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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-18

WASHINGTON. Despite prcSi-
w Genital hints, platform prom
Ises and a great deal OF CNplora-
ton, the administration is as FAR
rs ever from a concrete pro-
poSal to Congress for legislation TO
,urb monopoly and replace present
Ineffective antitrust laws.
This can be said in spite OF
the fact that the President and
Assistant Attorney General Rob-
ert II. Jackson, head OF the
Justice Departments antitrust
section, discussed the issue at
length during +. D. RS recent
fishing trip.
Roosevelt wants a Roosevelt
issue" for tho 1893 congressional
campaigns. The monopoly issue
would &c good one. 1t ties up
with the high cost Of living and
price increases such as at least
helped bring on the depression.
If any anti-monopoly program
is ag.'ccd upon it will almost sure
~ seek TO hit at monopoly by use
Of the taxing power. Inter-
corporate dividend and graduated
corporation taxes might be used.
But il also has been seriously
proposed in conferences that 4
graduated prohibitivc tax might be
laid upon any corporation which
does more than a stipulated per-
centaCe of tic business in its in
duStry
GOVERNOR GEORGE D. AIKEN
" of Vermont, who wants a Re
publican party housekeeping, re-
minds you of ALI LanGon of Kan
Sas. At least, several correspond
ents who travelled with Landon IN
the last campaign al then inter-
viewed Aiken at his press confer
ence the other day in Senator
Gibson's office, found a very strong
resemblance. z =.
The two.@men appear TO, De
about the same age, although
Landon is about five years Older
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-18
BATTERY FED TURKEYS:

That's somewhat 4 new term for
turkey raising practices in Hen
dcrsonvillc. At any rate. DR.. VI.
S2amatoIski'S Mills River farm is
putting the birds through the
PAGES, denying them the privlI"g"
of toughcning up by wandering
over fields and through the woods
and roosting in high, open places.
VI. X. Cox. produce man, has en-
gagcd 80 of these birds for his
holiday ,radc.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-18
RAIL EMPIRE IDOLS WRONGLY
IDENTIFIED
CIV BRUCE CATION

The patient people who got the job OF
picking up the pieces which Uttered the
landscape after the crash of the late Van
Sweringen brothers, railroad magnates, are
still at it. Latest evidence of their work
comes in schedule of claims, debts and
liabilities for the estate of Mantis j. Van
Sweringen, filed recently in the probate
court at Cleveland.
According TO this schedule, Mantis j..
Van Sweringen managed to get himself
into debt to the tune of SOS, 123,76O before
he died. Among the claims listed are one
of S46,O79.96 by j. p. Morgan & Co.,
and three running TO more than 100000
600 filed by three Cleveland banks-two
of which have gone busted.
The estate against which the claims are
filed. according 10 the administrator, Trat-
ton NJ Dye is "hopelessly inSolvent.'
Yet that is only part of the picture.
Claims totalmg slightly more than $5l,-
100000 have been allowed against the es-
tate of the late Drris p. Van Sweringem.
Some six weeks ago, a schedule of claims
running at $21 100000 was filed against
the partnership estate of the brothers.
All of this must inspire vague feeling
of awe in the breast of ordinary John Citi-
zen. who considers that he has done some
thing notable when he runs up a debt of as
much as 500. Anyone who can put J. p.
Morgan on the cuff for $46,0OO,000, and
then die and leave nothing to pay the debt
with. has passed into the realms of fable.
But the Van Sweringen debt is worth
considering, not as a natural marvel like
the Grand Canyon, but as a symbol.
Until the debacle actually arrived, the
brothers Van Sweringen were commonly
accepted as miracle workers and diStin-
guished citizens. Yet their contribution to
the life of their time lay in the realm of
frenzied finance rather than solid conStruc-
ton.
They belonged to the race of manpula-
tors. The dizzy pyramid of holding COM
panies they built up, the weirdly interloek-
ING chain of debts. could have been accept
ed as noteworthy achievements only by
people who had managed to confuse the
substance with the shadow.
There is distinction between the man
who works with things and the man who
works with money. 1t is illustrated-tO go
back in history bit-by the contrasting
careers of jim Fisk and Commodore Van
derbilt.
Both were very rich men, masters Of
high finance. But Fisk was financial ma
nipulator and nothing more; Vanderbilt
left his country a first-rate transportation
system. Fisk manipulated, Vanderbilt con-
structed. Fisk remains a symbol of the
"frenzied finance" of post-Civil years !;
Vanderbilt is symbol of the forces which
built up the country.
America has always hOnOred, and richly
rewarded. its doors. II is right that 1t
should. The trouble with the 192O's was
that we got confused, and gave the hon.
age that ought TO go to the doors to the
manipulators. We got our Vanderbilts and
our Jim Fisks mixed up.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-18

is rarely. If ever.
represented; yet
private interests
which stand &"
profit at public
expense are nj
ways there, with
the most cunning
of legal talent
and the m O $ I
clever of experts
who arc cXpCr,
i'm making black
appear white and
white Il p p q u 4
black. II is small
wonder the pub
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-18
HUMANE POULTRY KILLER

