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ately and consistently to produce more
agricultural products than We can
consume or SELL ..y.
When surpluses are produced that
can neither be consumed nor sold,
there are only two alternatives. We
must either curtail the production of
surpluses or run the risk II not assum-
ing the certainty. that by dumping
these surpluses on the home market
we will depress the prices to the
farmer to such low point that he
cannot produce them at a profit. This
situation depresses agriculture, dis
courages the farmer, results in larger
Indebtedness and the foreclosure OF
mortgages on the scale which we
witnessed from 1929 to 1888.
Resolutions on Farm Bills.
1t is in order to avoid this situation
that at the last session Of Congress,
both the House and Senate passed
resolutions committing them to the
enactment Of permanent farm legis-
lation, whether we were called into
extra session or waited for the con-
vening Of the regular session in jan
uary.
In view Of the fact that in some
sections Of the country the farmers
are already beginning to prepare their
soil for next years crops. and In view
of the necessity that whatever machin-
cry is set up shall be geared to operate
on the production and distribution Of
next years crops, the President has
seen flt in his wisdom to call us into
extraordinary session to deal with this
subject.
We all admit that this is the most
important question before the extraor-
dinary session. 1t is subject that
requires most careful examination and
investigation, and the most intense
and thoughtful consideration in order
that we may approach the subject in
wisdom and candor. with full realiza-
ton of the enormity Of the problem
which faces us.
Situation in Lean Years.
During lean years. when nature Is
unkind to agriculture, and either by
a poor crop season or for other rea-
sons the yield Of the soil is curtailed
the necessity for Federal action in
the way Of legislation is proportion
ately lessened. But in dealing with
agriculture as national problem
We must deal with it over 4 period
Of years and not according to the
particular phase that may attend the
growth Of single crop. But when
nature turns out to be most boun-
teous and generous In the yield per
acre so that given number Of acres
in one year may produce an excep-
tional yield SO as to increase beyond
expectation the production Of any
specific crop such as cotton, corn
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bARKLEY DETAILS
SESSION OUTLOOK
Senator Sees No Chances
for Immediate Revision
of Tax Laws.

