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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04
TOO MUCH DISPLAY OF GUNS

Small boys with toy or dummy guns initiate as
best thev can the actions of western bad men and
the screen type of law enforcement officer. They
practice to become quick an the draw and fast in
delivering their Imaginary shots. Wide hats and
cowboy chaps appeal to them. They dream of be-
coming ace gun throwers when they attain man.
hood.
After while of course. normal boys will grow
out of this. They will look back on their earlier
ambitions a bit sheepishly. More serious things will
occupy their time.
But, unfortunately, not all boys are normal.
Some never lose their love for the spectacular, for
the bang-bang sort of existence they have seen
pictured OF the screen. They replace their toy
guns with real guns and set out to make name
for themselves as gangsters. to end up in prison,
in the morgue or in the electric chair
Possibly American boys are being fed too much
of the wild and woody west brand of life. America
is no longer wild and woody country-or shouldn't
be. Gun-toting, gun-thrOw'ng has no place in our
present scheme of things. But American life has
been so sensationalized in story and on the screen
that the ambition of thousands of boys especially
boys a bit backward mentally, is to own and use
real guns.
The average American citizen has no more busi-
ness with pistol in his pocket than ne has with a
Daniel Boone style rifle on mis- shoulder The pis-
tol is dangerous alike to him and those with whom
ne comes in contact. 1t is time the American peo-
pie were leaving gun-totng 10 persons charged
with enforcing the law.
Even among officers there is too much display
of guns. America is old enough to be grown up
All the bad Indians have been killed. All our bad
men now are of our own growing. with little
change in tactics we might be able to quit growing
bad men.--Exchange.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
GooD-BY, NINE BILLIONS

Citizens of the United States through their eject
ed national officials have lately SAID goou-oy W
more than SO 600, 600, 900. This is the record ol
appropriations for the session OF congress just
closed Most of the money remains to be paiu 'u'
during the present fiscal year. but there is no douo'
Of its departure, and actually the taxpayer IS say!
ing only eau revoir' to of it, for part OF 'no
total is borrowed money and eventually ne must
find it again to pay the debt.
Counting 100000 families in the oniteo
States, this amounts to pledging the earnings Oh
each of these families to the extent OF an
average of $500 during the coming year or some
coming year to pay the expenses of the federai
government, not to mention local and state gov
ernmenr
But don't pay it," says someone. In fact, so
think a great many someone's. But don't they pay /!
The personal income tax, the only one levied ac-
cordng to ability to pay" brings into the treas
ury about 81 900 000, 900 a year, and the estate
and gift taxes, which also fall the rich, net
about half that much more. The rest Of the S9,-
OOO,OOO,OOO comes in corporation income taxes
which are passed along the prices, in excise taxes
which the multitude pay on tobacco, liquor, gaso-
line, toilet articles, and SO FORTH in customs duties
which raise the cost of domestic goods well as
imports-and in borrowing which increases the
public debt.
Unofficial estimates now are to the effect that
when the present fiscal period ends next July the
deficit for the year will be around $500 900, 600
in other words, that taxes will have fallen that far
short of covering the bill run up by congress and
the administration, and that this much will have
been added to the national debt now above $751;
600, 900, 900 for the first time
And what does that $4,000, 900, 600 mean? 1t
means that on average each of those go
900. 900 families is under $500 mortgage for
past governmental services not yet paid for. IT
means that if Mr.. Citizen thinks he is ahead be-
cause has $4,000 savings account, he is really
only even with the board il his governments debts
were Hquidated.-C Christian Science Monitor
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04
TEACHING AGAIN: Miss Char.
BY Noah HolIowell

lotte Turner is back in the school
room. When she was teaching
home economics at Edneyville
she accepted work with relief
during the summer of 1884. She
went back to the school room and
in 1885 returned to relief and has
held work with governmental
agencies until she recently re-
signed rehabilitation work to
teach home economies at Flat
Rock high school. Miss Turner
has rendered Z conscientious serv-
ice in Henderson, Polk and Tran
Sylvania counties. She has wit
messed some development among
those with whom she worked.
This type Of home making
work went to class needing II
most but who usually got least at
tention in extension home demon
Stration work.
Leaders among Henderson
county farm women have dropped
the periodical appeals to the com
misSionerS for a home demon
StratiOn worker. This county has
been without one for several
years but Miss Turner has car
Iicd on under many handicaps
with those who have needed II
most.
WAS Good DISCIPLINE: d
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04

