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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16
HARD ON THE BABIES

If everything were made fine
for us would most Of us show our
appreciation by acting admirably?
We would not.
If the government should grant
every person in this land com
Portable allowance without work
With the expectation that every
body would rise to the occasion
and do his honest part to keep
the country going, the govern
ment would be disilluSioned. Who
would work without compulsion?
Who would plant and harvest
crops, for instance? A few would;
but most wouldn't. And when fam
inc came-as it surely would
those who had refused to plant
and gather would raid the store
houses of those who had planted
and gathered and would think it
hard if they were interfered with.
Because we are as we are, we
require stern discipline to make
us do even part way right. We
readily spoil and go astray while
we are growing up and after we
are grown up.
The Creator of all things, re-
alizing what we need to develop
US, has placed us in n psherc that
disciplines us sternly in spite Of
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16
THE NEW DE AL
IN WASHIN
RODNEY DuTcHER--
'Br ItUDINE \ DU1LfiE1r
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

opposition will be mo:e nan
mere repriSal.
COPELAND has no illusions. Ii
~ publicly declares that Roose-
Welt is breaking up the Democratic
party and he demands conStitu-
tional amendment limiting Pres
ident to two terms. Although
Vice President John Garner told
opposition senator's that in ending
the court plan fight there would
be no rcpriSalS by the administra-
ton, Copeland knows better and
is publicizing the fact that there
will be. He has made the mayor
atty fight, although it seemed sure
to be anyway, test Of New Deal
strength in Americas metropolis
TOUR years. ago Farley, Ed
l. Flynn and other leaders ganged
up behind holy Joe" Mckee and
backed him against the Tammany
candidate on an american Party
ticket. LaGuardia won in a three
way fight. Since then it has al
ways been a question in the minds
of politicians and political stu.
dents as to whether Roosevelt al
lowed Farley, who sincerely
wanted to break up the Tammany
leadership and bring the machine
under his control, to back another
strong ticket so that LaGuardia
could slip through to victory by
virtue o. division of the oppoSi-
ton vote.
There has been much happy.
childish excitement among the
New Dealers ever since it became
knbWn that Copeland might run.
Few anti-New Deal senators are
so distinguished as objects Of adj
ministration hatred as he. Roose-
welt made a point of laughing up
roariously when he was asked
about the senator at press con-
ference.
But Copeland has big record
as a. vote-getter. One of his
strongest supporters, in the pres
ent contest is Al Smith. FH !
! tC6DygighL 1897. NEA Service. Inc.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16

as being so long ana the pound
az weighing so much; by common
consent we ourselves have fixed
the value Of those units of mea-
sure and weight. But strange rs
it may be, congress has never Civ
en- them legal standing-as it
should have done a century and
a half ago.
Recently a bill has been sub
mitted to the secretary of COM
merce for transmission to con-
gress to standardize and legalize
the inch and the pound. But if
this bill becomes law the Off
cial American inch will be two
millionths of an inch longer than
the. official English inch. But
those who should know say the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16

WASHINGTON - Hypocrisy in
" pclitics-although it is virtu-
ally universal-Seldom blooms into
its quintessence more voluptu-
ously than at times when a ma
tional administration insists it is
taking no part in the mayoralty
politics of New York City.
This years New York fight also
indicates what a mess politics is
coming to, when you recall that
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia prob
ably will be running on the. Re-
publican, Fusion, American Labor
Party and Communist tickets. And
that the Roosevelt administration
covertly will be working for
LaGuardia - probably openly in
case anti-administration Senator
Royal 6, Copeland, Tammany's
candidate, should win in the city's
Democratic primaries. Copeland
has also entered the Republican
primary.
FROM now on there will be
emissaries shooting in and out
of Washington with various asstr-
ances that the President is sim
cerely backing Judge jeremiah T.
Mahoney, or that he is really be-
hind LaGuardia, whom he sees as
an Important cog in the antici-
pated big progressive conservative
split OF 1910. No one will ever
suggest that there's any chance
that the President or Farley will
whole : heartedly support Cope
land, although some tipsters will
assert that Roosevelt will keep
hands off If Copeland becomes the
Democratic nominee.
The hottest tip this writer gets
is that Roosevelt is for LaGuardia
and will quietly help him-or GER
tainly not get in his way-in any
event, whereas he would do
everything in his power to beat
Copeland. The senator "took a
walk" in the last campaign and
bis wife made pep talks to Re-
publican roups. so administration
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16
MAYBE FOOTBALL ISN'T EVERY
THING AFTER ALL
(By BRUCE CATToN)

