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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-12-02
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
OLD ACE SECURITY

Several newspaper and magazine editors have
been condemning the administration recently for
the method by which the old age security funds
are being handled. Millions of dollars pouring
into the federal treasury every month from en-
ployers all over the country, and the treasury is
taking the money and spending it, putting govern
ment bonds in place of it, as required by law.
While. on the surface, this appears to be a dan
gerous practice, we all know that government
bonds are practically the same as cash money. The
only danger lies, as always, in overspending the
budget and finally bankrupting the government
And overspending is made easier when there is
lot of money around to be spent .
The old age security payments to the federal
treasury and the unemployment payments to the
state treasures are already burden to the bust
ness and manufacturing concerns of the country,
and by the time they reach per cent of the total
payrolls, as they will in a few years, the burden
will be one to be borne only with difficulty by the
general public 1t simply means that living ex-
penSes will go up 9 per cent, and as much above
that as is required to collect and make these pay
ments to the proper authorities. And eventually
with sales tax, gasoline tax, and 10 to II social
security tax, we will find that the individual pro-
excessively is getting in worse shape.
There can be no question but faith in the social
security system is to be badly shaken critic after
critic of the administration condemns the manner
in which the funds are being handled. And the
only way for this faith to be firmly established Is
to cut expenses and raise taxes to the point where
the budget is balanced beyond shadow of doubt.
-Abemarle News and Press.
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A GREAT PRESS AGENT

When Dexter W. Fellows died last week in Mis-
sissppi the big top lost its greatest publicity agent
Mr. Fellows spent most of his life as representative
Of the great showmen who have brought the circus
and its trimmns TO greater perfection in the Unit
ed States than they enjoy in any other country.
Dexter Fellows was born in Boston SO years ago.
Unsuccessful in early business ventures he turned
to show publicity as a haven and apparently found
in it his hearts desire. He was known by news
paper men in every city Of the nation where his
big tops appeared He began life as press agent
with Pawnee Bills Wild West show. Later he made
Buffalo Bills" show q national institution. For a
quarter of a century he wrote copy for Barnum
and Bailey after having served Ringing Brothers
for time When the great circus consolidation
was in the making he returned to Ringing and
was with that concern when his end came.
Mr. Fellows knew the show business from top to
bottom. He knew better than any man of his time
how to tell the stories of the performers, the man.
agement, the laborers, the sdeshow artists and
the animals. Millions of children devoured his ad-
vance stories supplied the newspapers but they
hardly knew the name of the genius who supplied
that Juvenile literature.
Dexter Fellows always was a welcome visitor to
the news rooms of the daily press. He knew the
problems of the makers of newspapers and was
careful to aid and not to hinder them in their
work. His fine sense of humor, his quick wit, his
courtesy made him welcome. Always he was gen
teman. When shall we see his like agan?-Spar-
tanburg Herald.
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CONGRESSMAN HEAR
JAPANESE ENVOY

