rally was planned
for Flint tomorrow afternoon.
Conditions there were fast return
ing to normal. The ban on
LIQUOR and beer sales in Flint,
clamped down during the strike,
was lifted today.
To Drop Legal Suits
G. M. Flint attorneys were to
confer with Judge Paul v. Gadola
this afternoon to determine how
the arrest and eviction orders OBJ
tained against 1000 sit-downers
will be marked off the dockets.
G. M. promised to drop all court
action in the settlement agree
ment, and the sit-downerS evacu-
ated three G. NJ. plants there
Thursday night.
This week will be recorded as
one of the most historic in the
auto industry. Not only was there
the strike settlement but wage in
creaseS of $40.000,OO0 a year an
nounced by G. M, Chrysler and
Packard. According to reports re-
ceived here, four major Akron
rubber companies also have an
nounced wage increases for their
workers totaling $4,000, 900 a year.
Martin Deprecates
Auto Union Fight
DETROIT, Feb. 13 GN.S)
Homer Martin, president of the
The Washington times., 1937-02-13

Martin Deprecates
Auto Union Fight
DETROIT, Feb. 13 Q.N.sD
Homer Martin, president of the
The Washington times., 1937-02-13
Benjamin Meyers, 80,
Virginian, Dies Here

Benjamin Meyers, 80, Of Clifton
Station, Va, died at Emergency
Hospital yesterday of pneumonia
complications which set in as
result of injuries sustained in
fall February 8 at his Virginia
home. Mr.. Meyers, who is survived
by his widow, Ella Meyers, suf-
fered a broken arm in the fall,
The Washington times., 1937-02-13
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
Is Mexico Visitor

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 13 G.N.SO.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, accompan-
led by Mrs. E. T. Meredith, widow
Of the Secretary of Agriculture in
her husbands Cabinet, crossed
into Mexico at Nuevo Laredo yes
terday. Mrs. Wilson and Mrs.
Meredith, due here tonight.
will be guests of Ambassador and
Mrs. JoSephuS Daniels.
The Washington times., 1937-02-13

membership campaign reported re-
ceipt of 1874 new applications.
The meeting was held in the
Monroe School, with Mrs. j. w.
Hill, presiding.
The times-news., 1937-05-24
UNEMPLOYMENT CENSUS DEMANDED

Arguing in favor of census of the unemployed
the Magazine of Wall Street reminds that relief is
the biggest factor in the unbalanced federal budget
and asserts that there is no excuse whatever for
further haphazard, happy-go-lucky administration
of it.
And increasing numbers of thoughtful, serious
minded American citizens are taking the same
view.
According to data collected by the National As
sociation of Manufacturers, employment in manu-
featuring industries on April l amounted to APP
proximately II 900, 900 workers and thus back
to the 1929 level
The United States Labor departments factory
employment index for March 101 per cent of
the 1923-1925 average, with checks fairly closely
with the findings of the association of manufac-
turers since 1929 employment was not greatly
different in volume from 1923-1925 employment,
as the Magazine of Wall Street points out.
That journal thinks that even if allowance be
made for increase in population during the depres
sion years, employment in manufacturing industry
is only or per cent under former peak levels,
and that full recovery in per capita industrial
production can easily absorb all unemployed per-
capable of factory work and willing to take It,
The foregoing figures and the statistics of work.
ers registered with the Social Security board, as
recently cited by Senator Vandenberg, suggest very
strongly to the mind of the Wall Street publication
that the true proportions of the unemployment
problem "have been persistently exaggerated by
the administration"
"Why?" it is asked. as it to justify spending
just for the sake of distributing borrowed purchas-
ing power? Or is it, perhaps for the still more in
defensible purpose of perpetuating political ma
chine of relief voters?"
Expressing the opinion that there is something
sub-surface about the federal relief policy that
more and more citizens do not like, the Magazine
of Wall Street asserts
"They will like it still leSS-and will make their
distrus increasingly apparent to their representa-
tves in Congress-if the administration continues
to dodge taking a census of employment. The coun-
try is growing weary of official guesses on this
question and so, it seems, are more and more sem
ators and representatives, who are now none too
comfortable as Ringmaster Farley cracks the whip
they have placed in his hands."-Charlotte OBJ
server.
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SOUL AND BODY TOPIC
FOR CHURCH SUNDAY

