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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-11
MAN WITHOUT A PROGRAM

President Roosevelts progressive friends ana
we'll wishers probably clapped one another on the
back after he had finished addressing the Congress
yesterday, exultng among themselves, The same
old Franklin, Listen to him!' He was the same
old Franklin in the sense that he was making his
usual effective speech, but when one goes over 1t
to CLEAN just what he said, one comes away almost
empty-handed.
He rebuked the Supreme Court in pretty forth
right fashion, it is true, and he rebuked the three
evil sisters Of overproducton, underproduction and
speculation. He declared that many Americans still
lived in houses unfit for human habtation. He
avowed that it would be nice if shiftess tenant
farmers were to become up-and-at-em owner-farm-
ers He proclaimed that the unemployment prob
lem was to be put in the finished business file only
over his dead body so to speak He paid his tribute
to that part of NRA which had regulated hours
and conditions of labor. And in those respects, he
must have given comfort to the considerable num-
Der of our people who hold that mans home is
his CASTLE that the roots of democracy are in the
SOIL that the sluggard should go to the ant and
that the laborer is worthy of his hire.
And those are typical Rooseveltian theme songs,
but where was the Rooseveltian program to 60 with
them? 1t was as though he had returned from
South America too late to do more than state IA
mar problems, without limiting at their solution.
Indeed, the clear impression conveyed by the Presr-
dents message was that he had solution to Of
fer. Maybe he will come up with specific formulas
in staccato, serial form, IN 1888; but from his
speech yesterday the President appeared to be a
man without a program.-Charotte News.
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ing he gives them something 10
do.
Six hours for work and eight
hours for sleep leaves 10 hours
each day to get into devllment.
Unless some means is developed
to utilize those 10 hours con-
structively, it is going to be just
too bad for all concerned.
And it costs money to be idle.
Let a man who has been getting
thirty dollars a week for forty
eight hours work be paid the same
sum for thirty hours work, and
he will find that he will spend
more than he formerly spent. 1t
costs to be idle. There are more
temptations to spend money, as
we'll as to do other things which
one does not do while at work.
One man ! used to know--hc is
dead now-who was the head o;
large corporation, became SO
run down from overwork that his
grateful board Of directors insist,
ed on his staying away from his
office every afternoon, and not
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-11
CHINA OPENS WAR
ON MOVIES HELD TO
BE DISRESPECTFUL

SHANGHAI. Jan. IL. (UP):-
China has declared war on motion
pictures regarded as insulting to
the nation or disrespectful to Its
people. I'D,
The governments recent dispute
with Paramount Pictures over
1.-THE General Died at Dawn was
only an incidental manifestation
of a program which has for ITS
aim the total suppression, IN an
parts of the world, of any, PIC
lures deemed offensive to emma.
That the program has teeth IN
il was demonstrated by the sane
tions" which it is proposed to IN
woke - any motion picture com,
PAW which refuses to comply VIII
have all its films banned through
out China. Out.
Five agencies of the Chinese
government and its ruling party
the Kuminang, are enlisted IN the
campaign: the Ministries of For
eign Affairs, Interior ana Educa-
ton, the Motion Picture Censor
shin Board and the Central PUB
licitv Council of the Kuomintang.
Although the dispute over "Ihg
General Dies at Dawn received
wide publicity because China de-
manded the withdrawal OF the
film after it had been shown III
many parts of the world, the bias
of the Chinese government against
pictures believed to ridicule or DIS
credit the Chinese people IS one
Of several years standing.
In 1886 Chinese groups protest.
cd against Shanghai Express
but the movement lacked UNITY
and direction. and made no head
way. Later. the showing of a Harii
old Lloyd comedy with some Chl'
nese sequences brought a sharp
protest from China and a near
boycott of Lloyd Films which re-
suited in apologies from the come
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JUNIOR LEAGUERS
PLAN TO promote
WELFARE AGENT