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. CUP
japanese Ambassador Hirosi Sal
to, in an unprecedented address to
members of congress Tuesday
night, explained his governments
position in the far eastern crisis,
reiterating that Japan has no ter
ritorial ambitions.
1t was the first time in history
that a foreign envoy addressed
formal congressional meeting,
held in committee room of the
new house office building. APP
proximately so members attend
ed. ar.
Saito addressed the group off
the record" for 30 minutes and
then answered questions regard
ing Japan's future intentions IN
China and her attitude toward
possible negotiations with other
world powers for a peaceful set
ement of the war.
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WASHINGTON. - Here is a
w spectacle that puzzles many
people: a wage-and-hour bill in
tended to benefit the working
man, yet which has the active
opposition of one part Of organ
lied 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 prob
ably help the c. l. Q. even more.
In lust the same way, the National
Labor Relations act helped the
A. F. of L., but it helped the {. l.
D. more.
That helps to explain why A. F.
of L. President William Green
who was hot for a wages-and-
hours bill last August, is now
against it. They also explain why
Green, who. was instrumental IN
getting the NLRB started, is now
bitterly attacking it, while c. !. q.
criticism has been quite mild.
The tepid Endorsement Of C. l.
O.'s Lewis, as well as the OPP
position of Green to wages-and-
hours legislation, may also be in
fluenced by the fact that such
legislation might even benefit low
paid and unorganized workmen
more than union members IN
better-paid fields.
Green and Lewis are each IN
fluenced by groups within their
organizations. The garment and
textile workers are hot for law
placing a bottom on wages and a
ceiling on hours, for they are the
ones who have to worry about
sweatshopS, low-wage COMPETE
ton, and towns which offer in
ducementS TO firms seeking cheap
labor markets. ..u, " e.
Through the A m al & am a e d
Clothing Workers, United Textile
Workers, and International Ladies'
Garment Workers, all c. 1. O.
Unions. there is Il pressure on
Lewis which explains his support.
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WHEREFORE THE WPA

Why in humanity should the federal government
reach into communities completely organized thru
these great aid systems and parallel them with a
more or less politically controlled WPA organlza-
ton? The latter spends wastefuly or unthrItly
the money taken out of those same communities
by taxation. This practice leaves existing and far
more efficient organizations to get along as best
they can on what they wiring by appeals to
the little mercy of man-bled white already by
taxation for the former. Why, through its own
representation on these community chest commit
tees, can't the federal government dispense what
relief it has to give, through those proved all-in-
elusive expert organizations? III tell you why
votes-patronage-to be called commander of the
faithful and protector of the poor.
Such change had better be given the promptest
kind of consideration The relief load is rising
like tide in new waves of unemployment. Reve-
nue. is falling jus: as fast Past extravaganza Of
federal relief has scraped the bottom of the barrel
of federal credit. Maybe it wasn't necessary ear
Her to consider whether dollar could be made to
90 three TO five times far in the relief Of human
suffering-but it is necessary now. The people
most interested in doing that not the economic
royalistS, but the underprvileged who are going
to suffer worse than if it isn't done at
Gen. Hugh Johnson in Charlotte News.
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son of Spindale were guests on
Thanksgiving day of Mrs. Erna
Justice and other relatives mere.
Lemuel Smith Of near Char
lotte is spending some time with
his grandparents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Floyd.
Avery and William Conner,
students at Florida Bible school,
were met at Cornelia, Ca, by
their parents and other members
of the family for II pleasant fam
lily reunion one day recently.
Mrs. Clarence Hyder was the
weekend guest Of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Wolf, of Can
der, and was accompanied home
Sunday by Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar
Smith of Spartanburg.
Mrs. Pearl Harley and son, I.e-
land Harley, Of Atlanta. Ga. WIS.,
tied Mrs. Lille Phillips thanks
giving day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd of Green
vile spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. Boyd eagle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Pittillo Of
Fruitland were recent dinner
guests of their daughter, Mrs. Roy
Govan.
Mrs. NJ. B. Byers called Sun
day on her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
VI. NJ. Moore.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Hyder and
rs. Matilda eagle Of East Flat
Rock called Sunday on the latter's
son, Sidney eagle.
The children of the primary
department at Dana school, in
Guiding the first three grades.
will present a program Friday
night, in which Bobbie Sherman
of this place, is a leading charac-
ter.
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HE NEW D E. A L
IN WASHIN CTON
-aY RODNEY BUTCHER.

