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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-29
Social Security Act
Questions Answered

l. Question: My employer says he
has to keep my Social Security ac-
county number card. Can he do
that?
Answer: No. An employer may
not keep the account card of an en-
ployee. He must give it to the en-
ployee, although the employer must
keep a record of the number so he
can make the reports required OF
him by the United States Treasury.
2. @. I am a nurse employed in a
dentists office, but he says he does
not come under the Social Security
law and 1 do not have to have
security account card. Is that so?
A. No. A dentist, engaged in pri-
vate practice of his profession is an
employer, within the scope of the
Social Security Act, and when he
employs a nurse or anyone else for
any work in the course of his bust
ness. He must get an employers
Identification number. For this he
should get form SS-4 from the near
est post office or Social Security
Board Field Office and file it i'm
mediately. You should file immedi-
ately for an employees account
number, using form SS-5,which you
can get from your post office or your
nearest Social Security Board Field
office. Make your number known to
your employer.
3. @. Does the Social Security law
apply to persons under 81 years of
age who are employed in covered
occupations?
A. Yes.
4. @. l am just opening up new
business. Do I have to apply for an
employers identification number?
A. Yes.
5. Q. I have just received my
copy of Form SS-2a. I have several
employees who do not have account
numbers. What am I required to do?
A. First, ask each employee if he
ever has filed an application for an
account number. Any employee who
has not applied for number-using
Form SS--should do so at once
Application form can be got from
your post office or nearest Social
Security Board Field Office Second,
employees who have applied, but
have not received number, should
file again-using Form SS-5, paying
particular attention to question IA
on that form. When they get their
numbers they should make them
known to you so that you can make
your international returns to the
treasury.
6. @. am the president of COM
pany which promotes entertainment
for church bazaars and other organi-
cations during the summer months
In setting up the paraphernalia we
employ local labor on an hourly
basis Some employees only work
two or three hours. Do we have to
deduct taxes from their wages and
file returns for these temporary en-
ployees?
A. You do. The application of the
Social Security Act and the liability
of the employer to deduct and pay
taxes under it's provisions does not
in any way depend on the length of
time worker is employed nor how
little he may be paid.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-29
GET SIMPLE FUNERALS

Simple, separate funeral services
for 10 Of the 20 miners killed in the
Barker, Indiana, coal mine blast
Thursday were held Friday as in
vestigators sought to determine the
cause of the explosion.
With little ceremony, the 10 vic
TINS went into the earth for the last
time. Nine others will be buried to-
morrow and one Monday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-29

A total of 1900 pounds of triple
superphosphate was released last
week to Macon county farmers who
are cooperating in the Agricultural
Conservation program for use on le-
gumes, pastures, and meadows.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-29
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE

North Carolina
Ashe County
BY virtue of a power contained in
a certain deed of trust executed on
February 20, 1884, by E. w. Poe and
wife, Ella Poe, to Ira T. Johnston,
Trustee for D. P. Stanley, recorded
in the office of the Register of Deeds
of Ashe County in Book 80, page
444-5, and at the request of the hold
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-29

Plans have been completed for a
dairy show to be held at Recreation
Park in Buncombe county, October
8. Premiums will amount to $1,000.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-29
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
North Carolina
AShe County


Ashe County
Having qualified as Administrator
of Mrs. Mary Spencer, late of the
State of Virginia, who died leaving
property in Ashe County, North
Carolina, this is to notify all persons
having claims against the said estate
to present them to the undersigned
for payment on or before July 1893
or this notice will be pleaded in bar
of their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate will make
prompt payment to the undersigned.
This July l, 1887.
GUY T. BADGER, Administrator
of Mrs Mary Spencer, decd. 8-15
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-29

Seven hundred million yards of
woven fabrics were doomed from
rayon in 1885.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-07-29

Benjamin Franklin originated the
first circulating library.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
NORTH CAROLINA PAYING ITS DEBTS

