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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-17
TAX TRUTHS AS BRAKE ON PUBLIC
SPENDING
(By BRUCE CATION.

Working on the theory tnaI "ha' ~"
don't see doesn't hurt you, our American
legislators have succeeded, since the war;
in building up one of the most amazing
systems of invisible taxes ever erected Oh
the planet. .... s ...'.
The result is that the tax collector man.
ages to gouge the dayGghts out OF the little
fellow without ever drawing a word OF
protest. &"
Indeed, the little fellow seems to like 1t.
One of his favorite diversions is to COM
pare his lot with that of his opposite num-
Der in Great Britain, where taxes are as
visible as cigaret billboards. He looks over
the figures and discovers that the Briton
has to start paying an income tax as soon
as his earnings amount to $500 year
which takes in practically everybody. The
American doesn't start until his income
reaches $1,000 if he is married, he can
earn as much as $500 before he has to lay
anything on the line. .-a. f.. .a.
So, looking at the figures, the American
pities the poor Briton as one who is taxed
va, hin an inch of his life, and thanks his
who pays the taxes. ...L. r.
Which is precisely where the American
fools himself.
John T. Flynn pointed out the other day
that an ordinary American with an income
of $4,000 year will pay some S2S in in
come taxes, after he has made the proper
deductions. An American with an income
half that size may pay no income tax at all
but if he buys one package of cigarets
a day he pays tax of S21.90 year, and
Il he has couple of daily glasses of beer,
in addition, his tax will run to S45.
The S2S income tax may cause the citi-
zen to kick like a steer. The almost equal
ly heavy tax he pays for the privilege Of
smoking cigaretS causes no kick at all, be-
cause he doesn't realize that he is paying
it. 1t is invisible, and therefore painless.
If these hidden cigaret and beer taxes
were the only ones, it wouldn't be so bad.
But they are just small part of the pic
ture. For the plain fact is that 70 per cent
of the taxes collected in this country are of
the invisible variety. There are gasoline
taxes, cosmetics taxes, taxes of innumera-
bic kinds on retail sales, doubly hidden
taxes deriving from the tariff-untL &C
cording to the Twentieth Century Funds
recent study, New York wage Garner
who makes $1,000 year has to pay $123
of it in taxes.
Try to collect that S123 from the wage
Garner as direct tax and he will howl to
tnk, I'D, L.
never sees it-and, consequently, never ut
ters peep.
We need day-by7day educational pro-
gram about these taxes of ours. The ordi-
nary citizen is paying for today's spending
program, and paying right through the
nose. If he once realized the fact, he would
begin to apply pressure that would cut the
spending program down to reasonable
size.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-17

MoLEY went to London trium-
I'i phally. Serving as an assist
ant secretary of state, he dwarfed
Secretary Hull in importance.
Many other things happene
quickly. But the big break against
Moley, never popular in the Dip
lomatic service or the State De-
partment here, was that the
American Embassy, tapped his
supposedly confidential cables and
memoranda to Roosevelt, which
were highly critical!
After that Hull told RooSevelti
either he or Moley must go, and
the President, not daring to push
over a pillar of Southern Democ-.
racy, moved Moley to the Depart
ment OF Justice.
Copyright. 1897. NEA Service. IncD
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-17
A VOTER GETS VOCAL

of those two men to that Judge
ship" said voter to a man who
knew well the two men. The
election Of either will be a dis
grace to our form of government.
Tell me, is there any choice be-
tween those birds?-ls the one or
the other the lesser of two evils!
And if so, which one?
"SOenso is a dangerous man,
replied the person addressed. "lf
elected he will prostitute the
bench to any length which suits
.his aims and desires - both OF
(which are likely to be reprehensi-
bic. On the other hand, Suchen-
such, though he is a party man
through and through and will
place the interests Of the party
ahead of the interests of the
people, he is not essentially a
dangerous man and he is more
capable than Soenso. consider
Suchensuch the lesser of the two
'"But why in the name of de-
cency," exploded the voter, sis
il that we allow any but the best
to fill the positions of high re-
sponsibility in this land? Why are
we so often in the position of
having to choose the lesser of two
evils or the least of half a dozen
evils when we go to the polls
Why do we allow ourselves and
our institutions to be harmed
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-17
FOR HUSBANDS ONLY: The