"Soul and Body" was the sub
jcct Of the Lesson-ScrmOn in all
Churches and Societies OF Christ,
Scientist, on Sunday, May 23.
The golden text was from
Psalms SGD. Rejoice the soul of
thy servant: for uno thee, o Lord,
do ! lift up my soul"
Among the citations which COM
priscd the lcssOn-scrmOn was the
following from the Bible: 80 bless
our God, We people, and make the
voice of his praise to be heard
Which holdcth our soil in life, and
suffcreth not our feet to be
moved Psalms 66:S, 81.
The lcsSon-Sermon also includ-
cd the following passage from the
Christian Science textbook, Sci
encc and Health with Key to the
Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
"Scicnce reveals Spirit. Soul, as
not in the body, and God as not In
man but as reflected by man. The
greater cannot be in the lesser.
The belief that the greater can be
in the lesser is an error that
works i'll. This is leading point
in the science of soul. that prin-
ciple is not i'm its idea. Spirit,
soul, is not confined in man, and
is never in matter" page lGO.
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for the development and i'm
prOvcmcnt Of our own characters.
That assumption is borne out by
the fact that no matter what 9TH
crS may do to us, no matter how
they may mistrcat us they can
not fundamentally harm us if we
maintain the right attitude to-
ward them and toward life. So
the commands to be just and mer-
ciful and to walk humbly are not
so much for the good of others
as for the good Of those who obey
them.
Thus the command to honor
thy father and thy mother -- a
command frequently regarded as
outmoded - is for the benefit of
the children themselves: There
fore obedience to that command
should be demanded of children
as part of the parental discipline
necessary in bringing up child
in the way it should go.
The times-news., 1937-05-24
North Blue Ridge

NORTH BLUE RIDGE. May
81. - Mrs. jim Brown, Jrp was
the dinner guest Of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. X. Hydcr, last
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Allen end
children. and Miss Juanlta Phillips
visited MIR. and Mrs. \. T.. Case
last Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. J. NJ. Jackson, visited Mrs.
w. T. Willis and Miss Hattie Day
ton Thursday afternoon.
The Rev. \. B. Phillips, who
has been away for the past two
weeks, conducting revival services
at Winnsboro. S. c., has returned.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest King visit
ed Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Allen Sun
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Coston of
HcndcrsOnvillc, visited Mrs. Ray
mond Hill Sunday afternoon.
Those visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Raymond Pace Saturday evening
were Mrs. J. T. Pace, Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfon2o Pace. Mr.. and Mrs.
J. +. Young, Miss Gladys Young
and Mrs. Blanche Wells.
The times-news., 1937-05-24
STATESMAN AT WORK

Senator R. R. (Rambn' Robert) Reynolds the
glowing light of far glamorous places still warm
ing his eye, has been amongst us. The Signing of
the Mecklenburg Declaration of independence
moved him to mellifuous eloquence and left US all
feeling that, though the scorner may sneer at and
witlings defame it, our Declaration has a staunch
and positive defender. The p. o. S. of A. dele
gates, too, though they numbered hundreds, each
had soul-satisfying individual greeting from a
Senator. ...
But that was just a starter. That, merely, was
where the past master at palaver and persuasion
limned in his extempore lines. Beyond that, and
weaving in as woof to warp were dozens and
scpres-yea, hundreds-of highly specialized hand
shakes and revivifed friendships. We venture a
guess that there were no less than 5000 people in
Charlotte yesterday who, each, got the very def
mite idea that "Our Bob" came to town for the
specific purpose of wringing his hand and placing
an arm around his shoulder And-ah, well-he
may not be much of Senator, but as glad-hand-
er exuding charm and frendliness he can't be
beaten. We're afraid that's, alas too true.-Char-
otte News.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
PRICE FIXING HITS EVERYBODY

