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Evening star., 1937-06-14
SILVER BUYING HIT
Government Is Urged to Abandon
Present Program.

Seventy-one members Of the Econ
omists' National Committee on None
tary Policy said today the Govern
ment should abandon its silver pur-
chase program. .....- ---.
The 1884 silver purchase act should
be repealed, they said In statement,
land with it should be discarded the
policy Of arbitrarily fixing prices for
newly-mined domestic silver by pres-
idential proclamation" A
Evening star., 1937-06-14
Plan Chicken Dinner.

BLADENSBURG, Md, June II
(SpeciaD "A fried chicken dinner
will be served by the Ladies Guild Of
st. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church
next Wednesday evening, In the parish
hall Of the church, from to 7:30
O'Clock.
Evening star., 1937-06-14
SLANDER SUIT FILED
Beet Growers Head Asks Dam.
ages From Secretary Of Group.

A $4,000 slander suit was filed in
District Court today by Charles M.
Kerney, 2839 Twenty-seventh. street,
president of the National Beet Grow
ers' Association. against the secretary
of the organization, Harold c. Hogsett
OF the Capital Park Hotel.
The alleged SANDER was uttered
May 21, the court was told. Kerney
charged that Hogsett made certain
statements to Gordon Lyons secre-
tary OF the Central California Beet
Growers Association, and K. c. Bar
low, president Of the Idaho Beet
Growers Association, rejecting on
Kerney's activities as president Of the
National Association.
The suit was fled by Attorney
Frank J. Kelly. =
Evening star., 1937-06-14
Elected College President.

PORTSMOUTH, Va, June IA iP.-
Rev. j. L. Carrick, pastor of Jackson
Memorial Baptist Church, has been
elected president of Chowan College.
at Murfreesboro, N. c., and has as
sumed active control of the ;nstitu-
ton,
Evening star., 1937-06-14

W. B. Bennett engineer for the Capital Transit Co.;
G. Thomas Dunlop general counsel for the c.
Merrill president, and s. Bopen OF the counsel depart
ent at toddyS hearing Bo1Den anSDered motions to
pend the hearings by stating that this hearing Dould
determine the ualuaton rate OF return and the fare rate
Star STAFF Photos
Evening star., 1937-06-14
BAND CONCERTS.

Ay eA1C OdIlO AL Vic duOle
torium at o'clock tonight Capt.
Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hub
ner, assistant.
PROGRAM.
March, You're a Grand Old Flag"
Cohan
Overture. Magic Flute" Mozart
Trio, "Flirtations' Clarke
John Kahler Charles Barnes and
Victor Christensen, cornetists.
Tango, I'm Malaga" Curzon
Serenade, Spanish" Herbert
Fox trot, Organ Grinders Swing"
Hudson
Waltz, die Hydropaten" -Gungl
March, Flag Of Freedom" PAMELA
THE Star Spangled Banner"
BY the Navy Band at the Capitol
at 1880 o'clock tonight. Lieut. Charles
Benter, leader; Alexander Morris, as
sistant.
alag Day exercises)
PROGRAM. ...
March, "All Hands" -----B Benter
American Fantasia" Herbert
Solo for cornet, Columbia Polka"
Robinson
Oscar Short.
Memories Of Stephen Foster" Calliet
March, Americans We Fillmore
Evening star., 1937-06-14
alag Day exercises. }
PROGRAM,

Memories Of Stephen Foster" Calliet
March, Americans We Fillmore
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07
WEATHER ODDS.
.FAVORINC DAY.
OF INAUGURAL
Statistics Show Elements
Are More Benign Jan. 20
Than on March 4

WASHINGTON, Jan. z. CUP
Weather bureau officials dug
through musty records today and
found statistics which gave some
consolation to worried officials III
charge of inauguration cercmon-
les for President Roosevelt Jan
uary 20. .,l
Inaugural officials have feared
that the clements may not smi!e
on the mid-winter inauguration
date set by the Norris lame
duck" amendment.
Weather bureau statistics SHOW
ed. however, that if the weather
on January 20 lives up to that
on the same date in previously m
aueural years, it scarcely can be
worse than on March d. the date
on which other presidents nave
been inaugurated.
Study on climatic conditions On
inaugural days for the past ~
wears showed that if the cefe-
monies had been held on January
20 instead of March A, the ele-
ments would have been benign OF
all except one occasion.
RAINED ON WILSON ,
Nearly an inch and quarter OF
rain fell on March 4, 1917, when
Woodrow Wilson took the oath Oh
office for his second term. oh
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07
VIOLATING RIGHTS

