davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1937-08-28
night Kin picked up his car at Thir.
tieth and Meridian streets"

tieth and Meridian streets"
MOST people know in this day of
electric refrigeration that the
idea Of preserving foods by low tenn
peratures was originated by Francis
Bacon. But few know the price that
that ingenious gentleman had to pay
for his discovery, and for the boon
which he passed pn to Americans
who do like their drinking water iced.
1t seems that Sir Francis once had
friend, an old woman who raised
fine black chickens. When he got
ready to make his cold storage expert
ment, he came to her house, bought q
black hen, plucked 1t, cleaned 1t and
stuffed 1t with snow to which he
added little salt. Doing all this he
caught cold. His experiment be-
came a success, and the word Of it
brought people in numbers to ask the
old woman about 1t, so that she did
fine trade with her chickens.
But Sir Francis died. He never got
over the cold
The story is told in the September
"Coronet" by Edna s. Sollars, who
says that the incident caused the
writing of the old nursery rhyme:
"Hickety, pickety, my black hen,
She lays eggs for gentlemen.
Gentlemen come every day
To see what my good hen doth lay"
THIS poem by Christine Stewart ap-
peared in the June Poetry World
1t seems to the reviewer very pretty.
NOON SEQUENCE.
Young Noon.
De moon is young
An de tide is high,
Sweet neD moon
Sailin' by:
Flood tide brunp
Me hdnd-nep SON,
An make me phtstlin'
Son-of-d-0un.
Gonna cut de olders,
Trim de spruce;
Wither de roots,
And dry de Juice;
Cutttn'. cuttin'.
All de time;
When de moon IL ,etO
An thin as dime
S,Deet nep son,
SUeet young moon;
Brother, brother,
Cut and prune.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
BIOGRAPHY MATERIAL ASKED
Writer Solici Cooperation in Doing Life of Edwin Markham
c. O. Propaganda in Picture Magazine Is Crude and
Seems Designed for the Ignorant.

Full Noon
Where ,pus you, brother,
When de moon Dds brt0ht7
On de bank Udittn'
Fo de fish to bite:
You don't ,oait long
When de moon Is fun,
Big an round
An beautiful
Beautiful,
Beautiful.
Plant 10 beans
On de sign of de fish.
10 make 20 ouerfoDtn' dish;
Plant 20 peas
When de tide u nigh,
An de big tuu
Moon Is IN de shy.
Full moon.
Full moon,
Full moon.
Waning Noon.
MY lope is blossom
OF de Daning moon,
Blossoms Of de moon, blossom, OF de
moon:
Honey-pdle petals dat
Will open soon, yes, open soon.
Honey-pale petals,
Soft, bro,0n skin:
Blossomin' 10 heart, In blossoms clad;
Little sad girl, o. little otrl sad.
Let loUe in.
Dark Moon.
De moon is dark
An de tide is lop,
Poor old tide,
Way do,cn lop.
Dark is my trouble.
Dark my skin:
Plant my 'tdters
Way do,Dn IN
De black old earth,
Black as sin.
Black as stn.
My old wonan's spirit,
Dark as de moon;
Ebbed awoy
Wild de tide at noon.
Ebbed awdy
To Jordan's shore,
Went NTH de tide
Fo' euer- more
In de dark of de moon,
Dark dark moon.
Evening star., 1937-08-28

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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-25
FOR A KNEEL DOWN STRIKE

