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Evening star., 1937-12-19
Back of the hundreds of
thousands of children in
crime lies the failure of
society-or parenthood-
to do its duty
by j. EDGAR Hoover
Dsses~ 4 sis Federal Rrsss q isvss'sots"

ing opportunities for
children of misguided
tendencies to be aided
to a new viewpoint;
there should be train
ing schools, honor farms
and mental hospitaliz-
alton to rid them of
the sicknesses all too
often brought about
by parental neglect.
This neglect is far
from being all a mat
ter of poverty or of
the slums. 1t pervades
all classes. One OF our
greatest crime breeders
today is the indulgent
and delinquent parent
who. because of lazi-
ness, unwanted chill
dren. warped viewpoint,
or selhshness, turns a
child adrift without
advice. guidance or dis
cipline, and without
trying to make the
home more attractive
than the company OF
the corner gang. Per-
haps if we could devise
some sort of punish
Evening star., 1937-12-19
Juvenile x or Public delinquency?

- UPPosE we face the facts and
call juvenile delinquency by
its proper name-PUBLlC
~ DELINQUENCY. For if we
should look iatc the background of
the more than seven hundred thou
sand unfortunate children of less than
voting age who form the tremendous
army of youthful law violators, am
certain we would find - in practically
every case - that there had been fail
ure, either on the part of society or of
parenthood, to do its apparent duty.
Our youthful criminals of today,
from whose ranks graduate the in
corrigible desperadoes of tomorrow,
come from homes broken by death or
divorce - from homes where discipline
often was an unknown factor - from
homes where there was little or no
opportunity to see anything but the
drab side of life or from homes
where parents. by their own laziness,
lack of common sense. disrespect for
law. or bad example. carelessly tossed
their children into the nav of crime.
Thus, we find that the parents Of
the young criminal often are morally
guilty of his downfall. that their
cynical attitude toward decency has
bred a like attitude in the child
Added to this, society has shown al
most studied indifference to the child
delinquent. Too often society's atti-
tude seems to have been that child
hood can cure its own ills.
This is not true. We have clinics
for physical ills. We likewise must
adopt the clinical system for mental
ills. For juvenile delinquency often is
a combination of mental and physical
malnutrition.
No community today should count
itself as forward looking unless it has
the latest and most common-sense
methods of combating the tendency
toward crime among the young. There
should be investigating agencies, built
upon a kindly. sympathetic standard,
and manned by persons Of education,
of common sense, of eager hunanities.
There should be great funds for the
establishment of boys and girls clubs
in congested districts, or in places
where parental guidance has been
found to be lacking. There should be a
steady growth of Fairgrounds. not as
mere open spaces equipped with para
phernalia for play, but properly di-
rected by forward-looking minds on
definite programs of character build
ing. There should be constantly widen
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-18
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
NOTE ON DEMOCRACY

From Mr.. Roosevelts interesting and in many
respects admirable speech we lift single sentence:
"The deeper purpose of Democratic government
is to assist as many of it's citizens as possibe-es-
pecialy those who need it most-to improve their
conditions in life. :"
There is a case to be made for this conception
of democracy, but it is rather to be doubted that
Thomas Jefferson-to name one traditional Demo-
crat-would have subscribed to it. Jefferson, unless
we have msread him. held that it was the duty of
the government not so much to assist the citizen
to improve his condition of life as to keep other
citizens from preventing him from improving it for
himself.
The difference is not nmportant-Baltimore
Evening Sun.
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Seems that the powers that be are about to get
their foot in political .pot-hole which they have
evaded. Command of the CCC outfits is to pass
from the hands of the army to selected and train
ed commanders" if Secretary Ickes of the Interior
Department has his way. Noted for the efficient
manner in which the camps have been conducted,
under the army supervision, we just wonder what
will happen when selected and trained comman-
ders" are picked.
The nation has seen too much of Selected and
trained leaders, in this and that, and while broad
experience may be an essential in supervising work
done by the CCC enrollees, the superintendency of
the camps should remain in the hands of the army
where it has been handled efficiently for the past
year and half-Brevard Times.
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EAST EDNEYVILLE