ST. PETERSBURG 81,
II. (UP).-A drive q, u...
and educate junior ..a.-...
work with welfare aupn....
begun here.
Speaking before dcIy.s,.. .
five southern states attend
fifth regional confcrons. ~
Junior League OF Alacrsa
Russell A. Lipscomo q. Nv
argcd that the lcagua M.r7.'
trained TO work with ,
agencies with which the ..a..
operates.
Her address opcuri 90 ....
lectures TO recruit lu.umr..
such work.
An art exhibition au. r,...
yesterday ended the .a.
conference.
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
40. Sxice sim Iorresponden

IyTASHINGTON.-Somc OF the
w best-traincd noses IN Wash
ngton begin 10 scent a probable
strong attempt this year 10 re-
peal the capital gains tax.
Directors OF the U. s. Cham
her of Commerce have urged a
change in the tax. Prof. Irving
Fisher urges its repeal. And some
high officials in the treasury are
interested in either eliminating or
reducing the tax.
Most active in the background
of the repeal movement, however,
are individuals who have made
killings in the stock market dur
ing the years since the bottom
of depression. They would like 10
sell now 10 realize their profits
without having 10 pay heavy
tax on those profits.
Speculators who had cash left
when most others were cleaned
out, have made enormous profits
IN the market-on paper--amount-
ing in some cases 10 SOC per cent
or more.
The capital gains tax covers
property which wouldn't ordi-
narily be included in inventory
and which is not held by the
taxpayer primarily for sale 10 Gus
toners.
Profits from sale of such capt.
tai assets must be included as in
come for tax purposes. There's a
sliding scale, however.
The taxpayer must report as net
income 100 per cent Of the profit
if the capital asset has been held
less than a year, so per cent if
held between one and two years,
60 per cent if held between two
and five years, 40 per cent If be-
tween five and 10, 80 per cent if
more than 10.
pEPEALISTS argue that one big
IL raaSon stncks are so hiuh &c
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DID EVER OCCUR TO YOU

that practically every Sunday
school lesson has Il civic as well as
a moral application. This truth
has for several years impressed in
preparation of Sunday school les
sons for teaching and in following
civic activities in one form or an
other.
| have contemplated publishing
these civic thoughts for some time
as a feature designed to stimulate
cooperative activity in commun-
ity upbuilding, hence the initial
article based on yesterdays lesson
from John 81 :l8, under the title:
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-11
PUBLIC OPINION AS A FINAL GUIDE

1t is the opinion of Donald Riehberg that public
opinion should govern the Supreme court in deter
mining what are reasonable exercises of power to
be conferred upon Congress.
Mr.. Richberg has more faith in the trustworthy
ness of public opinion than, we fear, is justified.
Public opinion is amazingly tickle, for one thing,
and often totally unreliable when it is suddenly
sucked under by some momentary impulse that
sweeps like contagion.
To be governed, therefore, by such an arbiter
would be to place the Supreme court under SUI
preme master of the art of coquetry.-Charlotte
Observer.
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FIRST TRANSFUsIoy

LONDON. (Cpl. The !
blood TRANSMISSION I'm ,.. j
was given in li92 ma $50, ]
ccssful, medical record ]
medical records reveal. :
small boys were given q =
each for giving their h.mHnE
Innocent VII. Tho pope a-..
hovs died.
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SEES FASTER READING

PASADENA. Cal. lUPN-W.
in the next 10 yea, NEs ,
going 70 get Il real "ogan.' a,
it comes 20 rendin" 3. IA
Jacques, lecturer on oH'onra
forecasts. "Wncln BIOS, ,.s
now read 800 word, q minute.
sqid. "they viii read .Do N.s
inmate in The future
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-11
THINGS TO BE CONSIDERED
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

going back at all from each Friday
noon until the following Monday
morning.
81 can't afford it," replied the
man. 81 must either work or play.
and it costs money to play"
The upShot was that his COM
pany increased his salary five
thousand dollars a year so he
could afford to play more and
work less.
To be idle is strain OF almost
anybody's moral fiber. That is
why there have always been so
many goings on among the idle
rich.
"You have always been a faith
full husband to me,'t said an old
woman to her mate.
II haven't had time to be any
thing else, what with looking after
you and our eight children" grin
ned the faithful mate.
SO the persons who would re-
duce the working hours of our
workaday world must contrive
some wholesome means Of utiliz-
ing those hours off, or serious So
cial disorder and unrest will
eventually result.
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A PROFESSOR VENTURES INTO
BLUNDERLAND
(By BRUCE CATION