Editor Times News.
Neither the management nor
the guests nor any one in any
way connected with Bonclarken
has any disposition to NEEDLE in
things that do not concern them,
but being a part of the commun-
ity of Hendersonville they did not
feel that they were transcending
their rights or the proprieties a
few days ago when they address
ed a petition to the mayor and
commissioners Of Hendersonville
signed by the officials and many
guests and cottagerS requesting
them to rescind their action in
granting permission for the Sab
bath day to be desecrated by the
operation of picture shows in the
city.
We still believe that our inter
est in the welfare of the commun-
ity at large and the preservation
of our own moral standard which
is identical with that Of the best
people of Hendersonville, iustifies
our petitioning for the resembling
of said ordinance and thus con-
tinuing the high moral and Chris
tan standard that Hendersonville
has always maintained and en-
joyed. ,
We understand that the reason
assigned for the letting down the
bars and breaking down of Chris
tian influence is that summer
tourists wanted it. Perhaps some
do, but we believe that such tour
lists are a minority and are not Of
permanent value to your people
When they are gone the evil in
fluence they leave behind remains
to degrade your children and
make trouble for the people who
are permanent residents and who
have made Hendersonville what it
is. We still hope the commission
will remove this blight on the fair
name of your city.
E. C. STUART,
President of Bonclarken.
Editor, TimesrNews:
In his recent Roanoke Island
speech the president, with a snarl
Continued OH page FOUR
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sive will be in the 1888 primaries
and general election. The death
struggle will take place in the
Democratic National Convention
in 1910 and in the events leading
up to the selection Of delegates,
MY personal view is that it is
I'A well the issue is becoming
clear-cut. The President appears
to be irrevocably committed to a
vast extention of federal authority.
To carry out the program of
ruling the nation by bureaus set
up in Washington, whose men,
bers' minds would 60 along with
the Presidents on every point, two
things appeared necessary. The
first, the President thought he had
securely within his graSp-a Con-
gress that would pass tailor-made
bills laid before it without the
blink Of an eye.
The second requirement was
more difficult. There must be an
end to the independent Supreme
Court. The President struck
boldly for that objective, and then
a miracle came to pass. An aroused
public opinion galvanized Senate
opposition and the Supreme Court
was saved.
Therein lies the key to the fu-
ture. Public opinion, I have nc
doubt, is still strongly with the
PreSident-trhen he is on the right
track.
So is the Congress. But the days
Of blind following of a leader are
about over. II the President real
ICES this in time, a good deal can
be done to weld the party together,
II he continues in his present
mood, il he goes forth TO wreak
vengeance on those who dare tc
oppose his headlong grasping for
power, there will be such a smash
up OF party machinery as has not
been seen for a long time.
NEXT: Senator Robert M. La
Toilette, Wisconsin Progressive,
forecasts the rise of a new politi-
cal party unless the mandate OF
the people toward solution OF
economic problems Is carried out
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04
AMONG US HUMANS
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

gardens ii was stolen.
However, the woman felt it
her duty to make Il fellow-crea-
ture better contentcd; so she Sor-
rowfully had that wonderful
mango tree cut down.
When the little house was COM
pleted-as cute as could be
with a bathroom and everything
the poor woman was told that
it was hers to live in-all hers.
She went into the cottage and
looked it all over from the in
side. Then she went into the yard
and looked it all over from the
outside. Then she said, "Well, it
is still in the back yard"
And the woman who had had
the cottage built at the sacrifice
of her savings account and her
big mango tree, threw back her
head and laughed. She had the
saving grace Of humor.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04
INDIAN SUMMER AND THE COUNTY
FAIRS
(By BRUCE CATION