Immediate revision Of Federal tax
laws by Congress appears unlikely,
but important legislation covering
stabilization of farm prices and gov
ernmental reorganization may be
passed before the end of the extra
session, Senator Alben w. Barkley OF
Kentucky, the Democratic leader,
predicted last night.
Speaking in the National Radio
Forum, arranged by The Star and
broadcast over coast-to- coast net
, work of the National Broadcasting
Co., the Senator also foresaw possible
passage by the House of the wage
hour bill and favorable action in the
Senate on the .anti-lynching measure.
Pointing out that the tax laws are
intricate, largely due to amendments
enacted to meet general conditions
with respect to public revenue brought
about as the result of the depression,
Senator Barkley emphasized that
nasty tax legislation" might create
more difficulties than it cures.
He said he believed remedial tax
legislation, designed to eliminate in
Justices, will be enacted by Congress,
but not within five weeks, which in
all probability will be the length of
the present extraordinary session."
Farm Prices Action.
The Senator said he had no doubt
that within the next few days, in both
House and Senate, the appropriate
committee will bring forth a compre-
hensive and constructive measure that
will eliminate the hazardous fluctua-
tions in the prices of farm products. u
Il have every reason to believe" he
said, that the omnibus reorganiza-
tion bill will be speedily considered
and passed before the end of the extra
session. 1T will be our duty to urge
speedy consideration of this measure
not only in the interest of greater eff
cheney and considerable economy in
operating the Government itself, but
in setting an example to private enter
prise which will be helpful in the CO.
ordination of those functions where
Government and private enterprise
will operate in harmony and in CO.
operation"
The text of Senator Barkleys ad-
dress follows:
Ladies and gentlemen:
I have been asked to speak briefly
this evening on the work OF the extra
session Of Congress, which has met
today to consider the program fol
which the President called it into
extraordinary session. 1t is always
hazardous to predict what Congress
may or may not do within any given
time. Unlike the extraordinary ses-
sions Of most State Legislatures. which
are limited to the consideration OF
subjects set out by the Governor in
the call for an extra session, Congress
. Is as free to take up in an extra ses-
sion any matter not included in the
Presidents program as it would be ir
regular session.
However, there is no reason to as
sumo that Congress will not at once
begin to consider the program out.
lined by the President, subject tt
special exceptions as may have beer
previously ordered by one or the othel
Of the two branches of the Congress
I think it may be assumed that the
paramount question which actuatee
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wheat. tobacco and other specific pro-
ductions We are at once faced with
the necessity of 80 working out our
agricultural economy as to make 1t
unnecessary for the farmer to suffer
unduly because OF either too small or
too great a production Of the crops
necessary to sustain the life Of our
people. 4
1t 50 happens that during the cur
rent year there has been an unusually
favorable crop season. There has
been = greater yield per acre than
has occurred IN a number of years,
and while we cannot assume that this
unusual bounty on the part of nature
Will continue from year to year, we
are compelled to assume the obliga-
ton to which we have heretofore COM
mitted ourselves, of enacting legisla-
ton that will guide American agri-
culture In the process OF attempting
to lift the standards Of prices and
Of profit to level that will enable
the farmer TO- feel reasonably sure
that he will prosper over a period of
years in the production Of his crops.
The situation which confronts us to-
day is the result in part Of over
production in many of the basic crops
of the farm. We will harvest the
largest crop Of cotton in the history
of the Nation. The production of
wheat for 1887 was nearly 300, ,000, 900
bushels greater than the average pro-
duction for the last four or five years.
The production of corn, tobacco, rice
and other basic crops has been in
like proportion.
National Problem.
No individual farmer can regulate
this situation. No county nor State
alone can attempt this regulation, be-
cause no cotton growing State or to-
bacco-growing State, or wheat-growing
State or corn-growing State. would be
willing to attempt any control or cur
tailment unless it had the assurance
that every other State producing the
same crops would do the same. No
such assurances can be obtained.
Therefore the only agency of the peo-
pie capable of dealing with these prob
lens as whole is the National Gov-
ernment.
We have met in extraordinary ses-
sien to attempt to deal with that prob
lem before the Christmas holidays.
The Committees on Agriculture in both
House and Senate have been at work
for weeks upon legislation fulfilling
this obligation. It is not an easy
thing to write such a measure, be-
cause there are many complications
in the attempt to set up the machin-
cry or the policy for the effective con-
troll OF agricultural production so as
to guarantee the fulfillment of the
objectives and at the same time avoid
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SIMPLIFYING TELEGRAMS

The genius who invented the system of using
the words "stop,' Comma" "quote," etc, in tele-
graphic messages, has caused one OF the telegraph
companies enough trouble to force it to apply to
the Georgia public service commission for relief
1t is willing, to place punctuation marks in mes
sages if senders will agree to quit using words for
punctuation The commission has the application
under consideration.
Most persons who receive kilograms can inter-
pret the message without the extra words Of in
sruetion slipped in between sentences and phrases
In fact their use is often annoyance instead of
an aid. To be continuously ordered TO stop when
one isn't going anywhere and is doing nothing but
reading a message often gets on ones nerves Per-
haps the telegraph company, which believes in the
potency of the word "go" rather than stop" has
discovered that the automatic printers balk at the
word and that it is altogether too suggestive to
employees. At any rate the telegraph company Of
fers to insert punctuation without charge if the
writers of messages viii agree not to stop" it.
Spartanburg Herald.
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NO PRISONERS TAKEN

