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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04

his plans being adopted one by
one. He secs one member of the
board after another presenting as
his own, idea after idea that he
himself fought for single handed
for two years.
But they are not Giving me
any credit for those things" Col
ter told his friend. "Thcy act as
if they had gotten those ideas
right out Of their own heads"
"Don't let that worry YOU" adj
viscd the friend. Usually when
men are persuaded to take for
ward steps they imagine, or
choose 20 imagine, they thought
of the moves themselves. One of
the saddcst Gricfs Of the pioneer
or crusader in almost every line
is that after he has painfully
blazcd trail, others take it up
and declare they discovered it.
But don't let that bother you.
What YOU want is results, more
than credit for them. You are get
ting results. Thank God for that"
II do" said Golfer fcrvcntly.
Then he added. but I'd like a
little credit. too"
There are persons who arc
leaders. But there are other per-
sons who are teachers Of leaders
leaders of leaders. Christ falls
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04

and cities. Not single city or
town was honest in order TO get
the money in their hands. They
reported twice or more as many
rs they should have done. simply
TO get the money. Please look at
the money invested in Henderson
county: the gymnasium at the
high school, good job but il
cost three or four times what a
county contractor would have
built it for; two projects in
Hoopcrs Creek township cost
from ten TO twenty times wha:
they should. One road off from
Good Luck made up Burnias
Mountain into a hole at the end,
cost eight or ten thousand dol
lars. and not worth 81 10 the tr"v-
cling public, then comes tac
shame OF all, the Hcndcrsoovi.!c.
Ashevilie airport-Sl2O,O0O on
more. The men that worked, the
honest ones. viii tell Won this
work they did. the time they put
in. was not worth 0uc-tontl what
i; has been. They cut drain ditch
cs 100 yards long ur more. COM
mCrcing like Other men would
commence an ordinary ditch. thea
went over at least six times, NOV
ing che OT; about two feet each
time. When finished ~ looked 90
he -Iput i0l. feet doom with tho
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04

First, his WGll-KnoWn SalcIy,
huoyancy, optimism, and conf
dence are as conspicuous as ever.
Second, the President believes
that at least one cause Of The stock
market decline, if not of the bust
ness decline itself, was DELHI
erately engineered plan by GER
tain groups intent on discrediting
the administration.
II must be remembered that
New Deal theory, however vague
il may be on some particulars, is in
general aimed at keeping the CAPT.
taliStic system functioning on all
six, if that be possible. The
President, you may be sure, be-
lieveS that practically all business
troubles are brought upon itself
by business.
The New Deal idea is that buSl-
ness men should be content with
small unit profits and make their
money out of volume. Meanwhile,
Doctor Roosevelt figures that his
Job is to keep business from
wounding itself and committing
mayhem on the general welfare
and that if one of his remedies
doesn't work, another will.
Coupled with this attitude is
the fact that the hate RooSe-
welt" attitude of most business
men has stirred up an increasing
irritation in F. D. r. He's good
hater" himself. 1t may or may
not be tough on the country. but
the man who felt four years ago
that he could depend on 90 per
cent of business to cooperate with
his program now feels that he can
depend on about 10 per cent and
that the rest of business, is so
selfish, as to require federal mas
terry. p4' uT" tuuCr ..r. -..ii fF
downright 1891. .NEA Service. Ina 7.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04

ever cause you are working for.
One can imagine you standing
some day before the Great White
Throne and hearing, "Well done,
good and faithful servant! They
gave you little credit down there,
but I'll give you plenty up here
where it will do you the most
good"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
HOW A BIGGER NAVY MAY LEAD TO
PEACE
(By BRUCE CATION

