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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-17

JUST received shipment crim<o,
clover new crop. Closing ont
cow peas ut reduced price We
have cane seed, soy beans
millet. cubor, baricide. ultra,
lifed feeds. ID. T. Hart Co.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-17

PLACE YOUR ORDERS NOW
for Stark's trees for fall deliv-
cry at last Springs low prices.
They're certain to advance. III.
Walter Fuller, l3l 9Th Ave.
West. Phone 7S2.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-17

FOR SALE-Largc house with
four bedrooms nicely located in
center of town, furnished.
$3,500.00. Home and Garden
Realty Company.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-17

ELECTRIC pumps for any volt
age or current. Electric mo-
tors. Radios. Delco Light
Plants and Batteries Phone 284.
A. NJ. Featherstone at Gray u
Higgins.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-17

SUNSHINE Play School. Ages 2
to 7. Phone 2i5-J.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-17
5-Foodstutfs

CHILEAN CHAMPION SODA
$3.50; July potatoes Sl.5O bu.;
half gal. jars soc; qts. Soc;
used refrigcratorS cheap. II. ID.
Hyder On bank at depot.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-17

PEDlGREED M&i-e-grown fall
potato seed for sale. Now in
cold storage so as to have them
in sound, vigorous, unsprouted
condition. $3.50 bushel. r. X.
Stepp, HenderSonville. n. c.,
Route 3.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-17

FOR SALE-$5o trained fox
hound for SIS. Corbin MI
Tower, 1T. /, Zirconia, n. C.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-17
4-Seeds and Plants

TO MAKE ROOM for planting
Florida fall plant beds will sell
cabbage plants dollar thousand;
coilardS. eighty cents at bed
this week only. Norman Bitch.
Chimney Rock Road. Mile out.
Phone 309-W.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-17

THIS WEEK SPEClAL-Three-
piece wicker suites; sturdy con-
struction, inner spring cushions
for only $2S.35. Reliable
Furniture Co. opposite court
house. Phone 770. more value
for your money"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-17

FOR SALE-FreSh COW. /. f
Ningo. Horse Shoe, y. c.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-17

FOR SALE-20o0 pound yoke of
Streers well broke. RAYMOND
Ward, HenderSonville, RED. q
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-17
For Rent
l6--Apartments

DOWNSTAIRS room and Kitchen
cite. apartment. Sink and gas.
922 18th Ave. w. Phone 907-M.
Evening star., 1937-12-20
Santa Claus Promises in
Stores Bad for Children

To the Editor Of The Star:
Where is the old-time Santa CLAUSE"
When I was a child Santa Claus was
an angel of dreams. who came silently
IN the night to reward good little chill
dren with gifts and, Of course, at Christ
mas time all little children were good.
Oh, those overflowing stockings, hang
ing around the fireplace! Red-striped
stick candy, raisins, nuts and oranges.
Oranges, the fruit that only belonged
to Santa Claus and Christmas.
Merchants of today, in their greed for
gold, have torn the mask of glamour
from Santa Claus face Commercializing
the one ministering angel of q child's
world. No wonder there are cynics
among children. What are they to believe
when they see Santa Claus in every
store and on every street corner?
In one of the department stores last
week overheard very poor little girl
asking this impersonator of dear Santa
Claus for things she couldn't possibly re-
ceive, and he said "You shall have them" +"
What unhappiness will be hers when
she aWakens on Christmas morn and the
things she asked for are not there?
Will her faith in Santa Claus be shaken
or will she feel that she hasn't been
as good as she should have been? The
little girl next door received so much
more. How can this be explained-or can
1t be? LOVE o. PHOEBUS.
Evening star., 1937-12-20
Books for the White House,

