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The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-05

For 200 years Europe obtained most of its sugar from Madeira and the Canary Islands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-05

The first radio distress call was sent from the British lightship R. r. Matthews in 1899.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-08-05
CARNERA WILL
 TRY COMEBACK

MILAN, Aug. 5.--Primo Camera, former world heavyweight boxing champion, yesterday announced his intention of returning to the ring. Since losing to Elroy Haynes of Philadelphia in May, 1886, the big Italian has been living on his farm near the town of Sequal.
The times-news., 1937-08-14
WAITING FOR THE CRASH

Another is because this administration has got
ten itself into such position that so long it con-
tinues in power the difficulties of putting on the
brakes are almost insurmountabe. The president
talks about economy and retrenchment, but not in
seven months has single concrete step been taken
in that direction. On the contrary, every proposal
such as Senator Byrds is met with the stiffest ad
ministraton resistance. To adopt the Byrd sugges-
tion and stop pouring good money after the bad
would involve confession of failure and mistake
No matter how overwhelming the evidence, the
president seems unable to bring himself to do that
Instead he advances new legislative plans which
involve still greater expenditures and the federal
finances get more and more out of control. Every
body knows it can't last, but no one can tell when
the crack will come.-Frank Kent in Charlotte
Observer.
The times-news., 1937-08-14
AN.INcREAsE IN HIGHWAY FATALITIES

This is a year of increases" The increase IN
highway fatalities takes its place alongside the IN
crease in the public debt, some of the increases
of which we are not proud For the first six months
of this year there were $50 deaths the highways
of South Carolina increase of As over the same
period for 1886. The total number of injured per-
sons for the same period was in excess of the
number of 1886. %. '' "
What is most peculiar about the highway depart
ments report is that 1.-The majority of the accidents
took place on straight roads," with only small
minority happening the curves. Of these accl-
dents, those caused by reckless driving under the
influence of liquor took leading place 1t seems
that the campaign to lessen the number of acci-
dents on our highways is of little ava.-Newberry
IS. c. Observer ..- ...r.
The times-news., 1937-08-14
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
NO POWER SHORTAGE IMMINENT


For months the criticism has been bobbing up
that the reserve capacity of power companies was
insufficient. Phe matter has been discussed in
Washington hearings. Electrical World has made a
survey and finds that no power shortage is immi-
nent. The power companies have been keeping
abreast Of the increased consumption of electric
current, 'r.' .r..-
Increasing loads constitute no new problem for
the hight and power industry. They are the normal
condition. Since 1902 the output has increased
more than forty-fold, and construction has consis
tently anticipated the rising demand. The process
Of anticipatory building is going on now Since
1885 total new generating power installed and on
order has totalled approximately 4 100000 kilo-
watts A detailed list published at the beginning of
1887 showed j, ,27S,000 kilowstts under ,construc-
tion, togo into operation before the end of this
year. OF that amount non-federal construction ac-
counted for more than 100000 kilewatts."
Who says that power shortage rs 'imminent?
Why? Politicians who would have the federal gov
ernment build more and better power plants at
the expense of the ,tsxpayers produee statistics
which seit them Tsae Is when they are forgetfu
The times-news., 1937-08-14
RESULTS OF LIQUOR STORES

The Spartanburg Journal Monday stated: HOT
weather failed to put damper on drunkenness in
Spartanburg the past weekend, Judging from the
police court docket this morning which had 80
drunkenness cases out of a total of 50. Over half
the defendants were charged with drunkenness IN
a city where liquor is sold legally. Yet, we were
told to legaize liquor to stop drunkenness. 1t does
not work that way The easier we make it to get
liquor, the more will be consumed and the more
drunks we will have. Several of the defendants
were women. "Watchman, what Of the night?'-
Rutherfordton News.
The times-news., 1937-08-14

of the whole cost of government-generated power
They omit mention of the taxes and license ices
government escapes. Power systems operated IN
the name of the people add to the number OF per-
sons on the public payrolls and politicians Ike 10
name constituents to government places
The power companies have been going forward
in the face of political interference. They have
been increasing their generating capacity and ex-
panding their networks of transmission lines They
have been reducing their costs to the consumers
while they have been compelled to pay higher taxes
to government. In some sections there may be
some threat of a power shortage, but in the eoun-
try at large there is n9ne.-Charleston News and
Courier.
The times-news., 1937-08-14
RICH AND DON'T KNOW 1T

