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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-31
ELECTRICITY OUTPUT
a RECORD

a RECORD
As result of the early activ-
ity bank clcarings for the year
will reach the highest level since
1890; carloadings the highest
since 1890: construction con-
tracts the highest since 1880;
steel ingot output the greatest
since 1929; automobile produc-
ton the greatest since 1929: cleo
trio power production at a rec
ord: crude oil output II a record :;
bituminous coal output the best
since 1880; paint sales the best
since 1929; lumber output the
best since 1880.
But n recession got underway
along with the stock market
break. President Rooscvclts
spring warning against high
prices for heavy industries unset
tied the summer outlook and
when the market started break
ing in August. national industrial
production followed suit.
Dun 4 Bradstrcct'S business IN
dcX reached Il years high of 1926
per cent of estimated normal on
January q and by December s had
dropped to 81 per cent; stec! pro-
Guction was at Il recovery high OF
32.3 per cent of capacity in the
week beginning April 26 and by
December l3 had dropped to 27.i
per cent of capacity. Carloadings
reached a weekly high of S47,2I5
in the week of October best
since l930-and dropped to 55S.-
G27 late in the year; electric pow
or production reached a record
weekly high on September ! at
2,32O,9S2, 900 kilowatt hours and
late in the year dropped to
around the 2,000,000,000 level.
Automobile production was ham
pcrcd early in the year by strikes
but came back surprisingly strong
and found an excellent market.
But motor shows were diSappoint-
ing and November new car sales
ran under 1896. Retail trade fig
ures on a weekly basis early in
the year were as much as 20 per
cent above the 1886 period but
late in the year some districts re-
ported totals slight yundcr the
1886 level.
Industrial diStricts-faced with
labor difficulties and higher OPP
Grating costs--had the greatest
difficulties and faced the most
severe recession. But the nation
al farm income. with bumper
crops and high grain and live
stock prices early in the season,
rose to the best level since 1929
and the agri cultural ccnters felt
the recession less than did indus
trial portions of the nation.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-31

= a merchant in Hamburg has
created four scholarships for Brit
ish undergraduates who wish to
study in Germany.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-31

Oaks from Windsor Castle are
being planted in other parts of
England as Coronation memorials.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-31

Linda'S heart contracted. .
Old Miranda ill-and bitterly
oncly. She had q sharp picture of
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-31
Y 'Mleeath2E
THURSDAY

THURSDAY
MaXimum-5l degrees.
Minimum-25 degrees.
No precipitation.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20

as long as he is here. IF he has
fame, then he has great personal
influence. There is glorious work
to be done by everyone who has
strong personal Influence. If. he
is rich, he has not only personal
influence but the power of mon
ey. How can anyone with the pow
or of wealth at his command
grumble about being bored when
there is so much magnificent work
he can do with that power? At
every hand, at every hour oppOr-
tunities fairly screech out at the
person with wealth and beg him
to seize them by the tail or the
forelock or any old way. They'll
come along willingly enough.
And if one has neither fame
nor riches there is always himself
he can work on. There is an
enormous amount of improving
he needs to do to himself before
he is fit to associate with the an
gels-or in most cases even with
the best grade of human beings.
Bored to death because there
is nothing to do? Ye gods!
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
SOME CURIOUS ANGLES TO TUcKERToWN
PROJECT

For some mystifying reason, the State 0l 'o"'"
Carolina has officially hoped into the lnVes'e"
ton on the part of the Federal Power Comm'Ssio"
as to whether it should permit the Carohna Aiu-
minum company to build a S6,0OO,OOO power pIah'
at Tuckertown high up in the origins OF the iauN'"
river.
South Carolina contends that the tederal power
commission should take jurisdiction in the event
this project is permitted on the ground that the
Yadkin eventually flows down into South Carolina
under the changed name of the Pee Dee and that
the Pee Dee between Cherow and Georgetown IS
navigabe stream.
There are some outstanding peculiaritieS about
this case.
And South Cardinals sudden thought of getting
into the controversy is not the least of them.
Why should that commonwealth jump into this
particular discussion with an interfering purpose
without having raised question when three or
four other similar constructions were previously
undertaken and completed on the same river?
And why should South Carolina attempt to in
tervene in this case on the ground that this par
ticular power plant and dam would disrupt ship
ping on the Pee Dee between Cheraw and George
town when, as matter of fact, such shipping, II
any at all, is virtually confined to the floating of
some logs down the stream Charlotte Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20
SCHOOL MONEY AND FREEDOM

