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Ily, "did you take some money from Q young woman when you went out for Q breath of air early yesterday morning? And where did you get that scarf?" The old womarl's bright eyes twinkled. Did she repent her bargain and want the pretty scarf back? Or maybe she didn't know 1t was Q beeg bill she was giVing me?"
 The man shook his head in mock disapproval. you'd never know that you were the mother of a respectable painter. shame less. Taking money. No wonder this young lady was out searching for beggar."
 He turned to Patty: "she gets up. every morning at 6 and goes out for a brief while. She had the habit back in France, and l haven't been able to break her Of 1t, though the winter mornings here and in the south of France are very different"
 "She looked at her watch and said, It's seex o'clock, the old woman broke in merrily. And l said, You don't have to tell me the time. know by the sun. So pretty she was. So ashamed she would have been, If I geeve the money back"
 Patty sat down weakly. "Please excuse me. But I feel a little faint. After I recover bit, l want you and your son to 90 with me to the police. The girl who gave you the red scarf Is In trouble The police claim she was some- where else at 6 yesterday morn- ing"
 "They do, do they?" began the old woman. "Those police Well, I guess this will prove something Are those the girls - what do you say in your Engleesh-ineetials'"
 She took the red scarf from her shoulders and handed 1t to Patty. Inside were the letters, embroid- cred or a silk marking band, U. w."
 (To Be Concluded
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-16
CRANIOM CRACKERS

1. The present calendar, known as the Gregorian Calendar, which Is now used in America was irl- troduced in 1907, 1870, 1752, 1873, before 1402.
 2. From which side, right or left, does a farmer milk COW? A rider mount a horse?
 8. How can you carry water in \ sieve without spilling 6 drop?
 4. If the letter A equals ], B equals 2, c equals 3, and so on, what word of six leters does the number 566i35 form?
 5. A man and his wife had two married sons and two married daughters and each of these had two sons and two daughters. If four persons of the family died, how many would remain9
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s Y ORES, IN ST Y ''T'AMpS
CAepleOC CHRISTIANITY
 % eNeOe,snr

successful conquest of Southern India by the Portuguese and the beginning of a new imperialism that radiated from the shoddy capital, Goa. Travellers described the city as the seat of filth. vice and crime.
 Into this licentious port came St. Francis Xavier, Jesuit mis. sionary. early in the spring of i542. Scion of a wealthy, noble family in Spain, he chose the east as his ground for the spreading of Christianity. At 36 he began his long and dangerous task.
 From Goa he travelled through hostile country to preach to strange tribes. Patiently he trans. lated the Scriptures for them. The great sincerity and the austerc beauty of his own life lent strange persuasiveness to lis work.
 Trudging along in sandals, poorly clad, Xavier pushed on to Ceylon, thence to Molucca, Japan and China. He gained foothold
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TOdsy's Answers te
 eRANlUM CRACKERS s

1. The dregorian Calendar was adopted in America in 1762.
 2. 4 COW b mixed from the light side. 6 horse Is mounted from she left side.
 2. You can carry water jn e sieve f you freeze the water.
 {. Tie number S0e136 forms the word 1e1face."
 E. The family numbers % per. Anus. If four die 22 will be left
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CAST 0 FCHARACTERs

CAST O FCHARACTERS yLL WENTWORTH, heroine, attractive debutante.
 ALAN yEFFRY, hero, rising young artist.
 BARRY WENTWORTH, JiIPs wtepbrother.
 JACK WENTWORTH, Jlll's brother.
 SYLVIA SUTTON, oil heiresS.
 