Have YOU mastered the secret ol
killing q fowl in such a way that
you can dry pick it while warm
and do much better job than
by Scalding? Farm Agent G. u.
White exhibits Il Humane Poul-
try Killer" gadgct by which the
third lobe Of the brain is severed.
Experts can punctmc this third
lobe with an ice pick or knife,
missing at times. Mr. Whites IN
strumcnt is supposed to do the
lob without bungling it. He says
this third lobe in some way con
trolls the muscles on nerves Of the
feathers, and that by scvcrlng II
the bird instantly rclaXcs or goes
through some peculiar process not
known TO most methods OF Killing
such rs ringing or cutting oil TN"
head. This makes it possible T."
strip the feathers without Scald-
ing. The higher class markets. h"
saws. will not accept Scaldcd birds
especially turkeys, caponS, etc.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-18
BIBLE THOUGHT
BUT THOU BETHLEHEM Micah So

Seven hundred years before His birth took place,
Il prophet recorded the name Of the very village IN
which the Messiah would be born. Bethlehem-To
make prediction definite and certain. IT is
Bethlehem in the land of Judah. The prophet
speaks infallbly for the omniscicnt God was be-
hind his utterancc. In the midst of Christmas Joy.
let US rejoice that Christmas hope rests upon
such a solid. unsuitable foundation as divine
prophecy and historical ful6lment.-Wilbur NJ
Smith, ID.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-18

Two Brooklyn drug store cowboys try
ing to rob a train in the southwest found
they had put their guns on the wrong kind
of chaps.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-18
Ii DOES HAPPEN HERE

II is particularly noticeable
that when public hearings are
held on matters in which the pub
lie is YitallN cnnccrncd. The nmhLic
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-18

In war as in football, they always said
the best defense was a good offense until
Japan proved that it's possible to be too
offensive. ~
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-18
ARIZONA LETTUCE
CROP NETS STATE
UP TO 10 MILLION

pHOENIX, Ariz.. Dec. Is
UP).-From a simple beginning
in 1917, exports of a garden veg
ctablc--lcttucc--havc grown mt"
one of Arizona'S major industries.
More than 1900 carloads OF
the states lettuce were shipped
last wear, in contrast with Cd sent
out by pioneer producers ~
years ago.
The industry annually brings
from $5,0O0,O00 to SlO,OOO,ooO
into Phoenix and Yuma. the areas
where most Of the lettuce acreage
is located.
More than 10000 acres each
year yield the green gold" This
acreage is the total of two
IDEALS" or harvcstS which are
taken each year fro mthe rich. IL
rigated production ccntcrs.
Salt River valley planters now
are harvesting the "fall deal" OF
10000 acres, which were set out
in September. Producers of the
crop paid out more than 100000
in labor costs before single
head of the crop was on the mar
kct.
The average lettuce crop, ac-
cording to Federal labor service
statistics. requires $685. $50
hours of field work. Shippers,
moreover, have an investment of
more than $l,000,000 in shreds
where special machinery speeds
operations of cutting, packing,
icing and Grating the heads.
Following abolition OF the sur
charge on imports from Japan
sales of Japanese products III &c.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-18
LITTLE BY LITTLE

No Girl WAS ever led astraY who
refused to permit any fellow 10
begin to take liberties with her.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-18

North China experiences the coolest winter il
the world for its latitude.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-18

Necessity: Anything once defined by solid citi-
gems as foolish and dangerous experiment.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-18

Honesty is an index of good character Dshon-
est the lack of it.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-18

Two ruyuIuuvs which went
round the world by air in slightly
over month have been placed on
rNhibiliou i'm London. their start
ing and stopping points.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-18

THE DR. Ernest Wilson, travelling under ,h" au, {" 10"
Arnold Arborcun 1910 found the Regal Lily growing IN the
IupCh section China. Bulbs Of the plant carried
on the where they placed on boats and
eventually shipped 10 America
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-18

