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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-03
BUSINESS ON A TEETER BOARD

Walter c. Lands, writing in the Financial World,
saws that business will continue a teeter board,
Greater initiation he says, is unacceptable. 1t Will
yeach its zenith in 1910 or i941 and in 1912 the
work of balancing the national budget and putting
American finances on a sound footing will be I'M
dertaken seriously.
Dr. Lands reminds that in Germany the marx
scared to 10000, 900 100000 to the dollar and IN
France the franc dropped to two cents. In Austria
it took 700 crowns to make dollar American
initiation will go about one half the distance OF the
French initiation. American initiation will end the
moment the federal government balances the bud
get But call it relation, relief, humanism, or
what not we'll have initiation so long as the budget
is out of balance"
Meantime the president of the United states
talks of reducing expenditures in one breath ana
of increasing the national debt in the next In the
Roosevelt administration, the country being at
peace the national debt has rapidly mounted to
S35, 600, 900 900. 1t is still mounting. Notwlth-
standing high taxes the outgo continues to be muen
greater than the income.
One thing has followed on the heels of another.
Business has been told that it would have breath
ing SPELL but the New Deal pursues its course OF
harassing business No person versed in econom?
saws that in the United States business conditions
are stable Soon or late, conditions must reach
their crest and when it shall be reached the Amer
lean people will be paying cruel price for what
has been going forward these last several years
When the national government shall decide to
nav the piper, the poor will be soaked, ruthlessy'
relentlessly. Many will lose the few possessions
they have-Charleston News and Courier
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WILLIAM GILLETTE

III health caused William Gillette to retire from
the stage in the zoos land it was while ne was
convalescing in North Carolina that he wrote Be-
cret Service, " an Associated Press dispatch from
Hartford, Conn.,, says:
Alex Thweatt, of the Southern Railway, started
Mr.. Gillette on his way to Western North Carolina.
Changing trains at Spartanburg, Mr.. Gillette board
ed a car for Asheville The train stopped at Tryon
and Mr.. Gillette got off to stretch his legs. he
tasted the air, liked it and walked away.
On the spur of the moment Mr.. Gillette decioeo
to stay at Tryon and telegraphed for his baggage
to be sent back He acquired piece OF property
and built a temporary home to suit ms wmmS OF
the moment 1t was in this cottage at Tryon tha'
Mr. Gillette wrote Secret Service" which achieved
great popularity W.,
II was in sherlock Holiness" however, that Will
liam Gillette scored his outstanding success. he
came to Charleston in many roles, but never as
Conan Doyle's master detective Several of his own
PLAYS brought him fortune. ggIgf Yyr.g e ys.
& On his Connecticut estate Mr. Gillette INDUCED
1 hobby-a miniature railroad. He was the engine
man Of train which transported guests and then
baggage from entrance to the house. Mrs. Gillette
career as model railroad builder Is a story apart
from that as a popular actor and playwright.
One has been told that the Gillette property al
Trvon was at or adjacent to the site now occupied
nv st. Luke's hospital, the physician in chief Of
which is a Charlestonian, DR.. Allen J. Jervey.
So well known was Mr.. Gillette on the stage tina
his story is familiar to the whole circle OF theatre
goers who "went to the play in the hacyon sea
sons of the travelling companies.--Charleston New
and Courier. 1e &c..
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-03
O YOU HONESTY!
BY WICKES WAMBOLDT

"A fine idea," said Simeon -
all but one thing; | haven't the
cash to put it over. | would have
to have some good clothes, and it
would take cash to put up at the
Georgian Mansion and loa f
around playing golf with your
banker till | can hook him."
That's all right" said Ogden;
"I'll take care Of that. I'll stake
you to a thousand dollars worth. !"
The scheme was launched, and
after laying his plans carefully
and carrying them out adroitly,
Simeon got it across TO the bank
er on the golf links one afternoon
that he was eager to pick up Ma
tional Engine bonds at par.
The banker looked thoughtful.
81 think" he said, 81 may be able
to help you"
That evening Bogden received
telephone call from his banker.
81 have some good news for
YOU" said the banker. 81 found a
man who will buy your National
Engine bonds and pay par for
them. His name is Simeon, and
he is stopping at the Georgian
Mansion hotel. Get in touch with
him right away"
Thus again it is demonstrated
that honesty pays.
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THE NEW D E a L
IN WASHIN GTON
BY RODNEY BUTCHER.