 Yesterday: Jill is picked up by pollce as she drove aimelessly about the city. The net is fast closing in about her. But what about Barry, Jlll recOllects? No, it couldn't have been him, she reasons. What must she do?
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for ChriStiunis fly In Japan, but died on a lonely island near Canton b c fore his work began in Chin Q. His tomb Is In Goa. Xavier is portrayed on a 1881 stamp of P 0 r { u Ruesc YaslIa
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(copyrIgh,. io37. %EA Service. Incl
 NEXT: What ancient Mediter.
 ranean island is In the news with Q gold rush? 25
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-19
JURIST SAYS TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE
BASES OF ALL OUR LAWS

Over in Beaufort county, North Carolina, cir
cult Judge made a recent charge to the grand jury
| wish could he read by every thoughtful American
citizen A correspondent, thoughtful enough to
send it to this department, is due our thanks for
the kindness, and for the good it may do. The
presiding Judge told the grand jurors that you
are here today because someone has violated the
Ten Commandments. If they had not done so, it
would not be necessary for Beaufort county and
the State of North Carolina to be here today to
concern yourselves with the misdeeds of Others"
The Ten Commandments, as most of you who
read this realize is the basis of laws. The first
of these commandments deal with mans attitude
towards God The latter deal with the debt which
man owes his felowman. If both phases of the
law are observed there would be no crime in this
fair land of ours, the presiding judge declared.
"Who fills our jails today? Who comes before
our courts? Who takes the time of this court? 1t
is he who has forgotten the Ten Commandments,
who has forgotten his obligation to God and man.
1t is he who wants his own way and who forgets
that the other fellow also has rights in this world
It is such who clutter up courts, who cause
our tax rate to soar, who bring misery into other
happy homes, and who cause gentlemen like you
to be here in court today, when you would like to
be at home concerned with your normal duties"
The Ten Commandments have not been repealed.
Their force and their logic are as strong today as
when they were first written, centuries ago. Those
who violate them realize that fact too late. The
laws of civilization, founded upon the Ten Com
mandments, protect life and property, and require
reverence for the Deity in accordance with the
mmandmentS.-Greenyille Piedmont.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
WHAT is INVOLVED IN COTTON coNTRoL'

The president and his advisers have not sara
what they mean by demanding that congress iegiS-
lative control measures for cotton IN payment
for the governments action in pegging the price
for the current production.
One understands, of course that they mean con-
trolling the acreage.
The Texas Weekly, however, points out that the
acreage is under control, although the govern
ment's crop forecast indicates a bumper crop OF
more than 100000 bales.
The governments report estimates that the TO-
tai acreage harvested this year will be 3S,429,ooo
acres That figure is to be compared with 1852
600 acres, which the average annual acreage
harvested during the five years ending with 1929
The 1887 acreage, therefore, represents reduc-
ton from the l92529 average of IL ,435,OOO acres
or more than 25.5 per cent. Is not reduction OF
acreage by than one-fourth sufficient? Is
that not crop control?"
This view only complexities the case for the gov
eminent in its effort to institute workable control
economics.
1t is clearly revealed in this case that the pres
ent crop is not so much the result of a big acre
age as of fine weather after three years of inter-
mittent drought and excessive rains.
Manfestly, therefore, effective control by legis-
lation would involve more than cut in acreage.
Indeed, it would involve laws of congress relat-
ing to the way the weather works, and even the
New Deal has so far not had the audacity to ex-
pertinent in this feld.-Charlotte Observer.
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UP TO THE PEOPLE

Americans must work nearly one full year out
of every eight-or about six weeks out of every
year-just to pay the cost of the federal govern
ment," says the United States News.
"When the local and state government costs are
added to the expenditure of the national govern
ment the average American must work two years
out of every eight to pay the cost of government.
The tax collector gets cut in every pay check.
His unseen hand reaches in and takes part of all
the money you spend, for food, amusement, cloth
ing, train fare, power service.
And his percentage is today greater than it ever
in peace time in this country.
The Twentieth Century Fund estimates that to-
tai government costs have swelled to $l7,OOo0oO,-
900 year. That is approximately rs per cent Of
the national income in good times.
When you work four weeks the public treasures
take your earnings for one of the weeks.
During the next year or so we are going to
make or break" so far as the tax problem is con-
cerned. Every branch of government spending
must be checked.
We will have let-up in tax boosting when, and
only when, the voice of the people demands it.
Greenvile Piedmont.
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Open Letter to the City Commits

