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SITTING DOWN ON THE WORKERS

The Detroit manufacturer who matched his en-
Dloyees' sit-down strike with sit-down strike of
his own illustrated, somewhat humorousy perhaps,
point which has been largely overlooked during
he recent waw of industrial agreements
BY sitting down himself, the Detroit capitalist
effectively demonstrated to his employees that he
has been working for them as well as they for him.
Without the orders he obtains, there is no work
to be DONE
In this particular instance, the point is more cas-
lily discernible than in the case of large corpora
ton where the relationship between employer and
employee is less sharply defined, although, of
course, the principle remains the same.
1t should seem obvious enough that the man
who provides job is entitled to as much consid-
teration as the man who takes the job he provides
but there has been marked distortion of attitude
during much of the period Of sit-down strikes.
In many instances villainous motive is ascribed
to the employer who protests that he canot meet
the demands of his employees. The necessary in
terdependence of employer and employee is lost
sight Of, in many cases, and it is assumed that the
provision of work is sacred responsibility on the
part of the employer. Actually, of course, the en-
ployer may be in worse predicament than his en-
ployees, for while they possess the strike weapons
to enforce their demands, he may be at the mercy
of competitive conditions without any such weap-
ons.
In broad sense, the consuming public is the III
innate employer of all-employing employers to
employ employees The employer, like the en-
ployee, is but link in the chain of production
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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A LIE NAILED

The sweatshop especially in the garment-mak-
ing industry, is essentially an evil OF the North
east There has been very little of it in the South
1t is true that children used to be worked in cotton
mills but any truthful person acquainted with the
facts will tell you they did playing than
working. At any rate, child labor has for many
wears been done away with in southern mills. The
law raised the minimum age to IA but most mills
voluntarily raised it to 16. Those are facts, yet
there has been a vast amount of lying propaganda
turned loose by Northern agitators and sentmen-
talists alleging that child labor flourshes in the
South Last week The Observer published the
statement of Miss Sara Hamilton Birchall before
the judiciary committee of the New York legisla-
ture The statement was based on an exhaustive
investigation in South Carolina, which state was
elected because it had been painted as worst IN
employing child labor. Her report was made after
a most thorough investigation and is complete
vindcation of South Carolina from that lying
propaganda. The labor department of South Caro-
lima was really on trial If Miss Brchall had found
child labor in South Carolina, it would have con-
victed the state labor department of failure to en-
force the law of the state which forbids such la
bor Labor Commissioner Mates, and his chief AS
sistant, Miss Utha Gray Smith, did everything pos
sible to enable Miss Birchall to make complete
and searching investigation. So the labor depart
ment as well as the state is indicated by that re-
port. Will the report put an end to the lying
propaganda picturing South Carolina as state in
which child labor is more common than any other?
| By no means. The liars will continue to lie but
decent people should rate them they deserve to
| De rated.-Greenvle Observer.
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other highly specialized work."
In some parts of the United
States teaching is regarded as a
career like any other profession,
for teaching is a profession, or
should be, even when it is not.
But sadly enough - as in the
conditions which surround the
young woman whose remarks in
troduce this article-there are
sections Of this country where the
schools are in politics, and teach
ers' jobs come under the head of
spoils. Thus a person acquainted
with such q system might natural
ly ask teacher after each change
of administration, "Are you still
teaching?" A new administration
may throw out all the teachers,
however competent, appointed by
"a previous administration, and re-
place them with relatives, friends,
and constituents of the new adj
ministration, however incompe-
tent.
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MOUNT MORIAH

