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The Washington times., 1937-12-28

movie stars are supposed to be
good looking. I should rave about
her beautyD The petite star
ran up to Director Lubisch and
said, terribly sorry to hold you
up-but really simply can't
change from a wig to my own
hair in less than an hour"
Little feet. Beautiful ankles.
Shape of face reminiscent of the
fourteenth of February. Big
brown eyes that laughed and
smiled and talked without bat
ting an eyelaSh! Cute bangs like
the smart little girl of our set
used to wear when we were five.
And the curves of this here Col
bert model! Why, you could
count up to a thousand very
carefully and at the bitter end
you wouldn't have a "figger"
in the whole grand to compare
with Colbert's.
] seem to be hopeless. Just
look at the above paragraph.
Practically sickening. But true!
AS Charlie Mccarthy was think
ing of me-"just squirrlie-eyed,
bow-legged" little cherub skip
ping along in front of Colbert
tossing roses at her feet!
"All right" said Lubitsch,
"let's get on with this"
They all went over to a door
on which the camera was
trained.
The director continued, now
the later scenes are inside. You
have your hat off then, Miss
Colbert"
"Oh, see," she teased the
olminuative, dynamic director,
II own the place them"
BY time the shot Was over. I
had worked myself in a beauti.
ful wrath over-well, being kept
waiting so long, let's say. It
was nearly time for me to be
The Washington times., 1937-12-28
Z~z Mov1BLAND


/ don't usually go out look
ing for trouble. But once in
awhile l find that a little of
1t breaks the monotony of
things. Finstance l wasn't
sure how you folks were feel
ing about the matter, but |
was getting a little sick and
tired of writing nothing but
loving Kindness about these
stars. .. ..
They're all so darned nice
to mel" I mused as Late my
hamburgers at the Brown
Derby. Gee, if only some
star would get good and sar-
castle. Or throw things at
me for some thoughtless
question I asked. Or even
pop me in,the eye while going
into a tantrum !"
It was an idea anyway, and
l finished my. favorite dish
with'aeglint in me eye. Now,
Iswas going to see Claudette
Colbert tomorrow. She had
never been a particular favo-f
rite with me-mainly be-
cause, I guess, Ianever had
much,timesto goto, the movies.
Then'came "It Happened One
Night" .I1loved it and was
The Washington times., 1937-12-28

crazy: about Colbert in it.
But what the deuce! For the
chance, to write at least once
in this Hollywood series a
nice fat article" panning the
hide often someone-I could
easily forget her charm in
this picture. Well, not cas-
lily, but I could. As a matter
of fact, I'd try.
OF course I wanted to be hon
est, y'understand-but I was
utterly bored to tears with all
the sweetness and light I was,
In fairness, being forced to
spread. went to bed, awaiting
the morrow, and feeling very
pleased with myself. Nice girl!
Not even my mother could love
me!
John Delvalle, a grand boy
(there I go again! Why should
MT he be nice to me? It's his
job! He's getting paid for IT'D
well anyway, a boy with the
Paramount publicity office, sent
a car to the hotel for me. (No,
it's nothing-every studio does
1t for any Scribe). When ar
rived at the studio he took me
Immediately to the Colbert
Cooper set. We waited and
waited. John called Colbert's
dressing room. Could Miss
Martin come over there? No,
Miss Colbert was keeping the
whole cast waiting. She'd see
Miss Martin later.
aha" I thought as I care
fully adjusted my red outfit and
held the pronged fork a little
tighter, this is my lucky day.
It's started out devilish well.
AL! she has to do now is, to
enoot me when she does arrive
then go into a fit of bad TEN.
per. Boy, I'll fix her! When she
finishes reading my story she
won't know whether she was
born In Paris or Oshkosh, Can
ada!" Nice girl-me-don't you
think?
All of a sudden the sound
proof door opened and in rushed
Colbert looking perfectly divine
(good heavens! There I go
again. She looked all right. All
The Washington times., 1937-12-28
More Room Urged For San Quentin

fornia institution, the report being
limited to that State.
A reformatory for youthful
offenders and an institution for
defective delinquents we're among
the steps urged. The State of
California has funds now avail
able, the administration reported,
to plan facilities
The Washington times., 1937-12-28