1t will probably analyze an indisputaoie TACT
that of all the states of the union wmch nave oee
trying to get their debts paid since the onset Vi
the depression, North Carolina has made the most
creditable showing
As matter of fact, of the entire AZ states only
six have reduced their Indebtedness at all sinee
1882, and North Carolina is one of these.
1t has paid off twenty-one millions Of Obligations
reducing the outstanding liabilities from Slo4'o4o'-
900 to S143,1s3,00O.
According to a study made for The Analist by
DIR. B. U. Ratchford, of Duke university, North
Carolina has risen above Arkansas, West Virginia
Louisiana, South Dakota and Oregon in state DEBT
per capita
North Cardinals debt now averages S4l'42 for
each inhabitant The national average is $2oo3'
North Cardinals service on its debt that is, an
nual interest plus contracted amortization, requires
1887 year from each inhabitant.
The Atlanta Journal takes its hat OF to us 1or
such a remarkably fine showing
1t is enough, indeed, to justify North CarolinianS
in taking theirs off to themselves.
Of course, We long way yet to go before
the slate is decently clean, and the burden upon
our taxpayers is heavy and grievous but they have
their lucky stars to thank that the high taxes they
are paying are not being wasted in profgate and
riotous fiscal living
1t is not a similar case with the federal govern
ment which not only exacts heavy taxes, but keeps
on piling up expenditures and adding to the ma
tional indebtedness
We are at least deserving of the credit in North
Carolina of heading toward the daylight instead Of
rushing into darker and more dismal blackness.-
Charlotte Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
INCOME TAX OR KU KLUx KHAN!

We Americans have peculiar manner of accom-
plishing our ends. When Al Capone and his gang
sters were rampant over the nation, we didn't seem
to be able to convict them for their actual crimes
so we sent Capone to prison for income tax eva
sion Today politicians are attempting to force
FDR's new deal supreme court justice, Hugo Black,
to back down with cries of Ku Klux Klan. They
seem loathe to do battle with the president over
Blacks implied willingness to be new deal rubber
stamp regardless of what the law says and take
the back-handed method of trying to force Black
OUT
It isn't question of XXX or non-KKK. 1t is a
question of Blacks present political alignment with
new deal policies that make him unfit to be a nom
partisan Judge in the highest tribunal of the land.
The supreme court of the United States of America
should by constitutional nativity and inherited prec
edents, be composed of men who are free OF po-
liitcal alliances political promises, political pres
sure and political obligations to interpret the rights
of the people of the country under its constitution
and its laws without fear or favor. No man whose
loyalty to belief in and obligation to any idea such
as the so-called new deal, which sets itself up as
beyond all existing laws and regulations is mt
man to hold an appointment the supreme court
bench
1t is upon the fitness of Hugo Black as a su-
preme court justice that his appointment should
be judged-pot-by beating around the bush to
dig up membership in organization that made
itself Infamous and hence supposedly made all its
members Infamous. Let's quit putting men in pris-
on for income tax evasion and convict them of
their proper crimes and let's quit trying the fitness
of man for job by linking him to an organiza-
ton or other fal-de-rol and examine the man him
charlottesville (Okla.) Examiner
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AWAKE AT THE SWITCH


