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Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-01
New Relief Director
Assumes Her Duties

SACRAMENTO, Cal. Sept. /
UP)-Miss Floretta White, Los
Angeles, today assumed her duties
here as Sacramento county direc-
tor of relief, succeeding Miss Mar
garet Mack. Appointment of Miss
White, formerly administrative as
sistant in the Los Angeles relief
headquarters, followed the new po-
icy of State Relief Administrator
Harold E. Pomeroy in placing coun-
ty unit control in the hands of ad-
ministrative officers instead of
social workers.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-01
One -MInute Te,t Answers

l. John w. Studebaker of Des
Moines. Ia. His office is in Wash
ington.
2. The power governors in Ger
tain states, enjoy to veto single
items in bills passed by legislatures.
8. Her last appearance was at
Dusseldorf, on Jan. 20, 1870.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-01
TOday's Horoscope

Most persons whose birthday oc-
ours today insist on accuracy. For
this reason they are successful in
business careers.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-01
New York Day by Day
By O. O. Mcintyre

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-The hat
check millionaire joins the long list
of vanquished plutocrats. For five
years now his ranks have been dis
integrating, due to the growth OF
the hatleSs fad. A fad given i'm
petus when Earl Carroll thought
fresh air might be a panacea for
badness.
Today along the streets six out
Of ten persons go bare head anG
among the young the custom is al
most universal. There was a time
when the hat check concession sup
ported night clubs. But the last
big concession was farmed out by
the Stork Club
1t receives $4,000 more a year for
the concession than it pays for
rent. But the days OF such grants
seem ended. Even the celebrated
red-haired Renee. the hat check
girl at Sardi'S, has become dispirit31
over the outlook for the future.
Hat manufacturers, too. are
alarmed over the pinch. 1t has
kept them awake at nights and it
is reported they have formed a siz-
able pool as a bonus for some
bright advertising man Or publicity
wizard who can make America hat
conscious again.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-01

The oldest Christian chapel known to
man is now on display at Yale university
campus. 1t was uncovered by a Yale
archaeological expedition at Dura, on the
Euphrates river.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-01

Haute. One day a beautiful little
girl came to Dresser's Chicago Of
flee, said she was Billy Kerlin's
daughter and was looking for a job
as a singer. Dresser listened, heard
her sing and then, determined the
child of his old friend should get
that job, picked up the telephone.
He talked to a theatre manager
thus: MY sister Louise Dresser Il
in town and wants job singing -
The girl got the job. made goo6
and that's how lovely Louise Kerlin
became Louise Dresser. Miss Dres-
ser once told me Theodore Dresser
was the only member of Paul Dres-
ser's family she had never met.
To my mind no comedian is more
entertaining nor offers a more orr
ginal bit of business than Charles
Judel5, who appears all too in
frequently in the movies and or
the radio. Judels is best initiating
an excited Frenchman, jabbering
away with the machine gun rat
atat of the mercurial native. The
astounding thing is that Judels
knows only a few ordinary words
of French. Yet so pat are his
nuances even French audiences have
listened to his meaningless abraca-
dabra and believed that they, for
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-01

There is still confusion in public
thought as to whether or not the
popular stage and screen actress
Louise Dresser is a sister of Theo-
dore Dresser. The origin of the
story goes back to Paul Dresser's
days as a song writer. He was
Dreiser's brother and changed his
name to Dresser for professional
reasons. Paul was a close friend
of Billy Kerlin, an engineer run
ming between Evansville and Terre
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-01

Rhymed review:
Though Shirley Temples cute and
dinky
And clever in Wee Willie Winkie,
For me it is her songs and dancing
That always make her most en-
trancing.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-01

For instance, OH one recent day
there appeared three stories which,
together form a better commentary
on the state of the nation than does
any one of them individually.
The first tells how Allegheny
county. Pa, in which Pittsburgh is
located, is spending two and half
times as much for relief now as in
the worst month of the depression,
although employment levels now
are equal to those of the boom
year of 1929. More than two and a
half million dollars was spent on
in July, 1887. whereas only little
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-01

some reason, had simply not been
able to catch what he is saying.
He can perform similar miracles
with Chinese, German and italian,
languages about which he knows
even less.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-01
Thoughts for the Day

Deliver me not unto the will of mine enemies;
Tor false witnesses risen up against me, and as
such breathe out cruelty.-PsalmS 27:12
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-01