People are reminded less often nowadays than
generation ago to count their blessings 1t is still
worthwhile to stop now and then and remember
what the real riches As DR.. j. W. Holland says
in The Progressive Farmer:
"Have we gotten so blinded with electric lights
that we have forgotten the stars? Has the empha-
sis Americans have for three generations put on
material success obscured for us the better gold of
the Golden Rule?
81 am telling you that regardless of your purse
you may be rich today. If you have moderate
health, you are a billionaire. If you have few
friends, then envy no lonely man his store of gold
If you are permitted to work at chosen tasks no
artist should be more happy than you are. If you
have the peace that passes knowledge so that no
earthly storms can upset your lifeboat, no one can
pile currency high enough to equal your riches.
$50 many of us are rich and don't know it. And
so many others, alas! could be rich and don't real
ize it.p-Morganton News-Herad.
The times-news., 1937-08-14
AN IMPOSSIBLE JOB
Observer.

The wage-and-hour bill that seems destined TO
be inflicted the country may go down IN history
as legislation that failed before it was even tired
Administration Of the act would be placed IN
the hands of board that would hold hearings
and consider industry by industry craft by crait
and locality by locality"to determine what wages
should be paid and what hours observed IN nun
dreds of thousands of separate cases.
To dump such an assignment before that BOARD
or any board, would be like handing child toy
bucket and tell him to empty the Atlantic ocean
before lunch Any attempts to make 1t workable
will merely result in inestimable confusion ana
disruption of the vast machinery of commerce and
industry that forms the basis of economic we'll
being-Anderson Mail.
The times-news., 1937-08-14
BARKER HEIGHTS
BARKER HEIGHTS, Aug. IA.

BARKER HEIGHTS, Aug. IA.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. L. Long, Of
Charleston, spent two weeks in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Ora Fain
on their vacation, IN route to
Ohio, and were much impressed
with this section. They are plan
ming to spend the month of Sep
Lcmber here.
Others stopping at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fain are: Mr.. and
Mrs. Clincfclters and Mr. and Mrs.
Schaeffcr. Of Clearwater, Fla.
John McGuinn, Jr., of Char
lotte, spent the weekend with his
parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Covington
have entered their children in the
Dana school, at which place they
are planning to make their home.
Fred Edney, Jr., and mother,
also Mr.. Hilliard Maxwell and chill
dren motored to Concord Wednes-
Gav to visit relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Smith, of
Charlotte, spent their vacation last
week with the latter'S parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John McGuinn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Dill and Mr..
and Mrs. Dewey Sherman and
family enjoyed a picnic lunch on
Bear Wallow mountain Sunday.
A number of friends from this
section attended the funeral last
Sunday of Miss Ruby Mae Lively
at Dana Baptist church.
Mrs. Clyde Ward, of Washing
ton, D. c., called recently on Mrs.
Mamie Mitchell.
Tommie Hollingsworth of Bar
ker Heights is a patient at Pat
ton Memorial hospital, following
an appendicitis operation Friday.
Miss Ruth Justus of East Flat
Rock was a supper guest Wednes-
day Of Miss Marguerite Ruff.
Mrs. Leander Justice has been
spending a few days with Mr.. and
Mrs. Murphy of ShawS Creek.
They are the proud parents of a
baby daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred FLOYD had
as their guests recently. Mr.. and
Mrs. Dewey Honeycutt of Stan
ley. Mr.. and Mrs. Oswald Smith
and daughters, also Oliver How
ard. all Of Oakboro.
Those attending the funeral last
Sunday at Blacksburg, S. c., for
Mr.. NJ. NJ. Hambright of Barker
weights, who died in Charlotte last
Friday, were: Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Gowan, Mesdames Godfrey Lvtle
and Fred Floyd, also Mr.. and Mrs.
f.. f. Ruff and daughter, Miss
Marguerite Ruff.
Mrs. Clarence Hyder accompa-
MED her parents Sunday to visit
relatives in Spartanburg.
The times-news., 1937-08-14

bills passed TO strengthen We
power of local political ring
Why, indeed? Keep your eye
on the careers of Judge Soenso
and Lawyer Suchensuch and you
will see that in course of time
Lawyer Suchensuch is unobtru-
sively given an official job with
a fat salary and is furnished an
assistant to do his work; and that
Judge Soenso is quietly appoint
ed to fill the first vacancy on the
bench higher up.
Wheels within wheels. Each To-
cal political ring is an integral
part of the great state political
ring. The entire machine moves
with marvellous precision and eff
ficiency, and always at the eX-
pense of the voters and the tax
payers-most of whom are inno-
cent but dumb.
The times-news., 1937-08-14
SATURDAY, AUGUST IA, 1887
UNION DISPUTES HAVE A MIDDLE
"A GROUND, TOO
(By BRUCE CATTON)