FOR HUSBANDS ONLY: The
womenfolk are bringing in some
apparently unshapely millinery
borrowed from the trends Of
1900. You can't afford to laugh
because that might call for more
hats, and incidentally more
money. Join in the rage of con-
versation about these Partisan
creations. Memorize a little femi-
nine hat vocabulary, so you may
talk authoritatively. Here are a
few words representing hat styles,
names and descriptions:
Berets in many types such as
"Frivilous SAL" "Off-the-Face,
visor draped beret," etc. There's
the Funnel" with its funnel
shape, high crown; the "Calots"
with peaked crowns; "Pill Boxes"
which sit on one side Of the head;
Sorority" a youth implying
name; "Turbane," the high-ups;
the "Roater," brims shaped like a
canoe; the "Chechia," a fabric
with flattering diagonal accents
the "Profile," etc. Talk with au-
thority concerning headgear and
your wife will admire your up-to-
| datcneSS.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-17
LIFE AS is
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

Ion and which because Of its car
bolic acid content had eaten holes
in the tin shingles.
1t is always risky to give a job
requiring responsibility to some
person YOU know nothing about.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-17

Soviets plan to continue growing vege-
tables in the Arctic Circle. In fact, plans
for the new batch of shoots are already in
the hands of the oGPU.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-17

A traffic official says that pedestrians
who constantly curse reckless drivers sell
dom get hit. And seldom get much salts
faction.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-17

After straining all year to put their ex-
positions over, some cities are wondering
now how to keep that super-colossal effect
from becoming just a public spectacle.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-17

Attendance and sale. e., .
years automobile show IN u
bourne, Australia. broke "A ,
Ords.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-17

Builders of residences in Ger
many are urged by the govern
ment to economic with steel and
iron.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-17
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

NoTE-No unsigned commu-
nieations are published by The
limes-News. All letters must be
signed with the real name of
the author. No communications
signed with a fictitious name
will be published.-EDITOR.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-17
OTHER PEOPLES MONEY

One good rule is never to bor-
row money for speculation or in
vestment; for if you lose you
must not only pay for a dead
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-17
OVERNIGHT RIDES: The Pull.

man company says fully one-half
of the millions of Pullman pa
irons take overnight journeys of
only about 300 miles and in order
to make their accommodations at
tractivc they are stressing Pull
man bedrooms, compartments and
drawing rooms far more than
thew have ever done.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-17

MEDITATION: We are OBJ
serving Constitution day today,
or the 150th anniversary Of the
adoption Of the constitution.
North Carolina recently celebrat-
ed the 350th anniversary of the
birth of Virginia Dare, the first
white child born in America. The
leap from one to the other was
200 years and from the forming
of the United States to the pres
ent is $50 years. Do you have
any fear of the preservation and
integrity of our constitution for
$50 years, about two good gen
cratiOnS hence?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-17

NEXT: Other Early New Deal
Advisers--and the rest Of the;
inside Moley story, .r,,.,.. D.,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-17
ANENT THE APPLE: r. w.

ANENT The APPLE: X. w.
(Dad) Croasdell, who knows his
apples, having handled $4,000
barrels of New York state apples
in Liverpool one year, says the
growers here are far from any
kind of organization necessary to
the better marketing Of their
fruit. He says it must start with
small groups and be based on
in each other.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-17
UP TO CALIFORNIA: Jimmie