Hendrix Willem Van Loon, whose
voice has become so popular on the
radio, is one of the towns most
versatile literary figures. Few are
such jacks of all trades and masters
of so many. He paints well, water
color sketches of his native Holland
being highly treasured by collectors
and he is an etcher and caricaturist
of ability. Aside from his fame
as a historian, he is an aStute bio
grapher, as his Rembrandt proves.
He can change his writing pace al
will, turning in stories for children
and adventure tales for grown ups.
Too aside from his oratorical ability
he is an authority on sailing ships.
People who know him we'll know
how to land him for a dinner guest
They have only to mention there
will be pea soup, his favorite dish
and one of which he never tires.
I like the way one publisher bally-
hoos a recent novel. The ad: His
best novel to date" 1t happens to
be the only novel the author ever
uyrDta
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-01

Antiquarians are studying the 1,400-
year-old grave of young Turkoman girl
IN the southern Ural mountains. A COM
plete set of household utensils was found
with the skeleton.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-01
Words of WiSdom

Words of Wisdom
The real democratic American
ideal is that every man shall have
liberty without hinderance, to be
What God made him. .-Beecher.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-01

A wondrous variety OF items, re
cording the events of the day as
they happen in China or on Main
street, make up the daily news
paptr which nearly every American
family reads.
The newspaper is thus ercording
history as it happens. But history
isn't complete until its basic facts
are blended by the Interpretation OF
the people. That's where the news
paper reader comes in. His is the
privilege of clothing the facts with
significance.
Instead of skipping through the
paper and tossing it away for con-
signment to service on the pantry
shelf. try this interesting game OF
jigsawing its separate items into a
meaningful pattern.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-01
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test

One-Minute Test
l. Who is U. S. commissioner of
education?
2. What is an "item Veto?
3. When did Jenny Lind last ap-
pear on the concert stage?
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-01
ARMIES AND POLICE

Are national armies properly to be regarded
as being police forces safeguarding the peace of
the world? This is a defense frequently made
for nations armies and navies.
There certain differences between the
police forces and national armies of any nation
that might well be borne in mind. Otherwise,
defense problems come to be regarded in a senti-
mental light that throws the entire question of
preserving peace into wrong perspective.
In the first place, a police force is subject
TO certain laws and regulations which do not
affect an army. Secondly, a police force acts
under the instructions of power that is neu-
trail in the dispute under settlement, but an
army is the instrument of one of the parties
to the quarrel Thirdly, in Britain, at any rate
the police force depends much less on lethal
weapons than does an army.
Perhaps, in the not-too-distant future the
world will evolve some form of national protec-
ton in which these distinctions no longer hold
true great step forward on the road to peace
will then have been taken.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-01
Hints en- Etiquette

Hints en- Etiquette
Business introductions always
should be brief, with formal cour-
tesies Of the social introduction
omitted.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-29
LET'S LOOK AROUND
-By WICKES WAMBOLDT

astronomer cannot use the mile as
his yardstick; it is too tiny for
the enormous measurements he
must figure. 1t would be just as
practical for a trans-continental
road builder to use the millimetcr
in describing distances.
The astronomer uses as his
yardstick, light, which travels at
the rate of one hundred and
eighty-Six thousand miles a Sec
ond-eleven million miles a min
ute and six hundred and sixty
million miles an hour. And he
uses as his unit of measurement
the distance light will travel in a
year-six trillion miles. For in
stance, the sun is spoken Of as
being eight light minutes from
Easth or around ninety million
miles.
At present our astronomers
have Instruments which will pick
up stars so far away that it has
taken their light three hundred
million years to reach Earth. If
you wish to know how far away
that is in miles, multiply three
hundred million by six trillion.
The new two hundred-inch tele-
scope lens which is now in proc
ess of refinement at Pasadena,
California, is expected to enable
astronomers to reach three times
as far into space as they can now
penetrate.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-29

ed to any important extent. If present policies are
continued in the United States, the time VIII IN
evitably come when the foreign crop Will be sur
ficient to supply all the world outside the Onteo
States. And when that time comes 1t VIII only oe
step to an invasion of the American market by
foreign cotton. .... .....
The way out of the difficulties OF the
cotton growing South-which are IN
large measure the result of the tariff pol
icy of the country and the meddling OF po-
litical planners" in the affairs of farmers
has been pointed out time and again by
The Texas Weekly and other authorities on
the production and marketing of cotton.
The alternative is that the federal gov
eminent shall continue indefinitely to ap-
propriate the money of the taxpayers for
the purpose of guaranteeing prices to the
cotton growers, or buy the crop outright,
pile up SURPRISES, destroy the last vestige
of the foreign markets, and go right along
wasting the money of nation in vain and
foolish efforts to prove that certain theor-
les that are patiently false are sound and
workable.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-29
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
PROTEST AGAINST SECRECY