EAST EDNEYVILLE, Jan. is.
People here welcome Mr.. and Mrs.
Revis and family of Leicester, IN
TO this community. They have
moved into the Coston house;
Mrs. George Hoover of fruit,
land. visited her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Dollie Rogers of this place on
Sunday of last week.
Tom Brown and James Myrlch
of Morganton, visited i'll this sec
ton recently. :,
Miss Thelma Edney called on
Mrs. +. C. Powell Thursday.
Misses Lillian Green, Katie WI,
liams and Louise Edney visited
Mrs. Paul Huber of uno, We'd
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Rymcr had
as their guests one night recently,
/ T.. c. Powell and family, Claude
} Edney and others.
William Nix Of this place. at
tended the funeral Of his brother,
Anderson Nix, who was buried
at ItaW lICCh i'iiNNN's '"'N
day. ,,,
Miss Mae Williams who holds =
position ut HenderSonvillc, visited
her mother last Sunday.
Fac Edncy called on Lillian and
Else Green Thursday.
Mrs. Luther Edney visited Mrs
Dollic HRogers on Sunday after
noon OF last week.
Charlie Edney and family have
moved into the Lowranee house.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Merrll! OF
Druid Hills, visited at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Edney Tues
day night.
Miss Thelma Edney had as hei
guest Friday, Misses Myrtle Rog
crs and Katie Williams.
Mrs. Luther Edney visited heI
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. ware
of Fletcher, recently. .
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Freeman
were in this section Friday OF
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ATTENTION OF THE PRESIDENT
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

dress itself than that of purifying
local politics and removing UNI
principled politicians from high
posts in local churches. There is
something strangely incOngruous
in the church's battling against
commercialized vice, yet ignoring
local political conditions, when
cOmmercialized vice could not eN-
list but for the support and protec-
ton of local politicians who too
often are pillars in the church.
Recently a newspaper man who
had secured evidence of wide
spread organized vice in his COM
munity, went to leading min
lister and suggested that in behalf
of the youth of the community,
the local churches should do some
thing about the evil. The minister
showed his complete innocence or
ignorance or timidity in the mat
ter by suggesting that the prob
lem be referred to the police.
What can a police force do when
its bosses who are receiving tri-
oute from a vice ring, order that
the ring be unmolested.
eve wreStlc not against flesh
and blood, but against principali-
ties, against powers, against the
rulers of the darkness Of this
world, against spiritual wicked
ness in high places"
1t will be great day for these
United States when our president
comes out manfully and powerful
~ against our greatest single evil,
the corrupt local political ring.
These rings have developed be-
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"A excent after school hours and to those ABOVE
Ia in hazardous employments. AS Dr. NiehoisS
Murray Butler says, we are getting rid OF ehiio
labor quickly and naturally, under the force OIL
public opinion in the states and census STATISTICS
prove it.
Doe. the Amendment Extend to
Control of Education? ma
Yes. OF the analogous power of Congress 10
regulate" commerce Cart. l, Sec. 8. U. D .o"S"
tution)-a more restricted power than that "
limit, regulate and prohibit" abOr-the Supreme
Court said in Gibbons VS.. Ogden, Wht. l, that
when generic word is used in giving power 10
Congress- such as commerce" it cannot De IT,
stricted to but one of its Specifications, put mus'
embrace all and "every species" of commerce ~
the term labor, in the Child Labor Amendment
would be construed to mean "eVery species OF Ia
Dor, mental as well as manual, and would not DC
restricted to just one of its signifcations,
The statement of the National Child Labor Com
mittee that
State legislatures have always had more
power than this amendment gives to Con'-
gress"-
is false. No state legislature now has the power
to pass an act prohibiting person II years OIL
age from engaging in the common occupations OF
hfe That right is right of liberty, says the
Supreme Court in III Y. ,. f4o, "hch Is su',
anteed by the 9Th and 14th Amendments, and IS
''inalienable." ....
Will the Bill of Rights Still Protect
Parents and Children? ....
No. All later legislation or amendments IN con-
Aict with earlier legislation amendments repeal
the earlier ones to the extent of the conflict mus
the Child Labor Amendment will repeal the guar
antee of the sanctity of the home in the 4th
Amendment, and the "lberty' to work in common
healthful occupations, guaranteed to citizens IN
the 5th and 18th Amendments.
l. the Amendment an Enabling Act!
Yes. 1t will enable Congress to confer upon the
Federal Children's Bureau unlimited power ito
limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of all per-
sons under Is years of age; and to confer upon
the Federal Commissioner of Education an unqua-
lifted power "to limit, regulate and prohibit the
mental labor of such persons, which must ultimate
" nationaze all of schools.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-18
THE NEW y T. a L
IN WASHIN TON
by RODNEY BUTCHER