Just to add to the gaiety of nations a
learned psychiatrist in New York has dis
covered that "Alice i'm Wonderland" is a
subversive book, full of dreadful things
that are apt to affect the minds of small
children very terribly.
This gentleman unburdened himself be-
fore a recent meeting of the American
Psychoanalytic Association. He announced
that Lewis CAROLS venerable classic has
elements of cruelty, anxiety, danger, and
destruction and he doubted that children
should be allowed to read it.
For one thing, the book contains pre-
ponderant oral sadistic trends of cannibal-
istic character" There is in it "the express
sion of an enormous anxiety" Space and
time are all mixed up in the narrative.
People are forever being deprived OF
things, or threatened in the most heartless
way.
For instance: Alice does not get any
thing to eat at the famous tea party. The
poem of 1.-THE Walrus and the Carpenter"
is full of cruelty. The lobster gets cooked.
The Queen of Hearts wants to cut off
everybody's head. The head of the Jab-
berwock is cut off. There is, altogether,
ga continuous threat to the integrity of the
body in general"
Nor is that all. The stability of space is
threatened. Bottles start to fly, candle
sticks grow longer, train jumps over a
river. Everybody falls down, from the Red
and White Knights to Father William.
Time is distorted, too, so that it occasional
ly runs backward.
There is even worse to come. The Wal
rus and the Carpenter go out into the sun
shine when it is night The White knight
carries little box upside down so that the
rain can't come in, but the food and cloth
ing which the box contains have fallen out.
His horse has spiked anklets to protect 1t
from the bites of sharks.
All this, as the learned psychiatrist
points out, Is simply ridiculous. Worse yet
it is confusing. And, as the psychiatrist
says, eve may ask whether such litera'
tare might not increase destructive atti
tudes in children beyond the measure
which is desirable"
Now the funny part about it all is thai
the scientific gentleman is entirely correc
in that "Alice in Wonderland" does have
in it all the things he mentions. And We
they add up, not to something subversive
unwholesome, and harmful, but to lovely
fairy story that has given exquisite pleas
ure to whole generations of people,
And right there is where the magic O
the literary artist comes in. Out of thu
most unlikely materials he creates harmon!
and beauty. Carroll did it with materials
out of psychiatry; Mark Twain did It Will
an illiterate child, town bad boy, and I
group of riverside wastrels and vagabonds'
Dickens, with poverty and failure ant
crime and the riff-raff of great city.
Such miracles can't be analysed. take
an artist to perform them. A learned at
tempt to pass judgment on the separate
pieces results in good laugh rather thar
in enlightenment. ct
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manently, there
must be sensible
time = filling ac-
tivities of one
kind and another
or there will be
moral and social
disaster.
Men and wo.
men cannot be
idle the greater
part of the day
indefinitely with.
out unfortunate
results, for whei,
the devil finds
folks doing moth
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-11
r H E. N E wv De AL
IN WASHIN GTON
.eY RODNEY BUTCHER.

that ,ncy rC EcnG nCIu 10 aNOIu
the tax. And that tins adds 10 the
danger OF another boom and
crash similar 10 that OF 1929.
Among those who insist that
stock prices are thus being kept
up artiGcially are the stock bro
kcrS. They say that II people are
encouraged to sell their stocks, the
effect will be to diminish Specula-
ton.
Presumably the real reason the
brokers are so anxious for repeal
of the capital gains tax, however,
IS the fact that this action would
increase their business and profits.
Foes OF repeal. who include
Mariner EccleS, Federal Reserve
Board governor, declare that the
increased activity would mean
higher stock prices; that those
vino would sell are big fellows"
who would have nothing 10 dc
with their money, but 90 right
llCk lIlNO NIlt iidl MT uiId buy
some more; that repeal would lure
the public back into the market;
that Wall Street is again trying &c
take Washington for sucker; and
that the only bencfciarieS would
be the gamblers who bought the
country up cheap
The repeal movement may &c,
somewhere, but 1t faces a tough
battle. "riur ~. -.
ROOSEVELT has informally but
IL effectively notified Senator
Joe Robinson, Attorney General
Homer s. Cummings. and Sem
ator Hiram Johnson of California
that he will not appoint any OF
them TO the U. s. Supreme Court
All three frequently have beer
reported to be nourishing hopes.
Il don't think I've ever sent &c
the Senate for confirmation the
name of a judge over 60 years
old" the president remarked at
recent press conference. ITS z
Good RUE. ahdAlill stick 70 kG /;
9CouyrsgfL 1887. NEX service. Incl
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LIKE REMBRANDTS