Mitchell says two women and a
man stood on the corner of King
and Sixth admiring the growing
dahlias of the Jackson Flower
Shop and among the other things
said. one of the ladies spoke with
tone of authority: "These dah-
las are finer than they grow in
California. Mr.. Mitchell thought
the compliment, which he over
heard in passing, was indeed flat
tering.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-17
SPEAKING OF ROOFS

repay the loan al
left for himself.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-04-06

do not understand foreign politics..
When I was president, I really sue
ceeded in educating them to fairly
good understanding of these matters.
Roosevelt was not the only one who
was used by Britain. Another was
Samuel Gompers, who confessed sheep
ishly in his autobiography that two
British labor representatives convinc-
ed him in 1914, "It was an issue upon
which there could be no real neutral
ity, and therefore propaganda for neu-
trality was propaganda to maintain
autocracy."
C. Hartley Grattan stated: "Use
was made of the prO-French Anne
rican feeling by prO-Ally Ameri-
cans-Elihu Root, Walter Hines
Page and Colonel HOuse-tO divert
attention from the British block
ade iIlegalities. They advised Eng
land to bring France to the fore
when a bit Of dirty work had to
be done. A case in point is the
Dacia affair"
In 1916, Sir William Wiseman be-
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-04-06

speeches, debates and lectures bv
American citizens. Besides, an
immense private correspondence
with individuals, we had our lite
nature sent to great numbers of
private libraries, Y. Nj. c. AS,
universities, historical societies,
clubs and newspapers"
ShaW's View
lanes M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arm
old Bennett and Rudyard Kipling
were a few of the authors modified
to write propaganda to win Ameri-
cans. C. B. Shaw was of no value as
propaganda for he was hurting at
home such things as:
"The truth is, war, as between
belIigerents, is a suspension of mo-
rality and religion and ethics and
all the social commandments,
just as it is q suspension of law
and constitutional government
within the belligerent countries.
= Many of our journalists have not
the least notion of what war real
ly is, and conceive it quite SIM
DIV as state in which it is glOri-
Gus and heroic for Englishmen to
shoot foreigners, but dastardly
and murderOus for foreigners to
shoot EngIishmen."
It was exceedingly usa1nl for tn
Allies to have numbers Of the NOR
romantic young Americans enlisted il
their armies and working in the vari
Gus relief services.
Randolph Bourne has written o
minor novelists and minor poets an(
minor publicists coming bacl
from France to write books that nas
us into appreciation of real meaning
Continued on Page Three,.
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came chief of the British secret SER
vice in America. Gle now is a mem
Der Of the Wall Street house of Kuhn,
Loeb & Coz He naturally established
close contacts with Col. Edward M.
House. Between House and Wise
man" writes Prof. Charles Seymour,
who assembled the House papers for
publication, there were soon to be
few political secrets, and from their
mutual comprehension resulted in
large measure our close cooperative
association with the British
On Feb. IL, 1916, House, as Wilson's
unofficial ambassador, and Sir Edward
Grey drafted an understanding which
Grey's papers reveal to have been as
follows:
House told me that President Will
son was ready, on hearing from
France and England that the mo-
ment was opportune, to propose that
a conference be summoned to end the
war.
Should the Allies accept the propo-
sal, and should Germany refuse it, the
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-04-06