IL would De strange lHlIS IL tHS 1oui
new S6O,OOO,O00 battleshipS soon to be
added to the American navy should be the
means of leading the world back to dis
armament and peace.
Strange-but not unprecedented. For
however welcome the pill may be to the
anti-preparedneSs camp, 1t remains true
that it was a super-powerful American
navy which led directly to an effective
peace movement in the early l92OS. II we
had not had truly gigantic naval force
at that time, the armament race of today
and the Asiatic War which is now being
waged might we'll have come decade
sooner than they did come.
For it does seem to be true that United
States fleet which is a match for all COM
ers is one of the most potential arguments
for peace.
Go back little way in history and see
how it worked out the other time.
An enormous naval building program
was started by the United States during
the war. When the war ended, this pro-
gram was continued. As we swung into
the decade of the twentieS, America had a
fleet which no other nation on earth could
match. Great new battleships and battle
cruisers mightier than anything afloat
were about to be put into commission.
Auxiliary craft in swarms existed to sup
plement them.
And because no other nation could match
Americas wealth, no other nation could
hope to catch up. Within very few years
America would be the unQuestiOned mis-
treSS of the seas.
That single truth was the dominating
factor at the Washington arms conference.
We initiated that conference; the stupen-
dous reduction program which grew out OF
it was initiated by us. Because Secretary
Hughes was in position to say, Take 1t
or leave it, the other nations took it
and were glad to take it.
Naval reduction was not the only fruit
of that conference, either. The far eastern
situation was tense. A war was obviously
in the making-a war which looked GER
tain to involve America. That tension was
reduced and that war was averted. The
Washington conference bought for the
world decade of peace, as we'll as an end
to a ruinOuSly costly arms race.
1t was able to do those things largely be-
cause Uncle Sam was the man who could
put the most chips on the table.
Right now the world is fast approaching
q new crisis in its affairs. Once again it is
staggering under an arms race; once again
the clouds are black on the oriental hori-
zon. Sooner or later, some one must move
for conference at which these pressures
can be lightened.
And when that day comes, a first-class
American fleet-buttressed by the great
new battleships soon to be built-might be
just the factor which would make it a sue
cess.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04

charltaOlc lnSti-
tuition.
Soon after TAX
ing office Golfer,
who was 4 pro-
CrtSSiyc, humane
person, + o u II d
that the affairs
of the inStiJu-
ton were in de-
plorablc c on d i
ton. The whole
cstablis h m G n {
had the dry rot,
its supcrintend-
ent was q quar-
ter of q century
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04

Mayor La Guardia tells New York voters
he found on taking office that Tammany
had put 8S8 unnecessary workers on the
city payroll. If Tammany was that mod
crate, then there must be something in the
talk that it has reformed. r.--e
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
BIBLE THOUGHT
"HE is ABLE" (Eph. S:20)
Now pray to God that ye do no evil
10 Cor 1S.Tl

We cannot force those whom we love to do right
Our words to them may be ineffective, but there IS
one thing we can do. We CAN PRAY. God can d"
what we cannot and our part is definitely to place
those for whom He has made US concerned in His
hands.-Douald Gray Farmhouse in Revelation"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04

Mechanism to build firm prosperity is
urged by PreSident.-headline. Something
to replace the horse and buggy Chief JUS
tice Hughes drives, no doubt.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04

Italy is now backing Germany's effort to
regain her lost colonies. The time Italian
help would really have been appreciated
in Berlin, however, was back in 1914.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
LEADERS OF LEADERS
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

A few yeas ago man( lets
call him Golfer was named by
the governor of his state to the
board of directors of public
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04
GREAT ROOFING ERA: Why

GREAT ROOFING EEA: why
do so many business activities
come and go in tidal waves? Last
spring and carly summer the
painting period was on. Home
owners dressed up their buildings
to rent or sell. City and county
are now in the midst of a great
roofing activity. By reading the
daily account of its activities
one would think that the Rigby-
Morrow company was just about
roofing the world, including two
of it's own buildings, which it
didn't report, but Emil Latt,
speaking Of activities in the
building line, casually divulgcd
the information that October was
the greatest roofing" month in
the history of the Hcndcrsonvillc
Supply & Coal company, which
placed four car loads Of roofing
materials of various kinds on
many kinds of jobs. Mr.. Latt
thinks that many houses built
during the boom have come into
need of roof repairs or new roofs
and he assigns this as the princi-
pal cause of the raging, roofing
fever.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-11-04