MOUNT MORIAH, March IS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gather Moore were
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
+. Hill Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Gilbert and
children spent Sunday with Mrs.
j. c. Dalton.
Mrs. Mary Gilbert visited Mrs.
w. F. Hill Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Hill and
little daughter, Peggy, visited
Mrs. Hills mother, Mrs. Wesley
Freeman, Saturday evening.
j. e. Laughter, Berry Laughter
and son Billy visited Mr.. and Mrs.
Jessie Jones of Point Lookout
Sunday.
Miss Juanita Byers was a din
ner guest of Misses Roscoe Town
send and Gertrude Clark Sunday.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Bob Jackson Of
this place are moving TO Mills
River.
Robert McAbee and daughter,
Thclma, of Morganton spent Sat-
urday night with Mr.. and Mrs.
William Nix.
Grady Williams has accepted a
position in New York.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Nix and
little daughter, Clara, spent Sum
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Roy
Nix.
Rev. Arnold Edney filled his
regular appointment at Mt. Nor
iah Sunday and preached an in
Cercsting sermon. He was a dim
ner guest of Mr.. and Mrs. G. +.
| C1rrk
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER

NEA Service STAN Correspondence
WTASHINGTON. - The national
w conference on constitutional
amendment, which once promised
10 be an historic session and was
scheduled to begin here March l8,
has been postponed because most
Of its sponsors didn't want
to get in the way of what they
considered, temporarily, the big
band-wagon.
Earlier it had appeared that the
conference might prove an en-
barrassment to RooseveltS SUI
preme Court proposal, proclaimed
after the call for the confer
ence. Then it began to appear
that most Of the leaders in the
movement, and the delegates,
would be in favor Of the Presi-
dents plan, plus an amendment.
The conference was planned to
bring the liberals of the country
together and get them behind a
constitutional amendment, since
progressives appeared to be di-
piiss between perhaps a dozen
ninuSat plans for Supreme Court
rsansG. 1t may yet be called
again for that purpose.
But as the event drew near, it
became apparent that the liberals
could no more agree as to va
rious other problems, possibilities
and phases Of the meeting than
they had previously been able TO
ngree as 10 the most desirable
type Of amendment.
The only thing organizers of the
conference ever did agree on was
that they would rather not take
q chance on embarrassing the
Roosevelt drive to change COM
pleXion Of the court.
THE newly appointed permanent
= maritime commission is being
viewed intereStedly by many who
wonder If it can eliminate per-
siStent scandals arising from re-
latons between government and
the merchant marine.
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r Fl E N E w D E AL
IN WASHINGTON
-RV ROONEY purcfro

The great difficulty the New
Deal experiences in persuadine
high grade executives to serve the
government, at salaries far smaller
than they can command in private
industry. was demonstrated prior
TO selection of Joseph p. Kennedy
as chairman. Roosevelt tried
everywhere TO get what he calls
a tough guy" to head the COM
mission. He sought someone who
would pound the table in the pub
lie Understanding adjustment
between now and July-of ocean
mails contracts. These contracts
would have brought ship owners
Sl60, 100000 if they had not been
cancelled by Congress.
Kennedy, who, as chairman OF
S. E. c., made Wall Street happy
by lenient administration of the
Securities Exchange Act, didn't
want TO come. But Roosevelt in
sisted.
Former Congressman Edward c.
Moran fought shipping graft in the
House and was instrumental in
framing the present merchant ma
rine act. Thomas M. Woodward,
now consumers counsel of the BIZ
luminous Coal Commission, served
years with the old shipping board
before being pushed out. He al
ways insisted on honesty in rela.
ticn TO ship subsidies. These are
the two members expected to in
SiSt on an adequate merchant ma
rine whose creation will not cheat
taxpayers and line pockets Of ship
promoters.
Rear Admiral Emory S. Land
has Supcrintcndcd navy conStruc-
ton. Rear Admiral Henry S,
Wiley. whose labor policies have
made him unpopular with union
leaders. is the fifth member. He
will stay only temporarily to re.
late the work of the new COM
mission to that of the liquidatec
temporary commission, OF which
he was Il member.
lConvriuhr. 1897. NEA Service. Inc,
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hitting raids on the powers of
our constitution, no matter how
glittering the prize promised;
against permitting any one of our
three great governmental depart
ments - the executive, the judi
ciary, or the legislative to usurp
the powers of any other depart
ment. Father George tells us that
if we really desire a change in
our constitution, we should go
about amendming it in the order
ly, legitimate way provided for
in the constitution itself. But we
should jealousy guard any inva-
sion OF evasion of the provisions
OF the constitution, no matter
how plausible the pretext. Though
the immediate end might seem
good, the dangerous. precedent es-
tabllshed would eventually cost us
1rightfully. This present crisis is
another test Of our fitness for self
government.
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to sixty 1t cannot be expected to work as HVins
guide for this active world while 1t Is in'erpre'e
by men of seventy-a whole generation removed
from the men and women in the front line Oh me-
When Robert NJ. La Toilette, the elder was can
ddate for the presidency of the United STATES III
1924. Robert NJ. La Toilette, Jr,, told the world
loudly and repeatedly, that his father IN the very
front line Of life, precisely the man 10 solve
the problems of the working world Tor TINS eouh-
try. and all of its people. The elder La f0ne''e
was in his SEVENTEEN year in l924'-Saturday Eve
ming Post.
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JUST SIGN HERE


