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Evening star., 1937-10-15
MT. PLEASANT.
OPPORTUNITY.

Unfortunate circumstances make II
neceSsary Tor owner to sell his beautiful
nome at . sacriflce. Less than Q year old
rooms; baths recreation room. earage
automatic heat. On one Of the pretties,
avenues IN %. c. Call Randolph 5330.
Evening star., 1937-10-15

Three brick bldss. arraneed In four ants
each, for sale separately or ~ Q group -
close estate. Make o6ef. oeorgta o0l2.
Evening star., 1937-10-15
FARMS FOR SALE
FARMS WANTED.

WANTED-MARYLAND FARM. 100 ACBTs
or more on State road: GOOD house. elec.
trlcfty. Box 233-X. Star ~
Evening star., 1937-10-15
1914 34th ST. NV.

Six-room detached home. near Bureau
of Standards: Glassed-in breakfast porch.
ample closet space; elec. refrigeration, gas
range; built-in garage.
Open.
Evening star., 1937-10-15
iltvfsrMrNT pRoPERTy FOR sAlr.

COLORED-413 M ST. NE
Groom brick. bath. electricity. gas
Price. $3.50; rent. $42 so. II. II. CARTER
6l3 18th 1t. NV. National 417a
Evening star., 1937-10-15

ONEs.ACFyE 8e6I M =.
S12,95O-In suburban restricted COM
munity of nne homes; lovely rooms, 2
baths BAT de den r%scrsation % room. room maid's room
with best of materials used; air con-
ditioned. This Is an unusual offerins. not
only charming. but 4 marvellous VALUE!
Beyond comparison with anything you
have seen. Shown by appointment. Cali
REALTY ASSOCIATES, Natl. 1893 till 8
Evening star., 1937-10-15


WOODMOOR,
The Perfectly Planned Community
ADJOINING Indian Spring Golf Course.
Superb sites availabls-nons less than
70-foot front.
MOSS REALTY CO.,
Tower Bldg Metropolitan l770.
Woodmoor-Shep. 4SI7
co10R1D LOTS m DKANWOOD AND
rAIRMONf HEIGHTS S7b up: easy
terms: hefp build District OTTO
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-02
MY PONY

Nv pony is my best friend, '
Next to him is my sitting men;
I have some ducks, chickens and
cow,
But I'd rather have my pom! be-
cause he will pillow.
He pulls the pillow, and | do the
riding,
Sometimes he runs and | do some
sliding;
He pulls a wagon but he sure
won't guide,
And wherever you go you have
to let him decide.
He was born in a stall on Christ
mas day, : =
And when I found him he was
& covered in hay; 80. -, =.
His mother was ON him and hit
him with Stat. .I -
And when | picked him up he: was
mashed nearly flat. 3
| tried to ride him but he was
weak i'm the middle, .
And when ! got on him he hol-
lowed like a fiddle;
| started to name him Jill, but
finally Tony
So that ends the story Of my
pretty pony.
CHARLIE ANDERS, age II,
Fifth Grade, Valley Hill school
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-02
THINGS TO COME?

Modern knowledge is putting into our hands the
tools to create truly new kind of civilization-a
civilization of ample spaces and unstaned SKIES
and uncramped individuals. civilization whose
people dwell not like bees in transcendental hive,
but like men in their own homes and communities
meeting their own practical problems with super
latiye skill and knowledge; whose bulk material
needs - the production of food, clothing shelter,
tools - are met self-suffciently in each region,
and in manner scientifically adapted to that re-
gion in which economic life is decentralized, and
sprawling hypertrophied producton-consumption
networks do not exist, with their masses OF root
less bewildered exploited aborers with their bill
lions of weary ton-miles of shipping and re-ship'
ming of raw materials from field end mine-head TO
factory-city to wide strewn purchaser
A civilization where little premium is placed on
mere physical bigness where material problems are
purposely restricted in so they can be handled
and grasped by individuals or communities; where
even such apparently large-scale problems as the
Midde-Western drought are met more by lnteiii-
gent cooperation and scientific land cultivation on
the part of all the landholders of the Mississippi
basin than by necessarily inefficient centralized
projects.
Such an imaginary civilization of the future
seems every whit as plausible as the SWEEPSTAKES
now in fashion, and infinitely less difficult to ac-
tually achieve. . Ladies and gentlemen, for Its
influence on your daily lives and on the dreams
of your children, for its effect on your decisions
involving yourselves, your community and your
country-I give you the improbable Utopia OF CO.
ordinated individualism as against the fantastic
and wholly uninviting mechanical superstate'
whether socialist, communist, fascist, or techno-
cratic.-Peter Van Dresser, in Harper's.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-02
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
SLACK IN THE CCC

