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The Washington times., 1937-12-11

offer had been made to Coach
Bernie Bjerman Of the University
Of Minnesota. to take over the
football helm at the Southern
school. If Bierman accepts, Fort
declared, several influential alumni
members stand prepared to under.
write a 10.year athletic program,
designed to elevate the schools
teams to their once-proud position.
The Washington times., 1937-12-11

HerOicaIly Sensible and Quick Witted
Seminary Teacher Yielda to the Cam.
pus PrOwIer to Protect Her Students.
Pretended to BE Fascinated and Made
q Tryst which Was Kept By q Police
man Dressed In Her Clothes. Read
About This SeIf.Saerificing Young
Woman In The American Weekly, with
Sundays Washington Herald-Tim
The Washington times., 1937-12-11

Bierman has been sounded out
for the position at the Southern
institution by Walter v. Fort, of
Waco, Tex, who represents a
group Of wealthy Sewanee alumni.
Baugh has not been approached
by the Texas representative.
CHICAGO Dec. 11.-Walter v.
Fort, a spokesman for the Sewanee
University OF the South) alumni,
today revealed that Q high-salary
The Washington times., 1937-12-11
Kirk Miller
TIMES SPORTS EDITOR
Says

FORT DEARBORN, ILL.,, Dec 11.-Wel, my lit
stalk each other across the Siberian wastes Of
Wrigley Field on the morrow in specimen of post
graduate football that should frappe at least 4000
souls and twice as many ears and feet.
From the plains of Illinois, Indiana and Iowa. commonly
The Washington times., 1937-12-11

snowdrifts the hardy frontiersmen, rifles
swung iauntily across their shoulders; stall
wart representatives of the plains to the
South.
Bearing down from Minnesota, Michigan
and Wisconsin prairie schooners loaded to
the gunwales with their ilk, come the North
men of the wheat States, eager to sit in on
the kill.
Altogether old Fort Dearborn hasn't wit
messed anything like it since Benjamin Har-
rison was first elected President of the
United States.
Thnsn trun fnnthall teams nf nndern times
The Washington times., 1937-12-11
HASen
MdOrSeS School Tilt,
LAudS VAr1ety Club
By FRANK "BUCK" O'NEILL

The Board of Commissioners Of the District of Columbia
100 per cent behind the Capital Bowl football game to be
played Catholic Univrstys stadium at Brooand Decem
Der IL between the aar players of this city and the eleven
of Monroe A. & M. School of Monroe, Ga.
The Washington times., 1937-12-11
Bduqh Second Choice
For SeWunee Position

CHICAGO, Dec offending the final decision of Bernie
Berman, University of Minnesota football coach Sammy
Baugh sensational quarterback of the Washington Redskins is
second choice to be considered head coach Sewanee Uni
Yerstv it was revealed today
The Washington times., 1937-12-11