Ever see chap poised for
dive from a springboard hesitate
to take a plunge when he is fore
ING the season? Then some one
gives him a shove and he comes
up all aglow, ready to do a real
swan dive. So the story in a re-
cent issue of The Times-News
seems to have been the needed
push, and now a real live wire
who knows his business so far as
apple growing is concerned, is
getting in his work with repre-
sentative of the local Farmers
Federation.
After a little more very neces-
sary missionary work is accom-
plished we may witness some of
our enterprising apple growers
united for the common purpose
of raising better apples and re-
alizing better prices.
Shipping apples from storage
| to markets and not Cutting them,
is the work Of the apple growers
business manager.
After apples are grown and
picked, they must be properly
sized and graded, then skilfully
packed in baskets or boxes, either
| for immediate shipment or stor-
age. Hendersonville is fortunate
in that at present there is fine
building on Church street near
the railroad that could be readily
adapted to the business of grad
ing and packing apples. There
/ also seems to be plenty of storage
room of the proper kind avail
able.
There is a sufficient apple
crop now available and planted
acreage close to Hendersonville to
warrant the establishment of a
plant for canning apples and pro-
ducing cider and cider vinegar.
This locality has an idle force of
young people who can quickly
| learn to operate the machines and
cookers employed in apple can
ming establishments. The payroll
of such plant will prove boon
indeed, even though such payroll
| is seasonal.
Once such a plant is built here,
it will prove an encouragement
to those with idle acreage suit
able for growing berries, cherries
and other small fruits to put
those acres into production. Such
a plan makes for a greater spread
Of activity for the plant; in other
words, greatly adds to the num-
Der Of its working days.
For the fruit growers it pro-
vides ready cash market and
swells the check Of apple growers
in providing better markets and
the consumption of culls in MAX
ing by-products.
B. C. WASHINGTON.
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gical care must be socialized eX-
actly as education is socialized
before the physical suffering of
poor people can be dealt with hui
namely. / know this idea is re-
pugnant to some forces; never
theless, it seems to me, it is the
way to do it and the way the
thing will yet be done.
have suggested in this column
that free and sufficient medical
care is as important as free edu-
cation. | don't know how well
educated the woman was who
died that night without medical
attention, but no matter how well
educated it did her no good with
! out life.
Facilities for relieving human
suffering are a greater immediate
need, I think, than facilities for
furthering academic education;
but with honest application of our
resources we are nation rich
enough to provide both.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
THE STONE REJECTED

Wanted, Millstone," might prove to be good
advertisement in the classified advertising page OF
your newspaper. Many readers who have read of
the upper and neither millstones" and the mill
stone about ones neck" may never have seen one
of these stones the use of which made commercial
manufacturing of flour and meal possible and
marked an advance in civilization. But older news
paper readers remember them as the important
part of the machinery of the old mills that were
erected beside streams and were operated by pow
from the old overshot water wheels.
The ancient millstones are not coming back to
turn out flour from nearby fields or that wonder
full underground corn meal which is often libeled
by modern millers. But they are in demand as
landscape ornaments and are sought by owners of
large estates. If you have an old milestone keep
it for an offer of cash. If you can buy one at a
reasonable price do so and hold it for a rise
Spartanburg Herald
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his physician by a Los Angeles
court. Perhaps he would be able
to pay twelve thousand dollars
for a Ford V Eight; but should
he have to?
European physicians and sur
geons are said to look with as
constituent and disapproval at the
size of the fees charged by some
of their American brothers; they
call it commercializing human
suffering.
What couldn't druggists collect
if they made sick persons pay for
remedies according to what they
considered their lives worth?
Many of our physicians and
surgeons are magnificent in their
attitude toward the public; they
do an enormous amount of free
work; they hold their fees down
to the minimum; and never re-
fuse a call no matter who calls if
it is physically possible for them
to go. But not all are that way.
One of the heaviest demands on
my time CASUALLY made at night
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
LOOKING AT LIFE
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

