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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-03
REACHING THE LIMIT

Governor Hoey is frank and open in telling the
various state spending agencies in North Carolina
that they are asking for too much money He
points out that increased expenditures will call for
increased taxes or new taxes.
The worry is not over North Cardinals current
financial status The point is, has the state reached
the so-called danger point in expenditures beyond
which it will not be wise to go?
At least two members of the budget commission
have said privately they believe that danger point
has been reached.
General fund expenditures in North Carolina are
now approximately $40,00O,OOO a year and those
for highways bring the states total yearly bill to
approximately $75,000,O00.
Regardless of whether any increases are grant
ed, the general fund budget for 1939-41 will be
boosted $2,942,15 for normal salary increments-
not raises-to school teachers.
On the other side of the ledger-the side on
which any future red ink must be written-one
can find: collections of approximately $3s, 900 900
last year in general funds.
At present the states finances are in excellent
condition, but the tax payers are struggling under
the burden. Practically every source of tax reve-
nue. imaginable is now being touched and the bud
get commission as we'll as Governor Hoey have just
cause to worry over the $40, 100000 increase over
last biennium asked for by the spending agencies
of the state
As the Gastonia Gazette well says, ave don't
believe that the people of North Carolina are in a
mood to increase the state expenditures by mil
lion dollars year" What is spent through Raleigh
is only part of the tax money that must be paid.
Counties, cities and districts lay an additional bur-
den on the citizens of the state.-Shelby Star.
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REHrND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
nv RODNEY BUTCHER

estimate Of so new Republican
seats.
Whatever the result, the next
House seems certain to be more
conservative and more independ-
ent of the White House. Although
Republicans know they won't get
a majority, they expect to elect
enough new men to form an anti
New Deal bulwark in frequent
coalitions with conservative
Democrats.
Losses of the liberal bloc enl-
phasize this likelihood. Texas
primaries resulted in defeats OF
Maverick, the bloc's. chief leader
and McFarlane. Prominent liber-
ais who lost fights for senatorial
nominations and hence are out OF
Congress include Democrats Lewis
of Maryland, Wearin of Iowa, Hill
debrand of South Dakota and
Progressive Amlie of Wisconsin
The liberal bloc also loses Mead
of New York, now a Democratic
senatorial nominee, and Eicher OF
Iowa, who is retired. There will
be liberals in the new COMPRESSION
al crop, but others are threatened
with defeat November 8. Con-
spicuouS among the latter are
Farmer-Laborites John Bernard
and Dewey Johnson in Minnesota
and Jerry O'Connell of Montana
aggressive New Dealer threatened
by a Republican backed by Sena-
tor Wheeler and DR.. Townsend.
The most conspicuous individual
contest is that between Chairman
John J. O'Connor of the House
Rules Committee, running in the
18th New York district on the
Republican and Andrew Jackson
party" tickets, and James H. Fay
Democratic and American Labor
Party nominee. O'Connor was
Roosevelt's sole purge" victim in
the primaries, put ran success
fully meanwhile in the Republican
primary and hopes to keep his
powerful craftsmanship if re-
elected. Washington expects
O'Connor to be defeated unless his
old Tammany friends refuse to &C
along with Fay. ...
Reelection of Congressman
Bruce Barton from New York
apparently was assured when the
Democratic and American Labor
Party organizations failed to unite
against him. His opponents are
Walter H. Leibeman, Democrat;
George Backer, American Labor,
and M. Stuart, Socialist.
downright. 1919 NEA Ssrvina Tnn.l
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BY RODNEY DUTCHEK
EEA Service Stan Correspondent