up to degree.
A ThrOuubGck to Indian Wars
1--WE never had no use Inuns this way nohow the
oldest inhabitants will tell you adding with emphasis ana
squirt of tobaccy juice Caze why in the early day they
forever burnn log houses and reyng on our wives
an chillunl --.....-
$50 when we heard them Redskins the rampage
again. we jest natchery musks often the door sill
and tramped back if Fort Dearborn waant still
safe fer the white men.
Caze yer see weuns learned out here from pappys
and that yer kin trust an nun and
If Washingtons isn't real njun Jedgln from the way
they scaped them n in Moo York last week then there's
been turribe false alarm echon around the woods Oh
Michigan and the plains Of Indianny
General Custer KneuO His Injuns, Too
"Why OF man Custer used to tell grandfolk that when
ever yer found an Injun with little lock O. hair agrown
in the palms Of his hands yerd find honest Inun and we
bin ookn fer ech since the scang OF my greaunce
two generations removed"
The picture here then such that expect old Daniel
Boon himself stalk down Michigan Boulevard almost any
minute now coonsn hat dirk in belt and rifle barrel CLINT
ing the Moons, to what the ruckus is all about
WE'LL if he did, he'd probably hang around for the fun be-
cause and Br nun tother is gon to be
toted plumb off the glacier plateau Of Wrigey Field TO-
morrow in what practically amounts to state OF gor mort
"Oh, Suzanna, Don't You Cry .."
By nghtfa pelt will be hangn high from the block
house there will be campfres and dances and
music Of old time fddEn': ..--@...
"It rained all night the day left,
"The weather it were dry 81
"The Sun so hot I froze to death
"Suzanna, don't you cry.
"Oh Suzanna don't you cry for me,
'T from Alabama, with
"My banjo my knee!"
And speaking Of Alabama, there's else around
here who also from Alabama. He is one Riley Smith,
who first flashed the Washington horizon at Griffith
rreensward years when he appeared against
the George Washingtons and in their hair all evenn
long.
Owner George "Presto" Marshall who then had his juns
in Boston was the stadium that night and impressed
with Riley that he begged introduction to him from
Ipressao Jack Espey then Of the G. VS. The ntroduct
ion took and result not only Riley but Espey as Wel
are now with Marshall-oh much!
Ghosts of the IrOquOis Trail
Yes my darling little chickadees the prairie schooner are
in town If they aren't their ghosts rumblng along
the roouois Trail and there be hot tme in the old town
tonight.
In these parts you see, they long way for their
massacre and that's exactly how the RedknBear fracas
figures It will be the Nagurskis the Pinckerts the
Romans vs. the Baughs and the Renners the Batteses
Feathers will fly, and will the fur if may say so, when
those Bears and nuns bite the dirt and will be then that
the sturdy settlers will rise up in all of their frontier
pride and yip-yp: o ~
"THE OLD WEST LIVES AGAIN!'
Yes indeed, my little chickadees.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-19
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
WAGES AND PRICES

High Cost of Living is in danger Of becoming a
fetish with certain groups as it was two decades
age Prices are rising, true; the implications IN the
situation if the present trend is not interrupted,
are not comforting. In the meantime, it is worth
while noting just what advance has taken place
The A. F. of L. in its monthly bulletin, COM
plains of the recent rise in prices, and demands
that President Roosevelt appoint commission to
find method of controlling the advance. The or
ganizaton alleges that price gougng, "profteer-
ing" is taking place; that such advances are out
of all proportion to the wage rises in the same
period.
The results of the first quarter Of the year are
Illuminating From December to March of this
year cost of living advanced II per cent accord
inc to the Bureau of Labor Statistics This esti-
mate is based on the needs of wage earners and
lower-salaried families.
Also from December to March, total payrollS in
creased Ga per cent. The wage-price comparison
is more direct if presented in the form of average
weekly earnings in New York state factories Dur
ing the first quarter this average advanced 30 per
cent almost exactly double the average cost of hv-
ing rise
The facts then do not seem to warrant the as
sumption that recent price rises ourunning the
average wage increase in the lower income groups,
hut rather that the reverse is true. Of other ele-
ments in the nation no such flat statement can be
made But it is up to those who make the aSScr-
ton that price advances have been greater than
wage increases warrant to prove their case.-.Wa
Street Journal.
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RIGHT AT EN-

While Congress is debating an appropriation Tor
relief whether it should remain at Sl,5OO,OOO,OOO
as recommended by the president, be reduced to
81 900, 600 900 as advocated by proponents OF
economy or virtually doubled in accordance with
the contention of u bloc of more liberal spcnderS,
an exhibit comes from neighborng Arlington, Just
across the Potomac in Virginia, to propel itself INTO
the congressional discussion.
"There are more jobs than jobless in this coun-
tv," advises an Arlington dispatch. unemployed
rolls which once topped 5000 have dropped TO a
point where the state employment office was un-
able to find 800 unemployed men in the county 20
fill an order for workmen for the Forthcoming Boy
Scout iamboree. Placement officers sent appeals to
other Virginia counties to rush unemployed workers
to Arlington"
Surely there is labor shortage close enough 20
the congress to give it's members an insight into
conditions. even if reports of similar vein from
various parts of the country dot the newspapers
but are lost i'm the maze Of Washington political
currents and the confusion which they generate.
Our own North Carolina, you'll recall, has been
complaining about shortage Of labor for seasonal
farm work, berry picking and construction, some
of them governmental, projects.
Congress, it is true, has not been given the bene-
fit of an unemployment census a basis for intel
ligent legslating but these sporadic reports winch
keep breaking in upon its members, II they DO no
more than read the newspapers, should provide
some sort of guide for their deliberations and sub
seuuent Administrations News
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-19
THE ONLY DEFECTIVE NUT