Workers have the right to strike, right that is
unquestioned, but they do not have either the le-
gal or moral right to strike in the new sit-down
fashion inasmuch as it involves trespass upon and
seizure of the premises of others.
This point was raised last year in France when
stay-n and sit-down strikes were called in almost
every part of that troubled country but in only a
few cases was the point carried. The damage had
been done before official action was taken in most
of the strikes.
Now that the sit-down strike idea has spread to
the United States the point is pertinent here.
And, as in France, official action in most cases
so far has been too slow to catch up with It,
The rights of all concerned should be jealousy
protected in every industrial dispute, including the
rights of strikers, loyal workers. arrangements and
owners, and the rights Of the public
Industry has both the legal and moral right to
clear its plants Of workers who refuse to work,
lust as the workers have the legal and moral right
to refuse to work if they choose.
Failure to recognize these facts cannot but bring
grief in the long run to all oncerned--Greenvile
Piedmont.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07

ment.
A good government movement
should not be anti-anything. 1t
should be proficiency; pro-capa-
bility. Instead Of creating a force
merely to attack a controlling
faction. there should be set up
an institution to inform and cdu-
cate the entire citizemy.
The democratic form of govern
ment vests all authority in the
people; but today our democracy
is under q cloud because the pco-
pie have not used their authority
wisely and honorably. Too far
they have been motivated by ig-
norance, selfishness, greed and
indifference. To wake themselves
up to the glorious possibilities of
our form of government should
be the self-imposcd duty of the
citizens of every community.
From representative and eff
fective non-partisan citizens coun-
Gil should come various commit
tees to study ways and means OF
lettering the local government;
of improving the courts; the po-
lice and the fire departments: the
traffic conditions: the city char
ter; the handling of juvenile de-
linquentS; the undermining of the
taxing system; and to study 9TH
er municipal problems. These mat
terS when worked out should be
presented with suggestions to the
constituted authorities and to the
public. Once the citizens of Il
community are determined that
their local governmental affairs
shall be conducted with honesty
and ability, certain type of pol
itician will lose interest in local
politics: there will be nothing in
it for him.
Democracy with US has not ac-
tually failed: it merely has not
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07
"LAxITY OF ENFORCEMENT"

Governor Johnston has called attention to the
sheriffs and other law enforcement officers of our
state to the "laxty of enforcement" of our states
anti-gambling laws. The governor alludes to slot
machines, punch boards, games of chance, etc.
Much progress has been made along this line,
there being quite bit less of such than formerly,
but short period of "laxity of enforcement" can
tear down what it has taken months and even years
to build.
Says The Anderson Independent of this matter:
with proven laws the books, it is folly to
permit gambling to flourish on a business basis. If
the statutes are not to be enforced, they should be
stricken from the books.
"The two-bit gambling syndicates in this state
have and will try again, to buy off officers of the
law"--Newberry Is. CO. Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
INTOXICATED WITH sELF.INTEREsT