San Quentin, the largest
prison in the United States, is in
urgent need of expansion Of plant
and diversification of activities,
according to a report Of the prison
industries reorganization admin
istration, Just made public. The
same recommendations we're made
for Folsom prison, another Cali.
The Washington times., 1937-12-28
New York Plans
For Big New Year

NEW YORK, Dec. %. - New
York city will have one Of the
gayest, most festive New Year
Ewes in many years next Friday
night, if reports from hotels, night
clubs and other places of enter
tainment are to be believed.
The Bismarck tribune., 1937-11-08
AT THE MOVIES
Double or Nothing
Smash Comedy Film

Scenes that you'll remember, songs
that will be hummed by millions, 4
heap Of good wholesome tom-foolery
that will tune up your funny bone.
plus Bing Crosby and Martha Raye,
make Double or Nothing" which
opened last night at the Bismarck
Theatre, grand entertainment.
After warming up In Rhythm on
the Range" and WAIKIKI Wedding.
Paramount's topnotch grooming and
comedy pair strike . music farce
tempo that sets q new peak In scin-
tillating frolic.
Bing and Martha literally lay q
velvet carpet for your approach 70
the high heaven Of fun. They CASH.
ally watt seven new songs to star
dom, including "It's On; It's OFF" and
'The Noon Got in My Eyes" and "All
You Want to Do Is Dance" They
launch Swing Band" They intro
duce . quick-change night club show
that will make night club history.
Andy Devine, gravel voiced
comedian, is In it, and 50 Is genial
William Frawley. With Bing and
Martha they make up the four honest
fortune hunters who are out to dou-
BILE 5000 In thirty days. Plotting
against them Is Sam Kinds whose
lovely daughter, played by Mary
Carlisle, Is enlisted to entice Bing
from finance to romance.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-10
SEVEN SHUDDERS

In his message suggesting the creation of the
Tennessee Valley Authority, delivered to congress
in the stirring days of April, 1888, the president
concluded:
This, in true sense is return to the spirit
and vision of the pioneer. If are successful
here we can march on, step by step, in like de-
velopment of other great natural territorial units
within our borderS.'
There probably isn't any way to reach a clear
verdict at this juncture on the successfuness or
unsucccssfulness of iva. The vast undertaking is
still far from completion, its praetcabiity equally
as far from having been demonstrated. The legal
ity of only small part of 1.-THE governments
right to sell power generated by accident, so to
speak-has been established. AS for the Authority
itself, Messrs. Lenthal and Morgan differ between
themselves on the precise course to be pursued.
They don't know where they're going, but -.
About IVA there is only one judgment that has
been reached finally conclusively, beyond the per-
adventure of doubt That is, it's becoming darned
expensive. For that reason, when the president,
though IVA still is in the experimental stage, sub
mits a program comprehending, ultimately, seven
other Twas, it draws from us seven successive
shudders It's only program, so far, but that's
how IVA got it's start-Charotte News.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-10
GOOD FOR, MEckLENBuRc

The good people of Meckienburg county are to
be highly commended for voting dry in their cleo
ton Tuesday. The drys won by 811 majority. The
election aroused much interest and will do much
good The results show that all the people Of this
state are not yet ready to legalize liquor.
Good news also comes from Wayne county which
went dry Tuesday by small majority.
Washington county, located in the eastern Sec
ton of the state, as was expected, went wet
Mecklenburg, being one of the largest and most
influential counties in the state, gives the dry
cause new hope and determination to "carry on. u
Let the Mecklenburgers lay aside any bitterness
that might exist, enforce the law and prepare now
to send dry men to the next legislature who will
repeal the unjust and unfair state liquor law which
the last legislature gave --Rutherfordton News
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THE NEW DEAL
IN WASHIN GTON
RODNEY Du1CHER-
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