There were in 1886, $4,000 automobiles IN
volved in accidents which killed $4,000 people vi
these death cars. fewer than 1000 fatal accidents
were attributed to punctures, blowouts or any type
of tire trouble. ....
Thus it is evident mechanical defects can De
blamed for only small portion of that harvest
of death which traffic annually reaps Defective
brakes, faulty steering mechanism and the like
bear less of the responsibility than most of us have
believed
In more than 90 per cent of traffic fatalities the
only defective nut on which can place blame is
the nut behind the steering wheel
Cure for that one faulty nut is education IN
good manners, either gently by word precept and
example, or by the force of the law. ..
For it is bascally, nothing but bad manners
which impeS man or woman to so drive an auto
mobile as to imperl the lives and safety OF others
Good driving manners includes not only rigid ODE
dience to all traffic laws, but observance OF that
indefinite margin of safety we all should recognize
the margin that includes the expectation that
the other fellow will do the wrong thing.
The expectation that the jaywalker will cross
the intersection against red light, will dart out
from behind a parked car. The expectation that
the passing motorist will not give you your falr
share of the road. If you value your ife let the
selfish driver have all the roadway he wants Bet
ter to give way before boor than to insist that
involve your own grave.-Atanta Constitution.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-19
S4OO IN DEBT

The average person, if our observations are cor
rect. gives but little thought to the cost OF our
Observation-Disclosures it be town, county, state OF
national. Some, of course, complain when paying
taxes, but other than then, pass the matter up
with little or no concern.
The past week, the statement was given out IN
Washington that the national debt is now over
thirty-fve billion dollars. That figure means abso-
lutely nothing to the average person who talks ana
deals in terms of few dollars
If the federal government should suddenly de-
eide. however, that each person in this country had
to pay their proportionate part of this debt, we
could then better understand why we should be
concerned Each man, woman and child IN TINS
country would have to pay about s4OO each to pay
off the national debt.-Waynesville Mountaineer
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-19
MOSQUITO ]: FLEET.
Picturesque Feature of Charles
ton Harbor
BY MAUDE WADDELL

Light, light the little boats
Are bobbing on the sea,
The ocean is a treasury,
And life sometimes its fee;
But hungry mouths are open
wide,
Like robins in their nest,
And negro men must leave their
homes.
On foods .imperious quest.
The little boats are bobbing light,
Upon the sunlit sea,
But out beyond the sparkling bar
At dusk, what will it be? .
What. kindncs does the water
show
To men whose lives of care.
Whose need for food although
they know
Their danger, sends them there?
The canvas spreads, the wind Is
strong.
One little boat is on its side,
The negro sailors lift a song,
And start to seward with the
tide;
The sun comes up an orange disc,
At sunset they'll be hailcd,--
Their life they bargain as their
risk.
When the Mosquito Fleet has
sailed.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-19
THE NEW = z z L
IN WASHIN 6 r O II
.RY RODNEY BUTCHER,

believe that valuation Of tho en-
ploycr-cmployc tax used TO II
nance old age benefits would
leave few constitutional reStric-
tons on use of the taxing power
for purposes Of the general well
fare.
Justice Roberts, in The AAA
case. held processing taxes Illegal
on the ground that they were an
instrument in a cCerclve scheme
for regulating local affairs.
In the Railroad Retirement Act
case, which required employee
employer contributions to a pen
sion fund, Roberts held that the
net fell outside congressional
power to regulate interstate COM
Imerce.
AAA taxes were levied express
,lv for the purpose of paying
benefits 70 farmers, however, and
old age social security taxes arc
not similarly carmarkcd. The
government has argued that the
taxes were separate from the old
age benefit features and that the
Svsten was not dependent on this
tax but could be financed by 9TH
er revenue-raising means.
| -. . "
HAZARDOUS issues are involved
v the taxing power and the gen.
eral welfare clause of the Consti-
tution, the due process clause and
the question whether or not the
function of providing for as.
sistonco in old age is or isn't a
junction reserved 10 the states.
Thus there are various grounds
r,;snd on which the court could
knock out all or parts of the So
ciaI security program as it relates
70 old acc benefits and unemploy-
ment insurance.
: The consensus is that Justices
Hughes BrandciS, Stone and Car
dozo viii smile upon the social Sc
c,m.itv nroqrarn. that McReynoldS.
SUNDERLAND, Butler and Var De-
3o uer will will turn thumbs Down.
va that Roberts will cast the die
ostnr much turmoil OF mind, !,
a ,Sen,. nr fsS7. NEA Service. lnea
-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-19
UNION HILL