'PoSSUM SPECIALIST: Fur.
man Summey, known as Gid,
short nickname for Gideon, d.
vulgcs the information that he
conducts IN "Opossum Syndi-
cate" whereby he furnishes his
skill and that Of his faithful pos
sum dog and takes white folks"
out hunting the pouting, gIinning
marsuDials. A further feature Of
the Syndicate" and one in which
Gid has highly specialized, keep
| inc within his own family kitchen
the secrets thereof. is the cooking
of the 'possum. He says he has
actually reduced this to a culinary
art and doesn't hesitate to men,
ton names of his patrons who are
| listed among Hcndcrsonvlllc's
professionals men.
A GREAT SPORT: II must be
great thrill for one who seem
inglv has outgrown such sports to
enjoy an occasional 'possum hunt
now that the frost has bitten the
pcrsimmon, one of the animals
principal autumn foods.
II was exciting to hear the
faithful doc trail and tree one
of the nasty. soldering things.
What a "kick" there was in locat-
ing him perched far up yonder on
limb of q tree, the feeling of
which was often no small Job.
The most tense moment came as
the tree fell. Dogs had to be held
so they would not rush under the
falling tree and yet they had to
be released in time to catch the
prey. which sometimes rapidly
fled, though a possum is slow
runner and is more apt to play
"possum' and pretend that he is
dead.
A SPURNED DISH: Gid Sum-
mcy's profession would be a lost
art if all families regarded the
'possum as our did. We brought
in many of the animals but moth
or never served one from the
family table. We regarded them
As filthy animals but our neigh.
Dor and uncle on the other side
of the branch always provided a
cash market for those we deliver
ed to him, 3" '' We. ~
Evening star., 1937-11-02

but desired only freedom" to develop
natural resources and the same treat
ment in developing them as "the
United States and other countries are
receiving now"
He asserted Japan had no territorial
ambitions IN China and had no inten-
tion to set up another Manchukuo.
/, Japan wants only raw materials
and market. We are an industrial
people," he said.
Evening star., 1937-11-02
;an tell you that. We viii f,sht Rus.

can tell you that. We win fight Rus
sia."
He said Japan would make these de-
mands In the event China Is defeated: :
/. Cessation Of what he described Is
China's national policy against Japan.
2. Extension Of the demilitarized
zone around the International Settle
ment in Shanghai.
3. Chinese recognition Of Manchu-
kuo.
4. SOME special arrangement
commercial and economic-in North
China whereby Japan would have
more freedom to bring about peaceful
cooperation"
Denies Preference Sought.
Takatshi said Japan did not want
any special preference in North China
Evening star., 1937-11-02
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Nov. PA prediction
that q new world war will break out
within year unless the Chinese jap
anese conflict Is ended before that time
was voiced yesterday by shingoro Ia
kaishi, Japanese publisher Of the
Toxic newspaper Nichi Nichi.
"The present war may well become
another world war;" he said. IF the
conflict goes on another year, Russia
probably will come in--and that will
be the beginning of another great war.
Germany will back Japan, France has
Evening star., 1937-11-02
Italy Tops Auto Deaths.

OF four countries recently considered
In an accident count. Italy has the
greatest number Of automobile deaths
per 10000. The other three countries
considered were the United States,
Sweden and Germany.
Evening star., 1937-11-02
Japanese Publisher Fearful
War Will Grip World in Year

q military alliance to support Russia,
and other nations may not be able to
help becoming involved.
Our hope Is that America will re-
main neutral-will remain good
judge"
On Goodwin Mission.
Takaishi is en- route to Europe on a
goodwill mission. He said he spoke
from knowledge gathered in converse
tions with Japan's wrr ministers, cab
met and Prime Minister, and declared
Japan will not draw back step, !
The Omaha guide., 1937-05-01
President Rhoads Upheld