propaganda against the conserve
tive justices.
DUT the Presidents attitude IS
- annoying a large section Of
Congress. The Senate has several
men who want the President de-
feated because they are aspiring
to succeed him, others who don't
like the court plan and believe
vote for it is politically danger
Gus, some who harbor personal
grudges as result Of White
House snubs. and others jealous
of Roosevelt's prestige as COM
pared with their own lack OF
power.
Rebellion in the House can be
somewhat discounted as possible
menace to Roosevelt since leaders
put out what looked like a dis
astrous fire started in carmarking
amendments to the relief bill.
Causes of the trouble still remain,
however.
MANY representatives feel they
have been treated more or
less like poems by the administra-
ton, Few have any contact with
the President. Most of them COM
plain that patronage in their dis
tricts has been given to senators:
Big city congressman wanted
public works money and many
southern members had received
promises of school houses and
other small buildings from PWA'.
So when lobbyists for the con-
tractors, the steel, lumber and
building materials interests and
the building trades unions came
along, the House was ripe 10 repei
and rampage. Leaders would
have had a harder time getting
il back under control again If
MAYORS hadn't wired angrily to
members and persuaded many
business men to do likewise by as
s,,ring them that cuts in PWA
funds meant boosts in local prop
erty taxes. cAr,ics fnc,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-10
BETTER TO co SLOW

Asked in Washington yesterday about the atti-
tude of the Clio in the South regarding negro
workers, John l.. Lewis is quoted:
1.-THE Clio believes that every worker, regardless
of race creed, color or previous scrvtude, should
belong to unions
Asked them "Does that mean the ClO in the
South will insist that negro workers belong to the
same union with white workers." the labor chief
said: -.... ..H.. .... . .. ...
"That is something that would not comment on
at this time. 1t involves general policy that has
not yet been decided"
Mr. Lewis does well to go slow. d. 80. b
The chief CI0 organization effort in this section
is among cotton mill workers, and cotton mill work
ers of the South, because the manufacturers have
adhered to that policy through the years. are ex-
clusively white.
And it is a safe bet that the workers would OBJ
ject to the employment of negroes in the mills, or
to admission of negroes to their union.-Green.
vile Piedmont ef.,'
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-10
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
EXPENSIVE GIFTS

When a man has trouble in borrowing money he
is usually willing to pay as much in the way of
interest and accessories in various ways as any
institution or individual with money will ask
This is the principle on which many sections of
the United States act about relief and other
money from Washington.
They do not stop to ask what it costs in the
way of taxes anything else. 1t looks like hand
out and whatever is free looks good
The truth is that the big cities getting the
lions share of this federal handout and they will
continue to get it.
South Carolina has perhaps been "lucky" if you
want to use that word, in getting some extra hand
outs from Washington, but South Carolina has paid
in federal taxes for what has come this way and is
likely to be paying for it several generations ahead.
And the big cities of the United States de-
manding a continuation of "relief" even though
many sections of the country crying for labor.
Some prominent reformers in Washington are
saying now that there cannot be any let-up in re-
lief ard few are saying it must be permanent
part of the federal government.
Every man, woman and child in the United States
not on relief is helping to pay the bill.
If there is need it should be met No govern
ment is worthy of support if it allows citizen to
starve to DEATH
But it is a wrong policy for government to keep
on feeding people when there is a demand for
workers which cannot be met.-Greenwood Index
Journal.
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will open up exactly the road the radicals
desire to traverse. .,
When industry ceases to operate they
will demand, either that the government
take over and operate industry, or that the
radical workers be permitted to seize and
operate industry.
The last statement probably is not accu-
rate. The chances are that by the time this
condition arises, the radical organizations
will be so completely in control of every
thing in Michigan that they will not ask
anybody's permission to seize the indus
tries. r.
Thus the country has picture of what
happens when men of the stamp of John
Lewis and his anarchistic and communstic
hackers and helpers go on a rampage to
seize economic and political power, to de-
stroy the American form of government
and to Russianize one of the American
States.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-10
BIG WILLOW

