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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21

WTASHINGTONH-If you've been
w fairly constant reader OF
The papers for the past couple of
months, you may not see anything
very noteworthy in this headline:
ROOSEVELT TRIMS PROGRAM
To HASTEN END OF SESSION;
SEES HIS POLICIES MENACED
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21

What, no celebration for the mid-August
official opening of hay fever season?
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21

The Ohioan who attended the same
county fair SO consecutive years might
proftably have sat down and become a
part of it.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21

French law has met its greatest crisis.
"A defendant went on the stand without
pleading the Unwritten Law.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21

News item: Most of Europes statesmen
left on vacations August l." Saving the
world isn't so important in hot weather.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21

The firm that promises filling of ink
for every pen sold brings the question of
whether that would be in competition with
the post office.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21

ELECTRIC SMELLER: Luther
Shipman is on the street with
new small. simplified model OF the
"eIcctric smeller" that DR.. j. IT,
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-08-21
BIBLE THOUGHT
ruc uEART,S cry
A HOPEFUL OUTLOOK FOR THE FALL
TRADE ...
(By BRUCE CATION


that everyone hates to make them any
more. Yet the desire to plan for the future
and to try to estimate that future is so
strong that it always overcOmeS the reluc-
lance born of past disappointments.
The fact that almost every surveyor OF
the business scene today looks ahead to
higher business levels in the fall tempts
even the pesSimistic to be hopeful. Here
are some of. the indications on which the
observers agree pretty unanimously.
The income of farmers, despite the drop
in cotton prices, is expected to approach
1929 levels, and in purchasing power it
may even exceed 1929, because farmers
will be able to get more for their money
than they could in those days. Even drop
in cotton prices might not be an unmixed
evil if U. S. prices came nearer the world
level and thus enabled the United States
to regain some of the world cotton trade
which has been gradually slipping away
from us.
Steel operations continue to hold up at
high levels at season when they usually
decline. Despite lower purchases by the
auto industry, other buying holds it up in
good style. Automobile output itself holds
up in manner that has surprised many in
the trade, the slight decline being less than
is usual at this time of year. Operations in
this industry, despite shut-downs, are close
to a record for the end of model year"
Sales of six leading mail order houses
will come close to billion dollars this
year, not only an increase of 81 per cent
over last year, but far greater than those
of 1929. This is another of the national
enterprises which is actually breaking
through 1929 highs, the objective that
must be attained if anything approximate
ing the 1929 kind of prosperity is to be
reached.
The outlook for better farm purchasing
power as stimulus to increased fall bust
ness is aided by factors like this Farm
mortgage debt is far lower than during
the 1929 era, and pays far lower rate OF
interest. Farmers taxes are still perhaps
30 per cent lower than they were eight
years ago. This better status of the farmer
has been revealing itself in firmer status
of farm values than has been seen since
1882.
Thus, in the fall season when business
activity tends to slump off somewhat, there
is every reason to expect this year that
business will hold up splendidly or even
gam somewhat. All of which augurs well
for the future, and gives hope that super
1929 production levels lie ahead that
will make some dent in the unemployment
problem. For in making big dent in that
problem lies the solution for all the others.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-06
News Behind the News
WAGES. Hours and Labor

