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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-17
SWING 1T!

Many people think that the presidents proposal
to rejuvenate the supreme court to fit modern con-
dtions, does not go far enough. These are modern
times. the most modern of all times in mans MS
tory. ...
A modern jazzy court is needed-perhaps' IN
stead of the "nine old men," this form in bill
ing the court:
Q5) PEOPLE-COUNT EN-, Q5)
Indeed why not go on and have big court
with some girls. Popularize the court! One or two
Irish comedians would help Rudy Vallee could
master the ceremonies. In the case of dirt farm
err suing for something the decision could be pre-
coded by rendition of "How You Gonna Keep
En- Down on the Farm?' crooner could Groom
cold Man River" before some Buzzard Roost. Pow
err case came up for argument. The court might
include a tan. dancer. If TINA Tennessee Noun
tain Authority ruling was due, nice hillbiliy
singer could appear. Well, maybe we'd better leave
out the hillbily.
Modern days, modern ways! 1t is said that the
court should reflect the mood of America, OF the
people. If so there should be ....
(45) PEOPLE, COUNT EN-, (45)
and they should cooperate in bringing US happier
days, with music. laughter and joy. Young people,
CAV people, standing at the crossroads, standing at
the crossroads, standing - at - the =,
CROSS - roads-Charlotte News.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-17
BY RODNEY DUTCHEll
NEA Service Stan Correspondent

WTASHINGTON.-Lines of STRAIT
" egg in what may prove this
century's most historic battle now
begin to take form,
A struggle-at least comparable
in bitter intensity and probably of
more far reaching Importance
than that over the League of Ma
lions--is in prospect over RooSe-
velt'S program for Judicial re-
form. The opposition, with such
old time "irreconcilables' as Sem
ators William Z. Borah aid Hiram
Johnson among its leaders, will
seek 70 employ tactics used in !ne
league fight.
And Franklin D. Roosevelt, as
his chief Woodrow Wise, once
did, will take his cause 20 the
country - this time through the
ether from the freside at the
White House 10 the fireSides of
The nation.
The Senate will be the battle
ground again. Is Roosevelt VIC
tory in the House is commonly
conceded.
The successful idea Borah,
Johnson, Lodge, Brandegee and
others had Is year. ago, was to
prolong hearing and debate until
they could din into the nations
ears what they considered the
dangers of entry into the league.
To-day the idea is to bring on a
parade Of Acknowledgements fig
ures who will broadcast warnings
as to the Roosevelt plan while Re-
publicans and conservative Demo-
Gratis keep raising hue and cry on
the Senate floor.
chief among the opposition
~ charges will be that Roosevelt
has made Congress a rubber
stamp and now hopes to bring the
supreme court completely under
his thumb, making himself an
absolute dictator" Lobbyists and
lawyers are on the job for special
interests, who fear that if RooSe-
: welt gets more appointees in the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-17

THE Moors had been driven from
Spain many centuries earlier,
and all that remained of their
magnificent structures lay in ruins
In 1885, FL AbbaS, son of the En-
peror of Morocco, visited these re-
mains. When he arrived at the
mosque in Cordova, he fell upon
his knees and, circling the ruins
seven times, wept and prayed
aloud over the loss of this anceS-
trail masterpiece.
For masterpieceit was. Twelve
hundred pillars supported Il:
domeS, all of precious ma'ble1in
many colors, each a solid Block
brought from different part OF
the world. The Walls were carved
like lace; the arches we're je%elled
the. White marble sanctuary was
lighted by 10000 lamps.
A suggestion of its beauty APP
pears in the. illustration of a Stang
issued by Spain in 1881.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-17
THE NEW . E. Al
IN WASHINGTON
-aY ROONEY BUTCHER