Some of the leaves are already turning
dpI brown and red and gold, flutterlhg
from swaying limbs like invitations 10
preview of autumn. Indian Summer ana
all It's cheerful promises can't be lar away.
And with the fall comes the opening ol
school, the kickoff, chilly mornings, the
yellow harvest and its yellower moon, bon
fires and county fairs-rnost of all county
fairs.
Few things are as remarkable in this age
of rural development, radios and fast trans
portation as the survival, even the steady
gain, of the county fair. Essentially II
hasn't changed very much from the hrst
event of it's kind ever held in this country
back in 1910 when Elkanah Watson, a
gentleman farmer" in the vicinity OF AL
bany, n. Y, conceived the idea of a Berk-
shire cattle show.
A show that began as display OF cattle
broadened to take in other products OF the
farm and inevitably grew into that item
of American life that is probably better
known and more typical than any other
today.
II spells demonstration barns lined with
pens of grunting. overweight hogs, moody
eyed bulls, grousing milk cows and proud
percherons; long cages of waited turkeys,
strutting roosters, inquisitive hens, noisy
ducks and geese. 1t recalls white-covered
tables and heavy cargoes of cakes, layer,
chocolate angel and the inevitable marble;
open pies and closed pies and pies with
crusty lacing over the top. ..4.
Two decades ago it was wagons and
buggies with enough cold fried chicken to
last four days while the haplesS hired hand
stayed at home to do the chores and steal
nap at high noon. Now it is bulky trucks
and shiny sedans, with a Commute drive
home in the evening. But it's the same fair,
then and now. .,-
The midway hasn't changed. The same
barker is just as fascinating and the same
prizes have the same usefulness. The two
headed calf and Little Egypt (did you ever
see your mother put plat of jello out on
cold frosty morning?) are there, or their
cOunterparts. The roller coaster and the
ferris wheel and the merry-gO-round may
have coat of paint, but that's all.
There are 5000 state, district and cOun-
ty-mostly county-fairs held in the Uni
ted States every year. Some of them, like
the February carnivals of Florida and the
July fairs of California, aren't held in the
fall. But those are just offshoots of the
original administering perennial. To most
of the populace, the first brisk, nipping fall
wind will bring memories land you can just
about wager the memories aren't far away
from the county fair grounds.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04
WHY NOT GET HIM?

Solicitor Carpenter let's it be known that the
c,a.o e after Fred Beal who is wanted in North
Caro,;na 70 serve sentence imposed because of
HI u,.I;.;ors connection with the Gastona Com
munist riots of few years back
Strange that the solicitor or somebody doesn't
,o,, b,nds on Real if he is really desired by the
Law, in order to 90 to Jail in North Carolina for
violation of its laws
strange that a man who has such freedom in
Ar,ou;oa that he can write articles for magazines
and otherwise get himself publicized as "a COM
murist rartvrr becomes totally elusive when the
laws ~ North Carolina go out to find him.-Char-
lotte Observer
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04


cent radio address reading out Of
he Democratic party Senators
Wheeler, O'Mahoney and myself.
THE Democrats, who have had
the "eilrontery" to question
some of the methods adopted by
the President and his advisors,
have no intention of voluntarily
leaving their party nor Of con-
se9ting to 10, driven out Of it with
out a struggle.
There will be skirmiShes all
along the line with the admins
Gation "sharpShooterS" trying to
pick OIL an opponent every now
and then, The first major often
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04

with her living
accommodations.
She said she hat
ed to invite her
friends to visit
her in a garage.
The W o m a n
yearned to make
the poor woman
happy, so she be-
gan to t h i n k
about building a
cottage for her
in the back yard.
She got out her
S a v in gs bank
book and found
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04

