The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-17
LITTLE BUSINESS TAKES THE RAP


To use a mixture of slang and under
world iargon, Little Business is Just be-
fore taking the rap for the transgressions,
fanciful or otherwise, of its brother, Big
Business. Those small business men who
have not realized this in the past tour
wears, and particularly in the past year,
will from now on have it forcefully I'M
pressed on their minds, and, what is more
important, on their books.
Assuming the position, though it may
be a bit far-fetched, that all the economic
ills of the country are due to Big Bust
ness, then the big fella should be hailed
into court and made to suffer for his sins.
But even man-made justice would dictate
that his little brother should not be pun
ished.
Just what is meant by Big Business
The term largely implies large corpora
ton, having thousands of employees, men
at its helm who have accumulated millions
of dollars, and thousands of stockholders,
greedy for ill-gotten dividends. Little
Business is the fellow like you and l; the
fellow who owns a small manufacturing
plant, store, or other form of business.
As basis for argument, it may be as
sumed that the big fellow has always OPP
pressed his fellow man, employed women
and children at small wages for long
hotrs. and in general stuffed his pockets
with dirty money. But who is willing to
,t,o ~, huo;poss man has ever
followed this practice? The small bust
ness man for the most part can call his
workers by their first names. He has their
interests at heart; they attend the same
church; belong to the same lodge; and for
thd most. part have worked for common
interest.
But who now stands at the bar of New
Dehl justice? Even before FDR and others
started remaking the nation in the inter
ests of economic justice, RFC was aiding
the big boy in keeping his business going
with loans of millions. Since that day the
starving have been fed, the naked clothed,
the farmer relieved, labor organized and
practically put at the helm of business, the
homes of honest people saved, youth taken
from dens of iniquity and placed at the
harmless task of conservation, the aged
made secure in their last days, the veter
ans bonussed. In short, piece OF pie has
been cut for all-an except the little Tel
low who had managed to carry on, whose
home had no mortgage and needed no new
rodf.
Surely the little fellow deserves some re
ward, and some reward he is going to get
From here on out benevolent Uncle San
will be pinching every pot. This year To-
every dollar paid an employe Big-he ca
Sam will get his two cents for social Sc
currity. When the general assembly get
through county taxes will increase abou
25.cents per hundred dollar valuation 10
social security; licenses must be paid, cap
ital stock, and what have you. And com
another March Is, if there's anything lei
Uncle and Allen Maxwell will both b
there with an outstretched hand. =,
How does this affect the big fellow?
corps of experts figures the cost and TO
cost then becomes only another factor i
the cost of production, something TO
Boake Carriers Johnnie @. Public to worr
about.
Yea, verify, the little fellow now begin
to understand what the Good Book mean
when it says in effect that them what hs
gets and from them what has not shall b
taken that which they have. The little fe
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