court, their last refuge from New
Deal laws passed by Congress will
be gone.
Advocates of President RooSe-
veltS big court program will make
public assertions that the judicial
power has been outrageouSly
abused, that reforms which RooSe-
welt mas promised and presumably
were endorsed in the election can
be had in TO other way. Speak
erS will say that pre-depressior
justices who lived comfortably
through the depression on $4,000
a year should not be allowed &c
threaten agricultural prosperity
minimum wages, collective bar.
gaining, relief, anti-Sweatshop anc
anti-child labor measures or pub.
lie works and that the country
should not De kept in turmoil twG
OF three years or the welfare OF
l2O,000,000 persons gambled with
while constitutional amendment
is sought.
THE country will be reminded
rs Mrs. Roosevelt already ha.
begun TO remind it, that although
everyone processes publicly to alb.
hor child labor, the child labor
amendment is now Is years old
with 10 more states still needed
2or ratification. This amendment
merely permits Congress to reg
rla.e or prohibit labor of per.
sons under 10. The North Caro-
lima House and Governor Hurle,
Of \ Massachusetts recently have
turned down. RooSevelts plea f~
ratification.
A primary administration argu'
ment will 5e that in this govern
ment of checks and balances thu
executive has a check on Congress
through the veto and Congress ;
check on the executive through
power of the purse and power Il
override the veto.
However, the judiciary has I
complete check over both ant
neither Congress nor executive
any check over the courts judi
ciary. ct,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-17
SIDE LIGHTS ON LIFE
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

person. He continued to repeat,
ooh, why did you die? Why did
you die?"
"What then, my poor BROTHER
pressed the caretaker, himself
becoming lachrymose, "is causing
you so much grief? Whose grave
is this that brings you here in
such deep sorrow at this time Of
night?"
at is my wife's first husbands
grave" Sobbed out the miserable
fellow. "Oh. why did you die?
Why did you die?"
Before n person goes entirely
off lys hut because Of a passion
for somebody or other, he would
do we'll to remember the small
child who howled for a wasp he
saw buzzing on the windowpane,
but who howled still harder after
he got it.
Marriage is a fine disciplinary
institution. Properly regarded and
intelligently treated, it has many
delightful phases. But the chap
who goes around killing folks
about his girl demonstrates con-
clusively that he lacks the first
two qualities necessar yto make
marriage a success-self-control
and self-sacrifice.
The gi,l who is killed by some
fellow because she will not marry
him is probably better dead than
living with him. And the parents
who get murdered by some man
because they will not consent to
letting him have their girl are
grimly substantiatcd in their con-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-17
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY IT, 1887
FIGHTING TO CONTROL THE COURT

War on the political front, centering
around RooSevelt's determination to make
the Supreme Court rubber stamp, as he
has controlled and manipulated Congress,
continues at high tide.
Attorney General Cummings has been
advanced as one of the chief defenders OF
the plan to hog-tie the Court. Senator
Carter Glass comment after hearing Cum
mings speak was that it only proved that
the country is in greater need OF new
attorney general than it is of new justices
ofahe Supreme Court.
Then the ''reorganizers" put up Senator
MInton of Indiana who made, according to
the opinion of this newspaper, about as
strong argument for his side as could be
presented. At that we don't believe 1t
changed any intelligent citizens views.
Senator Minton started off with the old,
threadbare assertion that three per cent.
of the people of the country own 81 per
cent. of its wealth. That introduction to a
speech usually stamps the speaker as a
cheap demagogue. 1t is nothing but con-
temptible appeal to class prejudice. MIN
toms assertion, however, was more radical
than any heretofore heard. Usually, we
are told that 10 per cent of the people
own So per cent of the wealth, or that 10
per cent. of the people own 80 per cent OF
the wealth. Senator Minton went the limit;
and from there on, intelligent and unpreJu-
diced citizens did not need to be told what
kind of speech he would make.
One of his chief arguments was that
President Grant had two justices added to
the Supreme Court in order to force the
enactment of a pet scheme. President
Grant. according to the verdict OF history,
made one of a few bad records in Gle pres
idency; his administration is severely con-
demned nowadays; so President Roosevelt
ought to follow in Grants footsteps and
because Grant did wrong in small way,
Roosevelt should perpetrate monumental
mistake and do wrong on grand scale.
Another thing to be taken into consid-
GRAFTON in this connection is that President
Grant was only seeking to secure the en-
actrnent of law dealing with the money
system of the country. He was not trying
to make the country and the government
over, either according to the specifications
of Stain or Hitler; he was not seeking to
change our form of government or to sub
stithte some form of radicalism for Ameri-
caasm.
In the fight over the court proposal it is
illuminating to note that nearly all OF
those engaged on the Presidents side are
thorough new dealers; they have the new
dea technique down to its fine points.
Calling their opponents bad names and
singing stereotyped new deal opprobrium
is their chief stock in trade. All who OPP
pose the Roosevelt plan to make the Su-
preme Court an appendage of the execu-
tive department are tories, economic roy
alists or non-"humanitarians." They are
a low-down, unprineipled aggregation OF
soulless rascals, whose inner consciousness
has never been touched and warmed by
the glow of new dealism.
And so the fight proceeds.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-17
TRENDS IN FORMS OF