Conference on Venereal Disease
Control held in Washington under
its auspices and with the presi-
dents blessing recommended that
the 100000 appropriated for
state health grants under the So
cial Security Act (part of the
budget fgre) be increased to
S25, 100000.
Health promotion and disease
prevention have been considered
primarily a state function, but
state public health expenditures
took a nose dive during the de-
preston and eight millions of
grant money this year has stimu-
lated states to expand their activ-
tiles enormously.
The health service helps states
set up their health units when it
passes out the money. Under the
Social Security Act it also re-
ceiveS Sl,600,000 for disease and
sanitation investigation.
INDUSTRIAL hygiene and public
health nursing, along with ex-
panSion of venereal disease clinics
and education, are the chief fields
in which Assistant Secretary Of
the Treasury Josephine Roche and
Surgeon General Thomas Parran,
Jr., feel they could use those ex-
ira millions at once.
Industrial hygiene covers deaths,
diseases, and disabilities arising
from the jobs people do. The life
expectancy of an industrial work.
er is seven years shorter than that
Of a non-industrial worker.
Occupational health hazards are
known to exist in 1000 separate
occupations and there are at least
100 groups of poiSonS and indus
trial hazards known to be detri-
mental to health.
Only two states had made pro-
visions to meet industrial health
hazards before the Social Security
ten millions became available.
Now 81 have industrial hygiene
units.
Miss Roche points out that there
is great mass Of scientific and
technical information stored up
which would be of value to mill
lions of workers from the stand
point Of their lives and health is
it only could be spread around.
tCnnVrieht io27 NEA Service. Inc.)
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JONES GAP

HOMES CAP Ion -
-, '''' Ns
iheih'a Nelson was inr ttr
guest OF Miss Mary Lon Owen,
OH Sunday of last wg.,.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. II. W....,..
ut the home Of Joe Me-. ''.'-
Sunday of last week
l.. c. Buckncr'S Ja..l,.
Gently visited Mrs. Fn.4 y. p
who is sick. ''s
Mr. and Mrs p % DID,
visited ar the home ~. w
Owcnhr on Surday ,..... II" \
last week. -"
Mrs. Lula Davis i .r ta. .
list. "
Pearson Greer j. h....r
additions made TO his home. ne
COLL M anRn..I ~
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BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Stnn COrrcapOndcnt