spoke nj the famous Al Smith
Liberty League dinner.
The "Jedgc," as Sheriff Theo-
dore Middleton calls him, was a
Republican politician who became
prosecutor of Bell County, where
conditions were subsequently de-
scribed as similar 10 those in Har-
Ian. After he had become attor-
ney general of the state, and had
run successfully as Republican
candidate for governor, President
Coolidge made him federal
Judge.
The "Jcdge" became nationally
/ famous when he vehemently de-
clared unconstitutional the NRA,
the slum clearance condemnation
proceedings, the Kerr-Smith TO-
bacco act taxes and other New
Deal laws. Then he quit the
bench to appear as a lawyer for
coal and utility companies against
the government.
Today Dawson whispers in the
hall advising witnesses whom the
LaFollette committee investigators
blame for many of the atrocities
in "Bloody Harlan" He hasn't
spoken aloud to the committee
vet But he may soon address a
local federal court, for mine Su-
perintendent named Ted Creech
has been arrested for alleged per-
/ Jury Creech denied testimony
that he had threatened vengeance
against a witness who had tests
fed about dynamiting activities Of
Harlan deputies. , '
a.
WHEN the volublsRs6ngressman
w Dies Of Texas asked Congress-
man MAY of Kentucky whether he
was as opposed to Harlan vio-
lence as to lynchings, May was
able 10 hold the floor of the House
for five minutes under the pretext
that Harlan doings were wild
iife"-the two last words which
Nav had moved TO strike from the
record in order to enable him to
speak having been "wild life ref
uge." >,r, s.u,,,. ,,o
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-03
BY RODNEY DUlNHEi
NEA Service StnC Correspondent

NEA Service STAR correspondent
WASHINGTON - The middle
aged. high-cheeked, Sad-faced
man with that gray shock of hair
down over his forehead somehow
looked acutely familiar.
1t was at the LaFollcttc Civil
Liberties Committee hearings and
witnesses were reiating-often in
the drawing, hardbitten dialect
Of the Kentucky hillS--one Of the
most astonishing chapters in 10th
century history.
They were telling Of the long
reign of terror maintained in Har-
Ian County, of murdered union
miners and dynamited homes; of
the sheriff-hiS bend put up by
the coal company-who owns
company stock 3ad has slice in
company stores where the scrip"
pay received by miners is dis
counted Is per cent; of law Off
GERS who bribed men to blow up
homes of organizers; Of 379 depu-
ties appointed, among whom more
than 100 lad criminal, records in
volving everything up to and in
GLIDING murder; Of beatingS,
assaults and ambuSheS; of subSi-
died public officials who did the
bidding of mine superintendent;
Of the rash county prosecutor who
threatened TO clean up Harlan un-
til dynamite promptly ended his
career. tHs HE
COME of the fellows at the press
- table finally inquired about the
man with the shock Of hair-and
then it all came back to them
Washington was witnessing an
other appearance of former Fed
eral Judge Charles /. Dawson OF
Kentucky, here now as counsel
and adviser to the Harlan County
Coal Operators Association. The
reason he hadn't been recognized
was that he wasn't shouting and
gesticulating as he was on his visit
! year ago last January when he
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some good clothes; put up at the
Georgian Mansion hotel; let the
news get around that you are a
capitalist taking a rest; get your
self the privileges of the Country
club: get acquainted with my
banker, play golf with him, win
his confidence; spill it casually
that you are the president of a
corporation that has taken over
the National Engine company and
that you are trying to find all
their bonds and buy them in so
you can reorganize the company.
Then my banker will come to me
and offer to buy my bonds for
about half what he thinks he can
sell them to you for. Then you
and ! will divide what | get"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-03