One New Deal innovation the country has taken
to kindly is the Civilian Conservation Corps. when
Mr. Roosevelt first proposed such an undertaking
during his campaign for the presidency there was
much sarcastic talk from the opposition party OF
conscripting an army of tree-planters, but after
the CCC had got fairly underway, even the he
publicans marveed at the thing that FDR had made
and beholding, found it good
Having taken the CCC to its bosom, apparently
the country is determined to hold the pose despite
all subsequent developments Director Fechners
hint the other day that the CCC, would be given
a permanent status was the signal for the press
generally to agree that by all means it should be
done, that the CCC was the stuff and worth every
cent it cost
And let us concede at once that it is, but on its
present scale this work costs pretty penny. AT
about 81 200 per man per year and with an enroll
ment of $4,000 men, the CCC stands the Treas
ury $420 100000 annually, or more than 10 per
cent of the cost of federal government prior to
its expansion under the paradoxicsl Democrats.
good part of the CCC payroll finds its way back
home to families that are on relief, and in that
respect the appropriation is for relief and not Tor
conservation. Even so, it is becoming harder ana
harder to maintain the Corps at full strength in
spite of successive notifications of requirements
having to do with need
Friends of the CCC should not be overzealous in
its behalf Useful it has been undoubtedly, but
there is such thing OUTLYING usefulness. There
are signs to show that the CCC in its emergent and
original vast proportions has outlived its useful
ness and needs to be curtailed considerably. I'm
less the administration is prepared to make this
and other retrenchments, the hope of balanced
budget in President Roosevelt's time will become
DINNER as one deficit gives way to the next
Charlotte News.
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ANY METHOD is NoN.CoNTRoL

The State Liquor Study Commission has made
some wonderful discoveries. 1t has learned that
"any system to control, whether it be prohibition
or control by legalized sale under any of the sys-
TENS described in its report should have three
aims:
"l It should tend to increase rather than de-
crease respect for the control law
"2 1t should tend to discourage rather than en-
courage the of alcohol and should tend to pro-
mote temperance and make intemperance disrep-
utable.
"3. 1t should be enforced in such way as to
eliminate to as large extent as possible the Illicit
handling of liquor and should have as one of its
primary aims the driving of the Illicit dealer out
of business"
Those are very high ideals and marvellous expec-
tations from Old John Barley Corn and his asso-
GATES Prohibition had as high ideals and as lofty
aspirations, and if officers of the law under pro-
hibition could not enforce such ideals and bring
into realization the improvements hoped for, how
are they going to do it with legalized liquor on
one side and the bootlegger on the other!
There is no such thing as "hquor control
LIQUOR does the controlling and so long as public
sentiment remains at its present low ebb liquor
isn't going to be controlled, by either prohibition
or legalized SALE When conditions again become
unbearable public sentiment will once more crys-
taliz eagainst the sale of alcoholic drinks in both
a legal and illegal way Until that time arrives we
must make the best of bad situation, and this
writer is free to admit that he does not know what
method of "non-controp will do most to hasten the
day when our citizens will again rise up and smte
the mighty demon-Marshville Home.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-02
A COMPARISONS

Of the drunken drivers arrested in Baltimore in
the last IS months, a survey by The Baltimore
Evening Sun shows 80 per cent were found guilty,
and of these Ga per cent were given jail sentences,
the rest being fined.
Baltimore, the newspaper says is having less
trouble with drunken drivers.
What percentage of. drunken drivers actually go
to Jail in South Carolina do not know but it is
far from 81 per cent. Probably it is not more
than 10 per cent
South Carolina is having increasing trouble with
drunken driyers.---Greepvile Is, c. Piedmont.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-02
VALLEY HILL