seized from an American citizen pass
inc through an English port British
agents worked in postof1lces IN neu-
trial countries, with or without Know
ledge and cooperation of the neutral
governments.
Confronted with dispatches or let
ters originating in bordering neutrals
or in one of the Central Powers, Brit
ish censors or agents either threw
them out altogether, or cut them and
rewrote them to suit their purposes
William c.. Shepherd Of the United
Press told American readers as early
as 1915: "The American correspond
ent in any of the European countries
knows very well that it does not
pay to try to beat the censors." An
Associated Press correspondent in
Holland, reporting on a weeks file
said: Nineteen separate messages
were sent. Or this number were pass
ed by the British censors, 7; multlat-
ed, 1; wholly suppressed, II. The
British mail censors, however, had
found only 5 Objectionable, because
the carbon copies of the other IA had
been permitted to reach the London
office of the service"
Enemy Already Knew
In none of. the latter cases could it
be alleged that the censors were pre-
venting information from reaching
the enemy, for all these stories had
to do with enemy movements or state
ments!
German propaganda was Exposed
by congressional investigation, but SO
far as the American people knew, the
British did not have propaganda
agents here. However, Sir Gilbert
Parker, the novelist, had described
| his work:
1--WE established connection with
the man in the street through
cinemas, interviews articles, PAM
phlets, etc, and by letters in re-
ply to individual American critics,
which were printed i'm newspapers
We established association, by
personal correspondence, with in
| fluential and eminent people of
every profession, beginning with
college presidents, professors and
scientific men and running
through all ranges of the pOpula-
ton. We asked our friends and
correspondents to arrange for
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United States would (probably) enter
the war against Germany.
On the following Feb. %, the olrtn-
day of the president who warned ms
country against all foreign entangie-
ments, House was back in washington
to get Wilson's final Endorsement
Professor Seymour says Wilson, him
self, typed the cable sent to Grey over
Houses signature. 1t read:
Reported to the president the
general conclusions of our CONFER
ence. In the light of these con-
clusiOnS, he authorizes me to say
that, so far as he can speak for
the future of the United States he
agrees with the memorandum you
furnished me-"
People Not Informed
OF this astounding commitment the
American people were told nothing.
But Lloyd George dismissed the plan
because of chat world probably"
The propaganda machine kept on
working, to remove it.
It is not generally understood that
war is fought on three fronts: the
military, the economic and the propa-
gandistic, and victories on the first
cannot be won independently of the
others.
1t was as natural for British to de-
ploy it's propaganda forces over the
United States in 1914 as to seize the
Suez canal.
The first step was to command all
cables between Europe and America
Control of the cables now is recognize
ed to be the most important cause for
the success the British had in mani
pulating the American mind, quite
apart from the favorable disposition
OF the American people, This is en-
phasized by every writer on the sub
ject
Mails Also Controlled
British control extended to the
mails, too, to an extent the American
public never understood. During the
war the United States government
made repeated protests against Brit
lsh interference with mails addressed
to this country from neutral countries
without any satisfaction Neutral
| ships were searched. The recall OF
Dumba, AustroHungarian ambassa
dor at Washington, was forced by pri-
vate letters that British authorize.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-04-06
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Central Press Staff Writer

Central Press Statf Writer
Frank H. Simonds, writing in 1919,
said: mo discussion of the develop
ment of American opinion in respect
to the war would be complete with
out mention of the contribution of
Theodore Roosevelt Without
Colonel Roosevelt it is conceivable
that American neutrality might have
been maintained to the end Ger
tainly no other man did SO much to
arouse his countrymen-to prepare
them intellectually and morally for
what was coming"
In The Outlook magazine of Sept.
%, 1914, Theodore Roosevelt saw the
whole affair as inevitable. Even the
march through Belgium was to be eT-
pected. He believed that "as regards
the actions of most of the combat
ants in the hideous worldwide war
now raging. it is possible sincerely to
take and defend either of the opposite
views concerning their actions"
AS Writer Sees T. r.
Between 1914 and 1917, much hap
pened to affect Theodore Roosevelt.
In 1915 he did his best to secure the
6IOSlOcIlIIdI dlO was 1C-
pudiated by the men who had follow
ed his third party banner in 1912. That
last defeat had ended all hope of a re-
turn to public office. Politically
without a future, physically a broken
man, consumed with a lifelong ardor
for the limelight, but a lonely figure,
he was yet able to command atten-
ton by rousing war fever in Ameri-
cans.
Wars seldom are made by causes
they are made by men. After the
debacle, Grand Duke Alexander of
Russia remarked: "It is terrifying
to think that the World war could
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have been postponed for at least
another generation and millions
of lives saved had the kaiser been
willing in his dealings with Great
Britain to overlook his memories
of King Edward VII"
At the time everyone in the know
was delighted that the future kaiser
got good thrashing in a boyish fist
fight with the then Prince of Wales.
How could they know that hatred
would smolder in Wilhelms breast
until it was impossible for him to
draw a line between the 200 pounds
OF King Edward and the $50 million
subjects of the British Empire?
British Influence
The British knew the Roosevelt love
for the .imelight, the rostrum. The
British foreign minister, Grey, follow
ing a suggestion of the ambassador
SpringRice, made him confidante,
well aware he would become sound
ing board.
Roosevelt, in one of his letters to
Grey said, "The bulk of our people
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-04-06
How British And French Aroused
Americans To Fever Heat In 1914-17
Bring United States Into World Conflict