When President Roosevelt retires to
the second floor of the White House,
his secretaries declare that he means
them to understand that he wants rest
and recreation. He has his stamp COL
lection for self-entertainment in such
leisure as his position permits. Also, it
is known that he likes to read. But
as to the nature of the literature he
prefers. "deponent saith not" The titles
of 200 volumes presented by the Ameri-
can Book Sellers Association, however,
provide clue as to what is available.
For example. the list includes the fifth
part Of Ray Stannard Bakers definitive
biography Of Woodrow Wilson, q. X.
Chesterton's autobiography and the
photographed Experiment" OF II. G.
Wells, Doctor Harvey Cushing's COM
pilation From Surgeons Journal" and
Clarence Days recollections OF Life
With Father" and "Life With Mother"
Douglas Freemanis masterpiece, "R. e.
Lee" and J. w. Linn's "Jane Addams,"
Marquis James Andrew jackson" ana
Harold Nicholson's Dwight Morrow"
Evening star., 1937-12-20

The men working . stand regularly
resent the stranger.
Maybe you have had . cab come 10
your door, and you have denied ever
sending for him7 :.
Well, you know how 1t happens, now.
4
Templeton Jones got to thinking Of
all tho Warrington cab men he had
ridden with, and remembered them ~
all very decent fellows.
One was former steamfltter, another
. young fellow going to college.
Most Of them had been loquacious,
once you got them started.
They were willing to keep quiet, II
the customer wanted to keep quiet,
but nothing pleased them better than
to talk over the affairs OF the day, ma
tionally and internationally.
Their understanding of public ques-
tions invariably was acute.
They had their nose in the news, and
. rather good grasp Of practical politics.
Many Of them had driven cabs In other
cities, some Of them from coast to
coast.
All Of them without exception agreed
that washington was the worst city in
the country to drive in.
When Jones had asked them why.
the answer always had been "You never
can tell what anybody is going to do"
The unanimous opinion among the
cabmen was that there were too many
taxis in the National Capital.
AS to which cabs and men should be
eliminated, that seemed another ques-
ton.
Taximen, as they told It to Jones,
had been hard put to 1t, in the last few
years, to make living.
Whereas some five years ago they
could run about 100 miles in eight
hours, today they must keep going for
twelve hours to cover the same number
of miles.
While some OF the men claim earn
ings of 81 day, much greater number
will say they often do not make much
over dollar and a half.
Jones had talked to one man who
said he had cleaned up $24 one day. but
at the same time admitted 1t had never
happened before or since.
- y
Local taximen have, in their time,
turned their hand at hundreds of ways
OF making a living, Jones discovered,
before they took to the cabs.
Some of them have hunted and fished
where suburban Washington was country
They have remarkably uniform ideas
as to automobiles, and no wonder, for
they practically live in them.
You can't fool 4 taximan on auto
mobiles. Jones thought that any one
contemplating the purchase of a car
should get some real tips from these
fellows.
They know the ones that can take
1t" day after day, on 24-hour service,
which must be the ultimate test, Jones
thought.
Practically all Of these men are re-
markably good drivers.
You have to be. to get around this
town." said Jones' driver.
Evening star., 1937-12-20
Taxes and Employment.

The Westinghouse Company claims
that its increased tax obligations since
1885 would have paid the wages of
$500 unemployed men, The assertion,
backed by figures, is an extremely effec-
tive and graphic manner Of illustrating
the tremendous burden Of taxation which
is being imposed upon both business and
individuals.
True 1t is that figures are cited to
show how much less We in America pay
than do those of other countries, but
such comparisons actually prove nothing
Most Of them, for instance, make insufii-
cient allowance for the so-called hid
den taxes and the duplicating levies
found IN the complicated tax structure
which begins in our townships and ex-
tends through county, State and Federal
taxes.
More obvious and more indisputable
is the growth of topheavy machinery
OF government in America, ship of
state perhaps, through whose leaky
seams an inordinate amount of tax
revenue flows and is dissipated in an
ocean Of ineffectiveness and economic
waste.
The increased amount of taxes paid
by the Westinghouse Company was
thrown, of course, into the general
funds of the Treasury from whence it
was distributed anew for a variety of
purposes. Assuming, for the moment,
that all of these purposes were worthy
ones and we'll advised, it still seems
impossible to believe that any utiliza-
ton OF funds could transcend in i'm
portance the furnishing of a livelihood
for $500 workers and their dependents.
Admittedly, it is proper to question
whether Westinghouse would have so
spent such an amount if granted tax
alienation to that extent. Probably
not, if they were the only concern thus
favored, but if the general tax burden
could be decreased there would be a
correspondingly greater amount of
money left for the normal exchanges of
national economy. -
And where such exchanges occur, there
Will be production, employment and in
creased prosperity.
Evening star., 1937-12-20
Recalls the Time When
Conkling Was s'Framed'
10 the pditor Of Ths st.r.

