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The Washington times., 1937-12-29

thorities with a pipeline to the
White House have heard that
the Commerce Department and
probably also the Labor Depart
ment have been instructed to
get it quick. Wires and letters
have been sent to trade aSSocia-
tions to cooperate in accumulat-
ing data.
Answers may have much to
do with determining the Presi-
dents course.
Tip has been going around
here that inventories are ex-
tremely short this year.end, but
no one has any real informa-
ton. Steel is reported operating
at less than consumption again,
and retail merchants are known
to have staged big shelf-clearing
sales before Christmas this year
instead of after New Year, as
usually. This is reported to have
been a tremendous stimulant to
holiday buying.
1t was good business because
lower price levels have been
generally expected.
X X
A TANIMANY Congressman,
N whose knowledge of agricul-
ture is limited to flower pots in
his Brooklyn window, reports he
received an education during
consideration of the farm bill.
For the first time. he learned
that in speaking Of
Pigs, it is a drove; partridges,
it Is a covey; geese, it is a
wedge: ducks, 1t is a raft, and
where horses are bred is a harass
"a Western farm member told
him this but Webster does not
confirm.
He always thought a harasS
was an election.
4
TWICE as many congressman
l. went home for the holidays
this year. Just off the record,
they were annoyed by criticism
when they voted to pay them
selves mileage and decided to
show their constituents they had
actually spent the money, by
appearing in person in their
home towns.
Others who were unworried
by such trivial considerations as
getting reelected next year, how
ever, spent their mileage going
to Florida to relax their tired
nerves.
0PEED with which the ICC Is
~ moving leads all the rail ex-
pertS to expect rate increase,
probably early in February.
Guesses now range from 6 to 10
per cent.
An NBC official and a radio
advertising executive got to-
gether with a Catholic prelate
here and stopped threatened re
vival of the Catholic Legion Of
Decency resulting from the Mae
West broadcast. It developed
that the trouble was not so
much what was said, but how it
was said, and that these intona-
tions did not develop during re-
hearsalS.
X \ X
General Farley's Post Office
inspectors were the ones who
worked UP those mysterious
cases involving letters being sent
by Japanese spies to the Orient.
Intelligence services of the Army
and Navy, where all spy matters
are handled, knew nothing
about it.
The Washington times., 1937-12-29
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The Washington times., 1937-12-29

t he ra dio,
merely tried
out the tune.
The nalady
&C O. oe S
like his:
"Monopolis t S
(steel, build
ing trades
priced them
selves out of
their market
and into a
slump" Catch
line is: THE
GoVernm e n t
must be an
inn a r + | a |
The Washington times., 1937-12-29
Forty and Eight
Plan '38 SOiree

A New Year dinner and dance
will be held Friday night by
members of the Forty and Eight,
fun group of the American LIE
gion. in the main ballroom of the
Mayflower Hotel from 10 p. m.
W. H. Hargrave is chairman OF
the committee arranging the
event, sponsored by Grand Voiture
No. 174,
The Washington times., 1937-12-29
VS. BEHIND THE NEWS
BY PAUL MALLoN

Assistant Attorney General Rob
ert jackson the othel night on
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-29
KANSAS CITY PAYS FOR DEFEAT

Kansas City business men are to talk it over with
Henry Ford. At least. they have announced they
will Looks like a useless effort. Ford has many
plants in many cities. lie can't back up at Kansas
City without encouraging other cities to let things
get out of hand. Ford might afford to concede a
lot at Kansas City if he had only one plant, one
city or one set of local conditions to consider But
Ford fears if ne backs up at Kansas City he'll have
to pay and paw in many other cities. Ford prob
ably thought thc thing through before he began
diSmantling the Kansas City plant. Kansas City
business men who thought they could not afford to
fight PcndergaStSm now wonder if it would not
have been better to have given Ford police protcc-
ton and kept the plant. Pendergast gives little
and takes much away Bad business and bad poll
ties make bad combination. The issue in Kansas
City was not so much labor issue as it was an
issue between the Pendcrgast machine and political
and business honesty. Ford and labor could prob
ably have settled their differences but only the cleo
torate Of Kansas City settle the Pendergrast
issue SO far, the citizens have been unwilling TO
pay the immediate cost of victory and hence have
to pay the long time and greater cost of defeat.
The business men whose windows have been smash
ed know something about the cost of terrorism
and now all Kansas City knows, soon will know.
Charlottesville (OklaD Examiner.
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
WHY DOESN'T FARLEY RESIGN?