1t is easy enough to sign your
rights away but not so easy to get
chem back again after they have
been signed away. For instance,
it is simple to put your name to
note or q deed. But try to get
your signature off the document,
1t is the easiest thing in the
world for people through their
own volition or that Of their rep
resentatives, to vote away then
liberties. But let them try to get
back those liberties - they are
gone like hard-earned savings in
q stock market slump.
The people of this nation are
squiggle-eyed just now about this
supreme court question. Shall the
greatest Of our tribunals be tin
kered with to get US, in a hurry,
something that looks as attractive
as a vacation on full pay. Once ]
knew chap who unanswered
around until he got himself a va
cation on full pay, when he
shouldn't have had it. But he
found that when his vacation was
finished, so was his job.
One of George Washington's
last official utterances was to
warn us against hasty expert
ments in government; against per-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-18
WHY NOT ERADICATE SYPHILIS?

The campaign which originated in the
office of the u S. Surgeon General and IS
RAPIDLY being taken up in the several
states for the eradication of syphilis is one
to which all thinking citizens may lend
their support.
Syphilis, called the Great Imitator be-
cause it takes the form of practically every
other ailment and may be diagnosed as
such, is probably the greatest plague in
this nation today. 1t takes its toll in thou
sands of lives, in increasing insanity, IN
thousands of dollars for treatment, and II
thousands and thousands of wrecked lives
Economically, the cost is tremendous. Il
is estimated that from Is to % per cent
of all insane asylum patients are wards OF
the state from this cause. Thousands OF
other indigents trace their disabilities to
this cause.
Medical science has devised certain and
sure tests to determine whether the disease
IS present, it has devised cure, and it has
devised process for preventing the dis
ease from being communicated where it is
known to exist. Syphilis is a subject that
has been treated as a moral subject. 1t
has been hushed up and whispered about
long enough. When it is considered that
an estimated 10 per cent of North Caro-
linas people are afflicted with the disease,
that it is communicated from one person
to another in many ways, then the subject
becomes matter of public health rather
than a subject for morality. Let the sub
ject be treated as a matter of health and
personal sanitation rather than as moral
issue. Let the people be informed on the
subject. Let the spotlight of public opinion
be thrown on the subject and it may be
eradicated.
Notable strides in the control of the dis
ease have been made where this has been
done. Norway, Sweden, and Denmark
started campaign against the disease.
The result-only 1900 new cases reported
last year in these nations, having popu-
lation of about II million people. More
cases than this were reported last year in
our own state, with population of about
three and a half million. Furthermore
only a percentage of new cases are ever
reported in this or any other state.
Medical science and public opinion have
combined to practically eradicate small
pox, diphtheria, typhoid fever, and man!
other disease plaques. There is no reason
why the two agencies should not unite t
wipe this scourge from North Carolina ant
the United States.
The Henderson County Medical Societ,
has taken steps in the right direction. Tn
Medical Society needs the support of ever.
right thinking citizen of the county in thi
fight. 1t is cause to which all may Civ
their support without shame.
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ToDAY'S TIMELY GARDEN