How the khan charges leveled at Justice Hugo
L. Black will terminate, the Daily News does not
profess to know say. Pending Qualification, or
at least the Justices opportunity to clarity, it
is well and fair to withhold judgment.
In the meantime speculation which naturally re-
wolves around matter fraught with such tran
scending significance and Importance includes a
notation upon secrecy which is acknowledged to
he a distinctive khan trait and which, strange to
say, has figured so prominently in the proceedings
which marked the Black nomination, confirmation
and subsequent developments.
Selection of the Alabama legislator was itself
kent a secret even from the official White House
family until President Roosevelt ready to
spring it. Consideration of the nomination in the
senate was in executive session, the judiciary COM
mittee voting down full and open debate although
the Washington atmosphere was even then sur
charged with rumors of the nominees khan affilia-
ton.
Confirmation over, the new justice secretly took
his oath of office and as quietly possible left the
country The same secusion, or secretlveness II
YOU choose, characterized his European stay as the
khan storm broke about his head and foreign and
American reporters made repeated efforts to Sc
cure statement Finally the latest addition to
the Nine Old Men slipped out of England on a
vessel which he was not expected to catch and is
heading for the port of Norfolk in contrast to the
metropolitan area and the army of news sleuths
which would be marshaled thereat.
Far be it from us to say that Justice Blacks
secrecy springs in any wise from khan teachings,
oaths or beliefs. 1t is fair and highly pertinent
to observe, however, that it is a trait or factor
which has little or no standing in the transaction
of public business and there is no better proof of
that observation than the very incident which we
here have under Observation-Disclosures News.
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is but one of Seventy-tive million
star systems within the range OF
our present telescope. How many
more systems exist beyond the
reach of our astronomical instru-
ments is anybody's guess.
Our sun, which is of such great
Importance to us, is but an insig-
nificant Speck in that great aggre-
cation of celestial bodies; il mas
tiny family of nine planets
which circle it and which in the
order of their proximity to it are
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jul
piter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,
and the last to be discovered, Plu-
to.
With the foregoing points in
mind it is funny, is it not? to
think of the colossal ignorance
and conceit of our forebears who
prosecuted and put to death men
for daring to assert that the little
dirt ball we live on called Earth
was not the center of all space
and the master celestial star
around which the sun and all 9TH
er heavenly bodies revolved.
There we have a vivid lesson in
tolerance and a striking illustra-
ton of how big a jackass lack of
tolerance can make of a person.
OUT THERE
In making his calculations the
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-29
WHAT DOES WASHINGTON SPEND?

The ranking minority member of the committee
on ways and means of the house of representatives
Washington says that the latest session of con-
gress authorized appropriations aggregating So,
600, 600 900. The chairman of that committee says
the Republican is wrong, that the total is about
81, 900, 0OO, 900 less than that. The statements
should drive home to Americans that their senators
and representatives are spending so much that
they do not know how much they are spending.
The Roosevelt administration has spent as no
previous administration had thought of spending.
1t has been whiting down the wealth of the
American people 1t has brought the national debt
to about So, 90, 100000 in time of peace. 1t has
been shockingly wasteful. Yet this administration
came into power categorically pledged to give the
American people more economical government
than the Hoover regime had given. 1t categoricaly
pledged itself to reduce the federal spendings and
to bring the federal budget into balance.
So great are the spendings of the Roosevelt adj
ministration that few Americans can grasp the
magnitude of them. If Republican and Demo-
crat are billion dollars apart in citing the total
appropriations, one is brought to wonder how much
Washington does spend. The Passamaquoddy and
Florida canal schemes are among the instances OF
the New Deals gross wastefulness. Not all the
New Deal projects beneficial as their poltl-
cal sponsors say they Sensible persons under
stand that the IVA is not producing and distribut-
ing electricity cheapy it says it does, Tor the
IVA is forgetful of some high costs.
Government spending with free hand is as an
individual who does the same thing. Ihere IS
limit to borrowing even for the United states gov
eminent Fiscal experts disagree on that unit pu'
Washington is much nearer it than when the koose'
welt administration came into power IN March Oh
1892. II would be even nearer if the federal gov
eminent was not collecting all manner of taxes
most Of them hidden from the sight of the mass
of the citizens The revenues have increased great
" because the tax leves have been increased great
ly. If the poor of the land understood that they
are footing most of the bills, there would be an
immediate change in the attitude of the spenders
Charleston News and Courier.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-29