Big jim Farley, see by the papers, is to make
a speech-maybe SpeecheS-in the New York may
oral campaign We hope somebody in the audience
asks and receives reply-we don't believe there
can be any satisfactory answer-to a question
which we shall attempt to state later
Although La Guardia, who has been consistently
new deal, has furnished New York with an admin
istration generally understood to be all that the
Washington administration and President Roose-
welt personally could ask for and although the
president has been thought to desire the fusion
candidates reelection, the party chairman has in
dorsed Candidate Mahoney and will now take the
stump for him.
We think jim as party chairman should do this
but we are just as certain that when Postmaster
General Farley does begin campaigning for one
who is declared to have promised $500, 600, 900 of
federal aid for projects he is himself to select a
cabinet resignation is in order Surely no member
of President Rooscvets official family can justify
q tacit Endorsement of a pledge of half billion
dollars in pork.
And so we think the question might be framed:
Mr. Farley. do you and Washington intend to put
up $500, 900 900 Of the peoples money as a bride
to the voters of New York city," The reply will,
of course be in the negative; but second question
would follow: Then why countenance candidate
for mayor who has made such promise in your
Nance"
1t is certainly not thus that budgets are bal
anccd. And we don't believe that is the way to
insure the electoral votes of Maine and Vermont
for the third term Mr. Farley says President Roose-
welt can have if ne wants it.--Grccnsboro News.
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GOVERNMENT COMPETITION INJURING
PRIVATE ENTERPRISE

Observing that the billions of dollars spent in the
governments effort to create new business have
harmed honest enterprises than will ever
know, Merle Thorpe points, in the November Com
mentator to some of the fields in which the gov
eminent is competing with long established bust
neSSeS. The government makes arplaneS, awnings,
brick, brOomS, bronze castings and forgngs gaSo-
line engines furniture garbage cans, glue ham
mocks. ink, mattresses. optical glass, paints over
aS, varnshes, rope, sausage, shoes, yarn. 1t OPP
crates cattle ranches canneries, cheese factories,
darieS, department stores, dry cleaning establish
ments, hotels, motion picture theatres, ships, rail
ton, copra, eggs, fruits and vegetables groceries,
ice, milk meats, petroleum, poultry, tobacco, and
wheat. 1t has likewise invaded the realm of the
professions where it arrays itself comparatively
against the scientist, the physician, the engineer,
and the architect.
A naval officer continues The Commentator, is
sued priyatey-printed circular addressed "TO
the Patrons of the Navy CommSsary Store an
nouncng that it was now ready to take orders for
automobile tires and tubes at approximately so per
cent below the average retail price. But the rep
resentative of our great federal government added
this word of caution:
Patrons are earnestly requested to hold all in
formation concerning same as strictly confidential"
Even the most violent busness-bater, if he has
drop of red blood in his veins, could hardly blame
business man for his state of mind when his po-
litiCal mentors the same day lecture him on bust
ness neutrality-suspicious. Gazette.
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MAN VOTES ILLEGALLY
Is YEARS; VOTE ON
NOV. 2 TO BE LEGAL

SPRINGFIELD. o.. Oct. %
CUPD-Whcn the November cleo
ton rolls around. G9-year-old
Mathew Meehan of Springfield,
who for Is wears marked an az
after the names Of the candidates
he preferred, will walk into a vot-
ing booth here and cast his first
legal ballot.
Years ago Mechan came to this
country from County Mayo, Ire
land. When he reached q he be-
gan voting. Not once in the fol-
lowing al years was he challenged
at the polls.
Two years ago. however, Nee
han was told that all Of his votes
should never have been counted,
that every one he cast since his
first one-that for Grover Clcye-
land i'm 1892 - was invalid be-
cause ne was not a citizen of the
United States.
During those years Meehan had
believed ne was q citizen. Ills
father became natmaliZed years
ago, he told officials Of the Clark
county old age pension bureau
when they informed him he had
to prove his citizenship before he
could be granted q pension.
The bureau checked old records
and informed Mcchan that hi.
father had been naturalizcd, bat
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-29
CHILEAN AWARDED
FOR STUDY OF FISH