W. ASHIN GTO N.-The next
w House of Representatives will
have somewhere between a couple
of dozen and half a gross more
Republican congressman than it
has now at the lowest point Of
G.. o. P. House strength in his-
tory.
Party primaries have hit the
House liberal bloc, by and large
a strongly pro-New Deal group,
some hard blows. The elections
Nov. 8 threaten further losses to
this bloc.
The present House contains 1913
Democrats, 88 Republicans, seven
Progressives and FIVE Farmer
Laborites. There are seven va
cancies. All 435 seats are to be
allied by the election except for
three in Maine to which Repub-
licans were reelected in Septem-
Der.
Estimates of probable Republi-
can gain range from 20 or Is con-
coded by most Democratic leaders
to 80 or IS claimed by some Re-
publicans. The most conServa-
tive Republican experts think they
will get 35 or 40 new seats and
will be e;ated BY victories in eX-
cess of that. o..
Both sides agree that the larg-
est Democratic losses will be in
Pennsylvania, whose House dele
cation of q now includes but
seven Republicans, and Ohio, in
whose delegation are 81 Demo-
Gratis, two Republicans, one va
cancy.
Republicans think they may
pick up 10 new seats in Penn
Sylvania and from five to 10 in
Ohio, where there are at least 10
hot contests. Their most reliable
confidential surveys say they have
excellent prospects in at least five
Illinois congressional districts,
three to five fair prospects in
Michigan, two to five in New
Jersey, two or more in Connecti-
cut, two or three in California,
two or three in Indiana, one to
three in Minnesota, possibly five
in Iowa, maybe one or two in
Washington and possibilities or
better of one each in Kansas,
South Dakota, New Hampshire,
Colorado and Montana.
The recent Newsweek magazine
poll of political leaders and cor
RESPONDENTS produced an average
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zenry, that frightened the English
and the French into yielding to
the demands of the Nazi dictator.
Had Hitler possessed no bombing
planes, do you imagine that Eng
land and France would have eaten
humble pie as Hitler spooned 1t
out?
Incidentally, why were great
ditch digging machines put fever
ishly to work excavating bomb
proof dugouts in London's Hyde
Park? Was II to protect the Lon
doners? Hardly, since those shell
tiers would have offered sanctu-
airy to but an infinitesimal per-
centage of Londoners. Wasn't the
thing done for effect on the pub
lic-to so scare and stampede the
British people that they would not
rise up and swat Neville Chant
berlain to earth for captivating
so pitifully to Nazi Hitler? The
English people never before dis
played such terror. 1t was Hitler's
bombing planes they feared-the
awful destruction made possible
by the greater freedom of move
ment of human bodies.
And here is new menace which
the new quick means of transport
ing human bodies has brought to
us Americans: There was a time
when we felt safe over here as
long as England's warships domi-
mated the seas; no Germany, or
other power, could do much to US;
old Mother England was a great
bulwark against our invasion. But
today, should we be attacked, or
threatened with attack, and the
dictators say to England, eff you
go to the aid of the United States
we will bomb your defenseless
women and children and other
noncombatants. what then? 1t
is true, as is often asserted, that
an overseas nation could not seri-
ously harm us through air at
tacks because we are too far from
its base of operations; but its
bombing planes could play havoc
with any nation in easy striking
range should it dare to come to
our assistance. Should Hitler de-
eide to seize some South or Gen.
trail American country, do you
think England would come to our
aid should the Nazi dictator
threaten to bomb her chief cities?
If she did come, she would have
to show more courage than she
evinced in the Czechoslovak mat
ter! This greater facility in the
movement of human bodies has
given us Americans a new, huge
problem; and we had better get
together and work it out. We can
do it. We have the resources here
to do it with, including man pow
er, brain power, and raw mater
ials.
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Sanford, N. C.
October 20, 1888
Editor, The Times-News,
Hendersonville, N. c.:
Former Governor Eugene Tai
madge of Georgia will address our
Association Against Compulsory
Crop Control at the Memorial
auditorium in Raleigh, on Satur-
day morning, November 5, at II
o'clock.
Because of the Raleigh News
and Observers unfair and preiu-
diced attitude toward our pro-
gram, l most respectfully request
that you assign to this meeting a
reporter to cover the proceedings
for your paper. We are planning
for a tremendous crowd of farm
ers.
Copy of this letter to Raleigh
News and Observer.
Yours very truly,
H. 1. OGBURN, Chairman
N. C. Anti-Compulsory Crop
Control Association.
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er group will work f., -,
and a nine months sci. ~. n,
Some groups Of l~ ~oo.
asking for a salary , ,".>
would give them a cso ,,s',a 1
of the - months IN >. 10
stead Of one for each at ,o {. ia
schools are in scssior mont
II times a year is rra ~ Ia
eight or nine, though y, :.
total may not be .rc ,r he
eight. Movements ar ,", u. TAI
for increased salaries ''s' &]
A schedule Of saI.,:
published in the Inv 'S, .se
Letter shows that N ,,rj%i z \
urban teacher salaries w. !. ~
SO averaged 1897 pn s, .F
only Arkansas raII;rn yea. \
with $76S. The avcrg,. 's.''
airy was $7GS hut tFcrTo S ..a
eral states with lower .s S,G 1
this group. '~~'s|
The general ASSEMBLE u-
plenty to think abou, an >. ;.
ject Of schools this vn,, ' u
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sons would do wrong imam now 40,
if the way were open and detec-
ton impossible.
Facility of communication is
good for us. The conveying and
exchanging of ideas and informa-
ton are blessings which furnish
knowledge and protection. The
quicker the news can get around
about the criminal, the Better for
society; but the quicker the GRIM
inal can get around, the worse for
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-03
SCHOOL IDEALS: The district