human habitation give US moyta!S
something to talk about. The most
thing in Florida this
wear must be their boom trailer
cities-the provisions made for
trailers and their eco
nomic effect on housing cordi-
tons.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-17

out of the darkness. On invcsti-
eating he found a man draped
over a tombstone wailing bitter
ly. oh, why did you die? Why
did you die?"
"What is the trouble, my
friend?" asked the caretaSer So
licitously. "Have you just lost a
dear one?"
"No," answered the unhappy
person. Then he resumed his
plant, "Oh,' why did you die?
Why did you die?"
perhaps them ventured the
caretaker alphabetically, this
is the grave of some beloved rel
ative or devoted friend"
mo" replied the anguished
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-17
NORMAN MILLER, THE MOST

travelled laundry, dry cleaning and
pressing man of these parts, luSt
back from Florida, was chiefly
impressed with the new trailer
cities. Many towns are making
provision for the trailcrs rs mu-
nicipal enterprises. Individuals in
other places are reaping the har-
vest on their own enterprise. Mr.,
Miller estimates that there are
about 1900 trailers in Sarasota
with Z population Of approximate
ly 10000 people trailing He
says where cities are not overbu!t
with housing facilities the trailer
is regarded rs a blessing.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-17

bad t h q I I n g
young man could
not have realized
that had he got
ten the girl he
might have been
tempted within
the year to bump
off the. W h o ] Q
family and HIM
because he
had gotten her.
A GENE I c T. y
caretaker w a S
awaken'e d o n @
night by sounds
&c l;ctrccc from
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-17
OLD CURRENCY STUNNED

PASADENA, Cal. (UP)-A To-
cal resident has taken precaution
aTainst contracting fin from over
used paper money. She turns it
mtO a bank Tor new bills and lets
the bank worry about the disin-
fecting.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-17

heavily in the way of 5,..,
apartments, many o.. ~. sH
type, with correspond. Gs..n
The trailer tour +. ,'s PIN,
bring down prices, cgoa.. .
cies and cause The mon ~. Yea.
owning such pron,r... 0 Re,
concern as TO the uag,.r."' .a,.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-17
prrsE comics. OWNER OF

Chimney Rock Camp for Boys,
saws Miami looks upon the new
mode of travel with deep concern
ms to the good that may come
from the trailers. Miami has built
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-17

sTCDAY'S WORD sTuDy
Trend; inclination ina c..-s', !
rection; rs, the trend of nh.
opinion, general ,.a.u.,~.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-17
A FOOL THERE WAS

Recently a young man murder
ed his sweetheart, slew her par
ents, then killed himself all be-
cause he had been denied the
girls hand in marriage. 1t is too
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-17

Philadelphia woman was hit by an auto that
hacked into her. The driver probably was of
those who always gets his pedestrian.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-17
THOMAS WATSON rs

who is just back ...,. - - 'EsS
whore he did som. n..;...' .e,>
.ancc work this winter. so,. o.
jcity doesn't look fay...bi~-' , ', 2,
,trailer custom Of r.iv.,.. " Z
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-17

1t was only natural that the Missouri sitdown
sutton should chain himself to radiator, since his
;irr was trying to freeze him out 1uoy ee' 80
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-17

viction that he was not fit to have
her.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-04-08
SENIOR BIOGRAPHIES