Open Letter to the City Commits
Sioners:
In the interests of fair play, it
is only just that both sides of the
recent Sunday-movie legislation
question be heard. So may sug-
gest that you give the public an
open statement of your views IN
the matter. More specifically,
what events or situations led you
to take this action? BY what logic
or mental deduction did you ar
rive at your decision and why did
YOU make a decision that affects
so many people without consult
inc them? What persons outside
the official body were influential
in sponsoring the action? How do
YOU expect to benefit thereby,
and how do you expect the public
to benefit?
As see it, the question at
present is net whether Sunday
movies should be legalized, but
whether Hendcrsonville is ruled
by a democracy or by an oligar-
chy.
Citizens and taxpayers await
an explanation.
Action contrary to the will of
the churches is dangerously likely
to be directly opposed to God.
JOHN L. BROWN.
S-1S-37
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also correSpondlngly initiate
everybody's income, that would
make everything hunky-dory
wouldn't it? But would it? The
point is not how much money
you have to spend, but how much
can you buy with what you have
to spend. If you had an income
of a million dol ans a day and had
to pay a million and a half dol
lars for loaf of bread, you
would be in a pretty pickle.
Probably there never was and
never will be a successful attempt
to create artificial prosperity and
make it permanent; an artificial
prosperity is probably like an ar
tificial sense of well-being; you
can get the latter with a dose of
opium or heroin or hashish; but
the reaction is bad and you are
apt to get a bad habit. We may
get some bad economic habits if
we do not watch out.
Some of the present PROPOSE
tions seem to violate established
economic laws: For instance, the
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which would permit price-fxing
and restraint Of production.
Roosevelt approved the measure.
Today Roosevelt has declared
against price-fxing, has taken
several steps toward lowering
prices and is searching for a
method of obtaining the highest
possible level of production with
the lowest feasible level of prices.
RLACK demanded government
- regulation of profits rather
than a code system which would
enable manufacturers to establish
their own profit margin, holding
that reduction of competition
through MIRA would largely end
the competitive system and per-
haps destroy it. Roosevelt finally
has come to the view that excess
sive profits must be cut down
both by taxation and suppression
of monopolies and other price
fixing combinations.
Black insisted that consumers
must be protected from eXploita-
ton by profiteerS. Roosevelt got
around TO that in his Madison
Square Garden speech last fall
and is definitely sold on the idea.
In general, Black declared years
in advance many Of the gen.
eral principles of the Hopkins
EccleS-Henderson-Coyle POLITICAL
economic theory among whose
points are selective excess prof.
payment of social secur-
ity costs by income taxes, draw
ing off surplus income and giving
it back to the poor" raising mas.
purchasing power, antitrust pros
ecutionS. The theory also pro-
poses action against monopoly
and collusive bidding and volume
production at low prices. It is
this general theory which Roose-
welt privately espouSes today.
icepIEight. laSiqSEA Service, incl,
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BIG WILLOW

BIG WILLOW, Aug. 19.-Mrs.
Hettie Lucas and children Of
Hickory are visiting relatives here
for a few days.
Miss Thelma Drake, who has
been teaching a B. T. U. study
course in Pennsylvania county,
has returned home.
Mrs. S. A. Mace has returned
to Hendersonville after spending
a few days with her daughter,
Mrs. B. B. Blythe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tragire Mintz of
Shaws Creek visited relatives here
Sunday.
A series of revival services is
being conducted at Beulah church
by Rev. j. E. Osteen, the pastor,
and Rev. j. +. Blythe.
Mrs. Bill Cantrell and children
of Shaws Creek have been visit
ing relatives here for a few days.
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ing about" said he. OF course
he couldn't, and | didn't try to
tell him; it would have been as
useless as explaining to crab
what is meant by going sidewise.
But there is one thing | could
have told him had | thought of it
at the time. ! could have told him
that if my state were as well or
ganized for the power of God as
it is for the power of the domi-
nant political machine, God could
go places in my state.
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T HE NEW DEAL
IN WASHINGTON
-aY RODNEY BUTCHER
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Hugo
W Black Of Alabama is a loyal,
unqueStioning follower of the ad-
Court appointment largely to his
SubServience to Roosevelt. So
goes the patter.
The facts arc something else
again.
And the big outstanding fact of
which perhaps Roosevelt himself
isn't aware is that in four years
the President has swung complete
ly around from primary tenets of
his original political-economic
philosophy to the policies advocat-
cd in 1888 by Black. Vital policies
which Roosevelt refused to accept
when Black urged them then are
now among the brightest jewels in
the New Deal store window.
FEW are aware that Black first
- voted to knock out the NRA
or code section of the National In
duStrial Recovery act, then voted
for MIRA when it carried the
Borah anti-monopoly amendment
and finally voted against the en-
ished measure as it came from
conference for reasons which
Black explained in a long-forgot-
ten speech. In that speech made
June Is, 1888, you will find much
OF what is sometimes called now,
The New New Deal"
Black urged a fiat wage-hour
bill in which wage and hour
standards would be declared by
Congress, and enforced by the
government and in which there
would be no trade practice pro-
visions or SopS to industry.
He predicted collapse of NRA.
Today Roosevelt stands behind
Blacks bill which strictly con-
Germs itself with wages and
hours.
- Black, argued against IN act
= /. HHHH q
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HIS IDEA HAD POINT