WASHINGTON. - Here Is spectacle uhal
puzzles many people wage-hour-bill intended
to benefit the working man, yet which has the
active opposition of one part of organized labor,
and the lukewarm support of another
To understand this seeming paradox, keep
in mind these things: such a bill might help
the A F. of L.. but it would probably help the
clio even more In just the same way, the Ma
tional Labor Relations act helped the A. +. OF
l., but it helped the CIO more.
That helps to explain why A. F. of L. President
William Green who was hot for waseS-and-
hours bill last August, is now against 1t. They
also explain why Green. who was instrumental
in getting the NLRB started, is now bitterly
attacking it, while CIO criticism has been quite
mild.
The tepid Endorsement of CLOS Lewis, as
we'll as the opposition of Green to wages-and-
hours legislation, may also be influenced by the
fact that such legislation might even beneft
low-pad and unorganized workmen more than
union members in better-paid fields
Green and Lewis are each influenced by
groups within their organizations. The garment
and textile workers hot for law placing
bottom on wages and ceiling hours, for
they are the ones who have to worry about
sweatshops, low-wage competition, and towns
which offer inducements to firms seeking cheap
labor markets.
Through the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
United Textile Workers, and International Ladies
Garment Workers. all CIO unions, there is
pressure Lewis which explains his support
But some of the powerful building and metal
no wage-hour hSgslation at all. They loboied
against the bill last summer, arguing in effect
that higher wages for unskilled labor mean less
chance of increased wages for skilled craftsmen.
Green then suggested three amndmntS, and
indicated that he would support bill contain
ing them. Late in August Green was demand
ing that Congress stay in session until it
passes the wages and hours bill
Green's recent change of front is based large
" on his charge that the Labor Relations Board
has so badly administered the Wagner Act that
the A F. of L. no longer considers it safe to
entrust TO government board the many de-
cisions necessary under wage-hour legislation
as now written
Green then suggested three amendments, and
NLRB has tried to abroga5e contracts between
employers and unions. The CIO retorts that
the contracts the NLRB is charged with abro-
eating were generally engineered by employers
with A F. of L. organizers who represented very
few employees.
The A. F of L. organizers in these cases fol-
lowed the policy of their leadership in eagerly
denouncing the CIO a dangerous, lawless
group and cashed in on the resentment against
the CIO which was prevalent at the time in
certain circles
The NLRB decisions in cases of A. F. of l..
Clio disputes is important because it colored
the whole attitude of organized labor toward
government boards. and it is in a government
board that administration of the proposed wage
hour bill would center.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-06
Other Editors Say
SOME OPTIMISM. TOO
Ventura STAR

In spite of the heavy volume of new-depres-
sion talk you hear and read, business experts
aren't 100 per cent gloomy in their current
statements by any means.
Todays mail. for instance, contains several
optimistic items, some of them direct from Wall
street itself.
Roger BabSon who sometimes has been wrong
in his forecasts and on other occasions has
been accurate, in a current letter writes that,
The bad break in the market has created the
false impression that we are entering major
depression in security prices and business activi-
ty.' He then adds his own opinion:
Fundamental factors are still bullish. While
business will drop further, the end of the first
quarter of 1893 should a resumption of the
basic upward trend. The stock market has
ver-discounted any business recession we can
foresee"
A federal home loan bank release FROM Wash
ington says: Extensive expansion of home build
ing in the far western states is imminent"
quoting T. D. Webb, its vice chairman upon
his return from a western trip
And the weekly letter OF the Administrative
and Research corporation, New York contains
this paragraph:
Reports from agricultural states in the mid
west and west indicate steadily rising retail
and mai-order sales. Farm machinery makers
reported a sales increase of 20 per cent in
October as compared with october, 1885, and
November sales running ahead of October
levels Mail-order houses report sales improve
ment between u and 20 per cent over 1886"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-06
How Improvement
Cuts Public Cost

Fire insurance rates in Ell CentrO
have been reduced from 10 TO 20 per
cent-a saving of thousands of dollars
to home owners and business men over
a period of months-because the city
has improved its fire department, its
water department and other depart
ments of similar nature. The reduction
is an efficient demonstration of the
value of improvement to a city.
If the city council had not voted ex-
penditures for new fire fighting equip
ment. for strengthening the city's big
water tank, and for like improvements,
these reductions in rates fixed by the
underwriters would not have been pos
sible The city, in brief, had to spend
money TO save money-but the saving,
in the end, so far exceeds the amount
spent that there is no room for compar-
iSon.
The city council, backing up Fire Com
missioner Harry Sones and members of
the fire department, has virtually put
money back into the pockets of the tax
payers, who are also the ones who pay
insurance premiums.
1t is not often there is such concrete
demonstration of the immediate bene-
fits from we'll planned Improvement
yet few minutes of thought will con-
vince anyone that there is just as much
to be had from any worthy program of
city improvement. Sometimes the re-
suit is in beauty, sometimes in eharac-
ter, sometimes in reduced crime, but
the fact remains that the result is there.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-06
To Gain Success,
Go to Prison