To The News and Courier comes an appeal from
the Rev. J. Ernest Stack, Baptist minister and edi-
tor of The Christian American, published in Hous-
ton He would have the press of the country pub
lsh his call for a national kneel down strike
affairs in America have taken turn that pre-
sapes a long and terrific conflict between God and
Evil The church is faced with challenge which
means it must fight for its hottest rights or yield
to forces that will destroy the faith inherited from
our Christian fathers. ".'
1.-THE threat comes from Radicalism Those who
cannot see it are pitfuly blind. 1t has been sound
ed from shore to shore by leeches, from under a
goddess banner, who are leagued against all that
is sweet and pure and good. 1t VIII uproot the
flowers of religion and plant wicked godlessness
where they once bloomed.
81 am calling upon the Christians Of America to
join in a might kneel down strike. More radl-
Gals are now enrolled in various deceiving organ
izations in the United States than there were in
Russia when the.Revolution broke like bolt from
hell over that land. Within recent months we have
seen these radicals challenge the rights of private
property. We have witnessed them shouting down
the orders of legal authority and defying the
courts There has been insurrectiOn against organ
lied government"
If the BaptstS of the country shall heed this
call by the Rev. j. Ernest Stack and join in unit
ed kneel down strike against radcalism, politicians
in office who are lending aid and comfort to the
radicals will be likely to face about, for the Bap
lists in the United States numerous and infu-
entail. The protesting minister is right that the
church itself is trial.
If the politicians should win their amendment to
the federal constitution whereby the youth of the
nation would be controlled, the Baptist and other
churches would lose their influence over boys and
girls, for federal bureaucrats would be ordering
things with high hand. The home life of Amerl-
can youth would be strangled Family ties would
be severed as they have been severed in Russia
and i'm Germany The state would Supplant par
entS
The church should stay out of politics and gov
eminent should stay out Of the church. If freedom
is to persist in the United States, government must
leave the church to its own sphere and not en-
croach upon it. Government encroaching upon the
church encroaches upon the schools. 1t denounces
in schools by private groups, but fos-
tiers its own propaganda in schools. Government
controlled by radicals is hydra-headed monster.
Charleston News and Courier.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-25
EQUALITY BEFORE TAX LAWS

The Sixteenth Amendment says clearly that the
Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes
on incomes, from whatever source derived But
the United States Supreme court has held repeat
edly that this language does not mean what 1t says
1t has held that Congress cannot tax the salaries
of state, county or municipal employees, because
such a tax would invade state sovereignty. SINH
ary it has ruled that state taxation Of federal sal
aries would be an invasion of federal sovereignty
II even stretched this fantastic sovereignty theory
so far that in one case it ruled that state could
not tax oil produced on the land of an Indian be-
cause Indians are wards of the federal govern
ment and in another case it held that the federal
government could not tax the income which an OIL
company derived from state school land because
school children are wards of the state government
In view of these decisions, apparently the only
way by which all citizens be made equal before
all tax laws is by the adoption of another consti-
tutional amendment. Such an amendment has been
introduced by Rep. Cochran of Missouri. -l
Congressman, whose salaries are exempt from
state taxation have not been very enthusiastic for
this amendment. But if the doubly-taxed common
people of the country get mad enough, they can
make congress pull that proposal out of its dusty
pigeonhole and submit it for ratification by the
states.-Pittsburgh Press.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-25
CITES PERIL OF ToTALITARIANISM

"Soon or late the doctrine of "a free church IN
free state will be challenged by the totalltarlan
state" These words were said by the Rev. Dr.
John r. Sampey, president, before the southern
Baptist convention in New Orleans
He warned that centralized government may
make the churches bulletin boards for poiiticai
authorities. 1--WE are liberty loving people. May
we never surrender our historic leadership IN op-
tanning and preserving the liberty OF every man
to worship God according to the dictates OF MS
own conscience"
If the misnamed "child labor" amendment to
the federal constitution should be ratified, there
would be grave danger that the Baptists ana all
other churches would lose control of their YOUTH
that officious bureaucrats would dictate their IN
struction This would cripple the power OF the
churches seriously.
This amendment is one of the detectives Of the
Roosevelt administration, for the president has be-
slowed his approval upon it. 1t ties in with other
purposes of centralizing power in Washington
whereby bureaucrats would go about the land with
orders from the high and mighty. Liberty and to-
talitarianism have nothing in common.
1t is all very well to say that cit cannot happen
here" for there have been steady encroachments
upon the last surviving rights of the states. The
president has just said that his administration is
pursuing the broad detectives Of his first ter and
in that first term came schemes for regirnentng
the American people, for regulating their eomings
and goings, in principle. "a 49, -
Already have the American people surrendered
some of their hbrety. Their senator's and represen-
tatives in yielding their own powers to the White
House, indirectly but none the less effectually
yielded some of the rights Of the people. Day by
day the march of the bureaucrats goes forward
Charleston News and Courier.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-25
SKILLED LABOR
BADLY NEEDED
SURVEY SHOWS
Condition Found Serious in
I Variety Of Important
Industries ''