The idea that the artificial maintenance of prices
at high levels is the way to prosperity appears to
have lost it's standing in the politico-economlc
scheme of things The president, in expressing his
dsapproval of the NIiller-Tydings price -mainten-
ance BILL pointed out the injustice to the consumer
if manufacturers permitted to set the retail
price of their products and the authority of gov
ernment were invited to punish anyone who sold
goods at less than the fixed prices.
That is sound common-SenSe-sounder than the
common-sense or lack of it shown by legislators in
many states who have enacted price-malntenance
laws which are resulting in increased prices to con-
sumers and higher profits to manufacturers, but
not so far as anyone has reported, any correspond
ing benefit in the shape of putting more workers
back on the job of paying higher wages
The motive back of these attempts at maintain
ing high prices is the theory that only by getting
more money for his can the little man IN
business survive. Facts and government statistics
explode this theory. There are more "litte fellows
that is independent merchants-in business in
the United States today than ever before. 1t hard
ly seems to be a proper concern of any govern
ment, state national, to protect mcompetentS,
but that is the tendency of every legislative effort
to prevent price competition. 1t deprives the dis
rbutor or merchant of superior ability of the right
to profit by the exercise of that ability. because it
makes it illegal for him to sell more cheapy than
his competitor does
The real victim of price-fxing laws is the Ordi-
nary citizen, the consumer, who is usually over
looked when such legislation is being drafted. Be
hind every such measure pressure blocs" COM
posed of manufacturers and middemen seeking
their own financial advantage at the expense of the
public. They are well organized and vocal. They
send representatives and delegations to committee
hearngs-and the lawmakers seldom hear from
the consumers such. They are not organized and
have no spokesmen.
A real consumer organization with no pet theo
reS or fads to air and really representative of the
average American home could do lot to stave off
the steadily rising cost of living and might be able
to block ill-considered efforts to keep prices high
and push them highcr.--Canton Enterprise
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HONOR FOR SELF'S SAKE
By WECKES WAMBOLDT

honor that can be shown them by
their children will not improve
their chances in the hereafter.
The respectful consideration of
their children will. of course,
make their lot here on earth
pleasantcr, but that is not the
prime purpose Of the order. The
great underlying reason for the
command, "Honor thy father and
thy mother" is for the benefit of
those to whom the command is
addressed.
The command, "Thou shalt not
steal" is not so much for the
good Of the one whose posses
sionS would be misappropriatcd as
for the one who would do the
misappropriating. If one steals
from Il person he has not BASIC
ally Injured that person - he has
merely inconvcnicnccd him. The
persons soul is just as well off
as it was before the theft: but the
thief's soul is not. The person
who has been stolen from has
lost a material possession worth
nothing in the long run; for he
must part with it eventually any
way. But the one who has done
the stealing has harmed himself
spiritually; he has impaired his
character; he has injured his real
sclf-thc only thing he can take
with him when he leaves this
world.
Probably none of the commands
concerning our behavior toward
others is intended so much for the
benefit of others as for ourselves
The times-news., 1937-05-24
BARNWELL

BARNWELL, May -. - Rev.
and Mrs. Heb Laughter and family
of Georgia, spent Tuesday night
with the formers brother, Joe
Laughter, Sr., and left Wednes-
day to visit his father, +. b.
Laughter of West Ashcville. Rev.
Laughter hopes to return in Oc-
tober and conduct n thrcG-wecks
revival at the Barnwcll Baptist
church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Reid and
little son and Miss Myrtle LYDIA
were dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Duncan of Tracy Grove
Monday and were also through
the East Flat Rock section.
Miss Bertha +. Ledbcttcr visit
ed Misses Helen and Pearl Free
man Wednesday.
Mrs. J. w. Whitesidcs visited
with Mrs. Mae Ballard Sunday
morning and also with Mrs. Jessie
Briggs who is ILL.,
Lowell Lcdbcttcr, who recently
went to Tennessee to attend Il
friends nursc-Graduation cXcr-
ciScS. has gone on To Washington,
u. c.. before returning home.
Mcsscrs. Thomas and Clifford
Ownby and Thurman LYDIA visit
ed Mr.. and Mrs, Millard LYDIA last
Sunday afternoon.
Several young people and a
number of older ones from this
community enjoyed camping
trip at Pisgah National Forest re-
Gently and also one near the Mills
River community.
Miss Agnes Freeman spent a
few davs with Miss Francis LYDIA
of Hendcrsonvillc last week.
4 number of friends and rcla-
tivcs called on Mrs. Mary j. LYDIA
last Sunday.
Sturgeon Freeman and Fred
Hudcins called on Roy LYDIA Sun
day. L,o
Harland Lcdbetter, who has
been employed near Rhodhlss Tor
several months, has returned
home. ,,
Zeb Nix called on Andrew
LYDIA recently. NJ,
Thomas Ownby of Reedy Patch;
spent Monday night with Mr.. ana
Mrs. Homer Reid.
Mr. and Mrs. Gay LYDIA ana
daughters called at the home oil
MIR and Mrs. r. n. Freeman Sun
day. ,o,,.,,, i'm
nrovinp after an operation In
Winston-Salem. { 4.
Earl and Edgar Robertson 6
Canton, are visiting their uncle
and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Finley
Hill. ,r..;,o
were Sunday dinner guests Oh
their mother. Mrs. Jason Ownby.
Miss Grace Ownby spent Sun
day with Miss Beulah Brown.
Mrs. Walter Freeman and son;
Johnnie Lee; Mr.. and Mrs, LIoya
Edney and son, Hal; Mrs. II: -
Freeman and children, Ena; Nell
Dorleen, Wade, Sam and II. D.,
and the Fowler Bows called at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Free
man Sunday. -
Rev. Zeb Laughter and grand
daughter, Maubia, visited Mes
| danes Mary Haydock, Molly Nc
Iaughlin, J. l.. Ownby and Mary
u. LYDIA and Mr.. and Mrs: Mil
lard LYDIA Wednesday morning
The times-news., 1937-05-24
UNO