Almost to man, governors assembled i'll Allan
tic City conference recognized dangers to be en-
countered should the federal government be in
duced to spend large annually to assist in the
financing and operation of public school systems.
If congress approprates some agency must spend;
and federal spending agencies have way of de-
handing compliance for the money they dsburse.
The governors, with the exception of Governor
Townsend, of Indiana, thought that the surrender
of school liberties too great price to exchange
even for large sums of money.
We have never felt that it is necessary certainly
not in North Carolina, for the federal government
to become regular contributor to the schools, nor
have we felt the urge for federal assistance in
either the management or operation. North Caro-
lina's school system, firmly established eight
months basis with developing transportation sys-
tenn for rural areas, will in time rank with the
finest in the nation.
That the school system will continue to grow, in
harmony with North Cardinals ideas and in a man.
ner adapted to the peculiar needs of the state, is
abundantly assured 1t is unlikely that the federal
funds and federal direction will add great deal.
And the risk that bureaucratic interference will
prove boomerang is out if proportion to the gain.
Shelby Star
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OBOY! TRY THIS OUT

Those who have never travelled through the wes-
tern part of North Carolina along about the time
when the people are gathering and packing their
apple crop, have missed something decidedly worth
while. When the autumn leaves are turning red
and yellow and brown and the great apple trees
are laden with fine red apples the beauty of our
mountains unsurpassed. And one gets such de-
ilghtful whfs of crisp, autumn, mountain air filled
with the odor of ripening apples-whew! Well, just
run up there this fall and you'll know just what we
are talking about and what we are trying to get
across to you.-Mocksville Enterprise.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20

The governors of the two Carolinas are soundly
threShed by a national educational authority for
expressing their opposition to the invasion of the
federal government authoritativey into the field of
public education.
For our part, commend Governors Johnston
and Hoey for their independent and heroic stand
Let this advocate of a federalized educational
system in America rave and rant as he may please
over the circumstance that the two Carolinas should
be the last in the list of the states to stand out
against this usurpation because of their poor show
ing in public education, it remains nevertheless to
the honor and glory and credit of these common
wealths that as financially weak as they may be in
their support of schools, they as yet unwilling
to be made mere wards and puppets of federal
bureaucracy in this vital public service
If the Washington government can be persuad-
ed to scatter financial assistance to public schools
of the nation without demanding along with these
emoluments the right to dictate and to control the
system of free schools, all well and good.
But who has so far had the daring to predict
that this will or that this could happen with gov
eminent which is in the habit of demanding the
right to control in exchange for its privilege to
help finance charlotte Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20
BALFOUR