PROOF OF this
assertion
ator B | a c X S
nomination to
the S u prem G
c curt, tn e
Pre- 81 d ent' S
Roanoke speech
] a b cling all
W no do n OF
agree with him
as Tory reac-
tionaries, a n d
the remarkable
diatribe of Sen
ator Joe Gufey,
unfailing White
House mouth
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04
WE RISE TO INQUIRE

"Any employer who cannot
pay living wage should close
down." says a senator.
One woman felt just that way
about it. She decided she was not
paying her cook enough, yet she
knew she could not afford to pay
her more; so she let the cook go.
The cook did not like the idea.
"Pd rather get what ] was get
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04
3Y SENATOR EDWARD X.
BURKE
Written Exclusively for This
PAPER and NEA Service, Inc.


president ROOSEVELT now
1 has it within his power to pre-
serve or TO smash the Democratic
party.
There is no longer any doubt
hat he intendS-if he feels that he
IAN do so without running too
great a risk of FORGETTING popular
lavor-to make certain Demo-
cratic senators, who led the victo-
:iouS fight against his court pro-
ooSal, suffer for their failure to
DOW TO his will.
Three events following each
other in close succession afford
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04

she had about enough money to
do the job.
But the back yard was small
and the only way the cottage
could be put on it was by cut
ting down a magnificent mango
tree. The tree was so big the wo-
man could not reach around its
trunk; and its fruit was so excel
lent and rare that it was said to
have been a variety which for
centuries was kept exclusively for
the Sultan Of Turkey, from whose
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

Rodney butcher NEA correspondent who writes the feature
Behnd the Scenes Congress- today presenting the second
of articles by many dealing with
general theme where We Go From Here" Senator
Edward r. Burke of Nebraska who has become of the lead
a group opposing number of
President ROoeves policies predicts that President Rooe
yets reprisalS will smash the Democratic
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned commu.
nications are published by The
Times.News. All letters must be
signed with the real name Of
the author. No communications
signed with a fictitious name
will be published.-EDITOR
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04
SHE JUST LAUGHED

A woman in south Florida al
lowed a poor woman with her son
to occupy free Of rent a little
apartment over her garage. But
the moor woman was dissatisfied
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04

Tarantulas will be imported to wipe out
Japanese beetles in certain counties. And
after that the residents can always just
pick up and abandon the county.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04

If the musical change is from trumpet
ing swing to STUNNING Hawaiian, most of
the country probably will B-stringing
along.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04

Fashionists declare that skirts have
reached their ceiling" so to speak. Any
stratosphere flights will be blamed on au-
tumn breeZes.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04

The English woman who complained she
lost 20 pounds at the race track betting
booth could clean up if she could put her
experience into the form of a recipe
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04

More than 10000 blind 4.
and dumb are WORKING :. ", y
trial enterprise in Russia ''
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04
BIBLE THOUGHT

FEAR NOT .. AM WITH THEE
lisa. 4l:lO
"I, vour face turned toward me, father
II was the question of trustful child
That broke upon the night now dark and Wild
He could not see his fathers face he only K"e"
u father said his face was turned, twas true
Oh happy faith of childhood, be 1t NINE
Tn trust in darkness with faith like TIME!
Nh NAV too in life's dark hours declare
4, ca l.. near me. there is naught to fear.
The Standard.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04

An unclaimed sack of flour is reported from the
cho,anno ,ost office. Could that be what Jim Far
ley had in the bag?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04
LEAVING US. H.

LEAVING US: Hend.,,.
loses a good family i, - '''''
of Mr.. and Mrs Y ,' sOl
They have been in Bcr,,. "SR'o
for the past few Years W. SOR'l
Swanson has been Dian, "''e y
of the telephone comma. alag
have already moved - q
but Mr.. Swansea viii W. Asher.
until some one conn. a'ih h
him. They haya been fy.is
full BaptistS, Nr. Swan. N "a;
a deacon and ,"acrr. y,
Swanson, prcs.acn, ~, "''' v
mans Missionary sor..,,. ..' Y
Philathea class. b. aud 1
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&. 4.Y1fv1tsawh.n h.