while | was mayor of my city was
getting medical help to poor per-
sons who could obtain no help be-
cause they had no money. Time
after time it was reported to me
that somebody was seriously ill
and no physician would go be-
cause there was no money for a
fee. One woman, it was reported
to me, had died one night because
medical help could not be secur-
ed. Investigation showed that the
woman had died without a physi-
clan; but the physician who had
been called and refused to go
said she would haye died anyway.
Perhaps so; all the same he was
disciplined.
The physician has his side of
this question: He has his physical
as we'll as financial limitations. If
he were always available to every
one he would be worked to death
and get little for it. Of course
if all physicians would respond
with equal readiness the load
would be so distributed as to be
easily borne. And again some per-
sons are forever imagining they
are sick or sicker than they are;
if a physician will come for moth
ing they will call him unnecessar-
lily and constantly.
But should the physicians take
on their shoulders the entire re-
sponsibility of looking after suf-
fering humanity? Just because
they know how, does not give
them the full obligation. You may
know how to grow food but that
does not put you under obligation
to grow food for everybody for
nothing.
This matter of human suffering
is a social problem, and it should
be regarded as an obligation of
the entire public - not of a few
men. Hence we are faced with the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23

WASHINGTON. - Harry Hop
w kins of WPA, author of
Spending to Save" is Number
One Man among the presidents
advisers today-the only real
general adviser" in the sense that
Moley and Tugwell were.
The "Brain Trust" today is a
loosely-knit group of New Deal
officials and economists who have
come to a more or less solid front
IF agreement on general theory
Of economic and social reform,
business stability and concen-
rated authority under the federal
government, allegedly for the gen.
eral welfare:
ROOSEVELT and all the real
~ New Dealers, one is frequently
told by insiders, are behind the
general policy often referred TO-
for brevity, as "the purchasing
power theory"
Interested in various or all
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
TIL e NEW D EAL
IN WASHINGTON
RODNEY DuTcHER-
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Staff CORRESPONDENT

Economist Mordecai Ezekiel, Tom
, Corcoran, Chief Isador Lubin of
Labor Statistics, DR.. Charles E.
Merriam and Fred Delano of the
National Resources Board, Author
David Cushman Coyle, Senator
Robert M. LaFollette and others.
A keystone of this current domi-
mating policy is the idea that the
economic system can be controlled
and adjusted through use of taxa
ton. The administration would
like to break up monopolies and
"huge concentrations of wealth
and economic power" by tax
system which also would skim of
profits from big corporate and in
dividual incomes for the benefit
of the clover one-third," whose
increased purchasing power theo-
retically would help keep the
economic system in balance.
Coyle, closely associated with
Eccles and others mentioned, is
believed by some to be writing
the enduring economic philosophy
of the New Deal. Business men
seeking to learn administration
trends should read his recently
written "Why Pay TaxeS?" which
follows his "Brass Tacks" and
cage Without Fear"
o
MEANWHILE, the Presidents
Ii closest advisers seem we'll en-
trenched here. Hopkins, his fav-
orite, commands as much Capitol
Hill respect as any New Dealer.
Hopkins is a good politician, too.
Eccles has kept his head down,
but his real job is to direct the
general lines of New Deal econ
omy without treading on the toes
of Secretary of the Treasury Nor
genthau.
He sees business cycles as fiuc-
tuations Of optimism and pessi.
mism, with government the only
potential balance wheel. l#'
= IL i !. ~
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
TOO MUCH CRIME

The Anti-Saloon League disputes the contention
of the Distilled Spirits Institute that prohibition
repeal has reduced crime" 1t appears to have fig
ures to bolster its attack upon the conclusions Of
the liquor organization.
There is little need for prolonged argument.
The truth of the matter is that there is too much
crime in the United States today, whether the
amount of crime is greater or less than it was in
previous years.
Another viewpoint is presented by the study of
alcoholism, recently undertaken by two members
of the Harvard Medical School, assisted by certain
WPA workers, whose data was collected by the
Boston City hospital This study concludes with
the report that alcoholism mounted during prohi-
bition and increased after repeal. In fact, the
deaths from alcoholism, after repeal, doubled those
under rohbition.-orangeburg Times-Democrat.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
AMERICA CONTRIBUTED WAR IDEAS
TO JAPAN
(By BRUCE CATION