Out of the complaint made recently oy
Coach Bob Zuppke at Illinois University
that college boys are getting softer every
wear. there rises the faint suspicion that
perhaps those college boys are just getting
a different slant on things collegiate. ,
Coach Zuppke regrets that his husky
students are not as husky as they once
were, and they are not nearly so willing to
go out and get the daylights pasted out OF
them just for the glory of the thing. line
famous football mentor blames the lnflu-
enee of sorority divans, purring motor cars,
and doting parents. ,rt. .o.'al 20" a"
Perhaps he's right, but, perhaps there Is
another explanation or two. 1t is just bare
ly possible that lot of boys starting to
college don't care for the grind which puts
them into football suit six days a week
for three months, which drives them onto
the practice field for tedious practice day
in and day out, just for brief moment OF
battered glory before packed stadium on
Saturday.
Maybe some Of them have figured out
that football, except to the exceedingly
small number of brighter stars, has no fu-
ture except in fireside tales and after-din-
ner "reminiscences when college days are
over. e., -
81 1t is barely possible, too, that the young
athlete has noticed that, once he has his
sheepskin and gets job, he can't jump
into football suit after the days work
and get q bit of exercise.
Some of the boys may have decided that
college athletics might just as easily have
mis- is hardly sissy game and a young man
doesn't have to be a second Donald Bulge
to enjoy it. Furthermore, he can get exer-
else and pleasure out of the skill he has
acquired in school for couple decades
later. ... e.. - ssta
Coli teams appear to be more popular
in college than they formerly were. Coli
is business mans game It's distinct
advantage to be able to shoot "a decent
score. As a contact pastime golf is al
most notorious.
You meet very few business men in foot
bali suits on pleasant sunny afternoons.
There's no 10Th hole On the sridiron, either.
Mr.. Zappke may be right. The modern
college boys may be losing part of their
enthusiasm for football, some of them, at
least. There probably always will be
enough to- do and die for the Ilini, pro-
ducing Red Grange every generation or
two to build up the gate.
And the others, it may be, have changed
their notions about college football and the
valnes thereof; - y. re-. ....
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16
w. S. GILBERT'S "MikADo

anybody's and evcrybody's indul-
gence.
There is spiritual law in this
world taht we must live by the
sweat of our brow. But just now
there seems to be the feeling that
we can live by the sweat of the
next generations brow. We are
subsisting largely on money which
we are borrowing for the next
generation to pay. And that is II
pretty raw deal for the babies.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16
INTERESTING AT LEAST
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

difference is too infinitcsimal to
be of consequence - even on
the end of ones nose.
And will congress pass the bill
to define and legalize the COM
mon inch and pound? Who
knows?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16

lngt0n repeated
ly urged the con-
gress to act in
that matter, we
are today with
out any official
authorization for
our most widely
u sc d. units of
m G Il $ ure and
W e ig h t - the
common inch and
pound.
' The, practice
has grown up
among. us of re-
garding the inch
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16
SHORTS: Walter Hester, former

SHORTS: Walter Hester, former
newspaper man of Hendersonville
now advertising manager Of the
High Point Enterprise, brings the
news that Allison Honeycutt, su-
perintendent Of Lexington schools
since he left Hendersonville, has
accepted the SUPPLEMENTARY Of
the public schools of Chapel Hill
His son, Wilson. who upon
leaving Duke accepted reportorlal
work on the Rocky Mount Tele-
gram, has been promoted to the
Associated Press office in RAJ
leigh. . Sam Lubow is travelling
in Texas and is to be joined by
his family soon.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16
CURB MARKET POPULAR:

Hendersonville's greatest automo-
bile congestion three mornings in
the week is ut the curb market.
Shoppers need more parking
space. Sellers seem to need more
selling space. | believe all pur-
poses Of sellers and buyers would
be better served if the market
were open every weekday during
July and August.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16
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.-EDlTOR
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16