parent-teachcr association, en-
bracing 10 counties and meeting
recently in Charlotte, went fuf-
ther than the district teachers
meeting a few days before at the
same place. The teachers agreed
to press for nine months school
with II grades. The parent-teach-
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D0QleS, reSCllCIeu
by distances and
restr a i n e d b y
walls.
Think what a
terrible place to
live in this world
would be if ev-
cry person could
move with the
quickn e S S a n d
freedom of cleo
trio energy! Who
could feel safe?
What protection
w 0 u d anyone
have against tho
evilly inclin ed +?
And more per-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-03
A FINE TOKEN: That birth

day cake, several stories hfgh'
presented to Capt. E. A: Smytn
by the mill employees at Baltour'
decked with 81 candles, MADE a
fine picture, which is in enlarged
form in the window of Baker 5 5
Art Gallery. 1t indicated lots OIL
good will and revealed three
quarters of century's activity OF
a successful manufacturer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-11-03
DICTATORS' TRADE WARS AFFECT
ALL WORKINGMEN
(By BRUCE CATION

One of the things that makes it hard for
Americans to figure out the right kind OF
foreign policy these days is the fact that
they have always been great believers in
the old virtue of Winding their own bust
ness.
A cardinal point in the American creed
is the belief that any people has right to
the kind of government it chooses, even If
that government happens to be atroclously
bad. So if the Germans, the Russians, the
Italians or any other people feel like sad
ding themselves with governments which
look like holdovers from the era of Genghis
Khan, we have never felt called upon to do
anything about it. ....
Up to now, that worked fine. For while
the world had some fairly brutal and reac-
tionary relationships in the old days, they
mostly minded their own business too.
They did try to grab up such loose bits of
Asia and Africa as weren't nailed down,
to be sure, but since we had no vital inter-
ests in those spots we could afford to be
quite unconcerned. I
But the picture now is different. The
dictatorShips are not merely on their mus
Gle; they seem to be doing their very best
to create the kind of world in which only
relationships can survive.
First of all, they arm to the teeth-and
brandish their arms about as recklessly as
so many drunken two-gun men in from
tier saloon. They regard neither treaties
nor international law; they openly say
they are going to take what they want and
that brute force is the only power they re-
spect.
Yet that is only starter. They NEEDLE
in the internal affairs of their neighbors-
NEEDLE constantly, remorselessly and dan
gerously. They organize, finance and di-
rect revolutionary movements inside of
countries with which they are at peace.
They try to control the activities of de-
scendants of their own emigrants, no mat
ter how far those people may be removed
from any actual tie with the homeland. In
every conceivable way they seek to i'm
plant their own ideas and their own stand
ards on foreign soil.
On top of all this, they have introduced
new kind of commercial war to the
world. Driving down their own living
standards, they defy competition by ma
tons which refuse to reduce their own liv-
ing standards. They turn international
trade into a struggle which creates poverty
instead of wealth. They make their in
ternal policies of low wages, long hours
and small profits matters which directly
affect workers and producers on the other
side of the world.
Today's relationships are not in the least
like the relationships of the past In the
old days we could ignore dictatorships,
figuring that the world was large enough
to contain repression and freedom side by
side. Today it is extremely hard to take
that attitude - and it is getting harder
every day.
1t may be that minding our own business
will require US to take very alert and in
telligent interest in the kind of government
our neighbors treat themselves to. If thew
insist on creating the kind of world in
which a free society could not survive, they
can hardly be surprised if we react &C
cordingly.
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NEW APARTMENT: The Try

on Daily Bulletin reveals a NIUE
upishness over the opening OF the
new Auberge apartments, a TWO
story structure with nine apart
ments, air-conditioned, with res
taurant, and private dining
room for dinner parties, etc.
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Franz Won Papen, former chancellor of
Germany, has announced his retirement
from public life. Two of his secretaries
were killed in recent Nazi purges. Franz
can take a hint.
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Perhaps the time will come when
we human beings can be trusted
in a state where we shall no long
er be hampered by heavy, clumsy
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned commu.
nications are published by The
Times-News. All letters must be
signed with the real name of
the author. No communications
signed with a fictitious name
will be published.-EDITOR.
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London police are >Iin-a,
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BIBLE THOUGHT