CLEVELAND, o., May 25.-A
serious shortage of skilled labor Ii
revealed by survey recently con
Quoted by the Warner & Swascy
Co.. Cleveland. makers of machine
tools and precision instruments,
The survey is based on replies to
QUESTIONABLE on the employ
ment situation received from 22y
concerns in a wide variety Of inn
portant industries, employing q
total of 79l, 500 people.
To the question, "Are you eX.
pericncing a shortage. Of skilled
labor?", 1913 firms said eyes. "a
said "no." Types of workmen
chiefly needed were given "A ma
chiniSts, tool makers, machine OPP
orators, lathe operators. boring
mill operators, automatic screw
machine operators, and mOIdcrs.
Questioned as to the best meth
cd Of training new men, 1873 firms
said the best way was to employ
them and teach them in their own
plants; seven firms recommended
Joint training schools cooperate g.
w run by industries; and i8 said
they relied upon trade and voca-
tional schools.
In answer to questions dealing
with transferring men from relief
to publ complement into private
industry, 1872 firms said That the
men they had employed during
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-25
Profit Sometimes Improbable
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

a place he wished he had the
money to buy. 1t was river front
property with a good house on il
and could be bought cheap. On
the minister's recommendation the
couple bought the property.
After the deal had been closed
the real estate agent who made
the sale went to the minister ano
handed him fifty dollars. The min
lister wanted TO know why. The
agent said, "You were instrumen,
tai in my making that sale to youI
friends. Therefore | feel it only
fair that / should give you part of
my commission.
The minister objected to taking
the money. The agent insisted, so
the minister, who needed the
money, finally gave in and took it.
Meanwhile, the couple were not
very well satisfied with their pur-
chase. They had been bitten by
mosquitoes and had gotten mala-
ria-which makes anybody feel
mean. They began to complain
that the minister had given then
bad advice. Later when somehow
or other they discovered he had
been paid fifty dollars for his part
in the transaction, their wrath
rose high.
"Now we know" they said bit.
terly, "why he was so keen tC
have us buy this property. We
thought he was acting unselfshly
but now it is plain enough he was
was just trying to make profit
out of us-and we don't like it n
all! Had we known he had an az
to grind we should have taken hi!
advice with q grain of salt"
The minister hearing of these
mutterings was genuinely dis
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-25
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
NEW BROOD OF LITTLE TWAS

1t is proposed to have the present congress pro-
vide the money which will be necessary for the
springing up of whole brood of little Twas over
the country.
These projects have to do with the Harvesting
of the rivers of the country for the production Of
hydro-electric energy.
They have other side-line purposes, of course
like that of the Santee-Cooper development, in
South Carolina which would clear the mosquitoes
out of that lower-country territory.
But, for the most part, power production is the
ultimate goal of these projects.
And this means that congress is being asked to
take the revenues derived from the taxpayers of
America and appropriate it for the purpose of
putting the government in competition with pri-
vate industry in the power field.
Is there any more justification for such use OF
money of the people that flows into Washington
through exorbitant and oppressive tax levies than
it would be to take similar revenues and use them
in order to put the government in competition with
the retail merchants of the nation or the cotton
mill owners or with the business of any other Seq
ment of our business society observ
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-25
SENATOR BYRD PROTESTS WASTE OF
PUBLIC MONEY IN VIRGINIA