+. VALLEY HILL, Jan !
and Mrs. Ebert Osteep -
dren of High Point spcr,
mas with friends and y
here.
Mead and Creston Kiln,,,
Washington spent Chris,ma'
their parents, Mr.. and Nr
Fitzpatrick.
Luther Saltz and ia.
Mrs. Joe Nicely. and baby J
ward, were visitors here :
Mrs. J. F. Stepp spcn,
with Mr.. and Mrs. George
at East Flat Rock.
Rev. +. A. Kilstrom and
Orr we're visitors here n
B. b. Middleton died
home here Tuesday molniD
an illness of about three /
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THIS QUESTION HAS MANY

angles, involves many interprcta-
tons and leads to many lifelong
MISUNDERSTANDING. Some sales
men draw commissions on actual
sales, deliveries. Others are cred
tied not only with actual sales
but are creating or finding pros
poets. 1t is in this latter field that
relations become strained and
MISUNDERSTANDING take place. Sit
uations like this lead TO poor
craftsmanship, where, in order to
protect his commissions the sales
man resorts to the unwholeSome
practice of "selling" himself TO
the prospective customer rather
than Selling" the house he repre-
sentS and It's wares. He asks the
prospective customer to buy from
him, explaining that he is not on
Il salary and that therefore he
would appreciate making the sale.
That is legitimate; but it is
poor craftsmanship. The house
sends salesman out to sell mer-
chandisc rather than himself and
the Importance of his commits
sions. He cheapens his salesman
ship and adds no dignity to the
store when he resorts to such
craftsmanship.
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he will be forever damned ne
prefers to remain forever damn
ed.
And unquestionably there is
one kind Of punishment for the
ignorant wrongdoer and another
kind for the willful wrongdoer.
The fellow who knows better and
who refuses to do better is letting
himself in for something hot.
Even the courts of human law
are less severe on the ignorant
than on the willful culprit. The
ignorant need instruction; the
willful need discipline.
Has the untutored savage a
better chance of going places
spiritually than the intellectual
rascal? | think not. The intellec-
tual rascal has foundation which
would enable him to make more
rapid progress once he saw the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-02
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service STAFF Correspondent

VIASHINGTON-In the impend-
w ing struggle over the amount
Of appropriations for federal
work-relief, it is worth noting
that extremists on both sides are
committed to certain theories and
principles which they do not care
or dare-to express in public.
No one need eSpouse either eX-
IRENE view. There's plenty OF
room between.
Each fringe is represented in
Congress, which must decide
whether WPA is to continue on
present schedules from February
10 June, inclusive, at cost OF
$3.50, 100000 or be radically cur
Jailed to a cost of.perhaps only
$500 900, 900, as suggested by such
conservatives as Senator King OF
Utah.
The first extreme theory, also
held by certain important admin
istration officials, includes a be-
lief that the masses" will insist
on getting a larger share of the
national income and that they'll
get it.
Such issues as tariff, gold stand
ard, and budget-balancing no
longer count with millions Of
1underprivileged" voters, who are
In a position to raise the devil and
impress their ideas on politicians.
THE New Deal has given millions
L of destitute urban unemployed
and poverty-stricken farmers or
farm tenants a higher standard of
living than they ever had before,
according to this point of view,
and it would be just too bad to
retreat from that standard.
Furthermore, such a retreat is
politically impossible, anyway,
Benefits are likely to increase
rather than decrease-widows
pensions will BECOME common, and
union labor will support WPA
workers and other federal bene-
ficiaries in their fight to avoid a
return to starvation levels Of local
home relief.
The extreme right wingers see
the picture in much the same out.
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THE NEW = z a I
IN WASHINGTON
-eY RODNEY BUTCHER.