VTASHINGTON-PosSibility that
" the Supreme Court might act
in one way or another to keep
Justice Hugo L. Black from its
bench, although not considered a
very strong one, calls attention to
the courts recent record on cases
involving civil and religious mi
nority liberties such as were
threatened by the Ku Klux Khan.
One idea is that the court might
consent to hear a suit conteSting
Blacks right to sit, on the ground
that he was in a Senate which
voted new emolumentS for SUI
preme Court justices.
Another rumor is that the other
justices might decide that Black
was ineligible in case he were
found to have taken the Khan oath,
assuming that oath were found to
pledge a taker to continued in
tolerance toward Jews, Catholics,
Negroes and aliens.
N case that isn't simply a pipe
dream-and no one is whisper
ing that any justice actually talked
to him about 1.-THE position OF
justices who have taken strong or
weak positions as to rights OF
Negroes, Catholics. or Jews in GER
tain cases might be an important
factor.
AT its last term the court voted
1--WE to four TO invalidate the old
Georgia instruction" law under
which Angelo Herndon, a young
Negro Communist leader, had been
sentenced to 20 years for dis
tributing literature.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-29
T II E N E w DEAL
IN WASHIN
.-RY RODNEY DuTcHER-
By RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

Although in 1885 it had refused
to review an appeal on technical
grounds, this year majority
Chief Justice Hughes, Justice Rob-
ertS and the liberal trio Of Bran
deiS, Stone and Cardozo-heard
the case and held the Georgia law
an unconstitutional interference
with free speech and contrary to
the "due process" clause. Hern-
don's conviction, the majority said,
was based on no evidence Of any
clear and present danger to the
state.
In 1925 the court ruled agains.
the Klan-supported Oregon paro-
chial school law, which struck at
Roman Catholics by barring all
private schools. No state, the court
said, had power to standardize its
children by forcing them to take
instruction from public teachers
only. +l. ID
Although the supreme bench
4
had approved refusal of the Demo-
cratic party in Texas to allow
Negroes to vote in its primaries,
it set aside the convictions of two
Scottsboro defendants in 1885 on
the ground that Negroes had been
barred from the jury. Last year il
unanimously freed three Missis-
sippi Negroes on the ground that
their confessions had been OBJ
tanned by torture.
: These are only few OF the out.
standing recent cases. In previou,
years its record as to civil hbertie.
and minorities has been rather
Spotty. t....
tcopSright. 1887. NEA Service. Inc!
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MEN TYPISTS SCARCE
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-29

is estimated, of
about one hun
dred billion stars
arranged in the
form of a wheel
W h i C h revolves
around a center
u n S e e n to US
earthlings at a
speed of one rev.
olution e v c I y
two hundred and
forty m I'LL o n
years. And it is
calculated by as
tronomers that
ol,r star system
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-29
SENTRY POSTED ON LINKS

BANFF, Alta. (UP)-Ted Mar
tin, 16, has one of the queerest
jobs in Canada. After play is end
ed for the day on the golf course,
ne squats at the main entrance
and prevents wild animals from
entering and tearing up the
course. The course is completely
fenced.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-29
HEADS THE PRESS: C. M

Douglas. editor Of the Transyl-
vania Times, who has been serv-
ing the Western North Carolina
Weekly Press association rs Sec
rotary, has been promoted to the
presidency, succeeding W. Curtis
Russ, editor of the Waynesville
Mountaineer, who has been presi-
dent since the organization was
formed about four years ago. He
insisted that the presidency Of the
state organization of the press
was all he could handle without
too much sacrifice of time. Har-
ley Wright, editor of the Canton
Enterprise, becomes secretary.
This body not only talks shop
around the table the last Satur-
day night of each month but the
members discuss things and move
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-29
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned eommu-
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, 1937-09-29
QUARANTINE OFFSETS JAIL

ST. JOSEPH. Mo. (UP)-W.
NJ. Scotch was saved from serv-
ing a Jail sentence here when his
home was quarantined for menin-
gitiS.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-29

Our great star system which is
represented by those heavenly
bodies we can see with the naked
eve any clear NIGHT. consists. it
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-29

The unpleasant odor of limburger cheese is due
to specific lamentations induced during ripening.
These lamentations are mainly caused by the ex-
tremev moist condition in which the cheese is kept
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-29
NEW MOSQUITO: Archie D.
BY Moan Hollowell

NEW MOSQUITO: Archie D.
Station has discovered new mos
quito in the pastures in the Mud
Creek bottoms east of Henderson
vile. He says it bites but doesn't
seem to disturb the victim, man
or beast, as the common variety
does. He says sizes vary from
three to five times as large as the
common insect. This is the first
season he has witnessed this
breed. Mr.. Station said he could
not hear It's type of music be-
cause of his deafness.