q y
The limited States, having had rather
severe course in the hothouse pressure
method of labor union development seems
to be more and more interested in the pos
sibility that unions now can be set out III
common ground, there to be subject to the
same laws and regulations that eontroi
other questions of public interest. a
Germ of this idea comes from the ex-
perience of European countries, especially
Holland and England, where trade unions
have flourished for years.
While conservatives here argue that II IS
because of.restraint and compulsions that
unions abroad have attained their position
of respectability. there is. another group
which contends that strikes and other d.
rect actions were necessary to force that
view onto employers and the public.
There is some truth in both views, but
both overlook the sensible middle ground
where disagreements may be dissolved
In the first place, there is no British law
requiring unions to carry out contracts
with employers. No union is required to
incorporate or submit to an audit except in
the case of its political fund. A union can
not be sued for damages except in case OF
illegal strike, which the law defines.
But Britain has not altogether overlook
ed the matter of regulation. Most unions
must register and make yearly reports on
sources Of revenue and spending. Sympa-
thetic strikes are forbidden if they are cal
culated to ,coerce the government directly,
or if they inflict hardship on the commun-
ity. Satisfied workmen may not be intimi-
dated into joining strike, and public serv-
ice employees must not strike for any rea-
son without giving due notice.
Then there is the middle ground, which
amounts to nothing more than a deep
rooted respect for law and order, plus the
fact that the highly competent British Ia
Dor leaders require members to strike or
return to work without questioning the or
der. If the leaders give an order that
breaks the law, then they alone are held
responsible, ,..,.. .-.
On the government side, this unwritten
code of fair play is observed, too, an in
stance being the coronation bus strike.
Had the Transport board used strikebreak-
ers to put the buses back on the streets,
that would have been violation of the un-
derstanding by which most British strikes
are settled. .c .r
Now a reckless labor union or an ire
sponsible government could find plenty OF
loopholes to wreck the operation of these
understanding" But the significant thing
is that, nine times out of ten, they don't.
Thus, the rock-ballasted wall against which
erosive dissension and violence dissipate
themselves in most British labor questions
is. nothing more than q rule of reason.
The United States, facing division on
future policy in this field, would do well to
reflect that there is no monopoly on good
judgment or respect for law and order,
and that it doesn't take an act of Congress
to put law and order into operation.
The times-news., 1937-08-14
FODDER PULLING WAGES

The State WPA recently ann0unc-
ed that it was applying for higher
wages in keeping with those pald
by private interests. ! wonder
what the Henderson county farm
or thinks of this when his prevail
ing wage is that Of 81 a day for
about 10 hours and the unskillcd
WPA laborer draws 20 cents an
hour and refuses to pull FODDER
when not engaged on WPA. Such
attitudes as this have destroyed
the peoples respect for govern
The times-news., 1937-08-14
THE NEW DE "A L
- IN WASHIN GTON
RODNEY DuTcHER-
BY RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service STAFF Correspondent

and stand out rs potential. ;hird
party leaders, when they started
this poll?
Assuming .h". either Bob or
Phil or both should have 1910
ambitions, why should either or
botn sponsor a poll which might
well demonStrate--and may, in
view of first returns-.thGS their
closest followers preferred Roose-
welt?
Another possible assumption is
that the GaFollette BROKERS may
actually prefer to back Roosevelt
at the next election, feeling that
he is the best hope of the pro-
greSSiveS.
WEEK after week, usually liz
w IGagazines and seldom by
newspaper correspondents - who
know bettcr--those presidential
aides Tom Corcoran and Ben
Cohen have been accused of
Matching the plan to pack the Su-
preme Court.
Corcoran and Cohen, according
to their friends, don't appreciate
the accusation. They heard about
the plan when they read about
il in the newspapers.
But the man who gets good and
sore about those reports is Attor-
ney General Homer S. Cummings,
the shrewd Connecticut Yankee,
who actually sold the six-new-
judges plan to Roosevelt and who
is proud Of that achievement.
tcOpyriGht. 1887. NEa ,seryice. Inc.)
The times-news., 1937-08-14

after corrupt politics. Clean that
up. Pu, the right men in Office,
and they will correct those evils.
The politicians do not mind how
hard you fight these various Ef-
fects, for they know you will not
get far, so long as you do not
attack and conquer the Cause
corrupt politics.
The times-news., 1937-08-14
GREEN RIVER