SANTIAGO. Chile, oct. 29.-
CUP).-Tor his study of a fish
which allows itself to be swallow
cd in order to eat the bigger fish
from the inside. Prof. Ernest
Gigoux, curator Of the National
Museum of Natural History in
Chile. has been awarded the Or
der of Merit by the Chilean Acad-
envy of Natural Sciences.
Myximc Dcmjcyssy is the name
Of The fish which Prof. Gigoux
has been studying in his private
acouarium. When it has been
swallowed, il hides itself in the
organs of the larger fish and then
begins to gnaw at them. Before
long it has crippled its unwilling
host and finishes by dcyouring il
entirely.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-29
THERE'S JUST THREE WAYS
OF MEETING TROUBLE

Man is born to trouble, and none
will chollengc this
There's always going to be some
ills, to intercept our bliss
And so when trouble comes along,
and its coming soon or late,
There's Just three ways to meet
it, and these Pm going to state;
The first way is defy it, and
rave" the whole way through
But this availeth nothing, and
causes much to rue
The second way to meet it, and
this is most unwisc
To fear and faint beneath it, and
utter mournful cries
The third way is the SaneSt, and
hope you all will try it
Just trust the Gracious Father"
and try and profit by it.
-Kempster.
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THEY ARE THAT WAY

\ woman who had an Italian
greyhound. backed off one day
when the animal showed his teeth
at her. ..
you must put a stop to that, "
declared the woman's brother.
"If YOU don't ne will get boldcr
and boldcr until some day he will
half Kill you. The very next time
he Snarls at you knock his block
off and teach him he can't fight
YOU
The way the League of Nations
backed off when the Italian dicta-
tor showed his teeth at them
about the Ethiopian invasion, has
taught MuSsohni to fight them.
They will yet have to knock his
block off or he will get holder
and boldcr.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-29
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEt Service Stnf Correspondent

WASHINGToN--If one con-
w cedeS the propriety OF
Jimmy RooSevelt's position on the
federal payroll as one OF his
fathers secretaries, the shifting
over his new assignment as Co
ordinator" or clearing house" be-
tween the President and the in
dependent federal agencies is
bound to seem SuperhuouS.
It's a job that needs doing. 1t
might have been given to someone
other than Jimmy. On the other
hand, the Presidents son is a per-
son peculiarly fitted to try to
handle it.
Big problems and little problems
are poured in on the White House.
The big ones are more than
enough to keep the elder RooSe-
Welt busy. Cabinet members some
times use discretion &C between
big ones and little ones at cabinet
meetings and sometimes not. Any
way. the President hasn't been
able to see all the heads of nearly
q score administrations, commits
sions and boards to discuss both
their big and little problems.
That's been a hlt-or-mlSS,
catch-as-catch-can affair which
has led to much pickering on the
line of THAT fellow gets in and
we don't" and "The President
doesn't understand our problems"
The idea now is to regularize the
situation, with Jimmy reScrving a
half an hour a week for each
agency and serving both as fun
mel into the inner office and a
conveyor of orders or advice in re-
verse. The problems he will
handle will be mostly minor. Gov
ernor Eceles of Federal Reserve.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-29
TRY YOUR RADIO: YOU CAN'T DO 1T

No matter what you may have to say in praise
of the radio compared with the newspaper,
there lot of things you can't do. For in
stance you can't put radio broadcast in your
pocket and read it at your leisure You can't save
a clipping from radio broadcast You can't stop
listening to answer knock at the front door with
out missing something. You can't get line on
market prices when you have but few minutes to
spare but the program that is being broadcast has
another haf-hour to run. You can't find out what
your own neighbOrS are doing, for you can listen
to the radio forever and you will never hear about
the deaths and accidents the marriages and the
births, the fires and the festivals in your own
community. You can't mark something of interest
and send it to a distant relative by mail And no
housewife in all the world can use radio broad
cast for nice clean pantry shelf covering. It's a
wonderful thing, this thing we know as radio. But
it hasn't taken the place of the hometown paper.
And it never wi-Brevard Times
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LENCTHENlNG THE SEA.