Folsom Prison, the Radio City OF
California"
We need not stretch our imagination
too far to visualize such a description
of this states institution for two-time
losers if Warden Clyde |. Plummer car
ries out his propensities for encouraging
the musical and dramatic talents of his
charges Already he has allowed four
convicts to play for a dance outside the
prison walls, and film paper IN Hol-
lywood reported that he stands ready
TO support an attempt by the convict
orchestra to obtain radio sponsor. 1t
wouldn't take much more to turn Fol
som into some kind of a dramatic school
conducted by the state.
If this thing really gains headway
the best advice an admlrlng parent can
give talented offspring might be, 'go
to Folsom, ladi'
1t seems to us there is considerable
difference between rehabilitating con-
victs by teaching them useful trades and
arts, and allowing them to take advan-
tage of the talents they have neglected
while out of prison to commercialize
themselves while in prison
We believe in teaching the convict
that it pays to be honest-not that it
pays to be in prison.
Somehow or other, we cling to the old
fashioned belief that a man is sent to
prison as punishment, and not so that
he may be sponsored by the state as a
competitor against someone who has
struggled against countless obstacles to
earn an honest living in his chosen line.
When prisons cease to be places of pun
ishment, there will be nothing to deter
criminals from crime
The parole laws are overly abused.
but it seems just bit ridiculous to re-
move the parole evil by making prison
so attractive t hat convicts don't
want paroles. Trials are costly things,
but we would hate to do away with them
by making prison so comfortable that
all prisoners would plead guilty.
Civilization is not yet ready for the
time when policeman will serve an
engraved invitation instead of war
rant of arrest on criminals.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-06

CIufnpeI we re-O. u. Mcintyre
called the days when she was Mary
Margaret Mcbride, an Evening Mail
reporter, and I trembled in fear
of my job on the outer rim of a
copy desk. And came telegram
from the Inner Percy Crosby
which l shall treasure.
To dinner with my wife at The
Colony and talked to Adolphe Men
jou and Verree Teasdale, the Her
bert Swopes. Byron Foy AMI Glare
Booth, the playwright. Then through
the park so the dog could bark al
the bronze tiger OH a rock he has
suddenly discovered. Home finish
ing the profile of Luscious Lucius
the gorgeous gazetteer
Many of us somehow always as
sociate Fanny Brice with the plain
tive song she sang in the Midnight
E'rolic, called MY Man" A shawl
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-06
You re Telling Ne -

this-you have to be a sultan to
get away with 1t.
What has become of the small
brain who was always swimming
beyond his depth. despite warnings,
last summer? Oh, he's taken up
ski jumping and is trying to teach
himself.
You're getting old when it seems
that Just couple of weeks ago the
newspapers were printing drawings
of a little winged and naked baby,
labeled 1897.
The sun, now says a noted "a
stronomer, may explode-at any
time. And we're afraid, if Old Sol
has been watching what has been
going on on this planet, he may
do Just that-at any time.
We ought to be sore at the Duke
OF Windsor. We have been plan
ming to write screamingly funny
comic opera. And here he goes
beating us to 1t by acting out the
chief role on the front pages Of
this newspaper -
Distric. Attorney Dewey, youtES
full gang buster of New York.
should go far. Up to now no en-
i thusiastic supporter Ito our knowl-
edge) has turned the public from
him by referring to Dewey as the
boy Wonder.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-06

ed Niobe. she leaned against the
post holding a, dull blob of gas
light that revealed mean Paris
street. While she sang, nation
wide man-hunt for her husband
the notorious Mickey Arnstein, was
in progress and naturally added to
the poignancy of her lament. The
theme of that song-no matter what
happens, the maid still loves her
man-has threaded Miss Brice's life.
Her most recent headline flare-up
concerned the intention of her Sec
ond husband. Billy Rose, to ask her
to divorce him so he could marry
another. The shoW-must- -go-on and
the Pagliacci touch are not press
agent imaginings in her unhappy
career. She is a true and beloved
trouper.
Add Thespic art in the OZarkS:
A street carnival show bills itself
as The Jigfield Jollies.
Harry Evans, New York's typical
man about town via Jacksonville,
Fla, might appear one of the frivol-
GUS social butterflies of the cafes
and night clubs. He seems omni-
present where lights are brightest
Yet he is the alert editor and spon-
sor of a free circulating magazine
| that is the talk of the publication
field. He began his New York
career as movie critic on old Life
and five years ago launched a
periodical called The Family Circle
devoted to the grocery and allied
trades. 1t clicked from the kick
off.
Willard Huntington Wright is re-
garded as the most versatile of the
writing folk. And one who salvagei
happiness. fame and wealth from
almost complete despair He was
seeking relief from the tedium of a
complete nervous breakdown when
he decided to write detective stories
merely to divert the agony of his
travail. Thus, under the pseudo
nym S. S. Van Dine, he created the
Philo Vance tales that became con-
slant best sellers Before his illness
he had been high blown author
ity on art, philosophy and Egyptol-
ogy. Now that he can roam the
world, live in<his choice of several
country estates. his diversion is
breeding fine dogs, especially the
Scottie. He is also an authority on
tropical fish. o, yes, he sports a
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-06
The Grab Bag