GREEN RIVER, Aug. ID
Miss Emma Ware, nurse in the
st. Francis hospital, Greenville. is
visiting her aunt, Miss Julia Yer.
non.
Misses Ruth Freeman, Mamie
Freeman and Margaret Osteen at
tended the horse show at Camp
Greystone Thursday.
Haskell Osteen and Jerry Jones
are building D. a beautiful lodge on
Lake Summit for Mrs. Hardaway
Of Spartanburg and Florida. Mr..
0te Drake of Flat Rock is in
charge Of the rock work.
Miss Helen Good, Miss Frances
Means and Mrs. James Darwin
will return to their homes in
Charlotte, Spartanburg and CO.
lumbia after spending the sum-
mer here at "Happy Nook"
Miss Elizabeth Wideman, who
has been visiting here is in Spar
tanburg on a visit 70 her mother
before returning to Kentucky,
where she is employed by the So
cial Security board.
The Irish Free State has less
a. No..
The times-news., 1937-08-14
GRAPES BY MAIL: A novel
BY Noah Hollowell

idea in marketing grapes, for
which Tryon is famous, is sug-
gested by the advertisement of
the Tau Rock vineyards, which
are Offering "finc large punches
by mail, until the end of short
season." according to announce
ment in The Tryon Daily Buile-
tin. That idea ought to be worth
something where the ripening sea-
son is later than that of Tryon.
Have you bagged your late
grapes? If you live in Hender-
sonvillc | wouldn't give you ten
cents for your chances of nice
grapes of the later varieties, with
out bagging. Birds occasionally
spare the early varieties but lay
waste to late grapes, and even the
early ones i'm many instances.
The times-news., 1937-08-14
THE WHY OF IL
-By WICKES WAMBOLDT

worthy word "efficiency"? It IS
being Systematically ridiculed.
The idea is to kill it by laughing
it out of existence. Politicians
are doing that. They don't like
that word deficiency" 1t is bad
for their business. Therefore,
they would make it so ridiculous
that no one will dare use it. They
are clever propagandiSts, these
ring politicians. For ways that are
dark and tricks that are vain
they make Bret Harte's heather
Chinese look like a piker.
The times-news., 1937-08-14

grantly 2 gullt y
l'ingSters tC eS'
cape p u n i 5 h.
ment?"
"Why did Law
yer Suchensuch,
known to have
little interest in
public affairs, 60
TO the state leg.
iSlature on a dai-
ly Il | ! o W a n C G
which would not
pay even his hO-
tel bill and work
dilig e y for
mon [ n 6 getting
The times-news., 1937-08-14
PRIVATE VERSUS
PUBLIC CRIMES

] do not get wrought up about
the man who is raScally in his
private and personal life. That, |
think, is more or less his affair.
Eventually he must personally
pay for his wrongdoing and there
by learn better. But the chap who
afflicts the people; who is a pub
lie enemy, who makes the people
pay-though he, too, must pay
that is the person whose scalp |
am after. He harms a thousand,
a million. He is worse than the
worst reprobare who is private
and personal about his rascality.
If a man wishes to debauch HIM
self | don't get excited. ! don't
like it and will use my influence
against it. But when he sets out
to despoil my neighbOrs, my coun-
trymen, | am going after him
hammer and tongs. Some persons
are attracted to one thing and
some to another: | am attracted
to the work of cleaning my ma
ton of political spoilSmen and
grafters and governmental de-
bauchees, for they are the foun-
dation of all our public grief.
The times-news., 1937-08-14

"Why did Judge Soenso do
that ?" asks the public innocently.
"Why did he do those strange
things which permitted those fla
The times-news., 1937-08-14
u,pcE PLEss coMMENDNED

Judge J. Will Pless, Jr, OF Marion one of the
Youngest members of the Superior Court bench, is
not stranger in Morganton and enjoys personal
popularity here Observers at his courts are i'm
pressed with his frmness OF manner and the fair
ness of his decisions. His conduct Of court has
won the commentator of the local bar and the
respect of the general publc.--Morganton News
Herald. '.'' 70 20 % ." a#
The times-news., 1937-08-14
CURE THE CAUSE

When persons and organlza-
tions who would correct the mis-
use of alcoholic beverages, the
abuse of the taxing power; who
would drive out cOmmercialized
vice, stop the waste of public
money, take the schools out OF
politics, come to me to join them
in battle against this specific
thing and that, | say: "You are
fighting an Effect when you
should be fighting the Cause. Go
The times-news., 1937-08-14

Rockefeller Center is the largest building prof
eet ever undertaken by private capital. I'D 5a i,
The times-news., 1937-08-14

Rome, at her height, in the first century, hae
about two million population.
The times-news., 1937-08-14