Although for Is years the con-
stitution of the United States has
authorized the congress to fix
standards of weights and mea-
sures, and although George Wash
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16

Historians now trying to discern the out
standing public figures of the depression
period will waste their time looking be,
You'd the TX led9efs. Z = w V'', VI
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16
BIBLE THOUGHT
"REMEMBER
the Sabbath day To keep, it, holy. Ihx. aU.ov

az am a Jealous God, VISITING THE lNlQoii L
OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN
Ex 20l5. ,,.., .. -. .,na
One of the most mOnsuOus crimes against emo,
hood il the creation of an irrelgious environment
b, the increasing seeularization OF the 'Ao0A'n
day.
We fathers received Sunday from our parents
we are passing on to our children, soiled and M
ferior article in its place-parenss let US be
les, our children suffer for our sins-By Loha'"
journalist in "Why Sunday"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16
MONDAY, AUGUST ls, TO-,

Know ;'i 6imfnfz'~';.c;,8 YIN "
$pjoy tqlim jokes OWE. '''th
e his notha's boardAs S'eT,
NbevNpf idle, fcnipir'' ~ house
were discussing doctors. o ooartta
full hands for such Y,s , 4Hnerci.
ito fall into innoccrtlv !. People
homeopathic. isn't b"a" lie is 4,
er inquired. YES" N, board.
quoted one as innorrr,,iI,,. he,,ery
ing, "He stays at homo -. 5emars.
the time" That's abon, "Cloal a..
total knowledge Of the V" Go1 NE Wa
often discuss. their mo ITOy'on Re
its .specialtieS. etc. " '"''' tat.
4: The newest disciplo 80,
pathy is Marian /. N,It. norsc.
while East Flat Rock ''r %1 y's.
who how manages -. "yaI!Stsr
Hardware company. H. "aie
W Ills Hpi'l' IN last Flo, ~
,after the days WORT ."' Tex
and returned 20 q Lcri.n az o's
rat night, finding nfm,,j, '1ye'il
commander before the v'ey:s
was over. He attended ~, "'IIyu,e
Order next nigh, and so", ''"1'a
self elected to succeed ,a ." @a,
ing councillor. "Tu rrv ls,t
home now for while -, avg
confided Mr.. Walter ~ E.Il
but since then b. ar,nT.. .llt@
Baptist association and yea. ,' s'
ed moderator for the Ven, t.@
by shouldcring the ,o,r"n., .'S'
of about 5000 BautI,,s. n, Ivy W
ker will soon learn ,na, the va v"
itc local sport b. that NJ ,ai1'
free horses to DEATH "f
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16

pDeRat get the wrong idea, Hitler Every
body speaks softly to crazy kid who
threatens to throw match in the powder
house. ,s- Dam.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16

A man who shot two sleeping despera-
does later spoke of it as a fight. He must
have seen the Louis-Baer match.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16

We've learned at least one thing about
the last election. It wasn't mandate to
monkey with the Supreme Court.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16

Czarism begot Communism and Com
munism begot Fascism. It's the old art of
one using poison to overcome another. e..
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16

A NEW HOMEOPATHlST:
Leonard Hesterly of the Quality
Press will give out a good line OF
much more clever than
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-16