Following abolition of the sur
charge on imports from Japan
sales of Japanese products IN &c.
uador ard soaring, n'. d.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-18
CHRISTMAS APPLES: This

CHRISTMAS APPLES: Inns
column recently mentioned how
Henderson county could promote
apple sales rs Christmas gifts. {.
+. Sanders states that he has 4
customer for whom he is making
a Shipmcnt to London.
The Washington times., 1937-02-24
Old Liners Fall
BeforeSt. John S

University of Maryland's basket
ball team today isn't quite over
the surprise sprung on it last night
by the boys from st. Johns Col
lege of Annapolis.
The JohnnieS came to College
Park, apparently to take licking.
Instead, they won over highly fav-
ored Maryland, 80 to 81, with de-
termined last period rally.
1t was Maryland's eleventh loss
in II games played to date this
season.
The visiting team, led by its star
forward, John LambroS, who scored
II points for the Johnnies. was
behind, % to IS with only six
minutes of the game left to be
played. -Four quick goals, by Bill
Ross, Jim Rowe and Lambros,
put the game on ice by scoring two
more field goals.
Maryland plays North Carolina
tonight.
Summary.
The Washington times., 1937-02-24

~@A0 WV PA"y Wv VA SSS4 VS"AAs
Washington is said to be offer
ing the Bears Pete Bausch, center,
and Eddie Kahn, guard, in a
straight exchange for Ed Kawal,
center, and Ed Michael, guard.
No monetary consideration has
been mentioned.
Kawal, a product of Illinois Uni
verSity where he graduated in 1888
with a B.S. degree, is 27 years old,
stands 6-feet 2 and weighs 1913
pounds. He has played three years
with the Bears, helping to win the
league championship in 1884.
Graduates as BIS.
Michaels, % and the youngest
of the quartet, graduated from
Villanova with a BIS. last June
and performed with the College
All-Stars against the Detroit Lions
in September before joining the
Bears for his first season of pro
football. At Villanova he won
acclaim as a guard, receiving ALI
American honors from some re-
spected selectors. Michaels tips
the beam at 1877, is 5-feet 10. and
is rated one of the fastest guards
in the National circuit.
The Redskins, known as the
youngest team in the league (their
average age last year was 2412)
will get the benefit Of Michaels'
youth if the deal goes through.
Brother of Jim
.Bauson, a brother Of Jim
Bausch who was Olympic deca-
thlon champion in 1882, is 27
years old. Kahn is "a. Bausch, a
Kansas U. graduate, has played
three seasons with the Redskins,
winning second all-league nomina-
ton last year. A great defensive
center, he weighs 218 pounds and
towers 6-feet-212.
Kahn got his college training
at North Carolina U. where he
played with, but failed to receive
the notice given, George Barclay,
who was poplar all-American
choice at guard. While Barclay
failed to make good his promise
in pro ranks Kahn, with the Red
skins, succeeded to the extent that
he proved a valuable cog in the
team that won the Eastern cham
pionship last year.
The Washington times., 1937-02-24

Students In
Back OF Vet
GridC0dCh
By DAVIS J. WALSH

International News Service Sports Editor
NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-Although
am not at liberty to reveal the
details, it can be said with cer-
tainty today that if Jock Suther.
land leaves his football coaching
job at the University of Pitts.
burgh, he won't be going out on
the bosom of his trousers. More
over, think can say that Suther.
lands problem is not one of re.
naming at Pitt, but of getting
away. He has $20,000-a-year job
waiting for him - and he makes
less than $4,000 now.
Returns Tomorrow
So he's returning to the campus
tomorrow, after a brief speaking
tour in the East, and presenting
his resignation. his every move so
far in the controversy with Ath.
letic Director Don Harrison mas.
terpiece of timing. The resigna.
ton, a seemingly reluctant ges.
ture, will come on the day when
thousands of boiSterous old grads
are back on the campus for the
150th anniversary celebration, and
the resignation of football coach
who lost only 13 games in 13 years
is likely to irritate them no end.
Moreover, with student mass
meetings and possibly a petition
from the football squad, it is diff.
ficult to see how Sutherland can
go wrong-unless he wants to.
After all, he's the guy who has
his name up in the paints out
there in front, while Harrison is
only the stage manager, the man
who stands in the wings and
makes the curtain go up and
down. have no way of knowing
exactly what is on Sutherland'S
mind, but I can say that an argu-
ment between the coach and the
director as to whether the Pitt
players should be given a little
sucker money" for a fling the
night of the last Rose Bowl game
had a very minor bearing on the
controversy.
Going on For Some Time
1t wasn't a reason for the
trouble, only an excuse. The pair
has been pickering for years.
Moreover, the show down has
been in the bag for some time,
with more than bare possibility
that Sutherland not only saw it
coming but took steps to bring it
about. Anyhow, it seems Signifi-
cant that his assistant coaches al
ready have taken themselves off
to better jobs at Carnegie Tech
and Dartmouth.
With all the pressure that may
be brought against it in the next
few days, I wouldn't want to say
that Sutherland will follow. Only
that he can-if he wants to.
The Washington times., 1937-02-24
Holm Turns Pro,
ndsWrdngIe

NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-The
wrangle between pretty Mrs. Flea
nor Holm Jarrett and the ANA
teur Athletic Union is at an end.
Mrs. Jarrett herself terminated
the quarrel yesterday when she
signed a $4,000 contract to ap-
pear in the Great Lakes Exposi-
ton show in Cleveland next sum-
mer.
The pretty Eleanor, if you re-
member such things, ra h er
rocked the Olympic boat last sum-
mer on the way across to the
Olympic Games by indulging in
her favorite champagne. She was
dropped from the Olympic team
for violating training rules and
was subsequently barred from
competition by the A. A. U.
Commenting on the 100000 con-
tract, Mrs. Jarrett said:
"Gladly would I have given
up this attractive offer if the
A. A. U. had voluntarily rein.
stated me-"
However, the A. A. U. did not
voluntarily reinstate her, and gave
no indication of ever doing so.
Somehow or other, Eleanor man
aged, since her suspension, to
swim in A. A. u meets. She re-
Gently competed in Washington,
D. c., in an A. A. U. meet.
The Washington times., 1937-02-24

The Navy team was a little slow
in starting. In fact, it got in the
game later than most of it's earlier
opponents and dropped games to
Gettysburg, Duke, Pittsburgh, Co
lumbia and Penn State. but any
season that includes a victory over
the Army is a good one, and the
Navy visions a winning team next
year.
Lose Two Regulars
The Navy will lose two good
men by the graduation of Cap
tain Bob Ruge, forward, and
Frank Shamer, guard, both steady,
reliable players. Ruge, however,
was outshone by little Gene Gil
lette, who played most of the
game and did such brilliant work.
The Navy will have Gillette for
two more seasons.
Alan Mcfarland, at times a
brilliant scoring forward, should
be in great trim by next year, and
Frank Lynch, the towering cen
ter, played the best game of his
career against the Army Saturday.
These two, with Bill Ingram, regu.
lar guard, have one more year at
the Naval Academy.
Bob Laney, who has been play.
ing regular guard in 1ngram's
place for more than two weeks,
like Gillette, is a youngster and
has two more seasons of varsity
sports.
Tentative Team
A tentative team for next year
can, therefore, be pretty well out
lined, with Mcfarland and Gil.
lette at the forwards, Lynch at
center and Ingram and Laney at
the guards.
Other squad men who will re-
turn and some of the plebes of
this season may break the slate,
however. George Ghesquiere, for
instance, who dropped out just be-
fore the Army game on account
OF scholastic work, will be avail
The Washington times., 1937-02-24

semester Arts and Science hon
OrS missed its athletes completely
=. but George A. Dies, jr., who
pens sketches of H0ya sport lu-
minarieS, is very much in line
E. Dies is a Junior Keep
'em busy and they won't
get nervous, that's Rich Brick
ates, Alabama ring mentors
motto, and he makes his fighters
chew gum, read or sing Just be
fore a fight and they enter
the rings as cool as cucumbers
Not only does the Capital lose
The Washington times., 1937-02-24

Wedding bells pealed in Balti-
more Saturday for Edgar Bieber,
several times District bike cham.
pion, when he stopped talking
bicycling long enough to say II
do" in making cOmely Evelyn
SpeerS his bride and was the
champ" nervous. al HOugh-
ton, Capital Golf and Country
Club promotion chief, will host
three MOvietOne execS, Ed.
Reek, Ed ThOrgersen and Lew
Lehr, on golf course Sunday.
Georgetown University first
The Washington times., 1937-02-24
HeuriiCh H0nors
Athletes