One-Minute Test
]. Who is U. S. ambassador TO
Japan?
2. Name the capital of New
Zealand.
3. Who wrote poor Richards
Almanac?
Hints on Etiquette
Modern etiquette considers 1t
taste to serve the woman guest
of honor first rather than the
hostess.
Words of Wisdom
We! who come last, are born with
the wealth OF antiquity--Colier
Today's Horoscope
Manp persons whose birthday
occurs today are of sentiye nature.
They must combat a tendency to-
ward self-pity
One Minute Test Answers
/. Joseph G. Grew.
2. Wellington.
3, Benjamin Franklin,
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-06
Bruce Carton Says:
- Another Lofty War illusion is Broken

of course, and this gallant young
hero may be of different stripe
from ORDINARY military flyers. But
what he writes Is worth pondering
over, because it does show how an
aviator of war can dill
fer from the view one gets on the
ground.
That budding rose effect, for in
stance, could be seen only from the
air. At ground level one would miss
the delicate. unfolding beauty and
see only the mangled bodies. the
pain and the terror. And the boy
ish fun that can be had from try
ing to drop an incendiary bomb
into somebody's home is not quite
the sort of emotion that would be
experienced by the. people who
were inside the home at the time.
They might feel very differently
about the affair.
Now we have got into the habit
of looking on aviators as dashing
and romantic warriors. 1t has been
said that they restore the essence
of knightly chivalry to warfare.
Much fine stuff has been written
about their daring and about the
way they have restored adventurs,
to war.
1t is about time we revised osx
ideas. Aviators make war on de-
fenseless folk; they kill women and
children, burn houses that are full
of non -combatants, and find "ex-
ceptionally good fun in dismem-
bering people who can't hit back,
If there is anything knightly or.
romantic about that, it is hard to
think what it can be.
Mussolini's callous jubilance may
helm lis change our opinions.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-06

Maybe we will have to revise our
ideas about aviators, If we are to
have any hope of getting the hor-
ror of war out of the world
Exhibit A in the case is the book
just written by Vittorio Mussolini,
the dictator's son who is currently
one of the ornaments of an italian
bombing squadron.
War, says young Mussolini, is
"the quintessence of beauty; it is
magnificent sport" particularly
the bombing raids. Then, he de-
scribes some of his adventures dur
ing the war in Ethiopia, to prove
his point.
Speaking of a raid on a detach-
ment of native cavalry, he writes:
I'VE arrived upon them unob-
served and Immediately dropped
out our loads of explosives. 1 re-
member that one group of horsemen
gave me the impression of a bud
ding rose as the bombs fell in their
midst. 1t was exceptionally good
fun, and they were easy to hit as
we were not too high up. They
made a perecft target"
And a little later he describes
the bombing of an Ethiopian town
called Adi-Ado. Incendiary bombs
were dumped here, as follows:
This was swell. and had a ira
gic but beautiful effect. Our best
fun was trying to hit a large hut
which stood in the middle of the
town. had to fly over it three
times to make it. The third time
l hit it and saw 1t begin to burn.
Ethiopians leaped out and tried to
escape. We started enough fire to
heat half the globe"
It takes all sorts to make a world
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-06
Van Dyke.