lines. But whereas the most lib.
eral New Dealers think it's all
very fine thing, this right wing
group feels it is perfectly terrible
and also Il great menace.
New vested interests have beer
established, according TO their
point of view, and millions OF
treaSury-raiders thinking as one
man will be abetted by most poll
ticianS, so their growing strength
must be combated.
Various members Of Congress.
holding TO this school Of thought
will 60 on to tell you privately
that most WPA workers and farm
tenants are chiftlcss, lazy, and
overpaid; that states and towns
are able TO take care of them as
we'll as they deserve; and that
they deserve no better standards
of living than their own neighbors,
who know them best, arc willing
to provide.
Furthermore, that there are
plenty of jobs to be had If those
on relief will only accept the
wages that are offered, but that
WPA has in effect set a floor to
wages which inte,ieres with the
operations OF the labor market.
>
A LIED to this school Of thought
Ia as it applies to farm tenants
is Chairman James P. Buchanan
Of the House Appropriations Com
mittee. He demands discontinue
ton of the ReSettlement Admin
istration's rural rehabilitation loan
program, on the ground that it
places a federal premium on
"ShiftlessnesS."
The Resettlsment Administra-
ton people want TO expand the
rehabilitation Loan policy TO help
take care of 100000 farm families,
mostly drouth victims, it has just
taken over from WPA rolls.
1t will be asking Buchanan for
from $30.000.000 to $4,000. 900 for
such work in the remainder of the
fiscal year, claiming that loans are
cheaper than direct doleS, in that
they enable farmers to get on their
feet and have been repaid on an
average Of rs per cent to date.
! Icnnyrisht. 1saG. EEA Service. lna.t
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-02
A GREAT JOKE?


When a VIGOROUSLY immoral
woman ran for the office of town
clerk in u certain locality, the
men of the community thought it
would be a great joke on their
women to elect her. She was de-
feated by only three votes. Later
she actually was elected to the
town council.
Somehow or other that episode
makes me think of joke some
South Sea Island cannibals play
ed on one of their women who
had married a member Of anoth-
en- tribe.
One day while the woman was
absent from the village. her peo-
pie had some trouble with her
husband, so they killed him and
roasted him. In the midst Of the
feast the woman returned, and
was told they were dining on an
enemy who had been brought in
while she was away. She was per-
suaded to join them and partake
of "the long pig that speaks"
At the psychological moment
(cannibals, too, have that kind Of
moment) she was told with loud
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-02
POTATO HONORS VIZ

FALL RIVER, Mas>.-u|
High honors in Bristol "a
1900 Bushels to the Acre \
Club" have been won by
Brothers of South Wc,,po,t
a record yield Of 45g bu,s.
No. / potatoes to the ac,.
cord to u Bristol County A.
tural School Announcement
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LEAD TO PRISON

TURLOCK, Calf. OP.-
ting engaged is not very d
sive in terms of prison CO.
ment. Samuel Frank Of hi,
who became engaged TO 4
women via the mail route
spend only one day in pri,o
each 10 engagements. HI,
tencc is for five year,.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-02
LET'S TURN A DEAF EAR TO ADVICE
FROM ABROAD
INV BRUCE CATION

Among the New Years resolutions which
Americans might profitably make is the re-
solve to be busy with something else when
lever distinguished European comes to
these shores to enlarge upon Americas
iduty to world civilization.
! The parade will be beginning almost any
time now. Famous authors, retired states
linen. and high-powered economists will be
iarriving in New York, coming up the bay
amid a cloud of fine phrases about the
lcritical situation in Europe and the things
America ought to do about it.
For our Congress is about to pass new
;neutraEty law. No one knows what sort
of law it will pass. but Congress has to do
something, because the existing one IS
about 10 expire And our late allies in the
fight TO. make the world safe for democracy
have a deep and abiding interest in the
,new law.
We can do one of two things with this
inew law. We can make our neutrality
;foolproof, as far as any law can do that nj
an uncertain world, or'we can fix things so
THAT we can give moral and material aid to
one of the two sides in the next European
ifracas.
We can't possibly do both. and we might
as we'll make up our minds right now
(which of the two courses we prefer And
1T is in this connection that we could very
well decide to turn deaf ear to the advice
of distinguished visitors.
These visitors will do their job skillfully.
tThey will begin by telling us what great
Ination we are, and how the eyes OF the
world are fixed on Washington. Europe,
ithey will insist, is headed for disaster UNI
less the United States does its part in
wise and statesmanlike manner.
That, in turn, will be followed by an ar
;gument something like this: Europe's only
ihope of peace lies in the League of Ma
itions, the one force that has a chance to
RESTRAIN war-like and aggressive countries.
But the league is hamstrung unless it
,gets the support of America. If America
could just help the league apply boycotts
land sanctions, for example, and throw It's
Influence against aggressors denounced by
the league, a new light would dawn.
This will be put very persuasively. When
Congress tackles the new neutrality law,
some of us will, feel that the embargoes
contemplated in the law ought to be. made
discretionary with the president. That is,
instead of cutting off all financial and ma
terial aid to both parties in European
war, we should let the president cut OIL
lsuch aid from one side only. In that way
we could make our influence felt for
peace.
, Now the only trouble with such course
lis that it wouldn't lead toward neutrality
lit would lead directly away from it. II
would put us into every European quarrel
right up to our necks, the moment the pres
lident decided to exercise his discretionary
powers.
An ironclad embargo law applicable to
lboth sides - that is what we need II we
really want neutrality. 1t might pain and
lshock our European advisers, but it's the
best bet if we hope to keet out" of war.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-02