note: The average growing season
from planting cabbage seed to
maturity, OF heading, is given at
three to four months, time vary
ing with seasons, soils and varie-
ties. If you take an imported.
frost-proof plant, and they are
being sold here now by the thou
sands daily, and plant it, how far
will you come out ahead of the
person who plants seeds now and
#TRANSPLANTS the plants At
the most advantageous time?
This question is prompted by
what | thought an cXtravagant
statement passed along recently
by a farmer who said he pre-
ferred planting seed now, claim
ing he could get a better crop and
one just as early as from plants.
which he said were stuntcd and
wouldn't grow off promptly. Pm
wondering if there are many Of
such gardening faith.
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teaching? w h y
shouldn't la W.
yers and doctors
be asked, Are
you still practic-
ing" and mer-
chants, Are you
s till shopkcep-
Keeping w h y
should the atti-
tude toward the
teacher constant
ly be that the
job is transitory?
w h y shouldn't
teaching be a ca
~
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"If there is one thing that ex-
asperates me-" said a public
school teacher recently, cit Is to
have somebody ask me, as is done
every now and then. Are you still
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THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

"Not more than ten percent of
my teachers are capable" a prin-
cipal in a politics-ridden school
system confided to me.
And children suffer and the
taxpayers pay.
If there is any class Of public
employees who should come under
civil service where they may pur-
sue their careers safe from the
itching, greedy fingers Of old-line
politicians, it is the school teach
erS.
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A NOTE FROM ToDAY'S

A NOTE FRUM TODAY )
March of Progress. The Leaders
addition to the rear of its store
has been housed in, with roof
theron, and soon the finishing
touches will enable Alex Patter-
son to more fully realize his
dreams of larger space for great
er stocks and more varied lines u
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N E. w S
- from -
Brownlee Insurance &
Realty Co.

The Merchants Trade Festival
is on for Thursday, Friday and
Saturday! Real Estate Bargain
Festival has been on for the past
three years. A few bargains are
still left.
See this! one-story framed
dwelling - four bedrooms, living
room, dining room, kitchen and
bath, all on one floor. In addition
to this there is a garage apart
ment on the property-All locat-
ed within one block of the gram
mar school. Priced at $4,000.
After looking over leases and
possible store rooms on Main
street, we have been able to UNI
cover only one building which
can be had, between the court
house and Seventh avenue. 1t is
particularly good and particularly
cheap. See us if interested.
We have had inquiries from
four out of town chain stores ask
ing about business property on
Main street. They have census
figures from L. S. Department of
Commerce which show how bust
ness is increasing in this section.
Can we see it or are we too close
up? Fortunes are being made in
real estate again and it will not
be by waiting until prices have
gone to the top and started down
again. Buy now!
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Municipal authorities in Paris
plan to construct SO subway air.
;. raid shelters at cost of two mil
lion francs each.
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BIBLE THOUGHT
"WE ARE TROUBLED ON EVERY SIDE"

3. In the third place. THERE is NO WAY OF
LEARNING FAITH EXCEPT BY TRIAL. 1t is
Gods school of faith and it is far better for us to
learn to trust God than to enjoy life.
The lesson of faith once learned, is an everast-
ing acquisition and an eternal fortune made; and
without trust even riches will leave poor!
Ito be continued)
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Benefit Features
Boxing Bouts