We are happy to note a pub
lie statement signed by several
individuals, appearing in the
Houston Informer which says
in part: President Joseph FL.
Rhoads has spent eight success
full years at Bishop College. He
came to the college following
the administration Of members
Of the white race who had led
us successfully for 48 years.
This humble son Of the Negro
race who was educated at Bis
hop College stepped out upon
the scene and took the task
nth courage, dignity and honor.
During his administration We
have seen many changes and de
The Omaha guide., 1937-05-01
NEGRO OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
(By William Pickens for A N P)

~~~~~~-.In Chicago, as elsewhere, colored mothers, like other
mothers, are hired to be wet nurses and to suckle babies whose
own mothers are unable to nurse them. But these eolored moth
ers had recently to go on strike because they found that white
women We're being paid at a higher rate to give their milk than
the colored women. This was an absolutely excuseless discrim
imation, with economic repressive aims solely; for many of the
most noted white men of American history were nurtured in
infancy on the milk of black women. Colored women have never
been known to give inferior milk. Nobody would be silly enough
to propose such a discrimination among the cattle of the field;
that milk from a black herd should be- sold at a lower figure
than milk from a white herd. Humans may be sane toward low
er animals and insane toward each other. Which reminds me
that when Frederick Douglass and othe Nego Aboitionist agi
tators were visiting in Evansville, Wis, the hotel put the color
ed men at q separatetabbe in the dining room; whereupon Doug
white horses and black horses eating out Of the same trough in
lass; who had just been out to the hotel stables where he 'saw
peace" remarked; "From which l conclude that the horses of
GAINESVILLE are more civilized than its people"
Another Negro strike phenomenon is illustrated by the
recent case in Cairo, Ill, There a body of relief strikers, 30
per cent Negroid, went for a ''sit down" in the relief headquar
tiers. What happenedi Well, the officers of law and order and
the possess of citizens simply marched IN and made the "sit
downers'' git up" That shows what officers can do when Ne
groes violate the rules; in other words, it proves what off
GERS can do when they want to do 1t.
American police, sheriffs and courts would within &c
days devel op the best technique for handling mobs and lynch
ers inn the history of the world, if a few ~foolhardy black mobs
would just start out and try to lynch white people.
So, whatf Selahl 4
The Omaha guide., 1937-05-01
WE REVERSE OURSELVES
(From The Danville (Va.) Register)

When . mob Of 100 white men seize two Negoes in Miss
issippi, haul them in a bus to the scene Of a murder they had
just denied committing, and torture them to death by soaring
their bodies with a blow torch, congressman with legalistie
minds can still get up in the House of Representatives to argue
that an antilynching bal constitutes an unconstitutional inva
sion of the rights of states.
On the morning of the very day two men were ~fiendishly
murdered near Duck Hill, Miss, an editorial appeared in this
paper reitorating our opinion that though the detectives Of the
sntilynching bill pending in congress were commendable, we
did not believe that the enactment of such a law would curb
the evil.
But though we still hold these doubts, we herewith re
verse ourselves completely and call upon the Congress Of the
United States to take any action which in its opinion gives any
promise of checking such barbarism Of the South. 1t is no long
er a question of what We think. SO long as dry considerable
group of men believe that a plan they propose has any chance
Of preventing such fiendish acts or Furnishing such fiends, we
will hereafter throw whatever influence we have behind their
plan.
And we call on every fair minded man and every warm
hearted woman among our more than 10000 readers, who are
proud that they are Southerners, to join us in doing our part
to remove this stigma from the South. Today, If you do not rel
ih the stencil Of burning flesh and do not enjoy the screams
of tortured men, telegraph or write Hon. Thomas q. Burch,
Member of Congress from the Fifth Virginia Dstriit, and the
Hon. Carter Glass and the Hon. Harry L. Byrd, Senators of
Virginia, and ask them to support the Gayagan Bill or any 9th
er bill which offers any hope of preventing %lynchings.
Tell them that the honor of the South is more import
ant than the rights of the Southern States.
Tell them the South earnestly implores the Federal Gov
eminent to do what the Southern States have failed in doing.
Tell them the Southern people are decent and honest and
human and not fiends as a Mississippi mob represented them
Tell them that a blow torch has convinced you, as it con
vinced The Register, that representatives of a d~isgraced South