TIGHTENING THE SEA-
son: Capt. c. D. Woodward says
Western Carolina can lcngthcn
the summer season into fall by in
crcasing its hunting attractions.
His plan would prohibit further
Slaughtcr of deer in the PiSeah
National Forest and Game Pre-
serve for at least five years, dur
ing which time the surplus would
be allowed 10 roam from the pre-
serve, on would be transferred to
large forcstcd areas and there
protected BY stringent laws that
would not make a Joke Of killing
wild game unlawfully. Captain
Woodward says something is radi-
callv wrong when the increase of
deer is so great in the forest pre-
serve rs to Justify the legal kill
inc of the doe. At this rate OF
multiplication this would become
the huntsmcn's paradise in five
years, he says.
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THE NEW r EAL
IN WASHINGTON
-sY RODNEY DUTcHER.

Harry Hopkins of WPA, Chairman
Bill Douglas OF SEC and other big
shots will not be taking vital ma
tional policies to Jimmy.
The extent and nature OF Jim
my'S abilities have yet TO be
proved, although they surely
match any other White House
Secretary'S. But the father-son re-
lationship is so close that no Off
cial will be jealous, no one will
dare try TO undermine Jimmy and
no one will try to disregard or up
set the arrangement without due
thought. If it were any other man,
that would be a miracle. At the
same time, if Jimmy makes
messeS Of things the word is sure
to get around. 1t seemed rather
odd that his new work should be
announced with such ballyhoo.
Roosevelts eldest son works at
the White House partly because
his father was lonely after his
bodyguard and comrade, Gus
Gennerich, followed Louis Howe
to the grave. The President does
want Jimmy to so into politics and
make a great succeSS-perhapS
even day-dreams that he will
some time be in the White House
in his own right. But Grown
Prince" talk is absurd. Jimmy has
a wonderful chance for study and
contacts. So far he hasn't even
been elected a town constable.
And it will take a lot more than
that.
Gossip is naming the six new
administrative assistants TO the
President whose jobs will soon be
created by Congress and who will
be expected to have a passion for
anonymity" It's expected Jimmy
will be one-although not the
most passionate" OF them
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-29
NEED NO ELECTION IF
EVERYBODY PLEASED

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. %
CUP. - Utah residents are not
required to hold municipal cleo
tons if they're satisfied with
their present officers and wish to
avoid the incident expense, At
torncy General Joseph Chez has
ruled.
If any candidate enters the
field in opposition to any Of the
present officers ut the expiration
of their time of service, then an
election cannot be waived" he
said.
Electric rcfrigSrators are being
installed i'm houses in Mexico.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-29

worry themselves Over IhNt TACT
until they can scarcely sleep at
all.
Don't worry about sleep. Spend
a reasonable amount Of time in
bed. If YOU sleep the while. well
and good. If you don't, let it so
at that, and lie there and rest.
Perhaps you do not require as
much Inconsistencies rs some,
though you do need the rebuild
ing and relaxation Of time in bed.
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LOOKING AT LIFE
By WJCXES WAMBOLDT

they are apprchcnsive lest he
be someone with whom CONVERSE
ton is not desired. And on the
other hand, if fellow is trying
to dodge you, he never will call
you if YOU leave your name with
your number. Some human be-
ings are as hard to move up on
a wild geese.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-10-29
DEAD REPUBLICAN,
DEFEATS LIVE RIVAL