van Dyke.
The Hotel Seville on 10Th street
is a delight to those who enjoy the
out-moded oil paintings of yes
terday: Such as "The Stag at Bay,
I'm Love-, etc The lobby and bar
are hung with many of these long
ago treasures. And especially there
is one fruit picture to end all fruit
pictures. 1t centers around juicy
slice Of watermelon and shoots the
works. Fruity, no end!
Bagatelles: Anon Carter likes
Roquefort cheese dressing on his
grapefruit salad, and it is swell
Peter Arno is being baited for a big
romantic part in Hollywood film
=. Russell Patterson, magazine il
illustrator, has become a production
manager in Hollywood Tommy
Lyman, best known of the "torch
singers" is near so and a confirmed
bachelor.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-06

hnOue ISland'S argument over
voting machines is summed up by
one of the disgusted opposition,
who says that i'm his life, the darn
cd things just don't count.
In Russia'S first popular elec-
ton, the POLITICAL football coaches
| will be assembled from among the
most prominent old Lenin-grads.
British officials refer to their
government as plural, saying, 1.-The
government are" or THE govern
ment were"
U. S. farmers will enjoy an in
come of more than nine billion dol
lars this year federal statisticians
predict. This figure represents an
increase of S1,135, 900 over the 1896
total.
Many varieties of deep sea fish
first burst" when brought to the
surface The change is air pres
sure is too great for their air blad-
ders.
Earliest American automobiles
had three hand levers, two hand
wheels, three foot levers and two
bells.
A l5-inch Civil war cannon shot
recently was unearthed at Fort
McHenry, Maryland.
In the rush for raw materials,
almost any nation would sell its
birthright for mess of potash.
Now that the tuxedo season is
fully in. clothes will make the man
long for the tie that doesn't bind.
BritainS new war armor has a
chip on its shoulder but Italy
Germany and Japan will swear up
and down it's riveted fast
Several eastern college grid
teams form what is known as the
Ivy League, but not necessarily
because the players are social
climbers.
All that has saved Mussolini
from a major war is the fact that
no fearless opponent has yet come
up with an order TO fire when you
see the whites OF his eyes"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-06
Kelley Will Speak
On State Spending

The spending of state funds will
be explained by Earl Lee Kelly,
state director of public works, at
the luncheon meeting Of the Ell
Centro Chamber of Commerce Dec
B.
Millions of dollars pass through
his offices every year and all high
way expenditures are under his
control. Walter Havekorst, cham
Der of commerce president, said
the public may attend the lunch
con at the Barbara Worth hotel to
discuss highway matters with him.
Time will be allotted for those
present to ask questions of the
speaker.
Reservations must be made with
the chamber of commerce.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-12-06
BY WILLIAM RITT

THOSE LITTLE liquor casks
which were attached to collars OF
Saint Bernard dogs sent out to
aid distressed travellers in the Alps
have been replaced with thermos
bottles of hot coffee. We thought
we noticed falling off in number
of people who had to be rescued.
A canine expert says the bark
of a dog can be heard at an alti-
tude of one mile. 1t can also be
heard, we've noticed, through the
thickest of bedroom walls at am.
Sixty-five per cent OF mems
neckties, according to depart
ment store executive. are purchas-
ed by women. And may we hide
behind that chair?) they look it,
| too.
If the planet Saturn is inhabited
the people living there must have
terrible time trying to avoid fail
ing in love. The planet has 10
moons.
1
Distance certainly does lend en-
chantment. Wheeling a lawn mow-
er around always appears soft
snap when it's time to WELD a
snow shovel, instead.
The camera was invented just
| 100 years ago. The man at the next
desk says he doesn't believe 1t.
HOLLYWOOD could not have turned
out so many bad pictures in so
short of time.
The Rev. Gerald l.. K. Smith
says his Sunday afternoon radio
talks will combine the energy of
Billy Sunday revival, the sin
cerity of q William Jennings
Bryan campaign and the sound
ness of Abraham LincOln's Amer
icanism. What, isn't the Rev. Ger
aid contributing anything, him
self?
If those organizations which
plan to boycott the boxing match
between Max Schmeling, because
of German mirth. and Joe Louis
would see themselves as others do
they should turn to a recent issue
of a New York magazine. In II
is a drawing of Semitic gentle
man, passing a pet shop, and delib-
erately snubbing friendly dach,
shund.
THE SULTAN OF SULU, We
read, is one of the worlds most
successful contract bridge players
because he always has one of his
aides walk around the table to gel
look at his opponents hands
Don't get too ambitious because oi