BIG WILLOW, June l0:-Mr.
and Mrs. Hix Summcy, of Indian
Cave, spent the week end with
Mr.. and Mrs. S. c. Higgins.
Miss Marcia Higgins spent
Saturday night with relatives in
Hendersonville.
Miss Thelma Drake is leaving
this week for Biyson City to
teach in a Vacation Bible school.
Miss Drake has Just returned
from Mars Hill college where she
has been taking a course in this
work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Neal Drake and
Miss Charlotte Blythe, visited
relatives at Pleasant Grove, Sun
day. IL =
b. II. Raines and family of
Balfour, attended services at
Beulah church, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anderson Banks,
of Horse Shoe visited relatives
here Sunday.
]. w. Cantrell who is employed
at Greenville, S. c., spent the
weekend at his home here.
Mrs. ]. l.. Higgins is i'll.
Foulds Drake of Jones Gap was
through this section Tuesday.
Mrs. Abbott, of Charlottee, has
opened Camp Oeepout for the
summer with'a nice crowd IN the
camp.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-10
THOUGHTS OF
A FISHERMAN
By IKE WALTON

Sally's gone into politics. I'd
rather it was she than me, because
the mud might stick on me, but
it rolls off her like water off a
ducks back. The public is a
queer bunch.
You see it's this way. The
political bosses don't like my rude
pen, so they thought they'd tie
up to Sally so I'd have to be po-
lite to a lady, specially one that's
little kin to me. Then too, they
sorter surmisc | might talk in my
sleep and tip off Sally to some
things I've got it in for them
about. So its potassium bromide
for night-cap for your Uncle
Ike for a couple of years.
Here's Sally's platform:
1-Impcach the governor if he
don t reduce drunken driving
seventy-fivc per cent within a
year.
give superanunated nurses,
teachers, policemen and road
workers pensions as well as gen
orally other folks like they're do
ing now.
Stop this excessive "sus-
pended sentence" racket, and bail
ing out badcggs.
Make prisoners work hard
enough and productivity enough
to support their families.
5--Have law-enforcement Off
GERS appointed by some we'll
chosen body and not elected.
Every crook and his friends vote
for crooks.)
6-Scgrcgatc abnormal, sub
normal and vicious children from
other school children. One rot
ten potato rotS a bushcl.
Make government help to
INDECENT and unemployed as di-
rcctly productive from their labor
as possible.
The trouble about Sally's plat
form is that it would take your
Uncle with a hickory fishing-rod
for the fools and Il sawcd-off
shotgun for the rascalS to carry it
out. Sally can do the thinging
but it would take some hc-mcn to
do the acting.
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could be no government. Ana
without government there could
be- no wealth. Did you ever stop
to think that without government
you could have nothing beyond a
mere subsistence? You could &C
cumulate no wealth, for without
government, what you would &C
cumulate would not be wealth.
What would land be worth, jew
els, money, and all other material
possessions without government
to protect them and to create a
value for them?
Our entire complex social or
der with its commercial, profess
sional, agricultural, industrial, fl
nancial and educational systems,
would fall to pieces but for our
government.
1t is every persons duty to
help preserve that social order
which creates government, and to
support that government which
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-10

WJASHINGTON.-Thc fight for
" control between Roosevelt
and Congress has now reached the
point where the President speaks
privately of a purge" Of anti
New Dealers from the Democratic
party and where his chief OPP
ponentS in the Senate hope to
humble him as Woodrow Wilson
was humbled in the League Of
Nations fight.
There is cockineSS and GRIM
ness on each side.
In essence the prime issue
comes close to being question
Of whether the people elected
members of Congress to do what
Roosevelt tells them to do or to
use their own judgment. An in
rreasing number of members has
begun to chant: "Are we mice or
are we men," Ever since election
Roosevelt has felt that his huge
majority was a personal victory
for him and his principles as ex-
pressed in. the Madison Square
Garden speech, that the people
who elected Democratic senators
and representatives expected them
10 vote for his measures, that the
people continued to stand with
him and that as long as he was
heir voice and instrument, indi-
vidual senators could not stand
against him.
-
FACING now what is mainly a
L conservative effort to reduce
his power, Roosevelt tells friends
he court fight is good one in
which to separate sheep from
goats, that the Democratic party
would be better off without some
If the, senator's who oppose him
and that he is ready to campaign
against some of those senator's in
he primaries next year.
The courts final three deci-
;ions favoring power companies as
against the New Deal were a sig
aal for renewed administration
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Then he added,
"Taxes must be
paid"
The last two
thoughts that old
man wished to
convey to his
family were that
he was passing
on and that they
must not forget
to pay the taxes.
Taxes must be
paid and taxes
should be paid
sin c e, without
/ ak e $, { h er c
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-10
LOCAL RESIDENTS MAKING