Senator Byrd of Virginia has asked the
Resettlement Administration to abandon a
S1,5OO,0O0 project in his State because of
gross waste and inefficiency" in the man.
agement of same.
Senator Byrd addressed u letter to Sec
rotary Wallace requesting that as much as
possible be salvaged from this appropria-
ton and returned to the United States
treasury, to be applied to the reduction OF
the public debt.
The project to which Senator Byrd made
reference is known as the Shenandoah
Park Homesteads and is located in the val
ley of Virginia In his letter to Secretary
Wallace Senator Byrd says he believes it
to be his duty as representative of his
people in Congress to direct attention to
the "impracticabihty of this spending
scheme and the waste and extravaganza
with which the disbursement has been adj
ministered."
Senator Byrd states that in spite of any
original merit of this scheme it has been
devoid of practical and efficient opera
ton; the costs for buildings and equip
ment have been Outrageous" and the
buildings and equipment are estimated to
be worth not more than third of their
cost.
If the government should undertake to
realize fair return on the money eXpend-
ed for this experiment, either by sale or
rental of the properties, the excessive cost
would make it necessary to hold up and
rob the supposed benefciaries of the prof.
ect. They would be forced, Senator Byrd
says, to pay for the mistakes and eXtrava-
gances of the Resettlement Administra-
tion."
In conclusion Senator Byrd states that
''the sooner we can discontinue such alb
surd expenditures" as the Virginia project,
''the sooner we can restore the country to
financial solvency." ... .
When millions of Woodworking, sweat
ing citizens, staggering under the tax bur-
dens imposed by prodigal federal gov
eminent, read Senator Byrd's statement
and reflect that the Virginia experiment is
only one of thousands as useless, extrava-
giant and badly mismanaged, the wonder
is that the country does not speedily wit
ness that revolution" we have been hear
ing about A tenth of the provocation in
times past would have made the United
States too hot to hold the men responsible
for this state of affairs. .
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-25
THE NEW y e Al
IN WASHIN GTON
RODNEY DUTCHER.-,
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

Democratic senator's on the judi
ciary committee TO vote with ths
opposition:
"When Senator O'Mahoney
comes down here wanting help or
some sugar legislation, his con-
science won't be bothering him.
will il? Or when Senator Nc
Carran wants aid for his state"
Although this was seized upon
as a public threat of punishment
for Democrats failing to support
the President, friends of Farley
say he was speaking more in sor-
row than in anger, as if TO say:
"Those are our own boys ano
they're going to be ashamed Of
themselves"
But the poorly chosen words did
lust as much damage as if they
had meant what the opposition
said they implied.
THE administration could have
l. had q favorable report from
the judiciary committee on the
Norris amendment to its court bill
recurring concurrence OF more
than two-thirds of the members
of the court to invalidate an act
of Congress-if it had asked its
forces on the committee to sup
port that proposal.
Senators Hatch of New Mexico
and O'Mahoney Of Wyoming voted
for the Norris plan, although
both were among the 10 commit
tee members who voted against
the Roosevelt bill. But Chairman
Henry F. Ashurst and other
Roosevelt supporters voted against
it, defeating it. :.
Norris intends TO bring up his
amendment on the Senate floor,
however, and suspects that it
might PASS the upper house. 1t is
REPORTED that Roosevelt is not un-
favorable TO the idea, which
suggests that he might accept it
as part of compromise arrange
ment. -, corv,o. Inc,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-25

The other day a man proposed
to me that if | would invest in
his company, become one of its
directors, and furnish the COM
pany with list of my friends and
acquaintance, the company would
pay me a commission on every
sale made to those persons. That
was not an ethical proposition.
To use your influence to have
YOUR friends and acquaintance
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-25

tresscd. He went to the couple,
tried to explain his position, and
offered to give them the fifty dol
lars; but they, with sour smiles,
told him to keep it--that he GER
tainly had earned it.
In course of time the thing
happened which the minister had
thought from the first would hap
pen. A large commercial develop
ment set in along the river front
where the couple had bought their
place. And they sold out for cX-
actly ten times what they paid.
Then they stopped abusing the
minister and began Dragging
about their own kecnness and
foresight.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-25