at is required in stewards, that a man be foun'
faithful Il Cor 4:2)
Evening star., 1938-02-20

greatest pride, the appearance of their grand
father, Luogotenente- -Colonello Bonora, upon
that distant balcony, in the suite of the Duce.
Their father Giuseppe, in the black-shirt uni
form of an officer of the Fascist Militia, al
ready little portly, no longer the romantic
young ex-soldier who had marched on Rome
fifteen years ago stood talking with his younger
brother Francesca, naval lieutenant CON-
mander home on short leave He had another
grandson, who was not here. Nno would
never be here. Nino, the scholar, who always
reminded him of what his Garibaldino father
voluntary exile who now lived in Paris and
wrote virulent ibels against the Duce and
Fascismo He was as good as dead Even his
mother, foolish fat Donna Maria never men,
Evening star., 1938-02-20
Death threatened the man she loved:
Would she remember duty?
by F. BRITTEN AUSTIN

toned him. Now Donna Maria sat with pale
still-pretty Teresa, the mother of Beppo and
Tommaso, on the sofa, volubly instructing
her how she should care for those precious
darlings careless of the shouts of "Duce!
D4ce! Dxce!' from the Piazza.
Giuseppe broke off his conversation with
his naval brother, turned politely if pompously
to the ancestor.
This must be miraculous to you, nonno
Sondro, who fought in the old struggles Ital-
ian against Italian, who recall the old tragic
disunity." He spoke, as usual, as if addressing
a Fascist meeting. Now. one single soul
under one single leadership, Italy marches
forward to her Imperial destiny Despite
England, we have already carved out Empire
in Africa. Despite England, we shall recon-
Evening star., 1938-02-20

III
Venezia came, over and over again,
the themes song of the new Italy; ilt-
ing, joyous, confident, little crude,
youth itself. Presently. in half an hour, at the
balcony across the Piazza, the Duce would
appear Meanwhile, the mass shouted for
him: "Duce! Duce! Duce! A moi! A moi! To us
the future"
In an upper room of the narrowly lofty
old house near the window which gave
view Gntermittently shut off by the huge
national flag that dropped outside) of the
balcony of the Palazzo Venezia - rheumatic
old Simor Alessandro Bonora sat in his arm
chair, lingering his thin white beard. He was
very old man, almost legendary. His father
had fought under lionlike Garibaldi and the
gentle, fanatic Mazzini in the defence of the
Roman Republic in 1849, had heroically dared
with Garibaldi's immortal Thousand in 1860.
He himself, as youngster, had marched in
the chanting columns which had forced entry
into the Eternal City on the September Goth,
1870 selling for the new Kingdom of Italy its
yearned-f for capital
They had sung, the grandest the most in
spring of all marching songs, the hymn of the
Riso1gimento, to which Italy had been liber-
ated. Its vehement stirring rhythm came
back to him on wave of memory charged
emotion. ''The tombs fly open the dead arise.
Our martyrs are all of them resurgent Swords
in their grasp, laurels in their wild hair, the
fame and the name of Italia in their hearts,"
How he had sung it sixty seven years ago!
Now he was eighty four, great grandfather
His two great-randsons, Beppo and Tom
maso, twelve and ten respectively, both in
the tasselled black shirts of the Balilla, hung
noisily out of the fag-darkened window.
lmpatiently they awaited the moment of their
Evening star., 1938-02-20

'Shoot the Duce? Dio Mio!' cried his
mother. You cannot mean it!'
Il do mean it. should have done it, if
these children had not found me. had the
rifle precisely sighted for the balcony"
But how did you get here??" asked Teresa,
white faced
He smiled. False passports are not diff
cult, sister-in-law. As for entering this house
j was brought up in it.
From the massed crowd in the Piazzo
Venezia came the staccato shout: "Duce! Duce!
Duce! Duce!'
Giuseppe spoke sharply. Hold him, Fran,
cesco The Duce will appear at any minute.
III call the police"
Donna Maria threw herself dramatically
in his way mo! No! forbid it. He is your
brother He is my son! You are my son! l. the
mamma, forbid itr'
Giuseppe pushed her aside leaving Nino
in the grasp of Francesca.
Don't be foolish, mother Think! Nino
tried to murder the DNce! He is no brother of
mine!' He moved quickly toward the tele-
phone.
Teresa stepped between him and the in
strument on the table, stood resolutely in
front of it,
(Continvsd o" poos 1o)
Evening star., 1938-12-11
Dance Set by Seniors
Of COLLEGE, of Law