Recently an cnterprising min
lister turned his evening service
into unique funeral with
flowers and casket. When the
congregation filed by the coffin
and peeked in they were startled
to see their own reflections in a
mirror so placed as to give them
the effect of seeing themselves in
there.
Later the minister asked the
congregation if they were dead
enough as church members to be
in that coffin.
l., Some of our ministers are def
nitely waking up to the demands
of the day. Not long ago ] heard
preacher tell his listeners that
if half of the church members
were at the bottom Of the sea
they would not be missed by the
church. And just the other Sun
day | heard a preacher assert
from his pulpit that if one per
cent of the church members were
really alive to their Christian re-
Sponsibilities they could and
would rejuvenate the church and
make it a sweeping irresistible
force in the life of and for the
good of this nation. He went on
to declare that Bible study alone
would not do the trick - that
some of the deadest. dried-uppest
people he knew were perfect
Bible students. He admonished,
1--WE must get off our Sunday
clothes and go to work; folks
don't work in their Sunday
clothes" After the service Il
member of the old guard asked
me what the minister meant. Il
couldn't get at what he was talk
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-19
HOW MUCH UNEMPLOYMENT?

An eastern North Carolina farmer, large
employer of labor, contributed the Leading
article to late issue of The State (Ralelgh
weekly in which it is asserted that the
said farmer travelled a thousand miles,
looking for unemployed farm help, but
failed to find workers. At least, ne found
nobody willing to take job where an hon
est DAYS work would earn and receive an
honest days pay.
The State contributor details his expert
ences and sums up by saying that there IS
the greatest scarcity of labor in eastern
Carolina that he has known in many years
and that there are many citizens who Will
not work and propose to remain loafers.
These people believe the government is
going to feed and take care of them, re-
gardless of their attitude to honest labor
Many of them want to hang around the
towns and cities instead of going to the
farms to labor; and the towns and cities
tolerate this loafing and encourage it by
taking care of the loafers, in connection
with the sustenance provided by the politi-
cal powers that be.
No doubt conditions similar to those UNI
covered in eastern Carolina exist through
out the country. There is scarcity of
farm labor throughout the South and much
complaint is heard that parallels the eXpe-
rience of The States contributor. On the
whole there is large number of labOrers
who could be working on the farms, but
some of them prefer to loaf and others are
willing to let the government support
them. There is much indifference and in
efficiency among farm laborerS, even in
the ranks of those who are working; and
the net result is trouble and grief in album
dance for those who own the soil and try
to produce crops for their own and the
general welfare of the country.
The foregoing does not apply alone to
farming in the South. The newspapers
have carried stores of scarcity of skilled
labor, and this in the highly industrialized
regions, where the larger number of indus
tries are located and where there is vast
labor supply. Skilled labor probably is not
scarce in all lines of industry but only In
some lines; but it is generally known that
comparatively few skilled men are idle,
except in communities where there is labor
trouble or some reason for conditions that
is beyond the control of the men charged
with the business of keeping industry 60
ing.
In view of the actual, ascertainable
facts, one cannot help wondering about
unemployment-abou the millions it is as
serted are still unemployed; about the dire
results of public support of the undeserv-
ing as we'll as the deserving unemployed
How much unemployment exists? Ask
anybody who has tried to hire either skilled
or unskilled workers in the past six or
eight months. The chances are their expe-
riences are similar to those of the eastern
Carolina farmer who travelled thousand
miles looking for farm labor and failed to
find it.
How much honest unemployment re-
mains in the country? How much of it is
shamming and pretense used to cover I'D
aversion to labor, or what is commonly
known as loafing?
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SWIMMERS TACCrD