BALFOUR, Sept. 20.--MrS. Will
Corn, who has been i'll with pneu-
monia, is much improved.
George Burroughs and family
have moved back to the village
and are now living on Maxwell
'avenue. All their friends welcome
| the entire family back with the
church and village.
Rev. Lawrence Erwin, who has
been conducting a revival for the
past two weeks in his church at
Cathey's creek in Pennsylvania
association, reports much success
in the work of the church. More
than 80 professions have been
made.
The small daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed Baker is very low with
pneumonia at this time.
This community was saddened
by the death of Clarence Will
liam Clingenpeel who died on
last Thursday at Mountain SAM
forum after an operation for APP
pcndicitis. He was the younger
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Johnnie II.
Clingenpccl of the Locust Grove
community. Mr.. Clingenpcel was
born January 8, 1918, being only
10 years and 8 months of age. He
was an active Sunday school and
BTU. worker and was always
found busy in the service for his
Master. He served as church
clerk and singing leader in his
church. He leaves his young wife
a bride of only eight weeks, who
was Miss Dorothy Stepp before
her marriage; father and mother
and two brothers. Paul of Hen
Jacksonville, and CARL of Green
vile, Tenn.
"A delightful birthday party was
given for little Miss Carolyn Peel
CT on last Friday p NJ. Those
present were: Mildred Robertson,
Bobby Gillard, Forest Peeler,
Donald Peeler. Amy FISHER,
Nancy Jane Gillard, Earl Peeler,
Elizabeth Taylor, Anna Lou Pless-
ley, Ann Taylor, Dodothv Davis,
Doris Warren, Anna Ruth Davis,
Freda Sue Crone, Sddie Baker,
Billy Gone, Jimmy Ash, Cecil
Earl Stansell. The children play
ed a number of interesting games
and were served by the mother
at the close of the delightful
hour. The little honoree was
seven years of age and received
a large number of gifts.
A series of services will begin
at the Baptist church on Sunday,
Sept. 10, Rev. Blythe announced
last Sunday. The public is in
vited to attend.
A large group from the village
plan TO hear Rev. j. Harold Smith
next Sunday.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20
COMPARED WITH 1927

Ten years ago the southern cotton crop was
about 100000 bales in excess of this years crop
and it sold for an average price of more than 13
cents pound. That was without the assistance
of cotton loans without help from the national
treasury. Moreover the cotton growers got dol
lars for their cotton redeemable in gold at 100
cents compared with 80 cents now and they got
the real red gold when they demanded it. Now
the dollar the ifty-nne cents dollar, is factor in
the higher prices Of bacon, lard sugar. everything
that the farmer buys and consumes This no one
will characterization News and Courier
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20
BORED TO DEATH
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

One old mountainccr of seven
ty-fve, when told by an ocuiiSt
that if he did not stop drinking
moonShinc liquor he would go en-
tircly blind, replied as he reached
for his hat, "Wcll, | reckon I've
seen everything anyhow" He was
bored with life and mountain
mOonshinc relieved his boredom.
Better, he decided, to be relieved
of boredom than to have eye
sight with boredom. And, as we
have often seen, some persons
feel it is better to be dead at
once than to be bored to death.
And why are some persons so
keen about life at ninety while
others are so surfcited with 1t at
nineteen or thirty OF forty or
sixty? 1t is all in the point of
view. 1t is all in the detectives or
the lack of them.
With no detectives in life, what
is the use of life? The hOncybee
works as long as she can accom-
plish anything and drops on the
wing and dies, The cicada burrows
around underground in grub
form for seventeen years, then
comes forth and does the only
thing it can do for its country
lays its eggs. Then, having achiev-
ed it's objective, it sings chccrily
in the trectops while it starves TO
death.
But with a human being, what
reason has he to be so bored that
he can no longer endure life? His
opportunities are unlimited. They
arc all around him day and night
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20

his grand VlZicr 10 make 100 many
speeches, grew tired OF seeing
Richbcrg's name in so many head,
lines.
But Richbcrg today again Is
very close to the throne.
Out of Office he has made "edu-
cational' speeches critical of the
Supreme Court, earned plenty of
money as a lawyer-lobbyiSt, was
a "liaiSon man" with business men
in the presidential campaign and
apparently was one Of but three
or four men who advised on the
Roosevelt Supreme Court plan
which emerged last February.
Richbcrg wrote most of RooSe-
velt's message to Congress pre-
senting that historic proposal.
FRANK WALKER, successful
" New York lawyer business
man, stands out as the only New
Deal exponent of that passion for
anonymity" demanded by Roose-
welt from the six new secretaries
he seeks. A politician who helped
dish out the original New Deal
gravy, Walker is still a mystery
man to nearly everyone here.
Walker set up the National
Emergency Council, with state Of
fees, as a New Deal two-way in
formation agency at least partly
designed to make votes. He bossed
development of the Federal Hous-
ing Administration program. And
after his second and last draft by
Roosevelt he worked like a dog
through MEG in setting up the
S4,8O0,000,000 works, program in
formation service and machinery
for applications for ALLEGATIONS.
Walker worked patiently and
painfully to get the heads Of fed
eral agencies together and did his
best to conciliate such persons as
General Johnson, Secretary Per-
kins and Secretary Roper. Some
officials say Walker never got any,
where because he was too caEey,
cautious and eaSy-going, trying to
avoid making enemies or fighting.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20
THE NEW DE cal
IN WASHINGTON
-RY RODNEY BUTCHER
BY RODNEY BUTCHER