The senior classes of Washing
ton College of Law are sponsoring
an all-school dance Saturday night
at the Wardman Park Hotel.
Arrangements are under the d.
rection Of John w. Keogh and AL
bert H. Sheaffer, jr., co-presidents
of the evening division class, and
the committee assisting is headed
by Carl L. Hofer, chairman. Pro-
ceeds of the dance will be for the
benefit of the 1899 yearbook fund.
The junior class of the college,
under the leadership of its newly
elected president, William j. CHS
holm. last evening entertained
members of the freshman classes
at dance.
Alpha Rho Chapter, Sigma Delta
Kappa Legal Fraternity, announces
the pledging to membership of the
following as the result of the fall
rushing season:
Carl M. Andrews, Chester M. Ay-
lor. Clifford A. Carlstedt, James H.
Cowan, Thomas M. Cunningham,
John w. Durna, Earl w. Estes, Glen
P. Cannon, Gale P. Gotschall, Meryl
E. Garner, Orris L. Hamilton, Wal
ton H. Harris, William D. Huskey,
John H. Lynch, jr.; William B.
Mayes, John F.. McCabe, Howard
M. Miles, jr.; B. Edward Prater,
Robert T. Secrest, Leon Tym. Clar-
ence j. Won Drehle and Roland p.
Weinert.
Evening star., 1938-12-11

lege, the club expects the attendance
of many alumni and other local STU
dents at the dance. Plans already
are afoot to follow it up with an
other dance early in January.
The Washington Club has done
much to bring nonresident students
in closer touch with college affairs
and also to create more co-opera-
ton between themselves. Under the
direction of President John T. Flynn,
the club has monthly program of
dances and outings. Other officers
include two James j. Kellys, who
are vice president and secretary, re-
spectively; Fred AL Mccoy, treas
urer; Emmett Madigan, correspond
ing secretary, and William Quinn,
publicity director.
Forum Meets Tuesday.
The newly launched Georgetown
Forum, sponsored by the Graduate
School, will hold it's next session
Tuesday evening at 8:15 o'clock in
the Copley Lounge. DR.. j. w. Stone
borough of the Labor Department
will be the speaker. His topic is
Labor and Democracy"
In the first forum meeting last
Tuesday DR.. Goetz A. Briefs, pro-
fessor of economy in the Graduate
School, spoke on Unrest in the
Western World" The forum was
organized primarily for alumni.
The Georgetown Sodality of Our
Lady will formally receive candi-
dates for admission this morning at
Z o'clock in Dahlgren Chapel. Be-
tween 80 and 40 candidates will be
admitted, and the dean of the COL
lege, the Rev. John E. Grattan, S. j.,
will make the address.
Sodality Founded in 1910.
Oldest student organization at
Georgetown, the sodality is also the
Oldest in the United States, having
been founded in 1910. In the Dis
trict it was responsible for the or
ganization of union representing
the Catholic high schools and COL
leges.
DR.. Edward P. Donovan, director
OF the glee club, will take charge of
the marine expedition" today. The
club will visit the Marine Corps
base at Quantico this morning in
time to provide music at mass, and
In the afternoon the members will
give a concert for the officers and
enlisted men of the post. The con-
cert initiates the season for the elee
club, which, like the Mask and
Bauble Club, was augmented BY
many freshmen this year.
Evening star., 1938-12-11

meeting OF club
members Tues
day at the Hill
top. William
Schaefer, James
Mcdonald and
George Cain
were appointed
a committee to
take charge of
the arrange
ments.
With a nucleus
of more than 80
members, about
tWo-thirdS of the
stu
- L.
Evening star., 1938-12-11
Washington Club
OF 6. U. 10 Give
Christmas Dance
Dr.. Scarborough to
Speak Tuesday at
Forum Meetino

Plans for a Christmas dance dur
ing the holidays are being made by
the Washington Club of Georgetown
University, largest and one of the
most active groups in the college.
A decision to hold the dance the
evening of December 26 at 240O Six
teenth street NV. was reached at