Editor, The Times-News:
Kindly allow me space in which
to condemn utterly an official act
of our city fathers, all Of whom
| am glad to count among my
personal friends.
Dictatorship is not welcomed
and may not be endured by our
liberty-!oving citizens, who still
cling to the idea that democracy
means government by a major
ity of the people. Whenever a
group undertakes to put its opin-
ion across in acts contrary to the
known and expressed will of the
people, they become dictators and
can no longer be trusted to do the
will of those who entrusted them
with authority.
Regardless of the merits of the
Sabbath question, the principle of
government by the people has
been outraged and the actors
should be rebuked for their ruth
less disregard - democratic
principles.
Very truly,
DR.. j. S. BROWN, ST..
Editor, The Times-News:
When Elisha the propht of
Israel told Ha2aei. that he would
do great evil to the children of
Israel, when he became king over
Syria Hazel answered and said as
thy servant dog that he should
do this thing" In a fire-side chat
on March 9th, last, Mr.. Roosevelt
said: eff it is charged that / wish
to. place on the bench spineless
puppets who would disregard the
law, and would decide specific
cases as | wished them to decide,
! would answer that no president
fit for his office would appoint,
and no senate of honorable men
fit for their office would confirm
that kind of appointee to the su-
preme court"
If the president had used the
words of Hazael, as thy servant
a dog that he should do this
thing?" he would have conveyed
the same meaning.
In the nomination of Hugo l..
Black the president has done just
what he said "No president fit for
his office would do" Black is a
perfect example of "spineless
puppet" described by the presi-
dent in his fire-side chat. Black
has been Mr.. Roosevelt's rubber
stamp for every vicious and fun
constitutional law passed by con-
gress.
Black has the endorsement of
Lewis the coal digger and the
lawless mobs of the Clio. and Of
every communist, and blood
thirsty "red'' in our country.
That loyal Democrat, Repre-
sentative Cox of Georgia, voiced
the resentment of every true
American when he said, "The
nomination of Black to the su-
preme court, is the worst insult
that has yet been given this ma
ton"
Sir! this attempt to corrupt and
pollute The supreme court, is the
most IdaStardly act in American
history "a" ~ "a !
BENZ. r. CLAYTON.
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
Gov. Thrilled
By Island
Pageant
Hoey Is Speaker of
North Carolina Day
Program; Big Crowd

Hertford, July 22.-Hertford en-
tertained for approximately Is
minutes this afternoon a distin-
guished visitor in the person of
the Hon. Clyde R. Hoey.
The governor was enroute to
Manteo, where tonight he deliv-
ers the principal address of North
Carolina Day on Roanoke Island,
but he took time out in his jour-
ney to stop at Roberson's Drug
Store, indulge in a soft drink and
chat with a few friends. His stop
here was not scheduled or looked
for but he is no stranger in Hert,
ford and his visit here broke the
monotony of Thursday afternoons
when all the stores close and
everybody forsakes the town for
wider open spaces.
1t might have been Mayor Silas
M. Whedbee's welcome to Hert-
ford, Stop and Visit Us" street
banners which called the halt in
the governors travel. Anyway, Mr..
said he was very interested in the
small towns and always found this
section Of the state very pleasing
to the eye.
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
Six Degrees Cooler
Here This Week

No person in Elizabeth City need
to be told that the heat has not
been nearly: so pronounced this
week as last, but notr many have
realized that this weeks average
temperature here has been but
slightly above the average for the
month Of, September, .o, 90.
The average d, temperature in
Elizabeth City. for the, first five
days Of this week was, ITO de-
grees, while the July average is
1873 and the September average
is 1870 degrees.
This week has been a little over
six degrees cooler than last week,
so far. The average temperature
for the first five days of last week
was 1871 degrees, while the aver.
age for the same five days in this
week has been only ITO degrees.
The hottest day this week re-
corded the same average tempera-
ture of the coolest day Of last
week, 1875 degrees.
The daily independent., 1937-07-23

Washington, July 22-U.P)-
The senate formally killed Presi-
dent Roosevelt's supreme court re-
organization program today un-
der take it or leave it" peace
terms dictated by Sen. Burton K.
Wheeler and his Democratic ad-
herents who fought titanic five
months war to scuttle the meas
ure.
The chamber voted TO to 20, on
motion of Sen. M. M. Logan, D.,
KY, to send the Presidents six
justice increase proposal and all
amendments back to the senate
judiciary committee for pigeon
holing, and ordered the committee
to report a totally new measure
emitting all provisions for chang
ing the supreme court-within 10
days.
This action constituted formal
approval Of a treaty of surrender
which Wheeler imposed on van
quiShed administration leaders
and which vice president John N.
Garner and senate majority lead
er Alben w. Barkley agreed to ac-
cept.
The settlement Immediately op-
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
Italians Fo''tiy Spanish
Islands In Mediterranean
Big Guns and Air Bas-
es Reported In
Belearics