NEh service sum correspondent
WASHINGTON. - The federal
w budget for the next fiscal
year gives the navy S587, 302,600
and the army 1898, 400, 400 for war
purposes, a total Of nearly a bill
lion dollars.
II gives the U. S. Public Health
Service S20,753,000.
OF course if you want to get the
full portion of proposed eXpendi-
lures for 1878 properly charge
able to past wars and danger Of
future ones, you must add to the
army-navy bill, as peace advo-
Gates are fond of doing, an item
of 100000 for veteran pen
sions and benefits, and most Of
$3.50 100000 for interest on, and
S40l, 100000 for retirement of, a
public debt which is largely due to
war.
Total of these items is about
$3.50, 100000.
The public health appropriation
will be about one-fifth of the cost
Of two new super-dreadnaughtS,
construction Of which will begin
Immediately.
Desirability OF adequate national
defense is disputed by hardly any
one. Yet no one seems to be
quite clear as to whom we are 60
ing to fight with that billion dol
lars and the military-naval ma
chine built up by other billions in
past years. .-L. .
The u. S. Public Health Service,
on the other hand, knows exactly
what it wants to fight and hasn't
the slightest fear that it will ever
run ont of available dangerous en-
emieS.
Disparity between the number
OF casualties unnecessarily caused
by disease and the number killed
in battle within American borders
within the last 70 years is greater
than the disparity between what
Congress will vote for national
health and what it will vote for
war.
JUST the other day the U. S.
y Public Health Service declared
war on venereal diseases, which
are estimated to afflict upward of
100000 American citizens. The
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-18

determination to keep out of the
present European squabble.
There is one more great service
the president of the United States
could perform for this country
while he is in position of unusual
authority and influence: He could
denounce in uncompromising
terms the customary corruption in
local politics and call on the ma
ton as whole to stamp out this
evil practise, which is undOubted-
ly our greatest single curse, not
only in its heavy cost to the tax
payers but in its destructive effect
on the morals of the commune
ties.
There is no more vital task to
which the church, too, could adj
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-18
DEATH AND TAXES

Chairman w. G. Query of the state tax commits
sion gave the legislature and the voters of the state
something to chew upon when he said Tuesday that
the commission had collected $1S0472,s15 since
1922. when it became the collecting agency for
state revenue In that year the total collections
amounted to S2131 FOG and in 1886, ID years
later it was $50 6O9, $40 In 1922 there were only
three taxes on the books according to Mr.. Querys
statement, and in 1886 the number had increased
to II. BENJAMIN Franklin was correct when he
wrote in 1889 "in this world nothing is certain but
death and taxes" -Spartanburg Herald.
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We are not opposing single point in Mr.. Hoeys
program, but we do foresee the coming of time
when the people of this and other states must de-
eide when and where governments obligation to
its people ends At least three points in this pro-
gram call for the assumption of further response
bilities, the first being free textbooks for school
children, the second being increased vocational
training, and the third being the social security
program. We believe that it would be fine to sup
ply the children with free school books, and it
would be even finer if the state would supply the
children with suitable clothing necessary evil If
the children are to be educated
One of these days the goose that lays the gol-
den eggs may become so discouraged at the prog
ress we are making in showing our individual bur-
dens off on a collective government that she will
try one of these Shutdown" strikes herself.-Stan-
ly News and Press.
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welfare of the
United States is
everybody's con-
Germ and respon-
sibility. The pres
ident publicly re-
buked a man who
proposes to ship
war materials to
one Of the Span
ish fighting fore
eS, regardless of
the fact that
such action may
embarraSS o u 4
government and
interfere with Oui
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-18

President Roosevelt has called on business and
industry to absorb workers who are now on relief
in order that the budget may be balanced during
the coming year. His call will likely be needed
in so far as it is humanity possible to work some
Of the men who are on the relief rolls, but ne
must remember that there are thousands OF men
on the government relief payrolls who never nave
worked up until he went into office and unless the
tasks are powerfully easy they won't keep it up
long.-Stanly News and Press.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-18

Recently the president OF the
United States made a move that
should encourage every person in
this nation who believes that the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-18

Foxes are being shot ug -
at Hullbridgc, England, 1yca.-
plague.
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T'OTHER SIDE
Civic Treatment of international
Sunday School Lesson for
Jan.l7; John 1-54