MOSCOW. CUP. The REM
brandt exhibition in the Moscow
Museum Of fine arts was visited
by $4,000 persons in one month";
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-11
JUSTICE SHOULD BE FREE


There should be available to
every poor person a court in which
with small fee or no fee, he could
have justice done him in matters
of dispute or oppression.
We need TO revive the ancient
customs of the judge sitting in the
gate of the city, before whom the
lowly and the pennilcsS may go
for redress of their wrongs.
In most communities, as mat
tiers are now, person without
funds or influence may have to
submit to grievouS mistrcatment
for the reason that he canot af-
ford attorneys fees and court
costs. Grave injustices are now
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-11

Northwestern professor says that auto
mobiles have stimulated the languade. Pc
destrians, at least, seem toahave more
lurid vocabulary. = Arta"s' -.
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dian himself rs we'll .-
and the deletion Of Oh.
scenes.
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WE MUST BE BUSY

The plan of working 30 hours a
week may be all right as industrial
conditions are now; but if such
hours are TO be maintained per-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-11

1 The French name for Christmas is "Noel," and
for Santa Claus, apparently, "Uncle SAM"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-11
T'OfHER SIDE

In civic life we have the thrice
born men. Religion emphasizes
the twice-born men - those who
experience the spiritual birth as
outlined to Nicodemus by Jesus on
the formers famous night visit in
search of the secret Of power and
influence recognized but not pos
sessed by the Jewish ruler.
Men and women are born into
civic life just as much so as they
are "born again" from physical
into the spiritual realm, but quite
often many, like Nicodemus find
it difficult to comprehend this new
birth. Probably more often, as
was likely the case with Nico-
demus, their environment, station,
habits and mode of living make it
difficult to about face and abrupt
ly change established attitudes.
THE PROCESS OF BEING
born into civic kingdom Of
thought, activity and cooperation
is perhaps as difficult for man to
explain as it was for Jesus to make
clear to Nicodemus the spiritual
birth, nevertheless it is a reality.
The new civic power moves and
works unseen just as much so as
the spiritual force does when a
person is born 10 "See the king
dom" which Jesus called to the at
tention Of the admiling ruler who
naturally desired something akin
60 the miraculous power and in
fluence he saw in Jesus.
CIVIC IDEALS AND CON-
munity aspirations come from the
civic brit has real as the physical
capabilities that come from the
physical birth and the superna-
tural powers that come from the
spiritual birth.
Verify, civic-minded men are
being born and nurturcd in civic,
luncheon and service clubs, as
much so as spiritually-minded men
are "born again into the church.
es. Their attitudes and natures
are undergoing great changes:
their lives are being transformed
from sclfishness into deeds of
helpfulness to their fellowmen and
their communities; for the first
time in their lives they are learn
ing to bury self and work harmon
iously with others.
THE CYNlCS HAVE HURLED
lots of sarcasm at civic clubs, and
while these luncheon clubs have,
their weakness as all institutions
do, they are of especial service in
times like these when we need to
think and work as unit for
what clear-thinking, far-seeing
men and women conclude are
worthy community goals.
done many persons because they
have no means of getting justice.
We are commanded to do Justice
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-11

The man who "has nothing TO say" often proves
t by trying to say something. 49, gask
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THE CYNlcS HAVE HURLED

done many persons because they
have no means of getting Justice
We are commanded to do justice
and love mercy. but do we?
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BIBLE THOUGHT