Representatives of the eastern section of North
Carolina in the legislature reported to be STAND
ing neck-to-neck in defiance of any proposed plar
that would take liquor revenues from their own
counties.
They might be disposed, under some circum'
stances, to agree to some compromise plan that
would put fraction of such revenues into the
hands of the state but they will fight to the death
any effort to, take away from their own local gov
eminent exchequers any sizeable proportion OF
such monies.
When this proposition and the present fiscal set
up of the state analysed together, the impress
sion will be Forthcoming that the east is rather
selfish in taking such an adamant stand
1t ought to appear even to those members of the
legislature from that section as such distastefu as
it may be to them to admit it.
Here is the way the situation stacks up:
North Carolina as state, finances the roads
and the schools of the counties of Eastern North
Carolina even as it does these institutions in all
of the counties alike.
1t costs these Eastern North Carolina counties
nothing out of their county local government reve-
nues to build, repair or maintain their paved and
sandclayed roads nor to operate their schools for
eight months of the year.
These roads are financed out of the highway
fund which is built up of revenues derived from
the sale of gasoline and of license plates.
The vast proportion Of this highway revenue &C
crues not from these eastern counties, but from
the central and industrialized west of the state
where the population is the more congested and
the greater wealth, both individual and corporate,
abounds.
These schools of these eastern counties are also
financed the full eight months term out of the state
treasury, and from funds largely collected from
the sales tax.
For the vastly greater part this sales tax is paid
by the same industrial west Of North Carolina
which also supplies the larger part of the highway
revenues.
In fact, half dozen of the larger counties, such
as Mecklenburg, Guiford, Durham, Buncombe and
CASTOR and Forsyth, probably pay more of this
sales tax than the entire remainder of the counties
of the state lying east of Raleigh.
We make no point as to the righteousness of
such fiscal framework 1t is proper that the sec
ton of the state with the greatest population and
the greatest wealth should bear the greatest bur-
den of taxation.
But the point is that now when opportunity
comes for the state, as whole, to broaden the
base of its derivable by proposed collec-
tions from liquor sales all over the state, the east
kicks and contends that it, county by county,
must retain such liquor taxes for their own par
ticular and private purposes instead of allowing
them to run into Raleigh and there be dispensed
for uniform public services for all the people of
all the state.
We submit that the very face of this PROPOSE
ton shows spotches of ugiiness and of sef-inter-
est all out of proportion to the spirit of fairness
and of the public welfare-Charlotte Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07
THE NEW D E AL
IN WASHINGT TON
.EY RODNEY BUTCHER.

mISSai--tnC style oi at least y iCN
present and cX-cmploycS will be
definitely crampcd. 1t brought M
holiday cheer to several minor
officials who were on the verge OF
resignins 10 become lobbyists.
GOSSIP as TO cabinet change,
~ begins 10 take on a little more
substance. All cabinet members
will submit their designations by
inauguration day and the prcSi-
dent plans to accept none except
possibly that of Postmaster Gen.
eral Jim Farley, who may be
ready by that time to carry out
his announced intention of quit
ting.
Thereafter, the probabilities are
that the next resignation will be
that of Secretary Of Commerce
Daniel Roper. A large posse with
in the administration will be gun
ming for UNCLE Dan and is sure 10
get his scalp sooner or later.
Likely to succeed Roper would
be John H. Fahey, chairman of
Hole. Fahey is as able an adj
ministrator as has appeared in the
entire New Deal. Roosevelt wants
him in the cabinet and you may
be sure Fahey will be there sooner
or later, assuming he's open to
offers.
There's also healthy little
movement to persuade Secretary
of Labor Frances Perkins. that the
secretaryship of the international
Labor Office at Geneva, said to
pay $4,000 a year, is just about
the contest little job in the world.
If Miss Perkins should be Of
fered the post and succumb to its
charms, as many hope and pray,
it is commonly believed that she
would be succeeded by Assistant
Secretary of Labor Ed McGrady
or Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Josephine Roche.
The movement to get Attorney
General Cummings out Of the
cabinet isn't proceeding very rap
idly and may fizzle completely.
(CoDYrichL ls27. NEa sarvinA Ia.i
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07

ately lose their ZeSt Tor reform
and step into line and goose step
along with the rascals.
To be sound, to be permanent,
to be effective, a good govern
ment should not be crusade; it
should not be an emotional cam
paign; it should be year in and
year out education of the citizen
ry; it should never cease - any
more than education in the pub
lie schools.
Citizens who believe in our de-
mocracy and would like to see it
work in our communities should
organize themselves-not to run
anybody out of office who is hold
ing office, but to convert and
commit the community to the APP
plication of integrity and ability
in the affairs Of the local govern
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07
BY RODNEY DUlJltcH
NEA Service stan Correspondent