Sunday mIIrT,I' ~ sI4o,,
Hook the nsGs T. -IS . ~. -w..,
wagon, pile thefvl,D ny, ", feNRes
own family but al u .o' only
ride betwecn his bo ",o cared
church. . Mr.. Leo So,g and
world would be sssar 'H ''a'
return to such SUM. eF, +
habits and uaiu'rg way morn
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04

'' 'i'C '.3..t 3aIt'.
''5s 3 m.r 800. p. .e-y
-~:A--l- w. ..raIaaG.. 500. .aL.,.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04

ting" she said when she reached
home without "A job, than to get
nothing at ALL"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-04

Editor, Times,News:
In his recent Roanoke Island
speech the president, with snarl
Continued OH page FOUR
Evening star., 1937-07-16
Party Government Issue
Foes Must Beat Court Bill or Be Driven Out of
Politics, Writer Says.

personally well disposed toward Mr..
Roosevelt.
Calls Foes Ambitious.
To at least two ambitious men,
however, the form of the report Is
matter OF immense personal i'm
portance. Senator Wheeler of Mon
tana and Senator Burke Of Nebraska
are ambitious men, they are clever
men, they are adept in the art Of
rabble rousing, and they know that
now either they must beat Roosevelt
or be drummed out Of decent politics.
They well knew what they were
doing when they set out to defend
the judicial oligarchy, and they know
that II they win they may be able
to dictate the Democratic party's fu-
ture policies and to select its major
candidates-just as old Boies Penrose
was able to crush Theodore Roose-
velt's progressive movement and to
name Warren G. Harding as Repub-
lican candidate in 1920
Here Is involved no great consti-
tutional issue, no weighty scruple of a
sensitive conscience. no principle of
pure or impassioned patriotism. The
New Deal party is great party to
control. a profitable party to loot.
The fight is for responsible party
government by the New Dealers and
for anarchial opportunism by hand
ful OF shrewd and ambitious poll
ticians. Its outcome will not be de-
cided until the elections of 1898.
Copyright 1879
Evening star., 1937-07-16
CUMMINGS TO TALK
TO CRIME EXPERTS
500 Fngerprint Specialists Also
to Hear Hoover, Maj. Brown
and Senator's.

Attorney General Homer Cummings
will be one OF the principal speakers
at the annual convention of the In
ternational Association for Identifi-
cation at the Willard Hotel September
20 to October 2, it was announced
today.
The program includes addresses
also by J. Edgar Hoover, director of
the Federal Bureau OF Investiga ton: ::
Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superintendent
OF metropolitan police; Rev. Edmund
j. Walsh, vice president GEORGETOWN
University, and Senators James P.
Pope OF Idaho. Royal S. Copeland
OF New York. Claude Pepper of Florida
and Frederick Van Nuys OF Indiana.
District Commissioner George E..
Allen will deliver the welcoming
speech to the more than 500 finger
print experts and identification spe-
cialists from various parts OF the
world
The Federal Bureau Of Investipa-
ton will be host to the visiting asso-
citation during the meeting, one day
OF which will be devoted to an in
spection Of Identification and labora-
tory facilities Of the F. B.I.
The convention here will tie in
with the annual meeting in Baltimore
OF the International Association of
Chiefs OF Police about the same time.
Evening star., 1937-07-16

IN tn interest," OF the rest of the world
tnH But will
1oKo reminding the two powers Of their obligations
AS n tuauon IN Europe and in Asia continues to
me Jore'0n diplomats hope the 1pors
Ihee haue been situation
Inc three
swevns policy They they and challenge the
others to stop them getting "
~ Inc Denocratc states are doing their
easI
can accept the challenge
Great Britain struggling problems the
o,he nauons are pankng her lap
sn" OF power when knows that longer what was
e '' ~ vas :"
Inc French beginning the dctators and
are not IN as good position determined
TO bring about showdown, if a must rom. " ~