LISBON, Conn, Oct. 29. (UPD.
4 dead Republican received three
times as many votes for registrar
of voters aS living Democrat at
4 recent election.
Cculg. \. Kennedy. COP.
nominee. committed suicide sew
c.@i dag, before and apparently
only siy members of his party in
the town knew II IN time 20 write
IN the name cf Newell Rist, who
with Albert EradIaw, Democrat,
was declared elected.
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CIVILIZATION QUITTING BEFORE 1T
IS BEATEN
lBy BRUCE CATTON)

tBy BRUCE CATTON)
Il must have been very amusing to watch,
that dav recently when British govern
meut authorities went into an orphan ssy-
lum near London to experiment with gas
masks
The government has been trying to de-
wise gas masks suitable for small children
\ number of experimental masks had been
made: so fifty infants in an asylum were
chosen TO play the part of guinea pigs.
These children put on the masks and had
q great time, gigging and geSturing gaily
as they went laundering about the asylum
in their groteSQue funny faces"
And it's a good thing someone was able
to get q laugh out of it. For nothing that
modern society does is quite so grimly dis
couraging as this despairing effort to hnd
some way of protecting children against
the gas attacks of wartime.
If we had any real conception of what
the word civilization" ought to mean, a
news story of this kind would make us rise
i'm revolt against the modern war machine
and the blight it has put on modern life.
For q society that has to devise gas
masks for small children is clearly So
cietv which. having stumbled to the dark
end of blind alley, is vainly trying to pro-
tect its own children against itself 1t IS
admitting its own incompetence TO perform
one of its most important jobs. For If civil
lization does not mean that small children
are protected against the threat of violence
and sudden death. what in the name OF
sanity does it mean?
To be sure, the gas masks may help a
little. The inventors may be able to keep
one lump ahead of the chemical warfare
experts. They may be able to rig up
mask which a small child won't tear Off.
And there is always the chance, slight but
hopeful, that the bombs will leave few
children alive to put on the masks before
the gas attack comes.
But what a ghastly mOckery it all is
For this despairing effort to fit gas masks
TO babies simply means that we have given
up trying to make our Christian civiliza-
ton live up to its name. We have equipped
ourselves with the kind of weapons which
make it certain that when we make war
we shall kill the young, the aged. the sick
and the defenseless with discriminating
efficiency.
Having done that, we have found our
selves forced to admit that we have no way
of preventing war. At the same time that
we have made war more horrible than
ever before, we have confessed its inevita-
bility. Instead of working day and night
to find some other way of settling interna-
tional disputes, we make gas masks for
babies.
A world which does things like that is a
world profoundly out of joint. 1t is world
that is about due to discover that ahead of
the problem of deciding between democ-
racy, Fascism, Communism and any other
ism whatever must come the task of pro-
tecting children from child-killers in uni
form.
For if it can't do that, it is assuredly a
lost world-whateve choice it makes on
these other matters.
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NO DIVORCE MONEY

WAUSAU, Wis, Oct. %. (UP)
Mrs. Clara Kohl, so, walked into
Marathon county relief hcadquar-
tiers today with prospective hus-
band No. 2 and pctitioned for a
"rclief" fund to divorce husband
No | on dcscrtion grounds. Mon
ev for a divorce could not be clas-
sified as "relief," District Attor-
ney Clayton Brooks ruled, ....
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become a citizen. He took out
naturalization PAPERS and TVheh !
the two-year naturalization pc
Rod expired recently, Mcchan
passed the examination With
something to spare and won the
right to resume casting his votes
at election time.
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JITTERY

Usually ii is we'll to leave ones
name when leaving a telephone
number for someone to call.
There are persons whose affairs
are i'm such a state that they are
afraid to call back q number I'M
less they know who left the call
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BIBLE THOUGHT
\ WONDERFUL PROMISE

We know that all things work together for goo'
to them that love God, to them who are the eahe'
according to His purpose from. S:2S)
There is an EYE that never. sleeps
Beneath the wing Of night;
There is an EAR that never shuts
When sink the beams Of light;
There Is an ARM that never tires
When human strength gives way;
There is a LOVE that never fails
When earthly loves decay.
Bishop Heber.
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all those IN e n
alike went down
under the weight
Of lifc'S burdens.
Sleep is, Of
course, n @ c @ &
Sary: but the
amount we re-
Quirc is often
ovcr-"StinatCd.
As 4 result Of
the talk about
t he Importance
Of Getting so
much sleep a day
) o m e persons
who cannot sleep