TO the Editor Of The Star:
Jake Kilrain the old-time near-cham-
pion prize fighter, who is q very sick man
up in Massachusetts,. has lately received
two write-ups in The Star. AS the
articles point out, his early battles were
fought under the London rules. That
system of manslaughter, In some re-
spects, was more brutal than the present
Queensberry glove contests-bare knuc-
kles and spiked shoes with which you
were at liberty to bear down on the other
fellows instep.
But there were compensations. II you
felt like taking 1t easy or If it looked
like squalls, you could spar for a few
seconds and then go down on one knee.
That was q round, and you had 80
seconds to collect your senses-none of
this 10-Second business. Sometimes q
hundred rounds or so would be fought"
or stalled" in about one hour and q
half. But, on the other hand, there is
one shindig on record that lasted 6 hours
Is minutes (Melbourne, Australia, 1850.
About the number of rounds couldn't
say.
Politicians In the old days, were much
addicted to f1st-fighting. In fact success
at 1t was the road to glory. The ward
worker who came to his leader with the
blood OF conflict on his face, he got the
Job. That was his Civil Service exam.
Never mind reading, 'riting 'rithmetic.
But the art and mystery Of fisticuffs
had also admirers and exponents among
real statesmen.
The famous Roscoe Conkling attended
some OF John L. Sullivans early scraps
seated on plank that was resting on
two beer kegs. No reserved rings.ue
seats in those days. Both very great
figures of the Civil War and reconstruc-
tion era, Conkling of New York and
Chandler of Michigan were "buddies."
The two Senators when visiting with
each other most always had a friendly
bout with the gloves. Once, on invita-
ton, Conkling called on Zach" He also
found a stranger who was introduced
as Mr.. Smith, lone of my constituents"
After some talk and few drinks.
Conkling suggested the gloves. "Oh, I
don't know, Conk, I don't feel quite
right, Mr.. Smith, maybe I'll take you
on"
Smith obliged. egged on by zach"
with: Go it, Conk!" GO it, Smith"
The two went to it. Within a few
seconds the Senator from New York
found himself everywhere in the world
except on his feet. He had been
framed" Smith" was Joe Coburn, then
the reigning champion. Every man to
his own graft.
Conkling died dangerously" Daring
his way home, afoot, in the terrible
blizzard OF 1888, he caught pneumonia.
II kllrain should pass away, that would
leave only one of the real old timers
Peter Maher, "the Irish champion"
Jeftries and Tom Sharkey belong to a
slightly later period. In the meantime,
the show goes on. FRED VETTER.
P. S.-Frank P. Slavin, maybe, is also
still living, but am not certain.
Evening star., 1937-12-20
Indemnification for
the Panay Incident
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The STAR
Never in the history of international
relations in time of peace has there been
more premeditated and deliberate in
suit offered one nation by another than
the attack made upon the Panay by the
japanese. 1t is on par with slapping
one in the face and splitting upon him
without cause or provocation. If our
Nation does not require of Japan full and
complete satisfaction and indemnifca-
ton for this outrage 1t will stamp us as
craven and cowardly people, and
utterly unworthy of the respect or con-
sideration Of other peoples. Expressions
OF regret and apologies mean nothing
from the Japanese and cannot atone for
this outrage. Full indemnification should
be demanded, and as means to enforce
this demand immediate steps should be
taken to seize every Japanese vessel now
In American harbors, and notice given
Japan that these vessels will be held as
security for and until complete indemni-
fication is made.
ALEXANDER SIDNEY LANIER.
Evening star., 1937-12-20