The other day we saw short news item from
Shanghai 1t was that in the war between China
and Japan, mo prisoners are being taken"
This was just about the time that there came
another item that, without warning, a submarine
operating off the Dardanees had sunk Russian
merchant ship.
These two items indicate a definite retrogres-
sion of the morality of nations. They carry us
back to the emotions of the savages of the Jungles
For all of our equipment of science and inven-
ton of swift arpane and spaceannihilating radio,
from social standpoint, the world seems deter
mined to barbarity.
Let us consider this item, "No prisoners are be-
ing taken" An American correspondent went out
to interview the leaders of both armies about 1t.
A Chinese official confirmed the grisly statement,
Japanese officers side-stepped it. But both sides
it is fact.
There are no wounded Chinese in Japanese hos
pitfalls. There wounded Japanese in Chinese
hospitals. To be captured, wounded or not, is but
the prelude to the firing squad.
This lamentable state of affairs was likewise true
early in the civil war raging in Spain for the last
Ia months.
1t is not so much the fact that war itself still
exists that is immensely depressing to anyone who
today surveys the world scene. 1t is that the pur-
pose of war has changed from the imposition OF
ones will the antagonist, to the mass murder
of everyone the other side. This is an extraor-
dinarily alarming development
Today it looks as though, on every front of hu-
man combat, no prisoners are being taken
There is night of Stygian blackness, and day, a
blaze of truth and light.
There is no twilight, no dusk or dawn no merg-
ing at all between these stark absolutes
Today we have no non-combatants, but totali-
tartan states and totalitarian war.
Today, it is women and children frst-for the
slaughter house.
Today, labor disputes are private wars with no
quarter. The antagonist is completely wrong and
should be hit with baseball bat, or lied about and
ruined.
Today, no prisoners are taken. Mans spirit has
betrayed him, has led him back into the jungle
again, from which it took him hundred centuries
to emerge.-Chattanooga News
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NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
POLITICAL APPROACH

AS for the criticism of Governor Hoey by WIZ
lard E. Givens, secretary of the National Educa-
ton association, for the formers oppositlon 10
federal aid for Schools" the Daily News hnds IT.
self hoping that Mr. Givens-and Of course there
is nothing whatever in a name-has more 1uh-
damental conception of education than he mas OF
taxation in its ultimate application.
Mr.. Givens falls into the fallacious appeal OF the
politicians whose primary concern is getting heip-
ings from the federal treasury for constituency
which in appreciation is supposed to retain them IN
office. - "
Without going into the merits of federal aid Tor
education, per Sc the associations secretary cites
the low educational standards of the Carolinas
both of whose governors voiced apprehension over
the federalized support and the degree Of Wash
ngton control which might result. There is no say
ing that these two states do not need to be told OF
their poor standing; but such reminding is beside
the main tax point which is hurled at the position
taken by our own Governor Hoey. Hear it:
1.-THE state of North Carolina ranks but little
higher in its ability to support schools. The people
of North Carolina, however, are interested in the
fact that the federal government collects from
their state, because of the tobacco industry, more
taxes than from any other state except New York
and Illinois. The question of concern to them IS
whether they ever will be able to get back any OF
this money for the education of their children"
The first sentence of this excerpt obviously blasts
the second. North Cardinals financial inability to
provide bigger and better schools is emphasized.
Yet there is the Immediately conflicting stress that
this state pays more taxes to the federal govern
ment than any other state save New York and
should get part of this back for its schools
Indeed, it is funny how such poor state as Mr..
Givens first emissions pours so much into the fed
eral till. The obvious answer is that it does not.
The tobacco taxes to which reference is made are
paid by cigarette consumers wherever they may be.
New Workers, paying through plants located here,
contribute substantially of that total than do
native Tar Heels. The tax happens to be paid
through North Carolina because the tobacco fac
tories are located herein; but it is truly national
tax-Greensboro News.
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speaker, then at the toothorusn.
"Wall, / swami" he calculated. 81
thought it belonged to the Pull
man company"
Yet here is an analogous Incl
dent which actually happened to
a woman friend of mine. She had
brought in a girl from the sticks
to do general housework. One day
she said to the girl, "Jennie, yes
terday morning / found my tooth
brush wet; this morning | again
found it wet. You are not by any
chance using my toothbrush, are
you?"
The girl turned a pair of big
honest eyes on her mistress.
"Why, yes'm," she admitted. 81
thought that was what it was
for"
And here is another bit of COM
edy you probably have heard:
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THE NEW DEAL
IN WASHIN GTON
by RODNEY BUTCHER.
BYRODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