short and hurried trips to the
lower "CLIMES report hot wealth
er, and so does the early invasion
of tourists, now arriving in APP
preciative numbers. =,
Fright this minute | wish !
were sitting on the bench under
the tree in front of your storn
watching the world drift by.
writes Warren Nottingham, Jr.. of
Macon, Ga, in thanking Dad
Croasdcll for the postcard photo
of himself and store. He adds: ut
is terribly hot here and has been
for the past several days, and !
long for the bracing ozone OF
Western North Carolina noun
tains think that everybody
who goes to Hcndersonville and
STAYS long enough to get on TO
the run of things falls in love with
the place . Macon has sent a
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-10
THE OFFICE OF COUNTY

superintendent of public welfare.
it appears, will be somewhat pro-
fessionalized. II is all right for
person 10 have his college degrees
and socializcd training but the
degree of II. s. (horSc sense is
worth a great deal when it comes
to having enough practical judg-
ment ito get in out of Il shower
of rain" Social sciences seem To
be getting up into the saddle. |
wonder if they enable "A person
TO guess when a person is 50
years old, which seems to be the
main problem. How about
course i'm horse dentistry?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-10
HOBOES SHUN FIT. WORTH

FORT WORTH. Tex" CUP)-
Tramps and hobocs are giving
this city wide berth. After sew
on years. police revived the chain
gang system for making Migrants
work.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-10
oTODAYS WORD STUDY:

Cline, pronounced with long !, as
in lime: a country; region. Used
mainly in poetical composition.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-10
BY Noah Hollowcll
MISS JENNIE BOWEN SAYS

MISS JENNIE BOWEN SAYS
housewives may think that spring
cleaning is mean job but that
it is hardly the first step to trou-
bic incident to having n store
wall knocked out in readiness for
doubling the capacity of her
store,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-10
DEATH AND TAXES
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

An old man | had known all my
life lay on his bed dying peace
fully.
81 am going" he murmured.
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good many Of its citizens up your
way i'm recent months"
" What does; the visitor mean by
the expression: "Stays long
enough to get on to the run Of
things" Maybe therein lies the
secret to future greatness.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-10
DOCK HARDIN, GRO

seIf-styIed corn-removing spcciaI-
list, is back for the summer after
wintering in Charlotte, where he
says he applied his trade. Dock
says Il review last summer in this
column of his accomplishments
among white and colored as
painless corn-removcr, set him up
for greater activity.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-06-10
STATE RICH IN SALT

HARRISBURG, Pa. (UP!.-A
store of rock salt that would sup
ply the world for many years IS
buried under Pennsylvania soil,
according to Thos. A. Logue, sec
retary of internal affairs.
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liens say they are not interested
in politics, then politics ceases to
be the science of government and
becomes the. seizure 81 Eoverrs
lnent, . il e. Z j
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maintains social order. Since each
of us is dependent for protection
and opportunity on our commun-
ity and on our government, the
most we get for our money is
what we get for our taxes. Size
up the benefits derived from your
community and your government
and you will realize the force of
that truth.
But the power to tax can be
and often is-misused and abus-
ed. 1t can be made 10 destroy.
When the people delegate the
power to tax, they should be care
full to whom they delegate it, and
they should guard the use of that
power jealousy.
Unquestionably there is ire
mendous waste, graft and robbery
in the spending Of our taxes; that
evil condition will never be cor
rected until you and | sincerely
concern ourselves with it.
NOT INTERESTED
How often we hear persons say,
more in boast than confession,
81 am not interested in politics. "
Not interested in politics! Why,
politics is the science of govern
ment. And government is the
foundation of our community, our
state, our national life. Through
it we get all our protection and
all our opportunities. Basically, it
is the whole works. Not interested
in politics? Not interested in gov
ernment? Ye gods! Was there
ever man with soul so dead to
the understanding of what it is
all about?
Politics is the science of gov
crnment-one of the most glori-
Gus of sciences. But when the cit