ment, washing machines, oil burners and
vacuum cleaners.
While installment buying has proved
q boon to those wage earners who have
the capacity Of living on . budget.
1t also has been q stumbling block to
families who stretched their credit too
far. Like other things 1t is subject to
abuse.
Virginia's effort to protect the buyer
from his own possible indiscretion by
preventing too low down payments and
too many installments appears to be .
logical extension Of the principle OF try
Ing to protect the public by "blue sky"
legislation. Efforts to stimulate pur-
chases already have been made in the
current business recession, but it will
be universally conceded such buying
must be kept on a sound basis.
Virginia's experiment should be bene-
ficial to the banks. loan associations
and merchants as we'll as the buyers.
Undoubtedly 1t will be copied In other
States If it proves successful.
Evening star., 1937-12-20
Installment Buying Rules.

Something new in State functions
was started by Virginia on December
Is. when new regulations regarding
installment buying went into effect.
Through the voluntary action of State
banks and industrial loan associations
the State has set minimum down pay
ments and the maximum number Of
payments for installment buying financed
by the banks and loan groups. The
State commissioner of insurance and
banking, who will put the new regu-
lations into effect, says they are de-
signed to curb any tendency to abuse
tnstallment financing in times of rising
prosperity.
For the present, at least, he will have
to resort to "discip' nary action" to OBJ
tain enforcement, as the standards are
not on the statute books. Such course
has been recommended by State COM
mittee OF bankers which drafted the
proposals. Installment financing in vir-
ginia by national banks and nationally
operated loan companies is not affected.
BY way of example it is pointed out
that the standards call for down pay
ments OF from twenty-five to thirty
three per cent on new automobiles, with
twelve months for repayment regarded
as conservative and twenty-four months
Is the permissible extreme The regula-
tions also apply to such articles COM
monty purchased on the installment plan
- mechanical refrigerators, radios,
Photographs, stoves and kitchen equip
Evening star., 1937-12-20
A Merrier Christmas.

Not until Christmas eve will The
Star-Warner Brothers-N. B. C. cam
paign be suspended. There still is time
for every Washingtonian interested in
merrier Christmas to help. Saturdays
toy matinees brought out an army of
boys and girls with gifts for youngsters
who otherwise might have been for
gotten. The Peoples Drug Stores
throughout the city are acting as COL
lection centers in their respective neigh
borhods. At 412 Eleventh street North
west a correlation point has been estab-
lished and will be maintained up to the
last moment for the reception of final
contributions to Santa Claus bag. The
Metropolitan Police and the Parent
Teacher Association are being aided and
abetted in their cooperation by volunteer
committees Of members of Congress,
Supreme Court attaches and others.
1t is too early to appraise results of
the drive, but all those concerned with
it agree that "the more the merrier." If
Christmas this year is to be the most
notably glorious Yuletide festival the
Nations Capital ever has enjoyed, the
assistance of every resident of the Dis
trict of Columbia able and willing to
Join in the work is wanted. Christmas
simply cannot be overdone. The appeal
for community wide participation there
fore is repeated, with stress on the fact
that 1t is not yet too late to join in the
labor Of love which providentially will
yield the richest harvest of happiness
the city ever has known.
Evening star., 1937-12-20