WASHINGToN.-Men closest to
" the Roosevelt throne" always
are subject to sharpshooting from
those not so close, but wishing
they were.
Conservative hosannas greeted
Tugwell's departure as Roose-
welt shift to the right" Promptly,
however, it became obvious the
President was cooking up the most
radical Of his programS-the SUI
preme Court change plan.
And it took little time for the
opposition, the would-be favorites
and the ex-favorites to get their
fire conferred on two lawyers,
Thomas G.. Corcoran, SO, and
Benjamin v. Cohen, AZ. "Tom and
Ben" are the opposition's latest
candidates for the Sausage-grinder.
Neither functions as a general
adviser of the Tugwell or Moley
type. But their scalpS, for anyone
who would strike at Roosevelt, are
well worth getting. Corcoran,
ubiquitous, super-energetic, bril-
liant, is the Presidents favorte
trouble-Shooter, liaison man, CO.
ORIGINATOR, conciliator, ghost writer
and salesman.
Cohen. his teammate and ROOM
mate, has drafted lawS--none of
which has yet been found vul-
nerable by either Wall Street law
yers or the Supreme Court. sl-
A CTUALLY the TON and Ben"
team also includes a Bob and
Bill, Assistant Attorney General
Robert II. Jackson and SEC Conn
missioner William o. Douglas.
These four liberals, all promoted
from obscurity in New Deal ranks
because Of jobs we'll handled. are
expert in certain fields-Jackson
on taxation, monopoly laws and
successful argument before the
supreme Court; Douglas in cor
porate finance, reorganizations and
other Wall Street devices; Cohen
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in legal craftsmanship and Cor
coran in many fields.
Corcoran and Cohen rank as
special assistants to the attorney
general, in addition TO important
legal jobs under RFC and the Ma
tional Power Policy Committee re-
Spectively. They seem to get the
toughest White House assignments.
Much Of the anti-Corcoran and
Cohen attack is based on the de-
fusion that they were responsible
for the badly licked, perhaps fate
full. court plan. Attorney General
Cummings plotted that one ex.
clusively with Roosevelt.
In the last campaign Corcoran,
Stanley High and Judge Sam
Rosenman-who was on the presi-
dental train-were collaborators
on RooSevelt's campaign speeches.
In the previous administration
Corcoran and Cohen had fought
the Hobbies of the stockholders,
investment bankers and public
Copyright. 1897. NEA Service. Incl
NEXT: The real Brain Trust In
Washington '.'In
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WE FUNNY HUMANS
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

An old colored woman was GO
ing around among the merchants
of Suwannee. River village one
morning seeking donations of
food for a "pahty." When ques-
toned about the marty she ex-
planned, "Sam Elliott is comm
home from de penNentiary dis
evenin' an we wants to give him
comm out PATTY"
/ thought that story just too
funny until during the past TWEEN
ty-four months two white poll
ticians came back from the peni-
Tertiary where they had been
serving sentences and were well
coined by leading white citizens
as if returning from noble and
successful ventures. The living
rooms of their homes were bank
ed with flowers; their doorbells
were rung necessarily by callers;
and their telephones vibrated to
congratulatory messages. One OF
the eX-convicts was met by a mo-
torcade, escorted to his home city,
and required to make q speech.
Since then / can see nothing fun
ny in those Suwannee River ne
groes' giving eX-convict Sam FL
lott coming out" party.
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was performing
his additions in
the Mushroom of
a Pullman car.
Seeing his tooth
brush picked up
by another pas
senger who was
preparing to use
it, he said, Hold
on t h e + e, my
friend. That is
M y toothbrush
you have there"
The man ac-
costed looked in
surprise at the
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Probably every joke however
ridiculous is founded on real life.
Many ludicrous stories are ex-'
ceeded in absurdity in real life.
For instance, you have heard
the old Joke about the man who
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tbs fall ABOUT ii.tcc, MIN
lars, Well doc> tha, %..,i:4 %,
ness good "dEo bus'
We read and enjoy ,,.,,.
OF your paper. Worr5 , "or,
move back if | did,', ,' nave t,
With kindest rcgorS Sy' IT,
and all my friends in III. 70 70,
county. ''s city an,
Iom very truly
DE e. WAlbROp
GreenyiIIc ~" " ,
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ments in the building of better
type of homes for rental pur-
poses. This condition retards the
growth and progress of the COM
munity. The next move must be
by those with vision to build and
develop,
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Even the telephone operator finds her.
self in the thick of the Mediterranean mys-
terry submarine puzzle with the signing of
the Ny-on Power Piracy Pact.
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Forest Hills.
1t certainly would help us ig-
noramuses if radio speakers
would speak clearly and pro-
nounce correctly.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-22
BIBLE THOUGHT
eye SHALL RECEIVE Po"ER
,r,., that the Holy Ghost is come upon YOU
(ActS l:S)