But some Of the powerful build
ing and metal trade unions behind
Green appear to prefer no wage
hour legislation at all. They lob
bied 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
amendments, and indicated that
he would support bill con-
tanning them. Late in August
Green was demanding that Con-
greSs stay in session until 1t
passes the wages and hours bill
Green's recent change of front
is based largely 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 a
government board the many de-
cisions necessary under wage-hour
legislation as now written.
Green's most specific charge
was that the NLRB has tried to
abrogate contracts between en-
ployers and unions. The c. l. q.
retorts that the contracts the
NLRB is charged with abrogating
were generally engineered by en-
ployers with A. F. of L. organizers
who represented very few en-
ployeS.
The A. F. of L. organizers in
these cases followed the policy OF
their leadership in eagerly de-
nouncing the c. l. O. as a dam
gerous, lawleSs group, and cashed
in on the resentment against the
C. /. o. which was prevalent at
the time in certain circles.
The NLRB decisions in cases OF
A. F. of Lie. /. o. disputes is i'm
portant because it colored the
whole attitude of organized labor
toward government boards, and it
is in a government board tina,
administration of the proposed
wage-hour bill would center.
!iConvrigbt 1927 NEA c.-vina Inn
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HE PRAYS DIFFERENTLY

81 like to hear that fellow
pray" SAID a man. "He avoids the
stereotyDed theological express
sions which are so frequently
strung together to form public
prayer. When he prays he makes
point. | have heard him petition
the Almighty to help US to be
Christians seven days in the
week. Once he prayed the Lord,
And save us Christians from the
sins of smugness, self-satisfaction
and inaction, which will lead u.
to the very hell we imagine we
have escaped On one occasion
he pleaded, Lord, give us wisdom,
knowledge and understanding in
the handling Of this prohibition
question. From the wav we have
messed it up, it is evident we have
not approached the problem with
wisdom, knowledge and under
standing
YES" unused the man, 81 like
to hear him pray, but | don't get
a chance often. They are jittery
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about calling on him to invoke
divine aid"
SLOT MACHINE CHATTER

SLOT MACHINE CHAl lEN
With everything peaceful, har-
monious and all hundydory on the
punch board battle front, a few
comments on the possibility of a
refund from the great common
wealth of Tarheciia, which col
lected years privilege tax be-
fore the popular pastime was bro
ken up by the sheriff, will add Il
note of interest to the situation.
Carl Felmet, representing the
states revenue department,
swooped down on the machine
owners in June to the tune Of
about 81, 100 in taxes or license
permits good until June, 1888.
when is your organization go
ing to pay back" he was asked.
"When would you expect us to
refund or pay back if you were
to take out a license to operate a
place of business and decide to
discontinue the business after a
month or so?" the revenue COL
lector parted.
But that's different! Didn't
you for the state collect tax IL
legally since the state said 1t
would be illegal to operate after
july" was the next query.
mo! The operators took
chance. They knew it would be
illegal but thought sentiment
would permit them to operate.
They figured that the local Off
GERS would not disturb them but
knew our department would get
the money for years license in
June or take the machines. Their
eyes were wide open. They didn't
want us to possess the machines.
They were determined to operate
them but it took years license
to do so because we didn't issue
licenses for part Of year"
Haven't these fellows disturb
ed you a lot about a refund?'
"No. Not a one of them! They
all knew what they were doing.
They had their eyes wide OPEN"
And there is the sweet prospect
of a refund.
a GOOD SIGN: 81 don't mean
TO be knocking the other fellow
When you hear a person begin
with that apology you should pre-
pare for a regular Joe Louis
knockout.
CONCEIT: The average layman
is prone to think that he could
run newspaper much better
than the fellows who are on the
job. And sometimes such fellows
try it, much to their sorrow.
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ANOTHER LOFTY WAR ILLUSION
IS BROKEN ...
(By BRUCE CATION