UNO, May "a. A bountiful
birthday dinner was given to j. l..
Whitaker Sunday, who was cele-
brating his seth birthday. Those
present were Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Whitaker and son, Joe, of Shelby
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Whitaker and
children of Union, S. c.; Mr.. and
Mrs. Mearn Whitaker and daugh-
ter. Belva of Cane Creek: Mrs.
Nora Prince Of Florida; Mrs. A.
A. Prestwood and daughter,
Betty, and J. b. Whitaker and
children.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Cox were
the dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Griffin Sunday.
Miss Nora Love called on Miss
Pearl Justice Thursday.
Miss Golda Lanning, who has
been employed ut Hcndersonville,
is spending some time with her
mother, Mrs. S. b. f. Lanning,
Misses Evelyn and Pauline
Maxwell, who is employed at
ASheVllle, are spending lew
days with their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Maxwell.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. John
Sumner a boy, May 6, at Noun
tain Sanatorium.
Mrs. Nora Pierce, who has been
visiting her father, }. l.. Whltak-
er, left last Sunday for her home
in Mulberry. Fla.
Mrs. Paul Holbcrt had rs her
supper guests Monday night
Misses Gladys and Euna Belle
Griffin and Olga Rogers.
Mrs. S. r. Pickcns called on
Mrs. l.. Levi Thursday.
Those calling at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. L. S. Griffin Sun
day of last week included Misses
Ehirlcy Griffin of AshcviIlc,
Gladys and Euna Belle Griffin,
Messrs. Amos and Evans Goforth
and Greeley Griffin of Knoxville,
Tenn.
The times-news., 1937-05-24
POLITICS OVERSTEPPING LIMIT IN
APPOINTMENTS
(By BRUCE CATTON)

(By BRUCE CATTON)
If anything ought to be obvious in Wash
ington these days, it is the fact that we
have got far beyond the point where we
can safely let party politics have hand in
the naming of government servants.
That worked fairly we'll during our early
history, when the federal government s
machine was relatively small and affected
only few people. But to go on with it in
an era when the government is doing
things which affect every individual in the
country is sheer madness.
An illuminating case in point is the trou-
BILE which is now besetting the Social Sc
curity Board.
Rodney butcher pointed out the other
day that the Senate voted into an appro-
priation bill a harmless-look little rider
requiring that all of the Social Security
Boards appointees who receive more than
$4,000 a year must be confirmed by the
Senate.
Now the Social Security Board is going
to have to administer the most tremendous
insurance scheme ever conjured into being.
Upwards of 26,OOO,0O0 Americans are con-
tributing to the funds which it is to care
for and dispense. 1t will need consider
able corps of lawyers, economists, lnsur-
ance experts and executives, and it is to
the interest of the entire country that these
people be chosen on basis of pure merit.
Practically all of these experts will fall
in the -S5000-a-year class. And
what the Senate is trying to do is remove
them from the merit system and make po-
litical patronage out of their appointment.
Itwould be hard to think of more COM
pletely indefensible bit of political chican-
cry than this.
To the credit of the House of Represen-
tatives, it has voted to put all Social Sc
curity Board ppointeeS-eXperts, lawyers
and all-under straight civil service rules.
The disputed bill is now in conference !;
and butcher reports that the Senate con-
ferees, who are resisting this effort to es-
tablish the merit system, include such emi-
nent statesmen as Senators Glass of Vir-
ginia, Byrnes of South Carolina, Russell of
Georgia, Adams of Colorado and Steiwer
How is stand like that to be defended
on any rational basis? The answer is clear:
tisn't. We could endure that sort of thing
so years ago, when government employees
were comparatively few; we can't possibly
endure it now, when they are many and
have responsibilities which affect the lives
of all of us.
We have heard good deal of loose talk
lately about the destruction of the Ameri-
can form of government. 1t ought to be
pointed out that in the long run no surer
way of destroying it could be devised than
to give it ever-increasing duties-and COM
pei it to meet them with stats of ''experts"
chosen by party hacks for political advan-
4 tage.
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the Weaknesses OF his Iathcr anu
the shortcomings of his mother.
He is not fit for the recognition
of decent people
Many a person could have pro-
duced or could produce an enter
tanning narrative by exposing the
flaws in his father and the faults
in his mother, but probably he
considered - and rightly - that
the end would not justify the
means.
The Biblical command to honor
thy father and thy mother IS not
given only for the benefit of the
father and the mother. All the
The times-news., 1937-05-24
BIBLE THOUGHT
REFUSING TO READ CAN'T CHANGE
THE BIBLE