NEA Service stan Correspondent
WTASHINGTON.--Rex Tugwcll
" tossed a last grenade among
group of his old enemies shortly
before the midnight bells rang in
the New Year and rang him out
as Resettlement administrator
Tugwell resigned recently to be-
come executive vice president Of
the American Molasses Company.
Soon thereafter his digestion be-
gan to be disturbed by published
reports that his chief function
would be that of a Washington
lobbyist.
His name was bracketcd with
those of other men who had left
the AAA to use their knowledge
and influence in the capital in the
service of private business.
Tugwell disliked some Of these
fellows intensely, having battled
with them inside AAA at periods
when he felt he was representing
the farmer and the consumer and
they were representing "preda-
tory" corporations.
Finally, with one stroke, Tug
we'll underlined the fact that he
was not going to be lobbyist and
at the same time moved to make
life miserable for the large num-
Der Of officials who have left the
Department Of Agriculture to take
jobs in the food industries.
BEFORE departing, Tugwell
- signed an order which simply
says employees Of the department
must not discuss matters per-
tanning to administration or to
legislation relating to the depart
ment's work with anyone who is
employed by or connected with
affected commercial interests and
who has been an employee Of the
department within two years.
He signed it "R. G. Tugwell,
acting secretary" to emphasize
the fact that he would be gov.
erned by the order.
II the order is okeyed-and vio-
lators are subject to possible dis
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07
GENERAL STRIKE THREAT

The strikers who are threatening to tie up the
entire manufacturing operations of General Motors
are doing much to discredt union tactics.
President Sloan, head of General Motors, will no
doubt be supported by popular sentiment in his
declaration that single union is to be permitted
to act as the collective bargaining agency for all
the employees of the corporation.
Perhaps the only hope for arbitration is that
President Roosevelt will take hand. 1t would be
an economic tragedy to permit a few wilful men
to precipitate major labor just at the time
when the nation is emerging into an era of pros
perity that should wipe out the last remnants of
employment.-Hickory Record.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07
MORE LIGHT, LESS HEAT
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

A serious weakness in most
good government movements is
that they are reform movements
they are crusades-thcy are
sentimental campaigns. They are
founded on emotion, passion and
excitement and last only so long
as the emotion, the passion and
the excitement last. To kick the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07
WILL, HENDERSON COUNTY

WILL HENDEkSON SooNi
truck and fruit growers ever have
occasion to color tomatoes and
apples in order to make an early
market, as the growers of toma-
toes and citrus fruits do in Flor
ida?
Will there be an advantage in
the early marketing Of either? Is
it the early market we seek for
either when lower attitudes and
other climates get there first, nat
urally? Isn't it usually our aim to
reach the market after South Car
DINA and Georgia tomatoes are
consumed?
Would there be any advantage
in marketing our fall and winter
apples before grown just because
we could artificially color them!
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07
RATS PRACTICE MASS SUICIDE;
MUST MEN?
(By BRUCE CATION

(By bhUOE CAl lONI
There exists in the wilds of Norway a
tiny, rat-like animal called the lemming,
which goes haywire by platoons and bat
talions every so often and rushes off for an
experiment in mass suicide.
DR.. Raymond Pearl, Johns Hopkins Uni
versity's famous biologist, suggests that the
lemming is not, after all, so very much dill
ferent from modern man.
The lemming enjoys periodic spurts OF
prosperity. Boom times come, bringing an
abundance of clover seeds, or bumblebees,
or whatever it is that Jennings feed on,
and the numbers of jennings increase ire
niendously. Then, just when everything
seems to be going fine, something gets into
the heads of these tiny rodents and they
all start travelling across the country.
They don't seem to know where they
are going or why they are going there, but
they leg it like good fellows-and by and
by they come to the ocean. 1t doesn't stop
them. In they go, to drown by the thou
sands, leaving only few survivors back
home torepeat the whole process few
years later.
Now all this, says DIR. Pearl. is striking
and unflattering parallel to the behavior
of modern human beings.
About 300 years ago the human race
suddenly started to increase at an unprece-
denied rate. Altogether, it multiplied Its
numbers by five during the three succeed
ing centuries.
= Today it is exhibiting the restlessness
and confusion that the Jennings show
when they are ready to set out on one OF
their eross-country hikes.
:, And if there is no all-engulfing ocean
ahead of the human race, there is some
thing just as effective-war.
A new war, Dr. Pearl tells the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence. would do to the human race just
what the plunge into the ocean does for
the Jennings. The World War OF 1914
was bad enough, and World War OF
1887 or 1898 certainly would be great
deal worse.
~ BY violence, by famine, and by plague
the human race WOulu ISuuSS iso h~ih~~AS
lust about as effectively - and just about
- senselessly-as the Jennings periodical
n reduce theirs.
ave hardly need man OF DR.. PEARS
brilliance to tell us that human beings
ought to be able to order their affairs
little more intelligently than do the rats OF
Norway.
@If the progress of the last three centu'
ries has been nothing more than build-ur
Tor a painful experiment in mass suicide
then modern progress is sham and the
race has learned nothing worth knowing
since the Stone Age.
1.-The present-day struggle to avert war Il
more than an effort to prevent misery ano
loss. 1t is nothing less than fight to save
civilization itself.
If it fails, the race will stand convicted
OF being no brighter than the northlane
jennings, which climax years of prosperity
hy Joining hands and rushing down steer
place into the sea.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07