Nina Griffith:-T dark haired
lassie of the Senior Glass was born
on May "a, 1919, in Buhl, Idaho,
and she says she lived there until.
she came to this valley My! My!
Nina is the star guard on our
basketball team and, whenever there
is any foolishness going on, we find
her in the center of it. You will
find this especially true in the Eng
lisa1 class. 4
Nina won't tell us anything about
her hobbies, ambition, nor her pet
peeve, although we could easily
guess the last.
She has portrayed all sorts of
characters in our school plays and
always takes leading part. Do
you suppose she will ever get on the
stage or in the movies?
For offices she holds the positions
! of Secretary Of the Student Body
and vice-P President OF the famous
Senior Glass. Before we forget
she says that, for the Senior Sneak,
she wants to go to Spokane So
her heart has Clown the coop" 1t
is; not In thesriglit place, cause ev-
dently 1t has left the old home town.
Nina aspires to higher learning,
but, according to MIR. Manousos, it
will be of no use. Whatever you
do, Nina, we wish you a world of
Tuck!
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-04-08

that assumption. It's because la
bor. has. become. a. genuine racket
For some time it has been growing
exceedingly self -centered, absolutely
contenpttotls of the rights of 9TH
ers. One does not have ito be a
prophet to foretell that, unless the
labor union racket is humanized In
the near future, they are doomed.
The Pacific Coast is yet sore from
the beating it took when the unions
staged that last great maritime
strike, in spite of a futile and use.
less federal department of labor.
And unions, even in this stronghold
of them, will gain scant sympathy
for some time to come from those
other citizens whose toes were ruth
lessly trodden ON.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-04-08
THE BLACKBOARD
NUMBERED,

did not care to hike any, farther
stayed there and prepared the sup
per. The rest of the group walked
about two miles ON up the river and,
on their return, brought with them
an appetite which would put amy
giant to shame. Their appetite
was soon satisfied, however, to judge
by the number of hamburgers they
consumed (three, at the very leastD
The girls returned home about 1880,
only to journey to Hartford, where
they attended a dance. My! Such
Vitality
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-04-08
QUEEN JANET and her RETINUE

Thursday afternoon, the student
body was honored by a visit from
Her Royal Highness, Queen Janet I,
the Apple Blossom ruler of Wen
atchee. She was accompanied by
her attendants, Princess Mary and
Princess Betty, who each gave a
speech of welcome. These, with
their chaperones, We're introduced
by Mr.. Irwin Jones, Master of the
Equerry, They were greeted by the
Pep Band, and, after they entered
the, building, short program fol-
lowed, in which Princess Mary took
part by playing a piano number.
Mr.. Austin, Mr.. English, and Pri11-
cesses Betty Mae and Lorena were
presented with apple blossoms by
Queen Janet. Our two Princesses
gave speech of welcome and, by
the time the program was ended.
everyone felt that they were well
acquainted with the royal party.
We hope that large group will at
tend the festival this year, and we
know they will certainly have 8.
good time.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-04-08
DISSERTATION ON THE
WEATHER

What is weather." What is it
good for? Why is it? These long
asked questions, that have stumped
some of the great (au1d some not so
great) persons of this world, shall
be answered.
In one respect, weather is good
to break the ice of a conversation;
but if there is ice the weather isn't
so good so perhaps the reference to
it isn't so good.
Summer! All, Summer! What
grand times summer brings One
sees the workers, stopping over the
rows of potatoes, picking them up,
one by one, and putting them in
sacks. Pleasant times! One sees
the workers, picking peaches nice,
ripe, red-cheeked, juicy and sweet
eve mustn't forget the fuzz) peach
es that go to market.
Fall brings the beautiful leaves,
the crops Il don't mean those of
poultry) coming in, and sandburs.
Winter brings us snow and holi-
days, the ice-and eranking the CT"
model frozen ears and noses
must not be forgotten.
Spring gives us the glorious time
when we get to play in the dirt and
mud, planting little seeds to weed
in summer-gather' the meager crop
in fall-to eat, in, winter. According
ito that, the cycle should go ,on and
on, but that thing (weather!D comes
into it and spoils our little dream.
!: In closing, it might be good to a.
gree with Mark Twain: Everybody
talks about the weather but no
! body does anything about 1T.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-04-08
is LABOR ovERREACH1NG?-

is LABOR OVERREACHING?-
Daily papers are full of the ac-
counts Of strikes, mostly of the pu-
Grille sit-down nature. CANADA is
outlawing this childish seizure of
property and some Of our states are
doing likewise. And only recently a
mob of Infatuated farmers ousted a
Thousand sit-downers from the
famous Hershey factory in Pennsyl-
vania. Why? Because the farmers
objected to the strikers getting bet
ter wages? Not so. Because the
strikers were interfering with the
farmers livelihood. Why does Ford
refuse to recognize the unions? Be-
cause he is reluctant to see the
workers get a living wage? The en-
tire history of his plant negates
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-04-08