WTASHTNGToN.-There was a
w queer period Of New Deal his
tory in l934-35 when Roosevelt
was giving his best super-colosSal
exhibition Of travelling fright" and
cleft" at the same time.
Outstanding presidential advis-
erS in that period were Donald
Richberg, Frank c. Walker, Rex
ford G. Tugwell and Felix Frank
furter. OF these, Richberg rose
to and fell from the highest peak
Of power.
Richberg, now practicing law
in Washington, came first as NRA's
general counsel and had won the
Presidents complete confidence by
the time General Hugh Johnson
left NRA. Richberg helped write
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20

as anything else temptS men ana
women of middle age into affairs
of the so-called affections.
And tight here let me say a
word about wild oats. More wild
oats are sowed after forty by
both men and women than by
flaming youth. Youth is impetu.
Gus and harum-scarum it will
play pranks and go in for frivoli-
ties and get itself into trouble,
too; but for downright moral tur-
pitude there is more of it later
in life than earlier - though
more sly. And the cause is bore
dom, an effort to relieve the mo-
notony of having seen everything
and of having known everything.
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THE REAL ISSUE

Not the court packing issue, not the Black ap-
pointment, not the "antlynching" bill, not Presi-
dent Roosevelt's popularity, those are not the is
sues. The issue is whether or not the Offices the
subsidies, the allotments, will hold out. The New
Deals fate will turn on the same question that
the Father Divine movement turned-the fried
chicken banqusts. AS long as "angels" shall hand
around the chicken the New Deal will prosper
Charleston News and Courier.
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that he eXtin-
guishes himself.
f. V e n persons
who have riches
and those who
have fame and
those who have
both, find them
selves so unSat-
isfied with this
world that they
resort to eX-
IRENE lengths to
relieve the tedi-
UNI. 1t is drab-
ness of Ii c
which as much
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20
Us CAN'T TAKE SIDES AND REMAIN
NEUTRAL
(By BRUCE CATION

The partial embargo laid on shipments
of arms and munitions to the Far Eastern
war zone offers us fine chance to exam
inc the ms and outs of our neutrality policy
Or, for that matter, of any neutrality
policy.
II isn't much of an embargo, so Tar. All
it does is prohibit the shipment OF NUM-
tons to either China or Japan on govern
ment-owned merchant vessels. But the re-
actions that have already taken place are
significant.
Already cables from Shanghai are re-
porting the Chinese much depressed by the
move-as depressed, said one dispatch, as
if a great Japanese military victory had
been announced. And since the ordinary
American probably sympathlzes with
China rather than with Japan in the pres
ent crisis, it won't take long for bumper
crop of American protests to make It's APP
pearance.
For the catch in the whole thing lies in
the fact that Japan has strong navy and
one of the worlds largest merchant fleets,
while China has no navy worth mentioning
and no merchant fleet of any consequence.
This embargo, in other words hurts China
and helps Japan. For the Japanese cruis-
ers can intercept the few Chinese ships
that come over to America to get NUM-
tons, while Japanese freighters can keep
a steady stream of such supplies pouring
into Japan.
This neutrality policy, then, throws our
weight on the side of Japan. And an AM
erican who feels that it is China rather
than Japan which deserves our help can
hardly be blamed for protesting about it.
But the point of the whole matter is that
by adopting a neutrality policy-any neu-
trality policy-we are definitely undertak-
ing to refrain from taking sides in overseas
quarrels. We are taking the position that
our one concern is to keep out of war, and
that all other things must be subordinated
to that end.
If we wish, we can scrap that policy and
go back to the old way. When war like
this one between China and Japan breaks
out we can look things over, make up our
minds which side we sympathize with, and
then give that side such indirect support as
we can.
But if we do that we run the risk of get
ting into the war ourselves-as we did in
1917.
We can't eat our cake and have it too.
We can't have neutrality policy designed
to keep US out of war, and still guide our
policy by our sympathies with one or an
other of the contestants in foreign war.
1t ras to be one or the other.
We ought to digest that fact right now.
If a major war breaks out in Europe, our
sympathies will be far more deeply involv-
ed than they are now in China. Only by
realizing in advance that we must forget
all about those sympathies to maintain our
neutrality will we be able to adopt keep
out-of-war policy and make it stick.
Keep munitions off of government ships
and we may help Japan. Okay; we shall
also help to keep our army on this side of
the Pacific-which is exactly where it be-
longs.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20
BIBLE THOUGHT
HE is COMING BACK