Maybe we will have to revise our ideas
about aviatorS, if we are to have any nope
of getting the horror 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 quint-
essence of beauty; it is magnificent
fsport," particularly the bombing RAIDS
Then he describes some of his adventures
during the war in Ethiopia to prove his
point. :
Speaking of raid on detachment OF
native cavalry, he writes: 81 :,
4 1--WE arrived upon them unobserved and
immediately dropped our loads of explo-
sives. remember that one group OF horse
men gave me the impression of a budding
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 perfect target" .
And little later he describes the bomb
ng of an Ethiopian town called Adi-Ado'
[ncendiary bombs were dumped here, as
follows:
This was swell, and had a tragic but
beautiful effect. Our best fun was trying
% hit a large hut which stood in the mid
ale Of the town. had to fly over it three
lines TO make it. The third time hit 1t
and saw it begin to burn. Philippians leap
ed out and tried to escape. We started
enough fire to heat half the globe. . '.'
\ It takes all sorts to make world, Oh
course, and this gallant young hero may
% Of a different stripe from ordinary mill
arv FLYERS. But what he writes IS worth
bordering over, because it does show now
an aviator s-eye-view of war can diHer
rom the view one gets on the ground.
That budding-rose effect, for instance,
ould be seen only from the air. AT ground
level one would miss the delicate unfold
ing beauty and see only the mangled
bodies, the pain and the terror. And the
ooyish fun that can be had from trying TO
irop an incendiary bomb into somebody
home is not quite the sort of emotion that
would be experienced by the people VINO
we're inside the home at the time. They
might feel very differently about the al
air. . ..
Now we have got into the habit OF look
ing on aviators as dashing and romantic
warriors. 1t has been said that they re-
tore the essence of knightly chivalry to
warfare. Much fine stuff has been written
bout their daring and about the way they
have restored adventure to war. ...,
3 1t is about time We revised our ideas,
Aviators make war on derenseless folk;
hey kill women and children, burn houses
hat are full of non-combatants, and find
Exceptionally good fun in dismembering
people who can't hit back. If there is any
hing knightly or romantic about that, 1t IS
hard to think what it can be.
{ Mussolini's callous jubilance may help
is change our opinions.
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BARKER HEIGHTS

BARKER HEIGHTS, Dec. q
Rev. n. B. Phillips called Friday
afternoon at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hugh Morrison OF Barker
Heights to see the latter's mother,
Mrs. Leila Neuman, who is i'll.
Misses Loretta Conner and EliZ-
abeth Whitaker accompanied
friends Sunday to Brcvard college
to visit friends.
Mrs. Mamie Mitchell and Miss
Irene Mitchell spent Thanksgiving
with the latter's aunt, Mrs. II. G.
Henson, and family of Spartan
burg, S. c.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryant Fowler
have moved into this section.
Evelyn, the little daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Willie Gibbs, spent
Sunday with Miss Sarah Shcr'
man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Gowan spent
Sunday with the formers parents
Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ. Govan, Of IN
man, S. c.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Smith and
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A few weeks ago the report got out that Carl
Goerch editor of The State, magazine he publishes
in Raleigh, is wanting to be stung by a political
bee, that he had already been stung, and that said
political bee has the word Governor" stamped
somewhere his anatomy. For awhile Mr.. Goerch
paid no attention to the report, thinking it would
die a-bornin' but the report persisted and people
began to discredit his motives and his efforts. 1t
has gotten under Mr.. Goereh's tough hide, and in
the current issue of his magazine he makes the
following unqualified statements: 81 never have
been candidate for public office in North Caro-
lima; am not candidate at this time; l never
expect to be-" That ought to put stop to the
askance looks at the magazine editor and publish
er, who is really doing too good job of it to
mess things up by running for governor or any
other office.-Marshville Home
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A DISTURBED CITIZEN

UbSerVeS one hOuSehOIder:
"Should l attempt to operate a
factory on my premises, which
gave employment to a hundred
persons, winch made as mucn
racket as my neighbours dog, !
should be told by the authorities
that ! must not maintain in res
idential district what amounts to
q nuiSanrpv
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BIRD REFUGE in
FLORIDA EXPANDED