Baseball, basketball, soccer and
bowling teams of the Heurich
Brewery last night celebrated with
buffet supper in the Heurich
gym with Chris Heurich in the
role of master of ceremonies. Sixty
Heurich athletes attended.
Speechmaking was the order of
the night, the following having
their say: Bob Macdonald, basket
ball manager; Bill Flester, base
ball manager; Bill Reinhart,
George Washington Uunversity's
basketball coach; Fritz Wagner.
soccer manager and coach, and Ed
Blakeney, bowling manager.
Vic Guazza, president of the Ma
tional City League, presented the
league trophy emblematic of the
baseball championship won by
Heurich's last summer. Ed Radtke
was chosen captain of the 1887
baseball team.
The Washington times., 1937-02-24
PICKUPS AND PUTOUTS

a ranking tennis player as Tom
Markey moves his legal residence
to Akron, Ohio, but one Of the
most ardent and tirelesS pro-
mOterS Of the game here. Tom,
who never liked to be called
Bud" played a prominent part
in catapuIting the EdgemOOr
Country Club to the forefront in
Middle Atlantic tennis circles
last season. the confab which
marked the shift of 20 public
park netmen to club play took
place in Markey'S quarters last
spring .. -GINO SINH.
The Washington times., 1937-02-24
.dry|dndWe|ter
Faces Tough
Title Path

Ivan Nedomatsky. Maryland vel
terweight, probably faces the
toughest assignment of any de-
Tending champion in the South
ern Conference boxing tourney
that will be held in Ritchie Coli
scum at College Park February 26
and 81.
Among those in NedomatSky's
path are Danny Farrar, of Duke,
who never has been beaten in a
dual meet; Russell Sorrell, of
North Carolina State. whose only
loss this season was a decision to
the Blue Devil ace, and Guy Shep-
pard, Virginia Tech captain, who
reached the final last year.
A full bracket of eight is prom
ised in this class, but these four
appear to be the foremost con-
tenders.
Nedomatsky stopped Sheppard
in the second round of the final
last year after the Virginia Tech
Scrapper had gained a T. K. o.
over Farrar at the end of the first
round in the semifinals, when the
Duke ace was forced to stop from
a cut over his eye.
Bob Jones of Clemson is an
other boy who may cause trouble in
this class.
However, Nedomatsky has scored
T.K.O.'S or kayoeS in five of his six
bouts this season, gained an easy
decision in the other one and will
be tough to dethrone.
Bouts will be held on each day
of the tourney at 2::30 in the after
noon and s o'clock at night and the
prelimS and semi-finals at the two
afternoon sessions should see more
bouts and just as much action as
at the evening battling.
The Washington times., 1937-02-24

able. He is a tall, active football
man and plays a fine game of bas-
ketball. Larry Gels is a promis-
ing forward who has two more
years at the Navy.
Johnny Wilson will, of course,
remain as head coach. He has
been on the job just 10 years, has
always developed good teams and
his record against the Army is
particularly good. In seven games
played between the service school
teams, his Navy teams have won
five times.
The Washington times., 1937-02-24
6. W. High Defeats
{. u. Frosh Five

Catholic University's Frosh team
wasn't good enough for the George
Washington High team yesterday
and went down 10 to 18, although
the Frosh were out in front, Is
to II, at halftime. Robinson, of
G. w. High, was top scorer, with
IA points.
The Washington times., 1937-02-24
Seeks
Conference

Ben Chapman sends word from
Montgomery, Ala, that he has
returned unsigned his contract
offered him by the Washington
Senators. Says Ben:
Pm no hOldOut. l merely in
formed Griff that I'd much
rather talk things over after
reaching camp than to do busi-
ness by mail"
Chapman was voted the most
valuable washington player after
last years campaign.
The Washington times., 1937-02-24
Local Guard Boxers
Face MaryIdnderS

District National Guard boxing
team, Golden Gloves winner,
meets an all-star ring team from
Baltimore next Wednesday night
in Turner's Arena. Steve Thomp-
son. l60: Eddie Saugstad, 118,
and Steve Mamakos. 147, Gloves
champions, will appear
The Washington times., 1937-02-24
Citadel Dark Horse

However, because of its strength
In the heavier divisions, the Cita.
del, of Charleston, S. c.. will be a
dark horse during the nearby
fightfeSt.
Orville and Hugh Rogers, heavy
weight and light-heavyweight can
didates respectively, are looked on
with respect by he other Southern
Conference teams. Both boys won
their matches with Army, which
is recommendation enough for the
Citadel brothers.
This is the first year the South.
ern Conference tournament has
not been held at Charlottesville,
Maryland getting the event for
Ritchie Coliseum by dint of the
fact Virginia has withdrawn from
the Conference.
Colleges to be represented en-
brace Richmond, v. P. l., North
Carolina University, North Caro-.
lima State, Duke, Wake Forest,
University of South Carolina,
Clemson. the Citadel and Mary.
land.