The longings of mankind seem
to be in keeping with that Jesus
aroused in the woman of Sa-
maria"-a craving for things that
appeal to physical comforts and
pleasures.
The Samaritan woman, while
perhaps missing those more valu-
able things in which Jesus was
trying to interest her, registered
keen physical interest in the "liv-
ing water" the consumers OF
which would "never thirst"
That mile trudge to Jacobs well
and the physical cXcrtion of draw
ing water and carrying it home in
a cumbersome vessel loomed large
in her mind, and who wouldn't
want such drudgery eliminated?
She was ready for modern water
works. The readiness with which
she said, "Sir, give me this water,
that | thirst not, neither come
hither to draw" would make you
think that she had forseen our
prcscnt-day modern water sys-
TENS.
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'ltaly's grape harvest is one of
the largest on record.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-18

Though flat feet are not beautiful, flat-i0o'eu'
ness is admirable.
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MANKIND TODAY IS DRAW

MANKIND TODAY Is DRAW
ing copious drafts from flowing
wells of refreshing thought that
affects general living conditions.
We are not doting on and looking
backward to greatness as did the
Samaritan when she inquired of
Jesus: cart thou greater than our
father Jacob, which gave US the
we'll and drank thereof himself?"
We are carving out our own
greatness from day TO day and a
most hopeful sign that we are not
growing mentally stale is the fire.
quency with which communicative
ing, public-spirited men gather to
listen to talks on better citizenship
and community upbuilding.
PEOPLE GENERALLY ARE
not as narrow and prejudiced as
were the Jews and Samaritans.
| Citizens representing many ma
tionalities now unite in the pro-
motion of civic affairs and gov
ernmental administration. The
weekly civic, luncheon and other
service clubs are accomplishing
much in breaking down racial
prejudices and merging into work
able from the highest and noblest
thoughts of our foremost thinkers,
Regardless Of nationalities.
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN
America today arc giving freely
and unselfiShly of valuable time
to cooperate effort for human
betterment and we can gather in
spiration from this woman of
Samaria." Though her past was
somewhat shady, and she was
light-minded and probably unlearn-
ed, she left her waterproof at the
well and FASTENED back to the city
to invite her acquaintance to
come, see a man. who was able
to tell of call things" she ever did.
She was to be commended for
sharing such wonderful discov-
cry with others but what civic
worker today does not keep eyes,
ears and tongue alert in doing
similar things over and over as
opportunities present themselves?
cause of public Indifference. They
can be corrected only through
public interest and action. A ma
Jority of the citizens must some
how be awakened and stirred into
action! The president Of the Uni
ted States better than any other
one human influence, could per-
form that service.
'ltaly's grape harvest is one Of
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THE ne,icans great bea was not fashioned for picking up m
from the ground but catching fish. The bird can ave %
the air and snatch swiftly moving fish that is far beheh
surface of the water.
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JUST the other day the U. S.
y Public Health Service declared
war on venereal diseases, which
are estimated to afflict upward of
10000, 900 American citizens. The
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1937-01-21
Australia Lets Down
Barriers to Immigrants

Canberra. - The depression has
been sufficiently overcome in Aus
tralia to permit lowering Of barriers
that were raised originally to pre-
vent too great an influx Of alien
job seekers.
According to official sources both
economic conditions and employ
ment on the island are normal
With the lowering Of the temporary
barriers that had been raised, all
aliens who desire to enter the island
for permanent residence will be per-
mitted to do SO when the necessary
permit is obtained.
Under the classifications govern
ing the latter, preference will be ac-
corded dependent relatives Of per.
sons already residing in Australia
subject to satisfactory guarantee
Of maintenance from the latter; 9TH
er aliens nominated and guaranteed
by persons in Australia and who
have assured work or $3.50 landing
money; aliens without guarantors in
Australia who will engage in trades
and occupations and who have ST.
600 landing money.