Any American who feels that the Japa-
nese have shown themselves up for crew
of greedy and mprincipled muscle-men oy
their unprovoked assault on China ought
to remind himself that pretty fair part
of it is Americas fault.
Along with the rest of the western world,
America made Japan what she is today.
The war in China and all the horrors that
go along with it are not native growths.
The orient imported them, and we Ameri-
cans did our share of the shipping.
The whole recent history of Japan, for
that matter, is by way of being a sharp,
ironic commentary on our civilization.
Until the middle of the 10th century,
Japan was living like a silkworm in a
cocoon. She neither knew nor cared what
was going on in the outer world. She was
the forbidden kingdom" in sober truth.
Nobody could get in and nobody could get
out; as a result, Japan was living in the
middle ages.
Then the dikes were broken. If you re-
member your history, you may recall that
it was the United States navy which broke
them. Japan came out of her cocoon and
confronted world which had got about
six centuries ahead of her.
And it was right there that the western
world, including America, handed out a
stone in place of loaf of bread.
For the Japanese seem to have looked
around and decided that the more ad-
vanced white nations were relying on a
policy of force, pure and simple. No mat
ter which nation Japan took for an exam
ple-America, England, France, Germany,
Russia-she could not fail to see that ma
tional expansion, prosperity and greatness
were being sought and won at the point of
the bayonet. And the power of example is
the most forceful of all arguments
So Japan followed suit. She modernized
her army along western lines. She built a
great navy along western lines. She adopt
ed a policy of imperialism along western
lines. She saw what kind of game was be-
ing played, called for the same sort of
cards, and set out to get all she could out
of them.
So what is happening in China today is
happening because Japan learned her les
son from the western world too well. The
very airplane with which Japan is scourg-
ing Chinese noncombatants is an American
invention; the idea of using it on defense
less cities came from Europe; and the no
ton of taking another nations territory by
force may well have come-in part, at
least-from our own excursion into Mexico
in the 1S40's.
Before we unload too much moral indig-
nation on Japan, we really ought to exam
Inc our own record little more closely.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
WHY HOME TRADING: This

question prompts many answers
while conceding to every person
the right to spend his or her
money at will and pleasure, re-
CARELESS of time and place. Most
Hendersonville and Henderson
county people earn their liveli-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
WARDEN SETS DOC WIN,

ELIRIA o. DUPl-p,,
den Lee MinkIyr plans "a :. q
lish a night patrol 70 ,r,., )! y
marau&ng dogs reported :, .
been roaming county ns4 I,
night, killing sheep and Dr.I
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
HOME TRADING: This is the

season of the year when purchas
ers do catalog and out-of-towi
shopping, the bugaboo of the mer'
chant, who heads off this ghost
by the dollar day inducements
getting shoppers into the store
and interesting them in thing:
they can see and handle, and per
hapS taste.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned commu-
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 pubiished.-EDITOR.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23

"Your life is worth twenty-five
hundred dollars to you, isn't it,"
said surgeon to a man of my
acouaintance' who was Directing
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to paying a fee
of that amount
for having had a
leg amputated.
"It would be
worth a million
if / had it," re-
piled the man f;
"but / haven't
got it,"
Perhaps w. c.
Fields, the come
dian, was well
able to pay the
medical fee Of
twelve thousand
dollars awarEd
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23

Science has developed tractor which
plows In high gear. The same principle is
putting burrows into highway traffic ex-
perts' brows.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23

Shipping perishables by air may have
its advantages but don't expect miracles.
A New York ham flown to Hollywood was
found even worse than was expected, on
his arrival.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23

DOLLAR DAYS: They serve to
focus .attention to the buying
power of the dollar. The owner
of the dollar has its worth meas
ured out to him either in a single
article or group of them.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-23
PURPOSE: The purpose of dol

PURPOSE: The purpose of dol,
lar days is to emphasize fall and
winter purchases and the general
stimulation of trade. The spirit
back of the offerings is that of
inducement to buy at a saving on
practically every article advertis'
ed in these columns.