A man can
never be said to
be lost if he
knows the way
h o m G. But he
C an refuse OF
fail to go home
and if he does
not go home, he
will never get
home. And if a
man prefers the
companion s h i p
and the activities
of the damned,
then he himself
is damned. an d
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-02
OUR FEIGNED DIALoG YES.
By Noah Hollowell

OUR FEIGNED DIALOG YES
terday on stock taking as to how
employees might carry attitudes or
assets of value over into the new
year led to the question of the
field salesman as to how he was
to be protected on commissions
when he "sold" an idea but didn't
close a sale. In other words, as we
say on the street, he SOLD the
prospective customer on the artl-
Gle of merchandise but didn't sell
the merchandise. He Interested
the prospect to the extent that
the latter followed up the sales
talk by purchasing the article in
question on a subsequent visit to
the store.
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confidence in you and the SER
vices you have to offer, leaving
no occasion for the prospect to
want TO go to the proprietor be-
fore closing the sale. In short
know your stuff-rcnder a COM
plete. satisfying service.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-02
MAKES PACIFIC HOP

ALAMEDA, Calf. (UP).--Jom
Silen, 2-ycar-old daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. Bert Silen Of Manila,
had the honor Of being the FIRST
baby to try out the long Clipper
hop across the Pacific to her ma
tive home.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-02

Blackland, Texas. ,ypei
station officials say rcccr
pertinent showed Acala q
yielded an average Of 3.l D,
Of lint an acre, Tie bcs. pcr
aace of 10 varieties.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-02
IN THE BARBER SHOP

81 played the fool when | quit
that job" said one man to anOth-
CT. 81 was next in line for the
position of supervisor, but | got
discouraged and quit. Thirty days
after | quit, the supervisor got
fired. And here / am today with
out a lob"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-02
WHAT HE WANTED
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

light than the savage could make;
but he deserves harsher treat
ment, since he knows more.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-02
IT'S UP TO HIM

Can a man who has accepted
as his own the principles and the
teachings of a great religion ever
be lost? No. he cannot be lost.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-02

1 Among the more reckless Americans
might be listed the Detroit man being sued
for divorce on the ground that he beat his
lwife-Joe Louis sister. -
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-02

The thief stole truckload of explosives
lin Washington, d. C.. To date police have
/, found neither hide nor haT Of him.
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HOW PROTECT HIMSELF IN

such instances? Probably the
house will rive certain commits
sions on the names of prospects
furnished when purchasers are
made through the store within a
designated time. If not, how is
the salesman to get credit for sell
ing ideas and working up pros
nectS2
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HE SHOULD IMPROVE HIS

craftsmanship. This can be done in
various ways. Perhaps you need
to dress better; shave daily; keep
hair trimmed neatly; clean up
=, teeth; wear cleaner shirt; better
tic; have clothes pressed; shoes
shined; finger nails cleaned and
trimmed. All these things carry
weight. Practice sales talk under
some acknowledged crack sales
man. First and foremost, "knoY
your stuff be an expert on eX-
planning or demonstrating what
you have to sell. Know your mer-
chandisc. So prepare yourself on
your wares that the prospective
customer will not find it necessary
to 90 to the house or store for
further details. So equip your
storehouse of knowledge that he
can't find additional information
from the proprietor. Know as
much of more about the article
/ than he does. If he has any nonor
and integrity as business man
he will not cut the price to- make
sale you couldn't make because
of price,
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THE white heron all but exerminated by before a
passed forbddng the Of bird pnes hats, now G
itself almost bird the past Hurricanes Of the past few "a
have destroyed the nests and young and only through
operation with conservationss cn the American ege
saved.