Malvina Hoffman's engaging Heads and
Tales" and Ike Hoover's "Forty-Two
Years" Of memories Of the Executive
Mansion and its transient tenants.
In tho classification OF HISTORY and
current affairs" the President may find
ready to his hand Mark sullivans sixth
portion Of sour Times" Walter Mills
Road to War: America, 1s14-1sl7":
Walter Lppmann's Good Society" and
Harold j. LasNs "Rise of Liberalism"
No first-class study of the New Deal
has been published, but Mr.. Roosevelt
may discover references to 1t in Mrs.
Frances Parkinson Keyes' Capital
kaleidoscope" Secretary Ickes' New
Democracy" and Secretary Wallace's
".New Frontiers"
For lighter moods. Mrs. Anne Lind
bergh's North to the Orient" and Mrs.
Ruth Bryan Owens Leaves From q
Greenland Diary" are suggested. If the
President desires pictures, he may con-
suit the beautiful new edition of ]. ].
Audubon's Birds of America" Culver
and Grants Forty Famous Ships" and
Charles H. Whitaker's primer Of archi-
lecture, "Rameses to Rockefeller"
Inevitably, Margaret Mitchell's "Gone
With the Wind" and w. D. Edmonds'
Drums Along the Mohawk" are repre-
sented. Less famous creations but not
less appealing are A. E. Housmans and
Edna st. Vincent Millay's poems, Noel
Coward's and Laurence Housman's plays
and Katherine Mansfleld's short stories.
Perhaps the most provoking title is
Sinclair Lewis 1T Can't Happen Here"
but the book about which Mr. Roosevelt
will be apt to care most is ''This Is My
Story" by the lady who has been his
devoted helpmate these thirty-two years
past.
Evening star., 1937-12-20
''Xmas" for Christmas
Has Authentic Origin
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Referring to your correspondents letter
in The Star for December 18, entitled
Xmas an Improper Title for Christ
mas" please permit me to observe that
this initial letter is not *" but the
Greek letter Chi" having the same
shape and corresponding to our "Ch."
From the earliest days in the Roman
catacombs it has served as mystical
symbol for the name of Christ. Further
more, the Emperor Constantine the
Great, on his conversion to Christianity
in the fourth century, devised the Con-
stantinian symbol Exp" the Greek let
ters "Chi Rho" being the first two letters
of the Greek word for Christ, which fire.
quently appears in ecclesiastical orna-
mentation to this day It seems hardly
likely that your erudite correspondent
would characterize this also as "nause-
ating practice" JOHN 8. CONWAY.
Evening star., 1937-12-20
France Gets the Low Down.

fTenchmen are credited with being,
above all, logical. Foreign Minister
Yvon Delbos, back in Paris from nine
teen-day grand tour of Central European
countries with which France is allied,
makes report indicating that realism,
as well as logic, is an integral part of
the republics politico philosophical
equipment.
Fear and suspicion of Germany and
Italy being the bedrock of French policy,
M. Delbos' mission to Poland, Ru-
mania. Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
was to inquire to what extent France
could depend upon the loyalty of the
Poles and the Little Entente nations in
case of French complications with
either pole of the Berlin-Rome axis"
The Quai d. Orsay's travelling sales
man had fortified himself by visit
to London. He was able to assure
Frances continental friends that the
Anglo-French entente still lives, particu-
larly as far as joint determination to
Withstand political blackmailing by Ger
many is concerned.
All of Frances allies told M. Delbos
they will march with her if war
comes, but while peace prevails they
must march economically with Ger
many. From their standpoint that
Is an unassailable attitude. 1t is not
likely to arouse the slightest objection at
Paris. With their aggregate of more than
100000 population and their limited
resources in raw materials and food
stuffs, Germany and, to lesser extent
Italy are indispensable markets for
nearly everything the Poles, the Ru-
manians, the Yugoslavs and the Czecho-
slovakians produce or grow. They, on
the other hand, because of undeveloped
industrial facilities, are natural Gus
toners for German and italian manu-
factures.
This entire set-up of mutual economic
necessities, which the French foreign
minister discovered, constitutes classic
support of Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade
policy. The American Secretary of State,
visualizing his program in terms that
outstrip its mere dollars-and-cents as
pect, unfailingly stresses its paramount
objective-to make common business
benefits among the nations its basis for
political friendships and international
peace.
M. Delbos did not contrive to obliterate
such imponderables as Polish Russian
hostility, Czechoslovakian anxiety over
Nal aggression, or the objections of
Rumania and Yugoslavia to guaranteeing
the Csechoslovakians military support
against Hitler, because of their vital de-
pendence on German trade. But in
learning at first hand that Frances allies
must choose between military commit
ments and the practical necessities of
national life-trade-the Paris foreign
minister acquired knowledge that can
and should be turned to practical ad-
vantage by right minded craftsmanship
Tor the preservation of European peace.
Reciprocity on the Hull model points
the way.