WASHINGTON, Dec. .. (UP)
President Roosevelt has signed an
executive order adding 81 ,445
acres to the U. S. Biological sur
vey's migratory bird refuge near
st. Marks in jefferson, Taylor
and Wakulla counties, Florida,
the department of agriculture an
nounced today.
The survey plans to increase
the refuge to 62,700 acres, the
department said. 1t would extend
from the st. Marks river on the
west to the Aucilla river on the
east, a distance of about l3 miles.
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cleaning things
up. The prospect
was so unsatis-
factory to t h q
rough element i'll
the neighborhood
that they detail
ed their biggest
bruiser to beat
up the preacher
and drive him
out.
Catching the
preacher in q
lonely spot one
day the bruiser
hnnnn 70 Nunl.l-
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INSTEAD OF TOKYO

II Japan continues to give the
world so much lip, she may hear
the name Of her seat of govern
ment pronounced "Talky-o."
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SCIENTISTS suspected that the planet Neptune existed long
before discovered the peculiar actions OF the planet
Uranus which that being influenced by some un
known body CuriouSy two working independently cacu-
lated the location planet and reached Identical concur
liens exactly where they predicted II "ouo Dc
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Several eastern college grid teams form
What is known as the Ivy League, but not
Necessarily because the players are social
climbers. ..-...
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WHEN TO FIGHT

Once upon Time IN a CERTAIN
community there appeared a
preacher who signified his inten-
ton of settling down there and
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Americanism Thinking him the worst of GRIM
inas if racketeers hire him to kill witnesses think
ing him romantic adventurer if some foreign
general hires him to kill women and Children
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AS WE TRAVEL ALONG
Ru WLCKE,S WAMROLDT

powerful forces. Add righteous.
ness and the combination is in
vincible.
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Natural gas found in southern France is being
bottled and taken to Paris where it is being tested
as fuel to run buses
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Law revisions give, New Workers the
light to have bean shooters within the city,
but LaGuardia retains the monopoly as a
Tiger hunter. ..- ........ ,.
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At the Antique Dealers fair in London the Duke
and Duchess of Kent bought a silver coffee pot
once owned by George III.
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In one month Japan exported
canned tuna valued at 1892, $685.
0O0.
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on him violently: but to his as
constituent. the preacher was the
better man of the two. After he
had been hammered into submiS-
sion the bruiser painted accusing
ly, "You call yourself a preacher
but you can fight worse'n roust-
aboutw
1--WE preachers" replied the
preacher, must always be pre-
pared to fight and whip the dew
H."
There are times when battle is
necessary preliminary to state
Of integrity and peace.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1887
BIBLE THOUGHT
THE COMFORT OF JESUS

THE COMFORT OF JESUS
And Immediately He talked with them and '@isi
unto them Be of good cheer: it is j. be not afraid
Mark $50. .. ... .. .,
"If, on quiet sea,
Toward heaven We calmly sail,
With grateful hearts. God, to Thee
Wen own the favouring gale.
But should the surges rise,
And rest delay TO come;
Blest be the sorrow, kind the storm,
Which drives us nearer home
-Keswck Calendar
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Willy

Willy
Time was when designing poll,
ticians fought the influence of the
church, but today realizing its
great power, they are cunninglN
attempting to take it over - and
in an alarming number of i'll
stances they have succeeded.
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CAN'T BEAT 1T
Patience and perseverance ar
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a GOOD SIGN: 81 don't mean
TO be knocking the other fellow"
When you hear a person begin
with that apology you should pre-
pare for regular Joe Louis
knockout.
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CONCEIT: The average layman
is prone to think that he could
run a newspaper much better
than the fellows who are on the
job. And sometimes such fellows
try it, much to their sorrow.
The Nome daily nugget., 1937-02-19

Many favor of Dr. Glenn Frank following his president of the ntuton and police had to called elect who marched on ns capitol at Madison invaded the office Philip protest the eoens action Dr. Frank s pictured receiving the good ohoe of Alice Mullen ef Mariana Meck of Phoenix, Ar
 Associated Press Photo)