Paris, July 22.-lU.Rl- Reports
that 600 Italian military experts
have taken over" the Ralearic
Islands of Majorca and Iviza and
are installing long-range guns
that could menace vital Mediter-
ranean sea routes were inveStigat-
ed tonight by the French foreign
office.
The Italian officers, mostly
aviation experts, were said to have
transformed the islands into fort
resseS with anti-aircraft and pow
erful naval guns.
The Notifications, which would
be a major threat to the colonial
communications Of both France
and Great Britain. were said to
be Of the most modern design with
underground hangers and machine
shops. Large ammunition stores
and base for 40 SeaplaneS, Capa-
BILE of speeding to the Spanish
mainland in less than an hour, al
so were reported.
The Italians, in addition to con-
Structing the Notifications, were
described as training 10000 Span
ish native recruits to replace Ital-
ian and German volunteers with
the Spanish insurgent forces in
the event the Fascist -Nazi voiun-
teers are forced TO withdraw from
Continued on page five)
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
Still Boilers To
Serve In a
Different Role
Moonshine Equipment
Is Bound for Foreign
War Industries

Some of the munitions of Pas
quotank .County's pre- repeal
moonshiner- -revenooer war may
take part in a more lethal COM
bat, it appeared when a truck
this week drove up to the junk
yard Of Miles Jennings and dis
gorged eight steam boilers to add
to the pile of scrap metal which
will eventually find it's way to the
war industries of England or
Japan. Salvaged from the woods
and swamps of the county, many
of the boilers were bent and torn
from charges of dynamite used by
raiding prohibition enforcement
officers to destroy their useful
ness as adjuncts to illicit stills.
Rising prices of scrap metal af-
ter the recent slump have renew
ed the movement Of scrap and
eight gondola cars were shipped
from the Jennings yards in the
last month, while an, equal quaint
ity is piled there ready. for ship
ment. Approximately IS per cent
of the scrap is derived from out
worn automobiles, according to
Robert Jennings of the firm, al
though almost every type of agrl-
cultural, industrial and marine
machinery and household hard
ware is represented in the huge
piles on the yards.
Stoves, iron bedsteads. flyheels,
pumps, propellors, logging appara-
tus, including one of the last mar
row-guage steam locomotives to
be used in the log-woods here
abouts, are among the discarded
equipment being cut into furnace
door sizes with acetelyne torches
prior to shipment.
The daily independent., 1937-07-23

ened the way to early adjourn
n.'ent of congress
GLORY be to God" exclaimed
Sen Hiram w Johnson, R., Calf,
when he realized the bill was de-
finitely dead.
He echoed the sentiments of
other opponents who felt that the
prq;ident's proposal threatened
independence of the judiciary
which forms one of the founda-
tions of the American system of
government. These senators, lead
by Wheeler, Sen. Edward r. Burke
D., Neb., and others, had gone to
battle as if fighting holy war.
To them it was a holy crusade
to save the constitution and guard
against possible future usurpa-
tion of power, a dictatorship.
There was an imperious note in
the senate's action-a flat refusal
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
Va. ROtarians
Hear Local
Editor
W. o. Saunders Tells
Portsmouth Club of
Dare County Shrines

Il never could understand why
Portsmouth with so many red
booded he-men in it should have
such an utterly unseXed appear
ance," said w. o. Saunders, ad-
dressing the Portsmouth Rotary
Club, in Portsmouth, Va, yeSter-
day. mo applauseD
Seriously, the Elizabeth City
editor told the Portsmouth Rotar-
ians that Tidewater Virginia and
Albemarle North Carolina had
many interests in common which
both could promote with much
profit and satisfaction by earnest
and intelligent cooperation.
First of these" said the
speaker, lis our common ancestry.
On our own Roanoke Island the
first attempts at English coloni-
zatron were attempted; at James
town in Virginia 20 years later the
first successful English settle
ment was established; later at
nearby Williamsburg floWered the
triumphant realization of that
new civilization. Your Jamestown
and your Williamsburg have been
recognized as National Monu-
ments. In a few years Roanoke
Island along with Kill Devil Hills
Continued on Page Three)
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
Senate OUerrideS
Veto On Loan Bill

Washington, July %. -(U.R)-
The senate voted II to 19 today to
override President Roosevelt'S We
to of bill to continue low interest
rates on Federal Land Bank loans
and thus enacted the measure
without his signature since the
house previously had taken SINH
lar action.
The upper chamber disregarded
the first plea of its new majority
leader, Sen. Alben w. Barkley, D.,
KY, who asked his colleagues to
give serious consideration" to
Mr.. RooSevelt's objection that it
would cost the government more
than s3O,OOO,OOO not provided for
in the budget.