Three exhibition boxing bouts
Of three rounds each are listed
for the new Holy Name Auditor.
ium, west Virginia Avenue and
Neal Street Northwest, tonight,
starting at $3.50 O'Clock.
The bouts will feature Bob Tow
and Roddy Davis, and Joe Green
and Joddy Davis, and Joe Green
and Mike Groves. An additional
hour of entertainment has been
provided by the Police Boys Club
with five amateur boxing bouts,
two wrestling matches, a tumbHng
act and music.
The affair is being staged as a
benefit to purchase equipment for
the Holy Name Boys Club.
Active committeeman for the
affair include W. ]. Toomey,
president Of the Holy Name So.
ciety and chairman; j. j. Dono.
can, Lawrence McVearry, Dan
Creamer, Daniel Harry, Michael
Collins, James ]. Brogan, Philip
Weber, William Miller. ]. c. Phil.
lips, John Kennedy, John Nuthall
and George ]. Cleary.
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thing new, and we, being the
peoples paper, should carry an
interesting story on this game"
So the reporter was sent out to
investigate this new pastime that
was later to change the complex
of young and old alike, and also
the dinner hour,
Here is what was reported in
print the next day or so:
"TO play golf properly, there
is needed q very large expanse
of uncultivated soil, which is not
too much broken up by hills. HaV-
ing selected . field, the first
thing necessary is to dig a small
hole, perhaps one foot or two
deep and about four inches in
diameter. Beginning with this
hole, q circle is devised that in
cludeS substantially the whole Of
the links. About one in 500 yards
of this circle, another hole is
dug. If the grounds selected can
not include so large q circle as
this, the holes may be put at as
short a distance rs 100 yards
from each other.
"There are IL implements Of
the game, the most important
of which is the ball. 1t weighs
about two ounces and is just
small enough to fit comfortably
into one of the holes. The other
10 implements are the tools of
the players. Their names are
as follows - the playing club,
long spoon, mud spoon, driving
putter, putter, sand iron, cleek
and track iron.
cat the beginning Of each
play each player places his bali
at the edge of a hole which has
been designated as the starting
spot. When the word has been
given to start, he bats the ball
as accurately as possible toward
the next hole. AS soon as it is
started in the air, he runs for.
ward in the direction which the
bali has taken and his servant,
who is called a caddy, runs
after him with all the other
nine tools in his arms. IF the
player is expert or lucky, he bats
the balls so that it falls within
q few feet, or even inches, of the
next hole. His purpose is to put
the ball in that hole, spoon it
out and drive it forward to the
next further one before his OPP
pOnent can accomplish the same
end.
Spectators sometimes view
the game Of golf, but as q rule
they stand far off, for the nature
of the implements employed is
such that the ball may be driven
in a very contrary direction to
that which the player wishes"
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novation in local tennis circles,
where most anything in the way
of old clothes and nondeScript uni
forms have been countenanced
heretofore.
General Discussion
When the members of the Junior
Tryout Group assemble, Sunday,
they first will attend q short con-
ference at the tennis house, where
Major Christenberry and other
members Of the selection commit
tee will outline the detectives for
the season and the requirements
from each candidate. After the
conference, matches will be started
Immediately.
The program for the juniors in
cludes round robin and ladder
matches, and matches at nearby
clubs and schools. Accurate rec
ordS will be kept of the play and
progress of all members of the
Tryout Group so that when final
selection is made of the five to
seven members of this vicinity'S
Junior Davis Cup Squad" it will
definitely be accepted as final and
as fair and impartial.
Incidentally, final selection will
not be made by one member of
the committee but will be decided
by the committee as a whole, each
selection to be based on the rec
ords kept.
Individual Coaching
Those juniors who make" the
squad this year will be accorded
individual coaching and super
vised play for several weeks to
come, after which it is planned to
arrange matches between the
local Junior Davis Cup squad and
other similar squads in other parts
Of the country.
President Hc!combe Ward, Of
the UNted States Lawn Tennis
Association, believes that at the
end Of the first year Of the Junior
Davis Cup movement some 200
young men throughout the nation,
through systematic training,
coaching and competitive play,
will have reached the point in
their tennis careers where they
may rightfully consider them
selves as legitimate Davis Cup
material.
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so ne called IN one OF MS ices,
told him that he (the EDITOR was
sorry, but he'd have to assign him
(the reporter) for a day in the
woods to learn of this golf game.
He was to spare nothing in the
way of technical knowledge con-
corning the new sport Gas it would
be probably some fandangled fad
and the implements Of the game.
"Our readers" said the editor,
care always interested in any