Brevard College" gee,, club with
give musical. program at the 3
o'clock service.
The Asheville district is COM
posed of 81 charges located in
Buncombe, Henderson, Polk, Mad
ison, Mitchell, Yancey and Avery
counties. Each charge is repre-
sented by six lay delegates. In
addition to 1856 Law members of
the conference, there are a. min
listers in the conference, of which
81 are pastors in active service
and - belong to the local and
superannuate ranks.
The business sessions Of the
conference will start at Q o'clock
Monday morning. Morning and
afternoon sessions will be held.
Features of the morning session
will be the reports from the pas
tors of the district concerning
their activities, addresses by rep
resentatives Of various annual con-
fcrcncps and balloting Tor dele
gates to represent the district at
the annual session of the Western
North Carolina conference which
will be held at Central Methodist
church here in October. The Ashe-
vile district, with a membership
of 1869, is entitled to l6 lay
delegates to the annual confer
cnce.
The afternoon session will in
clude the Iaymen's' hour. 1t will
be directed bv II. A. Durham, dis
trict lay leader, and will feature
the reports of various committees
on Christian education, Christian
literature, finances, missions. spir-
itual life and evangelism, quarter
L. conference records, license and
recommendation of local ministers
and other routine matters.
TIE Rev. Walter b. West is pre-
siding elder of the Ashevillc dis
trict.
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his named Sine
on, a progresses
ing chap of easy
morals, who liv-
ed in a neighbor-
ing city. He eX-
planned to Sine
on about t h @
bonds.
IN 0 w. h e
said, give got a
scheme W h e 4 e
we can b o t h
make a piece of
m 0 n e Y. Y o u
come over to my
[ o w n wearing
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Bogden had inherited a thou
sand dollars in cash and hun
dred-thousand dollars in National
Engine bonds, which his banker
informed him were virtually
worthless.
Then Bogden had a bright idea.
He got in touch with friend of
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-03
DEARTH OF GREAT U. S. oRAToRY is
GOOD SIGN
(By BRUCE CATION

Among the unnoticed blessings of Amer
lean life, there is the singular little fact
that the republic has bred precious few
orators and has only three or -four great
speeches. on its list of things for school
boys to learn.
Why should thing like that be bless
ing? Well, Donald Culross Peattie ex-
planned it recently in his fascinating Book
of Hours"
Great orators he remarked are practl-
cally always passionate men with some
thing to SELL What they are out to sell is,
as often as not, something that the sober
good sense of the citizens is apt to sniff at
Hence the statesmen have to beat their
breasts and make the welkin ring in order
TO get their point across.
Since our republic was founded, how
many great speeches have we had? Mr..
Peattie suggests that we have had only
'two-Lincoln's Gettysburg address and his
second inaugural. And these are singular
ly out of line with the great-speech tradl-
ton, for one is a sober restatement of the
case for democracy and union, and the
other is calm appeal to people to forget
hatred and go about tidying up bad mess
in a spirit of Christian charity.
Neither of these speeches can compare
with a frenzied thing like Napoleon's Ia
nous address to his army in Egypt, where
in he pointed to the pyramids and remind
ed his lads that 40 centuries were looking
down on them. But Napoleon, like all ora
tors, had something to SELL Specifically, he
was trying to put the heat on these stolld
sons of French peasants so that they would
be cheerful about leaving their bones IN
the steaming Nile valley for cause which
they could not understand.
And that is the way it usually is with
orations. They are bad business. A ma
ton whose history is studded with them is
a nation which has been in some exceed
ingly tight spots; for great Grafton is al
most always curtain-raiser to hardship,
and the orator as likely as not is the man
who is bringing the hardship on.
1t takes bad atmosphere to grow ora
lions. They sprout and blossom when there
is blood on the moon and people can see
the face of doom peering out from behind
the clouds. From the days of Demosthenes,
who did his Grating when the Greek city
states were about to be over-run by the
crude Macedonians, down to Hitler, who
PLAYED the tremolo on Germanys emotions
at time when the country was falling to
pieces, oratory is prima facie evidence that
there is trouble coming.
! AS Mr.. Peattie suggests America has
mot been productive of great oratory-and
blessing it is. We have had some hard
problems to solve, and now and then we
have got ourselves into tragic fix-as In
the 1S6Os-but in the main we haven't
had the kind of atmosphere that produces
famous orators And that fact is one OF
the best things in our record.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-03
OUR MOTHER TONGUE

aren't they lovely" murmur-
ed Sally as she gazed at the dab
las Jack had brought her; then
she added, "Oh, there is little
dew on themw
"No. Not a cent! Not a cent"
protested Jack.
Sally's brother leaned over and
shifted the dahlias.
"No," he said, mot a scent
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-03
Civic Treatment of Sunday School
Lesson for May 2; Genesis
:27--13:l8