President Zachary Taylor never stayed in one
place long enough to qualify as voter.
The times-news., 1937-08-14

The ring of a California sequeia tree was count
ed and the tree was found to be $3.50 years old.
The times-news., 1937-08-14

WASHINGTON. 1t is rather
" generally understood here
now that Belgian Premier Va"
Zeeland's first visit to Washington
had as its chief objective i loan
Tor Hitler's Germany.
What isn't so generally known
IS the extent to which interested
nations, including the British gov
ernment's leadership, have been
peeved because Van iceland failed
10 impress even the elevator boys
at the treasury. .
Van iceland was asked by the
British government to offer Brit
aims enthusiastic help in. calling
world ieconomic-armaments con-
ference il the United States would
sponsor that German loan. Pre-
nlier Neville Chamberlain had
gathered the idea from Germany
that she would try 10 be nice in
European politics if she got the
loan.
.sT'HE PROGRESSIVE" a week.
L ly describing itself as La
Follette's Magazine" the president
of which is Senator Bob LaFol-
lette and the secretary Gov. Phil
LaFollette, both of Wisconsin, has
started a poll reaching various
states on :hc issue whether Frank
lin D. Roosevelt should seek
third term.
The question is: What was in
the minds of the LaFollettc boys,
Who yars now allied with Roosevelt
The times-news., 1937-08-14

Parrots live to be about 40 years old on a
average. AZ" @'
The times-news., 1937-08-14

George Washington was six feet two inches tall
The times-news., 1937-08-14
THE FLOATING Tr,pr

THE FLOATING Trpr
sell the Goodyca li.anrD''E Ok; ",
to save lives and MOI ,... ,-".a rg5,
&. j. Vile abou, The T...' T'"y' az
in the outer inner tub. |'.s ao
er, tube floating IN 1,~ ,'' mai
which may 20 down .,g. aga
other will hold ur so,' ",'..s ..s I.
running. The Goodya,," "'.s q.
made 1900 tests owe, y ~, le.E.
two years before p!acirs. .,l.o: ~. q:
on the market q. a n,i.. ,"' ..
doesn't make it guaararr,.. ,.,s .. Y
1t is designed mainly r.. .'..S y.
who must make sr..a. rs
emergency. such 81. f.. "2
patrolmen, ambulance. ANA ..9
ual speed demon, who ,1,,. ,.>';;
must make speed. . al
The times-news., 1937-08-14
DUMBNESS NO EXCUSE

Dumbness can be as much of an
accessory to crime as willful-
ness. Though of course the mo-
tive is different, the effect is the
same. So is the cost.
1t is that three-month public
memory coupled with that public
Indifference, which politicians
confidently rely on, that makes
our government so expensive
and inefficient.
The times-news., 1937-08-14

EFFICIENCY ASSAILED
BY the way, have you noticed
the fight being waged on that
The times-news., 1937-08-14

The Irish Free State has less
thiti 100000 unemployed. 3agHl
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-02-26
SENATE AGAIN GIVES
UP TREATY POWERS TO
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
I Continued from page one)

Fifty-six Democrats, one P!o-
gressive and one Independent
voted for the measure on final
passage while nine Democrats, Ia
Republicans and one Farmer-La-
borite voted may"
Republicans fought continuation
of the sweeping powers awarded
the chief executive under the act
on the same grounds on which
they opposed the bill when 1t first
was sent to the capitol. They
charged that:
!. The measure was unconstitu-
tional. =,
2. American agriculture would
suffer.
/ 3. Concessions under reciprocal
treaties would weaken protective
tariff barriers vital to American
business.
4. Unwise treaties would be ne
gotiated by administration dream
ers" unless the pacts were SUBJ
jected to senate approval.
Senator William E. Borah, h,
Idaho, fought vigorously for an
amendment by Capper which
would have restored to the senate
the power to pass on treaties ne
gotiated. He insisted that the un-
restricted authority granted the
chief executive in the original
trade act was an unlawful delega-
ton of legislative power.
The senate defeated the amend
ment without a record vote.
Senator Steiwer, keynoter at
the 1886 G.. o. P. convention, &C
cused the administration of not
adhering to the "avowed purpose
Of the act. The law has been used,
he said, to "stifle" the protective
tariff policy set up by congress.
"The act is so lacking in re-
straint and boundaries that the
state department may reward one
industry at the expense Of an
other" he said.
BY it's action the senate tacitly
approved the 16 reciprocal trade
treaties already negotiated by the
state department under the act.
Preliminary conversations looking
toward a treaty between Great
Britain and the United States
have been started.