MY BIBLE
"ALL Scripture is given by inspiration of God
and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for cor
reetion, for instruction in righteousness" q Tim
3:l6)
My Bible is not true in spots,
But true in every sense;
True in its Titles and its jots
True in every verb and tense;
True when it speaks of heavens JOY,
True when it warns of hell;
It's truth is gold without alloy,
Its source a springing well.
Keith Brooks.
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PEPEALISTS argue that one big
~ reason stocks are so high is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-19
STATE RULING
 TO BE CHANGED
Atty. Gen.'s Office Notes N Y. State Courts Action
 on Surgical Issue

Study of opinions in similar cases by the Appellant Division of the New York Supreme court has led the office of Conneeticuts Attorney General, Edward J. Daly, to change its mind in recent ruling 1t made regarding the use of electricity for the removal of superfluous hair.
 Waterbury beauticians have used the electrolysis system for hair re- rnoval over . long period of time, and were vitally interested in the opinion expressed by the attorney. generals office last September 20 to the effect that such action re- quired services of e licensed sur. geon.
 The opinion expressed last sep- tember was in answer to 6 query by the Board of NatureopathieS. A re. cent letter to the same board by Assistant Attorney General Harry L. Brooks explains the grounds for the change of mind, and states that he would be pleased to discuss the matter personally with the Nature- opathic board.
 A test of the New York law was made on June Il, 1887, and the Ap- pellant Division found that removal of hair from the face and body of c person by the process of eleetro- iySis does not constitute praeticing medicine in violation of the par. ticular laws of New York State. It was this ruling that precipitated the change.
 Attorney Brooks says, Since this is the last expression of high court and of one of our most out- standing states we think in oil prob. ability that were this question pre- sented in our courts that they would follow the reasoning and decision in the New York test case. We therefore, seriously doubt that the proper legal procedure to Do fol. lowed Is that given in our com- iaunication of September 90, 1886, since this last case has reversed what definitely appeared to be the law ct the time we advised you"
 No test had ever been made of the ruling or law In the Connects cut courts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-19

rejected appointment with Frank fufter, who had similarly declined an appointment to the Massachu- sets Supreme Court few Tnonthi before, MT. Roosevelt expressed be- wiiderment as to how to get lawyers capable enough 0: running the legal end of the New Deal on the com paratively small salaries paid gov errnent attorneys.
 Picked Capable Men
 Frankfurter sad he would do nil best, and straightway . stream oi young Harvard graduates came tc Washington. It was nothing new for Frankfurter to place promising young lawyers in jobs: for years he had been furnishing secretaries to Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Drandeis, . dozen lower court judges, and many prominent law firms. TranKfurter told intiinates, however, that only capable men re. ceived his endorsement, and his pu. pils were so successful that his "cli. ents" accepted Erankfurter men without question.
 Two of Frai.kfurter's proteges found the New Deal to Dc distaste- ful ard resigned. They were pr. Q. M. W. spragus, who resigned q e2S,000 a yesr position as an cd. visor to the British excheQuey to Ac. cept c 5000 Job in Washington al an advisor on stabilisation fund YsiA- nipulation, and then disagreed with the treasury, and Dean AchesoE, ufl-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-19
FERGUS FAY AT
 K.C. CONVENTION
|ormer Waterburian Now Montana State Deputy;
 We'll Recalled Here

Playing q leading role in the na- nal convention of the Knights of oiumbus, now underway at San ntonio, Texas. is Fergus Fay, Q tive Waterhurian, who is now sident of Helena, Mont. Mir. Fay
 state deputy for Montana and s been prominent in K. of c. work roushout the vest.
 Also prominent at the conyen. at is MonSignor John J. Mcoivney
 Bridgeport, member of Q noted .al family, who Is supreme chap Nh of the order. Mir. Fay was born and educated Waterbury and lived with his Bnily on Pleasant street. For some he he operated Phelan's tea store,
 East Main street. His mother. Is. Catherine L. Fay. still lives Ire, as does his sister, Mrs. Ed-
 rd c. Bobhin, wife of Attorney ward c. Bobbin. of Clifton ave- |e.
 Fourteen years ago Mir. Fay left hteybury and made his home in bntana. He is now a purchasing lent for the state of Montana, with
 office in the State Capitol.
 At the convention with Mr. Fay e his wife, the former Gertrude |ughlin of this city, and their two s|ildren.