Here's the compulsion under
which Abraham moved:
"Now the Lord had said unto
Abram, get the out of thy coun-
try, and from thy kindred, and
from thy fathers house, unto Il
land that | will shew thee"
The most of us pioneer into
new worlds today under the urge
of multi-colored publicity which
means this in substance:
Tourists, Industries, Home
seekers See our unusual advan-
tages in climate, fruitgrowing,
trucking, recreation, recuperatlon
and industry"
Between the force of COM
mand and the urge OF invitation
we have launches" which move
us out of Haran. Gen. :3D.
The righteous person interpfctS
"hunch" as Il message OF God;
the unrighteous as the genius, re-
lance and strength Of his own
personality.
This leads civic-minded per-
son to ask if a Chamber Of Com
merce or other civic organization
| is not doing a righteous work
when it presents to a pioneering
multitude the advantages of It's
section, or equal to, those Of any
other community for rest, health
education, employment or indus,
ltrv. Some one has fittingly SAID
that pioneering is synonymous
with seeking opportunity. "Ail
new countries have the same name
Opportunity" IS another way
of expressing the meaning oil
pioneering.
I would dislike to contemplate
the outcome if | did not believe
that a goodly number of those not
native to these mountains had not
consulted God in making a choice
as TO their new abode, especially
in Hendersonville, where natives
i nbusines sand professional HE
are few and far between.
believe a Chamber of Com
merce or other civic body is DONG
a great work when it can help a
person to better his conditions so
| lone as this betterment does not
estrange him from God.
Faith is the back ground of to-
davis lesson. That's no strange
term to civic organizations. WITH
them faith has been personlfied.
! How far would they get without
4 faith insthemselves, faith in 9TH
/ ers. faith IN what the future holus
! for them? They have faith to en-
vision things, to dream, to mag
nifty, to- picture those conditl:4phn rs
land situations nottyet in tangible
form. ~ EttES}
Too many civic organizations
restrict their faith and vision ana
ston at Haran. (Gen. ll;3i J.
where they waste their year,
some exceed their better Judg-
ment and journey on into Egyp.'
Gen. 1910. Customs and cor OH
! ditions usually prescribe the
bounds of activities for civic bod
les yet they can be inJud'ciouS,
for which they have to pay
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-03

Am English woman says U. S. actor
resembled Don Juan of her acquaintance
named Frank Billings. Of the firm OF Bill
lings and Cooings?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-03
not Il scent.
WHY

Why do the criminally-minded
become smugglers, burglars, boot
leggers, bank robbers, highway
men, kidnapers when they can go
into ring politics where the risk
is smaller and the swag greater?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-03

The Philippines new high commission
err. his wife, and daughter received rous-
ing welcome in Manila. To the ISLANDERS
the newcomers are the McNutts.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-03
'ASHEVILLE ME-.
DISTRICT MEET
IS SET MAY 9-lQ
Bishop Kern Will Address
Gathering at West
Asheville

ASHEVILLE, May 3.-The 4Sth
session of the Asheville district
conference of the Southern Meth
odist church will be held at the
West Asheville church next Sum
day and Monday, May 9 and 10. :
Bishop Paul b. Kern of Durham,
who presides over the 10th Epis-
copal district. composed of North
Carolina, Western North Carolina,
South Carolina and Upper South
Carolina conferences, will attend.
He will address the laitv of the
Ashcvile district at 3 o'clock Sun
day afternoon, and at 8 o'clock
Sunday evening he will speak to
the young people Of the district.
At the 3 o'clock service Sum
day, the male chorus of the West
Asheville church will sing, and the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-03

Snakes bites claim $4,000 natives i9t
India" 1t is not hard to believe, as there
are no hip pockets in sheets.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-03

/ In an auto accident, Stepin Fetchit was
rendered unconscious, witnesses believed.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-03

price in public condemnation. But
even civic bodies know how to re-
pent of their mistakes and get
back to successful beginnings as
Abraham did in returning to
Bethel. (Gen. 1879.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-03

Has your organization dozed off
to sleep or failed to catch great
vision. Doesn't it dare occupy
its rights and fulfill its mission?
In other words, is it in the rut?
Here's the cure. :,
"Arise, walk through the land
(Canaan) in the length of il and
in the breath of it; for ! will give
il unto thee. Gen. l3.lG.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-03

Britain's leading automobile
club now has 100000 members.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-03
BIBLE THOUGHT
WHoLEHEARTED CHRISTIANS