This is the third of Il series of
six articles i'm which the author
of To-day Is the Day" and "The
World War Day-by-Day" summa-
rizes new evidence that has come
to light since the Armistice on the
reasons why the United States
went to war, 20 years ago this
week. The first dealt with the
role of Woodrow Wilson, the sec
Ond with the invasion of Belgium.
Where opinions and conclusions
are expressed in these articles
they are Mr.. Kinnaird's and do
not necessarily represent the edi-
tOrial views of this newspaper.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-27
STRIKE ENDED
At The CAPITOL

The strike of 400 men which
tied up the four-million-dollar job
of air-conditioning the Capitol has
been settled.
The men. steam-fitters and
others who struck with them, hope
to get the job finished before Con-
gresS convenes in special session
on November. Is. Inasmuch as
there is at least three weeks work
for the steam-fitters to do, there
is doubt the task can be finished
in time.
Failure to get the job done will
mean that the House and Senate
will meet in cold chambers as the
air-conditioning plant is directly
tied up with the heating arrange
ments.
David Lynn, Capitol architect,
revealed today that the strike was
settled at a meeting Of the Wash.
ington Building Trades Council
last night.
The settlement was made pos
sible when M. H. Pagenhardt &
Co. asked to be relieved Of the
contract for installing. a new
steam supply piping between the
Government Printing Office and
the Capitol power plant. Lynn
agreed. Employment Of nonunion
men by the Pagenhardt company
caused the strike.
Lynn said the return Of the
men to work insureS completion
Of the heating system in time for
the converting Of Congress.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-27
Fred Fagg to Quit
Air Bureau Jan. |
Director Irked At
"DisSenSiOn"
By ERIC FRIEDHETM

Q.N.S.). Irked over protracted
dissension within the Commerce
Department, Fred Fagg, youthful
director of the Bureau Of Air
Commerce, expects to relinquiSh
his post about January l, it was
learned today.
Responsible aviation authorities
reported Fagg has been refused a
free hand in shaping the Govern
ment's aeronautical policies and
that a number of his proposals
have been overruled by Assistant
Secretary of Commerce j. Mon
roe Johnson.
Fagg, a World War pilot and
aviation authority, was appointed
director of the bureau early this
year upon the resignation OF
Eugene Vidal.
At the time of his appointment.
Secretary of Commerce Roper In
dictated Fagg would be given com
plete control over the bureaus at.
fairs. At the time, the bureau had
been torn between many factions
and in the general shake-up that
followed Vidal'S resignation, two
assistant directors. j. Carol Cone
and Rex Martin, were shunted to
foreign posts. Martin recently
was killed in an airplane crash in
the Caribbean.
During the past summer, how
ever, controversy within the bu.
reau has flared anew. Consider
able differences of views have de-
veloped between Fagg and the
bureau on one side and johnson
and Roper on the other.
The bureau currently is chart
ing a 100000 airway improve
ment program entailing hundreds
of projects throughout the ma
ton. According to authoritative
sources, sharp divergence of opin-
ion within the department has
| arisen over several items in the
program.
Fagg already has submitted his
resignation to take effect next
June 30. He has accepted the
position as dean Of Northwestern
University's school of commerce.
A few weeks ago he agreed to
remain with the department un-
til that time.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-27
TWO OTHER SUITS

O'Hara also has two criminal
libel suits filed against him, one
brought by the governor and an
other brought by a New York ad-
vertising man for statements
printed in O'Hara's newspaper.
His Narragansett horse race
track was prevented from opening
it's fall meeting when Governor
Quinn ordered out the National
Guard to enforce a closing edict.