January 20 of that ycm ,r,r.
no rain or snow, and tcmplr. .
readings would have been ann.
imately the same.
In 1921, when Pre- dcnt y
rem G. Harding took office.
March 4 Temperature r.r
from IA 10 81. On Janu.,v
the range was II TO 2l via
trace of rain.
The March 1 date proved D..
more propitious than Jmu.r
in 1925 when Calvin Coolidge
inauguratcd. His inaugural
was almost ideal. with TOM f.,
pcrature OF 50 and 10 l..,
he had taken the oath of m
on January 20. there would b
been almost "a half inch of a.
HOOVER CEREMONY
DRENCHED
Herber. Hoover, on Oh, %
hand. would have crcuu.,
much better weather If the e.,
date had been used in 1929.
was inauguratcd during % b,
rain which totallcd almu,, @
inch. whereas on JanUsv
there was no rain.
On March 4, 1888, when p
dent Roosevelt first took OF.
spectators shivcrcd in tenn
lures rs low rs 36 degree
mercury ran rs high as ~ oa
uary 20 that year.
The statistics showed an q
age of OF inches of rainfall
each March 4 for th" las
wears, almost three times us
as the average Of O.OG iHgh~
each January 20.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07
TAKE OVER SCHOOL.

MODESTO, Cal. (UP)- For
day at least. students Of Mod.
hiCh school had the satisfaction
seeing the school conducted
they would have it. They were
lowed to run every department
the school from the prime
down, while the latter aud
teachers sat in as spectators.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07

rascal out is
usually the main
idea: too FIRE.
qucntly the lead
crs of the move
mcnt to kick the
rascals out, are
prompted by a
yearping to get
the rascals' jobs
when the rascals
offer such re-
form ! e Il Il e r :
something finan-
cially inter @ S t.
ing, those reform
leaders inlmpli.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07

Washington officials are having trouble
with "strip dancers" A senatorial inyesti-
cation committee might be able to get
something on them.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07
MANUFACTURERS OF ETH.

ylcne gas set forth the following
advantages in using this gas for
coloring Florida tomatoes: Pick
them grccn-ripc and color them
with Ethylene.. You get them TO
market two to four weeks earlier
than waiting for field ripening.
Defeat field mice, wire worms:
sun scald, cracking, wind and hail
damage.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07
FIRST SPRAYING OF APP.

FIRST SPRAYING OF AP-
pies in Henderson county less
than 25 years ago. We've Travelled
long way in this but yet have
far to go to get all growers to
the maximum oc eight sprays.
How much FARTHER do we
have to go, and how long will be
iourncying before we artlflcially
color our fine mountain apples, or
will there ever be an advantage
in doing so?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07
eToDAY,S WORD STUDY:

eTODAY'S WORD STUDY:
There is confusion as TO the prop
or use of farther" and further"
The Oxford English dictionary
says: In standard English the
form farther" is usually prefer
red where the word is intended to
be the comparative of Ear" while
further" is used where the no
ton of far is altogether absent.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-07

Now we may get car with its engine
at the rear, even though many drivers al
ready are troubled with knocks from the
hack seat :-'--- '', ~ - : = 8 >. y.