Thursday and Friday, the Han
ford teachers will journey to Spo-
kane to attend the annual Teachers
Institute. The White Bluffs faculty
attended the meeting at Yakima,
last fall, so they don't have to at
tend the Spokane Institution. AS
the White Bluffs school is two days
behind the Hanford group, the Han
ford pupils will enjoy two-days
vacation. This will even up the
work of the schools so they will be
able to adjourn at the same time
this spring.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-04-08
MY! "sICH vITALIKY!"

# Last Friday the girls finally went
on hike they had planned several
weeks ago. They walked down to
the river, where they were ferried
across, and then they liked along
the bluffs for a short distance. Here
they made their eating grounds on
sort of grassy knoll, surrounded
by a. few willow trees. Those who
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1937-04-08


buttal letters in regard to the mice
ly worded letter OF James Salvini,
published in this issue, and we do
invite further comment, pro and
con. But, perhaps our good read
ers will not take it anniss (nor MIR.
salvini, either) if we comment a
bit on it.
1t is one of the inexplicable para
doxes why honest men can have
honest opinions, dianetrically OPP
posite. Young Mr.. Salvini, with
commemorate fervor for good gov
eminent and progress, asks: Shall
we rule Through our elected repre-
sentatives, or shall we be ruled by
a judicial oligarchy?" Strange that
he should inpute the power of rul-
ing to body of men who have
never made nor executed any law,
imposed no taxes nor suggested amy
procedure of government How can
such a body rule? They are an
oligarchy, but so is our Federal
government! Cam MIR Salvini see
in it an oligarchy equal to the Pres
ddent's own? And has the Supreme
Court ever been accused of using
political weapons to-rather dicta-
torially-urge agreenlen of opinion?
Is it strange that we can see no
F,rankerstein, Dracula, or hydra
headed monster in any Supreme
Court? Is it strange that we see
only a cold, sensible check on effer-
vescent craftsmanship; a safeguard
for us against the enthusiastic err
rors and hasty injustices of a stam-
peded herd of we'll meaning reform
erS?
Where is this Frankenstein? We
had thought (though perhaps we
are mistakeD that the majority"
verdicts of the Court were split, not
ON the question of the Constitu-
tionality of the AAA and the other
alptlabetic reflections, but on the
authority of the Court to interfere
with the acts of Congress. In fact,
we had supposed that was the
whole argument. Nor can we UNI
derstand what the Child Labor Act,
or any other act, has to do with it,
save to save the Presidents face by
side tracking the main trend of the
argument-a ruSe that is invariably
employed by the weak side OF any
argument. mi
Nor does the editor of the Spokes
man deny (and we have never
heard any opponent of the Supreme
Court measure do so; that's merely
another 'sside- track of the pros)
that it is within the province OF
the powers that be to increase the
number, or decrease the number, OF
Justices
But we do maintain Cd that the
proper location for the power of de-
Gliding the Constitutionality or tru-
ly interpreting the Constitution, is
in the Supreme Court; CD that the
Presidents proposal takes away
that power, thereby creating in the
executive branch an oligarchy be-
side which the feverish vision of
the letters author pales into insig-
nificance. Your editor does not
dispute that the power to decide
upon Constitutionality of laws is an
assumed one, even a 'usurped" one.
We, however, believe that right
should be legally confirmed. John
Marshall died in 1885, but he left
behind him splendid precedent
a wise vision of the proper field Of
usefulness of the nations highest
tribunal. May we politely point
out that the uch-discussed bred
Scott case was a literal (and appel
late, bringing it under any Supreme
Courts proper jurisdiction inter-