the last two years mad, not come,
to any great extent. from these
sources. while 80 companies said
that they had taken i'm a number
of men from government prof.
Gets, and many firms said that
they were securing, active coop
Grafton from relief or public works
agencies in transferring men TO
industrial jobs.
While a number of firms en-
pressed the opinion that men on
relief or government projects be-
longed in. the uncmployable class,
comments on the whole indicated
that certain share or unskilled
men on relief or public. employ
ment could be trained and rcab-
sorbed into industry. One COM
.pany gave specific figures on this
subject. This company said:
eve have hired approximately
300 men from these sources. Of
which about 80 remained: balance
released or quit Majority either
lack skill or have 40 desire to
work"
"With apparently practically all
Of the skilled workers of the coun-
try already working" Philip f..
Bliss. president Of Warner &
Swascy, said in commenting on
the QUESTIONABLE, Industry might
at least make a broader effort TO
try out men on relief on federal
payrolls--just as il today must Of
necessity experiment with young
,er men now coming into the en-
ploymcnt field. believe that with
in the next few years industry
will have need Of all the men
which can possibly be trained dur
ing that period.
according to the answers TO
the QUESTIONABLE, majority opin-
ion indicates that the best method
10 train men is to employ them
and try them out inside the plant.
OF course this involves sorting out
the competent from the incompc-
tent. but in the process industry
stands To gain certain number
Of new, skilled workmcn."
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-25

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Court
w Justice Willis Van Devanter
resigned from the bench when he
did, according to friends, because:
He had been wanting 10 resign
for some time and the new retire
ment law penSioning justices at
$4,000 q year strengthened his
desire.
He figured that Roosevelt'S pro-
poSal to pack the Supreme Court
was in all probability licked.
He relished the thought that if
there were still life in the plan his
resignation at the psychological
moment, just as the Senate Judi
ciary Committee was about to
vote on the proposal, might serve
as final death blow.
There is no question, however,
that the resignation did serve as a
coup de grace for the Presidents
Supreme Court bill in its present
form. 1t. was the signal for quick
change in White House strategy
and private admissions for the
first time that Roosevelt would
have to make much larger conceS-
sionsf toward q compromise than
he had anticipated
..e
TT was the first time anyone
- could remember when the
President wrote a letter accept
ing resignation without address
ing the resigning official by his
first name.
1t wasn't "My dear Willis" II
was my dear Mr.. Justice Van De-
vanter." And the President was
hardly in a position to express re-
gretS.
For that matter, the justice did
not write to "Dear Frank, either
i'm FARLEY, who calls himself
y the administrations whipping
boy" is taking another beating
and it's his own fault.
New attacks were launched on
. hin when he was quoted as say
.nc. apronos the decision of two
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-25

buy something OF
other when they
understand that
you are going to
make a profit if
they do buy is
one thing; but to
give them the
impression that
your interest is
wholly unselfsh
while you are Sc
cretly making a
profit on them,
is altogether an
other thing. The
one is legitimate:
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-25

the other is not, Tor II SaVOfS OF
deceit.
A minister friend of mine here
matter called "the minister, got
himself into a disagreeable situa-
ton by quite honorably accepting
fee on q sale made to two
friends of his, hereinafter called
"the couple"
The couple who lived in another
town, called on the minister and
told him they had decided to To-
cate in his town, and wished his
advice in purchasing a home.
1t so happened that at that
time the minister had his eye on
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-25
WOMAN. 80, WEEDS

RIMBEY, Alto. CUP. = Mrs.
John Sundberg, 80, twice widow
ed and grandmother of 81 chill
dren and great-grandmother OF
six, has Just been married here
for the third time. eLife begins at
So" she declared hf y Y "a ess.s. !!
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-25

Read this verse of Scripture again, and live in
the spirit of prayer so when things come up in our
daily walk, as they will, quietly let our
requests be made known unto God And remember
this: 1t is impossible for praying trusting soul
to be n worrying, fretting saint.-From Nuggets
of Truth by Mr. and Mrs c. H. c. Jackson.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-25

Remnants of the 1904 st. Louis worlds fair
have been dug up too late, it is feared, to be re-
r. vival for the current epidemic
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-25

Four new islands discovered by Russians in
northern Siberia probably will remain appropriated
until the next treason trial.