SALISBURY. Mass. Up,
State police are tagging ~,
mcrs. Elnadio> Nariirosbr ,
given 4 SummuBs tu anna,
court when he refused "a y
closer to the shore after br,s
ordered by q lifrguard.
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THE PRIVATE WAY ALSO THE CHEAPEST

One of the impulses behind the creation of the
iva was the claim that privately dispensed cleo
trcity was too high and costing the consumers far
more than it was necessary for them to pay for
current.
That in a word is the basis of the argument
that has always been used and continues to be the
vogue among those contendng for governmental
ownership of utilities.
But fly appears to have dropped into this
ointment.
The Tennessee utilities officials have given the
Tennessee Electric Power company permit to build
a 100000 power-generatng plant at Nashville
although that city is virtually encircled by IVA
power lines.
The grant was vigorously protested by prota-
gonists of the IVA but the State utilities commits
sion showed into their faces the statistics showing
that electricity for service in Nashville could be
developed and sold from this private plant cheaper
than it would be for the city to buy the federal
governments IVA current.-Charlotte Observer.
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But what about
the buying pow
er of the buyers
of the price
boosted pro d.
u c t u? w h a t
about the per-
sons with fixed
income ?? whose
buying power is
in effect auto
matically reduc-
cd as prices are
i ere a sed. If
when the gov
eminent initiates
prices it would
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-19
NO PERFECTION HERE

Everything has its disadvan-
tages. After you have bought
your home and fixed it to suit
you, persons may locate along
side you and make you wish you
lived somewhere else.
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The governments argument for
boosting prices is that the pro-
ducers shall make more profit
and have increased buying power.
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4 LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned eommu-
nications are published by The
Times-News. All letters must be
signed with the real name OF
the author. No communications
signed with a fictitious name
will be published.-EDlTOR.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-19
BIBLE THOUGHT
, MILITANT PREACHER
"F;sh, the good fight" (Read l Tim. 6l-lO)

-"Fighl the good hight NNV"u I'''' UT ~
Frankly, one of the greatest needs oil the
church today is for men and women who VIII reaiiy
do something about the things that are wrong III
our public life. We are prone to forget the PIC
ture of Jesus with the whip of cords IN his hana'
We remember His tender appeals but overlook HIS
stern denunciations Both are needed to bring IN
His kingdom.-Dr William T. Ellis.
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Americanism: Demanding a Federal
handout for every local project or need /;
scolding the government for piling up such
dangsxons, debt. s,s,x,,s.,y-, ~ -,,-zsg-
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ON THE PLANET EARTH
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

attempt to get the idea going that
the more we pay and the less we
work, the more we shall have.
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LONG SERVICE: The Rev. S.
BY Noah Hollowcll

LONG SERVICE: The Kew. ..
+. Huntlcy's 10 years as pastor of
Ebenezcr Baptist church, near
which he resides, somewhat re-
flutes the old philosophy that
man is not without honor save in
his own country. This is an I'M
usually long service. Most Bap-
fist ministers move, or are moved,
before Sthe four-year maximum OF
the Methodists is applied.
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AN ILLUSION: There will be

AN ILLUSION: There will be
some disappointment to those VINO
have counted noses in Ashevllle
on Sundays and wept about what
we missed. People will continue
to go to ASheville on Sundays as
well as during the week days,
which has been source of worry
and grief all these years that
they would go there for what
Hcndersonville had to offer. It's