should bow their heads in Congress and vote in favor of the
most drastic anti lynehing bin submitted.
The Omaha guide., 1937-05-01
OPINIONS
CalUrn's Digest
By Floyd J. Cabin

part of the program coming
from New York and the other
from Hollywood, Calf. AS Good
man Islands by'' and then
goes ION the air. with his two
colored coworkers, and as all
America leafs it up" in mil
lions of homes, and the audi
ence in the broadcast theatre
brings down the house, with
applause after seeing the two
colored lads perform, 1t is
enough to make one hopeful
that the future holds bigger
and better things for Negro
youth.
The Omaha guide., 1937-05-01

Velopments take place. The col
lege has grown with the times.
The Oscar A. Fuller Memorial
Hall has been dedicated to our
services. The gymnasium which
brings pleasure to thousands of
college and high school students
as well ias friends Of athletics
was erected in 1885. The cam
.pus has been converted into a
yeritable garden Of flowers.
again under the admins
tration of President Rhoads, the
School of Religion has become
an outstanding feature of the
college.
President Rhoads is a for
ward moving character and he
stands for all that is best for
humanity"
This testimonial to the worth
Of President Rhoads as an ex
ecutiye and educator with Wis
ion is timely and true. No one
should be allowed to besmirch
this record of constructive ser
vice.
The Omaha guide., 1937-05-01
An Echo
From My Den
BY S. Il. Gilbert

As l sit here in my den, med
itating as it were, there is still
ringing in my ear the echo of
the Third Annual Spring Mu
sical, which was innate in the
mind OF MI. L. L. McVay and
for three years has indeed been
a tremendous success.
Sunday it was my privilege
to observe this young man in
all his splendor, as he went
about his work. His sincerity Of
purpose was indeed exemplified
IN his response to perhaps the
greatest ovation that has ever
been given an individual in On
aha, when 1900 black Ameri
cans sang the name Of McVay
to the tune of blessed Be the
Tide" so yehemently, that lit
orally the walls of Pilgrim Bap
list church rocked in the spirit
OF praise to a great man, one
who had the vision to bring in
to being q project designed ac
cording to his own response;
Folks l will be satisfied if by
these services there can be
brought about between the
choins of Omaha, harmony and
o spirit of goodwill toward oil
mankind" Closing he uttered,
Forget McVay and strive to
carry oat q spirit of harmony.
To me this statement, com
ing from the originator of such
q colossal affair, was indeed q
browning climax to the most
wonderful song program of the
season, proving that a man can
render an invaluable service to
the community in which he
lives in an unselfish way. May
McVay continue to work with
a spirit of unselfishness and by
his work be able to realize the
propagating of such a spirit in
to the lives of every black Amer
lean in Omaha.
The Omaha guide., 1937-05-01
Marian Anderson's Rise

The story of the rise of Mar
ian Anderson is now being told
on all sides. The latest and most
thrilling account ifs found in
the New York Post-a special
feature article by Michael Mok,
who tells how Miss Anderson
came up from humble circum
stances in her Philadelphia
home, to her present world re
nown. In fact, it was only twel
We years ago that Miss Ander
son had won in a competition
which started her definitely ON
the road to fame.
We are getting a new set of
heroes, and we are proud. Ne
gro youth is taking Its place in
the present scheme of things:
Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Fred
d. Patterson, William Fl. Has
tie, Hubert T. Delany, Marian
Anderson, Jane Bolin, Elsie Aus
tin, and many others. 1t is well
that we furnish new evidence
of our ability, as a group, to
achieve.
The Omaha guide., 1937-05-01

yancement to the race and ma
ton, regardless of traditional
partisan endearment or animos
ity.
The drift began with q northern
migration brought on by the
World War. The effective Ne
gro vote in the North began to
split more and more evenly be
tween the two parties. Many
Negroes cast their ballot for
Davis against Coolidge many
more for Al Smith against Her
bert Hoover and still more for
Roosevelt against Hoover. The
drift to Roosevelt against Ian
don assumed the proportions of
a landslide.
In the last two elections the
overwhelming majority of the
Negro votes werecast for Roose
welt and the New Deal. If the
COP ever hopes to regain its
former Negro following it will
have to formulate a new appeal,
different from that upon which
it has relied since the days of
reconstruction 1t must outbid
the Democrats in wooing his
support.
The New Deal has effected re
markable changes IN political
attitude and alignment The Re
publican party which tradition
ally upheld strong federal auth
GRITTY against the claims Of state
rights, has now reversed itself
in the opposite direction. The
southern Democrats have out
stripped their northern copart
isans in the opposite direction