EST THOU! q Samuel 3O.13)
If you are Christs, let me advise you to do four
things. Obey him: let his word be your law! Love
him: let your whole heart be filed with him! Trust
him: rest nowhere but on him Be decided for him:
then all will know to whom you belong!-C H.
Sturgeon.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-09-30
SALE OF SCHOOL LAND

1.-THE Board of Education Of the
Town of Sank Centre" through its
Board Of Directors. does hereby Of
fer for. sale. to the highest bidder
or bidders for cash. the South A
Half (Nh SD of the East 100 feet
of Lot 8, all OF Block 3, Of the Or
iginal Townsite Of Sank Centre, ac-
cording to the plat thereof on file
and Of record in the office of the
Register of Deeds of Stearns
County. Minnesota. and will receive
bids for the , Whole or. or Kan part
the offices Of the Superintendent OF
Schools in the Senior High School
building of said District in the City
of Sank Centre, Minnesota. All bids
must be in writing lforms may be
accompanied by a doposit Of 10 per-
cent Of the bid. which is to be for
feited If the bidder fails to pay for
the premises upon delivery of deed
and abstract showing marketable
title, it being understood that IL
irregularities in title, IL any there
be, are not corrected within ninety
the abst ract. his deposit shall be re-
turned and such bid and the accept
ance thereof, be terminated and
withdrawn, without liability to the
bidder or school District. The right
is reserved to reject any and all
bids.
ors of "The Board Of Education of
the Town of Sank Centre"
Dated September goth. 1887.
18-2W George Berggreen,
Secretary.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-09-30
Numerous Requests For
Winter Barley Seed
County Agents OFFICE Is Anxious
To Locate Source of Seed In
County

The county agents office at st.
Cloud has had numerous requests
for small amounts Of winter barley
seed. It Is of course getting too late
at this time to put in grain of that
kind for 1888 harvest but the office
Is anxious to locate the source Of
seed in the county. Growers who
have a small supply Of winter bar
ley seed to spare, even though the
amount may be very small, are
urged to get in touch with the
above office. Then also the Mime
sofa experimental station Is anxious
to test out new varieties Of small
grain Of all kinds in their expert.
mental plots. For this reason they
are anxious to get samples Of
winter barley that may have grown
fairly successful in Minnesota ter.
ritory. Should winter barley stand
conditions well In this territory 1t
would be Of course welcomed by
most all Of the people who grow
barley. For that reason both the
extension office and experiment
station at University Farm are anx.
ious to get as much data as posi-
BILE as to dependable varieties.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-09-30
Renniclxs Estate Closed

Closing out Of the estate left by
the death Of the late DR.. G. Rem
hicks, well-known character Of this
city, was completed this week
when his relatives sold four homes
that were his property and ceme-
terry lot. The estate pending for
several years was closed by Mrs.
Oster, DR.. Rennick's daughter, and
Ethan Latrup, his grandson, who
returned to Michigan this week. J..
c. Kinsella was the purchaser Of
the homestead property in Hobok-
en-, the last home of the late Rem
hicks. r. B. Kinsella purchased the
home now occupied by Mr.. and Mrs.
Melvin Hintzen. The home in the
Neutrality-suspicious. addition was
sold to Henry Hartung and Joe
Norman purchased the home he
now occupies.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-09-30
ATTEND CONVENTION

D. B. Caughren, president of the
Merchants National Bank, of this
city, and Henry Sauer, Of Paynes-
vile, went to Bem.dji Tuesday and
attended the annual convention of
the Sixth and Ninth District groups
of the Minnesota Bankers Associa-
ton. The convention, which offered
an interesting program, was large
ly attended. Discussions included:
~ Bond Investments, (2) Depart
ment of Banking Policies Regard
ing Bank Loans and (3) Exchange
and Service Charge Schedule. This
was followed by round table dis
cussion and election of officers and
other business. The banquet was
held at the Markham Hotel Tues
day evening at $50. Interesting
talks were made by Mr.. Arnold
Forbes, representing Rotary Club;
J. s. Peterson, President of Ninth
District group; H. c. Matzke, Pres
ident Minnesota Bankers Associa-
ton; VIM. Duncan, Jr., Secretary.
Minnesota Bankers Association; s.
r. Kirby, Jr., Chairman of A. I. B.
Education Committee, Minnesota
Bankers Association.