The Courier publishes an interesting comment
from a Palestine missionary to the effect that the
Arabs dislike to buy the Bible because they say it
promises to give their land to the Jew, and they
say it promises to give their land to the Jew, and
they say that the promise to Abraham still holds
good. They are right concerning the promise, but
their refusal to buy and read the Bible will not
prevent the ful6ment of its propheeies.-From
Prophecy.
The times-news., 1937-05-24

"Thcrc is Il generation" says
Solomon, "that curseth their fa-
ther, and doth not bless their
mother"
A well-known contemporary au-
thor created a best seller minute
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ly descr l b / n &
what Il rotter his
father was and
what a mess his
IN O { h eT. One
man after read
ing the b o o k
dashed it to the
floor with an
oath. 81 haven {
common respect
for that bird"
he declared, Tc-
fer'ing to the
author. "Hc has
dclib era t e | Y
made capital of
The times-news., 1937-05-24

When Nazis can't eat all they order at
the cafe, they are ordered to keep the left
overs in their pockets to eat later. Even
the lemon meringue?
The times-news., 1937-05-24

Thieves are stripping Houston, Tex, of
its rnanhole covers. Are we finally on the
trail of that tough guy who uses them to
play tiddlywinks?
The times-news., 1937-05-24

School children will be wary of that
machine which grades test papers. They
know there's only One jackpot in every
$50 plays.
The times-news., 1937-05-24

King George vi should have known better than
to jig dance in ermines and crown. Next thing the
economy party will have him doing the court jes-
ter's work.
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-
(Lesson FOR Nay % -G Genesis
25:27-3f; 27: 4l-45).
We hear much in these days of
depression and high h-prcssuring,"
about people selling out" every
person "having n price" upon his
honor, and the lengths unScrupul-
Gus and scheming men will 20 TO
exploit or supplant others. It's all
a pretty good rehearsal of that
unenviable family life of Esau
and Jacob, Isaac and Rcbckah.
Their family life is being success
fully dramatizcd.
A ravenous appetite was ESau's
weak point. He has many dis
ciples.
The lust for power, influence,
position and goods moved Jacob.
to buy out" twin brother. with a
mess of bread and pottagc of
lcntiles" and something to drink.
The conspiracy Of Rcbckah and
her son, Jacob, to take advantage
of husband and father in his
blindness presents another sorry
spectacle.
In this era, when muItitudcs Of
civic organizations are cnthuS-
iaStic to improve business and
general conditions of community
life. what should be their attitude
as bodies toward conditions which
dividual life? Some civic organ
izations stress hcipfuincss 10 un-
dcrpriviIcged children. Should
they be equally Interested in the
conditions which 'undcrpryilcgc'
childhood? II ~ more civic-ilk" to
go up the branch and clean up
polluted spring or TO chioilnate
and otherwise purify The pool be-
low?
VII! not nearly every CIVIC cup
in North Carolina nave To decide
lIIH vu'H'IVH '""' 90
elections 10 lcgaiizc The sale oi
intoXicantS? Business says:
"That's 4 moral issue. let the
That's Il political question. let the
church play hands off.
It's easy for q community. To
"scll out" isn't II? The price;
Promise Of tax money, less boot
leg liquor, convenience 10 those
who want Icgaii2cd inloNlcanlS.
-
Esau'S following j. to 30 pu'"'
but how about Jacobs tribe? now
far should vigorous civic organI-
zatiOns go m moulding pubic sen
timcnt against those IN the COM
munlty who scnem'. 10 'NPi"'cc
thcir rights, privileges and often
their earthly possessions, even
though such is legally done? Is
this another opportunity 10 labor
i'm behalf of those who become
mott lnl, th.u. ly,.p tIylc or
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Who can definitely prescribe
what should bc the bounds OF nc
livitica Of civic organizations that
work for the bcttcrmcnt of your
community?