=
UNION HILL. May ~. - Mr..
and Mrs. K. c.. Harvey and Mrs.
S. z. Jones and son, Hardy, visit
ed Mr.. and Mrs. J. S. Summers
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ector Henderson
of Canton, visited Mrs. Laura
Hydcr Saturday afternoon.
Nh. and Mrs. Charlie Justice
and children were dinner guests
Of MIR. and Mrs. Andrew Jones
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Newton Edney
and family Of East Flat Rock,
visited. Mr.. and Mrs. w. W. Jack
son Sunday. ...
Everett Bailey Of Dana, was thei
supper guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. o.
T. Parry Sunday night. .
Miss Amy Hydcr VINO has been
visiting relative az Canton, has
returned home.
Miss Lois Marshall OF Blue
Ridge. spent Thursday night with
her grandmothcr, Mrs. w. W.
Marshall.
W. s. Bycrs of Dana, visited
his mother, Mrs. 5. G.. Byors Mon
day afternoon.
Mr.. and Ms. g. &. JusJus and
children visited Mrs. J. s. Mar
shall Thursday.
Mrs. Gather Pace and children
,.is;,.l Mrs ID p..rff.rr Sum
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SluuStS'
So far as we know, man had
nothing to do with his coming in
to this world-unlcss, perhaps, his
presence and his position here
were determined by his behavior
in the past. Certainly he has moth
ing to do with his going out Of
this world. He can hasten his go
ing, but he cannot prevent IT. lie
is as certain to go some day rs
the sun to shine. Therefore, his
big concern is how best to CON
duct himself here under the cir
cumstances.
Is he going to improve each
shining hour? Is he going to make
himself a benefit to this world!
Is he going to make himself wor-
thy of better world? Or is h"
going to fritter away his time &C
complishing nothing? Or is he go
ing to use his energies and ablll-
ties to injure himself and his Gcl-
lows?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-19
HIS BEST BET
-By WICKES WAMBOLDT

There is every reason to believe
there is great cosmic law OF
justice. That is q Thought TO give
encouragement to those who are
doing their best, and to give fear
to those who are not doing THEN
best, or who arc doing their
worst.
81 am not afraid there is not
life after DEATH" said Il man. II
am afraid there is"
! believe the law Of c0mpcnSa-
ton works. 1t may not manifest
itself during the course Of Il day
or year or Il lifc-timc--for Il
lifetime here is as the wink of an
eye i'm the scheme of eternity.
But the law of compensation ---
the law of evening things up -
of balancing accounys--is, ! think,
irrcvocablc. Therefore, mans out.
standing concern should be, what
had nc best do under the circUm-
stances?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-19
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service stan Correspondent


NEA service stan Correspondent
WTASHINGTON.-It is hard TO
w think of anything more i'm
nediately important than the Su-
oreme Courts forthcoming opin-
onS in the social security cases.
Because:
/. An old-aGe benefit Sys-
tenn covering 26,000,G00 per-
sons, and an unemployment in
surance system covering most OF
those persons are at stake.
2. 1t is very likely that the
decision will determine the sue
cess or failure OF the Presidents
Supreme Court plan in Con-
gresS. AT least it will have 4
highly important bearing on the
question of whether the antici-
pated compromise OH this
measure will be an actual COM
promise Or merely a face-saving
arrangement TO give Roosevelt
what he wants.
5. The Constitution, if the So
ciai security taxes are declared
valid by a majority of the nine
justices, will have become a
Constitution markedly different
from the one the country had
had under previous interpreta-
lions.
Thus If seems that the Supremc
Court is more Spectacularly on thu
spot than ever before. Also tina
Justice Owen Josephus Robert
especially is on that same spot
both because of his peculiar Statu
us the courts "odd man." and be
cause of the majority opinion
which he himself read when tn
AAA and railway retirement &c
were invalidated.
q
MOST senators, at least, bcliev
VI that Roosevelt'S court pro
gram would pass with no essen
tial change if the court were 4
decide against the government il
the social Security cases. q
Many lawyers are inclined II
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-19
wRECKING THE POWER BUSINESS