81 will come again, and receive you unto myself
could wish for my friends no greater Joy 'nan
that which is mine in the thought that lie Is com.
inc back and that He may come soon L 40 not
think it has ever made me fanatical; do not see
how il could. This is blessed hope to me BECAUSE
every man that hath this hope in HIM p~r'ne'"
h;u,,H even as he i, pure" Il John 1881
DIR. J. Wilbur Chapman.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20
BY Moan Hollowell

KEEP 1T ROLLING: The long
er we keep these tourist and farm
crop dollars rolling around in our
community the greater the likeli-
hood that more of us will get to
handle some Of them. Keep them
busy at home and don't send them
away.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20
TIPPED BY MAIL

CHARDON, o. (UP).-Eliza-
beth Shaw, a waitress. received a
letter from Arlington, n. j., con-
tanning 25-cent piece. "For the
girl who waited on me July 30
and whom | forgot to tip" he
sender explained.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20
A MILK BOTTLE STORY: A.

S. Browning says one Of the wor-
I'icS of the milk business is get
ting back the bottles loaned as
containers to the customers. He
says that Kalmia Dairy has lost
about a car load during the past
few months, meaning Il monetary
loss Of about 81 900.
What arc the uses Of milk bot
ties which are loaned customers
from day to day to convey the
milk in? In some restaurants and
drug stores they become accumu-
lated with rubbish. The cold man"
may take along milk or coffee to
drink with his lunch. They drift
from stores of retail into homes
not to return. They lie around
some drinking places as so much
rubbish. In homes or elsewhere
they may contain oils or LIQUIDS
of any kind. But why keep Dor
rowcd milk bottles that cost about
seven cents each?
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the MIRA and still loves it pas
sionately.
RICH b RG'S outstanding
achievements had to do with
NRA celebrating and policy
making. He lost organized labor's
friendship even before his promo
ton.
The wolves were on Richberg
when the court killed NRA. Sec
retaries Perkins, Roper and Ickes;
MessrS. Tugwell and Johnson;
many conservatives as well as
nearly all the liberals, labor and
sections of Congress were after his
scalp.
And there is reason to believe
that Roosevelt. who himself caused
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20

"Mother died of boredom said
a woman to me. Actually she
was bored to death"
Every now and then some per-
son becomes so fed up with life
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20

According to the wishes of London res
;dent his ashes were scattered from golf
tee adding the one slice of life that he had
missed. q IS. 49, = &c. "a ->y.s
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20

Crowning wonder of Germany's synthetic
research is the process of taking the shirt
off q mans back and making a deficit out
of it.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20

The actress who "broke" with Eddie Bergen over
oergens dummy, Charlie Mccarthy, apparently
couldn't see the family tree for the wood
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20

CAPTAIN COOK discovered the Hawaiian Islands ID i''o 20
named them in honor of the fourth Earl OF sand" . ne
lord of the admiralty The substitution OF the name .- .
now bear took place gradually Hawaii is the name OF w '"-
island of the group and gives its name to the "h''
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20

Johannes Brahms, the compos-
err, was grandson of an inn
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-20

MOVING TO COUNT Y:
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