Only the Holy Ghost can change the world Inc
size of the church is not the size OF its machinery
is method. its statistics its orthodoxy Inc SIZE
of church is the size of its power and the SIZE
and source of its power today, as at the beginning
will be found WHEN THE CHURCH NAMES
ROOM FOR THE HOLY GHosT-Rev. James l.
Vance, ID. .....
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Editor Times-News: -l..
{ Will you please publish in your
paper that Prof. r. NJ. WINS and
Mrs. WINS spent the night Of
September II and Sunday with
US, on his way to Fork Union Mil
itary academy, at Fork Union,
Va. Both were looking well and
seemed to be in fine spirit. Mr..
WINS has accepted a position in
the academy. 1t sure was good
to see him again. could not find
Il grey hair on his head, and me
looks very little older, which
shows what the right kind of liv-
ing will do for us. He asked
about everyone and said that he
was very sorry that he did not
have time in which to visit all his
old friends.
Our tobacco market is in full
swing and the old town is hum
ming. We all look forward to this
time of the year, just rs you look
for summer visitors and we eX-
pect to pay out on our market
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WHAT WAS 1T?

The other day radio sports
commentator was reporting on
the tennis games at -Four Stills"
Several times he referred to
-Four Stills" Some listeners were
Where or what was
"Four Stills?"-Was it a place or
a brand of whisky? Of-course the
matter was plain enough to per-
sons who already knew that the
tennis match was being held at
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A Yale professor says we spend about
as much for chewing gum as for science.
Maybe, but how does science help a steno
get those reports out by p. M?
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Could it be the Farley flair for names
that has the big league baseball magnates
recalling men they farmed out to the mi
morse.
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ITO A LOCUST rRFr,

Sweet winds toss YOUR ,;,,.,
Fresh from the rurro ",.s leave,
And cool from The spgrs,;,.,
tney sing I O'''t
As playfu! cddio> rush apll.
"a
sprinkle your lacy leave, p.a
" me sIi l,u'tor'n- shadows If, HI !, y,
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The season for fve-headed cabbages
finally having passed, we next enter the
era of the stove leagues 90 horsepower
raspberry. at
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If you would live among eongenial people who
share your IDEAS find those who have the same
troubles and the same size of bankron
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The Tai Mahal is considered the wonder of the
world. 1t is the only beautiful thing not Clipped
by American souvenir hunters.
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Scpoy is the nam. give, -.
soldiers of'thc British NATIVE - :.
in India.
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THE brown house is believed have invaded Euoe ~
Asia in 1927 by swimming the Voga river Since men, s
vaded the rest of the world travelling mans SHIPS IN
United States they cause estimated annual loss Of s"
n mention the disease they spread
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CHANGE IN OFFICERS: Thos.
By Moan Hollowell

CHANGE IN orriSENo: mos.
Fl. Franks retires from the local
Red Cross Craftsmanship after five
years of service, some of which
was very eventful. He went into
office about the time the Red
Cross began to distribute free
flour and clothing. This was a
very busy period in the life of
this organization. AS one who
helped hand it out i have often
thought we did more injury than
good in actual relief. The high
spot in his craftsmanship occurred
incident to the relief provisions
and helpers sent by the local
chapter to the flooded area.
j. c. Coston's first work will
be organization for the annual
membership roll call. He is cap
able of rendering the organiza-
ton a great service.