PRESIDENT w enQel w like Oh the COrl-
monwealth & Southern Corporation, in a
survey of conditions which are handicap
ping the operations of public utility COM
panieS in areas suffering from the compe-
1.-THE threat and potential threat of these gov
eminent operations have rendered practically all
of our southern operating units unable to finance
even their construction requirements and matur-
ing bonds The funds required for these pur-
poses have of necessity been loaned to them by
this corporation
The situation in the South contrasted sharply,
Mr. Wikie explained, with that of the parents
subsidiaries in the North There, during the year
1886, the operating companies of the system
completed a program of refnancing in the
amount of S1S9, 22S, l6S resulting in substan-
tial reduction in charges.
If the IVA threat could be removed by
permanent settlement and favorable market
for low interest bearing securities obtains, saw
ings of several million dollars. Mr.. Wilkie con-
tended could be made and shared with 100000
customers in the South as has been the case in
the North.
The foregoing is only sample OF the
statements coming from the utility opera
tors in sections where the power of the
federal government and the money Of the
tax payers of the United States Is being
suuandered in the Administrations fight to
wipe out the private power industry of the
country and make the industry a COM
munist experiment under government own
ership.
No private utility in this country can
withstand the assaults of the country's own
government. in a movement financed with
billions of tax money, with pack OF wild
eyed, yelping private utility haters and po-
litical demagogueS leading the wrecking
crew.
By this administration policy the bust
ness of tens of thousands of private inves-
tors, who are citizens and tax payers OF
this country, is being destroyed. The prl-
vate power business will ultimately be
wiped out, if the federal administration is
given permission by the courts to proceed
with the communistic plans and purposes
of Senator Norris, President Roosevelt and
their cohorts.
If these gentlemen, who at present APP
pear to have the United States hog-tied,
are determined to compel the communiza-
ton of the power industry, they should at
least be willing to appropriate some OF the
billions of the tax money of all the people
to buy the utility holdings from the pres
ent owners. Instead the policy is evidently
to force them out of business through gov
eminent owned competitive plants, under
selling the private producers by reason OF
the fact that the resources of the United
States can be seized and used to erect
plants, cover losses and deficits, thus en-
abling the government business to make
any rates deemed necessary to wreck pri-
vate competition.
At this distance-we are situated sutfl-
GENTLY near one of these developments to
be able to smell 1.-THE plans of the public
utility wreckers appear to be as honorable
and praiseworthy as highway robbery OF
housebreaking.
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world .
Second, how is
he going to get
out?
Third, W h Il t
had he best DO
under the cir
cumStanccS?
But isn't it
true that man is
really concerned
with but one Of
those questions
the last one?
wv h a t is he
going to do uu-
dcr" the circum-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-19
URGES MUTUAL. JOB AID

ST. LOUIS. - (UPJ.-Worricd
by the increasing number Of
young and old who cannot ind
places in industry, Walter L. Pit
kin, 59-ycar-old author of Life
Begins al Forty proposes 10
have them work together in mu-
tual aid.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-19
BANDIT ESCAPES

81. LOUIS. CUP). iu iuroxi-
Gated bandit who said "Ihish Is a
stickup." robbed a grocery here Of
$50. When the clerk was slow In
leading 70 the cash registr. the
robbcr houtrd. Hurry uu. Got n
taxi waitin'n He escaped
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-19

John Ruskin says there are on
ly three questions with. which man
is concerned:
First, how did he get into the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-19
AvOcApOS TO COST LESS

BERKELEY, Cal. (UP).-The
avocado, salad delicacy, IS stead
| lily going down in price. UniverS-
lily of California. Agricultural col
liege officials determined through
1ecent survey. Z, -. ..-,a-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-19

Grand Rapids furniture factories had
their first strike in 26 years, which might
be blamed on the period trend from Vic
torian to Modern. saasS-s sass's,@' -
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-19

Americanism: Furnishing an individual
who is cruel to his livestock; crowding q
800 prisoners in a prison built for 800.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-05-19

Lawmakers can make any raw deal popular
Just give it righteous label and people won't see
the iOkers. ----.
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There is still hope for humanity while dctators
can survive only by hiding the truth from the peo-
pie. r...